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Four Boler Business students to travel to Colorado for national competition

Four students of John Carroll University’s Boler School of Business will travel to Denver for the “Operation Stimulus Competition” from Wednesday, Feb. 3 to Saturday, Feb. 6. The competition is exclusively for North American business students from the United States and Canada.

John Carroll will be competing against 16 different universi-ties, including The Ohio State University and Michigan State University. Each university is given a case study in which they must develop creative strategies to discover a solution to a problem that might occur for a business.

The case study is given to the students three weeks prior to the competition to allow them to prepare and develop ideas for the event. These case studies consist of a problem or situation that may happen in the world of business.

In 2015, the schools had to create a business plan for a fictional scenario of a business owner who plans to expand his business on a national level while handling and improving logistics of

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a business. These logistics include poor customer service, easing consumer tensions and methods of attracting new customers. Each team is confronted with similar challenges allowing for equal opportunity for their presentations.

This year, John Carroll is sending four students to Denver to compete among 16 other teams. The students representing John Carroll at the competition will be Edward Zgrabik, Abby Posadni, Alec Groff and, Monica Granata.

Granata will be the team captain at the competition, taking on this role after once attending the competition her junior year at John Carroll. Boler School of Business marketing professor Paul R. Murphy will be attending the competition as the supervisor of the team. Murphy is restricted from assisting the team until they have finalized a solution to the problem.

“Operation Stimulus” will allow for networking oppor-tunities and to expand their educational and professional

horizons. Granata said, “Going to the competition gives stu-dents a chance to meet other professors, students and potential companies that we can connect with and network with.”

Of the 16 schools attending, John Carroll will have one of the smallest teams. However, the students are not discouraged or worried about the size of their team, in fact, they view it as an advantage. Monica Granata stated, “because we are a smaller team, we can have the chance to show we are capable of doing big things.”

Once the teams present, they are allotted 40 minutes for presenting their plan and an additional 20 minutes to answer the judges’ questions.

Win or lose, the students will walk away with a valuable experience, Granata says. “Even if it isn’t a win that we leave with, we definitely leave with a learning experience. We leave with a better understanding of what to do in certain scenarios and situations.”

Several thefts have been reported to John Carroll University’s Police Department. The thefts have been occurring since December 2015 and have extended into the new year. According to an email sent from the John Carroll Police Department, two televisions were stolen from Boler School of Business, two laptops were stolen from a vehicle, a purse and a laptop were stolen from Tim Russert Department of Communication and Theater Arts, a wallet was stolen from Campion Hall, and a television was stolen from the Murphy Room in the Student Center. The dates of the most recent thefts took place between Jan. 26 to Jan. 28.

Little information on possible suspects is known at this time, Deputy Director of JCUPD Brian Hurd stated, “We have not had much progress in the investigation at this point. We hope the theft advisories sent out last semester and last week will help raise awareness for everyone to be mindful of their belongings, and to call in suspicious situations.”

JCUPD is continuing to work with the University Heights Police who informed John Carroll that similar theft patterns have been occurring at other institutions in the Shaker Heights and University Heights area.

In an attempt to make the campus safer, JCUPD is working with the John Carroll Informational Technology Department to install security equipment on campus. Hurd continued saying, “Additionally, the University is investing in video cameras for all the residence halls and elsewhere on campus. We hope the video cameras will be both a deterrent and an aid in identifying suspects.”

In light of the recent thefts, resident assistants have been on high alert in an attempt to keep residents, and their belongings, safe and sound. Junior resident assistant Evin Tolentino stressed

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These incidents are taken from the files of Campus Safety Services, located in the lower level of the Lombardo Student Center. For more information, contact x1615.

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Jan. 30, 2016Officers responded to a report at 10:30 p.m. concerning the smell of marijuana in Dolan residence hall. Jan. 31, 2016At 9:01 a.m., a broken exit sign and other damage was reported in Campion residence hall.

Jan. 22, 2016At 1:30 p.m., officers near Warrensville Center Rd. stopped a vehicle. The 23-year-old driver was cited for marijuana and other drug paraphernalia possession.Jan. 23, 2016On Warrensville Center Rd., the McDonald’s general manager reported a suspected theft at 7:41 a.m. The register was short 100 dollars. A Cleveland woman was later cited for theft.

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Incidents taken from the University Heights police blotter at Cleveland.com.

Black History Month events

Social justice teach-in

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The African American Alliance is sponsoring several events for Black History Month.

This week there will be an “African American Read Around” on Friday, Feb. 5 at noon in the CSDI Lounge.

Also, on Feb. 5, there will be a visit to Karamu House, an African American theater on East 89th street in Cleveland. Students will see “Detroit 67” with transportation leaving at 7:30 p.m.

On Monday, Feb. 8 there will be a black church panel discussion at 6 p.m. in the LSC Conference Room in the D.J. Lombardo Student Center.

Additionally, there will be a POV film screen-ing of “Tough Love” on Wednesday, Feb. 10 at noon and 5:30 p.m. in the Jardine Room of the D. J. Lombardo Student Center.

The interreligious task force on Central America will hold the 16th annual social justice teach-in on Saturday, Feb. 6.

Over 500 people participate in this event and receive information, practical skills, and the resources to support justice and human rights programming.

Participants have 25 different workshops to chose from centering on local and global justice issues.

The teach-in takes place at Case Western Re-serve University from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Transporta-tion will be provided from campus at 10:15 a.m.

This free event is co-sponsored by Campus Ministry and the Center for Service and Social Action.

Students can register through the Campus Ministry e-bulletin.

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Former Ambassador Steven Pifer visits JCU

Deterrence, restraint, and engagement. These are the three ideas that former ambassador Steven Pifer said should be the policy in looking forward towards U.S. relations with Russia.

Pifer is a former Ambassador to Ukraine, director of Brook-ings Arms Control and non-proliferation initiative and Senior fellow in the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence and Center on U.S. and Europe in foreign policy program at Brookings. At Brookings, he focuses on arms control, as well as issues with Russia and Ukraine. He had postings in Lon-don, Moscow, Geneva and Warsaw, as well as the National Security Council.

The political science department hosted Pifer on Tuesday, Feb. 2 as he spoke to students about U.S. relations with Rus-sia in the past and how relations may continue in the future. Pifer explained that when President Obama came to power in 2009, “He wanted to ‘reset’ things with Russia and normalize relations.”

By resetting with Russia, Obama hoped that Russia would assist the U.S. in matters important to us. Pifer explained that during the reset, Russia and the U.S. had a new strategic arms reduction treaty in 2008. Part of this treaty said that neither Russia nor the U.S. could deploy more than 700 bombs or nuclear weapons.

In 2011 though, things began to slow in terms of progress. “I’ve heard second hand that Obama had breakfast with Rus-sian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin when visiting Moscow, and Putin told him all of the ways the U.S. had mistreated Russia,” said Pifer.

During Putin’s first two terms as prime minister, it was said that he had an impact on Russia. “The domestic factor was a big factor in Russian foreign policy,” Pifer said.

As the price of oil went up, so did the standard of living for the Russian people, making it easier to trust in Putin.

The U.S. did not want to speak with Russia about arms control until after the election. When Obama was re-elected in 2012, Pifer said the government decided to get Russian relations back on track.

The three issues that were planned to be addressed in the spring were arms control, missile defense, and business such as trading. “I think the press got it wrong in August of 2013 when

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Pifer discusses the current relations between the U.S. and Russia

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Steven Pifer discussed his ideas toward new policy changes for relations between Russia and the U.S. He visited John Carroll University to discuss these policies before going to Downtown Cleveland to speak for a larger group.

the White House was said to have cancelled the meeting with Moscow because of Snowden.” Pifer continued, “It was really more about the fact that the three issues of arms control, mis-sile defense and business, nothing was happening with them.”

The policy looking forward stemmed from the assumption that we could have a cooperative relationship with Russia in 2009 and 2010. Pifer said, “That doesn’t seem to be possible.” Pifer’s first idea for a policy looking forward was deterrence. This is primarily between the U.S. defending the territory of NATO and the Baltic States.

His second idea was restraint, which focuses on the in-between countries of Ukraine and Moldova. “What can the west do to bolster the resilience of these countries so that they are stronger and more successful and promote a lesser opportunity for the Russians to come in?” Pifer said.

The country of Ukraine would not be able to defeat the Rus-sian army but Pifer said that what must be done is to make the Russians realize that a renewed conflict with Ukraine will have cost to the Russians.

The last part of Pifer’s policy focused on engagement. This means the U.S. needs to talk to Russia about questions, espe-cially ones where both sides converge. The treaty signed years ago allows inspections and notifications between the countries which Pifer believes will help the U.S. to know what Russia is planning.

After Pifer finished his presentation, students were able to ask questions.

One student asked, “What is Russia’s long-term goal? Pifer responded that their goal is to focus on how to stay in power. They focus on nationalism and the support of the Russian people.

Another question that was asked was, “Does Russian pro-paganda play a role in civil society?”

Pifer’s answer was that the Russian people used to have skeptical views and didn’t believe anything, but now they seem to accept everything. He said that those who are making the propaganda “are not trying to tell a story, but rather discredit everything,” said Pifer.

Pifer’s closing comment was that the best way to move for-ward was to focus on all three pieces of the policy he outlined together.

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SUPB-sponsored “Learn how to: Mardi-Gras Theme” from 9-10 p.m. in the D.J. Lombardo Student Center atrium.

SUPB-sponsored inflatable night from 10 p.m.-12 a.m. in the Intramural gym.

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Informal fraternity recruitment begins.

Mass at 12:05 p.m. in the St. Francis Chapel.

Visit to the Islamic Center of Cleveland. Bus departs from campus at 6:15p.m. and returns at 9 p.m.

Nutrition Clinic from 1-5 p.m. at the Student Health and Wellness Center.

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Wing and Spa Night from 10 p.m.-12 a.m. in the atrium of the Dolan Center for Science and Technology.

John Carroll University opened its doors to members of the Special Olympics basketball league on Saturday, Jan. 30. The game was between Lake County’s Special Olympics basketball team Deepwood and the Middleburg Heights-Berea-Brook Park team, MBB.

The University serves as a neutral site for both teams to compete in a formal setting. To make this event a possibility, The Department of Athletics, the Center for Service and Social Action and the student athlete advisory committee collaborated.

Assistant Athletic Director Jane Evans, was a main facilitator in organizing the Special Olympics at JCU.

The origins of the event sprouted several years ago. She stated, “There is a team in Lake County called Deepwood and they contacted me a few years back and we have kept the tradi-tion to host one game before one of our Saturday afternoon JCU basketball games.”

The event is not only fun for the teams involved, it is also exciting for Evans. She said, “This is actually one of my favorite days of the year. I love our John Carroll games and all of our varsity teams but it is so exciting to have this game. They have found their opponent and it turns out to be a really nice event for them and for John Carroll.”

Deepwood coordinator Chris Bundy worked closely with Evans for the event’s four years. Bundy said, “I enjoy it just because they’re great individuals. Watching them compete in sports in general is amazing. It means a lot to them. They all set their watches to it. Every year they ask me if they are going to play the John Carroll game,” said Bundy.

