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Volume 126, Issue 23

PIZZA AND POLITICS

Students watch midterm results roll in Lauren Rader Reporter

To bring young voters together to watch the local and state race results come in, the American Democracy Project hosted an Election Night Watch Party at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 6.

The American Democracy Project has a strategic initiative that promotes civic engagement on campus here at Indiana State.

Free pizza and drinks were provided to the students who attended.

“I’m hoping that a lot of students voted today. I think seeing the results up on the screen will be really powerful for them, and will help them see their impact on the election as a campus,” Student Coordinator for the American Democracy Project, Abram Gagnon said. “Also, there is a community aspect of being here. Celebrating and watching the returns come in with everyone on campus is really important. We’ve been pushing that a lot with our hashtag, Sycamores Vote Together.”

The election results were posted on the screen for everyone to see. People on the project set up tables with U.S.A based activities, like coloring sheets. Red, white, and blue decorations were put up to add a patriotic flare.

There were stations that included making your own candidate t-shirt, writing why you vote on poster boards, and making predictions on the election.

Many students were excited to come together and participate in this event. Johnson Korvah, an international student, was excited to see the final results and be

Anna Bartley | Indiana Statesman

Students watch the midterm election votes turn out in the Cunningham Memorial Library on Nov. 6.

involved with what was going on.

“I came to this because it seemed like a safe place to discuss politics. Nobody is fighting or bickering about political stances.

It’s more of a casual setting,” Korvah said. ”Voting is important, because it gives ordinary people a chance to make a change, be a part of a democracy, and it allows individuals to voice their opinion about things. Instead of sitting at home and arguing with each other, you’re actually doing something that could make and actual difference.”

Getting students involved on campus is the main goal of the American Democracy Project,

because political awareness is an issue that young people face today.

“I’m a political science major and the fact of the matter is, politics is everything that we do. Everything in government politics affects us, especially on the local level,” Gagnon said. “That’s why we’re trying to get students engaged in local races as well as the presidential, national races. The local level is where everything really gets down to the nitty-gritty.”

Many other groups on campus are trying to get student involvement with government politics as well, such as College Republicans and College Democrats.

The main goal is to engage students with their government and educate on politics, even if it is affiliated with a certain part.

“It is important to give everyone their own voice about what goes on in the country; especially for young people,” ISU student, Connor Lenihan said. “I feel like young people should go out and vote more. It affects us more, because we’re going to be here longer.”

Johnson Korvah understands Lenihan’s point and expressed why he votes.

“From my standpoint and my views, I’m more politically conscious than a lot of people. I’m

an international student and you wouldn’t know that by having a conversation with me. I don’t study political science,” Korvah said. “I am just someone who likes to be aware, and who wants his children to grow up in a world where that grants them personal freedom. Even though I am an international student, that would be my influence to vote.”

Either way a student swayed, it was a safe environment to talk about politics and to come together as a community with fellow students on campus.

She’s the First hosts charity dinner, auction Nicole Nunez Reporter

University Marketing

Hannig Construction has done other projects on campus, including the Health ad Human Services building the Student Recreation Center and renovated the Sycamore Tower buildings.

ISU awards Hulman Center renovation contract to Hannig Construction Indiana State University officials have awarded the contract for the renovation of the Hulman Center to Hannig Construction of Terre Haute.

“We are excited to kick off this much-needed upgrade to a highly used community asset,” said Deborah J. Curtis, president of Indiana State University. “We are looking forward to the countless community events, concerts, dinners, basketball games, lectures and other activities that will take place in the newly renovated Hulman Center in years to come.”

Improvements include replacing outdated mechanical and electrical systems and failing exterior metal panel cladding and curtain walls. Updates to safety systems for fire suppression and key areas of the existing catwalk above the bowl area are also planned. Other limitations set to be remedied include adding a second, larger elevator.

Hannig’s base bid of $42.8 million, which includes selected alternates, was the lowest among three submitted last week. Construction is set to begin soon and is expected to take 24 months. The university will continue to hold limited activities -- including men’s and women’s basketball games -- during the renovation period. Heavy mechanical work will occur during the summer months.

“After several months of preparation work, we are eager to get construction under way and look forward to working with Hannig Construction and

its team of subcontractors to build a better Hulman Center,” said Diann McKee, senior vice president for finance and administration and treasurer at Indiana State. “Not only will the university and community enjoy a facility that will better serve their needs, but we also will have the satisfaction of knowing that many people from the Wabash Valley will be employed to do that work over the next two years.”

Total cost for the project is $50 million, which includes construction costs as well as soft costs such as design. Funding consists of $37.5 million appropriated by the state and $12.5 million from university gifts, cash reserves and non-fee-replaced borrowing.

Constructed and opened in 1973, Hulman Center has long served as the university’s focal point for community engagement and one of the key drivers to stimulating activities in downtown Terre Haute. Strategically located on the campus’s southeast edge, the Hulman Center, which has 174,000 gross square feet, bridges campus life with Terre Haute’s downtown and hosts hundreds of events for citizens of all ages.

The project, which was expected to begin last summer, had to be redesigned and rebid when the low bid was $5 million higher than construction estimates.

University Marketing.

This Saturday, Nov. 10, She’s the First is hosting a Charity Dinner and Silent Auction.

The dinner and auction will be held at 6 p.m. in Dede I. The event will consist of dinner, entertainment, a photo booth, a silent auction, lantern decorating, and a lantern release.

It is open to anyone including students, faculty, and the community. One can buy tickets at the door.

It is $7 for students and $15 for non-students.

The silent auction will have a wide variety of items for people to bid on.

The photo booth will also be $1 and the photos will be sent directly to you after the event.

There will be performances

by Indiana State students featuring singing and dancing.

Also, Dr. Rider will be the keynote speaker at the event.

Rider is a first generation woman and will be speaking on supporting first generation women.

All of the funds go towards the She’s the First student organization. She’s the First is a nonprofit organization and is nationally known.

Anyone can start their own chapter on a college campus.

Tawana Chakanyuka started the chapter at Indiana State University and is now the president.

