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Volume 124, Issue 28
Graduate Writing Circle Dinner held for ISU students Calvin Hart Reporter
A Graduate Writing Circle Dinner was held last week on the ninth floor of the Hulman Memorial Student Union to have a workshop about writing research papers. Nicole Bailey, executive director of Student Success, pulled together members of the Math and Writing Center and graduate students to talk about the workshop. “(The event is) a write night and graduate students who are studying basically anything come together every three weeks to have a workshop about their writing at night from 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. on the ninth floor on HMSU,” Bailey said. Bailey continued to talk about writing specialists at the event and their purpose for being present. “Including myself there will be writing specialists there so if the students have any
problems with their writing they are able to ask us, and we will answer their questions,” Bailey said. During the night, students were shown a slide show with tips and tricks for successful writing, and then were introduced to the idea of elevator speeches, which are not recommended for graduate students, “but (are) a great way for the students to keep their idea of what (they are) are writing about fresh and alive in their mind,” Bailey said. After the short workshop, it was time for the students to start to work with the other graduate students at the “write night.” Some of the students went by themselves, while others came with a group, like graduate student Vanessa Rojas who was writing about bat ecology. “I try to write every day, and it’s nice to write in a different environment with people from my lab,” Rojas said.
Rojas said that attending the event was a good way to get feedback, especially at one dedicated to learning from her fellow graduate students. Other graduate students like Dan Borkowski, who doesn’t know what he wants to do with his research writing, came to get inspiration about what to write and to see the writing style of other graduate students. “This was required for me to go, but I still wanted to attend because of the free help I can get from coming tonight,” Borkowski said. Graduate student Se’lah Anderson, who is writing about healthcare, came to gain confidence in her writing ability. “I needed a boost of confidence to continue writing this twenty-page paper while I’m on page three,” Anderson said. “It’s nice to be around other grads who are experiencing the same struggle and getting to see
them come out of it would really help me gain confidence to continue writing.” Graduate students were able to ask questions to Bailey or some of the writing specialists from the math and writing center— like Ellie Pounds, the coordinator of the center— who wished to, “create a community for the graduate students to be able to share ideas and resources for their writing and stay inspired for their writing projects.” Students were able to leave when they felt satisfied with the help they received. “This is a collaboration with the library, student success and the college and success of graduate studies,” Bailey said. “My goal was for each student to produce a solid amount of writing for their projects. Also the biggest piece of advice I would give to people who are actively writing is seek out other people who are writing and get ideas from them.”
Campus celebrates Greek and Latin culture Claire Silcox Reporter
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The victim in Programs All Weekend’s murder mystery dinner victim lies motionless while those in attendance attempt to solve the crime.
Murder Mystery unfolds over dinner Rileigh McCoy Reporter
Programs All Weekend (PAW) recently held a “murder mystery dinner” for students to enjoy some food while investigating crime. Students in attendance enjoyed an Italian buffet, cheesecake, and strawberry lemonade for dinner, while solving the mystery of the vendetta against a Godfather’s family. Guests were provided sheets with which they kept track of their guess on who the killer could be for each round. Seats were limited in order to provide the actors with the opportunity to be seated and enjoy dinner alongside their guests. “Part of my position is to host events on the weekends to increase student involvement,” said Stephanie Beld, assistant director of Campus Life. “My programming assistants, Brooke Biggs and Kaila Barnes, were interested in throwing a murder mystery event to go along with Halloween season, so this is the perfect time to do that.” Beld explained that events like this have only happened once before with Staff Council, but that this is the first time that PAW had taken the lead. All actors, both PAW programming assistants and Union Board members, were present.
While guests found their seats, the actors roamed the room, greeting guests in character. This allowed for guests to get a feel for what each character was like, and the role he or she would play. Each actor had a name-tag to help guests keep track of the individuals. “There is not a specific agenda or timeline for students/participants to follow along with,” Beld said. “Most of the show is improvised so we don’t want to restrict the actors.” After dinner was served, the actors took their places on the stage and began the show. The narrator, Kaila Barnes, helped guests understand what was happening and instructed them on when to make their guesses of who the killer was. Beld explained that seats were limited to 50 available spots since the actors also had to be seated with the guests. Overall, 43 seats were filled. The plot of the show was mainly focused on the Godfather’s family. Denato Bruzinski was the Godfather’s name, and he took charge after Rita’s parents died, being Rita’s uncle. Rita was upset about her parents passing, and that the Godfather was now taking control. Aunt Connie was the Godfather’s wife who just wanted to make lasagna and call everything good. “Dapper Dan” also did not want to be a
part of all the drama, but because he was the Godfather’s accountant, Dan was a part of the mob and was forced into it. Waldo was the brother of the Godfather and other uncle of Rita. He wanted to take power, but had no luck after his brother took control. “Fifi” was an undercover agent who was disguised as a lady of the night to infiltrate the Godfather’s family. “Crusher” was the Godfather’s silent and brooding bodyguard who was among the first to die. Jimmy was a hired killer, who carried an envelope full of money in his shirt pocket, who died first after trying to kill the Godfather. Crusher was the one who took Jimmy down, but he died not long after Jimmy. One by one as the mystery unfolded about the Godfather’s money disappearing and Jimmy attempting to kill the Godfather, more characters began to be murdered. Behind the scenes. Guests had trouble figuring out who the killer was and were shocked to find out Rita was the one responsible the whole time. When Rita was not on stage acting innocent, she sat with the guests and ate dinner very friendly. Guests who were seated with her were especially shocked to discover they ate dinner with the killer.
Eta Sigma Phi and the Languages, Literature and Linguistics Department hosted their annual Classics Fest in Cunningham Memorial Library’s event center from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 28. It was an all-day event that welcomed all to celebrate classic literature. “Classics Fest is a celebration of the study of ancient Greek and Latin language, literature and culture at ISU. Its purpose is to bring together students, faculty, alumni, and friends of Classical Studies at ISU in an exchange of research and shared interest in the ancient world,” said Marilyn Bisch, faculty advisor for Eta Sigma Phi and the coordinator of Latin and Classical Studies for the LLL department. With all sorts of programs throughout the day, the event covered many fields of ancient Greek and Latin. Many of the presentations came from Bisch’s and Donald Shorter’s general honors classes. Students, staff and community members that attended the event received lessons on all aspects of ancient traditions and facts. From the daily meal schedules to the classical backgrounds of the characters from the “Harry Potter” series, the event incorporated fun and interesting facts from the ancient literature that many did not know. One of the many presentations was by Alexander Jennermann over the Trajan’s Market, which he called the ‘mall’ of Ancient
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Indiana State students get spooky in Hines Hall Corey Hair Reporter
Fall is a time for trick-or-treating, costumes, parties, haunted houses and other types of celebration. Usually students choose to go off-campus to enjoy the festivities of Halloween in their hometown, but ISU provided several events this year in order to give the students plenty of activities to indulge and participate in. The main attractions for ISU this Halloween season were the various haunted houses that were hosted throughout its residence halls. The Hines Hall haunted house seemed to be one of many main events for the weekend. “We’re going a little bit from last year to this year; last year this was one of the better haunted houses, and it actually won an RHA award last year for best program,” Andrew Garnes, ISU student and RHA member, said. Councils from each respective ResAdam Jayne | Indiana Statesman Students in Hines Hall were dressed for screams over the weekend as they hosted a haunted house idence Hall organized these haunted houses, and took a great deal of pride in the residence hall.
