Winter weather advisory issued due to expected freezing rain Friday morning

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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The National Weather Service in State College has issued a winter weather advisory for southern Centre County, including University Park, from 4 to 11 a.m. Friday, March 24, due to expected sleet and freezing rain. A trace to one-tenth of an inch of ice could accumulate on untreated roads and sidewalks, creating the potential for slippery travel conditions Friday morning.
Faculty, staff and students can stay informed about the status of classes and activities at University Park during times of inclement weather via Penn State's PSUAlert system, Facebook page, the Penn State News website, and WPSU-TV and radio.
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Honors College senior named Hertz Fellow

MSUToday - Featured stories Michigan State University senior Rebecca Carlson is one of 12 students nationwide to be named a Hertz Fellow.
The Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship Award is awarded to students pursuing an advanced degree in the applied physical, biological and engineering sciences. The foundation received 721 applications from students across the country planning to earn their doctorate in a science, technology, engineering or mathematics field.
Carlson is in the Honors College and majors in chemical engineering through the College of Engineering. She is MSU’s third Hertz Fellow.
“I know I could not have received this award without the support of my friends, family, research mentors and most importantly, God,” Carlson said. “I am honored to receive this award and can’t wait to take advantage of the opportunities that are now available to me.”
Carlson, a 2015 Goldwater Scholarship recipient, has conducted research on and off MSU’s campus. Currently, she is a research assistant in Patrick Walton’s applied bioengineering lab and is a student ambassador for the Undergraduate Research Office.
As a former Evergrande Scholar, Carlson assisted at Harvard Medical School’s Evergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases. She is also a recipient of the Alumni Distinguished Scholarship, an award administered by MSU based on results from a general knowledge exam given to high performing high school seniors. Prior to college, Carlson was valedictorian of her high school in Rockford.


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SECTION: Ole Miss maneuvers past No. 19 Kentucky

The Daily Mississippian The No. 11 Ole Miss baseball team used a two-out rally to score six runs in the sixth inning on its way to a 9-6 victory over No. 19 Kentucky Thursday night at Cliff Hagan Stadium. With the win, the Rebels (15-7, 3-1 SEC) snapped the Wildcats’ (16-7, 3-1 SEC) eight-game winning streak and gave them their first loss in conference play.
The Ole Miss offense came alive in the first game of the series, pounding 14 hits that included five doubles. Freshman Grae Kessinger led the way with a team-high three hits to go along with two runs and two RBI. The Oxford, Mississippi, native got Ole Miss going with a two-run homer in the third, his second of the season. Five other Rebels produced multi-hit games as well: Will Golsan, Ryan Olenek, Tim Rowe, Thomas Dillard and Cooper Johnson.
Making his return to the mound after missing the last two weekends due to a mild forearm strain, sophomore James McArthur (1-1) turned in a solid outing against the SEC’s best hitting team, statistically. The New Braunfels, Texas, native, allowed only one run on five hits through 5.0 innings to earn the win. Dallas Woolfolk (6) worked the Rebels out of a jam in the eighth before retiring the side in the ninth to earn another save.
The Rebels got four runs on six hits off reigning SEC Pitcher of the Week Sean Hjelle (3-2). Luke Becker went 3-for5 with two doubles to pace the UK bats, while T.J. Collett added a pinch-hit grand slam.
After a scoreless first two innings for both teams, the road Rebels drew first blood in the top of the third. Leading off, Dillard smacked the first Ole Miss hit of the game off the wall in right. However, the hard ricochet kept the freshman at first base for a single. Two batters later, Kessinger drove a ...


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With USC Village set to open, Lil Bill’s Bike Shop told to leave campus

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Tucked away in a parking lot across from the Lyon Center, Lil Bill’s Bike Shop can be easy to miss. The shop, which resembles a plastic shed, has become a popular place for students to reinflate flat tires, purchase spare parts, or chat with “Lil Bill” himself: Aaron Flournoy, the shop’s owner. “The name comes from my dad, whose name is Bill, and he has been a pillar in this community for over 40 years,” Flournoy said. “He owned a bike shop down the street, but he sold the business. Everyone always called me little Bill, because Pops was always big Bill.”
The shop holds a strong place in the University Park Campus area, but according to David Donovan, an associate director of the USC Transportation Office, USC agreed to a non-compete clause with a new bike shop opening in USC Village this summer. Lil Bill’s Bike Shop will no longer remain on USC-owned property, leaving Flournoy in a state of uncertainty.
“My dad is 81, so he’s selling his store and retiring,” Flournoy said. “This was a perfect opportunity for me to carry it on, and I thought it was going to be something good. But it’s turning out to be bad.”
According to Donovan, the complications surrounding the establishment of Lil Bill’s Bike Shop can be traced back to last fall, when USC purchased the United University Church property.
When Flournoy purchased the business under its original name, Tommy’s Bike Repair, the shop was originally located in the United University Church parking lot, a privately owned property at the time. This enabled the shop’s original owner, Micah Greenberg, to establish a contract with the church that allowed for a bike shop on its premises, which he passed on to Flournoy.
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‘Grey’s Anatomy’: First season a testament to show’s longevity

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My back is sore and my eyes are dry, trying their hardest to stay open at 5 a.m. on Thursday as I was more than five episodes into the first season of Grey’s Anatomy.
The nine-episode first season starts off with Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo), a new intern at Seattle Grace Hospital, waking up next to Derek “McDreamy” Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey) after a one night stand. McDreamy later turned out to be Meredith’s boss’ boss at the same hospital.

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And then they dated — kind of — until the season finale when Addison Shepherd (Kate Walsh), McDreamy’s wife who cheated on him with his best friends in New York City, showed up.
At Seattle Grace, Meredith was assigned to a group of four other interns — Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh), an ambitious intern; George O’Malley (T. R. Knight), who’s in love with his roommate Meredith; Izzie Stevens (Katherine Heigl), a former lingerie model-turned-doctor, and Alex Karev (Justin Chambers), a mean-spirited bully — under the supervision of resident physician Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson), whose nickname is “the Nazi” among the other doctors because of her take-no-shit attitude.
I haven’t seen enough medical dramas in my life to compare Grey’s to those other ones like House or ER.
But I’m a huge fan of Scandal and How To Get Away With Murder — both of which are produced by Shonda Rhimes — and Grey’s is nothing like them.
Grey’s, created and written by Rhimes since 2005, beats to its own drum — more energetic, high-paced and quick-witted. The only different thing about the Grey’s is its talking speed — much slower than Scandal or HTGAWM, unless they’re trapped in the chaos of the operation rooms, which happen every episode on Grey’s.
So if you have a fear of blood, then I’ ...

