November 08, 2018

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Stephen Lamb debates SORF funding.

ISU Presidential finalists Deborah Curtis and Mike Licari sit under the stage light as both candidates were scheduled for interviewing on campus these past few weeks.

Licari’s interviews took place October 25th-26th at Federal Hall and Tirey Hall. Curtis’ interviews took place on November 1st-2nd at Tirey Hall.

These open sessions gave many students and staff chances to learn more about the candidates by asking those questions about their aspirations for Indiana State in the upcoming 2018 academic school year.

Teresa Exline was able to

provide information about the selection process after the Board of Trustees asked her to help facilitate the logistics of the search because of her role on campus as chief of staff “This is not an election, it is a selection process,” said Exline. “The Presidential Search Committee reviewed all of the applications and narrowed the field from more than 70 to nine semi-finalists. They interviewed all nine candidates off campus and selected two finalists to bring to campus for intensive two-day interviews.

They will provide feedback to the board on whether the finalists are acceptable and what their strengths and weaknesses are.”

Exline explained that after the search committee

conducts their research of the candidates, the information is given to the Board of Trustees to look into farther.

“The Board of Trustees will receive the feedback from the search committee as well as individuals from throughout campus and the community who have completed the online feedback form,” said Exline. “It is the Board who makes the decision on whom will be named the 12th President of ISU.” Exline further explained that the final decision is expected to be made before Thanksgiving.

Each candidate has a connection to ISU. “I am currently the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs here at ISU, and started in the

summer of 2015,” said Licari. “It’s an important job, as I lead the largest division on campus, and am responsible for things like the colleges, Residence Life, Information Technology, and special programs like our student success initiatives and the Honors program.”

According to her bio released when she was announced as a finalist, Curtis also has a tie to ISU as she earned her Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction with specializations in secondary education and supervision of instruction from ISU and also taught at the former University School. Currently, she holds a position as Provost-Chief Learning Officer at University of Central Missouri.

Forensics accounting minor ranked 3rd in US Ashton Hensley Reporter

The bachelor’s degree in forensic accounting offered at Indiana State University was recognized as one of the top programs, ranking third out of 18 schools altogether.

The ranking was decided by the website Best College Reviews that looks into tuition, customization options and special qualities when reviewing schools.

“Best College Reviews’ mission is to enable students to make informed decisions on their path to academic success,” communications manager for Best College Reviews, Jamie Bond said.

Best College Reviews provided a brief description of the program with their ranking, listing courses that are included as well as the tuition cost.

“Indiana State’s bachelor’s in forensic accounting online stu-

dents will graduate prepared for graduate study in the field or for entry-level careers in assurance services, internal auditing, consulting services, and more,” Best College Review said.

The degree is offered through the Scott College of Business where Accounting Chair Stephen Lamb said accounting is one of the strongest majors.

“And the forensics accounting minor has drawn even more positive attention to the SCoB,” Lamb said.

The program began with Tom Harris in the criminology department, who has since retired and passed on the torch.

“It has recently been aggressively championed by Dr. Melony Sacopulos, who has great expertise in law as well as accounting,” Lamb said.

Sacopulos directs the forensic accounting minor and explained that though she only teaches the core courses, the program in-

cludes many other courses for students to receive a high quality learning experience.

“It feels great to have this kind of recognition for our program,” Sacopulos said.

Sacopulos explained that through the forensic accounting program, students can gain knowledge in occupational fraud and fraud examination; skills that can be used in future careers.

“This, along with the fact that we provide full-time and parttime options, as well as online formats and one of the most reasonable tuition rates in the country, caused our program to be ranked third in the nation,” Sacopulos said.

Forensic accounting is commonly used for the detection and prevention of fraud and works alongside the criminology department. Sacopulos said that forensic accountants are called upon for tasks such as economic

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damages calculations, examining bankruptcies and examining money laundering cases.

“As you can see, it is a very relevant career choice,” Sacopulos said.

Farewell event for Bradleys Ashton Hensley Reporter Faculty members were invited to stop by the Heritage Lounge in Tirey Hall to wish President Dan Bradley and First Lady Cheri the best of luck in their future endeavors on Monday, Nov. 6. They also could view the portrait of the couple that now hangs among the other past presidents.

Their portrait draws a person’s eye in this room since it is much brighter than the surroundings and is the only one with two individuals portrayed in one painting. President Bradley noted that this inclusion was a joint decision made by himself and the board since Cheri has contributed immensely to the university. Viewers of the painting noted that it was “fitting” in regards to their positive influences in their time here.

After the Bradleys made their speeches, many members of the faculty and staff mingled and lined up to personally speak with Dan and Cheri.

Cheri was a bit teary-eyed when speaking. She explained how upon arrival, she knew that the staff were the “nuts and bolts” of the university, but now she sees them as “friends.”

Dan expressed that this event served as a good opportunity for some “closure” with hugs and many thanks. He humorously noted that his wife is “better at this than [he is],” but that the support means a lot to the both of them.

“It’s a very difficult job, but very rewarding,” Cheri Bradley said.

“Best time of our lives,” Dan Bradley said.

The Bradleys both expressed that they feel that the university is in good hands, but they are just as anxious as everyone else to see who becomes the next president. Dan still has moments where he feels that this is all so surreal, but he is excited for the future of both his life and the reputation of Indiana State University.

“I’ve had to tell Cheri [that] we’re not going downhill,” he said.

Dan spoke on how the nine and a half years of

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Forensic accounting can be applied in several different work environments such as insurance companies, law enforcement agencies and government organizations.

“Individuals who achieve this minor have a very marketable skill, one that is desperately needed by our society,” said Lamb. “I expect even greater growth in the future.”

The Best College Review about page explains that they overcome the competition of the big reviewers as a neutral independent review journal.

“But our commitment to providing students with the best, most trust-worthy guidance for making what may be the biggest decision of their lives remains strong,” Best College Review said.

Media professionals to discuss career preparation Morgan Gallas Student Media

Indiana State students interested in a career in communication can attend a panel discussion this week featuring professionals in radio, television, newspaper and public relations.

From 1-2:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 10, in the HMSU’s Dede III, students are invited to listen to the panel discuss how to prepare for a career in communication. The event is free and pizza is available for attendees.

“One of the things that we’ve focused on in Student Media is not just giving students skills that they can use to be effective communicators, but we also focus on bringing students together with professionals who can tell students what they need to do to prepare for a career,” said Martha Milner, director of Student Publications.

The panel guests include professionals from multiple communication disciplines.

“We will have a panelist from television, radio, newspaper and public relations,” Milner said. “The last 30 minutes of the event will give students a chance to talk to the professionals and ask questions.”