in the finished product and producing great work. “Scary, man,” Garnes said when asked what the specific theme for Hines haunted house would be this year. “I kind of like the idea of taking a trip through our nightmare; nightmares aren’t always consistent. You just wake up and know stuff happened,” Garnes said. Garnes and the rest of the Hines crew seemed ecstatic about discussing the upcoming event and there was no doubt that there was intent for the house to be scary and not just for show. “It’s been nice to see the different communities work together to put this event on,” Garnes said. The haunted house was a collaboration of Hines, Jones and Sandison Halls. They worked together to put the best product possible for students and staff alike to enjoy. Students appeared to come out in
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Miss Ebony Pageant to take place next fall Nevia Buford Reporter
The Miss Ebony pageant will not take place this year due to the recent construction in the African American Cultural Center. “Miss Ebony is open to all women who understand that this is not a ‘beauty pageant’ but a program that judges women on a broad range of qualities,” according to the ISU website. Brice Yates, director of the African American Cultural Center, explained the reason for the delay. “This past summer, the cultural center went under some
First Sycamores program benefits first generation college students Rileigh McCoy Reporter
First Sycamores is a program recently implemented by Indiana State University’s Office of Student Success in order to help first-generation Sycamores succeed. According to the official ISU webpage, “Mentors work with their mentees all year, through email, by phone and/or in-person meetings, as well as join organized gatherings for all First Sycamores and with other organizations on campus, building relationships, making connections, and providing the guidance first-generation students need to make the transition to college easier.” “First Sycamores” are first-generation college students whose parents or family members did not obtain a four-year degree. The program provides these students with various resources to help them stay on track and also provides a mentor who was also a first-generation college student. “We wanted to build a program that both provided them a community of support amongst themselves, but also to be able to connect them with faculty and staff who themselves were first-generation college students when they were undergraduates,” said Joshua Powers, associate vice president for Student Success. The program began three or four years ago, as explained by Powers, and was inspired by a movie. The Office of Student Success was then able to reach out to faculty members and connect them with students. “The mentoring part of it is what launched it,” Powers said. “About four years ago, there was a film that came out called ”First Generation” and we showed it here on our campus to our faculty and staff. It laid the groundwork for me to ask the question, ‘I’ll bet we have faculty and staff
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renovations, and then we were temporarily over in Rankin hall. So to make sure we were actually putting on a quality event, I decided that it would be best to hold off doing it this year,” Yates said. “Putting on a pageant takes some time, and so I feel that it will be very difficult to do a proper pageant in a few months’ time span.” Yates said that the pageant will continue as planned next fall. “We’ll probably just start brainstorming some ideas, and just working on probably getting a committee, getting some folks on board probably towards the tail end of spring.”
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Winner of the 2015 Miss Ebony pageant, Jalynne Messer and other contestants are shown above.
Comey is quiet on Clinton emails Michael Riley
Bloomberg News
WASHINGTON — Facing another day of ferocious attacks by the Clinton campaign, FBI Director James Comey indicated that he may have nothing more to say before Election Day on his agency’s renewed investigation into Hillary Clinton-related emails. The FBI head briefed the top Republican and Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee Saturday and was pressed to clarify a number of questions, including whether the bureau is certain the newly-discovered emails contained classified information. To most of the questions, “he did not give us any response in terms of what more he could say,” Bob Goodlatte, the Virginia Republican who chairs the committee, said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” Further detail was purportedly offered in anonymous and often contradictory leaks regarding the new batch of emails found on a computer belonging to former Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., the estranged husband of Clinton aide Huma Abedin. Friday, Comey told Congress in a brief letter that the FBI would examine the newly discovered emails. Goodlatte said Comey told him agents “don’t know” if there is any classified information in the emails. The one thing most Democrats and Republicans seem to agree on is that both sides want more information. Comey, in his letter to Congress, said the emails, which agents stumbled upon during an investigation into sexting by Weiner, “appear to be pertinent” to its investigation. Critics seized on that language after leaks suggested that the emails had yet to be examined by agents and that they in fact may need a court order to look at them. It’s also unclear how many emails were found and whether they were sent to or from the private e-mail server Clinton used while secretary of state, which was the investigation’s initial focus.
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U.S. FBI Director James Comey testifies before the House Oversight Committee over investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email system, on Capitol Hill July 7, 2016 in Washington, D.C. The FBI said Friday it is reviewing newly discovered emails
“This investigation has been bungled from the start,” Ronald Johnson, R-Wis, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said on the Fox’s “Sunday Morning Futures.” Clinton’s running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, on “This Week,” offered blistering criticism of Comey after spending several weeks defending his judgment and the decision to close the email case in July. “You can’t break both of these protocols and then leave it just kind of up in the air with a question mark,” Kaine said, referring to guidance Justice Department officials gave Comey before sending the letter. Several media outlets reported that the FBI director was told that it would violate two long-standing protocols not to discuss ongoing investigations and not to take major investigative steps that could be perceived as interfering in politics. Richard Painter, chief White House ethics lawyer from 2005 to 2007, wrote in the New York Times on Sunday that he had filed a complaint against the FBI
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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton holds a rally on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016 at The Manor Complex in Wilton Manors, Fla.
for a possible violation of the Hatch Act, which bars the use of
an official position to influence an election.
McMullin tries to transform conservative politics Melanie Mason Los Angeles Times
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Cecil and Tiffany Sullivan have attended four rallies for Evan McMullin.
DRAPER, Utah — Suburban, staunchly Republican Utah was an unlikely place for a packed, late-October presidential campaign rally, humming with the air of suspense of an up-forgrabs race. But in an election year defined by its improbability, this state has become a battleground, thanks to the candidate whom hundreds turned out to see a couple of weeks ago in a high school gym: Evan McMullin, a little-known policy wonk turned political sensation who suddenly has a credible shot to win Utah’s six electoral votes. Such a feat would make him the first candidate outside the two major parties to win a state in a presidential election since
segregationist George Wallace in 1968. McMullin, though, is aiming for more than a spot in obscure political trivia. He has cast his campaign as the start of a “new conservative movement,” offering a glimpse of the post-election identity crisis that awaits the GOP. “We’re skeptical the Republican Party can make the kind of changes it needs to make in order to be a viable political vehicle for the conservative movement,” McMullin said in an interview. “But if they can’t, then we’ll have this movement and we may have to start something else.” The 40-year-old jumped into the race in August with a more modest goal of offering refuge for Republicans turned off by Donald Trump. “We wanted a place for conservatives to say, ‘I cast a vote
in 2016 that I didn’t feel I had to take a shower in bleach after,’” said Rick Wilson, a veteran GOP strategist who is advising the campaign. Most recently the chief policy wonk for House Republicans, McMullin also worked overseas on counterterrorism operations for the CIA and did a stint as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. A presidential bid was not the logical next step on his resume, he conceded. But after failing to persuade Republicans with more gravitas to challenge Trump, McMullin decided to run himself. Mindy Finn, a Republican digital strategist, joined the ticket as his running mate. The shoestring campaign raised half a million dollars in
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McMullin is quick to acknowledge that scenario is deeply unlikely. His case now largely rests on encouraging voters to send a message, particularly to the Republican establishment. In Utah, where voters nev-
er fully warmed to either major-party candidate, the message resonates. Utah has backed the Republican candidate for president for more than half a century. But Trump has struggled to win over Mormons, who make up nearly 60 percent of the state’s voters.
