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Volume 122, Issue 75
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE Hit-and-run Damage reported in West Pay Lot 2
Gender studies Women’s studies gets a name change 4
Ludicrous labels Judge not lest ye be judged 6
Balls and brooms Quidditch club shoots for the sky 8
Battleship
Students struggle to stay afloat 10
Baseball
Sycamores upset rival Hoosiers 12
Came in like a wrecking ball Morgan Gallas Reporter Students and faculty gazed skyward on Monday as a 4-ton wrecking ball ripped through the easternmost Statesman Tower. The tower destruction is scheduled to be done by the end of next semester. “Demolition will continue until late in the summer, and then site clean-up will begin,”
said Diann McKee, Vice President of Business Affairs. “(The) project will be totally complete in November 2015.” The towers were completed in 1969. They were first used as residential housing but were turned into the School of Education and the School of Business in 1977 and 1981, respectively. Once each college moved to newer buildings, the Tow-
ers sat vacant on the east side of campus. Neither tower has been used since 2012. The project is going according to the schedule, McKee said. There was concern about falcons preventing progress since the falcons had taken up residence on top of the towers, but they moved since construction began. Renascent Inc. is doing the demolition and clean-up.
David Fuller, a sales representative for Renascent Inc., spoke about the demolition being on schedule. “Things are going directly as planned,” Fuller said. “We are using a 4-ton wrecking ball, which is about 8,000 pounds.” According to the Renascent, Inc. website, they have a wasteprocessing facility that orgaDEMOLITION CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 Page designed by Alex Modesitt
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Suspect in hit-and-run charged, police say Kristi Sanders News Editor A Sodexo employee was arrested Sunday after being involved in an accident and fleeing the scene. Betty Jean Darnell was taken to the Vigo County Jail. She was under arrest for leaving the scene of an accident and reckless driving. Dana Babel, the resident district manager of Sodexo, confirmed that Darnell was leaving from work when the incident happened. “(Darnell) is still employed at Sodexo,” Babel said. “I have to assume there were no drugs or alcohol involved because she had just left work.” Indiana State University students and some other Sodexo employees witnessed Darnell hitting three parked cars, a tree and a black pole, according to the report taken by officer Jeffery Stinson of the ISU Police Department. “All advised that they saw the silver van with flags,” the report read.
Logan Buck, a freshman psychology major, witnessed the incident and said the cops arrived 10 minutes after it occurred and handled everything very well. “My friend and I were walking across the parking lot,” Buck said. “The vehicle ran into the yellow pole and stopped. Then the driver floored it and turned the wheel. It shot into the street and almost hit the cement boxes. Then the vehicle swerved to miss the boxes and went onto the sidewalk. It hit a tree and two parked cars. Then the car reversed and hit another parked car. Finally it drove away.” The incident took place in the West Pay Lot. Sodexo employees recognized the driver as Darnell. The three vehicles damaged were a Dodge Ram 1500, Hyundai Accent and Ford Ranger. Babel said two of the vehicles damaged were those of other Sodexo employees. “We are trying to support all employees involved,” Babel said.
A Vigo County Sheriffs Deputy located the suspect’s vehicle and informed the ISU PD. Stinson met the other officer at the suspect’s house and noted the damage to the vehicle and that it matched the description of the vehicle involved with the incident according to the report. Darnell told the officer she lost control of her vehicle because something got stuck under the pedal. Officers asked why she left the scene and Darnell stated “she had panicked,” the report read. Darnell is scheduled to appear in Terre Haute City court on Monday at 8:30 a.m. to have her initial hearing. She was released on her own recognizance and a public defender was appointed at county expense. On July 30 at 8:30 a.m., Darnell will meet with her public defender to reappear in court. A Sodexo employee was involved in a hitand-run accident Sunday afternoon, police said (Submitted Photos).
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nizes construction and demolition waste in order to be recycled. “We separate ferrous and nonferrous metals, paper products, plastics, wood, concrete, brick and asphalt,” the website reads. Each tower is 15 stories tall, standing around 180 feet, Fuller said, though not all of the materials can be recycled after demolition. “We are recycling what materials we can, mainly that would be metals,” Fuller said. “We would recycle the concrete but most of that will be refill material for the basement of the towers.” Indiana State’s website announced yesterday that Ninth Street will be closed between the Recycling Center and Spruce Street April 13 until April 29. According to the website, “the northeast corner of Lot Q will be closed May 18 — July 31.” McKee added to that, saying “later Eighth Street (will be closed) once Ninth is reopened.” “We are excited to get the project underway,” McKee said. “It will transform the landscape of our campus.”
Demolition of the Statesman Towers began Monday as large chunks of the tower were knocked away. (Photos by Ayden Jent).
