November 2, 2015

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Volume 123, Issue 32

Comic book author coming to ISU

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and has contributed to DC Comics’ “Batman.”

Brownfield graduated Troy Brownfield, a com- from Indiana State in 1997 ic book writer, journalist, with a master’s degree in professor and Indiana State English with a focus in CreUniversity alum, will give a ative Writing. presentation called “My Life As an ISU student, he in Comics” Tuesday at 3:30 served as entertainment p.m. in Cunningham Me- chair and vice president of morial Library.

Union Board and also conThe event, sponsored by tributed a number of items Community Engagement, to the Indiana Statesman. the College In 2004, of Arts and BrownS c i e n c e s , What you need to know field began the Creative • Who: Troy Brownfield teaching Wr i t i n g journalism, Committee, • What: Presentation by English, C u n n i n g - Brownfield communiham Memocation and rial Library • When: 3:30 p.m. Tuesday film at Saint and the De- • Where: Library events area M a r y - o f partment of the-Woods English, is a College. part of the Theodore DreiHe now serves as an adser Visiting Writers Series. junct at schools in central Brownfield, whose ar- Indiana. ticles have appeared in Tuesday’s presentation Wired, The Indianapolis will also include a bookStar, Newtype USA and IN- signing, and many of Take Weekly, among many Brownfield’s books will be others, also writes columns available for purchase. for Newsarama.

The event takes place at He also has written for 3:30 p.m. in Cunningham Fangoria Comics, Zene- Memorial Library’s Events scope Entertainment and Area, and light refreshDynamite Entertainment, ments will be served.

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Fake traffic stops in the area Nevia Buford

Assistant News Editor

There have been incidents of traffic stops performed by fake police officers throughout the state, including the Wabash area.

Incidents of people impersonating regular police officers have been going on for many years now, said Ian Loomis, a patrol captain with the Indiana State University police department.

“This is nothing new,” Loomis said. “People have been impersonating law enforcement officers for as long as there have been law enforcement officers.

Not necessarily in vehicles for obvious reasons, but it’s becoming more and more known because of social media.”

The reason a person might try to attempt a law enforcement member varies from person to person.

“You don’t really know until you find the person,” Loomis said. “I’m sure there are some people who are doing it because they want to have control over a situation. I’m sure there are some people that are just goofing around. And I’m sure there are people that have very ill

intentions and very ill wills.”

Both Michelle Barrett, the assistant chief of police at ISU, and Loomis said they are not aware of any law enforcement impersonators in the area. They also have no reports from students who have experienced something like the situation.

The Indiana State Police provided some tips for staying safe during traffic stops: “Stop in a well-lighted and populated area, lock all doors and only roll your window down enough so you can communicate (one or two inches), ask for the officer’s identification (even if they are wearing something that has “police or sheriff ’ on it), do not leave your vehicle unless you are sure the person is a legitimate police officer, call 911 and give the dispatcher your location, if you don’t feel you should stop, drive the speed limit, with the emergency flashers on to attract attention. Proceed safely to location where you feel comfortable or until you observe a second police car.”

Loomis said that people should focus on their sur-

Above: 2015 Miss ISU winner Madisson Brower performs during the talent portion of the competition. Right: Brower shows off her evening gown. Brower won the award for best gown. Bottom Left: Brower is overcome with emotion after being announced Miss ISU 2015. She is seen embracing the outgoing Miss ISU, Ayanna Sykes. Bottom Right: ISU President Dan Bradley holds the pins that Sykes is using to secure a tiara to Brower’s head.

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Drunk driving on the decline for ISU students Nevia Buford

Assistant News Editor

A study shows how willing teens and young adults are to decide to be passengers of drunk drivers and how often it occurs.

According to a study from CBSnews.com, 30 percent of teens, or one in three, admitted that they had accepted rides from individuals who had been drinking. In the same study, one in four admitted that they would be willing to ride with drivers who were under the influence.

At Indiana State University this may be the case as well.

According to Michele Barrett, the assistant chief of police

at ISU, in 2014, from January to December, there were 12 cases of OVWI (operating while visibly impaired) at ISU. This year, from January to October, there have been 14 cases. It is possible that this number will increase before the year is over.

The punishment for OWVI varies, but all of the consequences could be prevented.

“If it’s there first offense… it’s up to a year in jail, plus fines, court costs, lawyer fees — and that’s assuming there were accidents,” said Ian Loomis, a patrol captain with the university police department.

If a person is suspected of drunk driving and pulled over,

they are required to take a series of sobriety tests. Failure to comply results in other punishments.

“You have to take it or else your license will be suspended for a year, plus you get that operating a vehicle while intoxicated refusal, so that’s no good,” Loomis said.

While these are the procedures that are stated by the law, sometimes these cases are handled differently in the court system.

“Realistically… nothing is 100 percent, especially when it comes to the justice system,” Loomis said.

“But the courts have started to understand people make mistakes. We were all young; we’ve

all done things that looking back we realized probably not the best course of action. Also the courts get overwhelmed with these DUIs or OVWIs. So often times, there will be plea deals made where, if you agree to plea to reckless driving instead of operating a vehicle while intoxicated, we will reduce the charge.”

Intoxicated drivers are not the only problem in such situations.

There are also people who choose to ride in cars as passengers with a person who is intoxicated.

“It’s common all throughout.

I don’t think too many sober people would willingly get into a vehicle with an intoxicated per-

son,” Loomis said. “I would not say it is limited to this area, but it is a common occurrence.”

In a more positive light, Barrett also said that were no cases of OVWI during this year’s Homecoming weekend.

“There have been multiple things and process implemented that have greatly reduced the number of DUIs,” Loomis said.

