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IUP email migrates to Office 365; students approve

By CANDACE HOWELL Staff Writer C.J.Howell2@iup.edu

IT Services at IUP upgraded most student email accounts from the college’s I-Mail to Office 365 on March 20.

For Outlook users like Sarah Hetzler (freshman, music education), the larger text, bigger icons and accessibility to Microsoft applications such as Microsoft Word are especially familiar.

“It was really convenient,” Hetzler said. “I just had to add my IUP email.”

I-Mail contacts or calendar entries were not automatically migrated, but students can retrieve them manually by following the instructions on IT Support Center’s “365 Office Student Migration” page.

Despite this, the new email offers several ways to view student and faculty information. The “People” tab includes a campus directory by classrooms or users, frequently contacted emails and favorites.

“Calendar” includes a five-day weather forecast, sharing options

(IUP website) IUP IT Services made the switch from I-Mail to Office 365 after spring break, upgrading storage space for students.

and online “interesting” calendars to sync.

In addition to the upgraded mail, calendar, people and task tabs, Microsoft Office 365 offers a “Notes” folder.

Listing the benefits and draw-

backs from the switch, Amanda Woodsid (sophomore, Asian studies) appreciated the “more modern” look.

“The old I-Mail system was dated,” Woodsid said. “[This one] is a lot easier to read.”

Students can access Office 365 through their MyIUP accounts and clicking on the “EMAIL” tab, or by downloading the Outlook application for their phones or tablets.

Students can add IUP’s new email to an existing Outlook

account by clicking the top-left tab next to “Inbox,” going to the “Settings” icon and selecting “Add Account.”

Aside from its aesthetic appeals, IUP’s IT Services announced that the new email system provides a “huge increase” of storage space for students.

The server can hold up to 50 GB of mail storage, whereas I-Mail offered around 2 GB. Jacqueline Perry (senior, communications media) said there was always a problem syncing I-Mail to her iPhone before the switch, but installing Outlook gave her no trouble.

“At first, I was dreading the transition,” Perry said. “Why would I want to learn an entirely new platform six weeks before I graduate? However, I was surprised at how much more simple the [Outlook application] is.”

Nina Minnelli (freshman, theater) likes how mobile-friendly the Outlook app is, too.

“On the mobile app, you can actually email back,” Minnelli said, “and it will stay current now that it’s Microsoft. It makes it more universal.”

Students across nation march to demand stricter gun laws, safety

By YUEQI YANG, DANIEL FLATELY and TODD SHIELDS Bloomberg News TNS

Thousands of high school students and other gun-control advocates gathered in Washington and across the U.S. Saturday to demand tougher firearms restrictions from an older generation that’s delivered little change after years of mass shootings.

Organizers said they expected more than 700,000 people to attend the March for Our Lives rally at the foot of Capitol Hill, a gathering led by survivors of the Feb. 14 attack on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed.

The demonstration in Washington was meant to be the largest of

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(TNS) Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Emma Gonzalez spoke to the crowd Saturday during March for Our Lives to demand stricter gun control laws in Washington, D.C.

more than 800 planned marches nationwide and overseas, organizers said. Protesters are demanding

protection from gun violence, including a ban on assault weapons such as the rifle used in Parkland, a prohibition on high-capacity magazines that let killers shoot long bursts without reloading, and more effective background checks for gun purchases.

White House deputy press secretary Lindsay Walters said in a statement Saturday: “We applaud the many courageous young Americans exercising their First Amendment rights today.”

She referred to gun-safety actions this week by Congress and the Justice Department.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions Friday announced a proposed rule to ban so-called bump stocks that allow semi-automatic guns to fire more rapidly, similar to a fully automatic weapon.

A sniper in the Oct. 1 Las Vegas mass shootings used such a device to kill 58 concertgoers.

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Congress also voted Friday to bolster background checks for gun purchases, spend more on school safety, and let the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study gun violence, ending what was in effect a 22-year ban that was supported by the National Rifle Association.

The measures, included in a larger spending bill signed by President Donald Trump –– were the first congressional action in years on gun legislation.

But they’re small steps compared with the 1994 assaultweapons ban that lapsed in 2004.

Congress seemed ready to act after the 2012 massacre of 20 children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., but the effort failed.

The street protests and growing congressional attention mean gun control could loom large in

the November midterm elections.

Democrats have embraced the issue, while Republican congressional leaders and Trump haven’t moved to adopt measures such as ending assault-weapon sales. At one point Trump said he backed comprehensive gun-control measures, but he backed off after meeting with the NRA’s top lobbyist.

The president also said he wanted to allow teachers and other staff members to be armed and trained to confront shooters.

Saturday’s march follows a nationwide student walkout over gun violence on March 14, one month after the Parkland killings. Another national walkout, organized by a different group of students, is planned for April 20, the 19th anniversary of the 1999 attack at Colorado’s Columbine High School that killed 12 students and a teacher and two dozen others.

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Facebook hasn’t been ‘forthcoming’ about data breach, Sen. Warner says

By BEN BRODY and TODD SHIELDS Bloomberg News TNS

Facebook hasn’t been “fully forthcoming” as Congress investigated Russia’s attempted meddling in the 2016 presidential election, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said Sunday.

Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he questioned “the use of this really sketchy firm Cambridge Analytica,” but Facebook “blew that off” as they did other concerns over Russia’s actions.

Cambridge Analytica, which consulted on President Donald Trump’s campaign, siphoned data from about 50 million Facebook users as it built an electionconsulting company that boasted it could sway voters in contests all over the world. Facebook also came under scrutiny last year after the revelation that Russians had used the site in its attempts to affect the 2016 election.

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(TNS) Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., vice chairman of US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, questioned witnesses March 30, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

Analytica’s action has caused days of fury for Facebook and its co-founder and chief executive officer, Mark Zuckerberg. Two congressional committees have invited Zuckerberg to testify, and he has said he’d agree if he is the right person to appear.

“The whole industry has been reluctant to accept the fact that we’re seeing the dark underbelly of social media – how it can be manipulated,” Warner said.

“We’re still dealing right now with kind of fake posts and fake accounts.”

Facebook took out ads in

multiple newspapers Sunday apologizing for what it called a “breach.”

Warner also said the U.S. should re-examine the claim, which is largely reflected in U.S. law, that social media sites “have no responsibility for any of the content,” and Warner added “maybe you should be able to move all your data” when moving between sites.

On March 21, a bill to limit a website’s immunity for content when it knowingly facilitates sex trafficking passed Congress – one of the first impositions of liability

Trump said to name Energy Department official as top energy aide

more information about Russian meddling in U.S. elections, and called on them to harden their networks.

Questions remain about how Russia used Facebook to sway the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.

An indictment by special counsel Robert Mueller described a multiyear effort by the Internet Research Agency, a Russian outfit, and others to shape American opinions, including by impersonating Americans on Facebook, Instagram, Google’s YouTube and Twitter.

About 150 million users saw posts from a St. Petersburg-based troll farm whose main purpose was to push Kremlin propaganda.

In addition to congressional investigations, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is scrutinizing whether Facebook violated a 2011 consent decree with its handling of personal user data transferred to Cambridge Analytica without users’ knowledge, according to two people familiar with the matter. It is also facing an investigation in the United Kingdom.

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• A vehicle reportedly struck and damaged a cinderblock wall to a rental property March 25 at 725 Klondyke Ave., according to the Indiana Borough Police Department. Anyone with information about the incident should contact borough police at 724-349-2121.

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The White House plans to name Wells Griffith, an Energy Department official who worked on Donald Trump’s campaign, as one of the president’s top energy and environmental advisers, three people familiar with the decision said Saturday.

Griffith, who has been principal deputy assistant secretary in the Energy Department’s Office of International Affairs, will join the National Economic Council, where he will coordinate White House efforts on international energy and climate issues.

The position is said to be for a three-month trial basis that could lead to a permanent position, according to one of the sources, who didn’t want to be named discussing a decision that has yet to be made public.

Griffith will take over the role

for online platforms as the U.S. debates their responsibility for what users post. Trump is expected to sign it into law.

Warner repeated his call for Zuckerberg to testify.

“He is the face of Facebook,” Warner said. “He in fact created this industry, and he needs to come explain to the American public and to policymakers.”

Zuckerberg should “explain how they’re going to work with us,” Warner said in a separate interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

Facebook general counsel Colin Stretch was called before Congress last year, and Warner has said he now wants to hear testimony from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.

After last year’s hearings, Zuckerberg promised a “major ads transparency effort,” including requiring political advertisers to include a disclosure of their identities.

Warner has said he wants Facebook to go further. The senator has pressed tech companies for

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previously occupied by George David Banks, who left in February after being denied a security clearance because of marijuana use.

Griffith is said to already have security clearance needed for the job.

Griffith’s new role will keep him focused on international energy issues, including policy questions about liquefied natural gas exports to Europe and coal power plants around the world.

Griffith may also play a role in continued discussions about the U.S. role in international efforts to combat climate change. Although Trump announced the U.S. would pull out of the landmark Paris agreement to slash greenhouse gas emissions on June 1, 2017, the country can’t formally leave until November 2020.

The Trump administration has been pushing for United Nations

and multilateral development bank funds to support the construction of high-efficiency plants that produce less greenhouse gas emissions than older designs as well as construct “clean coal” plants that employ carbon-capture technology to strip out even more.

Griffith was a political operative helping the Trump campaign secure votes in battleground states in 2016.

He also served as a deputy chief of staff to Reince Priebus, when Priebus was chairman of the Republican National Committee.

While at the Energy Department, Griffith played a key role in a deal heralded by the Trump administration to export 700,000 tons of coal from Pennsylvania’s Xcoal Energy & Resources LLC to Ukraine, according to E&E News, which previously reported Griffith’s selection for the National Economic Council spot.

Criminal Mischief

• A bicycle was reportedly damaged at the rear of a residence sometime between 10:30 a.m. March 24 and and 3:30 p.m. March 25 in the 200 block of South Seventh Street, according to borough police.

Anyone with information about the incident should contact borough police.

