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Indiana Bar Exam Passage Rates Continue To Decline

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Indiana Bar Exam Passage Rates Continue To Decline

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The Indiana Bar Exam saw another drop in overall passage rate of its test takers as results of the July 2016 bar exam were released Monday.

The overall passage rate for the July 2016 Indiana Bar Exam was just 61 percent, a steep decrease compared to last July’s 72 percent passage rate.

A total of 508 people took the July 2016 test, with 309 passing. The overall passage rate for first-time takers was 68 percent.

This July, 94 people were repeat takers, the highest number in recent years for a July bar exam. Sixty-three people retook July 2015’s test; 80 people retook the test in 2014, and 73 people retook it in 2013. July’s number of repeat takers was more on par with the February bar exam, where 94 people retook it in February 2012 and 104 people took it again in the years 2014-16.

The overall passage rate for repeat takers was 28 percent for the July 2016 exam.

The percentage of students passing the bar has been in decline in Indiana and around the country in recent years. The July passage rate went from 78 percent in 2010 to 72 percent in 2014 and 2015 to this year’s 61 percent. The February bar passage rate, which typically is lower than the July exam due to more repeat test takers, also dipped. It went from 69 percent in 2010 to 61 percent in 2014. It bumped up to 64 percent in 2015 only to see a dramatic 13 percentage point drop in the 2016 results, which the Indiana Board of Law Examiners president called “stunning.”

The list of successful July bar exam applicants is available here. They must meet other requirements to be eligible for admission.

EVANSVILLE OTTERS ADVANCE TO FINALS

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 The Evansville Otters have advanced to the Championship Series of the Frontier League playoffs with a 3-1 series win against the #2 ranked, Joliet Slammers.

The best of five series against the #4 ranked, River City Rascals, will begin at Bosse Field on Tuesday, September 13 at 6:35pm, followed by Game #2 at Bosse Field on Wednesday, September 14.

Game #3 will be at River City on Friday, September 16. Game #4, if necessary, will be played at River City on Saturday, September 17.

Game #5 will return to Bosse Field, if necessary, on Monday, September 19 at 6:35pm.

Special Playoff Package Pricing

Fans can get tickets for both Games #1 and #2 at one price: General Admission: $8
Reserved Pavilion: $12
Premium Field Box: $12

VIP: $16

Kids 10 and under will receive a voucher for a free meal each night. Kids free ticket vouchers can be picked up at any Old National Bank location. (Supplies are limited.)

Tickets available at www.evansvilleotters.com or by phone at 812-435-8686 ext. 21.

YESTERYEAR: The Evansville Coffin Company

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YESTERYEAR: The Evansville Coffin Company

The Evansville Coffin Company was a fixture in the North Main Street commercial district for decades. Organized in 1881, the business manufactured “fine funeral furnishings” for markets across the nation. The four-story factory on the northeast corner of Main and Michigan encompassed half a city block and was producing 500 coffins a week by the end of its first decade. Evansville’s plentiful supply of lumber, numerous railroad lines, and access to river transportation enabled the city to become a major manufacturer of furniture, wagons, coffins, and other products. The coffin company reorganized in 1944 but closed less than a decade later.

FOOTNOTES: We want to thank Patricia Sides, Archivist of Willard Library for contributing this picture that shall increase people’s awareness and appreciation of Evansville’s rich history. If you have any historical pictures of Vanderburgh County or Evansville please contact please contact Patricia Sides, Archivist Willard Library at 812) 425-4309, ext. 114 or e-mail her at www.willard.lib.in.us.

TRUMP IN MEXICO CARTOON

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Evansville/Vanderburgh Air Quality Forecast

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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.

Monday
September 12		 Tuesday
September 13		 Wednesday
September 14		 Thursday
September 15		 Friday
September 16
Fine Particulate
(0-23 CST avg)
Air Quality Index		 moderate moderate good NA* NA*
Ozone
Air Quality Index		 moderate moderate good NA* NA*
Ozone
(peak 8-hr avg)
(expected)		 51-60 ppb 51-60 ppb 36-45 ppb 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).

Forecast statistics documenting the reliability of these air quality forecasts are compiled on a monthly, seasonal (May through September for ozone), and an annual basis.  Compilations of these statistics are reported in Vanderburgh County Health Department’s Annual Report and available on request.

