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Washington Post columnist to honor ISU alumnus on April 2 Washington Post foreign affairs columnist David Ignatius will be the inaugural speaker in an annual address honoring slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a 1983 alumnus of Indiana State University.

Ignatius’ talk “How to fix the world: The future of foreign policy” is set for 7 p.m. April 2 in Tilson Auditorium on the Indiana State campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Ignatius is the inaugural speaker for the Jamal Khashoggi Annual Address on Journalism and the Media. The annual tribute to Khashoggi is part of the ISU Speakers Series and seeks to examine current and critical issues related to journalism, the first amendment and freedom of the press. Invited speakers will include prominent journalists, authors, filmmakers, photojournalists or other professionals working in the media.

“Jamal represented the dream that many millions of Arabs have for a more open society and a journalism that tells the truth,” Ignatius said. “I admired Jamal as a friend and colleague most of all because he understood the dangers of championing this cause — the very real threats to his family and himself — and kept on doing what he thought was the right thing. There’s no greater honor for a journalist right now than to be associated with the values that Jamal courageously represented.”

Khashoggi attended Indiana State as an undergraduate from 1977 to 1982 and was conferred a business administration degree

on May 7, 1983. A critic of the Saudi government, he was assassinated in early October 2018 after visiting the Saudi embassy in Turkey to obtain marriage documents. His death prompted an international outcry.

Khashoggi is among the journalists honored by Time magazine as its Person of the Year in 2018. “The Guardians,” as the magazine dubbed them, were dedicated to the pursuit of truth despite a war on facts and tremendous obstacles, including violence and imprisonment.

Khashoggi is the only Indiana State alumnus to receive the honor and the only person to be posthumously named a Person of the Year.

Ignatius, Washington Post foreign affairs columnist, bestselling author and NBC analyst, has been making sense of the world for more than 40 years. He’s covered nearly every Washington beat, from the Pentagon to the CIA to Capitol Hill, as well as global politics, the Middle East and economics. He turned his experiences with the CIA into 10 spy novels, because, as it has been said, “Few understand espionage culture as well as Ignatius.”

For more than 15 years, Ignatius has published his twice-weekly column for The Washington Post. Appearing in scores of newspapers around the world, his column won the Overseas Press Club Award, the Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Center for Journalists.

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Lemon Club Students fighting childhood cancer Marissa Combs Reporter

Indiana State’s “Lemon Club” established to benefit non-profit organization Alex’s Lemonade Stand Alex’s Lemonade Stand foundation is an organization that raises money for childhood cancer research.

This was started by Alex Scott, who herself battled cancer. According to the foundation’s website, when Alex set up her first stand she wanted “to give the money to doctors to help them find a cure.” From that point on, the foundation has grown and continues to raise money for cancer research.

The foundation raises money for 135 research institutions nationwide.

Indiana State’s version of Alex’s Lemonade stand is called “Lemon Club,” and was established in August 2017.

“All of our profits go to Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation to fund childhood cancer research,” said President of the club, Olivia Wright. “97 cents to every dollar goes to the research.”

The club has hosted four lemonade stands so far this year.

“Our most recent stand we raised 250 dollars,” Wright said.

Wright discussed how the club might be fairly new but the members are excited to see how they can be involved on campus in the future.

“We hope to continue to grow club membership,” said Wright. “We want to do community service in the area become that presence on campus to encourage involvement.”

Wright is proud of how hard her team is working to accomplish their goals.

“I may be the president of the club,” said Wright “[but] I have an excellent team helping me plan the goals we have for the future” Wright explained that the executive board for “Lem-

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David Ignatius to speak at ISU on April 2 at 7 p.m. in honor of Jamal Khashoggi in Tilson Auditorium.

is “The Quantum Spy.” “David Ignatius may call it a novel, but for those of us who know the work of the intelligence community, this book is nothing less than a real-life insight into the ongoing battle for dominance in the digital world,” said former CIA Director Leon Panetta.

“Agents of Innocence,” his first novel, is a classic of espionage fiction, drawing on his experiences covering the CIA’s early-80s campaigns in the Middle East. The CIA recommends the book to young recruits and wrote on its website, “Though a novel, senior officers say this book is

not fiction.”

In its review of Ignatius’ New York Times bestseller “The Director,” Kirkus raved, “His unparalleled understanding of the intelligence world propels his work so far above others who dabble in the field that there’s little comparison.”

Director Ridley Scott adapted his 2007 bestseller, “Body of Lies,” into a feature film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe. His other books include “Bloodmoney,” “A Firing Offense” and “The Sun King.”

The film rights to his novel, “The Increment,” were acquired by Jerry Bruckheimer.

A graduate of Harvard and Cambridge, he was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and the executive editor of the International Herald Tribune.

He has published articles in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic and The New Republic. His first opera libretto, an adaptation of Machiavelli’s “The Prince” entitled “The New Prince,” premiered at the Dutch National Opera in March 2017.

A regular guest on “Morning Joe,” Ignatius has been interviewed on “Face the Nation,” “Fareed Zakaria GPS” and “Meet the Press.”

Students went all aboard to get to class A disabled engine caused a train to stop on the tracks Monday for multiple hours.

“Many students have climbed over the train cars en route to and from campus,” ISU Public Safety says in an email to all students. “We encourage students to use the 3rd Street overpass and avoid climbing over the train.”

The train was stalled for a lot of the day from around 1 to 7:30 p.m.

Students were advised to stay away from the area due to the possibility of the train lurching back and forth.

The email reminded students that jumping trains is a violation of the state law.

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ISU Student Publications bring home awards from statewide convention Indiana State University student publications brought home a total of 30 awards from the 2019 Indiana Collegiate Press Association Convention held Saturday in Indianapolis.

The Indiana Statesman newspaper’s advertising team came in second place for Advertising Publication of the Year and the Statesman’s editorial staff brought home third place for Newspaper of the Year in Division 1. The ad team won 14 awards and the newspaper brought home nine.

