Toyota Gifts Arts Council $100,000 For Elevator
Toyota Motor Manufacturing of Indiana provides $100,000 gift for Rooftop Art Deck accessibility at the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana
Toyota Motor Manufacturing of Indiana awarded a $100,000 grant to the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana to purchase an elevator to provide access to the Arts Council’s Rooftop Art Deck.
The Art Deck, which hosts concerts, open mic events, plein air painting, receptions and other arts and social programming, is currently accessible only by stairs.
“Most people think of Toyota’s slogan, ‘Let’s Go Places,’ to mean ‘let’s hop in a car and travel,’ but this gift shows their deep commitment to making all places accessible for all people,†Arts Council Executive Director Anne McKim said. “It’s essential the arts are inclusive, it’s essential we at the Arts Council welcome everyone. Arts and culture are stronger and more vibrant when truly diverse.â€
Total costs of the purchase and installation of the elevator are estimated at $175,000. The project will begin in early 2020, with a completion eyed prior to the June kick off of the 2020 “On the Roof†music series.
The Rooftop Art Deck is located at 212 Main St. in Downtown Evansville and is an extension of the Arts Council’s Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Gallery.
Gould Adds NCAA Zone Qualifying Score at IUPUIÂ
Gould Adds NCAA Zone Qualifying Score at IUPUIÂ
INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana University men’s and women’s diving teams wrapped up the final day of competition at the IUPUI House of Champions on Sunday afternoon. With a score of 312.40 in the finals of the men’s 1-meter dive, junior Mory Gould earned an NCAA Zone Qualifying Score.
HOOSIER SCORES
MEN
5. Mory Gould – 312.40 (302.75 prelims)
6. Seamus Scotty – 277.50 (265.70 prelims)Â
11. Cole VanDevender – 262.20
13. Logan Brown – 250.35Â
WOMEN
8. Alyssa Wang – 248.70 (278.00 prelims)
15. Zain Smith – 247.60
16. Taylor Carter – 235.60
17. Kayla Luarde – 234.80
NOTABLES
• Earlier in the meet, Andrew Capobianco (competing unattached) and Michael Hixon teamed up to score 409.32 points in the Synchronized Men 3m Springboard event.Â
• Indiana alumnus Jessica Parratto competed in the Synchronized Women 3m Springboard with two different partners. One tandem led to an event victory with 306.66 total points.Â
• Junior Mory Gould was the lone Hoosier to ink an NCAA Zone Qualifying Score on the final day of competition at the 2019 House of Champions Invitational.Â
NCAA Zones Qualifying Scores
1-Meter: Mory Gould (312.40)
3-Meter: None.
UP NEXT
The Hoosiers will be back in action as a team for a dual meet on Jan. 11 at Michigan. Indiana will have strong representation in the 2019 USA Swimming Winter Nationals beginning on Dec. 4.Â
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Commentary: Don’t Look For A Happy Ending
Commentary: Don’t Look For A Happy Ending
By John Krull
TheStatehouseFile.comÂ
INDIANAPOLIS – Two weeks of impeachment hearings made some things clear.
The first and most important of them is that there is no good end to this.
If Republicans in the U.S. Senate defend and sustain President Donald Trump with the same fervor House Republicans have, several dangerous precedents will have been set. One of America’s two major parties will have said that compromising U.S. security in pursuit of personal political ends, bribing foreign leaders and obstructing justice just aren’t that big a deal.
John Krull, publisher, TheStatehouseFile.com
The fact that the party that will be saying this historically has been the one most to fear unchecked government – and particularly executive – power just makes the irony even more painful and tragic.
But, if Donald Trump is removed from office, another dangerous precedent will have been set.
Impeachment and removal from office are supposed to be last resorts, used only in rare and exceptional circumstances.
In my lifetime, I have seen three presidents – Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton and now Trump – face impeachment threats.
Nixon, Clinton and Trump don’t rate as moral exemplars. Their relationship to telling the truth has ranged from indifferent to actively hostile. In each case, their refusal to be honest landed them in serious trouble.
But there have been other scalawags to occupy the Oval Office.
And, prior to Nixon, only one other president – Andrew Johnson – had faced impeachment in America’s then nearly 200-year history under the Constitution.
