January 24, 2018

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Volume 125, Issue 43

FAFSA Day

Students to get help with Financial Aid forms AJ Goelz Reporter

The Office of Student Financial Aid will be holding one of its many FAFSA Days at the Cunningham Memorial Library today. This reoccurring event has been helping students of financial literacy and teaching them how FAFSA works to better manage financial aid.

FAFSA Days “is one of our new initiative for our financial literacy program. So this year the Office of Student Financial Aid is building something different for students,” said Randa Wells, Assistant Director for Outreach and Training.

“Its financial literacy to help students better manage their money, not just on the scale of financial aid but money management in general. This event is specifically targeted towards helping students, but we wanted to reach outside of the office to make that we are reaching students

Randa Wells.

everywhere we can,” she said.

This event is also done with the intent of helping students file their FAFSA forms.

“Students can come in at any point during the two hours. We’ll have the computers set up and there will be a financial aid person set aside to assist them with filing their FAFSA, answering any questions they might have and plus it helps because they get to skip the financial aid line when they do that if they just need to file their FAFSA,” said Wells.

For those unable to attend today’s event there will be more FAFSA Days throughout the semester. The next is scheduled for Wednesday Feb. 21. There will also be events on March 21 and April 11.

Students need to bring their laptop, FSA ID username/password, 2016 student tax returns, 2016 parent tax returns and 2016 W2s.

“One of the other events we have com-

ing up is called start now,” said Wells. “We are working in partnership with Residential Life and going into most of the resident halls and doing financial literacy presentations for them. We actually have six events this semester for most of the different communities on campus, those events should be posted on the website as well, but you can go in and hear about budgeting, credit, loans and savings. All of those things are important information that students should probably start learning how to manage early and we are trying to help them do that.”

Wells also mentioned that the Office of Student Financial Aid has noticed a trend around the country that default rates on loans is rising. Events like these are Indiana State’s way of fighting that trend.

All of the FAFSA Days are on Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to noon at the Cunningham Memorial Library in Room 230.

Interim hired to lead Indiana State foundation Advancement veteran J. Douglas Smith has been appointed as interim vice president for the Division of Development at Indiana State University and CEO of the ISU Foundation.

Smith was hired through The Registry, an organization that assists universities with finding senior leaders to fill interim roles on campuses across the nation.

“The Registry provided us with excellent candidates who have a wealth of experience, and I am very pleased to have someone of Doug’s caliber serve in this interim role. I look forward to working with him to advance our fundraising ef-

forts,” said Deborah Curtis, president of Indiana State.

Smith previously served as vice president for university advancement and president and CEO of the foundation at Bowling Green State University, where he led the first comprehensive donor campaign.

Also through The Registry, he served in an interim role, leading advancement at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology for 11 months and University of North Texas at Dallas.

Smith is happy to return to Terre Haute, as the community reminds him of his

hometown in Ohio.

“I look forward to impacting Indiana State in a very positive manner,” Smith said. “I think the university has a very important mission of providing access to education to the young people of Indiana.

It’s an institution with strong programs, and I believe strongly in community service and preparing people to be lifelong learners.”

He also has led fundraising efforts at The Leukemia Society of America and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Smith describes his approach to development as being donor-centric and that

the foundation acts as a bridge between the donor’s passions and the university’s needs.

“We listen carefully to the donor’s desires and get a strong sense of the donor’s value set,” Smith said. “When someone makes a gift to the university, we need to make sure we translate their desires to meet the high priorities of the university.”

The areas of foundation finance, advancement services and stewardship and development within the Division of Development at Indiana State will report to Smith.

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Former ISU president, Dan Bradley at the 2017 founders day celebration.

ISU musicians will perform at the concert on Feb. 18.

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President’s Concert to feature university’s finest musicians The Alumni Association hosts Founders Day celebration since 2007.

Alumni host ISU Founder’s Day Alexandria Truby Reporter

With more than 100,000 alumni across the globe, we want you to celebrate being a Sycamore wherever you call home,” the Indiana State University website says.

Indiana State University was formerly known as Indiana State Normal School. Founders Day is held to commem-

orate the university’s opening in 1870. A total of 23 students attended classes held by three faculty members, according to our history and traditions.

The 2018 ISU Founders Day is an Alumni event that will be held at the John W. Moore Welcome Center on Wednesday, Jan 24 from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.

A piece of 3-D art is to be displayed as well.

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A dozen of the best and brightest musicians from Indiana State University’s School of Music will present the President’s Concert at 2 p.m. Feb. 18 in the Boyce Recital Hall of the Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts.

This year’s concert represents a wide variety of music from classical through contemporary eras, as well as musical theater, by composers such as Handel, Schubert, Brahms, Bartok and Richard Rogers.

The students were selected to participate based on last semester’s outstanding performances in each area of study and include: • Percussionist Blake Roach, a freshman music performance major from Avon, Ind.; • Jacob Gay, a senior music education major from Indianapolis on horn; • Ricardo Gil, a junior music performance major from the Dominican Republic on flute; • Kyle Hartzog, a senior music education major from Kokomo, Ind., on alto saxophone; • Jon Treadway, a sophomore music perfor-

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mance major from Austin, Ind., on piano; • Rigoberto Barrozo, a junior business major from Portage, Ind., on cello; • Vocalist Allison Barker, a junior music education major from Danville, Ind.; • Vocalist Aubrey Gill, a freshman music education major from Pontiac, Ill., • Vocalist Katelyn Kendall, a junior music education major from Holland, Ind.; • Vocalist William Buchanan, a freshman music education major from Terre Haute; • Vocalist Zene Colson of Brazil, Ind., a junior double-majoring in music education and music business; • Vocalist Ross Hanson, a sophomore music education major from Evansville, Ind. The concert is free and open to the public. A reception provided by the President’s Office will immediately follow the performances.

For more information, call the School of Music at 812-237-2771.

