April 15, 2016

Indiana Statesman For ISU students. About ISU students. By ISU students.

Friday, April 15, 2016

Volume 123, Issue 76

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Voting center petition calls for board member’s resignation Stephanie Burns Reporter

The Vigo County Election Board has decided against installing a voting center on Indiana State University’s campus.

As a response, a group called Forward Together Terre Haute created a petition that supported ISU’s offer, and included a call for election board member, Kara Anderson, to resign.

UC Davis spent thousands to scrub pepper-spray references from Internet Sam Stanton

and Diana Lambert

The Sacramento Bee (TNS)

SACRAMENTO, Calif.

— The University of California, Davis contracted with consultants for at least $175,000 to scrub the Internet of negative online postings following the November 2011 pepper-spraying of students and to improve the reputations of both the university and Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi, newly released documents show.

The payments were made as the university was trying to boost its image online and were among several contracts issued following the pepperspray incident.

Some payments were made in hopes of improving the results computer users obtained when searching for information about the university or Katehi, results that one consultant labeled “venomous rhetoric about UC Davis and the chancellor.”

Others sought to improve the school’s use of social media and to devise a new plan for the UC Davis strategic communications office, which has seen its budget rise substantially since Katehi took the chancellor’s post in 2009.

Figures released by UC Davis show the strategic communications budget increased from $2.93 million in 2009 to $5.47 million in 2015.

“We have worked to ensure that the reputation of the university, which the chancellor leads, is fairly portrayed,” said UC Davis spokeswoman Dana Topousis. “We wanted to promote and advance the important teaching, research and public service done by our students, faculty and staff, which is the core mission of our university.”

Money to pay the consultants came from the communications department budget, Topousis said.

The documents outlining the expenditures were released to The Sacramento Bee this week in response to requests filed last month under the California Public Records Act. The documents reflect an aggressive effort to counteract an avalanche of negative publicity that arose after the Nov. 18, 2011, pepper-spraying of student protesters by campus police.

Fallout from that incident continued for more than a year, as investigations and lawsuits played out and spawned criticism of UC Davis and demands

SEE INTERNET, PAGE 2

The Vigo County Election Board had to vote to decide if the resolution would pass.

As of last month, the proposal has been declined for the spring.

The votes from the election board members have to be unanimous in order to accept the offer for a new voting center.

Two of the three board members, Dave Crockett and Michael Slagle, voted

“yes” to the offer. Anderson, the third member of the board voted “no.”

The offer was made as part of ISU’s American Democracy Project, a multicampus project that ISU participates in. This project was developed as a way to help the next generation become more “civically engaged.”

Over 250 colleges and universities also participate.

Voter education, registration, and curriculum revision are some of the main goals.

The arguments for the voting center are that it would give more collegeaged voters easier access to the polls.

The voting center would be open to the public and would help the collegeaged demographic become more represented.

“A voting center would

allow for thousands of people, both on and off campus, to cast their ballots and participate in the process of voting,” said Luke Robbins, director of communications for the ISU College Democrats.

Forward Together Terre Haute is a group that supports plans for an ISU voting center.

The group meets on Mondays as part of the organization Indiana Moral

Mondays.

The group meets weekly at the public library to talk about a number of topics including education, economic justice and environmental sustainability.

The biggest topic of interest for the group is voting rights.

The petition submitted

by Forward Together was titled “Allow Voting Cen-

SEE PETITION, PAGE 3

ESPN3 expands for upcoming year Marissa Schmitter Photo Editor

Indiana State University’s partnership with ESPN3 will be expanding in the 2016-2017 school year.

“This year we covered volleyball, football and men’s and women’s basketball,” said Chris Jones, sports video manager. “We did four sports this year, and it is growing to all sports next year.”

Jones said a significantly larger number of events will be covered with the enlargement of the program.

“With those four sports regarded at 38 to 40 shows this year for ESPN,” Jones said. “With the additional three sports we’ll do over 100 next year.”

Although the program is expanding, Jones said there are some challenges to face.

“I don’t want to say that a challenge would be people and schedules, but that’s backtracked to the challenge of getting the word out that this is available,” Jones said. “If you don’t know about it, you don’t know to sign up.”

Jones said another challenge is producing the final product. “(A challenge) sometimes, from my standpoint, (is) pushing the envelope,” Jones said. “In August the challenge was to get on the air, just put something on the air and make it look real, sound real. October the challenge becomes how do we make it sound better? How do we make it look better? I knew that

The partnership ISU has with ESPN3 is set to expand in 2016 and 2017.

basketball would be the end of our production, so January, February, before we get off the air — I don’t like to call it ‘real TV,’ but if you were to watch a professional, how can we get close to that bar? What are we not doing?”

Philip Glende, executive director of student media, said it will be a challenge to staff the production of the shows.

“It will be a challenge to expand the number of productions next year,” Glende said. “We will be going from approximately 40 per year to as many as 90. Each production takes about 15

students willing and able to work nights or weekends, so we are already aggressively recruiting for next year.”

Jones clarified that the expansion will not cost the university more money for equipment.

“In terms of a sports analogy, we’re going to start at this end of the football field, and we’re trying to get to the other end to score a touchdown in the end zone,” Jones said. “Indiana State already bought equipment for the end zone. Now, we may be on the other side of the field, but they already own all the

equipment. So no matter what, we are ready. We are ready, technically equipped to do 50 more games or 100 more games. So there was a long-term look in terms to buying the equipment, which was a good thing because equipment is not cheap.”

Glende said working for ESPN3 is a hands-on job experience.

“Students are learning about video production equipment, such as cameras and mixing equipment, and network television production values,” Glende said. “All of this is occurring in a real-world setting

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that requires a high level of commitment.”

Jones said the opportunity is open to anyone on campus, not just those majoring in communication.

