January 25, 2016

Indiana Statesman For ISU students. About ISU students. By ISU students.

Volume 123, Issue 46

Monday, Jan. 25, 2016

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SPJ chapter revived at Indiana State Alex Modesitt

truly to be a student-run organization.”

Henson said the group will meet “at least monthly” and will have a yearly After an 18-year hiatus, Indiana State’s membership fee of $37.50.

Through the yearly membership fee chapter of the Society of Professional and fundraising, student members will Journalists is making its comeback.

“This is a chance for students to be re- have the opportunity to travel to SPJally involved in their journalism educa- hosted journalism conferences around tion,” said Lori Henson, assistant profes- the country and enter journalism writsor of communication. “We want people ing competitions to see where their work to come out who have any interest in stacks up against some of the finest in the country. producing news Along with concontent. Whether ference and compethat’s online, on Where: Gillum Hall third floor tition opportunities, the radio, in TV, in When: Wednesday, Jan. 27 at 6 students will also print, whatever your p.m. have a chance to interest, we are not What: Society of Professional Submitted Photos network with prospecific to a media fessionals and gain Journalists call-out meeting platform.”

Lori Henson (left) and Terry Nelson (right) welcome all students to join SPJ who have an a better understand- interest in broadcasting and producing news content.

Henson and coing of how a profesadviser Terry Nelson envision the chapter at Indiana State sional newsroom works.

According to their website, the Society being student-led, with an emphasis on students taking advantage of their op- of Professional Journalists is an organiportunities to better prepare themselves zation whose aim is to fight for the rights of free press, promote high standards of for their future.

“I hope that the kids take it and run ethical behavior and protect the free flow because it’s all about student empower- of information to an informed citizenry.

The call-out meeting for all who are ment,” Nelson said. “I’ve had my share of clubs and everything. I’m here to help interested is Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 6 set up and advise, but otherwise I want it p.m. on the third floor of Gillum Hall.

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Texas Wesleyan says no to concealed handguns on campus Anna M. Tinsley

Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TNS)

FORT WORTH, Texas — Concealed handguns won’t be allowed on Texas Wesleyan University’s campus.

That’s what Wesleyan President Frederick G. Slabach on Friday decided — after gathering feedback from students and faculty at the private school over the past few months — and the university board of trustees affirmed.

“Texas Wesleyan’s current weapons policy will not change and our campus will remain gun free,” Slabach said in a letter to students, faculty and staff.

Texas Wesleyan’s decision comes as private colleges across the state are trying to answer the same question of whether to allow concealed handguns on their campus.

Already, a number of private universities — including Texas Christian University, Rice University and the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth — have determined that their campuses will be off-limits to anyone carrying concealed handguns.

A number of students and professors agreed with the trustees’ decision.

“Our university is about one thing and one thing only: education,” said Jay Brown, a psychology professor at Texas Wesleyan. “It’s about faculty teaching and students learning. Anything that interferes with that process shouldn’t be there.”

Lyndsey Bessinger, a junior and resident assistant at Wesleyan, said she had mixed feelings about the issue.

“I personally saw merit in campus carry,” the Fort Worth junior said. “(But) it would have been scary to have guns on campus … roommates could always get a hold of them.

“I would have supported a decision either way.”

Starting in August, Texas becomes one of a handful of states allowing concealed weapons to be carried on some college campuses, along with Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Mississippi, Oregon, Utah and Wisconsin, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

This has been an increasingly controversial issue in Texas since lawmakers passed a “campus carry” law, letting licensed Texans carry concealed handguns into buildings at public universities as of August and at community colleges in 2017.

Private colleges have the ability to opt out; public universities may create gunfree zones on part, but not all, of the campus.

A separate measure allowing licensed Texans to openly carry holstered handguns throughout the state as of earlier this month does not apply to college campuses.

Texans with concealed handgun licenses have been able to carry on college campuses, but not in buildings, since lawmakers approved the concealed handgun law 20 years ago, lawmakers say.

This new measure lets them carry them into dorms or classrooms, instead of requiring them to take their handguns

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Hundreds of State students give up holiday for MLK Day of Service Libby Legett

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Rather than sleeping in and staying out of the cold weather on a holiday, nearly 300 Indiana State University students volunteered Monday at 30 sites throughout the Wabash Valley for Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.

“It’s great that we have this many people coming in on a terribly cold day that is also a holiday,” President Dan Bradley said. Bradley himself participated in volunteering at St. Benedict’s Soup Kitchen helping move boxes of canned foods with ISU students.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service is a day set aside for students to celebrate King’s legacy, a chance to give back to Terre Haute, and the opportunity to make a difference that is put together by the Center for Community Engagement.

By traveling to various sites, students were able to share what encouraged them to come out and volunteer. Students such as these helped Indiana State achieve the rank of being No. 1 in service as ranked by the Washington Monthly.

Aaron Schaidle, a junior nursing major, volunteered at the Boys and Girls Club of Terre Haute where he organized supply closets, cleaned the game room and played with kids.

“I think it is a great way to help out the ISU community, and I am also a President Scholar so I am fulfilling my contribution on giving back to the community as part of my scholarship commitment,” Schaidle said.

This was Schaidle’s first time serving at the Boys and Girls Club. He saw it as a new opportunity to get connected with the children of Terre Haute and give back to this part of the community.

Other students spent their time helping the American Red Cross paint.

“I volunteered to make an impact not only for myself, but to inspire others that

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Indiana State University President Bradley and students help St. Benedict’s Soup Kitchen on Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service Jan. 18.

they can also make a difference,” said Tasia Robinson, a graduate student in human resource development and a volunteer painter. “It’s up to us as a younger generation to step up and volunteer.”

Gunner Davis, a freshman business administration major and Networks Scholar, joined other students and President Bradley moving canned foods, taking out garbage, cleaning cabinets and more at St. Benedict’s Soup Kitchen.

“Terre Haute offers students a lot more than what they probably think, and I think it is important for students to give back to the town that supports them,” Davis said.

The Center for Community Engagement not only arranged the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, but also puts together other service opportunities for students such as Donaghy Days and Stop and Serves.

“It is really awesome how ISU sets up

the connections for students to volunteer places, so all we have to do is sign in or swipe card and it’s easy as that to go volunteer,” said Allison Crick, a freshman marketing and management major.

Crick volunteered at Goodwill because she has previously donated there before but wanted to see what all Goodwill does in the background.

Jessica Starr, Center for Community Engagement program coordinator, is working on other one-day student service events in Terre Haute.

Students can also participate in Stop and Serve that takes place every Wednesday in the Hulman Memorial Student Union from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

“It’s been a great experience, and I’m really thankful for ISU being able to allow us to spend so much time volunteering and setting up ways to make it easier for us to do,” Crick said.

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On a day off from classes Jan. 18, Indiana State University student Will Manning paints for the American Red Cross on Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.

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Economics lecture series honors beloved professor Libby Roerig

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Beloved and long-time economics professor Woody Creason will be honored with the creation of a lecture series set to kick off next week.

Lynn Duggan, a professor of labor studies at Indiana University, will be the inaugural speaker for the Woodrow Creason Memorial Lecture at 4 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 28, in the events area of the Cunningham Memorial Library.

The topic of her lecture is “Production and Reproduction: Top-Down Versus Cooperative Population Planning.”

The event is co-sponsored by the Wabash Valley Community Foundation, Indiana State’s economics department and the university’s library.

“During his 35 years of teaching economics at Indiana State, his reputation was stellar, and the legacy he left behind is profound,” said Ross Hemphill, who is a member of the College of Arts and Sciences advisory board and is helping create a scholarship in Creason’s name.

“He had a unique view of economics — one that was liberal — even radical at times. But, he always made you think like an economist,” Hemphill added.

