September 17 – September 23This Week in Indiana History
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Indiana Quick Quiz1.The Indiana University fight song was first performed by the IU Band during a 1912 football game. What is the name of the of the fight song? 2. First performed on Easter Sunday, 1909, what is the name of the University of Notre Dame fight song? 3. What popular chant was created by Arnette Tiller, wife of Purdue University head football coach, Joe Tiller (1997-2008)? 4. Written by Carl Hofer in 1930, what is the Ball State University fight song? Answers Below
Answers1. Indiana, Our Indiana 2. Notre Dame Victory March 3. Boiler Up! 4. Fight, Team, Fight
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This Week in Indiana History
Beyond Books: Sniffington
September 19th from 4-5PM
Browning Gallery (lower level)
We’re thrilled to announce a special addition to our “Beyond Books” program that promises to be an unforgettable experience for kids of all ages.
Introducing Sniffington’s Rat-Sniffing Dogs and Friendly Rats!
Join us for a unique adventure as we welcome Sniffington’s, a local business specializing in the incredible world of rat-sniffing dogs. Not only will your children have the opportunity to meet these skilled dogs, but they’ll also get to interact with a couple of friendly and adorable rats.
**Event Details:**
– Date: September 19, 2023
– Time: 4:00 PM
– Location: Browning Gallery at Willard Public Library
This interactive session is part of our ongoing “Beyond Books” program, designed to ignite curiosity and expand horizons beyond the pages of traditional literature.
**Why Attend?**
– Engage in hands-on learning about rat-sniffing dogs and their incredible abilities.
– Meet and interact with friendly rats – a delightful and educational experience.
– Foster a love for animals and learning in a fun and safe environment.
– Connect with other members of our vibrant library community.
Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to create lasting memories with your children and inspire their curiosity about the world around them. We look forward to seeing you there!
Please mark your calendars for September 19th at 4:00 PM and make your way to the Browning Gallery at Willard Public Library. Feel free to bring friends and family – everyone is welcome!
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Evansville powers past Quebec to win game three of FLCS
Evansville, Ind. – The Evansville Otters hit a franchise postseason record six home runs to rout the Quebec Capitales 14-5 in game three of the Frontier League Championship Series on Friday night at Bosse Field.
Evansville forces a game four in the series on Saturday night, with Quebec now leading the best of five series 2-1.
The Otters scored in seven of eight offensive innings, totaling 13 hits while six different players hit home runs. Noah Myers led Evansville with three hits and two RBIs, finishing a double shy of the cycle.
After Quebec scratched across a run in the top of the first, Myers sparked Evansville leading off the bottom half of the frame with a solo home run.
Josh Allen followed by being hit by a pitch. Jeffrey Baez then poked a single through the left side and Dakota Phillips singled, scoring two runs for a 3-1 Evansville lead after one inning.
Justin Felix hit a solo blast to leadoff the second – his second straight game with a home run.
Quebec followed with a run in the third but Dakota Phillips answered with a two-run homer in the bottom of the frame.
The Capitales trimmed the deficit to two with a two-RBI single in the fourth.
The fifth inning helped the Otters pull away. Phillips walked to start the frame and Gary Mattis notched a single. Jomar Reyes then blasted a ball over the right field wall for a 9-4 Otters lead.
Kona Quiggle hit a solo home run in the sixth and Myers added another run in the seventh on an RBI triple down the right field line.
Mattis provided the exclamation mark in the eighth with a three-run home run to left.
Starter Tim Holdgrafer earned the win for Evansville, tossing five innings while allowing two earned runs with three strikeouts. The Otters bullpen allowed just one run. Kevin Davis worked a perfect seventh inning and Leoni De La Cruz pitched the final two innings.
Quebec used five different pitchers with four allowing a home run. Starter Steven Fuentes suffered the loss, allowing five earned runs in three runs.
All nine Otters’ starters scored with eight players recording a hit. Quiggle recorded two hits with two runs while both Phillips and Mattis drove in three as part of two-hit nights.
A crowd of 4,632 cheered the Otters to victory – the largest crowd at Bosse Field for a playoff game since 2006.
