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The University of Southern Indiana Master of Public Administration Program will host a presentation from D’Angelo Taylor, assistant director of the USI Multicultural Center, at 5 p.m. Monday, April 23 in Kleymeyer Hall located in the USI Liberal Arts Center. Taylor’s presentation will be free and open to the public.
In his current role, Taylor works to build partnerships and relationships with multiple entities within USI and within the local community. He has worked with community organizations, churches and educational entities within the cities of Chicago, Illinois; St. Louis, Missouri; East Saint Louis, Illinois; and Rock Island, Illinois to aid families in their pursuit of higher education. He has served as Chairman of the Inclusion, Access and Success committee for the Missouri Association of College Admissions Counseling, and was the Illinois chairman for Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity’s “Go to High School – Go to College†campaign.
Taylor’s presentation will draw from his 2016 book, A Political Life: Black Culture, Civic Engagement, Education and Hope, which chronicles “how an inner-city kid beat the odds by using politics as his foundation.†He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in political science from Western Illinois University and is pursuing a doctoral degree in Educational Leadership from the University of New England.
This presentation is part of the 2018 MPA Speaker series and is sponsored by the MPA Program and the USI MPA Society. For more information, contact Dr. Matt Hanka, MPA program director, at 812-461-5204 or mjhanka@usi.edu.
LYNN BROWN OGLESBY
NICHOLAS J WIDEMAN
MIKE BALL
JOE TOWNSEND
CINDY BRACK
JAMIE OBERG
DAVE KENNDY COWELL
JIM KECK
DENISE JAKUBEK-BELL
MIKE BALL
NICHOLAS J. WIDEMAN
JOE TOWNSEND
LYNN BROWN OGLESBYÂ
JOHN FARLESS
KELLY GILLY
DIANE MASTERSON
PHILLIP WOOD
LISA BELL
MARK L. HEITKEMPER
KATIE FELKER
CYNTHIA J SCHNAPEL
BOB EUBANK
CINDY BRACK
JAMIE OBERG
DAVE KENNEDY COWELL
DENNIS DAUGHERTY
ADAM SCHAAF
BILL GILLENWATER
KAY LANT
TRACY KISSEL
DORTHY LINDSEY
MARCUS A. HESTER
MELODEE MILLER
KATIE FELKER
Attorney General Curtis Hill participated in a school safety forum on Wednesday in Washington D.C. hosted by Florida’s two U.S. senators – Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican, and Sen. Bill Nelson, a Democrat. Panelists spoke of ways to avoid future tragedies such as the shooting earlier this year at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Forum participants included families who lost loved ones in that devastating event.
At the forum, Attorney General Hill advocated a multi-pronged approach to improve school safety — including making maximum use of red flag laws, hiring well-trained safety personnel and utilizing effective technology and infrastructure. Indiana, he told the panel, has focused on “what we can do to harden our schools but not make them a prison.â€
Afterward, Attorney General Hill expressed gratitude for the opportunity to share Indiana’s successes.
“Hoosiers have worked hard to pursue effective strategies here in Indiana,†Attorney General Hill said. “We consider it a privilege anytime we can share our experiences to benefit Americans elsewhere across the country. By the same token, we will always study the practices of other states to see what policies we might consider adopting here. This sharing of ideas demonstrates the beauty of American federalism.â€
Among other Indiana participants at the forum was Steuben County Sheriff Tim Troyer, president of the Indiana Sheriff’s Association. He supported Attorney General Hill’s call for making schools more secure. “Our schools are soft, easy targets,†Sheriff Troyer lamented.
At the forum, Attorney General Hill also touted Southwestern High School in Shelby County as a model of enhanced security. The district’s superintendent, Dr. Paula Maurer, was also part of the Hoosier contingent on Capitol Hill for the forum.
Under Indiana’s red flag laws, law enforcement may seize guns from people believed to present an imminent danger to themselves or others. The measure ensures that law enforcement can protect the public while also providing due process to preserve 2nd Amendment rights. Indiana was one of the first states to have such laws. Sen. Rubio has called for federal incentives to encourage all states to adopt similar statutes.
Another consensus view shared by panelists was the need to promote improved communication within every school community – including confidential tips from students to trusted adults — in order to better enable officials to learn about threats and intervene before tragedies occur.
The Ivy Tech School of Arts, Sciences and Education held its annual student show opening and awards ceremony on Thursday, April 5 at its Evansville campus.
The student show opening and awards ceremony is held annually as a celebration of work produced by Ivy Tech students, and to highlight the work of the students who will soon graduate. Featured entries include works in Photography, Illustration, Interior, Graphic and Web Design, Graphic Design, Screen Printing, and Video.
