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February 2014 DANCE DANCE EVOLUTION 12Sunday11 1 1 1 765432 8 Leader 181716109 1514 16 2223 2324 25 26 22 2423 27 28 28 29 rallies Job listings There are 18 help wanted ads listed in the Classified section today./Pages B-6, B-7 Kiev Who’s in the news There is good news today in The Indiana Gazette crowd about these area By ANGELA CHARLTON and JIM HEINTZ people: Jesse Associated Press Altmire, Ryen Sawyer, Donald Henry, Sandy Dye, KIEV, Ukraine — In a stunning reversal of Betty Kunkle, Esther fortune, Ukrainian opposition icon Yulia Wright. Tymoshenko left imprisonment Saturday TERI ENCISO/Gazette and spoke to a massive, adoring crowd, JUDSON LAIPPLY, creator of a viral YouTube video called “Evolution of Dance” that has 250 million views, while her arch-foe President Viktor Coming up demonstrated the routine at Saturday’s Sixth Annual IRMC Spirit of Women’s Day of Dance at Indiana Mall. The Yanukovych decamped to eastern Ukraine and vowed he would remain in power. day promotes awareness of cardiovascular disease and encourages a healthy lifestyle. To see a video of his Protesters took control of the presidential performance, visit http://youtu.be/djo5lGnkE60. administration building and thousands of curious and contemptuous Ukrainians roamed the suddenly open grounds of the lavish compound outside Kiev where Yanukovych was believed to live. Parlia- ment, which he controlled as recently as a day earlier but is now emboldened against Be sure to look for the Olympic service blends local him, on Saturday called for his removal and start of the Gazette’s latest for elections on May 25. But Yanukovych contest, Word Whiz Iggy, said he regards the parliament as now ille- in Monday’s paper. doctor’s love of sports, medicine gitimate and he won’t respect its decisions. The political crisis in the nation of 46 mil- Inside lion, strategically important for Europe, By RANDY WELLS Russia and the United States, has changed COMICS: A Pittsburgh [email protected] with blinding speed repeatedly in the past exhibit is tracing the week. First there were signs that tensions history of female comic Dr. Craig McKirgan played foot- were easing, followed by horrifying violence artists./Leisure ball and basketball in high school, and then a deal signed under Western pres- VIEWING HARRISBURG: Two but he didn’t try skiing until he sure that aimed to resolve the conflict but men with better-than- was an undergrad student at Iowa left the unity of the country in question. average name recognition State University in the late 1970s. Tymoshenko, whose diadem of blond jumped into the already Now, as an orthopaedic surgeon peasant braids and stirring rhetoric attract- jam-packed pools of with the Center for Orthopaedics ed world attention in the 2004 Orange Rev- candidates for the & Sports Medicine in White Town- olution, was both sad and excited as she Democratic nominations ship, he has opportunities to spoke to a crowd of about 50,000 on Kiev’s for Pennsylvania governor share world-class ski slopes with Independence Square, where a sprawling and lieutenant some of the planet’s best athletes. protest tent camp was set up in December. governor./Page A-3 McKirgan has been getting away Sitting in a wheelchair because of a back from his day job at COSM occa- problem aggravated during imprisonment, BOTTOMS UP? The last dry sionally to serve as a team physi- her voice cracked and her face was care- town in Connecticut cian for the U.S. men’s Alpine ski worn. is considering whether team. But her words were vivid, praising the to give up on It’s a blending of two of his inter- protesters who were killed this week in Prohibition./Page A-5 ests — sports and medicine. And clashes with police that included sniper fire it’s volunteer service. DRUG LORD ARRESTED: TERI ENCISO/Gazette and entreating the living to keep the camp “It’s something I really enjoy,” he Mexican authorities going. said. “It’s a great experience to DR. CRAIG McKIRGAN, of COSM, is a team physician for the U.S. men’s “You are heroes, you are the best thing in captured the world’s most Alpine ski team. powerful drug lord in a Continued on Page A-8 Continued on Page A-8 resort city Saturday after a massive search./Page B-1 DEAN’S LIST: Indiana University of Pennsylvania./Page B-2 Records: Test scores fell flat during alleged cheating

