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Student Journalists Focus On The First Amendment In Statehouse Event

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Student Journalists Focus On The First Amendment In Statehouse Event

March 7, 2018 

By Quinn Fitzgerald
TheStatehouseFile.com

INDIANAPOLIS—Two hundred student journalists, journalism advisers and more gathered in the south atrium of the Statehouse Wednesday to support the accomplishments of their peers.

The Indiana High School Press Association held its annual First Amendment Symposium to honor student journalists and hear from journalism educators and professionals on the importance of the profession.

IHSPA Student Board members kicked off the event by taking turns to talk about their proudest journalism experiences and why scholastic journalism is important.

Marisa Kwiatkowski, an investigative reporter for The Indianapolis Star, speaks at the First Amendment Symposium. Photo by Quinn Fitzgerald, TheStatehouseFile.com

Indianapolis Star investigative reporter Marisa Kwiatkowski shared details of her team’s coverage of the U.S. Gymnastics and Larry Nassar scandal. Their investigation revealed how the Olympic organization failed to report multiple allegations of sexual abuse by coaches to authorities. Larry Nassar, a physician for the team accused by multiple gymnasts of sexual abuse, is now in prison.

Kwiatkowski urged student journalists to pursue a career in journalism because of the good they can do for people who are unable to tell their own stories.

“For many people, we are the only voice they have before the public. We’re the only people who can share their stories with the communities,” Kwiatkowski said.

The event concluded with contest awards for First Amendment graphic design, sports coverage, and essay writing.

Before announcing the 2018 Indiana Student Journalist of the Year, IHSPA Director Ryan Gunterman took time to share the news of House Bill 1016, a bill that would have extended First Amendment press freedoms to Indiana middle and high school students. The bill had died in the House earlier in the session.

Andrew Tapp, high school student from Southport High School, receives his award for the 2018 Indiana Student Journalist of the Year. Photo by Quinn Fitzgerald, TheStatheouseFile.com

“Had those representatives met students such as [the student journalist finalists] and such as yourselves, I don’t know how with a clear conscience they could have voted against giving protections for you, protections you deserve,” Gunterman said.

This year’s Student Journalist of the Year is Andrew Tapp from Southport High School. Tapp is also one of five student board members for IHSPA.

Finalists were Audrey Gacsy from Crown Point High School, Andrea John from Crown Point High School, Jared Rigdon from Lawrence North High School, and Claire Rightley from Avon High School.

In April, Tapp will represent Indiana at the National High School Journalism Convention in San Francisco, California.

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

Grau Competes At NCAA II Indoor Championship

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Grau Competes At NCAA II Indoor Championship

PITTSBURG, Kan. – University of Southern Indiana Indoor Track & Field senior Bastian Grau (Höchstadt, Germany) was unable to defend his national championship in the mile, finishing sixth in his preliminary heat at the NCAA II Indoor Track & Field Championships in Pittsburg, Kansas.

Grau found himself at the back of the pack as the race started, before coming around the outside to lead the pack for a couple laps. However, Grau fell back to sixth in the closing laps as the top five pulled away. He finished with a time of four minutes, 18.07 seconds.

Grau’s time was 14th of the 16 competitors. His provisional time of 4:04.51 seeded him eighth coming into the event. The top three finishers of each heat in addition to the next three fastest times advanced to the finals on Saturday.

USI and Grau will now start preparing for the outdoor track & field season, which begins March 22 with the Bill Smith Challenge in Vincennes, Indiana.

Fire at Grandview Towers Leaves One Person in Critical Condition

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Fire at Grandview Towers Leaves One Person in Critical Condition

MARCH 9TH, 2018  TYRONE MORRIS EVANSVILLE, INDIANA

 An Evansville man is fighting for his life tonight after a fire in a high rise apartment building. It happened at the Grandview Towers around 6 p.m. Friday.

Fire officials say the flames were contained to one unit on the eighth floor. They found one man inside he was not breathing and had no pulse.

Medics gave him CPR before taking him to Deaconess Midtown. He was in critical condition at last check.

Investigators say they’ve determined the fire was accidental.

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Congressman Larry Bucshon Moves To DC And Betrays Indiana

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Congressman Larry Bucshon Moves To DC And Betrays Indiana

By Richard Moss, MD
Candidate for Congress, Republican Party,
8TH Congressional District

JASPER, IN: When a sitting Congressman lives, works, and raises his family in Washington, he represents Washington. He reflects the community he resides in. That community’s interests become his interests. It is only natural. No matter how much the Congressman tries to explain it away, he represents Washington, not Indiana’s 8th district. He has a Washington-centric view of the world. He prefers the habits and tastes of Washington. He enjoys the company of Washington insiders, the lobbyists, consultants, special interests, and other career politicians that populate that most corrupt of cities. The interests of Hoosiers are secondary.

Liberal Larry, the sellout Congressman who has moved to Washington and believes he can better represent Indiana by living in Washington, that beacon of moral rectitude, has been attacking me over domestic abuse allegations from 1993, 25 years ago, just as he did the last election cycle when he leaked the story to the Evansville Courier Press in 2016, two weeks before the primary. Even though all charges were dropped, I never touched my wife, she denies the allegations, we’re still married 25 years later, and we have 4 wonderful and accomplished children. That doesn’t matter for the morally bankrupt Congressman. He and his campaign continue to spew the filth and lies for which he is known.

Congressman ‘Sellout’ sold his district out by moving to Washington DC. He sold his district out with his Heritage Action conservative rating of 52%, an “F,” while pretending to be a conservative. He sold his district out by voting to fund sanctuary cities, amnesty, DACA, importing Syrian Muslim refugees, the EPA, Planned Parenthood, Obamacare, and more deficit spending that will bankrupt our children – rather than supporting policies Hoosiers want.

