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(Photo submitted by Ashley Reynolds) Suzy Teele, the head of marketing and communications for the Advanced Robotics in Manufacturing (ARM) Institute, spoke to students Monday night in Eberly College of Business as the first speaker of Marketing Week. Other events this week will include Sharon George on Tuesday; Phil Henry on Wednesday; and Jill Thomas on Thursday.

Celebrate Recovery, a faithbased organization, provides free help for all “hurts, habits and hang-ups.”

Jackie Greene, who is a pastor for IUP and the program, said that although this organization started for recovery from drug addiction, it now provides help for any assortment of issues.

The program is held at 6 p.m. every Monday at the New Life Church at the Indiana Mall. It ties religious elements into its 12-step program. It also provides meals, one-hour church services and group work tailored for people’s issues.

Celebrate Recovery is meant

to help with any problem, such as depression, anxiety, grief, stress and more. All these services are free, and donations are accepted but not mandatory.

Crystal Billings (graduate student, sociology) is one student who said she benefited from the program. She joined more than a year ago to cope with anxiety and depression.

Billings said one of the best parts of the program is the sense of community. She said she made a lot of friends because of Celebrate Recovery.

“No matter who you are,” Billings said, “you need to feel like you belong.”

Because of the community, Billings said she would absolutely recommend the program to anyone who needs assistance of any kind.

Parkland students to march on Florida Capitol to demand changes to gun laws

By MARY ELLEN KLAS Miami Herald TNS

A hundred students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland will travel to Tallahassee for a march on the state Capitol Wednesday in the first organized protest of their #NeverAgain movement.

Their demand: that Florida legislators use the remaining three weeks of their annual session to revise state mental health and gun laws to forestall a repeat of the Parkland school shooting that killed 17 students and staff.

“It really needs to be recognized that they need to stop fighting each other and starting working together,’’ said Jaclyn Corin, 17, junior class president and a survivor of the shooting, who conceived the idea for the two-day trip. “This has to be the last school this happens to.”

The students and about 15 parent chaperones will travel to Tallahassee by bus Tuesday in advance of small-group meetings

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(TNS) Emma Gonzalez (left), a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, gathered with people at North Community Park in Parkland, Fla., for a protest Sunday.

with legislators that are planned Wednesday, and then return later that day.

They leave after the Tuesday morning funeral of Carmen Schentrup, 16, who was killed when their former classmate, Nikolas Cruz, killed students and teachers with an AR-15 last Wednesday.

Corin said she and her classmates want the state to ban

assault weapons and high capacity magazines.

They also want to make it more difficult for those with histories of mental illness to legally access weapons.

“We emphasize the need for more attention to mental health.

We know a lot of people, and politicians, would prefer that over gun control, but we want to emphasize

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both,’’ Corin said. “We don’t want to take away people’s gun rights.

This movement understands that people have that right under the Second Amendment, but we just want alterations and restriction.”

Corin said students will start by asking legislators to review gun laws in other countries and reject the National Rifle Association’s logic.

“The NRA brainwashes us to think these rules and laws can’t work here,’’ Corin said. “We think they can. In what world would a civilian need an assault rifle? There’s no common sense reason.”

To sportsmen and those who say they need the weapons for self defense, Corin says: “There’s so many other guns they could use.

We don’t need guns in our community that can fire off 100 bullets in a matter of 10 minutes.”

Cameron Kasky, another Douglas high student who started the #NeverAgain movement, announced Sunday that on March 24, students are organizing rallies across the country to demand that lawmakers reject money from the NRA and say “never again.”

“My message for people in office is: you’re either with us or against us. We are losing our lives while the adults are playing around,” Kasky on CNN’s “State of the Union. “We don’t need you.

On March 24, you are going to be seeing students in every single major city. We have our lives on the line here.”

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Tillerson offers working group on disputes with Turkey

By TRACY WILKINSON Tribune Washington Bureau TNS

(TNS) Pallbearers walked the casket of Scott Beigel, a teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who was killed in the mass shooting, to his final resting place Sunday at Temple Beth El in Boca Raton, Fla.

Walkout, march planned to demand action on mass shootings

By DAVID J. NEAL and DAVID OVALLE Miami Herald TNS

A student walkout and march are being planned for next month as gun-control activists ramp up their efforts amid the political furor over the mass shooting that left 17 dead at a high school in Parkland, Fla. The Women’s March Network has called for a national student walkout at 10 a.m. on March 14. It is planned to last 17 minutes – one minute for every life lost in last week’s massacre.

That’s to be followed by the “March for Our Lives” on March 24 in Washington, D.C., an event organized by survivors of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High.

We’re marching because it’s not just schools,” Douglas student Alex Wind told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “It’s movie theaters, it’s concerts, it’s nightclubs. This kind of stuff can’t just happen. We are marching for our lives. We’re marching for the 17 lives we lost.

“And we’re marching for our children’s lives and our children’s children and their children. And we’re marching for everybody’s lives. And that’s the point we’re trying to get across. Never again

will this kind of tragedy happen in this country or any country.”

Fellow Douglas High student Cameron Kasky, who started the #NeverAgain movement, talked about the march during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“My message for people in office is: You’re either with us or against us. We are losing our lives while the adults are playing around,” Kasky said in an interview Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “We don’t need you.