“This is because he loved that discipline so much, and he loved teaching it to students willing to learn. He was a very generous man — especially generous of his time to his students, other colleagues in the department and to the community.”

As a student at Indiana State in the 1980s, Richard Setliff was on the receiving end of that generosity. He recalls

weekly meetings at Creason’s house.

“We’d talk economics for hours and drink iced tea,” Setliff said. “He was the professor’s professor — very honorable, a good guy.”

If there was a course being taught by Creason — on either an undergraduate or graduate level — Setliff took it. Creason always went the extra mile, including writing a letter of recommendation for Setliff, he recalled.

“I thought, ‘This is what it is to be to be a professor.’ He just had all the qualities,” Setliff said.

Creason made such an impression on the four-time State graduate that Setliff himself is now an educator, having taught classes at Indiana State as a parttime lecturer since 2003.

A native of Sioux County, Nebraska, Creason earned a bachelor’s degree at Western Michigan University, which is where he met his wife, Maxine.

He went on to earn a master’s degree from the University of Michigan and a doctorate in economics from Indiana University. Creason and his family moved to Terre Haute in 1956, where he taught economics until his retirement in 1991.

Creason was a decorated World War II veteran, having served in the Pacific Theater with a B-29 Group on the islands of Guam and Saipan.

While at Indiana State, Creason was involved in the creation of the ISU Credit Union. He was a charter member of the Eugene V. Debs Foundation and served the foundation for many years. He was also a member of the Terre Haute Economic Development Commission for

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Woody Creason, an economics professor, died in 2014. ISU’s new lecture series in his honor begins next week.

several years.

“He loved teaching and the university, demonstrated through his service to ISU and the city of Terre Haute. The lecture continues his work by bringing in an outside speaker, someone who has achieved the highest levels of scholarship, for a unique and stimulating exchange of ideas,” said Creason’s son

Free money for college can come down to simply being left-handed, red-haired or tall Katy Murphy

San Jose Mercury News (TNS)

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Are you white and living in Hawaii? A Jewish orphan studying aeronautical engineering? Or maybe your mom, dad or grandma teaches school in Antioch, Calif.?

The University of California may have a scholarship — or two — just for you.

Alongside essay questions and SAT scores, UC’s application for aspiring students has become a virtual matchmaker for scholarship endowments, asking applicants everything from whether they are small-town mechanics, have ancestors from Pon Yup, China, or are interested in dairying, dry-land farming or dance.

UC campuses handed out nearly 10,000 of these undergraduate scholarships totaling $36.5 million in 2014-15 — an average award of more than $3,500, according to its financial aid report.

The “Scholarship Opportunities” section of the application provides a window into the quirky, often clannish world of donors looking to help a very specific type of person, including descendants of Civil War veterans — with separate funds for each side.

Students sift through these and other obscure opportunities as they enter the thick of scholarship season, appealing to donors to finance their high-priced educations based on their leadership skills or academic record — or maybe their height or hair color.

“One of my friends really did get

one for having red hair and freckles,” said Grace O’Toole, a UC Berkeley freshman who has neither.

At UC, there’s even a scholarship for USA Freestyle Martial Arts “red belts.”

While the majority of student aid comes from government sources, students piecing together upward of $34,000 a year for a UC education — and that is with in-state tuition — say that every bit helps.

O’Toole applied for more than 20 private scholarships, writing an essay about a zombie apocalypse for one fund and reading an essay about fire safety to enter a scholarship lottery by the American Fire Sprinkler Association — long odds she compared to winning the Powerball jackpot. (According to the association, up to 60,000 high school seniors enter each year in the hope of snagging one of 20 $2,000 awards.)

She said she was “a little bit thrown” by the oddness of the UC scholarship list but filled it out anyway, not wanting to close off any possibilities.

Berkeley High School counselor Teri Goodman advises her students to check all of the boxes that apply to them in the UC application, including one for disadvantaged minority students attending Berkeley High.

She finds some of the items funny, she said, but she doesn’t think her students are all that amused.

“I think they’re just sort of wrapped up in the overwhelmingness of it all,” she said. “I don’t think they see the irony that’s sometimes there or the

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Jared.

“The lecture is a public lecture because my father believed wholeheartedly that the university was an outgrowth of and an asset to the community. This will hopefully become an annual event and contribute broadly to the life of ISU and Terre Haute.”

Creason died in 2014.

Ruling extracts some criminal charges against ex-Penn State officials in Sandusky case Susan Snyder

and Craig R. McCoy

The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)

PHILADELPHIA—The Pennsylvania Superior Court scaled back the criminal case Friday against three former Pennsylvania State University administrators accused of conspiring to cover up Jerry Sandusky’s child sex abuse, validating their assertion that it was unfair to let the university’s former top lawyer testify against them.

In three opinions, the judges reversed a lower-court ruling that upheld obstruction of justice and conspiracy charges against former Penn State president Graham B. Spanier, former vice president Gary Schultz, and former athletic director Tim Curley, as well as perjury charges against Spanier and Schultz.

The judges left intact charges of child endangerment, a third-degree felony, and failure to report suspected child abuse, a summary offense, against all three men, as well as a perjury charge for Curley.

But defense lawyers hailed the rulings, perhaps their biggest legal victory in a case that has languished for four years. “We’re elated that they threw out the most important charges,” said Elizabeth Ainslie, an attorney for Spanier.

A spokesman for Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane said her office would review the ruling and decide if it would appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

Prosecutors contend that Spanier, Curley, and Schultz either ignored

signs that Sandusky, a longtime assistant to football coach Joe Paterno, was a sexual predator or covered it up.

All retired, resigned, or were forced out in the wake of Sandusky’s arrest.

Each has denied the allegations.

Beyond e-mail and other evidence, the case against them was built on the testimony of Cynthia Baldwin, a former Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice, who was chief counsel for Penn State during the Sandusky investigation and was present when each testified before the grand jury.

Prosecutors and Baldwin say she was there serving as the lawyer for the university, not its officers.

In her own testimony, Baldwin savaged Spanier, maintaining that information he gave to reporters about his knowledge of Sandusky or his conduct was filled with falsehoods.

“He is not a person of integrity,” she testified. “He lied to me.”

For three years, the defendants’ lawyers have fought to quash her testimony. They contend that Spanier and the others viewed Baldwin as their lawyer, and that she could not be a witness because her contact with them was protected under attorney-client privilege.

Superior Court upheld that assertion.

“We find that Ms. Baldwin breached the attorney-client privilege and was incompetent to testify as to confidential communications between her and Spanier during her grand jury testimony,” said the opinion, issued in Spanier’s case and echoed in the others.

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ISU Public Safety police blotter Jan. 15

7:53 a.m.: A hit and run property damage accident was reported in Lot R. 11:16 a.m.: A theft was reported in Erickson Hall.

3:29 p.m.: A theft was reported in Cunningham Memorial Library.

4:55 p.m.: Battery was reported in the Hulman Memorial Student Union.

7:23 p.m.: A hit and run property damage accident was reported at the 600 block of Spruce Street.

8:22 p.m.: Possession of drugs/ paraphernaila was reported in Cromwell Hall.

Jan. 16

12:44 a.m.: A warrant and minor consumption were reported in Mills Hall.

3:03 a.m.: A minor consuming alcohol was reported in the West Pay Lot.

1:32 a.m.: A domestic dispute and minor consuming alcohol were reported in University Apartments Unit 2.

1:46 a.m.: Minor consumption was reported at N. 6 1/2 and Tippecanoe.

(Assisted Indiana State Police.)

2:25 a.m.: Possession of drugs/ paraphernalia was reported in Mills Hall.