The Sycamore yearbook won seven awards including first place awards for Best Execution of Theme and Best Organizations Spread.

“I’m glad ISU student publications did well in this year’s competition,” said Martha Milner, director of student publications. “The

advertising, newspaper and yearbook categories are incredibly competitive, so these awards carry quite a bit of weight.”

Other top awards include a first-place newspaper award for Best Special Section Front/Cover and a firstplace advertising award for Best Ad Layout.

“I’m proud of our staff and how hard they work, and I’m glad that we have been recognized for that,” said Claire Silcox, Indiana Statesman editor-in-chief.

“It is awesome to have won third place for Newspaper of the Year.”

Students who won awards include Chelsea Chapman, Danielle Guy, Lauren Rader, Claire Silcox, Garrett Short with the newspaper staff.

In the advertising competition, Austin Gary, Becca McGregor, and Quinton

Steward won awards.

In the yearbook category, Nayasia Hubbert, Renee Lee, Melanie Stone and Kayli Worthey won awards.

“The annual ICPA Convention also gives our students an opportunity to improve their skills and knowledge,” Milner said.

“The day-long convention included sessions on investigative reporting, tips for handling a first job offer, and newspaper design, among others.”

In Newspaper Division 1, ISU competes against newspapers at Indiana University, University of Notre Dame, Purdue University, Ball State University and Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.

Fifteen colleges and universities from throughout Indiana compete in the advertising competition.

The yearbook category includes Indiana University, Notre Dame and ISU. ICPA members include colleges and universities throughout the state of Indiana.

Each year, they compete in the following categories: newspaper, yearbook, online, news magazine and literary magazine.

ICPA was founded in Terre Haute in 1958 at a meeting of journalism honors students held at Indiana State University.

The goal of the organization was to provide college students with journalism resources from faculty, professional, and statewide peers.

Today, ICPA has about 40 member publications. A board of students and publication advisers oversees the organization.

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Loyalty rewards program for Sycamores Alyssa Bosse Reporter

Sycamore Rewards are available right at the tips of your fingers.

Indiana State’s Athletic Department has developed an app to allow the ISU community to earn points when they attend athletic events.

The “March On App” is available on respected app stores (Apple or Android.) The purpose of this app is for there to be more visibility for upcoming sporting events and various athletics opportunities.

Once the “March On App” is downloaded the user will be required to create an account using their email or sign in with Facebook.

The app set up is very similar to social media; users can scroll the feed

to see upcoming events, new rewards and other features.

While attending sporting events, the user can click on the “Check in Now” button and receive points for their attendance to the event.

The points will bank up and turn into redeemable rewards through the app.

Nicholas Anderson, student marketing associate for ISU Athletics Department helps run the app and also runs an Instagram account spreading awareness about the app.

“I’ve personally shared this information with my fraternity Theta Chi and many members that have attended events have earned prizes through Sycamore Rewards,” said Anderson.

“But, we need more, we need most if not all of Indiana State students/staff

on board. We’re still growing with new ways of attraction.”Some of the redeemable prizes from earning points include free food sponsored by Sonic, Pepsi products and recently a 32 inch smart TV was given away as a prize.

Anderson and his Co-worker, Connor Carlisle, run the Instagram account to spread awareness about the “March On App” and communicate ideas about upcoming posts, updates and prizes to draw more people in to use the app.

“We want audiences to see the app, understand how it works and [how it] benefits them,” said Anderson.

Follow the Sycamore Rewards Instagram @sycamore_rewards and download the March on App for future updates and to start earning rewards for attending sporting events.

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Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, is a featured speaker at an annual gay civil rights event hosted by the Human Rights Campaign on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at the JW Marriott in Los Angeles, Calif.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, is a featured speaker at an annual gay civil rights event hosted by the Human Rights Campaign on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at the JW Marriott in Los Angeles, Calif.

At gay rights gala in LA, Kamala Harris and Cory Booker stand for equality Melanie Mason

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, two rival U.S. senators vying for the 2020 presidential nomination, pitched themselves as steadfast allies of LGBT Americans on Saturday night, in a bid to appeal to an influential bloc of Democratic voters.

Both candidates offered a riff on their core campaign themes while addressing the Human Rights Campaign’s downtown Los Angeles gala.

Booker, the New Jersey senator, extolling the power of love and hope, California Sen. Harris promising a return to truth and justice, but with specific nods to the struggles faced by gay Americans and targeted swipes at President Donald Trump.

“As long as there’s a president who is banning patriots from serving in the military because they’re transgender, we all have a collective responsibility not to accept things as they are but to take responsibility for changing them,” Booker said.

It was a busy evening of appearances for the two contenders, Harris and Booker also appeared on stage together at the NAACP Image Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood earlier in the night.

The pair spoke briefly about the importance of registering to vote and being engaged in politics.

At the Human Rights Campaign event, the candidates focused on burnishing their pro-LGBT credentials.

Chad Griffin, the group’s leader, pointed to each senator’s gay-friendly resume: Booker refusing to perform any marriages as Newark mayor until same-sex marriage was legal and Harris declining to defend California’s gay marriage ban Proposition 8 in court.

Booker denounced the “moral vandalism” coming from the White House, citing the moves to ban transgender people from serving in the military and rescind protections for transgender students.

Harris chastised the Trump administration for not speaking out against mistreatment of gay people by foreign governments.

“Let’s speak the truth, the fight for LGBTQ rights are civil rights and until all of us are equal, none of us are equal,” she said.

Despite the common themes, their stylistic differences were on display.

Booker, speaking with a preacher’s energized cadence, recited spoken word poetry from Langston Hughes, while Harris sounded more like a deliberate, but forceful prosecutor.

Both candidates were received warmly by the crowd, with a slight home state advantage going to Harris.

The event’s sponsor, the Human Rights Campaign, is the largest gay civil rights group in the country and will host a forum this fall with 2020 presidential contenders in Los Angeles.

Playing up its political clout, the group boasted of its influence in mobilizing voters in the 2018 midterms.

