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Security camera update project now reality Nevia Buford News Editor
The process of updating the camera system on campus continues and is set to be completed Jan. 31. Four-hundred and forty new cameras are being placed around campus to replace the old ones and promote security on campus. The project started in May 2015, but
the planning started years ago. “This project in theory actually started several years ago and came to a reality when the funding was approved late last year,” Assistant ISU Police Chief Michele Barrett said. “The groundwork started in May 2015.” The project has a budget of $2 million and is currently running under budget. Barrett said it is not yet known what the final cost will be.
The new cameras are being placed all around campus, including the parking lots. These cameras will be different from the old cameras in many ways. “The main difference is the old cameras were outdated PTZ — point, tilt, zoom — cameras that were constantly moving in a 360-degree radius, making it hard to capture an entire event from recording,” Barrett said. “The new cameras will
be stationary, high resolution cameras placed in carefully specified areas.” The new cameras should help create a safer environment on campus, as it will allow the ISU police to solve more crimes and hopefully prevent others. “Once we are able to solve some investigations as a result of them being recorded, we hope the word will get out that we now have this tool and help deter crime,” Barrett said.
Honoring Dr. King Students will spend Monday doing community service in remembrance of a Civil Rights Leader
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The Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. is one of its newest attractions. It is beautifully landscaped next to the Tidal Basin.
Momentum swings to Miami for trial of ‘El Chapo’ James Rosen and Jay Weaver
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WASHINGTON — U.S. and Mexican officials are engaged in high-level talks to determine whether Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman will be tried in Miami or New York on drug-trafficking charges following his anticipated extradition to the United States from Mexico. Federal prosecutors in six states have filed indictments against Guzman, but the Eastern District of New York and the Southern District of Florida have overlapping cases that could be combined, and the headquarter sites of Brooklyn and Miami have emerged as the leading contenders for the sensational trial. “The Southern District of Florida’s extraordinary record with respect to major narcotics trafficking cases could be an important factor,” Kendall Coffey, a former United States attorney in Miami, told McClatchy. In phone calls and personal meetings this week, Justice Department officials in Miami, New York and Washington have discussed with senior Mexican law enforcement officials which city Guzman would be sent to as part of broader extradition negotiations between the two countries. “Initially, the plan was New
York,” a law enforcement official familiar with the case told McClatchy. “After Guzman’s recent recapture, Miami is now under serious consideration as the (trial) venue.” The official, who wasn’t authorized to discuss the case and requested anonymity, added that a decision would be made soon. Guzman, who heads the Sinaloa Cartel, was nabbed last week in the Pacific coastal town of Los Mochis, Mexico, seven months after he escaped from a high-security Mexican prison through a sophisticated tunnel that may have cost upward of $1 million to dig. Prosecutors in Miami, New York, Chicago and beyond accuse Guzman’s network of having pumped hundreds of tons of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and other drugs into their cities over the last quarter century. “It’s a history-making case that, if successful, could deal a huge blow to today’s most violent drug trafficker,” Coffey said. “This case will define careers for prosecutors, (drug) agents and even the trial judge.” Mexican officials had long rejected U.S. extradition appeals, but have changed their stance in the wake of Guzman’s humiliating breakout, the second time he’d managed to flee a Mexican prison. While the two countries are
now negotiating the terms of extraditing Guzman, his lawyers have filed at least a half-dozen motions opposing any deal, and it could take months for Mexican courts to rule on them. The Brooklyn and Miami indictments both accuse Guzman of multiple counts of drug trafficking and money laundering. New York, however, had been viewed as holding the inside track for his trial because federal prosecutors there also accuse him of having ordered 13 murders, assassinations or attempted killings of Mexican police, soldiers and rival gang members. Miami, by contrast, hosted the last mega-trial of an internationally famous drug lord. In 1992, deposed Panama strongman Manuel Noriega was convicted in Miami on eight counts of narcotics trafficking, racketeering and money laundering. Noriega, who had been seized by U.S. troops from the Vatican Embassy after the U.S. invasion of Panama in December 1989, was imprisoned at the Federal Correctional Institution in South Miami-Dade until 2010, when he was extradited to France. He was shipped the next year to Panama, where he remains imprisoned. Mexican law enforcement agents first captured Guzman in June 1993, transferring him two
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An image provided by an anonymous source on Jan. 8, 2016 shows Joaquin Guzman Loera, alias “El Chapo,” handcuffed after his detention in a place of Mexico not yet determined by authorities of the country. Fugitive drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been recaptured months after his prison escape, President Enrique Pena Nieto said.
years later to a maximum-security prison in Puente Grande near the city of Guadalajara in central Mexico.