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Wednesday, Jan 24, 2018

DACA protesters temporarily block Disneyland entrance Hailey Branson-Potts and Cindy Carcamo Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Cindy Carcamo|Los Angeles Times|TNS

Law enforcement officers removed immigrant rights protesters from blocking the street into the Disneyland entrance. The protesters moved to the sidewalk underneath the Disneyland sign.

Cindy Carcamo|Los Angeles Times|TNS

Immigrant rights activists temporarily blocked the entrance to Disneyland on South Harbor Blvd. in Anaheim, blocking buses from entering the park.

Beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and their allies temporarily blocked a vehicle entrance to Disneyland on Monday, just as the Senate reached an agreement to end the government shutdown brought on in part by a stalemate over the young immigrants’ future.

The DACA recipients, commonly called “Dreamers,” stood in a crosswalk at South Harbor Boulevard around 10 a.m. and blocked buses from entering the Anaheim theme park. The 15 protesters were quickly removed by law enforcement officers and were relocated to a sidewalk, where they held signs and chanted, “No dream! No deal!”

By 10:40 a.m., the protesters had left the area.

“The group is only about 20 people, who have been peaceful. Disneyland is operating as normal today,” Disneyland spokeswoman Suzi Brown said in an email.

The government shutdown began at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time Saturday when Democrats in the Senate, joined by a handful of Republicans, blocked a Housepassed bill to temporarily fund the government for four weeks.

Democrats and Republicans are at a stalemate over several issues, especially the future of the DACA program, which

has protected nearly 800,000 young immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children.

Senate leaders on Monday morning reached an agreement to end the shutdown by passing a stopgap spending bill and committing to tackle the issue of immigration before the next deadline, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said Monday.

Activists with the #OurDream coalition — a group of immigrants’ rights organizations — say their protest was meant to pressure Congress to not pass a spending bill until the Dreamers are protected.

They said they were tired of “unfulfilled promises” by legislators to settle the matter.

Barbara Hernandez, a 26-year-old DACA recipient from Santa Ana, said protesting in front of Disneyland was symbolic.

“It’s where dreams come true,” she said.

“But we’re not on vacation anymore. We’re still waiting for our dreams to come true.”

Hernandez said she knew blocking the street could make traffic worse or cause an inconvenience for people. But disruption, she said, is something the Dreamers have become accustomed to.

“It’s something we go through every day of our lives,” she said. “There is always something blocking us from moving forward.”

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UW groups keep indigenous languages alive Katherine Long The Seattle Times(TNS) When Alyssa Johnston and members of her tribe speak to one another in Quinault, they are often moved to tears by the knowledge that, at the turn of the century, the language was all but dead.

The last person who spoke fluent Quinault passed away in 1996. By using recordings of those who spoke the language in the 1960s, a handful of people in the Olympic Peninsula tribe are slowly and painstakingly piecing it back together — and teaching it to a new generation.

Last year, Johnston was the first person in recent memory to earn a world language credit at the University of Washington by showing she had achieved “intermediate low-level proficiency” in that language.

“It’s everything to me,” Johnston said of the importance of reviving her tribe’s native tongue.

“Language is culture,” she said, and the tribe “right now is literally making history” by bringing

it back.

That history is also being written on the UW’s Seattle campus.

Every two weeks, two separate groups gather around a table in one building or another to practice one of two indigenous languages: Southern Lushootseed, the common tongue of the Native American tribes that lived in this region, and Hawaiian, the native language of the indigenous people of Hawaii.

Chris Teuton, chair of American Indian Studies at the UW, hopes students eventually will be able to learn both those languages in for-credit courses, joining the 55 other languages already taught by the university.

In the meantime, the informal classes are a labor of love for the volunteers who teach them. Nancy Jo Bob, a member of the Lummi Nation, and Tami Kay Hohn, of the Puyallup Tribe, both drive up from Auburn every month to offer several hours of language instruction, using a system they devised that helps students think and speak in complete sentences from the outset.

Lushootseed was revived by

Upper Skagit author, teacher and linguist Vi Hilbert, who died in 2008 at the age of 90. Hilbert taught Lushootseed for credit at the UW until her retirement in 1988, and it has been taught intermittently at the university since then, along with Navajo and Yakama.

Lushootseed’s sentence structure is different from English, and includes sounds that don’t exist in English.

“It’s like my tongue is tap-dancing,” one speaker marveled during a recent language table session.

Sentences start with a verb, rather than a subject, and the form the verb takes, gives information about the manner and time of action, said UW English Professor Colette Moore, who is taking part in the language table.

“By the time a speaker gets to the subject in a Lushootseed sentence,” she said, “he or she has already given a lot of other information.”

The language’s history in the Puget Sound area dates back thousands of years. English, in contrast, has been spoken

Snapchat now allow you to share and watch videos outside its app David Pierson Los Angeles Times (TNS) Snapchat’s appeal has largely been limited to young people who can navigate its famously confounding interface. It’s one of the reasons why Instagram has nearly three times as many users.

But in a major shift that could make Snapchat more enticing to new users, the video messaging app announced Tuesday it will allow its public content to be shared across other social media platforms — not just inside its mobile app.

The Venice company, which long eschewed a serious web presence, said users can now share links to their own videos or other videos they see on the app. The links will open on a web player hosted on Snapchat.com.

The hope is that the added exposure will demystify the Snapchat experience and help reverse user growth that has slowed to a pedestrian pace — in no small part because of competition from Facebook and its photo-sharing app Instagram.

Compared with Snap-

chat, both Facebook and Instagram welcome the sharing of content outside their platforms: consider how common it is to see an Instagram photo embedded online compared with a Snapchat screenshot.

By allowing users to share links, Snapchat is

tion to its users: ephemerality.

To address that, the company said it will treat links shared outside its app the same way as public videos inside the app by erasing them after a few weeks (they also disappear if the creator of the video

Genaro Molina|Los Angeles Times|TNS

Bobby Murphy, 24, left, and Evan Spiegel, 22, co-creators of Snapchat, are seen through a window of the companys offices on Ocean Front Walk in Venice, Calif. Snapchat will now allow videos to be watched and shared outside its app.

joining the ranks of other platforms in the business of trafficking that elusive content known as viral videos.