“They were a resounding victory for

equality and a clear rejection of Donald Trump and Mike Pence’s dangerous policies and divisive politics,” said Griffin of last year’s elections.

And there was no confusion over whether the group’s Democratic tilt will carry over to the 2020 presidential contest.

“We know what our marching orders are,” said director Rob Reiner, a supporter of the group and close friend of Griffin’s. “Whoever gets nominated from the Democrats, we’re all in, right?”

Mark Gonzalez, chair of the Los Angeles Democratic Party, said the visit from the two candidates was a sign of the power flexed by gay rights groups.

Gonzalez said it was noteworthy that Booker and Harris, both candidates of color, spoke, marking the progress that has been made in acceptance of gay rights in minority communities.

“Being LGBTQI and African-American was never something that was always accepted. … For me as a Mexican American, it was never accepted,” Gonzalez said. “The mere fact that they’re both here, they are presidential candidates and they are open to our community is showing the community, ‘We accept you and we love you for who you are.’ ” Also in Los Angeles on Saturday was Democratic presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard. The congresswoman from Hawaii donned a white flower lei as she introduced herself to voters at a daytime meet-and-greet event.

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Several universities under federal investigation in college admissions scandal Los Angeles Times (TNS)

The U.S. Department of Education has launched an investigation into several of the universities involved in the far-reaching college admissions scandal.

Yale said the “preliminary investigation” involved it and seven other universities “whose employees or applicants were named in the federal bribery investigation” and was examining whether they had “complied with regulations and requirements pertaining to the federal student aid program.”

“We are reviewing the department’s requests and will respond appropriately,” Yale President Peter Salovey said in a statement.

The scheme began in 2011 and centered on a Newport Beach, Calif., college placement firm run

by William “Rick” Singer. Parents are accused of paying Singer to help their children cheat on college entrance exams and to falsify athletic records of students so they could secure admission to top universities including the University of Southern California, UCLA, Stanford, Georgetown and Yale, court records show.

USC and UCLA have said they would cooperate with the probe.

Prosecutors allege that Singer instructed parents to donate funds to a fake charity he had established as part of the scheme. Most of the parents paid at least $200,000, but some spent up to $6.5 million to guarantee their children admission to top universities, authorities said. Parents were then able to deduct the donations from their income taxes, according to the Internal Revenue Service.

The scheme itself was fairly simple, prosecutors said: Singer instructed parents to seek extended time for their children on ACT and SAT exams. In at least one instance, a student claimed to have a learning disability to obtain medical documentation required by the College Board and ACT Inc. to grant additional time on the tests, according to court documents.

The Associated Press reported that in addition to Yale, the Department of Education is also probing Wake Forest, Stanford and Georgetown, USC, the University of San Diego, the University of Texas at Austin and UCLA. Federal regulators requested a variety of records and information about students and employees implicated in the scheme.

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos foreshadowed such an investigation shortly after the massive scandal was publicly revealed earlier this month.

“Every student deserves to be considered on their individual merits when applying to college, and it’s disgraceful to see anyone breaking the law to give their children an advantage over others,” DeVos said in a March 13 statement. “The department is looking closely at this issue and working to determine if any of our regulations have been violated.”

The investigation is separate from the criminal probe headed by the Justice Department, which has so far resulted in dozens of arrests — from coaches to administrators to admissions counselors to wealthy parents.

“I can confirm that the university received a letter from the Department of Education yesterday,” University of San Diego spokeswoman Pamela Gray Payton said Tuesday. “I have not read the letter. But the university will comply with the letter’s request.”

USD was implicated in the effort to fraudulently admit two students from the same Beverly Hills family, although only one ended up attending the university. Its former men’s basketball coach, Lamont Smith, has been identified as the unnamed coach accused in court documents of accepting bribes on behalf of the students, but he has not been charged.

Supreme Court says the Constitution does not ensure a ‘painless’ execution David G. Savage

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Constitution does not guarantee a “painless death” for condemned murderers, deciding that a Missouri inmate may be executed by a lethal injection despite a rare, severe condition that could cause him to suffocate.

By a 5-4 vote, the court rejected Russell Bucklew’s claim it would be cruel and unusual punishment to inject him because it could trigger a hemorrhage and choking.

He maintained the state must seek out another method of execution, such as lethal gas, to carry out his execution.

The case provoked a sharp ideological divide within the court over carrying out executions.

The court’s conservatives, led by Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, complained that death row inmates and their lawyers were using last-minute appeals to delay executions for years. Bucklew had faced death for nearly 18 years, but waited until 12 days before his execution to file a suit contesting the use of a lethal injection, Gorsuch

said. That led to five years of litigation.

“The people of Missouri, the surviving victims of Mr. Bucklew’s crimes and others like them deserve better,” Gorsuch wrote in Bucklew vs. Precythe. “Under our Constitution, the question of capital punishment belongs to the people and their representatives, not the courts, to resolve.”

Justice Sonia Sotomayor rebutted those comments. “There are higher values than ensuring executions run on time,” she wrote in one of two dissents filed by liberals. “If a death sentence or the manner in which it is carried out violates the Constitution, that stain can never come out.”

Bucklew’s lower court appeals ran out last year, but the justices halted his execution when Justice Anthony M. Kennedy cast a fifth vote with the four liberals.

But after hearing the full appeal, the court rejected his constitutional claim Monday, with Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh — who joined the court after Kennedy’s retirement — forming a majority with the other four conservatives.

Speaking in the courtroom, Gorsuch said, “The Eighth Amendment has nev-

er been understood to guarantee a condemned inmate a painless death. That’s a luxury not guaranteed to many people, including most victims of capital crimes.

What the Eighth Amendment does guarantee is a method of execution that’s not ‘cruel and unusual.’ And ever since the founding, people have understood that the only way to tell if a method is cruel is to compare it with other known and available alternatives, to see if the state is inflicting substantially more pain than necessary to carry out its lawful sentence.”

Gorsuch said the inmate had the burden of showing there is an “alternative method of execution that’s available for the state to use and that would significantly reduce the inmate’s risk of pain.”