The panelists include Lynn Hughes, the executive director of the Terre Haute Children’s Museum; Baley Halberstadt, on-air personality at HI-99 WTHI of Midwest Communications; Mark Fitton, content editor of the Tribune-Star; and Rondrell Moore, co-anchor of News 10 and News 10 Nightwatch at WTHI-TV. Jacobi Chatman | Indiana Statesman g Hughes’ primary responsibilities with the Children’s President Breadley speaks at the farewell event.

Museum include fundraising, public relations, event planning, social media, community engagement and budget serving as our president batical as well as getting to management. Before the museum, Hughes spent 10 years has passed like one and a know their grandchildren at Saint-Mary-of-the-Woods-College, serving as a graphic half minutes, but it is time better and preparing for designer, director of public relations, director of college for a break. The couple is work when they get back. relations, special assistant to the president and co-director looking forward to some traveling during their sabMEDIA CONTINUED ON PAGE 5

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FBI unable to break into Texas church gunman’s cellphone

Matt Pearce Los Angeles Times (TNS)

The FBI has been unable to access the phone of the Texas church gunman, officials said Tuesday, voicing their frustration with the tech industry as they try to gather evidence about Devin Kelley’s motive for killing 26 churchgoers in a small town outside San Antonio.

“With the advance of the technology and the phones and the encryptions, law enforcement — whether that’s at the state, local or federal level — is increasingly not able to get into these phones,” Christopher Combs, the special agent in charge of the

FBI’s San Antonio bureau, said in a televised news conference.

Combs declined to say what type of phone Kelley had, “because I don’t want to tell every bad guy out there what phone to buy.”

The revelation came as investigators continued to scour the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, where Kelley fired hundreds of rounds and left behind 15 empty 30-round ammunition magazines after his attack Sunday.

Investigators believe he acted alone and was not motivated by any political or religious agenda, but perhaps by a domestic argument Kelley had with his mother-in-law, who is a mem-

ber of the church’s congregation but who was not in attendance during the attack.

Officials on Tuesday praised the Good Samaritan neighbor, Stephen Willeford, who shot Kelley in the leg and the torso outside the church and pursued him out of town, calling him a “hero.”

“How can you not love that guy?” said Texas Department of Public Safety Regional Director Freeman Martin. “That guy did what he knew needed to be done.”

Ten victims remained in critical condition Tuesday.

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A man walks past the front of the First Baptist Church where a gunman opened fire on a Sunday service and killed at least 26 people in Sutherland Springs, Texas on Monday.

If you enjoy sleeping at night All Florida State fraternity instead of the day, thank the activities suspended after dinosaurs for going extinct pledge dies; alcohol suspected Ryan Van Velzer Sun Sentinel (TNS)

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A new study finds that mammals were largely nocturnal until dinosaurs went extinct

Amina Khan Los Angeles Times (TNS) Mammals were largely creatures of the night until the dinosaurs were killed off by an asteroid some 66 million years ago, a new study finds.

The findings, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, illuminate a pivotal transition in the history of Earth’s living things.

Scientists have long wondered whether ancient mammals may have been primarily nocturnal because dinosaurs dominated daytime activities — an idea known as the “nocturnal bottleneck hypothesis.”

Living mammal species today carry many signs of a literal dark past. For example, most mammals (except humans and many other primates) don’t have a fovea, an area in the eye’s retina that allows for the clearest vision. The shape

of many mammals’ eyes also favors lowlight sensitivity rather than the ability to see sharply.

That’s not to mention the heightened sense of smell, broader ability to hear and sophisticated whiskers that might have developed in many mammals “to compensate for insufficient visual information” in dark environments, the study authors pointed out.

Why were mammals such night owls?

They may have had to avoid what the scientists called “antagonistic interactions” with dinosaurs, which typically operated in daylight. This flipped schedule may have been a lifesaver, keeping mammals from becoming furry midday snacks.

But the evidence for this idea is mostly indirect, the scientists pointed out. And trying to determine whether some longdead mammal was nocturnal based on its

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The death of a 20-yearold fraternity pledge from Pompano Beach led Florida State University to shut down all Greek life activities Monday.

Alcohol is suspected of playing a role in the death of Andrew Coffey, whose body was found Friday — the morning after a gathering of more than 50 people at a house near campus, police said Monday.

Coffey was a civil engineering student at FSU who graduated from Pompano Beach High School in 2015.

Reacting to his death, the university on Monday indefinitely suspended all 54 fraternities and sororities, said Florida State University President John Thrasher. He also banned alcohol at student events, which includes those run by more than 700 organizations outside the Greek community, according to a news release.

“For this suspension to end, there will need to be a new normal for Greek life at the university,” Thrasher said. “There must be a new culture, and our students

must be full participants in creating it.”

Coffey was trying to become a full member of the FSU chapter of Pi Kappa Phi. The fraternity has faced disciplinary action in the past five years for hazing, alcohol violations and unspecified misconduct, according to disciplinary logs maintained by the national fraternity.

In 2012, the fraternity’s national office sanctioned the chapter for hazing, and in 2014 the chapter faced university sanctions for unspecified conduct that violated university policy.

The circumstances of Coffey’s death have remained a mystery.

“Although there are indicators that alcohol may have been a factor in this case, we are waiting for the results of an autopsy so no cause of death has been determined,” Tallahassee Police Chief Michael DeLeo said Monday.

Police reportedly collected beer bottles from the porch as evidence.

Authorities found Coffey unresponsive at 10:23 a.m. Friday at a house about a mile from campus, Tallahassee police said.

Police said Monday they

have interviewed more than 50 people and have more interviews planned.

Pi Kappa Phi’s national office suspended the FSU chapter’s operations following the death, said Todd Shelton, a spokesman for Pi Kappa Phi. In 2015, the chapter had to enroll in a remedial program for an alcohol violation. But in the past year, in which the national disciplinary log recorded 60 misconduct allegations against chapters around the country, there were none involving the FSU chapter.

The fraternity’s FSU chapter web, Twitter and Facebook pages have been taken down.

Coffey was a high school athlete and junior ROTC member who often smiled, said George Edmunds, a friend and fellow FSU student.

FSU Vice President for Student Affairs Amy Hecht said her division will create new rules in the coming weeks “to ensure the future of fraternity and sorority life.”

As part of Thrasher’s announcement to suspend

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Seven State alumni among ‘12 Under 40’ honorees

Indiana State University alumni are well represented again in “12 Under 40,” with Sycamores making up more than half of the 2017 class.

Presented by the Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce and Tribune-Star, “12 Under 40” recognizes young professionals who are making great contributions to the community.