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

Eagles Set For Big Week, Home Opener

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 University of Southern Indiana Volleyball has another busy slate this week as it plays three matches, starting with a trip to Nashville, Tennessee, to take on NCAA II Midwest Region foe Trevecca Nazarene University Tuesday at 6 p.m.

Later in the week, the Screaming Eagles open their 2016 home and Great Lakes Valley Conference schedules as they play host to William Jewell College Friday at 7 p.m. and Rockhurst University Saturday at 3 p.m.

Friday’s match features a free combo meal (includes a hot dog, chips and a bottled drink) for USI students with a valid ID; while USI students can enter a raffle to win a $500 Campus Store shopping spree each time they come to a USI Volleyball home match. The drawing is October 28 when the Eagles host Missouri University of Science & Technology.

All fans can participate in the Premiere Tan serving contest between sets two and three for all home matches.

USI Volleyball Notes

Tough trip: The Eagles saw their perfect 4-0 mark to start the year fall by the wayside as they went 1-3 at the Augustana Invitational. USI suffered a pair of three-set defeats to then No. 13 Winona State as well as a 3-0 loss to then No. 22 Augustana. The Eagles closed the weekend on a strong note as they dropped Chadron State in three sets to improve to 5-3 on the year.

Statistical leaders: Freshman outside hitter Mikaila Humphrey (Floyd Knobs, Indiana) leads USI with 2.84 kills per set, while junior libero Shannon Farrell (Munster, Indiana) is averaging a team-best 4.90 digs per set. Senior setter Quin Shoultz (Columbus, Indiana) is averaging a team-high 8.16 assists per set, while junior middle hitter Te’Ayla Whitfield(Fort Wayne, Indiana) is chipping in a team-best 1.03 blocks per frame.

All-Tournament: Farrell was named to the Augustana Invitational All-Tournament team after averaging 6.42 digs per set during the four-match weekend.

Countdown to 1,000: Farrell needs 67 digs to become the 11th player in program history to reach the 1,000-dig plateau in her career. She currently ranks 16th in program history with 933.

Scouting the competition: USI went 2-1 against this week’s competition a year ago. The Eagles posted three-set wins over William Jewell and Trevecca Nazarene, but suffered a straight-set defeat to Rockhurst.

Trevecca Nazarene, a member of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference, is off to a 4-4 start to the season after splitting last week’s action at the Scott Jones Classic in Nashville.

William Jewell enters this week’s action with a 4-4 overall record after going 2-2 at the Country Inn & Suites Invitational in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, last weekend.

Rockhurst, the 2015 NCAA II Midwest Region champions, went 3-1 last weekend to improve its record to 5-3 on the campaign. The Hawks play Benedictine College and Bellarmine before visiting the Eagles Saturday.

 

UE Constitution Day speaker

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Michael Austin, University of Evansville executive vice president of academic affairs, will be the speaker at UE’s Constitution Day lecture on Monday, September 19, at 7:00 p.m. in Eykamp Hall in Ridgway University Center. Admission to the lecture, which is part of UE’s annual observance of Constitution Day, is free and open to the public.

Austin is the author of That’s Not What They Meant! Reclaiming the Founding Fathers from America’s Right Wing. The topic of his lecture will be “What the Founders Fought About (and How They Worked It Out).”

Robert Dion, chair of the Constitution Day Committee and an associate professor of political science, said, “We are thrilled to have Dr. Austin as our speaker this year for Constitution Day. At a time when the American political sphere seems so dysfunctional and polarized, it is good to look back to the example set by our Founders over 200 years ago. There are lessons to be learned from them about compromise and cooperation.”

Austin’s presentation will explore some of the major compromises of the Founding era and explain how they were resolved. It will focus on historical and contemporary attitudes toward political opponents and argue that, in the times that our government has worked best, both leaders and citizens have engaged in rigorous political debate without fundamentally delegitimizing their opponents. This is a citizenship skill that is rarely taught but absolutely essential to the society that the Constitution created.

Austin explained that “the Constitution contains multiple ways to prevent things from happening and only a very few ways to make changes or move policies forward. The framers understood how easy it would be for the Republic to become a majoritarian tyranny, so they set in motion a process that would require debate, disagreement, and compromise.”

“This is the only way that anything can get done in our system of government,” he added. “It means other points of view will always exist, strong disagreements will always arise, and compromises will always be required in order to make our system of government work. These are not bugs; they are features.”

