September 18, 2018

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Volume 124, Issue 18

12th Annual Indiana Bat Festival on Saturday Cheyenne Fauquber Reporter

On September 15, the 12th Annual Indiana Bat Festival took place in the Science Building at Indiana State University.

For the past 12 years, this festival has been set up in order to benefit the Center for Bat Research, Outreach, and Conservation at ISU. About 1,000 people come to this event each year. The Indiana Bat Festival encourages other organizations to share their research at the event. There was face painting, live bat encounters, bat presentations by officials, live raptor demonstrations, a silent auction, informational exhibits, a craft center and inflatables for young children, and a bake sale. The event began at 10 a.m. and lasted until 4 p.m.

U.S. Official Wildlife Service member, Lori Pruitt, said she has been to all of these festivals except for one. Pruitt works with endangered species, especially bats. She had an exhibit set up at the fair, displaying the types of bats we have in Indiana. She shared information about each bat, where to find them and why some are endangered.

“I really love the science of bats and sharing more about them with children, students, and college professors that come to this event,” said Pruitt.

Throughout the day, there were several bat presentations. Each presentation was at a different time and presented something new.

Blues at the Crossroads AJ Goelz Reporter

The presentations focused on different seasons of the year and what bats do depending on the season.

Bats hibernate in the winter, emerge from hibernation in the spring, produce offspring in the summer, and prepare for hibernation in the fall.

Each presentation was given by someone different. Joy O’Keefe and James Cox, both from ISU, gave presentations.

O’Keefe presented “Bats in Spring” and Cox presented “Bats in Summer.”

Tim Carter, from Ball State University, presented “Bats in Winter” and Brad Westrich, Indiana Department of Natural Resources, presented “Bats in Fall.”

“I am not a fan of bats, but coming to this event made me feel a little differently.

It was eye opening to learn more about bats and their habitat,” said ISU freshman Caroline Cleaver. “I was impressed with how much research scientists have done on bats, specifically in Indiana. I think it is awesome that Indiana State University has such a big program on bat research.”

Although the 12th Annual Indiana Bat Festival event ended at four in the afternoon, there was a Bat Science Night at the John G. Dobbs Memorial Grove Nature Center later in the evening with more activities and exhibits about bats.

The event lasted from 6 to 10 p.m. This event was also hosted by the Center for Bat Research, Outreach, and Conservation.

Samantha Layug | Indiana Statesman

Students enjoy the annual Bat Festival in the Science Building and learn about bats and what they do for the environment.

What the Career Fair can do for you and your future Chelsea Chapman Reporter

Submitted photo

This past weekend, the annual Blues at the Crossroads Festival was held on Wabash Ave. to showcase Blues and Rock music. Some of the performers included: Max Allen Band, Freekbass, The Nerve, Michael Kelsey, and Jazz Metamorphosis.

“Blues at the Crossroads started as an outdoor party for the Verve 19 years ago, and now has evolved into a Terre Haute tradition of a two-day music festival,” according to the Verve’s website: vervenightclub.com.

This yearly festival brings the community together in a love of music and community. “It was a good event for people in town to socialize and enjoy some live music,” Garrett Short, a student at Indiana State University said. “It was a wellplanned out event and the location was nice because it was right in downtown Terre Haute.”

The setting for the Blues Fest is one of the events largest selling points. Being right off of campus always has a chance to draw students over. There is always, however, a downside. The location of the festival is right outside of the 500 Wabash apartments. There is a problem with noise pollution in the late hours, but with the Verve nightclub being so close to the apartments, there is not much that can be done.

The event was not free. According to the Verve’s website, the general admission was $10. Students with valid student ID, military, police and fire fighters paid halfprice, and the event was free for those who were under the age of 16. Vendors at the event included: Fifi’s Lunch Box, Sati-Babi, KBL and Company and more.

“In 2000 I started the Blues at the Crossroads Festival. It began as just a “little party” outside the Verve, which I opened in December 1999,” states vervenightclub.com on the origins of the event. “I was shocked that attendance was well over a thousand people, so I decided to do it again. In 2005 I set up a not-forprofit so I could use the proceeds from the event to help others throughout the year.”

Are you attending the Career Fair? Why is it important?

What should you bring? What can you get out of it?

Tomorrow, Wednesday, Sept. 19, Indiana State University’s Career Center will be hosting its annual Fall Career Fair at the Hulman Center from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. The staff at the Career Center have been preparing for this day for months and hope it will benefit students all over campus.

Alex Allen, the Career Center Events Coordinator, joined the Career Center about five months ago. He is looking forward to seeing many students at the Career Fair.

“It’s a good opportunity for students at any point in their college career to visit the Career Fair,” said Allen. “I think it’s useful for anybody to come, whether you’re a first year student, you’re a junior, senior or graduate student… I think if you go as a first semester first year student, you don’t really have to interact with people.

You can walk around, get used to it, and understand the flow, because we have one in the fall and one in the spring. It’s a pretty similar format for each, so people are able to go and get familiar with it. Just walking around and getting comfortable is great for a first year student, but if someone wants to

talk to you, go ahead and start networking with employers.”

Whether it is your first time attending, or you’ve attended multiple times, one thing Allen stressed was what to wear.

“It’s relaxed, but we want people to come dressed business casual or business professional, just so you’re representing your personal brand in a good light,” said Allen. “Dress the part. Don’t come in your gym shorts or pajamas, but on the flip side, we also don’t want students coming dressed like they’re going out to a nightclub.

We have our Clothing Closet, where students can come and get four items for free. Come dressed conservatively. Dress appropriately for the event and look like you’re ready for the workforce because you are meeting prospective employers. A lot of companies that are going to be there are looking for those who are going to be the next young leaders in their company, the ones who look the part and who are serious about that next step.”

If you don’t know what to do at the fair, Allen encourages you to still come, even if it is just to walk around and take everything in.

“If someone comes and they’re unsure, we are giving tours,” said Allen, “those will be happening through the entire fair. We will take you behind the scenes, talk about what the fair is and what kinds of employers are there, just so you

can understand more about it. We will walk you through it and answer questions. There are no expectations. You can come and walk around and not talk to anyone, that’s okay. If it’s your first time, just come experience it. If you decide there’s a company that looks really fun, it could turn out to be something phenomenal.”

Cody Dolly, a recruiting and advising coordinator for Elementary education students suggests going as a freshman.

“I think that’s a good idea to figure out exactly what it is you want to do,” said Dolly. “When going to the Career Fair, you’re going to see and talk to people and figure out some things you don’t want to do. You can kind of figure out what your values and goals are and which direction you want to go with your education and your life.

Be open minded, ask a lot of questions.”

Dr. Lisa Calvin, a professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, stresses the importance of networking.

“You never know when a good interview could turn into an internship that you could use for your studies or a summer job,” said Calvin. “You could get somebody’s business card that you could use to make a contact in the future.

Don’t be afraid to ask questions, in terms of ‘which people should I talk to at this Fair?’ and of the people that are giv-

ing the Fair, because there are no bad questions.”

Dr. Ralph Leck, a professor in the Honors Department and a member of the Department of Multidisciplinary Studies, recommended bringing some materials that might help you at the Fair.

“Minimally you want to have pencil and paper to take down information,” said Leck.

“It would be nice if you also had a resume if possible, so that you can hand that to the people you are meeting with…

You have to be prepared to fight for and find ways of getting a job.”

Marilyn Bisch, a Latin, Ancient Greek, Classical Cultures and Literature Professor, believes, like Dolly, that students should attend the Fair their freshman year.

“Students should start attending the Career Fair their freshman year, to give them an idea of what to look forward to,” said Bisch. “I think they would see how their major is going to fit in with their potential career plans. They will have a chance to talk soon-tobe alumni, and current alumni who maybe used their same major to form a career.”

More information about this event and the employers attending can be found on the Sycamore Career Link tab on the ISU portal.