Sycamores honored this year include: Rachael Brown, ‘07 (English); Ellie Caldwell, ‘01 (accounting); Danielle Isbell, ‘08 (physical education exercise science); Jennifer Isbell Scott, ‘01 (mechanical technology); Katelynn (Moats) Liebermann, ‘13 (elementary education), GR ‘15 (school administration), Ph.D. ‘17 (educational administration); Tradara McLaurine, ‘08 (accounting, political science, legal studies), GR ‘10 (student affairs and higher education); and Jessica Starr, ‘04 (management), GR ‘07(human resources development).

The deserving dozen will be recognized at a breakfast today (Nov. 7) in the Sycamore Banquet Center at Indiana State.

“The Alumni Association couldn’t be prouder of the seven Indiana State University alumni selected to receive the ‘12 Under 40’ award for their dedication and service to the Terre Haute community,” said Rex Kendall, executive director of the Indiana State University Alumni Association. “Their impact in the community is reflective of our university’s longstanding commitment to public service.”

Brown and her husband, Nate, spent the years immediately after graduation traveling back and

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forth to Guatemala and working in orphanages. After taking a break from travel, Brown, then a mother of two children, started a website focusing on children’s activities and traveling with youngsters.

“I would hear people complain ‘There’s nothing to do in Terre Haute.’ But I knew that wasn’t true. There are plenty of things happening in the Wabash Valley.

People were just missing them,”

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she said.

Brown eventually decided to expand her efforts to help improve Terre Haute’s reputation and connect people to the good things happening in the area with the site, hautehappenings. com. They also have fostered children, and recently finalized the adoption of their daughter, making them a family of five.

“My husband and I are both proud to have graduated from

ISU,” Brown said. “Actually, nearly all of our immediate family members graduated from ISU. This means we have ISU to thank (in part) for that fact that our family now has a lawyer, a doctor, a pharmacist, teachers, a counselor, a corporate salesman, a pilot ... and me.”

Since graduating, Caldwell earned her CPA license and has been working in the public accounting industry, including her current employer Sackrider & Company. She has served with many community organizations, including ArtSpaces Inc., Wabash Valley Road Runners, LAUNCH Terre Haute and the Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce.

“I feel honored to receive this recognition from my community. It motivates me to continue to do all I can to better our community and world beyond,” Caldwell said.

She and her husband, Jimmy, lived in Maryland for several years before returning to Terre Haute. They recently moved to a new home in the Collett Park area that they share with their sons, Hadley and Patterson, and their many pets. Caldwell is an avid runner and will finish her seventh marathon in November.

“I was very fortunate to have great teachers during my time (at Indiana State). We have also been fortunate to have interns from various areas of Indiana State at Sackrider & Company, and they have been exceptional,” Caldwell said. “Indiana State is a wonderful part of the Terre Haute community. It is great to have such a forward-thinking institution here in Terre Haute.

It has been an honor to work

with Dan and Cheri Bradley in bettering our community.”

Before starting her current position with the United Way of the Wabash Valley in 2014, Isbell worked for six years at the Union Hospital Fitness Center. Her husband (and fellow Sycamore), Wes, welcomed twin sons Ethan and Owen in 2013.

“I am incredibly humbled and honored. This recognition reflects the hard work and change that we are trying create in the Wabash Valley through United Way,” said Isbell. “We are an organization that is dedicated to leading and helping our community, and that has carried over into my personal service and dedication to my community.”

Isbell says she works each day to make her alma mater proud.

“The duty of an alumna is the unspoken promise that you’ll be the best member of the community you possibly can: Demonstrate good character, always put others before yourself,” Isbell said. “Be confident, but humble.

Don’t back down from any challenge, no matter how daunting.

Honor your family and your faith. Respect those who came before you and appreciate the lessons they have to teach. Help the next generation. Give back to your community, and always do your very best to make the community the very best it can be.”

Isbell Scott has worked for Vectren Energy for the past 12 years as a distribution engineer and most recently an industrial sales account manager. She earned a master’s degree in leadership development from Saint Mary of the Woods College.

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indianastatesman.com EXTINCT FROM PAGE 2 fossil bone structure is tricky. After all, plenty of dayside mammals today have skull and eye shapes that look like those of a nocturnal animal.

To further probe this mystery, an international team of researchers compared the activity patterns for 2,415 different mammal species. They collected records from databases, research articles, field guides and encyclopedias about the behavior of these species, and determined whether their behavior fit into one of five patterns: nocturnal (active at night); diurnal (active in the day); cathemeral (active during both day and night); crepuscular (active only at twilight, around sunrise and sunset); and ultradian (active in cycles of a few hours at a time).

They focused on species in the first three categories — nocturnal, diurnal and cathemeral — and ran

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“This is an incredible honor and extremely humbling at the same time. I had just recently been recognized as the Terre Haute Young Leader of the Year and now ‘12 Under 40’ - both of these honors have me feeling proud to be recognized by my community. I’m mostly proud that I get to share this honor with my family and son, who support me and my hectic schedule,” Isbell Scott said.

“I have had the opportunity to work alongside almost all of the recipients of this year’s ‘12 Under 40’ for numerous community projects over the years, and each one of them inspire me. I feel privileged to be honored alongside them. This community has so many great leaders that they inspire and motivate me to follow in their footsteps and invest back in my community,” Isbell Scott added.

Isbell Scott serves on the boards of the following organizations: Terre Haute Children’s Museum, United Way of the Wabash Valley, Terre Haute Young Leaders Advisory Board, Workforce Development Board, Terre Haute Economic Development, Accelerate West Central Indiana Economic Development, Morgan County Economic Development Executive Committee and the Martinsville Chamber Workforce & Education.

“I feel very fortunate to work for an organization that community involvement is rooted in the corporate culture,” Isbell Scott said. “Because of this, I have had the opportunity to interact with many of the terrific nonprofit organizations in our community and observe the impact each one makes. I

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an analysis of the mammalian family tree. They found that the ancestors of today’s mammals were probably nocturnal, and probably stayed nocturnal until around the time that the dinosaurs died off.

“On balance, our evidence suggests that mammals remained nocturnal throughout the Mesozoic,” the authors wrote, referring to the era from about 252 million to 66 million years ago known informally as the Age of Reptiles.

Their analysis showed that the shift among some mammal species to diurnal activity happened after the extinction event.

The earliest mammals that were strictly diurnal included simian primates, around 52 million to 33 million years ago. Though scientists can’t say that one caused the other, the study provides fresh circumstantial evidence.

However, it also appears that cathemeral activity

(operating partly during both day and night) may have emerged much earlier, roughly 9 million years before the dinosaurs disappeared.

If dinosaurs still dominated the daytime, then why would some mammals start to shift into that space?

There are a few possible explanations. Perhaps cathemeral mammals were trying to reduce the chances of being eaten by other mammals at night.