It has become a tradition for the Special Olympics game to be held on a Saturday before a JCU Men’s Varsity basketball game in the Tony DeCarlo Varsity Center.

After their game, the players were treated with pizza and refreshments, giving them the opportunity to socialize with members of the other team and volunteers as they waited for the JCU game to begin.

Jane Evans is thankful for the student volunteers and John Carroll basketball coaches who understand the importance of the event.

She says, “The administration and coaches allow us to have the court for an hour on game day, so the obstacles are really very few. The challenges are easy, especially when you have a volunteer group of over 30 students show up on a Saturday morning at 10 a.m., ready, willing and excited, to take on the job.”

With the help of students and cooperation of the school’s athletic coaches and administra-tion, Jane sought out other partners at the school.

She said, “This year, I partnered with the Center for Service and Social Action and a number of student volunteers. Staff volunteer, Louise Barman, [also] came out to help serve as team greeters and hosts. We also had volunteers running the clock, the P.A., and refereeing. It’s really a nice opportunity for John Carroll to do some service on our campus.”

Members of the women’s varsity soccer team volunteered their time to help host the event and support the athletes. “This is such a humbling experience as collegiate athletes because their hard work and dedication is inspiring,” said sophomore Justina Fortson, who was work-ing among the volunteers.

“As I watched them today, I think about how much joy the sport can bring for everybody. Everybody all shapes and sizes, whether they have a disability or not, or whether they are an elite athlete. It’s just, there is so much joy that can be had. It’s great to be a part of it. Special Olympics is also a partner of the NCAA. I also think it is important to strengthen those rela-tionships locally,” said Evans.

This is the fourth year that members of the Special Olympics basketball team have played their game at JCU.

JCU hosts Special Olympics basketball game for fourth year in a rowAbrial NeelyStaff Reporter

Above: Members of Lake County’s Deepwood and Middleburg Heights-Berea-BrookPark Special Olympics basketball team along with JCU volunteers.

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that although the Jesuit values instilled at JCU may deter many students from acting immorally, John Carroll is in no way immune to crime.

“I believe that the news about thefts happening around campus is a big wake up call for the John Carroll community, particularly the students. I think they need to realize this is a common occurrence outside the University. Yes, the John Carroll community is mostly made up of good-natured people, but that doesn’t justify why students leave their belongings unattended, Tolentino said.

He continued, “It is so easy for someone to come up and steal it without anyone ques-tioning their motive. As someone who serves students in the resident halls, my advice for people over the current thefts on campus is to take in this reality and to really air more caution when it comes to leaving your items unattended in an open space. Simply, don’t leave your items wide open for someone to take or ask someone nearby if they can look after your belongings. At least if something were to happen, you have someone in mind that could either vouch for you or suspect if your items were stolen.”

Fellow resident assistant Shannon Poppe also passed along her advice to students. “Lock your doors. Take your stuff with you when you leave. Make sure you keep the

important stuff with you when you are going anywhere! Being overly cautious is the best way to prevent theft,” Poppe said.

To assist with stopping the crimes on campus, JCUPD encourages students, staff,and faculty to lock their doors and keep your valuables in a safe place. They also advise that all suspicious behavior be reported to the JCUPD at (216)-397-1234.

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Campus safety warning issued to JCU community regarding multiple thefts

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Lily James (center) plays Elizabeth Bennet who, along with her four sisters, must their country from zombies in “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.”

Meet the cast of “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”

The Carroll News participated in a confer-ence call interview with Lily James, Matt Smith; Bella Heathcote and Douglas Booth, the cast of the comedy horror film “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” based on the 2009 novel by Seth Grahame-Smith that parodies “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen.

Q: How surprised were you when you heard the title for the film?

Matt Smith: I was very surprised, actually. It’s quite interesting if you add zombies to any story, but somehow it makes the stakes more dynamic. I picked up the script and I read it and I thought it was an interesting spin on a classic tale.

Lily James: Yes, I was pretty surprised. I thought it sounded terrible and then I read it and thought it was wonderful. And I loved the film as well, so all’s well that ends well. It’s bizarre how it works and it’s rare that you get a script that you sort of love that much. It was pretty exciting.

Q: What were some of the lines and mo-ments that were not in the script that were improvised?

Smith: Well, there were a few moments, actually. There was some stuff about muf-fins, and just generally sort of playing around and I went back to the book, which was the original book, as a source material to try and sort of make things up in an attempt to build up my part. Burr Steers, the director was really good. He allowed a platform and an environment where you could take risks and sort of throw things out there that weren’t in the script so it was, it was an enjoyable experience for that for me.

Q: “Pride and Prejudice” is, for many people, Jane Austen’s magnum opus, and a lot of people will go see a movie if it has the words “Pride & Prejudice.” How do you sell the concept of zombies to those Austen purists?

James: I think it’s always interesting, espe-cially if you love something to see it done in a different way. What we all found that was kind of crazy was that putting something so surreal and strange as zombies in “Pride & Prejudice” somehow made some of the scenes and relationships in the book become heightened and become really clear. Like Liz Bennet gets to beat the crap out of Darcy which is really a sort of a physical expres-sion of all her sexual frustration and, I mean,

that’s a very basic analysis, but it was just interesting how the zombies kind of contrib-uted.

Bella Heathcote: Jane Austen’s all about fe-male empowerment and this film is too. It just has a cynical expression because we get to beat the crap out of zombies, so there you go.

CN: What are you hoping that audiences, mainly students that are fans of Jane Austen, will take away from such a modern twist on a very classic story?

James: The zombies—what’s cool is that you get both. You get Jane Austen and you get “Pride & Prejudice” and that story, especially the love story between Liz and Darcy and Jane and Bingley, really remains the heart of the story. It’s a romance, it’s a drama, but then throw in that every time you’re maybe getting a bit bored, a big zombie attack happens, so it really just makes it very exciting and quite scary and funny and, I don’t know, somehow it just all holds together.

Q: This novel has had kind of a long, slow road to the screen and had gone through a number of different directors and writ-ers. I was wondering if any of you had any trepidations about this prior to shooting the film. Did you have any fears and, once things got started, were they soothed?

James: Well, to make a film happen, I’ve learned is such a long journey. Films are in development for like 13 years. I think “The Danish Girl” this year was in development for 13 years, so that didn’t worry me that this script had been around for so long. In fact, it really drew me into the project because I think at one point, Bradley Cooper and Scar-lett Johansson were going to do it and another point it was Anne Hathaway. These are people that I would really respect, so I think there’s obviously something special about it. And we hoped that sort of an alchemy came together this time. There’s no rhyme or reason to why things happen when they do but we’re really happy that it did with this lovely cast.

Q: What classic tale would you like to see turned into a supernatural/action tale?

Smith: I think “Macbeth & Zombies” would be interesting.

James: “Romeo & Juliet & Zombies.” I actu-ally think that you can put zombies into any story and it would just be better. Everything’s life and death and that adds a sense of excite-ment and danger.

Heathcote: Arguably, anything that’s a

romance is great with zombies because when the stakes are high and the love’s there as well, you want them to end up together.

Q: Was there anything that you specifically put in to subvert your characters or our ex-pectations of them or that you just thought was a particularly interesting twist that is provided by this kind of project?

James: I played Liz Bennet. I didn’t pur-posely try and subvert her because so much was just done anyway in the story, in the plot and the circumstance, but because of that I think my Liz Bennet is much angrier, much more spirited. She manifests what she feels more, she can’t hide it. And because it’s a period genre and because it was zombies it meant that we could be free. We had knives hidden in our knickers, so we could do any-thing we wanted.

Smith: I think because there are zombies in the film, that allows you to make bold choices because the laws of the universe are slightly heightened and the characters that exist in it can therefore be slightly heightened. You’ve got to bring something new to the table which everyone did, I thought.

Q: Why did you choose to take on these roles and how does this film compare to your other projects? Matt, many people know you from “Doctor Who,” and Lily, from the 2015 remake of “Cinderella,” so what was different or similar from other projects that you all have done in the past?

Douglas Booth: A lot of us who knew each other before. I had worked with Matt before, I had known Lily through drama school and

we’re really good friends and made really great new friends. So it’s not that the other jobs are not fun but this is particularly a really cool, young, and fun cast.

Heathcote: I usually get casted like the girl next door wallflower so it was nice to have a physical role and actually get to beat the crap out of someone and get to rescue the boy for once.

James: Yes. And especially for me because I had done Cinderella and her strength came from within but was very peaceful. So it was fun to scream and scratch and bite and kick and beat— being strong in a different way.

Q: What was it like to act among fantasy-like creatures and what kind of training did you guys have to go through to fight off all those zombies in the movie?

Heathcote: The girls went through quite a bit of training; I know because I trained with them. I did about three months by myself in L.A. and got really into Kung Fu and then came to London and met up with all the other girls and we did lots of different skill training with weapons and choreography and got very into it and I liked being on set with the zom-bies even when they scared me.

James: Yes. I did like boxing and swung a bat against a punching bag for months. I was very unfit and very lazy prior to shooting so I had to do a lot to get into shape and I loved it. We had such a fun time just beating the crap out of zombies who were very frightening on set, especially when you’re trying to eat your lunch and next to you a person’s face is melt-ing into their meal.

Cleveland Museum of Art marks centennial with contemporary worksEmily Mastroianni

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The Cleveland Museum of Art celebrates 100 years of art, intellect and culture in Cleveland with a list of exhibits and events to mark its centennial. Since its opening on June 6, 1916, The Cleveland Museum of Art has grown into one of the world’s most distinguished, comprehensive art museums in the world.

The Cleveland Museum of Art introduces contemporary exhibits executed by a range of domestic and internationally accomplished artists for the centennial.

The artists featured in the exhibits consist of Dan Graham, a conceptual artist from New York; Jon Pestonit, an abstract painter from Los Angeles; Kara Walker, a New York- based artist, who focuses her work on stimulating issues such as race and sexuality; Albert Oehlen, an abstractionist from Germany, conceptual; and minimalist artist Sol Lewitt (1928-2007) as well as sculptor, Eva Hesse (1936-1970).

As of now, the Lewitt-Hesse exhibit is already in the line-up for the year and according to William Griswold, the museum’s director, works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, a well-known neo-classical, expressionist painter, will also be displayed.

The museum, which has had a more conservative attitude toward new art in the past, is diversifying itself by accepting new, contempo-rary exhibits. This move away from conservatism is partially credited to a partnership with Ohio City’s Transformer Station Gallery that “has enabled the Cleveland Museum of Art to expand its embrace of contemporary art,” according to The Plain Dealer.

The museum recently kicked off the year-long celebration by hosting a New Year’s Eve party.Other centennial celebrations offered at The Cleveland Museum of Art will include A Member’s Only Birthday Celebration on June

6, 2016, commemorating the opening of the museum in 1916, the Centennial Festival Weekend from Saturday, June 25, 2016 through Sunday, June 26, 2016, a weekend-long celebration introducing special tours, activities and parties within the museum as well as a show-case for local artists outside, and the Centennial Gala on October 22, 2016, the second biannual benefit for the Cleveland Museum of Art, featuring over 900 collectors, philanthropists and artists from all over the country.

The Cleveland Museum of Art has a schedule, available on their website, for their complete list of centennial celebrations for the year. Editor’s Note: Information from Cleveland.com, Clevelandart.org and The Plain Dealer was used in this report.