2:59 p.m.: Possession of drugs/ paraphernaila was reported in Cromwell Hall.

10:09 p.m.: Possession of drugs/ paraphernaila was reported in University Apartments Unit 3.

Jan. 17

1:48 p.m.: A theft was reported in Lot 10.

9:20 p.m.: A burglary was reported in Erickson Hall.

10:57 p.m.: Domestic battery was reported in University Apartments Unit

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11:04 p.m.: Harrassment was reported on campus.

Jan. 18

2:25 p.m.: Possession of paraphernaila was reported in the Barnes & Noble Lot.

Jan. 19

8:09 a.m.: A theft was reported in University Apartments Unit 4.

11:49 a.m.: A theft was reported in the Student Rec. Center.

1:17 p.m.: A driver never licensed was reported at N. Eighth and Spruce Streets.

2:33 p.m.: A theft was reported in the Student Rec. Center.

4:25 p.m.: A hit and run property damage accident was reported in Lot 14.

6:32 p.m.: A theft was reported in the Student Rec. Center.

Jan. 20

1:34 p.m.: Harrassing emails were reported in Lincoln Quad.

2:42 p.m.: A vehicle crash with property damage was reported at Seventh and Chestnut Streets.

3:46 p.m. Suspicious activity was reported in Lincoln Quad.

4:15 p.m.: Suspicious activity was reported in University Apartments Unit 2.

6:22 p.m.: Suspicious activity was reported in University Apartments Unit 3.

9:00 p.m.: Intimidation was reported in Sandison Hall.

Jan. 21

6:26 a.m.: Indecent exposure was reported in Student Services.

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The only people legally allowed to carry concealed handguns on campus are those who have a concealed handgun permit, meaning they are at least 21 and have met requirements including training and proficiency tests. Officials at public colleges have said the plan could cost nearly $50 million in coming years — because additional officers, training, storage facilities and security technology would be needed — and that expense that might be passed to students.

Wesleyan has held a series of open forums and reviewed feedback from students, staff and faculty, as well as discussing the issue with the Student Government Association, Alumni Association Board, the Student Life Committee and the Board of Trustees Academic Affairs.

CASECONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 The lawyers for Spanier, Curley, and Schultz only challenged the obstruction, perjury, and conspiracy charges because they were connected to Baldwin.

Timothy K. Lewis, another Spanier lawyer, said he was confident his client would overcome the remaining charges, too. “We and Dr. Spanier have maintained his innocence from the beginning and have always been confident that he would be vindicated, and we remain confident that he will be vindicated of the remaining charges, which have never been adjudicated.”

Lawyers for Curley and Schultz did not return calls for comment.

If the rulings stand, the prosecution case may have to rely more on e-mail traffic among Spanier, Curley, and Schultz to prove wrongdoing.

In one series of exchanges, the men appeared to discuss how to respond to a complaint that Sandusky sexually assaulted a young boy in a campus shower. They initially agreed to inform Sandusky’s charity, alert authorities, and bar the former coach from bringing children to Penn State’s locker rooms.

Curley later wrote that he changed his mind about contacting authorities.

“The only downside for us is if the message isn’t ‘heard’ and acted upon, and we then become vulnerable for not having reported it,” Spanier responded in a 2001 e-mail.

Monday, Jan. 25, 2016 • Page 3 Slabach’s letter to the campus noted that “the overwhelming majority of feedback” was to not allow campus carry.

He said many security upgrades have been made at the campus in the past two years, including adding 38 security cameras, electronic gates and fences around dorms, enhanced lighting across campus, a full-time security dispatcher, five security officers providing round-theclose security and additional off-duty Fort Worth police officers who monitor the campus and basketball and soccer games.And he said six emergency call boxes will be installed around campus by mid-March.

Omar Dominguez, a student life ambassador and junior at Wesleyan, said he believes security guards protect those on campus.

“I trust Wesleyan security,” he said.

“They can handle the job.”

In Texas, more than 925,000 people,

Spanier has said he had no memory of that e-mail and was unaware of any inappropriate or criminal act.

In its ruling, the three-judge panel also sharply criticized Frank Fina, the former state prosecutor who led the investigation and who has since become entangled in a running feud with Kane.

The judges said that Fina had told the grand jury judge he would question Baldwin about her conversations with the three defendants, but that many questions ultimately involved “potential confidential communications.”

In sum, the panel wrote, Fina’s questioning was “highly improper.”

Fina could not be reached for comment Friday.

Written by Judge Mary Jane Bowes with the agreement of William H. Platt and Patricia H. Jenkins, the opinions spurred immediate reaction from Penn State alumni who have been saying for years that the men were unfairly charged and the university unfairly tarnished.

“The court overturned the despicable violation of these men’s constitutional rights by the Office of the Attorney General in collusion with former Penn State trustee and counsel Cynthia Baldwin,” said the group Penn Staters for Responsible Stewardship in a statement.

(Staff writer Mark Fazlollah contributed to this article.) ©2016 The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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around 4 percent of the state’s 27 million residents, have a license to carry, according to the most recent Texas Department of Public Safety statistics.

Whatever the numbers, Zahraa Saheb, a 19-year-old junior originally from Iraq, said she’s very glad trustees made Texas Wesleyan off limits to guns.

“Originally from Iraq, I grew up with guns,” said Saheb, vice president of the TWU Student Government Association. “I don’t want to be in a room with guns that could harm me or my peers.”

Not everyone agrees.

During a campus carry forum last year, Alcira Katagiri, a 23-year-old junior from Arlington, said this is about public safety.

“I fear for my life … when I go to class every day,” he said. “Why not give us the possibility, the potential, to defend ourselves?”

And Breanna Lockwood said she understands that many people are afraid of

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But UC doesn’t have a monopoly on quirky cash for college. While scanning a UC Berkeley site for outside scholarships, Kristyn Fudge spotted another unusual opportunity last spring — brought to her by Budweiser, whose product she will legally be able to drink in less than three years.

Bud’s maker Anheuser-Busch is underwriting the bulk of Fudge’s undergraduate education at UC Berkeley, covering four years of hefty out-of-state tuition — more than $150,000 — as part of a recruitment and training program that includes summer internships.

The scholarship application was more intensive than most job interviews, involving a “video cover letter” and a panel interview in the company’s St. Louis headquarters.

guns, but that fear isn’t worth sacrificing anyone’s life.

“Fear does not trump a God-given right, a constitutional right,” said the 20-year-old Arlington junior who plans to get a concealed handgun license as soon as she’s 21. “We are not safe anywhere any more. That’s just the harsh reality.”

Even so, Dennis Hall, dean of students at Wesleyan, said the majority of people he spoke with about campus carry hoped the college would opt out.

“It’s a scary proposition to think about … guns on any college campus,” he said.

“I’m often speaking with students during very emotional, challenging times.

“Not having to have that worry (of anyone carrying a concealed handgun), … not installing metal detectors, … there’s a certain amount of relief that comes with that.” ©2016 Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

When she got the award, her parents said they would start drinking a lot more Budweiser.

“It was out of the blue, something I hadn’t expected to happen,” said Fudge, a freshman chemical engineering major.

Fudge also happens to have red hair, but she did not apply to scholarships based on physical characteristics or luck. “I actively avoided those,” she said. “I couldn’t tell if they were real.

You have a better chance if you apply to the scholarships that are more merit-based, that you can really shine your personality through.”

But her chief advice is simple: Put your name out there.