Why should you register your bike?

Tristan Major Reporter

Last year, Indiana State University reported over 150 bikes as lost or stolen.

To lower the number of lost bikes, the University Police Department has partnered with ISU for community Sustainability and Academy sports of Terre Haute.

Together they are registering bicycles for all faculty, staff and students who ride or park a bike on campus or on university apartments.

The ISU campus is open to the public, which makes theft easier for criminals.

“People are dressing up as students and stealing bikes on campus,” said Jacquelyn Smith,

the overseer of the registration program.

Only 35 people have registered their bikes at this point in the semester, she said.

There is a far greater number of bikes on campus. University police is hoping more people see the value in registering their bikes.

“We were able to retrieve a few bikes from pawnshops last year. Because the bikes were registered it was more easy to locate and retrieve the bikes from the pawnshops,” Smith said.

Bike registration will not only help locate bikes, it will also serve to educate students about how to prevent bike theft. “ The biggest problem is that

bike owners are using cheap chain locks. These locks are easy to dismember as opposed to the U locks which are almost impenetrable,” she said.

These locks cost around 10$ and can be found at Walmart, Amazon, and many other retailers.

“Bike riders should park their bikes in a well lit area alongside other bikes,” Smith said.

By placing bikes in a well-lit area with other bikes there is a decrease in likelihood that said bike will get stolen.

University police are cracking down on bike theft, prosecuting a numerous bike thief ’s.

However, nobody is safe from the possibility of having their bike stolen.

Even Rose Hulman has been experiencing bike theft on their campus.

University police are positive that bike registration will only help bike owners prevent theft or locate stolen bikes.

“During bike registration bike owners will fill out a form with their name and address.

University police will locate the registration number and then a decal sticker will be applied to the bike,” said Smith.

This decal will be fairly hard to remove and make it impossible for the bike to be sold at pawnshops.

The bike registration was held last Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Anyone can still register their bike by contacting university police.

NEWS

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Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018

Florence weakens as it moves inland, but all that water has to go somewhere — and that’s the problem Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Matt Pearce Los Angeles Times (TNS) Florence weakened into a tropical depression Sunday morning as it slogged inland over the mid-Atlantic states, but the slow-moving storm, which has killed at least 15 people, remains a major threat to the region’s millions of waterlogged residents.

The biggest problem now for residents in Virginia and the Carolinas isn’t high winds and ocean storm surge, but rain and flooding. Florence is expected to unload an additional 7 to 10 inches of rain over central North Carolina after dumping more than 32 inches over parts of the state’s southeast.

Heavy rains are also expected to spread into southwest Virginia and southern West Virginia, where officials warned of potential landslides in the Appalachian mountains.

By the time Florence weakens as it turns toward New England, forecasting officials expect, some parts of North Carolina — which has borne the brunt of the storm — will get the kind of weekly rainfall totals statistically expected once every thousand years.

On Sunday morning, Sunday, Wilmington, N.C., with a heavy assist from Florence, reported receiving 86.79 inches of rain so far this year, breaking a record set in 1877.

All that rain has to go somewhere. Much of it will eventually end up dumping into the Atlantic Ocean. But to get there, storm water will have to pass through the region’s coastal river networks, and that’s where officials

expect new perils in the days to come.

Rivers across North Carolina, South Carolina and southern Virginia have been pushed past their limits and hit major flood stages, in which the flooding of buildings and roads require significant evacuations.

“Catastrophic” flooding is expected on the Cape Fear River near Fayetteville, N.C., where the river is expected to crest to its highest level since 1945, National Weather Service forecasters said.

Transportation officials said hundreds of roads, including some key freeways, remained flooded or blocked, primarily in southeast North Carolina, where the storm knocked out nearly half of the cell towers in some areas, according to the Federal Communications Commission.

GPS services are sending unwitting drivers onto flooded roads, said North Carolina state officials, who asked out-of-state drivers to avoid North Carolina entirely. State troopers reported responding to 48 collisions and 128 calls for service overnight.

More than 700,000 customers — about 14 percent of the state’s consumers — have lost power in North Carolina, energy officials reported. Fewer than 55,000 customers remained without power in South Carolina on Sunday morning, down from a high of 167,000 customers a day earlier, according to the U.S. Energy Department.

Evacuees started to return to coastal South Carolina even as local officials warned of catastrophic river flooding.

In northeastern Horry County, S.C., where two people died

Robert Willett|Raleigh News & Observer|TNS

James Berthold checks on his van on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 16, 2018. Berthold’s father was trying to drive to the hospital on Friday night during the height of Hurricane Florence along Nine Foot Road in Newport, N.C., when he became stuck in flood waters and had to evacuate the automobile.

during the storm, National Guard troops attempted to divert water from the swollen Waccamaw River.

The river drains into an area the size of Rhode Island, parallel to the coast near Myrtle Beach. If it rises as expected, 12 feet by Wednesday, it could wash 200,000 tons of toxic coal ash into neighborhoods from a shuttered Santee Cooper power plant in Conway.

Officials were also rushing to construct temporary dams on the Pee Dee and Lynches rivers to prevent flooding that could cut off coastal Myrtle Beach and portions of surrounding Georgetown County from the mainland.

Even as flood preparations accelerated, South Carolina’s governor lifted an evacuation order for Georgetown and Horry counties.

In Myrtle Beach, residents ventured out on foot to grab a bite at beachfront restaurants or buy groceries at the reopened Piggly Wiggly and Food Lion supermarkets.

Ned and Anna Marie King decided to stay in their waterfront home facing the Intracoastal on Riverside Drive, which is marked by a “flood zone” sign. So did their neighbors.

They sandbagged the doors, removed area rugs and propped wood blocks under the furniture as they kept an eye on a dock

across the churning channel to monitor the water level.

They’d propped their house up when they moved in two years ago. “I wish we had gone up two more blocks,” said Ned King, referring to the foundation they raised by five cinderblocks. “It takes a long time for it to rise and a long time for it to go away. It’s just miserable.”

Their son, who had left before the storm, called from Orlando, Fla. They were not sure when he would be able to return, given the flooding expected inland.

“Even though the evacuation has been lifted,” Anna Marie King said, “the biggest concern is people trying to get back in.”

Members find billions beneath Sycamore Sessions; a night full of talent Pentagon couch cushions John M. Donnelly CQ-Roll Call (TNS) The authors of a new defense spending conference report ran a victory lap last week to tout the billions of dollars they added to the U.S. military budget, but they hardly mentioned the cuts they had to make to pull that off.

Members generally prefer to tout the “winners” in their bills, not so much the “losers.” That habit can obscure the hard work appropriators and their staffs do to wring savings out of the Pentagon and intelligence agency budgets, even when the total funding is an epic $674.4 billion, as it will be in fiscal 2019.

At the same time, the astonishing amounts of money cut from individual defense programs — often enough to run entire agencies elsewhere in the government — highlight the sheer amount of fat in the Pentagon budget.

The explanations for these cuts in the appropriations funding tables are typically as vague as the amounts are large. Often the only reason given for what in some cases are cuts nearing a half bil-

lion dollars each — and adding up to multiple billions of dollars — is little more than a few words, such as “historical unobligated balances” or “revised estimate.”

On such barely explained decisions, historic weapons buildups are made.

One of the biggest movements of money in this year’s final Defense bill came as a result of the Pentagon massively overestimating, for the second fiscal year in a row, how much its new retirement system would cost.

After overstating how much money it would need from Congress for the program in fiscal 2018 by more than a half-billion dollars, the Defense Department again overstated its needs for fiscal 2019 — this time by $732 million, the conferees’ joint explanatory statement said. That was good news, though, in that the money freed up as a result was used to help defray $750 million in higher than expected fuel costs, the report showed.

Other budgetary maneuvers involved nearly as much money.

The Defense Health Program, for example, had $597 million

taken away in one single line. The reason? “Fiscal 2018 decrease not properly accounted.”