There, Guzman bribed guards to help him escape under a pile
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CHAPO CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 of dirty clothes in a laundry basket in January 2001. His associates sped him away in the trunk of a Chevrolet Monte Carlo. Recaptured in Mazatlan on Feb. 22, 2014, after more than 13 years as a fugitive, Guzman spent fewer than five months in custody before escaping again, this time through a long, well-lit tunnel dug by compatriots into the floor of his cell shower. After a shootout with Mexican marines in which five people died, Guzman was nabbed once more on Jan. 8, and Mexican officials are now apparently willing to let the United States take him off their hands to stand trial. Other indictments against Guzman were filed by prosecutors in Manhattan, El Paso, San Diego, Chicago and Concord, N.H. Before the Senate confirmed her to be the nation’s top law enforcement official in February 2015, Attorney General Loretta Lynch had been the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, an office she took in 2010, less than a year after its prosecutors filed charges against Guzman. Because of the importance and notoriety of the Guzman case, Lynch is likely to make the final decision on where he would be tried. Some former federal prosecutors and prominent extradition lawyers say Lynch’s close ties to the Brooklyn office could give it an edge as a trial venue, but others say they could work against Brooklyn because she might not want to be perceived as favoring her former colleagues. “I would assume the government would want to play its strongest hand first,” said one
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senior prosecutor who spoke anonymously because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the case. “These are strategic decisions that have to be made within the Justice Department.” Analysts said factors likely to weigh in the decision of where to try Guzman are the location of cooperating witnesses, which district has the strongest case, which indictment might result in the most severe penalty and where were the most serious of the alleged crimes committed. The murder charges in Brooklyn and in El Paso are worse crimes than the alleged drug trafficking and money laundering in Miami, but the Mexican government has ruled out extraditing Guzman for any capital crime, a condition that would likely nullify that advantage in those venues. The charges in the Miami indictment could carry multiple life sentences upon conviction, depending on what specific counts result in guilty verdicts. “The bottom line is, whoever has the better office is going to get him,” said Joel Androphy, an extradition expert and lawyer in Houston. “It will go to the office that has the most experience prosecuting accused drug traffickers. I don’t think it has to do with anything other than the competence, aggressiveness and success of the office.” The Justice Department, Androphy said, might even examine the records of federal district judges in each of the competing venues to determine which have sided with prosecutors over defense lawyers most often. © 2016 McClatchy Washington Bureau. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
ISU, Sinclair Community College partner on drone project Kourtney Miller Reporter
Indiana State University is collaborating with Sinclair Community College in Ohio on a drone project. The partnership is expected to yield research and products to help organizations of all industry types use this emerging technology to solve business and technical problems. “People are seeking ways to create, share and collaborate in new ways to support the opportunities for new business models,” said Richard Baker, chair of Indiana State’s Department of Aviation Technology and leader of the project. “ISU and Sinclair will provide a pathway to the future for industries and students or future employees who understand the benefits of unmanned systems technologies, the advantages to applying the technology in new business models and are able to provide value to companies with demonstrated expertise in vehicle
and sensor technologies.” The project focuses on precision agriculture and data analytics; the analytics project was signed on Dec. 1 and has no sunset clause, meaning that the project will continue until it is completed. According to Robert English, dean of the College of Technology at Indiana State, Sinclair recently spent $5 million on a new drone facility with state-of-the-art equipment. “Working with Sinclair will give us access to resources, equipment and facilities that we would otherwise not have access to. The programs at Sinclair Community College and ISU both focus on first responders, precision agriculture and geospatial information.“ Baker added, “This project teaches the students involved about career readiness. Our partnership will combine expertise in business solutions for big data and analytics with data platform technologies to deliver solutions for today’s increasingly
Students give back to the community Miguel Lewis Reporter
Ushering in a greater community has been a dream of Kale Walker, the human resources chair of the Indiana State University Foundation, for quite some time. Walker said when he was younger, he, his mother and his sibling were all high school dropouts. It was not until he got older that he realized that he had become part of a vicious cycle. This was when he took it upon himself to break this cycle and aimed to become the best version of himself possible. “I was raised in Terre Haute and attended ISU as well. I was a part of the organization known as the Brotherhood of Successful Scholars, B.O.S.S for short,” Walker said. “I understand the struggle and how people look at the less fortunate so I wanted to create something that would set us apart so that we could go through campus and represent what