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SGA VP Candidate Lifts Verbatim Singh’s 2016 Platform

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SGA executive vice presidential candidate Natasha Armstrong (18B) lifted verbatim approximately 42 percent — 459 words — of her 2017 campaign platform from SGA presidential candidate Gurbani Singh’s (18B) SGA executive vice presidential candidate platform last year.
Armstrong’s platform reads word-for-word the ideas and language of three major sections of Singh’s 2016 platform: safety and transportation, academics and dining. Despite the similarities between the platforms, both Singh and Armstrong denied that plagiarism occurred, stating they developed their platforms together.
According to Emory College’s Honor Code website, “Plagiarism is the use of someone else’s words, ideas or work without providing proper credit. Whether the act is intentional or not, the Honor Council considers any form of plagiarism to be a violation of the Honor Code.”
Armstrong did not attribute the copied portions from Singh’s 2016 platform to Singh.
The Wheel downloaded copies of Singh’s 2016 platform and Armstrong’s 2017 platform as of March 23 at 4:30 p.m. The highlighted portions appear verbatim in both documents.

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In years past, the SGA presidential and executive vice presidential candidates ran independently, but SGA amended its Elections Code in 2015 to allow presidential and vice presidential candidates to campaign with running mates starting in 2016. Elections Board Chair Betty Zhang (20C) said the Board is evaluating the technological feasibility of implementing a two-candidate ticket voting system. Singh and Armstrong are campaigning together and have said they’re running on a party ticket.  
“I drafted the platform,” Armstrong said of her 2017 platform, adding that “a lot of it does come verbatim from Gurbani [Singh]’s ...

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When you need to get out of Charlottesville

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LIFETaking a break to enjoy what you have



by Ellie Hanson
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By the time spring break finally rolled around, I was in desperate need of an escape from school. Everything from classes, to social events, to the daily stressors that inevitably accompany U.Va.’s “work hard, play hard” reputation had me feeling on edge. While I would like to flee home to the promises of home-cooked meals and being able to shower without shoes on, I’m an out-of-state kid who only goes home for Christmas and summer. Luckily, though, I had made plans to go northeast with some of my friends.We started off our break with a shockingly pleasant Greyhound bus ride that took us to my friend Maggie’s house in Morristown, N.J. Over the next few days, Maggie got to show us everything she loves about her hometown, which included a popular hole-in-the-wall empanadas restaurant, her high school and Morristown’s cookie-cutter downtown that looks like it’s straight out of a storybook. We spent nights watching movies in the basement, sharing funny stories and consuming exorbitant amounts of junk food. It was the first time all semester that I had left my dorm, roommate and everyone’s favorite gourmet hotspot ― O-Hill. Even though it was weird not being home with my family for break, it was even weirder being away from the University and all of the little things that make up my life there. Regardless, there was something undeniably comforting about Morristown, and I was able to relax for the first time in weeks.However, we soon left suburbia behind in pursuit of a grand adventure in the loud, overwhelming and always exciting Big Apple. We never had a particular destination in mind, so we stopped at any coffeeshop, bookstore or art gallery that looked interesting, and took time ...

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Syracuse University tuition to increase 3.9 percent in 2017-18

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Full-time undergraduate tuition at Syracuse University will rise 3.9 percent in the 2017-18 academic year to $45,150, the university announced Thursday.
The average cost for full-time undergraduate students will increase 3.4 percent, which includes tuition, room and board and fees.
The 2017-18 university budget will increase some costs for students, but also will increase SU’s financial aid commitment and graduate assistant stipends, according to an SU News release.
At Monday’s Student Association meeting, SA President Eric Evangelista announced these changes and said they were due to inflation, not additional programming.
Along with these cost increases, SU announced its largest-ever commitment to university-funded financial aid, per the release. For undergraduate students, $255 million in financial aid has been earmarked. This is a 4.8 percent increase in aid from the 2016-17 academic year, per the release.
The university has also put an increase in stipends for graduate student employees in the budget. It will support a 2.5 increase in the stipends, which the Graduate Student Organization has advocated for throughout the year.
In November, Chancellor Kent Syverud said at a University Senate meeting that the university had a generally balanced budget and that endowment had grown in 2016 by 1.6 percent.
He added at that meeting that the university needed to “raise a hell of a lot more” in fundraising than it currently does to compete with peer institutions and relieve pressures on faculty and academic units.
The university’s tuition — and therefore tuition revenues — have been consistently lower than peer institutions in recent years, Syverud also said at that meeting. However, room and board costs are typically higher.

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Outdoor leisure pool at Campus Rec reopens for spring

News – The Daily Cougar By Andrea Fernández Velázquez March 23, 2017

The outdoor leisure pool is open Monday through Thursday from noon to 8 p.m. and Friday through Sunday from noon to 7:30 p.m. | Andrea Fernandez Velazquez/The Cougar
The Campus Recreation and Wellness Center welcomed students back from spring break with an event called “Spring Fling” on Tuesday. The highlight of the event was the official reopening of the outdoor leisure pool for summer and fall.
The outdoor pool is a seasonal facility, which opens every year during the first week after spring break and stays open through the last Sunday in October. The pool remains closed through the winter break due to weather conditions.
“(The pool) gives us something to do to release stress,” said pre-psychology sophomore Ana Estrada.
The first 35 students to attend the event were given free t-shirts. Pizza and smoothies were also served.
Some students who attended the event said it was their first time being in that area of the facility.
“I have to start taking advantage here,” said health and human performance senior Nikko King. “I work out at the Rec, but I have never stepped in the water.”
The Rec’s aquatic facilities underwent a multi-million dollar renovation in December 2014 and reopened in July 2015. The renovations were the result of an Americans with Disabilities Act amendment that required the pool to have an automatic lift, said Rachel O’Mara, assistant director of aquatics for UH Campus Recreation.
“We retrofitted it to be in compliance with that law, and it allowed us to put a lift out there for people to be able to get in and out of the pool by themselves,” O’Mara said.
O’Mara said that grab rails were installed and additional work was done the rock features, waterfalls and painting in some areas.
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WMU health professor wins award

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Robert Bensley, a health professor at WMU, has received the 2017 Society for Public Health Education Technology award. Bensley achieved this due to a website he created which aims to help people with many different health problems.











 






The award winner is decided by the Society for Public Health Education. The group bases their decision on what individuals have created technology systems to expand public health.





 





Wanting to help other people with the many health problems in the world is the driving force behind Bensley’s decision to pursue a health career, he said.





 





“I’m honored. I think it’s great to be recognized in this way,” Bensley said about receiving the award.





 





SOPHE only chooses one individual each year to receive this award.





 





Bensley was chosen this year because of his website, WIChealth.org. An example of a health program on his website is women and infant feeding programs, but that is far from the only program.





 





“We’re able to reach a lot of people through the internet,” Bensley said.





 





Thirty of the 50 United States are involved in the website, and 3.8 million clients have completed one of Bensley’s programs on the website.





 





The platform that WIChealth.org uses is patent pending. Bensley and his workers use the platform to attack many health problems facing the world today.





