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Who can say, “I have made my heart pure; I am clean from mysin”? Proverbs 20:9. Portals of Prayer, Concordia Publishing House,St. Louis
F RO M T H E B I B L E
By The Associated PressToday is Friday, May 23, the 143rd
day of 2014. There are 222 days leftin the year.
Today’s Highlight in History: OnMay 23, 1934, bank robbers ClydeBarrow and Bonnie Parker were shotto death in a police ambush in Bi-enville Parish, Louisiana.
On this date: In 1430, Joan of Arcwas captured by the Burgundians,who sold her to the English.
In 1533, the marriage of England’sKing Henry VIII to Catherine ofAragon was declared null and void.
In 1788, South Carolina becamethe eighth state to ratify the UnitedStates Constitution.
In 1814, a second revised versionof Beethoven’s only opera, “Fidelio,”had its world premiere in Vienna.
In 1911, the newly completed NewYork Public Library was dedicated byPresident William Howard Taft, Gov.John Alden Dix and Mayor William JayGaynor.
In 1939, the Navy submarine USSSqualus sank during a test dive off theNew England coast. Thirty-two crewmembers and one civilian were res-cued, but 26 others died; the sub wassalvaged and recommissioned theUSS Sailfish.
In 1944, during World War II, Al-lied forces bogged down in Anziobegan a major breakout offensive.
In 1949, the Federal Republic ofGermany (West Germany) was estab-lished.
In 1967, Egypt closed the Straitsof Tiran to Israeli ships, an actionwhich precipitated war between Israeland its Arab neighbors the followingmonth.
In 1977, the U.S. Supreme Courtrefused to hear the appeals of formerNixon White House aides H.R. Halde-man and John Ehrlichman and formerAttorney General John N. Mitchell inconnection with their Watergate con-victions.
In 1984, Surgeon General C.Everett Koop issued a report sayingthere was “very solid” evidence linkingcigarette smoke to lung disease innon-smokers. “Indiana Jones and theTemple of Doom,” starring HarrisonFord, was released by Paramount Pic-tures.
In 1994, funeral services wereheld at Arlington National Cemeteryfor former first lady JacquelineKennedy Onassis. “Mad Bomber”George Metesky, who’d terrified NewYorkers over a 16-year-old period,died in Waterbury, Connecticut, at age90.
Ten years ago: A large section ofthe roof of a new passenger terminalat Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport col-
lapsed, killing four people. A river ferrycapsized in eastern Bangladesh dur-ing a storm, leaving as many as 200dead.
Five years ago: Former SouthKorean President Roh Moo-hyun, 62,leapt to his death amid a wideningcorruption scandal. Charles DonaldAlbury, co-pilot of the plane thatdropped the atomic bomb on Na-gasaki, Japan, died in Orlando,Florida, at 88.
One year ago: President BarackObama, in a speech to the NationalDefense University, defended Amer-ica’s controversial drone attacks aslegal, effective and a necessary linch-pin in an evolving U.S. counterterror-ism policy, but acknowledged thetargeted strikes were no “cure-all” andsaid he was haunted by the civilianswho were unintentionally killed. TheBoy Scouts of America threw open itsranks to gay Scouts but not to gayScout leaders. LeBron James was aunanimous pick for the All-NBA teamand Kobe Bryant earned his record-tying 11th first-team selection.