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Artwork from Albert Oehlen (above) and other contemporary artists will be featured during the Cleveland Museum of Art centennial events.

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Your guide to spring 2016 concerts in Cleveland

February- The Ark Band @ The Grog Shop

Feb. 4 @ 7:00 p.m.- Badfish @ The House of Blues

Feb. 4 @ 8:00 p.m.- OAR @ Packard Music Hall

Feb. 4 @ 8:00 p.m.- Breaking Benjamin @ The House of Blues

Feb. 5 @ 7:00 p.m.- Never Shout Never @ The House of Blues

Feb. 10 @ 5:30 p.m.- Mike Stud @ The House of Blues

Feb. 11 @ 7:00 p.m.- Lupe Fiasco @ The House of Blues

Feb. 12 @ 7:00 p.m.- Dropkick Murphy’s @ The House of Blues

Feb. 17 @ 7:00 p.m.- Jack and Jack @ The House of Blues

Feb. 21 @ 5:30 p.m.- Lotus @ The House of Blues

Feb. 27 @ 7:00 p.m.- Finish Ticket @ The House of Blues

Feb. 28 @ 6:30 p.m. - Beach House @ The House of Blues

Feb. 29 @ 7:00 p.m.

March

- The Word Alive @ The Agora Theater March 2 @ 6:00 p.m.

- Bryson Tiller @ The House of Blues March 2 @ 7:00 p.m.

- Helloween @ The Agora Theater March 3 @ 7:00 p.m.

- Jukebox the Ghost @ Beachland Ballroom March 4 @ 8:30 p.m.

- Geoff Tate @ The House of Blues March 10 @ 7:00 p.m.

- Hoodie Allen @ The House of Blues March 16 @ 7:00 p.m.

- Galactic @ Beachland Ballroom March 22 @ 8:00 p.m.

- Fetty Wap @ The House of Blues March 24 @ 7:00 p.m.

- AC/DC @ Quicken Loans Arena March 26 @ 8:00 p.m.

- Judah and the Lion @ Beachland Ballroom March 29 @ 8:00 p.m.

April - Kurt Vile @ The Grog Shop

April 1 @ 9:00 p.m. - Junior Boys @ Beachland Ballroom

April 8 @ 8:00 p.m. - Autolux @ The Grog Shop

April 8 @ 8:00 p.m. - Ciara @ The House of Blues

April 15 @ 7:00 p.m. - Ben Harper @ The House of Blues

April 17 @ 7:00 p.m. - Magic Man @ Beachland Ballroom

April 20 @ 7:30 p.m. - Murder by Death @ The Grog Shop

April 24 @ 9:00 p.m. - Justin Bieber @ Quicken Loans Arena

April 26 @ 7:30 p.m.

May - Amon Amarth @ The House of Blues May 1 @ 7:00 p.m. - Eleanor Friedberger @ The Grog Shop

May 1 @ 8:30 p.m. - Ellie Goulding @ The Wolstien Center

May 7 @ 7:00 p.m. - Say Anything @ The House of Blues

May 10 @ 6:30 p.m. - The Fantasticks @ The Hanna Theater

May 13-14 @ 7:30 p.m. & 1:30 p.m.

Editor’s Note: Information from Vividseats.com was used in this report.

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Senior guard Will Starks goes after a loose ball in the second half of JCU’s 84-73 victory over JCU in University Heights,

Ohio at the Tony DeCarlo Varsity Center on Saturday, Jan. 30.

Jacob HirschmannSports Editor

Despite a back and forth first half, the John Carroll University men’s basketball team controlled the second half of play, closing out Ohio Northern University and im-proving to 19-0 on the season with the 84-73 victory.

The Blue Streaks came out and set the tone early, carrying a lead for the first six minutes of the contest. The Polar Bears responded, never letting the lead get out of hand and knotting the score up at 13 with 13 minutes left in the half after a three-pointer from ONU’s Travis Feitshands.

After the Polar Bears followed Feitshands’ three-pointer with another three, the Blue Streaks immediately responded, taking control over the next six minutes

Blue Streaks continue historic start with big home winof the contest, capping off with a three-pointer by senior Derik Young with just over seven minutes left in the half to stretch JCU’s lead to seven points.

Again, ONU responded, going on a run of their own to take a 37-34 lead just three minutes later.

Behind strong play from senior Will Starks and junior David Lin-ane to close out the half, the Blue Streaks went on a final run, giving JCU a four point lead at the break.

The second half began similar to the first, with JCU holding a slight lead over the first few minutes before the Polar Bears went on yet another small run, tieing the game up at 59-59 with just over 13 min-utes left in the game.

JCU turned up the defensive pressure at this point, and took a lead they would never relinquish. The Blue Streaks stretched their

lead to as large as 14 at one point, ultimately defeating the Polar Bears 84-73.

For JCU, Linane led the team in scoring, dropping 21 points on 6-of-11 from the field and 3-of-5 from three-point land. Starks was the lone other Blue Streaks player in double-digits, as the senior guard added 12 points of his own.

Senior Simon Kucharewicz and junior Ryan Farragher put together solid performances as well, scoring nine points apiece.

Sophomore John Cirillo led the team in rebounds with eight boards on the day.

For the Polar Bears, Aron Thress led the way with a huge stat line, pouring in 28 points on 14-of-21

shooting to go along with nine re-bounds in the loss.

The Blue Streaks now sit at 19-0 overall and 12-0 in the Ohio Ath-letic Conference heading into their matchup with Otterbein University on Wednesday, Feb. 3.

After their matchup on Wednes-day against the Cardinals, JCU has five more regular season games on the schedule to try and complete the perfect regular season before head-ing into postseason play.

Editor’s Note: The John Carroll University men’s basketball team returned to action on Wednesday, Feb. 3 against Otterbein University in University Heights, Ohio. Head to jcusports.com for a full game recap and box score.

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Sophomore Sarah Cairnie brought in a team-high with eight rebounds during JCU’s 68-45 loss to ONU in Ada, Ohio on Saturday, Jan. 30

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After defeating Heidelberg Uni-versity on Wednesday, Jan. 27, the John Carroll University women’s basketball team traveled to Ada, Ohio for an Ohio Athletic Confer-ence battle with Ohio Northern University.

ONU entered the matchup with JCU ranked No. 15 in the nation in Division III with a 15-3 overall record, only having dropped one game in the Ohio Athletic Confer-ence so far this season.

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Sitting at first in the OAC, the Polar Bears showed why they have been so dominant this season right from the tip, shutting down JCU in the opening frame. The Blue Streaks managed just 10 points in the first quarter, while ONU doubled them up, dropping 20 points in the same time span.

The Polar Bears continued their strong play into the second quarter, pushing the lead to 17 at the break.

ONU carried that dominance through the second half, ultimately defeating JCU, 68-45.

The Polar Bears’ stellar defense,

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which has only allowed an average of 55 points per game this year, kept JCU at 10 points in three of the game’s four quarters and contained Spahar to just 27 percent shooting.

The loss to ONU was JCU’s second loss of the season to the Polar Bears, after a 67-62 loss to the OAC rival earlier this season in University Heights.

Despite the loss on Saturday, one of the bright spots was freshman Bri Pittenger, who led the team with 13 points and 75 percent shooting behind the arc.

Sophomore Sarah Cairnie also put together a solid game, scoring nine points on 4-of-8 shooting, col-lecting eight rebounds and adding two steals to her stat sheet as well.

Brooke Espenschied was the star of the night for ONU, pouring

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To some, that phrase alone may seem like an insult, but I assure you it is not. I’ll admit it, I’m not a huge NHL fan, but I respect the sport and still watch in here and there. That said, there’s no denying that when it comes to the four major sports leagues, the NHL is distant fourth in terms of exposure.

Yet, on Sunday night, when there was the Pro Bowl, NBA basketball and college basketball on TV, I found myself watching the NHL All Star game.

Anybody who knows me prob-ably finds that pretty hard to believe, but it’s true. As an owner of NBA League Pass and a huge college basketball fan, it’s crazy to think I put both of those on the back burner in favor of watching hockey.

What the NHL has done with the All-Star game is awesome, and I think it’s going to help hockey in the long run.

Essentially, what the NHL now has in place of one “All-Star Game” is a four-team tournament. The NHL has four separate divisions, and each division has a separate All-Star team. These four teams are put into a bracket for three-on-three 20-minute games. If it’s tied after regulation, the matchup is decided by a shootout.

While no game went to a shoot-out this year, I still love the way they have it set up. And when I tuned in, I wasn’t disappointed.

The switch, not only in the All-Star game, but for overtime hockey as well, to three-on-three hockey was one of the best decisions the NHL has made. The open space and fast-paced play in unbeliev-ably exciting, and there isn’t much that compares in sports in terms of consistent excitement.

The NHL deserves credit for making that change. Similar to the way the NHL decided that there would no longer be ties, and instead would have games decided by shootout, the NHL has continually made changes that have increased the appeal of their product.

These changes are all important and have helped the league in terms of fandom, bringing in people such as myself who didn’t have much interest in hockey at all. But the key to hockey competing with the likes of the NFL and NBA is landing a legitimate TV deal.

Currently, the NHL is locked into a deal with NBC in which the biggest games of their season are routinely on NBCSPORTS, a chan-nel that not everybody has.

Landing a TV deal to get back onto ESPN is the final step for the NHL to increase revenue and get back up to the level they were at before the lockout.

I’m growing more and more interested in the NHL, and I hope it gets more popular. The league has its faults, but it cares about making its product better, and because of that, I think its on its way back.

in a game-high 14 points on 6-of-8 shooting from the field. Carly Thomas and Karissa Steffas each reached double figures as well for the Polar Bears, scoring 11 and 10 points, respectively.

JCU now stands at 11-8 overall and 6-6 in the OAC heading into their matchup with Otterbein Uni-versity on Wednesday, Feb. 3.

After their matchup with the Cardinals on Wednesday, the Blue Streaks have five games remaining on their schedule to fight for seeding in the OAC Tournament.

Editor’s Note: The John Carroll University women’s basketball team returned to action on Wednesday, Feb. 3 against Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio. Head to jcus-ports.com for a full game recap and box score.

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Linane led the Blue Streaks in both points (21) and assists (5) in JCU’s 84-73 victory over ONU on Saturday, Jan. 30. The junior put on a shoot-ing clinic, shooting over 50 percent from the field, three-point line and free-throw line.

On Monday, Feb. 1, the senior was named OAC Wres-tler of the Week for the sec-ond time this season. The award comes after Mirman put together a five-win week-end, including earning his 100th career victory at JCU.

The freshman poured in a team-high 13 points on 75 percent shooting from behind the three-point line during JCU’s 68-45 loss to ONU on Saturday, Jan. 30. This is Pit-tenger’s eighth double-digit scoring effort of the season.

The senior broke her own school record in the 60-meter dash at the Findlay Classic over the weekend. Jenkins ran a 7.90 in the semifinals and a 7.96 in the finals. Her previ-ous school record was 8.02, which she set last season.

At the Findlay Classic on Friday, Jan. 29, Cam-eron broke a school record when he won the 600-meter run with a time of 1:23.77. The senior also competed on the 4x400 relay team who placed fifth in their event.

