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Students recieve free items and learn new resources at the annual Library Extravaganza.

15th Library Extravaganza captivates students A.J. Goelz Reporter

On Thursday, students had the opportunity to attend the Cunningham Memorial Library’s fifteenth annual Library Extravaganza. Every year this event is held to introduce students to the services provided by the library.

“We do this early in the semester for the students to introduce them to the services and get comfortable with the building,” Robin Crumrin, the dean of library services, said.

This not just an event for freshman, or those new to Indiana State University. According to Crumrin, the event is a chance for all students to learn about new services

the university has to offer.

The event is not all about the services provided by the library; many campus groups and services also had booths. Groups like the American Democracy Project, which is an initiative that promotes civic engagement and civil discourse across the political spectrum.

Some of the service offices in attendance included the Health Center, Career Center, representatives of the Speaker Series and Performing Arts Series and an often forgotten service, the Counseling Center.

The Counseling Center is a service offered to any student who is currently enrolled at ISU. The service is not free. According to pamphlets handed to students at the event, standard fees are $60 per academic year or

LatinX movement aims for inclusivity Ian Bonner-Swedish Reporter

Inclusivity continues to be a hot topic in the United States; however, it shows a different side in its multifaceted agenda. For English speakers, it is not too difficult to find gender-neutral terms. That’s not the case in Spanish — a language that places male and female terms on objects and people.

“Latinx is a way to be inclusive, to crush patriarchy, to decolonize a particular language, and to help educate,” Adrianna Rodriquez helped explain a movement within Latin and Hispanic cultures that aims to make the language more inclusive.

“Latinx is supposed to be a way to go beyond the gender binary. The binary is limiting, and its not really true. It’s an imaginary

binary that puts people into a male category and a female category at the exclusion of anyone who may be in between or outside of that,” she said.

Prior to the use of Latinx they used Latin@. The “@” representing both the A and O of Latino or Latina. The idea of crushing patriarchy within the use of Latinx comes from the fact that the “gender neutral” terms are the same as the male terms.

She provided an example with the word “los” or “las.” Rather than keeping either of those vowels in the word as they were traditionally, they place an x on those gender defining vowels so that they are “lxs” It’s not entirely accepted; the aspect of communicating verbally leaves people troubled.

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$30 a semester. Students are encouraged to seek more detailed information on the Counseling Centers website.

This event is not just a useful tool for students, but also one for the different organizations and services to boost attendance.

“I think we do very well for our first couple events, at both the Speaker Series and Performing Arts Series. A lot of people don’t realize that this stuff is free or that it’s going on. I definitely think it helps boost attendance,” Jordyn Pitts, an ISU employee working at the Hulman Center, said.

Interaction with the students is a big part of this event, according to Crumrin.

“For the Dean of Students office, the Dean, the Associate Dean and Assistant Dean are here, and it gives us an opportuni-

ty to meet with a lot of students at once, explain our role and share with them what we want, what our mission is and how we can help them,” Alfred “Al” Perone, the associate dean of students and ombudsperson, said.

Students in attendance were provided free food and drinks along with a gift bag.

Students also had the chance to win prizes by speaking with the representatives at the different booths and collecting stamps on a card that would then be put in a box to be drawn from.

“It’s just a really good resource for students. There are so many things that even I, as an employee, don’t know about or exist.

I think it’s really good that people are being proactive about spreading that word,” Pitts said.

Georgia’s campus carry law attracts opinions, but no problems Eric Stirgus

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution TNS

There is some consensus among supporters and critics about one aspect of Georgia’s new campus carry law.

Both sides say the provision that allows licensed weapon owners to carry guns at tailgating, but not inside athletic venues, needs changes.

Those who oppose the law want guns forbidden at tailgating. The pro-carry fans want the law to provide for a safer place to store guns on campus other than a glove compartment.

“I think mixing guns with alcohol is not a good thing, especially with students tailgating,” said Emma Moore, 22, a first-year University of Georgia graduate student from Gwinnett County, tailgating with friends on campus Saturday afternoon.

Dallin Larsen, a third-year UGA doctoral student, who is a licensed

weapon holder said the rules are too cumbersome. Parking lots can be a long walk from tailgating areas. And the law didn’t make allowances for storing guns on campus. Cars, he said, are the only places where a gun could be stored before entering the stadium. So his plan is to tailgate at a friend’s house off-campus.

“A lot of people will decide to not carry to avoid the inconvenience of having to find a proper and secure place to store their firearm before going into the stadium,” said Larsen, 30.

This is the first school year under the new campus carry law. Gov. Nathan Deal signed House Bill 280 into law in May, allowing licensed weapons holders to carry firearms on various portions of Georgia’s public colleges and universities.

The law came after years of debate between proponents, who wanted gun owners to have a layer of personal safety, and opponents who are concerned about people not in

law enforcement with a gun and the consequences if they misfire. The law does not apply to private institutions, such as Emory University or the Atlanta University Center’s campuses.

The law took effect in July and, so far, state officials say no one has been charged with carrying a gun in a prohibited area.

Those who advocated for the legislation say the early numbers showing no misdemeanor violations of the law show the fears about campus carry were overblown.

“It’s just one more place to carry,” said Jerry Henry, executive director of the gun rights group, Georgia Carry.

Those who were against the bill concede the law won’t be repealed, but they want changes, such as removing the tailgating provision.

“We’re not going to be able to repeal this bill … but we’re looking at how can we try to avoid the things

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Irma restarts debate on climate change and warmer oceans Stuart Leavenworth

McClatchy Washington Bureau TNS

McClatchy Washington Bureau TNS

Wind prediction for Irma over the next 5 days.

Hurricanes Harvey and now Irma became monster storms while swirling over two separate stretches of unusually warm ocean water, a feature that has reignited debate on climate change and the degree it is adding to the intensity of hurricanes.

Scientists all agree that global warming is not the cause of hurricanes, a fact made obvious by the long history of tropical cyclones. But there is scientific consensus that a warming planet will produce bigger and more destructive hurricanes, with many scientists arguing that those impacts are already occurring.

Peter J. Webster, an atmospheric scientist at Georgia Institute of Technology, said it’s clear that Harvey intensified amid some abnormally warm

waters in the Gulf of Mexico, and that Irma formed during a season when the Atlantic was also warmer than average.

“I stand by what I said in 2005 — warmer sea temperatures will lead to stronger hurricanes,” said Webster, who 12 years ago published a hotly debated study reporting a rise in Category 4 and Category 5 hurricanes since 1970.

Webster cautioned, however, that sea temperatures are just one factor in spawning hurricanes. “We have two things going on,” he said. “Natural variability and warmer sea temperature.”

As of Wednesday afternoon, forecasters were calling Irma the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic, with winds up to 185 miles per hour. Depending on its track, it could strike Florida by weekend, possibly landing as a Category 5 storm.

It has long been known that warmer ocean waters can serve as “fuel” for hurricanes, including those in the Atlantic and Caribbean. The Atlantic this year has been unusually warm, but there is scientific debate on the reasons why.

Temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean are affected by a natural phenomenon called the “Atlantic multidecadal oscillation,” which results partly from a change in ocean currents. From the 1970s to the early 1990s, Atlantic temperatures were relatively cool because of this oscillation. Since then, the Atlantic has been generally warmer, coinciding with scientific concern over rising greenhouse gases and elevated global temperatures.

To analyze what is occurring, scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, have de-

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Public dumps on Trump to reconsider auto fuel economy standards Russ Mitchell Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Genaro Molina|Los Angeles Times|TNS

Pope Francis waves to pilgrims at the Municipal Sports Center in San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico. He is scheduled to arrive in Colombia on Wednesday.

Pope Francis arrives for Colombia’s first papal visit since 1986 Chris Kraul Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Pope Francis arrived in Colombia on Wednesday for the first papal visit since 1986, the beginning of an intense, five-day trip in which he will try to bring a sharply divided nation together in the cause of peace.

The pope’s Alitalia jet touched down at a military base next to Bogota’s El Dorado International Airport and was met by President Juan Manuel Santos, his wife, Maria Clemencia, and Msgr. Ettore Balestrero, the Vatican’s representative in Bogota.

Santos has focused much of his presidency on a peace agreement finalized in December with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, the largest of several mainly leftist rebel forces that have been at war with the government since the 1960s.

The peace deal ended 52 years of conflict, but its concessions to the rebels have opened sharp divisions in Colombian society, between those willing to forgive the violence of the past and those who insist the agreement’s terms are too generous.

Francis strongly supported the peace initiative without appearing

to favor either side or specific deal points. A Vatican spokesman said this week that the pope has long wanted to visit Colombia, with the world’s third-biggest population of Roman Catholics, but wanted to wait until the peace negotiations were completed before making the trip.

In a video message broadcast this week over Colombian TV, Francis said he arrives as a “pilgrim of hope and peace.” In a clear reference to the peace agreement now in its early stages of implementation, he said the motto for his trip is “making the first step.” He said the church is “called to the task of promoting reconciliation.”

Instead of the military honor guard usually summoned to greet visiting heads of state, Francis was met by scores of children from across Colombia, including 11-year-old Emmanuel Rojas, son of Clara Rojas, who was working as an aide to presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt when they were both kidnapped by the FARC in 2002. Emmanuel was born during his mother’s six-year captivity.

To the strains of classical music played by the Bogota Philharmonic Orchestra, Francis also met with

wounded veterans of the police and military hurt by land mines and gunfire.

He then boarded an open popemobile for the eight-mile ride to the Vatican ambassador’s residence where he was to spend the night. He rode in a caravan as ecstatic onlookers strained for a glimpse of the pontiff and waved Colombian flags and white handkerchiefs.

The pope’s formal agenda was to begin Thursday morning with a meeting in the city center with government officials as well as civil society groups.

Other events scheduled included meetings with Santos and leading Latin American bishops, followed by an outdoor Mass, which up to 700,000 were expected to attend.

On Friday, Francis is expected to fly to Villavicencio, capital of Meta province, where he will conduct Mass and preach reconciliation in an agricultural region that suffered much during Colombia’s long and violent civil conflict. He will also plead for respect for the environment, a primary concern of his papacy.

The pope’s agenda then takes him to Medellin on Saturday where he

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Student activists: Fly, don’t drive Barry Glassner Los Angeles Times (TNS)

California’s prosecution of two anti-abortion activists on felony charges of invasion of privacy appears to be on solid ground, though the case is likely to test the strength of the state’s ban on the surreptitious recording of others, legal experts said Wednesday.

Attorney General Xavier Becerra unveiled a 15-count felony complaint Tuesday against activists David Robert Daleiden and Sandra Merritt alleging that they video-recorded 14 people without their consent at meetings with women’s health care providers in Los Angeles,

Pasadena, San Francisco and El Dorado.

An Irvine-based anti-abortion group founded

by Daleiden later posted the video online, charging that Planned Parenthood was involved in the selling of fetal tissue.

Investigations eventually cleared the organization of the charges, but the reports sparked threats and violence against Planned Parenthood centers.

Stanford law professor Robert Weisberg said the state appears to have the evidence needed to win convictions.

For the activists to argue the recordings were “in the public interest to expose some very bad activity imputed to the victims here — well sorry, you can’t

do that,” Weisberg said.

“Becerra is on very strong ground here.”

Other legal analysts were less certain.

University of California, Hastings law professor Rory Little, a former federal prosecutor, said the question of when deception can be used to gather information affects many areas of the law.

“This one is really interesting because of the political tilt to it,” Little said. “We generally feel like there is a privilege for journalists. If this were The Washington Post having infiltrated the Aryan Brotherhood gang, we might be cheering and saying, ‘Good work.’”

Little said a First Amendment defense by

income definitely helped me to provide for myself and to help out my family as well,” Plascencia said.

DACA workers and the firms that employ them are faced with uncertainty after the White House said it would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program initiated in 2012 by President Barack Obama.

Under the program, participants (so-called Dreamers) who were brought to the United States as children could receive a renewable two-year deportation deferral and work permits if they met certain requirements.

The Trump administration argued that the program was unconstitutional, was never intended to be permanent, and that Congress now has six months to change the immigration laws and find a DACA replacement, if it chooses.

No new DACA applica-

tions are being considered, and those with permits expiring between now and March 5 have until Oct. 5 to apply for renewal.

A wide swath of the business community, led by major technology firms, is opposed to Trump’s move.

Even before his decision, more than 300 business leaders — including the chief executives at Apple Inc., Facebook Inc. and Amazon.com — signed a letter urging Trump not to rescind the program.

Wells Fargo Chief Executive Timothy Sloan also signed the letter, which cheered Plascencia. “It gave me a little sense of comfort knowing the company I work for has people like me in mind,” Plascencia said.

Now that Trump has acted, his decision faces court challenges, which could delay or block DACA’s termination. Fifteen states and the District of Columbia filed suit

the activists would likely complicate the prosecution, particularly given “the atmospherics” of the case.

“To me,” Little said, “the interesting question is not so much is this a hard criminal case to prove, but that there is going to be a First Amendment challenge to the use of the statute” in addition to charges of selective prosecution.

California has long had stronger privacy protections than most states. A right to privacy is even enshrined in the California Constitution.

But California’s privacy laws have been tested most frequently in the context of civil litigation, not under the higher hurdles of.

Hurricanes. Wildfires.

Heat waves.

Asthma.

Bronchitis.

Emphysema. Lung cancer.

War. Those specters and more were raised Wednesday at a public hearing in Washington by opponents of a Trump administration plan to consider cutbacks in pollution and fuel economy standards for automobiles and light trucks.

Dozens of people — including environmentalists, academics and a former general in the U.S. Marines — blasted that plan, citing global warming, jobs and consumer savings among the reasons.

Nearly everyone who offered testimony at the Environmental Protection Agency hearing strongly supported the current standards, which call for a fleet average of about 40 miles per gallon in real-world driving by 2025, up from the mid-20s today.