Likewise, the Army’s military personnel account was reduced by a stunning $575 million in one line only explained by “revised estimate.”

The Army personnel account lost $492 million in another line with only this note: “Historical unobligation” — an apparent reflection of appropriators’ view that the Army does not typically spend money quite as fast as it predicts. Each of the services lost sums totaling in the scores of millions of dollars for this same stated reason.

Another big subtraction came in a Navy aircraft program. The service lost $206 million that had been slated to buy C-40A airlift aircraft, which ferry people and supplies to the fleet, because, appropriators wrote, “Requirement funded in fiscal 2018.”

The Coast Guard, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, often receives a small portion of its funding in the De-

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Tristan Major Reporter Sycamore Sessions made students cry aloud Last week ISU hosted its first Sycamore Sessions of the year at the Tilson auditorium.

“Sycamore Sessions is an on campus talent show; which provides individuals as well as various groups with the platform to showcase their talents in front of a student body gathering,” said Skylann Brown, a member of Fatal Attraction. “We were the underdogs, so we made sure to bring our A game and show everyone what we are made of ” The event started at 9:30 as students poured into the auditorium filling the whole house with dance and excitement. As students walked into the event their ears were filled with the roaring sound of bass drums and hip pop music played by Dj Gwash.

“Sessions isn’t a normal talent show. It is more of a great big party, in which both the performers and audience are given the opportunity to express themselves freely,” said Dj Gwash.

As the audience was forming

there were people dancing, singing, and laughing all over the auditorium. The energy in the room could be felt for those not dancing as well; as the room exploded with glee and spirit as the audience prepared for the show.

The event was jump started with numerous solo dance acts as well as poetry and singing acts.

One of the poems had brought the audience to tears as the poet expressed her love for her dark colored skin.

Afterward the audience would be crying tears of laughter when the comedy group “Why are you Laughing” performed a skit in which a young man died. In the skit the young man saw people such as Michela Jackson, James brown, and Prince. The plot twist of the skit was when Prince was exposed to be the devil.

“Sycamore Sessions gives me the opportunity to show that I am more than a student,” said Aryana Noble, a member of the molding group Expressions. “I’m allowed to show my ability to express myself through dance and fashion.”

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Anti-Semitism, Mideast conflict, free speech collide in Rutgers case Jaweed Kaleem and Teresa Watanabe Los Angeles Times (TNS) As protests against Israel and the U.S. government’s alliance with it have roiled college campuses across the country — with demonstrations in recent years shutting down speeches by pro-Israel speakers from the University of Minnesota to San Francisco State University — a few questions have repeatedly come up.

How much is Jewish identity tied to the modern nation of Israel? Is there a point at which criticism of Israel turns into hatred of Jewish people? If so, when is that line crossed? What is the difference between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism?

Not surprisingly, pro-Palestinian activists and pro-Israeli ones often give contrasting answers to the questions.

In addition to conflicts be-

Matty Stern|Planet Pix|Zuma Press|TNS

President Donald Trump during a visit to the Western Wall May 22, 2017 in Jerusalem, Israel.

tween Israelis and Palestinians that have prevented peace in the Middle East, and a possible twostate solution, recent events have included the Trump administration’s move of the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,

which Palestinians considered a major slight, and this week’s announcement by the State Department that it has ordered Palestinian leadership to close its office in Washington.

The Trump administration

has now weighed in on the college issue, with the Department of Education’s civil rights office reopening a 2011 complaint against a New Jersey university about alleged bias against Jewish students.

In a recent letter to the Zionist Organization of America, a conservative group that has for years fought what it believes is widespread bias against Israel at colleges, the office said it would relaunch an investigation about Rutgers that closed four years ago under the Obama administration.

In the letter, the department said it would examine reports of discrimination on campus against Jewish people as an ethnic group and for the first time defined what it counts as anti-Semitism.

The letter listed Holocaust denial — a widely agreed upon sign of anti-Jewish beliefs — alongside common pro-Palestinian

activist refrains, such as saying that “the existence of a state of Israel is a racist endeavor.” Calling Israel racist was listed under “denying the Jewish people the right to self-determination.” Another example of anti-Semitism, according to the letter, included “applying double standards by requiring of (Israel) a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.”

The definition, taken from the State Department and the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, has alarmed student activists and pro-Palestinian groups that fear the Trump administration will launch more investigations on colleges for their students and professors’ pro-Palestinian activities that criticize Israeli policies. Under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, the department can investigate colleges and universities that receive federal

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indianastatesman.com BILLIONS FROM PAGE 2 fense bill, including in several lines of the fiscal 2019 measure. Appropriators have looked to the Defense bill in recent years to fund a Coast Guard icebreaker ship, for instance.

But when it came to one request for $165 million in Navy operations and maintenance funds to be used for “Coast Guard Support,” the conferees said no.

“Coast Guard funded in Homeland Security bill,” it said in the table.

SESSIONS FROM PAGE 2 Sycamore Sessions is great for anyone who wants to express themselves through any art form. The event is open to a variety of performances. And the environment is safe for anyone who may have stage freight. Cheering on a good act is allowed, but

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Even spare parts can get expensive, especially when they are apparently not needed. The conference report took $133 million from the Air Force KC-46 tanker program for parts that were deemed “excess.”

Sometimes contract savings can create cash for appropriators to move elsewhere. That was the case with $200 million subtracted from the Navy unmanned carrier aviation program, apparently because it was so efficient.

Contract delays, too, can produce money, as funds

in those cases cannot be spent as rapidly as planned.

Hence $30 million taken from the UH-1N Huey helicopter replacement program in the Air Force.

It is not just U.S. military services that see their requests cut back, for better or worse. Afghan security forces got nearly $5 billion in this measure. But appropriators took away fully $280 million in one fell swoop in one line that came with only this rationale: “undistributed reduction.”

the audience is told not to boo or put down distasteful acts.

Sessions ended with an amazing performance by the dance group Full Owt. “We came to show out we wanted to end the show with a big bang,” said Allena, a member of Full Owt. As they preformed the heat began to rise in

the atmosphere. People jumped out of their seats to cheer on Full Owt. As sweat dripped down the performer’s faces, the audience was dripping with excitement.

Overall, the event went splendid. The next show will be next Tuesday at Tilson Auditorium

ANTI FROM PAGE 2 money for discrimination against race, color or national origin and revoke funding.

“This is an attack on the First Amendment,” said Samer Alhato, a Palestinian American student at St. Xavier University in Chicago and member of Students for Justice in Palestine, a organization behind protests criticizing Israel that has chapters on dozens of college campuses.

The group has supported the BDS movement — which pushes for boycotts, divestment and sanctions against companies deemed to have a role in Israeli human rights violations.

“It’s an attack on organizers and socially aware students. We’ve had many presidents who dogmatically and materially support Israel with rhetoric or policies,” Alhato said. “The Trump administration has taken it to another level.”

In an interview, the director and chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League took issue with the argument that the administration was curtailing free speech.

“There is nothing wrong with being critical of any country,” said Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL, which is not part of the case. “But when there are campaigns that demonize and delegitimize the Jewish state, they often end up in actions that demonize and delegitimize Jewish people.”

Morton Klein, the president of the New Yorkbased Zionist Organization of America, called the Department of Education’s move a “landmark decision that may bring some justice to the Jewish students who have been harassed and discriminated against at many universities.” His group filed the Rutgers complaint and has also filed others against Brooklyn College and the University of California, Irvine.

The Rutgers complaint stems from a free 2011 pro-Palestinian event where Jewish students were allegedly charged ad-

mission as a way to keep them out — an allegation disputed by the event’s organizers.

The Education Department under President Barack Obama said it found insufficient evidence to pursue the case. The Zionist group appealed in 2014 and, late last month, heard back from new leadership in the department that argued that previous lawyers who went over the case were wrong.