All that added attention could persuade reluctant visitors to create their own Snapchat accounts, but it could also undermine Snapchat’s core proposi-

chooses to delete them).

Posts from celebrities and other public figures, known as Official Stories, will remain viewable for only 24 hours.

The company said it will not include advertising in the videos shared outside

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Alan Berner|Seattle Times|TNS

Revered Upper Skagit tribal elder Vi Hilbert is greeted by Freddie Lane, Lummi, as she arrives for a preview of S’abadeb, at Seattle Art Museum.

She helped revive the Lushootseed language.

around here for fewer than 250.

“Sometimes it can be a perspective shift for students to see English as an immigrant language,” Moore added, “but, of course, it is.”

——— America’s past is threaded with a long, ugly history of white settlers separating Native Americans from their languages and

cultures. In the 1900s, many Native American children were sent to boarding schools, where they were forced to speak only English.

Johnston, of the Quinault tribe, says her grandfather spoke the language, and her mother asked him to teach it to her. But he refused — the older genera-

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Bank CEOs warn against repeating the mistakes Simon Kennedy Bloomberg News (TNS) Bankers,politicians and CEOs trudged their way through several feet of snow in the Swiss ski resort of Davos so they could attend the second day of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting.

What they found was good news about a once-ailing Europe, warnings about the financial crisis to (possibly) come, and protectionist shockwaves from across the Atlantic.

Is it 2006 all over again?

With the stock market soaring, finance executives are telling investors to avoid repeating the mistakes of 2006. The leaders of Citigroup Inc., Barclays Plc and Carlyle Group LP all drew parallels between today’s markets and those before the Great Recession. They fretted in unison that growth could be upended if interest rates rise quicker than anticipated. “There is an ambivalence out there that’s concerning,” Citigroup Chief Executive Officer Michael Corbat said during a panel discussion. “When the next turn comes — and it will come — it’s likely to be more violent than it would otherwise be if we let some pressure off along the way.”

Barclays CEO Jes Staley added, “We’ve got very little capacity in the capital markets to deal with a real move in interest rates.”

David Rubenstein of Carlyle warned that, “generally, when people are happy and confident, something wrong happens.”

Washington shockwaves Every year, news breaks far away only to reverberate in Davos hours later. Often it comes from Washington. That was the case Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump slapped tariffs on solar panels and washing machines. BlackRock Vice Chairman Philipp Hildebrand said protectionism is the biggest risk to a global recovery, while Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz said Trump’s move is “bad for the global environment, it’s bad for the American economy, it’s bad for jobs in the U.S.” Petrobras CEO Pedro Parente warned against Trump’s parallel effort to bring back coal, but Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, predicted “the penetration of solar in the U.S. will continue.”

Even before the announcement, the $1.5 trillion Republican tax overhaul was drawing a mixed reception. Blackstone’s Stephen

Schwarzman and Adena Friedman, the CEO of Nasdaq Inc., praised it as a growth driver, but Bank of America Corp. CEO Brian Moynihan said a tight labor market may not meet the demand for workers, and Frank Appel, CEO of Deutsche Post AG, cautioned that tax cuts would only enjoy a “limited short-term impact.”

Decline of the west Booming markets or no, the financial crisis has had a lasting impact on who’s hot and who’s not in the Swiss Alps. Wavering western powers have been supplanted by China, and now India. In a speech Tuesday, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned attendees against the kind of protectionism the White House announced just hours earlier. Modi said he is working to double India’s $2.3 trillion economy by 2025 as he spearheads efforts to attract foreign investment. Reaching the $5 trillion mark will be no easy task, given middling growth forecasts.

Nevertheless, Modi’s government recently eased restrictions on foreign direct investment in single brand retail, real estate brokerages and power exchanges.

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indianastatesman.com DACA FROM PAGE 2 One woman walking by the theme park shouted at the protesters, “I’m going to call my member of Congress today!”

The woman, who would only give her first name, Carmen, said she supported the activists and thought the minor inconvenience of having to wait to get into Disneyland didn’t bother her.

A few minutes later, Dusty Roads, of Phoenix, tried to navigate his family past the protesters standing under the Disneyland sign at the park’s east entrance.

“What do we want?” the activists shouted.

“We want you to go home,” he told them. “We want you to move.”

Roads, who also disapproved of the massive women’s marches over the weekend, said he didn’t know the details of the protest but that he found it annoying.

“It’s America,” he said.

“We don’t need that stuff.

We don’t need to protest.

All it does is create hate.”

Dafne S., a DACA recipient from Los Angeles, said in a statement that “Congress members shouldn’t recklessly gamble with the lives of undocumented

Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018 • Page 3 youth.”

“The vast majority of the American public supports the DREAM Act without anything in exchange. We will not stand by while members of our community are forced deeper into the shadows,” she said.

Claudia Treminio, a Los Angeles DACA recipient, called the stalemate a “wasteful attempt to appease Trump’s racist base” and a “way to bankroll his corporate backers.”

“We will not stay silent as President Trump and members of Congress use us as bargaining chips to build a border wall,” she said.

CEO FROM PAGE 2 Reaching the $5 trillion mark will be no easy task, given middling growth forecasts.

Nevertheless, Modi’s government recently eased restrictions on foreign direct investment in single brand retail, real estate brokerages and power exchanges. He also allowed overseas airlines to invest in state carrier Air India Ltd. Previously, he relaxed rules on investment in defense, construction, insurance and pensions.

Key man Draghi For years, the European economy was the sick man of Davos. Greece’s financial woes, the longevity of the euro, the rise of populism and the challenges of Brexit have all made the region the biggest headache of the annual meeting. No more, as the continent sees a renaissance few would have thought possible. Harvard University’s Ken Rogoff said it’s been a “phenomenal story” and Carlyle’s Rubenstein called Europe a “very attractive place to invest.” Credit was given to European Central Bank President Mario Draghi.