TEARFUL GOODBYES: By ROBERT BURNS AP Scores down during cheating scandal over the past year. The missteps ered in January during an Air Force Dozens of Koreans at rare National Security Writer The period that Air Force officers at the 341st Missile Wing prompted Defense Secretary Chuck investigation of illegal drug use. Two are alleged to have shared answers to nuclear launch readi- Hagel to launch two probes of the en- officers questioned in that probe reunions of families ness exams saw some of the lowest test scores of the year. divided by the Korean War WASHINGTON — Last summer, tire nuclear force to find root causes happened to be members of the saw each other for what is when dozens of nuclear missile offi- Percentage earning a perfect score* for leadership lapses and other prob- 341st Missile Wing at Malmstrom Air likely the last time this cers allegedly cheated on exams, test 100% lems — steps Hagel deemed neces- Force Base, Mont., and at least one weekend./Page B-4 scores were among the lowest of the Cheating suspected sary to restore public confidence. stands accused of having transmitted year, according to Air Force records 80 Hagel says he believes the nuclear test answers to colleagues via text SAFE AND SECURE: The obtained by The Associated Press. 60 force remains secure and reliable but message. IUP men clinched a That is the opposite of what might be 40 says “something is wrong.” The exam in question, known as a first-round bye and a expected if answers were being 20 The alleged cheating has been de- T-1, is given monthly and is meant to second-round home game shared as widely as officials allege. scribed as a symptom of mismanage- test knowledge of classified proce- 0 in the PSAC playoffs with a Were they inept cheaters? an. Feb.J ar. pr.M ayA un.M ul.J Aug.J p. OctSe ov. Dec.N ment by commanders who have dures for targeting and launching the win over Edinboro on Was there, in fact, no sharing of an- 2013 given too much weight to monthly Minuteman 3s, the nation’s only Saturday night./Page C-1 swers during that period? *While 90 percent is considered a passing score, officers say they are test scores in determining which land-based nuclear missile. Over the Were test questions so difficult that under pressure to make a perfect score on each monthly test. launch officers get promoted. More course of a year, the tests cover differ- CONFUSED CONSUMERS: SOURCE: U.S. Air ForceAP even the cheating by some failed to broadly, it reflects a degree of turmoil ent segments of a long list of launch When it comes to deciding produce higher-than-usual scores for still under investigation by the Air inside a force responsible for 450 nu- tasks. whether airline passengers the group as a whole? Force Office of Special Investigations. clear-tipped Minuteman 3 missiles In addition to these and other writ- can use their cellphones in The Air Force isn’t saying. It notes It ranks as the worst such scandal in that stand launch-ready in under- ten proficiency tests, missile launch flight, federal agencies are that tests are not identical each the history of the intercontinental ground silos in Montana, North officers undergo classroom instruc- sending different signals month, and thus score “variances can ballistic missile force and is among a Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado and Ne- tion and routine training on launch to customers./Page D-1 be expected.” series of security lapses and slip-ups braska. simulators; most do 24-hour shifts The facts of the tainted testing are that have plagued the ICBM corps The alleged cheating was uncov- Continued on Page A-8 Weather Today Tonight 42° 16° Gunman robs STILL GOING STRONG convenience store Clouds and sun today. A bit of snow tonight. 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(724) 463-6050 Or At The Rustic Lodge Classifieds Your Subscription. www.budashandwelch.com On March 1st, Call (724) 465-6042 A-8 — Sunday, February 23, 2014 The Indiana Gazette Records: Test scores fell flat during alleged cheating Continued from Page A-1 Malmstrom in 2000-04, said performance of launch offi- spokesman, Lt. Col. Brett 2013. Perfect scores are not from launch duty, test results “on alert” in underground that while he is not privy to cers. Ashworth, said it’s not clear required; to pass the test an declined sharply. The 12th launch control centers about inside information about the Initially the Air Force said whether the cheating was officer needs to get 90 per- Missile Squadron, for exam- eight times a month with a investigation, one possible 34 officers assigned to the only in August or only in Sep- cent correct, meaning he or ple, had 62 percent perfect team of two officers respon- explanation for weaker over- 341st Missile Wing at Malm- tember, or in both months. she could not miss more scores in January, whereas it sible for 10 missiles. all scores in August and Sep- strom were implicated; that Test results obtained by the than three out of 30 ques- had about 90 percent perfect The Air Force has focused tember is that the test ques- later was raised to 92. All Associated Press under the tions. scores in each of the preced- its investigation on Malm- tions — for cheaters and have been taken off launch Freedom of Information Act Only one failing grade in ing three months. strom, where officials say the noncheaters alike — may duty, creating a shortage that suggest a different scenario. the Malmstrom wing was The AP’s