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Shooting of unarmed black man heightens racial tensions in Sacramento

By PAIGE ST. JOHN, JAZMINE ULLOA, and CINDY CHANG Los Angeles Times TNS

The fatal shooting of an unarmed African-American man by police last weekend in his backyard has intensified long-simmering tensions between Sacramento’s black community and the police and is testing efforts by City Hall to increase outreach and transparency.

Stephon Clark’s death, captured on video released by the department Thursday, was the latest of several controversial police shootings of black men in Sacramento in the last few years.

For some residents who protested in the streets, blocking the 5 Freeway and preventing fans from getting to a Sacramento Kings basketball game, Clark’s death was further proof that police officers are afraid of black men. They expressed concern that the officers would not be held accountable for killing an unarmed person.

The protests continued Friday as about 100 people marched to the state Capitol, holding signs and photos of the 22-year-old Clark. Later, a large crowd blocked streets downtown, breaking at least one car window and clashing with police.

“You think, ‘Man, that could have been me, that could have been my brother, that could have been my sister,’“ said one protester, Elijah Johnson, 24.

Police Chief Daniel Hahn, who started his job in August, is African-American. The city was led for years by a black mayor, former NBA star Kevin Johnson.

But mistrust between AfricanAmerican residents and the police remains high. A city that is 35 percent white is policed by a department that is 74 percent white. Blacks are 14 percent of the population and 4 percent of police officers.

“The reality is there is an underlying culture in the Police Department, a fear of serving in some communities,” said Derrell Roberts, the head of a Sacramento nonprofit that operates youth programs.

Hahn and other city leaders have urged calm while the investigation continues. They released videos of the shooting as an act of transparency and acknowledged

(TNS) Stevante Clark, the older brother of Stephon Clark, talked with supporters Thursday after they shut down the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, Calif., causing many Kings fans to miss the game against the Atlanta Hawks.

that key questions remain unanswered.

The shooting occurred in darkness. A voice can be heard shouting: “Gun, gun, gun!” before officers fire 20 bullets at Clark.

The only object found near Clark’s body was a cellphone, according to police.

“This is a tragic event for our entire community,” Hahn told KCRA-TV on Thursday night as protesters gathered in the streets.

“So yes, there’s a lot of anger, a lot of questions, a lot out there that’s very emotional.”

Hahn said he did not know whether race played a role in the officers’ actions, adding: “I think race factors into almost everything in our country, whether it’s implicit bias, everything ... I think it permeates everything.”

The shooting has generated national attention, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Twitter calling the shooting “senseless.”

“His life mattered, and he should be alive today,” Pelosi said.

Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg was more reserved, saying the department should consider increasing its use of less-than-lethal weapons, but did not fault the officers involved. He expressed concern about demonstrators restoring to vandalism or violence.

“That’s not right. Strength is in peaceful resistance,” Steinberg said in an interview Friday, putting his hands over his face. “There has to be a better way.”

He said Clark’s death, though still under investigation, “was wrong” and points to the need for not only more administrative change, but also a reckoning with

racism itself.

“Our kids and men don’t feel safe,” said Steinberg, adding that he welcomed the spotlight the city is now under.

“There is no danger if we do the right thing, if we push aggressively to change what must be changed.”

The recordings released by the Police Department include a 911 call about a man in a black hoodie breaking car windows Sunday night.

The man “busted both my truck

windows out, and he’s in people’s backyards right now,” the caller said.

About 9:25 p.m., officers in a sheriff’s helicopter spotted a man who they said had picked up a “toolbar” and broken a house window.

Video from the helicopter appears to show Clark scaling a tall fence and peering into a vehicle before running into his own backyard.

Shaky body cam footage shows officers running up a dark drive-

way. “Hey! Show me your hands!

Stop! Stop!” an officer yells.

They turn a corner and spot Clark in the glare of their flashlights, then take cover behind a building before confronting him once more and firing a barrage of bullets at him.

In November 2016, the Sacramento City Council ordered the release of all video from police shootings within 30 days, except when an ongoing investigation would be hampered or tainted.

The decision to compel the release of videos was spurred in part by the fatal police shooting that July of Joseph Mann, a mentally ill homeless man whom officers tried to run down with their police cruiser.

The investigation into Clark’s death will include whether it was reasonable for the officers to fire 20 times, Hahn said.

Rashid Sidqe, a co-founder of Sacramento’s Law Enforcement Accountability Directive, said his group helped win the quick release of video footage but has yet to see changes in policing on the streets.

“I’m looking for accountability,” Sidqe said. “I would love to see the police officers fired.”

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EDITORIAL Major League Baseball will celebrate its regular season Opening Day on Thursday afternoon, when all 30 of the league’s teams are scheduled to begin their 2018 seasons.

Sports fans all over the country have Opening Day circled on their calendars as a national holiday-type celebration occurs for the fans of America’s pastime.

Opening Day often brings that sense of seasonal hope, as the bad weather begins to disappear and summer is just around the corner.

However, it has become a different type of feeling for some fans who are critical of the MLB’s scheduling procedures.