Perhaps the emergence and spread of flowering plants (and the insects that evolved with them) provided new opportunities for mammals to flourish.

But there’s also mounting evidence that dinosaurs were in decline long before the asteroid wiped them out. This may have opened opportunities for mammals to start inching into the daylight and, eventually, seizing the day.

really have the perfect job, best of both worlds, working in a field that I love shared with my passion for philanthropy.”

Out of college, Liebermann worked a second and third grade teacher for the Vigo County School Corporation. When she enrolled in graduate school at State, Liebermann worked as the district enrichment specialist and member of the curriculum team for the corporation. After finishing her doctorate, she became an assistant curriculum coordinator and grant and enrichment specialist for VCSC. “I am a proud graduate of the Vigo County School Corporation and Indiana State University, as well as a lifelong resident of Terre Haute, so it is truly a privilege to serve students within our community,” Liebermann said. “I am thankful for the opportunities I have had to maintain an active role in philanthropic and service-focused organizations, both on campus and within the community.”

Liebermann said she values the opportunity to serve her community through her career, as well as committing time to work for additional community organizations that promote progress and positive change within the community. She considers it a privilege to serve in a variety of membership and leadership capacities.

“Indiana State University has provided opportunities and experiences that have supported my personal and professional development. I am truly thankful for the support, guidance and encouragement that I have received from individuals representative of various departments on campus, as well as professors who have served as coaches and

mentors to undergraduate peers and graduate colleagues,” Liebermann said.

“Indiana State University provided the platform to develop lifelong friendships, as well as instilled the values and traditions that are continued and maintained today as an alumna of my alma mater.”

Since graduating from Indiana State, McLaurine has worked at Ivy Tech Community College in the Wabash Valley and her alma mater’s Career Center, where she currently serves as the student employment and internships director. She manages the university’s internship scholarship programs and student employment programs including State Works, federal work study and on-campus employment.

“I am humbled, thankful and blessed - this recognition came to me as a surprise. It feels great to be honored by your community for just being you,” McLaurine said. “Indiana State University is home. I am where I am today due to the many opportunities Indiana State University affords to all of its students. I fell in love more with Indiana State when I became a staff member. I see how many people on this campus truly love our students and want to create the best experience for them.”

Last year, McLaurine and her husband opened Wing Stop in Terre Haute to bring more jobs to the community. She also recently published two children’s books, “Why Daddy Works” and “Why Mommy Works” to help working parents explain their jobs to children. “I hope to use the book for fundraisers for local daycares and elementary schools in the future,” she said.

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FSU Vice President

for Student Affairs Amy Hecht said her division will create new rules in the coming weeks “to ensure the future of fraternity and sorority life.”

As part of Thrasher’s announcement to suspend

Greek life, he also cited an unrelated case Monday in which a 20-year-old member of another fraternity was arrested on cocaine-trafficking charges.

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Members of Females in Technology organization.

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Students participate in the 2016 FIT Conference.

FiT: Females in Technology

AJ Goelz Reporter

At Indiana State University there is an organization to help encourage women to enter the science, technology, engineering and math fields.

Females in Technology (FiT) supports women and girls who are interested in STEM careers.

“Opportunities for females in science, technology, engineering and math careers are numerous, yet the numbers of females enrolled in programs to prepare them for these fields are too few.,” said the FiT webpage. “The College of Technology offers a variety of activities and events designed to help girls explore the many options available to them.”

FiT offers an annual conference, school visits, electronic resources, social events and individual conversations with college

females who have made the decision to enter one of those exciting careers.

President of FiT, Alyssa Wozniak, said that the organization originally began as a group for women in the field to get together and support one another. Now the organization has grown and does outreach to high school and middle school, networking and even more things to help advance women in their respective fields.

FiT will hold their eleventh annual conference here at ISU on March 2 of next year.

“We do want to revamp our organization a little bit. We love helping other organizations and getting recognition for females, but also a big portion of it is to support other females in the STEM fields,” said Allison Jones, FiT vice president. Wozniak added that the goal is to focus a little bit more internally.

“We do not want to come across as

male bashing,” said Jones. The two went on to explain that they want to help women realize that they can be successful in this field and be a support for them. They men are welcomed into the group if they want. “We had one meeting a few weeks ago where we almost had more guys than we had girls,” said Wozniak.

According to the two, the organization has around 20 regular members, but they have a large amount of support from the department and others who help.

Wozniak said that if you include those people, their group is larger than 20 and that numbers do fluctuate from year to year.

Funding for the group also fluctuates.

FiT is not a national organization so they do not receive funding from a larger organization. Jones said that what they run on is from them reaching out and dues.

The two said that they try to keep dues

low and that FiT is a not for profit organization.

“We have a lot of engineering students obviously, because our name promotes the technology and the engineering,” Jones said. “We are open to all STEM majors.”

Both Wozniak and Jones are glad to be a part of FiT. “Joining Females in Technology my freshman year was nice to help stay in my major, stay in technology and not be afraid,” said Wozniak.

“I’m a transfer student so finding this organization really helped give me the support I need. I had already proven to the guys at my old school that I could do it to, but coming here was a totally different dynamic and (FiT) really helped,” said Jones.

Sycamore wins national safety video competition

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Students decorated their own unique bras with feathers, beads and paint as a part of a campus event this week.

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Indiana State University senior safety management major Miriah Cherry won first place in a national competition for best safety video.

The Board of Certified Safety Professionals invited students from the Graduate Safety Practitioner (GSP) Qualified Academic Programs (QAP) to share why they value safety, aim to achieve the Certified Safety Professional (CSP) certification and wish to inspire others to #ChooseSafety as part of a video competition.

The students drew from their desire to pioneer, some turning adversity to opportunity, all adamant about building safety that ensures others are safe from harm.

They have truly amazing stories. After receiving many great videos, the board selected Cherry of Greencastle as the competition’s winner.

The top three videos, as well as honorable mentions, are available on Board of Certified Safety Professionals’ YouTube channel and will be released on other BCSP social media as part of the #ChooseSafety campaign.

The Board of Certified Safety Professionals, headquartered in Indianapolis, is a not-for-profit corporation recognized as a leader in high-quality, accredited credentialing for safety, health and environmental practitioners. BCSP establishes standards and certifies competency criteria in professional safety practice.

Since 1969, more than 59,000 individuals have achieved the CSP, SMS, ASP, OHST, CHST, STS, STSC or CET credential.

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‘Food Anthropology’ event shows cooking skills International foods focus on cultural cooking

Ian Bonner-Swedish Reporter

For the third year, the Food Anthropology event brought students together to give cultural cooking demonstrations.

Pamela Tabor, the international student advisor, runs the event to give students a greater cultural awareness.

