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USI Foundation, Romain College of Business To Dedicate New Campus Installation, Celebrate Honor Society

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The University of Southern Indiana Foundation and the USI Romain College of Business will hold a ceremony honoring the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society and revealing and dedicating a Beta Gamma Sigma key at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, February 22 in the O’Daniel Atrium of the Business and Engineering Center.

Beta Gamma Sigma recognizes outstanding academic achievements of students in business programs accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. The key, a bronze sculpture weighing approximately 135 pounds, is the gift of Dr. Victor V. Schriefer, Jr., a longtime friend of the University, USI Foundation board member and 2008 honorary degree recipient.
WHO: USI President Dr. Linda L. M. Bennett; Dr. Mohammad Khayum, dean of the USI Romain College of Business; Dr. Brian McGuire, associate dean of the Romain College of Business; USI Foundation representatives, donors and guests; Beta Gamma Sigma representatives; USI student inductees of Beta Gamma Sigma
WHAT: Ceremony celebrating Beta Gamma Sigma and dedication of Beta Gamma Sigma key
WHERE: Rosemary L. and D. Patrick O’Daniel Atrium of the Business and Engineering Center. A map of campus featuring the BEC can be found at USI.edu/map.
WHEN: 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, February 22. The ceremony will last approximately 30 minutes.
PARKING: Parking is available in Lot J adjacent to the BEC. All available parking lots can be found at USI.edu/map.

MEET A MEMBER OF THE CHANNEL 44 NEWS TEAM

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Chad Evans is a native of Odon, Indiana, and joins WEVV from WFLI in Lafayette, Indiana where he was the chief meteorologist. Chad may be a familiar name to those in the Tri-State, as he also previously worked at WEHT as weekend meteorologist.

Chad has ten years of professional experience as a meteorologist. Chad has a National Weather Association Seal of Approval and is a member of the Indiana State Climate Office Advisory Committee. Chad is an active blogger about the weather. He also has writing credits in two PBS weather documentaries (An Illinois Winter and Stinging Dust and Forgotten Lives: The Dust Bowl), and is the author of It Was a Mighty Tempest: Hoosier Severe Weather & Flood Events Prior to 1905.

Chad says “I’m looking forward to moving back to the southern end of the state, and to the shorter drives to see my family in Daviess County. I always hoped to have the opportunity to return to the Tri-State, and I’m anxious to get started.”

Chad graduated from Indiana State University with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Climatology.

 It’s Time To Play Ball!       

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 It’s Time To Play Ball!       

Friday, Feb. 24-Sunday, Feb. 26

Evansville, IN. – The Midwest Regional Classic Division II GLVC Girls Softball Preseason Tournament is this weekend at Deaconess Sports Park.  Thirteen teams from Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee as well as local favorites USI and Kentucky Wesleyan from Owensboro will play three days – Feb. 24-26.  USI Softball and Deaconess Sports Park will host the first tournament of the 2017 – the Midwest Regional Classic on Feb. 24-26thbeginning at 1PM on Friday until the last game at 12PM on Sunday.  See full schedule below.

Teams expected include Bellarmine University(Louisville, Ky.), Saginaw Valley State(Saginaw, Mi.), Truman State(Kirksville, Mo.), Drury University (Springfield, Mo), Travecca Nazarene University(Nashville, Tn), Ohio Dominican University(Columbus, Oh.), Ferris State University(Grand Rapids, Mi.), McKendree University(Lebanon, IL.), University of Indianapolis (Indianapolis, In.), Northwood University(Midland, Mi.), and Hillsdale College(Hillsdale, Mi.).

USI invites the public and media to attend the tournament to see girls’ softball competition at the college level.

Game times are 1PM and 3PM on Friday(2/24), 11AM, 1PM, and 3PM on Saturday(2/25), and 10AM and 12PM on Sunday(2/26).  All games will be played at Deaconess Sports Park. Tickets are $7 per day or $20 weekend pass for adults and free for children 12 and under.

 

Air Quality Forecast For Vanderburgh County

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Air quality forecasts for Evansville and Vanderburgh County are provided as a public service.  They are best estimates of predicted pollution levels that can be used as a guide so people can modify their activities and reduce their exposure to air quality conditions that may affect their health.  The forecasts are routinely made available at least a day in advance, and are posted by 10:30 AM Evansville time on Monday (for Tuesday through Thursday) and Thursday (for Friday through Monday).  When atmospheric conditions are uncertain or favor pollution levels above the National Ambient Air Quality Standards, forecasts are made on a daily basis.

Ozone forecasts are available from mid-April through September 30th.  Fine particulate (PM2.5) forecasts are available year round.