“It’s open to everybody,” Jones said. “I always believe that if you don’t try something, you don’t know if you like it or not. Somebody can come in today and spend a week or two weeks and say ‘It’s not for me.’ This is an opportunity to decide if this is something for you.”

For more information and how to apply, contact Jones at Christopher.

Jones@indstate.edu.

Online registrations climb, new voters decline Stephanie Burns Reporter

New voter registrations have declined in Indiana in comparison to recent years, despite the increase in online registrations.

The Indiana Election Division and the Secretary of State’s office has released a county-by-county report on new voter registrations and has provided data showing this decrease for the primary registrations.

According to the report by the Indiana Election Division, since the start of this year there have been 445 new registrations in Vigo County.

Just four years ago that number was at 508 and 596 in 2008.

The decrease in registrations stands in stark comparison to the dramatic increase in online registrations that is being observed.

“We are only in primary season; more people will register for the general in the fall,” Luke Robbins, Director of Communications for ISU’s College Democrats, predicts.

The election division report also states that in 2008 there were zero new registrations completed online.

That number has jumped to 284 this year.

One thing that may have influenced so many people to register online this year, rather than alternative options, was the push from Facebook to get people to

vote.

Last month, Facebook asked each of its users “Are you registered to vote?” at the top of each newsfeed, along with a link to their state’s voter registration website.

This reminder, which included access to the registration page, might have made the difference in numbers.

Another possible reason for the increase in numbers of online registration could be the competitive nature of this year’s presidential election, according to an article by Nick Hedrick from the Tribune Star.

We will see in fall whether this upward trend for online registration will continue, and if it will start

to have a positive effect on overall registration numbers.

It is unknown why the overall number of voter registrations seems to be going down over the years.

It is something that has been noticed by programs like the American Democracy Project on campus.

This project is doing important things to increase participation in this important process, including trying to establish a voting center on campus in the fall.

“I believe that more people would vote if there were less obstacles to jump through with regards to voter registration, voting locations, and I.D. requirements,” Robbins said.

Since Vigo County has recently made the switch to an electronic voting system, it is possible that soon the process will become much easier for everyone.

The deadline to register for voting in the Primary Elections was Monday, April 4.

You can still register for the general election later this year. You can register to vote online at indianavoters.com.

You can also go to the local Bureau of Motor Vehicles and register in person, or mail in an application.

If you need more information on being eligible for registration, or the voting process, visit the Secretary of the State’s office website or in.gov/bmv.

As Facebook plans for the future, VR looms large Stephanie Burns Reporter

SAN FRANCISCO — When Google wanted people to know it was serious about virtual reality two years ago, it sent software developers attending its I/O conference home with Google Cardboard — a cheap, build-it-yourself VR headset that developers could use with Samsung Galaxy smartphones.

If they owned one.

When Facebook wanted people to know it was serious about VR on Tuesday, it sent software developers attending its F8 conference — all 2,600 of them — home with Gear VR headsets, which retail at $99.99, and Samsung Galaxy S6 smartphones, which cost $598 apiece.

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement of the highend swag was met with emphatic applause from

the audience of developers, who packed an auditorium in San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center to hear him detail the company’s 10-year plan.

The Gear VR may not rival the coveted, high-end virtual reality headset released last month by Oculus VR, which Facebook acquired in 2014 for $2 billion.

But it was enough to drive the message home: VR will play a big role in

Facebook’s future — and so will developers who embrace the medium.

“I think virtual reality has the ability to be the most social platform, because you feel like you’re right there with that person,” Zuckerberg said.

Telling the audience that he expects virtual reality and augmented reality headsets to eventually shrink to the size and shape of a pair of reading glasses, he predicted that

objects such as televisions and phones will one day be a thing of the past.

“When we get to this world, a lot of things we think about as physical objects will just be $1 apps in an AR app store,” he said.

Imagine, he said, instead of pulling out a phone to show someone a photo on a small screen, you could use augmented reality to pull an image out of thin

SEE VR, PAGE 2

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Police: Georgia players caused $1,000 in damage with BB gun Seth Emerson

and Chip Towers

The Atlanta JournalConstitution (TNS)

ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia freshman football players Julian Rochester and Chad Clay spent about 12 hours in a Clarke County jail Tuesday, each accused of two felonies, on charges related to shooting and possessing a BB gun in their residence hall on the Georgia campus.

“I’m disappointed with the poor judgment of Julian and Chad,” Georgia head coach Kirby Smart said in a statement. “They will be disciplined in an appropriate manner.”

According to players’ attorney, Kim Stephens, they were apparently firing at plastic cups in their dorm room with a BB gun, which left marks on the door and in other areas of the room.

The incident dates back to Thursday, April 7, when the damage was first reported by a university employee.

Witness statements were taken from four people, and a search warrant was sought to search the common areas of the room belonging to Clay and Rochester for any handguns, BB guns, or ammunition or projectiles related to handguns.

The warrant was granted, and further investigation of the room found: A total of 12 BB “indentions” on the refrigerator and freezer; several more indentions in the drywall behind the refrigerator; a “great deal” of broken glass on top of the refrigerator; “several” BB indentions on the fronts of six wooden cabinets in the kitchen.

Additionally, several wine bottles had “apparently” been struck with a BB-sized projectile.

Police say they found a small amount of suspected marijuana in the bathroom.

The police report states that the “baggie did not contain a sufficient amount of marijuana for testing, therefore no charges were filed concerning this item.”

Rochester and Clay were each charged with having a weapon in a school zone.

The way the statute reads, anything that shoots a projectile — “including a straw and spitball” — fits the definition of a weapon on campus, Stephens said.