 





When the Flint water crisis hit Michigan, they developed a plan to help consumers decrease lead exposure through the food that they eat, Bensley said. WIChealth.org can apply their technology of health solutions through programs to address different health problems that arise.





 





“This is going to be even more critical now,” Bensley said, addressing the problem of the current changing healthcare system.





The website can also provide health suggestions and programs to help people who do not have health insurance.





 





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Powell Library to review lighting system following fire

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UCLA workers will review Powell Library's lighting system following a small fire Tuesday. (Daily Bruin file photo)








Powell Library is reviewing its lighting system following a small fire caused by a desk lamp’s light bulb Tuesday night.
Deputy university librarian Susan Parker said UCLA Facilities workers will complete a thorough check of the library’s lamps to assess their safety, but they do not appear to pose an imminent threat.
A librarian put out a flaming lightbulb in the Powell Library Reading Room with a fire extinguisher and called the Los Angeles Fire Department, but the fire was out by the time crews arrived.
Students evacuated and the library closed so workers could do a preliminary electrical examination. The library reopened later that night.








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Commencement Speaker Arnold Schwarzenegger Waives Fee

Top Stories Arnold Schwarzenegger, the actor-businessman-political leader who will headline the University of Houston’s 2017 commencement, announced Thursday that he will not be accepting a fee.
Schwarzenegger, who served as the Republican governor of California from 2003-10, will speak at the May 12 ceremony at TDECU Stadium. The contract called for him to be paid $40,000.
"Gov. Schwarzenegger wasn't aware that a fee was arranged by his representatives to deliver this commencement address, and he has never asked for a speaking fee to speak to students. He has asked his representatives to waive the fee, and he looks forward to his visit," said Daniel Ketchell, spokesman for Gov. Schwarzenegger.
One of the most recognizable stars in both Hollywood and politics, Schwarzenegger has previously addressed graduates at Emory University and the University of Southern California.
He has been heavily involved in clean energy issues since leaving the governor’s office and has established the Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy at USC, which works on environmental, economic and other public policy issues. He serves as chair of the think tank board and holds a professorship in public policy at the school.
 
 


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FirstGens make it at Georgia State and pay it forward

Features – The Signal Being a FirstGen college student is not easy. With hard work and support from Georgia State, however,  these students and alum beat the odds and now some are even paying it forward for future FirstGen students at Georgia State.
Ferdye Bamaca-Forkel was a first-generation college student who had to figure it out by herself.Photo submitted by Ferdye Bamaca-ForkelFor Georgia State University alum Ferdye Bamaca-Forkel, college was a dream she had to make happen for herself. Ferdye’s dad had dropped out of college in the first year and her mother and siblings never attended.
“I was in classrooms where students were like I’m here because my parents made me or it was given to them that they were going to go,” Bamaca-Forkel said. “But with me, there was no one that showed me how you apply to college or how to apply for scholarships. I had to look out and be the one who asked questions. It was really hard to do that.”
Bamaca-Forkel applied for over a dozen scholarships, not knowing if she would receive them. They were her only means of getting an education.
“My parents absolutely could not afford it,” Bamaca-Forkel said.
Bamaca-Forkel was accepted to receive four of the 14 scholarships she applied for, allowing her to attend college debt-free. In Georgia State, she made it into national honors societies and onto the Dean’s and President’s list.
“When I got into national honors societies I was happy,” Bamaca-Forkel said. “Even my last semester before I graduated, I got into the President’s list and I was obviously really excited because I finished off my college career really strong. But when I told my parents, my mom was like what’s that? I have to explain why I’m happy and I have to explain why this is such a great achievement.”
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HBO star Issa Rae talks black women, feminism and finding confidence

The Maneater: Latest Stories Issa Rae, the first black woman to have her own show on HBO, spoke to an audience of about 200 students on Saturday night in Jesse Auditorium. When looking back at her climb to fame, Rae said she came from a very funny family. Her brother introduced her to the British version of “The Office,” which she liked but also wondered, “Where are the black people at?”
Her HBO series “Insecure” is a show “about black women, by black women,” Rae said. She has been featured on both Glamour’s “35 under 35” and Forbes’s “30 under 30” lists.
Rae walked on stage to speak with assistant journalism professor Cristina Mislán. Rae thanked the audience, saying that it was already a good night because Drake had just come out with a new album.
She started a YouTube channel in college at Stanford University. Her videos soon started getting views, and she eventually grew an audience at Stanford and other colleges such as Duke University.
“I didn’t want to have to depend on other people, and that’s what networking typically is,” Rae said. “I wanted to grow my audience myself.”
Rae said using YouTube as a platform provided her with freedom that wasn’t offered in traditional platforms such as TV writing contests, which she entered but never won. Rae said she didn’t feel like her work was translating to television and film, so she started a series on her YouTube channel called “Dorm Diaries” about being black at Stanford, in an effort to convey nonstereotypical black humor.
The YouTube series “Awkward Black Girl” came next.
“Fresh Prince, Living Single, Family Matters [feature] different worlds with different archetypes of black people,” Rae said. “[There were] many different types of awkward black girls but no black leads.”
“Insecure,” featuring an almost entirely female team of writers, has been referred to as “our post-election ...


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Q&A with musician Dustin Kensrue

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The Vanderbilt Hustler: Several of your most popular songs on Spotify have over 3.5 million streams. What do you think of Spotify as a platform in general?
Dustin Kensrue: It sounds like an impressive number, but it doesn’t translate to any sort of monetary compensation worth noting. I think Spotify could eventually be something really helpful for artists, and it already is in certain ways – I’m appreciative of people who are trying to find ways to stream music that isn’t piracy. However, it’s fairly absurd how the views translate to dollars and cents. A lot of the money goes directly to the few major companies that own record labels that the artists never sees.
The larger issue, in a post-Napster world, is that music has been de-valued. People are happy to buy a cup of coffee, buy an app, but they have an idea that music should be free. Changing a mass generational understanding of something is difficult. I think the convenience and mobility of streaming isn’t going to go away, but I’m hopeful that more and more people actually start paying for subscriptions.
VH: Your first album, Please Come Home, came out in 2007 to immediate success, including promotions at several late-night talks shows. What was that experience like? Do you intend to continue to donate album proceeds to charity?
DK: We stopped donating proceeds from records to charity because it was kind of a nightmare. We still try to work with charities through benefit concerts and B-sides that go to charity. We feel fortunate to do what we get to do. Music is a platform to raise awareness about things, and we do a lot of work with Invisible Children.
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MSU expands public policy programs with Kellogg Foundation grant

