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Tia Oso to keynote 2018 Nelson Mandela Social Justice Day

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WHO: Tia Oso, director of impact at Revolve Impact and a dynamic and experienced social justice leader

WHAT: “Chaos or Community: The Persistent Question in Achieving Racial Progress and Human Rights” – 2018 University of Southern Indiana Nelson Mandela Social Justice Awareness Day keynote address

WHEN: 6 p.m. Wednesday, February 21

WHERE: Carter Hall, located in University Center West. A map of campus that includes University Center can be found at USI.edu/map. If necessary, overflow space featuring a livestream of the speech will be provided.

MEDIA AVAILABILITY: Oso will address the media at 5:15 p.m. in University Center room 227. Please contact Ben Luttrull, media relations specialist, at 812-461-5259 or bluttrull@usi.edu if you plan to attend the availability.

MANDELA DAY: The mission of the Nelson Mandela Social Justice Day and Speaker Series is to raise dialogue at USI around current issues of human and civil rights, public service, and activism through diverse, dynamic, nationally, and internationally known public intellectuals and academics. We aim to augment each speaker’s visit with a day of educational opportunities for the USI community. In these activities, we hope to commemorate Nelson Mandela, an international educator, activist, and champion of human and civil rights.

MANDELA DAY SCHEDULE: All events are free and open to the public as space allows:

  • 10 – 11:30 a.m.: Immigration Explained – University Center room 2217
  • 12:30 – 2 p.m.: Activism 101: How to Create Social Change – University Center room 2217
  • 6 – 7:30 p.m.: Keynote Address – Carter Hall

PARKING: A map of all parking lots is available at USI.edu/map (Select Parking in the Map Layers menu).

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Founded in 1965, the University of Southern Indiana enrolls more than 11,000 dual credit, undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students in more than 100 areas of study. A public higher education institution, located on a beautiful 1,400-acre campus in Evansville, Indiana, USI offers programs through the College of Liberal Arts, Romain College of Business, College of Nursing and Health Professions and the Pott College of Science, Engineering, and Education. USI is a Carnegie Foundation Community Engaged University and offers continuing education and special programs to more than 16,000 participants annually through Outreach and Engagement. USI is online at www.usi.edu.

Adopt A Pet

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Vaporeon is a 2-month-old female Lionhead rabbit from the “Eevee Pokemon” litter. She has eight siblings, all of whom are available for adoption now! Her $40 adoption fee includes her spay and microchip. Contact Vanderburgh Humane at (812) 426-2563 for adoption details!

 

Evansville Men Play At Indiana State On Wednesday

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On Wednesday, the University of Evansville men’s basketball team makes its final road trip of the regular season, heading north on Route 41 to Terre Haute to face Indiana State for a 6 p.m. CT game inside the Hulman Center.

Evansville has lost its last three games including a 76-66 defeat to Loyola on Sunday at the Ford Center.  Junior Ryan Taylor has been on an absolute roll in the last seven games, averaging 25.6 points while pushing his season average to a league-best 21.6.  His tally is 17th in the nation.  Taylor has accounted for 53 of the Aces’ 107 points in the last two games and has hit 10 or more shots in six of the last seven games.

Evan Kuhlman knocked down a pair of 3-pointers in the first half on Sunday.  The freshman has shot 45.0% from outside and has found the bottom of the net in 5 of his last 7 long range attempts.  Senior Blake Simmons notched six points to go along with eight rebounds against Loyola.  Simmons has moved his career point tally to 1,071.  He currently ranks 40th in program history and is four away from tying Jerry Conrad, who is 39th.

Indiana State enters Wednesday’s game tied with the Purple Aces for 7th in the MVC with a 6-10 league mark; they are 11-17 overall.  The Sycamores are coming off of a hard-fought outing that saw them drop a 76-72 overtime game to Southern Illinois on Saturday.  Jordan Barnes leads ISU with 17.3 points per game and has dished out a team-high 103 assists.  Brenton Scott and Qiydar Davis have recorded 15.4 and 10.5 points per game, respectively.

The Sycamores hold a 91-80 lead in the series over UE and have gone 59-23 against the Purple Aces in Terre Haute.  UE has dropped its last six games in the Hulman Center, including an 85-84 overtime defeat last season.