“Europeans should take our key man insurance on him because when he goes,

UW FROM PAGE 2 tion feared their children wouldn’t be successful if they spoke a Native American language, she said.

“By revitalizing languages, that’s part of the healing process,” said Teuton, who is Cherokee and began learning that language at the University of North Carolina, where he taught before he came to the UW. “We are trying to recover from that colonial history.”

Native American knowledge, he said, “is really grounded in our language — the grounding of stories, our storytelling traditions, our words for the natural world, words that describe our social relations.”

Language is also a vital cultural connection for many Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, said Manuhuia Barcham, a UW lecturer who helped organize the Hawaiian language table. Barcham hopes to also start one for

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum (WEP) annual meeting at Congress Center in Davos, Switzerland.

a real giant will have gone because he’s done an incredible job,” said Rubenstein.

Uber digs out Just as Davos can be rattled by events elsewhere, the conclave is often used to broadcast news to the world. That was the case Tuesday when Uber Technologies Inc. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced the embattled company would be profitable within three years. This would be quite the achievement for the global ride-hailing ser-

vice, which has been losing billions of dollars annually.

Almost six months into his tenure, Khosrowshahi is attempting to reverse what has been an unprecedented period of turmoil — one that’s unlikely to end soon. The company faces a slew of government investigations, allegations of sexual harassment and increasing competition from rivals worldwide — largely parting gifts from his predecessor, Travis Kalanick.

Snapchat, though it did not rule out doing it in the future.

Snapchat said publishers also urged the company to provide more ways to view videos tailor-made for the app. Snapchat partners with a host of media organizations for content, including Vice, BuzzFeed and NBC. This isn’t the first time Snapchat has made its content viewable outside its app — though it is by far the most significant. In 2016, the company posted select Snapchat videos from the Academy Awards on its website.

Snapchat’s parent company, Snap Inc., had been rumored to be looking at offering content beyond the app since last year. In December, the video news outlet Cheddar reported that a recently hired executive, Rahul Chopra,

Samoan and Chamorro, which is spoken in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.

Both Pacific Islander and Native American populations have low levels of enrollment in higher education, and part of the goal of teaching languages is to make the UW “a more open and friendly space for our youth and our community,” he said.

Among the state’s other higher education institutions, Lushootseed has been taught at Pacific Lutheran University and at the UW Tacoma, as part of a summer institute.

Wenatchee Valley College in Omak teaches Salish; the Northwest Indian College in Bellingham teaches Native American languages.

Johnston learned Quinault from Cosette Terry-itewaste, a linguist who is her tribe’s most fluent speaker, and who was able to administer the test that allowed Johnston to would lead an initiative called Stories Everywhere.

Chopra had previously served as chief executive of Storyful, a sort of news agency for user-generated videos.

Building more exposure to Snapchat outside the app does come with some risk. The company could find it harder to negotiate rates with advertisers if users are seeing content outside the app.

And there’s no guarantee people will flock to Snapchat the more they see it.

Twitter’s ubiquity in the Trump era, after all, hasn’t resulted in any meaningful user growth for the company.

The sharing feature is accessible beginning Tuesday to users who have the recently redesigned Snapchat app, which will become available to more people in the coming weeks. To link stories, users must press and hold a

get UW credit for knowing that language.

The UW requires entering students to have completed two years of a foreign language in high school, and to take a third quarter while in college — or to demonstrate that they have acquired “intermediate low-level proficiency” in a language other than English.

The university had to create a new way to test proficiency in languages that are not commonly taught.

“This provides an academic incentive and establishes it as an equal language, a world language,” said Russell Hugo, a linguist in the UW’s language learning center. “Hopefully more students can do this, so we can build stronger ties of support and recognition” for local indigenous languages.

story tile on the app, which will bring up options to share. That can include sharing over email or on platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, the company said.

The new strategy comes after a punishing first year as a public company. After pricing shares at $17 for its March IPO, Snap saw its stock soar to as high as $27.09 only to crater six months later at $11.83.

It closed Monday up 13 cents, or less than 1 percent, at $14.17.

The company, which is set to post its fourth-quarter earnings Feb. 6, has also been hampered by its short-lived foray into camera-mounted sunglasses called Spectacles, complaints about its chief of human resources and a report the company was threatening employees who leaked information with a lawsuit or jail time.

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Pike Patrol

Students from Pi Kappa Alpha volunteer for Hurricane relief Fifteen members of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity (Pike) at Indiana State University assisted with Hurricane Irma cleanup during winter break.

The community service trip to Summerland Key in the Florida Keys was planned in conjunction with the Boy Scouts of America’s Sea Base and the Indiana State Center for Community Engagement.

Pike created an adventure group the “Pike Patrol” through the Boy Scouts. They assisted the Sea Base with clean up from Hurricane Irma at the Brinton Environmental Center Jan. 4-11.

“This week was one I’ll remember forever -- an experience that was truly unlike any other,” said Elijah Gottlieb of Indianapolis, a junior criminology and criminal justice major. “I am grateful for everything that I have, seeing what I can do to help is now a priority.”

The cleanup projects began at the Sea Base, as the Pike Patrol cleared debris between Highway 1 and the Sea Base and assisted in cleaning the Heritage Bike Trail that parallels the highway. Fallen trees and brush along with general debris were removed. Work was also completed within the base from debris removal to helping clean up rooms and get the base ready for summer programs.

The highlight of the trip for the Pikes was spending four days and three nights on Big Munson Island, an uninhabited Island approximately five miles from

Game Review: Rouge Galaxy AJ Goelz Reporter Weekends are often great times to dig through game collections to play something old. This weekend I picked up the 2007 PS2 game “Rogue Galaxy”. The game is currently available on PS4 via PSN with 1080p up-rendering for those who missed the over a decade old game the first time around.

