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Volume 123, Issue 20
Walking trail helps to unify campus
Morgan Gallas Reporter
A new section of a campus trail was completed over the summer so that there would be a connection between main campus and the Gibson Track and Field complex. The trail was built to bridge the gap between campus and the track and field complex so that students and citizens could walk the distance that does not have sidewalks. “The new portion of the trail is completed,” said Bryan Duncan, Capital Planning and Im-
provement director for Indiana State University. “We built this last summer and it basically connects the area of the softball fields on Fourth Street and Tippecanoe Street. Then it goes over toward the new track and field facility, over by the Wabash River and then connects down toward Fairbanks Park.” Before the trail was created, there was no designated path to get from east campus to the newest section of campus. “The reason for the trail is to connect existing campus over towards the Gibson Track and Field facility and that whole western campus area,” Duncan
said. “There is parking over there also, so (the trail) was made to connect to that part of campus as well.” The trail is a part of the city and county-wide system, which connects Terre Haute and Indiana State’s campus as well as other locations. The newest portion of the trail cost approximately $280,000 to construct. The trail was completed not only to connect areas of campus but also to improve public health. “It can (be used for) recreation such as walking, biking or running,” Duncan said. “It’s open for students and the gen-
eral public. The trail is a good connection for people to walk on to get to the track and field facility, to the Wabash River, to the City Hall complex and Fairbanks Park as well.” While the whole trail is not fully illuminated, the majority has lights from adjacent streets. “Portions of the trail — most of the trail — has existing lighting because (the trail) is near or on streets,” Duncan said. “For example, a good portion of the trail is on First Street which is already lit. However, there are some portions, for example along the Wabash River, where there is no specific lighting for
the trail, but there is distant lighting like for the track and field facility.” There are not any further construction plans for the trail just yet. “There are conceptual plans both by the university and the city to have traditional trails throughout the area, but there aren’t any plans for the next two or three years,” Duncan said. “This kind of completes a connection to the City Hall and Fairbanks Park area that helps unify campus and Terre Haute. Other connections would be longer and farther out past campus.”
Resource Sycamores roll 56-28 in MVFC opener Center to be added in HMSU Morgan Gallas Reporter
A multicultural center will soon be added to the seventh floor of the Hulman Memorial Student Union as a resource center for LGBT, women and minority students. The center will be created so that multicultural students can find a sanctuary and dedicated space on campus. “The decision was made by (myself) to convert the space that will be vacated by the student counseling center into space for an LGBT resource center, women’s resource center and multicultural services and programs office,” said Willie Banks, the vice president of student affairs at Indiana State. “The decision was made because there was an absence of adequate space, programs and services for students who may identify in multiple ways.” The space can be used for group gatherings, informal meetings or relaxing. “Students will have a space on campus that is dedicated to their growth and development as college students,” Banks said. “Hopefully, our students will be able to connect with other students on campus and become a part of (a) larger community of individuals.” The LGBT group on campus, Spectrum, holds weekly meetings in the HMSU where they discuss different topics and issues pertaining to the group. “(This center) will be a safe place for LGBT people to be and find information that they need,” said Alexa Mayer, the president of Spectrum
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After a tough first quarter, ISU returned in full force to defeat the Missouri State Bears by 28 points in MVFC play.
ISU improves to 3-1 after defeating Missouri State Tyler Wooten
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Indiana State struggled in the first quarter, but collected its breath and absolutely exploded for 49 points over the last three frames in a 5628 rout at Missouri State on Saturday to begin the grueling Missouri Valley Football Conference schedule at 1-0. The Sycamores (3-1, 1-0 MVFC) put up only 28 total yards in the first quarter and even fell down 14-7 in the opening seconds of the second quarter. From that point on, though, ISU’s offense went off for 516 more yards of total offense (544 total) in a show-
case of deep talent on the Sycamore roster despite a bevy of injuries that have befallen ISU as of late. With the win, ISU improves to 3-1 for the second straight season — the first time that has happened in consecutive years since 1994-95. Indiana State has also now won consecutive Valley openers for the first time since 1996 (at Western Illinois) and 1997 (vs. Southern Illinois). “To be able to win on the road in the Missouri Valley Football Conference, that’s a challenge and I’m glad we were able to get a win,” said ISU head coach Mike Sanford. However, the start of the game was not indicative
of how well the Sycamores played during the remainder. Aside from only putting up 28 total yards in the first quarter, the ISU defense gave up 159 yards to the Bears, who only totaled 349 all game. What got ISU in the game, though, was a big special teams play from freshman wide reciever Tyler Denton in the first quarter. Coach Sanford had actually designed a fake return for Denton anyway, who was a gunner on the play opposite returner Robert Tonyan Jr. But MSU punter Chris Sullens shanked the punt short enough for Denton to haul in anyway, which he ran in for a 42-yard touchdown — ISU’s first on a punt
return since 1996 (Larry Scally, 86 yards, vs. St. Joseph’s). “That was a designed play,” Sanford said. “It’s happened in pro football; the Rams did it last year and the Seahawks did it this year. You have your returner fake like he’s getting the ball and have another returner going to the other side. It worked out good. We didn’t expect them to shank it. That made it even better; they kind of played into our hands.” After MSU took a 14-7 lead with 14:57 to play in the second quarter, the Sycamores woke up with a vengeance. ISU scored the next four touchdowns in the game, all
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Wellness is more than a number on the scale Tim Davis-LaVallie Reporter
This weekend, the Wellness, not Weight walk showed that there is much more to being healthy than what is on the scale. Even though they are related, weight does not make wellness. On Thursday at Marks Field, Melissa Grinslade, a licensed clinical social worker and therapist in the ISU Student Counseling Center who specializes in eating disorders, hosted the third annual Wellness, not Weight walk. Each year, she calls on students of all shapes, sizes and colors to come and walk a mile. Her goal is to make people aware of the fact that wellness comes in any size. She points out that everyone knows someone with an eating disorder. One in four students on campus are affected by an eating disorder to some degree. She wants to spread this event so that students go on this walk because “wellness starts one step at a time,” she said. This year, however, she wanted to make the walk bigger than in previous years. This year’s event featured a wellness
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Students visit the booths to participate in various activities at the wellness fair taking place alongside the Wellness, not Weight walk on Thursday.