House Bill 859 sits on the desk of Gov. Nathan Deal and would allow anyone 21 or older with a weapons license to carry a gun anywhere on a public college or university campus, except for inside four places: dormitories, fraternities and sorority houses, and at athletic events.

Everywhere else, including campus child care cen-

SEE POLICE, PAGE 3 VR, FROM PAGE 1 air and enlarge it as much as you wanted.

“It’s going to take a long time to make this world,” he said, “but this is our vision.”

Other things in Zuckerberg’s vision included satellites, planes and drones that can bring Internet to the developing world.

Those efforts continue

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Ex-Baylor football player Shawn Oakman arrested after sexual assault accusation Sarah Mervosh

campus were convicted of

Former Baylor University football player and NFL draft prospect Shawn Oakman was arrested Wednesday after police say he sexually assaulted a woman he met at a club.

Oakman, 24, was arrested in Waco, Texas, and was being booked into the McLennan County Jail late Wednesday.

A Baylor graduate student told police she was attacked by Oakman between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. on April 3, after she met him at Scruffy Murphy’s club and accompanied him back to his duplex.

She said the 6-foot-9 inch tall, 275-pound defensive end removed her clothes, forced her onto a bed and sexually assaulted her.

Oakman told police the sex was consensual.

Investigators met with him about 2 p.m. Wednesday to obtain his cellphone and a DNA sample.

He was arrested immediately, Waco police said.

The arrest comes as Baylor faces rising criticism about its handling of sexual assault allegations, particularly involving football players.

The university came under fire after two Baylor football players who had been allowed to stay on

2015.

Baylor has vowed to better combat sexual violence, including beefing up counselor and investigator staffing and expanding its sexual assault training.

Police said Oakman’s accuser underwent a sexual assault exam.

She reported that she had left her underwear and an earring in his bedroom.

Records show police searched the bedroom and found women’s panties, earrings and bodily fluids, including semen.

The Dallas Morning News does not typically identify people who report being sexually assaulted.

Oakman graduated in December with a degree in health, kinesiology and leisure studies, according to Baylor Athletics.

He grew up in Philadelphia, where he was raised by a single mother who struggled with drug problems, according to CBS Sports.

He originally enrolled to play football at Penn State University but was kicked off the team as a freshman for shoplifting a hoagie.

He got his Baylor jersey number and the phrase “second chance” tattooed on his arm because “everybody don’t get one.”

Hours after police say he

The Dallas Morning News (TNS) sexual assault in 2014 and

Louis DeLuca | Dallas Morning News | MCT

Baylor defensive end Shawn Oakman (2) blocks a first-quarter Texas field goal attempt at Floyd Casey Stadiumin Waco, Texas, on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013. Baylor won, 30-10.

assaulted the woman, Oakman tweeted about “the devil.”

And while under investigation on April 7, his birthday, he tweeted an appar-

ent prayer referencing the temptation of a “serpent.”

The 2016 NFL draft is April 28-30 in Chicago.

Experts had projected Oakman as a second- to

INTERNET, FROM PAGE 1 that Katehi resign.

In January 2013, UC Davis signed on with a Maryland company called Nevins & Associates for a six-month contract that paid $15,000 a month.

“Nevins & Associates is prepared to create and execute an online branding campaign designed to clean up the negative attention the University of California, Davis, and Chancellor Katehi have received related to the events that transpired in November 2011,” a six-page proposal from Nevins promised.

“Online evidence and the venomous rhetoric about UC Davis and the Chancellor are being filtered through the 24-hour news cycle, but it is at a tepid pace,” the proposal said.

The objectives Nevins outlined for the contract included “eradication of references to the pepperspray incident in search results on Google for the university and the Chancellor.”

That objective was to be achieved by advising UC Davis officials on the use of Google platforms as part of “an aggressive and comprehensive online campaign to eliminate the negative search results for UC Davis and the Chancellor.”

Online reputation management is a growing field in which companies offer to improve Google and other search engine results by churning out positive news stories, press releases and announcements to minimize previous negaeven after regulators in India halted Facebook’s controversial Free Basics program in the country earlier this year.

In the shorter term, Zuckerberg outlined a significant push for artificial intelligence and chatbots — algorithms that understand language and can talk to users, answer questions and make suggestions.

Luis Sinco | Los Angeles Times | MCT

A small but vocal group of students protests outside a University of California Board of Regents meeting at the UCLA Alumni Center in Davis, California, on Monday, November 28, 2011. The demonstrators called for greater funding of public education and decried the recent use of pepper spray by University of California police officers on student activists.

tive results.

Some schools also use them to help students clean up their online presence before graduation.

“I would say that it is common for an individual who might be applying for a job or an individual who has been wrongly maligned to go to a company like Reputation.com, but for a public university that is funded through taxpayer funds, who has repeatedly stepped into a vast hole, it is surprising that they thought this could be done without the light of day shining on the act,” said Doug Elmets, a Sacramento public affairs consultant.

“It is one more example of how out of touch the leadership at UC Davis is when it comes to their public

perspective.”

Elmets said online reputation management is usually achieved with software that is used to scrub the more “outrageous accusations or allegations.”

If a person puts UC Davis in a search engine, it would eliminate some things initially, but a person would only have to “dig a little deeper to find anything that needs to be told,” he said.

The release of the documents comes as Katehi is once again under fire, this time for her acceptance of seats on private corporate boards, including a textbook publisher and a forprofit university that was under scrutiny by the Federal Trade Commission.

First revealed in the Bee,

her outside board positions have sparked calls for her resignation as well as student protests.

Students have occupied the reception office outside Katehi’s office since March 11 in a sit-in that they say will last until Katehi resigns.