On March 24, you are going to be seeing students in every single major city. We have our lives on the line here.”

“This isn’t about the GOP, this isn’t about the Democrats, this is about us creating a badge of shame for any politicians accepting money from the NRA and using us as collateral,” he said.

Sunday marked a busy day in the nation’s political world, four days after 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz walked into the Broward County high school armed with an AR-15 and extra ammo, opening fire on students and staffers before escaping. He was soon caught and confessed, police said.

The third-deadliest school shooting in the United States has again sparked familiar political hand-wringing over the nation’s gun laws, with activists calling for

restrictions on the weaponry used in so many mass shootings, and the influence of the National Rifle Association.

Even some Republicans have joined the chorus, including Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who told CNN that he was in favor of restricting access to assault-style rifles.

“Common-sense guns laws make sense,” Kasich said Sunday.

Also on Sunday, Douglas students slammed President Donald Trump’s tweet blasting the FBI for failing to investigate Cruz.

Meanwhile, Douglas students and supporters also announced they would be traveling to Tallahassee this week to urge revised state gun and mental-health laws. Lawmakers are in the state’s capitol for the annual legislative session.

“A week ago, I was at a park volunteering with autistic kids.

And now I’m just sitting in front of my school that just got shot up, talking to news stations that are going to be broadcast around the world,” student Jaclyn Corin told NBC. “And, absolutely, it still feels unreal. But unfortunately, we have to face reality and do something about it. We have to create national change. And what I’m actually doing right now is I’m starting to create a change at the state level.”

In an effort to stem fast-worsening ties, Turkey and the United States agreed Friday to set up a diplomatic working group to defuse a bitter dispute over Kurdish militias operating in Syria.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, ending two days of talks with top Turkish officials, conceded that serious disagreements continue to haunt relations between Turkey and the United States, which are NATO allies.

“We find ourselves at a bit of a crisis point in the relationship,” Tillerson said at a news conference with his Turkish counterpart, Mevlut Cavusoglu, in the capital of Ankara.

“The important point ... is we’re not going to act alone any longer,” he added. “We’re not going to be U.S. doing one thing and Turkey doing another. We are going to act together from this point forward. We’re going

to lock arms, we’re going to work through the issues that are causing difficulties for us.”

The working group will handle disagreements starting in midMarch, Tillerson said.

Turkey is outraged over U.S. military support for Kurdish militias fighting in northern Syria, close to the Turkish border.

Ankara regards them as allied with Kurdish insurgents who have sought to topple the Turkish government. Washington has worked closely with the Kurdish militias to battle Islamic State in Syria.

The issue came to a head after Turkey launched a ground and air assault last month against Kurdish forces in Afrin, in northwest Syria.

Ankara threatened to also attack a Kurdish-controlled enclave in Manbij, where U.S. troops are deployed, raising fears of a direct clash between U.S. and Turkish forces. The Kurds seized Manbij from Islamic State in 2016.

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Trump’s top security adviser says Russian meddling is ‘incontrovertible’

By TRACY WILKINSON Tribune Washington Bureau TNS

(TNS) Robert Mueller testified before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing Feb. 16, 2011, in Washington, D.C.

Citing fraud, Mueller opposes Manafort request to change bail

By ANDREW HARRIS Bloomberg News TNS

The U.S. special counsel rejected Paul Manafort’s proposed new bail package, in part because of alleged additional criminal conduct that the U.S. has learned since the initial terms were set.

Manafort and longtime associate Rick Gates were indicted in October by Mueller for failing to register as agents in the U.S. for political consulting they did for Ukraine and pro-Russian politicians there.

They were among the first to be charged by Special Counsel Robert Mueller in his probe of Russian influence on last year’s presidential election. They were also accused of conspiring to launder millions of dollars and hiding offshore bank accounts.

Manafort laundered money from overseas to buy houses, cars, clothes, antiques and landscaping services, the U.S. said. Both men have pleaded not guilty.

The possible new criminal conduct by Manafort “includes a series of bank frauds and bank fraud conspiracies,” Mueller said in a court filing late Friday in a response to a request from Manafort to reconsider his bail conditions.

Specifically, the claims relate to a mortgage on Manafort’s Fairfax, Va., property, which Manafort sought to pledge as part of his bail.

“The Fairfax property is claimed

by Manafort to have no mortgage.

In fact, it was posted to secure a mortgage of over $9 million from

the Federal Savings Bank, which was secured by both the Fairfax property and the Bridgehampton property,” the government said in the filing. “It is misleading to claim the Fairfax property has no mortgage when, in fact, it has been posted to secure a mortgage that substantially exceeds the value of the property.”

Manafort had initially posted his Fairfax and Bridgehampton, N.Y., properties as collateral.

The government has secured “substantial” evidence that Manafort secured the mortgage from the Federal Savings Bank through a series of false and fraudulent representations to the Federal Savings Bank, Mueller said in the filing.

“For example, Manafort provided the bank with doctored profit and loss statements for DMP International LLC for both 2015 and 2016, overstating its income by millions of dollars,” Mueller said.

DMP is Manafort’s company.

A lawyer for Manafort didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment sent outside regular business hours.

