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Pride at Indiana State University Lauren Rader Reporter

Indiana State University hosted its first Pride event for the LGBTQ+ and Ally community, PRIDE at Terradise, to promote equality and sexual diversity throughout the campus and community this past weekend.

Most Pride events happen during the summer, when many students are not able to attend, but that didn’t stop Ray Blaylock.

Blaylock is a graduate assistant for the LGBTQ+ Resource Center on campus, and the creator of this event. “PRIDE on Terradise is truly just a celebration of having fun and being together,” said Blaylock.

Activities at the event included karaoke, life-size Hungry Hungry Hippos, games, and colorful prizes to win. Unfortunately, the forecast predicted rain successfully, so the event moved from Wolf Field to Dede I and II. Blaylock said to “always have a rain location” when planning an outdoor event.

Before this event, many things had to be figured out before a date could be set.

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Starting in the Fall 2018 semester, there will be a variety of changes made to the Cunningham Memorial Library.

These changes will afford more benefits to students and enhance the opportunities already available. Robin Crumrin, Dean of the Cunningham Memorial Library at ISU, explains some of the modifications happening to the library.

Fraternity collects water for Flint, Michigan Chelsea Chapman Reporter

Students enjoy the activities at the Pride events this past weekend.

was assembled to coordinate each component for setting up PRIDE at Terradise. Public Safety was notified to ensure all security measures were taken to keep this event as safe as possible.

“I am super psyched because this is Terre Haute’s first Pride event. Just seeing people come out and learn about the LGBTQ+ community is amazing,” Student Assistant of Multicultural Services and Programs, Breanna Pierce said.

“We want to engage the campus and let them know

who we are. We are here and we are proud!”

The PRIDE Carnival allowed students to engage with the LGBTQ+ community and learn more about people’s differences. Students were able to get involved with the celebration and find ways to engage with similar organizations in the community and on campus. The LGBTQ+ Resource Center shared information about their opportunities and programs like the student-led group, Spectrum.

There was also support

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from other organizations like Kappa Sigma Fraternity. Kodi Mink, a member of Kappa Sigma, was excited to have his brothers come and support the LGBTQ+ community. “I am very happy that this event is happening. So much support has been shown by the school, and I’m so excited to see people come out, and support this community.”

This community is looking for respect, acceptance and support, and this is the first step to get the community engaged in social groups and issues going on around the community.

Cunningham Memorial Library changes exceed student needs Alyssa Bosse

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ical space sometimes,” said ming in places throughout “The great thing about the Crumrin. the library. lab is when it’s not scheduled for classes it’s open One of the new chang“We are converting some for students to come in and es that are different than faculty carrels into group use,” said Crumrin. “There from the past is overnight study rooms, knocking are thirty stations that have admittance into the library. down walls in between some pretty sophisticated Starting Sept. 10 there will them, and there will be six software downloaded. Since be a card swipe for students, of them that will seat four to we don’t have night classes faculty and staff to enter the six people,” said Crumrin. and the library is a 24/5 it library beginning at mid- “The library wants to pro- allows the perfect opportunight. The library wants to vide more useful spaces for nity for students to come in ensure everyone’s safety by students as they study.” and work in the Mac Lab.” only allowing admittance These new group study after swiping IDs. Recently, the library areas will be available on a moved the Music Listening Starting in October, more first come first serve basis.

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Many of Indiana State University’s student organizations take pride in their community service projects. One organization in particular held a philanthropy event to help Flint, Michigan. Members of Alpha Phi Alpha worked with some members of the fraternity’s chapter in Flint to benefit those affected by the water crisis.

Milton McClain, a senior studying finance and president of ISU’s chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha, gives back to community with his fraternity on a regular basis.

“We do a lot of service,” said McClain. “We try to do community service every week.”

When they decided to organize a water drive to help Flint, McClain and the other members of Alpha Phi Alpha connected with some Alphas with whom they had networked at a regional conference last April.

“I had a chance to meet Alphas that are out of Flint, Michigan,” said McClain. “We reached out to the members of Alpha from Flint and told them that we wanted to hold a water drive. They helped us out a lot.”

The members of the fraternity used social media, emails and information tables in the Hulman Memorial Student Union to let the students of ISU know about the water drive.

“We collected over 250 cases of water, over 30 water filters and over 50 one gallon jugs of water,” said McClain. “We also raised $400 in cash to go and buy water.”

Once they reached the drop off point, members of the fraternity handed out water to families in need.

“It felt good to give back to those who still had bad water after four years,” said McClain, “just going up there myself and actually giving the water to those families and seeing how they actually need the water and how bad they wanted it.”

Jaylin Banks, a student studying physical therapy and a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, explained how positive it was to see the students of ISU come together and donate to this cause.

“It’s good to see everyone come together for a greater cause,” said Banks. “The campus is kind of divided, but when people are in need, I like how everyone comes together and works together to make something happen.”

According to Banks, there were a few other causes that the fraternity considered helping, but he is glad to be working on this project.

“It’s important to me because it’s been about four years since the first account of lead in [Flint’s] water, and the problem is still not fixed,” said Banks.

Banks hopes to do more community service projects similar to this in the future, and has helped the fraternity start planning their next fundraiser.

“We are planning on doing [a fundraiser] for the hurricane that is going to hit Hawaii soon,” said Banks. “We already started on blueprinting for that, we just have to vote on it to make sure everybody wants to go forward with it.”

Alpha Phi Alpha looks forward to reaching out to and helping other communities in need.

Mac Miller, confessional rapper who kept ties to underground scene, dies at 26 August Brown

Los Angeles Times

Mac Miller, the rapper whose confessional, introspective albums topped the Billboard charts and made him a favorite of pop and the underground alike, has died. He was 26.

On Friday, authorities responded to a 911 call reporting a suspected drug overdose at Miller’s San Fernando Valley home around noon. Miller was pronounced dead at the scene.

Miller, born Malcolm James McCormick, was a rare figure in contemporary hip-hop, equally comfortable accompanying major pop acts and hard-edged hip-hop peers while crafting his own chart-topping, conceptual LPs that often confronted his drug use and depression.

Miller, who grew up in Pittsburgh, vaulted to fame in 2011 with the release of his debut studio LP, “Blue Slide Park,” which topped the Billboard album charts — the first independently released debut to do so in more than 15 years.

The album made him a pop star, and he collaborated with mainstream acts like Maroon 5 and his former girlfriend Ariana Grande.

But he never lost his connections and credibility in underground hip-hop. He produced tracks (under the name Larry Fisherman) and collaborated on records

with respected emcees like Earl Sweatshirt, Schoolboy Q and Vince Staples. As Miller’s career advanced and vision grew, his subsequent work turned more complex and vulnerable.

On his 2014 mixtape “Faces,” Miller rapped with disarming candor about his substance abuse issues. “I give no … when I go nuts / Cause I smoke dust, overdosed on the sofa, dead” he sang on “Polo Jeans,” adding “just went through a half-ounce of coke / Blood pouring all out my nose / Don’t tell my mom I got a drug problem.”

Miller’s substance abuse issues remained a burden throughout his career’s ascent, however. In May, Miller was arrested and charged with DUI after crashing his car.

Grande asked him on Twitter to “Pls take care of yourself ” after his arrest.

But while even younger acts like Lil Peep and XXXTentacion made a bleak universe out of their addictions and depression, Miller’s recent work often sparkled with inventiveness and optimism as well. His 2016 album “The Divine Feminine” showcased his growing ambitions as a vocalist and his curiosity as a lyricist.

His skills as a producer and arranger were sharpening, with Miller writing his own brass arrangements and playing a variety of instruments on his records. He wrote and arranged alongside jazz virtuoso Thundercat, superproducers Jon Brion and Flying Lotus and pop-R&B hero Devonte Hynes.

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Malcom James McCormick, AKA Mac Miller, onstage at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., on April 14, 2017. Miller was found dead inside his LA home Friday Sept. 7, 2018

Yet he struggled with his perception as an artist spiraling out of control. In a profile in New York Magazine published days before his death, Miller said that “it just seems exhausting to always be battling something … to always be battling for what you think your image is supposed to be. You’re never going to be able to get anything across. It’s never gonna be the real … No one’s gonna ever really know me.”

His most recent album, “Swimming,” was released to positive reviews on Aug. 3.