“If you don’t apply,” she said, “you’re not going to get it.” ©2016 San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.). Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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‘X-Files’ returns to a new generation of believers Verne Gay

Newsday (TNS)

I want to believe that “The X-Files” creator Chris Carter will be — apologies to Bob Dylan — forever young. I want to believe that at 57, he’s still the California golden boy, the precocious beach bum with ferocious blue eyes and a full head of California-sun-bleached blond hair, and the same guy who changed the world or at least changed TV. I also want to believe he wrote the latest revival of “The X-Files” in his head while cutting through the Malibu surf on a “thruster” board, with imaginative monsters and aliens carving the pipeline next to him.

I want to believe …

Carter, ahem, says don’t bother.

“I’m still a surfer,” he confirmed by phone recently. “But I have to admit I went to check the surf the other day and didn’t go out because it’s been raining and the water was dirty. That said, I didn’t surf for months when I was making the show so calling yourself a surfer when your board is gathering dust in the corner sounds like you’re representing someone you’re not.”

“The show,” of course, is the show of the moment — the six-part return of “The X-Files,” along with its two leads (David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson) and some members of the original creative team besides Carter (James Wong and Glen Morgan). The show premieres Sunday at approximately 10 p.m., following the NFC Championship Game on Fox and will then air in its regular time slot, Mondays at 8 p.m., starting Jan. 25.

Like that California surf, speculation is high: Will Carter recapture the glory days? Can a classic series go home again, or should it even try?

Of course, you recall “The X-Files” mythos — the “truth is out there,” along with the conspiracies, and aliensamong-us, also the pet obsessions of Mulder (Duchovny) and his pet phrase, “I want to believe …” A glorious stemwinding tale of monsters-vs.-aliens, or at least Mulder and Scully (Anderson) vs. all of them, and the feckless, mendacious, perfidious U.S. government, it’s become commonplace in the years since the finale aired in 2002 to observe that “The X-Files” changed TV. A commonplace which also happens to be true: The particular wave “Files” caught was the Internet one, which helped drive fan interest and speculation — endless speculation about Carter’s intentions or the deeper meaning of the “mytharc” that formed the edifice of nine seasons. Not only did “Lost” embrace this Web-synergy paradigm, but just about every other TV drama that forged close ties with a fan base via the Internet and social media did as well.

Which is to say, virtually every successful TV drama since.

And to think it was all hatched in the head of a Cal State Long Beach grad and expert surfer who spent the bulk of his early career as a writer at (where else?)

Surfing Magazine.

Congenial and soft-spoken, Carter certainly sounded pleased to be back in the spotlight. But one is also left to wonder what he’s been up to all these years.

There were a handful of short-lived series (like “Files” spinoff “The Lone Gunmen”) that arrived and quickly disappeared while his magnum opus was still on the air. A pair of “Files” movies — one successful, the other less so — also

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January hurricane suggests changing climate Dajia Kirkland Features Editor

Climate changes throughout time and is mainly accounted for by orbital variations.

However, data shows Earth’s temperature is rising at a rapid pace, and humans are believed to be the culprits.

This issue has been tossed around in numerous debates, and there are those who believe that Earth’s temperatures rising to a detrimental state is just a theory and nothing more.

With evidence such as melting glaciers, delayed snowfall, rising sea levels and the death of our marine life due to acidic concentrations, ignoring the “idea” that the Earth’s temperatures aren’t rising significantly doesn’t help in solving this pressing and real issue.

So what causes temperatures to rise exactly? The answer is greenhouse gasses — carbon dioxide and methane be-

ing the most notable.

The greenhouse effect is a natural process that enables the Earth’s climate to support life. These gasses are trapped in the Earth’s atmosphere and in turn radiate heat.

According to National Geographic, without the greenhouse effect, “the Earth’s surface would be an average of about 60 degrees Fahrenheit cooler.”

The levels of these gasses have stayed fairly constant over time, but with the increase of fossil fuel burning and other greenhouse emissions, heat radiation is increasing.

If heat levels continue to move upward, scientists have concluded that sea levels will continue to rise, along with acid levels in our oceans; shifts will occur in the ecosystems; there will be a large threat to human health, and we will experience extreme weather — think about the odd manifestation of hurricane Alex, the first January hurricane to occur in the

Atlantic since 1978.

According to CNN, a 6 degree Celsius rise in Earth’s temperature would be devastating to the planet.

Now to some this number may not seem detrimental, but what many people don’t realize is that 6 degrees Celsius is equivalent to 42.8 degrees Fahrenheit.

Keep in mind how warm the temperature was in early December of 2015.

The evidence of climate change is all around us. 2015 proved it through warm winters, delayed snowfall and studies by NASA that showed how much heat the Earth has amassed since 1880.

This is one of the biggest challenges of our time as opposing teams go back and forth about if temperatures are in fact rising. Confirmation of the greenhouse effect can be seen and felt as soon as we take a step outside our home.

The question is, how long are we going to fight about issues that can be seen right outside our window?

Classic Hollywood: Tom Stoppard recalls how he turned his ‘Rosencrantz’ play into a movie Susan King

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Tom Stoppard became an overnight success at age 29 when his play “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead” was staged at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1966.

A year later, the National Theatre production opened at the Old Vic in London and on Broadway, where it won four Tony Awards, including best play.

The absurdist comedy revolves around the two minor characters — Rosencrantz and Guildenstern — from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” The two are always in “the wings” of the Bard’s tragedy, where they briefly interact with the major characters from that play including Hamlet, Ophelia, the Player and Polonius and have no idea of their tragic fate.

Hollywood soon took interest in this young playwright and his existential comedy.

“I think there was some interest, I think, from MGM,” said Stoppard, 78, by phone from his country home in Britain. British director John Boorman (“Deliverance”) was initially attached to the project.

“I remember then sitting down writing a script for John and realize looking back I had no idea what a screenplay was,” said Stoppard, who has written such award-winning plays as “The Real Thing,” “Arcadia,” “Travesties” and “Night and Day.” He won an Oscar for co-writing the 1998 Academy Awardwinning best film, “Shakespeare in Love.”

Had the Boorman-directed film come to fruition, Stoppard said, “it would have been a heavy number.”

But by the time he wrote the screenplay to “Rosencrantz” for the 1990 film version that was released theatrically in 1991, Stoppard had several film projects to his credit, including co-writing Terry Gilliam’s 1985 classic, “Brazil.”

“I knew enough to know that (a screenplay) shouldn’t get too wordy,” Stoppard said. “I felt by that time that I knew a little more about writing screenplays, though I still don’t know enough until this day, really.”

He also wasn’t a young Turk any more.

“What happens when you get older is that you feel freer and looser about defending or protecting your original text,” Stoppard said. “I started having fun with it.”

The comedy, which stars Gary Oldman as Rosencrantz, Tim Roth as Guildenstern, Richard Dreyfuss as the Player, Iain Glenn as Hamlet, Joanna Miles as Gertrude and Ian Richardson as Polonius, received generally strong reviews and even won the Venice Film Festival’s top prize over the odds-on favorite, Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas.”

“Gore Vidal was the head of the judges and loved the movie,” noted the film’s producer, Michael Brandman. “He thought it was reflective of everything the Venice Film Festival should be celebrating.”

And now the film has just been released in a 25th-anniversary edition on Blu-ray and DVD with an interview with Stoppard.

Brandman had always been a huge fan of the play and felt it would make a good movie.

His friend fellow producer Emanuel Azenberg, who had produced “The Real Thing” on Broadway, arranged a meeting between Brandman and Stoppard in London.

But Stoppard recalled being initially trepidatious.

“I think they had to ask me more than once,” he said. “In my usual way I backed off. I wasn’t sure about making films out of plays.” (“Rosencrantz & Guildenstern” is the only Stoppard play to be adapted for cinema.)

After Stoppard did agree, Cinecom Pictures became interested in getting involved in the distribution of the movie, Brandman said, “if we could raise the money. My old boss Lee Rich was running MGM, which controlled the underlying rights, and I was able to secure those. Then we set out in search of a director.”