“We’re trying to raise funds that we can send to young women so that they can create scholarships for them to attend school,” said Chakanyuka, “These scholarships help to buy uniforms, buy materials for them, an d help them complete their education.”

The national organization creates scholarships for girls in countries that lack access to education.

All of the chapters send their funds to the national organiza-

tion and about $1000- $1200 supports one girl’s schooling through high school.

The national organization sends each chapter information about the girl, so the chapter knows exactly to whom their fundraising has worked towards.

“I think their mission to be able to fundraise for women who are undereducated or who are unable receive the education they deserve, just because they live in another country, is great,” said member of She’s the First, Amy Vandevelde.

She’s the First as an organization is inclusive and provides a place for female students to feel welcomed and heard.

“It’s an organization that’s different than anything else I’ve ever experienced before,” said Vandevelde, “Even if it is something you don’t know a lot about, the people in the organization make it really inclusive and are willing to inform you and teach you about things you don’t understand. Mainly it’s all upperclassmen, but even being a freshman I feel included and they are all really caring and they want to take the time to get to know you personally. …

You have a lot that you are able to voice even if you’re not experienced.”

By attending Saturday’s event, one can have an amazing time with friends, family, and faculty while advancing a great cause.

“I think people forget how important it is for women to get education in the world because I think people assume that men should be the ones who receive education, but women need it too. Once everybody is educated and once education is a right and not a privilege, it gives everyone an opportunity to be better and we could probably solve a lot of problems in the world with the education of women,” said Chakanyuka.

NEWS

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Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018

Meet the history-makers of the 116th Congress Andrew Menezes

for the seat in 1992, but lost in the primary that was eventually won by Gene Green in a runoff.

Green’s retirement opened the door for her to run for the seat again, and she easily won the party primary in March.

Joe Neguse, D-Colo.

By winning Colorado’s 2nd District, Neguse becomes the first Eritrean-American elected to Congress. The son of immigrants from the East African nation, Neguse replaces fellow Democrat Jared Polis who ran for governor. The result is a happy midterm reversal for Neguse from four years ago, when he lost a race for Colorado secretary of state.

Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.

Blackburn easily kept Tennessee’s Senate seat in GOP hands Tuesday night, becoming the Volunteer State’s first female senator. The eight-term congresswoman is also the first Republican woman to win statewide office in Tennessee.

Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.

The daughter of Palestinian immigrants, Tlaib becomes the first Muslim woman elected to Congress — along with Minnesota’s Ilhan Omar — after she faced only token opposition in Michigan’s heavily Democratic 13th District. She will also be the first Palestinian-American woman elected to Congress.

Sharice Davids, D-Kan.

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Diversity has been a hallmark of the 2018 midterm elections, which have seen a record number of women, minorities and first-time candidates running for office.

Here are some of the history-makers from election night.

Deb Haaland, D-N.M. Haaland shares the distinction of being the first Native American woman elected to Congress with Kansas’ Sharice Davids. An enrolled member of the Pueblo of Laguna, Haaland easily won the race for New Mexico’s 1st District to succeed fellow Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham.

Veronica Escobar, D-Texas With her victory in Texas’ 16th District, Escobar, a former El Paso County judge, becomes the first Latina elected to represent the Lone Star State in Congress — along with Sylvia Garcia, who took a Houston-based seat Tuesday night. Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke vacated the 16th District seat for an unsuccessful Senate run.

Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas Garcia, a state senator, easily won Texas’ 29th District on Tuesday night, becoming the first Latina elected to Congress from the Lone Star State, an honor she shared with Escobar. Garcia ran

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Ilhan Omar delivers her victory speech after becoming the first Somali-American elected to Congress, representing Minnesota’s Fifth District, at her election night headquarters in Minneapolis on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018

Davids becomes one of the first Native American women elected to Congress after picking up Kansas’ 3rd District seat. It’s an honor she shares with New Mexico’s Deb Haaland, who also won her race Tuesday night. Davids is also the first openly gay lawmaker that Kansans have sent to Congress.

Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, D-Fla. With her upset of two-term Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo in Florida’s 26th District, Mu-

Riot Games is sued by female employees over alleged unequal pay, sexual harassment Sam Dean

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Riot Games has been under scrutiny since employees went public this year with allegations detailing a workplace rife with sexism and harassment.

Now, the Los Angeles company behind the hugely popular “League of Legends” video game is being sued by one former and one current employee for alleged violations of the California Equal Pay Act and gender-based discrimination, retaliation and harassment.

The suit, filed Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, seeks class-action status and echoes the accounts of former and current employees who spoke with The Times this month, alleging that Riot Games has a “men-first” “bro culture” in which harassment and inappropriate behavior go unchecked.

Some of the behavior alleged in the suit includes crude jokes and “crotch-grabbing, phantom humping, and sending unsolicited and unwelcome pictures of male genitalia,” in addition to allegations that employees discussed in an email chain “what it would be like to ‘penetrate’ female employees” and male managers circulated a “‘hot girl’ list” ranking female employees by attractiveness.

The suit further alleges that Riot Games retaliated against

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Mattias Lehman was a vocal critic of company culture at Riot Games. He and another outspoken employee were both let go.

outspoken female employees with “denied promotions, refusals to provide increased compensation or equal pay, demotions, reassignment with significantly different responsibilities, losses of benefits, suspensions, terminations, and other adverse employment actions.” It seeks monetary damages.

Riot Games spokesman Joe Hixson said the company would not comment on the lawsuit’s specific allegations but that “we

can say that we take every allegation of this nature seriously and investigate them thoroughly.”

“We remain committed to a deep and comprehensive evolution of our culture to ensure Riot is a place where all Rioters thrive,” he said.

Plaintiff Jessica Negron says that she did the job of an absent manager without an increase in pay for a year, only to be passed

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More women going to Congress in 2019 than ever before, and most are Democrats Sarah D. Wire

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

WASHINGTON — A record number of women were elected to the House on Tuesday, with at least 99 — mostly Democrats — expected to take the oath of office in January, up from the 84 currently serving.

And that number could grow after nearly two dozen outstanding races are called in the coming days.

The new class includes the first Muslim and Native American women ever elected to Congress, the first female African-American representative from New England, and the first Latina representatives from Texas.