“We liked the idea to bring people around the table to build community and learn about each other and make connections, and that’s how the program was launched,” Tabor said.

There has been a variety of food. Dishes from Italy, India, Morocco, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, China, Korea and more were available.

The event featured information on the

food and the culture.

“It’s a cultural cooking demonstration that includes a short presentation about the dishes being featured and the cultures that they came from and the place they hold in it with an opportunity to prepare the dish and an opportunity to try it,” Tabor said. “It’s a culinary cultural emersion experience.”

The event brings the world into the backyard of ISU and gives students an opportunity to learn about other cultures.

“It’s an opportunity… for people to have their assumptions challenged,” Tabor said. “They learn things about different cultures and nations that can be surprising.”

For Tabor and many of the attendees, this event breaks the barriers that they might not have ever thought about.

“Because the U.S. is geographically isolated in a lot of different ways, we have plenty of people who come over and make us a melting pot, but we don’t have the ready opportunities to visit other countries and cultures that say Europeans do,” Tabor said. ”We take our ideas from other cultures and other nations from what we read and what we’re exposed to.”

The event introduced students to cultural food prepared without the American twist.

“Whether it’s the National Geographic or the local ethnic restaurant that doesn’t represent authentic dishes but something tailored to the American palate,” Tabor said. “To have someone prepare dishes from a particular area often challenges our beliefs about what the people are like there. We find that we have a lot more in

common.”

The event did more than just feed students. The Food Anthropology event brought students together as a community.

“It’s been a wonderful event for building community,” Tabor said. “There’s been a group of folks that seem to attend as many as these as they can and have a great time with each other at the events. I hope that community continues to build and that more people take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to learn something about the world and to experience delicious food. It would be wonderful to expand the program it provides a wonderful opportunity to learn around something we all enjoy, which is food.”

The next event will be this Thursday Nov. 9 at 5 p.m.

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Will Ferrell finds unlikely co-star in Mel Gibson for family film ‘Daddy’s Home 2’ over a decade after rant Peter Sblendorio

New York Daily News (TNS)

This family reunion comes with a dose of holiday hijinks — and some extra baggage.

Will Ferrell’s new comedy, “Daddy’s Home 2,” centers around his overly earnest character Brad Whitaker co-existing with his wife’s rough-and-tough ex-husband Dusty Mayron (played by Mark Wahlberg), until drama ensues when their respective fathers come to town for Christmas.

The film features a controversial cast addition in Mel Gibson, who stars in his first family comedy in over a decade after his infamous 2006 drunk-driving arrest and anti-Semitic rant, followed by audio of hateful tirades against an ex-girlfriend that was released four years later.

Gibson, who plays Dusty’s bad-boy father Kurt in the new film, has slowly returned to Hollywood after a lengthy hiatus from mainstream moviemaking, notably starring in the 2014 thriller “The Expendables 3” and directing the Oscar-nominated war drama “Hacksaw Ridge” last year. Ferrell believes viewers will embrace seeing Gibson, 61, in a different type of role.

“He’s going to open audiences’ eyes with how great he is in comedy,” Ferrell told the New York Daily News.

“I think this was kind of a fun thing for him to step outside, be on camera after having an absence for a while, and also (doing) a family, PG-13 comedy was something he hasn’t really done,” he said.

“I think if he chooses to do more of that, he’s going to be more than back.”

The “Daddy’s Home” sequel — due out this Friday — hits theaters a little under two years after the original, which introduced Ferrell’s character as the goofy, excessively upbeat step-father to Dusty’s two children.

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of the college’s Annual Woods Fund.

Halberstadt is a recent graduate of ISU. As a student, she began as a volunteer at WISU, the campus radio station. She worked with the rebranding of the station into what is currently WZIS and rose through the ranks from there. By the end of her time at ISU, she worked as the student station manager where she managed nearly 60 student volunteers.

With WTHI, Halberstadt works from production to live air and everything in between.

Fitton joined the Tri-

Ferrell — whose father is played by John Lithgow — didn’t originally anticipate making a sequel, but after the success of the first “Daddy’s Home,” he decided he was on board as long as they came up with a worthwhile storyline featuring the right characters.

“We really wanted to see someone come down the escalator like a Mel Gibson, and without even saying a word of dialogue, you knew, ‘Oh, this is why Dusty acts the way he acts,’” Ferrell explains. “And the same with John and why I’m so touchyfeely, and open with my feelings, and positive parenting and things like that.”

The movie is the latest co-starring vehicle for Ferrell and Wahlberg, who first delighted audiences as unlikely police partners in the 2009 comedy “The Other Guys” before revisiting their odd-couple dynamic in the original “Daddy’s Home.”

The secret to their rapport, Ferrell believes, stems from their abilities to make their characters feel as real as possible.

“When we first started of thinking of Mark for ‘The Other Guys,’ it just started making us laugh, the idea of Mark and I together,” Ferrell said. “You wouldn’t ever picture it. Him always — for the most part — playing the tough guy … up against my kind of plain, everyman thing I’ve been able to corner the market on.

“It’s proven to work really well, and Mark is as adept a comedian as he is a dramatic actor.”

In addition to starring in a long list of classic comedies — including “Anchorman,” “Step Brothers” and “Talladega Nights” — Ferrell has helped write and produce many movies, including some he doesn’t appear in.

He was originally slated to produce a female-led comedy called “Plus One” that was picked up by The Weinstein Company three years ago, but the project ultimately fell through. The movie’s can-

bune-Star in August 2016. He previously worked as the managing editor at The Southern Illinoisan in Carbondale, Ill., the associate editor of The Pantagraph in Bloomington, Ill., and night editor of The Times of Northwest Indiana. Fitton attended Illinois State University where he earned a bachelor’s degree in English. He earned his master’s degree in public affairs reporting at the University of Illinois, Springfield.

Moore began his career with WTHI-TV in 2008. Starting as the internet content producer, he has also served as the week-

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Daddy’s Home 2 movie.

celation had nothing to do with the sexual misconduct scandal swirling around Harvey Weinstein, and Ferrell says he was not aware of the allegations surrounding the Hollywood producer before they emerged last month.

“I have to honestly say I’d never heard stories to this extent,” Ferrell said. “It’s obviously horrible, and I’m glad everyone is feeling safe enough to come forward with their experiences. It goes without saying that none of that behavior is acceptable.”

Although Ferrell plays a father figure in “Daddy’s Home 2,” he acknowledges he’s not as over-the-top around his real kids as Brad is in the movie. Ferrell, 50, is starting to allow his 13-year-old son Magnus to watch some of the more raunchy comedies he’s starred in, though he still limits what younger sons Mattias, 10, and Axel, 7, can see.

Regardless, the Ferrell kids are fans of their father’s comedy style.

end news anchor and producer and as a general reporter.