“Some of the programs like sober ride, the designated walker system, you know having those designated spots along the way of the walk and then also at tent city, for people to get back safely if they have been consuming alcohol, it definitely reduces the number of DUIs.” Page designed by Alex Modesitt

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Students White House to send special forces into Syria discover benefits of digital marketing Lesley Clark and Hannah Allam

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The days of sharing experiences and thoughts verbally one person at a time have been replaced with sharing hundreds of thousands of tweets and posts on social media.

It’s a trend Indiana State University students learned more about during a presentation from Bryan Bruce — founder of the hospitality Internet marketing group Your Brand Voice, based in Orlando, Florida. The Meis Student Development Center hosted the presentation for students in Vernon Sweetin’s MBA class and Sandeep Bhowmick’s product marketing course. “(Digital marketing) is how you amplify the word of mouth,” Bruce said. “We’re amplifying and sharing these experiences and putting them in the places where people are pay attention now days, in mobile devices.”

Bruce, who was connected with Indiana State through a student who served as one of his company’s first interns, shared how years of working in the hospitality industry encouraged his to venture out on his own.

He launched Your Brand Voice in 2009 to serve the digital marketing needs of a wide variety of

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Furious GOP chairman suspends debate plans with NBC David Lightman

McClatchy Washington Bureau (TNS)

WASHINGTON — As conservative and candidate complaints over Wednesday’s CNBC debate refused to ebb, the Republican Party chairman said Friday the event was “conducted in bad faith” and suspended the party’s partnership with NBC for a scheduled February primary debate.

“CNBC’s moderators engaged in a series of ‘gotcha’ questions, petty and mean-spirited in tone, and designed to embarrass our candidates,” Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus told NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack in a letter.

Priebus made the move as Republican candidates as well as influential conservatives demanded changes. Campaign officials were expected to meet soon to discuss ways to change the format of upcoming debates, perhaps before the next one Nov. 10 in Milwaukee.

NBC said in a statement it was disappointed. “However, along with our debate broadcast partners at Telemundo we will work in good faith to resolve this matter with the Republican Party,” the network said. Telemundo, an NBC network, was set to host a Feb. 26 debate in Houston, the only Spanish-language network scheduled for such a prime spot.

“Given the recent inflamma-

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. is deploying a small contingent of special operations forces into northeastern Syria to help local opposition groups beat back the Islamic State, despite President Barack Obama’s repeated declarations that he would not put “boots on the ground” in the war-ravaged country.

The White House dismissed suggestions Friday that the decision represents “mission creep,” saying that the forces — fewer than 50 — will not be combat troops but will intensify ongoing efforts to “train, advise and assist” local forces.

“The mission has not changed,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said. “We are intensifying it; we’re ramping up the support that we are providing to those local forces.

But the mission of our men and women on the ground has not changed.”

But coming one week after an American special operator was killed in a Kurdish-led raid in Iraq, the decision raised a host of questions, from what authority the U.S. is relying on to send troops into Syria to which groups the U.S. is helping and how the action will be perceived by the U.S.’s Turkish allies, who are opposed to the Syrian Kurdish militia that has been the primary ally in Syria against the Islamic State.

The White House refused to say with whom the special operations forces will be working, but the Kurdish YPG militia, with the help of U.S. air power, has pushed the Islamic State from as much as 6,800 square miles of northern Syria.

The biggest Syrian Arab militia in the Raqqa region, the Raqqa Revolutionaries, has not been contacted by the U.S. military and has not received any military aid, a spokesman said.

Turkey views the YPG’s stated ambition of creating a contiguous Kurdish-run entity in northern Syria, which it calls Rojava, as a threat to its own security.

The arrival of U.S. special operations forces in northern Syria carries risks of confrontations — with the Islamic State, which will immediately fix on them as

a high-value target, as well as the governments of Syria and Turkey.

While the YPG effectively controls the region, the Syrian regime still has forces in two cities, as well as an airport in Qamishli, which recently was closed down for civilian use and turned over to the Syrian military.

Moving from Iraq to the YPG-held towns of Tal Abyad and Kobani would likely require any U.S. troops to drive through a government-controlled traffic circle in Qamishli.

It was not clear whether the U.S. government would ensure that there was no accidental exchange of fire between the U.S. forces and Turkey, which said this week that its forces have bombed YPG units trying to cross the Euphrates River.

Turkey views the YPG as an affiliate of the Kurdish Workers Party, or PKK, which has waged a three-decade-long insurgency for greater autonomy for the 20 percent of Turkey’s population that is Kurdish.

Turkey has warned of dire consequences if any U.S. arms or other supplies intended for the YPG end up in PKK hands.

Earnest said the special forces could face dangerous situations and will be equipped to defend themselves, but they would not be “leading the charge” in a combat situation.

“If we were envisioning a combat operation, we probably would be contemplating more than 50 troops on the ground,” Earnest said. “The responsibility that they have is not to lead the charge to take a hill, but rather to offer advice and assistance to those local forces about the best way they can organize their efforts to take the fight to ISIL.” Obama in September 2014 dramatically broadened what had been a limited U.S. mission to help refugees threatened by the Islamic State inside Iraq, pledging a U.S.-led coalition to destroy the militants “wherever they exist.”

But Obama, who campaigned in 2008 vowing to end the war in Iraq and resisted involvement in Syria, said then that the fight against the militants would “not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil.”

The White House said it also will deploy A-10s and F-15s to

Incirlik Air Base in Turkey and consult with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and the Iraqi government on the establishment of a special operations task force.

Frederic C. Hof, a former State Department special adviser for the transition in Syria and now a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center, said deploying a handful of U.S. special operations forces to Syria would “not change this situation significantly. It is a Band-Aid of sorts, although a potentially useful one.”

The deployment of special operators, he said, at least puts some “skin in the game” to help persuade regional powers to pony up ground forces, but it’s not a major development on its own.

Some of Obama’s Republican critics who have pushed for a more muscular response to the Islamic State in Syria, including a no-fly zone in the country, said the deployment isn’t enough and could backfire by making the U.S. look weak.