review of test data cheating took place during have been more difficult has been filled in part by • All three of the squadrons recorded out of 2,181 T-1 provided by each of the three late summer. Notably, in the than usual. temporarily augmenting that operate the Minuteman tests completed during 2013. ICBM bases shows widely months after the cheating al- “I saw that happen in my Malmstrom with 10 launch 3 force at Malmstrom had av- • All three squadrons did varying monthly results in legedly ended, scores at time,” he said. officers each from ICBM erage or weaker-than-usual markedly better on the T-1 2013. Malmstrom improved dra- Or, Weeden said, the weak- bases in North Dakota and T-1 test scores in August-Sep- test in October, November Records of the 91st Missile matically. er-than-expected results Wyoming. tember. and December, after the pe- Wing at Minot Air Force Base, Neither of these patterns — might reflect a slump in the About 40 of the 92 are al- Of the 44 members of the riod of alleged cheating. In N.D. where no reports of relatively weaker scores dur- quality of instruction prior to leged to have transmitted or 10th Missile Squadron tested the 490th Missile Squadron, cheating have surfaced — ing the period of alleged those tests. received test answers; the in August, for example, 79 for example, 47 officers were show that of 153 officers who cheating, and much im- It’s not clear what, if any, rest are accused of knowing percent recorded perfect tested in October and 46, or took the T-1 test in June, 30 proved results later — seems connection there might be to but not reporting it. scores. 98 percent, got perfect failed. Just six months earlier, to fit with the scenario de- the fact that the Malmstrom Gen. Mark Welsh, the Air That was about the norm scores; 45 of 47 were perfect in December 2012, 150 in scribed by Air Force officials wing failed a nuclear security Force’s top general, told re- during the spring and sum- in November and 47 of 51 that unit took the test and in January when they an- inspection in August and was porters on Jan. 15 that “the mer months of 2013 but well were perfect in December. none failed. nounced the cheating inves- successfully re-inspected in indications are that this com- below most other months. In • In January, the month in What’s more, all 150 of tigation. October. The August failure promise that we’re aware of September the squadron had which the cheating was an- those officers got perfect Brian Weeden, who served was related to a problem happened in the August-Sep- 42 percent perfect scores — nounced and the first impli- scores — not a single incor- on Minuteman 3 crews at with security forces, not the tember timeframe.” A the weakest of any month in cated officers were removed rect answer. Leader rallies DODGEBALL DIVAS Kiev crowd Continued from Page A-1 Catherine Ashton wel- Ukraine!” she said of the comed the release of Ty- victims. The Health Min- moshenko as “an impor- istry on Saturday said the tant step forward in view of death toll in clashes be- addressing concerns re- tween protesters and police garding selective justice in that included sniper at- the country.” tacks had reached 82. The president’s support And she urged the base crumbled further as a demonstrators not to yield leading governor and a their encampment in the mayor from the eastern city square, known in Ukrainian of Kharkiv fled to Russia. as the Maidan. Oleh Slobodyan, a “In no case do you have spokesman for the border the right to leave the Maid- guard service, told The As- an until you have conclud- sociated Press that the ed everything that you Kharkiv regional governor planned to do,” she said. and mayor left Ukraine The crowd was thrilled. across the nearby Russian “We missed Yulia and her border. Another service fire so much,” said demon- spokesman, Serhiy As- strator Yuliya Sulchanik. takhov, said the former Minutes after her release, prosecutor-general and Tymoshenko said she plans former taxation minister to run for president, and were prevented from leav- Sulchanik said “Yulia will ing on the order of unspeci- be the next president — she fied law-enforcement deserves it.” agencies. Russia came out Under the agreement Saturday firmly against the signed Friday, Yanukovych peace deal, saying the op- faces early elections, but it position isn’t holding up its is unclear when they will end of the agreement, happen. which calls for protesters to JAMES J. NESTOR/Gazette His authority in Kiev ap- surrender arms and aban- peared to be eroding by the don their tent camps. Ty- DELTA ZETA sorority at Indiana University of Pennsylvania held a dodgeball tournament Saturday with other sororities at Zink Hall hour. moshenko’s entreaty is like- to raise funds for its philanthropies. Sara Smiley, a sophomore marketing major, threw the ball in an attempt to hit another player. Yanukovych spoke on tel- ly to make the latter