Tuesday
February 21
Wednesday
February 22
Thursday
February 23
Friday
February 24
Saturday
February 25
Fine Particulate
(0-23 CST avg)
Air Quality Index
moderate moderate moderate good NA*
Ozone
Air Quality Index
NA* NA* NA* NA* NA*
Ozone
(peak 8-hr avg)
(expected)
NA* NA* NA* NA* NA*

* Not Available and/or Conditions Uncertain.

Air Quality Action Days

Ozone Alerts are issued by the Evansville EPA when maximum ozone readings averaged over a period of eight hours are forecasted to reach 71 parts per billion (ppb), or unhealthy for sensitive groups on the USEPA Air Quality Index scale.

Particulate Alerts are issued by the Evansville EPA when PM2.5 readings averaged over the period of midnight to midnight are forecasted to reach 35 micrograms per meter cubed (µg/m3).

Current conditions of OZONE and FINE PARTICULATE MATTER are available in near real-time on the Indiana Department of Environment Management’s website.

National and regional maps of current conditions are available through USEPA AIRNow.

COA reverses drug conviction for lack of police inventory regulation

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The Indiana Court of Appeals vacated a Putnam County man’s drug conviction Tuesday after finding that police officers were not following proper protocol when they searched the man’s vehicle.

After noticing that the vehicle Otis Sams was driving did not have working taillights, Greencastle Police Department officers Christopher Jones and Justin Tate pulled Sams over and asked for his license and registration. However, Sams’ license had been suspended, so he produced the registration for the vehicle, which was a family member’s truck, and a state-issued identification card.

After running Sams’ information and discovering that he was not licensed to drive, Jones decided that the slick road conditions required Sams’ vehicle to be impounded and towed. They also issued a misdemeanor summons to Sams, rather than arresting him, and Sams left the scene to wait for a ride home.

Jones and a third officer who had arrived, Kyle Lee, began to inventory to contents of the truck and discovered 25 grams of methamphetamine inside a hamburger box in the truck, so Sams was arrested and charged with Class A misdemeanor driving while license suspended and Level 4 felony possession of methamphetamine. He moved to suppress the meth evidence, but the Putnam Circuit Court denied his motion and allowed the meth to be admitted as evidence over his objection.

After his conviction on both counts, Sams appealed in Otis Sams, Jr. v. State of Indiana, 67A01-1604-CR-814, arguing that the evidence was the inadmissible fruit of an unlawful search under the Fourth Amendment. The Indiana Court of Appeals agreed in a Tuesday opinion, with Judge Paul Mathias writing that the search of the fast-food bag and box that revealed the meth was not sufficiently regulated.

At the time of Sams’ arrest, Greencastle Police had a written policy on impounding vehicles that held, “When the driver/owner of a vehicle is arrested, and if the vehicle is subject to a lawful impound, the arresting officer will make an inventory of the vehicle for valuables,” including all personal property and vehicle accessories. However, Jones testified that he was trained to interpret the policy to mean only items perceived to be of liability value should be included on the inventory.

“The written policy thus conflicts both with itself and with the unwritten policy,” Mathias wrote for the unanimous panel. “We suspect that the written policy exists for the sake of reviewing courts and the unwritten policy for the sake of officers in the field. Even if the policies are not programmatically pretextual in this way … their conflict afford GPD officers excessive discretion in allowing officers to choose which of two protocols will govern their searches.”

Thus, the police department’s existing inventory regime could not sufficiently regulate inventory searches by its officers, Mathias wrote. Further, because Jones testified that he only searched the fast-food bag because it seemed “suspicious” and would not normally search such an item during the inventory, “the search (was) pretextual and therefore unreasonable,” the judge said.

Thus, as Sams argued, the drug evidence was an inadmissible fruit of the inventory, Mathias said, so the appellate court vacated his meth conviction and remanded with instructions to grant his motion to suppress.

Eagles end regular-season with Top 25 showdown

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EVANSVILLE, Ind.—University of Southern Indiana Women’s Basketball concludes the 2016-17 regular-season Thursday at 5 p.m. (CST) when it visits No. 20 Bellarmine University in a clash between Top 25 teams at Knights Hall in Louisville, Kentucky.

 

The game can be heard on WSWI 95.7 FM, while live stats, audio and video can be accessed at GoUSIEagles.com. Thursday’s game will be aired live on NCAA.com and tape-delayed on American Sports Network.

 

While Thursday’s game has little bearing on the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament—USI is locked into the No. 2 seed, while Bellarmine will be either the No. 3 or No. 4 seed—Thursday’s contest carries plenty of weight in the NCAA II Midwest Region Tournament picture.