With many of the league’s teams playing in northern parts of the country, Opening Day doesn’t have that spring vibe it once did when fans find themselves sitting in cold and rainy conditions in March.

Those northern-located teams hosting Opening Day games often have an off-day following the scheduled opener in case the weather doesn’t permit the game to be played on the scheduled date.

With baseball’s ratings continuing to drop below other sports, maybe some changes wouldn’t be such a bad thing.

Baseball analysts and writers have pro-

Length of MLB season needs to be adapted

The Chicago Cubs’ Anthony Rizzo hit a two-run home run Oct. 7, 2017 in the fourth inning against the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C.

posed hypothetical ideas and concepts that will help with scheduling conflicts as well as keeping players healthy over the course of the long season, including the possibility of changing the season’s length.

The season has included 162 games, ranging from late March or early April to late September or early October, depending on how the schedule fits in the calendar.

But, if the number of games was dropped

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to 150 or 155 games, it could allow for more off days or travel days and allow players to be better rested and energized to perform at a high level.

Another concept that may seem a bit farfetched would be dropping the number of games substantially, which could help with the redundancy of the regular season.

There is always going to be the purists of the game who can never get enough base-

ball and will watch from when pitchers and catchers report in February to the final pitch of the World Series in late October or early November.

Aside from those baseball fanatics and purists are average fans who want to be as tuned in as possible to America’s pastime but find it difficult due to the league taking up eight full months and small parts of two more months of a 12-month year, a timeframe that includes both preseason and postseason.

With the season seeming never-ending at times, it is easy to see why the game is losing popularity.

If you take out all the controversy over pace of play during the games and the league’s initiative to speed up play, the pace of the season is almost dreadful at times, and many fans can probably agree that it could use some serious reconsidering. Whether it be the regular season beginning the first week of May or ending Labor Day weekend, something needs to be done about the length of the MLB season sooner rather than later.

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Republicans turn blind eye to bad policy, but at what cost

By JONATHAN BERNSTEIN Bloomberg View TNS

The most striking thing about how President Donald Trump chose his new national security adviser, John Bolton, and new director of the National Economic Council, Larry Kudlow, isn’t about either of them personally, although neither is well suited to the honest-broker role that their position calls for.

Nor is it that Trump seems to have hired both of them because he liked watching them on television.

That’s a deeply flawed reason to hire anyone, to be sure, but we’re accustomed to how Trump

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hires people based on superficial criteria.

What is striking is that both are essentially within the mainstream of the Republican Party on policy approaches that ended in disaster during the last Republican presidency.

Bolton was part of the George W. Bush administration as it prepared for and fought the Iraq War; Kudlow hasn’t been in government for years, but he was a cheerleader for Bush’s policies as the economy plunged into a terrible recession.

Neither of them was discredited as a result, because Republicans have collectively decided that their policies in 2001-2008 were correct, regardless of out-

come. This is unusual.

Democrats after the Jimmy Carter years pretty much exiled everyone in that White House from further influence within the party.

Bill Clinton wouldn’t even hire Carter people who had survived with excellent reputations.

Democrats after 1968 went through a bitter fight over foreign policy, with most of those who supported the Vietnam War inside the Kennedy and Johnson administrations losing their place in the party and the entire foreign-policy establishment overturned.

And Eisenhower Republicans rejected Hoover economic approaches. In other words, parties usually deal with major policy

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failures by ridding themselves of those held responsible.

Electorates have very short memories, and they pay way more attention to their task of throwing out the current rascals than checking on who the new rascals will be.

Parties don’t want to repeat their mistakes, presumably for straightforward good-governance reasons and in accord with the electoral incentive to try to make voters happy.

The truth is many Republicans, including governing professionals such as Bolton, just don’t see the Iraq War as a policy disaster.

I don’t think that’s quite true on economic policy, but in that area, they’ve managed to convince themselves that the party out of

office was responsible.

In some ways, the traditional party reaction to policy failure can be a mistake, with parties freezing out talented people who just happened to be there when things went wrong.

The best approach is almost certainly a middle ground, in which the party takes a good, hard look at how things went awry and who should be discredited.

But there’s not much evidence that’s happened for Republicans.

It’s just one of the many things suggesting normal party incentives aren’t working properly for the party.

And that leaves them much less prepared to govern than they should be: Trump or no Trump?

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(Ishaaq Muhammad/ The Penn) PnB Rock was arrested for drug charges following Thursday night’s concert.

PnB ‘Rock’s IUP stage

By ISHAAQ MUHAMMAD Contributing Writer I.I.Muhammad@iup.edu

Rapper and R&B artist PnB Rock performed at IUP in a concert presented by STATIC (Student Activity Committee) on Thursday at the Hadley Union Building (HUB).

The rapper came to IUP as this semester’s spring concert performer. PnB Rock, who was recently on tour with Lil Baby, stopped here before going to Philadelphia for another concert.

The DJ for PnB Rock interacted with the crowd and even brought two students up to dance to the popular song “Look Alive” by Drake and BlocBoy JB, before bringing out PnB Rock.

PnB Rock started the show with fan favorites such as “Too

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Many Years,” “There She Go” and “Selfish.” Audience members during the show seemed like they knew almost all the songs played.