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Honorary degrees to be presented to two benefactors Eston “Bud” Perry and Alice “Annie” Schmidt Perry will be presented honorary Doctor of Humanities degrees during spring commencement May 9 at Hulman Center in recognition of their long-time support of the university. Through the Oakley Foundation, a family-operated philanthropic organization, the Perrys were instrumental in leading the beautification of Indiana State’s campus by creating landscaped entryways at Seventh and Cherry streets (Oakley Plaza) and at Third and Cherry streets (Oakley Place). The Perrys and the Oakley Foundation also helped fund installation of a new floor for the south gymnasium of the Health and Human Services Building and have provided significant support for student scholarships. Bud Perry is a 1961 graduate of Indiana State with a bachelor’s degree in health-safety and is an alumni member of the university’s Lambda Chi Alpha chapter. He served in the U.S. Army Anti-Aircraft Command at Fort Bliss, Texas, and Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. He was district manager of Cessna Aircraft Co., a corporate officer with Indiana State Bank in Terre Haute and has been president and board chairman of the 124 Madison Corp. since 1980. He
has also served in various roles for the Oakley Corp. for the past 35 years. His dedication to Terre Haute and Indiana and the non-profit sector has been extensive with service on more than two dozen local and statewide boards including stints as chairman of the United Way Fund Campaign, president of the United Way of Indiana and president of the Greater Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce. He is a director emeritus of the Indiana State University Foundation Board having completed numerous years of active service. He has also served on the boards of Citizens Bank of Western Indiana, FifthThird Bank of Central Indiana, and is a current member of the Board of Trustees for Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He has been listed in Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities, Who’s Who in the Midwest, and Who’s Who in America. Perry has twice been honored with Indiana State’s William Albert Jones Medal for exemplary advice and counsel to the President of Indiana State (1992 and 2000), and is a recipient of the United Way’s Newport Award and the Kiwanis Handclasp Award.
In addition to attending Indiana State, Alice Perry graduated from the Purdue University School of Pharmacy. She serves as president of the Oakley Foundation and is a past member of the Union Hospital Foundation Board. Other memberships include Delta Gamma Sorority, Tri Kappa Sorority, PEO Philanthropic Organization and the Indiana Pharmaceutical Association. The Perrys are also members of the Country Club of Terre Haute and the Golden Bear Club at Keene’s Pointe in Windemere, Fla. This marks the first year Indiana State has conducted two ceremonies for spring commencement. The honorary degree presentation is scheduled for the 2 p.m. ceremony involving graduates from the Scott College of Business; College of Nursing, Health, and Human Services; and the College of Technology. An early ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. for graduates from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Bayh College of Education. The Perrys have three children: Julie (and Steven) Heck, Jeff (and Jennifer) Perry, and Jennifer (and Travis) Norris, and seven grandchildren. They reside in Terre Haute and Windermere, Florida.
Bud and Alice Perry (pictured above) will be awarded honorary Doctor of Humanities degrees at this year’s spring commencement (Photo by ISU Communications and Marketing).
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Gender Studies name change makes department more inclusive Makyla Thompson Reporter Next fall, the women’s studies major will take on a new name and also see the addition of a new class. The new prefix for classes will be GNDR instead of WS. Even though the course name has changed, the classes will still count toward students’ minors and pre-requisites. Debra Israel is a professor for the Department of Economics. “We actually voted on this a couple of years ago, so it’s been a while,” Israel said. “And the faculty who were more interested in the change felt it would be more reflective of what we were actually doing.” Even though the program was called women’s studies, it teaches students about other genders as well, so those in
the department felt the new name fit better. They wanted students to realize that gender studies is for everyone — not just for women — because they discuss all genders. The gender studies program promotes the understanding of gender and its history. Not only has the name changed, but there is also a new spring class called LGBTQ studies that promotes learning about the LGBTQ community and the history behind it. This class started this spring semester. “(The LGBTQ class) is being taught as a special topics class this spring, but it will be under the new gender studies next year,” Israel said. Since it deals with things like discrimination and other issues pertaining to the LGBTQ community, this class al-
lows students to get a better understanding of what LGBTQ people go through and opens up students’ minds about the things that happen in that community. “In the news all the time we hear about gay marriage (and) about discrimination against gay people,” Israel said. “So we are really excited to be offering the courses that we have been offering and to be adding to what we offer.” Kaylee Jo Fox, a senior majoring in multidisciplinary studies and gender and cultural studies, said that she thought the change was a good idea. “I think that it is going to help draw people toward the program,” Fox said. She also said she thinks that the women’s studies program is wonderful, but she likes the fact that it is now called gender studies because it is more inclusive. “It has a sexuality component; it in-
cludes transgender individuals, people (who want) to study outside the binary,” Fox said. Fox is also the teaching assistant for the LGBTQ class. She said she’d like if the program had an intro class because it’s a 400-level class offered only in the spring. “I love the class. I took it this summer and it was just me and one other person,” Fox said. “I don’t think a lot of people knew about it so we were just trying to figure it out and navigate it.” Even though there are not a lot of students in the class this year, many believe that just having the class can raise awareness of issues the LGBTQ community faces. “I think it’s really great because it gives the community a nice awareness,” Fox said. “I think that it is progressive which is always good.”