In the aftermath of the pepper-spray incident, which occurred as police were attempting to break up a protest and sit-in on the campus quad where tents had been set up, UC Davis officials scrambled to contain the fallout as videos of the incident were viewed millions of times on the Web. Court filings showed that campus police Lt. John Pike, who was seen calmly spraying seated students in

With 900 million people using Facebook’s Messenger service every month, Zuckerberg announced that the company is opening up the Messenger platform to developers so they can build features such as customer service bots, which will let people bypass the need to get on the phone with customer support.

“You should be able to

message a business like you message a friend,” Zuckerberg said.

If developers and users embrace Messenger’s bots as Facebook hopes they will, they might be able to bypass websites and other apps altogether.

Developers will be able to program bots that can provide anything from automated subscriptions to content such as weather

and traffic updates, article suggestions and summaries and shipping notifications, and even let people browse and shop for items through the Messenger app.

Instead of switching between apps and websites, everything could potentially be done inside Messenger.

Companies such as CNN, clothing and home

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various videos, was bombarded with more than 10,000 text messages and 17,000 emails that included threats and harassment.

The university itself released nearly 10,000 documents 11 months after the incident that illustrated the worldwide negative reaction to the incident and officials’ attempts to contain the damage.

In June 2014, the university hired Sacramentobased ID Media Partners in an $82,500 contract to “design and execute a comprehensive search engine results management strategy.”

The firm, which does business under the name IDMLOCO, said in documents provided by the university that its “primary goal” was to “achieve a reasonable balance of positive natural search results on common terms concerning UC Davis and Chancellor Katehi.”

A second contract was awarded to IDMLOCO in February 2015 for a fee of $8,000 a month — up to a limit of $96,000 — to develop an “integrated social media program for executive communications.”

IDMLOCO was awarded a third contract in September 2015 for $22,500 a month, or a maximum of $67,500, to “provide an assessment of the University’s Strategic Communications redesign.” ©2016 The Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, Calif.).

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“I find this ironic,” Zuckerberg said, “because now, to order from 1-800-Flowers, you never have to call 1-800-Flowers again.”

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indianastatesman.com PETITION, FROM PAGE 1 ters on the ISU Campus.”

The driving arguments involved the demographic of people who would have access to this voting center.

The members of Forward Together believe that a voting center on campus would open up more accessibility to polls for the population of students and faculty on campus, along with people in the general public.

The group’s petition calls for Anderson’s resignation because of the impact the voting center could have on voting registration.

The argument against Anderson is that a conflict of interest may be occurring considering her husband’s own political campaign for County Commissioner.

In the petition, voter

POLICE, FROM PAGE 2 ters, music concert venues and classrooms, would be open under the bill.

Neither Clay (19) nor Rochester (18) are 21 years old.

Both are early enrollees. Rochester, a defensive lineman, was one of the team’s top recruits. Clay is a defensive back.

The two also were charged with criminal damage in the second degree for what police detailed as more than $1,000 damage from BB guns pellets.

The estimated damage was broken down by police as: $350 for the door to the

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suppression is discussed and the election board’s denial of the polling place is criticized, along with other “paring” of voting centers in recent years The Vigo County Election Board made the change to electronic voting in the last couple of years, according to the Vigo County Election Board Resolution, signed on August 5, 2015.

Anderson’s main response for her decision to vote “no” is that there are 19 other voting centers that should be fine-tuned to the new system before any new centers are added to the list.

Voting Centers in the ISU area include the Vigo County Public Library, the Vigo County Courthouse, and the Wabash Valley Fair Grounds.

Her response to the ac-

cusation of a conflict of interest is that she has been cleared to serve as a member of the Election Board, so long as she is not directly involved in her husband’s campaign.

Although a voting center on campus may not be in the near future, there are still places available if you are registered to vote.

For a complete list of places to vote in the coming elections, go to vigocounty.in.gov.

For more information about the American Democracy project, be sure to attend Pizza and Politics, a series of events on campus where important topics, such as this one, are discussed.

The next Pizza and Politics takes place in Cunningham Memorial Library on April 21.

adjacent room $650 to the refrigerator in Rochester and Clay’s room $75 to the light diffuser in the hallway $10 for holes in the wall next to the adjacent room.

After the search of their room, Clay and Rochester were booked at 12:13 a.m.

Tuesday.

The pair was granted a $2,000 bond on the weapons charge after a hearing Tuesday morning, according to their attorney.

Both were released on a $2,000 bond at 11:22 a.m. The criminal damage charge carries a bond of $5,000.

These are the first felony arrests for a Georgia foot-

ball player since Johnathan Taylor in June 2014 on domestic violence charges.

These are the second and third arrests of a Georgia football player this spring. Defensive lineman Jonathan Ledbetter was arrested last month on two misdemeanor alcohol charges.

Smart addressed the latest arrests during a regularly scheduled interview on AM 680.

“Poor decisions,” Smart said. “It’s something we’re going to have to deal with as a university and a team.” ©2016 The Atlanta JournalConstitution (Atlanta, Ga.).

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Students sync up with Sycamore Remix Grace Harrah Reporter

Groups came together at Sycamore Remix for a friendly lip-sync and dance off competition Wednesday night at the Hulman Center. The show is a part of the many Spring Week events going on this week.

This year’s battle was themed Sycamores on Broadway, and each participating group centered their performance on a specific musical.

Sophomore Michelle White performed the musical “Fame” with her sorority sisters in Chi Omega along with their pairing for Spring Week, Lambda Chi Alpha.

“I decided to get involved in Remix because I have done Sync in the past, and I was co-choreographer for my group,” White said. “I love to dance and getting involved in Spring Week is something that is exciting to not only to show school spirit, but to represent my pairing.”

Some of the other famous musicals that were represented at Remix include “Hairspray,” “The Lion King,” and “Grease.”

The competition began way before the show Wednesday night with each participating group racing to choose their musical.