On his hit “Self Care” from that album, he addressed his addictions and arrest with uncommon gentleness. “It must be nice up above the lights / And what a lovely life that I made, yeah / I know that feelin’ like it’s in my family tree, yeah … Tell them they can take that b- elsewhere / Self care, we gonna be good.”

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Trump waives damage claims against Stormy Daniels in new fallout from illegal payoff Michael Finnegan Los Angeles Times (TNS) President Donald Trump has agreed to give up his right to pursue millions of dollars in damages against Stormy Daniels in a move to kill litigation over an illegal payoff to the adult-film star.

The maneuver marks a sharp reversal for Trump. His legal team sought earlier to pull Daniels into an arbitration that could have forced her to pay the president more than $20 million for breaking a nondisclosure agreement over her claim of a sexual liaison with Trump in 2006. Trump has denied the affair.

The switch in tactics, disclosed late Saturday by a Trump attorney, highlights the legal trouble faced by the president and his private business, the Trump Organization, as federal prosecutors continue to investigate the $130,000 in hush money that Daniels received 12 days before the November 2016 election.

Michael Cohen, who was executive vice president of the Trump Organization when he orchestrated the deal, told a federal judge last month that Trump directed him to make the payoff in an attempt to influence the election. Cohen also agreed

Friday to give up any right to damages against Daniels under the nondisclosure agreement.

Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, is suing Trump and Cohen to void the nondisclosure pact, saying it’s invalid because Trump never signed it.

“Mr. Trump hereby stipulates that he does not, and will not, contest Ms. Clifford’s assertion that the Settlement Agreement was never formed, or in the alternative, should be rescinded,” the president’s lawyer, Charles Harder, told Daniels’ attorney Michael Avenatti in a letter Saturday.

As a result, Trump’s lawyer argued, Daniels should drop her lawsuit. Lawyers for Trump, Cohen and Daniels are set to gather Sept. 24 for a hearing on the case before District Judge S. James Otero in Los Angeles federal court.

Avenatti, who is exploring a run for the Democratic presidential nomination, said Trump’s relinquishing of his rights under the confidentiality deal — and Cohen’s similar move — would not put a stop to her lawsuit.

“In light of the criminal charges, Trump is doing everything he can to avoid a deposition by me,” Avenatti said by email.

Cohen, Trump’s former longtime fixer and personal attorney, pleaded guilty last month to eight felonies, including one for paying off Daniels “at the request and suggestion” of an unidentified person in the Trump campaign.

Cohen’s admission that he broke the law by paying Daniels through a shell company he set up just before the election mirrors allegations made in January by the nonpartisan ethics group Common Cause in a complaint to the Justice Department after the Wall Street Journal broke the story of the hush money.

Cohen’s guilty plea effectively “obliterates any claim by Donald Trump to damages” from Daniels, said Paul S. Ryan, vice president of policy and litigation at Common Cause.

One of Daniels’ arguments in her lawsuit is that the nondisclosure pact is void because its purpose was illegal.

Common Cause has also accused the Trump Organization of wrongdoing in its handling of the payoff to Daniels.

“All the information, as it’s trickled out, has only further confirmed our suspicion that the Trump Organization violated campaign finance laws, and maybe other laws too,” Ryan said.

To reimburse Cohen for the $130,000 payoff, two Trump Organization executives approved invoices that disguised the money as legal fees, prosecutors disclosed in charging documents.

It was a Trump Organization lawyer, Jill A. Martin, who initiated a Los Angeles arbitration proceeding against Daniels in February on behalf of Cohen’s shell company, Essential Consultants.

Martin, based at Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., accused Daniels of breaking her nondisclosure agreement and won a secret restraining order from an arbitrator to muzzle Daniels.

The porn actress filed her lawsuit days later. Soon after that, she shared details of her alleged sexual encounter with Trump in an interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes.”

The Trump Organization did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment.

On Friday, Cohen asked Daniels to give back the $130,000. His lawyer, Brent Blakely, declined to comment on whether Cohen’s shell company would return any money from Daniels to the Trump Organization.

Kavanaugh witnesses frame upcoming Man’s door was unlocked, lights were off when officer confirmation debate mistook his apartment for hers, official says

Todd Ruger CQ-Roll Call(TNS)

WASHINGTON — As the Senate continues its processing of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, it does so in the shadow of the last day of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing, with strikingly different depictions of the appeals court judge on display.

Democrats brought a series of emotional witnesses to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday to sound more warnings about what Kavanaugh would mean for the country’s legal landscape, while witnesses invited by Republicans gave straightforward descriptions of an appeals court judge with the credentials to join the high court.

The messages reflect what senators are likely to argue as the Senate considers his confirmation in the next few weeks.

On the last day of what had been a contentious four-day confirmation hearing, 13-year-old Jackson Corbin of Pennsylvania described the genetic condition he and his brother have. He told the senators that to afford their care they need justices on the Supreme Court who will save the 2010 health care law and its provisions on pre-existing conditions.

“The decisions you are making today will affect my generation’s ability to have access to affordable health care,” Corbin said.

And Aalayah Eastmond, a senior at a Parkland, Fla., high school where a shooter killed 17 people in February, described how she shielded herself with the lifeless body of another stu-

Jennifer Emily The Dallas Morning News (TNS)

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Supreme Court Associate Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Sept.

5, 2018.

dent during the shooting, and how the incident still affects her.

Eastmond, like committee Democrats, says Kavanaugh’s past decisions indicate he would strike down gun control laws.

“As you make your final decision, think about it as if you had to justify and defend your choice to those who we lost to gun violence,” Eastmond told the senators.

The testimony that also touched on environmental concerns, abortion access, the rights of disabled adults and contraception underscored the sharp partisan divide over the nomination of Kavanaugh, who has been a reliably conservative judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for

the District of Columbia Circuit.

Those divisions were revealed during a four-day confirmation hearing often peppered with protests from both Democratic committee members and the audience.

Kavanaugh appears on track to win confirmation. The committee expects to vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination Sept. 20, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., restated Friday that he expected to hold a confirmation vote before Oct. 1.

The 51-49 advantage for Republicans in the Senate means Democrats would need help to stop the nomination.

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The Dallas police officer who killed 26-year-old Botham Jean in his own apartment got inside because the door wasn’t locked, a law enforcement official said Sunday.

Officer Amber Guyger had just ended a 15-hour shift when she parked on the wrong level of the South Side Flats garage — the fourth floor instead of the third, where she lived, according to the official who has direct knowledge of the case but is not authorized to discuss it publicly.

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings also said Sunday that Guyger parked on the wrong floor.

She went to the door she thought was hers but was one floor too high. The four floors of the South Side Flats in the Cedars look the same, with concrete floors and tan doors. A light fixture to the side of each door displays the apartment number.

Guyger, 30, was arrested Sunday on a manslaughter charge and was booked into the Kaufman County Jail. The Texas Rangers are investigating the case at the request of Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall. In the last year, juries have sentenced two police officers in Dallas County to prison time after convicting them of murder.

The night of the shooting, Guyger didn’t notice that Jean’s door had a red doormat in front of it, the official said. Her en-

trance didn’t have one.

Guyger, who was still in uniform, put her key in the door, which was unlocked, and the door opened, the official said.

The lights were out. She saw a figure in the darkness and thought her apartment was being burglarized, the official said. Guyger pulled her gun and fired twice.

When she turned on the lights, she realized she was in the wrong apartment. Jean, who worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers, was shot once in the chest.

Authorities have said Guyger and Jean, a native of Saint Lucia in the Caribbean, did not know each other. Guyger, a nearly fiveyear veteran of the Police Department, had recently moved into the complex.

Guyger called 911 crying, the official said. She repeatedly said, “I thought it was my apartment” and apologized to Jean.

“I’m so sorry,” she can be heard saying on the recording of the 911 call, the official said. Police arrived within four minutes.

A video taken by someone at the apartment complex shows Guyger in the hallway crying and pacing with a phone to her ear.

The video shows paramedics rushing by with Jean on a stretcher as a paramedic kneels on top of him, performing chest compressions.

Jean, who is remembered as someone who “loved mankind,” was pronounced dead at Baylor University Medical Center.

California bill restricting plastic straws goes to governor

Patrick McGreevy Los Angeles Times (TNS)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is poised to become the first state to restrict the distribution of plastic straws at restaurants under a bill approved Thursday by lawmakers, capturing the attention of environmentalists nationwide who hope the idea, like many with origins in the Golden State, will spread across the nation.