Congressman “Sellout,” is a swamp creature, a creature of Washington and the GOP Establishment. We need to drain the swamp, beginning right here in Indiana’s 8th district – by repealing and replacing Liberal Larry Bucshon and his dirty campaign tricks and fake news.

Below: Links to related articles

Confrontation With Congressman Bucshon

http://archive.courierpress.com/news/politics/elections/local/bucshons-setting-down-roots-in-dc-395620dd-dc20-44f3-e053-0100007f6193-389385301.html

https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/2017/10/07/bucshon-lives-washington-and-evansville/741862001/https://city-countyobserver.com/170869-2/

https://duboiscountyherald.com/b/i-would-like-to-set-the-record-straight-mrs-moss

Dr. Richard Moss is a board certified head and neck cancer surgeon and was a candidate for Congress in 2016. He graduated from the Indiana University School of Medicine and has been in practice in Jasper and Washington, IN for over 20 years. He is married with four children.

For more information visit RMoss4Congress.com. Contact us at hq@rmoss4congress.com. Find Moss For Congress on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

 

Ivy Tech Community College To Host Express Enrollment Week For Summer And Fall Semesters

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Ivy Tech Community College Evansville Campus is hosting Express Enrollment week, March 19 through March 23. During this event, representatives will be available Monday through Thursday, from 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. and Friday, March 23, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to assist current and prospective students with enrollment steps for the summer or fall semesters.

This event is free and students are encouraged to RSVP. To RSVP, and for more information about Express Enrollment week, including participating locations, visit IvyTech.edu/EEDay.

 

Beginning a Backyard Garden

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IU Divers Earn Four More Spots at NCAA Championships

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The Indiana University men’s and women’s diving teams earned four more spots at the NCAA Zone C Diving Championships on Friday afternoon in Columbus, Ohio.

After earning auto-qualifying bids yesterday, the Hoosier diving quartet of Jessica Parratto, Michael Hixon, James Connor and Andrew Capobianco all earned spots in a second event. The four have all earned places in both the 1-meter and 3-meter dives at the NCAA Championships later this month.

Once a diver posts an auto-qualifying finish in an event, he or she only has to be among the top 12 to earn the NCAA Championships berth in the other events.

In the men’s 1-meter dive, Hixon earned his second victory two days, winning the event with a score of 784.90. After placing second in the 3-meter on Thursday, Connor took third in the 1-meter with a score of 767.35. Capobianco continued his great diving, earning his second NCAA berth as a freshman, placing seventh with a total of 677.15.

Parratto was again outstanding on Friday, placing second in the women’s 3-meter dive with a total of 701.80. The redshirt junior was one of only two divers to score over 700 points in the event.

All four divers can earn a spot in the platform dive at NCAA Championships by finishing in the top-12 on Saturday.

The NCAA Zone C Diving Championships will conclude on Saturday with the men’s and women’s platform dives. The action gets underway at 11:00 a.m. ET in Columbus, Ohio.

Be sure to keep up with all the latest news on the Indiana men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams on social media – Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Women’s 3-Meter

  1. Jessica Parratto – 701.80 (NCAA Auto-Qualifier)
  2. Taylor Carter – 541.60

Men’s 1-Meter

  1. Michael Hixon – 784.90 (NCAA Auto-Qualifier)
  2. James Connor – 767.35 (NCAA Auto-Qualifier)
  3. Andrew Capobianco – 677.15 (NCAA Auto-Qualifier)
  4. Mory Gould – 586.15
  5. Cody Coldren – 290.40
  6. Seamus Scotty – 263.00
  7. Clark Carter – 259.25

 

Arming Teachers

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Adopt a Pet

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7th Circuit grants summary judgment to IMPD officer who fatally shot agitated man

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Olivia Covington for www.theindianalwyer.com

The Indiana Southern District Court must enter judgment in favor of an Indianapolis police officer who fatally shot a man while on duty after the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals determined the officer acted reasonably and is entitled to qualified immunity.

In January 2014, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers, including James Gray, responded to a call about a man, Keith Koster, vomiting and having trouble breathing. The officers were given keys to Koster’s apartment, but when they entered the unit Koster began shouting for them to go away.

Despite reassurances that the officers were there to help, Koster, who was holding a gun, threatened to shoot them if they entered his apartment. A hostage negotiator then arrived and tried to convince Koster to put down the gun, but he refused and eventually threatened to fire a warning shot.

According to the Gray’s testimony, Koster then extended his arm and pointed the gun at the officers, so Gray fired three shots at his head, two of which struck and killed him. After Koster’s death, his sister, Dawne Sanzone, filed Fourth Amendment excessive force claims against several of the officers present at the shooting, including Gray.

Each defendant moved for summary judgment on the basis that they were entitled to qualified immunity, and Judge Tanya Walton Pratt granted those motions as to the other defendants. But in Gray’s case, she determined he was not entitled to qualified immunity, finding he “used greater force than was reasonable because he did not take cover or wait for the less-lethal option before shooting.”

The 7th Circuit, however, found Thursday in Dawne A. Sanzone v. James Gray, 17-2103, that Gray did not violate Koster’s Fourth Amendment rights considering Koster’s threat of a warning shot and his action of pointing his gun at the officers. Thus, he was entitled to qualified immunity.

“Gray did not need to wait and hope that Koster was a skilled marksman before taking action to shut down Koster’s threat,” the panel – including Notre Dame professor and now-Judge Amy Coney Barrett – wrote in a per curiam opinion. “Indeed, these circumstances place this case handily among others in which the court has sanctioned the use of deadly force.”

The appellate panel reversed the denial of Gray’s summary judgment motion and remanded the case back to the district court for entry of judgment in his favor.

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