The groups had to submit their top six musicals and hope they would get

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The ladies of Alpha Omicron Pi and the men of Kappa Alpha put on a routine to the musical ‘Get On Your Feet’.

their No.1 pick.

“After turning in the sheets, it just came down to which pairing turned theirs in first to see which musical we got,” White said.

As co-choreographer, White said creating the dance was very challenging.

“You have to take into consideration that there are varying dance capabilities,” White said. “The other choreographer and I would get together on the weekends and try to choreograph sections at a time.”

From there, she said the other members of the group picked slowly up

the dance, and it came together.

They had been practicing since the beginning of March.

The winners will not be announced until Monday on the Quad, but sophomore Kylie Atkinson has ideas on who the winners will be.

“I can’t pick one group,” Atkinson said. “One of my favorites was Alpha Sigma Alpha and Sigma Chi, but I also loved Pi Kappa Alpha and Alpha Chi Omega.”

Alpha Sigma Alpha and Sigma Chi performed the musical “Annie” while Pi Kappa Alpha and Alpha

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Cromwell residents played along to a guitar in their Remix performance for ‘Rock of Ages.’

Chi Omega performed “The Lion King.”

Many of the songs they included in their performance were remixed to create a factor of interest and something new and different.

Atkinson said she loves watching the performances at Remix because she likes seeing the ISU community come together and enjoy the music and performances.

She specifically came to see Mills Hall perform.

Up until recently, Spring Week and Homecoming events were exclusive to the Greek community.

The past few years, residence halls have been participating in the competi-

tion as well.

This year two residence halls, Mills and Cromwell, performed in the competition.

“Both the halls represented RHA and Residential Life so well,” Atkinson said.

For both Atkinson and White, Remix was a great experience that they really enjoyed.

“What I enjoyed most about Remix last night was seeing how each group interpreted and presented their musical,” White said.

“I had a great time supporting other organizations and think that everyone did a great job. I’m excited to see how the rest of Spring Week plays out.”

Tre Redeemar | Indiana Statesman

Greek life brought us back to our childhood with their dances to ‘High School Musical.’

Motivation and stress outlets help students focus Erica Garnes Reporter

Getting through college can be tough sometimes, especially if you do not have a system that works for you.

There are so many things that one goes through physically and emotionally.

While you get through your four years, or more, it is always good to find what your coping system is.

Student Theater Association seeks new members

Deanna Scott, a student at Indiana State University, says her number one thing is to take things slowly.

“I have to do one assignment at a time; one assignment a day. Once that is done, I just go work out to take the stress away,” Scott said. “I also dedicate my days to homework and my nights to sleep. Sleep is No. 1 when it comes to motivation. If I do not get enough sleep, that is my reason for not going to class or not

doing my homework.”

It may be hard at times, but self-motivation will get you through your tough times.

It is also good to have personal goals as well.

Be able to push yourself, not because you have to, but because you need to to succeed.

Be selfish and make yourself proud; be your own strength in every way possible.

Ariana Bowman, a ju-

nior at ISU, says yoga is her number one push.

“I am not a professional, but I am good enough to put me in the perfect relaxation mode,” Bowman said.

“I am a hard worker; I have always been focused.

I was taught very young to be focused and have determination with everything I do. Coming to college was a little bit different, but in a good way. I have found myself, and most important, what works for me. When I

found yoga worked for me, it was a relief, it feels good to get things out by using my body,” Bowman said.

Emotional and physical motivation will get us through life, not just college.

And everyone knows starting early will create a great habit.

Whatever gets you that degree at the end of four years is definitely worth trying to get to know yourself in different ways.

were caused by Catholic priests.

In the film, the main characters have trouble with the nature of the story because of their backgrounds as Catholics.

Although the journalists have issues with the story at first, they quickly realize that reporting it is very important.

Throughout the film, the journalists often hit multiple roadblocks that could hinder their investigation: disappearing legal files, threats from victims to go to other newspapers and the 9/11 attacks.

Although the journalists go through much turmoil in getting the story known,

it was not done in vain.

The journalists gather information on multiple priests, letters from victims, and other evidence leading to the exposing of the cover-ups by the Catholic Church and legal representatives.

The film is significant particularly because the story is based on true events. It is important that the issue is acknowledged within a medium such as a large film because it highlights an issue that is not always discussed.

Throughout the film the journalists of Spotlight were faced with the ethical dilemma of, “Why did it take so long?” by many

people involved with the issue.

Although the issue of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church is public knowledge, it is often glossed over by society as a whole.

The need to know news specific to a person’s town, state and country has been very important throughout the years.

Many people believe that it is their duty to know what goes on within the world, no matter the issue.

“If we live on this earth we should know what’s happening on it,” freshman Imani Stephens said.

The film highlighted the early 2000’s take on journalism and how important

journalism is.

The story of the sexual abuse in the Catholic Church would not have been discovered without the intense efforts of those investigative journalists.

The issues that plague people throughout the world are not always discussed in such high profile cases.

Many people think that even if people were given the opportunity to know everything that goes on within the world, they would not care.

“The public should be aware of all issues, but most people wouldn’t care,” freshman Jerion Young said.

Student Theater Association is an emerging organization seeking new members as it grows at Indiana State University.

STA consists of President Tim Dick, Treasurer Caleb Clark, Secretary Miranda Ramos, and Vice President Maverick Schmit.

The Theater Department at ISU is excited about the potential for this association, mainly because it will provide not just theater students but for all students at ISU to engage in events coming up related to Theater.

The STA’s goal and purpose is to provide and promote student work for anyone interested.

STA also want to extend their community onto students that are not theater majors or minors, and to incorporate different majors and bring new ideas to the table.

“We want foreign students to come share their culture and tell stories that we otherwise may not have been exposed to,” Schmit said.

