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Volume 125, Issue 65

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Phishing and scam emails disturb Sycamores inboxes Devin Neely Reporter For the past few weeks, many students have reported, and some even have fallen for, scam emails that appear to be legitimate in their ISU email inboxes.

From most statements, these emails appear to be about housing on or around campus for the Fall 2018 semester. However, these housing locations aren’t from our typical locations such as The Annex or Highland Quarters. Other emails appear to state that another ISU user, whether it is faculty, staff, or a student, has shared a document with you.

Upon clicking on the link, the “website” asks for your login information. This is how the scam/phishing companies get access to your most sensitive information, and your account in general.

Countless students, faculty, and staff have commented about these scamming emails, most of whom state that they simply delete it and move on.

Some have received emails about charges being made to their account, and click on the links provided in the email in order to verify these changes.

“It said I had a pending charge to my student account, so of course I was concerned,” stated by Cameron Johnson, “So I clicked on the link, but nothing happened luckily. I’ve kept an eye on my student account lately just to make sure, but I’m glad nothing became of it.”

Other students figured the emails about

Danielle Guy | Indiana Statesman

Scam emails have been an on-going issue for the Sycamores, with eyecatching advertisements such as Housing locations.

housing were new, but most of which were ignored due to housing applications being nearly finished and set-in-stone.

According to Riley Anderson, she has received countless emails about campus housing.

“I knew they weren’t real, considering I had never heard of these locations, and all of my housing emails have come from the portal,” said Anderson.

The Office of Information Technology is currently hard at work to fix the situation, in case an Indiana State University account has been compromised, and they are also working to make sure this problem will eventually cease.

Matthew Jenkins, an info tech security office for the OIT on campus has been working consistently against these scams.

“Phishing is a cybercrime in which a

target is chosen, whether by email, text, or phone call, by someone posing as a legitimate institution to lure individuals into providing sensitive data such as passwords, banking information, etc,” said Jenkins. “Often these sources seem reputable, some include compromised ISU emails, who appear to be someone you

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Cunningham Memorial Library purchases glasses to aid colorblind Danielle Guy | Indiana Statesman

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Left: A documentary featuring the secret life of nerdy girls will be showing at The Cunningham Library. RIght: Robin Crumrin.

‘Geek Girls’ documentary to show at the Library AJ Goelz Reporter The Cunningham Memorial Library will be hosting a showing of the documentary “Geek Girls” at 5:30 p.m. in the library events center.

“Geek Girls is the first feature-length documentary exploring the hidden half of fan culture: nerdy women. Although geeky communities have recently risen to prominence as major cultural contributors, very little attention has been directed towards the women who live and work with nerd culture on a daily basis,” according to the film’s description on the filmmaker, Gina Hara’s website.

“The documentary here is part of the women’s week here at the library,” said Robin Crumrin, the dean of library services. “This is something we cohost annually in the spring as part of Women’s History Month, so this is part of the women’s history week that contains a number of documentary and film showings and panels and speakers on all ranges of women’s history. It’s a way to celebrate women’s role in history.”

“Celebrating women’s role in history is really important because it has been hidden for so long and not taught. I know when I was in high school, for example, there wasn’t much emphasis put on the

woman’s role in history,” said Crumrin.

“It’s an opportunity to elevate and celebrate what it means to be a woman in today’s society and also look at our past.”

Crumrin said that the library gets more attendance than one might think because of events like this. “We certainly encourage people who come in from the ISU community or the surrounding Terre Haute and Vigo county community, especially our evening events are easy for people from the outside to come in and attend,” said Crumrin. According to Crumrin the number of people who come into the library because of these events a couple years ago was 25,000. Crumrin is also glad that those who attend are exposed to the variety of services and resources that are available at the library.

“I think that this film, for example, this documentary really exemplifies what we try to create and what this film maker was searching for. A sense of community, a sense of inclusion that we encourage people to come to the library to either research or study alone or in groups and really celebrate not only what the library has to offer, but also the university has to offer,” said Crumrin. “I think there’s so much opportunity and I hope that’s what people discover when people come to the library that opportunity.”

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Brian Bunnett stared intently at a piece of artwork hanging in the Indiana State University Art Gallery, trying to distinguish the colors that made up “The Hermit.”

It is not an easy task for Bunnett, associate librarian at the university’s Cunningham Memorial Library, who was diagnosed colorblind as a child. But he was up for trying out the library’s new EnChroma glasses, which are designed to enhance color vision for types of partial or incomplete red-green color blindness.

“Colors are definitely brighter and more vivid for me without the glasses on, but colors are deeper with them on,” Bunnett said about his experiences using the EnChroma lens.

“The first time I had the glasses on (during Robert Arndt’s human physiology class), I didn’t have them on for long and I wasn’t looking around so closely, but I don’t notice much of a difference. I did look at a colorblind test plate, and I could barely make out the right number with the glasses on, but I couldn’t make out the number at all without the glasses on.”

The glasses have been checked out once and have been used as part of a discussion about the eye in Ardnt’s class, where Bunnett served as a model to test the glasses for the first time.Shelley Arvin, as-

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Brian Burnett, associate librarian at Indiana State University’s Cunningham Memorial Library who was determined to be colorblind in his childhood, shows off the library’s new EnChroma glasses. The glasses, which the maker estimates are effective for improving about 80 percent of red-green color vision deficiencies, are available for checkout for use in courses or by Indiana State students, faculty or staff.

sociate librarian at State, got the idea to purchase the glasses after spending Thanksgiving with her future brother-in-law who is colorblind.

“He mentioned that he would like to try these glasses, and I thought this would be an opportunity for the library,” Arvin said.

“I presented the idea to Dean Robin Crumrin, and we investigated them and decided to purchase the indoor glasses. While the glasses might be costly for an individual, the library is able to acquire the glasses so the resource can be

shared.”

The glasses are available for checkout for use in courses or by students, faculty or staff for the same borrowing time as with books - three weeks for students and six months for Indiana State employees.