The letter was signed by Kenneth Marcus, the newly appointed assistant secretary for civil rights, who has long opposed pro-Palestinian activism. Marcus is the former head of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, which its website says he founded in 2011 to “combat the resurgence of anti-Semitism in American higher education.” He held the same civil rights post in President George W. Bush’s administration for two years.

The Department of Education did not reply to requests seeking an interview about the case. Klein shared a copy of the letter with the Los Angeles Times.

In a statement, Rutgers officials said they were not notified of the new investigation but would cooperate. “There is no place for anti-Semitism or any form of religious intolerance at Rutgers,” it said.

The fight over what constitutes anti-Semitism has caused controversy across major universities, including the University of Chicago, University of Michigan, Columbia University and the University of California. Many incidents have included protests attempting to block pro-Israel speakers on campus, such as a 2016 San Francisco State University speech by Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat. Other controversies have centered on student governments passing calls for universities to divest endowments from certain companies that do business with the Israeli government. One targeted company is Caterpillar, whose bulldozers have been used to demolish Pal-

estinian homes.

In 2016, University of California regents unanimously declared that anti-Semitism has “no place” on a college campus but rejected intense lobbying to call anti-Zionism a form of discrimination. Instead, regents approved a report on intolerance that decried only “anti-Semitic forms” of the political ideology, leaving it up for interpretation which forms of Zionism are anti-Semitic and which aren’t. The move reflected the regents’ struggle to balance their desire to combat intolerance with their commitment to protect free speech.

Some Israel supporters have organized to stamp out pro-Palestinian activities on campuses. Two years ago, casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson and others launched an effort to promote Israel on campuses and combat BDS. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports that it’s set to expand to 80 campuses in the U.S. and Canada.

A 2016 Pew Research Center poll found that 27 percent of millennials sympathize more with Palestinians, up from 9 percent in 2006 — while their generation’s support for Israel has declined in the same period from 51 percent to 43 percent. African-Americans and Latinos are supporting the Palestinian rights movements too, according to Pew. At the same time, the BDS movement has grown outside campuses, including in several historic Protestant church denominations that manage multimillion-dollar investment funds.

Despite the increased support for Palestinian rights movements, pro-Palestinian activists believe the Education Department’s move will slow their groups’ growth.

“This can and will cause people to not speak out the way they want to, even on views that are becoming more common across the board,” said Rebecca Vilkomerson, the executive director of Jewish Voice for Peace, a left-wing group active on college campuses.

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A look into German culture at ISU Nicole Nunez Reporter

Division of Student Affairs is hosting this month’s edition of the Heritage Games: German American. This Wednesday, Sept. 19, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., the Heritage Games will present their table for German American culture in the Hulman Memorial Student Union.

Every month, the Heritage Games recognize different countries, showcasing pieces of the month’s culture. Food, artifacts, games, and more can be found at their table. This month, one will find German artifacts, German candy, and German games. This event provides students and staff with a hands-on, free of cost, passive experience with a potentially new culture.

Everything found on the table is either from students and faculty that come from German-American culture or is shipped directly from Germany.

Many faculty and students offer to bring their culture to the event- bringing in ideas, items and personal experiences with their German culture that can then be shared with the students and faculty of ISU. Other items, like candy, are being shipped directly from places in Germany to provide a realistic view of the German culture.

Students at ISU are at the center of this event- networking, creating, researching, and engaging to make this event the most accurate and hands-on it can be.

“Students create every element,” said Elonda Ervin, Executive Director of Multicultural Services and Programs, and students are at the table during the event to engage and interact with passing students and staff to give them a quick insight on the beauty of the German culture. This creates a casual atmosphere, where students and staff are free to simply listen or engage with the culture.

Even if you already know about the German culture, the event

can be beneficial with the different aspects it has to offer.

This event is also set at this time and place for the ease of students.

It is “created and planned during the lunch period,” Ervin said. “It is already happening while you’re relaxing.” Life as a college student can be hectic, so this event will not take away from rigorous schedules (or nap-time) and can provide a time, not only to learn, but to relax and have some fun.

The purpose of the Heritage Games is simple, “to expose you to people right next to you,” said Ervin. Many are unaware of the people and culture around them, and the Heritage Games provide a perfect outlet to expand one’s knowledge of the beauty of difference. Heritage Games provide a passive, brief insight into a whole new world.

Students can come to the HMSU, not only for food, friends and a place to relax, but to step into a new place, new language and a new way of life.

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Nathan and wife Keys Richardson, of Los Angeles, wait in line for the Burgers Never Say Die pop-up to open at The Glendale Tap in Glendale, Calif., on Aug. 26, 2018. “The best in town,” said Keys. “It is so worth the wait.”

The story behind Burgers Never Say Die (the burger pop-up with the 2-hour wait) and its new Silver Lake restaurant Jenn Harris Los Angeles Times (TNS) LOS ANGELES — Is this what a McDonald’s double cheeseburger was meant to taste like?

That thought invariably comes to mind when you bite into one of Shawn Nee’s double-cheese smash burgers. The only thing Nee says he knows how to make, the burgers have prompted twohour-long lines at his Hollywood backyard pop-up, Burgers Never Say Die. They’ve become so popular that this fall, Nee will open his first bricks-and-mortar on Glendale Boulevard in Silver Lake.

Nee is sitting at Silverlake Coffee on a recent afternoon, contemplating the runaway success of his burger pop-up.

“I don’t believe anybody when they tell me they like the burgers,” he says with a shake of his head. “I’m not a cook.”

While he may not be professionally trained, Nee, who has a

union job working on the television game show “Let’s Make a Deal,” makes some of the most-coveted smash burgers in Los Angeles. When he and his $7 double cheeseburgers pop up on the side of his East Hollywood home, or at a bar or restaurant, it creates a frenzy among his 13,000 Instagram followers. The burgers often sell out within an hour.

At first glance though, Nee’s double-cheese smash burger looks, well, pretty unremarkable.

It is served on a paper plate, usually pressed up against one side.

There may be a little pickle juice strewn across and a smudge of ketchup.

But Nee’s burger tastes like the first day of summer, of backyard barbecues and neighborhood swim parties. There’s an inherent nostalgia in its simplicity that’s comforting on the deepest of levels.

The patties are smashed into near oblivion, with two ultra-thin layers of beef that caramelize and crisp up around the edges. A friend smartly dubbed the jagged

edges “meat lace.” The cheese is American, which means it turns into goo and melts in a way only American cheese can. The bun, of the squishy grocery-store variety, molds to the meat, soaking up just enough grease to make it perfectly pliable. And it is dressed simply with sour pickles, minced white onion and a squirt each of ketchup and mustard.

A day later, a week later, a month later, it is that lopsided double cheeseburger you will use to measure every other burger going forward.

While the burger may seem simple, it took Nee more than a couple of years to perfect, and he’s still tinkering with it.

“I basically read just one article about smash burgers and then I just started,” says Nee, who has gone through dozens of versions of smashers, buns, cheese, meatto-fat ratios and sizes of diced onion before deciding on the current iteration of the burger.

And he has someone who runs a

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Balancing Act: Aly Raisman’s powerful lesson about trusing your gut and your voice Heidi Stevens Chicago Tribune(TNS)

I’m just now catching up with Aly Raisman’s book, “Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything,” and there’s a passage I want to tell you about.

Raisman is a two-time Olympian with six medals — three of them gold — who served as captain of the U.S. gymnastics teams in both London (2012) and Rio (2016).

Her book is about her family (she’s one of four kids), her lifelong dream of becoming an Olympic gymnast and her path to getting there.

Raisman is also one of more than 100 athletes who spoke out about sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of Larry Nassar, a sports doctor for the U.S. Women’s National Team and Michigan State University. Raisman’s victim impact statement, which was met with applause in the courtroom, is widely credited with crystallizing the weight of Nassar’s crimes for the viewing public. The New York Times devoted a full page to reprinting it.