MSUToday - Business Michigan State University’s Institute for Public Policy and Social Research is launching a new initiative to continue educating emerging leaders through an expansion of its ongoing policy education and research programs. 
The initiative, starting this spring, is funded by a three-year $480,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek.
“With the support of the Kellogg Foundation, we will be able to advance our continuing programs and educate leaders on issues affecting vulnerable children and families,” said Matt Grossmann, director of IPPSR, which is housed in the College of Social Science.  
The support will enhance training through three of IPPSR’s best-known programs: the Michigan Political Leadership Program, Legislative Leadership Program and State of the State Survey. 
The Michigan Political Leadership Program annually trains 24 emerging leaders, in a bipartisan setting and approach, who are passionate about public service.
The two-day Legislative Leadership Program provides activities and specialized policy education to newly elected Michigan legislators. The support will enable IPPSR to transform the biannual program into continuing educational programs for legislators and legislative staff.
The State of the State Survey examines Michigan’s consumer confidence and measures the state’s mood on questions of public and current affairs. The foundation’s support will enable multiple rounds of survey research, Grossmann said.
Coupling the survey with a new, associated panel survey of state policymakers, will allow for comparisons to be made between views of the public and policymakers.
Additionally, IPPSR will host an extended Public Policy Forum series on education, health and economic policy, further underscoring the importance of the issues and showcasing the latest research among diverse audiences.
“Improving children's early education, health and family financial equity in Michigan will require an improved environment for public policy and practice,” Grossmann said. “We are grateful for this support and look forward to advancing these programs and educating leaders across the ...


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NCAA: Pitino did not adequately monitor Andre McGee

The Louisville Cardinal By Kyeland Jackson —The NCAA denied U of L’s defense for men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino, accusing Pitino of not monitoring staffer Andre McGee.NCAA investigators said Pitino tried to delegate away his responsibilities, leading to missed red flags.“It is clear that neither Pitino nor his assistant coaches monitored McGee,” the 154-page document said.“Pitino failed to demonstrate that he actively looked for red flags, asked pointed questions or even occasionally solicited honest feedback from McGee about activities occurring under his supervision. These are basic elements of a head coach’s obligation to monitor. If Pitino saw no red flags in connection with McGee’s interactions with then prospective and current student-athletes, it was because he was not looking for them.”Though the document accused Pitino of lackluster monitoring, the enforcement staff did not admit Pitino should have known about the violations.“We continue to regret that NCAA legislation was violated by a former U of L employee. His behavior was shameful and wrong. This behavior is the reason we self-imposed severe penalties on ourselves,” U of L’s statement said. “In this latest correspondence, the NCAA Enforcement Staff’s Response reiterates its previous position and, in fact, makes clear that the allegation does not state that Coach Pitino should have detected or known about the violations. We have faith in the NCAA process and look forward to demonstrating at the hearing that Coach Pitino properly monitored his staff.”Allegations exploded after Katina Powell’s “Breaking Cardinal Rules” alleged former basketball staffer Andre McGee paid escorts to dance with and have sex with players and recruits. U of L acted with a self-imposed postseason ban to minimize NCAA reaction. An NCAA investigation revealed multiple notice of allegations, finding Powell’s claims were true. U of L accepted all NCAA notice of allegations except for allegations Pitino incorrectly ...


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Trump budget proposal an assault on arts and culture

Opinion – The Daily Aztec Close Sydney Sweeney, Senior Staff ColumnistMarch 22, 2017
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Donald Trump thinks arts and culture are trivial. At least that is what he is communicating to Americans. Last week his administration released a partial outline of the 2018 federal budget that threatens four independent cultural agencies — the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Each agency serves a distinct purpose rooted in the accessibility, research and preservation of its focus.
Some of these organizations risk eradication. At the top of Trump’s hit list is the only agency that our federal government has wholly dedicated to artistic excellence — the NEA. For decades, this program has been neglected and censured by Republican politicians and intolerant conservatives, yet the significance of the NEA outweighs that of saving a few federal bucks. If realized, the elimination of the agency is a misstep that can lead to national calamity, affecting citizens who don’t identify as artists.
It is no secret that the administration’s reason for ridding of the NEA relates to Trump’s obsession with disproportionately handing money to Veterans Affairs, Homeland Security and the Department of Defense. This month the New York Times reported that these three agencies are the only ones to receive a budget increase for 2018 — predictably, defense has received the largest increase in dollars, spiking to $574 billion, roughly a 10 percent increase from last year — while all other departmental budgets have not only stagnated, but shrunken.
These proposed cuts would result in a 1.2 percent decrease in discretionary spending overall, but Trump’s careless thrift echoes unreasonable priorities, like scaling back on career training programs focused on assisting disadvantaged citizens — seniors, youth and the unemployed — while spending over $1.5 billion on the detention and removal of undocumented immigrants. With more than a ...


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March Madness in full swing

Sports – The Branding Iron Online
It’s that magical time of year again. The time of year where fans from around the country come together in celebration of one of sports most iconic events. It’s a time when upsets, buzzer-beaters and absolute madness endure. It’s March again, and the NCAA tournament is underway.
People of all ages print off their brackets, scribble in their picks and watch the television intently for three weeks, praying for a years worth of bragging rights. Some, if lucky, have a chance to watch their college compete for one of basketball’s highest honors, but only one team will leave “The Big Dance” victorious.
The 2016-2017 college basketball season has been everything a sports fan could dream of. There have been higher seeds knocked off their pedestals by small town schools, freshman phenoms emerging left and right and down to the wire games played by the most prestigious schools in the sport. So who is walking out of Glendale, Arizona with the trophy this year?
There doesn’t seem to be a clear cut favorite at this point. The sweet-sixteen is the next round underway and here are some teams looking like championship contenders up to this point.
Gonzaga entered the tournament with an impressive 32-1 record and #2 ranking in the AP Polls. Led by their star big man Przemek Karnowski, the Bulldogs showed the country why they belong in the premier program conversation. Success is not new for Gonzaga, who has made the tournament an astonishing 18 seasons in a row. However, the Bulldogs have never been able to get to a Final Four, losing in the Elite Eight twice. Nevertheless, this could be the year that gets them over the hump.
Kansas hasn’t miss The Big Dance in 28 years, and with senior guard and player of the year candidate Frank Mason III at the helm, the ...


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Gov. Asa Hutchinson Signed House Bill 1249 Into Law

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Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed House Bill 1249 regarding concealed carry on college campuses in Arkansas, and it is now law.











Hutchinson said HB1249 is consistent with his views on how firearms should be handled in sensitive areas and that he has consistently recognized the safety benefit in having people who are properly trained in handling firearms.








Not everyone with a concealed carry permit will be allowed in sensitive areas, such as a football games, Hutchinson said. However, those who have participated in enhanced training will be allowed to carry guns in sensitive areas, even if it is specified that no weapons are allowed, Hutchinson said.





This bill allows for enhanced carry, but requires more training as well. There are up to eight hours of training that will educate and train people with permits on how to handle situations that are dangerous, such as dealing with an active shooter or a threat.