On Jan. 3, Manafort filed a civil lawsuit claiming that Mueller overstepped his authority in charging him with crimes related to business conducted long before he became President Donald Trump’s campaign chairman and that involve events unrelated to Russian election meddling. The U.S. filed a motion to dismiss that lawsuit, and Manafort’s lawyers opposed that motion in a separate filing late Friday.

National security adviser H.R. McMaster said Saturday that evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election was “now really incontrovertible” after indictment of 13 Russian individuals and three companies.

Speaking at an international security conference in Munich, Germany, McMaster lent credence to a widening scandal that President Donald Trump has routinely dismissed as a hoax.

“The evidence is now really incontrovertible and available in the public domain,” McMaster said. The U.S. was becoming “more and more adept at tracing the origins of this espionage and subversion,” he said.

The indictment announced Friday describes a vast, secret, social-media campaign financed

(TNS) National security adviser H.R. McMaster spoke at the Center for a New American Security’s annual conference June 28 in Washington, D.C.

by a Russian entrepreneur with ties to President Vladimir Putin that worked to harm Hillary Clinton’s candidacy and promote Trump.

These are the first criminal charges related to election meddling brought in the Mueller investigation. Deputy Attorney General Gen. Rod Rosenstein said there was no allegation in the indictment of an American

citizen participating willingly in the scheme.

In a Twitter post, Trump claimed that the charges prove his campaign “did nothing wrong.”

At the same Munich meeting with McMaster on Saturday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov dismissed the accusations against his countrymen as “just blabber.”

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Turpin abuse case prompts California bill to tighten regulation of home schools

By ANNA M. PHILLIPS Los Angeles Times TNS

California lawmakers are pushing to increase regulation of home schools after a dozen siblings were discovered locked in a dirty, dark house in Riverside County.

The house in Perris had been registered as a private school called Sandcastle Day School.

Last month, after a malnourished 17-year-old escaped and alerted authorities to the abuse she and her 12 siblings, ages 2 to 29, had endured there, her parents were arrested and charged with multiple counts of torture and child endangerment.

David Turpin, 56, and Louise Turpin, 49, have pleaded not guilty to the charges against them and a judge has barred them from contacting their children.

David Turpin had registered with the state as the principal of Sandcastle Day, saying six schoolage children were enrolled.

The case attracted national attention, including calls for California to re-examine its homeschooling policies.

Democratic state Assemblyman Jose Medina proposed a bill that he said would “tighten up” state regulation.

Democratic Assemblywomen Susan Talamantes Eggman and Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher are cosponsors.

Under current state law, families who choose to educate their children at home are deemed to be operating private schools. They’re required to register with the state Department of Education and submit annual paperwork, known as a private school affidavit, that

(TNS) David Turpin, left, and Louise Turpin, right, consulted with attorneys during a court hearing Jan. 24 at the Riverside Hall of Justice in Riverside, Calif.

tells the state how many students are enrolled and where the school is located.

The only way to guess which private schools are home schools is to look for those with very small numbers of students.

No one in the state Department of Education, county or local school district has any legal responsibility to check on the conditions of home schools or assess the students’ academic performance. And while private schools are required to get annual fire inspections, this regulation has never been broadly applied to home schools.

Medina’s bill aims to change that. The proposed legislation would require city and county fire departments to conduct annual inspections of all registered home

schools in their areas.

Home-schooling families who live in parts of the state without fire districts would be subject to annual inspections by the Office of the State Fire Marshal.

Under the newly proposed language, the state superintendent of instruction would give those agencies lists of registered private schools within their jurisdictions, including those that report enrolling five or fewer students, which are likely to be home schools.

“The horrific child abuse case in Perris, California, raised questions about the lack of oversight of private schools,” Medina said in a statement. I believe it is important to have different education options, such as private schools, to meet each child’s individual needs. However, the state has a

responsibility to ensure that each child is in a safe learning environment.”

California’s current law might seem unusually hands-off for a state often mocked for excessive regulation. But according to the Coalition for Responsible Home Education, a nonprofit that advocates more active oversight of home-schooled children, the state has policies more stringent than many others.

Eleven states don’t require parents to submit any documentation or register with state agencies or school districts. Among them is Texas, where the Turpin family lived for a time.

California is one of 15 states that ask only that families register with a state agency. Homeschooled children aren’t held to

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specific academic standards or required to take standardized tests.

Their parents aren’t finger-printed and the state doesn’t check their criminal histories, as it would for a traditional public or private school teacher.

Medina’s bill does not address those exemptions.

Mike Smith, president of the Home School Legal Defense Association, a national advocacy group that opposes increased homeschooling regulations, called Medina’s proposal “the biggest threat,” to come out of California in recent years.

He said the proposed language would violate home-schooling families’ Fourth Amendment privacy protections and single them out for unnecessary scrutiny.

“We know what they’re trying to do. They’re trying to get into home-school homes,” Smith said.

“And they are very few ways you can invade a home. So that’s what this is intended to do.”

Even among groups that advocate more monitoring, the reaction was lukewarm.

Rachel Coleman, executive director of the Coalition for Responsible Home Education, said the proposed bill doesn’t solve some major problems.