“Rogue Galaxy” is a story of adventure for Jaster Rogue, as he fulfils his dream to explore the stars. Jaster is an inhabitant of the desert planet Rosa. The planet of Rosa is under direct control of the Longardian army, in what is essentially slavery. Jaster lives with his adoptive father, Raul, waiting for his opportunity to explore the stars. Jaster gets his chance when a giant monster attacks his city. Jaster takes up arms to defend his city and is joined by a mysterious hooded figure. Before squaring off against the giant monster, the hooded man gives his sword to Jaster before leaving. It is revealed that the hooded figure is the legendary hunter Desert Claw. He left his sword with Jaster so that he would be mistaken

by Steve and Simon, two characters who have been searching for Desert Claw. After defeating the monster Jaster is given an opportunity to join the crew of the Dorgenark and become a space pirate. Jaster sets out on an adventure where the fate of the universe hangs in the balance.

The story as a whole is a typical JRPG story. A seemingly ordinary young man gets thrown into a series of events where the fate of the world hangs in the balance. Throughout the game the character gathers companions to aid him on his journey.

The first couple chapters of the game are spent introducing the player to those characters. What “Rogue Galaxy” does well is that it uses this classic formula to a high level. The story can draw players in and make them care

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Sea Base. The Pikes cleared debris along the beach and helped dismantle and rebuild some compost toilet systems that were destroyed by the hurricane.

Significant time was spent in the kayak maze in the mangroves that had been blocked by fallen trees.

While in kayaks, the Pikes cut limbs and trees blocking the maze. They then carried or dragged the limbs to a brush pile far away from the shore.

The island provided primitive camping for the Pikes, where they were able to be among the endangered Key Deer that pass through the campsites along with hermit crabs and raccoons known as “Vaca coons.”

“This week was the most rewarding experience I have ever had! I learned a lot about myself and everyone I worked with,” said Chris Bonahoom of Fort Wayne, a freshman automotive engineering technology major.

The Pikes were on break from Indiana State and dedicated the week before classes resumed to do service for others, particularly for young Boy Scouts who they will never meet. The Pikes slept in tents and hammocks along the beach and cooked their own meals.

The Sea Base treated the Pikes to a morning of snorkeling in the Coral Reef.

All agreed the trip was a welcome change from the January weather in Indiana.

About the photos • Left: The volunteers enjoyed snorkeling on the Coral Reef as their reward for a week’s hard work providing hurricane cleanup assistance in the Florida Keys Jan. 4-11.

• Top right: Members of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity (Pike) at Indiana State University clean up along Highway 1 and the Heritage Trail outside the Brinton Environmental Center at Florida Sea Base Boy Scout Camp.

• Bottom right: Pike members carry walls from a destroyed tool shed at the Wesumkee Girl Scout Camp while volunteering in the Florida Keys Jan. 4-11.

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What’s your purpose?

Urgent blood drives take place at ISU, deseperate for donors to give blood

The next blood drive will take place on Feb. 2 at Pickerl Hall from 12 PM to 5 PM. Danielle Guy | Indiana Statesman

“ We are in critical need for people to come and donate blood. One hour of their time can save up to one or three lives. Guidelines change constantly for eligibility to donate so don’t be afraid to come in and ask.”

- Chelsea Nickerson, Supervisor for American Red

“Donating blood is the single easiest way to help the community.”

- Issac Deal, Student

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The game’s combat mechanics are described as being real-time action, a split from what developer Level-5 has done in the past. It really is not that simple. Each of the characters is given an action gauge that depletes as players attack, use items or use skills. After depleting the gauge, players have to wait for it to recharge or block an enemy attack to have it refill. Combat is real-time, but with limitations that make players have to implement strategy and keeps the game from devolving into a simple hack and slash style of game. It is a system similar to the one used in “Final Fantasy 12”.

Exploring the worlds in the game, players will randomly encounter monsters.

After winning in battle players are awarded with experience points, money and items. Experience levels up the players base stats (health, attack power, etc.), but does not give players skills at certain levels. “Rogue Galaxy” trades the usual way of doing things for a system that the game calls revelation flow. Each character has a revelation chart filled with blank spots for specific items. As players fill out the open slots they gain skills and open up more slots for higher level skills. This system is also reminiscent of a mechanic from “Final Fantasy 12”, the license system which lets players use different types of weapons or magic.

“Rogue Galaxy” uses two different item crafting systems. The first is gained early in the second chapter as players gain ac-

cess to a frog that can fuse weapons together to create a stronger one. As players battle monsters their equipment gains experience and after maxing that experience on two weapons they can be fused. This encourages players to constantly change weapons so they can keep fusing them together to get stronger ones. The second is a factory the players gain access to a few chapters later. This is a little more complicated than the frog. Players can break items down and create better ones that will be sold in shops. Once a player acquires a blueprint they need to acquire the necessary items to fuse. Then they have to run the items through a production line that breaks them down before fusion.

This is a pseudo puzzle that makes players think how long it will take the materials to reach the combiner at the same time.

The more items the need to be combined the more complicated the puzzle.

For those interested in exploring and doing everything there is a host of side content. Through the game the player can capture bugs called insectors. Players can then feed and raise them and even fight them in the arena if they wish. There is also a list of the galaxy’s top hunters. Players can raise through the ranks by defeating set numbers of the monsters met through random encounters. Players can also nab a large amount of points by taking on optional mini bosses called quarries.

“Rogue Galaxy” is an often overlooked game, never being recognized for how good it actually is. For players who missed out over a decade ago is available for 15 dollars on the PlayStation Store.

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Republicans didn’t win the shutdown fight Jonathan Bernstein Bloomberg View (TNS)

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Christopher Wray is sworn in by the Senate Judiciary Committee prior to his confirmation hearing to be FBI Director on July 12, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. The Senate approved Wray’s appointment on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017.

FBI director Chris Wray threatens to resign over Justice Dept. pressure

Joe Lippard

Opinions Editor

In a 2016 interview with MSNBC, then-President Barack Obama said, “Historically, both under Democratic and Republican administrations, our goal has been and should be that our investigators and our prosecutors are independent of politics.