fair that provided various activities for students to look at and participate in. At the event, many people with the same interest as Grinslade came together. One such person was Lauren Campbell, the employee wellness coordinator for human resources. Campbell said she wants students to
see the holistic approach to what wellness is and how is commonly misunderstood. “Wellness is not one-sized. It is physical, but it is also mental and spiritual,” she said, pointing out that many people think that if they are skinny or overweight, that means that they are un-
healthy and unwell. But true wellness comes from being happy with yourself, she said. Another promoter of this event was Libby Ray, the Vigo county tobacco prevention and cessation coordinator for the Chances And Services for Youth (CASY). Ray discussed the risks of smoking and how unhealthy it is, making the observation that tobacco companies use industry targeting to attract youth, young adults and women by changing their flavors and making appealing ads. This is wrong, Ray said, because tobacco is one of the leading causes of not only unhealthiness but also death. By going to this event, she was able to spread her mission for students to create a “healthier, tobacco-free generation in the near future.” Another important aspect of wellness was promoted at this event through Rose Bear and Mark Gallagher. Gallagher and Bear, both campus ministers for University Religious Leaders, came and promoted the spiritual aspect of wellness. They said that with overall
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Funding decrease not yet urgent issue Appropriation per Hoosier FTE FY09-FY15
Nevia Buford Reporter
Indiana State University has seen a decrease in the funding per student, causing the university to be the lowest-ranked university in the state, budget-wise. Diann McKee, the senior vice president for finance and administration/university treasurer, said that the budget has gradually decreased since the 2004-2005 school year. 2004-2005 marked the highest amount of state funding the university received, at $78.9 million. The 2015-2016 budget this year for ISU is $66,194,030. “Funding has decreased because of state economic conditions over the past 10 years as well as changes in how the state appropriates funds for higher education,” McKee said. Daniel Bradley, the president of the university, explained how the funding amount is decided. “Indiana, unlike other states, doesn’t explicitly consider enrollment in its budget,” Bradley said. “First they determine how much money you should get per student, then they multiply that by your enrollment and that’s how much you get. (In) Indiana, it’s been pretty much a flat amount adjusted for inflation or some other small impact, and then every once in a while they’ll look at your enrollment and make an adjustment based on your enrollment.” “In terms of state funding, Indiana State is projected to have the lowest level of state operating appropriation per resident degree-seeking student for 2015-16 of the four residential campuses in the State,” McKee said. The budget of ISU comes from state funding and the tuition that ISU students pay. The funds are then divided, with the largest amount going to academic programs and the rest divided among student programs, utilities and other unavoidable
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- ISU costs, McKee said. President Bradley and McKee said there will not be any major changes to the university at the moment and that there isn’t a need to worry at this time. “As long as our enrollment is up, we’ve been able to handle the budget reduction,” Bradley said. “Because we’ve been growing our enrollment and expenses don’t grow as fast as enrollment, typically. And so, I think that for the next two years, we’ve pretty much laid out what our budgets going to be, so you’re not going to see any changes this year or probably even next year as a result of our current
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funding.” Gregory Goode, the executive and director of government relations, is the liaison between ISU and government institutions such as the Indiana General Assembly, the office of the governor and the city of Terre Haute. Goode, Bradley and McKee are all part of the process to advocate more funding at ISU. “I work closely with President Bradley, Vice President McKee and other university officials to advocate for additional state funding,” Goode said. “It is always an ongoing process. As soon as one budget leg-
- Ball State islative session ends, another begins. It is very rewarding to be an official advocate for my alma mater. We have a very strong delegation of local legislators working with Indiana State, and I am especially grateful to Rep. Bob Heaton, Rep. Clyde Kersey, Rep. Alan Morrison and Sen. Jon Ford.” President Bradley has his own role in advocating for more state funding. “I think it’ll be part of my job next budget session to convince them that they have to reflect our enrollment growth and our appropriation, and they haven’t been doing that,” Bradley said.
Reliving the Oregon gunman’s chilling reign of terror Matt Pierce Haley Branson-Potts
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In a significant break from tradition, the University of California, Berkeley will ask some freshman applicants to submit letters of recommendation from teachers and mentors this fall. And the UC system is studying whether all of its nine undergraduate campuses should do the same in future years as another way to choose among the avalanche of students seeking admission. The new policy at UC Berkeley, while optional and limited this year, has triggered much debate at other UC campuses and high schools around the state about the value of such letters and whether they hurt or help the chances of public school students. Adding even optional recommendations to all UC applications “would be a sea change,” said Stephen Handel, University of California’s associate vice president for undergraduate admissions. Upcoming deliberation will have to measure the usefulness in admissions decisions against concerns that a change might “inadvertently disenfranchise certain students from even applying,” he said. Unlike most private universities and some public schools, UC generally has not asked for recommendations in its main undergraduate applications. It relies instead on high school grades, standardized test scores, personal essays and a review of students’ accomplishments and personal challenges. Only a few UC programs currently require such letters, and some campuses seek extra information about a very small number of students months after the original application deadline, officials said.
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ROSEBURG, Ore. — Lacey Scroggins had just looked up at the clock — it was 10:27 a.m. — wondering when class would end. A few minutes later, a fellow student, Christopher HarperMercer, walked in. Even though it was the fourth day of school she recognized him, a talkative young man, not mean or aggressive from what little she knew of him. Then she heard a pop and shattering glass. Then a gunshot. Lacey looked up and couldn’t see her teacher. Larry Levine was down. Harper-Mercer had just begun his 10-minute reign of terror inside Writing 115 that would leave eight students and the teacher dead and nine others wounded — the latest link in the nation’s grim chain of mass shootings, this one inside an English classroom at Umpqua Community College. The gunman asked one student to stand up, asked him if he was a Christian and then fired. He did the same to another victim, said Randy Scroggins, who on Saturday recounted his daughter’s horrifying narrative from the porch of his Roseburg home. Harper-Mercer, a 26-year-old Army washout, identified one student as “lucky” and handed him a package, telling him to turn it over to police, Scroggins said. He fired shots into the ceiling and ordered students to the get on the floor in the center of the classroom — and he began shooting. Lacey felt someone roll on top of her. It was Treven Taylor Anspach, 20, a former high school classmate. She watched his blood pool on her and onto
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Sisters attempt to console one another at a candlelight vigil for their classmates.
the floor as the gunman shot a student next to her. Harper-Mercer told one student he would spare her if she begged for her life. She did. He shot her anyway. After the police arrived, she heard the shooter say, “I’m done; you got me; I’m finished,” her father said. The chilling account came as authorities announced on Saturday that Harper-Mercer had killed himself. Officials had earlier said he had died in a gunfight with officers. Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin said authorities also recovered an additional weapon during the search of Harper-Mercer’s apartment, bringing
to 14 the number of guns found — six at the school and the rest at his home, Hanlin said. Investigators are combing through a trove of information in their drive to understand the shooter’s background and determine a motive, Hanlin said. They are conducting hundreds of interviews with witnesses and those who knew Harper-Mercer, described by law enforcement sources as a hate-filled young man who had long struggled with mental health issues and had antireligion, anti-government leanings. Authorities also released their own
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ISU Public Safety police blotter Sept. 30
6:23 a.m.: A theft was reported in University Apartment Lot. 8:41 a.m.: An unauthorized entry was reported in the Univerity Apartments Lot. 9:47 a.m.: An unauthorized entry was reported in the University Apartments Lot. 2:18 p.m.: A theft was reported in the Lincoln Quad Dining Center.