After trailing by 15 points heading into the final four events against Wilmington College on Saturday, Jan. 30, the John Car-roll University men’s swimming and diving team strung together important finishes to secure a 103-102 victory.

The hosting Fightin’ Quakers had the Blue Streaks’ back against the wall early, winning five of the first seven events. Wilm-ington would later add a 1-2-3 sweep finish in the 100 Free to put the Blue Streaks down just 15 points heading into the last leg of the meet.

Freshman Jack Garrow spearheaded a 1-3-4 finish in the 100 Back to start the comeback for the Blue Streaks. Garrow’s time of 1:01.10 was good enough to edge the 2014 Ohio Athletic Conference Cham-pion Jack Spraul’s time of 1:01.65. Fresh-

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men Ryan Singler and Alec Bryson rounded out the top five performances for the Blue Streaks with third and fourth place finishes respectively.

The momentum stayed on JCU’s side with a 1-2 finish in the 400 Free. Freshman Tom Pacak and junior Ben Parker helped the Blue Streaks to an 85-84 lead with two events remaining. Freshman David Kirtek would go on to win the 100 Breast at 1:08.69 to set up the decisive 400 Free Relay.

Heading into the final event, JCU led 98-89, needing a second place finish or better to secure the win. The team of juniors John Scantling and Corey Kehm, sophomore Brian Hulseman and Pacak secured that important second place finish to complete the comeback.

The 103-102 win for the Blue Streaks marks the first win against Wilmington since 2011. The victory is also the fourth straight for the Blue Streaks in the final meet before the OAC Championships.

Earning a 157-48 victory in the meet against Wilmington College, the John Carroll University women’s swimming and diving team wrapped up a 7-2 regular season that included a seven meet winning streak.

Victories started early for the Blue Streaks in the 200 Medley Relay. The team of senior Lindsey Fano, junior Amanda Casamatta and sophomores Anne Crowley and Carly Adams finished at 2:05.71 to lead off the afternoon with the team’s first win.

Casamatta and Adams would also go on to add individual victories later in the meet. Casamatta would win the 200 Free at 2:18.55, while Adams was victorious in the 200 IM.

A 1-2-3 sweep in the 800 Free was led by sophomore Alex Iosue, who finished at 10:16.21. Sophomore Emma Connell finished second and freshman Kendall Rudie grabbed

the third place finish to wrap up the top three spots for the Blue Streaks.

Connell would also add a victory in the 100 Back.

The Blue and Gold would continue the dominance throughout the rest of the after-noon, with the 50 Free event being the one ex-ception. JCU earned victories with freshman Sophie Kocheff in the 100 Fly, sophomore Teresa Prinster in the 100 Free, senior Jane Verdi in the 400 Free and freshman Jessica Morrow in the 100 Breast.

Fano, senior Ann Murphy, sophomore Sam Needham, and freshman McKenzie Stine fin-ished the afternoon with a victory in the 400 Free Relay to complete the lopsided victory for the Blue Streaks.

With the 157-48 victory over Wilmington, JCU will carry a seven meet win streak into the OAC Championships, which being on Thursday, Feb. 18 in Akron, Ohio and con-tinue through Saturday, Feb. 20.

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Sophomore Brian Hulseman helped secure the 103-102 victory thanks to his performance in the 400 Free Relay during JCU’s victory over Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio on Saturday, Jan. 30

Junior Amanda Casamatta earned two victories during JCU’s 157-48 victory over Wilmington on Saturday, Jan. 30, besting the field in both the 200 Free

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Multiple bombings in Syria disturb peace talks in GenevaA triple bombing killed at least 50

people in a predominantly Shiite suburb south of the Syrian capital of Damascus on Sunday even as a U.N. mediator held his first meeting with members of the main opposition group that seeks prog-ress on humanitarian issues before it will join formal talks on ending the five-year civil war.

The attacks were claimed by militants from the Islamic State group, and Syria’s delegate to the U.N.-sponsored peace talks said the violence confirmed the connection between “terrorism” and “some political groups” - a reference to those who oppose President Bashar Assad.

The blasts went off in the Damascus sub-urb of Sayyda Zeinab, about 600 meters (yards) from one of the holiest shrines for Shiite Muslims. Syria’s state news agency SANA said the attackers detonated a car bomb at a bus stop and that two suicide bombers then set off more explosives as res-cuers rushed to the area.

State TV showed several burning cars and a scorched bus, as well as blown out windows, twisted metal and large holes in the facade of a nearby apartment building. The golden-domed Shiite shrine itself was not damaged.

The bombings cast a shadow over the Ge-neva talks, the first U.N. effort since 2014 to try to end the conflict that has killed at least

250,000 people, forced millions to flee the country, and given an opening to IS militants to capture territory.

In Washington, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry appealed to both sides “to make the most of this moment, to seize the oppor-tunity for serious negotiations, to negotiate in good faith with the goal of making con-crete measurable progress in the days imme-diately ahead.”

“Now, while battlefield dynamics can af-fect negotiating leverage, in the end there is no military solution to this conflict,” Kerry said. “Without negotiations, the bloodshed will drag on until the last city is reduced to rubble and virtually every home, every form of infrastructure, and every semblance of civilization is destroyed.”

The talks got off to a rocky start Friday when U.N. special envoy Staffan de Mistura met only with a Syrian government delega-tion. The main opposition group, the Saudi-backed Higher Negotiations Committee or HNC, boycotted the session, saying it won’t take part until preliminary demands are met: the release of detainees, the end of the bom-bardment of civilians by Russian and Syrian forces, and the lifting of government block-ades on rebel-held areas.

HNC spokesman Salem al-Mislet told The Associated Press that the violence against civilians must stop first, saying the U.N. Security Council should put “pressure on Russia to stop these crimes in Syria,” he said. Moscow, which began its airstrikes in

Syria in September, is a major Assad ally, along with Iran.

But Bashar Ja’afari, the head of the Syr-ian delegation, criticized the opposition in remarks to reporters.

“Those who speak about preconditions are coming to this meeting in order to derail it,” he said. “With the opposition’s delega-tion not showing up, it shows that they are not serious and irresponsible at a time when Syrians are being killed.”

Assad’s government has long referred to all those fighting to overthrow him as terrorists, but has agreed to negotiations with some armed groups in the latest talks.

On Saturday night, Syrian Information Minister Omar al-Zoubi told state TV the Assad government will “never accept” the inclusion in the peace talks of two militant

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Three Republican party volunteers count all of the votes after caucus goers cast their ballots at a caucus center in Carroll, Iowa.

The first primary elections of the 2016 presidential election are over. Senator Ted Cruz from Texas won the Republican ticket, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton just barely pulled out the win against Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, for the Democratic Party. Clinton only won the caucus by four delegates, according to Politico.

In the Republican race, Cruz finished with 28 percent of the vote, followed by businessman Donald Trump, with 24 percent of the vote. Rounding out the top three for the Republicans was Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) with 23 percent of the vote.

Rubio’s performance in Iowa was a surprise to many political pundits and defied many of the polls going into the contest. A poll conducted by The Des Moines Register that was released Saturday, Jan. 30 had Rubio polling at 15 percent, eight points lower than where he finished. According to CNN, Rubio surpassed the very low expectations that were set for him in Iowa.

While the results were still coming in, Republican candidate and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, announced he would be taking a hiatus from the campaign trail to rest in his Florida home. This led many to believe he would end

his run for executive office, but campaign representatives said otherwise. According to ABC News, Carson’s communications director, Larry Ross, said “After spending 18 days on the campaign trail, Dr. Carson needs to go home and get a fresh set of clothes.”

Former governors Martin O’Malley of Maryland and Mike Huckabee of Arkansas both announced they were ending their respective campaigns. Both candidates had poor showings in Iowa, with neither candidates getting any delegates in the

state. Throughout their campaigns, O’Malley and Huckabee had very poor polling results. Huckabee was even forced to the lower-tier debate multiple times in the large Republican field.

Around 11 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, Clinton gave a speech while the remaining results were still being counted. Clinton framed herself as a champion for women’s rights and for college students. More noticeably, she addressed the coming general election. “We have to be united when it is all said and done...against a

Republican vision and candidates who would drive us apart and divide us,” she said. “That’s not who were are, my friends.”

Soon after Clinton concluded her speech, Sanders addressed a crowd of supporters. When he gave the speech, Sanders expressed that he was still tied with Clinton. However, his supporters acted as though he won, chanting Sander’s name and his campaign slogan, “Feel the Bern” throughout the speech. He also congratulated Clinton, and offered his sympathies to O’Malley for the end of his campaign.

On Thurs. Feb. 4, Clinton and Sanders will meet in a debate on MSNBC to be moderated by Meet the Press host, Chuck Todd, and Rachel Maddow, a political analyst on MSNBC. The debate, which was added Jan. 31, came after long and intense scrutiny for the Democratic National Committee for only having six debates scheduled. Many argued the limited number would boost Clinton’s chances of being the nominee. The remaining Republican candidates will also meet for a debate in New Hampshire on Saturday, Feb. 6 on ABC News.

Editor’s Note: Information from NBC News, ABC News, CNN, The Des Moines Register and Politico was used in this report.

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groups it considers terrorists.Ahrar al-Sham and the Army of Islam, two

Islamic groups fighting to overthrow Assad, agreed to take part in the Geneva talks. The ultraconservative Ahrar al-Sham is not part of the team sent to Geneva, but the delega-tion has named Army of Islam official Mo-hammed Alloush as its chief negotiator.

Alloush told AP he is heading to Geneva for the talks.

While virtually all parties agree that IS and the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front should be excluded from the talks, the two sides are divided over Ahrar al-Sham and the Army of Islam. The mainstream oppo-sition views both as fellow rebels, despite their ideological differences, while Syria’s government and Russia view them as ex-tremists.

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Zika virus infects many in South America

The mosquito-borne Zika virus is sweeping through the southern Americas, namely Brazil, and has been shown to be linked to the rare birth defect microcephaly, a condition that causes newborns to be born with shrunken heads and severe disabilities, according to PBS Newshour. The World Health Organization said on Thursday, Jan. 28, that the Zika virus could possibly infect up to 4 million people this year. Since the Zika outbreak first emerged in Brazil in May 2015, the country has reported around 4,000 cases of microcephaly, whereas before 2015, the country had fewer than 200 cases per year, PBS reported.

Dr. Camilla Ventura, a Brazilian doctor working with 130 infants who were born with microcephaly associated with exposure to the virus in utero, told ABC News that the disease has been terrifying patients and doctors alike. The ophthalmologist at the Altino Ventura hospital in Rio de Janeiro said, “This was the first time we related Zika virus to microcephaly,” ABC reported.

It is not only infants who suffer the effects of the Zika virus, but also the mothers and women of childbearing age. ABC News reported that in the same city where Ventura practices, Rio de Janeiro, a 21-year-old woman named Jade Miranda contracted the disease in October 2015.

She told ABC that a rash covered her face, neck and chest, and she “...started having a fever sensation, without a fever at this point. My eyes got irritated… It was very strange, but since I was alone and my parents were out, I decided to visit a doctor.” Miranda was diagnosed with the Zika virus, and although she was not pregnant, she began to also experience extreme fatigue. “I couldn’t move or close my hands very well and my legs felt weak,” she told ABC.

