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Eagles roll to 102-60 victory at McKendree USI is 3rd seed in upcoming GLVC Tournament

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 University of Southern Indiana Men’s Basketball finished off the 2018-19 regular season with an impressive 102-60 victory over McKendree University Saturday afternoon in Lebanon, Illinois. The Screaming Eagles rise to 21-7 overall and 13-5 in the GLVC, while the Bearcats go to 9-18, 5-13 GLVC.

The 102 marked the third time this season that the Eagles have reached the century mark.

USI senior guard/forward Nate Hansen(Evansville, Indiana) ignited the Eagles during the first half by dropping in four-of-four from downtown and finished the half with a team-high 14 points. Hansen scored all 14 of his points during USI’s 34-16 run during the final 13 minutes of the opening half as the Eagles took a commanding 51-33 lead into the intermission.

As a team, USI dominated the boards during the first half, 24-8, and shot 57.1 percent from the field (20-35) and 60 percent from beyond the arc (9-15).

USI sophomore forward Emmanuel Little (Indianapolis, Indiana) hit the first bucket of the second half to push the Eagles’ margin to 20 points, 53-33, and would be the smallest margin for the remainder of the second half. The Eagles continued to expand the margin to as many as 42 points twice, including the final score of 102-60.

USI sustained its hot shooting in the second half, hitting 51.5 percent from the field (17-33) and 46.7 percent from long range (7-15). For the contest, the Eagles finished with 54.4 percent from the field (37-68) and 53.3 percent from beyond the arc (16-30), while dominating the boards overall, 47-21.

Individually, Hansen added seven second half points and led five Eagles in double-digits with a season-high 21 points. The senior guard was a blistering seven-of-10 from the field, five-of-seven from outside the arc, and two-of-two from the stripe.

Little followed Hansen with 14 points and recorded his ninth double-double of the year by grabbing a game-high 11 rebounds. Junior guard/forward Kobe Caldwell (Bowling Green, Kentucky) and senior guard Alex Stein (Evansville, Indiana) posted 13 points each, while sophomore forward Josh Price(Indianapolis, Indiana) rounded out the double-figure scorers with 12 points.

With the conclusion of the 2018-19 regular season, the Eagles advance to the GLVC Tournament at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Vadalabene Center in Edwardsville, Illinois. USI, the third seed in the tournament, will play the University of Missouri-St. Louis, the sixth seed, in the 8:30 p.m. game Thursday.

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“READERS FORUM” MARCH 3, 2019

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We hope that today’s “READERS FORUM” will provoke honest and open dialogue concerning issues that we, as responsible citizens of this community, need to address in a rational and responsible way?

WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND TODAY?

Todays“Readers Poll” question is: Should marijuana be legalized in Indiana?

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Students Demand Action From Lawmakers To End Youth Gun Violence

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By Erica Irish
TheStatehouseFile.com

INDIANAPOLIS — A blistering wind chill did little to dissuade dozens of Indiana students, teachers and others from rallying at the Indiana Statehouse Saturday, where people of all backgrounds demanded an immediate response to gun violence from their lawmakers.

The event, organized by We LIVE (Linked to Intercept Violence Everywhere) Inc., a student-led anti-violence group based out of Indianapolis, was the second of its kind. The inaugural event in 2018 resulted from a school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and the national March for Our Lives Movement.

 

Destiny Hatcher, 18, is a student at Warren Central High School and serves as executive director of We LIVE Inc. In the role, she led the mobilization effort behind the event alongside founding member Brandon Warren.

Warren started We LIVE Inc. after a Warren Central classmate died from the ongoing gun violence in his community. At the rally, he and Hatcher, alongside a lineup of guest speakers, noted the importance of addressing day-to-day violence among youth, not just school shootings.

“There are teens killing teens on the far-east side of Indianapolis where I reside,” Hatcher said. “Families are being affected. They need that awareness and they need that support.”

A central theme to the rally, however, did concern school shootings. A score of students indirectly or directly affected by the shooting at Noblesville West Middle School last year, in which a 13-year-old student shot his science teacher and a classmate, also voiced their demands for added restrictions on firearms.

Nolan Weaver, 15, took to the stage to describe his experience on the day of the shooting. He was in the eighth grade at the time.

Weaver played a recording of the automated phone call parents received from the school district that day, a time in which the teen thought he would never see his family again. His mother, he said, made multiple attempts to call him amidst the chaos, each unsure of what had occurred.

 

“I couldn’t hear her,” Weaver said, “because there were so many students crying on the school bus.”

In a separate speech to the crowd, Ball State University student Olivia Carlstedt spoke about the fear she had for her two siblings. On the day of the shooting, Carlstedt was a student at Noblesville High School. Her brother Gus, then in the 6th grade, and her sister Lucy, then in the 8th-grade class for special needs students, both sat through the confusion and panic of their community while their schools went on lockdown.