“The enhanced level of training is very important, and I am convinced the public will be more safe,” Hutchinson said.





Additionally, there are still places in which carrying is prohibited. There is no carrying allowed at private institutions that opt out of the bill, nor in churches or bars. Carrying a gun in student dormitories on campus is also prohibited, and it is a class D felony to carry a firearm in a courtroom, Hutchinson said.





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Satellite imaging breakthrough improves ability to measure plant growth

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March 23, 2017Satellite imaging breakthrough by Stanford scientists improves ability to measure plant growth Researchers have developed an approach for measuring plant growth from space by refining a decades-old technique. The new technology gets around earlier obstacles to accurate observations and could help unlock new perspectives on global change.





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Satellite images of Earth’s plant life have been valuable for managing crops or detecting deforestation, but current methods are often contaminated by light reflected by other things like clouds, soil and snow. Now, researchers at Stanford and the Carnegie Institution for Science have unlocked the potential of decades-old satellites with a technological tweak to better isolate the signal from plants alone.

A view from above the treetops of the Amazon can reveal variations in brightness that contain information about plant growth. (Image credit: Ari Kornfeld)

The new approach avoids previous shortcomings and provides a relatively affordable way to collect data, as it doesn’t require launching new satellites with expanded capabilities. The results, published in Science Advances, have implications for our understanding of agriculture, biodiversity and global change writ large.
Satellites have collected agricultural data since 1972, using the sunlight reflected off plants. A 2011 breakthrough allowed researchers to detect fluorescence – light emitted by the plants themselves. The new approach developed at Stanford builds off the fluorescence approach by measuring only the fraction of light reflected by plants, screening out “background noise.”





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Stanford researchers measure African farm yields using high-resolution satellites
By using high-res images taken by the latest generation of compact satellites, Stanford scientists have developed a new capability for estimating crop yields from space.





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Stanford researchers develop new way to measure crop yields from space
A Stanford-led team has used satellites to measure a special light emitted by plants to estimate crop yields with more accuracy than ever before.


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Percentage of University students from underrepresented groups below peer median

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CloseThe percentage of underrepresented students at the University remains lower than the peer median. Emma LiEmma LiThe percentage of underrepresented students at the University remains lower than the peer median. Leon Li, Staff WriterMarch 23, 2017Filed under Administration, Around Campus, Campus, NewsWith an international population of over 10,000, the University boasts one of the highest percentages of international students in the country at nearly 24 percent.  The percentage of students from underrepresented groups, however, remains below the median of the University’s peer group.Of the three schools in the University of Illinois system, the Urbana-Champaign location is the only campus in which this is the case.“There’s a huge international population, but then you go into other aspects [of diversity] like Black or Latinx, and that population is very slim still,” said Julius Adams, junior in FAA.Underrepresented groups, as defined by the Board of Trustees, include Black, Hispanic, American Indian, Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander and multi-racial students.According to the Division of Management Information demographics report, African Americans represent a mere 5.16 percent of the student body, Hispanics 8.78 percent, American Indian 0.08 percent, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 0.06 percent.Altogether, about 17 percent of the student body is made up of underrepresented groups. This is about 5 points lower than the median percentage of the University’s peers, which includes UCLA, UT-Austin, and University of Michigan.“It’s noticeable,” Adams said. “Especially in fields like engineering, but even in music, there’s not a large African American population.”However, Associate Chancellor for Public Affairs Robin Kaler said there are many factors that contribute to the University’s low percentage of underrepresented students.“It’s easier to have a higher percentage of underrepresented students if you are willing for your overall class to be small,” Kaler said, “but Illinois affects the lives of more students.”While the University’s percentage of underrepresented students falls ...

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WBB defeated by DePaul in tournament

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CloseKennedy Kirkpatrick, No. 23, dribbles down the court.OLIVIA CHAPMANOLIVIA CHAPMANKennedy Kirkpatrick, No. 23, dribbles down the court. KATHERINE JAMTGAARD, Staff WriterMarch 23, 2017Filed under News, Showcase, Sports
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The UNI women’s basketball team won a bid in the NCAA tournament after a tough battle and overtime loss against Drake in the Missouri Valley championship on March 12. The Panthers’ season was not over quite yet, as they won a #10 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
Tanya Warren, UNI head coach, commented on the NCAA announcement.
“[The loss against Drake] was literally the agony of defeat. We lose in overtime in the conference championship, and then [the following day] to see our name come up is really the thrill of victory,” Warren said.
Over break, the Panthers traveled to Starkville, Mississippi for the first round of the NCAA Tournament, to face #7 seed DePaul. DePaul University, located in Chicago, is part of the Big East conference.
Going into the tournament, Coach Warren said the Panthers were excited to be in Starksville to play in front of their “great fans.”
“We know what women’s basketball means here and we’re excited to be here,” Warren said.
The main challenges the Panthers faced in their tournament in regards to defense was getting back in transition, defending the three point line and getting the defensive rebound.
“We try to do the little things and do them well. Each young lady understands what her role is, and they do a very good job staying in their role in terms of what is going allow this team to flourish,” Warren said.
On March 17, the Panthers took the floor in the Humphrey Coliseum of Mississippi State University, with the opening game of the day against DePaul. The Panthers trailed for a majority of the game, their largest lead in the first quarter put the Panthers ...

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Stroup’s big day leads to comeback win

The Appalachian Online In a comeback effort, the Mountaineers baseball team overcame a four-run deficit in the top of the fourth inning to win the game 13-9 against the Radford Highlanders (8-12). The game was highlighted by junior left fielder Tyler Stroup becoming just the second Mountaineer in the last 14 years to hit for the cycle.
The Apps (10-11, 1-2 Sun Belt) struck first after a scoreless first inning, and put up the game’s first two runs in the bottom half of the second inning.
After a quiet first inning, junior designated hitter Chandler Seagle had the team’s first hit with a single through the infield. Senior right fielder Brian Bauk would then ground into a fielder’s choice and advance to second off a stolen base. Stroup got his career day started with a single to left field, bringing home Bauk and getting the first run on the board.
Stroup would earn a single, double, triple and an inside-the-park homerun, and he would do it in that order. His single in the second, an RBI double in the fifth, stand up triple in the seventh and to top that all off, an inside-the-park homerun in the eighth, helped seal the game.
“I didn’t really think about it at first,” Stroup said. “Until I got my triple, I was in the on deck circle, and I thought, if I hit a homerun here I could hit for the cycle, but once I got in the box I didn’t think about it at all, let me hit the ball hard, get on base and hopefully score again.”
The Mountaineers would find themselves down 7-3 going into the home half of the fifth, and that is when the bats would catch fire. Senior second baseman Matt Vernon doubled to the right field fence, putting a man ...