The legislation, which would prohibit full-service, dine-in restaurants from offering plastic straws to customers unless they are requested, passed on a 45-20 vote by the Assembly and now goes to Gov. Jerry Brown for his signature.

Although the bill stops short of an outright ban, environmentalists say they expect it will again make the state — which represents the world’s fifth-largest economy — a trendsetter.

Its approval is the latest of several actions by California to re-

duce plastic pollution. In 2014, Brown signed into law a ban on single-use plastic bags at food markets, liquor stores and pharmacies. Voters rejected an effort by the bag industry to repeal that law two years later. In 2015, California lawmakers voted to ban the sale of personal care products that contain plastic microbeads starting in 2020.

Ban backers including the bill’s author, Democratic Assemblyman Ian Calderon, say oceans, rivers and other areas of the environment have been harmed by discarded plastic. Calderon noted that the California Coastal Commission has recorded roughly 835,000 straws and stirrers picked up between 1988 and 2014 during beach cleanups and other pollution reduction campaigns.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that Americans disposed of more than 33 million tons of plastic in 2014, most of which was not recycled. Technomic, a marketing analysis company that watches

the food service industry, recently issued a study that estimated Americans use 172 million straws each day.

“Plastic pollution continues to pose a significant threat to our oceans, our waterways and our landfills,” Calderon told his colleagues Thursday. “Reducing consumer demand for plastic straws can help decrease plastic pollution.”

The measure drew opposition from Republican lawmakers, including Assemblyman Matthew Harper of Huntington Beach, who said restricting straws may add more plastic to the waste stream as businesses use strawless lids made of plastic, or paper straws that he said can come wrapped in plastic.

“This is a feel-good movement to ban straws that actually does little to clean up the environment,” Harper said. “California needs to stop being the nanny state that … tells restaurants how to run their businesses.”

Some environmentalists would like to see the state go further.

Calderon’s bill exempts fast-food or “quick-service” restaurants, where the bulk of plastic straws are provided. Blake Kopcho of the Arizona-based Center for Biological Diversity said the state should require all straws to be made of biodegradable material.

The bill was opposed in the Senate by Republicans, including Sen. Ted Gaines, who worried about the negative impact on businesses.

“I’m just questioning the need for the legislation, quite frankly,” Gaines said during floor debate.

“I think the market, given time, will come up with alternatives.”

Brown generally supports environmental legislation but has not said how he will act on the straw bill.

The measure would require full-service restaurants that primarily serve food to offer plastic straws only to customers who request them. It allows restaurants to offer paper or metal alternatives, and permits customers to bring their own plastic straws to the restaurants.

Calderon said plastic waste is harmful to marine animals, contaminates the human food supply and can lead to contamination of drinking water.

(EDITORS: BEGIN OPTIONAL TRIM) One study by the University of California, Davis researchers found that 25 percent of fish from markets in California and Indonesia contained plastic debris, Calderon said.

“It’s critical that we reduce the negative effects of plastic pollution,” the legislator said. “By removing the default behavior of providing straws with every drink, consumers have an opportunity to make a deliberate, small change that will lessen the harmful impacts of single-use plastic straws in our environment.”

(END OPTIONAL TRIM) If Brown signs the bill, California would follow the lead of cities such as Malibu, Davis, Alameda, Carmel, San Luis Obispo, Manhattan Beach, Oakland and

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indianastatesman.com DEBATE FROM PAGE 2 Among those who praised Kavanaugh on Friday were the American Bar Association evaluators, who said they “would have been hard pressed to come to any other conclusion” than to give Kavanaugh their highest rating, unanimously well-qualified.

Theodore Olson, a top appellate litigator who has known Kavanaugh for two decades and argued in front of Kavanaugh as well as 20 different Supreme Court justices, said lawyers and Americans can’t expect justices to always agree with positions they prefer.

“But we can aspire to a judiciary that will be prepared, perceptive, competent, open-minded, honest and respectful. That is the jurist that is Brett Kavanaugh,” Olson said. “He is the kind of person and judge that we expect and deserve on the Supreme Court.”

Rep. Cedric L. Richmond, D-La., the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, told the committee that Kavanaugh’s approach to the law

would endanger voting rights, affirmative action, abortion access, criminal law and health care.

Richmond said Kavanaugh questions key legal precedents that have benefited the black community, and his confirmation would “fortify a generation of destructive conservative ideology at a time when several historically significant legal challenges will come before the high court.”

Akhil Reed Amar, a constitutional law professor at Yale University, testified that Kavanaugh was “unquestionably” qualified and gave Democrats a warning of his own when it came to the confirmation fight in the weeks ahead.

“Distinguished Democrats: Don’t be mad; be smart, and be careful what you wish for,” Amar said.

“Our party controls neither the White House nor the Senate. If you torpedo Kavanaugh, you’ll likely end up with someone worse — less brilliant, less constitutionally knowledgeable, less studious, less open-minded, less good for America.”

LIBRARY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 access for students, especially since the Fine Arts building is under renovation,” said Crumrin. “We are very excited to pull that whole collection and provide better access to it.”

The third floor music library will now be the main “quiet floor” of the library.

Many of these new transitions have been made from requests upon students and wanting more space and opportunities to be able to study independently along with in groups.

Tiarra Taylor, a junior, shared some of her

thoughts on the new things the library has to offer.

“I am glad to see the library make changes according to what students need most,” said Taylor.

“The new swipe system will allow us to feel safe during the midnight hours, knowing that the library will be regulating who comes in after hours.”

These updated components to the Cunningham Memorial Library have enhanced the opportunities available to the students, faculty and staff here at Indiana State University.

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Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018 • Page 3 BILL FROM PAGE 2 Berkeley that adopted policies either regulating or banning plastic straws.

Politically powerful groups that traditionally challenge new state regulations on businesses have refrained from opposing the bill, removing obstacles to its movement through the Legislature. Two of the most prominent, the California Restaurant Association and the California Chamber of Commerce, have remained on the sidelines.

“We haven’t taken a position because our members do not consider this a mandate,” said Denise Davis, a vice president for the chamber.

Even the Plastics Industry Association, which has voiced concerns about similar proposals in the past, is not fighting Calderon’s bill.

“While we would prefer to work with policymakers to enact more comprehensive solutions to the chal-

lenges facing waste management and recycling, we do not oppose straws-upon-request legislation as long as it allows customers to choose a plastic straw if they want or need one,” the group said this week in a written statement.

A legislative analysis hints at why there may be a lack of opposition, except from a few local chambers of commerce: The first and second violations would result only in warnings, while offenders could face fines of $25 a day for subsequent violations.

The bill, with its minimal penalties, might not achieve a sizable reduction in the number of plastic straws in California — in part because of its exclusion of fast-food restaurants, according to a bill analysis from legislative staff.

“If anything, it sets the stage to make it more difficult to ban single-use plastic items,” the analysis warns, saying the bill would set a precedent for fast-food restaurants to be excluded from future bans.

Still, supporters of the restriction on straws hope it will have the same educational effect as the state’s ban on restaurants’ serving water unless requested during the 2015 drought, which forced many Californians to think about the need to conserve water.

The national group Defenders of Wildlife is among those urging California to take the lead on the straws issue, said Kim Delfino, the organization’s California program director.

“We think that if California adopts this innovative approach to reducing plastic pollution, other states will see the benefits to the environment and the cost savings for businesses and follow in our footsteps,” Delfino said.

Some food and drink businesses already have moved voluntarily to limit the use of plastic straws. Starbucks Corp. said last month that it would eliminate single-use plastic straws from all of its locations within two years.

Trump plan could prolong lives of coal plants and their smog Jennifer A. Dlouhy Bloomberg News (TNS) WASHINGTON — Tucked inside the Trump administration’s plan to ease carbon dioxide limits is a change that could breathe new life into scores of aging coal power plants.

Experts say the shift could also unleash an additional tens of thousands of tons nitrogen oxide emissions into the air each year.

The proposal would permit upgrades to old power plants without triggering an existing legal requirement to install costly pollution control systems at the same time. The upgrades could extend the lives of those plants by making them more reliable or cheaper to run.

For coal power plant owners, “this proposal seems to want to let them have their cake and eat it too: to improve their efficiency, run more often and not trigger” the requirements, said Andres Restrepo, a staff attorney with the Sierra Club.