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on our campus who were first-generation students themselves.’ So we simply sent an email out, starting with the faculty and got a bunch who responded wanting to be a mentor.” Powers explained that this year the Office of Student Success began reaching out to firstyear students more to create a relationship with faculty members. Powers stated that there are about 26 faculty member mentors, with a few graduate student mentors who are guiding approximately 46 students, almost twice as many students as compared to last year. “We did some training with our mentors earlier in the semester where we provided them some insights on how to be a good mentor, how to go about developing relationships, what the relationship is not because there is some professional distance,” Powers said. “The mentors themselves need to have some tools or skills to be able to reach out to students in an email in a way that might get a response in a positive way.” Powers also explained that there is not a set example for first-generation students. These students might not be familiar with what attending a university is like at first. The First Sycamores program is meant to help navigate students and parents. “They bring so much to this campus,” Powers said of the difficulties of First Sycamores. “They’re assets for the campus. They’re very interested, I find, in community service and giving back to the community so there is a lot of energy there. They’re involved in all kinds of activities, but they may not know how to make those things accessible, so the program helps to bridge that.”
Rome. The Trajan’s Market took seven years to construct out of brick faced concrete, and was four stories tall with six separate levels. The lower levels were shops and the higher ones were apartments. There were over 170 shops, a library and even a street going through the second story. There were game tables for patrons to test their Greek and Roman knowledge, including a translation worksheet from Greek into English, and a table about studying abroad. “Get culture. Get credit. Get lost.” This is the official slogan for the study abroad of-
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For a while, Gary Johnson, the Libertarian nominee, made a showing in the polls. Residents also openly pined for alternatives such as Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee, who now lives in Utah, is Mormon and ran the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in 2002.
“Utahns were genuinely searching,” said Boyd Matheson, president of the Sutherland Institute, a conservative think tank based in Salt Lake City. McMullin, a Mormon who was born in Provo and attended Brigham Young University, was primed to capitalize on that
fice at ISU. During the Classic fest, the staff encouraged the students to go out and learn classic literature through real-life experience such as studying abroad. During the Study Abroad information hour, Bisch spoke about the study abroad possibilities in the future. There are opportunities for students to take trips, covering an entire semester in another country. There are also short-term study abroad trips as well, which are usually two-week trips for classes. The two upcoming trips that she mentioned are for May of 2017 and 2018. This upcoming May there is a trip to Germany called “In the Footsteps of Martin Luther.”
ing students around ISU this weekend, as opposed to going home, which was a main goal of the organizing crew. There were other events that were hosted around campus, including a Halloween party, Halloween themed bingo, and the other residential hall haunted houses. Blumberg held their own project, and Burford and Erickson collaborated on a project of their own which both had big turnouts.
dissatisfaction. He surged in Utah polls after a leaked “Access Hollywood” tape from 2005 revealed Donald Trump speaking crudely about groping women. McMullin framed his campaign as an exploration of principles — a discourse shared between friends and neighbors.
The 2018 trip will be to Italy, part in Rome and then in Sorrento. The students going on this trip will be mainly Language Studies majors and general honor students. “The opportunity for students to be immersed in a new culture and expand upon the knowledge and skills they have learned in the classroom. This brings about better understanding of other people in our world, which is always a good thing,” Bisch said. With a variety of information from Study Abroad presentations to cultural projects, Classics Fest is always an educational experience. The event is in its 12th year. It is held every fall and spring semester.
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Relay for Life raises money for cancer awareness Adrienne Morris Reporter
Relay for Life, a fundraising event for the American Cancer Society, came to Indiana State University to fundraise and spread awareness about cancer. The Relay for Life events began in 1985, when Dr. Gordon “Gordy” Klatt walked around a track for 24 hours in order to raise money for the American Cancer Society. Klatt raised $27,000 in pledges while he walked along the track. The year after Klatt did his 24-hour walk, 19 teams participated in the first Relay event and raised a total of $33,000. Since then, the event has raised over $5 billion worldwide. Relay for Life has become the largest non-profit fundraising event in the world. All over the country, multiple universities participate in Relay for Life in
hopes of raising money for the American Cancer Society. “The Relay for Life events happen at colleges across the country. What they do is they fundraise and raise money for the American Cancer Society which they then use to find cures for cancer and help out families,” ISU student Audra Dial said. During the event, there were multiple teams who volunteered their time in order to fundraise for the American Cancer Society. “We have teams set up on the side. We just try to have a person from each team walking on the track at all times. Essentially, the purpose is that when someone is going through cancer and they do chemo and radiation they are tired and worn out. By the end of this we want people to be tired and worn out,” Dial said. While people walked around the track, music and chatter
filled the air. People of the event set up areas in which their teams were able to create a space where they could come back to after they completed their laps. The sites set up were also designated for people to give donations. The donations counted toward their overall fundraising goal at the end of the night through games and activities. Throughout the event, teams were able to visit other teams’ stations in order to participate in activities and learn more about cancer and the American Cancer Society. People who were unable to go to the event can still donate money through the Relay for Life, American Cancer Society website. Relay for Life was also used to show that people living with cancer are not alone and that there is support from people all over the world.
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Students take a moment away from participating in Relay for Life to pose for a picture during the event on Friday, Oct. 28 at Rec East.
“Everyone has been touched by cancer in some point of their lives. I think it’s just important to get the word out to everybody so
that they can understand a cure can come for cancer; we just all have to come together and help find one,” Dial said.
Sycamores scared during Haunting in the Hulman Michaela Harrison Reporter
Witches, zombies, vampires, goblins, ghouls and Sycamores of all monstrosities were all gathered together for the Haunting in the Hulman Memorial Student Union this weekend in honor of Halloween season. The Haunting in the Hulman event took place on Saturday, Oct. 29 from 8 to 11 p.m. in Dede I, II and III on Indiana State University’s campus. The theme for Haunting in the Hulman was the circus. Given the recent activities and publicity surrounding clowns this year, this theme was highly effective at being creepy. Dede I and Dede II were the main stages of the haunted house. Refreshments were provided in Dede III, along with festive games. For anyone that was not interested in standing in a long line to get scared, there was a “fast pass” option. Bringing in a non-perishable food item allowed students to go directly to the entrance without having to wait in line. ISU student Jane Lopez thought the event was a success. “It is definitely a 10/10. It was absolute fun, and I really am glad that I decided to come. It really put me in a Halloween-y mood,” Lopez said. From a circus-themed maze through the Dede I and Dede II, and then the “after fright” in Dede III with food and games, there was something for everyone to enjoy this Saturday.
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The 75 anniversary cover photo for the comic book superhero Wonder Woman.