The Islamic State “is not going to be intimidated by this move. In fact, ISIL will see this as yet another sign of President Obama’s weakness,” said Republican presidential nominee contender Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who accused Obama of lacking a “clear strategy” to defeat the militants. “ISIL is all in for their horrific agenda and demented view of the world. Unfortunately, President Obama is not all in when it comes to degrading and destroying ISIL.”

On the left, Peace Action, which calls itself the nation’s largest peace group, also panned the move, saying the administration should instead ramp up diplomatic and humanitarian efforts.

“We should know by now that the first law of military conflicts is escalation,” said spokesman Jon Rainwater. “That’s why sending these troops into battle should trouble all Americans. With the ‘no boots on the ground’ promise broken, there’s no telling how many U.S. troops will ultimately be sent to Iraq and Syria.”

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., issued a tersely worded statement pointing to an evolution in the Obama administration’s military fight against the Islamic State since 15 months ago, when the president authorized “two narrow operations in Iraq” — one to protect American personnel in Kurdistan and the other to save civilians trapped on Mount Sinjar.

“Since then, we have seen the United States increase troop deployment levels to more than 3,500 service members and undertake approximately 7,000 airstrikes in Iraq and Syria at a cost of over $4.75 billion or $11 million a day,” Kaine said.

He called on Obama to deliver a strategy that addresses not only the jihadist threat but also the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, criticizing the current policy as addressing only “half the problem.”

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Georgia death row inmate’s case reaches Supreme Court Michael Doyle

McClatchy Washington Bureau (TNS)

WASHINGTON — A Georgia death row inmate convicted of murder when he was a teenager is about to get a potentially lifesaving chance to challenge how his jury was formed.

Timothy Tyrone Foster is African-American. The 12 Floyd County jurors who convicted him in 1987 were all white.

On Monday, the Supreme Court will consider whether prosecutors unfairly used race to tilt the jury selection.

The court’s ultimate decision may reach well beyond Foster, one of 85 Georgia inmates on death row.

It could also shape how attorneys choose jurors, while giving a sharply divided court another chance to debate capital punishment.

“It’s going to be decided on the backdrop of the whole new disagreement at the court on the death penalty … and whether or not the death penalty has this inherent problem of racial discrimination, both in terms of who’s charged and how they’re tried,” noted attorney Paul Smith, a frequent Supreme Court advocate.

Underscoring the broader stakes, Foster will be represented at the hourlong oral argument Monday by noted attorney Stephen B. Bright, president

of the Atlanta-based Southern Center for Human Rights and a longtime instructor at Yale Law School.

Foster’s other high-profile allies range from former California Attorney General John Van de Kamp, who filed a brief supporting the inmate, to novelist and former prosecutor Scott Turow.

“It’s very important for the criminal justice system, because it really exposes a lot of the cultural problems we’re facing today,” Rory Little, a professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, said Friday. “It could lead to an end to race-based strikes of jurors.”

Georgia’s deputy attorney general, Beth A. Burton, will be defending how the trial prosecutors weeded out unwanted jurors.

“The prosecution offered numerous race-neutral reasons for the peremptory strikes of the four black prospective jurors,” the Georgia brief asserted, adding that there was no “purposeful discrimination.”

The case called Foster v. Chatman centers on what Bright called, in one legal brief, certain “extraordinary circumstances.”

Foster was 18 years old in 1986, living in Rome, Ga. His IQ test scores, according to defense attorneys, put him “in the borderline range for intellectual

disability.” One night that August, while intoxicated on a mix of alcohol, marijuana and cocaine, he broke into the home of a 79-year-old retired elementary schoolteacher named Queen Madge White.

“He broke her jaw, coated her face with talcum powder, sexually molested her with a salad dressing bottle, and strangled her to death, all before taking items from her home,” the Georgia brief states, deploying the kind of graphic detail often used by states defending a death sentence.

Ninety-five potential jurors were initially called for Foster’s trial. Ten were African-American. Defense attorneys and prosecutors each could eliminate potential jurors for “cause,” such as a known bias. Each also had a limited number of “peremptory” challenges, for which no reason had to be initially given.

The Supreme Court, in an earlier decision involving a Kentucky burglary case, has prohibited using peremptory challenges to eliminate jurors on the basis of race. Proving a racial motive, though, can be tricky, as attorneys conjure other explanations for a peremptory challenge.

Eventually, the jury pool in Foster’s case was narrowed to include four African-Americans.

Prosecutors used peremptory

challenges to eliminate them all.

After Foster’s conviction, the district attorney asked for the death penalty, telling jurors it would “deter other people out there in the projects.”

Nineteen years later, in 2006, Foster’s attorneys obtained the prosecutors’ notes about jury selection.

The names of the four African-American potential jurors were marked with the letter “B” and highlighted in green. An accompanying key explained that green highlighting “represents blacks.”

Their race was also circled on the juror questionnaire.

“The exclusion of these citizens was not the product of ‘happenstance,’ but the result of the prosecution’s identification of them as black and its determination to keep them off the jury,” Foster’s attorneys wrote.

Prosecutors say otherwise; noting, for instance, that one potential juror had a son who had been prosecuted for theft, and another seemed to offer misleading answers to questions.

“An accurate assessment of this new evidence does not establish that the prosecutors were motivated by race to strike prospective jurors,” Georgia’s brief states. ©2015 McClatchy Washington Bureau. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

ISU Public Safety police blotter Oct. 28

11:50 a.m.: Sexual harrassment was reported in the Lincoln Quad Dining Center.

12:24 p.m.: A theft was reported in the Health and Human Performance Building.

2:24 p.m.: A domestic dispute was

reported in the Science Building.

4:29 p.m.: Threats were reported in Erickson Hall.

7:13 p.m.: Threats were reported in Lincoln Quad.

8:11 p.m.: Suspicious activity was reported in Unit 2 of the University Apartments.