There were many times where the music was cut and the crowd continued to rhythmically sing along to the song. The crowd was very lively, and at one point, a woman’s bra landed on the stage.

PnB Rock picked it up and incorporated it into his performance.

PnB Rock isn’t a typical rapper, and that’s because he sings with and without auto tune. Certain times during the concert, he stopped using it because the sound wasn’t mixed right. The crowd didn’t seem to mind and kept singing along.

PnB Rock played songs that featured other artists such as A

Boogie and Kodak Black. “Horses” is a song that features them both, and the crowd seemed into it as most sang along.

Throughout his performance, PnB Rock thanked IUP for having so much energy. Toward the end of the concert, PnB Rock brought out his entourage and began to play “Everyday We Lit,” which had the crowd jumping with joy.

He also pulled out a stack of cash and threw it into the crowd.

The audience went wild as he was really close to the crowd throwing money. PnB Rock began to do the “shoot” dance after that song, and the concert ended soon after.

Devonne Barnes (senior, criminology major) had never seen PnB Rock, but he said he enjoyed the concert.

“It was a fun time,” Barnes said, “but I wish I would’ve got some of that money he threw.”

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RAPPER ARRESTED FOLLOWING CONCERT Following his IUP concert Thursday in the Hadley Union Building (HUB), rap and R&B artist Rakim Hasheem Allen, whose stage name is PnB Rock, was one of five men arrested on the first night of “IUPatty’s” for drug-related charges.

Pennsylvania State Police noticed a vehicle driving erratically and pulled it over on the corner of Philadelphia and 10th Street to block traffic Thursday night around 11:30 p.m.

According to state police, Allen, 26, was one of four men who then got out of the car and tried confronting other drivers.

Police arrested Allen and four other men after discovering three large bags of marijuana inside the vehicle.

Upon release, Allen took to social media with a 15-second Snapchat video outside the Indiana County jail.

“F*ck Indiana,” Allen said. “Never coming back.”

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(Facebook) (Photo below provided by Flickr) Stormy Daniels brought ‘60 Minutes’ its biggest audience since the Obamas were on in 2008.

Pornstar brings ‘60 Minutes’ biggest audience since 2008

By STEPHEN BATTAGLIO Los Angeles Times TNS

The highly anticipated “60 Minutes” interview with adult film star Stormy Daniels on Sunday, during which she discussed President Donald Trump, was watched by 21.3 million viewers, the CBS program’s largest audience since 2008.

Data from Nielsen showed that was the most viewers an episode of the newsmagazine has had since 24.5 million people watched Barack and Michelle Obama give st-election their first post-election ov. 16, interview Nov. 2008.

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10 million viewers. y’s sit-down In Sunday’s onwith correspondent Anderson Cooper, Daniels described the affair she said

she had with Trump in 2006. She also said she was threatened with physical harm in 2011 if she went public with her story.

Daniels said a few weeks after Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen learned she had shared her story with In Touch magazine, a stranger approached her and her young daughter in a Las Vegas parking lot, told her to “leave Trump alone” and delivered a warning.

“That’s a beautiful little girl,” she said the man told her. “It’d be a shame if something happened to her mom.”

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Student does not follow the ‘IUP Way’ over holiday weekend

By SETH WOOLCOCK Culture Editor S.M.Woolcock@iup.edu

This article is satirical.

This year’s “IUPatty’s,” the unofficial St. Patrick’s Day celebration at IUP and party weekend, saw its fair share of arrests for drug and alcohol violations, disorderly conduct, underage drinking and driving under the influence. But this year, there was one student arrested for something never seen before at IUP. Ben Reading (sophomore, English) was arrested d by the Indiana Borough h Police Department on Saturday for multiple charges, including public reading.

Reading was seen walking up Seventh Street behind a large group of IUP fraternity houses, head down in a book, when he

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tripped and was then aprehended by officials.

A witness to the event, Tyler Si (senior, undeclared), was on the roof of one of the fraternity houses when Reading was arrested.

“It was the craziest thing, man,” Si said. “I was just on the roof ripping my juul, because I just got done shotgunning seven beers and needed a breather when I saw him. This guy was crazy. He walked all the way past the old Giant Eagle and Sheetz, reading the whole time time. Guy never pi picked his head u up once. Talk about a freaking legend.”

Reading was also cited for endangering minors and reckless walking after fully cooperating with police.

“This weekend just brings out

the worst in everyone,” arresting officer Jim Pactrick said. “Those poor few hundred college students on Seventh Street were up in their houses doing a lot of great stuff when this punk was attempting to walk the entire way up Seventh Street while reading.”

Pactrick added that Reading claimed he was heading to Philadelphia Street to retrieve what he referred to as a “hoagie.” Police added a conspiracy to purchase narcotics to Reading’s charges.

IUP Public Relations Official Mike Tryling released a statement regarding Reading’s arrest.

“What Reading did on Saturday was not the IUP Way,” Tryling said. “Indiana officials will handle the situation in the best interest for the town of Indiana and this University. Students like Reading should take note of the way the other students were acting on Seventh Street at that time. That is the IUP Way.”