 

USI (23-4, 15-2 GLVC), which jumped three spots to No. 19 in the latest Division II Media Poll and one spot to No. 23 in the latest WBCA Top 25 Coaches’ Poll, trailed Bellarmine in the NCAA II Midwest Region rankings last week. The Screaming Eagles were No. 8, while the Knights were No. 7. Updated regional rankings will be released Wednesday.

 

The Eagles are looking to avenge the 88-83 loss they suffered to Bellarmine last month at the Physical Activities Center. Despite leading by as much as eight points and holding the lead for 24 minutes, a 9-0 Bellarmine run late in the fourth quarter sank the Eagles’ chances of an upset.

 

Since then, however, the Eagles have gone on to win nine of their last 10 games to capture the GLVC East Division title, while Bellarmine has lost four of its last 10 games.

 

A win Thursday would give the Eagles their fourth straight victory and their first 16-win season in GLVC play since the 2001-02 campaign. It also would give USI a three-game lead in the final GLVC East Division standings.

 

Junior guard/forward Kaydie Grooms (Marshall, Illinois) and senior guard Tanner Marcum (New Albany, Indiana) lead the Eagles, offensively. Grooms is averaged 15.3 points per game, while Marcum is chipping in 13.9 points and 3.3 assists per contest.

 

USI Women’s Basketball Notes

  • Eagles win GLVC East Division title.USI Women’s Basketball won the GLVC East Division title outright after defeating McKendree, 70-48, Saturday. It is USI’s first Division title since the Eagles claimed the East Division championship with a 12-6 mark in 2010-11.

 

  • Last week’s leaders.The Eagles went 2-0 to close out their 2016-17 home schedule last week. Led by junior guard/forward Kaydie Groomsand senior guard Tanner Marcum, USI had six players average at least 7.0 points per game and eight players with at least 5.0 points per game. Grooms and Marcum each averaged 13.5 points per contest, while junior guard Randa Harshbarger dished out 5.0 assists per outing.

 

  • GLVC Tournament positioning.USI enters its regular-season finale locked into the No. 2 seed in the GLVC Tournament, while Bellarmine could slip to the No. 4 seed with a loss and a Lewis win. Even if USI and Drury finish in a tie, Drury would have the tie-breaker over USI after defeating Missouri-St. Louis on the road—USI lost to UMSL in St. Louis.

 

  • Fifteen GLVC wins.USI reached the 15-win plateau in GLVC play for the second time in three years and the first time since 2014-15. The last time the Eagles won 16 games in GLVC play was 2001-02, when they went 16-4.

 

  • Midwest Region rankings.The Eagles are ranked No. 8 in the first NCAA II Midwest Region rankings. The next ranking comes out Wednesday.

 

  • Back to Pod play.The Eagles finish the regular-season against their four-team GLVC East Division pod. USI is 4-1 against its pod this year and is 19-4 since pod-play began in 2013-14.

 

  • Eagles two wins shy of 25-win plateau.The Eagles are just two wins shy of reaching the 25-win plateau for the second time in three years and the sixth time in program history. USI has reached the 25-win plateau three times under Head Coach Rick Stein.

 

  • USI moves up in Top 25.The Eagles moved up three spots in this week’s Division II Media Poll and one spot in the latest WBCA Coaches’ Poll. USI is ranked No. 19 in the Media Poll and No. 23 in the Coaches’ Poll. USI also is No. 16 in the latest Herosports.comDivision II rankings.

 

  • Groom closing in on 1,000-point plateau.Junior guard/forward Kaydie Groomsneeds just 19 points to become the 17th player in program history to eclipse the 1,000-career point plateau.

 

  • Stein vs. Dugan.Head Coach Rick Steinsquares off against his former boss, Chancellor Dugan, for the 10th time when USI plays Bellarmine Thursday. Stein was an assistant coach under the USI Hall of Famer during her eight-year career with the Eagles. Dugan led the Eagles to the 1997 NCAA II Championship game. Dugan took a 5-4 lead in the all-time series between the two after Bellarmine’s win last month.

 

  • Scouting the opposition (Bellarmine).Senior forward Sarah Galvin averages 15.7 points per game and 7.5 rebounds per game to lead the Knights, who have won two straight games and four of the last five.

 

  • Record book watch.Several players are in USI’s record books:

–Tanner Marcum is ninth in steals (163), 10th in assists (225), and 12th in scoring (1,097);

–Kaydie Grooms is 19th in scoring (981), is 18th in blocks (46), and 29th in rebounds (379).

–Randa Harshbarger is eighth in assists (253);

–Hannah Wascher is eighth in blocks (67), 22nd in rebounds (421) and 36th in scoring (683);

–Morgan Dahlstrom is 20th in blocks (41) and 20th in rebounds (431).