“I think we can have a transformative effect because a lot of us are used to breaking through barriers,” New Jersey Rep.-elect Mikie Sherrill told NBC’s “Morning Joe” Wednesday. “I think as women, that’s what we’ve been doing our entire career.

And so to go somewhere and to have that challenge before us is not daunting. It’s sort of par for the course.”

The results follow a record-setting year with more than 250 female candidates running nationwide for

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic primary winner who defeated powerful US Congressman Joe Crowley (D-NY) in the New York democratic primary on 26th. Ocasio-Cortez is one of a record number of women who were elected to the House on Tuesday.

state legislative races, governorships and national office. Many were first-time candidates who said they were inspired to run in reaction to both the loss of Hillary Clinton, the first major party female

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carsel-Powell becomes the first Ecuadorean-American elected to Congress.

Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.

After easily winning her Minneapolis-based 5th District, Omar becomes the first Somali-American elected to Congress.

She will replace Democrat Keith Ellison, who vacated the seat to run for state attorney general.

Omar will also be one of the first Muslim-American women elected to Congress, along with Michigan’s Rashida Tlaib.

Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.

Pressley became the first African-American Democrat to be elected to Congress from Massachusetts on Tuesday night.

She faced no Republican opposition in the 7th District. The Boston city councilor is also the first African-American elected to the House from the Bay State.

Pressley unseated Rep. Michael E. Capuano in a Democratic primary in September.

Abortion, marijuana, voting rights were on the ballots across the country Kurtis Lee

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Efforts to make voter registration easier. Marijuana legalization. Limits on abortion.

While the focus of Tuesday’s midterm election centered on control of Congress, voters nationwide weighed in on an array of ballot proposals. In total, voters in 37 states faced 155 ballot questions.

Here’s a look at some of those that passed.

VOTING RIGHTS FOR FELONS Florida voters passed Amendment 4, which automatically restores the right to vote for people who complete prison sentences for felony convictions, excluding murder and sexual offenses. As many as 1.5 million people are expected to get back their voting rights.

Florida was one of three states where people convicted of felonies permanently lose the right to vote. In most other states, felons have their voting rights restored after leaving prison or completing periods of parole and probation.

“It’s major victory for Florida voters,” said Wendy Weiser, a director at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. “There have been millions disenfranchised, and this is historic.”

TRANSGENDER RIGHTS In Massachusetts, voters passed Question 3, which keeps in place a 2016 law that prohibits discrimination based on gender identity in hotels, restaurants, stores and other public places.

Its passage was heralded as a victory by LGBTQ rights groups and came at a time when legislatures in Texas, Kentucky and several other conservative states have sought to limit the rights of transgender people.

“Winning this popular vote is irrefutable proof that public support for transgender people is growing, and tonight’s outcome will provide the necessary momentum to change the landscape on transgender rights everywhere,” said Kasey Suffredini, president of strategy at Freedom for All Americans, a group that works to pass laws nationwide

that help transgender people.

JURY VERDICTS Louisianans voted to amend the state constitution to require juries to return unanimous verdicts for convictions in felony cases. A Jim Crow-era rule that allowed split verdicts was passed in 1880. It was formally entered into the Louisiana Constitution at the state’s 1898 constitutional convention, where lawmakers declared a mission to “perpetuate the supremacy of the Anglo-Saxon race in Louisiana.”

ABORTION In Alabama, voters passed an amendment to the state constitution recognizing the rights of the unborn. The state must now “recognize and support the sanctity of unborn life and the rights of unborn children, including the right to life.” Amendment 2 also mandates that no provisions of the constitution provide a right to an abortion or require funding of abortions.

The amendment is expected to be challenged in court.

Meanwhile, in West Virginia, voters passed a measure that prohibits Medicaid from funding abortions. It also adds a line to the state constitution that says, “Nothing in this constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of abortion.”

Department of Health and Human Services data show that Medicaid paid for about 1,500 abortions in 2017 at a cost of $326,000. That was up from 2008, when Medicaid paid for 657 abortions at a cost of $222,000.

VOTER REGISTRATION As concerns about voter suppression dominated some midterm races, Michigan passed a ballot measure that creates an automatic voter registration system. The measure automatically registers people eligible to vote when they get a driver’s license or state ID card, or conduct other business with the state — unless they opt out. A similar measure was on the ballot in Nevada, but its outcome remained unclear late Tuesday.

A total of 13 states and the District of Columbia have automatic voter registration.

In Oregon, which in 2015 be-

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Correction:

In the Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, issue of the Indiana Statesman, the Indiana Statesman incorrectly identified the first- and second-runner ups in the Miss Ebony pageant. Shaynea Rolle was the first runner-up and Sara Bayed was the second runner-up.

indianastatesman.com RIOT FROM PAGE 2 over for the official promotion in favor of three men.

The lawsuit said she has since left the company.

Plaintiff Melanie McCracken, identified as a current employee, says that she was iced out of ongoing projects this year after a senior executive at the company falsely accused her of sharing compromising photographs of him at “a dance club with scantily clad women” on a business trip to Shanghai.

“The day and age of fraternity workplaces is over,”

RIGHTS FROM PAGE 2 Two years ago, a federal court struck down a 2013 North Carolina law passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature that included voter identification requirements. It’s likely the laws passed on Tuesday in North Carolina and Arkansas will face legal challenges.

MARIJUANA The movement to legalize pot for recreation use began in 2012 and continues to sweep the nation.

In Michigan, voters were heavily favoring a measure

said Ryan Saba, an attorney with Rosen Saba. “The fact that they don’t recognize it and haven’t done anything to cure it in a substantial way is unacceptable.”

The suit seeks recognition for a proposed class that includes all women currently or formerly employed by the company in California who have experienced discrimination, retaliation, or harassment in the last four years.

Riot Games, founded in 2006, has 2,500 employees, according to the company, with many in its West Los Angeles headquarters. to legalize the possession and sale of up to an ounce of marijuana for anyone older than 21. The measure also lowers certain past criminal convictions for marijuana to civil infractions.

Currently nine states have passed measures that allow recreational marijuana.