While Bucklew’s lawyers cited nitrogen gas as an option, he said they had failed to present evidence that it would be less painful. It would take longer for him to be rendered unconscious with gas than with an injection, Gorsuch said. “No state has ever actually carried out an execution using nitrogen gas,” he said. “Nor does the Constitution require a state to develop a novel method of execution.”

In 1996, Bucklew went on a violent rampage after his girlfriend tried to end their relationship. When she fled to a neighbor’s house, he shot and killed the neighbor. He beat the woman with a gun and raped her. After a shootout with police, he was arrested, but he later escaped from jail and attacked his girlfriend’s mother with a hammer.

Kavanaugh had sounded undecided during the oral argument in November, but he cast the fifth vote for the majority. He said the opinion left the door open for condemned inmates in the future.

They “should ordinarily be able to plead some alternative method of execution that would significantly reduce the risk of severe pain,” he wrote. The only example he cited was one from an earlier era that was discussed during the oral argument: a firing squad.

The court’s four liberals said the decision creates a “serious risk that his execution will be excruciating and grotesque.”

Justice Stephen G. Breyer said Bucklew has tumors in his throat and elsewhere

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Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Blake Monroe remembers his roots ISU student rises up in the country music world Lauren Rader Reporter

Blake Monroe, an up and coming country artist, is taking steps to further his career in music. Monroe plans to try out for American Idol and maybe eventually, The Voice. Monroe is studying at Indiana State University to earn his doctorate in process technology. He is a founding father of Alpha Sigma Phi and will continue to be very involved in his fraternity until he graduates. Music has also been a huge part of his life.

“I just started singing about a year ago and then I stopped singing for a while,” said Monroe. “I spent a lot of time focusing on how to do it and how to better myself through the learning process.”

Monroe earned a degree in process technology then decided to come back to ISU. From there, he decided to get involved with Alpha Sigma Phi as a brother and founding father for the organization.

He has been in a band, traveled often after working for a year out of college and even lived in Nashville for six months. He has been featured on country artists’ social media pages many times, which has

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Blake Monroe poses for a photo on the beach in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina over ISU’s Spring Break.

helped him grow his music platform.

Monroe is putting on a concert April 27 at 6 p.m. in Sullivan, Indiana. Six other local singers will be performing along-

side Monroe to provide a fun night for students.

“I don’t really care about the fame or the money. I want to make people for-

get what’s going on in their lives for that three minutes. I want them to smile and have a good time,” said Monroe.

He was even heavily involved in the Jeep community here and in other states.

He owned a Jeep Wrangler that become very popular to many companies.

“I had a 2016, four door, Jeep Wrangler and what happened with that was that I had companies ask me if they could sponsor me and they paid me to put stuff on my Jeep,” said Monroe. “We got paid thousands of dollars to go to Jeep Beach at Daytona Beach and park the Jeep. Anything Jeep, I was probably there.”

He now has a truck, but is extremely thankful for his experience with his Jeep.

His music is tremendously important to him, but his roots are where he started.

“I lived in Sullivan, and it’s a very small town. We have a town square and we used to cruise that square every Friday and Saturday night. We listened to the same country music and those experiences have made me appreciate everything that God has given me,” said Monroe. “I realize that I am blessed to have everything that has come my way. Country music is a way that I can express.”

The Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra presents a “Children’s Concert” – for Adults, too!

The Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra, the Wabash Valley’s 94 year-old professional orchestra, presents a special performance filled with works that many adults first “fell in love with” as children.

The concert is April 6, 2019 at Tilson Auditorium on the ISU campus at 7:30 p.m.

Entitled “Peter and the Wolf: A Concert for the Young and Young-atHeart,” the concert features two “story-telling” works, Prokofief ’s “Peter and the Wolf ” and Dukas’s “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” of Mickey Mouse “Fantasia” fame.

Also on the program are Saint-Saëns’s “Carnival of the Animals” and Mozart’s gorgeous Double Piano

Concerto.

Well-known community leader, Craig McKee, will be the narrator for “Peter and the Wolf.”

Duo Pianists, Charles Webb and Steven Mann, are featured on “Carnival of the Animals” and Mozart’s Double Concerto.

Generously sponsored by the Terre Haute Symphony League with a guest artist sponsorship by Dr. William Hughes, the concert is intentionally programmed to allow very young children to attend and be inspired to make music. Some parents may wish to bring their children and stay only for the first half which features “Peter” and “Carnival.”

Children’s tickets are as low as $5 each, and adult tickets start at $18 per per-

son.

Tickets for the THSO’s “Peter and the Wolf ” concert Saturday, April 6.

May be purchased on-line at THSO.org, or through the Hulman Center box office, which is temporarily located in Tirey Hall T150 on the main floor.

By calling (812) 2373737, or in person, one hour before the performance, at the Tilson box office on the campus of Indiana State University. “Concert Conversations,” with Bowden and the guest artists, begins at 6:45 p.m. in the Heritage Lounge of Tilson.

The THSO is also pleased to announce that it has received two grants from generous donors, Bill Elliott of Ross Elliott Jewelers and Craig McKee of Wilkinson,

Goeller, Modesitt, Wilkinson & Drummy Law firm.

These grants are providing tickets without cost to 75 VCSC elementary students who otherwise might not be able to afford attending. Each recipient also receives free admission for an accompanying chaperone to attend the concert.

All ticket recipients are encouraged to plan to arrive by 6:45 for “Concert Conversations with David Bowden” when the music on the program will be discussed and the guest artists will be introduced.

Additional information regarding program details, guest artists, pre-concert suppers and other special THSO events can be found at THSO.org.

The advertising poster for Peter & the Wolf that is to be presented April 6.

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Unsung heroes part 1 Seth Ymker Columnist

Soon after I began the creation of this article, I realized that there was no way that I would be able to fit all of the tremendously important Unsung Heroes of history into just one article.

Therefore, you can expect the second part of this article to appear in the Statesman next week Now, the individuals listed below are all people who directly changed history in some major way. These are individuals whose actions are forever imprinted on our own lives whether we see them or not.