The state is wrong to carve out exemptions for home-schooling families in its private-school law, she said, such as allowing homeschooling parents to avoid criminal background checks.

“The private school law in California was not designed for home-schoolers,” she said. “In many ways, an individual homeschool statute would simplify the current legal situation.”

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EDITORIAL In light of a mass-shooting tragedy perpetrated by alleged shooter 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, 17 high school students were left dead Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Many survivors of the tragedy are pushing for gun reform via social media, the press and other forms of activism. Shooting survivors have even planned a march on Washington to promote gun reform planned for March 24. But some lawmakers have a different fix for this problem in mind – arming teachers with guns.

Alabama lawmaker Rep. Will Ainsworth is proposing legislation that would allow public school teachers and administrators to carry a concealed weapon with training.

The legislation is similar to a bill Sen. Don White, R-Pa., brought to state senate in 2014 and again in 2017.

The bill would have allowed trained teachers, principals and other school employees to possess firearms on school premises.

But, unlike the survivors pushing for gun reform, lawmakers are not in a school setting and were not in that life-threatening situation. Many of the lawmakers proposing these laws are forgetting something important: Teachers can be unpredictable, too.

Arming teachers will not end school violence

(TNS) Students took part in a “lie-in” on the road outside the White House on Monday in Washington, D.C., for three minutes at a time in an effort to symbolize the short amount of time it took alleged shooter Nikolas Cruz to gun down numerous people last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.

Schools already have trouble weeding out teachers who break the law by engaging in sexual relationships with students or selling drugs to them.

According to a Jan. 20, 2015, article by The Washington Post, there were 781 reported cases of teachers and other school employees accused or convicted of sexual

relationships with students in 2014 alone.

A simple Google search of “teacher sells drugs to students in U.S.” will provide hundreds of web page results.

So what makes lawmakers trust these teachers with weapons that can kill so many students in just seconds? What makes these lawmakers believe schools can weed out

employees who can be trusted with firearms around kids from those who can’t?

The idea is “if people are going to commit mass shootings, they aren’t going to follow the laws about bringing guns to school.”

That kind of thinking is fundamentally flawed for a few reasons, though.

If someone is planning out a mass shooting, it is likely that he or she is not going to follow laws preventing guns. However, that is taking into account only shootings that are planned.

Unstable teachers may not plan to shoot their students, but if they have a gun readily accessible, they might. Teachers sometimes get physical with students, whether it be to stop an altercation or to defend themselves against assault. Throwing a gun into the mix could end up with more unnecessary deaths and injuries during these very altercations.

It may be impossible to prevent child predators and drug dealers from infiltrating school systems, but it is still possible to prevent teachers who are irresponsible from bringing guns to school.

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‘Black Panther’ claws its way into Marvel’s legacy

By LAITH ZURAIKAT Staff Writer Laith.Zuraikat@iup.edu

This article contains opinion.

The release of “Black Panther” this weekend seemed like a bit of a risk for Marvel Studios — a studio that has earned a reputation for being willing to give lesserknown heroes a chance on the big screen.

Not only does the film focus on a superhero who is not traditionally considered one of Marvel’s “A-listers,” but it is also the first movie that Marvel produced with a blockbuster-type budget to feature an black lead actor and director, as well as a mostly black cast.

But despite the various risks that “Black Panther” presented for Marvel and its parent company, The Walt Disney Co., director Ryan Coogler produced not only an outstanding superhero film but an overall incredibly enjoyable movie.

“Black Panther” does an excellent job balancing traditional superhero movie tropes while

(Facebook) Crtitcs are calling “Black Panther”one of the best Marvel films of all time.

incorporating key Afro-centric elements of the titular character’s background. It is through

this successful balancing act that, despite being the 18th film released by Marvel, “Black

Panther” stands apart from its other films.

Unlike previous Marvel films like “Captain America: Civil War” and “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” this movie, while briefly acknowledging the necessary elements and backstory needed from previous Marvel works, quickly moves on to tell its own self-encapsulated story.

Coogler avoided having to tell the traditional superhero origin story since the main character of “Black Panther” was introduced in “Captain America: Civil War.” Instead, the movie almost immediately jumps into the action.

The main character of the movie, T’Challa, is the king of Wakanda, a fictional nation located in Eastern Africa. This gives T’Challa entirely different challenges and obstacles than other Marvel superheroes, allowing Coogler to tell a much different story.

Despite the differences, there are some Marvel staples in the movie. But luckily, they all benefit the film. These staples include incredible action sequences, fantastic visual effects and moments

of levity and humor, which are often provided by Letitia Wright who plays T’Challa’s sister, Shuri.

It is said the best comic-book movies are good thanks in part to having a great villain, and that is certainly the case in this movie.

Michael B. Jordan’s performance as Erik Killmonger radiates an intensity and anger that is almost palpable.

In fact, Jordan’s performance is so forceful that it threatens to overshadow the main character.

Killmonger is a multidimensional and complex villain, which greatly benefits the story.

A minor weakness of “Black Panther” is around the film’s third act, which feels slightly rushed at points. But this is a nit-picky complaint about what is, on the whole, a fantastic movie.

Above all, “Black Panther” does an outstanding job showcasing and adapting elements of the vibrant history, culture and way of African life through Wakanda and its citizens, which helps contribute to what many critics are calling one of the best Marvel movies to date.