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ISU to host education forum Betsy Simon
ISU Communications and Marketing Indiana shares its borders with Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio, but its competitiveness in a global market depends far more on its connections with such places as China and India. For the U.S. economy to thrive, students at home will need much more in the way of an international education at the K-12 level — including foreign languages and cultural lessons. Those subjects will be the topic of discussion for public school administrators, state officials and business leaders at the Hoosier Successes in the Global Workplace Forum at Indiana State University on May 12. “In the U.S., I think businesspeople don’t always feel their employees have a global view and once the companies become globally competitive, they want their employees to have at least some knowledge or experience with other cultures,” said Karen Liu, professor in the department of elementary, early and special education at the Bayh College of Education who was instrumental in bringing the forum to campus. “It’s not just about languages. We want our students to be aware, sensitive and have experience dealing with perspectives from a lot of cultures around the world,” said Chris McGrew, director of the Center for Global Engagement. “We want students to be interested in other cultures and comfortable with people from different cultural perspectives. Some K-12 schools are doing amazing things and it is important to recognize what these public schools are doing and empower other schools to follow suit.” Among the program’s speakers, beginning at 9 a.m. in Hulman Memorial Student Union, Dede I, will be keynote speaker Mike Alley, commissioner of the Indiana Department of Revenue and former chair of Indiana State’s board of trustees, Glenda Ritz, Indiana superintendent of public instruction, Caterina Blitzer, IDOE global learning world languages specialist, and Kandi Hill-Clarke, dean of the Bayh College. “We really need to provide an opportunity for students to get excited and global education so often provides
that exciting spark,” McGrew said. “We want the education leaders, the business leaders and the practitioners with the resources to exchange business cards and to be thinking about what the reality is in their situation and how they can use someone they met at this forum to try something new.” The first of two panels will involve Wabash Valley graduates and Steve Witt, president of Terre Haute Economic Development Corp., who will discuss preparing students for success in a global economy. A second panel will address resources available to K-12 schools to teach global competencies. Following a lunch reflection and guided discussion, recommendations will be made for advancing global competencies in Wabash Valley schools. “We wanted to organize the forum to stress the importance of infusing global content into the K-12 public school system to administrators and other school leaders,” said Liu, who serves as a board member with the Chinese School of Wabash Valley — a nonprofit organization that introduces Chinese language and culture to Wabash Valley residents and helps schools assess language offerings. After the state held a similar event last year in Indianapolis, Liu said board members at the Chinese School talked with Terre Haute businesspeople and people associated with the regional economic development about language training or workshops the school could provide to help them as they do business in China. “Public schools need to focus on providing students with a global view by infusing a global perspective into what they teach, especially at the high school level,” she said. “Hopefully, schools will start looking at their offerings and see if they need to include more language or cultural learning in the curriculum, so students become global citizens. We are all global citizens and we can’t continue to live in only our zone.” Registration is free but is limited and on a first come, first serve basis. To register, contact Caterina Blitzer at cblitzer@doe.in.gov or call 317-2329175 no later than May 4.
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A Young Man’s Guide to College
OPINION
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Judgment comes from not knowing the whole story Everyone judges others to an extent no matter how righteous a person may think they are. We guys don’t necessarily gossip to put down others, but I think we judge others unknowingly very often. Since we like to compartmentalize things, we tend to put something — Columnist or in this case someone — unfamiliar or perceivably incomprehensible in a box labeled with whatever category we are able to understand. For example: My car got towed recently, and the conversation I shared with the tow company wasn’t necessarily the most congenial one. On my way to pick up my car I didn’t have many positive things to say about the other guy, and I was very quick to judge him based on his profession. When I arrived we talked more and came to an agreement, but it was the means of how the agreement was met that enlightened me. Just through conversation we changed each other’s perspectives about one another and I walked away with an extremely reduced tow payment. I also held a perspective about a girl
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that I met recently that wasn’t accurate, but through conversation I got to know more about her, her family and what she wants to do in her life after college. It is because of the conversation shared with her that I realized she dissolved the restrictive borders my judgment had placed. I found out that she is really cool, ambitious and inspired by the right things. As we all tend to do, I put the towing guy and this girl in boxes because of my presupposition. Why do we tend to judge? First, the act of judging is easy compared to taking the time to get to know someone. College is extremely busy and we choose how we spend our time very carefully. So, if someone isn’t included in our close peer group, then we don’t usually see value in getting to know them more when compared to being with friends, family, schoolwork or work. Also, it’s undoubtedly easy to judge someone when you’re under the influence of emotion such as anger or stress. Whenever we are angry or stressed we become susceptible to a lot of factors
that may cause us to do or say uncharacteristic things. The instance of my car getting towed is a perfect example here. Since I was so angry that my car got towed, I automatically thought that anyone who tows cars didn’t have a life beyond wanting to eradicate all good vibes in this world. If something is different or perceivably incomprehensible, we tend to cast judgment swiftly without much reconsideration. This is the typical jock versus band musician scenario. Both characters cast judgment on one another because they aren’t accustomed to the other’s preferences or lifestyles. So, the jock and musician put each other in labeled boxes because of this lack of understanding. We all know that judging is wrong, but why? As soon as you place a label on someone you reduce him or her to just that, which then takes away his or her individuality. Don’t you believe that you are much more than just a word or someone else’s paraphrase? Try to remember that before you judge next time.