3:36 p.m.: An elevator entrapment was reported in Rhoads Hall. 5:31 p.m.: A battery casuing bodily injury was reported in Mills Hall. 9:31 p.m.: Possession of drugs and paraphernalia was reported in Lot K. 10:11 p.m.: Possession of drugs and paraphernalia and a trespass warning was reported in Lincoln Quad.
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10:20 a.m.: A destroyed item was recovered in Burford Hall. 10:30 a.m.: An unauthorized entry was reported in the University Apartments Lot. 10:34 a.m.: A theft was reported in the University Apartments Lot. 11:04 a.m.: An unauthorized entry and theft was reported in the University Apartments Lot.
11:05 a.m.: An unauthorized control was reported in the John T. Myers Technology Building. 11:28 a.m.: An unauthorized entry and theft was reported in the University Apartments Lot. 2:08 p.m.: Money and two tickets were found in the Cunningham Memorial Library.
indianastatesman.com GUNMAN CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 reconstruction of the 10 deadly minutes. 10:38: The first call to 911. 10:39: Dispatch reports a “shooter in the science building.” 10:40: College buildings go on lockdown. 10:42: More reports of an “active shooter.” 10:44: The first three law enforcement officers arrive. 10:46: Gunfire is exchanged with suspect. 10:48: “Suspect down,” dispatch reports. On Saturday, one mother spoke of how her daughter lived through those 10 minutes. Only 16 years old, Cheyanne Fitzgerald had graduated from high school early and aspired to be a nurse. Thursday was her fourth day of class as a college student. The shooter asked Cheyanne “what her religion was,” said Bonnie Schaan, her mother. When the teenager did not respond, he shot her below the shoulder blade, the bullet puncturing her lung and lodging into her kidney. When the gunman ordered students to get in the middle of the room, Cheyanne couldn’t move. So she played dead and managed to send out a text message, even posting it to Facebook. “The (expletive) shot me in the back,” the message said. “Her recovery is going to be long, but we’re going to get there,” said Schaan, adding that her daughter’s kidney had been removed and that she was in inten-
RESOURCE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 and a junior elementary education major. “It will, hopefully, be a hub for campus to look to for LGBT information, assistance and education.” The group plans to use the space for their meetings and as a place of comfort for their group members. “We hope that (the center) can be a lounge,” Mayer said. “We’re hoping to use it as an inclusive, safe (and) open place for anyone who wants or needs it.” The Feminist Majority wants to spread feminism and promote gender equality. “This would be a really good space for hang outs or meetings,” said Allison Duerk, the secretary of the Feminist Majority and a senior political science major. “(We plan) to utilize whatever faculty would be there so we can help out as many populations on campus as possible and just be the greatest help we can be to as many students as possible.”
LETTERS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 UC Berkeley had planned to ask, but not require, all undergraduate applicants this fall to submit two letters of recommendation, including one from a teacher. But that idea sparked opposition statewide and was reduced in scope, probably to about what a faculty leader estimated will be 20 percent of the application pool. Berkeley says it wants to adopt the practice next year for all applicants. Supporters say a recommendation letter can boost the chances of a deserving student whose test scores don’t fully reflect his or her achievements. Critics question the letters’ worth in predicting college success and say they can reinforce advantages of well-connected students. The proposal arose from UC Berkeley’s faculty Senate to help admissions officers make increasingly difficult choices — only 17 percent of the 78,923 applicants were offered admission this year. With so many students submitting stellar grades, it is important to tell whether they have the personal and academic skills “to survive in a very competitive and very large university environment,” said Panos. Others in UC worried that Berkeley’s idea broke system-wide policies and would confuse applicants since students often use the online application to apply to several UC campuses at the same time. Youlonda Copeland-Morgan, UCLA’s associate vice chancellor for enrollment management, said recommendations raise too many administrative and “equity” issues. “The pros have not outweighed the cons,” she said. Students in big public schools “do not always have access to counselors who really know them and can advocate for them.” And those teachers and counselors may not have the time to write adequate letters, she added. Berkeley retreated partly for this fall and probably will invite letters from just 20 percent or so of this year’s applicants. All applicants will be invited to submit letters in fall 2016, he said, noting that other public universities, including those in Michigan and Virginia, long have done so. For years, a very small portion of students on the cusp of UC admission received “augmented” review, with some
Monday, Oct. 5, 2015 • Page 3 sive care. Harper-Mercer’s family released a statement through authorities on Saturday. “We are shocked and deeply saddened by the horrific events that unfolded on Thursday, Oct. 1. Our thoughts, our hearts and our prayers go out to all of the families of those who died and were injured,” the statement said. Ian Mercer, the gunman’s father, who spoke before knowing a 14th weapon had been found, questioned how his son was able to amass an arsenal that included handguns, a rifle and a shotgun. “How on earth could he compile 13 guns? How can that happen, you know? They talk about gun laws; they talk about gun control. Every time something like this happens they talk about it and nothing happens,” he said in an interview with CNN from his Tarzana, California, home. “If Chris had not been able to get hold of 13 guns, it would not have happened.” Harper-Mercer lived most of his life in the Los Angeles area with his mother, and during his high school years attended the Switzer Learning Center in Torrance, which specializes in dealing with students with special needs, learning disabilities and emotional issues. A former classmate, Jane Ortiz, 22, said she remembered his shaved head, dark-frame glasses and proclivity for wearing military-style clothing. He was a “quiet guy and socially awkward ... You’d say hi to him and it would take him a second to respond and say hello.” In Roseburg, Lacey Scroggins and her family think of Anspach. She came home
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Members of neighboring communities visit a makeshift memorial to pay their respects to the Umpqua Community College shooting victims.
covered in his blood. Anspach, who was the son of a firefighter and had hoped to become a paramedic, was among the dead. Her family believes that he saved her life. After Harper-Mercer was dead, Scroggins, who is studying nursing and wants to be a surgeon, took the scarf off her neck and tied it around another student’s injury, and helped at least one other student, her father said. Scroggins talked with Anspach’s mother Saturday. Both were in tears.