The glasses are not meant to diagnose, treat or cure colorblindness, but the maker estimates the spectacles are effective for improving about 80 percent of red-green color vision deficiencies.

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NC student ‘fascinated’ by school shootings had blueprints, evacuation plans Jane Wester The Charlotte Observer(TNS) Police found blueprints of campus buildings and evacuation plans this month in the off-campus apartment of a University of North Carolina at Charlotte student who wrote about why he wanted to commit a school shooting, according to search warrants obtained by the Observer.

The student discussed an “explicit detailed plan … about killing and harming our students and staff,” a UNCC police officer wrote in one search warrant.

When police searched

his room, they found the university’s emergency response guide attached to his wall, opened to the page about active shooters.

UNCC police learned about potential issues with the student on March 3, when a police officer in King, northwest of Winston-Salem, called to say that the student had gone to a medical clinic in King to talk with a doctor about ongoing mental health issues.

The student told the doctor “he could not wait to buy a gun and shoot the university (UNCC) up,” adding that he was fascinated by school shootings and frequently used Red-

dit to learn about them, the search warrant said. “(The student) stated he loves watching humans getting killed and has been watching YouTube videos on Columbine and other school shootings,” the search warrant said. “(He) also stated the reason most school shooters are not successful is that they fail to plan their attacks.”

The doctor in King was worried enough to contact police, and the student was voluntarily committed to a hospital. UNCC Police Chief Jeffrey Baker said Monday afternoon that the student was still in the hospital and police don’t know when he’ll be

Judge in Brock Turner case loses bid to block recall

Tracey Kaplan The Mercury News (TNS)

An appellate court Monday ruled that the recall election against the judge in the Brock Turner sexual assault case may proceed in June.

Judge Aaron Persky’s argument, rejected by a lower court last summer, was that judges like him are state officers, so California’s secretary of state, not the Santa Clara County registrar, should have overseen the petition drive to qualify the measure for the ballot.

Persky’s lawyers had implored the 6th District Court of Appeal last week to block the recall measure from appearing on the Santa Clara County ballot on June 5.

But the three-bank panel of justices from the 6th District Court of Appeal appeared skeptical of those arguments, a position born out Monday in the ruling.

“We, therefore, find no constitutional basis on which to delay the processing of the current recall petition in order to compel the Secretary to take over the initial recall procedure from Shannon Bushey, the designated elections official for Santa Clara County voters,” the court ruled Monday.

If Persky had prevailed, recall proponents would

released.

Police said the student will be arrested for trespassing if he comes onto UNCC property, but according to a search warrant, he said he’ll stay in an apartment near the university.

UNCC sent an informational alert to students on March 12, saying police were investigating a student who had talked about committing gun violence on campus.

Police seized a laptop, posters, composition books and blueprints from the student’s room but did not find any weapons, according to the search warrants.

ICE reported to use Facebook to track undocumented immigrants wanted for deportation Tatiana Sanchez The Mercury News (TNS)

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Brock Turner leaves the Santa Clara County Main Jail on Sept. 2 in San Jose, Calif.

have been forced to refile their petitions with the state — a move that would have delayed the recall until at least November and significantly increased election costs by more than $5 million.

The judge can appeal Monday’s ruling to the state Supreme Court but may face an uphill battle, given how soundly the appellate panel rejected his bid in its 21-page ruling.

Even if Persky does appeal, the Supreme Court does not have to take up the case.

One of Persky’s lawyers, Elizabeth Pipkin, said the team is evaluating the ruling.

“Judges, as state officers, deserve uniform protection in the recall process,”

she said in an email. “This protection benefits the civil rights of all by ensuring that individual jurisdictions cannot change the rules in a manner that leaves judges open to unfair recall campaigns that pressure them to make decisions based on popularity, as opposed to relying on the law and the facts.”

Retired Judge LaDoris Cordell, who opposes Persky’s ouster, said recall opponents will continue to concentrate on the political campaign.

“We remain focused on growing the number of voters who oppose the recall,” Cordell said.

The Recall Persky campaign hailed the court’s

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement used Facebook data to track down undocumented immigrants targeted for deportation, according to a report

by The Intercept.

Documents and emails obtained by the publication through a public records request provided a rare glimpse into one of the tactics ICE used to monitor undocumented immigrants before arresting them. In one case, several agents were in touch with an investigator in Las Cruces, New Mexico, to track down information about a particular individual, and eventually obtained backend Facebook data showing when the account was accessed.

It also revealed the IP addresses corresponding to each login, The Intercept reported.

An investigator with Homeland Security Investigations, ICE’s investigative unit, then emailed a “Facebook business record” showing the suspect’s phone number and the location of each of their logins during a specific time period.

In a statement sent to the Bay Area News Group, a Facebook spokesperson said the specific case cited in the article was connected to an investigation of a child predator.

“We take the enforcement of laws protecting children from child predators very seriously, and we responded to ICE’s valid request with data consistent with our publicly available data disclosure standards,” the company said. “ICE did not identify any immigration law violations in connection with its data request to Facebook in this case.”

The spokesperson said, “Facebook does not provide ICE or any other law enforcement agency with any special data access to assist with the enforcement of immi-

gration law.

“We have strict processes in place to handle these government requests. Every request we receive is checked for legal sufficiency. We require officials to provide a detailed description of the legal and factual basis for their request, and we push back when we find legal deficiencies or overly broad or vague demands for information.”

ICE did not respond to requests for comment.

An ICE spokesman told The Intercept that “during the course of a criminal investigation, we have the ability to seek subpoenas and court orders to legally compel a company to provide information that may assist in case completion and subsequent prosecution.”

Facebook faces mounting criticism over how users’ personal data was accessed by third parties for political purposes.

Reports last week revealed that Cambridge Analytica — a London-based data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign — had accessed the personal information of 50 million Facebook users without their permission. Federal regulators are investigating the data breach, and politicians are considering new privacy rules that could hamstring such activity.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has since apologized, admitting his company “made mistakes” in handling its more than 2.2 billion users’ information.