Ratings for the Winter Olympics are down, but ahead of NBC’s projections

By STEPHEN BATTAGLIO Los Angeles Times TNS

Television’s age of lowered ratings expectations has come to the Winter Olympics.

Through the first five nights of NBC’s Winter Olympics coverage in Pyeongchang, South Korea, prime-time coverage is being watched by an average of 23.8 million viewers, according to Nielsen data, down 6 percent from the same point in 2014 when the event was held in Sochi, Russia.

The total includes cable and digital audiences that were not counted in the network’s average in 2014, meaning the drop in viewership might have been steeper if those numbers were taken out.

The additional platforms add around 2 million viewers to the

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Still, NBC executives weren’t in a panic. Mark Lazarus, chairman of NBC Broadcasting and Sports, said Tuesday in a conference call with reporters that the primetime audience delivered so far is ahead of what it promised to advertisers.

Mindful of how the proliferation of television viewing options has diminished TV ratings across the board, the network guaranteed an audience for Pyeongchang that is smaller than what it promised in 2014.

The Pyeongchang number includes people watching the Games on NBC, the NBC Sports Network on cable and streaming video apps. Lazarus said 90 percent of the time sold is for commercials that air across all three platforms.

Although Lazarus did not spec-

(TNS) Chloe Kim, of the USA, and teammate Arielle Gold celebrated after placing first and third in the women’s snowboard halfpipe finals Feb. 13 at Phoenix Snow Park at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games.

ify what the guaranteed audience is, he acknowledged that NBC anticipated a decline from 2014.

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the network said it sold $900 million in commercial time, a record for a Winter Olympics.

By meeting or exceeding its

ratings targets for advertisers on the first five nights, Lazarus said the network can take the unsold commercial inventory it reserved in the event of audience shortfalls and sell it to advertisers who are interested in a last-minute buy for the remainder of the Games, which run through Saturday.

Lazarus said the network is seeing a massive increase in streaming of the Games, through digital devices and internet-connected televisions. Viewers have watched more Olympic coverage on digital devices in the first five days of the Pyeongchang Games than in the entire Sochi Games.

The network has done research that found 60 percent of the Olympic audience is spending less time with streaming video services such as Netflix, Amazon and Hulu as a result of the time spent watching the competition.

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Fashion Week showcases celebrities, style at annual event

(TNS) Laverne Cox posed for photos backstage at the Christian Siriano fashion show Feb. 10 during the 2018 Fall/Winter New York Fashion Week in Manhattan, N.Y. (Facebook) ETHEL will perform Thursday in Gorell Recital Hall, on the second floor of Sutton Hall.

ETHEL making classical music cool again at IUP

By JESSICA TRUBY Staff Writer J.L.Truby@iup.edu

String quartet ETHEL and flutist Robert Mirabal will perform their show “The River” on Thursday in Gorell Recital Hall, on the second floor of Sutton Hall.

ETHEL, formed in 1998 and based in New York City, is now known worldwide. According to the quartet’s website, the group is always changing and finding ways to push the limits of the musical and cultural diversity.

ETHEL has appeared on stages as varied as the Venice Biennale, Sydney Opera House, Lincoln Center, Toronto’s Royal Conservatory, Kennedy Center and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, according to the quartet’s website. The quartet features Ralph Farris, viola; Kip Jones, violin; Dorothy Lawson, cello; and Corin Lee, violin.

Continuing a nine-year collaboration with Native American musician, actor, writer, instrument builder and three-time Grammy Award-winner Mirabal, ETHEL will present its next evolution of the cross-cultural concert experience.

Born and raised in Taos Pueblo, N.M., and influenced by the traditional music of Taos, Mirabal began playing the flute at the age of 18.

ETHEL and Mirabal are now

touring their groundbreaking collaborative album “The River,” recently recorded in Taos. According to a Feb. 5 press release, with the live performance, ETHEL and Mirabal immerse the audience in a flow of music that takes inspiration from water as the embodiment of the spirit, evoking the magic and majesty of “the river,” which connects us all.

The Seattle Times wrote that the live show “resides somewhere beyond the intersection of ceremony and show biz, at a place where multicultural collaboration becomes sacred art. As delivered by these master performers, the effect is breathtaking, even ecstatic.”

According to The Wall Street Journal, “ETHEL … created a world in which classical music had never grown distant, a world in which it was fresh and direct as crowds dancing in the street.”

Tickets for “The River” are available on IUP’s website or by calling the Lively Arts’ ticket office at 724-357-1313. Tickets will be sold at the door starting one hour prior to the performance. Tickets are $22 for regular admission, $18 for seniors (60 or older) and $12 for active I-Card holders, students and children. Group rates are available for parties of 15 or more.

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Four female filmmakers lay out a road map for working toward gender equality in Hollywood

By COLLEEN SHALBY Los Angeles Times TNS

As the “Me Too” movement intensifies its look at the oftentimes abominable treatment of women in Hollywood, female filmmakers are devising ways to make changes.