 

  • USI in statistical rankings.USI begins the weekend leading the GLVC in 10 statistical rankings and is in the top six of 17 GLVC statistical categories. The Eagles are ranked in the top 25 of 10 NCAA Division II statistical rankings.

 

 

 

Adopt A Pet

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 Ms. Love is a female American Staffordshire Terrier or “pit bull” mix. She was found as a stray, but was very loving with the people who found her, which is how she got her name. She did well with her finders’ other dog and 5-year-old child. She was never reclaimed, so she’s looking for a home with some “pittie love” to share! Ms. Love’s $100 adoption fee includes her spay, microchip, vaccines, and more. Contact the Vanderburgh Humane Society at (812) 426-2563 or adoptions@vhslifesaver.org for adoption details!

 

Ho Jobs in Evansville

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Retail Store Sales Associate
Blick Art Materials  57 reviews – Evansville, IN
Equipment Thermal Processing Technician (ETPT), Impact Packaging
Mead Johnson Nutrition  79 reviews – Evansville, IN
Equipment Thermal Processing Technician (ETPT), Impact Packaging
Mead Johnson  23 reviews – Evansville, IN
Title I Tutor (Christ the King)
Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation  10 reviews– Evansville, IN
$20 an hour
First Steps Intake Coordinator
Blue River Services, Inc. – Evansville, IN
$12.20 an hour
Clerk/Customer Service
STATE BEAUTY SUPPLY  38 reviews – Evansville, IN
$8.50 an hour
Warehouse Associate
A. Schulman, Inc.  56 reviews – Evansville, IN
Manager of Health and Welfare Plans
Vectren  6 reviews – Evansville, IN
Hotel Front Desk Clerk
Suburban Extended Stay Hotel  765 reviews – Evansville, IN
Package Machine Operator, Impact Packaging
Mead Johnson Nutrition  79 reviews – Evansville, IN
Package Machine Operator, Impact Packaging
Mead Johnson  23 reviews – Evansville, IN
A/P & A/R Clerk (Assistant Bookkeeper)
SMI Manufacturing, Inc. – Newburgh, IN
$12 – $14 an hour
Intake Coordinator
Better Living Home Health Care, Inc  4 reviews – Evansville, IN
$11.75 – $12.75 an hour
(CCTV or POS) Field Service Technician
TEKSystems  1,512 reviews – Evansville, IN
$15 – $19 an hour
Child Care Director
Epworth Child Care Ministry – Newburgh, IN
Golf Course Snack Bar Attendent
Thunderbolt Pass Golf Course – Evansville, IN
$7.25 an hour
Shuttle Driver +
Comfort Inn & Suites Evansville Airport – Evansville, IN
$8.50 an hour
Storage Facility Housekeeper
U-Haul  1,775 reviews – Evansville, IN
Golf Shop Attendant
Thunderbolt Pass Golf Course – Evansville, IN
$7.50 an hour
Administrator Evansville, IN
AngMar Medical Holdings, Inc. – Evansville, IN
Housekeeper
Holiday Healthcare – Evansville, IN
Global Supply Chain Manager
Evana Tool – Evansville, IN
Expo
Red Robin  1,329 reviews – Evansville, IN
Bussers
Red Robin  1,329 reviews – Evansville, IN
Spec Social Services – 1702679
Golden Living Centers  1,099 reviews – Newburgh, IN
Dietary Evening Supervisor
Holiday Healthcare – Evansville, IN
Store Seasonal Employee
Lowe’s Inc.  15,489 reviews – Evansville, IN
Lawn Irrigation Tech and Foreman Full Time & Year Round Work
Sprinklers Plus – Newburgh, IN
$30,000 – $45,000 a year
Maintenance Manager
Trilogy Health Services  138 reviews – Evansville, IN
Evening Reception Host
Home2 Suites by Hilton Evansville – Evansville, IN

Standing Together to Prevent Falls coming to St. Mary’s Warrick

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St. Mary’s Trauma Centers will offer a free community event, “Standing Together to Prevent Falls,” to help older adults stay healthy, active, and independent. The event will take place Tuesday, April 4 from 9:00-2:00 pm in the St. Mary’s Warrick Phillips Room at 1116 Millis Avenue in Boonville.

Falls are the leading cause of injuries among the older population, and can have a lasting impact on mobility, independence, and mental health. Many older adults believe falling is a normal part of the aging process, but by following certain safety guidelines, falls can often be avoided.

“Standing Together to Prevent Falls” will include information on how proper nutrition can help prevent falls and how certain exercises can improve balance and coordination.  Questions about home safety and effects of medication will also be answered by a Registered Nurse.

Please contact Maggie Speicher at 812-897-7113 to RSVP. Lunch is provided with each registration.