NORMAL, Ill.—Senior Jennifer Comastri (Indianapolis, Indiana) finished 10th out of 144 competitors to lead No. 5 University of Southern Indiana Women’s Cross Country to a fifth-place finish in a 13-team field that consisted of 12 NCAA Division I programs Friday evening at the Illinois State University Redbird Invite.
Comastri finished the six-kilometer course in 21 minutes, 16.90 seconds, nearly 13 seconds faster than the 11th-place finisher and less than a minute off the winning pace of 20:20.70, set by Northwestern University’s Rachel McCardell.
Sophomore Hadley Fisher (Evansville, Indiana) aided the Screaming Eagles’ efforts, finishing 38th with a time of 22:28.50, while fellow classmate Cameron Hough(Olney, Illinois) was 48th with a time of 22:41.00. Freshman Allison Morphew (Evansville, Indiana) and sophomore Karlee Hoffman (Owensboro, Kentucky) rounded out the Eagles’ top five competitors with respective finishes of 54th and 57th, while sophomore Lauren Greiwe (West Harrison, Indiana) and freshman Katie Winkler(Santa Claus, Indiana) clocked finishes of 69th and 71st, respectively, to round out USI’s top seven.
As a team, the Eagles finished with 179 points to edge sixth-place Marquette University by two points. Host Illinois State was fourth with 134 points, while the University of Illinois (43 points), Northwestern (52 points) and Loyola University Chicago (62 points) had the top three team performances.
USI returns to action October 9 at 8:30 a.m. when it competes at the University of Alabama-Huntsville Charger Invitational in Huntsville, Alabama.
‘Better Books Book Sale’ runs September 20th – 24th
One of Willard Public Library’s and The Friends of Willard Library’s most significant fundraisers, the Better Books Book Sale, takes place Monday, September 20 through Friday, September 24 during normal library operation hours in The Browning Gallery in Willard Library’s lower level.
This annual sale offers the public the opportunity to purchase books that are considered rare, antique and special collections. There will also be 1st Editions, High School and University Yearbooks and rare Stave Wooden Jigsaw Puzzles. Books will be individually priced to sell.
Books will be sold at full price Monday and Tuesday, September 20 & 21.
Wednesday, September 22, books will be marked half off (50% off).
Thursday and Friday, September 23 & 24, books will be sold by the bag at $20 each.
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STURGEON BAY, Wisconsin—So many of the best stories happen in small, even out-of-the-way places.
John Krull, publisher, TheStatehouseFile.com
I learned that truth many years ago. The newspaper for which I worked gave me a beat that required me to travel around Indiana and the four states surrounding it in search of interesting tales.
I covered some fascinating stories.
Some were tragic, such as the story of a high school music teacher in a tiny town in Michigan. His leadership of the school band made it a powerful force. It began winning regional and national competitions.
The little town was overjoyed. They celebrated the band’s achievements and lauded the teacher.
Then some people in the community found out the teacher was gay. They mounted a campaign to drive him away.
Their effort split the town. People on both sides of the question were angry—furious even. The teacher was the rope in a community tug of war.
He and the school reached a settlement and he agreed to leave. But the struggle took a toll on his health.
Not long after he left the school, he had a heart attack and died.
He was only 32.
Other stories were bittersweet.
I traveled to Marion, Ohio. I talked with an old woman in a wheelchair.
When she was a little girl, national news photos of Warren G. Harding’s successful presidential campaign featured her. Harding, touting a need to return to “normalcy†in the turbulent days following World War I, ran a front-porch campaign.
The little girl who became the old woman had luxurious ringlets of hair that caught everyone’s eye. Her mother cut one of them and preserved it.
Harding won a landslide victory. For a moment, Marion seemed to be the center of the universe.
After Harding died in office, though, an avalanche of scandals involving his administration destroyed his reputation. And Marion began a hard slog as another struggling town in rust-belt America.
The old woman showed me her ringlet of hair, carefully preserved in a special box, a keepsake of a time when she was young and her hometown was at its zenith.
Still, other stories were uplifting.