More than a third of American coal-fired units lack modern controls to pare smog-forming nitrogen oxide emissions, according to a Bloomberg News review of Environmental Protection Agency data.

Some of those plants went into operation in the 1950s and 1960s, predating advanced catalytic-reduction equipment and regu-

latory requirements compelling its use.

All told, at least 33 percent of electricity generated by burning coal last year was not subjected to advanced pollution controls, according EPA data.

For years, owners of those aging facilities have faced a major challenge: The plants might benefit from equipment replacements and upgrades that would make them more reliable and less costly to run — and better able to compete with natural gasfired units. Yet any change that would bolster nitrogen oxide emissions by 40 tons a year — perhaps just because the plants would run more as a result of the upgrades — would also trigger requirements to install modern controls to keep those pollutants at bay.

President Donald Trump’s EPA is offering a revision as part of its proposal to replace an Obama administration regulation slashing carbon dioxide emissions across the nation’s electric grid with modest requirements for efficiency upgrades at individual power plants.

At issue is the federal government’s so-called New Source Review program, which allows power plants, refineries, factories and other industrial facilities to keep running with existing pollution-control equipment — even if it has become outdated — so the systems don’t constantly need upgrades.

Under the New Source Review program, requirements for better pollution-control systems are triggered whenever the sites undergo construction, renovations or some operational changes expected to significantly boost annual emissions.

The Trump administration’s proposed changes would make it harder to trigger the requirement by adding an additional test: insisting that emissions also go up on a short-term, hourly basis — in addition to the annual surge.

“That’s a test designed to never be triggered,” said John Walke, clean air director at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “This has been the longstanding dream of coal power plant lawyers and lobbyists dating to at least the late ’70s.”

A similar effort was proposed by the EPA under President George W. Bush, but it was ultimately abandoned in the waning years of his administration.

Representatives of the EPA did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.

But Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation Bill Wehrum told reporters Tuesday that the short-term, rate-based test aligns the New Source Review program with other EPA standards. The changes, which would be allowed just for power plants, would also enable the kind of efficiency upgrades envisioned

under the Trump administration’s proposed carbon dioxide requirements, Wehrum said.

It’s not clear how many coal power plant owners might take advantage of the opening to improve the facilities, amid stiff competition from cheap natural gas, and with no hint of price relief on the horizon.

“With gas prices low, coal plants are marginally competitive as it is,” said Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Kit Konolige.

Still, some U.S. plant owners could take advantage of the shift.

“At this time, there is limited — but real — interest in investing in existing coal generation in the U.S.,” said Stephen Munro, an analyst with Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

“Potential acquirers have identified specific plants where selling coal-fired power can produce attractive returns due to the plant’s location, generation efficiency and favorable fuel-supply terms.”

The effect of the regulatory change would depend heavily on the price of natural gas, the chief competitor to coal power, said Brian Potts, an energy and environmental lawyer and partner at Perkins Coie.

“If gas prices increase and coal gets back in the money,” Potts said, “this could be a big deal.”

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FEATURES ‘Kidding’: Jim Carrey, kids’ shows, heartbreak and

Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018

healing collide in Showtime comedy

Greg Braxton

Los Angeles Times

Once upon a time in a smaller, more innocent TV landscape far, far away, colorful and warm adult personalities appeared in the living rooms of kids all around the country, offering up fun and games while also providing wisdom and guidance on how to get along with others and obey their parents.

With the help of sidekicks, puppets and bright surroundings, a roster that included Captain Kangaroo, Mister Rogers, Shari Lewis, Bozo the Clown and a long line of Romper Room hosts broke through the fourth wall, addressing their young viewers as if they were in the same room.

During their shows, Rogers, Lewis and the rest never betrayed any sign of personal problems or angst. But what would have happened if one of them had been overwhelmed by a personal tragedy or started spiraling out of control? What would the kids have seen if Mister Rogers had just lost it?

That intriguing idea is at the core of “Kidding,” Showtime’s new series that premiered Sunday and stars Jim Carrey as Jeff Piccirillo, aka Jeff Pickles, aka Mr. Pickles. Though his marriage and his sanity are unraveling after the loss of a child, Jeff is propelling forward with a determined positivity, trying to make the best of an unspeakably heartbreaking situation. His bosses, meanwhile, are focused on making sure Mr. Pickles’ multimillion-dollar merchandising empire isn’t negatively affected by the tragedy.

Oh, and it’s a comedy.

The series was created by Dave Holstein, who was a writer-producer on Showtime’s “Weeds.” Holstein said the driving dynamic of the show, in addition to humor, is emotion.

“We wanted to have a show with a real emotional event, and show that optimism is a lot better than cynicism,” he said by phone.

“It’s very subversive in the cable universe, showing a character who is trying to stay good in the middle of a dark world.”

“Jeff knows more than anyone else that he is going to get through, even though everyone else is saying he’s off the rails,” Carrey explained in a recent interview at a Beverly Hills hotel. “Healing is happening. He’s down on his knees screaming. That’s a start.

That’s the feeling of authenticity.”

It’s the first series regular role for Carrey after his breakout more than 20 years ago in Fox’s groundbreaking sketch comedy show “In Living Color,” which led to a wildly successful film career that included blockbusters such as “The Mask,” “Dumb and Dumber” and two films featuring wacky detective Ace Ventura.

Michel Gondry, the visionary director of 2004’s “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” which starred Carrey and Kate Jim Carrey in ’Kidding” Winslett, directed several episodes of the got angry. I wondered what would happen series and is also an executive producer. The if he did? What would it take to break him?” flashy cast includes Frank Langella (“The Holstein said he wrote the Mr. Pickles Americans”), Catherine Keener (“Get Out”) character with Carrey in mind. and Judy Greer (“Jurassic World”).

“No other actor could have played this Gondry said in an email that his main ob- role,” he said. “I really couldn’t think of anyjective in approaching the delicate material one else. Jim brings a nostalgia with him. In was to “take Jim Carrey and Jeff Pickles from the ‘90s, he represented joy and humor.” the pages, and bring Jim towards Mr. PickAs for Carrey, “Kidding” has come along les and Mr. Pickles towards Jim so they can at a time in his life when he has achieved an meet in the middle, so they would become inner serenity following some years that inone person. Then when this person took cluded some personal upheavals. With the life, thanks to the talent of Jim and Dave exception of being an executive producer Holstein, I could place him into all the situa- on Showtime’s stand-up comedy series, “I’m tions, and emotions of the story.”

Dying Up Here,” he has mostly appeared in The series arrives on the heels of “Won’t smaller-scale projects and has kept a low You Be My Neighbor?” an insightful doc- profile, both on-and off-screen. umentary about Fred Rogers, a.k.a. Mister Now he says he is filled with energy and Rogers, the late host of public television’s focus.

“Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” The film, “Creativity is spilling out all over,” he dewhich was a box-office success, dove behind clared. the facade of the man who always greeted He’s drawing political cartoons fueled by his wee viewers with a warm smile and the his strong hostility toward the Trump adinviting song “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” ministration. He’s writing a book. He’s also Mister Rogers was a key inspiration be- an Emmy nominee for his work in the dochind the show, said Holstein, who began umentary “Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond,” writing a script after wrapping “Weeds” in which documents his all-consuming perfor2012. mance as comedian Andy Kaufman in the “I was fascinated by these clips of Mis- 1999 biopic “Man on the Moon.” ter Rogers on TV and how he never broke And he’s particularly excited by “Kidding” character,” Holstein said. “I started thinking — he’s one of the executive producers. Reabout it, thinking about how the guy never uniting with Gondry was an extra bonus.

Swamp Dogg says nobody bought his last album.

So he took a chance with his new one

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“Kidding” is actually two shows in one.

One show depicts the children’s show hosted

by Mr. Pickles, a program so enchanting that even movie tough guy Danny Trejo melts in his presence. The other show revolves around Jeff ’s solitary lifestyle and awkward attempts to connect with his estranged wife, Jill (Greer), and surviving son, Will (Cole Allen).

(Eagle-eyed viewers may spot a few “Easter eggs”: “In Living Color” alum T’Keyah Crystal Keymah and Kelly Coffield Park have cameos in the first two episodes.)

Despite the darkness of some of the themes in “Kidding,” Greer said she found the series uplifting.