Oct. 29

1:00 a.m.: Harrassment was reported in Cunningham Memorial Library.

11:49 a.m.: Criminal mischief and theft were reported in Lot 14.

4:15 p.m.: A suicide threat was reported in Sandison Hall.

4:15 p.m.: Criminal mischief was

reported in the Science Building.

4:58 p.m.: A hit and run PD accident was reported in Lot C. 11:11 p.m.: An ill person and tresspassing were reported in Lincoln Quad.

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DIGITAL CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 clients that include Disney World and Sea World as well as small businesses nationwide.

“It’s hard, almost impossible, to compete with digital marketing on a flat piece of paper.

It’s hard to create experiences that make you motivated to go to an event, spend $1,000 or go to a business,” Bruce said. “You have to motivate a customer to do that and radio, print and TV still work, but it’s not working where people are paying the most attention. The businesses that are thriving, changing and dominating are meeting people where they are today.”

Tavell Grant, a senior sport management major and marketing minor from Hammond, is eager to try out some of Bruce’s tips for boosting social media viewers as he handles the social media responsibilities for three clients — his church, a funeral home and the Council on Domestic Abuse in Terre Haute.

“It’s helped learn how I can help boost the posts and target more people in the area that may be in need of the services that these places can offer,” he said. “Listening to (Bruce) talk was really an inspiration to me.

I would love to do what he does someday.”

That’s exactly the motivation behind getting speakers such as Bruce in front of students, Bhowmick said.

“It’s a good warm-up for them to hear from people who work in industries like this every day,” he said. “When we bring speakers in it really helps students to see how what we do in the classroom connects to future jobs they’ll be applying for.”

SYRIA CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 He also took aim at the failure of Congress to issue a new authorization for the use of military force.

“We are now one year, two months, and 23 days into an unauthorized and executive war.

It is time for Congress to do its most solemn job — to debate and declare war,” Kaine said.

The White House said it has the legal authority to deploy the troops under the authorization that Congress granted a week after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. That action gave the president the authority “to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.”

The Islamic State’s ties to those attacks are uncertain.

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Clinton still faces questions about emails Anita Kumar and Greg Gordon

McClatchy Washington Bureau (TNS)

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton appears to have overcome an investigation of her role in the 2012 deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya, but she still faces a months-long FBI inquiry into the handling of sensitive information while she was secretary of state.

The FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, which opened its review this summer after classified information was found in emails transmitted over Clinton’s private email server, is under pressure to act quickly, as Clinton is in the midst of running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2016.

Attorneys who have handled classified information cases say the bureau, initially asked to examine whether Clinton’s arrangement compromised national security secrets, ultimately will have to consider whether she and her aides failed to sufficiently safeguard sensitive information.

They disagree about whether there’s enough evidence to prosecute her or her aides for sending and receiving government messages over the personal email system routed through a private computer server in the basement of her New York home.

But most who spoke to McClatchy say it’s unlikely the former first lady, senator and Cabinet secretary will face charges because of her high profile and the hurdle to prove she knew the emails contained classified information when she sent them to others.

“She’s too big to jail,” said national security attorney Edward MacMahon Jr., who represented

former CIA employee Jeffrey Sterling in 2011 in a leak case that led to an espionage prosecution and 3 1/2-year prison term.

He cited a pattern of light punishments for top government officials who have mishandled classified information while lower level whistleblowers such as Sterling have faced harsh prosecutions for revealing sensitive information to expose waste, fraud or abuse in government.

At least 671 emails that Clinton sent or received through her private server contained classified material, according to the State Department’s latest update Friday from its ongoing review of more than 30,000 emails.

Her aides also sent and received classified information.

In response to a public records lawsuit, the department released another 7,200 pages of Clinton’s emails after partially or entirely redacting any containing sensitive U.S. or foreign government information on a range of issues.

The inspectors general of the State Department and intelligence community have said that some contained classified information when they were generated, but they were not marked that way at the time.

Most of the classified emails are at the “confidential” level — the lowest level of classification — but if additional emails are determined to be the more sensitive “secret” or highly sensitive “top secret” levels, it would raise the gravity of a potential security breach.

Peter Zeidenberg, a former federal prosecutor who handles cases against local, state and federal officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of

GOP CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 tory rhetoric around immigration in this country, now … is not the time for the Republican Party to choose political expediency over an opportunity to engage with millions of Spanish-language network viewing Latinos in advance of Election 2016,” said a statement from the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials.

Campaign officials are furious with CNBC. Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon and leader in recent Iowa caucus polls, suggested having a candidate talk about his or her plan, then take questions about it.

Candidates were upset not only that the CNBC panel asked questions that seemed aimed at exploiting controversies, but jumped quickly from one topic to another.

“The first thing we’re looking for is moderators who are actually interested in getting the facts, and not just gotcha questions,” Carson told reporters Thursday.

The moderators did ask Carson and others about their tax plans. They engaged in a give and take with Carson, and with Donald Trump, about their proposals.

Trump’s campaign hailed the RNC decision and cited “the total lack of substance

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Former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton testifies before the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 22.

staff, Scooter Libby, for leaking the covert identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame, said Clinton’s actions may have been foolish but not necessarily illegal.

“If the emails were not marked, it would not be possible — at least not in my view — to establish that Ms. Clinton knowingly mishandled classified information,” he said. “How was she to know that this was classified if it was not marked?”

Still, experts say that if Clinton aides pasted classified information into emails to her without including markings signaling the material was classified they could face felony charges.

Clinton’s campaign declined to comment for this story.

Clinton initially said she did not send or receive any classified information — a denial she later adjusted, saying that none was marked as classified at the time.

and respect exhibited during Wednesday’s night’s debate.”

The campaign said Trump would pursue alternatives “along with the RNC to ensure candidates are given ample opportunity to outline their vision for the future of our country.”