In addition, Utah voters appeared poised to pass a measure that allows the sale of medical marijuana. Proposition 2 faced strong opposition from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018 • Page 3 CONGRESS FROM PAGE 2 candidate for president, and to President Donald Trump’s election. Trump is increasingly unpopular with women.

Female candidates also set a record in the Senate, where 24 women are expected to serve beginning in January, one more than the current 23.

Male Republican candidates defeated Democrats Sen. Claire McCaskill in Missouri and Sen. Heidi Heitkamp in North Dakota.

But in Tennessee, Republican Marsha Blackburn was elected to replace a male colleague Sen. Bob Corker, and regardless of the final result in Arizona — where the race is too close to call — a woman will be the next senator. It is the first time either state will be represented by a woman.

Democrats also elected a new female senator in Nevada, where Jacky Rosen beat incumbent GOP Sen. Dean Heller.

Even with the new higher numbers, overall female representation in Congress

is still far below the 52 percent of the population women make up. But it has steadily increased over the past five decades.

There is a wide disparity between the parties, said Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. Women are on track to make up nearly 40 percent of House Democrats in 2019, but less than 7 percent of House Republicans, she said.

“It’s been a frustration,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said. “We need to do a better job of recruiting women candidates and getting them elected.”

Walsh said Democrats have female leaders like House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who are dedicated to recruiting women, and the party has created groups like Emily’s List that focus on recruiting female candidates to run in winnable districts, and support them financially throughout their campaigns.

Republicans have historically not had female lead-

ers and don’t have a comparable focus on recruiting women to win. Without those things it will be hard for the party to catch up, Walsh said.

With the record number of female winners comes several other firsts and milestones, including 41 women of color, as of most recent results, and the youngest woman ever elected to the House: 29-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. The incoming class will be younger and more diverse than ever before.

“It is incredible,” New Mexico Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, head of House Democrats’ campaign arm said. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee made strategic investments to boost the numbers, including $39 million into candidates of color, $63 million into female candidates, $25 million into veterans and $9 million into LGBT candidates, he said.

Pelosi said Wednesday that she expects female representatives to take the lead on more than just tra-

ditional so-called women issues, like child care or sexual harassment.

“I want women to take ownership of what would be traditionally not as highly visible roles for them, and that’s one of the ways that they will change the Congress,” she said.

“When the White House or the administration, whatever administration it is, has to report to leadership in the Congress at any level about the safety of our country, they’ll be talking to the full diversity of our country, our women, people of color, LGBTQ. And I think that’s a very positive thing because people in the public will see people who share their values, their experience, their concerns making decisions about the safety and security of our country.”

Women also made inroads in several governor’s races, flipping them from Republican control. In Kansas, Democrat Laura Kelly defeated Republican Kris Kobach. In Michigan, Democrat Gretchen Whitmer defeated Republican Bill Schuette.

FEATURES

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Meet your fellow ISU Sycamores

Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018

Dossier by Cheyenne Fauquher Photos by Anna Bartley

Freshman Name: Alex Pentz Hometown: Algonquin, IL. Major: Interior Architecture Design Favorite Thanksgiving Food: Stuffing Favorite Holiday Tradition: Getting to spend time together with my family at my grandma’s.

Sophomore Name: Harley Bray Hometown: Nineveh, IN. Major: Nursing Favorite Thanksgiving Food: Stuffing Favorite Holiday Tradition: Putting ornaments on the Christmas tree.

Junior Name: Storie Nickel Hometown: Covington, IN. Major: Communications Favorite Thanksgiving Food: Mashed potatoes Favorite Holiday Tradition: Spending time with my family.

Senior Name: Diyo Muyymba Hometown: Terre Haute, IN. Major: Music Business Favorite Thanksgiving Food: Stuffing Favorite Holiday Tradition: Watching bad Christmas movies on Netflix.

The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls The production including an all-female cast is ‘excited to share with ISU community’ Chelsea Chapman Reporter

Students and staff from the Indiana State University theater department have been hard at work on their latest production: The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls. This is a young play with an all-female cast that the department is very excited to share with the Indiana State University community.

This production will take place in Dreiser Theater Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 pm, and Sunday at 4 pm. Tickets are free with a valid ISU student ID. Julie Dixon, an associate professor of theater at Indiana State University, has been working with theater productions for fifteen years. She gets to choose one, or sometimes two, shows to direct per semester.

“I chose The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls by Meg Meroshnik,” said Dixon. “Meg is a playwright who writes a lot of roles for women. We, at this stage, have more women who are interested in acting than men, so I’m always looking for scripts that showcase women and give women lots of roles where they are free agents as opposed to an appendage of a guy. I’m always interested in looking for shows with a lot of roles for women and shows where women have agency over their own fate.”

This year’s production takes place in 2005 and is about a young, Jewish woman named Annie.

“Annie is an American citizen who was born in Russia,” said Dixon. “[She and her mother] migrate to the United States. Now Annie is nineteen years old and her mother wants her to go to Russia, learn how to speak Russian, have a business vocabulary and spend the summer in Russia. She goes to Russia and what she discovers is a world that is not a real truthful world, but a world that is probably 80% fairytale and 20% reality.”

Forty students of all ages are helping put this show together.

“My favorite part is working with the actors,” said Dixon. “I like to be in the room with the actors as they are discovering things. I like investigating the play and figuring out,

‘What is this really about?’ with the students. I like making those discoveries together.”

Many staff members from the theater department have helped work on this production.

“I think it will be a visually striking production,” said Dixon.

“There’s going to be sound, projection, lights, costumes, and it’s a very visually interesting piece, so I think that it will be cool to look at as well as cool to watch. It’s got a cool little horror vibe going on, which I think is kind of neat given the time of year, so I think that people should really enjoy it.”

Morgan Vaclavik, a junior studying elementary education, has participated in five productions at ISU. “I am playing Other Katya and Nastya,” said Vaclavik. “For Nastya, I like that I an be experimental with her, this is definitely a character I am not used to. For Other Katya, it was interesting to explore this side of her where she feels like she wants to get out, but at the same time she can’t. She’s also not oblivious, but she also is oblivious to everything that is going on. She is very much someone who sees the bright things in life, whereas Nastya is someone who has seen the tougher sides of life, but still tries to own it as she can.”