I hope that this article brings recognition to whom our admiration and praise is deserved.

Sybil Ludington is a very important character in the history of the United States. On the night of April 6, 1797, she alerted militia forces in the villages of Putnam County, New York and Danbury, Connecticut, to the approach of the British regular forces.

Ludington rode 40 miles to influence over 400 men, under her father’s command, to defend Danbury. While it was too late to save Danbury by the time they arrived, the troops were able to force back General William Tryon and his men to Long Island Sound.

For these actions, Ms. Ludington was congratulated by General George Washington.

To be clear, this ride was in no way parallel to the ride made by Paul Revere, rather it occurred at a completely different time and place. Although, it is worth noting that at the time of these events, Ludington was 16 years old.

While we only know the name of one of the men, Alexei Ananenko, there were actually three men at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant who waded through radioactive water to access a valve that would drain the water and prevent a secondary steam explosion which would have destroyed the other three reactors and, most likely, have wiped out half of Europe and left the continent uninhabitable for the next 500,000 years.

While the three men in question did not die soon after from Acute Radiation Syndrome, ARS, they had no idea at the time that they would survive. This, however, makes their actions no less heroic.

Since then, one of the three men has died from a heart attack, while two men continue to

live after saving a large portion of the world through their selfless actions.

Alan Turing was a man who was blacklisted by history for a long period of time, but now we are able to admire him and his work fully.

Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist who is most famous for his work cracking the German Enigma code during World War II. Turing, with the help of his team, created the Bombe computer and used it to shorten the war by as much as two years by cracking German messages.

He also created the Turing Test which is used to see if a machine is able to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.

This is a test that is very important in the area of Artificial Intelligence.

Unfortunately, much of Turing’s work was classified, so he did not receive recognition for many of his actions until long after his death.

At the age of 39, Turing was convicted of Indecency due to his homosexual relationship, a ruling which was not overturned until 2009.

Turing agreed to hormone treatment, which may have led to his suicide in 1954.

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, was another English Mathematician who worked with Charles Babbage, the creator of the first digital programmable computer.

Lovelace created an algorithm for Babbage’s Analytical Engine to compute Bernoulli numbers.

Thus, Lovelace is generally considered to be the first computer programmer.

While there is some controversy about her true contributions, she saw the potential of computers and prophesied of the coming computer age.

Although, an age which came long after her death at the age of 36.

All of these individuals earned our respect in some way; however, I believe, the respect insufficient compared to their achievements.

Therefore, I encourage everyone who has read the stories of these remarkable men and women to remember them and what we owe to each one of them.

Next week the second part of this article will appear, with another list of remarkable individuals who changed our world.

OPINION

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Dreamstime | TNS

Plastic is so durable that every bit of plastic ever made still exists. That means that the billions of tons of plastic mankind has dumped into the water might get broken down into microscopically small pieces, but it will only continue to accumulate. In 2006, the United Nations estimates that the average square mile of ocean contains 46,000 pieces of plastic trash, a number that’s only increased in the last decade.

Recycle plastic on-campus Jhansi Chagalakonda Columnist

We encounter an abundance of plastic all around us throughout our daily lives that we perceive as part of our lives now.

Give it a minute and think.

Can you spend a day without using plastic at all?

Unfortunately, it is not good practice to utilize plastic as frequently as we do. Our earth is paying the price for the comfort of humans who are also just one part of living beings existing on earth.

Nothing can commensurate the damages we elicit upon the earth. The educated generation might show the reluctance in usage of plastic, however the presence of plastic is so profuse that we are quite unable to eliminate it from our lives.

We, as humans, should start our strive for a cleaner earth in a more efficient way.

Saying, “Oh well! I don’t use a lot of plastic,” definitely begs to question the veracity of your thinking. We must reflect towards each of our actions.

To provide more clarity, let me ask you, do you eat outside at any period of time? Do you use their plastic spoons and throw them away in the trash instead of recycle bins? Do you use plastic covers from Walmart, Kroger, Taco bell, or any grocery store?

If the answer for any of the above answer is ‘yes’, then you are contributing to pollution of our Earth.

This Earth belongs to all of us; not solely one person or one family or one community or one political group. So we have no

right to pollute it.

Being considerate to other humans is not enough, but being considerate towards the soil we stand on is more important than anything.

Once, I came across a video of a woman showing all the waste she accumulated for the past five years in a small mason jar.

She saved the Earth from an unnecessary amount of plastic and waste.

That video changed my perception towards many things.

From the same video, I came across a compost which is a great way of using our organic and wet waste.

Now, let’s talk about recycling.

All around Indiana State’s campus, we have recycling bins and we have a recycling center right across from University Hall.

Although, how many of students know about the recycling center? How many students notice those bins? How many students use them?

This is very saddening to realize that we don’t even use the facilities which are provided to us by our university, but we would never leave a chance to be vociferous about our opinion towards plastic.

When you attend any events that take place on campus, you eat the food provided on a plastic plate with plastic spoon and fork. But do you throw it in the bin which is there in the room or care enough to take it to the recycling bins?

How many of you use the plastic glasses that are available in the food centers or events or commons? And how many of you care or use the common sense of carrying a water bottle to save

100’s of plastic glasses?

Does this ever occur to you that just being socially responsible is not enough? Rise above and be environmentally responsible as well. The trials and tribulations to clean a small lake is beyond imagination. Then why do you have to be the reason for the adversity?

I believe that we need to conduct a university level workshop in each class for students, faculty and administration about the recycle and their uses. Placing recycling bins around campus is not enough. Spreading awareness is equally important.

Also, we must examine the waste to see what type of waste is most frequently accumulating in the bins and bring changes to campus.

Not only people, but organizations should also take strong initiatives on being environmentally responsible.

These initiatives may possibly also expanded to the rest of our community and schools. We can educate our community and children to best use the recycle center and understand the importance of it.