condi- evision in Kharkiv, the tion slow to be fulfilled. heartland of his base of Russian Foreign Minister support and ironically the Sergey Lavrov on Saturday same city where Ty- called his German, French moshenko was impris- and Polish counterparts oned. He truculently and urged them to use their Olympic service blends local likened his opponents to influence with the Ukrain- the rise of Nazism in the ian opposition to stop what 1930s and accused them of he described as rampages a putsch. “Everything that by its supporters. European doctor’s love of sports, medicine is happening today is, to a officials urged calm. greater degree, vandalism Ukraine’s defense and Continued from Page A-1 at Indiana University of The team doctors also deal discomfort. and banditry and a coup military officials also called work with that level of ath- Pennsylvania since 1994. with concussions, abdomi- Another qualification for d’etat,” he said. “I will do for Ukrainians to stay letes. Just the organization is His preparation for a World nal injuries and chest trau- the ski team physicians is everything to protect my peaceful. In statements Sat- very, very impressive.” Cup competition starts in the ma. that they are skiers, too. country from breakup, to urday, both the Defense McKirgan was a member of spring when he gets his as- “Our job, as a team physi- McKirgan is usually posi- stop bloodshed.” Ministry and the chief of the medical team for the signment. One of the first cian, is to stay with that ath- tioned a short distance down Ukraine is deeply divided the armed forces said they 1996 Summer Olympic things he does is review the lete, as soon as we assess the hill below the starting between eastern regions will not be drawn into any Games in Atlanta and the World Anti-Doping Agency them, through the entire gate. Coaches and staff that are largely pro-Russian conflict and will side with 2003 Pan American Games in rules so he knows which process,” McKirgan said. “If members located along the and western areas that the people. But they did not the Dominican Republic. medicines are banned. they go to a clinic, and then race course are in contact widely detest Yanukovych specify whether they still Since 2007, his assignments “Some drugs we may have get helicoptered to a regional with each other by radios. and long for closer ties with support the president or as the physician for the men’s used in ’96 we can’t use now,” trauma center, we go with “If somebody goes down the European Union. are with the opposition. Alpine ski team have taken he said. them. A lot of our job is to (crashes), I have to be above Yanukovych’s shelving of an In Kharkiv, governors, him to World Cup competi- “Once I get my assignment protect the athlete, be an ad- them so I can ski to them,” agreement with the EU in provincial officials and leg- tions — which help decide I start researching where the vocate for the athlete. A sur- McKirgan said. “And that’s November set off the wave islators gathered alongside who will represent countries medical facilities are in that geon over there may say (to the challenge because it is of protests, but they quickly top Russian lawmakers and in the Olympics — in Italy area,” he said. “In the United an injured athlete), ‘Well, ice. We also have a trauma expanded their grievances issued a statement saying three times, and in Austria, States we take it for granted you’ve got this problem and pack that we wear.” to corruption, human that the events in Kiev have Switzerland and France. that wherever you are and we need to do X, Y and Z.’ My It might seem that a little rights abuses and calls for led to the “paralysis of the The assignments typically get hurt, you call 911. … In job is to say, ‘Maybe I agree recreational skiing would be Yanukovych’s resignation. central government and involve a week or two each some of these other coun- with that. Maybe I don’t a perk of being a ski team The conviction of Ty- destabilization of the situa- winter. tries it may not be that well- agree with that.’ ” physician. But there’s not moshenko was one of the tion in the country.” “These guys don’t ski every organized. The team physician may much free time for the doc- underlying issues driving Some called for the for- four years. They’re skiing 12 “I get there before the team also treat an athlete for tors. the protests. After the 2004 mation of volunteer mili- months a year” in World Cup gets there and I’ll go to the something as common as a A typical day for them often Orange Revolution helped tias to defend against pro- competitions, McKirgan venue, which is usually a cold. starts before dawn. bring Viktor Yushchenko to testers from western re- said. “Pretty much every small community, smaller “We’re with them 24/7 “You see them (the ath- the presidency, Ty- gions, even as they urged weekend or every other week than Indiana. It’s a village at pretty much,” McKirgan said. letes) on