“We want dancers, musicians, writers, historians, psychologists, AfricanAmerican studies; we want everything and everyone to be involved,” Schmit said. “It is so important that we have as many facets of all sorts of life to come in and collaborate because we know how beautiful that can be.”

There are two major events coming up next week, for anyone who is interested.

The STA will have their official coming out party on Monday at 7 p.m. in the New Theater.

They will announce their association as official, and will be introducing the association to the Theater Department.

The second event will be on Tuesday at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. in the New Theater.

This event will be a twopart presentation and a workshop with a former ISU graduate, Charles Adams.

He will be performing a one-man show and discussing with current students what being a professional is like.

Schmit also said STA’s president, Tim Dick, is a great theater mind and “one of the best damned playwrights” he knows.

As president of the association, creating this group was originally his idea.

Schmit also described his other officers as brilliant theater minds, and each of them are stronger in different areas, so it fits well together in bringing an or-

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‘Spotlight’: exposing the Catholic Church Adrienne Morris Reporter

In the Academy Award winning film “Spotlight,” investigative journalists embark on a journey to unfurl the secrets of the Catholic Church.

The film begins with the introduction of a team known as Spotlight, a group of journalists that works to unravel significant stories that often take extensive research and months to publish.

“Spotlight,” which is based on true events, focuses primarily on the role that the investigative journalists had in uncovering the sexual abuse cases that

The movie was very important not only to the public, but especially to the victims of the sexual abuse.

The film, the actors and the storyline created an interesting, poignant, heartbreaking narrative that really needed to be discussed.

“Spotlight” brings awareness not only to the case of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, but perhaps to other serious issues that the world has continued to overlook.

The heroic efforts of the journalists and the film itself will hopefully bring a greater awareness to the still-occurring issue of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church.

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Coachella reunions promise a flashback to the angry ‘80s in L.A. Mikael Wood

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The Pixies in 2004. Rage Against the Machine in 2007. Outkast in 2014.

Reunions of high-profile acts are an established tradition at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival; they draw fans to this annual event as reliably as the dramatic landscape surrounding Indio’s manicured Empire Polo Club.

This year’s edition, set to run Friday through Sunday and again April 22 to 24, is no different, with the first large-scale concert since 2011 by LCD Soundsystem.

But for three or four hours on Saturday night, Coachella 2016 may do more than just revive a band.

It could open a portal to Los Angeles in the late 1980s.

That’s the specific time and place that produced

the two acts scheduled for back-to-back performances on Coachella’s main stage: first, rapper Ice Cube, whose advertised solo set is widely hoped expected to sprout a reunion of N.W.A, followed by Guns N’ Roses, the hard-rock band that once again brings together pairs frontman Axl Rose and his long-estranged guitarist, Slash.

Plenty separated these outfits back then, including not least their neighborhoods of origin.

As it proudly proclaimed in the title of its 1988 debut, N.W.A came “Straight Outta Compton,” while Guns N’ Roses emerged from the seedy skeevy clubs of West Hollywood.

And where the members of N.W.A barked their rhymes over blistering hiphop beats, Guns N’ Roses’ 1987 debut, “Appetite for Destruction,” paired Rose’s paranoid shriek with Slash’s heavy guitar riffs.

Yet both groups de-

scribed their surroundings in vivid detail, capturing much of the dark energy that seemed to be gathering in L.A. at the time.

You listen now to “Welcome to the Jungle” or N.W.A’s unprintably titled song about the police and you catch the bitter taste of anger and desperation — as well as a premonition of the chaos to come, in just a few years with Rodney King, the L.A. riots, O.J. Simpson, even the Northridge earthquake.

That energy made the two bands perhaps the most exciting of that era.

And now, three decades after they busted into the world, they’re both poised to bring a bit of raw fury it to a festival that tends to encourage happy escapism.

The question, of course, is whether they’re still in touch with those bad vibes.

We got a few indications last weekend when, on the same night, Guns N’ Roses played the first

of two warm-up shows in Las Vegas and N.W.A was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The latter, at least, offered hope.

Faced with doubts from some observers (including Gene Simmons of KISS) about a rap group’s rightful place in the hall, Ice Cube used his acceptance speech to rebut that prejudice with clear-eyed vehemence.

“Rock ‘n’ roll is not an instrument,” he said. “Rock ‘n’ roll is not even a style of music.”

He added that rock ‘n’ roll is “a spirit” and that it’s “not conforming to the people who came before you but creating your own path in music and in life.”

Here was a gangsta rap pioneer turned famous movie star still being told no, just as he was during the group’s early days chronicled in last year’s hit biopic, “Straight Outta Compton.”

Just as he did back then,

Ice Cube responded by speaking truth to power.

Guns N’ Roses, in contrast, spent Friday night before an audience of mostly yes-men — the band’s devoted fans — at the soldout T-Mobile Arena.

And though the show wasn’t great, thanks primarily to a broken foot that forced Rose to sit through much of his performance, the crowd’s reaction was telling the frontman and his bandmates that they were killing it.

Yet a sense of acceptance is hardly what made Guns N’ Roses thrive in the late ‘80s, when the band was clawing its way out of the crowded Sunset Strip rock scene, then facing opposition from moral crusaders outraged by its depiction of a sex-and-booze-drenched demimonde.

In its heyday, Guns N’ Roses invited controversy with songs like 1988’s “One in a Million,” which was suffused with the misog-

yny and homophobia also heard in N.W.A tracks, and courted feuds with journalists and fellow musicians alike.

What was missing in Las Vegas, perhaps, was the kind of resistance that Ice Cube pushed back against so effectively (and with so much familiarity) at the Rock Hall.