“Larry, you do realize now that we, this group of women you so heartlessly abused over such a long period of time, are now a force and you are nothing,” Raisman said in her statement. “The tables have turned, Larry. We are here, we have our voices, and we are not going anywhere.”

Nassar occupies very little space in “Fierce.”

“I am not going into specifics about what Larry did to me — that information is private,” Raisman writes.

She shares some basics — the call she received from USA Gymnastics telling her a private investigator would be visiting her, her yearslong internal conflict over whether Nassar’s methods were as violating as they felt, her hope that her story will inspire other abuse survivors to speak up.

Most of her story, though, is not lived or told under his shadow. As it should be.

The passage in “Fierce” I was most struck by is about her decision to pose for ESPN magazine’s Body Issue, which is filled with artfully shot, naked images of athletes.

Her first instinct was to say no when the magazine came calling.

“I pictured myself typing my name into Google, knowing that naked photos of me had been published — and there was nothing I could do if I didn’t like what I saw,” she writes. “I also wondered how the people I knew would react. My coaches, for example.”

She talked it over with her parents and siblings. “Why would you want to?” one sister asked.

“If I were a man, this would be no big deal, I told myself,” Raisman writes. “Men pose for these things all the time. Why is it different because I’m a woman?”

She thought about all the ways girls and women are judged for the ways their bodies look — too small, too big, too muscular. “They are taught to dislike what makes them stand out,” she writes.

“I had worked my whole life to look the way I did, and I was through letting anyone make me ashamed of my body,” she writes. “I was now 20 years old, and training for a second Olympics had made me appreciate my body like never before.”

Why shouldn’t she be included in a Body Issue?

“I had always weighed decisions by asking myself, ‘What will everyone else think?’ first and ‘What do I want to do?’ second,” she writes.

“It was time to listen to my voice above the others.”

She called the magazine to accept.

“When I spoke, my voice was firm,” she said. “‘I’ll do it.’”

How many of us have spent decades (a lifetime?) weighing decisions, first, by asking what everyone else will think? How many of us have only recently learned — are still trying to learn — to listen to our own voices above others?

How many of us are raising children to listen to and use their own voices?

Raisman’s book, as I said, is about her. Not Nassar.

But I can’t help but place her epiphany next to what she writes about his abuse.

“There seemed to be so many reasons not to speak up,” she writes.

“First of all, what if I was wrong? Maybe what he did was a legitimate medical practice, just like he said all along. Maybe people wouldn’t believe me, or would think I was exaggerating and being dramatic, or they’d hate me. Maybe they would think that I was doing it just to get attention. And then there was Larry’s family to think of. What if I ruined their lives?”

In the end, she found the courage to listen to her own voice above the others.

Nassar was sentenced in January to 40 to 175 years in prison for multiple sex crimes. That wouldn’t have happened without her voice and the voices of more than 100 other survivors who came forward.

“To everyone reading this,” Raisman writes. “Your story matters.

You matter, and you should trust yourself. If something feels off, and you think you may be being manipulated or taken advantage of, speak up. You are strong and tough. You are not alone. You deserve to feel safe. It’s as simple as that.”

And it starts with listening to your own voice above others.

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Hispanic TED Talk- The Latino Movement Lauren Rader Reporter

Hispanic Heritage Month began in 1968 as an observance week, and eventually grew to Heritage Month in 1988 when Public Law 100-402 was passed, according to hispanicheritagemonth.gov.

Indiana State University (ISU) recognizes this cultural celebration and develops events through the La Casita Resource Center,

which serves to educate the campus on Hispanic and Latin cultures. Among the events happening on campus to celebrate is the Hispanic TEDTalk- The Latino Movement. This event is today, Tuesday, Sept. 18 in the Charles E. Brown African American Cultural Center from 6-8 p.m.

Adejoke Yusuf, a Graduate Assistant of the La Casita Resource Center, said, “The popular TEDTalk, as we know it, involves talking about ideas worth spreading. However, TEDTalkthe Latino Movement is about

giving a voice to the Hispanic/ Latino heritage, and promoting cultural heritage in this current generation. The aim is to sensitize young Hispanic/Latino individuals to preserve the heritage.

The talk is about cultural ideas worth spreading.”

The TEDTalk sets up a platform for students to learn more about different cultures, and respect others’ beliefs and traditions. Yusuf touched on many unique features of this TEDTalk, including the ability to express ideas freely and learn more about

Hispanic/Latino culture in an interesting way.

“The TEDTalk is not speaker driven, but audience driven,” Yusuf said. “It is designed to be an interactive talk session where ideas will be exchanged. Everyone in attendance can contribute and express their opinion.”

The La Casita Resource Center is being supported by the Cunningham Memorial Library and The Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, as well as student organizations including Hispanic Latino Alliance, Student Govern-

ment Association, and the Brotherhood of Successful Scholars.

The Center’s values, stated on the ISU website that it focuses on “assisting in the retention and graduation of multicultural students by fostering a sense of community through intellectual, social, and cultural exchange” as well as “providing and promoting safe spaces for challenging dialogue about students’ experiences and concern ” are on display with this event planning.

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BURGER FROM PAGE 4 steel company specially make his smashers, which look like bent pieces of metal with a handle attached.

When Nee started his pop-up in his home a little more than a year ago, he was simply trying to make burgers for friends and family. He and his wife, Julie, got the idea while driving around Los Angeles eating burgers, one of their favorite ways to spend the weekend.

As more people started to show up, he enlisted the help of his babysitter and a

couple more friends. Eventually, Nee, Bonnie Amos, Gary Winterboer and Brad Stemke formed the Burgers Never Say Die crew. The quirky bunch dressed up in burger hats and socks and wore pins with characters from the Netflix show “Stranger Things” to cook burgers on Sundays at Nee’s house.

“When I hit 50 followers on Instagram, I thought it was the biggest deal ever,” says Nee. While there’s a definite ’80s theme that coincides with Burgers Never Say Die (there are Battle Ship and Connect Four games on the pop-up tables), Nee

Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018 • Page 5 says the name isn’t actually a nod to the “goonies never say die” line in the 1985 movie “The Goonies.”

“I was watching ‘Lord of the Rings’ and I thought, wouldn’t it be so cool to do a T-shirt with a wizard and this beam coming out of it and under it says ‘Wizards never say die?’” says Nee. “I thought I’m just going to call it Burgers Never Say Die. Many people were, like, you can’t do that. I tend not to listen to people for the most part.”

When Nee recently popped up at Glendale Tap bar, the last pop-up before opening his restaurant, the line stretched down the

block.

“I don’t wait in line for much,” said 35-year-old Ryan McGuire. The former cook said he learned about the pop-up from Instagram. “I hate lines, but it’s the fact that it could be something amazing and intriguing.”

Nee seems genuinely surprised by the crowds that form. The 42-yearold moved to Los Angeles from Boston 20 years ago to work in film and television, is a self-taught photographer, and didn’t eat red meat for a time.

“It’s one of those stories where it like takes you half your life to figure out what

you’re supposed to do,” says Nee. The bricks-and-mortar Burgers Never Say Die will serve a double burger, single burger and a grilled cheese (but Nee says it will be called something else), fries and soda. At least one off-the-menu item that was available at the backyard pop-ups will also be available. And he’s working on three more menu items he’s not yet ready to reveal.

“I’m bringing the backyard into the kitchen,” says Nee, whose space is outfitted with three griddles, a six-basket fryer and a machine so he can grind his own meat throughout the

day.

The building features a mural of his burger crew, pixelated like ’80s video game characters on the side of the building, by the artist the Wolf Council. And while this may be the first Burgers Never Say Die bricks-and-mortar and Nee’s first foray into the restaurant business, there are loose plans for more in the future.

“This is location one, and it will evolve like everything else,” says Nee. “It’s just weird to think that it’s become what it is. It’s humbling.”