We, as an organization, can involve our community to improve and get better by helping them understand the complication we might instill in our future generation if we don’t take care of the Earth now.

There are many videos and articles about what kind of trouble are the animals facing because of another living being i.e. humans.

It would be great if we can take the initiative and make our organization and community learn and grow together.

The Republican Freedom Caucus could learn from AOC Jonathan Bernstein

Bloomberg News (TNS)

The verdict is in: Three months into her term, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’t the forerunner of an emerging House Freedom Caucus of the left, no matter how many people have speculated that would be the case.

Conservatives are quite correct to dislike, or at least oppose, AOC. Her policy preferences aren’t just different from theirs; she is an honest-to-goodness leftist, which sets her apart from most mainstream liberal Democrats in Congress.

Her approach however isn’t remotely similar to the one House Freedom Caucus members took with their fellow Republicans.

She treats mainstream liberals as allies with whom she will often disagree, not as the enemy. She wastes zero time and effort trying to differentiate herself from the rest of her party (she doesn’t go around trying to prove that she’s the True Socialist). Yes, in part that’s because there are real policy differences between her and many Democrats, while the Freedom Caucus conservatives have very few real differences with mainstream conservative Republicans, and therefore have to invent ways to prove they are the only True Conservatives. But I suspect she has adopted this

collaborative tack mostly because policy change is more important to her than acting out.

In other words, she offers an entirely different model of dissent from a party’s ideological mainstream, and strong conservatives could do a lot worse than watch and emulate her. She has already shown quite a bit of skill at using her seat in the House to advocate for substantive change.

The HFC never seemed to get the knack of that, much to the detriment of conservative and Republican goals.

There were at least two examples of her approach just this week. The first one is AOC’s strong support for the Democratic bill to fix the Affordable Care Act, as HuffPost’s Matt Fuller reports. She is, of course, for single-payer health care. But she didn’t let that get in the way of pragmatism – both to marginally improve (from her point of view) the health care system, and also to work with mainstream liberals even though she disagrees with them on the best long-term arrangements.

Ocasio-Cortez said she understood prioritizing fixes to the Affordable Care Act. “Because we have a Republican Senate, a Republican president, and so the things that we have the ability to pass right now are pretty narrow,” she said, though she added she wanted hearings on Medicare for All and didn’t think single-payer

solutions had been given enough attention from the Democratic caucus yet.

The second example was her support of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s strategy of requiring Democrats to vote “present” when Majority Leader Mitch McConnell brought the Green New Deal to the floor. McConnell wanted to force a tough vote for Democrats, including the several Democratic senators running for president. Schumer’s strategy was to duck the vote.

Had AOC and other Green New Deal supporters made the vote into a progressive litmus test, they likely would have successfully pressured many senators to go along – splitting the caucus, and hurting those who didn’t want to vote either way. Instead, as with health care, she combined pragmatic support for a political strategy with a positive path forward, calling for hearings and eventually a mark-up for the idea she and others had proposed.

Granted, some of this is easier when the other party holds the White House and none of the out-party’s policy preferences are going anywhere anyway. But so far at least, she’s been an excellent example of how a policy outlier can still be an effective member of the House and how a strong pragmatic streak can advance even relatively extreme policy views.

That’s very different from how

the radical conservatives consistently made the lives of Speakers John Boehner and Paul Ryan miserable – and the way they managed to produce worse policy outcomes for conservatives than they would have had they been more willing to work with their party. The most obvious example was appropriations. Because the radicals would not vote for conservative bills that had a lot of government spending in them, Republicans had no choice but to work with House Democrats on government funding, which produced compromises that were even farther from the House Freedom Caucus’s preferences. They put making their point ahead of actual policy gains, with predictable consequences.

AOC has also used hearings productively, so much so that some conservatives have made a point of accusing her of being a puppet who only reads prepared remarks (and yes, it’s worth noting exactly which politicians get accused of not being able to speak without prepared remarks, and how several of those so accused seem perfectly capable of going on TV and speaking for themselves). All members of Congress have staff to prep them for hearings, including prewritten questions. Indeed, hiring the right staff and delivering the questions well are real political skills, and indicate a choice

of how to use her own, and her staff ’s, time and energy. What’s important is that she’s used her hearing opportunities substantively, to advocate for her policy preferences and not for playing gotcha with witnesses.

Still, she’s made several mistakes. But, overall, she’s shown a remarkable willingness to retreat strategically. Recall that early on she foolishly gave lip service to taking down Speaker Nancy Pelosi, but wound up not only (sensibly) supporting the speaker, but also using the episode to fight for things she cared about.

That’s nothing like the House Freedom Caucus revolts against Republican leadership – or for that matter, the futile Democratic die-hards who organized and continued the fight against the speaker and just made themselves look bad.

I’ve said many times that the problem isn’t how conservative Republicans are, but how they approach institutions, how they fail to respect democratic norms, and how they seem obsessed with constantly proving their ideological bone fides rather than actually trying to get anything done. There have been a handful of Republicans who have been good counterexamples – former Senator Jeff Flake, former Senator Tom Coburn. But the person they really should think about emulating is Ocasio-Cortez.

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Breyer also argued that the majority was wrong to look back to the country’s founding to decide what is cruel and unusual punishment.

“The Eighth Amendment is not a static prohibition that prohibits the same things that it proscribed in the 18th century.

Rather it forbids punishments that would be considered cruel and unusual today.”

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Michigan State, Auburn, Virginia, Texas Tech: a Final Four field with survival instincts Blair Kerkhoff

The Kansas City Star (TNS)

Survival of near-elimination experiences is a common thread running through this year’s Final Four field.

Not just winning four games to reach college basketball’s biggest stage, with the national semifinals set for Saturday in Minneapolis — Virginia-Auburn and Texas Tech-Michigan State — but the heart-stopping fashion in which some of the outcomes were determined, even down to the final ticks of regional-title contests.

Michigan State dramatically ended the season of tournament favorite Duke and national player of the year Zion Williamson with a 68-67 triumph in the East Region final Sunday.