Game four of the Frontier League Championship Series is scheduled for 6:35 PM CT Saturday night at Bosse Field. Tickets for game four are available for purchase here, by visiting the Bosse Field box office or calling (812) 435-8686.
Attorney General Todd Rokita holds IU Health accountable for patient privacy and HIPAA violationsÂ
Attorney General Todd Rokita filed a lawsuit on behalf of the people of Indiana against IU Health and IU Healthcare Associates for their failure to properly report, review, and enforce HIPAA and Indiana law violations. Â
“We will continue to uphold and protect Hoosier patients’ medical privacy,†Attorney General Rokita said. “Trust is the foundation of the patient-doctor relationship. Without trust, we don’t have reliable, honest healthcare.â€
This issue was first brought to the office’s attention in 2022 when a 10-year-old rape victim and her mother went to an IU hospital for an abortion, as a result of the rape and abuse the child endured.
After the abortion, while the mother and daughter were still at the hospital for recovery and observation, they were greeted with a front-page news story in the Indianapolis Star, which described the 10-year-old’s case in great detail. This article went public, and the story became worldwide household news after the doctor spoke to a reporter at a political rally.
The 10-year-old’s treatment was a very private and sensitive matter, as was the rape and abuse she suffered that resulted in her pregnancy. Neither the little girl nor her mother gave the doctor authorization to speak to the media about their case.
Rather than protecting the patient, IU Health chose to protect the doctor, and itself.
On July 15, 2022, hospital administrators emailed statements to multiple media outlets informing them that they had conducted a review and “found the doctor in compliance with privacy laws.â€
On May 25, 2023, the Indiana Medical Licensing Board conducted a hearing and determined that the doctor violated HIPAA by improperly disclosing patient information and for improperly de-identifying patient information, and the doctor violated the Indiana patient confidentiality rule by failing to get patient permission prior to disclosing any information.
The following day, IU Health issued a public statement in which it disagreed with the Medical Licensing Board’s determination once again claiming the doctor did not violate privacy laws.
By publicly contradicting the Medical Licensing Board and contending the doctor’s actions were “in compliance with privacy laws,†IU Health has caused confusion among its 36,000-member workforce regarding what conduct is permitted not only under HIPAA privacy laws and the Indiana Patient Confidentiality rule, and as a result, as Indiana’s largest health network, they created an environment that threatens the privacy of its Indiana patients.
Subsequent to the Medical License Board hearing, the office discovered numerous instances where IU Health has sanctioned non-physician employees with termination for far less egregious patient privacy violations but has failed to implement or enforce similar privacy policies or sanctions for its physicians.
“Doctors and all health care professionals should be able to rely on their employers and patients should be able to trust their doctors,†Attorney General Rokita said. “When a hospital or other healthcare provider makes your private medical information public, that trust is decimated. As a result, the quality, delivery, and sustainability of our healthcare is significantly weakened.â€
The lawsuit consists of the following seven counts against IU Health:
- Failure to implement or follow administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the privacy of protected information
- Failure to document disclosures of personal health information
- Failure to implement or apply and document sanctions
- Failure to appropriately train its workforce
- Failure to notify patients of breach
- Failure to mitigate harm
- Violations of Indiana’s Deceptive Consumer Sales Act
University of Evansville Theatre Announces 2023-2024 Season
University of Evansville Theatre Announces 2023-2024 Season
EVANSVILLE, IND. (09/15/2023) The University of Evansville Theatre announces five productions for the 2023-2024 season in Shanklin Theatre and the May Studio Theatre. The Shanklin Theatre season includes a 19th-century masterpiece, a riveting rock musical, and one of the most celebrated and significant plays of the American Theatre. The May Studio season includes an Obie Award-winning drama and a comedy straight from the 2022 Broadway season.
The Shanklin Theatre season kicks off with Anton Chekhov’s THE SEAGULL translated by Tom Stoppard, Sept. 29 through Oct. 15. Assistant Professor Amelia McClain ’03 serves as director for the production. This achingly beautiful story of unrequited love is as timeless today as in the 1890s Russian countryside in which it is set. Stoppard’s masterful translation remains faithful to the humor that Chekhov intended to convey amid all the pathos. Diving into the psychological minefields between mothers, sons, lovers, and familial relations, the passionate lives of these characters are all on full display as they make decisions that are often paradoxical, sometimes destructive, but always recognizably human. A vast emotive masterpiece with music in its words, this play will sear itself into your memory!