(Facebook) “Roseanne” originally ran from 1988 until 1997 on ABC.

‘Roseanne’ review: Revival seems stuck in a time warp

By VERNE GUY Newsday TNS

WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Gone since 1997, “Roseanne” is back. Roseanne Conner (Roseanne Barr) returns in this revival with the whole gang largely intact, including Dan Conner (John Goodman) who had died in the series finale, essentially revealed in the book she had been writing. Tuesday’s pilot, “Twenty Years to Life,” explains how this miraculous prime-time disinterment – so to speak – took place. Also back: Darlene (Sara Gilbert), who’s moved back with Mom and Dad; D.J. (Michael Fishman), who is married and has a daughter, Mary (Jayden Rey); and Becky (Alicia Goranson). And speaking of Becky, Sarah Chalke, who also famously played Becky, is in the revival, too. Meanwhile, Jackie (Laurie Metcalf) has a beef to settle with her sister.

MY SAY: A lot has changed in America over the 21 years since “Roseanne” ruled. There’s this device called a smartphone, for example, where people look at something else called Facebook.

A lot of these people don’t just watch TV, but stream it over the internet. The shows they like to stream star zombies and dragons.

The King of Pop is dead. Hip-hop rules. A former TV star is president. He tweets.

Where, then, does this leave a premillennial TV classic that was so closely tied to that long-ago decade in which it aired? In an awfully big hurry to catch up.

In Tuesday’s opener there are jokes about “deplorables,” pantsuits, health care, guns, Russia, fake news and Uber, along with references to the war in the Middle East, opioids, surrogacy, sexual fluidity and the last fraught presidential election. Jackie is clearly a Hillary Clinton supporter and Roseanne a Trump one.

Other than Jill Stein, no candidate names are mentioned, but they don’t have to be. The premise of the pilot is effectively a rerun of the 2016 election, reduced to a bunch of one-liners.

Emerging from a time warp, “Roseanne” has tried to frantically bootstrap itself to the present, with predictable results. Let’s charitably call those “mixed,” at least in the pilot.

The first great sitcom of working-class despair was “All in the Family,” but the second (arguably) was this one. Barr created something no one had ever really seen before on network TV and improbably, they see a little bit of themselves in her. Birth control, death, race and domestic abuse got hearings. Everyone was broke, always. Dan drank too much. His mortality was the final act. “Roseanne” was a comedy with a tragic subtext. Clearly it resonated then.

So why now?

That’s a question this reboot needed to answer in the first 30 minutes. The answer feels both forced and about two years old.

In real life as on the show, Barr is an outspoken Trump supporter, which makes her one of the rarest – and loneliest – figures in Hollywood as well as on prime time. That also happens to be the single best entry point for this reboot. Mindful of all those enraged fans after Tim Allen’s “Last Man Standing” was canceled, ABC knows there’s an opening for a comedy with a conservative protagonist.

Nevertheless, the old “Roseanne” was essentially noncommittal about politics, and if a show could be a voter, it was an independent. Blue-collar values always prevailed over political ones. But the new “Roseanne” looks like it wants to fight the 2016 election all over again. That could be a miscalculation because viewers – along with the rest of the electorate – are exhausted.

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‘Ready Player One’ can’t be a winner without stakes

By KATIE WALSH Tribune News Service TNS

The fanboy heroes of Ernest Cline’s 2011 novel “Ready Player One” obsessively study the pop culture of the 1970s and ‘80s, so it seems destined Steven Spielberg would direct the film adaptation.

He did, after all, have a large hand in shaping that culture. And with “Ready Player One,” Spielberg has directed every ounce of his filmmaking mastery, clout and resources to the careful envisioning of this nearly unfilmable story, which is largely set in virtual reality.

It’s a tremendous technological and stylistic achievement. But if you look past the shiny, beautiful images, the detailed tapestry of references and the ‘80s pop hits, the story itself just doesn’t stand up to the epic scope of Spielberg’s vision.

Set in the dystopian landscape of Columbus, Ohio, in 2045, most of the population escapes reality within the virtual world of a massive multi-player online role playing game, Oasis. Before his death, the eccentric founder of Oasis, James Halliday (Mark Rylance), promised ownership of the

(Facebook) “Ready Player One” is Steven Spielberg’s first movie of 2018.

company to whomever could win a nearly impossible quest within Oasis. The promise of money and power has inspired every gamer in Columbus to enter the hunt, searching for keys to unlock each level and lead them to the winning Easter egg. An evil corporation, IOI, has even gotten in on the action with an army of mercenaries, hoping to win control of Oasis and, of course, sell advertising.

Our hero, Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan), lives in a teetering trailer park called “The Stacks.”

He escapes into Oasis to live as his alter ego, Parzival, play with his friends and hunt for the egg.

He scours the recorded memories Halliday left behind for clues, memorizing his favorite movies, video games and TV shows for anything to indicate how to beat

the game. But it’s not until he starts reading between the lines that things start to come into focus.