75 and loving it Wonder Woman has a complicated place in pop culture
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Los Angeles Times (TNS)
This is an unparalleled time for women in American history. The polls are predicting the first female president. Narrowing the wage gap has become part of legislative agendas. Activists are battling against sexual assault and for abortion rights with a fervor not seen in decades and the glass ceiling is looking more fragile every day. It is also the 75th anniversary of Wonder Woman. Coincidence? Perhaps not. The creation of Dr. William Moulton Marston, a psychologist with broad-minded views on sexual expression whose work as an inventor would led to the creation of the lie detector, Diana, princess of the Amazonian island of Themyscera, has always stood out. She isn’t some rich orphan boy turned vigilante like Batman or last son of a dead planet. Wonder Woman is the child of a god. The Amazonian princess first appeared in the eighth issue of 1941 “All Star Comics.” Her nine-page origin story swiftly lead to her first
cover on “Sensation Comics No. 1” where she appears deflecting bullets from a tommy gun with her now iconic bracelets. But her weapon of choice is the lasso of truth. A golden rope that forces those constrained to reveal their deepest secrets, the lasso allowed her to not just right wrongs both as a crime fighter and an instigator of social justice. A warrior with godlike strength (and a penchant for bondage) she prefers peace and love to war and violence, a contradiction that has along made her a symbol of female empowerment, and the center of controversy. Even as recently as last week. Apart of her 75 anniversary celebration, Wonder Woman was recently made an Honorary United Nations Ambassador for the empowerment of women and girls. On Oct. 21, a ceremony was held at the U.N. headquarters in New York City with speeches from the star of Wonder Woman’s first feature film Gal Gadot, Lynda Carter, and President of DC Entertainment Diane Nelson. But behind the pomp and circumstance, past the little girls in yellow tiaras, a number of adults stood at the top of the auditorium
with their backs to the ceremony in silent protest of Wonder Woman’s new title. The protesters were “concerned United Nations staff members” who had started an online petition asking the UN to “reconsider the choice of Wonder Woman as the UN’s Honorary Ambassador for the empowerment of women and girls.” The request argued that although Wonder Woman was created with the intent of showcasing strong feminism, ”the character’s current iteration is that of a large breasted, white woman of impossible proportions, scantily clad in a shimmery, thigh-baring body suit with an American flag motif and knee high boots — the epitome of a ‘pin-up’ girl.” The petition declared her to be an inappropriate representation to the rest of the world of gender equality. One of the signatures on the petition belonged to founding director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women Margaret C. Snyder, now retired from the U.N. And she was not thrilled about Wonder Woman’s new role. “I think it’s shocking and absurd,” Snyder said over the phone. “And
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Three surfers turned California’s grizzly into a fashion icon Peter H. King
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — As often happens in the annals of California innovation, the story of how one of the state’s last grizzly bears came to be a global fashion icon begins in an 8-by-8 foot garage. In the early 1980s, three young surfers — Kevin Greenwood, Mark Travis and Andrew Batty — set up shop in the Central Coast beach town of Cayucos, seeking to join forces in the T-shirt trade. They named their enterprise Dolphin Shirt. Co., decorating their apparel with images of orcas, sea lions and, yes, dolphins. It was tough going at first: To purchase supplies, the partners often pooled their pocket change. In time, though, Dolphin Shirt expanded, first into a barn, and then to a small shop here near the railroad station. Enter the bear. “I noticed that animals were selling,” recalled Don Pimentel, a self-employed architect dabbling in T-shirt design. “I said, ‘Wow, I can do that.’” In 1985 Pimentel painted a bear, working off an outline of the grizzly that marches across the California flag. He presented
it to Dolphin and then headed to Hawaii. While Pimentel was away, the partners expanded on his design. His rendition of the bear, with his signature found just below its rear, right paw, remained. But now a red star hovered over the bear’s snout and a bar ran across the bottom, underscoring the legend “California Republic.” In short, the shirt makers had more or less replicated the California state flag, whose design is rooted in the banner of the socalled Bear Flag Revolt of 1846. They sold eight dozen shirts right off the bat. “It just started going,” Greenwood said, “and going and going. And it’s still going.” Thirty years later, the no longer quite-so-young surfers — Greenwood gives his age as 59 and a half and three quarters — find themselves riding a fresh wave of global enthusiasm for all things California. The trend goes far beyond bear-flag themed T-shirts and related knickknacks and spin-offs. “California as a brand is incredibly valuable overseas,” said economist Kevin Klowden, who directs the Milken Institute’s California Center in Santa Monica. “It probably does better outside the state than inside.” He sees it in the explosion of
Chinese direct investment in California, which, according to a California Center study released earlier this year, grew from $100 million in 2005 to $9 billion in 2015. He sees it in all manner of foreign investors seeking to secure a piece of California real estate, or agriculture, or Silicon Valley innovation. While beaches, movie stars and beautiful mountains don’t hurt, this does not seem to be about the realities of California — see gridlock, gang crime, sprawl, gaping income disparities, soaring rent, overtaxed water supplies — but rather about the idea of California. Economic and design experts note that the phrase “designed in California” now trumps the notion of made in California. They point to the message Apple inserts into boxes that carry its phones to consumers worldwide: “Designed by Apple in California.” Simon Sadler, a UC Davis professor of architecture and urban history, described the phenomenon a few years back in Bolt, the UC Press e-magazine: “Even when California design offers little more than an ersatz commonwealth through consumption, it arrives in the market accompanied by the hope of
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Kevin Greenwood, Willie Travis and his parents Martie and Mark Travis, left to right, all manage The Dolphin Shirt Company in San Luis Obispo, Calif.
something more than another consumer fetish.” “California design,” he continued, “promises to do something, to enable its subjects to attain a better and more replete future. Over-wrought though that might seem, the beautiful (Apple) boxes shipping from California contain this covenant, illusory or real.” As do products brandishing variations on the California bear
flag motif. ——— That the flag of the short-lived California Republic would become shorthand for cool contains a double dip of irony. While the 1846 uprising by American settlers in what was then a part of Mexico has its defenders, it more often is mocked in the history books.
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WONDER WOMAN FROM PAGE 4 definitely a detriment to women worldwide and to the United Nations.” The U.N.’s decision not to discuss this nomination with its members coupled with the large grassroots campaign for a female Secretary General that went unheard, created an understandably adverse environment for honorary Ambassador Wonder Woman. When asked if DC would change Wonder Woman’s look if her image was going to be used in various conservative areas of the globe, Nelson said no. “We did work closely with the U.N. in the development (of her look) so that we were thinking about the sensitivities that might occur in other regions,” Nelson said shortly after the New York ceremony. “We want to be respectful of where the images should be appropriately garbed, but we’re not ultimately changing anything. We believe the character stands for the right values everywhere.”