Last month at Sundance, 37 percent of the festival’s 122 feature films were directed by women – a stat amplified by an abundance of panels focused on women in film. At the Women in Film panel “The Road to 50/50,” four female filmmakers discussed the disparity of representation in their industry, and in the process offered an unofficial road map for progress.

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It’s a simple concept – increase the number of women represented in film by hiring more women.

So what’s holding people back?

One possibility is criteria, suggests Stephanie Allain, producer of “Leimert Park,” which premiered

(Facebook) This year’s Sundance Film Festival was held in Park City, Utah.

(Facebook) Left to right: Filmmakers Stephanie Allain, Mel Jones, Amy Adrion and Liz Destro discussed the mission for gender parity in Hollywood during a Café Artois Women in Film panel.

in Sundance’s new indie episodic section. A search for candidates with the most impressive backgrounds typically discounts those who haven’t yet been given a chance. Her solution? Alter the standard for employment.

“I used to say, ‘I want to hire the best people for the job,’”

Allain said. “Then I realized by saying that, I was looking at metrics that were like, ‘Who has the best resume? Who has the most awards? Who’s done the most work?’ And typically, those were all men – and most of them were white men. So I stopped saying that and started to say, ‘I want my

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sets to be diverse with all kinds of people, and I want to find the best of all kinds of people.’”

Diversity on sets can also be key in lending more authenticity to a film.

“It’s important that if you’re going to tell a story about a black woman, there better be a black woman somewhere in the room,” said Mel Jones, director of “Leimert Park.”

That need for diversity exists at the decision-making table too, before and after a film has been given the green light.

Recalling an occasion just two years ago, Liz Destro, a producer of the dramatic competition selection “Lizzie,” was asked to fetch coffee during a buyer’s meeting.

She happened to be the only woman in the room.

“Now when I go into the buyer’s meetings, there’s women there.”

Destro credits the existence of female financiers in those spaces with the possibility of making a female-driven movie like hers, which stars Chloe Sevigny and Kristen Stewart in a story about the infamous Lizzie Borden.

“All we can do is hire women and encourage others to hire women.”

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Talk is cheap, as the old adage goes. Conversation about the need for female representation in the film world continues to grow.

But Amy Adrion – director of the documentary “Half the Picture,” which examines the struggles faced by female directors – argues that the stats still don’t accurately reflect the fact that women make up 50 percent of the population.

Action is necessary.

“I think once you have more female agents and people of power, you’re going to have them fighting for women as much as men. It’s great that Mark Wahlberg donated his $1.5 million [from the “All the Money in the World” reshoots] to the Time’s Up campaign – as well he should – but I hope he told his agent, ‘Why don’t you fight for your female clients the way you fight for me?’”

Hollywood is a business, Adrion said. And like all businesses, it won’t invest in something that doesn’t return a profit.

“But these shows make money,” she said.

Jones believes that technology can help prove that point by looking at metrics and raw data to see what types of films connect with audiences.

“It empowers women to do a lot more without having to wait for permission.”

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“The first movie I ever made was because of a mentorship,” Jones said. The film “Dear White People” was executive produced

by Allain – the woman sitting next to her.

Allain argues that mentorship is important, but it’s not the end-allbe-all to the parity problem. That type of change, she said, comes once the culture as a whole has evolved. She highlights ReFrame, a program she founded to help create that type that of change.

Still, in the fight for equality, she believes diverse re-presentation is a start.

“We know that when women are gatekeepers – whether they’re department heads or directors or producers – they’re keeping that door open for other women.

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How massive is ‘Black Panther’ at the box office? A record-shattering $235 million

(TNS) “Black Panther” had the fifth-highest domestic opening weekend ever.

By STEPHEN BATTAGLIO Los Angeles Times TNS

The King of Wakanda reigned supreme this holiday weekend as Disney’s “Black Panther” proved to be a pop cultural phenomenon, shattering box office records with an estimated $235 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales for the four-day holiday weekend.

The Marvel Entertainment release, the first global superhero blockbuster with an African American director and a mostly black cast, exceeded expectations and set records for a February opening and for a Presidents Day weekend debut. The previous record holder

was “Deadpool,” which made $152 million domestically over the four-day holiday in 2016.

“Black Panther” is the fifth highest domestic opening weekend of all time, behind only “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (2015), “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” (2017), “Jurassic World” (2012) and “Marvel’s The Avengers” (2012).

Critics and audiences pointed two thumbs straight up. “Black Panther” landed an A-plus audience rating from CinemaScore, and a 97 percent “fresh” rating among critics on Rotten Tomatoes. That makes “Black Panther” – directed and co-written by 31-year-old Ryan Coogler (“Creed”) with co-writer Joe Robert Cole and starring Chadwick

Boseman – the most well-received superhero film ever, Marvel or otherwise.

“Results like this go beyond anything anyone ever could have hoped for,” said Dave Hollis, president of global distribution at Disney. “The momentum that the film has, has left us unable, even, to keep up with projections. It’s unbelievable.”

“Black Panther” is set in the mythical kingdom of Wakanda, which is rich with the miracle metal vibranium and is the most technologically advanced nation on the planet. The Afrocentric movie touches on ideas of colonialism and the reverberations of slavery.

A prevailing belief among some in Hollywood has been that movies with mostly black casts don’t do well at the foreign box office, but Disney reported $169 million in international ticket sales – a figure expected to climb dramatically when “Black Panther” opens in major markets including China, Japan and Russia.