Among the few supporters of the move to pull the standards for a fresh review were two lobbying groups representing major automakers, both foreign and domestic. Individual auto companies did not speak.

“We need to give manufacturers the flexibility to each pursue the most effective ways to achieve aggressive targets and still meet the needs of their respective customers,” said Julia Rege, environment and energy director for GlobalAutomakers, which represents Toyota, Honda and Hyundai, among others.

The hearing Wednesday came in response to the Trump administration’s decision to reopen for review fuel economy and emissions standards for 2022-25 that automakers agreed to under the Obama administration.

A review was required

by April 2018 to assess progress and make adjustments if needed. But days before President Donald Trump was inaugurated, the Obama administration fast-track published its review and set the 2022-25 standards as policy.

The Trump administration wants the review process reopened.

Although Rege did not detail what the automakers might want changed,

she called for “one national program” to administer and coordinate regulations. Right now, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration coordinate the regulations, with input from California’s Air Resources Board.

California sets its own standards, which are followed by 11 other states.

Under the Obama administration, California and federal regulations were harmonized, and state officials have said California will hold firm with its tougher standards.

Chris Nevins, energy and environment director for the Auto Alliance, said the EPA “needs to reconsider many issues that were not adequately addressed … such as changing market conditions” as well as the methods by which the regulations were crafted.

The general assumption, of course, is that the auto industry wants the real-world 40 mpg standard to be rolled back so automakers can save money and direct it elsewhere — to other investments inside the company, to the direct benefit of shareholders, or both.

“That’s the only reason” the automakers would want a new review, said U.S. Rep. Scott Peters, D-Calif., who spoke out against the plan.

“The less (gasoline) we use, the less we have to buy, and the less we have to buy, the less we spew into the air,” Peters said.

“Right now, we’re ahead of the curve. Let’s stay there.”

Retired Marine Gen. James Conway, chief executive at Securing America’s Future Energy, talked about emissions standards as a national security issue.

He said the standards represent “one of the greatest weapons” against reliance on foreign oil.

The U.S. still relies on imports for its oil needs, leaving it vulnerable to foreign national oil companies and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. OPEC, several speakers noted, has fought U.S. domestic production in recent years by increasing oil supply and keeping prices low. Fuel savings in the U.S. represent “a preemptive strike against this coalition,” Conway said.

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What the DACA means for workers and employers James F. Peltz and Samantha Masunaga Los Angeles Times (TNS) Christopher Plascencia won a promotion last month to personal banker at Wells Fargo & Co.; now he’s worried the career advancement might become a hollow gain.

The Los Angeles-area resident has the job because of DACA, the program that protects from deportation nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants who arrived as children and allows them to work and attend school. But the Trump administration plans to wind down the program over the next six months.

“I obviously couldn’t have done any of this without the work permit we were issued,” said Plascencia, 22, who called President Donald Trump’s decision “heartbreaking.”

“Being able to have that

Gary Coronado | Los Angeles Times | TNS

Protesters gather to demonstrate against changes in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration policy at City Hall in Los Angeles.

Wednesday in New York challenging Trump’s plan, and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said Tuesday his office was prepared to sue as well.

California has the largest population of DACA recipients, nearly 223,000.

There also is the possibility that Congress could

pass new immigration legislation in the next six months that would include some type of program to replace DACA. As a result, employment lawyer Michelle Lee Flores of the law firm Cozen O’Connor said her advice to both businesses and DACA employees would

be to “sit tight. Let’s just take a pause and see what happens.”

“Let’s see if this goes through, let’s see if something else comes about to replace it,” Flores said.

“I think we’ll know a lot more in a month or two.”

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indianastatesman.com LATINX FROM PAGE 1 Decolonizing the language is also a major goal for the movement.

“Spanish was a form of colonization. It’s a European tradition that was forced on lots of people, and has its flaws, most of them being that they’re gendered. So using Latinx is a way to honor our indigenous tradition. A lot of folks from Mexico and other countries use the x to decolonize the Spanish language and honor indigenous roots,” she said.

The use of this term isn’t only delegated to people of pure Latin origin. Rodriguez made a point to address that Latinx also aims to include Afro-Latin, Asian-Latin peoples who are often left out of Latin culture, despite being so prevalent within it.

LAW FROM PAGE 1 we’re most afraid of,” said Mallory Jessica Harris, a University of Georgia student who actively tried to stop the campus carry legislation.

Larsen said fears of gun owners getting drunk and firing their weapons in a crowded area outside a football game are illogical. Gun owners won’t chance that to lose their license to carry.

“To risk losing that because I want to drink a couple more beers … I don’t want that risk,” he said.

Georgia is now one of at least 34 states to allow guns on public college campuses.

Georgia’s law is in the middle of the pack as far as its permissiveness of where guns are allowed, said Andy Pelosi, executive director of the Campaign to Keep Guns off Campus, a New York-based group founded in 2008.

Pelosi wishes Georgia had set aside more time for its campuses to review the law and propose changes. Texas allows its institutions to declare some buildings gunfree for safety reasons.

For those carrying firearms on Georgia campuses, the rules about what to do with them can be tricky.

You can carry them, but there’s few places where you

IRMA FROM PAGE 1 veloped climate models based on temperatures recorded over the last century.

They also factor in various environmental conditions, ranging from the sun’s energy output to the impacts of volcanic eruptions.

Those models show the Atlantic has warmed beyond the impact of natural oscillations, said Kevin E. Trenberth, who heads the climate analysis section at NCAR in Boulder, Colo.

Trenberth says there is also strong evidence that global warming contributed to the intensification of Hurricane Harvey.

Harvey was spawned from a tropical wave that developed to the east of the Lesser Antilles. It reached tropical storm status on Aug. 17, limped into the Gulf of Mexico and rapidly intensified on Aug. 24 as it took aim at Texas.

During this period, surface temperatures in the Gulf were 2.7 to 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit above average, with “record levels” of heat deep into the water column and dense air moisture above, said Trenberth. “The conditions were ripe” for the hurricane to intensify,

POPE FROM PAGE 2 is expected to encourage youths to take up missionary work and other religious vocations. He will say Mass at the Olaya Herrera international airport, which is being closed to accommodate crowds that could reach 1 million.

The pope will end his trip in Cartagena, the historic walled city that

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Still, she and many others are aware that this is not a cure all.

“Being aware that this term exists is important.

Not everyone will use it, but it is a conversation starter,” Rodriquez said.

Latinx has alleged ties to being a strictly American phenomenon. With that being said, it is often a wonder how or if it will be adapted by other Spanish speaking countries within South America.

Progress seems to be key for a social movement such as this, but with the current political climate, things seem to be very on the fence.

“From an American lens, policy wise, I think things look very bleak given what just happened with DACA and the dreamers, but we have seen a lot of uprising, we have seen a lot of movement we have seen a

lot of collective action, and a lot of hope not just Latinx, not just dreamers, but communities of hope and solidarity that see DACA is important or that immigration rights are civil rights—are human rights.