Austin earned his PhD in English literature from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He earned his MA and BA degrees in English from Brigham Young University.

For more information about the lecture, call 812-488-1150.

Catch the Latest Edition of “The Indiana State Police Road Show”

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This week’s show features Captain Jill Lee’s of the Plainfield Police Department and Stephanie Manner of Special Olympics Indiana. Captain Lee’s and Mrs. Manner discuss Special Olympics events and the upcoming Red Robin Tip-A- Cop Day taking place throughout Indiana on October 22nd.

Download the program from the Network Indiana public websites at www.networkindiana.com.  Look for the state police logo on the main page and follow the download instructions. The ISP Road Show can also be viewed via YouTube.

Go to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu5Bg1KjBd7H1GxgkuV3YJA or visit the Indiana State Police website at http://www.in.gov/isp/   and click on the YouTube link. This 15 minute talk show concentrates on public safety and informational topics with state wide interest.

The radio program was titled “Signal-10” in the early sixties when it was first started by two troopers in northern Indiana. The name was later changed to the “Indiana State Police Road Show” and is the longest continuously aired state police public service program in Indiana.

Radio stations across Indiana and the nation are invited to download and air for FREE this public service program sponsored by the Indiana State Police Alliance and Cops for Kids, a subsidiary of the Indiana State Police Alliance.

Davis takes top honor at Screaming Eagle Golf Classic

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University of Southern Indiana women’s golf freshman Grace Davis (Valparaiso, Indiana) broke the 36-hole tournament record with a two-under 142 (72-70) to take home top honors in the Screaming Eagle Golf Classic at Cambridge Golf Club in Evansville, Indiana.

Davis, playing as an individual, won the tournament by one stroke over Stefaniya Ivanova of the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She was tied for the lead after the first round with teammate Taylor Howerton (Evansville, Indiana) before shooting a final round 70 (-2) to claim first-place.

One-over on the front nine through six holes, Davis eagled the par-5 seventh to go to one-under. She followed up with two birdies and a bogey on the back nine to shoot a 35 (-1) on each side.

Also placing in the top-10 for the Screaming Eagles was Howerton in fifth (72-74-146); senior Allison Koester (Wadesville, Indiana) was tied for sixth (74-75-149); and sophomore Paige Ellerbusch (Belknap, Illinois) was tied for eighth (78-72-150).  Freshman Abbey Leighty (Mt. Carmel, Illinois) placed 17th with a 157 (77-80).

As a team, the Eagles came in second-place behind UMSL, shooting a 26-over 602 (301-301).

UMSL shot a five-over 581 after carding a two-under 286 throughout the final 18 holes. The 581 broke the 36-hole tournament record, while the 286 was a single round tournament record.

USI returns to the course September 24-25 when it travels to Allendale, Michigan, for the Gilda’s Club Laker Fall Invitational.

 

Team Scores

  1. University of Missouri-St. Louis            295          286         581          +5
  2. University of Southern Indiana             301          301         602          +26
  3. Lewis University                                       309          305         614         +38
  4. Rend Lake College                                   321          315         636         +60
  5. Bellarmine University                             337          328         665         +89
  6. Christian Brothers University                346          350         696         +120

 

USI Scores

Screaming Eagle Golf Classic

Cambridge — Evansville, IN
Par 72, 5862 yards — 6 teams, 42 players

Southern Indiana 301 301   602    +26   2nd
Davis, Grace# 72 70   142    -2   1st
Howerton, Taylor 72 74   146    +2   5th
Koester, Allison 72 75   147    +3   t-6th
Ellerbusch, Paige 78 72   150    +6   17th
Leighty, Abbey 77 80   157    +13   t-8th
Bumpus, Holly 80 82   162    +18   23rd
Jacobsen, Kori# 84 86   170    +26   t-30th
Zehner, Abbey# 84 86   170    +26   t-30th

# Indicates individual player

Adopt A Pet

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 Jelly Bean & Paul are a bonded pair of English Spot rabbits. They were originally surrendered to VHS separately, then adopted together, and have now been returned together through no fault of their own. They really love each other! Jelly Bean is female and Paul is male, and both are fixed. Adopt them for $60 and it includes their cardboard carriers. Call (812) 426-2563 or visit www.vhslifesaver.org for adoption details!

 

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