“When I first read the pilot, I thought it was really beautiful,” she said by phone. “I had never seen anything like it. The way that Jeff Pickles is still capable of finding love and beauty in spite of the horrific situation we find him in, I just found that really positive.”

Asked what he hopes audiences get from “Kidding,” Gondry said he hopes they will become engaged by Jeff ’s attempts to rebuild his life and connect to the world.

“I want them to follow Jeff Pickles and constantly be torn if he’s right or if he’s wrong,” he said.

Henry Cavil in The White Wolf

Mikael Wood

Los Angeles Times

NORTHRIDGE, Calif. — From the outside, not much distinguishes Jerry Williams Jr.’s ranch-style home from those around it on a quiet suburban street in Northridge.

Step through the front door, though, and it’s apparent that somebody unusual lives here.

There’s the entryway lined with gold and platinum records. There’s the cozy bedroom into which a white grand piano has been squeezed. And out back there’s the swimming pool, empty of all but a few inches of murky water, with a painting on the bottom depicting Williams astride an enormous white rat.

The image will be familiar to fans of Williams’ alter ego, the funk eccentric Swamp Dogg, who put it on the cover of his cult-favorite 1971 album “Rat On!” Back then, this skilled singer and pianist was looking to rebrand himself after years as a journeyman R&B act and producer for the likes of Gene Pitney (“She’s a Heartbreaker”) and Doris Duke (“To the Other Woman [I’m the Other Woman]”).

“Total Destruction to Your Mind,” which came out in 1970, announced the arrival of an outspoken sonic adventurer; “Rat On!” doubled down on Swamp Dogg’s outre vision with a heartfelt provocation called “God Bless America — for What?”

Now, at age 76, Williams is taking another hard left with “Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune,” a surprising new album that maintains his experimental streak even as it demonstrates his perseverance in an unforgiving business.

A PROCESSED SOUND Released Friday, the record was produced by Ryan Olson of the Minneapolis synth-pop band Poliça and features input

by Olson’s frequent collaborator Justin Vernon of Bon Iver. And as its title promises, it leans heavily on the vocal-processing software made famous by T-Pain (in hits like “Buy U a Drank”) and Kanye West (on his album “808s & Heartbreak”).

The strangely touching result, laced with electronic bleeps and beats that make Williams sound like a bummed-out android, represents a radical reframing of the psychedelic Swamp Dogg style.

“Yeah, I suppose it does,” Williams acknowledged on a recent afternoon. “I like it, though. It’s the best thing I’ve done since the ’70s.”

Sitting in his blue-carpeted living room next to a vintage jukebox stocked with tunes he wrote or produced — including Johnny Paycheck’s “She’s All I Got” and “In Between Tears” by Irma Thomas — Williams said the album grew out of a typically wacky impulse: What would happen if, like so many veteran singers, he made an old-school crooner’s album — but warped

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Swamp Dogg, aka Jerry Williams Jr., performs “Bon Iver Presents John Prine & The American Songbook” during the Eaux Claires Music Festival on June 16, 2017 in Eau Claire, Wis.

the vocal performances in the manner of Zapp and George Clinton?

“Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune” opens with a rendition of “Answer Me, My Love,” the winsome ballad popularized by Nat King Cole, and closes with a take on Hoagy Carmichael’s indelible “Stardust”; in between are originals about romance and loneliness and the hard luck of a man trying to make a buck.

Each is as solidly built as you’d expect from someone who estimates he’s written nearly 2,000 songs. Yet the startling production takes the music far away from the land of “So-and-So Sings the Great American Songbook.”

Olson said Williams encouraged him to go as wild as he wanted with his arrangements, which he created out of material Williams had originally recorded at home.

(The two met when Williams approached Olson about possibly reissuing an old record through Olson’s label, Totally Gross National Product.)

“I warned Swamp — I was like, ‘This is kind of messed up,’” the producer said.

“But I sent it back and he was all for it: ‘This is insane and I love it.’”

For all the artistic daring of their collaboration, Williams was forthright about why he sought out Olson and Vernon to oversee “Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune,” and that’s the clear-cut commercial success the men have enjoyed with the Grammy-winning Bon Iver.

“He sold way over a million units on his first album,” Williams said of Vernon’s 2007 debut under the Bon Iver name. “So I said, ‘He’s got something going on, and I want some of it.’”

Asked whether he worried that the new album’s highly doctored sound might turn off fans accustomed to a more organic approach, Williams scoffed.

“My last album sold 4,000,” he replied. “I

ain’t got no people to turn off.”

THE NUMBERS GUY Williams’ close attention to numbers makes sense for a guy with decades’ worth of stories about all the times he’s been ripped off in the record industry.

Among them, in his view, is the lousy deal he got when 50 Cent sampled an old track of his a few years back: a measly $25,000 up front, he said, with no residuals. (Having learned his lesson, he claims he asked for a 10-cent royalty on each record sold when Drake’s team recently tried to clear a sample — a request he’s pretty sure scared off the Canadian rapper.)

Still, you have to scratch your head at some of Williams’ reasoning. Setting aside its quality — and of course that its back story has led to publicity like the article you’re reading — “Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune” is an improbable blockbuster.

From anyone else, an album this weird would represent a passion project, not a cash grab.

In a way, though, Williams’ self-belief seems key to the whole over-the-top Swamp Dogg enterprise. Without it, it’s hard to imagine how he ever would’ve climbed on that giant white rat, which here we are still talking about nearly half a century later.

At his house, where a small dog slept at his feet — the dog’s name is Lowe because Williams’ granddaughter “either found him or stole him” in front of a Lowe’s store — the singer grew uncharacteristically soft as he remembered how his wife and longtime manager, Yvonne, showed him the ropes of Swamp Dogg Inc. before her death in 2003.

“She was laying in the hospital, had me bring her the books saying what we owe,” he recalled quietly. “She said, ‘Look, you

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The White Wolf has been cast. Netflix’s adaptation of “The Witcher” has its leading man in the form of Henry Cavill.

The show’s showrunner, Lauren Hissrich, spoke on Twitter about the casting of Cavill. “He was my first meeting. I didn’t have writers or scripts yet – just a greenlight and a lot of passion,” said Hissrich. “That was four months ago, and I’ve never forgotten the passion he brought.”

Cavill has also received praise from the man who voiced Geralt in “The Witcher” video game series, Doug Cockle. “People keep asking... so... let me go on record saying I think that #HenryCavill will do a great job as #GeraltOfRivia,” Cockle said on Twitter. “He’ll make it his own of course, as well he should, and I can’t wait to see what @LHissrich and the whole @ netflix team create. It’s gonna be #Magic.”

“This will be Cavill’s first series regular TV role since his time on The Tudors from 2007-2010,” Laura Prudom said in an article for IGN. Cavill has also portrayed Superman in the most recent Superman films and Justice League.

Cavill will be leading the cast for this adaption of a series of novels by Andrzej Sapkowski and video games by CD Project Red as Geralt. Geralt is a witcher, a member of a guild of genetically mutated monster hunters. The series takes place in a sprawling fantasy world filled with friends, lovers and plenty of enemies for a witcher. With fiction as deep as “The Witcher”, Hissrich and Netflix have multiple directions to take the story and methods in which to tell the story.

The big challenge here is finding a way to work within the existing canon of the franchise and finding a way to tell the story they want to tell.

Now that it has come out that Cavill will be taking the lead role in the show, it would not be surprising to see more information about this show trickle out until its release. The eight episode first season of Netflix’s adaptation of “The Witcher” is set for a 2019 release.

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Jennifer Garner returns to action with vengeance thriller ‘Peppermint’ Sonaiya Kelley

Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — During a fight scene in the newly released action-thriller “Peppermint,” Jennifer Garner and a cadre of bad guys fall face first into Skid Row’s notoriously filthy streets.

“There were two smushed rats right next to us,” the actress recalled with a laugh.

“Squished, dead rats. (The film crew) was like, ‘We cleaned the streets. Don’t worry, you can fall face first.’ And then we did and they were like, ‘Oops, sorry!’”

“Peppermint” stars Garner as a woman bent on revenge after her husband and daughter are gunned down in front of her.

Riley North, a suburban soccer mom turned vigilante, marks the actress’ first action role since ABC’s spy drama “Alias” went off the air in 2006.

Garner says she’s been considering a return to action for a long time.