Today’s Birthdays: Bluegrasssinger Mac Wiseman is 89. ActressBarbara Barrie is 83. Actress JoanCollins is 81. Actor Charles Kim-brough is 78. International Tennis Hallof Famer John Newcombe is 70. Ac-tress Lauren Chapin is 69. Countrysinger Misty Morgan is 69. Countrysinger Judy Rodman is 63. Chessgrandmaster Anatoly Karpov is 63.Boxing Hall of Famer Marvelous Mar-vin Hagler is 60. Singer Luka Bloom is59. Actor-comedian-game show hostDrew Carey is 56. Actress Lea De-Laria (TV: “Orange is the New Black”)is 56. Country singer Shelly West is56. Actor Linden Ashby is 54. Actress-model Karen Duffy is 53. ActressMelissa McBride is 49. Rock musicianPhil Selway (Radiohead) is 47. Ac-tress Laurel Holloman is 46. Rock mu-sician Matt Flynn (Maroon 5) is 44.Singer Lorenzo is 42. Country singerBrian McComas is 42. Actor John Pol-lono (TV: “Mob City”) is 42. SingerMaxwell is 41. Singer Jewel is 40.Game show contestant Ken Jenningsis 40. Actor Lane Garrison is 34.Actor-comedian Tim Robinson (TV:“Saturday Night Live”) is 33. ActorAdam Wylie is 30. Movie writer-direc-tor Ryan Coogler (Film: “Fruitvale Sta-tion”) is 28.
Thought for Today: “We do notusually look for allies when we love.Indeed, we often look on those wholove with us as rivals and trespassers.But we always look for allies when wehate.” — Eric Hoffer, American authorand philosopher (1902-1983).
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LATEST RESULTS: Who do you think will win South Dakota¹s Republican Senate primary?
Mike Rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51%Not sure/don’t care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25%Stace Nelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9%Dr. Annette Bosworth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8%Jason Ravnsborg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5%Larry Rhoden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2%TOTAL VOTES CAST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .370
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On Memorial DayBill Rueppel, YanktonSenior Vice Commander, VFW Post 791, Yankton
I recently received a piece of junk mail,which had emblazoned across the front of theenvelope “Happy Memorial Day!”
“Happy”?I believe Memorial Day is somber, and rever-
ent. It is meant for remembering and reminisc-ing. A day to honor all those who have madethe ultimate sacrifice. A tribute to all of ourwounded and fallen heroes, as well as today’smen and women in the military.
I encourage everyone to stroll through anycemetery and pay their respects.
“Happy”?No.
Community AffairsTHUMBS UP to the “State of the Community” forumorganized by the Yankton Area Chamber of Com-merce this week. It was an opportunity for city andcounty officials to update the public on what is goingon with local government, whether it’s budget is-sues, planning projects or construction activity.However, things got really interesting during the
question-and-answer session held after the presentations. Local busi-nessman Larry Ness expressed in blunt terms his feelings that Yank-ton and Yankton County needs to become more progressive. YanktonCounty Planning and Zoning Administrator Pat Garrity made a plea toset aside emotions when discussing opportunities for the future andinstead have a calm consideration of the facts. Judging by the socialmedia response we’ve seen to the article published in the Press &Dakotan, this is the sort of conversation with which many area resi-dents want to become engaged. Let’s hope this discussion continues.
A PassingTHUMBS DOWN to the death of former NorthernState University coach Don Meyer. He retired in 2010as one of the winningest coaches in NCAA men’s bas-ketball history. He amassed 923 victories at HamlineUniversity in St. Paul, Minn.; Lipscomb University atNashville; and NSU in Aberdeen. Meyer, a Wayne,Neb., native, spoke last March at the Summit Activi-
ties Center theater in Yankton as one of his last public appearances.The Press & Dakotan carried reflections this week on Meyer’s life fromtwo Yankton colleagues — Ted Quinn, director of coaches’ programsfor the Nations of Coaches ministry, and former Mount Marty Collegemen’s basketball coach Jim Thorson. As Quinn and Thorson noted,Meyer will be remember for his strong faith and character as much ashis winning record. A memorial service is planned for 3 p.m. Saturdayon the NSU campus, with a June 1 service planned at Lipscomb.