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Evacuation is most important during a hurricane Rachel Modi Columnist

One of the biggest hurricanes on recent record hit our east coast this past week.

According to CBS News, in places Hurricane Florence did not hit directly, other east coast states have been flooded with rain and high winds.

Around 740,000 companies and homes continue without power and may be powerless for weeks.

Major flash flood warnings and forecasters have continuously informed 1.4 million citizens to evacuate the shores of North and South Carolina and Virginia.

After the first set of rainfall hit and the eye of the hurricane knocked over thousands of buildings and homes, towns in North Carolina received over 30 inches of rain.

That is about 2.5 feet, which is a foot below my waist.

Other places are suffering worse, with water reaching the roofs of their homes.

Imagine seeing all that water cover the inside of your home and throughout your entire neighborhood.

Repeated warnings for evacuation to seek protection in a shelter still have residents saying they are going to “ride it out.”

Associated Press has reported that the death toll has climbed up to 15.

Deaths include a mother and child killed by a fallen tree in their home, a mother whose car collided after a tree fell and others who did not survive the extreme flooding on roads.

Those are the deaths that have been confirmed. There is no telling who else did not survive the risks of “riding out” this menacing hurricane.

Officials have announced that Hurricane Florence is possibly North Carolina’s worst flooding.

We have teams out there searching for those who need rescuing, and charitable organizations such as American Red Cross are helping those who are injured and in need of common necessities.

Although there is a question that sparks in my mind when I think about some of the deaths during hurricanes and other natural disasters.

Many residents have been informed to evacuate and take matters seriously, but there seems to be a lot of citizens who just do not listen.

So why do people not evacu-

ate? After a little digging, I discovered a few general explanations.

Many of those who do not evacuate are the elderly or are disabled. Most of those who are older may lack the ability to even hear the news. Many also are not up to the times of technology in which we receive new information and warnings.

Similarly, with disabled individuals, evacuating may be troublesome.

Most often these individuals are living alone, so they do not have anyone taking care of them.

This makes evacuating their homes difficult compared to the rest of the population.

In my opinion, there should always be someone looking out for the elderly and disabled, but clearly it does not always happen.

Another reason is that many believe their homes may be burglarized or destroyed.

I understand the thought of others burglarizing a home, because that would strike as the most opportune time to break into a home.

In addition, there are also those who are not financially protected enough to easily pick up their stuff and leave.

If you evacuate your home, you can increase the chance of being robbed, because others know that the family is not home.

On the other hand, as for homes being damaged, obviously the gallons on gallons of rainfall hurling at homes will leave them in pieces and inhabitable.

Lastly, those who have prior experience with hurricanes in their lifetime believe they can “ride it out.”

I believe this is a selfish excuse to endanger family, not evacuating because you think you can survive again.

After seeing a fair amount of photos and videos capturing the horrifying events, there are families with little children now realizing they must escape.

Here is the problem with that: every situation is different; every natural disaster is different; every hurricane is different.

This is not the time to test your luck. This is the time to take care of your loved ones and ensure they receive the protection you may not be able to provide for them.

Natural disasters are out of human control. The best anyone can do is to try to follow expert advice and mandatory evacuation protocols and keep hope for the future.

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Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser steps forward.

Have we learned anything since Anita Hill?

Robin Abcarian

Los Angeles Times

It’s 1991 again in America. Has anything really changed?

Twenty-seven years ago, Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill reluctantly stepped into an unforgiving public spotlight to accuse U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment. He was confirmed anyway.

This time, California psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford has come forward reluctantly to accuse U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault.

Her act of courage raises so many questions: Will Republicans in the Senate do the right thing and postpone their vote on this man, who has had credibility problems throughout the entire hearing process?

Will the citizens of this country stand back and allow the Senate to confirm a man to the highest court in the land with what amounts to an accusation of attempted rape hanging over his head?

Have we learned nothing from the tribulations and aftermath of the Thomas/Hill debacle, when then-Judiciary Committee Chairman Joe Biden refused to allow three other women to corroborate Hill’s allegations under oath? (And has since apologized for his terrible judgment?)

Has the #MeToo Movement not proved that women hold onto painful secrets of sexual harassment and assault for years and years and years because they know they will be disbelieved, mocked, humiliated and/or denied work if they step forward to

PLO can’t be pushed into peace deal Dov Waxman

Los Angeles Times

The Trump administration’s decision to close the Palestine Liberation Organization’s office in Washington this week is the latest in a series of punitive actions it has taken against the Palestinians. The purpose is clear: to force the PLO and its ailing octogenarian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, to restart peace talks with Israel, and, ultimately, to accept the administration’s long-awaited peace plan. This strategy of coercion and collective punishment is bound to fail.

In a pre-Rosh Hashanah conference call with American Jewish communal leaders and rabbis last week, President Trump bluntly expressed the rationale behind the earlier decisions to slash U.S. funding to the Palestinian Authority and defund UNWRA, the United Nations agency responsible for Palestin-

ian refugees. “I told them (the Palestinians), we’re not paying you until we make a deal. If we don’t make a deal, we’re not paying,” the president explained.

Trump apparently believes that the way to make the “deal of the century” between Israel and the Palestinians is to coddle the former and strong-arm the latter, primarily through financial pressure. Convinced that he has taken one hot-button issue off the table by recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moving the U.S. Embassy there, Trump is now trying to force the Palestinians to abandon longstanding demands for a capital in East Jerusalem and the right of return for Palestinian refugees.

Abbas has so far responded by refusing to meet with Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt, nor, reportedly, with Trump himself unless he fires them. Such defiance is hardly surprising given Trump’s unpopularity among Palestinians and

their long history of stubborn resistance to Israeli coercion and American pressure. The Palestinians have rejected many peace plans as far back as late 1930s, and there is no reason to expect that they will capitulate now — especially since the Trump administration’s still undisclosed peace plan is reportedly much more pro-Israel than any of its predecessors.

Instead of pressuring the Palestinians to make peace on Israel’s terms — or more precisely, on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s terms — the Trump administration should be trying to encourage Israelis and Palestinians to want to make peace with each other.

Since the collapse of the Oslo peace process and the outbreak of the second Intifada, both sides have given up their hopes for peace. They deeply distrust each other. They’re both convinced

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accuse powerful men?

And does anyone really find it hard to believe that the culture of male privilege — responsible for producing the perversions of men as varied as President Trump, Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose, Garrison Keillor, Leslie Moonves, Al Franken, Louis CK, Bill O’Reilly, Roger Ailes, Brett Ratner, Russell Simmons — could also produce a drunken prep school senior who assaulted a 15-year-old girl at a party?

Ford, 51, teaches at Palo Alto University and trains graduate students in clinical psychology.

She first stepped forward anonymously, then allowed herself to be identified by the Washington Post on Sunday in order to have some control over her own story: Around 1982, at a summertime party, Ford alleges, Kavanaugh drunkenly pinned her to a bed and ground his body against hers. When she tried to scream, she told the Post, he put his hand over her mouth. She was 15; Kavanaugh was 17.

“I thought he might inadvertently kill me,” Ford told the Post. “He was trying to attack me and remove my clothing.”

This image made me feel sick.

I was attacked in college by a former boyfriend who tried to strangle me. You never forget the panic of not being able to breathe.

She got away, she said, only because a classmate of Kavanaugh’s, Mark Judge, jumped on top of them, “sending all three tumbling” and she used the moment to escape and lock herself in a bathroom. Kavanaugh’s response is, essentially, to call Ford a liar.

“I categorically and unequiv-

ocally deny this allegation,” Kavanaugh, 53, said in a statement issued by the White House on Friday, two days before Ford allowed the Post to publish her name. “I did not do this back in high school or at any time.”