black men should look like. My ultimate vision is that we are able to bridge that gap of Indiana State to the Terre Haute community.” Walker has been in contact with young AfricanAmerican men, including senior and recreational sports management major Khari Jones and senior accounting major Timdrick Stewart, who were among the first students to venture out of their comfort zones to go lead Terre Haute youth. Jones and Stewart travel to surrounding middle schools to help students that have been labeled as problem children. These children might consist of students that are disrespectful, truant or responsible for outbursts in the classroom. “Our goal is to unlock these students’ hidden potential and to help them grow in the community,” Walker said. Stewart said giving back to the community hit home for him. “I think if someone would have told me or showed me that they cared about what
I did when I was younger, I probably would not have done some of the stupid things I did coming up,” Stewart said. “That’s why I think it’s so important now. I didn’t have any say in who told me what then, but I can make a difference now. That’s what we are all about.” Over the course of the semester, Khari and Timdrick have encouraged others to get involved with giving back to the community. What was once just two to three people going to visit the middle school turned into five and then upward of 10. Now, the group goes Thursday of each week to lend a helping hand to students younger than themselves. Jones encourages any young man who’s interested in attending to do so. “Giving back is important to me,” Jones said. “I want to be a positive influence on someone’s life. It’s also important because we give back when we create strong networks.”
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Paralympian, Author Bonnie St. John speaks at ISU Dave Taylor
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Despite having her right leg amputated at age five, Bonnie St. John became the first African-American to win medals in Winter Olympic competition, taking home a silver and two bronze medals in downhill events at the 1984 Paralympics in Innsbruck, Austria. St. John has achieved the highest levels of success in a variety of endeavors throughout her life. She is a best-selling author, a highly sought after keynote speaker, a television and radio personality, a business owner and a Fortune 500 leadership consultant. On Thursday night she spoke at ISU. St. John graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1986 and earned a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, taking a Master of Letters
degree in economics. Upon her return to the United States, St. John was appointed by President Bill Clinton as a director for human capital issues on the White House National Economic Council. Today, she travels the globe as a leadership consultant, keynote speaker and facilitator for international summit conferences for senior-level executives. She frequently donates personal appearances to schools, homeless shelters, community groups and other organizations in hundreds of locations while traveling for corporate clients. In 2010, St. John once again represented the United States as a member of President Obama’s official delegation to the Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver. The celebrated author of six books, St. John co-authored her most recent best-
seller, “How Great Women Lead,” with her teenage daughter, Darcy. Together they traveled around the world on an extraordinary motherdaughter journey into the lives, and life lessons, of fascinating women leaders including Hillary Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, as well as fashion designers, CEOs and women’s rights activists. St. John has been featured extensively in both national and international media including Today, CNN, CBS Morning News, NBC News, PBS, NPR and The New York Times, as well as People, “O” and Essence magazines. NBC Nightly News called her one of the five most inspiring women in AmerISU Communications and Marketing ica. She was recently inducted into the Bonnie St. John, a Paralympic skier, National Association of Women Busiauthor, speaker and role model. ness Owners Hall of Fame.
Students welcomed Faculty Artist Series kicks off Jan. 18 with weekend of fun Musicians present ‘Old Dog, New Tricks’ recital Erica Garnes Reporter
Winter break was a welcome vacation from the long days of school, work and little sleep, but now it’s time to get back onto our paths to success. This weekend’s events will help Indiana State University students get back into the swing of things in a fun way. Starting Thursday, Jan. 14, this weekend will officially be #LIT2016. There will be events to attend, prizes and games to win and opportunities to interact with other students. Last semester students were asked what they would like to see planned in the future, so their feedback is what helped to plan the events this weekend. On Saturday afternoon there will be roller-skating and mini golfing. If your favorite movie is “Roll Bounce” and you are in love with the Beyonce’s video “Blow,” then there is no reason you shouldn’t be out there with your friends. You can skate for a limit of 30 minutes. Roller-skating will be held in the Dede’s. At the same time, you can get your Tiger Woods on and
mini golf. There will be no time limit for golfing. So take advantage of that and play for as long as you want. To end the #LIT2016 weekend, there will be a Sycamore Viewing Party on Sunday evening. The women’s and men’s basketball games will be shown on the Indiana Theatre’s giant screen. The Indiana Theatre is located at the corner of Seventh and Ohio streets, just south of campus. Kevon Christian, the associate director of campus life, said, “The first 100 students will receive a voucher for $4 to get a hamburger or hot dog, snack and drink.” There will also be facepainting, photos with Sycamore Sam and giveaways; any opportunity for free stuff should have everyone running. At 6:30 p.m., the 2016 St. Louis Cardinals Caravan will be there. Students will be able to meet current players, alumni and broadcasters. Other events occurring this weekend are art exhibitions, soccer, bumper car games and a night to salute Motown music. For more information visit indstate.edu or contact the Office of Campus Life.