With Hollywood criticized for not putting diverse voices behind the camera or enough people of color in starring roles, the box office numbers for “Black Panther” are telling, Hollis said.

“It’s a testament to an extraordinarily made film,” Hollis said.

“But also, a big part of it too says very clearly that inclusion and representation matter. It’s a powerful thing for people to see themselves and know that they’re seen in the films we put up in a movie theater. Audiences deserve to see themselves on screen. Not only because it’s the right thing to do, but it makes for better, richer storytelling.”

An ethnically diverse audience pool gave “Black Panther” five out of five stars on a comScore/Screen Engine PostTrak audience survey.

The moviegoers were 37 percent African American, 35 percent white, 18 percent Latino, 5 percent Asian and 5 percent other.

Hollis added that more “Black

Panther” ticket buyers were in the 18-24 and 25-39 age brackets that are typical for a Marvel superhero movie.

“Black Panther” had Imax’s biggest weekend ever, bringing in $35 million globally from 676 screens.

“The film represents taking a movie and turning it into an event, and that’s what Marvel, Imax and Ryan Coogler have accomplished with these results in our network,” Imax Chief Executive Greg Foster said.

“It absolutely opened up the film for a new audience,” Foster said. “There were people who don’t go to the movies as frequently as we’d like, and this was a movie that was top of mind.

People had to be there.”

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(Vincent Marino/ The Penn) Guard Dante Lombardi (junior, finance and legal studies) became the third Crimson Hawk this season to reach the 1,000-point career milestone at IUP. Lombardi came into the game just 10 points shy of the 1,000-point mark.

(Vincent Marino/ The Penn) Anthony Glover (senior, marketing) led the Crimson Hawks to an 82-75 win over California University of Pennsylvania on Saturday night.

Glover finished the game with 19 points, 17 of which were scored in the second half.

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Guard Dante Lombardi (junior, finance and legal studies) became the third Crimson Hawk this season to join the 1,000-point club in an 82-75 win over the California University of Pennsylvania (Cal U) on Saturday.

Lombardi started the game with 990 points, only needing 10 points to surpass the 1,000point mark.

He scored 19 points and hit his 1,000th point on a mid-range jumper in the second half.

Before that, IUP found itself up 9 points at the half, largely due to the energy and effort off the bench

by Malik Miller (sophomore, communications), who made his way back in the lineup after missing the previous five games due to injury.

Miller brought a spark off the bench, scoring all 10 of his points in the first half. The Crimson Hawks used a 16-3 run to end the half taking a 34-25 lead into the break.

The Vulcans did not go down without a fight, making a run of their own in the second half.

Cal U went on a 19-9 run after trailing by 10 to even the game up at 52.

From that moment on, Anthony Glover (senior, marketing) took control for the Crimson Hawks.

Glover hit back-to-back 3-pointers to give IUP a 6-point lead while

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scoring 14 of the next 16 points overall for the Crimson Hawks.

Glover finished with 19 points, 17 of which came in the second half. He also moved into 18th alltime in points scored in a single season at IUP. The Crimson Hawks held a 17-point lead with a little more than two minutes to play and started to get sloppy with the basketball, giving Cal U an opportunity to bring the deficit within single digits.

IUP answered back with a couple free throws from Lombardi and a dunk from Jacobo Diaz (junior, economics) that put the Vulcans away for good. With the win, IUP improved to 20-7 overall, the 10th straight 20-win season for the program, and 16-4 in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) with just two games remaining.

With playoffs in sight, the mindset of the team is to continue to improve everyday.

“We have to get better each day,” assistant coach Rob Zewe said. “Just take it day by day — game by game.”

The Crimson Hawks will look to win their third game in a row as they take on Edinboro University at the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday in the last home game of the regular season.

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Crimson Hawks knock off Cal U to split season series

By JARROD BROWNE Lead Sports Writer

J.W.Browne@iup.edu

The No. 11 IUP women’s basketball team defeated Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) rival No. 21 California University of Pennsylvania (Cal U), 79-49, Saturday.

Forward Megan Smith (senior, management) led IUP with 23 points, going 7-for-15 from the field. Smith received help on the offensive side of the ball with guard Carolyn Appleby (junior, safety sciences) totaling 19 points on the night. Forward Brittany Robinson (junior, education) finished with 10 points.

IUP had a strong night defensively, limiting Cal U to a seasonlow 49 points. IUP held the Vulcans to their second-worst shooting percentage of the season, just 31.6 from the field.

The Crimson Hawks separated themselves on the glass, out-rebounding the Vulcans, 43-26, with 11 offensive rebounds. Robinson led the Crimson Hawks with eight rebounds.

Halle Denman (senior, food and nutrition) and Maura D’Anna (sophomore, kinesiology) finished with seven rebounds each. The Crimson Hawks were in a tight

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game, leading the Vulcans, 19-15, following the first quarter.

IUP opened the game and capitalized on a 15-3 run led by Lauren Wolosik (redshirt junior, business), Smith and Denman, who all contributed a 3-pointer during the run to stretch the lead.

With this win, IUP avenged one of its two losses this season when it was defeated by the Vulcans, 6253, in January.