“There’s this whole skill set that I had developed and hadn’t used in all this time,” she said. “I just felt ready for it.”

In addition to bringing her back to the genre that made her famous, the film also reunited Garner with stunt performer Shauna Duggins, who has been doubling for the actress since the earliest episodes of “Alias.”

“When Jen called about this one, it was like, ‘Wait, hold on. I’ve been waiting for this phone call for 10 years! I’m so excited!’” said Duggins.

The two describe their working relationship as a “weird connection,” with Garner likening it to “meeting a sister at a point in your life.”

“Shauna kind of becomes my director through the action scenes,” she said. “It’s like we’re talking about the character at the same time that we’re talking about what’s going to be a good hit on camera.”

“It’s like going home,” Duggins agreed.

“You’d never meet somebody that will work harder than Jennifer. She will step in and do whatever it takes to make that character.”

The last time the two worked together was on the 2007 action thriller “The Kingdom.”

“Our relationship on set is so special, to have gone this long without working together just felt crazy,” said Garner.

They were both drawn to this film because the plot drives the action, rather than the other way around.

“I love real action instead of an explosion for the sake of an explosion,” said Duggins.

“I love when it tells the story. And that’s what ‘Peppermint’ is.”

THE REAL DEAL “It’s not CGI, it’s us,” Garner agreed. “It’s not in front of a green screen. We actually shot it.”

Despite the close run-in with the rats, Garner says she loved shooting in skid row.

“I like shooting action,” she said. “I mean, I got my ass handed to me a couple of times …“ “Yes, you did,” Duggins chimed in.

“But I like that full expression of emotion and of a scene,” Garner continued. “Action has to be driven by the drama. It’s not like you just stop and do a dance break. Whatever has happened to the character has to be so dramatic and the stakes have to be so high that she has no choice but to start fighting or to pull out a gun.”

“When you watch it, even though she’s killing and hurting people, you’re still rooting for her,” agreed Duggins. “You still want Riley North to win. So the action and training for that had to be that style that’s quick and efficient. It’s not big, pretty, high kicks — it’s getting back to the base.”

Training for the film included three months with personal trainer Simone de la Rue, boxing and Krav Maga before another three months of shooting practice.

“She was at the range training with the guns and switching from handguns to fully automatic and back and forth, pulling them out and re-holstering them,” said Duggins.

“And she went out to the range with the Navy SEALs several times.”

“Five times, yeah,” Garner clarified. “Five whole days.”

“The training was hardcore,” she added.

“It was just plugging myself back into the stunt community that I’d been away from

for so long. Shauna is a stuntwoman, she always stays at this peak level of athleticism.

But for me, I was in good shape, but to go from being just a person in good shape to being at this level is just an enormous amount of work.”

98 percent of the stunts Despite the intensity of training, by Duggins’ estimations, Garner performed 98 percent of her own stunts.

“There are four shots that I saw that weren’t me and I just Tony Rivettie | STXfilms was flat out … I’m too old to Jeff Harlan and Jennifer Garner star in the film “Peppermint.” have to rehab what this would weren’t in,” said Duggins. “You were in evbe,” Garner said. “I’ve lost that erything, and then not only that, but you body sense.”

“But I think also too, there’s just those rare had to learn (fight scenes) and Russian and occasions that you go, ‘She can do it, but is it Japanese. You look back at all the other piecworth it?’” said Duggins. “Because she has es, it’s not just the 15-hour day she shot. It’s to then go do a 10-page dialogue scene after those pieces that aren’t normal for a normal TV show.” that.”

“Right,” agreed Garner. “If you think In a full-circle career moment, Garner will also make her return to television next about ‘Alias,’ it’s so extreme you think, ‘Well, month in Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner’s I could never do that again.’ But this made me feel like, ‘Oh, I could do that.’ And I actu“Camping” on HBO. ally love it.I love when you’re on a set and it EXTREME EXPERIENCE “I always said I would go back to TV be- feels so comfortable and so safe.”

One of the things Garner struggled with cause my happiest experiences and relationships come from ‘Alias,’” said Garner. “But I most in re-acclimating was the pacing of do love the cycle of a movie. My idea of TV television.

“I hadn’t been on a TV show in so long is so extreme because ‘Alias’ was such an extreme experience. I can’t imagine going back I’d really forgotten the pace,” she said. “And the pace of an HBO show doesn’t even come to that as a mom of three.”

She allows that the premium cable sched- close to the pace of ‘Alias.’ I mean, that was ule of “Camping” is a version of TV that’s insane.”

She also found memorizing the extensive more manageable for where she is in life dialogue to be challenging. now.

“You start with a script or two (before “It was the same length as a movie and it was really intense, but I wasn’t in every- filming), but then once you start rolling, thing,” she said. “I had days off where I could you’re given a new script and have eight run because I had a kid graduating from el- pages of dialogue to learn,” she said. “I’d ementary school and I was one of the head forgotten about that muscle. Because when room moms. There was a lot going on. But you’re doing a movie, by the time you get to I love, love, love the excitement of getting a a scene, you’ve worked on it for so long that new script when you have a great group of learning it isn’t that big of a deal. But when you literally have eight or nine pages a day writers.”

“In ‘Alias,’ there wasn’t a scene that you to learn, it was like, ‘Oh, right, that’s a real thing. I have to devote some time to it.’”

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know I’m-a leave you — I got to go.’” Williams said he didn’t believe her. “But she was right.”

Was it hard to pick back up after she died?

“Nah,” he said. “She told me, ‘Don’t let nobody deter you — you’re on the right road.’”

The phone rang; it was Williams’ physical therapist, calling about an appointment to work on a back injury.

He couldn’t come today, Williams said. He had some business he had to attend to.

ernment currently uses three family detention centers with a total of 3,500 beds. They are secured, dormitory-style facilities with shared bathrooms, common areas, play space and rooms for classes. Trump wants to add 15,000 more beds, but that may just be the start; border agents caught 77,674 people migrating as

families in 2016 alone.

It is fundamentally inhumane to incarcerate children — with or without their parents — while immigration courts try to figure out what to do with them. Psychiatrists warn of the damage even from short-term detentions, and some of those who have been held for months have

shown signs of severe emotional distress and post-traumatic stress disorder. So in its obsessive quest to stop migrants from seeking asylum, the Trump administration is willing to, in essence, commit child abuse.

That’s a stain not just on the presidency, but on the nation.

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The Trump administration is back with a new plan to lock up migrant parents and children Los Angeles Times

Of all the appalling things the Trump administration has done, the cruelest has to be arresting and detaining asylum seekers, and separating them from their children. Seeking to deter desperate families from entering the United States by detaining parents for weeks or months apart from their children is so hard-hearted it shocks the conscience. The cruelty has been compounded by ineptitude, as hundreds of migrant children have been stranded in the United States without their parents, who have been deported.

Thankfully, the administration’s callousness has been held in check by a court order left over from President Clinton’s second term. The 1997 settlement agreement in Flores vs. Reno requires, among other things, that children facing deportation be held in detention for no more than 20 days, and in the least restrictive environment possible. Courts later extended the agreement to include families with minors in detention centers. (The government has been sued at least five times for allegedly violating the order.)

Now the Trump administration wants to scrap the agreement entirely by instituting even more draconian regulations that would allow it to detain families with minors indefinitely until their deportation cases are resolved. That’s beyond the pale.

Migrant children seeking permission to remain in the

U.S. should not be detained regardless of whether they have a parent to accompany them in confinement. It’s especially troubling that one of the administration’s stated reasons for doing so is to send a threatening message to other families who might seek asylum in the U.S. from dangerous circumstances in their home countries.

Migrant children seeking permission to remain in the U.S. should not be detained regardless of whether they have a parent to accompany them in confinement.

Of course, the government has the right and duty to set immigration laws and enforce them. And we have a system for that, broken as it might be.

Current U.S. law allows asylum to be granted to people facing persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or “membership in a particular social group.” If immigration courts rule that applicants don’t meet those requirements, or reject appeals by people seeking permission to stay on humanitarian grounds, the government is entirely within its rights to send them to their home countries. But it should not (and may not, under international agreements) incarcerate them — especially when they are children — unless there is good cause to think the migrants are a flight risk or pose a threat to public safety.