The group wants to use the center as a place for open conversations. “We want to provide a space for people to come in and share their beliefs and ask questions,” Duerk said. “It will be, just like our meetings, a very safe environment where no one has to worry about getting yelled at for not understanding a concept or something like that.” Another reason the center will benefit the Feminist Majority is members of the group will get to meet people who want to learn more about feminism. “We can use the space to meet people who have similar viewpoints,” Duerk said. “We also want to spread the news and word of feminism and gender equality so we can promote those things on campus.” “We are excited for the LGBT resource center, women’s resource center and multicultural services and programs to become a part of the Indiana State University community and to provide services and programs for the ISU community,” Banks said. campuses seeking comment from teachers, counselors and students in the winter or early spring. A teacher or counselor can describe a young person in ways that some students cannot or will not do about themselves, she said. A survey by the National Association of College Admission Counseling, found that counselors’ letters were of “considerable importance” to about 16 percent of colleges and of moderate importance to about 44 percent and that teachers’ letters were weighed nearly the same. Grades in college prep courses, standardized test scores and student essays were valued more highly although personal interviews mattered less, the survey found. Highly selective institutions and small, usually private ones tend to want the letters, said David Hawkins, the admission association’s executive director for educational content and policy. Colleges recognize “what constitutes a really good recommendation and what constitutes just going through the motions,” Hawkins said. In some cases, a counselor might add a note inviting a private phone call, for good or bad, and sometimes the wording raises questions colleges can understand “between the lines,” he said. At Northwood High School in Irvine, counselor Anne Goins said that submitting letters would not be a burden if it is limited to the most competitive UC campuses, such as Berkeley and UCLA; students applying there usually also apply to private colleges requiring letters and those can be copied for UC. If all nine UC schools seek the recommendations, she said she would write the extra letters and “do what’s best for the kids.” John Kim, college counselor at Belmont High School near downtown Los Angeles, said he worries that requests for recommendations throughout UC could scare off some students from applying if they don’t feel close enough to a counselor or teacher. “It’s asking a lot more from the students and the high schools for something that will have a very minimal effect on whether the kids get in or not,” he said, but he added that he would write them if asked. ©2015 Los Angeles Times. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
“She was grateful to know her son was a hero in many, many people’s lives, and Treven will always, always be our hero,” Randy Scroggins said. “I asked her, ‘What I can do for you?’” “’Make sure you hug your daughter every day of your life,’” she told him, “a request we will gladly do.” (Staff writers Michael Muskal and Ruben Vives in Los Angeles and Marisa Gerber in Roseburg contributed to this report.) © 2015 Los Angeles Times. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
WELLNESS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 wellness comes wellness in spirituality. That can come in knowing yourself and what you believe in and how you want to affect the world through that belief. They said that through spiritual wellness also comes physical and mental wellness. They strive to see the students of ISU advance not only spiritually, but also physically and mentally. One of the main contributors to the Wellness not Weight event was the physician assistant program. Through this, several students volunteered in activities to promote physical and food wellness. Nicole Heck, an instructor, said the physician assistant program is involved in most of the wellness events that take place throughout the year. At a few tables, they gave recipes for healthy meals, took blood pressure and talked about eating healthy.
Before the walk, a friend of Melissa’s came to share her fitness story. Michelle Fowler talked about her days in high school when she was heavily involved in sports and exercise. After school, she fell out of her routine, but eventually got back into it in 2011. Ultimately, she lost 160 pounds and through this, she discovered that she was happy with herself. “Happiness is what it is to you and no one else. It is your definition, so go out there and get it,” she said as she handed the microphone to Melissa and the walk started. One mile later, everyone returned to field to see if they won some prizes, which everyone present was eligible for. Some Colts game tickets were handed out and other ISU merchandise as well. Overall, the event helped everyone learn something new about being healthy and that wellness is not always weight.
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Dallas Wilson, Trae Wilson and Richard Smith ham it up at the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) chili cook-off fundraiser Saturday.
‘He Named Me Malala’ is moving portrait of Nobel-winning teen Rebecca Keegan
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LOS ANGELES — Moviegoers hankering for a female superhero film needn’t wait for “Wonder Woman.” A big screen heroine of astounding power is swooping into theaters, caped in a hijab, a backpack full of books slung over her shoulder, a crooked smile the reminder of her fearlessness. Davis Guggenheim’s documentary “He Named Me Malala” is the origin story of 18-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, who stood up for girls’ education in her native Pakistan and was shot in the head for her efforts by the Taliban. Both an intimate portrait of the young activist and a sweeping antidote for cynicism, the inspiring story toggles between poignant footage of Malala today, acclimating to life in Birmingham, England, with her endearingly normal family, and dreamlike animated flashbacks of their existence in Pakistan’s Swat Valley. Told with enough sensitivity for children and enough sophistication for adults, “He Named Me Malala” is the rare documentary that plays as a family film. In a contemporary entertainment world devoted largely to antiheroes, it is a kind of balm to watch a protagonist who is, unequivocally, doing the right
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Malala Yousafzai at the Kisaruni Girls School on May 26, 2014 in Massai Mara, Kenya.
thing. That she is a real-life teenage girl, a bookish Pakistani sister to Katniss Everdeen, is yet another welcome gift. While the subject is deeply moving — and bringing tissues is recommended — Guggenheim’s treatment is restrained, as he deploys inventive storytelling techniques that invite viewers inside Malala’s world, to feel her joy, trauma and ultimately forgiveness. The film’s producers, Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald, are known for smart narrative features such as “Gladiator” and “Catch Me if You Can,” and set out to make another such film based on early sample pages they read from Malala’s 2013 autobiography. But upon meeting the teenager, they de-
termined that such a singular, charismatic figure would be impossible to cast and decided to make the movie a documentary. Thank goodness they did, as their young star holds the screen with uncommon presence and moral authority. Taking a microphone to address an audience at the United Nations after recovering from the injuries that left her with hearing loss and paralysis on the left side of her face, Malala might as well be John Wayne walking into a saloon: Whatever happens next, we’re on her side. The story begins with Malala’s father Ziauddin’s decision to name his daughter after an Afghani Pashtun female war-
rior who was killed for speaking out in the 19th century — and this is almost as much his film as hers. If he burdened his child with a sense of destiny by doing so, Ziauddin also armed her with love and self-possession. Some of the movie’s most affecting scenes are its everyday images of modern fatherhood — Ziauddin frying eggs and making tea for his family, Malala teaching her dad how to tweet. In his gentleness, Ziauddin provides a stunning contrast to the images of warfare and terrorism from that part of the world with which most Americans are familiar. Guggenheim, who previously directed the Academy Award-winning Al Gore climate change documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth,” and the public education expose “Waiting for Superman,” has a knack for finding the human moments in a politically or scientifically complex subject. This time he’s made a movie composed almost entirely of such moments, and they reveal the duality of Malala’s life. With footage of her Googling a handsome cricket player or frowning over a disappointing physics grade, Guggenheim allows us to get to know a shy teenage girl coming of age. But when his cameras follow Malala as she grills the president of Nigeria about the status of schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram or challenges
President Barack Obama on the use of drones, he shows us Malala as a public figure of remarkable courage and poise. In order to depict Malala’s life before she was airlifted to England for medical care, Guggenheim made the unconventional decision to rely primarily on impressionistic, hand-drawn animation designed by Jason Carpenter. The marvelous effect is to take us inside Malala’s head, so that we might see the Swat Valley as she saw it as a child, its bucolic rivers and mountains, its happy schoolgirls in colorful dresses, its dirty streets. A stirring score by composer Thomas Newman underpins the drama, with an original song by Alicia Keys. At times the music almost seems unnecessary, as the lilt of Malala’s accented English does such an effective job of evoking emotion. One of the most delightful animated sequences is of Ziauddin as a child, being bullied for his stammer, his attempts at speech illustrated first as halting little lines, and then, when he finally finds his voice, as lovely swirls and flames that dance and travel on the breeze. It’s an artful way to communicate what ultimately becomes the family’s superpower — their willingness to speak when others are silent. ©2015 Los Angeles Times. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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Israeli researchers say attacks against Jews spiked in 2014. The attacks range from armed assaults to vandalism against synagogues, schools and cemeteries. 2014 was the second most violent year for Jews in a decade after 2009, which also saw a surge in anti-Semitism following an Israeli military operation in Gaza.