The officials for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention confirmed 31 reported cases in the U.S., but all are linked to traveling. The CDC also states that the chance of having a local outbreak of Zika virus on U.S. soil is low. Lawrence O. Gostin, a global health law professor at Georgetown University, stated that actions need to be taken to prevent more Zika outbreaks; he proposed that proaction would achieve better results than reaction. According to Gostin, if the Zika virus is found to contribute to the development microcephaly in newborns, measures are crucially needed to prevent women of childbearing age from infection.

Authorities have been criticized for not taking earlier actions to prevent the Zika virus outbreak. A similar mistake had led to the outbreak of Ebola in 2014. Josh Earnest, White House Press Secretary, said the actions taken in the U.S. are in accordance to the level of threat here. Mosquitoes are not able to survive the current weather in North America, therefore the risk of Zika transmission by mosquitoes is low for now, but with the upcoming changes in temperature, the U.S. would be on alert. Earnest also stated that, it is important for the public to be educated about the risks of Zika virus.

Editor’s Note: Information from ABC News, PBS Newshour and the White House was used in this report.

About 10,000 inmates in United States federal prisons could be facing the direct consequences of President Barack Obama’s reforms on solitary confinement. Obama announced a ban on solitary confinement for juveniles in an op-ed for The Washington Post on Monday Jan. 25. Obama’s reforms also include the ban on solitary confinement for low-level infractions, expanding the amount of time an inmate can spend outside of solitary per day and more treatment for mentally ill prisoners.

The reforms come after Obama asked the Justice Department and Attorney General Loretta Lynch to review the excessive usage of solitary confinement in prisons across the nation in July 2015, according to The Washington Post. Obama made a speech about this issue that same month at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He stated, “Do we really think it makes sense to lock so many people alone in tiny cells for 23 hours a day for months, sometimes for years at a time? That is not going to make us safer, that is not going to make us stronger. And if those individuals are ultimately released, how are they ever going to adapt?”

Obama further stated that “the U.S. is a nation of second chances;” he believes that prisons should be a place where people should get trained to be able to fit back into society, not to alienate them even more. “Research suggests that solitary confinement has the potential to lead to devastating, lasting psychological consequences. It has been linked to depression, alienation, withdrawal, a reduced ability to interact with others and the potential for violent behavior,” Obama said, according to The Washington Post.

The research, however, did find that solitary confinement can be a useful method, but the usage should be limited and only used when necessary, according to Obama’s statement in The Washington Post. He said, “They found that there are circumstances when solitary is a necessary tool, such as when certain prisoners must be isolated for their own protection or in order to protect staff and other inmates. In those cases, the practice should be limited, applied with constraints and used only as a measure of last resort.”

The New York Times said that this new reform goes along with his policy to revise the criminal justice system in the U.S. He has reviewed the sentences of many nonviolent delinquents since taking office, and an assembly of legislators in the Senate is pushing for an enactment of an extensive bill to decrease the minimum sentences of nonviolent drug offenses, according to The New York Times.

The roughly 10,000 inmates this new policy is going to affect are about ten percent of the inmates that are in a solitary cell in a federal prison, according to The Guardian. The BBC, however, does note that the reforms only apply to federal prisons, but that most prisoners are held in state prisons. In his op-ed, Obama stated that he hoped that this change at the federal level would serve as a model for prisons at the state and local level.

Editor’s Note: Information from The Washington Post, the BBC, The Guardian and The New York Times was used in this report.

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More information regarding the Hillary Clinton email scandal was released Friday Jan. 22. According to CBS News, the Obama administration came forward, stating that the home server Clinton had been using for emails, during her time as Secretary of State, was not only unsecured, but contained 22 emails including information that is now labeled “top secret.”

The FBI is now looking into the matter, considering it is against the law for government officials to email classified information on unsecured servers. Unlike past emails, these emails will not be released to the public, considering they should have been handled with the highest level of classification.

Clinton proclaimed she did not send or receive any top-secret emails on her private account, since none of the emails were marked “classified,” at the time.

The information was released a few days before the Iowa caucus, where Clinton will be competing against Bernie Sanders, who is currently running level with her in the polls.

Of course, this poses as a challenge for Clinton, and The New York Times released an article discussing the Republican candidates’ disapproval for her carelessness.

Sander’s agreed to not use the new information against Clinton, but Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Donald Trump and other Republican contenders for the presidential nomination made it known this will not be forgotten.

ABC News quoted Clinton, who understands that she made a mistake, but feels the emails should be released to the public. She hopes to resolve the matter and move on by showing the public she is human, but has nothing to hide. The true repercussions of the matter will be known after the FBI investigation is complete.

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Three inmates caught after escaping California prisonNow that the three violent inmates who

escaped from a California jail are back in custody, the focus will turn to how they were able to saw, crawl and climb their way out of a maximum-security facility.

Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens said she was elated to announce the arrests of the final two fugitives Saturday after eight days on the run from the jail she oversees. But the tough work is just getting started to determine and fix the security lapses that al-lowed the escape.

“Believe me, we will be looking top to bottom on that,” she said. “We do not want another escape from an Orange County jail.”

The last two escapees were caught after a civilian flagged down officers near San Fran-cisco’s Golden Gate Park and pointed out a parked van that looked like one believed stolen by the trio of inmates during the bra-zen escape. The man also said someone who looked like one of the fugitives was in the area.

Police approached Hossein Nayeri, the suspected mastermind of the jail break, and he was captured after a short foot chase. The second fugitive, 20-year-old Jonathan Tieu, was found hiding in the van with ammuni-tion but no gun. He surrendered without in-cident. Both men were returned to Orange County early Sunday.

A third inmate, Bac Duong, 43, surren-dered Friday after walking into an auto repair shop in Santa Ana just a few miles from the jail. He told police he had been with the others in San Jose, and the search immediately shifted to the San Francisco Bay Area.

The three did not know each other before being housed in the Orange County jail. They were awaiting trial on charges includ-ing murder, attempted murder, torture and kidnapping. Duong and Tieu have ties to street gangs that operate in the shadows of Orange County’s thriving Vietnamese com-munity.

Early on Jan. 22, the trio sawed through a metal grate covering a plumbing tunnel, then

crawled through piping to reach the jail’s roof. There, they pushed aside barbed wire and used a rope made of bedsheets to rappel four stories to the ground.

In a letter sent Friday to Hutchens, the head of the deputies union said his mem-bers complained nearly a year ago that de-partment policy on inmate counts was not being followed. Tom Dominguez, president of the Association of Orange County Depu-ty Sheriffs, wrote that his members received “push-back from jail management with the justification that ‘This is the way we have always done it.’”

The intensive search and investigation produced no tangible results for days and then, on Thursday, authorities arrested a woman who taught English at the jail.

Nooshafarin Ravaghi, a 44-year-old chil-dren’s book author, gave Nayeri a paper copy of a Google Earth map that showed an aerial view of the entire jail compound, sher-iff’s spokesman Lt. Jeff Hallock said. She was booked on suspicion of being an acces-sory to a felony and was being held pending a court appearance set for Monday. It wasn’t clear if she had a lawyer.

Authorities say she and Nayeri - who both were born in Iran - exchanged let-ters and had a relationship that was closer than it should have been, but stopped short of calling it romantic. Nayeri is a former Marine who grew up in the Fresno area, and authorities say it’s unclear why as an English speaker he was in her class that teaches English as a second language.

Hutchens said the men’s capture clears the way for an intense probe into how they were able to escape.

The three will now return to the jail from which they escaped, Hutchens said. “I can tell you they won’t be together,” she said.

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Iranian president Hassan Rouhani and Pope Francis share a laugh while Rouhani visits Italy and Vatican City.

As with many significant and histori-cal events, the Iranian president’s visit to Italy and the Vatican City is marked with controversy. The visit from Iranian Presi-dent Hassan Rouhani is a historic one; this is the first time in nearly two decades that an Iranian president has met with a Roman Catholic Pope.

According to The New York Times, the meeting was intended by the Vatican to be a dialogue on interreligious tolerance and peace, and to explore Iran’s import-ant role of stability in the region. The meeting between the two lasted about 40 minutes. The New York Times says that the Iranian president shaking hands with Pope Francis is a tremendous step forward for Iranian-Western relations, es-pecially riding the coat-tails of the lifted sanctions on the Middle Eastern country on Jan. 16.

The Vatican, according to The New York Times, sees Shiite regimes such as Iranian President Rouhani and Syrian President Assad as vital for protecting Christian mi-norities in the Middle East from radical and militant Sunni groups.

However, not all were pleased with the visit and the circumstances. As the Iranian delegation toured various significant Ital-ian and Roman cultural sites, such as art museums and the Colosseum, many Italian sculptures and art pieces were covered as they contained or portrayed nude humans, The Washington Post reports. The Italian government also declined to serve wine or other alcoholic beverages at the state dinner for the Iranian government. This protocol is in place for any visiting Muslim dignitaries; however, this has drawn the ire of some of the Italian people as well as certain former

and current government officials. According to The Guardian, several Italian politicians decried this as “cultural submission,” and were outraged at the actions taken by their countrymen.

NBC News reported, politicians from all different ideological backgrounds found fault with the actions taken for the Iranians. A member of the conservative Brothers of Italy Party said that the move “exceeded all levels of decency,” and that “the only thing to cover is the face of [the Italian Prime Minister] not our classic statues.” A liberal supporter agreed with this statement, claiming these acts as “disgraceful” and a “humiliation” to Italy. It is claimed by the left that these action are a “violation of the principles of a secular state and national sovereignty.”

However, politicians think otherwise. The controversial moves to screen the statues and art appear to have been decisions made by Italian authorities other than the Prime Min-ister. Both the Italian and the Iranian govern-ments deny requesting the actions, though

the Iranians appreciated the gesture, accord-ing to The Guardian.

Although there were some hiccups in Italy, according to The Washington Post President Rouhani visited other countries and signed $18 billion worth of deals with Western companies and govern-ments, a success for the Iranian nation soon after the Iranian nuclear deal. Part of the nuclear deal that went into place was the lifting of sanctions that had been placed on them because of their nuclear program.

The New York Times says Pope Francis mentioned the step was in the right direc-tion, and after he gave President Rouhani a medal to St. Martin and a copy of “Lau-dato Si”, he said he “hoped for peace.” Giving an illustrated book and handmade rug, President Rouhani asked the Holy Fa-ther to “pray for him.”

Editor’s Note: Information from the Washington Post, The Guardian, NBC News and The New York Times was used in this report.

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Three percentThe Iowa Caucus has come and gone. All

of the debates, town hall meetings and news coverage have finally reached the moment it has been leading up toward. If you are a po-litical junkie like me, then you probably have noticed several themes that have run through almost all the debates, like gun control, immi-gration and the Islamic State. Well, I am going to hop up onto my proverbial soap box and take on something that has been badgering me since the very first debate: Planned Par-enthood.

I do not align myself with any party, most-ly because I have noticed that my views are scattered across the political spectrum. But I do believe very passionately that Planned Par-enthood should continue to operate.