Show winners
Name | Award | Category | Hometown |
Shelbie Huck | Best of Show | Photography | Chandler |
Shelbie Huck | Dean’s Award | Photography | Chandler |
Nicholas Bass | Honorable Mention (two awards) | Graphic Design | Chandler |
Chelsey Bryan | Honorable Mention | Photography | Cynthiana |
Ariana Campbell | Best of Show | Videography | Evansville |
Jake Jackson | Best of Show | Graphic Design | Evansville |
Jake Jackson | Best of Show | Screen Printing | Evansville |
Lauren Staser | Best of Show | Illustration | Evansville |
Shelika Higgins | Best of Show | Environmental/Interior Design | Evansville |
Rachel Fitzwater | Chancellor’s Best of Show | Graphic Design | Evansville |
Alyssa Ivy | Honorable Mention | Graphic Design | Evansville |
Lauren Staser | Honorable Mention | Graphic Design | Evansville |
Lauren Staser | Honorable Mention | Illustration | Evansville |
Liz Ertle | Honorable Mention | Photography | Evansville |
Rachel Fitzwater | Honorable Mention | Graphic Design | Evansville |
Timothy Sanchez | Honorable Mention | Videography | Evansville |
Robert Staser | Honorable Mention (two awards) | Photography | Evansville |
Liz Ertle | Outstanding Graduate | Visual Communications | Evansville |
Rachel Fitzwater | Outstanding Graduate | Visual Communications | Evansville |
Jake Jackson | Vice Chancellor’s Excellence Award | Graphic Design | Evansville |
Kati Magill | Outstanding Graduate | Visual Communications | Grandview |
Desiree Plunkett | Honorable Mention | Screen Printing | Haubstadt |
Taya Gibson | Honorable Mention | Environmental/Interior Design | Princeton |
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Olivia Covington for www.theindianalawyer.com
The Indiana Southern District Court has partially denied summary judgment to an Indiana University fraternity implicated in a campus sexual assault after finding “open issues†in the applicability of Indiana Supreme Court precedent concerning foreseeability in the context of duty.
Chief Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson certified several questions to the Indiana Supreme Court in her Tuesday order in Jane Doe No. 62 v. Delta Tau Delta Beta Alpha Chapter, 1:16-cv-01480, which traces back to the April 2015 sexual assault of an IU student identified as Jane Doe. Doe was attending an event at the Delta Tau Delta fraternity house and had been consuming alcohol before and during the assault.
Doe was seen entering the house with fraternity member John Enochs and later called the police to report that Enochs had sexually assaulted her. Enochs eventually pleaded guilty to battery.
Doe also sued the fraternity, alleging four forms of negligence arising from its alleged failure to protect her from the assault. Doe maintained that because the fraternity had been made aware of a previous assault allegedly committed by Enochs — against another student, M.S., in October 2013 — it owed her a duty of care.
DTD, however, maintained that the harm Doe suffered was not foreseeable, so she was owed no duty of care. The fraternity moved for summary judgment on those grounds.
Magnus-Stinson used those arguments to delve into a discussion of Indiana precedent regarding the role foreseeability plays in negligence claims. The most recent Supreme Court discussion of that issue came in two 2016 companion cases, Goodwin v. Yeakle’s Sports Bar & Grill, 62 N.E.3d 384 and Rogers v. Martin, 63 N.E.3d 316. The court in those cases concluded that in the context of duty, “foreseeability is a general threshold determination that involves an evaluation of (1) the broad type of plaintiff and (2) the broad type of harm.â€
However, those cases did not make clear what role prior notice or actual knowledge play in the analysis, Magnus-Stinson wrote. She pointed to Hamilton v. Steak ‘n Shake Operations, Inc., 92 N.E.3d 1166 (Ind. Ct. App. March 7, 2018) — which overturned summary judgment for Steak ‘n Shake after employees failed to prevent an escalating conflict that resulted in a patron being shot in the face — as an example of a state case that grapples with those “open questions.†A petition to transfer Hamilton is pending before the Supreme Court.
Looking to the instant case, Magnus-Stinson said she would define the broad type of plaintiff as a “female social invitee†and the broad type of harm as “sexual assault.†However, she also said it is not clear how the justices would rule on the question presented here — whether a fraternity chapter owes a duty to protect female social invitees from sexual assault.
“The Court could decide these issues in the first instance, but doing so would deprive the Indiana Supreme Court of the opportunity to address these legal questions in light of the relatively new and unexplored precedent presented by Rogers and Goodwin,†Magnus-Stinson wrote before certifying four questions to the Indiana Supreme Court, including:
• “Under the standard articulated in Rogers and Goodwin, may a court consider the actual knowledge of a defendant in determining the foreseeability of any event in the context of a duty analysis? If so, does it properly do so by framing either the class of plaintiff or the harm in terms of that knowledge?â€
• “Under Indiana law, does a fraternity owe a duty to a female social invitee to protect her from sexual assault by a member of the fraternity during a fraternity-sponsored event?â€
• “Does the analysis change where there is evidence that prior to the event some fraternity members were told by a third party that the fraternity member had on an earlier occasion sexually assaulted a female?â€
• “Is the analysis impacted by evidence that the female social invitee may have been under the influence of alcohol, most of which was consumed off premises, at the time of the sexual assault?â€
Given that certification, the district court denied Delta Tau Delta’s motions for summary judgment on Doe’s claim of premises liability negligence, general negligence, and willful, wanton and reckless misconduct, but without prejudice to further argument after Indiana Supreme Court review. However, the chief judge granted summary judgment on Doe’s negligent retention and supervision claim because there is no legal basis to extend the employer-employee duty to the context of a fraternity chapter and its members.
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