We guys don’t necessarily gossip to put down others, but I think we judge others unknowingly very often.
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If you keep on judging whimsically and frequently, then you will eventually isolate yourself from others. No one likes to be with a guy who is constantly putting himself on a pedestal and attempting to prove himself better than everyone else. People will leave you because they’ll start to wonder if they will be victims of your ignorant harshness. A king is a king only if there are others present to view him as such. Since when has anyone respected or stayed loyal to a king who kept trying to prove his excellence by degrading others? Lastly, misplaced judgment takes away opportunities. Whenever you judge someone negatively it’s almost like a mental process where a door is closed. “That’s who they are and this is what I think of them.” We tend to get hung up on that belief and make it an unshakable pillar of truth in our mind. Take heed of this because you may be missing out on meeting someone awesome who can help you in various ways in the future. So, let’s talk more. We can avoid judgments through the simple means of communication. Your crown of judgment is actually a chain of ignorance that can be easily broken if you have willing ears.
Opinions Policy The opinions page of the Indiana Statesman offers an opportunity for the Indiana State University community to express its views. The opinions, individual and collective, expressed in the Statesman and the student staff’s selection or arrangement of content do not necessarily reflect the attitudes of the university, its Board of Trustees, administration, faculty or student body. The Statesman editorial board writes staff editorials and makes final decisions about news content. This newspaper serves
as a public forum for the ISU community. Make your opinion heard by submitting letters to the editor at statesmanopinions@isustudentmedia.com. Letters must be fewer than 500 words and include year in school, major and phone number for verification. Letters from non-student members of the campus community must also be verifiable. Letters will be published with the author’s name. The Statesman editorial board reserves the right to edit letters for length, libel, clarity and vulgarity.
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A Young Woman’s Guide to College
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Thank you: The not-so-common courtesy
We have a lot to be thankful for. Heck, we even have a whole day dedicated to remembering it and an entire Hallmark aisle for special occasions that require gratitude. But that’s where they get you. Gratitude is an everyday occasion. Sometimes, the Columnist simple phrase “thank you” seems to escape us. Why? Why do two simple words of gratitude escape our conscious thoughts day in and out? My answer and diagnosis is self-absorbed stress. Those stricken with a case of S.A.S. spend way too much of their time wallowing in their sorrows and woes. Anything from pencil lead breaking to a stain on their new shirt can trigger an outbreak, and when they are amid their tantrum troubles, every sense of gratitude seems to escape them. If we ask ourselves to think of the simplest form of gratitude, the phrase
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“thank you” comes to mind. There is the time you thanked your mom for bringing you your notebook to school when you left it at home and the time when you thanked your roommate for letting you in when you locked yourself out freshman year. It’s like a jack of all trades or as I like to think of it, the Peeps of Easter candy. Not only do they fit every occasion, but life without them isn’t as wonderful as it could be. Gratitude follows similar suit, and although it isn’t covered in sugar, sometimes giving it feels just as great as eating those delicious marshmallow puffs. I am the first person to get in a sour mood upon the slightest inkling of irritation. As my mom can attest to, one of my biggest pet peeves is when I hold the door open for someone and whether it is a friend or a stranger, they don’t say “thank you.” Most times I stare at them with a wide-eyed, disgusted face. So if I dissect why this occurrence bothers me so much, I can learn a few things. However, I can only realize what they are after my temper settles and my mom consoles my wounded feelings.
First, much of my time is spent worrying and being amazed at the audacity of some people when it should be spent bettering myself and my relationships. You might wonder how this relates to gratitude, but quite simply put — I spend so much time stressed about my own problems that I don’t take time to thank those trying to help me solve them. Second and finally, if we spent half as much time saying “thank you” as we do saying the word “literally” or “I can’t even,” the world would be a much better place. I’ll start. For all of the people I have forgotten to thank in my two years at college, here we go. To my sorority big: Thank you for always being there to comfort or help me when my chaotic schedule gets the best of me and especially for giving me cute handme-downs and adding to my already cluttered closet. My mom and I both appreciate it when we pack my car to go home. I couldn’t imagine going through college without you and I want to thank you for everything you have done and continue to do.