Moore was nominated for two Ohio Valley Regional Emmys during his time as a reporter.

Student Media, the Department of Communication, Career Center and the Lilly Foundation are cosponsoring this event to bring professionals to campus to discuss steps students should take to become career ready.

“This event is about meeting people in the industry and getting a sense of what you can do as a student to be career ready when you graduate,” Milner said.

“They love their ‘Family Guy,’ and they love Adam Sandler, and they love this movie and that movie,” Ferrell said. “I think they’re like, ‘You’re good too Dad, you’re good too.’ So as long as they’re not like, ‘Dad, that was not funny. What are you doing man?’ — as long as I kind of stay in the top ten with them, I’ll take it.”

His sons visited the “Daddy’s Home 2” set while Ferrell was filming a particularly memorable scene that involves him kissing Lithgow on the lips when they meet at the airport. The scene took all day to perfect, and they ultimately recorded at least 30 takes, which Ferrell says left his sons “laughing and embarrassed the whole time.”

“For some reason, we kept doing it off camera as well, just to try and make Mark laugh,” Ferrell recalls. “So we kept kissing all day long. I’m not afraid to admit that.”

This pricey beer is illegal in 12 states Noel Harris

The Sacramento Bee (TNS)

A popular American company is once again releasing what it calls “the craft beer community’s most renowned and sought-after extreme barrel-aged beer.”

Samuel Adams is bringing back Utopias, which is a blend of tworow pale, Munich and caramel 60 malts, then three types of German noble hops and yeasts are added to make a drink that has a 28 percent alcohol-by-volume level.

According to Fortune magazine,

Utopias is released every other year and, because it’s classified as a beer, the alcohol content is illegal in 12 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont and Washington.

Samuel Adams says “the brew is reminiscent of a rich vintage Port, old Cognac or fine Sherry with notes of dark fruit, subtle sweetness and a deep rich malty smoothness.”

Only 13,000 bottles will be distributed nationwide, with a reported price tag of $199 each.

Samual Adams

Samuel Adams is bringinb back Utopias, a drink with a 28 percent abv.

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Trump’s first midterms: How he can avoid disaster Andrew Malcolm

Special to McClatchy (TNS)

For the next 52 weeks you’re likely to hear that pretty much every single news event will have an impact on the 2018 midterm elections and President Donald Trump’s political prospects. Some of that is true.

But here’s a new overriding wrinkle to keep in mind: The most important factor deciding whether the Republican Party maintains control of Congress is actually Trump himself and his behavior. He can Twitterize any perceived opponent he wants. But at the end of Nov. 6, 2018, he must own the results and live with them for two long years.

History suggests — but does not guarantee — the election outcome will displease Trump. Here’s why: Since the Civil War, the president’s party has lost House seats in 36 of 39 midterms, on average more than 30 each time. That’s six more than Nancy Pelosi needs to grab the speaker’s gavel back from Paul Ryan come 2019.

That’s the bad news. The good news for Trump is two of those three loss exceptions have come recently — in 1998 when Bill Clinton Democrats took back five House seats, and 2002 when George W. Bush’s GOP gained eight House and two Senate chairs.

Off-year elections are actually a fascinating element of American politics. With no parliamentary vote of confidence available to grade a president halfway through a term, the biennial ballot outcomes for all House seats and a third of the Senate have become political thermometers for a president’s popular standing.

History shows by that time U.S. voters are usually grumpy about a White House occupant. In his first midterms in 2010, Barack Obama’s Democrats got spanked, losing an historic 65 seats and the majority.

In Bill Clinton’s first midterms, Republicans’ 1994 “Contract with America” helped the GOP gain 54 House seats, eight Senate

seats and 10 governorships, including some Texan named George W. Bush. The lower a president’s job approval the worse the midterm losses are.

Trump’s approval rating has bounced around recently from the mid-30s to low 40s, not strong by any measure.

And responses show people would prefer less turmoil and outrage in public life.

Trump lavishes attention on this base, and it’s shown sturdy and puzzling resistance to his numerous, at times outlandish, controversies. I suspect that’s because such behavior merely confirms for them that he is the D.C. disrupter they crave.

However, 40 percent approval also means nearly 60 percent disapproval, actually around 57 percent. That’s a nearly 17 percent deficit.

Here’s a wrinkle: Polls on voters’ party preference for a congressional representative next year give the GOP only a seven-point deficit, likely indicating they see Trump’s Republican connections as tenuous, an accurate assessment.

Another wrinkle: Trump’s weak approval flies in the face of positive news. Stock markets regularly record historic highs. After eight years of anemic economic growth, the last two quarters came in at a strong three percent, even with hurricanes. As Trump promised in the campaign, ISIS is crumbling before the U.S.-led assault.

With Obama era regulations being eased or erased and the prospect of significant tax reforms, optimistic employers are expanding and hiring.

So, why isn’t Trump’s standing improving with a majority of Americans? The answer should be clear, even if it must penetrate a New York-sized ego. It’s Trump himself, his self-destructive behavior, gratuitous fights with would-be allies and peremptory retorts that distract attention from his own important initiatives and hand opponents easy ammo for credible criticism.

Trump supporters say he’s a counter-puncher, always hitting back for the last word.

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United States is alone in environmental complacency

Zach Davis Columnist

Climate change is a global manmade catastrophe. Ocean levels are rising and heightened carbon levels are warming the globe, all while we destroy the environment that would help process the dangerous greenhouse gasses. In 2015, former President Barrack Obama signed onto the Paris climate agreement to combat what can be considered a disaster.

The true disaster, however, is that Donald Trump plans to withdraw from it in 2020, as soon as he legally can.

When Trump signaled the step back, only three countries weren’t committed to the agreement: Nicaragua, Syria and the United States. That’s changed, though.

In September, Nicaragua changed their minds and shared their intent to join the accord, but not because they had a sudden change of heart. The only reason they were late to sign is because they felt the accord didn’t do enough to combat the issue when it was written; they only joined because it is the only thing that brings the international community together at the moment to fight climate change.

Syria has now agreed to join, leaving Trump and the United States to be the lone opposition. Adding insult to injury, Syria is joining despite their ongoing civ-

il war, meaning a war-torn country has their act together better than the United States, which is sad.

The Trump administration is trying to suppress the truth of climate change by promoting individuals who deny the science and appointing climate change deniers to high-level environmental positions. They are treating our environment as a business venture. French President Emmanuel Macron noticed this, and French authorities decided Trump isn’t invited to the “Make our planet great again” summit in December. The United States is still invited, “but at a lower level than the president,” according to a report

by Reuters.

Trump didn’t leave the agreement without criticizing it for not favoring the United States, and instead favoring other countries. That notion is false. The British news outlet BBC did a good job summarizing the accord in four bullet points.