Indiana State University faculty members Randy Mitchell, Martha Krasnican and Todd Gallagher will kick off the music events for spring semester with a trombone recital at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 18 in the recital hall of the Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts. The theme of the recital, which is part of the Faculty Artist Series, is “Old Dog, New Tricks!” Mitchell will present the Terre Haute premier of two new works, including James Kazik’s “Concerto for Trombone” and Jean Michel Defaye’s “In the Manner of Schumann.” Also on the first half of the program is Arthur Frackenpohl’s “Variations on a March of Shostakovich.” Jazbo, a jazz duet of Mitchell and Gallagher on bass, will be the second half of the program. This part of the program is dedicated to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and features compositions by significant African American Jazz composers such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Charlie Parker. A 1974 alumnus and in his 25th year of teaching at Indiana State, Mitchell also performs in the ISU Faculty Brass Quintet, the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra and the Danville, Illinois, Symphony Orchestra. He is also an original member of
The Ambassador Brass Quintet, performing American Music on several concert tours in Thailand and China. Mitchell has performed for artists such as Marvin Hamlisch, Crystal Gayle, Vic Damone, Liza Minelli, Nancy Wilson, B.J. Thomas, Barbara Eden, Brenda Lee, Frankie Avalon, Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Junior, Boots Randolph, Floyd Cramer, Clyde McCoy, Roger Pemberton, Eugene Rosseau, The Rat Pack Show, Dean Martin’s Golddiggers, Jason Miles and others. Krasnican is the director of the accompanying program at Indiana State. She graduated with distinction from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with Brooks Smith, Barry Snyder and Frank Glazer. After completing her master’s degree at Eastman, she also worked with John Wustman of the University of Illinois and Menahem Pressler of the Beaux Arts Trio. As a collaborative artist, she has worked with major performers across North America and Europe, including engagements with the Western Horn Symposium and several World Saxophone Congresses. Krasnican has performed as soloist in the Piano Concerto by Vincent Persichetti with the Indiana State University Symphony Orchestra under the di-
rection of the composer. She has also performed as a soloist with the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra, premiering two piano concertos written for her by her husband, Daniel Powers. In 2005, she was featured on the CD “Spring and Fall,” a compilation of Powers’ chamber works and songs. In February 2007, she performed the complete works of Beethoven for cello and piano with cellist Kurt Fowler. She frequently performs in a piano duo with Beverley Simms, and they are both members of the piano/ percussion ensemble Cramped Spaces. Gallagher teaches string bass and jazz combos. A native of Illinois, he performs there with the Danville Symphony, Champaign-Urbana Symphony, Danville Light Opera, and is house bassist for the historic Fischer Theatre renovation project in Danville. Gallagher is active as a jazz and electric bassist, a chamber musician and in musical theatre. He has studied with David Murray, Donovan Stokes, Todd Coolman and Rufus Reid. He has maintained a private studio of bassists for the past 10 years and regularly performs master classes for young bassists in various public school systems. Story by ISU Communications and Marketing.