A semiannual transparency report detailing the number of government requests for user data it received showed that from January 2017 through June 2017, Facebook received 32,716 requests for data from 52,280 users, the Intercept reported. It’s unclear how many of the requests came from ICE.

Going vegan, America could feed an additional 390 million people, study suggests Karen Kaplan Los Angeles Times(TNS)

More than 41 million Americans find themselves at risk of going hungry at some point during the year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture says.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. New research suggests the country could feed all 327 million Americans — plus roughly 390 million more — by focusing on plants.

If U.S. farmers took all the land currently devoted to raising cattle, pigs and chickens and used it to grow plants instead, they could sustain more than twice as many people as they do now, according to a report published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Set aside your cravings for cheeseburgers, bacon and chicken wings for a moment and consider the argument made by Ron Milo, a systems biology and sustainability researcher at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, and his co-authors.

The researchers examined Americans’ eating habits and agricultural production in the years 2000 to 2010. For their cal-

culations, they used a U.S. population of 300 million (in reality, it grew from 282 million to 309 million during that period, according to the Census Bureau).

With the help of computers, they figured out how to remove beef, pork, chicken, dairy and eggs from the American diet and replace them with plant-based foods that were “nutritionally comparable.” That means the replacement foods had to provide the same amount of calories, protein, fiber, vitamins and minerals without increasing fat or cholesterol — and they had to do it using the smallest amount of land possible.

Imagine an area of land that can produce 100 grams of edible protein from plants. If you take that same amount of land and use it to produce eggs instead, you would end up with only 60 grams of edible protein — an “opportunity food loss” of 40 percent, the study authors found.

And that was the bestcase scenario.

If that land were used to raise chickens, it would produce 50 grams of protein in the form of poultry.

If it were devoted to dairy cows, it would provide 25 grams of protein in the form of milk products. If that land became a home for pigs, they would provide 10 grams of protein in the form of pork. And if you put cattle there, you’d get just 4 grams of protein in the form of beef.

Milo and his colleagues then scaled up their results to see how many more Americans could be fed by making each of those changes.

Eliminating eggs and replacing them with plants that offer the same nutrients would make it possible to feed 1 million additional people.

At the other end of the spectrum, swapping plants for beef would result in enough food to “meet the full dietary needs” of 163 million extra people.

In the middle were dairy (getting rid of it would result in food for 25 million more people), pigs (cutting them out would feed 19 million more people) and poultry chickens (without them, farmers could feed 12 million more people).

If beef, pork, chicken, dairy and eggs all were replaced by a nutritionally equivalent combination of potatoes, peanuts, soy-

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A new study suggests that the U.S. could feed 390 milion people, in addition to all U.S. citizens, by focusing on plants.

beans and other plants, the total amount of food available to be eaten would increase by 120 percent, the researchers calculated.

To put that in perspective, the amount of food that’s currently wasted due to things such as spoilage and inefficient production methods is between 30 percent and 40 percent of what U.S. farmers produce.

“The effect of recovering the opportunity food loss,”

the authors wrote, “is larger than completely eliminating all conventional food losses in the United States.”

That’s not to say there wouldn’t be a few downsides. Although a completely plant-based diet would provide more nutrients overall, consumption of vitamin B12 and a few other micronutrients would decline, the study authors noted.

The economic effects

of eliminating all livestock-based agriculture are also unknown, they added.

But two of the plusses include better health (which should reduce medical costs) and fewer greenhouse gas emissions, they wrote.

Even if you’re not ready to go vegan, Milo and his colleagues have certainly served up some food for thought.

indianastatesman.com PHISHING FROM PAGE 1 know. They can be very convincing.”

Currently, ISU’s security adheres to a “defensein-depth” strategy, which includes several layers of protection against these emailed threats, according to OIT. ISU’s email security also includes “Anti-Spoofing” measures that are typically able to detect when an email or source is using a false address or link. If these sources somehow make it through the security program, OIT is able to find it, upon being reported, and can remove it from the ISU servers and block it from further entry.

“Indiana State University and other universities are constantly targeted by cybercrime attacks,” said Jenkins. “This is simply because universities host every type of data imaginable, and they manage a significant amount of sensitive information as well.”

In order to help further prevent more issues from cybercriminals, Jenkins encourages awareness of these ongoing emails, and if you are not sure whether an email is legitimate, to always go to OIT.

ISU is also exploring Multi-Factor authentication for potential use by faculty, staff, and students, all of whom are at risk for their emails to be compromised. This requires more information than simply a username and password in order to protect and verify accounts on campus.

“If a user falls for a phishing email/scam, they are allowing unauthorized access to their account, and puts themselves and the University at risk by allowing this access with a malicious manner,” said Jenkins.

Jenkins also said, “Students should be aware of the links sent to them in email, and familiarize themselves with telltale signs of a bad website versus a legitimate ISU website. Students should also be attentive as to who is making the request, and recognize key indicators of a fraudulent message such as a time-sensitive request or poor English and spelling. Students are encouraged to send any suspicious messages to stop-spoofing@indstate. edu for guidance or to report malicious content.

ISU will never ask you for your ID or Password by email.”

Wednesday, March 28, 2018 • Page 3 GLASSES FROM PAGE 1 Color blindness is a congenital deficiency that afflicts more men than women, according to the American Academy of Ophthalmology, which estimates that 1 in 10 males experience some type of colorblindness, with red-green blindness as the most common form.

“The EnChroma glasses try to remake the light that is confusing to the brain,” said Shaad Ahmad, assistant professor of biology at State.

“They aren’t perfect and they’re not a cure, but they might help make

BID FROM PAGE 2 concentrate on the political campaign.

“We remain focused on growing the number of voters who oppose the recall,” Cordell said.

The Recall Persky campaign hailed the court’s decision to reject what supporters called a frivolous lawsuit.

“His decision to appeal the original court decision is part of a long line of terrible decisions by Judge Persky, who seems to be putting his own personal, financial, and political interests ahead of that of the voters and taxpayers,” said recall leader and Stanford law professor Michele Dauber in a news release. “We are thankful that the Sixth District Court of Appeals sided with the voters and rejected Judge Persky’s appeal.”