Community BenefitsTHUMBS UP to Wagner Area Growth (WAG) for re-ceiving a $50,000 grant from USDA Rural Develop-ment. The money will benefit not only Wagner butsix communities in southern Charles Mix County.WAG provided a $51,000 match to the USDA grant inbuilding up the local revolving loan fund. The Wag-ner officials will use the revolving fund to help local
entrepreneurs with start-up or expansion needs. WAG presidentBryan Slaba believes the current $250,000 fund could grow to$350,000 or $400,000 with additional money from the Governor’s Of-fice of Economic Development (GOED) or other sources. The South-ern Charles Mix Dakota Rising program will hold its next meeting at 6p.m. Thursday at the Wagner theater, gathering more ideas for areadevelopment.
BY KELLY [email protected]
I had to stop myself from opening this piecewith the trite observation that Mount Marty Col-lege is at an important crossroads as itbegins a search — again — for a newpresident.
MMC has practically lived at that in-tersection for several years now, sothere’s no real need to point it outagain.
This week’s sudden resignation ofDr. Joseph Benoit once more leaves theschool hanging. Another searchprocess must ramp up. The last onetook a year and, as memory serves, ihad to do a re-start somewhere alongthe line, so this doesn’t promise to be areal quick quest.
The school’s history with secularpresidents, dating back to the 1990s,has been a decidedly mixed experience. Giventhe suddenness and immediacy of Benoit’s resig-nation, it’s not unreasonable to suppose that thisparting of the ways was somewhat mutual.
When I heard the news, I was surprised to dis-cover that I was slightly worried.
What worried me, as much as it possiblycould, is the thought that MMC might backslidefrom what I realized were the gains the schoolhas made in the last several years (and severalpresidents) to heighten its visibility.
This is no small point. My experience with Mount Marty goes back
nearly 30 years. When I started working at thisnewspaper, I was aware of the place, but thatwas about it. This was a Yankton College town,and MMC was just the little Catholic school bythe convent.
Mount Marty didn’t seem to have much iden-tity beyond its intimate circle of students, facultyand alumni. Its campus was spare, almost invisi-ble. The Lancers played their home basketballgames at YC’s Nash Gym and then, after YanktonCollege closed, at whatever high school facilitywould have them. And you never really knewwhat was going on up there because its publicrelations efforts were spotty. MMC seemed morelike a mystery to me than a bona fide place ofhigher learning.
My lack of perception about the school re-flected MMC’s persistent lack of connection withsurrounding area. Sometimes, there didn’t evenseem like there was a desire to do so.
But through the years, things changed. Theconstruction of Cimpl Arena gave the school itsown athletic facility and a real, physical identity.A little more than a decade later, the building ofthe Scholastica Center created a campus atmos-
phere that had been sorely lacking. Things likethe Vespers service each holiday season open upthe school more, as do the spring concerts thatbring in Christian recording artists. So, too, dothe community learning classes that have been
offered. These things bring people tocampus and make people aware thatMount Marty is there.
On my media end, communicationfrom MMC has improved a lot. We nowget press releases from there on a regu-lar basis, which really helps to get theword out about what’s going on at theMount. It helps the school promote itsnursing program, which is outstanding,and its science expansion that is cur-rently under way. It helps put a face onwhat Mount Marty is really all about.
(There is still some work to do,however. For instance, the school hasnot, to my knowledge, released enroll-ment figures for quite a while. Thoseare the kinds of things that need tend-
ing to on a regular basis.)I guess I was a bit concerned this week be-
cause I wondered if the school might shift gearson this effort at openness and lose the momen-tum it has gradually built these last severalyears. Granted, I cannot speak to what goes oninternally at the school that may or may nothave led to this latest presidential change, butfrom my external perspective, those little things Ispoke of tend to add up and point to a good di-rection.
So, about the cliché crossroad: Mount Martyneeds to take its game to the next level. It needsto sell itself vigorously as a Catholic-based col-lege with a lot to offer.
I think the next president, whoever he or shewill be, must be a promoter unlike any we’ve seeat the school previously. That will also meanbeing a fundraiser, which in this age has got tobe a top priority. The next president needs tocultivate more relationships with other entities,like RTEC or area high schools, to maximize itsprofile.