CALIFORNIA FROM PAGE 4 Some historians have presented it as political intrigue, a plot meant to deliver Alta California into American rule. Others paint it as the work of a mob. In any event, on June 14, 1846, about three dozen men, usually described as a mix of settlers, trappers and adventurers, entered Sonoma, which historian Bernard DeVoto described as “a tiny little cluster of adobe houses (that) could have been captured by Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.” This “chance crowd of marauders,” as the philosopher Josiah Royce called them, sent their leaders into the home of Gen. Mariano Vallejo, a prominent Alta Californian who happened to favor independence from Mexico. Mystified as to why these conquerors were demanding to negotiate Mexico’s surrender with him, Vallejo offered them his liquor. When successive negotiators failed to emerge, the anxious band outside sent in one more replacement. “He found most of the con-
Nelson was quick to point out that the controversial past of the character is precisely what makes her relevant in 2016, but deferred to the U.N. as to the onsite protesters. “Wonder Woman is a perfect example of a character whose attributes, as they were created by Dr. Marston, were compelling then and even more so now,” she said. “We have increased conversation about gender equality just in our culture right now, here in the US and elsewhere. I think our complicated political situation domestically brings out the idea of peace versus violence and people appreciate that. Over the years Wonder Woman battled Nazis, was almost married to a monster, babysat a dinosaur, and fought a villain that was half racist interpretation of a Chinese communist and half egg, but her biggest battle was with society’s view of women. Gloria Steinem put the character on the first cover of “Ms.” magazine in 1971. Four years
ferees too far gone for business,” wrote historian Robert Glass Cleland. “Vallejo’s wine and aguardiente, taken on empty stomachs, had proved almost too much for the American commissioners.” Eventually, terms were drafted and the band escorted Vallejo and two companions to Sutter’s Fort. The invading party took to writing lofty proclamations about God and freedom and creating a proper flag. William Todd, nephew of Mary Todd Lincoln, took up the latter project with, as DeVoto noted, “women’s patriotism assisting him. The wife of one revolutionist sacrificed a chemise and the wife of another one a petticoat, and Todd made a flag.” It included a crude rendering of what Todd called a grizzly bear, but which at least one in the conquering party mistook for a hog. The women’s underthings were cut into a red star and a stripe, over which Todd wrote in ink and berry juice “California Republic.” The flag would fly over Sonoma for less than a month. When word reached
later Lynda Carter twirled Diana into a live action version on the popular television series. In the ‘80s, artist George Perez gave her an even more muscular look and helped her dig deeper into her ancient Amazonian roots. In 2010, artist Jim Lee (current DC Entertainment co-publisher) redesigned Diana’s costume to include pants. Most recently, writer Greg Rucka, who is currently spearheading DC’s relaunch of Wonder Woman in their Rebirth initiative, clarified her sexuality, giving her a backstory that includes relationships with women. “The way that these characters get updated tells us more about the world in which we live than the world in which these characters were created,” says Lepore. Which is exactly why Rucka wants to bring Wonder Woman back to the basics. “We live in a time of such acrimony,” Rucka said. “Diana is many things, she’s not acrimonious. She’s the antithesis of
the Bear Flaggers, as they were called, that the United States had gone to war with Mexico they replaced the banner with the Stars and Stripes. And so ended the California Republic. Enter another bear. In 1889, William Randolph Hearst, publisher of the San Francisco Examiner, aka Monarch of the Dailies, assigned a reporter to determine if there were any wild grizzlies left in California. After much effort, and with the help of many hirelings, the reporter finally captured a grizzly outside Ojai. At first a public sensation, the poor bear spent the next 20 years caged in San Francisco zoos, growing old and mangy before dwindling audiences. It died in 1912, and its pelt was stuffed and put on display. Forty years later the bear, dubbed Monarch, received a rebirth: The bear flag had been named the official state flag in 1911, but there were many variations, based loosely on Todd’s original, which was lost in San Francisco’s 1906 earthquake and fire.
that. She is an open hand, always reaching out. Always asking for the opportunity to make a friend and to ease the pain and to make things better. God! How can you not be aching for somebody like that right now?” The comic culture is changing with more female-lead superhero TV series such as the popular “Steven Universe” from Cartoon Network that pushes progressive ideas of gender identity and family into today’s discussions to “Supergirl’s” continued prominence. But despite her popularity, Wonder Woman won’t get her first standalone feature film from Warner Bros. until June 2017. (To put it into perspective, Batman has nine live-action feature films, Superman has seven). Women characters continue to flood the comic book marketplace: DC is riding on strong sales and critical buzz for characters like Batgirl, Harley Quinn and their Birds of Prey, while Marvel did the same with Squirrel Girl, Captain Marvel and the
In 1953, under Gov. Earl Warren, the design of the flag was codified. An artist used the stuffed Monarch as a model in drawing the grizzly that now prowls, defiant and free, across the California state flag — and countless T-shirts, caps, coffee mugs, clutch bags, socks and door mats. Unlike the Confederate flag, which still stirs controversy given its national context, the California flag has become all but untethered from its history. Only rarely do critics arise to voice complaints about its origins. “It has become,” said Stuart Kendall, associate professor of design at the California College of the Arts, “a free-floating signifier.” What it signifies is not an awkward affair from California’s past, but rather all that California has come to represent: counter-culture, surfers, a nation-state, movies, Silicon Valley, fine wine (conquerors imbibe wisely), second chances, personal renewal and all the rest wrapped up in that ball of glittering wax known as the California Dream.
introduction of a new Iron Man, the 15-year-old girl genius Riri Williams. All of which owe a debt of gratitude to the doors kicked in by the high heeled boots of Wonder Woman. As for this latest bout of drama, the goddess she will likely take it as she always has, in stride. Will DC internalize the statements made from concerned members of the U.N. as the Amazonian represents a massive undertaking for gender equality? One would hope so. Lynda Carter didn’t seem too concerned and commented that the whole thing was ridiculous: “Wonder Woman is an idea,” Carter exclaimed in a CBS interview. “This is not the American flag, it’s about fighting for freedom.” “She is tireless, and she is undefeated.” Rucka said.” She’s never going to bow her head. I think that is so important. We need heroes like that. We spend a lot of time looking at our superheroes and trying to darken them up. That ain’t her.”