I am hopeful I think there is a lot of power in collective action, and communities and their allies are getting momentum around Collective action. Right now things seem really, really bleak, but I am hoping that we will see a powerful movement coming right after this,” Rodriguez said.

Latinx hopes to bring about inclusivity in a sense of race, culture and gender, although many roads lay ahead. Adriana and many others are hopeful for a world of inclusivity, peace and understanding for a language that may subtly divide its speakers.

can store them. Guns can’t be kept in dorms. Larsen has adjusted his schedule.

On days Larsen carries his gun, he knows he can’t visit any of his professors. The law prohibits guns in faculty offices and select spots, such as in child care facilities.

“It’s a huge inconvenience,” Larsen said, for himself and for faculty who’d like to have their gun.

There was scant discussion about the new law at UGA on Saturday. No campus protests were visible. Fans, clad in their red and black, sat under tents around the Athens campus, grilling chicken wings, tossing bean bags, drinking beer and other alcohol from plastic red cups. Police patrolled the streets and quads on foot. No one interviewed said they had a weapon.

Jermeiko Bell, 34, who graduated from the university in 2006, was tailgating on Myers Quad with about two dozen friends. He and most of them were playing a drinking game before the football game. Bell doesn’t carry a gun, and said he wouldn’t if he were drinking alcohol.

“It’s not for me,” said Bell, sipping beer from a cup.

John Hotaling, who stood nearby enjoying a beer, thinks Georgia did the right thing by passing campus carry. Hotaling, 50, a retired

police officer who worked in Albany, N.Y., said someone with a gun could save others in a dangerous situation.

“If somebody came in here and started shooting everyone, I would want to protect (everyone),” said Hotaling, who lives in Savannah.

Janki Patel, 17, a freshman UGA student from Atlanta, thinks the tailgating policy is dangerous, noting there were children among the tailgaters Saturday.

“There are a lot of young people around and everyone doesn’t know how to use (their guns),” she said.

“It could be a really bad accident.”

Some parents said they would pull their children from college after Deal signed the bill. It’s unclear how many chose that route.

Some University System of Georgia institutions, such as Georgia State, have reported record enrollment this academic semester.

Georgia Tech student Ja’Quan Taylor now carries his .45-caliber handgun on the Midtown Atlanta campus and friends who were worried about the law don’t notice he’s packing on campus.

“Hey, I told you,” Taylor said he’s told them. “It’s not going to bother you at all.”

he said, and later unleash record rainfall.

Trenberth’s observations contrast with that of Scott Pruitt, President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency administrator. Interviewed by Breitbart News last week, Pruitt said it was “opportunistic” and “misplaced” to tie Hurricane Harvey to climate change.

Hurricane Irma also formed in a general region where Atlantic waters were abnormally warm, about 2 degrees above average, said Trenberth. But meteorologists say that other factors were at play as Irma quickly built into a Category 5 storm.

Joe Cione, a hurricane researcher with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said that his analysis shows that Irma intensified in a stretch of Atlantic water that was relatively cool to the surrounding warmer waters. That occurred on Sept. 4 and 5.

Cione and fellow NOAA researcher Neal Dorst say that other factors — such as low vertical wind shear — were crucial in supercharging the storm. “Irma’s explosive strengthening was as much a matter of the proper

atmospheric elements coming together as the ocean warmth,” said Dorst.

While there is general consensus that global climate change will cause more extreme hurricanes and other weather events, scientific organizations differ on whether it is already occurring.

In May, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded “there is observational evidence for an increase in intense tropical cyclone activity in the North Atlantic since about 1970, correlated with increases of tropical sea-surface temperatures.” That statement is similar to what Georgia Tech’s Webster and other researchers concluded in 2005.

By contrast, NOAA says on its website: “It is premature to conclude that human activities — and particularly greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming — have already had a detectable impact on Atlantic hurricane or global tropical cyclone activity. That said, human activities may have already caused changes that are not yet detectable due to the small magnitude of the changes or observational limitations.”

was a center of Spanish colonial rule. In a highly symbolic gesture, he will pay homage at the church dedicated to Colombia’s first saint, Pedro Claver, a Spaniard who, like Francis, is a Jesuit. In the 17th century, Claver ministered to slaves arriving after suffering horrible conditions on ships from Africa.

A Vatican spokesman downplayed any possibility the pope would com-

ment on the state of affairs in neighboring Venezuela, which has been ripped apart in recent months by violent demonstrations that have left more than 130 dead. Tens of thousands of Venezuelans have fled the country in recent months to escape a collapsed economy and scarcities of food, medicine and economic opportunities.

DACA FROM PAGE 2 replace it,” Flores said.

“I think we’ll know a lot more in a month or two.”

She also urged firms and DACA workers to ensure that the paperwork for any work permits still eligible to be renewed is completed by the Oct. 5 deadline.

If the program ends, “denying work authorization to people who grew up and were educated in the United States would have a significant negative impact on employers,” Mike Aitken, vice president of government affairs for the Society for Human Resource Management, a trade group for business human-resources managers, said in a statement Tuesday.

San Diego City Unified School Board President

FUEL FROM PAGE 2 sent “a preemptive strike against this coalition,” Conway said.

Conway also warned that a political impasse over emission standards is “the last thing we need right now.”

Union representatives came out to support the standards, they said, not only because they reduce emissions, but also because they create jobs.

Dan Boone, president of United Steelworkers Local

Richard Barrera agreed.

Ending the DACA program “absolutely limits our ability to get the best and most committed people into the teaching professions,” Barrera said.

Joe Eustice, general manager of the Wyndham San Diego Bayside hotel, said he expects the hospitality industry to feel the effects of the DACA pullback as it tries to fill entry-level jobs such as front-desk clerks and banquet servers.

“We would certainly encourage our national legislators to take a close look at how we can continue to educate these kids,” Eustice said.

Siona Vartanian, 30, came to the United States from Denmark with her family when she was 14.

Born in Iran, Vartanian graduated from Cal State

Northridge in 2011 with a psychology degree. But without the proper documents, she couldn’t work.

One year later, Obama introduced the DACA program and Vartanian was accepted. She has worked as a claims manager at a large health insurance company for the last 2 1/2 years.

Vartanian said she hasn’t talked to her employer about her work situation since Trump’s decision, but said she didn’t know where she would be without the DACA program.

“If they were to take this away from me, I think that would be the worst thing ever,” Vartanian said.

“It was impossible to find any job” without DACA, she said. “Even if I were to find a job that was under the table, it wouldn’t pay me enough to live.”

970 in Cleveland, said the regulations push innovations that in turn create jobs, such as lightweight steel to improve fuel economy.

“We’re now doing some manufacturing for Tesla and they’re about as green as you can get,” Boone said.

“It’s important to keep those standards strong and keep driving innovation.”

Annette Hebert, a division chief at the California Air Resources Board, highlighted other automaker innovations that

have improved fuel economy and reduced emissions in recent years, prodded by the federal standards.

Small turbocharged engines and “light hybrid” technologies are two examples of many technological advancements that have improved fuel economy from the mid-teens in the 1980s to the mid-20s today.