His denials have been corroborated by Judge, a filmmaker and writer who told the Weekly Standard and the New York Times that no such incident had ever occurred. And yet, as the Post — and others have pointed out — Judge published a 1997 memoir, “Wasted,” in which he chronicles moments of blackout drunkenness in high school.

Kavanaugh was also defended in a letter of support signed by 65 women who knew him in high school.

This is just specious. As a friend of mine put it, “That’s like saying an arsonist is innocent because he didn’t burn my house down.”

It’s easy to understand why Ford initially did not want her name out there. What’s the point of subjecting yourself to the ugliness inflicted on women who step forward to impugn the character of men who pretend to be better than they are? Anita Hill still gets hate mail.

And yet, just as I had no trouble believing Hill, I have no trouble believing Ford.

Her account of the alleged attack, the Post said, was corroborated by her therapist’s notes from 2012, her husband, and a lie detector test administered by a retired FBI agent. Lawmakers owe it to the American people to hear her out; she must be allowed to tell senators what happened to her.

Thankfully, some senators are

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Trump embraces a dangerously broad definition of anti-Semitism Los Angeles Times

In response to the rise of pro-Palestinian activism on college campuses, some supporters of Israel have argued that harsh criticism of the Jewish state amounts to anti-Semitism — and even that it violates federal anti-discrimination law. Now the Trump administration, in reopening a 7-year-old case involving alleged anti-Semitism at Rutgers University, seems to have embraced that popular but dangerous view.

It’s dangerous because colleges and universities should be open to robust political discussion, even if offends the deepest beliefs of students. That’s true for public and private universities alike — and public universities are additionally bound by the 1st Amendment. The regents of the University of California real-

ized that in 2016, and that’s why they rebuffed demands that UC declare that “anti-Zionism” was a form of discrimination.

The U.S. Department of Education, however, has now signaled that it is willing to blur the distinction between criticism of Israel and discrimination against Jewish students.

In a letter to the Zionist Organization of America, which long has campaigned against what it claims is anti-Jewish bias on college campuses, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Kenneth Marcus said that the department would revisit an old allegation that Jewish students at Rutgers, the state university of New Jersey, were charged a $5 fee to attend a pro-Palestinian event in 2011 but that others were allowed to attend without charge.

Being exposed to opinions

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insisting that Republicans put on the brakes. “This was a very brave step to come forward,” Sen. Doug Jones, the Alabama Democrat, tweeted Sunday. “It is more important than ever to hit the pause button on Kavanaugh’s confirmation vote until we can fully investigate these serious and disturbing allegations. We cannot rush to move forward under this cloud.”

When I first heard that Kavanaugh had been accused of assaulting an unnamed woman back in high school, I figured no one who had the power to stop his nomination, or at least slow it down, would act.

But his accuser is no longer anonymous. She is risking her privacy and reputation to be heard. She should not be ignored.

I’m not suggesting Kavanaugh be prosecuted on charges he assaulted a 15-year-old girl 36 years ago. But I do think a criminal investigation is in order, just as it was for Moonves, whom the LAPD investigated after a woman accused him of sexually assaulting her in the 1980s.

No charges were filed, but after others came forward, Moonves was forced to leave his powerful job as the head of CBS. Likewise, if the charges against Kavanaugh check out, he certainly should not be rewarded with a lifetime appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court.

one finds offensive isn’t the same as being discriminated against.

The allegation was one of several complaints about alleged discrimination against Jews at Rutgers that the Obama administration dismissed in 2014. Under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, federally aided colleges and universities — virtually all of them — may not discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national origin. (The law has been interpreted to protect groups, such as Jews and Muslims, that are also identified by religion.)

Less significant than the new investigation of the specific facts in the Rutgers case is the fact that Marcus indicated that the Trump administration has decided to embrace a broad interpretation of anti-Semitism contained in statements by the State Department and the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.

Both statements define as an-

TONY DUNGY FROM PAGE 8 the NFL is a different game.

I have a chance to play defensive back, so I’ll go learn how to do that.’

“But after I was in the league a while, I looked around at some of the quarterbacks, especially the backup quarterbacks who were playing, I thought, ‘Yeah, I could have played quarterback.’ ” Dungy is thankful that today’s player views such stories with disbelief.

“Guys like Robert Griffin III and Lamar Jackson, they’ve changed kind of the way we look at things,” Dungy said. “Tyrod Taylor, guys like that. It’s a different M.O. now.”

PLO FROM PAGE 6 that the other side is not genuinely interested in peace — or, at least, is not willing to make the compromises necessary to achieve it.

Overcoming this mistrust is imperative. Ignoring the prevailing climate of opinion among Israelis and Palestinians — marked by high levels of hostility, suspicion, prejudice and mutually exclusive feelings of victimhood — will doom any peace initiative, even one that is reasonably fair to both sides.

The failure of the Oslo peace accords — the first of which was signed with much fanfare 25 years ago Thursday — provides a cautionary tale in this respect.

Although there are many reasons the Oslo accords didn’t lead to a permanent peace agreement (as even the Nobel Peace Prize committee expected they would), one

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ti-Semitic criticisms of Israel that call into question its legitimacy.

The 2010 State Department definition cites as an example of anti-Semitism “denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, and denying Israel the right to exist.” The IHRA definition, which the State Department has endorsed, is more specific, targeting statements “claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.”

Both definitions also condemn criticism that subjects Israel to a double standard by “requiring of it behavior not demanded of any other democratic nation.” That formulation could brand as an anti-Semite someone who, say, criticized Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians but didn’t assail the U.S. or Britain for violating the rights of minorities.

The Trump administration isn’t alone in seeking to inject the State Department definition into determinations about whether a college is discriminating against

Jewish students. That would also be the effect of a bill in Congress called the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act of 2018.

But the two definitions are based on false assumptions.

While it’s no doubt true that some critics of Israel — and of the political philosophy of Zionism — also harbor hatred of Jews, it does not follow from that that all anti-Zionists are anti-Semites.

Opposing Israel’s right to exist or disagreeing with the policies of the Netanyahu government are positions that may be held by many people for many reasons, including people who are not anti-Semitic.

Moreover, even statements that are anti-Semitic are protected by the 1st Amendment, so long as they don’t take the form of threats or face-to-face harassment. That’s the price we pay to live in a country that zealously protects free speech.

Granted, college campuses are also places in which students

shouldn’t have to contend with a “hostile learning environment.”

A student can’t learn if he or she is subjected to acts of bigotry, subjected to racial or religious epithets or treated differently because of race or religion. The federal government must investigate complaints that colleges allow such misconduct.

But students cannot and should not be hermetically sealed off from speech that offends them.

Undoubtedly many Jewish students are made uncomfortable by fellow students or visiting speakers who denounce or demonize Israel, just as Catholic students might be dismayed by a speaker who impugned the teachings of Christianity or lampooned the pope.

But being exposed to opinions one finds offensive isn’t the same as being discriminated against.

It’s troubling that the Trump administration apparently doesn’t understand the distinction.

important factor was the lack of public support for the major concessions that both sides needed to make. Without that, Israeli and Palestinian political leaders were reluctant to risk their jobs — and possibly their lives — by making compromises, especially on the future of Jerusalem and its holy sites.

But any peace agreement inevitably demands such concessions.

It is essential, therefore, to build public support for that idea and to restore some hope among Israelis and Palestinians if there is ever again to be an atmosphere conducive to peacemaking. This means engaging in “peacebuilding,” before peacemaking.

Peacebuilding encompasses a wide range of civil society activities that promote communication, cooperation and reconciliation between members of warring groups. Peacebuilding can forge positive relationships

between Israelis and Palestinians, promote greater understanding and empathy between them, and hence create constituencies for peace. It takes time, effort and money to improve attitudes and perceptions on both sides, but it can be done.

In fact, it’s already happening in countless small ways through projects engaging Israelis and Palestinians, most of which are barely known and receive little funding. Many are dialogue and encounter programs, often involving women and youth, but a growing number of initiatives focus on joint activities addressing shared interests and concerns, such as economic development and environmental protection.