I interviewed a man who left California to work on a tugboat on the Ohio River. His life in California, he told me, had melted down around him. He’d lost jobs, relationships, even hope. He’d even gotten to the point where he wouldn’t eat.
The hard work of pulling and pushing barges up and down the river helped him find his way. He sorted his life out and settled down.
When we stopped for lunch after I’d shagged a ride with him and the rest of the tug’s crew, he dove into his meal. I glanced at him, and he smiled.
“That river makes you hungry,†he said.
I think about those days and those stories now as I walk along the streets of this small community nestled along Lake Michigan.
It isn’t a large place. Around 9,000 people live here year-round.
But, attracted by the water and the clear northern skies, the population swells to 36,000 in the summer months.
I learned a long time ago that the key to coming to know something about a place involved two “l†words—linger and listen.
What I find here confirms what I already know.
There are tales of pain and desperation and sorrow in this little place.
The local district attorney tells me the town and the surrounding county battle with drunk driving, domestic violence and methamphetamine use. These are all scourges that roam across much of America these days, but each tale of this kind is its own tragedy.
There also are stories of striving.
Of joy.
When I stop at a local coffee shop, two women greet the man behind the counter—presumably the owner—and ask if they now are talking to a PhD.
He is, like me, a man of mature vintage.
He ducks his head sheepishly and acknowledges that he now has his doctorate.
“I doubt it will help me sell any more coffee, but I’m glad I did it,†he tells them.
When I pay him for my scone, I thank him and say, “Congratulations, doctor.â€
His smile almost splits his face.
So many of the best stories happen in places like this.
FOOTNOTE: John Krull is director of Franklin College’s Pulliam School of Journalism and publisher of TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.
One of the top turnarounds in Missouri Valley Conference history saw the University of Evansville men’s basketball team make a 7-game improvement last season while clinching one of the top six seeds. The Purple Aces look for more as they head into the 2021-22 campaign.
On Tuesday, the MVC announced the league portion of the schedules. Conference play opens for UE on Wednesday, December 1 with a contest against Southern Illinois inside the Ford Center. It will mark the earliest MVC contest in program history, surpassing a Dec. 8 contest in 1999 at SIU.
After wrapping up its non-conference slate, the Aces open the New Year on January 2 with a visit to Northern Iowa. The Panthers have had a solid mark against Evansville inside the McLeod Center, winning the last seven matchups with the Aces last win in the building coming on Jan. 9, 2013. UE remains on the road to take on Indiana State on the 5th. The Hulman Center is another facility where the Aces look to end a streak with the Sycamores winning the last 10 games in Terre Haute.
The first home game of the new year will see the Aces welcome Illinois State on 1/8. In last year’s scheduling of back-to-back games, UE split a home series against the Redbirds. A stretch of three out of four games on the road will conclude on Jan. 12 with a trip to Bradley.
Following the trip to Peoria, UE will host the top two conference squads from last season – Drake and Loyola. The Aces face the Bulldogs on the 15thinside the Ford Center before taking on Loyola three days later. Drake made the NCAA Tournament last season with a 26-5 overall and 15-3 league mark. Taking on former conference foe Wichita State in the tournament, the Bulldogs picked up a 53-52 win. The Ramblers were 16-2 in the MVC while going 26-5 overall. They advanced to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament with wins over Georgia Tech and Illinois.
UE returns to the road on the 23rd for a trip to Redbird Arena to face Illinois State before finishing the month at home against UNI (1/26) and on the road at Missouri State (1/29). Evansville swept a 2-game series from the Panthers at the Ford Center in 2021 while splitting its series versus the Bears to complete the 2020-21 regular season.
February opens at Valparaiso on the 1st. It will mark the first trip to Valparaiso since January of 2020 as Valpo was one of four trips (UNI, MSU, Illinois State being the others) that the team did not make last season due to the COVID scheduling. Two home games follow with the Aces facing Bradley (2/5) and Indiana State (2/9) before the team travels to Southern Illinois on the 12th. In the last trip to Carbondale to open the 2020-21 MVC schedule, the Aces halted a 19-game conference skid against the Salukis. Four days later, the squad returns to Iowa to take on Drake.