Planned Parenthood, for those who do not know, is a women’s health organization that provides relatively inexpensive and profes-sional care for women. Because it is less ex-pensive and accepts most insurance providers, Planned Parenthood tends to pop up in more impoverished areas simply because there is a need for cheap health care.

The controversy surrounding Planned Par-enthood comes from the fact that they also happen to provide abortions. Here is where I am going to get a little preachy, so if you don’t want to hear it, I suggest you stop here.

Out of all of the people that come into Planned Parenthood, only three percent are getting abortions according to a 2014 study.

Three percent. That’s it. Do you know what the other 97 percent of

women are getting? STD tests, birth control, pap smears, breast exams and prenatal care, all by a caring, experienced medical professional.

The protesters lining up outside of Planned Parenthoods across America are protesting what only one in every 33 women are going in there to do. These people are screaming at more women going in to get checked for breast cancer than they are women getting abortions.

And if a woman is choosing to have an abortion (which is her legal right), she is hav-ing it done by a professional with a medical background who will provide her with a safe, caring space free of judgment.

As for the highly edited videos that you may have heard about, a court in Texas not only cleared Planned Parenthood in the al-leged tissue sales, but it also indicted the two individuals who made the videos, according to The Associated Press. So a court of law, in the highly conservative Texas nonetheless, sided with Planned Parenthood.

After reading stories of women who have had abortions, it is obvious to me that deciding to have an abortion is a long and emotionally taxing decision, but a decision that is ultimate-ly up to the woman. And should she choose to abort, she should be able to have one in a medical building with a professional attending to her.

The only thing that Planned Parenthood is guilty of is providing low-cost care to wom-en in need. They are not guilty of selling fetal tissue; they are not guilty of providing illegal abortions; they are not guilty of anything. They are simply giving women the caring, professional treatment they need in order to live healthy and happy lives.

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Last weekend, Amazon stock dropped as much as 15 percent after the fourth quarter earnings report was released last Thursday, Jan. 28, according to The Chicago Sun Times.

This was the lowest price for Amazon in 18 months. While profits were up in the fourth quarter for Amazon, the earnings per share failed to meet many of Wall Street in-vestor’s hopes, which caused the major drop in stock prices.

Amazon earnings per share was $1 short of the $1.55 expected earnings per share price, according to Bloomberg.

Increased shipping and transportation costs have eaten away at the company’s profits.

The increase in the amount of orders has made it very costly for Amazon to ship when using a third party vendor, such as FedEx or UPS.

Fulfillment costs, which are all the costs associated with completing a customer’s order, were up from 3.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2014 to 4.55 billion in the fourth quarter of 2015, according to The New York Times.

Revenue spent on shipping also jumped from 11.6 percent to 12.7 percent.

The increased necessity for speedy shipping during the holiday season has hurt Amazon. Although earnings per share did not meet expectations, Amazon still had a strong profit, unlike other retailers.

Many companies were struggling this holiday, and little growth has been seen.

Walmart is closing stores and laying off employees amid its restructuring plan.

This drop in stock price can be seen by some as a negative but a savvy investor will

see this as an opportunity. Amazon’s meteoritic growth has been stag-

gering and realistically could not be expected to keep it up.

Earnings per share last year were $0.45 and have doubled this year reported Bloomberg. The Stock Market may have gotten a bit ahead of themselves when trying to predict “start-up like growth” from Amazon.

This price dip allows for investors to buy Amazon stock at a discount.

Amazon has been continually committed to investing in ways to improve their company and these investments will continually pay off as the company grows.

CEO Jeff Bezos feels as though Amazon is still a young and growing company. Bezos told investors in the earnings statement and reported to Bloomberg that “it feels every bit like day one.”

Bezos also believes that Amazon Web Services (AWS) will continue its growth and become a major part of the company.

Growth in AWS was impressive. It is up 69 percent from a year earlier.

AWS manages large databases and huge stores of information, which is something that Amazon is all too familiar with.

Bezos has also continued investing in high tech shipping methods.

Amazon is making an effort and spending lots of cash to work to have an unmanned fleet of drones that will be able to deliver to customers.

This is a long-term investment but could pay off in the future.

This is a setback for Amazon, not a sign of long term problems with the company.

Moving forward for the time being, Amazon will focus on reducing costs and improve their shipping methods.

Editor’s Note: Information from Bloomberg, The New York Times and The Chicago Sun Times was used in this report.

Last week, Bloomberg reported the global skills gap is widening, especially in the United States.

The global skills gap refers to the dif-ference between the skills that the work forces, particularly students recently out of college, possess and the desirable skills that employers are looking for.

In Bloomberg’s article, “the metric of the Ancient Babylonians” it is indicated to the reader that math proficiency is worse now than it was in a time we now consider to be uncivilized

While this metric is not particularly fair, there is no known way to give the ancient Babylonians a standardized test under com-mon core, the point still stands.

Due to new technology, the work force is developing at a speed that educators and students just cannot keep up with.

The Hays Global Skills Index is a scale from zero to 10 that factors in educational flexibility, labor market participation, labor market flexibility, talent mismatch, overall wage pressure, wage pressure in high skill industries, and wage pressure in high skill occupations.

These factors are then averaged to grant a conclusive score to each country’s wage gap.

In 2015, the United States received a score of 6.9 out of 10. This score is up to 0.6 points from the previous year.

When breaking down the factors that contribute to this score, the United States performed the worst in talent mismatch and wage pressure in high skill industries, receiving a 10 out of 10 score in both these areas.

When observing the factor of talent mismatch on a comparative global scale, the Hays Global Skills Index reported that he United States performs 0.3 points worse

than the United Kingdom, five points worse than India, 5.1 points worse than China and 6.2 points worse than the Netherlands.

It is important to comprehend how some countries with developing and unstable economies are able to outperform the Unit-ed States in matching skilled employees to employers.

A great deal of this issue can be attribut-ed to common core and what students are learning in school currently.

As technology in the workforce im-proves and changes, the common core remains largely the same.

Due to this, students are learning skills that could be considered outdated, or re-placed with more practical ones.

Fortune Magazine gave the example of the high demand for computer program-mers and the lack of programing skills required or taught in schools in the article about how online education could narrow the global skills gap.

However, many possible solutions have been proposed to remedy this problem, one being online education in relevant topics supplementing what is learned through common core and being available to all.

This would not only shrink the skills gap, but also shrink the income gap of those receiving quality education and those who are not.

Another solution, proposed by JP Mor-gan Chase and Co. suggests that career specific pathways be provided throughout education to ensure that skills for certain jobs are met in the emerging workforce.

Currently, the idea of revisiting common core is the most popular solution.

This would involve shaping standard-ized curriculum to ensure that the students of today are taught the skills of tomorrow.

Editor’s Note: Information from Bloomberg, Fortune Magazine and the Hays Global Skills Index were used in this report.

Fifty-seven percent of Americans say the country is doing poorly, according to the Bloomberg.

These days, Americans are skeptical that life will get much better for their kids.

The Washington Post reported that this month found that 56 percent of Americans think the next generation will be worse off than they are financially.

This deep unease about where America is now and where it’s potentially headed, especially economically, helps explain why anti-establishment presidential candidates are doing so well.

Although the U.S. economy currently may appear to be in a recession, the U.S. economy is likely to grow over 3 percent in 2016 ac-cording to Bloomberg.

Despite the concern on how to improve

America for future generations, it is important to realize that, Americans today are still doing better than in the past for numerous reasons.

The nation’s jobless rate is now down at 5 percent, which is considered a healthy level and one that most economists consider full employment according to Bloomberg.

It’s half of what it was during the worst of the Great Recession.

Just in the past two years, Americans have seen the most job growth in the U.S. since 1999.

On top of that, the U.S. economy is growing.

It’s expanding at just over 2 percent each year; this emphasizes how America is getting wealthier and how a vast majority of people’s standard of living is going up.

Today’s kids are on track to be better off than their parents, at least if being “better off” refers to money and advance technology.

As long as you have any economic growth

at all, most people will move up the ladder. However, today’s economy does have some profound differences from America’s boom days of the 1950s to 1990s because the growth is slowing and inequality is rising.

In other words, life is still getting better for Americans, but it’s not improving as quickly as it used to, especially for the lower and middle classes.

The middle class is especially having a tough time dealing with the economic growth of the country.

Bloomberg reported that economic growth averaged over 3 percent per year from 1969 to 2006. Now it’s averaging just over 2 percent per year.

The middle and lower classes aren’t getting as much of the “economic pie” as they once did, because the “pie” is not being evenly distributed.

In 1970, the rich (America’s top 5 percent) held 17 percent of the country’s wealth, while

today that has shot up to 22 percent, according to The Washington Post.

The typical middle class family doesn’t take home much more money now than it did in 1995, after adjusting for inflation.

The middle class are just keeping pace with rising costs (especially of health care and college) and not really getting ahead.

In addition, there is a growing problem that America’s jobs, especially the rewarding jobs, are often located in big cities.

However, those cities are becoming unaf-fordable for the middle class. As an example presented by The Washington Post a “starter” apartment in New York City now runs about half a million dollars.

Now, it a little easier to understand the frus-tration of America’s middle class.

On top of the financial struggles, Americans have turned towards the political systems, hoping somebody and Washington can solve this issue once and for all.

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There has been a lot of talk lately in the news about interest rates, fiscal and monetary policy in the United States. The FOMC will be increasing the Federal Funds Rate this year.

The new year has ushered in new waves of legislation that are arguably good or bad, depending on who you ask.

However, there is one thing that is not being debated, but is simply being accepted.

The U.S. dollar is very strong right now.

As I have mentioned in previous articles, the U.S. has had a nearly non-existent interest rate policy for the last eight years.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world has gone on with their lives, and continued with somewhat normal interest rate policies.

Based on foreign exchange rates, it appears to me that this difference among policies has allowed the U.S. dollar to gain its strength.

This is good and all for anyone visit-ing Canada or Mexico over spring break this year.

It is especially great, however, for students planning to study abroad this semester or next.

Ben Goodman, a John Carroll Uni-versity student, recently visited Mexico on an accelerated study abroad trip through the school’s modern language department.

At the beginning of his trip, he no-ticed that his one US dollar could be exchanged for 16 pesos. By the end of his trip, that same U.S. dollar could be exchanged for 18 pesos.

If any college students are debating whether or not to study abroad over the course of the next couple of semesters, I would advise you to go.

There may never be a better (and less expensive) time to go.

I know that money is tight for most people, but it is also important to realize that right now might be the perfect time to make your dollar go the furthest (pun intended).

Optimizing your money is the key to any successful trip, and with such a strong dollar, it is easier than ever.

Over the course of 2016, interest rates will be increasing by the means of sev-eral small successive increases.

That being said, there will never be a better time than right now to travel abroad for a week, month or even a whole semester. You’ll be saving money by go-ing sooner rather than later in just about any country you choose to go.

In this case, time is money. Therefore, grab your luggage and pack your bags. Your next adventure awaits you!

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The women’s rights and equal pay move-ment is a timeless topic of controversy.

Globally, women have demanded that they get paid the same wages that men receive for the same or comparable jobs.

Approximately seven years ago on Jan. 29, 2009, President Barack Obama signed a piece of legislation that encourages women to reclaim the wages that have previously lost to men.