To my professors, advisor, etc.: This is a sincere apology and thank you combined into one. I’m not sure if you have ever encountered such a gradecrazy student before but I appreciate the responses to my continuous clarification emails and all of the minutes spent after class answering my questions. You have helped keep my sanity in check and I promise you will only have to endure it for two more years. To my family: It’s hard to thank you for just one thing when you do things day in and out that deserve so much more. If there was one thing I could thank you for that meant the world to me it would be for always encouraging me to pursue what I love doing and to be there supporting me along the way. Also, the phone call/vent sessions are a lovely bonus. There are many others that have made my college experience memorable and I want to thank them as well. So whether it’s someone holding a door or picking up a paper you dropped, just say “thank you.” It will literally make their day.
Letter to the Editor
TPP would benefit corporations, hurt taxpayers
Dear Editor:
Republican or Democrat, the content of the Op-Ed will probably make you angry. Both President Obama and Congressional Republicans support the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), an accord that would grant multinational corporations the legal right to sue governments and their taxpayers in a highly secretive tribunal made up of highly paid corporate lawyers. The TPP would allow 9,000 foreign corporations to bypass the U.S. legal system and have cases decided by tribunals which would be organized by the World Bank or the United Nations. The TPP would also grant 18,000
American Corporations the legal right to do so abroad. This would mean that multinational corporations would have a special right to a secretive tribunal of highly paid corporate lawyers in order to receive compensation whenever a government passes a law that would negatively affect their profit-flow in order to protect the taxpayers within the country by say, discouraging environmental destruction or trying to avoid nuclear catastrophes. The United States of America declared independence from the British Empire in 1776 because they did not want their tax money to be used by the British Empire to fund its wars in Europe, and they wanted to have a say in what their
tax money was used for. The Trans-Pacific Partnership would give corporations the ability to claim the right to taxpayer money without the taxpayers having any say in the decision-making process because of lost profits due to laws, regulations or court decisions that protect the environment, discourage unhealthy eating and smoking habits or stop the production of weapons in order to avoid nuclear catastrophes. In essence, a corporation could go into a country, set up shop and if the government tries to take action against them for say, poisoning the ground water and exposing people to hazardous chemicals that cause birth defects, the
corporation could sue the government, which would then have to pay the corporations and their corporate lawyers using taxpayer money. Basically, the taxpayers would have to pay the corporations for coming in and destroying the environment and poisoning citizens. I don’t think this would have boded well with our Founding Fathers. In their days, our Founding Fathers faced the tyranny of the British Empire; today taxpayers all over the world face the tyranny of invisible multinational corporations. Meghan Hoskins ISU Student
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ISU Quidditch Club makes ‘Harry Potter’ a reality
Adler Ingalsbe Reporter
J.K. Rowling’s famous book series, “Harry Potter,” created a buzz the minute the books were released, and the love for the novels and movies remains to this day. With fans everywhere wanting to get a small bit of the novels into their real lives, people began playing a sport that is prominent in Rowling’s books: Quidditch. In the movies and books, the game of Quidditch features two competing teams. Each team has seven players, consisting of a seeker, a keeper, two beaters and three chasers who fly around on their broomsticks, with three goals shaped like rings on each side of the field, or pitch. There are four different types of balls in play: the quaffle, two bludgers and the golden snitch. The quaffle is used by the players, especially the chasers, who try to throw the ball through the opposing team’s rings, and when it’s successfully thrown through them, without the keeper blocking it, the team is awarded 10 points. The bludgers are balls that are said to be bewitched and are hit by the beaters — who defend themselves with a small wooden baseball bat — and try to knock the opposing team’s players off their broomsticks. The golden snitch, which is a small golden ball that has wings on it, darts around and is nearly impossible to see. The team’s seeker who successfully catches the snitch is awarded 150 points. The seeker must catch the snitch in order for the game to be over. Otherwise, the game will continue until the snitch is finally captured. With Quidditch being very popular, two Indiana State University students decided to create their own club team for fans of “Harry Potter” to join and enjoy. Kelsey Golden, vice president of the Quidditch club, said the idea of the club came from her and a friend who loved the “Harry Potter” books and thought it would be cool to start their own team. “It was an idea Mustafa (the creator of the club) and I talked about. We both are huge ‘Harry Potter’ fans and we love the ways the fandom has made the books come alive,” Golden said. Unlike in the books and movies, said
Mustafa Mustafa, the Quidditch club president, the players can’t fly around on brooms or have the four bewitched balls; so instead they use their own rules and ways to play the game they are such big fans of. “I like to say that instead of magic we use imagination, which is in part true,” Mustafa said. “Instead of flying we run around on brooms, if brooms aren’t available a player puts a hand behind their back to make the game fair because it would normally be holding on to the broom,” he said. “Ball-wise, the game is pretty much the same, some adjustments have to be made to accommodate the lack of magic. The Quaffle is a Volleyball deflated just enough for it to be possible to be picked up using one hand without much problem, the Bludgers are slightly deflated dodgeballs.” While the other balls were fairly easy to replicate, the team had to get creative in designing the golden snitch. “The biggest difference is that the snitch was replaced with a snitch runner; it is a person who has a tennis ball in a sock that is then tied to their shorts, and they run around the pitch while avoiding the seekers and playing pranks on them to delay getting caught.” Another difference between Rowling’s hit series and the Indiana State Quidditch team is the way that the teams are formed. In the books and movies, there are four houses: Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Slytherin and Gryffindor. In the club’s version of the game, they are their own team and can go on to play against other teams and colleges around the United States and even the world. “We do not have houses. Quidditch is played by clubs across the world, mostly in colleges. There is also the International Quidditch Association; they hold the World Cup every year,” Golden said. Mustafa said if the club is able to get more students to join, they may look into adding the Houses and a House Cup or tournament. “At this point we don’t (have houses), many of the members are ‘Harry Potter’ fans and know their houses, but that is as far as we go. Maybe when we get more members we can hold House Cups with all the houses going against each other in some friendly matches, but that will be a
Kelsey Golden (background left) and Mustafa Mustafa (background right) look on as two members of ISU’s new Quidditch club reach a standoff (Photo by Gary Macadaeg).