In a key development that also does not bode well for Persky, the recall was endorsed recently by the

colors pop a little bit more for someone with mild red-green colorblindness. The glasses are relatively new, though, so there haven’t been tests to prove their effectiveness. That would require a double-blind controlled test to make sure that there isn’t any bias or placebo effect.”

EnChroma glasses, which come in indoor and outdoor options, use a “multinoch” filtering to cut out sharp wavelengths of light and enhance specific colors. The lenses separate the overlapping red and green cones to improve vision for people who have difficulty distinguishing

the two colors.

The manufacturer recommends users allow at least 10 minutes for their eyes to adjust to the lenses and, for optimal effectiveness, users should wear the lenses for at least 10 hours in a variety of environments for one to two weeks.

“There aren’t a high percentage of people with the mutations that cause colorblindness, but it’s a nice service to be able to offer because the glasses are expensive, $300 to $400,” Arvin said. “The library provides an avenue for people to try the glasses without making the investment.”

South Bay Labor Council, which represents more than 100,000 workers, and the California Nurses Association.

The recall battle lines were drawn in June 2016 when proponents decided to take to the polls to remove Persky from office for giving former Stanford athlete Brock Turner what many considered a light sentence — six months, of which he served three — for sexually assaulting an intoxicated, unconscious woman outside a campus frat party. Under California law, Turner must also register for life as a sex offender.

Recall opponents note that Persky’s sentence for Turner was lawful and followed a probation department recommendation. They also argue the recall would threaten judicial independence by encouraging any group that didn’t like a verdict to challenge the judge who made the decision.

Persky is constrained by strict state

rules from criticizing opponents in an election. However, in a statement that appears on the recall petition approved by county officials, the Superior Court judge — without referring specifically to Turner’s sentencing — said California law requires him to consider rehabilitation and probation for first-time offenders.

In Persky’s original legal challenge, he also contended that if he wound up losing his seat, the governor should fill the vacancy — not voters.

But a lower court judge ruled in late August that the question of Persky’s replacement would appear on the same ballot as the recall, and Persky did not raise that issue on appeal.

Whoever is elected would serve out the rest of Persky’s six-year term, which ends in 2022.

San Jose lawyer Angela Storey and Assistant District Attorney Cindy Hendrickson are running to replace Persky.

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Faith-based activism: Sisters in the Resistance, then and now

Alexandria Truby Reporter

As Women’s History Month is coming to an end, Sister Barbara Battista SP, PA-C of the Sisters of Providence gave a presentation, ‘Faith-based activism: sisters in the resistance, then and now.’

Battista serves as a local community organizer with a clinical practice in occupational medicine in Terre Haute. She currently works on the board of the Indiana Women’s March, Women Church of the Wabash Valley, Activist Study Hall, Vigo County Collaborate for Progress, and is running for the Democratic Precinct Committeeperson this May. “Anytime I get to highlight the effort, work and brilliance of women is a great opportunity. This month is a chance to highlight the women who were in the shadows. These women were ignored for many generations and it even goes back to the Christian scriptures. Women were there but rarely named,” Battista said.

“I wanted to highlight faith based activism and the ways in which sisters helped in the resistance.” She said. “Sisters, I meant

all women, not just those vowed to the Catholic Church. As a Catholic nun, I can speak of how our faith compels us to do what we can to improve life around us. I included the ‘Coexist’ banner with symbols for gender equality and equality for all races and religions into my slides to show it’s not about following one faith or one practice. There’s all kinds of faiths that compel us to do good to one another,” Battista said.

“We’ve managed to connect and develop relationships with those on the margins. We’ve raised our hands and shed light on the injustice to those who have been left out or actively pushed down. It’s not because we have some super human abilities but some of our life energy focuses on the common good,” Battista said.

“In my use of the term, it refers to persons who have been awakened or those who have their eyes open enough to stand up to power and say ‘this is not right.’ I say stand up figuratively because sometimes standing up gets you shot down with a bullet and a gun. Sometimes it’s about finding like-minded people to connect with around the globe coming together and realizing

that there is a better way for community,” Battista said.

Although her activism is faith based by nature, she doesn’t believe the results are ever different. It is a difference in internal motivation rather than a difference in the outcome.

“One thing I would touch: I started my presentation with the poster of the Guardians. It shows the image of four women standing shoulder to shoulder with the quote by Diane Ackerman ‘I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.’ This poem and the artwork expresses the foundation of my life,” Battista said.

Battista also discussed on how activism can be anything from A to Z. She explained that it can be anything from picking up the phone and calling your legislators, having a conversation with your family if you have members who will disagree with you and more.

“My main outlet for this is the Activist Study Hall, where we hear each other’s stories and engage in meaningful conversation and support one another. We have met every week since Feb-

ruary 2017. Nov. 9, 2016 marked the day many of us ‘woke up.’

That’s when my activism really amped up. Gender equity has always been a focus, as well as anti-war activities and after our election I realized I needed to get more involved,” Battista said.

This idea and her community

have led her to take on the responsibilities in the community as well as run for the Democratic Precinct Committeeperson this May. “There’s a willing group of people around here that want to act. There’s a lot of energy for change,” Battista said.

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Sister Barbara Battista.

Voices from 1968

Dr. Ann Short Chirhard from ISU Hisotry Department discussed major events that occurred during 1968, a significant year in our nation’s history.

This event took place on Tuesday, March 26 at the library events area as part of the Women’s History Month.

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“The Council” Episode 1: The Mad Ones review AJ Goelz Reporter

Seemingly out of nowhere, BIG BAD WOLF launched new narrative adventure game “The Council” earlier this month.

“The Council” is a new take on the narrative adventure genre.

Usually these games feature an episodic story with branching paths based on player choice.

“The Council” finds a way to not only do that, but adds in role-playing game elements with a surprising amount of depth.

Story in this genre is massively important and “The Council” delivers. Set in 1793, players control Louis de Richet. Richet, a member of secret society The Golden Order, ventures to an island to find his missing mother, a high ranking member to the order.