Vaclavic loves working with the cast and has worked with most of them since she was a freshman.

“I like working under [Dixon],” said Vaclavic. “She really pushes us to be something better. She pushes us to try things and makes us better actresses and actors. This [play] is an all-female cast, and it’s about taking your own story. I’ve liked working on it because it’s something different and we kind of need it right now in society. Society is in a place right now where we need to find our own story, and I think this play is very relevant to that.”

Vaclavic had never read this play before it was announced at ISU this year.

“I was shocked. There were a lot of things in it that shocked me,” said Vaclavic. “I loved it. I thought it was totally pro girl power. It struck me as something different from what we’ve usually seen.”

Chili Cook-Off:

Chi Omega vs Pi Kappa Phi AJ Goelz Reporter

On Tuesday, Sodexo hosted a Chili CookOff between the Chi Omega sorority and the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity at the Lincoln Quad Dining Hall.

The Chi Omega sorority ended up victorious in the competition.

“We all worked as a unit and took the recipe to heart. We also had a lot of help the head chef and he really taught us a lot of things that we used in our chili,” said Tayler Bass of Chi Omega. The sorority won commons cash along with the Chili Bowl Trophy.

“The competition was a lot of fun. It was definitely eye opening, because we got to see behind the scenes of Sodexo, and in the kitchen, and it kind of gave a new perspective of how much work goes into cooking that many servings,” said Bass. “It was also a lot of fun to learn how to use the cool, heavy machinery.”

Both sides made servings for around 150 to 200 students on Monday to be served be-

tween 4 and 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday. The chilis were served under the labels of A or B in a sort Pepsi Challenge-esque manner. Students could then vote on social media for their favorite chili.

Dona Wilson, the Unit Marketing Coordinator at Sodexo, exclaimed before the event that the cook-off was about community. This event was a chance to come together as a student body to enjoy food and togetherness.

She also said that this was an opportunity for students who do not usually eat at the Lincoln Quad Dining Hall to try something new. Younger students typically eat at the dining hall in the Towers, and that makes perfect sense. It is near or exactly where they live.

Most do not think about the Lincoln Quad Dining Hall as an option, but it is open to everyone and gives another option to students.

The Chi Omega representative spoke to an event that the sorority hosts next semester.

“Our big event in spring is we do Dishes for Wishes, which is a big buffet thing that is five dollars and it raises money for Make a Wish,” said Bass.

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Movies coming out this month to be on the look out for Los Angeles Times

Ratings by the Motion Picture Association of America are: (G) for general audiences; (PG) parental guidance urged because of material possibly unsuitable for children; (PG-13) parents are strongly cautioned to give guidance for attendance of children younger than 13; (R) restricted, younger than 17 admitted only with parent or adult guardian; (NC-17) no one 17 and younger admitted.

(Critics’ Choices capsule reviews are

by Kenneth Turan (K.Tu.), Justin Chang (J.C.) and other reviewers. Openings compiled by Kevin Crust.)

OPENING IN HOLLYWOOD THIS WEEK “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” _ Joel and Ethan Coen take on tales of the American West in this theatrical release of their six-part anthology. With Tim Blake Nelson, James Franco, Tom Waits, Liam Neeson, Zoe Kazan, Brendan Gleason, Bill Heck. Written and directed by the Coens.

Netflix “Blue My Mind” _ An increasingly out-of-control teenage girl undergoes a shocking transformation in this imported fantasy drama. With Luna Wedler, Zoe Pastelle Holthuizen, Regula Grauwiller.

Written and directed by Lisa Bruhlmann.

Uncork’d Entertainment “The Delinquent Season” _ Two couples face marital troubles in this drama from Ireland. With Cillian Murphy, Eva Birthistle, Catherine Walker, Andrew Scott.

Written and directed by Mark O’Rowe.

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Midterms see wins for both sides Joe Lippard Opinions Editor You might not have heard, but Tuesday night was the midterm elections. Many predicted a “blue wave” would sweep Congress, due to widespread dissatisfaction with the Trump administration and Congress’ handling of said administration.

It happened in part. The Democrats ended up taking control of the House of Representatives back from Republicans, while Republicans retained control of the Senate. Forecasts for the Senate weren’t exactly favorable for Democrats in the first place -- according to election analysis website FiveThirtyEight, Democrats only had about a 19% chance to take control of the Senate as of the day before the election, and their chances were never above 35%.

Democrats taking the House of Representatives is a big thing, however. Now all those House investigative committees that have been Republican-controlled are controlled by Democrats.

This means that at the very least, there may be some investigations into several aspects of the Trump administration in the future.

It’ll be great to finally get a little bit of accountability back in the government, considering this is now the only part of a branch of government that isn’t solidly Republican. At the very least, maybe now we could get an investigation into something like Trump’s taxes, or Jared Kushner’s questionable-at-best security clearance. Furthermore, this means that Devin Nunes, the House Intelligence Committee chairman who formally accused the FBI of partisanship, is no longer chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

Adam Schiff, a Democrat and chairman hopeful, told MSNBC that the Nunes-led committee had “completely abdicated” its responsibility to hold the Trump administration accountable for questionable things. Schiff then said, “It was really worse than abdicating the responsibility of the committee. The majority went further by being complicit in the president’s attacks on the independence of the Justice Department, on the men and women of the FBI, on our intelligence community. So we also need to restore the relationship between our committee and the intelligence community and law enforcement.“ I agree with Schiff. The Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee will have to work to

reestablish a good rapport with the law enforcement and intelligence communities, thanks to congressional Republicans’ willingness to blindly parrot Trump’s talking points. It irks me that so many Republicans in Congress, particularly Devin Nunes, have spent most of this presidency attacking the FBI because they dared investigate a Republican, and Democrats have to come through and act like actual adults and apologize to the law enforcement and intelligence communities for the things the Republicans have said and the public sentiments they’ve stoked.

Trump has already thought of all the increased investigations, tweeting early Tuesday, “If the Democrats think they are going to waste Taxpayer Money investigating us at the House level, then we will likewise be forced to consider investigating them for all of the leaks of Classified Information, and much else, at the Senate level. Two can play that game!”