little ways down the road,” he said. The club was formed and recently had their first meeting and practice, where the members worked on their skills. “We had our first meeting Monday, April 6. (During practices), we run drills and practice throwing and running with the brooms,” Golden said. Mustafa said the club is currently made up of 11 ISU students, holds meetings once a week and encourages any Sycamore student who may be interested in participating to come out and give it a try. “The club is open to all. To get involved, all you have to do is to show up at our meeting times. We meet every Monday at 7 p.m. in the North Gym of the Arena, and be ready to have some fun. We have started an OrgSync page and a
Facebook page (Quidditch Club at Indiana State University) to make it easier for people to find us and get involved with us. It’s currently free for anyone to join the Club. Bringing your own broom is preferable but not compulsory,” Mustafa said.
The ISU Quidditch Club’s logo
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‘Inside Out’ group represents men against sexual violence Kaytelin Shady Reporter Men at Indiana State University are taking a stand against sexual assault. ‘Inside Out — We are part of the solution’ is a new group on campus consisting of ISU men who are against sexual violence. The group educates men about sexual assault. Al Perone, the associate dean of students for Student Affairs for Indiana State University and creator of the group, said he’d wanted to start the group for some time. “I sent an inquiry to 10 men on campus that I knew might be interested in this topic,” Perone said. “Everyone I invited came to our initial meeting and the group had been meeting ever since. The men in the group have recruited additional men, selected a name and have begun working.” The Inside Out group is composed of students from different organizations including athletic teams, fraternities and residence hall councils along with many others. The group is still in the process of being recognized by the university, but you can visit their Facebook page “Inside Out” or contact Al Perone at
al.perone@indstate.edu. The group’s tagline “We are part of the solution” speaks to the goal of the group and how important it is. The saying came from the idea that people are either the problem or the solution. “Everyone had a part to play in eradicating sexual violence on campus. Men need to be in the leadership of this movement, and this organization provides that avenue for men to take action,” Perone said. The new group has been working to get the campus involved and getting their cause out there. “Sexual violence is a men’s issue that impacts women; this group intends to educate others on how to prevent sexual violence, raise awareness of the issue and be role models for men on speaking out and taking action,” Perone said. The group has started a White Ribbon campaign to spread its message, and it has assisted with planning events for April’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month. “We intend to continue our awareness campaign throughout the academic year and not just during Sexual Assault Awareness month as this issue exists all year long,” Perone said.
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Students battle to stay afloat at ‘Battleship’ event
Last Thursday, ISU organizations participated in Battleship, a new game where the goal was to sink opponents’ canoes by filling them with water (Photo by Cicara Moore).
Steve Vischak Reporter On Thursday, the arena pool was the site of a unique Indiana State University event — Battleship between ISU organizations. Battleship is an event unique to ISU. Three canoes are placed in the arena pool, and the attempt to sink the other teams’ boats begins. Inside each canoe are three members from each organization, and two members on the outside of the pool vigorously
dump as much water as they can into the other teams’ canoes. The object is to be the last canoe floating by the end of the four-minute time period and to have collected the beach balls thrown randomly into the pool. However, if there is more than one canoe left floating after the time has expired, the canoes are pulled from the pool and the team with the least amount of water in their canoe will move onto the next round. Winning for the sororities
was Gamma Phi Beta, who defeated Alpha Omicron Pi and Alpha Chi Omega to move on to the championship round. William Chan, a freshman aviation major who was a part of the Phi Delta Theta battleship team, said he liked how unique the event was. “I like that it is totally different from any other event here on campus. It’s not too often when you get to take a canoe into a lap pool,” Chan said. While sitting in the bleach-
ers watching the battle, Adam Waidlick, a freshman who is undecided about his major, rooted for his organization to win. “As much as I would love to see my friends at Phi Delta Theta take the victory, they just don’t seem to have the right strategy to do it. I think it’s going to be an extremely close battle for whoever wins,” Waidlick said. Morgan Evans, a junior communication major, has been impressed with Spring Week and
continually looks forward to it. “Spring Week is something that I look forward to every year. I have been participating in it since my freshman year, and it just seems to improve year after year. I cannot wait for next year when it is my final Spring Week as a senior,” Evans said. Although Battleship is a relatively new event that has been added to Spring Week, many students enjoyed it and are looking forward to sinking each other next year.