They didn’t have to look far. Stoppard’s feature directing career began and ended with “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern.”

“It’s hard to explain why I ended up doing it,” Stoppard said. “My memory of this is that it made it easier to get the little money we needed if the writer was directing it. I think the theory being since I had never directed a film, I might turn out to be a great film director. I realized pretty soon that if this was going to be adjusted and adapted, I was the person who would be the least defensive about it. I felt it needed a bit of disrespect. My fear was it would be over-respected and would look like a filmed play.”

Though Roth jokingly described him-

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Tom Stoppard attends the opening night of “The Real Thing” on Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre on Oct. 30, 2014, in New York City.

self as “sort of young and stupid” in 1990, he knew who Stoppard was and had read some of his plays before he was sent the script.

“It’s a terrific read,” said Roth, who is in Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, “The Hateful Eight.”

Roth met with Stoppard at his place in London about the film. “Gary Oldman was there,” Roth said. “We worked together before with (director) Mike Leigh. Me, Tom and Gary sat and chatted. He was very interested in bringing us together as the characters.”

But Daniel Day-Lewis, who was appearing in London’s West End in “Hamlet,” was also interested in Guildenstern.

In fact, Stoppard said, he was supposed to see Day-Lewis in the play that night.

Roth “told me he assumed that was the end of that if Daniel Day-Lewis was already interested,” Stoppard said.

“I showed up at the theater and found out that Daniel Day-Lewis was off that night. I never did get to see him.”

And that’s how Roth got the part.

“I owe Danny big time,” the actor said,

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DJ Khaled is the Internet philosopher of the moment.

If you’re late to the game, DJ Khaled is a Top 40 hip-hop artist who, until a few months ago, was mostly recognized for yelling his name in songs like “All I Do Is Win.” But now he has attracted an entirely new set of fans thanks to his Snapchat account. Every day you can watch Khaled eat breakfast, water his plants and deliver 10-second sermons on the keys to success.

He’s got an entire set of catchphrases: “another one,” “you played yourself,” “major key.” At this point, he should probably just copyright the “key” emoji.

But the masterpiece of his Snapchat phraseology is “they,” as in “they don’t want you to have breakfast.” He says this every morning.

Khaled never says who “they” is or what “they” have against you eating your egg whites, but that’s what makes the statement so useful. We all have a “they,” don’t we?

“They” is anyone who gets in your path. “They” are the doubters. The naysayers. The people that Notorious B.I.G. was talking about in the intro to “Juicy.”

When he says, “They don’t want you to eat breakfast,” he’s simultaneously telling you: “Eat your breakfast, so that you can have revenge on your haters,” and: “You’ve worked hard and achieved success, and your breakfast is a reward for that. Enjoy that reward, so that you can have energy to work more.”

Khaled’s anti-“they” mantra is a motivational anthem for late capitalism: Defeat the competition. Make money. And then with that money, go make more money. Rinse and repeat.

They don’t want you to rinse and repeat.

Khaled’s “virality” might seem odd until you realize that Khaled is basically the rap game Tony Robbins.

Robbins is one of the kings of motivational speaking, but he fails in one aspect that Khaled delivers: theatrical range. Only Khaled can merge feel-good American ambition with the macho braggadocio of hip-hop and still temper it with the rawness of the human experience.

Prime example: In October, Khaled

BELIEVE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 came in the intervening years. A recent project for Amazon Prime went nowhere.

“They’ve been good years for me,” Carter said. “I was 45 when this ended and said to myself at the time that I’ll never be 45 again. If I don’t stop and do the things that I never got to do for the 10 years the show was on the air I never will. I took some needed time off.”

“Time off ” turned into the better part of a decade.

“I went mountain climbing, took surf trips, I became a pilot of all things. You have no time to do this as a TV producer.”

Naturally, he pondered a return to producing, “but if you look at what I’ve done, I didn’t want to come back to murder mysteries. I didn’t want to do crime dramas, or what I would call the ‘tried and true.’ I wanted to do new stuff.”

Carter was also busy reading, one book in particular: Karl Ove Knausgard’s “My Struggle,” a vast roman a clef by a Norwegian author who burrowed deep into his psyche discovering “the banalities and humiliations of his life, the private moments of pleasure, and those dark thoughts that most people can’t bear to articulate even to themselves,” according to a feature in the New Republic on Knausgard by Evan Hughes.

Naturally, Knausgard’s endless selfministrations made Carter think of agent Fox Mulder. What would Mulder

sat down for a video interview with the pop culture magazine Complex. When asked if he’d ever caught an “L” — that is, if he’d ever made a big mistake — Khaled looked horrified. “Never in my life,” he said.

“You’ve never, like, missed a highway exit or something?” the interviewer asked, incredulously.

“Nah.” Six weeks later, Khaled caught a very large “L.” On Dec. 15, he got lost at sea while riding his Jet Ski at night.

He started panicking and sent out a flurry of Snapchats, each more desperate than the last. By the end, there was no text — just a “prayer hands” emoji superimposed over video of him driving around, looking for the shore.

Millions of people watched this drama unfold, and many probably came to the inevitable conclusion that DJ Khaled is a hypocrite. He is, but he’s a vulnerable, lovable hypocrite, one who is willing to bare himself to the world during his darkest hour. He won’t admit weakness verbally, but he’s happy to show it to you.

Khaled has joined one of his frequent collaborators, Drake, in the hallowed circle of rap dudes who know how to capitalize on an Internet joke (Xzibit sits far outside this circle).

Drake is the king of this stuff: He actively courts Internet funnies, treating them as user-generated content for his brand. He knew ahead of time that his “Hotline Bling” video was going to get memed.

Drake’s online persona is too carefully crafted to feel truly welcoming, though.

When he started hitting the gym, we didn’t know until he started Instagramming carefully angled pictures of his pectoral muscles. Drake shows us only results, never the process.

DJ Khaled won’t hide the struggle. He invites you into the process of transformation and reminds you that it’s OK to love your body as it is.

He brings us into his gym, sweating and out of breath, as he shouts encouraging mantras — to himself, to you, to the universe.

When we watch DJ Khaled sweating on that elliptical, we’re watching Daniel-san “wax on, wax off.” We’re watching Jackie Chan lift buckets of water in “Drunken Master.” We’re watching Rocky Balboa run up the steps of the be doing now?

“I thought Mulder has a very similar life, sitting at home, now that he can sit at home in his underwear, and if he wants to go onto the Internet, he can easily search out all the mysteries as they come to him. I think his life had become much smaller, much lonelier.”

Then the phone rang — Carter’s, not poor, sad, lonely, Web-addicted Mulder’s.

Fox TV co-chief Dana Walden was on the other end.

Carter had worked with Walden at Fox years before. She wondered if he might be interested in bringing “The XFiles” back to TV. The universe indeed operates in interesting ways. As it so happened, Carter said he had just been thinking about his old show.

There were immediate concerns when the call came a little over a year ago “out of the blue.” Would Anderson and Duchovny return? Walden said they would. Carter and Duchovny had long since settled a residuals dispute over the show, which nearly ruptured a friendship (and per reports at the time, did in fact).

“We are next-door neighbors so we’ve let bygones be bygones,” he says. “It’s funny because looking back at when the show was beginning to be a hit, I was told to get ready for the lawsuit. It goes with the territory because everyone reads the contract.”

Carter says his reborn “Files” won’t plow old ground, but develop a brand-

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DJ Khaled poses for photos on Aug. 22, 2013, in New York City.