The EPA has until April 2018 to approve the Obama administration plan or make changes.

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Faculty Gala Concert set for Sept. 14 The Indiana State University School of Music will present the annual Faculty Gala Concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14 in the University Hall Auditorium.

Faculty members from the School of Music will showcase their musical talent and skills by presenting a variety of solo and ensemble performances. Featured ensembles include the Faculty Wind Quartet and the Faculty String Quartet.

This concert is one of the rare occasions when the audience can hear performances by many different Indiana State School of Music performance fac-

ulty in one setting.

“Our students and the community look forward to this concert, because of the different and interesting programming,” said Randy Mitchell, School of Music professor and Gala director. Begun eight years ago, the Faculty Gala concert is now traditionally opens the school year concert series.

The concert is free and open to the public. A reception in the University Hall atrium will follow the concert.

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School of Music faculty to showcase their musical talent on Sept. 14.

Travel dilemmas: A student’s wallet Catharine Hamm

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A reader writes that she’s about to send her 19-year-old daughter to Italy for college-related studies and wonders what’s the best way to manage money and communications.

Note to parents: Coursework?

Living arrangements? Logistics?

Those are important concerns.

But these money and stayingin-touch questions should be addressed first, I would argue, so you don’t have a kid who runs out of money in, say, Barcelona, Spain, about 220 miles and 24 hours from her final destination.

That kid was me, and those were the dark ages when there were fewer options and a financial rescue took much longer.

Today, the issue isn’t scarcity or speed. It’s the multiplicity of choices. Here’s what two experts suggested as solutions.

Even if you’re not a parent, you will find information — and, I think, at least one big surprise — in here that will help you manage your money abroad.

Plus you’ll find some “nag notes” that moms and dads should reinforce.

“Carrying significant amounts of cash is not a good idea,” said Kimberly Palmer, credit card and banking expert for NerdWallet. com, a personal finance site.

Cash you lose — whether you drop it or it’s taken from you — is cash that’s gone for good.

Palmer cited emergencies as one reason for cash, suggesting a stash equivalent to about $500 (but carried on one’s person only in small amounts).

Jennifer McDermott, consumer advocate for Finder.com, a personal finance comparison website, noted that in her recent travels she found that Europe “is still very much a cash society, perhaps even more so with economic uncertainty of recent times.”

“While (credit) cards are widely accepted, (she) will need to carry at least small amounts of cash when visiting regional towns, markets and for making small purchases such as an espresso or gelato,” McDermott said in an email.

If meals are not included in the student’s program, she suggested

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Consumers who travel abroad are sometimes surprised to see foreign transaction fees on their credit card bills after they return.

a stash of about $30 a day on top of walking-around money.

The key here is to secure your cash when you have it with you and when you leave it behind.

To carry money with you: I like under-clothing money belts and clothing (socks, T-shirts, even underwear) with hidden compartments.

Money left behind: Leave it in a safe, if there is one, and if not, use a portable safe. These bag-like portables come in different sizes, but a small one, usually embedded with steel mesh that can’t be slashed open, should protect cash and, perhaps, small electronics. It can be secured to something solid (sometimes a bed will work) with a steel cable and a lock.

Parent nag note: Remind your child to make sure he or she doesn’t leave the safe behind after a hotel stay or when heading for home.

A debit card?

Yes, for those times when cash is running low or you have unexpected expenses.

Both experts emphasized that you need to call the issuing institution to alert it to your travel plans.

Further, Palmer suggested asking whether the bank could fill you in on any unusual processes or procedures abroad.

Parent nag note: Make sure you know whether you incur fees for using a debit card and how much.

They can add up. Counsel your student to use the card in safe places — a bank, not a roadside ATM. A credit card?

Yes. You have many choices, and the good news is that with competition, many no longer charge foreign transaction fees.

The recent move in the U.S. to chipped credit cards was a halfway step. Most of our chipped cards are chip and signature cards. They still provide protection, especially from cloning.

But a signature isn’t necessarily the most secure way to verify identity.

The other variation is a chip and PIN card, which means that you have a chipped card, but it takes a PIN to complete your purchase. It is said to provide a higher standard of security.

Chip and PIN cards aren’t common in the U.S., but you can find them, including the easily obtainable Barclaycard Arrival Plus World Elite MasterCard, which I carry.

Having one isn’t imperative, unless you must pay for something at a kiosk, such as a train or subway ticket or gasoline for your rental car.

But, both experts said, before you go hunting for a PIN card, check with the issuing bank of a card you already have and see whether a PIN can be issued.

It’s impossible to say that this

can be done with all cards — “It varies so much by country and card type,” Palmer said — but it’s worth asking.

It’s important to note that we’re not talking about cash-advance credit cards, which allow you to get money from ATMs. Those can be helpful in emergencies, but the fees can be high.

Parent nag note: Don’t wait until the last minute to check on a possible PIN issuance. If your card can be equipped with a PIN, that number will not be given to you over the phone, Palmer said; it most likely will be mailed to you, and we don’t mean email.

A second credit card?

Maybe. Many travelers take more than one card in case one is lost or shut down for whatever reason. A second card is a nice option, especially in an emergency.

Parent nag note: Make sure your student’s account numbers and contact information for the issuer are written down and kept secure. That might be in an encrypted file; it might be something that you, Mom and Dad, keep at home in a safe place.

Make sure you monitor purchases too; tell your student to keep track of any expenditures, no blame, no shame, just sound financial practice to ensure you (or your student) is getting what he/ she paid for.

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Graduate and Professional Studies to host celebration The College of Graduate and Professional Studies will host a sesquicentennial event Sept. 8 to celebrate graduate education and highlight Sycamore alumni success.

“From preparing leaders in grad school to now, graduates are doing things all over the world,” said Chris McGrew, director of the center for Global Engagement and chair of the planning committee for the event.

From successful nurse practitioners and manufacturing directors to corporate presidents, the sesquicentennial event is aimed at showcasing the diverse alumni hailing from the college.

“It’s an important part of our story, of ISU’s 150 years,” McGrew said.

“Each of the academic colleges is recognizing some of the outstanding work that’s coming out of the college, represented by individuals who are leaders in their area.”

Coordinated by the college’s sesquicentennial planning committee, the event will consist of a reception held in Tirey Hall’s Heritage Ballroom beginning at 5 p.m., followed by the program at 6 p.m., in which the speakers will take part in celebrating graduate education’s 90year history at State.

During the program, each of the deans from the College of Graduate and Professional Studies colleges will introduce a graduate who embodies exemplary leadership and excels in their field to receive an award.

“We went in with the mindset of, ‘We’re celebrating excellence from each one of the colleges,

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VIDEO GAME REVIEW: Before the Storm A.J. Goelz Reporter

Deck Nine has released the first episode of its prequel to Dontnod Entertainment’s “Life is Strange.”

“Life is Strange” is an episodic adventure game. It utilizes a similar style of gameplay to the games made by Telltale. Set in 2013, the story focuses on Maxine “Max” Caulfield as she attempts to navigate everyday social interactions, a missing person’s case, an impending natural disaster and a mysterious ability to rewind time.