Two of the final three regular-season games will take place at the Ford Center with the Aces playing host to Valpo on Feb. 19. UE faced the Beacons in a pair of home games last year, taking both contests. The road finale will see the Aces head to Gentile Arena on 2/23 to face Loyola before hosting Missouri State on Feb. 26 to close the regular season.
Season tickets for the 2021-22 season are on sale now and can be purchased by calling the UE Athletics Ticket Office at 812-488-2237. Individual game tickets go on sale on Monday, October 11, and can be purchased at the Carson Center Ticket Office, Ford Center, or on Ticketmaster.com.
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We are pleased to announce that CNN Political Commentator Bakari Sellers (see bio below) will be a featured speaker at our Annual Fall Dinner, Blue in ’22.
Please contact Ann Wallis, 812-213-5562 for reservations.
***Make checks payable to “Vanderburgh County Democratic Party” and mail to P.O. Box 3208, Evansville, IN 47731.
We also accept payment via Venmo @VCDP-22
Bakari Sellers made history in 2006 when, at just 22 years old, he defeated a 26-year incumbent State Representative to become the youngest member of the South Carolina state legislature and the youngest African American elected official in the nation.
Earning his undergraduate degree from Morehouse College and his law degree from the University of South Carolina, Sellers has a tireless commitment to championing progressive policies to address issues ranging from education and poverty to preventing domestic violence and childhood obesity.
His impressive list of accomplishments in addition to having served on President Barack Obama’s South Carolina steering committee during the 2008 election, Sellers is widely considered to be a rising star within the Democratic Party and leading voice for his generation. That coupled with his uncommon ability to reach across the aisle and get things done has led to numerous accolades including being named to TIME Magazine’s 40 Under 40 in 2010 as well as 2014 and 2015 “The Root 100†list of the nation’s most influential African-Americans. Mr. Sellers will be releasing his debut book on Harpers Collins May 19 of this year. The book is titled My Vanishing Country.
Sellers practices law with the Strom Law Firm, LLC in Columbia, SC and is a Political Commentator at CNN. He is married to Dr. Ellen Rucker-Sellers.
We just received word there WILL be a Women’s March in Evansville on Saturday October 2. We will share the event details as soon as they are finalized by the organizers.
Our sincere thanks go out to the generous sponsors of our
annual Golf Scramble who continue to help make it a success. We couldn’t do it without you!
“I don’t make a habit of talking about Rep. Madison Cawthorn, but this week he showed us a perfect example of what our campaign is trying to obsolete. He generated dozens of headlines by saying, “[I]f our election systems continue to be rigged and continue to be stolen, then it’s going to lead to one place — and it’s bloodshed,†before adding that “there is nothing that I would dread doing more than having to pick up arms against a fellow American.â€The reaction from the mainstream press has been overwhelmingly negative, showing that there are still powerful incentives to not say terrible things. But Rep. Cawthorn is listening to a different set of incentives that he feels are even more powerful.
To see what’s really going on, we have to move the spotlight away from him and onto his supporters. What are they after? Why do they show up to listen to him? We know it’s not about policy. He’s not giving them that. It’s about outrage. Outrage feels good. It comes with a sense of superiority and camaraderie. If you’re short on those two things, a dose of outrage gives you a rush of both. That rush is addictive. That’s why it’s always been a feature of politics; it’s always been part of the show. But now, for a lot of people, politics equals outrage. For them, doing politics means being angry, and doing politics professionally means getting paid to make people angry.
The thing about outrage is – like any addiction – you need fresh hits. The same dose stops working after a while. So Mr. Potato Head had his moment, and then it was Dr. Seuss, and in between it’s classics like immigration or the last election.
At one of our town halls last week, a woman yelled at me about the southern border, sex education, and mask mandates all at once. It was because this was her shot to talk politics with a Senate candidate and her understanding of what that meant was simply to recite back as many outrages as she could quickly recall. That’s an example of how outrage politics can push someone to do something they wouldn’t otherwise do, but in this case it was relatively harmless.
January 6th would be another example, but people died.