It’s hard to escape the conclusion that, once we let the impeachment threat out of the bottle, it was hard to get it back in. Threatening presidents with impeachment, once unthinkable, became the norm.
Will the same thing happen if we actually remove one from office?
I’m not optimistic.
One look at the swift degradation of procedural and institutional protections in the U.S. Senate over the past 15 years tells us that there is no beer bottle or rusty pipe either party will hesitate to grab and use in the alley fight that has become our national politics. What once was considered incomprehensible fast becomes acceptable and then the new standard for conduct.
If Donald Trump were to be removed from office, however much he may deserve it, we Americans would be naïve to think that using removal from office as a political weapon would end with this president.
And, yet, it is difficult, perhaps even impossible, for many Americans to stomach the brazenness with which this president and his enablers defy both the law and all standards of decency. The president’s absolute refusal to accept any responsibility for his actions or to the duties imposed on him by his high office puts not just members of the Republican Party but all concerned Americans in a difficult, even untenable, position.
That he does this deliberately for crass political reasons only makes the offense rankle more.
But that also should trouble thinking Republicans.
For the past two months, it has been clear to everyone but fully indoctrinated members of the Trump cult that what the president did was wrong. The central question always has been whether Trump’s offense was great enough to merit the remedy of removal from office.
The smart play for the GOP would have been to try to acknowledge the wrongdoing, skip the public hearings and confront that essential question head on.
They didn’t, and they are likely to pay for that misjudgment.
By resisting the inquiry and insisting on legalistic standards that do not apply to a political process such as impeachment, the president’s Republican defenders may have motivated his rabid base even more.
But that increased energy among the fervid has come at the cost of alienating the once reliably Republican American suburbs, which is where the great political fights in this country are likely to occur for the next several election cycles.
There are Republicans, I know, who see the danger Donald Trump presents to both their party and the nation, but they feel powerless to confront it.
That’s the problem with grabbing a tiger by the ears.
It’s impossible to hang on, but suicidal to let go.
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.
Indiana Men’s Swimming Earns Runner-Up Finish at Tennessee Invitational
Indiana Men’s Swimming Earns Runner-Up Finish at Tennessee Invitational
 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The No. 4 Indiana men’s swimming team took home runner-up honors with a three-day score of 942, while the No. 16 Indiana women’s swimming team finished fourth with a team score of 656 at the Tennessee Invitational. The three-day meet at the Jones Aquatic Center concluded on Saturday evening.
For the second-straight day, both diving teams competed at the 2019 House of Champions event hosted by IUPUI in Indianapolis. The women’s team dove off the 1-meter board, while the men handled the 3-meter board. Junior Mory Gould placed fifth with a score of 362.80, while sophomore Cole VanDevender claimed sixth with a final tally of 344.70.
TEAM SCORES
Men
No. 12 Georgia – 961 points
No. 4 Indiana – 942 points
No. 8 Tennessee – 839.5 Points
No. 10 Virginia – 524.5 points
Women
No. 2 Tennessee – 1,068.5 points
No. 8 Georgia – 948.5 points
No. 4 Virginia – 778 points
No. 16 Indiana – 656 points
HOOSIER WINNERS
MEN
Bruno Blaskovic – 100 freestyle (42.44), 400 freestyle relay (2:50.11)
Brendan Burns – 200 butterfly (1:41.45), 400 freestyle relay (2:50.11)
Mikey Calvillo – 1,650 freestyle (14:46.25)
Jack Franzman – 400 freestyle relay (2:50.11)
Mohamed Samy – 200 backstroke (1:41.03), 400 freestyle relay (2:50.11)
WOMEN
None.
NOTABLES
- Freshman Cora Dupre broke the program record in the 100 freestyle with a time of 47.84. She eclipsed the previous record set by Kait Flederbach (48.54) on Feb. 22, 2014. Dupre also established the school record in the 50 free to open the Tennessee Invitational.
- Sophomore Mikey Calvillo turned in the fastest time in the country in the 1,650 freestyle with a mark of 14:46.25. He lowered the previous NCAA-best time by nearly 10 full seconds.
- Senior Mohamed Samy compiled his 14th individual event victory with an NCAA B Cut time of 1:41.03 in the 200 backstroke. His time currently ranks as the top time in the country.