Kenny Goins’ 3-pointer with 25 seconds remaining gave the Spartans a two-point lead, and the Blue Devils’ RJ Barrett made one of two free throws with five seconds to play. Duke never got the ball back and the nation’s top-ranked team crashed in a regional final for the second straight year.

Virginia, meanwhile, turned a play that will stand with some of the NCAA Tournament’s most memorable moments just to force overtime in defeating Purdue in the South Regional final on Saturday.

Auburn outlasted Kentucky 77-71 in overtime Sunday to win the Midwest but perhaps pulled off a bigger escape act in its firstround triumph over New Mexico State. After beating the Aggies,

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Auburn coach Bruce Pearl, covered in confetti, celebrates with his Tigers after they took down Kentucky, 77-71, in overtime in the NCAA Midwest Regional Final on Sunday, March 31, 2019 at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo.

the Tigers became the first program in event history to knock off college basketball’s top three winningest programs in succession: Kansas, North Carolina and Kentucky.

Texas Tech was the only Final Four participant that didn’t see its game turn on final-possession drama. But the Red Raiders nursed a two-point lead on Gonzaga with 20 seconds remaining in the West Regional final before winning by six.

And Tech started behind ev-

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The Red Raiders, picked to finish seventh in the Big 12, are the only team headed to Minneapolis that wasn’t part of the AP preseason Top 25. In fact, they didn’t even receive a vote. Disrespect was a card that Tech coach Chris Beard played with regularity this season, and postseason.

“We don’t mind the underdog chip on the shoulder part of our story,” Beard said.

Auburn, which becomes the first school from Alabama to reach a Final Four, carried some of that feeling into the tournament, but coach Bruce Pearl was quick to remind that the tag only goes so far at his school.

“Now, this is important,” Pearl said. “Auburn athletics, we’re not Cinderellas in anything. We’re really, really good in all those other sports. We win championships. Been a long time since basketball’s been good.”

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Virginia played in a Final Four.

The Cavaliers got there in 1984, their second trip in four seasons.

With five seconds remaining in their regional final on Saturday, it looked like the drought might grow even longer.

The Boilermakers, leading by three, fouled Ty Jerome, who made the first of two free throws.

The second shot bounced off the front iron. Jerome said after the game he didn’t miss on purpose, but everything that happened after that broke for Virginia.

Mamadi Diakite aggressively tapped the ball into the backcourt, where Virginia guard Kihei Clark tracked it down. He fired a long strike to Diakite, whose 10-footer fell through just before the buzzer sounded to force overtime.

Jerome said Clark made the “play of the century.” The entire sequence will be remembered in the same way as the Lorenzo Charles dunk that gave North Carolina State an improbable national title-game victory over Houston, or Christian Laettner’s game-winning shot for Duke against Kentucky.

So this Final Four features two first-time programs, Texas Tech and Auburn, and three first-time coaches. The Red Raiders’ Beard, Virginia’s Tony Bennett and the Tigers’ Pearl are making their debuts on the final weekend.

Michigan State’s Tom Izzo is the Final Four veteran of the group, making his eighth appearance since 1999.

Only John Wooden (12), Mike Krzyzewski (12), Dean Smith (nine) and Roy Williams (eight) have been to more.

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Above and beside, Indiana State Baseball team plays IU at ISU on March 19th, 2019.

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Sycamores meet Boilermakers for rematch Garrett Short Reporter

The 21-4 Indiana State baseball teams travels to Purdue for a rematch Tuesday.

ISU has topped the Boilermakers this season with a 4-3 victory on March 13 and hopes for the same result this Wednesday.

The Sycamores are coming off a thrilling weekend on the road against Missouri State where they dropped the first two in the three-game series. ISU went punchfor-punch with MSU, who was picked first in the Missouri Valley Conference Preseason Poll. The Sycamores lost game one in a walk-off that went 11 innings and followed that up with a 12 inning loss in game one of a doubleheader on Sunday.

ISU had an issue with timely hitting against the Bears, excluding their 12-0 win against MSU in the series finale. The Sycamores left 11 runners on base in game one, including two in the top of the

11inning.

The upcoming game against Purdue is an opportunity for the team to show their resilience. After a tough start to the conference season, ISU has a chance to rebound against a formidable Big 10 opponent.

Through the thick and thin of the hard-fought series, ISU’s starters kept steady against the Bears. Each of ISU’s three starters went six innings or more and allowed two runs or less. The pitching staff was dominant from starters to closer in the doubleheader Sunday. ISU’s four pitchers that took the mound Sunday allowed just one run on eight combined hits.

Purdue’s loss to ISU was a part of a stretch where the Boilermakers lost five of six games and seemed bound for the basement of the Big 10. However, Purdue has siphoned off some of the energy their basketball team was playing with in the NCAA Tournament. The Boilermakers

are riding a four-game winning streak and have won six of their last seven.

Over their hot streak, Purdue has allowed an average of just two runs per game. Their offense has not been stellar by any means, but it has been good enough to propel them towards the top of the Big 10.

In the last meeting between these two teams, ISU was able to tack on three runs before Purdue could cross the plate. Despite an effort in the fifth and sixth by the Boilermakers, ISU’s bullpen consisting of Austin Cross, Jake Ridgeway and Tyler Grauer kept the 4-3 victory in hand.

After a grueling series against Missouri State that included two extra-inning games, ISU now has a break before they jump back into conference play. The game against Purdue kicks off a six-game roadtrip against the Big 10 that includes games against Michigan State followed by Michigan.

Drake sweeps softball Jay Adkins Reporter

This past weekend, the Indiana State University Softball team traveled to Des Moines, Iowa to compete against the Drake University Bulldogs as part of a three-game series.

The Sycamores came into the series with a record of 11-17 and were coming off of a 9-6 loss against the Purdue Boilermakers on the road.

The Drake University Bulldogs came into the series with a record of 21-10 and were coming off a 14-0 win against the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers on the road.

The first game of the series kicked off Saturday afternoon.