They’re not politicized. They’re not used as a weapon to advantage either side in partisan arguments. And I want to make sure we continue with that tradition and that norm.”

I agree with Obama on this matter.

The FBI shouldn’t be influenced by politics. Obviously, some members of the FBI will likely be more politically biased, but the Director of the

FBI should at least be unbiased.

After the last Director of the FBI, James Comey, was fired by President Donald Trump many, including myself, were worried that Trump would nominate someone extremely partisan to fill Comey’s position. Luckily, he seemed to nominate someone much less controversial than it looked initially.

On the surface, Trump’s nominee, Christopher Wray, had a bit of a partisan past. He donated repeatedly to Republican candidates, some of whom voted on his confirmation, according to Newsweek. Wray represented Chris Christie during the “Bridgegate” scandal, and the firm he worked for has represented Trump’s family as well as a few Russian business under U.S. sanctions.

Honestly, I don’t mind Wray’s law firm having represented Trump or Russia in the past. While Wray does work for the firm, there’s no indication that he was involved in representing any of them. I’m not even too upset at the fact that he represented Christie during “Bridgegate.

” Wray was a lawyer at the time, and even guilty parties need lawyers. My biggest issue is that politicians who benefitted from his donations voted on his confirmation, but any nominee who had made any donations to any politicians would have the same issue.

However, it appears not everyone thinks that the FBI should be free from partisan – or White House – influence. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, pressured by Trump, has been attempting to make Wray clean house at the FBI, specifically suggesting that Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and former top lawyer James Baker should be fired, according to CNN, Axios and ABC News.

Luckily, it appears that Wray, much like his predecessors Comey and Robert Mueller, has no interest in being pushed by the Justice Department to act in such a way. According to Axios and CNN, Wray threatened to resign before he fired McCabe, and according to ABC,

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Now that Democrats have agreed to end the government shutdown, have they now proved they will cave the next time around? That’s a popular theory among political pundits right now, but it sounds upside down.

Republicans lost one of their legislative hostages by passing the long-term funding of the Childhood Health Insurance Program while committing to address how to salvage President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA. At least in the Senate. Granted, it’s not much more than Democrats had on Friday — before the government closed — but it’s something.

On the other hand, Republicans didn’t get anything at all. Remember, the GOP wants to fund the government for the remainder of the fiscal year.

They’d prefer to fund it on their own terms, but they’d also accept a compromise that goes a long way towards achieving their agenda. They are no closer to that than they were when the last temporary funding bill — the one that set up the Jan. 18 deadline — passed back in December. That gives Democrats leverage.

Every time Republicans kick the government funding can down the road, they lose steam. Only 14 senators (and only eight Democrats) opposed the extension voted on in early December. That increased

to 32 “no” votes (31 Democrats and 1 Republican) on the pre-Christmas extension. And then Friday 48 senators opposed kicking the can down the road another four weeks. That was enough to defeat the continuing resolution by filibuster, but not enough to give Democrats the increased leverage a majority vote would have provided.

Now Republicans have just 17 days until the next deadline. If nothing changes — if there’s neither an immigration deal or, as seems likely without DACA, an overall spending deal, then they’ll need another continuing resolution. At that point, Republicans won’t have CHIP funding as leverage. The DACA March deadline will be that much closer. And senators who are impatient with a series of continuing resolutions will be even more impatient.

Another CR that passes the House on a party-line vote for another three- or four-week delay could easily lose the 48 senators who opposed the Friday vote, along with one or more of the five Democrats who supported it, and perhaps even a few more Republicans such as Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Bob Corker. Those three voted for the four-week CR on Friday but then negotiated for a compromise.

If Republicans can’t hold a majority in the Senate, they may have to switch to very short temporary funding bills, and more to the point they may have to actually negotiate a deal, both on DACA and on the

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A ‘unifier-in-chief’ is a Democratic fantasy for now Eli Lake

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If American politics were an Aaron Sorkin teleplay, one could imagine the Democrats nominating a unifier in 2020.

“Let America Be America Again.” Republican voters might disagree with him on health care and immigration, but not on U.S. leadership in the world. That Democratic candidate — call him or her “Senator Leadership” — defeats President Collusion. End Scene.

This is the latest thinking of Barack Obama’s foreign policy communicator, Ben Rhodes. Speaking on the podcast of his former colleague Tommy Vietor, Rhodes sketched out how he believed Trump’s abdication of America’s traditional role in the world created a post-partisan opening.

“I think there can be a sense of renewal of the things that we all care about, like we value alliances, and we want to promote democracy and human rights, and we want to re-engage with the world and we want to reinvigorate diplomacy,” he said.

“You can see an incoming president really kind of rally the country, the Congress, the government around just a complete reset of ‘let’s be who we are in the world

again, let’s be America again around the world’ in a way that does not has to be contemptuous of Trump.”

Rhodes is not alone here. William Kristol, the smartest never-Trump Republican, last week floated the prospect of a Mitt Romney-Joe Biden candidacy. “On foreign policy you could imagine a certain center-left, center-right agreement,” Kristol said in a National Review podcast.

Where’s Jed Bartlet when you need him?

Much can change in two years, but if trends continue 2020 will not be a post-partisan moment. Let’s start with the obvious. In 2016, Trump was blessed with the perfect general election opponent for a campaign that asked angry voters what they had to lose. His voters chose a boorish amateur over a hyper-qualified insider. When Hillary Clinton made the case that Trump was a sexual predator, Trump showed up at the second debate with the victims of Bill Clinton’s sexual predations.

Romney-Biden would be a similar gift.

Trump could run against the Iraq WarIran Deal ticket.

None of this is to say that there is not an opening for the president’s opposition.

It’s true that Trump’s vice-signaling on Twitter has eroded American credibility abroad. His deference to dictators is em-

barrassing. He should also speak plainly about the menace in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin.

The problem is that the Democrats are in no position to make these arguments.

Trump inherited a world unraveled. And his transactional statesmanship is a response to the failures of his predecessor.