Remember, most of these families arrive seeking official

permission to stay, so they have a powerful incentive not to skip their court hearings or break the law: doing so only leads to deportation orders. Advocates argue that most of the aslyum seekers who do miss court dates never received an appearance notice, often because the process takes so long that addresses change and official records don’t catch up. As for public safety, a raft of studies has found that immigrants, regardless of their status, commit crimes at lower rates than native-born Americans.

If no-shows truly are the administration’s concern, it inherited a new Family Case Management Program from the Obama administration that matched eligible asylum-seeking families with housing, healthcare, schooling for the children and legal advice to help navigate the immigration court system.

Families in that program had a 99 percent show-rate for court hearings. But Trump killed it last year.

Under the Flores agreement, the government can hold minors only in state-licensed facilities. But states tend not to license facilities for families, which, the government argues, means that it must release the families while the deportation cases continue.

The new regulations would let the federal government do the licensing of facilities, paving the way for a massive expansion of the detention system. The gov-

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The beginning of the fall semester brings plenty of opportunities to sign up for organizations and attend different events on campus. The simple move is to get involved, whether it’s an organization that sparks your career interests or just one that feeds your hobbies. Whatever it may be, go ahead and get your email on the mailing list. On top of organizations, there are other events such as The Speaker Series and the Homecoming Parade. These are a few reasons why getting involved on campus works to your benefit.

First, networking. Some organizations have connections and may help you move toward certain future goals. The most familiar of such organizations are professional fraternities. Indiana State has a variety of fraternities for members of similar majors, while professional fraternities are geared towards networking.

This gives members the opportunity to meet individuals and build their resumes for graduate school or future careers.

To elaborate, I am involved in a law fraternity on campus, Phi Alpha Delta. We make connections with lawyers, judges and other experts and officials. Not only do we talk to experienced individuals, but we visit law schools and courts. Much like other fraternities, these opportunities are advantageous because they are often paid for or discounted by the group. Members are given a chance to get a clearer view into their future without having to always take money out of their own pockets. Yes, there are dues for fraternities but the money usually goes towards events and opportunities for members.

Professional fraternities work to your advantage, because are you given more possibilities to get a head start on your future career. Also, these fraternities can be listed on your resume with the activities completed. If there is something to add to your resume, it will always be to your advantage.

Interest organizations are another option on campus. I am aware that not everyone has extra funds to pay for a professional fraternity, but there are other organizations that do not require dues. These are organizations based on community service, exercise, religious affilia-

tion, LGBTQ+, government, political relations, marching band, State DM and much more. These organizations still provide opportunities to build your resume without emptying your wallet.

Each organization has leadership positions and events. If you are president, events organizer, note taker, or in charge of public relations, this can be a vital addition to the experiences graduate schools and employers look for.

As a matter of fact, membership of certain organizations may even present scholarship opportunities. Being involved on campus shows that you are dedicated to your university, so your university will support you as well.

Another reason for engaging in an organization based around your own interests is that members of interest organizations are all there for the same simple reason: they want to be there.

This is a more laid-back type of networking. You are making friends. You found a group of people who share similar interests as you, which is the best way to figure out where you fit in. I know students who have gotten scholarships for their involvement in the marching band. It is the equivalent of getting free money.

Outside of organizations and dedicating time and effort, there are university events. Usually they are put on and promoted through organizations, but most are free and welcome all students. One underrated example is the Speaker Series. It is put on by the University Speaker Series Committee and brings a variety of different topics to the floor.

There are comedians, motivational speakers and others who share their words with students.

The best part is that they are free. When we go out into the real world, we get few chances to laugh our butts off without paying out of pocket. Also, if you ever need some inspirational words to help you through a tough week, or semester, Speaker Series events are the way to go.

Lastly, it’s F-R-E-E. We are all college students in debt. Whether you are getting school paid off through scholarships or are drowning in loans, who doesn’t love free things? Why don’t we take advantage of the opportunities and resources we are given while we are here? Get out there and try new things. That is what college is for, so take the upper hand and control your experience.

A 60-day break in the Mueller probe is good for all Noah Feldman

Bloomberg News

There is no rule or policy requiring special counsel Robert Mueller to complete his investigation 60 days before the midterm election, despite what the president’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani says. For starters, Donald Trump isn’t on the ballot. Even if he were, there’s no reason that an investigation of him or his 2016 campaign would have to be completed in advance of an election.

What is true, however, is that there is a strong unwritten norm for the Department of Justice to avoid taking public prosecutorial action around the time of an election — a period thought to be about 60 or 90 days before it. Mueller and his team are well aware of that norm.

It seems probable that Mueller will follow it, at least to the extent that it’s practicable. He certainly should. If he does, that means you shouldn’t expect any major indictments or other revelations during the next 60 days.

Mueller will follow the unwritten norm not because he’s soft on Trump. Rather, Mueller knows better than anyone that Trump’s assault on the U.S. criminal justice system has been in large part an assault on exactly such unwritten norms.

In particular, Trump has systematically sought to undermine the hard-won norm that investigation and prosecution should be nonpartisan and unconnected to electoral politics.

Firing FBI Director James Comey was just the most salient example. Trump has also sought to break the norm by saying that the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are politically motivated. He’s consistently broken the norm himself by calling for investigation and prosecution of Hillary Clinton and other Democrats.

The unwritten 60 (or 90) day norm is a perfect example of the aspiration to nonpartisanship that Trump is trying to break.

There is no perfect way to make

sure that investigations don’t affect politics. But one way to approximate that objective is to create a buffer between major announcements and the election.

Comey’s October 2016 announcement that the investigation of Clinton’s email server had been reopened demonstrated very clearly why the unwritten norm is so valuable. Comey broke the norm. Whether that affected the outcome of the 2016 election is not a matter subject to objectively verifiable fact. But Comey’s violation of the rule certainly created the perception that his and the FBI’s actions could have affected the outcome.

That fact has loomed over U.S. politics ever since.

It seems pretty unlikely that anything Mueller could announce before November’s midterms would materially affect the electoral outcomes. But that’s just a further reason for Mueller to wait and announce anything significant only afterward.

Mueller and his team have to

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be completely above suspicion, like Caesar’s wife. They must bend over backward not to play into Trump’s attempts to depict them as partisan. If you prefer a different metaphor, they have to be more Catholic than the pope.

That would be true under any circumstances where a special counsel was investigating the president. But it’s much more important given that the investigation is focused on a president who is trying to break unwritten norms of nonpartisanship.

The fact that the investigation also touches on Comey and his firing adds further reason to avoid even the appearance of potential partisanship, not that another reason is needed.

In short, the whole issue of unwritten nonpartisan norms is swirling around this presidency and the Mueller investigation of it.

No doubt some Democrats will think that Mueller should charge forward with his investigation and let the chips fall

where they may — especially if it leads to greater public outrage at Trump.

That would be very shortsighted. The point of the Mueller investigation should not be to undermine Trump presidency. Rather, the point is to begin restoring public faith and confidence in governmental institutions by showing that the government can find and tell the truth in an independent, nonpartisan way.

Democrats shouldn’t fall prey to the temptation of following Trump’s lead and believing Mueller is out to get the president for partisan reasons. He isn’t. Mueller embodies precisely the ideal of a nonpartisan criminal justice investigator and prosecutor.

When it comes to the Mueller investigation, the truth should at least help set us free. We can hear that truth any time, including after the 2018 midterms are over.

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HOROSCOPE Jennifer Sheperd TNS

Aries: March 21 — April 19

Virgo: Aug. 23 — Sept. 22

This week the sun is going to be moving opposite your sign, where it will stay for four weeks.

This means you need to be super kind with yourself and super gentle with other people. Your nerves could be a bit frayed, so do your best to relax.

You could hit a new personal high this week, courtesy of the sun. Maybe you’ve recently achieved something wonderful at work. Or perhaps you’re realizing you are deeply in love with your sweetheart, and you’d like to take things to the next level.

Taurus: April 20 — May 20 Three super friendly planets are lifting your spirits, creating some lovely moments of connection with other people.

You could have a heartfelt chat with a friend, family member or co-worker. Meanwhile, your honey will feel closer to you than ever.

The sun will enter your sign late in the week, marking your yearly personal new year. This is your power period, a time to release negative energy or toxic relationships. And it’s also an incredible period to expand your mind to embrace some exciting new goals.

Scorpio: Oct. 24 — Nov. 21 With Venus in your sign now, you’re focusing a lot of your time and energy on love.