Conservatives also complained.

“What would you call a political party that hands the power to set the agenda during its presidential primaries to its sworn enemies in the liberal media, then doubles down to give the power to set the agenda in the waning days of the general election to a selfperpetuating ‘commission’ of Washington, D.C., progressive insiders?” veteran conservative strategist Richard Viguerie asked Friday.

Party officials agreed. Jennifer Horn, New Hampshire Republican Party chairman, noted “the grossly inappropriate, blatantly biased and unprofessional behavior of CNBC’s debate moderators.”

The RNC announced the debate series early this year, hoping to avoid the debateof-the-week chaos leading up to the 2012 campaign.

It rotated the sponsorship among major news organizations and planned one debate a month.

“If it is a marked vehicle, the officer can pull over someone when they are in uniform, or when they are in plain clothes,” Loomis said. “If it is an unmarked vehicle, for normal traffic operations, (and) you’re

After months of dwindling poll numbers, Clinton is savoring a strong couple of weeks on the campaign trail after standout performances at the first debate and at an 11-hour grilling about Benghazi on Capitol Hill, as well as a decision by Vice President Joe Biden not to challenge her.

Still, a federal investigation can’t be good for a presidential campaign, particularly if it stretches into a general election when Clinton would be trying to woo more skeptical Republicans and independents.

“As long as you have an FBI investigation, it’s a question mark,” said Ann Selzer, the leading pollster in the crucial early nominating state of Iowa. ©2015 McClatchy Washington Bureau. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

The media groups determine who qualifies, and so far, that has meant 10 or 11 candidates with the highest poll numbers in the main event.

Fox Business News and the Wall Street Journal will sponsor the November debate.

CNN will sponsor a December debate, followed by Fox News in January, ABC News in one February debate and CBS in another.

After the CNBC debate, Priebus quickly issued an angry statement saying CNBC should be “ashamed” of how it handled the evening. Friday, he went further.

“The RNC’s sole role in the primary debate process is to ensure that our candidates are given a full and fair opportunity to lay out their vision for America’s future. We simply cannot continue with NBC without full consultation with our campaigns,” he said.

“The CNBC network is one of your media properties, and its handling of the debate was conducted in bad faith,” he said. “We understand that NBC does not exercise full editorial control over CNBC’s journalistic approach. However, the network is an arm of your organization, and we need to ensure there is not a repeat performance.” ©2015 McClatchy Washington Bureau. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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There are exceptions to that but those are very rare. Those are more felonious traffic stops, things where it’s not just stopping someone because they

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Loomis encourages people to call the police and ask the dispatcher if the person in question is a legitimate officer if they feel that something is not right.

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The Miss ISU contestants dance with last year’s winner, Ayanna Sykes.

First runner-up Allison Barker.

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Second runner-up Aisa Terry.

Swimsuit competition winner Alli Pell.

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People’s choice winner Katelynne Newton.

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Halloween was no treat for movie box office Tre’vell Anderson

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

LOS ANGELES — Potential moviegoers found their treats largely outside of theaters this weekend as new releases “Burnt” with Bradley Cooper, “Our Brand Is Crisis” with Sandra Bullock and “Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse” all suffered poor ticket sales, leaving the domestic box office with its worst Halloween weekend in 16 years.

Holdovers nabbed the top four spots.

“The Martian,” directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain, sat atop the box office again in its fifth weekend. The 20th Century Fox release made an estimated $11.4 million in the U.S. and Canada, raising its starry total to about $182.8 million.

The adaptation of the popular R.L. Stine book series “Goosebumps” finished second, grabbing about $10.2 million in its third weekend. The Sony release starring Jack Black has raked in a total of $57.1 million.

Rounding out the top four were Disney’s “Bridge of Spies,” which had $8.1 million in weekend ticket sales, and Sony’s animated “Hotel Transylvania 2,” which pulled in $5.8 million.

Of the new releases, Cooper’s turn as a self-involved chef in “Burnt” fared the best. The Weinstein Co. R-rated comedy took the fifth spot with about $5 million — about $2 million below the low end of expectations.

The film did not pull in its target audience — women and foodies — as well as producers had hoped. Those who did see it were largely unimpressed: The film received a B-minus grade from audience polling firm CinemaScore and positive reviews from only 29 percent of the critics on Rotten Tomatoes.

“It was a tough weekend and we were hoping for more,” said Erik Lomis,

Weinstein’s chief of distribution. “It’s just a disappointment when we all work hard on this film, a passion project, and Bradley is great in it.”

Lomis said the film’s modest price tag, under $20 million, and its potential to do well internationally will help.

“Our Brand Is Crisis,” starring Bullock as a political strategist enlisted to help an embattled South American presidential candidate, eked out a spot in the top 10 with about $3.4 million, about half of what had been projected heading into the weekend.

“We’re proud of the movie,” said Jeff Goldstein, Warner Bros. executive vice president of distribution. “But I had higher expectations and we’re obviously disappointed.”

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Critics and audiences alike weren’t kind. The film got a C-plus grade on CinemaScore, and only 33 percent of critics on Rotten Tomatoes gave it a positive review.

The low turnout for “Crisis” follows the studio’s high-profile flop of “Pan.” Goldstein said he hoped word of mouth among “upmarket and older” viewers will help Bullock’s film.

“Crisis” and “Burnt” follow others that have struggled to pull older audiences into theaters, including the high-wire drama “The Walk,” which has grossed $9.9 million to date, and the biopic “Steve Jobs,” which has grossed only $14.5 million.

Though spooky movies have traditionally been box-office leaders in Hallow-

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day, host Alisyn Camerota pointed out to Fiorina that fact-checkers at the Washington Post had shown that Fiorina’s number was wrong.

Fiorina got a little defensive, claiming that the Washington Post said that she wasn’t a secretary, so “they have no credibility, honestly.”