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Nathan Mallonee relishes his last ride as a Georgia State golfer

Sports – The Signal Georgia State golfer Nathan Mallonee drives the ball during a golf match.
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Senior Nathan Mallonee of the Georgia State men’s golf team is relishing his last ride with his fellow teammates, which may also be his last time playing the game he loves at a competitive level.
While he has significantly improved throughout his years as a golfer here at Georgia State, he realizes that his opportunity to become a professional golfer is quite remote.
However, Mallonee has been a leader in his own right on the golf course, as well as a great individual off of the green.
Lauren Court who is a former Georgia State women’s golfer (2011-15) has applauded Mallonee for his affable personality. Despite the fact that they apparently played on different teams, she credited Mallonee for always having a great spirit and being someone she could openly talk to in regards to the game of golf.
“Nate started my junior year–he was a freshman, and we lived in the same dorm building, so we were able to kind of connect and just start having a real relationship– like conversation wise, and he’s a really great person to sit and speak with,” Court said of the camaraderie her and Mallonee share.
Along with his personality, Mallonee is most recognized for his efficiency as a golfer. The Signal had an opportunity to speak with Mallonee about his senior season, thus far:
With being a senior, you’ve been involved in a great amount of matches. Which has been your favorite to compete in and why?
Mallonee: That’s a tough one. Well, my freshman year we went to the national championship–that was really fun. I mean, just competing against the best teams in the country, the course we had played [on] Prarie Dunes in Wichita was ...


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DII Men's Basketball Championship: Late surge propels Lincoln Memorial to the semifinals

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -When the first half ended with five lead changes in the last three minutes, the stage was set for a thrilling second half.

Lincoln Memorial and Chico State delivered on that first half promise with numerous lead changes and ties through most of the second half.

But with 7:55 left and the game tied, Lincoln Memorial went on an 15-1 run over the next 5 minutes and that late cushion allowed the Railsplitters to come away with a 74-61 victory Wednesday evening in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division II Tournament at the Sanford Pentagon.


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“Chico State, hard-nosed, tough group of guys,” said Lincoln Memorial coach Josh Schertz said. “The final score was not indicative of how close the game was. They gave us fits with their size and athleticism. Obviously, I am pleased with our guys. I thought we fought. We were able to hang in. I thought the second half the ball moved better, the bodies moved better. We guarded them fairly well.”

Lincoln Memorial, 30-5, returns to the semifinals for the second year in a row and will play Northwest Missouri at 8:30 p.m. Thursday.

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 “It has been a weird year,” Schertz said. “This game kind of epitomizes our season. There was a lot of adversity. We went through ups and downs. Earlier in the year, when we had all our pieces, we were talented and really soft. Over time, we evolved from a talented soft team to a not as talented, but tough and gritty group.”

For a minute, early in the second half, it appeared Lincoln Memorial was going to put some distance between it and the Wildcats. The Railsplitters expanded a ...

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There and back again — Humanities of the Palouse informs how history can inflict and prevent mistreatment

The Argonaut Humanities of the Palouse hosted an event at the Moscow City Hall Sunday about Idaho’s dark history and how it relates to contemporary issues.
Latah County Historic Society Executive director Dulce Kersting spoke as a guest speaker.

“It’s kind of a weird state,” Kersting said. “Outside of Alaska, (Idaho) has the most acres held in federal public lands … and yet Idahoans have this intense hatred of the federal government.”
Another inconsistency is that Idaho has provided a 30-year haven for the Arian nations, Kersting said, and the state is ranked sixth most Caucasian in the nation. She said people often have to research the history behind this to find the cause.
Idaho is perceived as the “leftovers” of the Western states, Kersting said. Whatever was not taken was clumped into the region. Moreover, Idaho Native Americans were mistreated by the federal government during the 19th century partly through Marshall Trilogy treaties, she said.
“They were called ‘treaties,’ but it forfeited all rights to autonomy for tribes,” Kersting said.
These treaties’ fine print did not grant Native Americans access to land, but the federal government was not allowed to take land away from them, she said. The federal government deceptively took ownership of the local regions and promised to never remove the tribes from the territory.
“It was a very backwards sort of situation,” Kersting said. “Those rights to autonomy would not be restored until the middle of the 20th century.”
Many immigrants have passed through Idaho, she said, notably Chinese immigrants to work in mines.
Along the Salmon River, there are traces of abandoned mines, said Adam Seubert, a Schweitzer Engineering employee.
“They have, like, stone huts that the miners lived in,” Seubert said. “And from my understanding, they were predominately Chinese.”
Early on in Idaho’s history, only 53 African Americans lived in the state, Kersting said.
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Cajuns softball completes three-game sweep, travel to South Alabama

Sports – The Vermilion The 2016 SOUL Camp staff cheers on the Ragin’ Cajuns’ softball team as part. Photo via Facebook
The 18th-ranked Louisiana softball team secured a 20-5 record over the weekend with a three-game sweep over the UTA Mavericks.
Louisiana pulled off a narrow victory over the Mavericks in game with the score of 6-5. As the weekend went on for the Cajuns, they found their stride. Game two featured the Cajuns’ softball team winning 6-2. Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns finished off the series with a 11-2 victory in six innings.
The games were played at Lamson Park, where the Cajuns were able to outscore the the Mavericks 23-9 over the course of the three games. Behind their strong offense, Louisiana has now won nine straight conferences games.
The offensive production for the Cajuns came mostly from the top three batters in the lineup. Kara Gremillion, Haley Hayden and Aleah Craighton batted in seven runs while scoring 11 runs themselves. However, DJ Sanders stole the show with two home runs and seven RBIs.
Cajuns pitcher Alex Stewart did not issue a walk and only allowed two earned runs. Stewart did give up eight hits, but as a whole the pitching for the Cajuns did not harm them. They allowed just five earned runs in the three games, including Alyssa Denham who only gave up one earned run on Sunday. UTA’s other four runs over the weekend came courtesy of Louisiana’s defense. The Cajuns made four errors leading to those runs for the Mavericks.
The Cajuns’ softball team had a lot more positives than negatives and it showed in the results. They were able to remain undefeated in conferences play and stay hot going into South Alabama.
Louisiana will go on the road for the first time in 2017 to face South Alabama in a three-game series.
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GBI funding to help clear backlogged test kits handed over since last year’s SB 304