Why Celebrate Martin Luther King Day? Dajia Kirkland Features Editor
Leader of marches and defender of justice Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a man afraid of no law or authority. Through hate crimes, being sent to jail and outrage from clergymen and officials, King fought with all his might to eradicate arbitrary prejudice that the world bared and thousands of people followed his movement toward peace. On the evening of April 4, 1968, he was targeted by a sniper and assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. In his lifetime, King accomplished many achievements such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955, the establishment of the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference in 1957 where they sought to protect black churches from bombings and other mistreatment, and also the Birmingham Campaign of 1963 where the SCLC fought for black rights. To honor all that King had done during a time of ignorance and recklessness, Jan. 18, his date of birth, is now celebrated as a holiday. Though some believe feel this day shouldn’t be considered a day of honor, many others value the message King represents. “One thing that I want everyone to recognize on Martin Luther King Day is that black lives matter. Yes all lives matter, but when minorities are targeted carelessly, it’s important to bring awareness to that group or groups,”
said sophomore communication major Chris Allen. Many people believe the only thing MLK worked toward was helping blacks gain their rights, but King had both black and white followers on the journey to freedom and equality for all. Since he is most known for his work in the black community, some believe his other work gets overshadowed. Victoria Papach, a sophomore environmental science major, said she feels King doesn’t always get the respect he deserves. “I don’t feel people fully understand nor appreciate what MLK and many others stood up for,” Papach said. “We tend to look at it as a government holiday where we just don’t attend school or
work, but the many voices throughout history and the people who stood up for what was right even if it wasn’t a popular opinion, has shaped our society today. King was an activist for human rights, not just black rights. His goal was to help the world as a whole see the bigger picture.” MLK Day should be a day where the idea of spreading peace and freedom radiates throughout the world. This day serves a reminder to treat everyone with dignity and respect. King’s words resonate even today, reminding people of all colors to look past preconcieved notions. “Our lives begin to end,” King said, “the day we become silent about things that matter.”
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The case against Facebook Kylie Adkins
Opinions Editor
Facebook is a force of nature. That insane statement having been said, Facebook started off small and quickly knocked away every other social media site that threatened it. It has taken America by storm — most people are on it, including family and friends, and you can use it to log into nearly any website. Facebook is unique as far as social media is concerned; they actually attracted and maintained the older demographic. It is not unusual to find someone’s grandmother or aunt on their profile, whether that is good or not — I have yet to decide. While Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with many different people — I personally have family and friends who live abroad on my Facebook — it is also negatively affecting us. Every time I go out to a bar I see a ton of people on their phones. There are many people also chatting with friends and dancing, of course, but I can’t help but wonder if Facebook doesn’t have something to do with the disconnect between people. Now I can understand using your phone while waiting for a group or date or something to that effect, but interpersonal communication seems to be dwindling unless it’s behind a lit screen. Another effect of Facebook is the homogenization of tone and content. I’m starting to see things in my feed that I saw three or four years ago. And don’t even get me started on
Minion memes. The problem goes deeper than just seeing old things; all the new content sounds and looks the same. The tone is similar in almost every quote picture, and most of them don’t even mean anything. I wish my friends would see a picture, and rather than just repost it, express what they feel. We don’t need pictures with captions to speak for us, too. If you feel a certain way, tell us; don’t just share a stale picture. It’s time to find new social media or get rid of it altogether. Online journalism is now a jumble of fan theories and things random people tweeted. If I wanted to read tweets I would go to Twitter, not to one of these “news” sites. I cannot deny the benefits that come from global interaction — and social media sites help with this. I just don’t know if that is enough to justify Facebook or the Internet consuming our lives. I’m arguing that we don’t completely stop our Facebook usage, but we should limit it. The time spent on Facebook could be spent making friends and talking to people, studying or having fun with a hobby. Social media eats away at our free time when we could be doing something productive. People are becoming zombies, particularly our youth who are using technology at a younger age. When used properly and with supervision, computers are our greatest assets and tools; however, when used improperly they can consume us and take our lives in a way. There’s a reason technology is a popular theme in science fiction — there are dangers to a tool so useful, particularly as it grows. The solution is to use it without letting it control you and take away your life. Use technology to better your day, not take away from it.