The Bulldogs shutout the Sycamores in the first game of the series with a relatively low final score 2-0.

Despite the tough loss, junior pitcher Gabbi Schnaiter had an amazing performance, striking out four batters in six innings and pitching a complete game for the fourth time this season.

Drake’s Nicole Newman

(the national leader in strikeouts) recorded 15 strikeouts in the matchup, a complete performance, and a win. Senior catcher Brooke Mann recorded her 11th assist of the season, which is tied with Loyola University’s Abbey Jacobsen for the Missouri Valley Conference lead.

In the first matchup of the doubleheader against Drake on Sunday, The Sycamores looked to bounce back. Senior outfielder Bailey Martin hit a double on Nicole Newman in the fourth inning, which is only the second time this season that anyone has hit a double on Newman in the Valley conference. The double also ended a string of 31 consecutive putouts by the Bulldogs. Sophomore pitcher/ first base Abbey Kruzel was charged with a loss after allowing six runs on five hits.

Drake’s Nicole Newman again claimed a perfect game with a shutout win and one hit allowed while striking out 13 batters.

The Bulldogs ended up winning the matchup with a final

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Pitcher Gabby Schnaiter on March 27th at Purdue.

score of 10-0 in only five innings. Drake scored 10 runs on 12 hits in the matchup with seven of those runs coming in the first two innings.

In the series finale a couple hours later, the Sycamores were once again shutout against the Bulldogs with a final score of 8-0 in five innings.

Indiana State was held hitless by Drake. The Sycamores gained a pair of walks in the first inning, but they failed to

take advantage and score.

Gabbi Schnaiter was charged with a loss after allowing five runs on five hits.

Drake scored eight runs on 11 hits. The Bulldog’s Libby Ryan went 3-for-3 at the plate with two runs scored and a RBI. The Sycamores fall to 11-20 after the three-game series and will travel to Eastern Illinois University to compete against the Panthers Wednesday at 5 p.m.

Softball has an opportunity to bounce back from recent losses Emari Washington Reporter

On Sunday, March 31 the ISU softball team went against Drake College in Des Moines and struggled against the Bulldogs, losing all three weekend games .

The final score of the Sunday matchup was 8-0 and only lasted five innings.

This comes as a big eye opener to the Sycamore fans because Drake held ISU to a no hitter in Sunday’s finale.

Moving forward the Sycamores are progressing on to Eastern Illinois as their next game in Charleston, Illinois. This will be the first time that the Trees and the Panthers will face off this season as they have back-to-back games against each other.

This could be a great opportunity for the Sycamores to turn around their season considering they have been on an

eight game losing streak.

What seems to be a common trend for the Sycamores this season is when they play away games they tend to lose more than games at home or on a neutral field.

However, this does not excuse how the Sycamore softball team has played as of recently.

The last two games the sycamores played against Drake were cut short by mercy rule.

Drake held ISU to a shutout in all three matchups over the weekend.

With all those things being said, the game against Eastern Illinois is actually looking promising for ISU. The Panthers are currently riding on a 10-27 record right now and their season has been just as grueling as the Sycamores.

It’s been 11 days and eight games since ISU has tasted a victory.

The Trees are coming out swinging for the fences in this matchup.

ISU baseball weekend series against Missouri State

Junior, Gabbi Schnaiter has been playing lights out for the Sycamores when it comes to the fielding aspect of ISU. Right now Schnaiters record as the lead off pitcher is 5-7 which is pretty good considering most games she’s lead off, were always close competitions.

Moreover, people cannot forget about how prolific this team can be once they begin to find rhythm in the hitting side of the game.

They can be a force to reckon with. Regardless of what team the Sycamores play they seem to put up a good fight aside from last week’s struggling performance against Drake.

Overall, the mindset and outlook for the rest of the season is going to be the Sycamores playing with fire.

The Sycamores next game will be hosted in Charleston, Illinois April 3 for their double-header against Eastern Illinois.

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The Missouri Valley Conference opener Friday evening resulted in a loss for Indiana State against Missouri State with a 6-5 score at Hammons Field.

At the start of the game Sycamores came out strong against the Bears with a 4-0 lead by the third inning.

CJ Huntley hit a one-out triple to left-center. Jake Means singled to third base on a sacrifice bunt attempt.

Romeno Harris singled to left which was what brought the trees to a 4-0 lead by the third inning Friday evening.

By the fifth inning the Bears tied the game with the Sycamores.

ISU regained the lead in the sixth inning when Watkins scored from second base on a throw over first base.

The lead for ISU did not last long when MSU Dakota Kotowski sent a ball out of the park to left field.

With a double header on Sunday between the Sycamores and the Bears, game one resulted in a victory for MSU 1-0 and game two ended in a 12-0 victory for ISU. Game one was a 12-inning game. ISU pitchers combined allowed four base hits throughout the game.

MSU collected a double in the bottom of the first inning and did not get another base hit until the 11th inning.

ISU starting pitcher Collin Liberatore set a career high with seven in three innings pitched and eight strikeouts.

ISU outhit the Bears 7-4 but struggled to get runners home, leaving runners at second base for a majority of the game.

Game two was seven innings. ISU came out with a 4-0 lead following the first inning from a two-run RBI from Romero Harris, sacrifice fly from Jarrod Watkins and an RBI single from Dam Tofteland.

ISU had six more runs at the end of the third inning extending the Trees lead 10-0.

Tofteland led the Sycamores with two base hits.

Marking his sixth year as head coach, Mitch Hannah has the program off to the best start in program history, being 20-2.

Sycamores opened the season with seven-straight victories and nine-straight opening the start of March.

Indiana State is one of three teams nationally to have two or fewer losses on the season. Followed with NC State 23-1 and Arizona State 22-1.

Sycamores are one of the 12 teams with 20 more wins on the season.

Max Wright leads the Sycamores with a .384 average while three other ISU batters are hitting above a .300 on the year.

The Sycamores will be back in action Wednesday, April 3 with a trip to Purdue University. First pitch is scheduled at Alexander Field for 6 p.m.

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