NEWS – The Signal A new budget approved by the Georgia House of Representatives will allocate $25 billion to the state of Georgia to fund education, transportation and public safety with a portion of that budget used to help the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) process stalled sexual assault kits.
Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, Terry England, assured that the new budget will address the concerns  of the Division of Forensic Services in processing the remaining evidence kits.
“The budget will afford the division four new forensic scientists and two new lab technicians. This will increase the lab’s capacity to process 1,320 kits per year,” England said.
England said in 2016 the GBI received $36,983,400 and the proposed amount for this year is $39,886,419 in total funds. Director of Communications for the Georgia House, Kaleb McMichen, said the Division of Forensic Services will use $600,000 to fund the new scientists.
“While the GBI is working diligently to process those kits, they are also utilizing the services of a third-party lab to aid in processing that evidence. Even so, the kits now in the Bureau of Investigation’s possession will likely take several years to process. As such, the House determined it was necessary to add those additional positions for the GBI to be able to process those kits more expeditiously,”McMichen said.
House Bill 827 (HB 827) was passed on Feb. 23, 2016 to ensure that rape evidence kits that had been shelved in hospitals will be tested. The bill was officially passed as the Senate Bill 304 (SB 304) on March 31, 2016.
As a result of SB 304 being passed, rape evidence kits that had gone untested for years were delivered to the GBI en masse. This influx of evidence kits resulted in a significant backlog. Deputy Director of the Division of Forensic Sciences, George Herrin, said the lack of sufficient working hands in the forensic lab has also stalled the testing process.
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The first amendment is not about protecting sensitivity

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By Rachael Shah
A university is supposed to be a free market place of opinion. It is a place to voice ideas, accumulate knowledge and openly discuss certain controversial issues in order to promote personal growth. It is essential college students continue to appropriately express their differing opinions with one another in order to spur intelligent discussions.
Unfortunately, certain universities are beginning to restrict free speech by implementing self-censorship and “free-speech zones.”
Free-speech zones are defined as  designated areas on campus where students can openly express ideas. Thus, implying students in any other area on campus should refrain from talking about controversial issues such as politics and religion.
Although these zones are implemented in order to make students more comfortable, they are ultimately regressive. As a college student, I am appalled certain universities think it constitutional and beneficial to limit what can be discussed on a public university.
Before I go on, I want to make clear I am not advocating for hate speech. Hate speech is very different from debating opinions openly on campus. As long as no one is being directly attacked or harmed, I think students should be mature enough to accept differing opinions—no matter how uncomfortable it may make them.
Recently, a controversial column concerning Greek life was published in the university newspaper. The column contained a reliable statistic regarding rape correlating with Greek members. The column did not target a specific fraternity nor did it target a specific individual. However, our next student body president, Connor Clegg, indirectly threatened to restrict publication and enforce prior restraint.
“I’ve been biting my tongue on this because I respect the free-press, however, no student should pay money to be unfairly, unduly, and inappropriately called a rapist by the school’s newspaper.” Clegg wrote on Facebook. “No one deserves to be unfairly called out because of a ...


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Night at the Museum - Part II

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Night at the Museum - Part IIMarch 23, 2017The 2nd installment of "Night at the Museum" is where the hallways and laboratories in the Science Building come alive at night!Very popular and wildly successful last season, our science colleagues present a number of family-friendly open house events that will feature hands-on activities for all ages at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 29 in Science Building.



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Faculty Senate covers range of topics at March meeting

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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The University Faculty Senate covered a range of topics during its meeting Tuesday (March 21), including standardizing titles for non-tenure track fixed-term faculty, student progress reports, SRTE teacher evaluations and the incorporation of learning goals and objectives for all syllabi to aid in learning outcomes assessment.The Senate approved an advisory and consultative report that creates standardized titles for full-time, fixed-term, non-tenure track faculty. The policy aims to standardize faculty titles and create a titling system that is University-wide and consistent across academic colleges and units.
The recommended system of ranks and titles provides three tiers of titles for faculty that are involved in teaching, research or clinical business categories. For example, an assistant teaching professor, associate teaching professor and, lastly, teaching professor are the three ranks within the category of teaching faculty with terminal degrees. The ranks for teaching faculty without terminal degree are: lecturer, assistant teaching professor and associate teaching professor. The other categories are: researchers with terminal degrees, researchers without terminal degrees, clinical business faculty with terminal degrees and clinical business faculty without terminal degrees. These policies do not extend to fixed-term faculty in the College of Medicine, the Penn State School of Law or the Penn State Libraries.
The recommendation will be sent to President Eric Barron for consideration.
The Faculty Senate voted to approve a change to policy that recommends instructors submit early progress reports for all undergraduates in courses numbered 499 and below, particularly for students at risk of earning a grade of less than a C. These early reports will be filed with Starfish, the University’s new academic advising system, which allows those progress reports to be sent to students’ advisers as well as the students. 
Faculty Senate also approved legislation that will require all course syllabi to state learning goals and learning objectives in an effort to support learning outcomes ...

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Marathon man: tying up the laces to race

Sports – The MSU Exponent

Ever since 490 B.C. when a soldier named Pheidippides ran 25 miles from the battlefield to Marathon, Greece to declare victory over the Persians, runners have been fascinated to the point of replicating this obscene distance known as a marathon.
The mileage changed from 25 miles to 26.2 at the London Olympics in 1908. Queen Alexandra requested that the distance be extended to 26.2 miles so it would reach the East lawn of Windsor Castle, that way the royal children would be able to watch the race from their nursery.
Since then millions of people attempt to run marathons every year. In 2013 I joined this moronic crusade. It began on a whim in Des Moines, Iowa in 2013. My friend and I were considering running a 5k when I saw there was a marathon coming up in three months. It wasn’t something I had ever seriously considered, but I enjoy running and figured why not?
Let’s go back for a second. To be clear, the organizers of the marathon just gave up on the 25 mile tradition so the precious queen didn’t have to leave her palace? Seriously? You couldn’t just get the queen into a horse and buggy and travel to a nice building with shelter and food at the finish line? I struggle with the last 1.2 miles of the race for that? Okay, okay back to it.
Now a few years later I have attempted to run three marathons and have finished two. I can certainly make a list of all the reasons why someone shouldn’t run the race but, for me, the positives outweigh the negatives. This is why I started training again for the Missoula Marathon in July.
Each and every day I lace up my running shoes after putting on some ridiculous looking running clothes to suffer my way through the miles. No matter the weather, I ...


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Internet Access is a Human Right

Opinion – The MSU Exponent

Now that schoolwork, job applications, college applications and virtually every other element of modern life takes place online, the Internet is an absolute necessity and a human right. However, it’s currently treated much more like a luxury than a necessity. Americans pay more than the rest of the developed world for slower service because our government has failed to recognize Internet access as a right rather than a privilege.
Ask any free market advocate about government intervention in the economy and you’ll always get the same answer: the free market creates competition; the government creates waste. They’re so certain of this cornerstone of their faith that none of them seem to have checked the real world to see if it’s true.
It’s not. U.S. telecom companies have divided up the service map so completely that 90.2 percent of Americans have a choice between a maximum of two service providers for low-speed Internet, and 74.7 percent have one or zero options for broadband fast enough for a family to use together. Deregulation has allowed the massive telecom companies that own the physical networks to stifle competition and drive up their rates at our expense. For middle and low-income Americans, higher rates eat into budgets for food, education and healthcare, or shut them out of Internet access entirely.
None of this would be a problem if Internet access was a commodity or a luxury like any other. No one complains about gaps in the diamond market because it’s not important for everyone to own diamonds, but Internet access is necessary for modern life and should be treated as such. In France, where Internet access is recognized as a human right, broadband is two to three times cheaper than U.S. rates for the same speed. Rather than allow telecom companies to own their own network and shut ...