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Obama pursues gun reform Congress refuses to agree
Joe Lippard
Assistant Opinions Editor
President Obama has called for more common sense gun control laws for almost as long as he’s been president. This has been met with staunch resistance from the Republican Party, who usually insist that the problem isn’t gun control, but mental health. These lawmakers, however, don’t seem too bothered to do much about either gun control or mental health. So, with a Congress that refuses to do anything about the gun issues that has become so prevalent, President Obama has decided to take action. On Jan. 5, 2015, he revealed several executive orders he planned to pass in order to reform getting a firearm. The measures are largely common sense, ranging from required background checks for all gun sales to budgeting $500 million to mental health care. These are the most neutral actions President Obama could have possibly taken. According to a 2013 survey conducted by Pew Research Center, 85 percent of Americans support universal background checks. Obama proposed providing the background check system
with the mental health information of people who want to buy guns, a measure that 80 percent of Americans support according to the same Pew survey. After every mass shooting, we hear — from mostly Republican politicians — about how all these shootings aren’t because of a problem with guns, but because of a problem with our mental health care system. Obama proposed giving money to the mental health care system in order to improve it. Really, these orders should have satisfied almost everybody, at least a little bit. But instead of appeasing his opponents, President Obama managed to actually upset them even more. Ted Cruz tweeted a link to a Cruz campaign website depicting the president as a militaristic dictator with the caption, “Obama wants your guns.” In an op-ed for The Gazette, a Cedar Rapids, Iowa newspaper, Jeb Bush said that Obama was “trampling on the Second Amendment” by proposing common sense gun control. Carly Fiorina tweeted, “… how about enforcing the laws we have?” Cruz’s campaign seemed particularly desperate in their attempts to turn people against the president. To claim that “Obama wants your guns” is simply false. Nowhere in his gun reform proposals does the president ever hint at banning or taking anyone’s guns. It seems so strange to me that any slight change in gun laws is always
seen as a nefarious plot to take away everyone’s guns. President Obama has not proposed keeping guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens. He has, however, proposed many ways to keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them in the first place. It always surprises me that some people consider it a radical idea to propose requiring background checks in order to prevent selling deadly weapons to someone who shouldn’t have one. Aside from universal background checks, which are hardly unheard of, President Obama proposed no new measures, instead opting to focus on improving the system that we already have in place. Fiorina conveniently ignored the fact that one of the president’s proposals in his speech was increasing the size of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in order to enforce current gun laws. So she gets her wish; the president does indeed plan to enforce the laws that we already have. I, for one, am satisfied with the president’s reform proposals. The mental health care system in this country definitely needs some improvements, and I also think that allowing mental health professionals to have more contact with the National Instant Criminal Background Check System will definitely help prevent those who pose a
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State of the Union has its hopes and flaws Zach Davis Columnist
President Obama gave his final State of the Union address on Jan. 12. His words were as encouraging and auspicious as his goals were large, causing the president to be criticized, perhaps rightfully so. Even though he made a couple mistakes, President Obama still set some goals for the nation as a whole to strive toward. He also wants to continue working toward free college, raise minimum wage and fix the immigration system, among other huge goals.
Many people have criticized the president for this address. Some have scrutinized every sentence he spoke, only to point out every miniscule flaw. Some of his mistakes are harmless, like spelling out why health care inflation is slow. Other errors he made involved a lack of important information. For example, President Obama stated that he created over 14 million jobs. That number is extremely impressive alone, but when the number of jobs lost at the very start of his presidency are counted, it drops down to a little over nine million. He claimed to create five million more jobs than he actually did. Though there was still a huge growth, padding the number is a rather childish move. Regardless, this is the biggest mistake made during the whole address. The president’s errors still don’t outweigh the good his goals can accomplish. He wants to push last year’s attempt at free college into reality in Congress. Free
college could train people to do a wider variety of jobs, so more people could potentially get jobs, which is good for everyone. The millions of people who could go to school and get jobs could easily surpass five million jobs lost. And that isn’t even mentioning the number of citizens who wouldn’t be in debt. He also wants to raise minimum wage. The current minimum wage makes it difficult, if not impossible to live in most areas of the country. Raising the minimum wage to a living wage is necessary. If nobody can support their families due to a lack of funds, homelessness and death rates will increase, as will crime rates. We need to make sure everyone can work to support themselves and their families if we want to keep all three of those rates as low as possible. President Obama also said he intends to attempt fixing the immigration system. It is long, difficult and expensive to come to the United States, and many
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people migrate here illegally and manage to stay under the radar. If our immigration system doesn’t get fixed then our problem will only get worse. We need to make the immigration system easier to use and then more people will come legally. We will also be able to keep track of more immigrants and will a better idea of who is in our borders. After all, we don’t want to let someone in who is a threat. The president also wants to fight gun violence, drug abusers, fight for work equality and increase paid leave. Since President Obama wants to do so many good and necessary things, why are we going through all of his words with a fine-toothed comb? Instead we need to ignore what isn’t important and start focusing on what is: bettering the country. Nothing great is ever easy, but the president isn’t wrong in saying we have problems that we need to fix. The best
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STATE OF UNION CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 part about all of his goals is he knows how unrealistic it is to accomplish all of this in a year. And that’s why his address is for goals we have as a nation, not just what he wants to do in the next year.