- Junior Bruno Blaskovic secured his first individual event victory of the season in the 100 freestyle with an NCAA B Cut time of 42.44.
- Freshman Brendan Burns turned in an historic 200 butterfly victory. His time of 1:41.45 is the fourth-fastest time swam by a USA swimmer in the 17-18 age group ever.
NCAA CUTS
A: None.
B: Bruno Blaskovic (100 free, 42.44; 400 free relay, 2:50.11); Brendan Burns (200 fly, 1:41.45; 400 free relay, 2:50.11); Mikey Calvillo (1,650 free, 14:46.25); Alexis Doherty (400 free relay, 3:16.59); Cora Dupre (100 free, 47.97; 400 free relay, 3:16.59); Laurel Eiber (400 free relay, 3:16.59); Jack Franzman (100 free, 43.63; 400 free relay, 2:50.11); Will Gallant (1,650 free, 14:49.00); Josie Grote (200 back, 1:56.79; 1,650 free, 16:15.44); Matt Jerden (200 breast, 1:58.02); Cassy Jernberg (1,650 free, 16:14.45); Mackenzie Looze (200 fly, 1:58.28); Gary Kostbade (200 breast, 1:56.150); Ben McDade (1,650 free, 15:19.25); Noelle Peplowski (200 breast, 2:08.25); Mohamed Samy (100 free, 42.74; 200 back, 1:41.03, 400 free relay, 2:50.11); Jacob Steele (200 back, 1:41.82); Ashley Turak (400 free relay, 3:16.59); Maggie Wallace (1,650 free, 16:14.95); Emily Weiss (200 breast, 2:11.12)
NCAA Zones Qualifying Scores
3-meter: Mory Gould (362.80); Cole VanDevender (344.70)
 UP NEXT
The Hoosiers will wrap up action at the 2019 House of Champions Invitational on Nov. 24. The team will then be off for the remainder of the calendar year before jumping back into dual meet season with a clash at Michigan.
New Harmony Gallery To Hold Closing Reception For Land Report East 6
The New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art’s latest exhibition, Land Report East 6, will host a closing reception from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, November 23rd in conjunction with the Harmonist Thanksgiving Feast offered by the Indiana State Museum from 6 to 8 p.m. at Thrall’s Opera House. The closing reception is free and open to the public, but tickets are required for the feast.
The Land Report Collective features work from six artists: Leticia Bajuyo, Jason Brown, Brian Jobe, David Jones, Patrick Kikut, Shelby Shadwell. While the exhibition deals with landscape as a foundational reference point, do not expect traditional landscape paintings when you visit the gallery. This group brings together artists from across the nation to explore the concept of land art in a variety of media to create a dialogue within the gallery.
“Although each Land Report artist investigates formal and conceptual issues based in the landscape as an individual, the essence of our collective lies in the intersection between the things each of us point at – as if we were pointing to locations like road signs,†the artists say in their collective statement. “New meanings and contexts emerge when viewers see the conversations that open up between works in an exhibition that would not normally occur when pieces are exhibited in isolation. Furthermore, the development of the work for each exhibition is a result of the artists being in direct and indirect dialogue with each other, the spaces they inhabit and the people they interact with there. Through this active process, members of the collective make new work as if it were a conversation, even though each artist acts autonomously and there is no hierarchical structure imposed.â€
Bajuyo’s work is fueled by compassion and a critique of capitalism, as she explores perceptions of value in order to foster an awareness of the role of social amnesia on consumer behavior. Brown considers the politics of mountaintop removal in his construction of objects and installations while also creating playful formal assemblages. Jobe typically creates schemes for public interaction through the delineation of pathways or through site-specific focal points. Jones responds to desert environments with experimental interactions, model scale sculpture, and large-scale outdoor works. Kikut incorporates a lifelong interest in the horizon line in a series of paintings with flat Midwestern landscapes as his muse. Shadwell views the landscape from a non-traditional lens, responding to ephemeral images from highway road cameras, monumental mining operations and the optical nature of the salt flats through drawing, sculpture and video installation.
This activity made possible, in part, with support from the Indiana Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
The New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art is an outreach partner of the University of Southern Indiana. The gallery is located at 506 Main Street in New Harmony, Indiana. Regular hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. For more information, call 812-682-3156 or go to usi.edu/nhgallery.