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Poetry night showcases language-learner talents Marissa Schmitter Features Editor Students are required to take a foreign language, but on Monday night several took their love of language a step further. Students in the French, German and Spanish departments showed off their talents when it came to reading in a different language by choosing a poem to read out loud to a group. Many of the German and French students were there with a class, but a number of others, Spanish-speakers included, showed up just for the fun of it. Students displayed visual aids with their reading and provided the poems in both their original language and a translation. One woman sang her poem to the audience in French. Students also provided information
on the poets whose work they were reading, so the audience got a history lesson as well. The audience was silent while students read their poems. Hearing a poem in another language made the experience even more intense. Ellyn Hindle, a senior German education major, read a poem at the event. She said she wasn’t nervous, however. “I don’t get nervous — I got over that my freshman year,” Hindle said. Hindle said she was glad the event was held. “It’s a convergence of the literature classes. It’s like bringing us all together to say ‘Whoa, look what we can do,’” Hindle said. Even though the event was for an upper-level class, underclassman language students also attended to get a feel for what they would have to do in upcom- Claudien Mukwanga, a junior aviation management major, stands in front of the ing years. audience and reads his poem in French (Photo by Gary Macadaeg).
“It’s a convergence of literature classes. It’s like bringing us all together to say ‘Whoa, look what we can do.’” Ellyn Hindle
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Sycamores upset rival Hoosiers The Indiana State baseball team defeated the Indiana Hoosiers 6-2 at Bob Warn Field at Sycamore Stadium on Tuesday evening. ISU improves to 15-19, while the Hoosiers fall to 2112. It was also Humane Society night, presented by the Networks Professional Development program. The Hoosiers got on the board first in the top of the first frame. Casey Rodrigue led off with a walk and stole second. Scott Donley single to right to bring Rodrigue home and lead 1-0. The Sycamores took the lead in the bottom of the third inning. Kaden Moore was hit-by-pitch and Derek Hannahs reached on a walk. Jacob Hayes belted a home run to right field to put ISU up 3-1. It’s Hayes’ fourth home run in five games. Andy DeJesus led off the bottom of the fourth inning, drawing a walk. ISU loaded the bases on back-to-back singles and a ground out by Tyler Friis plated the fourth Sycamore run. After four innings, ISU led 4-1. IU cut into the Sycamore lead in the top of the seventh inning. Isaiah Pasteur reached on an error and was moved to third on the Rodrigue double. Pasteur scored on the Brad Hartong ground out.
The Sycamores homered twice on Wednesday and took home the victory against IU (Photo by Ayden Jent).
The Sycamores added to their lead in the bottom of the seventh inning. Hannahs reached on a base hit and was able to trot home on an Andy Young two-run home run to left field. ISU led 6-2 after seven innings.
Four Sycamores worked on the hill. Trent Lunsford started, going 3.1 innings, giving up three hits, one earned run, walked one and struck out two. Connor Schwienebart (2-0) worked in relief, going 3.1 innings. Schwienebart picked up the win after giving up four hits, one unearned run, walking one and striking out one. Greg Kuhlman pitched 1.1 innings, surrendering one hit to the five batters he faced. Austin Conway closed the door in the ninth, working a 1-2-3 inning. The Sycamore offense was highlighted by the two big flys. Hayes finished 1-for-4 with three RBI and a run scored. Young was 1-for-3 with two RBI and a run scored. Andrew Gutierrez finished 2-for-4, while DeJesus, Moore, Hannahs and Curry each added a hit. Hannahs scored twice, with Moore and DeJesus scoring once each. The Sycamores return to action on Friday, Apr. 17th as they travel to Dallas, Tex. to take on the Dallas Baptist Patriots in a three-game Missouri Valley Conference series. Story by ISU Athletic Media Relations
Sycamores hit the road to challenge Ramblers Zach Rainey Reporter
Coming off their first series sweep of an opponent since 2009, the Indiana State Sycamore softball team is set to hit the road Wednesday night for a doubleheader against Missouri Valley Conference foe Loyola in Illinois. Loyola currently holds a 12-25 overall record with a 2-12 record in conference play and sits at ninth place in the MVC. The Sycamores are 16-21 overall, but have found some success in conference play going 8-7, which is good enough for fifth. In their meetings last season, Loyola bested the Sycamores two games to one. The Ramblers won the first game, while the Sycamores won the second game in extra innings. The two teams met one more time for the rubber match with the Sycamores coming up short in a 4-3 loss. Offensively, Brooke Wyderski, who is hitting .310 on the season, leads Loyola. She is the only Loyola player hitting above .300 on the season. As a team,
The Sycamores have been preparing for a doubleheader Wednesday night against Loyola in Illinois, a MVC foe (Photo by ISU Communications and Marketing).