The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was the first piece of legislature that President Obama signed after being sworn into his first term in office.

“It is fitting that with the very first bill I sign... we are upholding one of this nation’s first principles: that we are all created equal an each deserve a chance to pursue our own version of happiness,” Obama stated.

The Lilly Ledbettter Fair Pay Act was named after a woman who discovered she was being paid significantly less than a man doing the exact same job. She filed her complaint, which eventually made its way to the Supreme Court.

This act lengthened the time and stan-dards for which any person receiving un-equal pay may file a formal complaint.

In the last five years, wage discrimination has somewhat decreased between genders. However, full-time women still only make 79 percent of their male counterparts.

According to WhiteHouse.gov, a full time working woman on average earns $39,600. Meanwhile, full-time working men make approximately $50,400 on aver-age annually. This is approximately $.77 for every $1.

To continue his efforts to eliminate the gender pay gap, President Obama and his administration has taken several addition actions during the month of January.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued a proposal to annually collect data depicting gender, race and age salaries.

This proposal states that any company that has 100 employees or more on its payroll is required to submit data break-ing down their salary fees by gender, race, and age.

This increased documentation is thought to better educate the government as well as all people on the importance of equality of pay in the workforce.

In fact, the EEOC stated in a press release

that, “This new data will assist the agency in identifying possible pay discrimination.”

President Obama has also renewed his call to Congress to pass the Paycheck Fair-ness Act. This would provide women with additional means of recieving the pay they deserve.

On May 23, 2016, The White House will be hosting a Summit entitled, “The United State of Women.”

This Summit will acknowledge the ac-complishments the Obama Administration has made for women’s rights. The Summit will also identify the progress that still needs to be made.

Editor’s Note: Information from The Atlantic, National Women’s Law Center and WhiteHouse.gov was used in this report.

Marielle BuffamonteBusiness & Finance Editor

Emerging markets thrive despite struggles

Commodity prices plummeted in 2015, resulting in oil prices hitting a 7-year low last December.

Low commodity prices aren’t good for emerging markets, but stable prices are better than volatile ones. This encourages investors to come back into emerging markets.

Additionally, the world’s second largest economy was a serious headache for emerging markets this year.

For years, China had been a foremost importer of raw commodities from Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America.

Now China is transitioning to a consumer-led economy from one led by manufacturing and construction, meaning its demand for commodities has plummeted.

This year, China posted its worst economic growth since 2009. The big concern was how quickly the economy was slowing.

Chinese officials are pumping money into their economy and cutting interest rates, which could trickle down and help China’s trade partners.

Many experts believe China’s growth may slow down more in 2016, but not at a faster pace. The dollar also got a lot stronger this year against many currencies in Latin America, Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

Brazil’s real fell 31 percent against the dollar, Russia’s ruble dropped 17 percent and Indonesia’s rupiah lost 10 percent according to Bloomberg.

A weak currency lets emerging markets sell products abroad more cheaply, making them more attractive to foreign buyers.

That eventually boosts exports and, in turn, economic growth.

The bad news is that emerging markets have to pay off some debt in U.S. dollars.

There’s $3 trillion of emerging market debt denominated in dollars, according to The Chi-

cago Sun-Times. As the dollar rallies, that debt gets more expensive to pay back.

Overall, emerging markets have less dollar debt than they did in past decades, making them less vulnerable to the dollar’s rise.

India is the fastest growing major economy in the world, and its government expects it to grow even faster this year because it is significantly benefiting from the sharp drop in global oil prices.

Kenya grew 6.5 percent last year and is fore-cast to grow 6.8 percent this year. The country is enjoying a technological boom and has benefited from low oil prices according to The New York Times.

Unlike many other emerging markets, Ke-nya doesn’t need to worry much about slowing growth in China because of its limited exposure to the country.

Vietnam grew 6.5 percent last year and is expected to grow by 6.4 percent this year, accord-ing to Bloomberg. The country is benefiting from its growing workforce because 60 percent of the population is under 35-years-old.

In addition, Vietnam will likely gain an extra boost from the Trans Pacific Partnership, which is the trade deal between the United States and

11 other nations.Investors are upbeat about Chile, because the

country has managed to diversify its economy in last five years.

Chile has a part of the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement as well, which should help boost its international trade in the coming years.

Mexico is a prime example of the Latin Ameri-can success story. Its economy grew 2.3 percent last year, and is projected to accelerate to 2.8 per-cent this year according to the Chicago Sun Times.

Unemployment is falling and the country’s debt was upgraded last year, after the government passed economic reforms.

Indonesia has focused on improving its eco-nomic profile since it was hit by the last financial crisis.

It has cut down its foreign debt, making it less vulnerable to rising interest rates in the U.S.

The country has also successfully tamed its spending, and imposed limits on its budget deficit.

The middle class represents over half of Indo-nesia’s population.

Editor’s Note: Information from The New York Times, Chicago Sun Times, and Bloomberg were used in this report.

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Obama renews old equal pay legislation

President Barack Obama speaks about fair pay on the seventh anniversary of the Lilly Ledbetter Act on Friday, Jan. 29, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

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Dear Hribar,With Valentine’s Day coming up, I’m feeling quite sin-gle. Granted, I’m fine most of the year, but the aisles of chocolates and the excess of hearts just gets to me. In or-der to cope I’ve been eating massive amounts of Panda Express (at their new location on Cedar Road). I’ve also been reading extremely emotionally devastating poetry which hasn’t been helping either. What kind of things can I do to get over my February single-status slump? -Valentine Woes

Dear Valentine Woes,You won’t be the only single person coming up on Feb. 14. This time of year usually brings along the feelings you’re experiencing as well. What’s really important is to be aware of the positives in your life, appreciating people in your life and celebrating yourself. You will always be your biggest ally. So, this February, do four things: enjoy the weather, educate yourself and appreciate Black His-tory month and treat yourself. If you’ve seen “Parks and Recreation”, you know exactly what “treat yo’ self” is all about. If you want to eat Panda Express, then do it. If you want to read poetry, then do it. Use the money that would be spent on a date to buy a small gift for yourself. And while you’re “vegging out” take the time to notice who is around you. Be thankful for those who support you and where you are in life. That will always be impor-tant, no matter how many Valentine Days happen.

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For the love of the gameLast Saturday, Jan. 30, John Carroll University students and

staff volunteered their t ime with athletes and administrators

of the northeast Ohio NCAA Special Olympics. Deepwood and

Berea-Brook Park teams played in a friendly basketball competi-

tion prior to theVarsity Men’s basketball game.

With the help of the JCU Athletic Department, Center for

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This event benefited both the John Carroll and Special Olym-

pic communities. It exemplified, as stated in the John Carroll

student handbook, the value of athletics as an important factor

for the overall educational experience. The student volunteers,

some athletes and others not, were immersed into a diverse edu-

cational experience. The opportunity to work with such amazing

people outside of the “John Carroll bubble” allows one to be

both humbled and inspired.

The NCAA core values express a commitment to an inclusive

culture that “fosters equitable participation for student-athletes

and career opportunities for coaches and administrators from

diverse backgrounds.” This mission is one that students and staff

of the University embodied as they watched the two teams have

at it in an exciting athletic contest.

The volunteers, as well as families and friends of all three

communities, showed sportsmanship both on and off the court.

The relationships formed among the athletes, coaches and vol-

unteers clearly enveloped John Carroll’s athletic philosophy.

It is often overlooked how athletics add to a positive and

educational experience, yet this neutral game reminded those

present how important sports are in the growth of individuals.

There was an aura of excitement in the gym, and the unity was

an exceptional reminder how a game is able to bring people to-

gether, from collegiate levels to recreational activities.

Photo AdviserPeggy Turbett

Photo EditorAnnie Brennan

Web EditorCalum Blackshaw

PhotographersCarlee Duggan

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Katelyn DeBaunEditor-in-Chief

Katelyn’s Candor : In praise of Barbie

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Contact Mary Frances at mmcgowan17@jcu.edu

I have always been very comfor tab le wi th indepen-dence. In the wooded summer camp that I called home for a few weeks each summer, I gawked a t k ids wi th tear stained faces as they clung to their parents desperately, as if the possibility of making friendship bracelets and riding horses for two weeks was com-parable to capital punishment.

What was with these kids? Why waste time on homesick-ness when you could be learn-ing how to make macrame bracelets in cabin 4B?

As I flitted off to my bunk to unpack my bags, I thought

Mattel, the company respon-sible for the production of the Barbie toy line, recently released new designs for the dolls. In what is largely being considered the biggest change to the dolls in 57 years, Barbie will now come in seven different skin colors and, in what’s really making headlines, three different body types—tall, petite and curvy.

I’ve always been pretty critical of Barbie. I have a six-year-old sister to whom I play the role of a third parent, more or less, and I don’t approve of many aspects of the toy.

In 2014, Barbie was featured in a book, “I Can Be a Computer En-gineer,” in which she downloads a virus onto two computers and has to have two male friends fix the computers for her. A few months ago, I was watching a Barbie movie with my sister, and every time Barbie faced some dilemma, she had to ask a male friend for help, or to save her.

Now, I’m all for teaching chil-dren to ask for help when they need it. That said, I also think self-reliance and independence ought to be taught.

And yes, my inner feminist would seriously prefer if Barbie didn’t need to ask a man for help anytime something bad happened.

I’ve also always been critical of Barbie’s shape. Yes, I know, it’s just a toy. But when we live in a society that says thin is better and aligns body weight with self-worth, it’s hard not to look down on Barbie, who has a breast-to-waist-to-hip ratio that is literally impossible.

It’s also hard to write Barbie off as “just a toy” when studies have been done correlating Barbie with poor self-images of the girls who play with her. Time cites a

2006 study finding that young girls who played with Barbie dolls felt the need to be thin; this compares to girls who did not play with Barbie dolls who did not express the same need. The abstract of the study, published in the Developmental Psychology journal, states that exposure to dolls with an unrealistically thin body size, such as Barbie, “may damage girls’ body image, which would contribute to an increased risk of disordered eating and weight cycling.”

Yikes. Cri t ics of the new Barbie

designs have expressed the most distaste for curvy Barbie—my absolute favorite of them all. Some have remarked that she’s fat and encourages the intake of mass amounts of junk food and an unhealthy lifestyle, which is just ridiculous. Mattel is in no way encouraging obesity or anything of the like. Curvy Barbie has a sturdy, healthy build.

When the Lammily doll came out, featuring realistic body pro-portions and a variety of other natural features such as scars, acne and cellulite, I was extreme-ly happy with it. Furthermore, when the Goldie Blox dolls came out, I was over the moon, since the dolls also come with a book about Goldie or her friends figuring out how to solve a problem, in addi-tion to a STEM-based building project.

Needless to say, it was about time for Barbie to make some changes. We live in a diverse world, and that diversity needs to be celebrated. As a result, Mattel answered the demands of those calling for change. Barbie now features a variety shapes, sizes and races for children to grow up with, reflecting the diversity of the American woman in today’s world. It’s refreshing to see a mas-sive corporation such as Mattel moving away from the standard blonde hair, blue-eyed Caucasian Barbie of the past and into the many faces of Barbie’s future.

that I had won the tough kid genetic lottery. I was immune to homesickness, I thought. When I would eventually be a big kid and leave my home for the daunting adult world, I would be unphased.