But no need to worry yet: Guns N’ Roses may well encounter that galvanizing force at Coachella, where the festival crowd skews so young that it’s sure to include thousands who weren’t even alive when the band was helping to soundtrack a Los Angeles on edge.

Neither band can bring back those times — and thank goodness for that.

But there’s an opportunity here for something more than a victory lap. ©2016 Los Angeles Times.

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The Democratic Party: A party of deception

Landan James Columnist

This past weekend — Saturday to be exact — Sen. Bernie Sanders defeated Hillary Clinton in the Wyoming caucus by 12 percent.

However, Clinton ended up winning the delegate count by four: 11 delegates to his seven.

As Joe Scarborough argued on his daily morning MSNBC show “Morning Joe,” the system is indeed rigged against us.

Why is it that Sen. Sanders won the popular vote by twelve percent, yet ended up losing the delegate count?

How did he not win the Wyoming delegate by, at least, five delegates?

Quite simply the Democratic Party does not care about us: the students, the workers, the minorities, the disenfranchised, etc., despite their rhetoric to the contrary.

In fact, over the entire course of the twentieth century, the Democratic Party has been less progressive than what they preach.

Think about all of the major wars that occurred during the twentieth century: World War I, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.

Democratic presidents began all of these wars, even if they were not continued and finished by Democrats.

Woodrow Wilson entered the United States in World War One, despite most of the American public’s demand for neutrality.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the great New Dealer, did his best to remain neutral until the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor.

And, according to who you ask, some may argue that the Roosevelt administration had intelligence that warned of an attack on the naval base.

After FDR’s passing, Harry Truman took over as the American monarch in which he involved the United States in a “police action” in Korea.

Capitalizing upon the

Cold War’s anticommunist rhetoric, Truman argued that American soldiers had to sacrifice their lives in order to prevent the spread of communism in Korea.

And what was the result? It was a political and military stalemate that continues to this very day.

After a brief period of peace during the 1950’s, American Monarch John F. Kennedy sent American operatives to Vietnam in order to quell the Vietnamese overthrow of their French oppressors.

As a result of this, his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, escalated American military involvement in the region, when in 1965 he called for 500,000 soldiers to be deployed.

Because of this, the United States experienced some of the worst domestic turmoil in its history.

Four major wars which led to the death of thousands of innocent American and foreign soldiers — soldiers brainwashed into thinking that they were each other’s enemy — were all started by Democrats.

Yet, warfare has not been the only tarnish against the Democratic Party.

During his reign, King William Clinton repealed the Glass-Steagall Act, which allowed banks to use our invested money to invest in the stock market.

He also repealed several other banking regulations that prevented big banks and other financial institutions from engaging in careless loans and investments.

It was Bill Clinton, not George Bush, who paved the way for the Great Recession of 2008; the same recession in which the Democratically controlled Congress voted in favor of the Wall Street bailout — a bailout for which all of us must bear the burden.

And finally, with this current presidential election cycle we are able to truly witness the corruption of the Democratic Party.

It is only the Democratic Party that has superdelegates: delegates that act independently of the voters’ demands, delegates whose very existence undermines our beloved democracy.

This piece is not meant to prop up the Republican Party, for I am no Republi-

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Democracy Spring protests result in hundreds arrested

Joe Lippard

Assistant Opinions Editor

Throughout America’s history, great social change has been achieved by protests.

The Boston Tea Party was a protest that we learned about in elementary school, and it was instrumental in the American Revolution.

In the 1960s, people protested the racial injustices that they saw at the time, and because of these protests, we now have the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a bill that made it illegal for businesses to discriminate based on race, sex, religion and other factors.

Now, in 2016, another protest is taking place in Washington, D.C. In a movement known as Democracy Spring, protestors marched from Philadelphia to the capitol to protest big money in politics.

They demanded that Congress pass several laws meant to make it easier for people to vote, as well as a Constitutional amendment overturn the Citizens United Supreme Court de-

cision.

The Citizens United decision ruled that it is unconstitutional to limit corporations’ “free speech” by limiting how much money they contribute to elections.

After the decision, unlimited election spending by corporations is allowed as long as the spending isn’t connected to a particular candidate.

In a sit-in at the nation’s capitol on Monday, April 11, hundreds of Democracy Spring protestors were arrested for refusing to leave the capitol’s steps.

Cenk Uygur, of the independent news source The Young Turks, was one of those arrested at the protest.

Uygur claimed that it was the first time he had been arrested, and he indicated that he didn’t regret his decision.

“Not only would I do it again, I probably will do it again,” Uygur said.

Around 400 people were arrested on Monday, 85 people on Tuesday and about 100 more were arrested on Wednesday.

I think that the goals of Democracy Spring are noble. Voter suppression is still a problem that exists today. In 2008, fliers were distributed among students at Drexel University in Philadelphia claiming that undercover police were arresting people at polls.

In some states with voter

identification laws, many polling places and license branches are closed, making it incredibly difficult, if not impossible to get an ID or even get to a voting location.

It’s necessary to overturn Citizens United. Corporations are not people, and money is not speech.

Allowing corporations to funnel unlimited money to political activities is unfair.

Corporations should not be able to spend unlimited money to try to sway public opinion.

Democracy Spring’s methods make sense.

When the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, occurred, many people complained that the protestors in the city were being too violent and that people wouldn’t listen to them if they were so violent.

Democracy Spring protestors are not being violent, and there has been no report of violence at these protests.

The confusing thing about this protest, however, is the lack of media coverage. The vast majority of coverage on Democracy Spring has been from independent media outlets and outlets that are not considered mainstream, like The Young Turks or Huffington Post.

CNN has not covered the protests at all, and Fox News and MSNBC have devoted mere seconds to covering the protests, ac-

cording to The Intercept.

Rumors have abounded surrounding the reason for this media “blackout.”