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Don’t waste your vote on a third party candidate Rachel Baumgartner Columnist
With the current election, you’ve probably been asked a thousand times who you’re voting for. You’ve probably heard the “importance of voting” speeches from everyone, but it is important. This election is too important for anyone to stay home. This election is too close for people not to vote. And this is not a race to vote third party. I’m not going to pretend I know every single issue and detail in this election because I don’t. But what I do know is how close this race is. At the latest poll just two days ago, there were only two points separating Trump and Clinton. To you die-hard Bernie supports, why are you ignoring him when he warns against voting third party? Third party is not the way to go in this election. Do not make this election about the lesser of two evils: make this election about who you would rather see in office for the next four years. I’m not saying the third party candidates are terrible because they’re not. But this is not the election to go third party. Third party won’t win. If we split our vote between third party and Clinton, there will be more combined Trump supporters out there on Election Day, and we cannot risk splitting our vote like this. Hillary is not a saint by any means, but after 30 years she has never been found guilty of a crime. She has been accused of many, but never found guilty. We need to stop holding her on a higher standard than men running in the past have been held to. We need to stop making this election about the emails and whatever other scandals people make up. This election is not about character. We passed that a long time ago. This election is about the issues and what they are going to do for our country for the next four years in office. So to decide who to vote for
in this election, we need to look at the issues, not the person. On taxes, Clinton wants to address income inequality. She is also calling for higher tax breaks for healthcare and education spending for the middle class. Trump’s plan would cost the government $5.9 trillion in revenue over 10 years. He also plans on cutting taxes for the wealthy. For job creation, Trump says he will create 25 million jobs over 10 years by cutting off trade with other countries and work to make manufacturing of products a national thing rather than buying from outside countries. Clinton wants to create jobs by investing in advanced manufacturing, technology, renewable energy and small businesses. She believes this will create 10 million new jobs. On immigration, Clinton wants to continue with Obama’s work. She is calling for comprehensive immigration reform that includes a means for undocumented immigrants to obtain permanent legal residency. Trump wants to build a wall that he believes Mexico will pay for. He is also calling for forced deportation of 11 million undocumented migrants living in the United States. On the issue of Climate change, Clinton believes it is a threat to American security, and supports stringent regulation of the energy industry, and opposes expanded drilling in Alaska. Trump says he “supports clean water and air” but wants to cut all funding for the Environmental Protection Agency. He also believes global warming and climate changes are “a hoax.” There are many more issues in this election, and I would encourage everyone to look online at these issues and make an educated vote. This election is one of the most important elections in years, and this is not a time to “send a message” to America by not voting. This is a time to get out to the polls and vote. The next four years depend on it. I know for many college students like myself, it’s hard to go home and vote. I’ve registered for my absentee ballot. But hurry, these applications are due Oct 31. Go to vote.org to register. This is not the election to sit out on.
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Next Tuesday will be the start of open enrollment for Obamacare’s state exchanges, which offer health insurance to the 7 percent of Americans who buy their own coverage. It’s an anxious moment for the program: Enrollment is expected to remain significantly less than originally hoped. Some insurers have pulled out of the exchanges altogether. And those that remain have boosted premiums for typical plans by an average of 25 percent. These problems aren’t great enough to bring the exchanges down. Eighty-five percent of people who participate get federal subsidies, so they will have to pay little more than they did last year. Seventy-seven percent of current enrollees will still be able to buy coverage for $100 a month at most. And in 45 states, more than one insurer will still offer policies. But rising prices and low participation, by insurers and customers alike, are problems that need to be addressed if the exchanges are to succeed. The most important challenge is to attract more young (and generally healthy) people to the marketplace. Then, the risk to insurers would be spread more widely, making it less expensive
to cover people with greater medical costs. People age 25 to 34 remain twice as likely to be uninsured as those age 45 to 64. More young people could be attracted with more generous subsidies, lower caps on deductibles, or a stiffer penalty for going uninsured. (Currently, that penalty is $695 a year or more.) In many cases, it would help to better inform people that they’re eligible for financial help. Another way to improve the exchanges would be to make insurers’ revenue somewhat more stable. The mix of people tends to shift rather drastically from one year to the next (and even one month to the next). This makes it difficult for insurers to anticipate their costs and, in turn, set reasonable premiums that allow them to stay in business. The federal government has been reducing that risk by offering reinsurance, and by boosting payments to insurers for plans that lose money. But these efforts are scheduled to end by next year. They should be extended. Also, people should no longer be permitted to enroll midway through the year, which encourages them to wait until they’re sick to buy coverage. In those few states where too many insurers have already left the exchanges, people should be offered a public insurance option (an idea Hillary Clinton
supports), or allowed to buy into Medicare. That wouldn’t hold costs down, but it would at least give every customer some amount of choice. The trick with this strategy — and it’s a tough one — would be to persuade Congress to carry it out. In any case, what the exchanges need most is time. Consumers need more experience buying policies on the exchanges to better understand their options. And insurers need more years of claims data to better anticipate costs, and more experience insuring the exchange populations. Indeed, this year’s higher prices have been necessary, in large part, because insurers initially underpriced their policies. The increases will bring premiums up to about where they were originally expected to be in 2017. Future years are unlikely to see such significant increases. Patience and a bit of tweaking are well worth the trouble when you consider what the exchanges have accomplished: providing insurance to some 13 million Americans, many of whom had none before, or who had policies that didn’t cover vital services, including mental health care and prescription drugs. Consider, too, how well the other parts of Obamacare are working — the expansion of
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“Green” politician Jill Stein naïve on key issues
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After the Democratic primary, Bernie Sanders supporters had some choices to make. They could choose to support the Democratic Party’s nominee for president, or they had to choose someone else. For some, Hillary Clinton’s constant controversies – her emails, Benghazi, the Wall Street speeches – convinced them to support third party candidates. Many saw Gary Johnson’s call for legal marijuana and prochoice stance and thought that
he was at least a little progressive like Sanders was, but Johnson only supports those policies because he sees the regulation of those things as government overreach, not because he actually supports them. Progressives who didn’t like Clinton needed someone to support. They found refuge in supporting Green Party candidate Jill Stein. Stein’s list of goals as president reads like a progressive’s dream come true – cancel student debt, make college free, universal health care, run entirely on renewable energy, end systemic racism – Jill Stein seems to be a progressive candidate just like Sanders. Until you look at her actual policies, that is. Stein is a physician who graduated from Harvard University. Being in the medical field, Stein should know a lot about medical
issues. So it obviously comes as a bit of a surprise when people read on Stein’s website that she wants to “put a moratorium on (genetically modified organisms) and pesticides until they are proven safe.” Stein seems to have missed the memo. In May 2016, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine released a study that concluded that there was “no substantiated evidence that foods from (genetically engineered) crops were less safe than foods from non-GE crops.” GMOs have been found and proven to be safe. There is no debate over them anymore. One of Stein’s biggest plans as president is to cancel all student loan debt. In an interview with The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur, Stein said that student loan debt “should be canceled in the same way that the debt