Boy, was I wrong. When I leave my beloved

Cleveland, I will cry almost as badly as Tommy Bartkowski did on the first day of summer camp.

I was born into an outspoken and deeply loyal Irish family on the west side of C-Town, and from an early age, I felt that same sense of unfaltering loy-alty for my city. Coming from a town that was very rarely ap-plauded and most often beaten down; you sort of had to be.

As a kid, our sports teams never won (LeBron was a kid then too), our economy was slowly waking itself up from a deep sleep and we were deemed by the rest of the country as “The Mistake on the Lake.” The snowsuit scene from “Christmas Story” was a reality, and de-

spite our wind blistered winter faces, Cleveland found a way to smile through some pretty rough times.

With a l l of our se tbacks , Clevelanders could excusably be bitter. I’ve met very few who are. The Clevelanders I grew up with were tough as nails but beautifully kind. There’s a sort of solidarity that grows living here.

When someone makes fun of my dear Cleveland, although I get defensive, I understand that we have given the country quite a bit to work with over the years.

In the 1970s, Cleveland was the beacon of hope for every late night talk show that lacked material. When both our river and our Mayor ’s hair caught on fire over the course of a few months, it was as if we had single-handedly reinvigorated the television business.

Shortly after these strange combination of incidents, the wi fe o f t he then ve ry ba ld

mayor was invited to the Nixon White House for a dinner, which seemed like a breath of fresh air for our charred egos. Unfortu-nately for President Nixon, he would not be graced with the presence of the matriarch of Cleveland, because she had one of the highest scores in her bowling league. Priorities, people.

If you’re not from around here, you might be scratch-ing your head in confusion. If you’re a tried and true Cleve-lander, you know that greasy bowling alley food is almost your blood type, and more im-portantly, you would understand that I love my hometown for the very same reasons the rest of the country chooses to criticize us.

I love that we’re not met-ropol i tan, but ins tead value humi l i ty and hones t human connection. I love that I can complain to a total stranger in line at Marc’s about our paltry sports teams. I love that I prob-ably knew the word pierogi

before my own last name. I love that my family owns four sets of cornholes. I love that my neighbors lounge in their front lawn in swim trunks when the weather hits 40 degrees. I love that Discount Drug Mart saves me the run around. I love that there is a Polish cultural festival every other weekend. Most of all, I love that every time my plane lands in Cleveland from a different city, the air feels lighter and my heart feels fuller.

As I get older and my as-pirations push me towards the nation’s capital or the concrete jungle, I find myself clinging to my hometown like my fellow summer campers clung to their parents.

Although this is probably a sweeping statement- no, it definitely is- I will never love a place more. I love you, Cleve-land. Thanks for me making me who I am.

Wonderword:What does minacious mean?

“It’s a manly-man type. An action man”

minacious: Menacing or threatening

Adrianne Gradisek,junior

Champagne Elad,sophomore

McGowan’s Manifesto: A Cleveland state of mind

Mary Frances McGowanManaging Editor

Arin Pruitt,sophomore

OURVIEW

The perfectly groomed green grass stretches out far and wide. Chalky white lines hold a barrier to the field, confining play after play. A goal kick soars through the air, untouched by all players, only to be thrown back into the chaotic play that the final score will depend upon. Soccer, the beautiful game, here is a letter to you.

Most people will write an open letter to a friend or a family mem-ber that has a significant impact on their life. I too have done this, but now I’d like to change the perspec-tive a bit. As I sit here, I reminisce about the love-hate relationship I developed with the sport that made me and, quite literally, broke me. A sport that changed my perspective and gave me invaluable life lessons that made me who I am today.

An open letter to my ex-sportTo the unrelenting schedule that

occupied 90 percent of my life, how crazy is it to think I felt the need to make soccer my top prior-ity for the longest time. At times, I felt overwhelmed and that I could not handle the immense amount of travel that came along with soccer. Not to mention the pressure to do well in school and a maintain a semi-normal social life. Weekend after weekend would be an ad-venture to a new soccer complex, conveniently placed in the middle of similar looking cornfields.How-ever, the painfully long road trips surprisingly had their advantages. These trips blessed me with quality time to spend with my mom or dad, depending on whose turn it was to travel across the country that week. Looking back on this now, the endless conversation and cheerful banter is a memory I truly cherish.

To the beautiful game, you had your ups and downs. It would be naive to say that I didn’t become completely frustrated while trying to learn a new trick. Day in and day out, I would spend hours trying to perfect every single movement, which sometimes drove me abso-lutely insane. However, in the end I

gained a strong sense of determina-tion that I did not know I had. The tricks I thought were impossible to pull off slowly became easier, all it took was dedication and patience. Thankfully, this mindset seemed to permeate the rest of my life.

To the team that became my family, I am forever grateful for the friendship and endless support that defined our little community. To be completely honest, I am pretty sure we spent more time together than I spent with my actual family. The inside jokes, feeling of belonging and strong team bonds we created will always have a special place in my heart.

To the aftermath of the beautiful game, all good things must come to an end. While this sport was such a integral and cherished part of my being, I now realize that it is not the only part of my life. For everything that I put into this game, I am even more blessed for what I got out of it. Thank you for the unrivaled experiences, the late nights on the field and the abundance of grass stains. You will be missed.

Noelle SaluanAssistant Editorial & Op/Ed Editor

Contact Noelle Saluan at nsaluan18@jcu.edu

“Something that is really, really small and evil”

“When your swag has reached optimum perfor-

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After a series of unfortunate events and an immense amount of emotional thoughts, I finally found myself settled on my couch with a steady heartbeat of 62 beats per minute (thanks Fitbit),wondering what to write for this week’s column.

I soon received a text from someone very close to my heart that read, “Just graduate and have fun the remaining semes-ter!” We were discussing future plans and endeavors, but he brought me back down to earth and forced me to recall that this is it. I’m on the homestretch, and I have to welcome every mo-ment of the day with open arms.

Although the past few weeks have been down and up and down again, I found myself reflecting on how small those anxieties truly are in the grand scheme of things.

To my freshman self, worry-ing about the little things is a complete waste of time.

I remember calling my sister, two weeks into freshman year, crying over something as simple as thinking my roommate was angry with me. Well, she was, but I survived, and so did she.

In the end, it isn’t going to be about the small fights and clashing emotions; it’s going to be about the resolutions.

My freshman roommate is a strong and beautiful individual, and through our adversities we became two people who trust one another. Although we do not see each other as much as our days living in the original Murphy Hall, I truly believe that her and I will maintain a relationship after graduation.

I decided to expand this con-versation to my housemates and others who were in our home at the time. I asked, “If you had a chance to speak to your freshman self, what would you say?” The answers were both

lighthearted and funny while maintaining a certain sincerity we could all relate to.

Luke Baird, a student at Kent State University and a good friend of mine, said he would tell his freshman self, “Don’t be an idiot.” I laughed in response, but it is so true! I was written up, not once, but FOUR times freshman year. I was such an idiot! My decisions as a new student immersed in the most in-dependent and fun environment I had ever been a part of lead to repetitive sessions of Alcohol EDU and meetings with disci-plinary figures. It was quite the first semester, but everything worked out in the end. And, no, I am not an alcoholic.

The conversation continued to move forward, and Sarah Milli, senior, responded with a cliché but entirely true remark. “Get more involved,” she said. “If you’re lonely in your dorm with no friends (giggles), get out and be a part of something.” Freshmen, listen to her! There is no point in wasting any time. Grab life by the horns and get out of your comfort zone. You won’t regret it.

Raechel Boyko, senior, em-bodies the idea of living for the moment. “You’ll never get the opportunity to be surrounded by your best friends morning, noon and night again,” she said. “Take it all in – every minute, of every semester, of every year, because four years come and go way too fast before it’s time to part ways!”

I guess everyone has their own advice they wish they would have known.

For the freshmen actually reading this, I hope you are enjoying all that this year has to offer. It’s important to learn from every event that hits you, even if it catches you off guard.

Embrace the uncertainties and live for the moment. When someone tells you time flies, they aren’t kidding.

As I approach the last few months of my senior year, I try not to look back on the small things that bombarded and at-tacked my conscience. Instead, I remember how I strove through adversity, took obstacles head on and built the best friendships I have ever had.

It’s been a ride, and as I coast downward toward the exit sign, know that that my experiences at John Carroll have been, and continue to be, worth every single thing I did not know as a freshman.

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One of the best lessons that my dad ever taught me (and believe me, there have been a lot of them) is that one of the most valuable habits that you can ever adopt is, simply, “going to stuff.”

I don’t mean it in its most literal sense, like showing up to class or to doctor’s appointments or to anything in that persuasion. I mean it more as in trying new things—anything and everything that is remotely interesting to you.

My dad, a [sometimes too] proud Allegheny grad, always told me that his plan before starting his freshman year back in 1979 was to try everything that Allegheny had to offer, and see what he enjoyed in life from there.

The strategy worked wonders for him, I think. It was through that attitude that he found his career path and his favorite hob-bies. The fruition of his “try new things” attitude was plain to see throughout my childhood, yet, like most children, I always just shrugged it off or said “yeah, yeah, yeah—try new things, I get it.”

But as usual, despite the wise words of parents or mentors, it takes firsthand experience to truly learn a lesson. And, now in my sixth semester of college, if I had to give one piece of advice to incoming freshman, it would be the same mantra that my dad has preached for decades—“go to stuff.”

And in retrospect, I think that potentially the best, yet most over-looked, “stuff to go to” are guest lectures sponsored by universities. Institutions of higher learning host dozens of events each semester that feature academics and profes-sionals from all backgrounds. One can learn a great deal from attend-ing these lectures and events.

I think the biggest complaint that I hear from college students is that they do not know what they want to study, much less what they want to do for work after gradua-tion, and I find that sort of funny.

Constantly, there are profes-sionals—all accomplished with-in their fields—coming to tell students who have the interest enough to attend their lectures all about what it is they do for a living.

Guest lectures have certainly helped shape me and my career prospects. At Pitt, during my freshman year, one of my English teachers convinced me to attend a guest lecture series that he was sponsoring called the “Contempo-rary Writers Series.”

Every week, emerging authors would come and talk about their publications, the writing process,

etc. Hearing them talk about their craft instilled in me the curiosity to get more into writ-ing on my own, and since then, writing has become my favorite hobby. More recently – last semester – I attended a lecture held off campus about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that was so insightful and intriguing that it furthered my desire to one-day work in international politics.

Even if the guest lecture doesn’t provide insight on your personal hobbies or your career, you will almost always walk away from them with something learned. Thanks to university-hosted lectures, I have heard a Holocaust sur-vivor speak, learned about the problem that arise when an ecosystem’s population of white-tailed deer is too high from a prominent ecologist, heard the story of a wrongfully convicted man who spent over a decade in prison, and more. And after each event, I left with a whole new perspective on certain issues and was, overall, more aware of problems that I had never really considered previously.

So if I had to give one piece of advice to freshman, it would be to go to guest lectures. No matter what, you will learn something—and if you are lucky, you will learn who you want to be.

Go to stuff

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