It’s not enough just to hook up with somebody or to have a casual experience with a lover.

As a deep Water sign, you’re always seeking a more authentic spiritual connection with people.

Cancer: June 22 — July 22 Go easy this week. A moon opposition is making you feel a bit tired and irritated, so don’t take it out on the people you love or those helpful people who work with you. Try to meditate, pray or hit the gym and center yourself.

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Athletic Media Relations

ISU Volleyball wins invitational. Player cheer on their teammates from the sidelines of one of the matches.

ISU volleyball wins home invitational Garrett Short Reporter A resilient performance earned Indiana State’s volleyball team the title of its home tournament over the weekend.

After spending the first two weeks of the season on the road, ISU finally got to play their home opener on Friday. Their first match in the ISU Invitational was as dramatic as it gets. Facing a 2-1 deficit, the Sycamores forced a fifth set against Green Bay, the runner-up in the tournament.

ISU needed extra points to finish the match, but came away with a win over the Phoenix thanks to an incredible 15 team blocks.

Friday was a peak for the team, winning a close match in front of a substantial home crowd. On the other hand, Saturday was a bit of a wake-up call. Central Michigan was swept 3-0 in each of their matches on Friday. But after dropping the first set to the Sycamores, CMU stormed back and came out on top in five sets to put ISU at 1-1 on the weekend.

That’s where resiliency came in for Head Coach Lindsay Allman’s team. ISU’s final game of the invitational was the deciding-match. If they had lost, Green Bay would have been crowned the champion.

But if ISU won, they would finish first.

ISU played each of their first two matches to the maximum five sets, so it was only right they would do the same to close out

the tournament against Saint Louis. Like ISU, the Billikens had lost earlier in the day.

After ISU dominated in the first set, Saint Louis garnered a stranglehold on the match by winning the second and third sets. SLU’s Maya Taylor was a handful for ISU with 21 kills.

Backed against a wall, ISU went to work trailing 2-1. Senior Laura Gross and junior Rhiannon Morozoff came alive in the last two sets shouldering the offensive responsibilities. Morozoff finished with 13 kills with eight of them in sets four and five. Gross finished with 14 including the kill that capped off the win for ISU. An unstoppable fifth-set effort by ISU saw the Sycamores go up 6-0 before winning the

concluding set 15-9.

ISU played every possible set they could’ve over the weekend, but it was worth it because they finished with individual awards and won the round-robin tournament. Gross and Morozoff were joined by sophomore Nikkie White on the All-Tournament team.

Indiana State now holds a 6-3 overall record. This momentum comes at a good time, as ISU travels to play in the Colorado Classic this weekend. There, they play the likes of Colorado State, who just dropped out of the top 25, as well as Colorado who was ranked 24 last week.

Sycamores Soccer win Sycamore Men Cross Country place second, Women place third at Miami back to back in Weekend Double Header Opener this past weekend Jay Adkins Reporter This past Friday, the Indiana State University Sycamores cross country team traveled to Oxford, Ohio to compete in the Miami opener against regional rival Indiana University Hoosiers and the Miami University Red Hawks.

Senior Akis Medrano took third place overall and first among attached athletes in the 8K with an impressive time of 25:34.30. Redshirt sophomore Cam Trout also showed out in the 8K, as he placed 15th overall with a time of 25:58.40. Sophomore Isaac Bentz placed 16th overall with a time of 26:00.70 and Nick Yeend took the 20th spot with a time of 26:15.00. Freshman Cale Kilian placed 32nd with a time of 27:00.60. These impressive times helped the men place second in the opener with a final score of 41 points, behind the Indiana

University Hoosiers (23) and ahead of the Miami University Red Hawks (60).

With the men’s team finishing second and beating out Big Ten rival IU, they should h a v e huge momentum in their Medrano match this weekend at home. Even though the Sycamores did not come out on top, it still is surprising for them to beat out such a big opponent.

On the women’s side, our Sycamores did just about as well as the men’s team.

Junior Colleen Madden lead the way with a 16th place finish and a time of 22:50.80 in the 6K race while freshman Jocelyn Quiles placed 17th with a time of

22:54.80. Sophomore Michaela Ward placed 18th with a time of 22:57.50 and junior Alli Workman placed 23rd with a time of 23:20.30. Freshman Tara Cassidy placed 26th with a time of 23:59.30.

The Women ended up placing third in the opener with a score of 67, behind both the Indiana University Hoosiers (23) and the Miami University Red Hawks (32).

Both men and women’s cross-country teams have high hopes for their season and still have a long way to go until the post-season matches. While this first one might not have gone as planned, there are multiple matches during the season to get better and faster.

The Sycamores will head back to Terre Haute to prepare for the John McNichols invitational. The invitational will take place 9 a.m.

Sept. 15 at the Laverne Gibson Championship cross-country course.

Garrett Short Reporter

This past Friday, the Indiana State Sycamores Soccer team traveled to Charleston, Illinois to face off against the Eastern Illinois Panthers. Then, the Sycamores traveled back to Terre Haute to face off against the Rose-Hulman Fightin’ Engineers Sunday.

In the first matchup against the Panthers, senior forward Katie Wells scored one goal and assisted on another goal in the game.

Junior midfielder Katie Sidloski (the reigning Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year) led the team in scoring for the day with two goals made on two shot attempts. Junior midfielder Kathryn Besserman had an assist in the game as well.

Goalkeeper Hannah Sullivan had two saves in the game. The Sycamores defeated the Panthers on the road with a final score of 3-1. With this win, the Sycamores improved to 4-2-2 on the

season, while the Panthers fell to 1-3-2.

In their next matchup, the Sycamores stayed home to face off against the 3-0 Rose-Hulman Fightin’ Engineers.

Wells lead the way for the team in scoring with two goals made on four shot attempts. These goals moved Wells to third place in the Indiana State University Soccer record books, with a new total of 50 career points. Wells had a standout weekend as she played an important role in each of the two games over the weekend.

Sullivan didn’t face any shots on goal in this matchup, making this her ninth victory in her last two years as a Sycamore. With this win, the Sycamores improved to 5-2-2 for the season, while the Fightin’ Engineers fell to 3-1.

The Sycamores’ next matchup will take place at home against the 5-2 Western Michigan University Broncos. The game will start at 7 p.m. this Friday at Memorial Stadium.

Storms, Cardinals stump Sycamores

Garrett Short Reporter

After a total of nearly two hours of weather delays, Indiana State was a problem for Louisville, but the Cardinals prevailed at home 31-7 on the gridiron.

It was a really long game. Over five-and-a-half hours long, in fact. With rain being dumped into Cardinal stadium by the truckload, it wasn’t exactly a clean game from either team Saturday night. There were just 17 combined completions between

ISU and Louisville, and the Cardinals had 14 of them.

The Sycamores were able to force miscues by Louisville and use a strong running game to keep the contest close. The argument can easily be made that ISU had the better first half. Though Louisville scored on a punt return early in the first quarter, the Sycamores were able to put things together on both sides of the ball.

It all started with Louisville native Jonas Griffith. One of ISU’s leading linebackers, Griffith, picked off a throw by Jawon Pass

to set up excellent field position.

That is where ISU went with their bread and butter. Head Coach Curt Mallory’s ground game was able to move the ball deep into the red zone before sophomore Titus McCoy took a handoff up the middle and bounced into the end zone to tie things at seven.

The defense continued to control the game for ISU in the second quarter. Junior Kaelub Newman forced a fumble which Denzel Bonner recovered for ISU’s second takeaway of the game. Neither offense could get things going, though, as the score

read seven apiece at halftime.

The rain continued to hit Louisville in the second half, and it took a while for either team to get traction on offense. When the Cardinals finally broke the tie after a quarterback change, they found what they were looking for. Louisville found the end zone late in the third and twice more in the fourth. ISU couldn’t answer as Louisville finished the game with a 31-7 win.

The offense had a problem finding points for ISU but they did get heavy contributions on the ground. Senior running back

Ja’Quan Keys finished the night with 102 rushing yards. McCoy added another 38 and the lone score for ISU. ISU recorded two sacks in the loss and also won the turnover battle 2-0. The defense’s tenacity against an ACC team is good to see, and likely means more takeaways are to come as the Sycamores approach conference play come September 27 against Northern Iowa.

Indiana State’s next game is Saturday as they travel to take on Eastern Illinois at 7 p.m. Eastern time.