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of Wall Street was canceled, essentially writing it off as a digital ‘hat trick,’ which is done in the form of quantitative easing.” In this statement, Stein shows that she is woefully unaware of how student loan debt and banks’ debts are different, how quantitative easing works, and what happened in the 2008 financial crisis. Stein claims that the government bought banks’ loans and “essentially zeroed out, canceled” the debt owed by those banks. That’s not what happened. According to Slate, the Federal Reserve used quantitative easing only after it had exhausted its other options. The Fed bought the debts that were owned by the bank, not owed. Basically, instead of paying the debt that banks were supposed to pay, the Fed bought debts that were owed to the bank, “such as Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed se-
curities.” Besides, the point of quantitative easing in 2009 was to lower interest rates to make it cheaper to loan or borrow money. Jill Stein doesn’t want to lower student loan debt interest rates; she wants to wipe out student loan debt completely, which are two entirely different things. Perhaps one of Stein’s most troubling positions comes from an “Ask Me Anything,” or AMA, on the social website Reddit. During the AMA, a Reddit user asked Stein about her positions on vaccines and homeopathy. This was kind of a moot question, considering until just this year, the wording of the official Green Party platform explicitly supported the use of homeopathy and pseudoscience in order to cure diseases and illnesses that would be better left treated
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indianastatesman.com STEIN FROM PAGE 6 Perhaps one of Stein’s most troubling positions comes from an “Ask Me Anything,” or AMA, on the social website Reddit. During the AMA, a Reddit user asked Stein about her positions on vaccines and homeopathy. This was kind of a moot question, considering until just this year, the wording of the official Green Party platform explicitly supported the use of homeopathy and pseudoscience in order to cure diseases and illnesses that would be better left treated by professionals. The change to the Green Party’s platform happened after Stein started running for president, so it’s safe to assume that she still holds these views. Regardless of the Green Party’s official stance on vaccines and homeopathy, Stein answered that mandatory vaccination is “practically unheard of ” and said that other countries with voluntary programs have higher rates of vaccination. She then said, “In the US, however, regulatory agencies are routinely packed with corporate lobbyists and CEOs. So the foxes are guarding the chicken coop as
SWIM FROM PAGE 8 of the 14 events that we swam against Illinois State we set 11 school records, so it was a pretty solid performance and again we are still mixing things up so see who has to be where in order to have the strongest possible line up in the future,” Leach said. The first relay was the 200 yard medley and the team made up of Kendall Hansen, Blanca Saez-Illobre, Jacquie Price and Alex Malmborg finished in second with a stellar time of 1:48.90. “We’re still working hard to make sure that we’re progressing
OBAMACARE FROM PAGE 6 prescription drugs. Consider, too, how well the other parts of Obamacare are working — the expansion of Medicaid in most states; the rules allowing everyone to buy
Monday, Oct. 31, 2016 • Page 7 usual in the US. So who wouldn’t be skeptical?” Stein’s nuanced answer shows that she’s not exactly against vaccines, but that she’s against the industry that manufactures them. Basically, to quote her, “A Monsanto lobbyist (sic) and CEO like Michael Taylor, former high-ranking DEA official, should not decide what food is safe for you to eat. Same goes for vaccines and pharmaceuticals.” So she’s not against vaccines, per se, but when you distrust the people making things that go inside your body, like vaccines, you’re much less likely to put that thing in your body. Stein’s stance on GMOs illustrates that. While Stein may support vaccines – as anyone with a medical license should – she still entertains the idea that vaccines can be and likely are dangerous. This idea is dangerous in and of itself; the anti-vaccination movement supplants reason and science with fear and emotion. Stein did tell the Daily Beast that she thinks that “obviously vaccinations work.” She then went on to say that she understands the plight of anti-vax parents, but that it’s not fair to subject other people’s
children to easily preventable diseases. Stein already admitted in her original response to the question that vaccines worked, so getting her to admit that wasn’t some impressive feat. The problem with her answer to the original questions was that it sowed distrust of the medical industry. I’m all for skepticism and everything, but when you try to incite distrust within an entire industry just because of vaccines or GMOs, both of which have been proven not to be harmful to people, I feel as though you may have gone too far in your skepticism. Many people unsatisfied with the Democratic and Republican nominees for president have looked to third party candidates for hope in what they see as a hopeless election. The problem is, though, that the two most popular third party candidates aren’t that great either. And with Gary Johnson, the most popular third party candidate, polling at about six percent on average nationally, according to RealClearPolitics, it looks like this year is not the year third parties break into the mainstream.
each meet. I told the team after the meet that this was a great step at home, now you guys can get rid of some of those jitter bugs and be faster next Saturday,” Leach said. Other notable performances of the night came from Elisabeth Peskin who placed third in the 1000 yard free, Jacquie Price who came in second in the 200 yard free, Courtney Skelley finished second in the 200 yard fly, Alex Malmborg recording second place in the 50 yard free, Kendall Hansen placing second in the 200 yard back, and Cierra Campbell placing second in the
500 yard free. “Overall this was a solid meet for our team, our program and we’re going to keep trying to break every school record every single time. The student-athletes are responding, having fun, and getting better. Obviously we are going to keep working on atmosphere on the pool deck, but all in all a great meet for us as we continue to move forward and keep pushing,” Leach said. The Sycamores are back in action on Nov. 5 at 1:00 p.m. at the Vigo County Aquatic Center to face off with the University of Illinois.
coverage, regardless of any existing illness, and the policy of letting young adults remain on their parents’ plans until age 26; and the efforts to get better value out of Medicare. More than 91 percent of Americans now have health in-
surance, up from 84 percent before the Affordable Care Act. The exchanges have problems, it’s true. But they’re worth fixing to continue improving health security in the U.S.
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FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 8 All cylinders were clicking early for the offense, but the ferocious defensive front of the Penguins eventually got to Harker, sacking him an extraordinary seven times for a massive loss of 65 yards. The secondary of YSU did just as well, picking off Harker twice for only his second multiple interception game of his young career. “Offensively I thought our plan was good,” Sanford said. “I thought we ran the ball against a very good rushing defense. We had some critical situations at the end where we shot ourselves in the foot. We had two false starts in some critical situations in the fourth quarter that put us in long-yardage situations that we weren’t able to convert. We’ve got to perform better on offense at the end in that situation.” The lone bright spot statistically for the Sycamore offense, though, were Tonyan and RB Roland
front pack from start to finish, placing third among some very talented MVC athletes,” Walsh said. “She’s willing to battle with anyone and it’s always enjoyable to watch her compete.” The Sycamore women also had two Honorable Mention runners in junior Taylor Austin (12th, 18:15.9) and freshman Alli Workman (15th, 18:18.7). Austin, the 2014 MVC Freshman of the Year and a 2014 All-MVC finisher, worked back from a slow start to come within seconds of another All-MVC award. Workman, meanwhile, was the third-best freshman in competition to add to her already excellent first season at ISU. “We return all eight from this team next year and we plan to improve our team place for the third year in a row,” Walsh concluded. The Sycamores now enter the postseason, with the NCAA Great Lakes Regional Championship looming in two weeks at Madison, Wisconsin, before hosting the NCAA Division I Championships here in Terre Haute at LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course on Nov. 19. Genesy. Tonyan hauled in five passes for 40 yards and one touchdown, in the process becoming just the third Sycamore to ever pass the 2,000-yard plateau in career receiving yards. Genesy, along with RB Dimitri Taylor, found holes in the Penguin defense to keep the ball moving for the Sycamores. Genesy ended with 88 yards and zero yards lost after a light week at Southern Illinois following an ankle injury vs. South Dakota. Taylor added in 42 yards rushing. ISU returns home for the final time this season when it hosts Northern Iowa for Senior Day next Saturday, Nov. 5, with kickoff scheduled for 1 p.m. at Memorial Stadium. “We’ve got to stay together and keep fighting and keep competing,” Sanford said. “It’s a big game at home next week. It’s Senior Day on Saturday, and that’s a big thing. We need to go out and play a great game and win for our seniors.”