Not only is that a ridiculous reason to distrust an entire publication, but the Washington Post never said that she wasn’t a secretary. In fact, the Post says, “It is clear that Fiorina’s experience as receptionist and secretary at Marcus & Millichap was a defining moment.”

After she wrongly called out the Washington Post for saying she wasn’t a secretary, she then said, “Here’s another statistic, Alisyn, if you don’t like that one, the extreme poverty rate among women is at the highest level ever recorded.” But her original claim was that President Obama was largely responsible for women losing 92 percent of all jobs lost. Unless she was trying to connect the poverty rate among women to President Obama, Fiorina’s statistic is a non sequitur. She tried to use classic misdirection to make people forget that she lied and used an outdated, incorrect statistic.

Since then, Fiorina has been attacked from many sources, all saying that she was wrong and that more women were working after President Obama’s first term than before. On Sunday in an appearance on “This Week,” Fiorina said, “The 92 percent, it turns out, was the first three-and-a-half years of Barack Obama’s term, and in the final six months of his term things improved.” That number still isn’t even correct.

But Carly Fiorina won’t let those pesky things called facts stop her. “I’ve just acknowledged that I misspoke on that particular fact,” Fiorina said. “But this is what the liberal media always does; it attacks the messenger trying to avoid the message. Here is the message: It is factually true that women have been

In the Republican debate last Wednesday on CNBC, Carly Fiorina told yet another lie. She claimed that 92 percent of jobs that were lost during President Obama’s first term was lost by women.

Fact checkers were quick to call Fiorina out. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 66.5 million women were working at the beginning of President Obama’s first term, while around 66.9 million women were working by the end of his first term.

That’s an increase.

Fiorina’s claim isn’t even something she came up with herself. It’s a statistic from Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign. The campaign stopped using that number when fact-checking websites like PolitiFact debunked the claim.

PolitiFact’s report also includes an addendum that states that the Romney campaign contacted them and told them to change their ruling about the 92 percent figure. After speaking with even more economists, PolitiFact came to the conclusion that Romney’s number was incorrect. The fact-checking site also points out that Republicans were at least partially responsible for the number of jobs lost. PolitiFact notes that after his stimulus package ran out, President Obama asked Congress for an extra $23 billion in order to avoid the layoff of up to 300,000 public school teachers, which was approved in neither the House nor the Senate.

Once it became clear to the Romney campaign that everyone knew this claim was wrong, they stopped using it.

So why did Carly Fiorina decide it would be a good idea to dust this outdated lie off in 2015? In an appearance on New Day on CNN last Thurs- FIORINA CONTINUED ON PAGE 7

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Trump’s plan proves he’s not president material

Ryan Ballinger Columnist

Donald Trump has surprised almost everyone with his ideals and speeches. Some in the beginning thought it was a joke. I even thought for the longest time it was a prank being pulled on America.

Now, since it is real, I am laughing to myself right now because there are so many reasons why I think Trump will not be an effective president.

A great reason is he has no definite plan; he just tells the people what they want to hear — for example, his speech on mass deportation. He plans to deport all immigrants that are not legal within eight months to two years. This is a horrible plan.

It is estimated that at

least 11 million people have illegally immigrated into our country at this time.

To make this plan work, many crazy things would have to happen that require a lot of time and money.

First, the Department of Homeland Security would have to go all over the country looking for them. As a real life example, in 2008 a meat packing plant in Postville, Iowa, was raided for illegal immigration.

It took many helicopters and prison buses to find and jail at least 400 people who all had to wait in prison for their trial and deportation, which takes away tax dollars from United States citizens.

Think of how much we would need to find all of these people in America — it would cost $100-200 billion.

This plan will cost us more tax dollars in the long run, and Trump has yet to explain that part.

The second reason is that he does not understand how to play the

political game.

He thinks that you can just walk in, swing a bat and not strike out. This is where he’s wrong: he will strike out. This is because he walks in and makes demands, which will not go well with Congress.

Just like his plan with deportation, he will declare to the people that he will get something done in too short of a time. This will come back to bite him because Americans will soon realize how foolish his plan is.

They will see that he is trying to change the rules, but he will lose because you must always play by the rules.

The rule is if Congress does not like it, it will most definitely not pass.

Lastly, Trump does not care if you disagree with him. He ran businesses for many years, and this is how he became rich and powerful. He did it with demands, and he made sure people listened.

He has to learn that making decisions for a country is a compro-

mise, that it will take many steps into even starting to deport an entire town.

This destroys the values America has, such as hard work, fairness and family values. An example is if an immigrant’s children are born here, do they get to stay or do they have to go?

They are American citizens by law, but taking away their family destroys what America holds dear.

I can talk all day about how Trump wouldn’t be a great president. The main reason though is because he is not experienced enough, and he also makes bad plans and promises.

With the debt where it is, it would be very difficult to fund a mass deportation operation costing almost $200 billion, when we could use that money to pay our debt.

Trump is naive when it comes to compromising because, like in his business world, what he says goes. This makes him an ineffective president for America.

Obama administration drags its feet in destroying ISIS

Anthony Michalisko Columnist

Recently, the United States announced they are deploying less than 50 Special Forces troops to Syria to ramp up a conflict that has made very little progress.

This move comes after President Obama said multiple times that we won’t put American boots on the ground. These troops will be playing an “advising” role to assist U.S.-backed rebels in northern Syria. This move brings up many questions. What role will these troops play?

How will we work with the other countries in fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria? Lastly, are the goals and plans in place to successfully achieve mission accomplished?

The administration announced that these troops will not play a combat role.

Rather, these troops will be training and assisting the U.S. moderate rebels. This goes against many reports coming out of the region.

Last week, a Delta Forces and Kurdish raid left one U.S. soldier dead but rescued 70 hostages. The soldier’s death was marked as a combat death, the first U.S. soldier to die in combat in Iraq since 2011. This week, the administration continues to stick to the narrative that the U.S. isn’t in combat. The U.S. is also sending A-10 and F-15 jets to Turkey to expand the air campaign.