This is where most games would have players fighting monsters and running through a jungle.

The direction “The Council” goes in a completely different direction.

Richet arrives at the island as a guest of the eccentric Lord Mortimer. Mortimer throws lavish parties at his island castle, inviting elites from around the world to shape global policy.

Along with Louis there is an English duchess and ambassador, the American President George Washington, French lieutenant Napoleon Bonaparte and a Cardinal among other high ranking world leaders. Louis must compete in a battle of wits with high

ranking politicians to find the truth about his mother.

The story in “The Mad Ones” is downright impressive. The typical length of an episode in this genre is around two hours. “The Mad Ones” delivers around four hours of gameplay, and keeps all four hours interesting. Every scene introduces a new character, a new gameplay concept or advances the main plot or a sub plot. The story is masterfully written, but can get bogged down with stiff dialogue and animations.

There is a leveling system in “The Council”. The episode is broken down into missions that upon completion awards the player with experience based on what they accomplished in that mission. After leveling, the player is awarded to put points into skills that can be used throughout the game. In the beginning, the player chooses a class. There is the talkative diplomat, the erudite occultist and the observant detective. The player’s choice of class does not lock certain skills.

Instead, it automatically gives the player a free rank in all of that classes skills and costs fewer points to upgrade the skills.

There are a few finer points to this system, but that is the gist of things. There is a surprising amount of depth in this game.

Players need to decide whether to pick one class and stick to those skills, or branch out and be lower level on more skills.

The level of skills matters when it comes to effort points.

Effort points are basically stamina. To perform certain actions or dialogue choices, players need to use their skills. Depending on the level of the skill and the difficulty of the action determines the number of effort points the skill will cost. There are a finite number of effort points and players can replenish them with certain items. This forces the player to pick their moments to use skills more tactically and brings a whole new gameplay dynamic to the game.

Instead of doing battle with monsters, Louis does battle with words. Every conversation the player with a character is a chance to learn more about the character. Not just from a narrative perspective, but this has gameplay implications as well.

Each character has strengths and weaknesses. Certain skills in conversation work better against some and worse against others. If a player exploits a weakness they gain an effort point back and if the run into a characters the player loses an extra point.

The final big gameplay mechanic is called “confrontation”.

Confrontations are a conversational battle where players are attempting to win the exchange by making the proper dialogue decisions. Each confrontations has a limited number of sections and whether players choose correctly or not the confrontation continues until the final segment. The final segment will re-

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Three new food shows to binge watch, and one new radio show too Jenn Harris

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

“Somebody Feed Phil” on Netflix Man who is most probably a chef travels to a faraway destination. Man arrives hungry. Man meets a local who takes him to eat something wonderful. Cue fun music. Cue food porn. This is the formula for most food travel shows. The same goes for “Somebody Feed Phil” on Netflix — only, not exactly. For one, the host isn’t a chef, nor has he ever been one.

Phil Rosenthal is best known for creating the show “Everybody Loves Raymond,” though he does have some cred in the food world. He was the host of the PBS food show “I’ll Have What Phil’s Having.” He is an investor in multiple Los Angeles restaurants, including Pizzeria Mozza. And his Instagram feed scrolls like a respected food blog-

ger’s. This guy eats really, really well.

When he arrives in Israel, New Orleans or Saigon in “Somebody Feed Phil,” he does so with the wonder and excitement typically associated with a kid on Christmas morning. In Israel, he visits a shakshouka specialist. In New Orleans, he devours a basket of fried chicken at Willie Mae’s.

There’s no attitude, no preconceived notions. And you’re not left feeling like you’re trying to catch up with an elitist host.

There is plenty of good food, insightful guests and as an added bonus, Rosenthal’s parents. He makes Skype calls to them from his different destinations — bad jokes, miscommunication and hilarity ensue. This is a food show for foodies (please excuse the use of the word), travel junkies and people just looking to be entertained. You don’t have to have watched every episode of Net-

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indianastatesman.com COUNCIL FROM PAGE 4 ment will repeat until the player choses the correct option. The player is not allowed an unlimited number of attempts. Every missed attempt cost

FOOD FROM PAGE 4 flix’s “Chef ’s Table” to enjoy it, or know what Noma is. It’s there to entertain, give you a couple places to visit on your next trip to wherever someone is feeding Phil and make you hungry.

All episodes of “Somebody Feed Phil” are streaming on Netflix.

“Ugly Delicious” on Netflix In the past decade, chef David Chang has become a household name, as the chef behind the Momofuku restaurants, the too-short-lived food magazine “Lucky Peach” and as NBC’s official guide to Korean food at the recent Winter Olympics. He’s also the star of Netflix’s latest food series “Ugly Delicious.” Because it’s a Netflix show, it’s beautifully shot and scored. And there’s a budget that allows Chang and his food writer co-host Peter Meehan (with whom he started “Lucky Peach”) to travel around the world in search of tacos.

The show breaks the mold of hostgoes-here-and-eats-this and instead, focuses on a single food (tacos, pizza, fried chicken) where it came from and who is making it. Chang is an enthusiastic host, and has a propensity for finding Asian food parallels to just about everything. The tacos camarones at Marisco Jalisco? “It’s like har gow,” he says.

What’s impressive is the sheer amount of information and destinations packed into every segment. And how insanely jealous you’ll become by the time the closing credits roll. In the “tacos” episode, Chang travels to Copenhagen to eat tacos with former Noma pastry chef Rosio Sanchez. Meehan travels around Mexico eating more

Wednesday, March 28, 2018 • Page 5 the player a blunder. Once the player uses all their blunders the confrontation ends whether they made it to the end or not.

There is a surprising amount of gameplay within “The Council”, there is even combat just not in the

conventional sense. “The Council” found a way to find new ground within a genre that seemed set in its ways.

This may be the first episode, but “The Council” is a game to keep your eye on.

tacos. It’s enough to make you want to charge the screen. The show is fun and informative in the way that it zigzags between countries and cultures. And the L.A. cameos are pretty impressive too: Gustavo Arellano, Evan Kleiman, and our own Pulitzer Prize-winning restaurant critic Jonathan Gold make appearances, to name a few.