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Panther title, and the first since 2000. Wichita State finished third overall with 82 points, with the Sycamores not far off from their first top-three finish since 2003 with 86 points. “We really wanted to surprise some people and crack into the top-three, but we’re proud to have put together our most complete race of the season at the conference meet and hold onto our fourth-place ranking,” said ISU women’s head coach Kyle Walsh. “This was as tough as we’ve been through the middle stages of the race and it’s exciting to see the ladies come together at the right time of the year.” Sophomore Brooke Moore finished third in a tough MVC women’s race at 17:38.4 in the 5K. This is Moore’s second-career All-MVC honor in as many attempts in her young career, and the highest finish by a Sycamore female since Allison Malone was the 2010 runner-up. Moore’s performance also marks the first back-to-back AllMVC honors for a Sycamore female since Malone finished seventh in 2009 and second in 2010. “Brooke ran outstanding in the
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Soccer advances to semifinals on penalty kicks Kate Johnson
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Despite combining for 24 total shots, Indiana State (7-10-2) and Drake (12-4-3) played a scoreless draw through 110 minutes on Sunday, with the Bulldogs leading 10-5 in shots on goal. Drake also led 8-2 in corner kicks. Senior Maddie Orf led Indiana State with two shots both being on goal during regulation, while freshman goalkeeper Brianna Riscossa came up strong with 10 saves during the match. As the match went to penalty kicks, ISU sent senior Maddie Orf, sophomore Sydney Ham-
Swim and dive team makes history Kate Johnson
ISU Athletic Media Relations
The Indiana State swimming and diving team made history Friday by hosting their first home meet at the Vigo County Aquatic Center. The Sycamores welcomed Missouri Valley Conference opponent Illinois State to the pool for a dual meet at 7:00 p.m. “Tonight was a great first step for us. Hosting a meet which went smoothly,” said head coach Matt Leach. Indiana State continues to improve every single week and tonight was no different. There were numerous high placing finishes for the Sycamores including two first place finishes from Blanca Saez-Illobre in the 200 yard breaststroke and 200 yard IM. “The first relay set a new school record by about four seconds and we kept that ball rolling the entire way through. Out
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ker, junior Kasey Wallace, senior Gaelen Stejbach and sophomore Katie Wells onto the field with senior Brittany San Roman taking over in goal. San Roman provided the early momentum for Indiana State, saving the first penalty kick by Drake as Orf, Hamker, and Wallace all scored. Drake got on the board with their next two attempts, while Stejbach and Wells both missed their shots. At this point Indiana State was winning 3-2 in penalty kicks with the final Drake shooter, Kayla Armstrong, stepping up for the tying shot. Armstrong missed giving the Sycamores the win.
Today’s match is officially labeled a draw, but it marks the first time since 2013 that the Sycamores will compete in the MVC Tournament semifinal match. Indiana State will head to Normal, Ill., next weekend, battling top-seeded and regular season champion Illinois State on Friday, Nov. 4, at 7:00 p.m. (ET). The other match of the tournament will feature No. 6 Loyola and No. 2 Evansville after the Ramblers defeated third-seeded UNI Panthers 1-0 to advance. The Sycamores are competing for a third shot at an MVC Championship match. The game can be viewed live on ESPN3.
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Maddie Orf takes the ball down field, coming out with two goals.
Special teams blunder blows lead for ISU Tyler Wooten
ISU Athletic Media Relations
Indiana State went toe-to-toe with the dynamic defense of No. 14 Youngstown State, but a 79yard punt return TD by YSU’s Darien Townsend ended up being the difference in ISU’s 13-10 loss to the Penguins at Stambaugh Stadium on Saturday night. The Sycamores (4-5, 2-4 MVFC) led for the first 50 minutes and 21 seconds of play after jumping out to a 10-0 lead in the first quarter, but YSU (6-2, 4-1 MVFC) chipped away with two field goals before the game-winning punt return TD with 9:19 to play. “I was very proud of the way our team played,” said ISU head coach Mike Sanford. “I think we played very hard; I think we played with great focus and great effort. I think our defense was tremendous. There were some situations where I had to decide whether to go for it on fourth down at midfield, and I just believed that our defense was going to stop them. I didn’t think they’d score. I thought we would cover punts, and unfortunately they are the number one punt return team in the conference and it showed up on that play.”
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Running back Roland Genesy found holes in the YSU defense to help the Sycamores move down field.
The return came on the finest punt of the evening by ISU punter Thomas Bouldin, who booted it down to the YSU 21 from the ISU 17, but Townsend made a tremendous set of moves to escape a checkmate on the sideline and had a wall of blockers as he cut across to the left sideline for the score. “It was a great punt, and I don’t want to say anything negative about Thomas because that was a great punt,” Sanford said. “We just have to cover better. We had our
chances to get him down there. We had him trapped down there on the sideline, and we let him out. He’s a dynamic player, and he made a great play.” The Sycamore defense had a very strong defense, forcing the Penguins to five punts, two interceptions and two missed field goals, with the only blight on their resume tonight being 151 rushing yards to former MVFC Freshman of the Year Martin Ruiz. Redshirt freshman Jonas Griffith led the
Sycamores with nine tackles and had a leaping interception in the first quarter immediately after a Sycamore score while everything was working in ISU’s favor. The first of those interceptions came from senior LB Jameer Thurman, who returned it 15 yards to setup the lone touchdown on the day from either team, a nine-yard pass from QB Isaac Harker to WR Robert Tonyan Jr.
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Cross Country finishes strong in MVC Championship meet Tyler Wooten
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Brooke Moore pushes her way through the other runners to come out in third place for the women’s 5K.
Indiana State had very strong showings in both men’s and women’s competition, finishing third and fourth, respectively, at the 2016 Missouri Valley Conference Cross Country Championships, hosted by Northern Iowa on Saturday morning. The Sycamore men, who were picked to finish fourth, shook up the field a little bit with a strong third-place finish with five scorers in the top 22 places. Bradley ran away with a dominant 58-point victory over Wichita State with 24 total points to WSU’s 82, but the Sycamores weren’t far off of a runner-up finish, falling behind the Shockers by two at 84 points. The third-place finish was McNichols’ 22nd top-three men’s finish in 34 MVC cross country meets at Indiana State.
“As a team we ran really well today,” said ISU men’s head coach John McNichols, who coached today in his 100th career MVC meet (across cross country, indoor and outdoor track). “Third place did break the pre-meet coaches poll, but we were so close to beating Wichita that it left us slightly scratching our head wondering why we couldn’t get that done. “Overall, as a team we can’t be disappointed because these guys had their best race of the season,” McNichols concluded. Sophomore Akis Medrano was ISU’s top finisher with a tremendous 8K race of 24:58.9 to finish with All-MVC honors in seventh place, his first as a Sycamore to add another addendum to his superb sophomore campaign in 2016. “Akis making All-MVC was great,” McNichols said. “He’s going to be one of the top runners in the conference going forward.”
ISU’s team finish was bolstered, though, by a very strong pack of finishers elsewhere in the top25. Senior David Timlin finished 17th overall at 25:34.8, followed by sophomore Quentin Pierce in 18th at 25:36.6, freshman Seth Cousins in 20th at 25:40.5 and senior Daniel Swem in 22nd at 25:48.3 in his final MVC cross country race. The Sycamore women, meanwhile, finished exactly where they were picked in fourth place, which is historic in its own right. Today’s fourth-place finish marks the first back-to-back top-five finishes for the Sycamore women since 2009 (fourth) and 2010 (fourth). ISU broke a four-year absence from the top-five in 2015 with a fifth-place finish. Northern Iowa came away with an upset win with a 12-point victory over favorite Bradley, 5264. Today marks just the second
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