Philadelphia Museum of Art. In the best sense of the word, Khaled is probably the most American thing we’ve got going for us right now. Seriously: He’s a New Orleans-born child of Palestinian immigrants who idolizes Jamaican reggae singers and got his break in a hip-hop crew fronted by a Puerto Rican.

He embraces diversity in every aspect of his life. When he talks about his favorite food, he gives equal respect to Cinnamon Toast Crunch and his mother’s maqluba (an Arabic dish with rice and lamb). He doesn’t talk much about his faith as a Muslim, but he doesn’t hide it, or his own shortcomings. He prays 10 times a day. When Larry King pressed him on his religion, he said, “I practice it, but I could do a better job.”

He’s a true capitalist and a champion new mythology; in fact, the first and last episodes will deal with that while the ones in between will be what the network used to call “monster-of-theweek” stand-alone episodes dealing with unusual phenomena, like Soul Eater, the Great Mutato, Human Bat, and (everyone’s fave) Flukeman, the human flatworm.

Carter won’t abandon a core theme of the original, perhaps the core theme — the balance of faith and skepticism, hope and hopelessness.

“The idea of hope and faith …” he says, his thought trailing off. “In the second movie, I wanted to do a movie about faith, but people want to be scared and have a thrill ride. But the TV show allowed us to explore areas that aren’t necessarily staple forms of entertainment. For me, ‘The X-Files’ was and is kind of a miracle — like I wrote a book I wanted to read, about belief, faith, hope and perseverance. Those are really interesting subjects for me and ones television loves to explore.”

And, if the gods of Nielsen oblige, he just might continue exploring.

Are these six episodes the end? “I think there are endless numbers of ‘XFiles’ stories to be told,” he says. “I can’t imagine this is it, but it’s partially out of my control, Fox owns it and they can do what they want — but they have been so kind, thoughtful and considerate to me and us.”

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of new media marketing. He works the hustle from both ends, creating viral injokes that risk being co-opted by large corporations, then beating them to the punch by co-opting them himself, using his celebrity power to sell merchandise.

But when he tells you to enjoy the sunshine or to listen to the music of bamboo plants in the wind, he’s a much-needed counterweight to hip-hop’s tendency to over-glamorize hard work (see Yo Gotti, who told us on “Full-Time” that “real hustlers don’t need no sleep”).

Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear “Another One” sandals, so that we can recognize them as one of our own.

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Roth noted the film was probably more in “Gary’s wheelhouse” than his at the time.

“I don’t know if you saw Gary on stage. He was an incredible stage actor,” Roth said. “We would flock to see him, so he was more ready. I was completely not ready. I had done theater, but I hadn’t done the classics. I was very nervous about the Shakespeare aspect of it.”

So Roth had to have that fear “slapped out of me by Tom,” who told Roth just to treat the Shakespearean language “as modern dialogue. It took me a while to adjust to it, but I have to say I really loved it.”

The film was shot in and around Zagreb in Croatia. “It was a marvelous, intense period,” Stoppard said. “I think we shot for 35 days.”

Stoppard asked for advice from his crew, including cinematographer Peter Biziou. “It would have been nice to have made a film before this one,” Stoppard said. And though he likes the film, “I would probably like to take a few minutes out of it.”

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Funerals are a real buzzkill Jim Kreinhop Columnist

Funerals usually get a bad rap.

They’re among the activities a lot of people really don’t like to do, such as seeing the dentist or taking mandated college surveys.

Who could blame them? Think of how we plan these things: suppose your Uncle Phil dies and you’re invited to the funeral and it’s on Saturday. A Saturday.

Whatever fun you were planning for Friday will be curtailed in some way so you can get a good night’s sleep before the funeral. And you’re expected to be there at 10 o’clock. Mourning in the morning, whose idea was that?

At the showing, many attendees are groggy and grim, some tightlipped and trembling. A few are weeping openly and Grandma is cursing God. The tension in the room can be heavy. Most people I’ve talked to would agree that funerals take on a rather sad note.

Funerals are a reminder that we just might be next in line to die. And even if we’re not after this guy, we could be second in line. But more importantly, we are reminded of our lost loved ones. Or lost ones. Sooner or later, someone takes the stand and offers a few kind thoughts about the deceased, which is a major flaw in this ritual of remembering the dead.

Paying your respects to a person after their death is useless because they’re not going to hear it. If you compliment someone while they’re alive, you’ll make them feel a little better and you’re doing some good in the world.

But don’t wait until they’re dead to say something nice about them.

What good is that? This person may have been ignored his whole adult life, and when he dies, anyone who shows up will be reminiscing on their fondest fake memories of your Uncle Phil. Some people will even bring

flowers, and they’ll share their warmest bogus sentiments about him all day. It may be fake, but hey, this is Phil’s day. It’s all about him.

This is the greatest party he’s ever been to, and he’s not even there. Again, what good is that if he’s missing out on all the attention? This post-mortem praising is something only the living can be a part of.

Delivering eulogies is something guilty survivors do so that they’ll appear to be a kind-hearted, compassionate friend and so that they might receive the same tribute when they die.

“Phil was truly a great guy. He always meant the best, you know?

Phil loved his whole family, and we all loved him. It’s a shame he’s gone now. He was a blessing to all of us. This world is at loss without him.”

Meanwhile, people are thinking, “Is this guy kidding me? Phil was a jerk.” And they’re right.

Phil was a jerk. And no one’s saying it. Why not? Because it’s disrespectful? Sure, when he was alive, I’ll grant you, it was illmannered to speak of your Uncle Phil that way, so you may’ve kept it to yourself. But you sure never said anything nice about him either.

Now that he’s dead, what difference does it make? You’re the ones he invited to the funeral, right? Now’s your chance to say what about him really ticked you off. How did your uncle rub you the wrong way?

“Phil never brushed his teeth,” rebukes Aunt Julie. “He always left pee on the toilet seat, and he never washed his hands. I know this because he never shut the bathroom door.”

“Uncle Phil was the worst,” cries your sister Jane. “That clown got drunk at my 10th birthday party and started ashing his cigarettes over the cake!”

“Phil crashed my wedding,” recalls his resentful sister. “He heckled my husband’s vows, tripped the ring bearer and started hitting on my maid of honor.”

Phil’s wife remembers this, too.

She also remembers how he used to harass the cops every time he got pulled over for driving 60 mph in a school zone. She could hardly forget his surly attitude to-

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Assistant Opinions Editor

Early last week, Sarah Palin endorsed Donald Trump for President of the United States.

Her rambling, nonsensical rant made headlines in the days since. Her appearance at Trump’s rally even prompted Tina Fey to return to Saturday Night Live to lampoon the former Alaska governor. The Daily Beast, a notoriously conservative news website, called Fey’s performance “glorious.”

But on Jan. 23, Donald Trump was alone on stage while he spoke at a campaign rally in Iowa. Iowa is an important “battleground state” in presidential races since it is notorious for being difficult to predict whether the state will vote Democrat or Republican.

During his speech, Trump made quite the claim about his voters. He said, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose voters.” He said this while he was talking about how loyal his supporters were, but is this really loyalty?

Personally, I think that it’s

ridiculous that people would still vote for someone whose rhetoric agrees with them even if they shot someone. Trump was legitimately talking about killing someone, and seemingly not a single one of his supporters at the rally balked at the idea of their candidate shooting and killing someone on a busy New York street.

Granted, Trump didn’t qualify his statement by saying if it would be self-defense, but unless he said it specifically, I feel it’s safe to assume he meant that he could just shoot someone on the streets of New York.

CNN even reached out to him to give him a chance to clarify his comments, and he refused.

I also find it interesting that Trump used Fifth Avenue in his example. Fifth Avenue is famous for housing some of the most luxurious shopping destinations in New York.