Obama often spoke of America’s many moral obligations in foreign policy, such as the responsibility to protect victims of genocide, but the world did not comply.

His words were hollow. See his lecture in 2016 at the United Nations General Assembly on the importance of accepting Syrian refugees. Moments when Obama bore moral witness were not calls to action so much as reminders of American weakness.

So what went wrong? It goes back to the 2000s. Obama won the election in 2008 because he was the anti-Iraq-war candidate. Obama was willing to meet with the enemies George W. Bush shunned. Never mind that Bush too conducted diplomacy with Iran. The point was that Democrats tried to prevent the wars Republicans desired. It made for good politics and dangerous foreign policy — like the Iran nuclear deal.

By the time the Iranians were finally

pressured to negotiate, they were on a rampage. But Obama and the Democrats went back to their old playbook and sold the deal at home as the alternative to war … a war the Iranians were already waging, and would continue to wage. They ended up defending a bargain that temporarily capped Iran’s nuclear program by lifting sanctions on a regime that was enabling Syria’s dictator to slaughter and gas his own people.

It fit a pattern. Look at Obama’s failed agreement to remove chemical weapons from Syria. After trotting out his secretary of state, John Kerry, in 2013, to compare Syria’s dictator to Hitler, Obama lost his nerve and asked Congress to authorize the strikes he promised if the regime used chemical weapons. Russia seized the moment and cut a deal on chemical weapons that managed to let Damascus hold out a reserve of chemical weapons it would use a few years later.

It should be said that the regime has apparently not used chemical weapons since Trump ordered a limited strike on a Syrian airbase last April. (Though there were unconfirmed reports Monday that chemical weapons were used in an attack

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indianastatesman.com FBI FROM PAGE 6 Wray is determined to make his decisions on whom to hire and fire on his own.

On the one hand, I’m very glad that Wray is so committed to his job that he would even defy the people who put him in his position. The FBI, as a whole, needs to remain unbiased by any outside sources.

On the other hand, however, it really bothers me to see a man in such a position of power just willing to quit instead of being steadfast in the face of being told to do wrong. The FBI is one of the lines of defense the people have to prevent a tyrannical government, and it would be absurd for a man in Wray’s position to just step aside because he was told to do something wrong.

We need more people in power who will stand up to do the right thing when they are told to do

Wednesday Jan. 24, 2018 • Page 7 something wrong, rather than shying away and doing something like quitting.

What would the alternative be?

If Wray had resigned because of this pressure from the Attorney General, Trump would be free to name another FBI Director, one that would likely actually bend to Sessions’ and Trump’s demands. That obviously goes completely against my entire “the FBI should be non-partisan” stance.

In the end, I’m extremely happy that Chris Wray is still the Director of the FBI. He shouldn’t threaten to leave his job just because the President or Attorney General want him to do something wrong. By leaving, Wray would be giving Trump and Sessions exactly what they want: a chance to appoint an FBI Director who will listen to them and obey.

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full-year spending bill. In fact, if McConnell anticipates that he won’t have a majority next time, he may try to cut a deal before the deadline. That’s essentially what the Democrats want.

Of course, there are more unknowns than knowns at this point. Will temporary funding measures continue to lose support in the Senate? If the Senate does reach a bipartisan compromise on immigration, overall spending, or both, would the House go along? That is, would Speaker Paul Ryan be willing to bring to the floor a bill that the House Freedom Caucus strongly opposed? And there’s no way of predicting what the White House will do to derail all of this.

Ignore the spin from either side. The shutdown that ended Monday shouldn’t have happened, and everyone shares the blame. But it’s hard for me to see how the Democrats are in any worse shape than they were in on Friday.

in Afrin.) Let’s hope this restraint continues. But the message of that airstrike is that a little force is preferable to hollow agreements with rogues. Trump’s airstrike on Syria was not the first step down the path to a new Iraq war. Rather it was a small effort to restore an international norm against the use of chemical weapons, one that was in tatters by the time Obama left office.

When Rhodes was asked about that airstrike last week, he dismissed it as a moment for pundits to say that Trump was presidential. Fair enough. Much more needs to be done in Syria, and so far Trump has bungled U.S. policy there as well (see NATO ally Turkey’s latest attack on Syrian Kurds). But for Rhodes’s party to ask voters to let America be America again, it must acknowledge and correct Obama’s own abdications of American leadership. Otherwise President Collusion will probably defeat Senator Leadership in 2020, as the world continues to unravel.

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REDBIRDS FROM PAGE 8 hard for Illinois State to get great looks.”

For Battle, two of her career-best six blocked shots came in that final quarter as her last one came near the start of that last run with 1:47 left to seal the victory.

“I think we just realized what was at stake,” said Ashley Taia.

“Every second counts and every possession we wanted to have the ball. We didn’t want to foul and let them get to the line. It started with two fouls with two minutes to go then it got to four and then they were going to the line. We just understood what we needed to do to win but not put them in a position to win.

Having everyone on the same

page obviously got us that win in the end.”

For Taia, it seemed a true return to form for the Sycamore senior. She led Indiana State with 12 points and was credited with three rebounds, two steals and two assists while hitting three 3-pointers in the game.

But it was her nothing-but-net 3-pointer with 3:23 to go that was the most important of them all.

Down by one, Taia was being closely guarded on the wing and beyond the arc. With a defender in her face she stepped back and drained a shot to put the Sycamores up by one.

“Ashley Taia, since she has been back, has made the key 3-pointer or the key play in every game so far. And that moment sparks us and has been big

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for us,” Keister said.

Taia’s 3-for-5 performance beyond the arc was the highlight of the downtown shooting for the Sycamores Sunday but Indiana State did shoot 38.8 percent from the field against the nation’s fifth-best field goal defense.

“It was a great win today,” Keister said of the win. “It wasn’t always pretty for our group.

They kept their composure and we hung in there. Illinois State is a very good team, they are solid, they play hard and they are much improved from a year ago. They are fifth in the country in field goal percentage defense and after playing against it for 40 minutes I am certainly a believer in how good they are defensively.