TV for two minutes moshenko became prime army units to maintain they’re skiing in some inter- the base of a ski resort, not a “You try to get athletes back and they’re done,” McKirgan minister. But when neutrality and protect am- national competition” in the great big metropolitan area,” to sport as safely and as soon said. But in reality the ath- Yanukovych won the 2010 munition depots. U.S. Canada or Europe. and may have a clinic rather as possible. Sometimes in the letes are training all the days election, Tymoshenko was Anti-government protest- “There is not one team than a hospital, he said. public sector you can be leading up to the competi- arrested and put on trial for ers around the country physician that stays with “I’ll go the medical clinics more conservative. But these tion. abuse of office, an action took out their anger on these guys through the cal- (and ask), ‘What kind of doc- guys are pushing the enve- “We eat breakfast with widely seen as political re- statues of Soviet founder endar year. So there’s a group tors do you have? Do you lope (and say) ‘If I’m not them. Ride the gondola with venge. On Saturday, before Vladimir Lenin, using ropes of us” sharing duties as the have X-ray? Do you have a CT going to die, I still want to them. Go up the mountain Tymoshenko’s arrival, other and crowbars to knock team doctor. scan?’ I have to figure out the ski.’ You’ve got to find that with them,” he said. “Any- opposition figures hailed them off pedestals in sever- An athletic trainer stays logistics. If someone is hurt fine line (and say to them), time the ski team is training Yanukovych’s deteriorating al cities and towns. Statues with the team year-round. really bad, where are we ‘It’s safe for you to do it but on the mountain, I have to be hold on the country. of Lenin still stand across “We’re there to assist him,” going to take him?” you’re still hurting a little on the mountain. … There’s “The people have won, the former U.S.S.R., and McKirgan said. McKirgan said he also goes bit.’” always a team meeting at the because we fought for our they are seen as a symbol of “Usually when I’m at an to trauma centers to meet Injured Olympic athletes end of the night. … They future,” said opposition Moscow’s rule. event it’s usually the ‘A Team’ local surgeons. can also be a special breed of want us to be involved in all leader Vitali Klitschko to a The past week has seen — that’s Bode Miller, Ted “The time to introduce my- patient. that. They want us available euphoric crowd of thou- the worst violence in Ligety and those guys,” with self is not during an emer- “They’re extremely moti- 24/7.” sands on Independence Ukraine since the breakup about a dozen athletes on the gency when I’m bringing an vated to do whatever you ask In March, McKirgan will be Square. Beneath a cold, of the Soviet Union a quar- team. athlete in,” he said. them to do to get better to off to Lenzerheide, Switzer- heavy rain, protesters who ter-century ago. At Inde- Being selected as a team Olympic-level sports on compete,” he said. “Their land, as the team physician have stood for weeks and pendence Square Saturday, doctor for the U.S. Olympic the side of an icy mountain level of health is top-notch” during the World Cup Finals. months to pressure the protesters heaped flowers Committee is a long process can easily result in serious in- and they pay close attention “I am very appreciative that president to leave congrat- on the coffins of the dead. that involves submitting an juries. to their nutrition and do I have partners and staff here ulated each other and “These are heroes of application and going “With men’s downhill everything to stay healthy. at COSM who help support shouted “Glory to Ukraine!” Ukraine who gave their through security and back- alpine skiing, it’s a lot of mus- “If you look at the downhill me,” he said. “It is only the beginning lives so that we could live in ground checks and creden- cular-skeletal trauma — bro- (athletes), the top 20 skiers “Because if you lose some- of the battle,” Klitschko a different country without tialing. ken legs, knee injuries,” are within two seconds of body for a week or two that said, urging calm and Yanukovych,” said protest- It’s also imperative to have McKirgan said. “These ath- each other and they’re going puts more work on them. I telling protesters not to er Viktor Fedoruk, 32. experience working with ath- letes are going 85 miles an two miles. … They’re willing greatly appreciate the pa- take justice into their own “Their names will be writ- letic teams. McKirgan has hour. And they inject the to do whatever it takes to get tience and understanding hands. ten in golden letters in the been involved with athletic mountain with water, they back to competition” and that I’m not here all the Top EU foreign envoy history of Ukraine.” training and sports medicine make it ice.” they’ll work through some time.”