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HACKENSACK, N.J. — At Montclair State University, a student group was fined and sanctioned for handing out pro-Palestine brochures. At Rutgers University, officials faced a federal complaint alleging they didn’t do enough to protect students who were bullied over their support for Israel. The complaints, both dismissed or repealed, are among the efforts at suppressing criticism of Israel on college campuses, claim Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights in a report released Wednesday. The cases reflect the climate on many college campuses that have become political battlegrounds over the IsraeliPalestinian conflict. Activists for the Palestinian side claim they are losing academic freedom and free speech amid “baseless” complaints and punitive actions. “The tactics being used across the country to silence one side of a debate undermine both the First Amendment and democratic principles,” said Dima Khalidi, director of Palestine Legal, a civil rights legal group. But pro-Israel groups counter that activism is sometimes accompanied by anti-Semitism and that some campuses have become uncomfortable and even hostile places for Jewish students. “We don’t advocate for protected speech to be censored or suppressed. But there are steps that colleges and universities can and should be taking to address anti-Semitic speech and conduct on campus, in the same way that they address the targeting of other groups,” said Susan Tuchman, director of the Center for Law and Justice at the Zionist Organization of America, one of the organizations accused in the report of trying to censor speech. The fight over free speech — and when that speech goes to far — has taken center stage on campuses that have seen protests of controversial speakers, bans on offensive books and dedicated zones for student activism. Often, the issue is taken up by legal groups. In this case, Palestine
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Legal, which provides support for Palestinian activists, partnered with the Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit organization that has defended individuals and groups in national civil rights cases on discrimination, surveillance and torture and other civil rights issues. In the report, Palestine Legal said it has responded to nearly 300 incidents over an 18-month period that include legal complaints, disciplinary actions, firings, harassment, threats and false accusations of terrorism and anti-Semitism levied against students and teachers over pro-Palestine activity. They cited a case last year in which Montclair State University’s student government sanctioned and fined a campus club, claiming it was not supposed to take political stances. The club had given out brochures with information about Israeli settlements and home demolitions, a map showing Palestinian loss of land and information about how students could get involved. The student body repealed the sanctions two weeks later. A university spokeswoman said at the time that the decision was made by students and not administrators, but they were glad it was resolved after the repeal. There were several incidents at Rutgers cited in the report. In 2010, organizations claimed that students raising money for a flotilla to deliver aid to Gaza could potentially be supporting “illegal”
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actions of boats trying to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Rutgers prevented the money from being donated for that purpose. The following year, the Zionist Organization of America filed the complaints with the U.S. Department of Education alleging that the university failed to respond appropriately to alleged harassment of students because of their national origin. They noted comments a student posted on Facebook insulting a Jewish student as a “Zionist pig.” The department dismissed the complaint, finding no wrongdoing on Rutgers’ part. In 2013, a Rutgers club was accused of targeting Jewish students when it posted mock eviction notices on student dorm doors to draw attention to Palestinian home demolitions. The university found that while the students violated a housing policy on posting fliers, they did not target Jewish students. Asked about the climate at Rutgers and the university’s inclusion in the report, spokesman Greg Trevor replied: “Rutgers is one of the most diverse universities in the nation and has a long and proud history of being a welcoming institution for people of all faiths. The university is committed to addressing any allegations of bias while maintaining an educational environment that encourages freedom of expression and civil discourse.” Roz Rothstein, CEO of the group StandWithUs,
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an international Israel education organization, said they are responding to threats and intimidation of Jewish students on college campuses that distract from students’ education. They also want to counter actions that seek to demonize Israel, she said. “The reports are an attempt to cry victim by perpetrators of harassment,” she said. “It’s not about free speech. They have been harassing the pro-Israel community.” Radhika Sainath, an attorney for Palestine Legal, said complaints are problematic when “key facts are false” and the complaint “relies on the idea that criticism of Israeli state policy is harassment of Jewish students.” The report highlighted a controversy last year when the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign rescinded a job offer to a professor who wrote tweets criticizing Israel’s bombing in Gaza. Jewish Voice for Peace, a Jewish non-profit sympathetic to Palestinian causes, released its own report Wednesday in coordination with Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights. The group said it disagreed with the aggressive tactics by pro-Israel groups on college campuses and cited “false claims of anti-Semitism” that confuse “truly antiJewish bigotry versus political positions that cause discomfort to the Israeli government and its supporters.” ©2015 The Record (Hackensack, N.J.). Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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Judgment day has fallen upon us: interim grades. During this day, you were either jumping for joy over seeing your hard work pay off or burying your head in your hands. With these grades engraved in our MyISU portals until the end of the year, you get a daily reminder that your grades are either outstanding or hideous. If your grades fall in the ‘not so great’ category, you’re probably — or at least should be — wondering in what ways you can boost your academic standing. Everyone is capable of making good grades, but not everyone is willing to put in the work. With dedication and patience, anyone is able to make good marks. Here are three ways to tackle work, study harder and get awesome grades. One, write everything down. You’re in class and the professor has just announced in that an assignment is due in three days. They explain what they are looking for in your work and stress you not to forget to turn in it because it’s worth a good number of points. Too lazy to take out a planner or sheet of paper to jot down what your professor is blabbering about, you stare, head in hand, with a dull look plastered on your face as you wonder how many minutes you have left in class. Before you know it, it’s 10:27 p.m. and you’ve just remembered that your assignment needs to be uploaded to Blackboard tonight by 11:59 p.m. Franticly, you try to remember what the assignment was so you can wing it before time is up. Not recollecting much, you search for the rubric online, but there isn’t one posted. Not knowing what to do, you watch the clock as time ticks by. As a college student, there are so many things that are thrown your way: assignments, projects, events to attend for classes and volunteering
are some of things that have a habit of piling up. In order to keep this pile manageable, writing everything down is essential. You don’t need a fancy planner to do all of this either. Writing it down on a piece of paper you can keep up with will do just fine. Post-It notes are a great way to jot down individual tasks. Stick them onto your wall, mirror or board to have daily reminders of your upcoming assignments. Two, plan your day out by the hour. If you don’t have a plan for the day more than likely you’ll do very little. With knowing all that you need to get done, your workload can seem pretty heavy. However, planning everything out by the hour can make it so much more manageable. In either a calendar or on a sheet on paper, mark the hours you want to dedicate to your academics. This could be going to the library to study from 4 to 6 p.m. or reading a textbook from 3:30 to 4 p.m. Be sure to include leisure time as well. Too much of anything isn’t the best, so having a few hours open to your discretion is important for stability. Plan your day from start to finish so from the moment your alarm goes off, you know the game plan. Also, a great calendar app for both Apple and Android phones is Sunrise. Three, print PowerPoints presentations and syllabi. Print off PowerPoint lecture notes — four slides per page to save printer money — so you’re not worrying about writing down your professor’s every word. This will save you time, not to mention hand cramps. Make notes in the margins while having the professor’s notes on deck. Also, print out syllabi for all of your classes so that you know what to expect when heading to class. By putting thought and time into how you prepare for classes, you can turn those grades around before finals get here.