Assistant Professor Wes Grantom ’03 adds RENT, by Jonathan Larson, to his directing credits, Nov. 10 through 19, in Shanklin Theatre. The UE production also features music direction by guest artist Tyler Simpson. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an Obie Award, and the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1996, this iconic rock musical shaped a generation of audiences and is being performed for the first time in Shanklin Theatre. Loosely based on Puccini’s La Boheme and set in New York’s Lower East Side, this fast-paced musical follows a year in the life of a group of destitute young artists struggling to survive and stay true to their creative ambitions, all under the daunting shadow of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This exuberant American rock opera is a pop-cultural phenomenon not to be missed!
The spring season begins with two student-directed productions in the May Studio Theatre. Bradley Baumhover, a senior theatre management major from Joplin, Mo., directs A BRIGHT NEW BOISE, by Samuel D. Hunter, Feb. 15 through 18. Winner of the 2011 Obie Award for Best Playwriting, this tragi-comedic play explores the intricacies of faith and the power of forgiveness. Set in the dismal break room of a Hobby Lobby, these low-wage earners struggle with both mundane daily routines and larger questions posed by the havoc that can be wreaked by blind faith. No respite from a scintillating scrapbook section can be found here though, as group politics dissolve into utter pandemonium!
Avery Finn, a theatre studies major from Terre Haute, Ind., directs POTUS, OR BEHIND EVERY GREAT DUMBASS ARE SEVEN WOMEN TRYING TO KEEP HIM ALIVE, by Selina Fillinger, March 14 through 17. This internationally produced writer burst onto the Broadway scene with this 2022 uproarious comedy. This bawdy farce follows seven beleaguered and brilliant women trying to save the President of the United States after he unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis. This side-splitting satire takes an irreverent look at sex, politics, and the women in charge of the man in charge of the entire country!
Visiting Assistant Professor Stacey Yen takes the helm of the final production of the season, Clifford Odet’s WAITING FOR LEFTY, in Shanklin Theatre, April 12 through 21. Inspired by true events of a 1934 New York taxicab strike, this fictional retelling creates a powerful mosaic of the trials and tribulations of the working class. First produced in 1935, this play made a sensation of its playwright, who became the theatrical conscience of a generation, and this work remains one of the most celebrated and significant plays of the American Theatre. With the fight for living wages and safe, equitable workplaces continuing to cause political debates, this seminal play illustrates the power of individual protest and the right to reform. Grab your picket sign and get ready to march!
Subscription tickets for the three-play Shanklin Theatre series are available for $50 adult and $44 for senior adults, UE employees, and any non-UE student. Patrons can also purchase a two-play May Studio Theatre subscription for $18. Single tickets for THE SEAGULL, RENT, and WAITING FOR LEFTY are $20 for adults and $18 for senior adults, UE employees, and any non- UE student. Single tickets for A BRIGHT NEW BOISE and POTUS OR, BEHIND EVERY GREAT DUMBASS ARE SEVEN WOMEN TRYING TO KEEP HIM ALIVE are $12 for all patrons. All Thursday performances are “Pay What You Will,” as part of an initiative to create access for all in the Evansville community. UE students may obtain one free student rush ticket beginning at 12:00 p.m. on the day of the performance they wish to attend for all Shanklin Theatre and May Studio productions. Season subscriptions may be purchased by calling 812.488.2031, Monday through Friday, 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Single tickets may be purchased by calling the ticket office or online at theatre.evansville.edu.
For additional details please contact Sharla Cowden, Dept. Chair and Managing Director University of Evansville Theatre at theatre@evansville.edu or 812.488.2747
FOOTNOTE: Â The University of Evansville is a private, comprehensive university located in the southwestern region of Indiana. Established in 1854, UE is recognized across the globe for its rich tradition of innovative, academic excellence and vibrant campus community of changemakers.
Home of the Purple Aces, UE offers over 75 majors, 17 Division I sports, and a unique study abroad experience at Harlaxton, the University’s very own Victorian manor located in the countryside of England. For more information, please visit evansville.edu.