First, countries agree to work towards keeping global temperatures below two degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial temperature.

Each country would also have to cut emissions to a level the environment can manage naturally. Every five years a review will be conducted of each country’s efforts. Finally, rich countries are able to help finance poorer countries’ effort if they desire. None of these target the United States or any other country. The problem the Trump administration has is the impact the agreement has on coal.

Coal is a very dirty source of energy, emitting high levels of carbon into the air with poor energy returns. Instead of funding research for new jobs in renewable energy, the Trump administration is campaigning against renewable energies

and lobbying for the impractical coal resources. What the administration won’t realize is the harm the workers face. Mining coal has a plethora of negative effects, but none as dangerous as the respiratory diseases the workers can get – diseases that destroy their quality of life.

The United States needs to shift their focus from protecting coal to preserving the environment. Everybody is equally affected by environmental changes, and dancing around that fact only shows willful ignorance. Critics argue that the changes we see have occurred in Earth’s history before – and they are partially right. The changes in the climate aren’t the core of the issue though – it’s how fast they are occurring.

We haven’t seen such rapid changes in the climate in Earth’s recent history, and we definitely haven’t seen them in human history. We aren’t sure if we can adapt fast enough, even though we are developing technology and solutions the fastest we ever have. Humanity won’t be able to survive on this planet at the rate the climate is changing. Even if you don’t care about the endangered species – which we all should – we can agree that humanity’s demise is the worst possible thing any of us can face. That is something money won’t be able to shield anybody from.

The environment is constantly changing, and we’ve adapted to changes for millennia. The time has come for us to adapt again so we can continue to survive and our children’s children have a planet to live on. This isn’t about the survival of a giant gravitational rock speeding through space at 30 kilometers per second; it’s about the survival of humanity.

Will Trump get what he wants in China?

David Rothkopf

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Donald Trump is reinventing the kowtow for the Twitter age. in fawning tweets, he celebrated Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “extraordinary elevation” at the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress, and in a TV interview he bragged that he and Xi had the best “president-president” relationship ever. It was over the top — especially in light of the fact that Xi is an authoritarian leader.

Clearly, Trump, a man not known for his humility, wants something. China is the most important stop on his 12-day, five nation Asia tour, which began Friday. In Beijing, Trump will be hoping for not only progress on North Korea and trade issues, but for a little of Xi’s momentum, power and prestige to rub off on him.

At the close of the party congress last month, Xi was affirmed as a Chinese leader unequaled in stature by any since Mao Tse-tung. At the

same time, at Xi’s urging, the country’s ruling body agreed to break with its long-standing policy of denying China’s designs on a global leadership role. Instead, in a 203-minute address to the party forum, Xi asserted that the People’s Republic was ready to become a “mighty force” on the world stage.

Xi’s ascendance and China’s aggressiveness stand in stark contrast to Trump’s struggles, Washington’s paralysis and America’s retreat from the preeminent international role it has played since the end of World War II. Despite the role reversal, the Chinese will appear to stroke American egos, especially Trump’s. Expect them to ply him with pomp and ceremony, setting up colorful photo ops that will play well on social media, and giving the president the quasi-royal treatment he craves. They may even offer up some business deals and the promise of unspecified cooperation with American attempts to combat the nuclear threat of North Korea. But if you read deference into the show, you will be wrong.

China is still a poor country in many respects, but this year has seen it open its first overseas military base, increase its blue-water naval capability and expand Xi’s trademark “One Belt, One Road” infrastructure initiative (which extends China’s influence from the Pacific Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea). The People’s Republic has been asserting its will on a wide range of issues, including trade and the question of who can claim the islands off its coast.

Xi and company know that Trump leads a country with greater military and economic resources than China, but they also know he has been able to get precious little accomplished as president. They understand the challenges he faces: special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, the threat of a stock market downturn and deep divisions within the Republican Party.

The Chinese have also discovered that Trump is as inconsistent as he is susceptible to flattery. Only a few months before his val-

entines to Xi, he was tweeting his displeasure at China — “They do NOTHING for us with North Korea” — and attacking past U.S. presidents as “foolish” for deals they made with Beijing. Xinhua, China’s national news agency, responded to the outburst by urging Trump to stop his “emotional venting.”

However grand the welcome for Trump may be, the Chinese will be serving their own goals.

Behind the scenes, they will flex their muscles in tough negotiations because they can, and they now believe they should. In the end, Trump is likely to make very little in the way of meaningful gains on any major issues during his stay.

As former Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and veteran China expert Robert Hormats said to me, “Xi sees China as leading the next phase of globalization and of the evolution of the global economic order.

[He] believes the direction should be and will

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DISASTER FROM PAGE 6 Even Hillary Clinton, no great master of human insight, noted how very easy Trump is to bait.

Always counter-punching may be fine in boxing. But in the eyes of many, not in the world’s most powerful commander-in-chief. It

instead reveals within a leader an unattractive, even disturbing, insecurity.

Trump thinks his supporters love it. Maybe.

Or maybe they just endure it. Either way, that other 57 percent clearly dislikes it. To sell his agenda, Trump needs at least to dilute that opposition.

As unlikely as it would seem for a 71-year-

old brash billionaire, Trump needs to change his public behavior. Hard to detect things that don’t happen, but he actually has toned down carping over the Mueller probe. Perhaps credit his lawyers.

Policies aside, Americans basically want to like their president. Now, for his own good this president needs to apply that same self-disci-

pline across the board to let a wider public peer through the fog of his anticipated arrogance and discover for themselves the smart, confident, surprisingly kind man he is.

Without that, we’re witnessing a 21st century Shakespearean sequel in which the protagonist Donald J. Trump is the one who defeats Donald J. Trump.

TRUMP FROM PAGE 6 be guided more by Beijing than Washington.” This, Hormats believes, will change the dynamic in the U.S.-China relationship. In Xi’s party address, he proclaimed a “new era” for China. To put it in terms the president might better understand, it may be the era of America Second.

The lasting message of Trump’s trip could well be the one foretold by the obsequiousness of his tweets last month. If his visit is “historic,” as he predicted on social media, it will be because it is the first in which an American president discovers he has traveled all the way to Beijing to meet with the most powerful man in the world.

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Rachel Griffin (10), senior setter leads the team in assists with 977 during the season.

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Sycamores look to break streak Jay Adkins Reporter

The 7-19 Indiana State women’s volleyball team is looking to break their five game losing streak in a double header this upcoming weekend. On Friday, they will play Loyola University and on Saturday will play Valparaiso; both games will be home here at ISU in the arena.