the Ramblers are hitting .244, which has Inside the circle, the Ramblers plan to plagued the group’s offense for much of send out their pitching leader Madison the year. Hope, who leads the Loyola pitching
staff with a 3.88 ERA and a 7-11 record. The bulk of the Sycamores’ success has come from how well they’ve been able to hit the ball. They currently have three players in the top five in hitting in the conference. Kassie Brown is second in the conference, batting.384. Megan Stone ranks third in the MVC with a .377 average, and Erika Crissman rounds out the top five, hitting .370. Taylor Lockwood has been nothing short of incredible this season as the ISU pitching ace. She ranks fifth in the conference with an earned run average of 3.3. She picked up all three wins in the Sycamores’ sweep against Evansville last weekend. Following the doubleheader against Loyola, the Sycamores will remain on the road and take on Drake in a threegame series, including a doubleheader on Saturday. ISU will then come home for a five game home stand, which features games against IUPUI, Loyola, Southern Illinois and Indiana.
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Sycamores win Indiana State Spring Invitational Ace Hunt
ISU Athletic Media Relations For the first time in the nine-year history of the Indiana State Women’s Golf program, the Sycamores have won three tournaments in the same season after capturing this weekend’s 2015 Indiana State Spring Invitational Championship. The event was played at the par-72, 6,055-yard layout of The Country Club of Terre Haute. The Sycamores won the event by posting rounds of 301 and 308 for a two-day total of 609. Their next closest competitor was William Woods who finished with a score of 616. Bradley was third, Western Illinois fourth, Loyola was fifth, Northern Iowa was sixth and Southern Illinois was seventh. South Dakota finished eighth, Evansville was ninth, Dayton tenth, Eastern Illinois was 11th, Rend Lake CC was 12th and Chicago State rounded out the field in 13th. “I had a good feeling about the team once we got to get outside,” head coach
Greg Towne said. “I thought they would progress each week and that’s about all you can ask for really. It is cool that Marissa, Amanda and Erinn were in the Top 5. There were three all-conference players in the field so it was strong.” Indiana State adds this victory with their wins last week at the Bradley Spring Invitational as well as the Charles Braun Invitational back in October of 2014 to make it a school record three for the season. Individually, sophomore Marissa Uradomo finished first to take the second championship of her career. Uradomo also won the Bobby Nichols Intercollegiate last season as a freshman. Uradomo carded rounds of even par 72 and a 76 to finish with a tournament total of 148 for the win. Her tally of 148 was her season-best 36 hole score by nine strokes. In a tie for second place was Amanda
Smith who posted a 74 after an opening round 75 for a total of 149. Her score of 149 is a career-best, which edged out her score of 150 at the 2013 Butler Invitational. In a tie for fifth place was Erinn Sutton who tallied scores of 76 on each day for a total of 152. That score of 152 is tied for her career-best showing in a 36-hole event as she posted the same mark in last year’s Indiana State Spring Invitational. Andrea Frankiewicz posted an 82 after opening with a 78 to finish with a score of 160, which was good enough for 160 and a tie for 32nd. Frankiewicz’s mark of 160 is a career-best. Gina Della Camera’s second round of 85 followed an 80 and her total of 165 finished in a tie for 49th. Competing as individuals, Megan
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Berube posted rounds of 83 and a season-best 78 to finish with a tournament tally of 161, which tied for 34th. Shelby Williams tallied scores of 86 and 84 to finish at 170, which tied for 59th. Dawn Turner rallied from an opening round score of 94 to post an 84 to finish with score of 178, which was good enough for 75th. Margaret Harper recorded rounds of 88 and 91 for a total of 179 and a tie for 76th place. The 2015 Indiana State Spring Invitational would not be possible without the support of The Country Club of Terre Haute — its employees and members. The Country Club of Terre Haute has successfully hosted two Indiana State Spring Tournaments and one Missouri Valley Conference Championship. The Sycamores now take their twoweek winning streak on the road to the 2015 Missouri Valley Conference Women’s Golf Championship on April 19-21 at the Burlington Golf Club in Burlington, Iowa.
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Sycamores get a splash of color
Students joined at Wolf Field to get colorful at Paint Wars. The event on Sunday included large quanities of paint, some messy clothes and a lot of laughter (Photos by Taylor Burris).