All episodes of “Ugly Delicious” are now streaming on Netflix.

“The Burger Show” on First We Feast You could argue that chef Alvin Cailan is the obvious choice to host a web show about burgers. He’s best known as the chef who started Eggslut, the egg sandwich phenomenon at Grand Central Market that now has multiple locations in Los Angeles and one in Las Vegas. He fashioned burgers for a pop-up concept in Chinatown called Easy’s. And he just finished a residency at the Chefs Club Counter in New York City, where he made, you guessed it, burgers.

Rather than adhering to a strict formula, the show takes inspiration from just about every Travel Channel and Food Network show, and a couple of internet memes as well. Cailan plays host and chef at times, recreating Shake Shack and In-N-Out burgers before he discusses the merits of each; breaking down gourmet burgers with Adam Richman; and traveling to Jersey City to eat White Mana burgers with “Top Chef ” host Padma Lakshmi.

Like we said, it’s all over the place.

But at runtimes around 10 minutes, it’s more of a fun snack than a full show.

And yes, you’ll be in the mood for a burger afterwards.

You can view episodes of “The Burger Show” at www.firstwefeast.com “First Date with Will Guidara” on

SiriusXM This is a show for serious, inside-baseball food lovers, or at least fans of NoMad, Eleven Madison Park or any of Will Guidara and chef Daniel Humm’s restaurants under the Make it Nice hospitality umbrella. If your answer to the question “if you could have dinner with anyone dead or alive, who would it be?” tends to lean toward Julia Child, Paul Bocuse, Marco Pierre White or Roy Choi, this is the show for you.

Picture you’re a fly on the wall during Guidara’s first date with some of the city’s most influential food people. They sit at a table and talk about everything from their favorite burgers to what it’s like being a first-time parent, and you, the listener, eat it up.

“We’re doing this show because we want to get to know our new home through the eyes of people who live here,” says Guidara on the show. So he asks guests like Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo (Animal, Son of a Gun) where they are from, how they knew they wanted to go to culinary school, and what their favorite L.A. burgers are.

Things also get weird, in a good way.

Guidara has his guests play what he calls ‘90s pop culture trivia with Jeff Tascarella, director of operations at NoMad in Los Angeles, who happens to know more about ‘90s pop culture than most. Can you name the butler on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?” Tascarella can.

Guidara has already had Curtis Stone of the L.A. restaurants Maude and Gwen on. And Gold will be on an upcoming episode as well.

The six-week series airs on SiriusXM’s Insight channel.

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Democrats are bullish on governor’s races, too Albert R. Hunt Bloomberg View (TNS)

Ohio, Michigan and Florida. All three are purple; only a third of their combined 57 members of the House are Democrats.

In recent months, in part reflecting a national tide, Democrats have become more optimistic about contests in Ohio and Michigan.

Richard Cordray, who clashed with Trump as the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is the party’s preferred candidate in Ohio. He should be a strong general election candidate if he avoids getting beat up in the primary by left wing provocateur Dennis Kucinich, the former congressman.

That probably would set up a rematch with Attorney General Mike DeWine, who narrowly won in 2010, in a climate friendlier to Republicans.

In Michigan, the political and labor union establishment has gotten behind Gretchen Whitmer, a former state legislative leader, one of many women this year riding the energy of the MeToo movement. She would be a slight favorite in a November race against the state’s Republican attorney general.

In Florida, where the primary isn’t until August, the contests in both parties are unsettled. Still, Democrats say Trump has energized important elements of their voters, younger women and Latinos.

Republicans seem certain to hold Texas and Democrats New York and California. After this week’s primary, Democrats expect to flip Illinois.

Governors aren’t as directly affected by the Trump factor as are members of Congress, but the gathering blue wave represents a major force

The media is focused on the Democrats’ bright prospects for winning control of the House this November. But the gains they expect to make in governor’s races may be more important to the party’s long-term future.

Of 36 gubernatorial seats up for grabs this year, 26 are held by Republicans. The Democrats’ top targets are Ohio, Florida and Michigan, where they have been out of power for years. If they succeed, the party stands to gain strength on three critically important fronts: Policy issues ranging from Medicaid expansion to environmental protection and gay rights. Congressional and state legislative redistricting after the 2020 census. National candidate development: Two of the past three Democratic presidents were governors, but the ranks have been thin recently.

“The governor’s races this year are even more important than Congress,” says Terry McAuliffe, who just stepped down as Virginia governor and is a former party chairman.

Republicans remember the impact of their 2010 sweep. They devoted huge resources to state races, then dominated redistricting the next year. The result: a policy and political counterweight to a Democratic White House.

The fruits of state battles are already becoming clear. The GOP’s gerrymandering in Pennsylvania in 2011 was overturned this year, thanks in part to help of a Democratic governor who took office in 2015. The result? Three to five House seats this fall, Democrats say.

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Facebook logs users’ calls and texts Joe Lippard

Opinions Editor

Facebook appears to have yet another privacy scandal on its hands. As stock values tumble and advertisers begin to shy away from the social media giant, a New Zealand man discovered that Facebook had kept records of all of his phone’s contacts, as well as metadata on his text messages and phone calls.

According to Ars Technica, Dylan McKay decided that, amidst all these privacy issues that Facebook had been having recently, it would be best for him to delete his ac-

count. Before he deleted it, however, he downloaded a Facebook-provided archive of everything on his profile.

As he trawled through all the data that Facebook had stored on him, he found that Facebook had stored the date, length and participant in every phone call McKay received or made. He also found that Facebook stored every single contact that he ever had in his phone, as well as the time and date of every text message. McKay pointed out that every record was time-stamped sometime between November 2016 and July 2017.

In response to Ars Technica’s article, Facebook published a blog post positing that users only had themselves to blame, since some users agreed to upload contacts to the website. In a statement to the Guardian, a spokesperson for Facebook said, “People

are expressly asked if they want to give permission to upload their contacts from their phone – it’s explained right there in the apps when you get started.”