“Life is Strange: Before the Storm” takes place three years prior to the original. Players control Chloe Price, Max’s best friend from the original game. Episode one, “Awake,” depicts the events that led Chloe and Rachel Amber, a character from the first game, to their friendship and even dabbling with deeper emotions between the two.

“Before the Storm” tells a simple type of story, a teen drama.

Going for a simpler concept works in this game’s favor.

The original seemed like it told two or three separate stories that somewhat tied together in the end. “Before the Storm” has significantly fewer moving parts, allowing the story to flow at a much smoother pace.

The writing and performances are a step above the original. “Before the Storm” does what took the original two or three episodes to dial into. The first couple episodes of “Life is Strange” had flat performances and some poor writing. “Before the Storm” is strong from the very beginning. There are still some stiff moments, but not nearly as many as its predecessor.

In this style of game, every choice matters. Every choice changes the game world and will have some sort of consequence. “Life is Strange” allowed players to rewind and undo most choices after seeing the immediate consequence. This time around, every choice has more finality. Every choice becomes more important, because it cannot be taken back.

Eliminating the time travel aspect has an effect on gameplay as well. Max would be able to go through di-

alogue with a character to get a piece of information, then rewind the conversation and open up new dialogue choices. Without this ability, Chloe has her own way to influence conversation. This is a mechanic called “backtalk.” During these moments, Chloe will try to intimidate or persuade the person she is speaking with. Players will need to listen carefully to the line of dialogue, and then pick a retort from a group of possible responses.

The overall goal is to fill a meter at the bottom of the screen before the opposition does. The difficulty of these moments fluctuates depending on the person on the other side of the dialogue.

This is an example of gameplay meshing with the narrative. It fits a rebellious punk personality perfectly. A few of the moments where players engage in backtalk feel overly scripted and fall flat. It is not even the whole event, just a line here and there. Despite a few lines, the addition of backtalk is an organic addition to the game.

“Life is Strange: Before the Storm” episode one “Awake” is the first of this three episode series. This episode, despite its flaws, is a great first step in this story.

indianastatesman.com GRADUATE FROM PAGE 4 and here’s an outstanding leader,’” McGrew said.

“Graduates were chosen by their academic college to represent truly what the college is focused on -- a representation of the quality, service and scholarship of the folks that come from our graduate programs.

There will be an opportunity to talk about who they are and how they reflect the goals of those academic programs.”

The keynote for the College of Professional and Graduate Studies’ sesquicentennial event will be given by former Dean Mary Ann Carroll.

“Dr. Carroll was the longest serving dean, graduated from here and provided leadership for a long time,

so the whole celebration is being organized around her,” McGrew said.

Carroll earned her bachelor’s in math and chemistry from Indiana State Teachers College in 1950 and a master’s in 1955.

Earning a doctorate for education from Indiana State College in 1963, she returned in 1964 to serve as assistant dean of graduate studies. Later, she was selected as dean of the School of Graduate Studies in 1976.

Carroll is nationally recognized for her work in graduate education and served as chairman of the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools and as a member of the executive committee of the Council of Graduate Schools and the Graduate Record Ex-

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aminations Board. Carroll is active in the international society for education Kappa Delta Pi and served as a national officer in Chi Omega. Following her retirement from Indiana State, Carroll served as assistant to the dean of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

The university’s sesquicentennial era started two years ago, marked by the Bayh College of Education’s celebration event in 2015 and continuing with the College of Arts and Sciences’ last year.

“We have a four-year long sesquicentennial celebration; this is CPGS’s turn,” McGrew said.

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TAX FROM PAGE 6 and booking profits abroad, and to invest in countries other than the U.S. This reduces productivity and drives down wages. Permanently reducing the corporate tax rate from its current 35 percent — the highest statutory rate among advanced economies — to the low 20s would substantially mitigate these counterproductive distortions.

To benefit the economy, the revenue lost from the lower corporate rate needs to be replaced by broadening the tax base, and not financed through larger budget deficits. Republicans in Congress should champion fiscal responsibility to strengthen economic growth, and adding

KOREA FROM PAGE 6 nouncements on North Korea have been inconsistent to the point of incoherence.

(On Wednesday, asked whether he was considering military action, he said: “Certainly, that’s not our first choice.” But he quickly added: “We’ll see what happens.”)

to the already troublesome long-term national debt is imprudent.

All this is not a comprehensive list of what ought to be included in tax reform.

But no matter the final package, conservatives should welcome tax reform as a chance to design policies that champion and illustrate core values of opportunity, empowerment, earned success, prudence, responsibility and dynamism. All these will be on display in a tax reform done right. In today’s political climate, this will be very hard to achieve.

Given how the last eight months have gone, that’s all the more reason for conservatives to welcome the challenge.

On the campaign trail, Trump found success with outrageous rhetoric that, as the saying goes, his supporters took seriously but not literally. Such pronouncements may be useful in domestic politics, but they’re dangerous when uttered by a president in an international crisis.

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Facebook finds evidence of Russian election tampering

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After the last presidential election, many people cried foul. Many insisted that Russia had interfered with the election. Two weeks before President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the FBI, CIA, NSA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence – which oversees the 17 agencies that are part of the US intelligence community – determined that Russia had, in fact, interfered in the election.

These four groups determined that “Putin and the Russian Government aspired to help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him,” according to a report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The report also cited “cyber activity” as one of the ways that Russian intelligence had altered the course of the election. The report says that the interference campaign made use of both traditional covert intelligence operations and “overt efforts by Russian Government agencies, state-funded media, third-party intermediar-

ies, and paid social media users or ‘trolls.’” The report also claims that Russian social media accounts “had prepared a Twitter campaign, #DemocracyRIP, on election night in anticipation of Secretary Clinton’s victory.”

The response to this report was split. At one extreme, some of those who had supported Trump in the election refused to believe that the report could be true. On the other extreme, some who had opposed Trump insisted that this meant that Trump was for sure not a legitimate president.

Honestly, I think both sides were wrong here. For one thing, the US intelligence community is made up of non-partisan agencies, so they had no reason to lie about something like this. On the other hand, Trump was legitimately elected by the National College, so he’s as “legitimate” of a president as just about any other president.

However, in a post published on Wednesday, Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos confirmed that $100,000 was spent on about 3,000 political ads between June 2015 and May 2017. The ads came from “about 470 inauthentic accounts and Pages in violation of [Facebook’s] policies.”

Stamos added that the accounts “were affiliated with one another and likely operated out of Russia,” according to their analysis of their own data. Stamos also claimed that they determined that “approximately $50,000” was spent on around 2,200 U.S. political ads that had originated

from Russia.

Facebook said they believed that the accounts were created by the Internet Research Agency, a Russian company based in St. Petersburg that is known for its pro-Russia propaganda. Facebook is now cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

In addition to Facebook’s admission that Russian accounts seemingly put forth a concerted effort, Senator Mark Warner told Reuters on Thursday that Twitter was also set to deliver a similar report to the Senate Intelligence Committee.