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Live, love and move on A l l throughout adolescence we are told that by age two we should be walking, by age 16 we should be driving Columnist and that by age 22 we should be able to handle our alcohol. Basically, we should have our lives together at a time when a hundred new experiences and challenges come our way on a daily basis. Easy enough, right? We do not view these as expectations or obstacles but instead as pivotal moments in our lives that are shaping us into the prim, proper and stellar adults we foresee ourselves being in the future. But the fact of the matter is: life is messy. Love it or hate it, most of the people and situations we encounter will change us in ways we never expected. Most of the preteen anxiety moments are jumbled together in middle and high school, and then, when college hits, everyone assumes you will have your “Animal House” phase because that’s what college is right? Wrong. Figuratively speaking, the “clutter” of life is what makes it interesting and ever-changing. Let’s take for instance a failed interview. You walk in with the utmost confidence but your inflated ego hurts more than it helps; so you may think to yourself all too dramatically, “My life is in shambles and a trip to Petco is needed for my seven cats.” Or maybe you just broke up with your boyfriend from high school and you think to yourself, “How did I ever live without his charming flat-billed hats and high socks?” While both of these examples are utterly ridiculous and tragic, they are reality. And when they do happen, instead of letting it consume your every thought and action, dwell for a bit if needed and move on. There is a great quote that says, “Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.” When the mess of life seems overwhelming, sweep the crap under the
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rug and toss your fears out alongside it instead of letting it fester and accumulate. It took a while for me to realize just how volatile negativity can be when you’re trying to move forward. While it is great to learn from your mistakes and tuck away that knowledge for future reference, it is dangerous to let it dictate your current state of mind. The best example I can think of is Facebook stalking — don’t act like you haven’t done it at least four times. After that horrendous breakup over text message you monitor his Facebook page and grow anxious at every new friend made. But if you think about it, how is that helping you move on? It’s not. Instead, you are placing yourself in a constant state of dwelling depression. And no one, I repeat no one, likes a Negative Nancy. Ask yourself, so what? How will this impact me in five years? If you say something stupid in an interview, there are plenty of jobs out there. If you break up, live your life for you and don’t be afraid to be independent. Furthermore, stop believing that one slip-up dooms you for all eternity. There is something that can be learned from everything and big or small, it impacts you. Think for a second about the awful guy who your parents hated and referred to you as “bro” way too much. After the relationship ended, you remembered you had an actual name and that you deserve way better than mediocrity and immature antics.Obviously it’s easy to say and harder to do, but I think of it like this: don’t look for the silver lining of the cloud, look for that fluffy part you feel more than comfortable in and never want to leave. That is where you want to find yourself. Now that isn’t to say that your late night Ben and Jerry’s fixes can’t be part of that fluffy forgiveness. Everyone has their niche and a particular set of skills, as Liam Neeson would call it, that can help us through the tough times. But simply stated, you just need to move on. And don’t worry, you always will
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Trump’s tax plan will benefit nobody but himself On Sept. 28, Donald Trump announced his tax plan, which, according to his website, provides “the lowest tax rate since World War II.” When he announced the plan, he said, “It’ll grow the Columnist American economy at a level that it hasn’t seen for decades, and all of this does not add to our debt or our deficit.” But it does add to the deficit. In fact, it adds about $11.98 trillion. The biggest aspect of the plan is that it simplifies the tax bracket system and also eliminates all income tax for individuals who make less than $25,000 per year, while lowering it for everyone else. Corporate income tax is cut under the plan, while the estate tax is also eliminated. But this tax plan presents several serious problems that Trump would have to address as president. First, and probably most obviously, is the reduction of federal taxes, which results in lower revenue for the government. The Tax Foundation estimates that, by changing the federal income tax, Trump’s plan would increase the national debt by $10.2 trillion over 10 years, with the whole plan costing $11.98 trillion over the next 10 years. So to reduce the deficit, Trump would have to push for programs
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to be cut. But what programs should be cut? We spent $618.6 billion on our military in 2013, so even if we cut the entire military, we would just take a small chunk out of the deficit that Trump’s plan would give us. The United States government requested $3.9 trillion last year, less than a third of what Trump’s plan costs. We could shut down the government for three years and not pay off what Trump’s tax plan would cost. Economists at the Tax Foundation suggest that this deficit can be lowered slightly due to the increased lower corporate income taxes. But this depends on the success of trickle-down economics, a hypothesis that sounds nice in theory but doesn’t work in practice — which presents another issue. Trump’s tax plan increases income for everyone, but it’s not an even increase. In a static model, the bottom 10 percent of taxpayers would get a 1.4 percent increase in income, while the top 1 percent of taxpayers would see a 21.6 percent increase in income. In a distributional model, the increase for the bottom 10 percent jumps to 10.7 percent, while the increase for the top 1 percent jumps to 27 percent. This plan favors the top 1 percent over other Americans. This makes it seem like Mr. Trump, being part of the one percent his plan favors, is more concerned with his wallet than the well-being of all Americans. This increase in income for the
wealthy means that the success of the tax plan is dependent on the rich spending money and creating jobs. But we’ve seen before that the rich cannot be trusted to create jobs. According to the New York Times, the Bush tax cuts were the biggest single contributor in a loss of revenue totaling $1.8 trillion. It is also important to remember that Trump also wants to build a wall on the southern border, and that, according to some experts, would cost around $20 billion to build. That number is before costs to maintain and patrol it are factored in. He says that he would get Mexico to build it, but does anyone really trust the man’s negotiation abilities that much? Even if he were able to get Mexico to build it for us, the United States would still have to staff it, and we would likely have to maintain it. This increases our deficit, while his tax plan decreases the United States’ revenue. His proposed economic policies make me wonder how this man got so rich. So far, it looks like a Trump presidency would include heavy spending with little to fund it. Trump claims he wants to “make America great again,” but it seems like all he wants is a chance to increase the size of his own wallet. He claims that his proposed tax plan doesn’t add to the deficit, when in fact it actually does. He claims that the plan benefits all, and while it technically does, the benefits provided favor rich people like Trump over the middle class.