And they’re right. Uploading contacts is a thing that every Facebook app asks its user for permission to do when the user first downloads it. Anyone upset about Facebook storing their contacts would do well to remember whether or not they agreed to it in the first place.

The blog post from Facebook also asserts that the call and text logging is an “opt-in feature” on Facebook Messenger and Facebook Lite for Android.

However, Sean Gallagher of Ars Technica noted that Facebook had his call and text logs from when he had the app on one of his phones, even though he never gave Facebook permission to collect the data.

This directly conflicts with

Facebook’s assertion that the feature is strictly “optin.”

In this case, as Gallagher points out, it would seem that Facebook counts you downloading and installing the app onto your phone as “opting in” to the feature. And the permissions for the Android app would support this. The basic permissions that every user has to agree to in the Google Play Store include letting the app “read your text messages” and “read [your] call log.” So yes, users do agree to the app accessing this information when they download the app.

However, that only tells me that the app is looking through my contacts, phone calls and texts, not storing them. I never agreed to let Facebook keep track of who I call or who I text. What’s worse,

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Trump ups the ante by $60 billion in his doomed trade war with China The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times (TNS) Trump was evidently just warming up when he ordered global tariffs on steel, aluminum, solar panels and washing machines in recent weeks. The main event came Thursday, when the president announced plans to impose up to $60 billion in tariffs on China. This time, the president is focused on the right problems: China’s abuse of U.S. companies that do business there, its pursuit of technology developed here, and its support for hackers who steal trade secrets online.

Unfortunately, Trump is once again offering the wrong solution. The tariffs aren’t likely to inflict as much pain on China as they will on U.S. consumers and exporters.

For Trump, China has long represented the worst of the worst among trade cheats.

The tariffs announced in previous weeks applied to metals and products from a vast array of countries, but their primary target was Chinese exporters that allegedly sell their goods below cost in defiance of global trade agreements. In the view of top administration officials, those unfair

practices have been enormously costly to U.S. companies, causing factories to shut down and thousands of workers to lose their jobs.

But that’s only part of the story. Even if you accept the administration’s analysis, it is also true that cheap Chinese materials and assembly factories have helped U.S. companies compete and expand globally (see, e.g., Apple). In fact, one study estimates that the tariffs on steel and aluminum would create about 33,000 jobs at metals factories while costing nearly 180,000 in other industries.

Trump’s latest initiative focuses not on Chinese products, but on Chinese behavior — its cavalier attitude toward intellectual property rights and the hostile environment it has created for U.S. companies seeking to operate or invest in China.

And on these points, there is widespread agreement that China has not only behaved badly, it has resisted years of pressure from U.S. leaders to change.

Among other things, China continues to require U.S. businesses to create joint ventures with Chinese firms in order to invest in selected industries, and in the

process they often are forced to transfer valuable and novel technology to their Chinese partners. China also puts its thumb on the scales in negotiations between U.S. and Chinese firms, helping Chinese companies obtain U.S. technology on favorable terms.

China’s bad trade practices were damaging enough when the country was mainly a source of cheap consumer goods. But now that China’s industrial policy is focused on dominating such crucial 21st century fields as health sciences, artificial intelligence and aerospace, the stakes are considerably higher.

That’s why Trump’s tough talk and actions are drawing plaudits from some lawmakers in both parties, whose patience with China has understandably grown thin. And two pieces of Trump’s latest order — imposing restrictions on Chinese investments in the U.S. to match the ones China imposes on U.S. companies, and asking the World Trade Organization to rule against China’s “discriminatory licensing practices” — are welcome steps that respect the WTO and international trade agreements that the U.S. has pushed

the world to embrace.

On the other hand, it’s hard to see how slapping tariffs on as-yet-identified products will induce China to honor intellectual property rights, permit more investment by U.S. firms or stop trying to steal trade secrets online. The tariffs will no doubt raise the price that U.S. consumers pay for those products. And they will just as surely prompt China to retaliate against U.S. exports, even as it finds new buyers for its own goods. That’s been the result when the U.S. has unilaterally imposed tariffs in the past, and there’s no reason to think the outcome would be any different this time.

The right steps to take are the ones that Trump has disdained since the day he took office. The industry groups and countries that have succeeded in changing China’s trade practices have been the ones that have acted in broad coalitions.

Governments around the globe have complained about Chinese violations; the Trump administration should be organizing trading blocs to jointly demand

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nevertheless. Two Republican governors in Democratic states, Charlie Baker in Massachusetts and Larry Hogan in Maryland, having distanced themselves from Trump are in good shape.

Both sides are looking for a surprise. Republicans think they may turn Minnesota if former Governor Tim Pawlenty, after more than five years as a Washington lobbyist, returns.

Democrats are also bullish on finally unseating Wisconsin’s Gov. Scott Walker, who has been dashing to the political center.

Overall, the opportunities for Democratic pickups range from Nevada and New Mexico in the West to Iowa in the Midwest to Maine on the East Coast. That’s why Terry McAuliffe is upbeat: “The future of the Democratic Party will be decided in state capitals and it’s looking very good.”

changes from the Chinese through globally recognized institutions like the WTO that exist for just that purpose, backed up with tariffs and other sanctions if they don’t deliver.

Instead, the administration has gone in the exact opposite direction, bullying trade partners, threatening to cancel major free-trade deals and undermining the WTO. One of Trump’s first acts as pres-

ident, in fact, was to pull the U.S. out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership — a 12-nation pact the U.S. had organized to counterbalance China’s influence in Asia and establish high standards for intellectual property protection, state-owned industries and other trade norms.

By calling out China’s mistreatment of foreign investors and competitors, Trump has echoed the sentiments of government leaders around the world. If only he’d lined them up — any of them — to help make his sanctions work.

FACEBOOK FROM PAGE 6 Facebook is a system app on many phones, so not only did those users not agree to those permissions in order to download the app in the first place, but they also can’t delete the app unless they void the warranty on the phone to “root” or jailbreak it.