In the first meeting on January 17, Dru Smith was the leader for UE with 23 points, but four Sycamores registered 10 or more points as ISU took a 71-66 win.  Jordan Barnes had 17 to pace the team while Brenton Scott finished the night with 14.  Behind Smith’s effort for UE were Blake Simmons with 16 and Ryan Taylor with 12 points.

 

HOT JOBS IN EVANSVILLE

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Berry Plastics Corporation 772 reviews – Evansville, IN
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Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation 31 reviews – Evansville, IN
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Receive calls, take messages and route correspondence. Greet visitors and determine whether they should be given access to specific individuals….
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VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES

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 Evansville, IN – Below are the felony cases to be filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office today.

Carolyn Michelle Butler: Murder

Broderick Deon Swint: Operating a vehicle as a habitual traffic violator (Level 6 Felony)

Billy Carson Patrick Jr.: Operating a vehicle while intoxicated (Level 6 Felony)

Will Lee Simpson Jr. : Dealing in a synthetic drug or synthetic drug lookalike substance (Level 6 Felony)

Commentary: Guns And Our Nightmare That Won’t End

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By John Krull
TheStatehouseFile.com 

INDIANAPOLIS – Words fail.

The sights and stories from Parkland, Florida, have a sad familiarity.

We Americans now have seen so many pictures of families and communities battered by horror and grief. We had heard so many tales of terrified young people bearing more than children should be asked – no, forced – to bear.

We have witnessed so many – too, too many – mass shootings in our country.

In elementary schools.

In high schools.

In theaters.

In workplaces.

On public streets.

On military bases.

Everywhere, it seems, here in America.

Every time, our response is the same. Shock surrenders to grief, which then yields to rage.

Our anger is intensified by our impotence, the sense that these tragedies are avoidable and yet at the same time inevitable, because of our determined evasion of moral responsibility.

It feels as if we are trapped in a nightmare from which we cannot awaken.

In this time of fury and confusion, the temptation is strong to lash out at the National Rifle Association, the gun manufacturers and merchants and the public officials awash in the flood tide of campaign contributions and dark money unleashed by the firearms lobby.

Lord knows, in this world and the next, these folks have and will have much for which they must answer.

But berating them, baiting them with evidence of their cash-laden complicity in horror and trying to shame them into doing the right thing is likely to achieve nothing more than a temporary venting of frustration, a momentary therapeutic release from a grief that seems to have no end.

In some ways, doing so fuels the frenzy and fantasy that fire their fears, the sense that they are alone, attacked and embattled in a hostile world and thus must cling to their weapons even more fiercely.

We won’t change our current reality by reinforcing their fantasies. We won’t chase away terror by stoking their fears.

I have talked, debated and argued with gun advocates for years. I have listened to them, and I have heard them.

However misguided and misinformed their view of the world is, their adherence to it is genuine. They believe what they believe, and not because someone has paid them to think or argue or vote that way.

For that reason, they hear only what they want or need to hear. They latch onto whatever crumb of misinformation plucked out of context confirms their faith that more guns mean more safety. They seize on whatever cry, however grief-soaked and unrealistic, for draconian gun policies as evidence that the real plan is to disarm and disenfranchise them, and they use that as renewed justification for their unyielding opposition to all attempts to grapple with senseless suffering.

This makes them impervious to the force that is supposed to animate our system of government, the gathering of facts that empower the process of reason.

So long as they continue to disregard information that does not support their beliefs or does not give flame to their fears, they cannot and will not be persuaded. They will remain beyond reason’s reach.

And we will remain trapped in this nightmare from which we cannot awaken.

That is why our grief must give way not to rage, but to thoughtful planning and action.

I talked once with former Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Chief Troy Riggs, himself a gun owner but one whose work and experience made him sensitive to the tragic consequences of this nation’s overabundance of privately owned firearms.

Riggs said, in effect, that we will not cure our national ailment by focusing on symptoms. We instead must look at causes.

We must ask ourselves, he said, why so many young people feel they need a firearm.

I would broaden that to say that we must ask why so many Americans feel they need not just one deadly weapon, but, in many cases, entire arsenals, just to feel secure.

Until we can plumb the depths of that fear, we will not solve this problem.

We will remain trapped in this nightmare.

And words will continue to fail.

FOOTNOTE: John Krull is director of Franklin College’s Pulliam School of Journalism, host of “No Limits” WFYI 90.1 Indianapolis and publisher of TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.

This article was posted by the City-County Observer without opinion, bias or editing.