“To be put in the circumstance that my brother and sister were put into is unacceptable,” Carlstedt said. “On that day, I had never been more scared in my life.”

Carlstedt, alongside fellow Noblesville alumna and BSU student Katie Maudlin, founded their university’s first Students Demand Action chapter, a part of the national Everytown for Gun Safety movement. They are studying to become high school teachers and see their activism as critical to their future careers in education.

They, with other advocates in the state, hope to see policymakers expand background checks to prevent firearms from falling into the hands of potentially violent people.

Democrats in both chambers of Indiana’s legislature presented bills this session to enact universal background checks for any person who decides to purchase a firearm. However, neither proposal—Senate Bill 468 and House Bill 1291—received a committee hearing.

At the national level, members of Congress are considering the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019. The measure would require universal background checks nationwide. While it passed out of the House of Representatives, a majority-Democrat chamber, the bill will face greater obstacles in the Republican-dominated U.S. Senate.

Ultimately, the protestors said, these decisions gamble with their lives.

“This fight isn’t one between Democrats and Republicans, blue versus red,” said Isabella Fallahi, a 15-year-old student from Carmel High School. “This is between money and life.”

FOOTNOTE:  Erica Irish is a reporter for TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.

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Senators Mike Braun, Rick Scott Work To Implement a Permanent Lobbying Ban On Former Members of Congress

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As former Members of Congress and elected officers are using their former positions to lobby Congress, today U.S. Senator Mike Braun (R-IN) and U.S. Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) are introducing the Banning Lobbying and Safeguarding Trust (BLAST) Act.

“One of the reasons I left the private sector for Washington was to help President Trump drain the swamp and we can accomplish this by permanently banning Congressmen and Senators from lobbying Capitol Hill,” said U.S. Senator Mike Braun.  “Together we can end the revolving door of career politicians coming to Washington, spending time in Congress, then enriching themselves from their service to the American people.”

Senator Rick Scott said, “I’m proud to introduce this bill that imposes a permanent ban on members of Congress becoming lobbyists. Rather than serving the public, too many in Washington spend their political careers preparing for a lucrative job at a DC lobbying firm where they can cash in on their connections and their access. Congress should  never serve as a training ground for future lobbyists, and putting an end to the revolving door is a common sense way to make Washington work for families.”

This legislation is a companion bill to legislation introduced by Rep. Trey Hollingsworth (R-IN-9), H.R.1145.

Startup Weekend Evansville 8.0 To Focus On Community Health Care

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With an eye toward using innovation to make our area healthier, Startup Weekend Evansville (SWE) 8.0 will be held from Friday, April 12 through Sunday, April 14 in the newly-remodeled third floor of the Health Professions Center on the University of Southern Indiana campus.

Open regionally to students, faculty, staff and the community, Startup Weekend is a 54-hour event where developers, designers, marketers, product managers and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products and launch startups. For this year’s event, SWE organizers have chosen to theme the event “Better Health Through Innovation,” and are asking participants to focus their ideas on ways to improve the health outcomes of Vanderburgh County and the surrounding area.

“Being the largest event of its kind in Indiana, we wanted to leverage this unique innovation platform that attracts a wide audience of aspiring entrepreneurs and innovation enthusiasts, and dial in that creativity to help solve some of our most pressing health care issues,” said Bryan Bourdeau, USI instructor in entrepreneurship and co-founder of Startup Weekend Evansville.

Despite being the seventh-largest county by population in Indiana, Vanderburgh County ranks 78th out of 92 counties for health outcomes and had a number of issues raised by the 2016 Community Health Needs Assessment. To provide solutions for improving this metric, participants will be asked to choose one of three “innovation buckets” and focus on solving a problem within that area during the weekend:

  • Behavioral Health: stigma, depression, suicide, dementia, substance abuse connection
  • Exercise/Nutrition: lifestyle, obesity, activity spaces, education, food insecurity
  • Information Technology/Data Analytics: need to improve local data, community feedback, information/communication options

Following final pitches on Sunday’s Demo Day presentation, a panel of judges will select the top two most plausible ideas for initial implementation in the Evansville community. Each project team selected by the judges will receive one year of secure web hosting from Lieberman Technologies and $3,000 in idea development funding, plus entry into the USI Eagle Innovation Accelerator Program.

SWE 8.0 is a collaboration among the USI Provost’s Office, USI Outreach and Engagement, and USI’s Romain College of Business and College of Nursing and Health Professions. “Understanding and managing conditions that can facilitate innovation in various domains is an essential strategy. Given the complexity of our most pressing health problems, developing effective solutions will require continuously greater collaboration among various disciplines,” said Dr. Kevin Celuch, USI Blair Chair of Business Science, professor of marketing and co-organizer of SWE 8.0.