Obama’s final State of the Union address may have had some mistakes in it, but his message was important for us all to hear. We have problems, and they need to be solved quickly. Obama pointed out our problems and encouraged us to find a way to fix them, and hopefully we do soon.
We should have free college, we need a minimum wage adjustment and our immigration system desperately needs reform. Maybe we can accomplish all of them, assuming we stop tearing into one another over silly mistakes and disagreements.
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WBB CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 anyone else and is shooting 41 percent from the floor, including 40 percent from beyond the arc. The area that Weekly excels in, however, is her ability to knock down free throws, as she has made 82 percent of her attempts from the charity stripe this season. Two players that the Panthers also rely on are senior forwards Amber Sorenson and Jen Keitel, who have been arguably the best frontcourt duo in the MVC. Sorenson has averaged 14 points per game and plays the role of a stretch-four, meaning
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MVC showdown
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The Indiana State University men’s basketball team kept their winning streak alive after dominating the Northern Iowa Panthers in a 74-60 win Wednesday night. Sophomore point guard Brenton Scott led the way for the Sycamores with a career-high 30 points, while knocking down six shots beyond the 3-point arc. ISU found themselves down seven points at halftime but outscored UNI 44-23 in the second half to erase the deficit and ended up cruising to the victory. The team has now won a season-high four straight games, as well as seven out of their last eight. While they were able to beat Northern Iowa, the Sycamores will now look ahead to their road matchup against conference rival Wichita State. The Shockers, led by three-time Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year Gregg Marshall, are just as hot, if not hotter, than Indiana State. They are currently on a six-game winning streak, have an overall record of 11-5 and sit atop of the MVC with their 5-0 record. Wichita State was
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ISU Sycamores ended up on top in their victory against the Northern Iowa Panthers, 74-60.
ranked as the ninth-best team in the country to begin the season but lost four of their first six games to knock them out of the top 25. Three of those losses came at the hands of teams that will be competing for NCAA tournament bids and the team was without senior guard Fred Van Vleet, who is the team’s star and was out due to ankle and hamstring injuries. Since Van Vleet’s return to the lineup against Saint Louis, the Shockers have won 10 of their last 11 games, including a 17-point win against Utah, who was ranked 25th in the country at the
time. Just like they have over the last few seasons, Wichita State has been led by their senior stars Van Vleet and Ron Baker. Baker is averaging 14.8 points per game, while Van Vleet is scoring 11.1 points per game and is dishing out 6.8 assists per game, which is the most in the MVC. The team has also had solid contributions from senior Evan Wessel, sophomore Zach Brown and freshman Markis McDuffie. Baker and Van Vleet garner most of the headlines for their play during their four-year careers in Wichita, but in their matchups against ISU, the
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two haven’t played similarly in terms of production. In the last two regular seasons, four total games, Van Vleet has averaged a little over 14 points per game in an average of 33 minutes per game against the Sycamores, while his running mate Baker has averaged a mere eight points per game in an average of nearly 30 minutes per game. Indiana State will be able to match up with the Shockers duo with two stars of their own. Brenton Scott has increased his points per game average to 18.6 after scoring 25 points against Illinois State and 30 points against Northern Iowa. He is now the third-highest scorer in the conference and his senior backcourt mate Devonte Brown is the fourth highest scorer in the Missouri Valley Conference with his 18.2 points per game. The play of these two, as well as the other rotational players for the Sycamores has elevated them to legitimate contenders for the conference. When ISU and Wichita State tip off at 4 p.m. on Saturday, the winner of the game will take over first place of the MVC and will have the tiebreaker going into the stretch run of the season.