These aren’t radical proposals; in fact, theyare things the school has been doing with mod-estly encouraging success. But it’s time to shifthard into a higher gear.
MMC’s search for a new president will not beeasy. The rewards could be great. But the atti-tude must be that there is no going back now,that the school must move forward, full steamahead.
You can follow Kelly Hertz on Twitter at twit-ter.com/kelly_hertz/. Discuss this story atwww.yankton.net/.
MMC’s Next Step
Kelly
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BY LEONARD PITTS JR.Tribune Content Agency
What if he had smacked her one? She’s going after him with fists and feet. What if
he had defended himself in kind? Or what if he hadbeen the one who attacked her without physicalprovocation?
Would it still be funny? As we all know from a leaked elevator surveil-
lance video that has been replayed countless timeson television and online, that’s not how it hap-pened. Instead, rapper and businessman Jay Z de-flected the blows and at one point caught a kickingfoot in midair, but otherwise made no aggressivemoves as his sister-in-law, singer Solange Knowles,whaled on him. Beyonce — his wife, her sister —watched without interfering, and an overmatchedbodyguard tried to keep the peace.
Video of the one-sided brawl at a New Yorkhotel first surfaced last week on TMZ. It has sincebeen widely remarked upon and scrutinized. Peo-ple have speculated on what made Solange go offlike that. People have cracked jokes. But there hasbeen little if any denunciation of the violence, norare police known to be investigating.
Indeed, the world seemed ready to move on tothe next oddity in the human carnival by the timethe family released an opaque statement on Friday(they’re both sorry) and “Saturday Night Live” lam-pooned the fight in a sketch.
But what if he had hit her, whether in self-de-fense or aggression? Wouldn’t we be having amarkedly different discussion right now? Wouldn’tpolice be involved? Wouldn’t his reputation be inthe toilet?
Yes. So, what’s the difference? We know the answer intuitively, even if it is not
politically correct to say: Real men don’t hitwomen. Not even in self-defense, unless maybe sheholds a black belt or a baseball bat. Men are taughtfrom boyhood to be mindful of their superior sizeand strength: Don’t hit girls.
So Jay Z took his sister-in-law’s abuse becausethere was, in a real sense, nothing else he could do.
And don’t you think she knew that? Don’t youthink she was counting on it when she waded inthere?
One is wary, as a man, of calling out doublestandards between the sexes. In the first place,men benefit from more double standards than wehave space to count. In the second place, it wouldbe specious to pretend the physical abuse of menby women is a problem anywhere near as ubiqui-tous as the physical abuse of women by men.
That said, it’s hard to let this go without atleast acknowledging this other double standard —and Solange’s exploitation thereof.
Too bad police didn’t raise the specter of an in-vestigation, even if only to have it batted down.Might not have been the worst thing in the world ifJay Z’s heavy-handed in-law had to at least mo-mentarily contemplate explaining herself to ajudge.
But that, of course, is wishful thinking. It won’thappen — not only because police would be disin-clined, but also because as a guy, Jay Z would in alllikelihood be mortified by the very idea. Forget thefamily dynamic: To press charges because awoman hit you without injury would be to betraymale pride. Might as well join a monastery. Youcould never show your face again.
So it bears repeating: There was nothing hecould do but take it. And if that wasn’t physicallyhurtful it had to, at the very least, be profoundlyhumiliating.
Isn’t it interesting how, 50 years into the mod-ern feminist movement, with women representedat previously unthinkable strata in our nationallife, gender roles continue to define and constrainus, often in ways as subtle and unseen as they areabiding and real?
We will be thrashing that out for the foresee-able future. But we might make a small, albeit wel-come change in that future if we reconsider whatwe have long told our little boys and expand it toinclude their sisters, too.
Don’t hit girls? No. Don’t hit at all.
Leonard Pitts is a columnist for The MiamiHerald, 1 Herald Plaza, Miami, Fla., 33132. Read-ers may contact him via e-mail at [email protected].
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Leonard Pitts
Attacking A Double Standard