Fifth Avenue has a reputation for being expensive, and I think that it’s not likely that many people in the audience at his campaign rally in Iowa have ever shopped, or will ever get the chance to shop, on Fifth Avenue.

I imagine that he made an example of Fifth Avenue because it makes him seem rich and elite, but to me, it shows that Trump is out of touch with his supporters. Donald Trump doesn’t care about the struggling person work-

ing two dead-end jobs just to make ends meet; instead, he cares about himself. He doesn’t even care enough to think that maybe, just maybe, people won’t relate to his reference to one of the most expensive shopping districts in the world.

I can hear people defending Trump now — saying that he just used a street in New York because he’s familiar with it.

And sure, maybe he likes to leave his gilded tower and go on a shopping spree on Fifth Avenue, but almost everything is planned when a person is running for president.

Trump seems like he goes off-the-cuff rather often, but it wouldn’t surprise me if many of his remarks weren’t carefully planned in advance.

Trump could have said any street in New York. He could have used Broadway as an example, or the Bowery or Seventh Avenue, but instead, he chose Fifth Avenue. If we thought that Governor Mitt Romney couldn’t connect with the average American, what in the world makes people think that absurdly rich businessman Donald Trump can?

Ted Cruz, Trump’s closest competition in the presidential race, was asked by CNN about Trump’s remarks after a rally of his own. Cruz shook

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PCC teaches whiteness history to fight racism

Zach Davis Columnist

Schools nowadays often stress the importance of multicultural education. The goal is to raise cultural awareness, discuss the origins and impact of cultures and educate students on major conflicts that the culture has faced and the origins of those conflicts.

One common example of a step toward multicultural awareness is Black History Month.

Some criticize Black History Month because there isn’t an equal for white history. But minority supporters often claim that the default history taught in schools already covers white history. But Portland Community College made a very valid statement supporting a month for white history.

April 2016 will be the first Whiteness

History Month at PCC. Whiteness is being described by the origins and what it means to be white — socially and historically. The school’s website states their mission is to “challenge the master narrative of race and racism.”

Their goals include to discuss the disproportionate power as well as ways to end and prevent the power separations.

So yes, they want to end racial discrimination by nipping it in the bud. If a race doesn’t have power then they can’t discriminate against others. The logic makes total sense.

Some statements have claimed that the college is trying to invalidate the views of the white population, as well as belittle their accomplishments. That is exactly what PCC is trying to avoid.

Whiteness is everywhere nowadays, especially because so much has been westernized. It infiltrates music and television. Sometimes it is still used as a weapon.

Since it is found in so many facets of daily life, especially here in the U.S. where multicultural awareness is encouraged everyone should know the context of what it means to be white.

The issues we have had with racial in-

equality might start to soften some too, assuming whiteness is recognized in the correct light and with an accurate history. Minority races already have programs dedicated to their history and importance.

Members of these minority races are exposed to their place in history and the world in such a way that they can see when they are discriminated against.

Giving the same context to the white population might allow for people to accept their places as equals in society.

Maybe the fight for equality could even gain some supporters.

The context of whiteness is also necessary to understand how racism works. It is important to know how and why both the perpetrator and victim got to be involved, regardless of who the victim is.

We will be able to prevent racism and discrimination if we understand the context and the reason.

To clarify, to understand why racism happens will never justify it. Understanding the motives of an enemy is essential to stop them. If the enemy is understood then their actions can be more easily guessed and countered. The same concept needs to be applied here.

The program is in a dangerous zone,

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however. Whiteness History Month can only enjoy success if it sticks to being a strategy to end racial inequality. The program can be damaged and even shunned if the curriculum ends up becoming too racially biased.

PCC needs to stick to giving a factual history. Because some are being so harsh with their criticisms, Whiteness History Month will be under a very close eye. A lot of people are waiting for a slip-up, and there is no doubt that a single slipup could be disastrous for this well-intended program.

On the other hand, if Whiteness History Month does a good job then PCC can be looked to as a model. If the curriculum is well-crafted and the message is properly taught, other schools should follow in their footsteps.

Multicultural and multiracial education is very important for schools like PCC to provide. It allows for students to learn their history and how their culture fits into the bigger picture.

All cultures and races are equal, and providing education on all of them is a good way to recognize and fight racism.

Hopefully Whiteness History Month can help do a good job in providing this information to the students at PCC.

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Anyone who encountered Phil would probably have

more to say of his faults than of his merits. This is the same guy who was oblivious to turn signals and incapable of taking up only one parking space.

This brute remained unaware of his drinking problem even after punching his wife for trying to stop him from driving to the liquor store drunk.

Sure, he took you bowling one weekend when you were 9 years old, but don’t forget that he told you he

was going out for a smoke, then abandoned you for the strip club he passed on the same road before pulling into the bowling alley. Funerals are considered a celebration of life, but can’t they be a celebration of death?

Are you really going to miss the guy, or are you just saying that per tradition? The way I see it, the world is a better place without him. Goodbye, Uncle Phil, and good riddance.

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At least one Republican presidential candidate seems to care about his image. Both Trump and Ben Carson seem bent on proving that they would totally commit assault.

Last month, Trump joked about maybe deciding to kill journalists before he finally said, “No, I would never do that.” I’m positive that people were very reassured by his one-sentence dismissal.

Ben Carson, who is now polling in the single digits after it was discovered that he lied about many key facts in his autobiography, was insistent that he tried to stab his friend and attacked his mother with a hammer.

Trump might think that it’s impossible to lose support, but if there’s anyone that he can learn from when it comes to supposedly committing crimes, it’s Ben Carson.

Trump should be careful.

Racist, xenophobic rhetoric can only get a candidate so far, and there comes a time when people see that that candidate is full of hot air.

Trump should be careful about what he says. If he’s not, I’m sure Ben Carson can save him a seat at the kids’ table.

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Monday, Jan. 25, 2016 Page designed by Carey Ford

Women complete weekend sweep at home Rob Lafary Sports Editor

It may not have been the prettiest of weekends in terms of execution, but Indiana State University women’s basketball did enough to pick up two crucial wins in the Missouri Valley Conference with victories over Loyola and Bradley inside the Hulman Center.

The two-game winning streak boosted the Sycamores back into contention with the upperhalf of the MVC, which features a cluster of teams who have either one loss or two in Valley play.

Indiana State now sits at 4-3 with a chance to vault from the middle of the pack into one of the conference’s top three spots next weekend.

Indiana State (7-10) knocked off Loyola 62-48 on Friday night in what was considered an upset given the Ramblers were in second place in the MVC heading into the contest. The Sycamores were down three with 4:26 to go in the first quarter but soon grabbed a lead and never trailed again, leading by as many as 16 before settling for a 14-point win.

ISU led 14-12 at the first stop but outscored the Ramblers 19-8 in the second quarter, which ultimately served as the pulling away point of the game.

Sycamore head coach Joey Wells said it was a big win, especially after a sluggish set of practices leading to Friday night’s game.

“We didn’t have a great week of practice, to be honest with you, but I think (our team) got

together and said ‘We’re better than this,’ and they wanted to prove it tonight, and I’m glad they did,” Wells said following Friday night’s contest.

Questions remained on who would step up for ISU on Friday with Ashley Taia and Jennifer Mackowiak still recovering from injuries and illness despite playing in the game.

Freshman guard Tierra Webb and junior forward Rhagen Smith, who got the start against Loyola and combined for 29 points, answered the question.

Webb scored a career-high 19 points with no turnovers while Smith added 10 points and seven rebounds.

“It was just one of those nights where I was knocking every shot down,” Webb said of her performance. “I had a lot of shots I took tonight thanks to my teammates, and I just capitalized on the opportunity.”