The Sycamores are coming off another tough double-header weekend against two intra-conference opponents: The Drake University Bulldogs and the University of Northern Iowa Panthers. The Sycamores lost to the Bulldogs 3-1 on Friday and were shutout against the Panthers with a tough ending score of 3-0 on Saturday.

With only four games left in the regular season, Indiana State is looking to break

their losing streak and gain some confidence before the start of the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament later this month.

Junior outside hitter Laura Gross leads the Sycamores in kills with 315. Senior setter Rachel Griffin leads the team in assists with 977 on the season. Senior defensive specialist/libero Stephanie Bindernagel leads the team in digs and service aces with 467 and 23 on the season, respectively. Sophomore middle blocker Damadj Johnson leads the team in blocks with 90.0 on the season.

The first of their matchups this weekend will be against the Loyola University Greyhounds. The Greyhounds are 9-18 on the season and are currently on a six game losing streak.

Sophomore outside hitter Ann Ernst

leads the Greyhounds in kills with 336 on the season. Freshman standout setter Ashley Kozer leads the team in sets and assists with 99 and 640, respectively. Sophomore middle blocker Molly Jarvis leads the team in blocks with 10 on the season. Senior libero Elena Scarano leads the team in digs with 265 on the season.

Both the Sycamores and the Greyhounds are relatively in a slump, but Indiana State does have home court advantage over Loyola. The Sycamores need to gain momentum in this first match of the weekend and carry over into Saturday’s match; to hopefully come out with two wins after Saturday.

On Saturday, Indiana State will compete against the Valparaiso University Crusaders. The Crusaders are 15-13 on the season and won their most recent matchup

against the Bradley University Braves with a final score of 3-0.

Senior middle hitter Taylor Graboski leads the Crusaders in kills and blocks on the season with 299 and 20, respectively.

Freshman setter Brittany Anderson leads the team in assists with 1043 on the season. Freshman libero Rylee Cookerly leads the team in digs with 571 on the season.

The Sycamores will need to play hard this weekend and bounce back. Both Loyola and Valparaiso are good programs but Indiana State will need to prove they are good and have a good rest of their season.

The Indiana State Sycamores will compete on Friday with first serve at 5 p.m. and on Saturday will begin at 7 p.m. Both games will be held in the Arena here at ISU.

Sycamores roll past Illinois-Springfield in final exhibition, 72-46 Tim McCaughan

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Wendi Bibbins (23), senior forward, scored 18 points during the match along with 13 rebounds.

Indiana State women’s basketball closed out their exhibition slate with a 72-46 victory over Illinois-Springfield Sunday afternoon inside the Hulman Center.

Senior forward Wendi Bibbins led the charge for the Sycamores with her second double-digit scoring game in a row after putting up a game high 18 points and 13 rebounds.

Tierra Webb finished with 11 points while newcomer Kierra Isaiah scored 10 in her Hulman Center debut. Sophomore Ashli O’Neal finished with six points and a team best four assists.

After getting over the home court jitters early, the Sycamores used its defensive prowess to force UIS into seven turnovers, which the Sycamores

turned into 10 first quarter points. Webb led ISU with two steals in the quarter and five points as the home squad went up 21-9.

Defense continued to be the storyline for the Sycamores in the second as the team forced the Prairie Stars into nine more turnovers to take a 31-17 lead into the locker room at the break.

Illinois-Springfield shot themselves back into the game in the second half, cutting the ISU lead to 11 points early in the fourth after connecting on five 3-pointers in the final 20 minutes of action. That was when ISU went on a 10-0 run, which included a pair of jumpers each from Webb and freshman Ty Battle as well as free throws from Bibbins. The rest was academic.

Illinois-Springfield was led by Shelbi Patterson with a team high 10 points.

Destiny Ramsey added eight points for UIS. The Sycamores finished the game 27-of-62 for 43.5 percent and just 1-of-13 from behind the arc. ISU was just 17-of-26 from the charity stripe. Isaiah knocked in six of her 10 points at the line for the Sycamores.

The ISU defense held UIS to just 31.3 percent (15-of-48) from the field in the game, forcing 30 turnovers.

Indiana State opens the regular season Friday (Nov. 10) inside the Hulman Center when they welcome Saint Louis University. Tip is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET. Indiana State men’s and women’s basketball tickets are available for purchase at GoSycamores.com/tickets, by calling 812.237.3737 or by visiting the ISU Ticket Office daily between 8 a.m.- 5 p.m.

Sycamore baseball announces 2018 schedule A total of 54 regular season games, including 21 games at Bob Warn Field make up the Indiana State baseball program’s 2018 schedule, Sycamore head coach Mitch Hannahs announced Friday (Oct. 27).

Of the 54 scheduled games on the docket, 12 will come against 2017 NCAA Tournament participants, including Vanderbilt, Louisville, Indiana, Dallas Baptist and Missouri State.

Indiana State opens the spring slate on Feb. 16 at a four-game weekend tournament in Las Vegas, Nev., playing UNLV in a pair of games as well as Oregon and Loyola Marymount. The Sycamores return to the Midwest the next weekend with sin-

gle road contests against Lipscomb, Middle Tennessee State and Belmont as part of the Mule Mix Classic Feb. 23-25.

The Sycamores will then take on one of the most prestigious programs in the SEC with a midweek test at Vanderbilt Feb. 28, before wrapping up an 11-game road swing to start the season at Austin Peay for a three-game series Mar. 2-4.

Summit League member Western Illinois will open the home slate for the Sycamores at Bob Warn Field March 10-12.

Indiana State will also welcome Xavier for a three-game set March 23-25. Home Missouri Valley Conference matchups include Missouri State (March 30-April 1), Illinois State (April 13-15), Dallas Baptist (April

20-22) and Evansville (May 11-13).

ISU will head east March 16-18 to take on Citadel before wrapping up the road swing with a trip to Charleston, Ill. for a single game with Eastern Illinois March 20. The Sycamores will host the Panthers April 4.

The Trees will play home and home contests with Indiana and Purdue similar to last season. ISU will take on the Hoosiers March 27 and the Boilermakers April 17 at Bob Warn Field. Return games include a trip to West Lafayette April 18 and a trip to Bloomington April 11.

The Sycamores will also play three single road games against Northern Illinois (April 24), Ball State (April 25) and Butler

(May 1).

A trip to Louisville for a three-game series against the Cardinals April 27-29 will serve as the teams’ final road nonconference series of the season. ISU will take on Missouri in Columbia May 15 to close the nonconference slate.

ISU travels north to close the regular season at Valparaiso May 17-19. Other road MVC series include Bradley (April 6-8) and Southern Illinois (May 4-6).

Affiliate MVC member Dallas Baptist will host the 2018 Missouri Valley Conference Championship May 23-26 at Horner Ballpark in Dallas.

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