After wrapping up a five-game home stand with a win over Illinois State, the Indiana State women’s basketball team will hit the road this weekend to face a pair of conference foes. On Friday night, the Sycamores will take on the Drake Bulldogs, who come in to the contest with a 10-5 record while going 3-1 in conference play so far. The Bulldogs are coming off three straight wins and have compiled a 5-2 home record this season. The Bulldogs, who are No. 1 in the conference in scoring, are led by junior forward Lizzy Wendell who leads the Missouri Valley Conference in scoring with 21 points per game. Around Wendell is a cadre of complementary players. Sophomore guard Maddy Dean averages close to a double-double with 13.3 points and eight rebounds per game. Junior point guard Caitlin Ingle is the one who makes sure the offense runs smoothly and is a floor general for the Bulldogs. She knows her role isn’t to shoot the basketball as often as others, but to set up her teammates for good shots. Ingle does exactly that, averaging 9.9 points per game and 6.8 assists per game. It always helps when a coach can turn to a certain player off the bench if the team needs offense and that’s what the Bulldogs have with freshman forward Sara Rhine. It’s not often you see a freshman capable of being able to step in and make an immediate impact, but Rhine has adjusted well to the college game. While she has yet to start a game this season, she is often on the floor when the game ends. The Sycamores lost both games against Drake last season, giving up 30 points to Wendell in their first meeting and 20 in their second. The Sycamores will then travel to Cedar Falls, Iowa to take on the Northern Iowa Panthers. The Panthers are led by junior guard Allison Weekly, who is averaging 16 points per game and is the most efficient player on the team. She plays more minutes per game than
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Scott goes for 30 as Sycamores drill UNI Rob Lafary Sports Editor
He doesn’t say much. His silence and swagger gives off an aura of arrogance that most would associate with being cocky. But in all reality, it’s nothing of that sort. For Brenton Scott, it’s just confidence and business; and when you put the two together, it makes him quite the silent assassin. Behind Scott’s career-high 30 points including six made 3-pointers, Indiana State overcame a seven-point halftime deficit and scored 44 points in the second half en route to a 74-60 win over Northern Iowa in a Missouri Valley Conference game played at the Hulman Center on Wednesday night. Against an MVC rival that had previously knocked off former top five teams North Carolina and Iowa State earlier this season, the Sycamores dazzled in the game’s final 20 minutes. Scott though, dazzled more than the rest and couldn’t help but smile when talking about his performance after the game. “I was in the zone tonight,” Scott said of his career night, which also included eight rebounds. “I just wanted to keep attacking and being aggressive, and my teammates were looking for me so I wanted to take advantage.”
Scott’s big night though may not have happened had ISU head coach Greg Lansing stuck with his original plan. The words of a teammate made sure there would be no denying the spotlight from the sophomore from Fort Wayne, Indiana on this particular night. “I was leaning toward not starting Brenton and starting Everett (Clemons) instead,” Lansing said in his postgame press conference. “Everett walked out of here after game day practice and said ‘Coach, Brenton deserves to start. I’m good coming off the bench, let’s keep it the same way.’ That speaks volumes about Everett Clemons.” Scott kept Indiana State within striking distance of Northern Iowa in the first half with 15 points, but the rest of the team struggled against a stingy Panther defense as well as struggling to stop UNI starters Bennett Koch and Wes Washpun, who scored 12 and 11 points respectively to give the visitors a 37-30 lead at halftime. Northern Iowa (10-8, 2-3 MVC) stretched that lead to 39-30 with a bucket to open the second half, but that’s when Scott again sparked the ball club and the Sycamores went on a 15-3 run that gave them a 45-42 advantage.
ISU hit four 3-pointers throughout the spurt and then hit four more during an 18-3 run soon after that ultimately put the game away. ISU led by as many as 18 but never gave up a double-digit lead in the last 9:24 of the contest, eventually winning by the final 14-point margin. “I couldn’t be happier,” Lansing added. “I thought Northern Iowa dictated the game in the first half so we had to change a few things but our guys competed. We got great contributions.” Those contributions were the support that Scott and his 30 points needed on Wednesday night as the team’s second half rally saw the Sycamores shoot 50 percent from the field including a 9-16 mark from the three-point line. Devonte Brown and Matt Van Scoyc added double-digit scoring with 17 and 11 points. Brown added a team-high nine rebounds and Clemons also helped the cause by stuffing the stat sheet with six points, seven rebounds and three assists, including a major boost on the defensive end in the second half with his ability to put a stop to Washpun, who was a preseason All-MVC selection for UNI. “It’s always fun when you’re hitting shots,” Brown said when asked about the team’s
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Sophomore Guard Brenton Scott going for another shot against Matt Bohannon from Northern Iowa State.
recent surge. “But when you’ve got this guy to the right of me (Scott) getting shots, and he’s got the juices going and then you’ve got Ev (Everett Clemons) locking down, it gets everybody pumped.” Indiana State (10-7, 4-1 MVC) is currently on a fourgame winning streak and has
won seven of its last eight ballgames. The Sycamores’ gauntlet of an MVC schedule though continues on Sunday when the team travels to MVC favorite Wichita State. A win puts the Sycamores in a tie for first place in the conference.