The biggest concern to me is how the U.S. will fight with the other countries

in Syria. Currently, there are three sides to the Syrian Civil War, the U.S. and the U.S.-backed rebels, the Russian-backed Syrian government and the Islamic State.

The U.S. is trying to put pressure on the Russians and Iranians to call to regime change in Syria.

At the same time, the U.S. is also supporting rebel groups to fight the Syrian government, who are being bombed by the Russian and Syrian jets. Cuba also has some presence in the area, aiding Russia, Iran and Syria. This is frightening because all these different countries are all doing different things. It will take one slip-up on anyone’s side and would cause a large-scale conflict.

Lastly, the administration has been criticized for stating that our mission is to ultimately degrade and destroy ISIS, but has never laid out a plan to accomplish this. How are we going to send our men and women in harm’s way and not

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have a plan for success?

This is a step in the right direction, but there is more work that needs to be done.

This situation is a lot like a flat tire. You can keep on putting a fix in it, but eventually you’ll need to replace the tire. I feel that this administration will continue on doing as little as possible until the president finishes his term.

People have called this for what it was, and that’s mission creep. We have been adding a little at a time until we are finally at the level we need to accomplish this mission.

Instead of the president calling ISIS the Junior Varsity team, we should have destroyed them when we could have easily done so.

Here’s a lesson to be learned: don’t put something off you could have done today for tomorrow— a cold lesson that the administration is now having to accept.

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Soccer falls short in game against the Redbirds Adler Ingalsbe Reporter

The Indiana State University women’s soccer team went up against Illinois State University in a winner-take-all type of game last Thursday, with the winning team advancing to the Missouri Valley Conference tournament.

Unfortunately for the Sycamores, they came up short, losing the game 4-3 and ending their season.

Indiana State didn’t go down without a fight against the rival Redbirds though. Maddie Orf recorded her sixth goal of the season to give the Sycamores a 1-0 advantage early in the game and was followed by another ISU goal coming from Katie Wells to make 2-0; the score was Wells’ first goal of the season.

Illinois State was able to score three consecutive goals to put the Redbirds up 3-2, putting the pressure on the Sycamores.

Casidy Simonis was able to step up and connect on her first goal of her career to knot it at 3-3. The Redbirds came back quickly and put in the game-winning goal with moments left in the contest for the eventual 4-3 win.

The game shut the book on the 2015 Indiana State season. Although the season did not necessarily go the way the team had planned, there were still some highlights.

The Sycamores finished the year with an overall record of 6-10-1 and a conference record of 1-4-1, with key wins against non-conference foes coming against Belmont, Butler and Eastern Illinois.

While their record of 5-6 against non-conference opponents sticks out as a highlight on the season, the conference record is what ultimately did them in. The lone MVC win coming at Loyola, as well a double overtime tie at Northern Iowa were the highs but the 0-3 record at home against conference rivals hurt them mightily.

The team added 12 freshmen to the roster this season

and saw them grow up quickly, while playing in some big games, but was led throughout the year by their upperclassmen.

Senior captains Kate Johnson and Sydney Lovelace and junior Maddie Orf had themselves quite the season, each ranking towards of the top of the MVC offensive statistical categories.

Johnson led the team with four assists, while also connecting with four goals. Her four assists ranked fourth against other conference players and her goals were good for eighth.

Orf had the fifth most goals in the conference with six, had three assists, which was good for ninth best and also put in two game-winning goals, fourth most in the MVC. Lovelace recently earned Academic All-District honors from the College Sports Information Directors of America and was named to the FirstTeam for Indiana State’s district. Her senior season put an end on a successful career wearing the blue and white.

Lovelace led the team in goals with seven and points with 19. Her seven goals were fourth-best in the conference, while her 19 points ranked third. She recorded the firstever hat trick in ISU history when she scored three goals against Chicago State.

Indiana State’s goalkeeper and junior Brittany San Roman also had an impressive year in goal. She led the conference with her 104 saves, was second with an average of 5.78 saves per game and ranked third with three shutouts.

The team motto for the 2015 season was ‘Leave a Legacy.’

While they weren’t able to get themselves back into the Missouri Valley Conference tournament, this year’s team will be remembered for some of the moments that took place over the three-month span of games.

ISU’s season has come and gone, and the Sycamores must now look ahead to 2016 and all of the possibilities that it holds.

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Mascari makes history with record fourth MVC Cross-Country Championship Ace Hunt

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Indiana State senior John Mascari raced his way into the record books as he became the first-ever student-athlete to record a fourth Missouri Valley Conference Cross-Country Championship with his win on Saturday morning at the Angel Mounds Cross-Country Course, hosted by the University of Evansville.

Mascari covered the 8,000-meter course in a school record time of 23:39.06 for the victory. He was challenged early, but by the midpoint of the race, Mascari had opened up a lead that would not be overcome. He beat Drake’s Reed Fischer to the finish line by over 21 seconds for the win.

“John Mascari entered some elite company by winning the MVC Championship for a third time last year and for him to win for a fourth time is a historic accomplishment,” said head coach John McNichols. “There have been some really outstanding MVC distance runners over the course of the years, and John has placed his name at the top of that list. There was a great sense of relief for me to see him break out to a big lead and defeat some other great runners in our conference.”

David Timlin joined Mascari on the All-MVC podium with a ninth-place finish in a time of 24:23.93. Levi Taylor covered the course in a time of 24:40.33 for a 17th place finish while Akis Medrano placed 30th in the field with a time of 25:18.07.

Rounding out the Sycamore finishers were Daniel Swem, who finished 36th in a time of 25:34.24, Ryan Kritzer 37th in a time of 25:35.42, Corey Alfredson 45th in a time of 26:03.13 and Logan Hambrock 51st in a time of 26:26.41 As a team, the Sycamores finished fourth with a score of 93.