My only response is this: two have already played that game.

I don’t see why the Democrats investigating Trump and his Congressional cronies are in any way worse than the Republicans who spent two years investigating why Hillary Clinton didn’t send an army out to the desert to save four Americans. In fact, I think that the Legislative and Executive Republicans, including Trump, who are getting upset about House committees investing Trump and his ilk, yet totally supported six Congressional investigations into Benghazi, are bigger hypocrites than the Democrats in this case. There has been one Congressional Russia investigation, to my knowledge, as opposed to the six Benghazi investigations.

It’s disappointing that the “blue wave” wasn’t able to reach the Senate, but I wasn’t surprised.

What I was surprised about, however, was that Indiana Senator Joe Donnelly was voted out.

Donnelly wasn’t exactly liberal, but Braun just disappoints me. I looked at his stances shortly before the election, and between increased military abroad, lowering corporate taxes and building the wall, I’m simply disappointed in my fellow Hoosiers who have elected such a man.

It wasn’t a terrible midterm election this year. Voter participation in almost every state was reported to be higher than normal. It’s nice to see that people are starting to become a little less apathetic toward the way things are going in their country, regardless of whether or not I agree with how they voted.

Republicans lose the House, the nation loses, too Jay Ambrose Tribune News Service (TNS) Money played a role, apparently big, big money, and so did history, misconceptions, radicalization of the innocent and feminist anger for a guy named Trump.

The story is that the Republicans lost the House and that the nation lost, too.

It lost glorious opportunities for still more prize-worthy legislation and majoritarian protection from anti-democratic Democratic malevolence. A Republican House, on the legislative side, did what a Democratic House would never do, for instance: It helped give us a tax-reform package saying here’s a job, there’s a job, everywhere is a job, job, job. The Democrats said wait, the tax cuts are just for the rich and, anyway, where are wage hikes?

Well, they are now surrounding us, and that’s what happens when you get out of the way of American businesses, not just by reducing overly high taxes, but also scotching disruptive, mindless regulations that give worthy regulations a bad name. And, on top of instigating economic growth that helps the poor more than any welfare program, the cuts did reduce taxes more for the middle class than the rich.

Democrats won’t admit that. It

makes them feel unneeded.

And so they misled you, and it’s a worry that they will play budget tricks and won’t line up behind any reasonable remedy to anything. Instead, some say, they’ll be preoccupied with impeachment, investigations and any means they can think of to yank the chair out from under a seated president. Concerning policy options, some Democrats have also found it pays to be socialistic because all kinds of young voters are socialistic and, if history has never allowed socialism to succeed, maybe it can be persuaded to change its mind.

Despite all of that, the Democrats did grab gobs of cash from evil Wall Street and vastly outspent Republicans on smothering TV ads, perhaps hoping they would minimalize mindfulness to a state of support.

Divisiveness, thou art enshrined, and, given President Donald Trump’s cockamamie, vituperative tweets and speeches.

It’s not just the fault of intellectual meandering about the end of America. It’s not just campuses gone wacko. It is not just wideeyed mobs letting their narrow minds rule. It is not only decapitation jokes or some urban dwellers believing most rural, blue-collar types are racist barbarians at the gates. No, Trump has contributed to the point of

engendering hate expressing itself in terms his own stumbling tongue cannot equal.

Of course, the president’s party consistently loses loads of House seats in midterm elections, and none of this is to say that Democratic voters were without legitimate concerns, even if a bit off sometimes. Many Democratic votes, we know, came from suburban women whose fears are said to include the possibility of a refashioned Supreme Court repealing the Roe v. Wade abortion ruling.

That’s actually as far-fetched as thinking it will repeal women’s rights to vote. And meanwhile lots of Americans understood how dishonest and close to subversive the Democrats were in their attempts to stop Senate approval of Brett Kavanaugh as a justice.

That’s likely one reason Republicans increased their majority in a Senate that will still be able to deliver on judges and justices.

That’s hugely important if you dislike liberal justices amending the Constitution through socalled interpretations. I, for one, was pleased to see former presidential candidate Mitt Romney elected to the Senate from Utah; I look forward to his leadership and remember President Barack Obama mocking him for viewing

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Tuesday night’s wave came with an undertow for the GOP Walter Shapiro CQ-Roll Call (TNS) It was the most important midterm election since voters repudiated the unsteady hand of Herbert Hoover in responding to the Great Depression. But unlike 1930 when the Democrats garnered more than 50 House seats and gained effective control of the Senate, the electoral verdict last night was far more equivocal.

As anyone who spent last summer at the beach knows, waves come in all sizes. There are gentle waves made for diving sevenyear-olds. There are deceptively strong waves that bring with them an undertow. And there are, of course, fierce storm waves that require a response from FEMA. Republicans, from Donald Trump on down, will dismiss last night’s Democratic victories as a wave worthy of a kiddie pool.

Already, the early-rising Trump tweeted about “our Big Victory last night.” And, in terms of the Senate where at least three and maybe five Democratic incumbents lost, there is a rationale to the Trumpian hyperbole.

But, in truth, the 2018 midterms appear to have brought with them a lasting Democratic undertow.

Looking at the House map

from Portland, Maine, to the North Carolina border, only by squinting do you see occasional small splotches of red in places like Long Island. Across the board, Republicans had problems in upmarket, mostly white, congressional districts from Charleston, South Carolina, to Oklahoma City.

The new Democratic House majority — and the almost certain return of Nancy Pelosi as speaker — represents a triumph over gerrymandering. Not too long ago political orthodoxy decreed that the Republicans would control the House until after the 2020 Census because the district lines were so artfully drawn by the GOP after the Democratic wipeout in the 2010 elections.

Instead, the 2018 House elections were a belated vindication of Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 strategy of pitching herself to college-educated suburban Republican women. These women were Clinton’s target audience when she maladroitly described half of Trump supporters as “a basket of deplorables” because of their “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic” views.