17 Year Old FJ Reitz Student Arrested For Threats Against The School

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Evansville Police have arrested a 17-year-old FJ Reitz student on intimidation charges. The arrest stemmed from an investigation that began after school had dismissed on February 14th.

The investigation began when a school employee notified the school resource officer about a message written on a bathroom stall door. The message referred to an act of violence at the school that was to have happened on the 14th. Classes had already ended for the day and no incidents were reported to school staff or police.

During the investigation, police were able to determine who had been in the restroom prior to the message being found. Police was then able to identify a potential suspect.

The suspect was questioned about the message and gave a confession. He was placed at the Youth Care Center and charged with Felony Intimidation.

Due to his age, his information is not being released.

EPD ACTIVITY REPORT

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EPD REPORT

Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Records

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IS IT TRUE FEBRUARY 20, 2018

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We hope that today’s “IS IT TRUE” 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?”

IS IT TRUE that what these Russians were actually indicted for was a) being a foreign national and trying to influence American elections, b) they failed to register as required of disruptive foreigners under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, and c) they did not report their funding sources to the Federal Election Commission?…that is all they are charged with?…there is someone else who has admitted to doing all three of those things and he is not under indictment?…that Christopher Steele who compiled the Trump dossier for Fusion GPS is a foreign national who was paid by the DNC, the FBI, and the Clinton campaign through the firm of PerkinesCoie failed to register or disclose his funding too?…his objective just as the 13 Russians was to tamper with the minds of Americans in a way that would impact their decisions on voting?…this is the same thing that the Russians are going to trial for?…there is also the inconvenient truth that many Americans intentional aided and abetted Mr. Steele in addition to paying him to write a partially fabricated dossier on foreign soil to disrupt our election?…we hope to see justice served equally on this foreign collusion matter?

IS IT TRUE if the current members of City Council are serious about reducing the multi-million dollar deficit facing the Employee Health Care fund this year they could pay for their own Healthcare program through a private insurer?

IS IT TRUE that it been alleged that the speech given by the 8th Congressional District candidate Dr. Richard Moss at the Vanderburgh County Republican Party breakfast was video in its entirety?

IS IT TRUE when a business is having major budget shortfalls they make serious budget cuts?  …when our City Council is experiencing major budget shortfalls challenges they just give themselves a raise?

IS IT TRUE when a business has major financial challenges they cut their operating budget?  …when our city has a major financial problem they raise taxes?

IS IT TRUE if the current members of City Council are serious about reducing the multi-million dollar deficit facing the Employee Health Care fund this coming budget year they could request that all individuals who serve on Board and Commissions be dropped from receiving City of Evansville sponsored Hearth Care benefits?

IS IT TRUE if the Evansville City Council would take away their own city-subsidized  Employees Health Care plan from the proposed 2019 city budget this would save the City many thousands of dollars?

IS IT TRUE its time for the Evansville City Council to consider amending the “per meeting stipend policy” in order to be fair and equable to all individuals serving on part-time Boards and Commissions? …we are told some members serving on Evansville Boards and Commissions are being paid a stipend between $300 to $7,000 annually? …some individuals are receiving a per meeting stipend of $25 to $50  per meeting for serving on part-time Boards and Commissions? … many people that are serving on part-time Boards and Commissions appointed by City Council are receiving nothing?

IS IT TRUE that all Americans have seen massive increases in their health care cost over the last several years? …20% to 30% yearly increases in health care costs are commonplace? … according to a conservative city council member, this might be the case for projected increases in health care costs for Evansville City Employees in 2019?

IS IT TRUE the if average age of the city employees is approximately 53?  …if nearly 45% are significantly overweight?  … if 55% have high blood pressure and 30% have high sugar levels (national average is 22%)?  …if 43% of city employees have high cholesterol levels and 38% are smokers these could be some of the reasons why the City of Evansville Employees Health Care fund costs are increasing by leaps and bounds annually?

IS IT TRUE it looks like the future budgetary time bomb concerning the projected increases in the 2019 Health Care budget costs is because the City of Evansville is self-insured?

IS IT TRUE a Republican member of the Evansville City Council recently stated that the current city’s budget problems were caused by the bad spending practices of the Weinzapfel administration?  …we wonder why he didn’t make reference to the bad spending habits of the Wienecke administration?

Todays “Readers Poll” question is:  Do you feel that Congressman Buschon should have treated Dr. Moss with more respect during and after his speech?

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