These people-to-people projects can have a transformative impact, first on the lives of those who take part in them, then ultimately on the whole Israeli-Palestinian conflict if it stops being seen in a ze-

ro-sum manner.

Twenty years ago, another bitter, long-running conflict that was also believed to be intractable — the one between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland — ended with the signing of the Good Friday agreement.

What brought this about was not only high-level diplomacy (including some American pressure), but also years of well-funded peacebuilding projects connecting members of the rival communities.

Peacebuilding helped the Good Friday agreement succeed, whereas a lack of peacebuilding undermined the Oslo accords. If Trump wants to achieve the deal of the century, then his administration should invest in Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding, not divest from the Palestinians.

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ISU Soccer set to play against Evansville this Saturday.

Soccer bounces back on Senior Day Garrett Short Reporter After a loss to Western Michigan on Friday, the Indiana State women’s soccer team beat Chicago State 8-0 Sunday, honoring their five seniors in style.

ISU came out firing on Friday as was expected. The team hadn’t lost in over two weeks and took a 1-0 lead into halftime after a goal by Katie Sidloski on a penalty kick. ISU’s offense created ample opportunities in the first half but stalled in the second.

Western Michigan, meanwhile, turned

it on after the break. After a few unbelievable saves by Hannah Sullivan, the Broncos finally broke through. They notched three goals in about three minutes of action to flip the script on ISU. In the closing minutes of the game, ISU was able to gather themselves and cut the deficit to 3-2. Katie Wells sent a free kick into the box that Alina Steffen miraculously ricocheted into the net. But it was too little too late for the Sycamores, as they lost their first home game of the weekend by one.

The turnaround was quick, though, as ISU hosted Chicago State Sunday afternoon. The Sycamores honored seniors Maya Jamison, Katie Wells, Julia Kist,

Thankfully, Tony Dungy’s world as a black QB differs dramatically from Patrick Mahomes’

Caitlyn Eddy and Kim Gleason before the game.

It was a blink of an eye and ISU had a lead once the game was underway. ISU was extremely aggressive going against a susceptible defense and a Cougars team that has yet to win a game in 2018. Freshman Sidney Ewing found the net from deep to put ISU up 1-0 not even three minutes into the game. From there it was a barrage of shots for the Sycamores. Wells scored twice and Steffen scored once to give the Sycamores a comfortable 4-0 lead at the half.

The defense was staunch for ISU but Sullivan still had to do her job making a few saves including a diving save in the

second half. With a vice grip on the game, the Sycamores continued to pour it on.

Danielle Varner, Jazlyn Rowan and Katie Sidloski all added goals in the second half before Ewing notched her second goal of the game to finalize the game at 8-0.

It was a historical weekend for Wells, who tallied two goals and two assists this weekend to move into second place in alltime points at ISU. A big win could be what the team needs as they open up their conference season against Evansville this Saturday. The Sycamores (6-3-2) take on Evansville (2-7-1) at 2 p.m. Eastern

Sycamore football bounces back at EIU

Mark Craig Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (TNS) MINNEAPOLIS — Patrick Mahomes’ debut as Alex Smith’s successor in Kansas City couldn’t have gone much better last Sunday.

He threw four touchdown passes, didn’t turn the ball over, posted a 127.5 passer rating, outplayed Philip Rivers, beat the AFC West-rival Chargers on the road and …

Was fortunate, as a black quarterback, to be born in 1995 and not 1955 or 1956, as black NFL pioneers Tony Dungy and Warren Moon were, respectively.

“It was a different time for African-American quarterbacks,” said Dungy, who was in the Twin Cities this weekend as part of the Ford Motor Company’s “Hometown Hall of Famers” ceremony at the University of Minnesota.

Dungy, a Pro Football Hall of Famer, presented his alma mater with a plaque on Friday. Thursday, he took some time to talk about being a black quarterback from 1973, when he started against Nebraska on his 18th birthday, to 1976, when he mistakenly assumed he would be given a chance to play quarterback in the NFL. “I told somebody this story at the Super Bowl,” said Dungy, referring to Super Bowl XLI, when he became the first black coach to win the Lombardi Trophy.

“My senior year, we played out in Washington. Warren Moon quarterbacked the Huskies. I quarterbacked the Gophers. Warren led the PAC-8 in passing. I led the Big Ten in passing. Warren was the Most Valuable Player in the Rose Bowl after upsetting Michigan. He didn’t get drafted (in 1978) and ended up going to Canada. I didn’t get drafted (in 1977) and had to change positions.”

Dungy switched to defensive back, played two years with the Steelers, won a Super Bowl, played another year with the 49ers, retired and got an early jump on a Hall of Fame coaching career.

Moon became a superstar in Canada, won Grey Cup titles and elbowed his way into the NFL, where he became the Hall of Fame’s first black quarterback.

“I certainly wasn’t Warren Moon,” Dungy said. “But that’s kind of how it was. In this day and age, I think I probably would have gone into the NFL as a quarterback. I had a little different skill set than a lot of quarterbacks, but I thought I could play because my game was similar to Fran Tarkenton’s.”

Mahomes was a first-round draft pick a year ago. Naturally, it didn’t matter that he’s black. Some thought it would matter that he comes from the Texas Tech “Air Raid” system. But Chiefs coach Andy Reid trusted him enough to trade Alex Smith to Washington and turn a playoff team over to a guy with one career start.

Seven NFL teams have a black starting quarterback this season.

That, of course, is an antiquated statistic. No one even thinks to look it up, unless it’s out of curiosity after reflecting on a narrow-minded time in the league’s history with a Hall of Famer around Dungy’s age or older.

“Marv Levy was coaching in the CFL in Montreal,” Dungy said.

“Bill Polian was the general manager. They owned my rights. Marv said, ‘You can come up to Canada and step right in at quarterback.’ ” But Dungy said he wanted to play against the best.

“That was the choice; that was the dilemma,” he said. “… I felt, ‘OK,

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Sycamores beat Eastern Illinois.

David Cruz Reporter This past Saturday was a good one for the Sycamores, as we beat Eastern Illinois University to improve our record to 2-1 for the season.

With an ending score of 5541, it was a battle of the titans between Senior runback Ja’Quan Keys and junior transfer quarterback Jonathan Brantley. Keys put up some historic numbers, finishing the game with a career high of 232 yards on 34 carries including four touchdowns.

Brantley had quite a night himself, throwing for 443 yards and four touchdowns, going for an efficient 37-49 on the night, but it still was not enough to get past the Sycamore.

In Ryan Boyle’s first college

football start, he had a solid night completing 13 of his 18 passes. Although he did not put up a touchdown, his smart play fueled the offense throughout the game. His top target was Dante Hendrix who caught five passes for 99 yards, along with his teammate Michael Thomas who caught three passes for 65 and was also a key contributor to the win.

On the defensive side of the ball, it was Jonas Griffith who was once again a force to be reckoned with as he produce 11 tackles. His teammate Katrell Moss was just as big as an impact, producing eight total stops and a key fumble recovery, which set up a key touchdown late in the first half for the Sycamores by Ja’Quan Keys. The Sycamore defense shut down the EIU running game

with only 46 yards on the ground and held their number one running back, Jamal Scott. He played for Independence Community College, one of the teams featured in Netflix’s popular series, Last Chance U. Junior kicker, Jerry Nunez, went perfect for the night going 7-7 on all his PATs and 2-2 for his field goals, nailing a 22-yard field goal and 25 yard goal. Special teams had a huge impact on the win, leading the way was freshman wide receiver Dakota Caton who amassed 178 yards of kick return yardage on the night.

ISU looks to keep the momentum going as they face off against Northern Iowa on Thursday, September 27 at Memorial Stadium. Northern Iowa is 0-2 in the 2018 season.