Additional sponsors for the event include Vectren, Lieberman Technologies and the Growth Alliance for Greater Evansville. Tickets for participation in the weekend-long event are $25. Members of the public who just want to watch final pitches, judging and awards can register for Sunday Demo Day tickets for $25, which includes a catered dinner.

Protecting Victims Of Revenge Porn

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According to a recent study, nearly 1 in every 25 Americans fall victim to the exploitation of non-consensual pornography.
With technology, the distribution of intimate photos can be faster and more widespread than ever before, and doing so without consent has become known as “revenge porn.”
Under current state law, there are no criminal repercussions for distributing these images, which are often shared between consenting adults but can be used as blackmail during a relationship or when a relationship ends. Many legislators are taking action to protect those whose intimate photos are shared without their consent.
Legislation I supported would make it a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in prison for those who distribute intimate images of someone without their consent. For repeat offenders, charges would be enhanced to a Level 6 felony, with a maximum two-and-a-half-year prison sentence.
This action could ensure the privacy of Hoosiers is maintained, and Indiana would join 12 other states with similar “revenge porn” laws. This proposal is now moving to the Senate for consideration. To learn more, click here.

COA: Insurance Policy Terms Mean Suspended Driver Still Covered

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Katie Stancombe for www.theindianawyer.com

A man whose driver’s license was suspended after crashing into a home will still receive coverage now that the Indiana Court of Appeals determined his insurer’s policy did not specifically say he could be denied coverage under its entitlement exclusion.

While driving his vehicle on a suspended driver’s license in August 2015, John Weaver somehow lost control and drove straight into the home of Sunday and Bryan Vanzile. The crash caused both bodily injury and property damage, and Weaver’s Indiana Farmers Mutual Insurance Company policy stated that he would be covered for both.

When the Vanziles sued Weaver for damages, Indiana Farmers filed for declaratory judgment, contending that the policy did not provide Weaver with coverage for the accident because his license was suspended at the time of the crash. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, joined by the Vanziles, then moved for summary judgment and Indiana Farmer’s responded likewise. However, a trial court granted judgment in favor of State Farm and the Vanzile.

Indiana Farmers argued to an appellate panel that Weaver was using his vehicle without a reasonable belief that he was entitled to do so because of his suspended license, which resulted in him being excluded from coverage pursuant to the entitlement exclusion of the insurance policy.

Noting that it had not yet seen a case in which entitlement exclusions pertained to the policy holder’s use of his own vehicle, the appellate court found that the policy’s term “using” was ambiguous and could therefore not be considered synonymous with the term “operating.”

“While ‘operating’ is one way of ‘using’ a vehicle, it is not the only way,” Judge Cale Bradford wrote for the court. “A person could use a vehicle for storage, to salvage spare parts from, or to display at a classic car show, none of which would require the person to operate the vehicle.

“Moreover, reasonable minds may differ as to whether ‘using’ one’s own vehicle under this exclusion is dictated upon one’s driver’s license status. Indiana Farmers could have drafted a provision that specifically excluded drivers from coverage who used the vehicle without a valid driver’s license,” Bradford continued.

The appellate court, therefore, found Weaver had a reasonable belief that he was entitled to use his vehicle pursuant to the language of the policy, concluding Indiana Farmer’s failure to add clarifying language to the policy was its own fault. Judge Elaine Brown concurred with the majority in a separate opinion, noting that Indiana Farmer’s could have drafted its policy in a way that clearly defined and used “legally using.”

FOOTNOTE: The case is Indiana Farmers Mutual Insurance Company v. John Weaver, Sunday Vanzile, Bryan Vanzile, and State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, 18A-CT-2043.

Franklin Street Hosts Annual Mardi Gras Parade

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MARCH 2ND, 2019 PAUL WILCOXEN EVANSVILLE, INDIANA

A day of family and friends, that’s the theme of the Mardi Gras parade on Franklin Street.

The parade is in its sixth year.

The pre-parade party began with a Mardi Gras Dash Costume contest followed with more celebration.

The event is put on by the Franklin Street events association. The boards’ president says putting on the event collectively is the best way.

“All of us can tell our own stories powerfully but when you put all our stories together, the message gets from far and wide,” said Amy Word, president of the Franklin Street Events Association. When we do that in the spirit of collaborativeness, it sure makes a difference in the outcome.”

The parade drew about 40 entries this year. Word says, one of the best parts about Mardi Gras is the food. A special menu is present a week before fat Tuesday featuring tradition Mardi Gras cuisines.

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