This is, yet again, another severe breach of trust on Facebook’s part. Between this and the Cambridge Analytica controversy, I think it’s about time I deleted my Facebook account. I honestly hope that at this point Facebook either goes under or learns to not mess with users’ privacy in the ways they have been. Personally, any trust I had in the website has vanished at this point.

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From top clockwise: Robyn Blanchard, Sophie Benetti, Sierra Hargens and Tilda Staubo.

Women’s Golf team takes on Spring Invitationals Jay Adkins Reporter

From April 1 to April 3, the Indiana State University women’s golf team will travel to Fort Wayne to compete in the women’s spring invitational. The event will take place at the

Pine Valley Country Club.

From April 8 to April 9, Indiana State University will host their own spring invitational at the Country Club of Terre Haute.

The Country Club of Terre Haute is a par-72, 6,041yard layout.

The team’s season has been up and down, mak-

ing fourth place at the Roseann Schwartz Invitational, 12th place at Ball State University, second place at the Butler Fall Invitational, tied for fifth place at the Missouri Valley Preview, third place at the Charles Braun Intercollegiate, 37th place at the Edwin Watts/ Kiawah

Island Spring Classic, and most recently, placing 11th at the Low Country Intercollegiate.

Four Sycamores (sophomore Sierra Hargens, junior Tilda Staubo, junior Sophie Benetti, and junior Robyn Blanchard) are all tied for the team lead in rounds played with 14

rounds each. Sierra Hargens has one top 5 finish, Tilda Staubo has two top 5 finishes, and Sophie Benetti has one top 5 finish.

Robyn Blanchard has one top 10 finish. Blanchard also leads the team in strokes with 1120 strokes.

Senior Dawn Turner has one top 20 finish.

After the spring invitationals, the team will move to the Missouri Valley Conference Championships, which takes place at the Sand Creek Station Golf Club in Newton, Kansas. The championship begins on April 15 and ends on April 17.

How Devonté Graham delivered on a promise to his sister in KU’s win over Duke Jesse Newell

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Brittany Neely won two races in 1500-meter and 800-meters.

Track and Field splits for meets at Stanford and Ole Miss Garrett Short Reporter

The Indiana State track and field team gets to escape the dreary weather this weekend as they split and travel to California and Mississippi for two different meets. Some of the team will be going to the Stanford Invitational and the rest will be headed to the Ole Miss Classic.

The team got a taste of the outdoor season last weekend with their meet at Southern Illinois. ISU came away with three individual victories over the

weekend, two of which were courtesy of the women’s team.

Two of the wins came from Brittany Neeley, who had a great weekend. She first finished on top in the 1500-meter. Neeley finished that up with a win in the 800-meter run. Her time in the 800-meter currently ranks 41st in the NCAA. The other winner for the Sycamores was Luke Kerstiens in the 3000-meter steeplechase. The sophomore finished first by a landslide. Finishing about 35 seconds after Kerst-

iens was ISU junior Ryan Kritzer.

Erin Reese, although she didn’t claim a victory, had a historic weekend. The redshirt junior entered the top-10 in school history in both the discus and the hammer throw. Reese’s hammer throw distance of 61.85 meters is the sixth best performance of anyone in the nation this year and second best in ISU history. With Reese having won MVC Female Athlete of the week for track and field, if she puts up the numbers she did last week, ISU should be very suc-

cessful in the upcoming invitationals this weekend.

ISU makes a real jump to the Pac-12 and SEC levels this weekend. Stanford and California are two premiere teams that will be participating in the meet in sunny California this weekend. If ISU wants a good look at what they might be able to accomplish in the postseason, this weekend will give them the chance to gain the confidence they will need to compete against these tougher and bigger schools.

Dewanna King tries to stick to non-basketball talk. This time, though, she couldn’t help herself.

It was the night before Kansas’ 85-81 overtime victory over Duke in the Elite Eight, and King KU guard Devonte Graham’s mother - asked him a question at the Omaha Marriott Downtown Hotel before the biggest game of his career.

“Are you nervous?”

King laughed when retelling his response.

“He told me I was acting like the reporters,” she said, her voice scratchy because of all the screaming she’d just done in the game.

Graham would be fine the next day. And he also delivered on an earlier promise.

Though this wasn’t the best game of the point guard’s career, it was good enough to extend his team’s season another week - and to territory he hasn’t experienced before.

Graham scored 11 points on 4-for-10 shooting in 45 minutes, but he also had a hand in the game’s biggest play. With 30 seconds left in regulation and KU trailing by three, Graham went behind his back with a transition dribble, then was bumped briefly by Duke’s Trevon Duval.

He played through it.

After a twirl, he flung a pass to teammate Svi Mykhailiuk on the wing, who took one dribble before swishing the game-tying shot.

“I actually tried to get the foul call when he bumped me, but I’m glad he didn’t call it,” Graham

said. “I just saw him open and gave it to him.”

It was reminiscent of another play that went down in KU lore almost 10 years ago. Just a few feet away - in the first row of the stands - former KU guard Sherron Collins grabbed both hands to the bill of his cap as the shot went in, then flexed as the KU fans celebrated around him.

It was Collins, in the 2008 national championship game, who was slightly brushed by a defender before he shoveled the ball to Mario Chalmers, who hit a game-saving three in the final seconds on a 75-68 overtime win over Memphis.

“We’re good with not getting calls at the end of the game,” a smiling Collins said afterward. “Let’s keep it that way.”

Graham quickly found his family following the final seconds of overtime.

He jumped over the bench and quickly hugged King, along with his grandma, Doris King.

“We did it,” he told them, tears in his eyes.

Before the game, in teammate Malik Newman’s room at the Marriott, Graham and his family joined Lagerald Vick’s for a short prayer session.

It was there that Graham told his mom and grandma he was going to take them to the Final Four.

Because of financial reasons, Graham’s sister, Shamaria, couldn’t make it to Sunday’s game in Omaha.

“I told her, ‘I’m going to make sure you’ll be able to get there,’” Graham said.

He did. KU will be going to San Antonio.

And Graham’s last games will be on college basketball’s biggest stage.