As Trump in the White House fulfills every dire prophecy about his vitriolic fear mongering, affluent suburbs are increasingly becoming part of the permanent Democratic coalition. Republi-

can incumbents who survived 2018 in districts like Ohio-12 (the Columbus suburbs) and Pennsylvania-1 (Philadelphia suburbs) have reason to be fearful of increased Democratic turnout in the presidential year of 2020.

Trump also tweeted on Wednesday morning ”To any of the pundits or talking heads that do not give us proper credit for this great Midterm Election, just remember two words — FAKE NEWS!” As a pundit fearful of the ire of a press critic like Trump, I will happily give him proper credit for losing the House.

The Democrats faced the most daunting Senate map in memory with only nine GOP-held seats on the ballot. Trump responded with fact-free rallies designed to stoke fear of a dwindling caravan of desperate asylum-seekers hundreds of miles from the U.S. border. And it worked in states like North Dakota, Indiana and Missouri — none of which will be in play in the 2020 presidential election.

That said, Democrats still face a moment of reckoning in understanding Trump’s continuing appeal. The president’s support level a bit above the 40 percent mark remains impervious to anything less than nuclear weapons. In fact, the Democrats’ apparent 8-

to 9-point edge in the national House vote lines up neatly with Trump’s approval ratings.

A national rebellion against Trump might have elected matinee-idol candidates like Beto O’Rourke in the Texas Senate race and Andrew Gillum in Florida’s gubernatorial contest. But demographic change in politics often comes more slowly than the fantasies of hopeful partisans.

When the 116th Congress convenes in January, no one should waste too much time analyzing potential legislation. With a House majority, the Democrats have the power to block any further assaults on Obamacare. But it seems fanciful to believe that a divided Congress will produce anything beyond maintaining the basic housekeeping functions of government.

Since, unlike the Trump-era Republicans, the Democrats remain a big-tent party, Pelosi in normal times might have problems managing her small House majority. But what matters in the new House will be committee chairmanships and subpoena powers rather than floor votes.

And when it comes to organizing the House, even a single-vote margin is sufficient.

It is impossible to know whether vigorous investigations of the Trump regime will pay political dividends to the Democrats. But

after two years of supine Republican see-no-evil under-sight of the government, the Democrats’ ability to deploy the power to probe will restore Congress’ constitutional role as an independent branch of government.

With an enhanced Senate majority, Mitch McConnell will have even greater latitude to reshape the federal judiciary with conservative jurists. In fact, by 2020, any member of the rightwing Federalist Society who is not a federal judge will have ample grounds to be embarrassed for being passed over.

At some point, though, those Republicans with a sense of decency and a belief in truth-telling will have to look in the mirror and contemplate the costs of being a Trump congressional enabler. Nothing about the 2018 election should give Republicans the confidence that marching in lockstep with Trump puts them on the right side of history.

But for the moment, the Democrats are entitled to a deep sigh of relief. While it was not an Election Night of candy canes and elves prancing on the Capitol lawn, it was good enough to constrain Donald Trump. And that alone made it the most important midterm since 1930.

indianastatesman.com JAY FROM PAGE 6 dential candidate Mitt Romney elected to the Senate from Utah; I look forward to his leadership and remember President Barack Obama mocking him for viewing Russia as an enemy.

Interesting, isn’t it, that the disreputable Russian-collusion probe was hardly brought up by the Democrats in this out-

Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018 • Page 7 ing and that Trump still connects sufficiently with the American people to have likely made a difference in some races?

These are disorienting times we live in, but the pollsters were pretty much right, as opposed to flubs in 2016. If they get good enough, will TV news shows devoting nine-tenths of their time to predictions come to consider elections unnecessary?

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Sycamore Cross Country preps Great Lakes Regional Garrett Short Reporter The Indiana State men’s and women’s cross country teams close out their season with the NCAA Great Lakes Regional this weekend. The races are Friday across Third Street at the Lavern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course.

The Regional comes two weeks after the Missouri Valley Conference Championships.

Both the men and the women finished fourth at the championship meet. The goal for each team was to push into the top three but they came up short. The women were beaten out for the third spot by Illinois State while Drake took third in the men’s race.

The Sycamores finished fourth in the conference but are looking to finish near the top 10 this weekend. Both teams have been hovering in the 10-15 range throughout the season.

Currently each team is ranked 16 by the United States Track and Field Cross Country Coaches Association.

Brooke Moore will be looking to lead ISU’s women’s team against an exceptional group of runners that include Big 10

teams at the Regional. She ran a personal best of 17:09.80 in the 5K at the MVC Championships which led to a runner-up finish, trailing only Lindsey Brewis of Loyola-Chicago. Moore’s performance is tied for the fastest time in ISU history.

Leading the men’s team will be senior Akis Medrano. Medrano ran a blistering 24:06.30 8K, which was good for third place at the conference meet. His time was also the third-best in Indiana State program history.

Medrano was the only senior that ran that ISU will lose after this season. He picked up his third All-MVC honor and ran a personal best when it mattered most.

Medrano and Moore will be looking to compete with some of the top runners in the country this weekend.

A trip to the NCAA Championships Nov. 17 is on the line for two of the premiere runners in the MVC. The ISU teams will be facing a field of tough competition. Some of the teams traveling to Terre Haute for the race include Notre Dame, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Michigan State.

These teams are not just dangerous in the Great Lakes Regional. They are also nationally ranked with Wisconsin coming in at No. 3, Notre Dame at No. 10 and In-

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diana at No. 23.

The Lavern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course is the site for the Regional for the second straight year. Before 2017, the race hadn’t been held in

Terre Haute since 2003. Overall, this is the sixth time the Regional will be featured in Terre Haute. The Sycamores are hoping to close out the season in style at home on Friday.

Sycamores look to add another ‘W’ to their streak David Cruz Reporter Indiana State Football looks to improve their three-game winning streak to four as the No. 22 Illinois State comes to Terre Haute.

The Sycamores and the Redbirds are both 5-4 on the 2018 season, with the Redbirds being 2-4 in the Missouri Valley Conference. Illinois State will be looking to snap a three-game losing streak.

Illinois State leads the all-time series with Indiana State, 37-302.