“Coach (Wells) was really relying on me and counting on me to play hard and grab some boards and just be patient offensively,” Smith added. “It felt really good.”

The Sycamores completed the sweep on Sunday afternoon as ISU picked up a 59-37 win over Bradley, but the blowout did not come easily, especially in the first half.

Plagued by turnovers and missed shots, both teams struggled in the opening 20 minutes to the tune of a 19-17 halftime score that saw Indiana State barely on top.

The Braves and Sycamores combined for only 12 points in the second quarter, prompt-

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No. 30 Regan Wentland rushes the ball past a Bradley opponent at Sunday’s home game.

ing both coaches to make some major adjustments in regards to second half play.

It would be Indiana State who saw its adjustments work out much better than those of Bradley’s in the final two quarters as the Sycamores scored 17 points in the third frame and outscored the Braves 23-8 in the fourth.

“It was a solid 20 minutes of basketball,” Wells said of the team’s second-half performance.

“I don’t necessarily want to talk about the first half too much.

Sycamores pummel Purple Aces in MVC clash

We were able to flip the switch and pick up the intensity on the defensive end. It really helped offensively.”

ISU shot just shy of 50 percent from the field in the second half and forced Bradley into 28 turnovers for the game, which translated into 24 points on the Indiana State offensive end.

The Sycamores also clawed back to win the rebounding battle, 39-31 including 14 offensive boards.

Cierra Ceazer paced Indi-

Indiana State concludes stay at Gladstein Invite Sycamore women hit it big Tyler Wooten

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No. 4 Brenton Scott makes a run for the basket. The sophomore guard contributed 24 points to secure Indiana State’s victory over Evansville.

Brown and Scott tie game-high 24 points against Evansville Alex Modesitt Copy Editor

Indiana State men’s basketball utilized the three ball early and often in their 82-65 drubbing of in-state rival Evansville.

“Guys followed the plan,” head coach Greg Lansing said.

“For one on offense we made shots, that’s just something that is a pretty easy cure for a lot of things, but when you take good shots they’re more often than not going to go in.”

The Sycamores used their outside shooting to minimize Evansville’s 6-foot-10-inch senior center Egidijus Mockevicius to devastating effect.

Indiana State converted 14 of their 23 attempts from beyond the arc, and prevented Mockevicius from dictating the game in the post.

Sophomore guard Brenton Scott began the three-point barrage on the first possession of the game, nailing the trifecta from the right wing and spark-

ing an 8-0 run.

As they did for much of the game, Evansville battled their way back into the game, closing the gap to five at the 13:20 mark of the first half.

But it was more than evident by that point that Scott was hot and nothing was going to change that.

By the time the second media timeout came, Scott had amassed 14 points on 5-6 shooting, including 4-4 from downtown. Scott would finish the game with 24 points to tie for the game-high.

“I just wanted to come out and help my team,” Scott said. “The guys were looking for me and I was able to knock down some shots and I was able to help our team get some energy going.”

Scott’s shooting must have been contagious as the Sycamores closed the first half leading 45-31 and shooting 53 percent from the field and 80 percent from three.

Just as the Sycamores relied

on Scott early, they leaned on senior guard Devonte Brown down the stretch.

Brown scored 13 in the first half, but it was his run-stopping ability in the second half that kept Evansville at bay.

The Purple Aces whittled ISU’s lead to nine midway through the second half but Brown found fellow senior Khristian Smith for a corner three that pushed the lead back to double digits.

Brown then scored from three on the next possession to break the will of Evansville.

Brown finished the game with 24 points, six assists and five rebounds.

ISU closed out the game with relative ease en route to an 82-65 victory.

The Sycamores return to action Wednesday night against the Bears of Missouri State at the Hulman Center.

Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. and can be heard on 95.9 FM The Duke or seen on The Valley on ESPN3.

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ana State with a game-high 20 points before being pulled out late in the fourth quarter due to an injury.

Webb also scored in doublefigures, adding 11 points. Taia and Mackowiak combined for 16 off the bench as the Sycamore substitutes outscored Bradley’s bench, 19-2.

Indiana State visits Southern Illinois on Friday night before facing in-state MVC rival Evansville on Sunday at the Ford Center.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana State had several impressive performances all around at day two of the Gladstein Invitational, including one from the women’s 4x800 meter relay squad that toppled a seven-yearold school record.

That relay — ran by sophomore Indiana University transfer Brittany Neeley, sophomore Aleksey Green, sophomore Taylor Austin and freshman Brooke Moore — finished second to Indiana at 9:07.27, breaking the 2009 squad’s time of 9:08.43.

Neeley settled in during her first 400 meters of the race before exploding to a commanding lead on her last quarter-mile leg.

The Hoosiers (9:03.60) were able to take the lead on the second leg, but Green, Austin and Moore each ran tremendous legs of their own to give ISU a runner-up finish.

While the 4x800 is not run at the NCAA Indoor or Outdoor Championships, ISU’s time today ranks eighth in the nation — one of three times in this race that rank in the top 10 nationally.

The women’s 4x400 meter relay of Jamie Newsome, Demetra Camble, Chidera Obasih and Oschtisha Jackson also had a strong day, finishing fourth overall at a season-best 3:48.73 — the 14th-best 4x400 time in ISU history.

Speaking of Obasih, the senior Brookfield, Wisconsin native won her second straight 60-meter dash title on Saturday.

Obasih won on a steady time of 7.45 seconds after running 7.46 in the prelims Friday night. She won by a wide margin Saturday at .15 seconds over No. 1 Arkansas’ Kiara Parker (7.60).

Obasih has a season-best of 7.40, ran last week at home, which ranks No. 3 all-time at Indiana State.

Also staying steady were the Sycamore men in the 60-meter hurdles finals. ISU put three current Sycamores through to the final (plus former All-American Greggmar Swift). Swift won the event at a time of 7.76, followed

by All-American senior Adarius Washington (7.87), sophomores

Marcus Neely (8.28) and Jacob Wright (8.43).

“We started good with Adarius being the top collegian in the hurdles,” McNichols said.

“His time isn’t what we’d hoped for, but it was a morning race, so it was really like a prelim after running a prelim last night.

We’re going to get faster in the right setting without a doubt.”

Other strong performances on the track included Blake Kramer in the fast section of the men’s 800 (seventh, 1:55.00), Aleksey Green in the 600 (eighth, 1:36.88) and sprinter Carl McQuay in the fast section of the men’s 200-meter dash (fifth, 22.31, season-best).

Leading the way in the field was sophomore high jumper Jamie Murtaugh, who finished third overall at a career-best 2.06m (6-09.00). Murtaugh is now tied for fourth in the MVC, the leader being today’s champion at IU, Kyle Landon of Southern Illinois (2.20m/7-02.50).

Making finals in other field events were Katelyn Rutz in the women’s shot put (14.81m/4807.25), Ryan Chestnut in the men’s weight throw (17.51m/5705.00, season-best), Scott Schreiber in the men’s long jump (6.99m/22-11.25) and in the women’s long jump Mandy Jones (eighth, 5.53m/18-01.75, season-best) and Kaisha Martin (ninth, 5.48m/17-11.75, seasonbest).

Up next for the Sycamores is a trip up to Cedar Falls, Iowa, for a five-team scored meet against Drake, South Dakota State, Marquette and host school Northern Iowa.

“This weekend we learned a lot about our team and know what we need to work on,” said ISU women’s head coach Angela Martin. “We had some nice efforts by our two relays today, and we are excited to get back to team competition next week at UNI.” “We’re making progress, but we still have a lot to do to even be close to where we want to be,” McNichols said.

For the latest information on the Sycamore Track and Field team, make sure to check out GoSycamores.com. You can also find the team on Facebook and Twitter.