China plans to commit to climate change promises Los Angeles Times (TNS) The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, Sept. 30: Think of the irony, if the push that finally makes the United States a world leader in combating climate change comes from … China. Of course, President Xi Jinping would first have to follow through on the promises made in his new carbon-cutting accord with President Barack Obama, which commits China to launching a cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gases within his country — similar to what California has now — and putting up $3.1 billion to help developing countries in their efforts against climate change.
Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency have been trying to do the right things, especially with the Clean Power Plan that was unveiled in August. Under that initiative, states must reduce carbon emissions from power plants, the single biggest source of greenhouse gases, to a level in 2030 that is 32 percent below the plants’ 2005 emissions. Most of that would be achieved by moving from coal to renewable energy or gas. Republicans have tried to kill the plan, though, largely by arguing that global warming is a global problem and that the U.S. should not commit to new restrictions unless China, the biggest emitter, does the same. The new accord steals that argument from them — Xi pledged to halt the growth of greenhouse gas emissions by no later than 2030 — and positions Chi-
na and the U.S. to enter the Paris climate talks later this year as committed leaders. And it marks a huge reversal in China’s rhetoric. Two decades ago, China was arguing that it was one of the developing nations that should be given a pass on reducing greenhouse gases; indeed, at that time, the U.S. was the leading climate polluter. China took on the dubious title in 2006. China has more motivation to make good on its climate promises than it does on Xi’s high-profile cybersecurity deal with Obama. The country has a practical interest in reducing climate pollution because the same pollution from dirty coal has been choking its skies and killing its people. An August study found that dangerously sooty air enveloped many parts of China, and that in Beijing, it had reached
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such alarming levels that simply breathing was the equivalent of smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. China has closed several coal plants in the Beijing area, and announced in March that it would close the last one next year. In other words, Xi has good reasons to be willing to sign a binding global agreement in Paris, which would be the true sign of international cooperation. Such willingness could go a long way toward preventing a repeat of the disappointing 2009 Copenhagen climate talks, which resulted in weak commitments and dropped promises. The evidence of climate change has become far more visible in the last six years; there is no time for another failed climate summit. ©2015 Los Angeles Times. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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Sycamore women claim 2nd at Notre Dame Tyler Wooten
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Both the Sycamore women’s and men’s teams had impressive outings among some of the best teams in the region and country at the Joe Piane Notre Dame Invitational on Friday afternoon, where the ISU women finished as the runners-up in the Gold 5K and the men 15th in the Elite Blue 8K. The Sycamore women were runners-up for their third straight race in as many opportunities here in 2015, but put together their best performance of the season on Friday in the Gold 5K. ISU fell behind Great Lakes foe Butler by only six points, but placed all seven scorers in the top-50 for a solid secondplace finish. “We definitely took a step forward today as a team,” said
ISU women’s head coach Kyle Walsh. “Butler got the victory, but SLU was ahead of us with 1K to go and each of our ladies closed well. I love the way this team fights during the toughest parts of the race.” Yet again, ISU sophomore Taylor Austin was the pacesetter for the Sycamore women. However, Friday was a career day for the Griffith, Indiana, native, who destroyed her career best by 35 seconds en route to a third-place slot at 17:20.8. “Taylor Austin ran on another level today,” Walsh said. “I’m very proud of the way she believes in herself and in her training.” ISU had two in the top-15 as well with freshman Brooke Moore in 13th place (17:58.5, PR). Moore has consistently been ISU’s No. 2 runner behind Austin this season. “Brooke was huge for us,”
Walsh said. “She attacked the last mile, but I still think her best races are ahead of her.” The remaining five Sycamore scorers all finished within the top 46 or posted either a season or career best: sophomore IU transfer Brittany Neeley (29th, 18:16.0), freshman Mary Hanson (32nd, 18:19.2), freshman Taylor Rogers (37th, 18:21.5), freshman Megan Doty (18:25.8) and sophomore Jessi Conley (18:32.4). The Sycamore men, meanwhile, were in the elite Blue 8K race alongside several nationally ranked squads. ISU finished 15th out of 20 schools, beating out No. 18 Arizona State in the process after falling behind early on. “It’s a fast start at Notre Dame, and we got crushed in the first 400 meters,” said ISU men’s head coach John McNichols. “It’s a narrow course there, too, which makes it much harder to
Volleyball splits pair of weekend conference games
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The Sycamore volleyball team took on Northern Iowa and Drake in the ISU Arena in conference play over the weekend. They return to action on the road against Bradley Oct. 9.
ISU conquers Northern Iowa but falls to Drake Game One Indiana State handed Northern Iowa its first Missouri Valley Conference loss of the season in a five-set victory (25-17, 25-16, 20-25, 20-25, 15-9) on Friday evening inside ISU Arena. It marks the first time in program history that the Sycamores have defeated the Panthers in back-to-back seasons. The Sycamores’ offense was fueled in thanks to junior right side Kynedi Nalls (17 kills, .306 hitting percentage, 20.0 points) and junior outside hitter Bree Spangler who notched her eighth season double-double (13 kills, 17 digs and added four blocks). As a group, the Sycamores hit just .168 but held the Panthers to just a .087 clip on the opposite side. Sophomore libero Stephanie Bindernagel guided the back row defense with 22 digs while redshirt senior Carly Wishlow posted a new career-high with nine combined blocks (two solo, seven assisted). Set one went all Indiana State’s way, as it rolled to a 2517 win behind a .310 clip and five kills from Nalls on a .500
hitting percentage. It was more of the same in set two as the Panthers hit -.116 and ISU picked up three kills in the frame from Nalls to go along with seven team blocks. But that set three lull continued to crush the Sycamores’ momentum as it couldn’t get over the hump to fall 20-25. Moving to the fourth set, ISU couldn’t get anything going on the attack, hitting an evening low .108 and committed three services aces and UNI pushed the match to the decisive fifth set with the 25-20 win. But the Sycamores took control in the fifth with the support of a rowdy crowd inside ISU Arena with Nalls and Spangler recording six of the seven kills in the set and a 15-9 win. Game Two Indiana State volleyball let one slip away on Saturday evening as it fell to Drake (25-16, 25-20, 17-25, 21-25, 12-15) at ISU Arena on Think Pink Night. ISU falls to 12-7 overall and 1-3 in Missouri Valley Conference action. Junior right side Kynedi Nalls led the Sycamores again on Sat-
urday evening, recording 14 kills on a .237 hitting percentage to go with five blocks (all assisted). Junior outside hitter Bree Spangler added 13 kills of her own to go along with her 10th season double-double with 13 digs and two blocks. Sophomore libero Stephanie Bindernagel led the back row with 15 digs while senior middle blocker Cassandra Willis led in hitting percentage (.304). Redshirt senior Carly Wishlow had a combined eight blocks (one solo, seven assisted) to lead the team to 15.0 blocks in the match. For the second time this season, Indiana State squandered a 2-0 lead at home in the loss after taking sets one and two (2516, 25-20) before Drake was able to squeeze out three wins. It seemed early on the Sycamores had the keys to the win with plus-.300 hitting percentages in frames one and two. But two sub .100 hitting clips in sets three and five along with a .100 percentage in the fourth set were really too much for ISU to overcome. Story by ISU Athletic Media Relations.