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Bridges named to NABC All-District First Team

MSUToday - Featured stories MSU guard/forward Miles Bridges has been selected to the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) All-District Seven First Team, as announced by the NABC March 22.


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UM study broad: No students in London during attack

The Daily Mississippian “By the grace of God, no one is in London right now,” Ole Miss study abroad adviser Skip Langley said.
Conservative Member of Parliament Tobias Ellwood, centre, helps emergency services attend to an injured person outside the Houses of Parliament, London, Wednesday.
Wednesday morning, news spread about a terrorist attack in London when a knife-wielding man plowed a car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge before fatally stabbing a police officer at the gates of Parliament. Four were killed, including the attacker, and about 40 others were injured, in what Prime Minister Theresa May called a “sick and depraved terrorist attack,” according to The Associated Press.
All the other students in the United Kingdom have been confirmed safe.
Langley, who oversees students in different regions including the United Kingdom, said this was the first time in his six-year tenure that no students were studying abroad in London.
In 2005, Langley was an Ole Miss student himself studying abroad in London. He was there when the July 7, 2005, London bombings happened. The bombings, a series of coordinated suicide bombings in public transportation, killed 52 people and injured hundreds.
“Some of those emotions I had then, I had again today when I got that alert,” Langley said.
He said risks like this are always in the back of his mind as a study abroad adviser, but the office does have a reaction plan to ensure everyone’s safety when it does happen.
The first people the office reaches out to in these situations are the people living directly in that area. Then, it continues to check with everyone nearby. He said people may not be simply studying in one specific city or country, as students travel all around for spring break and other occasions.
No students with the Study Abroad Office were directly affected by the attack. Two students, Lauren Vonder Haar and William Mayo, were in ...


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Classifieds – March 23, 2017

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Everyone is a little mad on Mad Men

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Watching Mad Men was like stepping into another world — a world where cigarette scent is overpowering, women are viewed as amusement for men and people who aren’t white Americans live and work in their own community.It’s a different, provocative and stylish world that I, oddly, don’t want to live in but is intriguing and rich enough to be the plot for a sophisticated TV show.“Mad men” were defined, post-intertitle in the pilot episode, as a term coined by 1950s advertising executives of Madison Avenue to refer to themselves.The show, which debuted on AMC in 2007 and ended in 2015, follows the “mad men,” and women, of Sterling Cooper, a fictional ad firm located in the heart of Manhattan, as they navigate through lives in a competitive workplace and at home with their somewhat disconnected families.

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The energetic first season introduces viewers to the enigmatic, womanizing Don Draper (Jon Hamm) and “the new girl” Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss).  As the season progresses, career-minded Peggy became more confident at the firm while Don became, well, more Don — exuberant, nonchalant and uncommitted. Basically, he slept with way too many women on the show who aren’t his wife Betty Draper (January Jones).The two women Don didn’t sleep with in the first season are Peggy and Joan Holloway (Christina Hendricks), a sexy office manager who’s romantically involved with the silver-haired Roger Sterling (John Slattery), whose father founded Sterling Cooper.Mad Men’s attention to detail takes viewers back to a not-so-distant past and leaves them there for 13 hours straight without complaining — that is if they’re binge watching like I was.The woodsy office décor, the sharply tailored suits of the mad men and their colorful dialogues — filled with jabs, jargons and wit — made the show worth watching.The charm ...

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Community gathers to remember Savannah Walker

The Louisville Cardinal By Kyeland Jackson —More than a hundred gathered in near-freezing cold to remember slain U of L student Savannah Walker Wednesday night.Walker was killed in a shooting at Tim Faulkner gallery early March 19. Five others were injured. Walker’s father, brother, cousins, friends and professors gathered outside Grawemeyer hall, starting a vigil for and speaking about Savannah.“I had a special daughter, and I miss my ‘Vanny.” Savannah’s father, Dean Walker, said, challenging the community to end violence.”This was a senseless tragedy … Savannah and her mother had a very close relationship and I was fortunate to have two unbelievable women in my life.”Savannah’s mother died of cancer weeks before the shooting at Faulkner gallery. Savannah’s brother Nicholas Brysselbout traveled to speak, saying he appreciated the community’s support for his family.“When Savannah’s mom died I made a promise I would come out to see her. I wasn’t able to come out that time, but I made it. And I just wish I could show her,” Brysselbout said, holding back tears. “I may have lost a sister, but we all lost a friend and a family member.”Attendants remembered Savannah as an intelligent student, fun and compassionate for friends and those in need.Voices in action helped organize the event. Organizers urged anyone with information of the murder let them or police officers know.Photos by Reagan Mikesell / The Louisville Cardinal


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Cuban Restaurant, Yoga Studio Open at Emory Point

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Papi’s Cuban and Caribbean Grill and Empower Yoga are two of the newest additions to Emory Point. / Matthew Hammond, StaffAlthough BurgerFi closed its doors at Emory Point, Empower Yoga and Papi’s Cuban and Caribbean Grill are two of the newest businesses to open this spring.
Empower YogaEmpower Yoga opened March 18 after launching its first location in Marietta, Ga., two-and-a-half years ago, according to Anna Kennedy, co-owner of Empower Yoga.
Kennedy said that her business focuses on “health and wellness,” and decided to open a location at Emory Point after she noticed local businesses were more successful than national chains.
Each hot yoga class at Empower Yoga is suited for all fitness and experience levels, according to Kennedy.
Papi’s Cuban & Caribbean Grill
Papi’s Cuban and Caribbean Grill opened its seventh location at Emory Point Jan. 30, according to the restaurant’s owner, Ray Regalavo. Next door to the General Muir, Papi’s offers Cuban cuisine, including plantain, rice, bean and pork dishes as well as some Dominican and Puerto Rican plates like mofongo and chicken fricassee.
Chloe Biren (17C), who visited Papi’s after it opened, said she was pleased about her meal.
“Papi’s has amazing authentic Cuban food, and it’s an amazing addition to Emory Point,” Biren said. “The atmosphere was fun and the food was so outstanding.”
The restaurant currently operates during lunch and dinner, and will begin serving breakfast April 16. Regalavo said he was excited to open a restaurant near Emory when the opportunity arose and said that Papi’s has done well historically around college campuses.
BurgerFi
BurgerFi closed two weeks ago, according to a sign posted on the restaurant’s front door. The chain still has more than 100 locations nationwide. The restaurant, which offered burgers, fries, milkshakes and more, opened at Emory Point adjacent to Fresh to Order April 2013, according to ...

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