IUP improved to 23-2 overall and remains tied for the No. 1 seed in PSAC West with Edinboro University, as both teams hold an 18-2 conference record.

Moving forward, the Crimson Hawks will remain at home as the Edinboro Fighting Scotts will come to IUP at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Although the game does hold major playoff implications, the winner of Wednesday’s game will not clinch the division title.

The winner will have to win the final game of its season, which, for IUP, will be a road game against Seton Hill University on Saturday.

IUP defeated No. 14 Edinboro on the road, 74-68, in January.

(IUP Athletics) Megan Smith (senior, management) was the team’s leading scorer in Saturday’s win over California University of Pennsylvania. Smith was coming off a 31-point perfmormance in the team’s previous game and posted a team-high 23 points in the blowout win over the Vulcans.

(Vincent Marino/ The Penn) Guard Carolyn Appleby (junior, safety science) was one of the team’s leading scorers with 19 points in the team’s 79-49 win over Califronia University of Pennsylvania.

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MLB 2018 SEASON PREVIEW

Teams report to spring training

By ELLIOT HICKS Staff Writer

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Winter is slowly coming to an end, and all Major League Baseball teams have begun reporting to spring training in preparation for the 2018 season.

There are still likely to be some major signings and moves while teams train in Florida and Arizona, as the offseason did not result in a great deal of major signings, and there are still plenty of highly valued free agents available, who are all training together at a facility in Florida.

Any one of these players – such as J.D. Martinez, Jake Arrieta or Greg Holland – could drastically alter a team’s chances, but as things stand now, here is how each division looks to shake out: American League East: The New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox are the clear favorites. New York still has loads of young talent from last season’s American League Championship Series run, and the acquisition of MVP outfielder Giancarlo Stanton from the Miami Marlins adds another superstar bat to join last year’s AL homer leader, Aaron Judge, in the powerful Yankee lineup.

Boston still features a deep roster with lots of young bats and one of the best rotations in the game.

Baltimore is moving Manny Machado to shortstop and just signed starter Andrew Cashner.

Toronto and Tampa Bay still have solid veteran players but are at risk of falling behind quickly, and if they do, both clubs can make the trade deadline interesting.

American League Central: The Cleveland Indians are still the clear favorites. Despite losing to the Yankees in the American League Divisional Series last season, Cleveland still won 102 games and retained many of their most talented contributors.

The Minnesota Twins made a

(TNS) The Chicago Cubs’ recent free-agent signing, Yu Darvish, talked with his new teammates on the opening day of spring training last Wednesday. Darvish was signed by the Cubs just before the beginning of spring training, after his contract expired at the end of last season with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

surprising Wild Card run last year and just traded for starter Jake Odorizzi to bolster their rotation.

The Kansas City Royals have not retained any of their major free agents as of yet, and both the Detroit Tigers and the Chicago White Sox are still deep in rebuilds.

American League West: The favorites here are the defending World Series champions, the Houston Astros, who got even better in the winter, trading for starting pitcher Gerrit Cole.

The Los Angeles Angels still have one of the most talented players in baseball in Mike Trout and signed top Japanese free agent Shohei Ohtani.

The Seattle Mariners have a lot of talent in their lineup, with players like Robinson Cano and Nelson Cruz.

The Texas Rangers have some decent youth but a weak rotation,

and while the Oakland Athletics acquired a few notable players in trades (Stephen Piscotty and Brandon Moss), they are also a step behind the top of the division.

National League East: The Washington Nationals still have one more guaranteed year with Bryce Harper and will again feature some of the best pitching in baseball, but they will have to hope that the New York Mets and their talented staff will have another weak year under new manager Mickey Callaway.

The Philadelphia Phillies and Atlanta Braves are nearing the end of their rebuilds and could surprise a lot of people this season.

The Marlins are projected to find themselves in the cellar of the division following trades of their star players.

National League Central: This division also has the potential to be

interesting.

While the Chicago Cubs are still the favorite, especially after signing Yu Darvish, the Milwaukee Brewers brought in some notable talent with outfielders Lorenzo Cain and Christian Yelich and are potentially a pitcher away from being a true contender.

St. Louis had a rare down year in 2017 but still has a great deal of talent to vault them into contention, especially with the acquisition of outfielder Marcell Ozuna.

Following trades of both Cole and Andrew McCutchen, things look bleak in Pittsburgh, as well as in Cincinnati, where Joey Votto is the only player left who can be relied on to perform at a top level.

National League West: This division may be the most wide open it has been in years.

The defending NL Pennant winners in the Los Angeles Dodgers

are still the favorite after retaining much of their 2017 roster, but the clubs around them have improved.

San Francisco acquired aging superstars yet serviceable veterans in McCutchen and Evan Longoria, and San Diego just agreed to an 8-year, $144 million deal with first baseman Eric Hosmer.

Both the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies were playoff teams in 2017 and still feature toplevel players that can keep them at that level.

With a lot of movement thus far in the offseason, baseball fans and analysts are still preparing to see more signings in the coming weeks.

We are still a ways away from Opening Day, but fans can get their first taste of 2018 baseball as teams prepare to begin their spring training schedules in the coming days.

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