I think that Facebook should have been way more proactive in making sure that Russian accounts didn’t interfere in our election. The problem with the beast of social media is that it’s relatively new. Before this, I feel like a lot of people didn’t think that they could be fooled so easily online.

We’re still experimenting with the possibilities social media grants us, but people seem to forget that those possibilities include, say, a country launching a coordinated attempt on social media to misinform voters in another country so that those voters elect a leader that is – to me – the greater of two evils.

I can only hope that this botched distortion of the democratic system can be corrected in the future, whether it’s through some Congressional action or websites just improving their measures for detecting such social media accounts.

President Donald Trump’s response this summer to the violence in Charlottesville, Va., and his pardon of former sheriff Joe Arpaio added to the image of Republicans as the party of white grievance, and not as the political vehicle for conservative thought and ideas. Conservatives and Republicans, especially those in Congress, have an opportunity to challenge that image this fall.

As they turn their attention to tax reform, Republicans can legislate better public policy. But conservatives can also seize this chance to advance and illustrate their principles and priorities.

Conservatism (properly understood) believes public policy should build ladders of opportunity for low-income Americans, offering them a hand up out of poverty and into the workforce. One of the most successful programs we have to advance this goal operates through the tax code. The Earned-Income Tax Credit is a subsidy available only to households with jobs, and the amount of the subsidy rises with every additional dollar of earnings over an initial range.

These incentives to encourage employment are successful. Previous expansions of the EITC have significantly increased workforce participation among targeted groups.

And each year the credit lifts millions of people, including several million children, out of poverty.

The credit is insufficiently generous for workers who are not raising children in their homes.

The maximum subsidy for a household with no children is about $500 per year. A childless adult working full time at the minimum wage receives less than $40 per year.

To increase employment among childless adults

— many of whom are prime-age men, a group with troubling workforce participation rates — the EITC for childless adults should be expanded.

House Speaker Paul Ryan has a plan to do exactly that. It should be included in this year’s tax legislation.

Other policies should be considered, too. One is a tax credit to encourage people to relocate to start a new job. This credit should be aimed at individuals who have been out of work for some time, who live in places with especially bad local labor markets, and who lack the resources to move. It would empower individuals to earn their own success, reflecting conservative values.

Conservatives can also use tax reform to focus public spending on those who need it. We spend more money through the tax code than we spend on national defense. The top 20 percent of households by income receive over half of the benefits from the largest tax expenditures. More than $4 of every $5 from the deduction for mortgage interest goes to households earning more than $100,000 a year.

And more than $9 of $10 in deductions for state and local taxes goes to six-figure households.

Congress ought to reduce spending through the tax code on policies like these, and use the resulting revenue to lower tax rates. But a secondary goal should be that less of the remaining spending benefits upper-income households. For example, using a portion of the savings to enhance the EITC would better target spending toward those who need it.

Tax reform can encourage dynamism and energy in the commercial sector by cutting the corporate tax rate. The current system is a mess, giving companies incentives to avoid taxes at home by earning

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Seeking to capitalize on a chorus of condemnation of North Korea’s latest nuclear test, the Trump administration rightly has been trying to rally international support for additional sanctions, while moving to reassure South Korea of U.S. support for its security.

Unfortunately, President Trump continues to make the work of his diplomats and military strategists harder with bellicose rhetoric, insults to U.S. allies and threats that he almost certainly can’t deliver on.

On Sunday, North Korea tested what it described as a hydrogen bomb, generating about six times as much destructive force as its previous test — and the bomb the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima. It was the latest in a series of provocations that also included sending a ballistic missile over Japanese territory last week.

In a powerful speech at the United Nations Security Council on Monday, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said the time has come “to exhaust all of our diplomatic means, before it’s too late.” The U.S. is drafting a new sanctions resolution, which could include a proposal to block oil sales to North Korea.

President Trump continues to make the work of his diplomats and military strategists harder with bellicose rhetoric.

Haley and the administration are right to seek multilateral support for their policies at the U.N. and to build as global a consensus as possible. It will take a united international front to crack down effectively on the sources providing North Korea with the hard currency and materiel that sustain its nuclear efforts.

But contrast Haley’s statement with two tweets from Trump on Sunday. In the morning, he tweeted: “South Korea is finding, as I have told them, that their talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work, they only understand one thing!” Later that day he fired off another tweet suggesting that the U.S. is considering “stopping all trade with any country doing business with North Korea.”

Like the president’s unscripted warning last month that North Korea would face “fire and fury” if it continued to threaten the U.S., Trump’s idea of cutting ties with any nation that did any business with North Korea is improbable to the point of fantasy. It would mean, for example, ending trade between the U.S. and China unless China agreed to cut off all trade with North Korea. By broaching such an unlikely response, Trump may make it hard-

er to persuade China to take less sweeping but still significant measures, such as restricting North Korea’s oil supplies.

It’s notable that the administration’s principal public response to Sunday’s test came not from Trump but from Secretary of Defense James Mattis. While Mattis reminded North Korea that the U.S. had military options available to it, he also said that the U.S. doesn’t seek the “total annihilation” of the North. Mattis and other top officials also have made it clear that the U.S. has not closed the door on diplomacy, contrary to what Trump has suggested.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson suggested last month that the U.S. might be willing to resume talks if North Korea were to “stop these missile launches.” Last week, after Trump tweeted that talking to North Korea “is not the answer,” Mattis told reporters that “we’re never out of diplomatic solutions.”

That said, the administration — again, rightly — is rebuffing suggestions from Russia and China that it attempt to revive negotiations by agreeing to a deal in which North Korea would freeze its nuclear testing program in exchange for a cessation of joint military exercises by the U.S. and South Korea. The exercises aren’t threatening North Korea in the way its

nuclearization is threatening Asia and the United States. And if the U.S. halts them, there’s no guarantee that Russia and China can hold North Korea to its end of the bargain.

While the U.S. continues to insist that the only acceptable outcome of talks is the dismantling of the North’s nuclear program, other scenarios are possible.

Some experts believe that the U.S. and the international community may have to accept, at least temporarily, an agreement in which the North would place ceilings on its nuclear program and stop its testing of nuclear devices and delivery systems.

Conceding to North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, however, would have terrible implications for the spread of nuclear weapons in Asia. And U.S. policymakers should be loath to discuss such a possibility when North Korea is behaving so provocatively. Haley may have been exaggerating when she said that the government of Kim Jong Un is “begging for war”; but she was right to characterize its recent actions as threatening. In attempting to have the world address that threat, the U.S. needs to be both determined and deliberate, in word and deed.

That includes Trump, whose pro-

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The Sycamore football team is getting ready to take on the Tennessee Volunteers this weekend.

This upcoming weekend, the Indiana State football team travels to Knoxville, Tenn. to face their toughest opponent in years, the Tennessee Volunteers.

On Monday Sept. 4, the 25th ranked Volunteers opened their season by rallying from two 14-point deficits in the second half to defeat the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in overtime with a final score of 42-41.