Illinois State took last year’s meeting in Normal, 24-13 after the Sycamores defeated the nationally ranked Redbirds in 2016, 34-31 inside Memorial Stadium.

Since 2010, Illinois State has taken six of the eight meetings, including five-straight from 2011-15.

Brock Spack is in his tenth season as the head coach at Illinois State and his current record at the school is 73-44. Spack has led the Redbirds to four FCS playoff appearances, including threestraight from 2014-16, and guided the Redbirds to back-to-back shares of the MVFC title in 201415. His 2014 team advanced to the NCAA FCS National Championship game, the first in the program’s history.

After rewriting the Indiana State record book against South Dakota this past weekend, redshirt junior quarterback Ryan Boyle has been named the STATS FCS National Offensive Player of the Week.

The award comes on the heels of Boyle earning Missouri Valley Football Conference Offensive Player of the Week as well as picking up his fourth Newcomer of the Week honor this season.

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ISU football hope to extend their win streak this weekend against the Redbirds.

record seven touchdowns in a 51-48 triple overtime victory against South Dakota Saturday.

Boyle tied an Indiana State single-game record with five passing touchdown, including three during overtime.

In total, he accounted for 380 yards of total offense, including a career high 187 yards on the ground. He was 20-for-27 through the air for 193 yards.

He looks to have an even bigger game against Illinois State.

Boyle was also joined by defensive teammate Katrell Moss, as he was chosen as the Valley’s Defensive player of the week. Moss recorded a season high 18 tackles, including 10 solo stops Saturday against South Dakota. Moss found his way into several key plays, making 3.5 tackles-for-loss in the game, including one tackle for loss at the goal line. Moss looks to be even more dominant next game against the Redbirds.

One of the keys this season for the Sycamores has been their success when entering the red

zone.

ISU ranks 12th nationally and has scored in the red zone 35-of39 times for a 91 percent average.

Last season, ISU entered the red zone just 19 times over 11 games with only nine touchdowns.

This season, the Sycamores have 26 touchdowns and nine made field goals through nine games.

So the Sycamore offense looks keep pounding it down the field just like they did last game and continue to produce in the red zone.

Coming off of an 0-11 season last year, the Sycamores were picked to finish last in the Missouri Valley Football Conference with just one vote not assuming the worst in 2018.

The Sycamores are now 5-4 on the season and have won threestraight games for the first time since 2014.

They look to keep on rolling this Saturday against the Redbirds.

This Friday, the Indiana State University Sycamores Men’s basketball team will travel to Green Bay to face off against the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Phoenix.

The Sycamores started the season off to a tough loss Tuesday with an 86-96 loss in a road game against the Ball State University Cardinals. The two teams went into halftime tied at 32, but the Cardinals’ offense was too much for the Sycamores to handle in the second half. In that matchup, junior guard Jordan Barnes and sophomore guard Tyreke Key both led the Sycamores in points scored with 16 points each. Barnes and Key led the Sycamores in assists with four each.

Barnes and junior forward/center Bronson Kessinger both led the team in steals with two steals each. Tyreke Key and senior center Emondre Rickman both led the team in rebounding with seven rebounds each. Rickman also had a team-high four blocks.

Even though the Sycamores came up short against Ball State, it is still very early on in the season, with a lot of basketball to be played. With ISU having a couple different players not eligible until mid December, the first handful of games are crucial to see what

works and does not work for the team.

The Green Bay Phoenix started off their season last night with a huge 110-54 victory at home against the Wisconsin Lutheran Warriors. In that matchup, Green Bay’s Collin Kennedy and Sam Kaufman both led the way for the Phoenix in scoring with 12 points each. Kennedy led the team in rebounding with seven total rebounds. Kaufman led the Phoenix in assists with two assists in the game. Grant Biesterfield led the team in steals with three in the game.

Having the Phoenix double the score of their first game against the Warriors, the Sycamores will need to keep that in the back of their minds. ISU will need to show their defensive skills more than offensive due to the fact that the Phoenix have a high-scoring offense.

Indiana State will have till Jan 2 of next year to figure out their chemistry, as we will play away at Loyola in our first conference game of the season.

The Sycamores will compete against the Phoenix Friday at 4:30 p.m. The game can be seen on TV worldwide on ESPN3 and can be heard on the radio WIBQ 97.9 FM.

Sycamores host Evansville at home for their second game of the season Jordan Koegler Reporter The Sycamores take on Evansville for a second time this season, marking the second match of the season between Indiana State and Evansville Nov. 9 at home in the arena.

The last match was held in Evansville on Oct. 13 where the Sycamores fell short to the Purple Aces with a 0-3 final score.

Evansville had more kills than ISU, but made a tie in errors for the game. ISU fell short in overall points to UE. Key players for the Sycamores were Madeline Williams with 10 kills, one ace and three blocks.

Lauren Gross had six kills, one ace and one block. Cassie Kawa had six kills and three blocks.

Nikkie White had five kills and three blocks.

On the other side, Evansville’s key players were Rachel Tam with 16 kills. Kerra Cornist with 10 kills, four block assists and one solo block. Mildrelis Rodriguez had 10 kills and 10 digs. Alondra Vazquez had nine kills for the night.

ISU leads in the overall series 44-30 over Evansville, despite the Sycamores’ loss to the Purple Aces.

It was a close loss for the Trees, however some time has passed since the two teams have last played each other and it will be a highly anticipated game to see if the Trees will take back what they lost last time.

With top players on both teams from the previous match, it will be important for both teams to keep these players in the forefront of their minds when heading into the game Friday.

The Sycamores have three games including the match against Evansville scheduled Nov.9, before closing the regular season. The end of November will begin The Missouri Valley Conference for the Trees.

The Purple Aces have the same number of games left in their regular season as Indiana State.

Indiana State has an overall record for the season of 9-18 and a Missouri Valley Conference record of 2-13.

Evansville is holding a season record of 9-19 and a conference record of 3-12.

Friday’s game will be a nail bitter in the Arena to see if Evansville will take home the second win of the season against the Trees, or if the Sycamores will take the win over the Purple Aces.

Game time is set for 6 p.m. and can be watched on ESPN+.

ISU volleyball to play Evansville

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