pass people as the race goes on. We’ll have a similar situation at Pre-(Nationals) and Nationals, though, so hopefully we can fix it soon.” The question before the race, though, was whether or not All-American John Mascari would compete. The Terre Haute native had been dealing with a minor ankle injury unrelated to his back injury last track season. “(Mascari) was a race-time decision,” McNichols said. “I was 95 percent sure we weren’t going to run him, but the trainers worked on him well. He was feeling really good and he was pretty convincing, too.” ISU’s slow start hindered Mascari’s start to the race as well, but he was able to claw his way to a 10th-place finish at a solid season-best time of 23:59.4. “The slow start for the team meant John was around 100th
MVFC CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 beginning with a powerful nine-play, 75-yard drive that ended with a 19-yard touchdown run by junior transfer Roland Genesy (17 rushes, career-high 98 yards) — the first score of his ISU career. ISU’s next score came with 2:20 left in the half, this time courtesy of Gary Owens (six catches, 47 yards). The senior WR took advantage of a broken play and signaled to QB Matt Adam that he was open in the back of the end zone for a six-yard score (his shortest of the season). With four touchdowns in four games this season and nine total in his two seasons at ISU, Owens is currently on pace to shatter both the singleseason (eight) and career (15) receiving touchdowns records. ISU came out of halftime with a 21-14 lead and the ball, and the ensuing drive became the beginning of the end for the Bears. ISU, led by Adam, Genesy and freshman WR Kelvin Cook, put together a demoralizing 11-play, 70yard drive that ended with a five-yard strike to TE Andrew Main in the right corner of the end zone — his first catch of the season. “That drive was big at the beginning of the second half; it was huge,” Sanford said. “I just think the way we played in the third quarter was excellent and I’m just proud of our guys.” Following the big drive to open the quarter, ISU had a 15-yard TD pass to Sampson Levingston (six catches, 55 yards, 1 TD), who shook off four defenders in an impressive romp to the end zone. In the opening minutes of the fourth quarter, ISU dug into its bag of tricks for a 22-yard passing TD to Jamar Brown (four catches, 44 yards) from none other than Gary Owens on a trick play. This was Owens’ first career TD pass, one game off his first career rushing TD against Southeast Missouri. The final two scores of the game for ISU were a 17-yard reception by Tonyan (three catches, 49 yards) and a twoyard run by freshman Taeler Porter. In his first series on the field as a Sycamore, the freshman Florida native exploded for 62 yards on five carries — which includes a 42-yard run on his second career carry. Matt Adam had a career day under center, posting career highs in completions, yards and touchdowns as he went 27-38 for 265 yards and four touchdowns. Adams’s four touchdowns are the most since Mike Perish threw four at Southern Illinois in 2014. But the offensive catalyst of the day was the freshman Kelvin Cook. Whether he was lined up at receiver or as a QB in the wildcat, the Miami transfer was privy to several
at the 1K mark, but he fought his way back to 34th by the mile and eventually 10th,” McNichols said. “He had a really good race and you could just tell he was feeling great.” Junior David Timlin also finished in the top 50 at a careerbest time of 24:39.1. Other scorers included Levi Taylor (81st, 24:57.6, seasonbest), Daniel Swem (133rd, 25:34.0, PR), Logan Hambrock (145th, 25:54.0, season best), Akis Medrano (149th, 25:59.6, PR) and Quentin Pierce (157th, 26:18.8, PR). “From a team standpoint, we have to get better — and we will,” McNichols said. “Today was pretty encouraging, though. We were dead last at the mile and the 4K, and worked out way up to 15th ahead of some really good schools. We have a lot of things to work on, but that says something about this team.” key first downs as ISU’s allpurpose leader with 114 total yards (70 receiving, 44 rushing). “He played wishbone quarterback in high school, so we knew that he was a good option-type runner,” Sanford said. “We wanted him to learn how to play the receiver position first during training camp and during our first three games. But then during the bye week we put in that personnel group that we can put into the game where he can play quarterback or something else, and we’re going to do some more things as we go along. He made a lot of people miss.” The Sycamore defense wasn’t nearly as flashy, but had a strong day despite a rough first quarter and some costly injuries. ISU was without AllAmerican Connor Underwood, as well as starting DB Alex Stowers, DE Conrrad Nichols and DE Alec Lyons, but the Sycamore defense still held MSU to 190 yards over the final three quarters. In his first game back following missing two after a concussion against Butler, senior LB Kendall Walker led all Sycamore defenders with an ISU season-high 13 total tackles (six solo, 1.0 TFL) — 10 of which came in the first quarter alone. ISU also got interceptions out of safety Marcus Gray (24 yards, four tackles) and defensive lineman Kenyota Rollins (three yards, three tackles). Gray and Rollins are prime examples of ISU’s resilience in the face of all these injuries. Despite being without Underwood, Stowers, Lyons and Nicholls — as well as starting running back LeMonte Booker — ISU found ways to win on both sides of the ball with the next guy up. In fact, due to the limited nature of ISU’s roster, the Sycamores had five first-time starters: TE Logan Buske, DL Kenyota Rollins, LB Antonio Broadus, LB Katrell Moss and S Haki Woods. Whether ISU’s regular starters return or these steady backups remain in the starting lineup next week at No. 5/7 South Dakota State remains to be seen. Either way, Coach Sanford knows the path ahead is arduous in the tough MVFC. “We’re a work in progress,” Sanford said. “One of the qualities of a good football team is to keep improving as the season goes on, and we need to keep doing that.” Indiana State will be looking to knock off a top-10 team next week in Brookings, S.D., when the Sycamores and Jackrabbits meet up on Oct. 10. “We have tremendous respect for South Dakota State,” Sanford said. “That’s a big trip for us. They’re one of the best programs in FCS football, and we have our work cut out for us.”
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