Bradley won the MVC Championship with a score of 67 while Illinois State was second with 78.

Losing a tiebreaker to the Redbirds and finishing third

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John Mascari is the first-ever student-athlete to win the MVC Championship four times.

was Wichita State, who also had 78 points. The Sycamores were fourth with 93 points and beat Southern Illinois (145), Loyola (146), Drake (164), Northern Iowa (171) and host Evansville (318).

On the women’s side, Brooke Moore and Taylor Austin were each named All-Missouri Valley Conference based on their Top 10 finishes in the 5,000-meter race. Moore’s time of 17:23.33 finished ninth while Austin covered the course in 17:29.58 for a 10th-place finish. Brittany Neeley was 20th in a time of 17:46.19 while Megan Doty placed 28th in a time of 18:00.81.

Rounding out the Sycamores’ scorers was Taylor Rogers in 40th place with a time of 18:26.13.

“To have two all-conference finishers in our first year is a great accomplishment,” said head coach Kyle Walsh. “We were just a few places away from really having a great breakthrough and moving up to third or fourth in the conference. I

am excited for the future of the program, and today was another great step for Sycamore women’s cross-country.”

Other finishers for the Sycamores were Mary Hanson in 44th place with a time of 18:32.63, Jessi Conley in 47th place with a time of 18:36.79 and Danielle Muse in 56th place with a time of 19:09.45.

The Sycamores finished fifth in the meet, as Bradley won with 54 points and Wichita State was second with 76. In third place was Illinois State with 94 while Loyola was fourth with 102. Indiana State was fifth with 107.

Finishing behind the Sycamores were Drake in sixth (122), Northern Iowa in seventh (169), Missouri State in eighth (247), Southern Illinois in ninth (294) and Evansville 10th (305).

Both the Indiana State men’s and women will now look ahead to the NCAA Regional Meet on Nov. 13 in Madison, Wisconsin.

Mascari is the two-time defending individual champion of that event.

Sycamores can’t hold on for upset, fall 27-24 to No. 3 Illinois State Tyler Wooten

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The Sycamores exploded for 21 points in the second quarter and had momentum on their side heading into the second half, but the reigning national runners-up in No. 3 Illinois State mounted a heartbreaking comeback to top No. 21/23 Indiana State, 27-24, on Saturday afternoon.

Despite wet and windy conditions at a chilly Hancock Stadium, Indiana State (4-4, 2-3 MVFC) gave the MVFCleading Redbirds (7-1, 5-0 MVFC) a thorough contest right up until the end.

However, the Sycamores only had four first downs in the second half (all in the third quarter) as Illinois State drained what momentum the Sycamores had from their stellar first half.

“We won the first half,” said Indiana State head coach Mike Sanford. “We played well in the first half. We knew this was going to be about physical and mental toughness, but we didn’t execute in the second half. They executed, and we didn’t execute on all sides of the ball.”

The game didn’t start off particularly well, though. With Indiana State backed up on their own one-yard line with 3:44 to play in the first, QB Matt Adam (19of-30, 231 yards, 3 TDs) got brought down in the endzone for a safety. Illinois State followed that up with a 10-yard touchdown run by QB Tre Roberson at the 14:18 mark in the second quarter.

But then, the second quarter became the Robert Tonyan Jr. show.

The junior wide receiver (and former quarterback) was unstoppable in the second quarter, hauling in three touchdown passes to give the Sycamore sideline some much-needed energy.

Tonyan also had two highlight-reel receptions on Saturday, including a one-handed touchdown grab while being held by his defender and while also falling out of the back corner of the endzone.

“I think Rob Tonyan made some great plays today; he was outstanding,” San-

ford said.

“He’s awesome,” said ISU QB Matt Adam. “He’s my best friend, so we know where each other are (on the field). He’s a special player, a huge target and he’s able to make those huge plays, and he did that today.”

The Indiana State offense was truly special in that first half, racking up 264 of its 353 total yards – 206 of which came through the air. Adam had more yards (206) and passing touchdowns (3) in the first half today than he did all game in last year’s near upset against Illinois State (201 yards, 2 TDs).

“There was definitely a sense of confidence; the offense was really rolling in that second quarter,” Adam said. “It wasn’t overconfidence or anything, but there was a sense of us helping the defense instead of the defense helping us.”

The Sycamores took their largest lead of the day on a season-long 38-yard field goal by Eric Heidorn with 3:35 left to play in the third quarter at 24-9, but then the Redbird assault began.

After defending him well for most of the game, Marshaun Coprich — the third-best rusher in the FCS this season — burst out for a 44-yard touchdown run with 2:33 to play in the third quarter.

Coprich ended the day at a Sycamoreopponent season high 165 yards on 28 carries.

“Our defense played good all day, but we gave up an explosive run in the second half,” Sanford said. “That was something we said we couldn’t do if we wanted to win this game.”

The Redbirds piled on with a 23-yard field goal by Sean Slattery and a fiveyard touchdown run by Roberson, but the Sycamores could never respond or mount a drive.

“We just didn’t capitalize when we had a chance to capitalize in the second half on offense,” Sanford said. “We just didn’t get it done.”

The loss is a tough one for the Sycamores, who likely need to win out now for a chance at the FCS Playoffs. This one is also tough coming on the heels

Sophomore quarterback Matt Adam.

of tough losses to North Dakota State at home on Oct. 24 (28-14) and at South Dakota State on Oct. 10 (24-7).

The road gets no easier for the Sycamores, who will face three ranked opponents in each of the last three weeks against schools who are each 4-4 in con-

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ference play like Indiana State: at Northern Iowa on Nov. 7, vs. Western Illinois on Nov. 14 and vs. Youngstown State on Nov. 21 for Senior Day. “We have to move forward. We have to learn from this and grow from this,” Sanford said.