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Sophomore Kendall Hansen has been leading the sycamores with 200-meter backstroke and holds ISU’s record time.

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Team closes out successful regular season Saturday Garrett Short Reporter

In just their second season of existence the Indiana State women’s swimming and diving team has made a drastic leap forward. After finishing with a record of 3-6 in their inaugural season last year, they have been on a tear this season going 14-5.

An opportunity for their 15th win arises as they travel to Carbondale to take on Southern Illinois on Saturday.

The team has been consistent this season. Winners of their last

11 meets, the team is clicking at the right time as they streak towards the MVC Swimming and Diving Championships, which begins on Valentine’s Day. The last time the Sycamores lost a head-to-head meet was back on Oct. 14 to Big 10 foe University of Illinois. Since then they have beaten the likes of Xavier, Evansville, Butler, and Ball State.

The team’s last regular season contest against Southern Illinois is their first time meeting the Salukis this season. However, these two teams met at the end of last season. The Salukis managed to

escape with the win to hand the Sycamores their last loss of the regular season.

This year ISU is much more experienced and confident, as is reflected by their record. But the meet will still be an uphill battle.

SIU won the MVC Championship two seasons ago and came in second last year.

Leading the charge for Indiana State has been the performance of sophomore Kendall Hansen. Hansen has been a part of many events this season including relays, but she has put her stamp on one particular event over and over again. This year

she has owned the pool during the 200-meter backstroke and holds the school’s record time at 2:03:26. She will be key the rest of this season as well as the coming years for the Sycamore swimming and diving program.

One of the most intriguing parts of the ISU team is that because the program is young, so are the athletes. One of the leaders for the Sycamores is Blanca Saez-Illobre, a sophomore from Madrid, Spain. She currently holds six individual records at ISU and is a part of three relay records. Sophomores Hansen and Saez-Illobre are looking to

make some noise in a few weeks at the MVC Championships, but first, Southern Illinois.

The Sycamores and Salukis have had a few common opponents this season. Each team has defeated Arkansas- Little Rock, Evansville, and Butler. A win over Southern Illinois on Saturday would be the cherry on top for a Sycamore squad that has already surpassed expectations.

Indiana State will face off against Southern Illinois this Saturday at 12 p.m. in Carbondale, IL.

Men’s basketball looks to continue winning streak against Southern Illinois Jay Adkins Reporter

On Wednesday night, the Indiana State University Sycamores men’s basketball team will travel to Carbondale, Illinois to compete against the Southern Illinois University Salukis for the first time this season in conference play.

The Sycamores are at an average 10-10 on the season and currently on a two game win streak with victories against both, the University of Evansville Purple Aces (71-66) and a big win at home vs. Illinois State University Redbirds (84-54).

The Southern Illinois University Salukis are 12-9 on the season, with their previous game being a victory against the University of Northern Iowa Panthers (64-53). The Salukis have an up-and-down year as they have been winning most games but still losing a good amount of close ones.

The Salukis are being lead

by a few different key players.

One player in particular is Junior guard Armon Fletcher who leads the Salukis in points per game with a whopping 14.3 ppg.

Junior center Kavion Pippen leads the team in rebounds per game and blocks with 5.8 and 31 on the season, respectively.

Sophomore guard Aaron Cook leads the team in assists with 59 total assists on the season. Junior guard Sean Lloyd Jr. leads the team in minutes per game with 33.8. Senior guard Tyler Smithpeters leads the team in 3 pointers made with 28 on the season.

With the Salukis having multiple players to contribute to their wins, this will be a tough game for the Sycamores, as they will need all parts of their game to win this big conference match up in Carbondale.

While the Sycamores are having an average season, in the MVC thus far they are currently 5-3. If the team can keep winning big conference games, they will be able to push for a run in the tournament in St. Louis at

Jordan Barnes (2), sophomore guard has led the team in multiple matches this season.

the end of the season.

Surprisingly, the Sycamores are being lead by sophomore guard Jordan Barnes leads the team in multiple different categories including: in points per game (17.0), 3 pointers made (77), free throws made (49), assists per game (4.1), and minutes

per game with (33.9) on the season. Senior guard Scott Brenton leads the team in rebounds per game and steals with 5.5 and 2.0, respectively. Junior center Emondre Rickman leads the team in blocks with 1.0 blocked shots per game.

The 10-10 Indiana State Syca-

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mores will compete against the 12-9 Southern Illinois University Salukis on Wednesday night at 8:00 PM. The game can be watched on TV on ESPN3 and be heard on the radio on Sycamore Basketball Radio Network (97.9 FM).

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Women’s basketball team won at a home game against Illinois State this weekend.

Paige Carter | Indiana Statesman

Indiana State made a big fourth quarter stand, holding Illinois State to just one field goal in the final frame, as the Sycamores claimed the weekend sweep with a 52-49 win Sunday afternoon at the Hulman Center in Missouri Valley Conference play.

The momentum of the game swung like a pendulum throughout the fourth quarter with three lead changes but it came down to two things the Sycamores (513, 3-4) have not been known for this season – a late-game run and success at the free throw line – to pull out the win and seal the weekend sweep.

The visiting Redbirds (8-10, 2-5) would shoot 1-for-12 from the field in the fourth quarter and couldn’t stop Indiana State’s

game-ending 7-0 run, save for two free throws with 0.9 seconds left. But while the Sycamores also struggled from the field in the final stanza, hitting only 3 of 11 shots (27.3 percent), the Trees were 7-for-8 from the free throw line and were perfect from the charity stripe in the final minute as the game teetered on a one-possession differential.

“We knew it was going to be a low-scoring affair heading down the stretch,” Indiana State interim head coach Josh Keister said. “It was two teams really digging in defensively. I know our program has always gotten a lot of credit for the defensive effort that our kids give and today was no different. Ty Battle has six blocked shots, we have seven steals and we just did a great job there down the stretch in the fourth quarter. We made it

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