Junior Quarterback Quinten Dormady completed 20 of 37 passes for a solid 221 yards and two touchdowns in his first career start as a Volunteer. Dormady finished the day with a quarterback rating of 66.3.

Junior running back John Kelly was Tennessee’s most valuable player of the game, setting new career highs and leading the Vols with 128 yards rushing on 19 carries and ended with 4 touchdowns. Kelly scored the game-tying touchdown

and scored both of Tennessee’s touchdowns in overtime. Kelly also contributed in the passing game, catching five passes for 35 yards.

Sophomore wide receiver Marquez Callaway had his breakout game, catching four passes for 115 yards on two touchdowns, all career highs.

Sophomore linebacker Daniel Bituli led the Vol’s defense with 23 tackles, including 10 solo tackles.

The Vol’s defense also recovered two fumbles.

The Sycamores opened their season with a 22-20 home loss to the Eastern Illinois Panthers. Panthers QB Mitch Kimble hit wide receiver Dennis Turner in the end zone with three seconds left to stun the Sycamores and spoil Curt Mallory’s head coaching debut.

The Sycamores starting Quarterback Isaac Harker completed only four of 10 passes for 38 yards, having recorded only one touchdown, and had an interception on the night as well. Mallory replaced Harker in the

second half with freshman quarterback Cade Sparks, who completed just three of nine passes for 95 yards and had lost the ball one time. Senior Running back Lemonte Booker carried the Sycamores offense with 31 carries for 154 yards and one touchdown.

Indiana State and Tennessee both go into this weekend’s game with something to prove. Indiana State has to go into the game without letting last week’s heartbreaking loss affect their play and prove that they can compete with a tough out of conference opponent.

Tennessee is going into the game to prove to everyone that they belong in the conversation with Alabama, LSU and Florida as one of the SEC’s elite teams.

The Sycamores will travel to Knoxville to compete with the Tennessee Volunteers on Saturday at 4 p.m. The game will be shown SEC network and can be heard on WIBQ 97.9 FM.

Magic Johnson asked Jeanie Buss to take the tampering fine out of his salary Tania Ganguli

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Since the Lakers were hit with a $500,000 fine for tampering with Paul George, president of basketball operations Magic Johnson says, he has given the matter little thought except for one thing: He doesn’t want his close friend and boss, Jeanie Buss, to bear the burden of the fine. “We can’t say a lot but we will correct the situation,” Johnson said Monday. “It’s under my watch.

I apologize to Jeanie, and that was the main thing. I told her she could take it out of my salary because I don’t want the Lakers to be paying that fine. ...

I don’t want her spending $500,000, because she didn’t do anything. That’s on me.” The NBA hired an independent firm to investigate tampering charges brought by the Indiana Pacers. The firm concluded that Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka gave an illegal expression of interest to George’s agent, Aaron Mintz, while George was under contract with the Pacers. Pelinka reports to Johnson. The league also said it had previously warned the Lakers after Johnson joked with Jimmy Kimmel on the late-night host’s talk show about what communication he is allowed to have with George if they would see each other in the offseason. “This is just on a late-night show being funny,” Johnson said after touring a donation facility he helped organize with West Angeles Church to benefit victims of Tropical Storm Harvey.

“But now I know I can’t do that. We’re OK. I haven’t thought twice about

it. We made a mistake. ...

It’s under my watch. I’m gonna make sure it doesn’t happen anymore.” The fine was the largest the NBA has ever handed down for tampering, but the league could have enacted harsher penalties, including taking away draft picks or even barring George from signing with the Lakers in free agency. The league’s news release on the matter specified that its investigation found no evidence of an agreement or understanding of a deal in place between the Lakers and George. After the league’s announcement, the Lakers released a statement from Pelinka in which he expressed regret over the incident. The team also released a statement from Adam Streisand, the attorney who represented Buss in the legal battle with her brothers that resulted in her confirmation as the team’s controlling owner for the rest of her life. Streisand said the Lakers “will be hyper-vigilant going forward to make sure this is never an issue again.”

Through a spokesperson, Pacers general manager Kevin Pritchard said, “We accept the league’s findings.” Said Johnson on Monday: “We’re going to have meetings about it next week. ... I’m gonna always care about the Laker brand, the Laker fans, so I apologize to them as well.

The main thing is we’re going to move forward. We got 95 percent everything’s going great. This is the one thing that went bad. ... This is something we can correct. Adam [Silver, NBA commissioner] is a great friend of mine. I’m glad he was able to do his job. Now I’m gonna do my job.”

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The Indiana State Volleyball team is hoping for a victory this weekend as they travel to Michigan.

Volleyball looking to regroup at Chippewa Invitational Garrett Short Reporter

The Indiana State volleyball team is looking to turn things around this weekend with three games in Michigan at the Chippewa Invitational.

The volleyball team has struggled in their first season under the new head coach, Lindsay Allman. The team tipped of the season on the right foot with a sweep against Depaul. However, their fortunes have turned for the worse, as they have lost six straight matches.

ISU is looking at a tough opening game in this weekend’s tournament. Sycamores will face the hosting team, Central Michigan, on Friday.

CMU is 5-1 in 2017 and has home-court advantage.

A player to watch for CMU will be senior out-

side-hitter Jordan Bueter.

Bueter was named to the Mid-American Conference First Team last season and is on pace for another stellar season.

She has recorded 102 kills thus far; 46 more than her next closest teammate.

ISU closes out Friday with a match against IUPUI. The Jaguars are only 3-5 on the season, but defeated Ball State 3-2, while the Sycamores were swept by BSU. The last time ISU played IUPUI back in 2015, which the Sycamores lost 3-2.

IUPUI struggled to a 12-20 record last season.

But the Jaguars welcome back team-leader and two-time All-Summit League honoree senior Kori Waelbroeck. Waelbroeck led the team in kills last season and is on pace to do it again. So far she has accumulated 126 kills, which is good for a

whopping 3.96 kills per set.

The Sycamores will wrap up their road trip with an afternoon match against Cleveland State on Saturday.

Cleveland State was picked to finish atop the Horizon League in the conference’s preseason poll. The Vikings have won back-to-back Horizon League titles and have advanced to the NCAA tournament in two straight seasons.

The program looks to have a bright future, but lost Horizon League Player of the Year Grace Kauth to graduation.

Cleveland State is in capable hands as they bring back the 2016 Setter of the Year Gina Kilner and 2016 Co-Freshman of the Year Sara Skeens.

Cleveland State is an extremely seasoned team.

They have plenty of expe-

rience on their roster with seniors Kilner and Alexis Middlebrooks leading the way.

Their coach, Chuch Voss, is also a veteran.

This is his 18th year at the head of the volleyball program. During his time with the school, he has managed to win 318 matches, including his current 3-3 season. He is CSU’s all-time winningest volleyball coach, and has won the Horizon League regular season four times and adds as many conference titles.

ISU is looking to get back on track before they begin their conference schedule in two weeks.

After the tournament in Michigan, ISU returns to Terre Haute for their home opener next Friday against Cal State-Fullerton in the Sycamore Invitational.

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