The execution of “Ready Player One” is indisputable, a big, beautiful fantasy. On a large format IMAX screen, the Oasis is a technological marvel, the CGI avatars astonishing. But the story, as adapted by Cline and Zak Penn, is as flimsily constructed as The Stacks. What’s missing are the stakes. Our heroes have no backstory and little arc. We follow them as they battle their way through a game so they can become the major shareholders of a tech company – not exactly “Braveheart.”

It tricks you into thinking it has the stakes, distracting with the old razzle dazzle and hoping you don’t pop open the hood and kick the

tires on this story, which turns out to be a lemon.

There’s also a serious problem with regard to the way fan culture is presented. While it pretends to be a tribute, it’s actually the nail in the coffin. With this film, the fanboy has officially jumped the shark. Here, all pop culture from the late 20th century and early 21st is lumped into one indistinguishable mob, from “Back to the Future” to ‘60s Batman to “The Shining” to “Beetlejuice” to “Lord of the Rings.” It’s not about hooking obsessively into one thing, but about mastering everything, and the notion loses all meaning.

Sheridan’s desperately unconvinc-

ing delivery of the line “a fanboy knows a hater” doesn’t help. Being a fan used to mean having an emotional connection to a work of art – here’s it’s just a tool to level up, to win the prize.

As avatars battle, exploding into coins as they digitally die, there’s a creeping sense of existential dread for the soul of “Ready Player One,” which isn’t nearly as radical as it thinks it is.

When the dust is settled, it’s just a shifting of power. The system stays the same. Spielberg and his team may have pored over the texture, richness and detail of this world, this game, but not the characters, or their story within it.

S PO R T S Villanova, Kansas, Michigan and P

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Loyola set stage for Final Four

(TNS) Villanova guard Jalen Brunson battled for a loose ball in a December win over DePaul University.

By KEVIN BOHAN Staff Writer K.J.Bohan@iup.edu

With just four teams remaining, the pinnacle of the college basketball season will take place Saturday night in San Antonio.

The Final Four is set, and it’s time to take a look back at the tournament as a whole and see just how these teams got to where they are now.

The first team to punch its ticket was the Loyola University of Chicago Ramblers. The Ramblers have been the feel-good story of the tournament thus far, becoming the fourth No. 11 seed all time to appear in the Final Four.

The Ramblers have been one of the top offensive teams in the tournament and have won by outscoring their opponents by a margin of

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(TNS) Kansas point guard Devonte’ Graham celebrated after the Jayhawks defeated Duke in the Elite 8.

20 points.

After battling it out with opponents in their first four games of the tournament — in which they won three games by a combined 5 points — their most recent win in the Elite 8 over Kansas State University by 16 points launched the Ramblers onto the biggest stage in college basketball.

Loyola has also been in the spotlight for the attention on the team’s biggest fan, 98-year-old Sister Jean, a member of the religious order of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin.

She served as the team’s chaplain for nearly 25 years and has been cast into the spotlight as she watched the Ramblers make the most impressive run in program history. But make no mistake, this Loyola team is a legitimate threat to win the national title.

The next team to punch its tick-

(TNS) (TNS) Michigan’s Moritz Wagner showed some energy after Loyola-Chicago head coach Porter Moser cut down the finishing a play at the basket in the team’s win Saturday. net after the Ramblers’ win to adavnce to the Final Four.

et was the University of Michigan Wolverines, who will square off with the Ramblers.

This is a team that was one miracle shot away from not even playing another game in the tournament after it hit a buzzer beater to defeat the University of Houston in the second-round.

Since the shot, it looks like the team’s early tournament struggles are all behind it as the Wolverines are starting to play their best ball of the year.

Junior Moritz Wagner had a shaky start to the tournament but turned that around with back-toback strong games.

The first came in a blowout of a tough Texas A&M University team followed by another outstanding performance against Florida State University in the Elite 8.

With Wagner playing at this level, Michigan looks primed to

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bring home a title for coach John Beilein.

The third team to make it past the Elite 8 was the Villanova University Wildcats.

Villanova has been arguably the best basketball program in the country over the past five years or so, and this year has been no different for head coach Jay Wright’s team. The Wildcats moved through the East region of the bracket with relatively no troubles at all and looked like the best team throughout the tournament.

With National Player of the Year candidate and East Region Most Outstanding Player Jalen Brunson leading the offensively stacked group, it looks like it would take a miracle to shut down the Wildcats.

The final team to punch its ticket was the Kansas University Jayhawks, whose Elite 8 battle with Duke University may have been the

best game in the tournament so far. The Jayhawks made it through a relatively easy path to get to the Elite 8 but were given all they could handle against the Blue Devils and survived an overtime game behind Malik Newman, who recorded 32 points in the win, including all of the points for the Jayhawks in the overtime period.

Kansas is an experienced team with a hall of fame coach, Bill Self.

With Self and Big 12 Conference Player of the Year Devonte’ Graham at the helm, the sky is the limit for this Jayhawks team.

By this time next week, there will be a new national champion in the college basketball world, and if this tournament has told us anything, it’s that anything and everything should be expected and that all four of these teams have a serious shot at cutting down the nets in San Antonio.