Rep. Cawthorn is following his incentives to provide a new hit of outrage. He’s just doing so in a particularly heinous way by implying that he would reluctantly – but dutifully – consider killing Americans who sided against his conspiracy theories about the election. So we have a widespread addiction to outrage within which certain politicians of particularly weak character – like Cawthorn – are fully caving to their incentives to feed that addiction and, in so doing, are making themselves tragic figures.
The type of politics that leads us out of this isn’t the type that finds new and more clever insults to hurl at those tragic figures. Instead, progress on this front looks like finding ways to detox us from our addiction to outrage. What would that look like in the context of a political campaign? It would look like delivering a shock of good faith to the system. Showing up in every county. Inviting everyone. Taking any question. Treating everyone with respect. Admitting when you don’t know things. Learning from other people. Disagreeing, when necessary, honestly and with civility. Focusing on real problems affecting people’s daily lives. Letting people yell at you, if that’s what they need to do, and then responding in a way that shows you heard them and you consider them a serious person. And then doing it again. And again.
It’s a tough slog, but if you can win with an approach like that – one that’s rooted in good faith – it won’t just affect one election. Winning not through outrage but by raising people’s expectations for public service would be shining a light onto a path that others will take, and widen, and protect. That is what this campaign is about, and that’s how we’re going to meet this moment.”
– Jeff Jackson
Democratic State Senator
North Carolina District 37
OFFICIAL NOTICE OF MEETINGÂ OF IVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE-EVANSVILLE CAMPUS BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Notice is hereby given that the Campus Board of Trustees of Ivy Tech Community College Evansville will be holding the following meeting virtually on Zoom and in person at 3501 N First Avenue in the Hilliard Lyons Board Room (Room 201) on September 22 2021, at 8 a.m. CST
This meeting will be held in compliance with IC 5-14-1.5 et seq.
About Ivy Tech Community College
 Ivy Tech Community College serves communities across Indiana, providing world-class education and driving economic transformation. It is the state’s largest public postsecondary institution and the nation’s largest singly accredited statewide community college system. It serves as the state’s engine of workforce development, offering high-value degree programs and training that are aligned with the needs of its communities, along with courses and programs that transfer to other colleges and universities in Indiana. It is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.
In 49 BC the Senate in the Republic of Rome ordered Gaius Julius Caesar to not bring his army across the Rubicon River into the city of Rome. Caesar said, “Let the die be castâ€; that is, I’ll take my chances. He did, Rome as a Republic collapsed into civil war and instead of a representative government, the Roman people got a dictator. Five years later, on the Ides of March, Caesar was deposed by force.
The people who founded the United States of America came from a tradition of great fear of military power over civilians. In fact, in our Declaration of Independence, one of the main complaints against King George III was that “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the civil power.â€
This great fear of military control over the civilian populace of America was guarded against in our Constitution. Article I, section 8 endows Congress with the power and authority to declare war, and to raise armies and militias to suppress insurrections. Article II, Section 2 establishes that the democratically elected President shall be in control of the armed forces as the Commander-in-Chief.
In his exhaustive and exhausting treatise, The Framer’s Coup, The Making of the United States Constitution, Professor Michael J. Klarman points out the vital importance to our Founders that “[I]n all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.†See p. 330.
We Americans profess pride in and support of our military as long as we are assured our military remembers its place. That system has worked pretty well and we are likely to maintain it in spite of political pressure being brought upon the generals to undermine their Commander-in-Chief. As I recall from my service days, I did not always recognize as wise what my military superiors thought was wisdom. Joseph Heller in his prescient novel, Catch-22, had a pretty firm grip on the banality of much of the military. On the other hand, our politicians sometimes also fall a little short of a full deck. Still, at least we have the opportunity to have some say in who our civilian leaders will be and we can fire them.
Therefore, for me, I’ll choose to bob and weave with the occasional civilian loser versus a palace military coup. Back off oh ’ye purveyors of a Banana Republic. As Scarlett O’Hara said, “Tomorrow’s another day†and as Annie said, “Tomorrow is only a day away.†I can wait. Elections, yes, coups, no.