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Crimson Hawks looking to build on experience as PSAC play approaches

By JARROD BROWNE Lead Sports Writer J.W.Browne@iup.edu

With spring in full swing, the IUP softball team is awaiting its home opener.

The Crimson Hawks were originally set to play their home opener Saturday afternoon against Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) foe Edinboro University.

Due to inclement weather, the Crimson Hawks postponed their first two doubleheaders of the PSAC schedule.

IUP postponed the doubleheader scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at Mercyhurst University.

“We finished spring training in Florida on a high note,” Lauren Zola (junior, hospitality management) said. “So coming back to this weather is kind of a disappointment. No team enjoys going back into the gym, but we just try to power through it the best we can to prepare for the games to come.”

Despite the poor weather to start the season, the Crimson

SOFTBALL

(IUP Athletics) The IUP softball team will look to Kaitlyn Beers (sophomore, nursing) as one of its top returnees in the lineup in 2018. Beers was named the 2017 IUP Women’s Freshman of the Year after a strong campaign. Beers was second on the team in batting average last season.

Hawks have a lot of talent returning to the diamond from last year.

The defense starts with pitching, and the Crimson Hawks are fortunate to have three pitchers who saw significant playing time last year.

Megan Risinger (junior, nursing) had 18 appearances and finished the 2017 season with a 2.27 earned run average (ERA).

Zola had 25 appearances and finished with a 3.01 ERA.

On the offensive side of ball, the Crimson Hawks will return two of their top hitters from the 2017 season.

Kaitlyn Beers (sophomore, nursing) finished the 2017 season second on the team in batting average, with an average of .311 and second in RBIs with 22.

The Crimson Hawks will return third baseman Lauren Goetz (junior, kinesiology), who finished third on the team last year with a

(IUP Athletics) Lauren Zola (junior, hospitality management) is one of the veterans on the Crimson Hawks’ pitching staff. Zola holds a career record of 21-21 in 49 appearances as well as 26 complete games in 42 career starts.

batting average of .281.

The Crimson Hawks are looking to improve on an early exit from the PSAC tournament last year.

The Crimson Hawks fell to Shippensburg University, 5-4, in the opening round of the PSAC tournament.

IUP had a chance to play for a trip to the regional tournament in the consolation tournament but fell to PSAC rivals California University of Pennsylvania (Cal U), 3-1,

in the opening round of the consoloation tournament.

Despite an early exit last year, the Crimson Hawks are feeling confident for their conference schedule after their spring training trip, where the team went 6-6.

“We had the chance to see some of the conference teams down there [spring training], and even play a few,” Zola said. “So that gives us an idea of what to expect when we start playing.”

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NHL gearing up for Stanley Cup Playoffs

By BRAD O’HARA Staff Writer B.L.Ohara@iup.edu

With April approaching quickly, it is time for each team in the NHL to make its push for a playoff spot.

The Tampa Bay Lightning, Boston Bruins, Nashville Predators and Winnipeg Jets are the four teams that already clinched their spots in the postseason with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Vegas Golden Knights close behind them.

That leaves five spots up for grabs in both the Eastern and Western conferences.

Currently sitting atop the Metropolitan Division is the Washington Capitals, but there were four other teams within nine points of the Capitals, entering Monday night’s games.

That includes the Pittsburgh Penguins, who are second in the Metropolitan and three points behind the Capitals. The Philadelphia Flyers are currently sitting in fourth in the Metropolitan and are six points behind first.

The Penguins are 21-8-3 since

(TNS) The Vegas Golden Knights are on the verge of clinching a playoff berth in the club’s inaugural season in the NHL. Vegas currently sits atop the Pacific Division in the Western Conference, a position that would give them home-ice advantage in at least the first two rounds of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Pictured above is goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury making a save during a game in Carolina in January.

the All-Star break and are 6-2-2 in their last 10 games.

The key for the Penguins in the rest of the regular season, and into the postseason, is to stay healthy.

The Penguins struggled with

injuries all season, having to alternate between three goaltenders for most of the season due to injuries to Matt Murray and Tristan Jarry. The Flyers hit a rough patch in their path to the playoffs, losing

nine of 13 games in March.

The Flyers’ string of losses was largely due to the loss of their starting goalie, Brian Elliot.

Elliot has been out since he received a core muscle surgery in

early February.

Elliot is slated to return this weekend. Elliot’s return, and his success when he returns, is crucial to the Flyers’ success moving forward.

The Columbus Blue Jackets are on a tear for a high seed in the playoffs. The Blue Jackets went on a 10-game winning streak in March. The winning streak ended in their last game against the St. Louis Blues on Saturday.

Columbus relied heavily on their offense during that stretch of wins, scoring four goals or more in all but two of the games.

The New Jersey Devils and Florida Panthers are also in the mix for the second wild card spot in the Eastern Conference.

In the West, seedings have began to take form in the Pacific, although no seed is definite yet.

Colorado and St. Louis continue to battle for the wild card spots with Los Angles staying in the hunt as well.

With no more than nine games left in the season for any team, the NHL playoff picture is taking form.

The regular season ends April 7.

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