Cenk Uygur theorized that they weren’t violent enough, saying, “the cops thanked us for being so peaceful and doing civil disobedience right.

The problem was it didn’t bleed ... If it doesn’t bleed, it doesn’t lead.

That is an implicit way the media encourages violence.”

Uygur makes a point.

Often, on mainstream media outlets, the most sensational stories lead news broadcasts.

The protests in Ferguson probably wouldn’t have gotten as much coverage as they had if they were peaceful protests.

If the Democracy Spring protests would have been more violent, they would have gotten media coverage, but their demands would likely not be listened to.

In the end though, I doubt that the demands of Democracy Spring will be met anyway.

Many politicians are comfortable in their positions, and meeting most of the movement’s demands means potentially destabilizing their careers.

While I would love for some real change to our political system, I doubt that it will happen with these current members of Congress.

Funding desperately needed to fight off Zika Zach Davis Columnist

Summer is quickly approaching, which means so is mosquito season.

Mosquitos have the ability to spread diseases, such as the Zika virus, among populations.

Zika is extremely dangerous to pregnant women, as it has been believed to be spread through sexual intercourse as well as cause birth defects.

Recently these suspicions have been confirmed.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released an update Wednesday on our current knowledge of the Zika virus that stated that Zika is spread more easily than previously thought by sexual intercourse.

There is also now enough evidence to establish a link between Zika and a condition called Microcephaly, a condition that that causes children to be born with abnormally developed brains and unusually small heads.

These defects can be dangerous to the child and can have lasting effects, such as seizures, spastic movement and other symptoms.

Zika does affect adults, but not in the same way.

Adults who contract Zika often get rashes, red eyes, some sore muscles and other various symptoms, that often don’t appear to be anything abnormal and most people don’t feel the need to go to a doctor when they have Zika — most people don’t even know.

This virus poses a severe threat to the Americas, so we need to start research now so we can learn as much about the virus as possible.

President Obama has made attempts to provide funding for research, but the proposed funding has been stopped by the House, even though several House

Republicans have stated that they are more likely to agree to provide funding.

They refuse to give a time when they will do so.

They are holding the funding because they do not have enough information, a reasoning that contradicts itself because the funding would be used to do research and get the answers they so desperately want.

If they want more information they need to provide enough funding to allow researchers to do their job and learn as much as possible from the virus.

Representative Tom Cole hinted that funding might not come until after mosquito season has concluded, while others have said

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that funding shouldn’t be expected until the end of the fiscal year on Oct. 1.

We can’t wait that long.

To fight Zika or any other virus we need to do research and prepare in advance.

In an ideal situation, a vaccine would be developed before the virus even got here, but by blocking funding, potentially for a vaccine, we are essentially condemning people to eventually contract it.

The only way to develop a vaccine is through research, which needs funding.

Since we have no way of knowing when the House will approve funding to research Zika, we can only take measures to reduce

some risk factors.

The CDC recommends that bug repellent should be worn at all times outdoors and everyone, especially pregnant women, keep exposed skin as covered as possible to combat mosquitoes and avoid traveling to regions that are at risk.

At the height of mosquito season, try to stay indoors in an air conditioned environment with windows that are shut or have screens that can keep mosquitos out.

Make sure children under two are covered with a mosquito net to fend off mosquitos.

Of course, always use a condom if engaging in sex to help prevent infection.

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However, that does not mean I blindly defend the Democratic Party because, unfortunately, it does not care about us.

The only thing the Democratic Party cares about is promoting and protecting its royal families: the Kennedys, the Roosevelts, and the Clintons.

MLB FROM PAGE 8 not making it last year and Bryce (Harper) will repeat as the MVP, but I think the Cubs will win it all,” she said.

With the team that Cubs president Theo Epstein put together, it is certainly possible that “Go Cubs Go” could be overheard in the streets of Chicago quite a bit and Buchanan and

BASEBALL FROM PAGE 8 ment if they can keep their playoff-worthy production at its current status.

The Redbird squad is led on the season in batting average by freshman infielder Owen Miller with a .301 mark.

He also leads the team in slugging percentage with at .489.

Redshirt senior infielder Joe Kelch and senior outfielder Daniel Dwyer lead the team in runs scored on the season with both players having scored 22 runs.

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All of these political families are nothing more than American Monarchs who have succeeded in crafting a rhetoric that makes them appear sympathetic towards the citizenry, when in reality their only goal is to achieve and maintain political power.

To all of my fellow liberals and disillusioned Democrats, be angry and be mad, for our party is a party of lies.

Hatcher’s prediction could become true.

But with the season spanning from April until October, it’s inevitable there will be teams and players that disappoint and come out of nowhere to surprise.

Trades will be made and injuries will take their toll, setting up the stage for another excited year of Major League Baseball.

The Redbirds are facing a daunting task for the rest of the season to make great strides in their performance level with only 22 games left in the season to pad their win column before the MVC tournament.

The first game of the series between the Indiana State and Illinois State squads will start at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Bob Warn Field.

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Students weigh in Softball heads to SIU for weekend series on MLB season Brice Bement Reporter

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Although thermometers may say this has been a late winter, especially in Terre Haute, the calendar shows that it is April, which means it’s baseball season.

The offseason, spring training and the Opening Day festivities are in the rearview mirror as the Major League Baseball regular season is officially in full swing. With the new year upon us, everyone begins the season with the chance to hoist the World Series trophy at the end of October like the Kansas City Royals were able to do in 2015.

Several teams jostled their rosters during the offseason as they attempted to find the right mix of guys that could lead them to become champions.

Among the notable additions in the American League include the Baltimore Orioles signing pitcher Yovani Gallardo, the Boston Red Sox adding pitchers David Price and Craig Kimbrel, the New York Yankees trading for second basemen Starlin Castro and closer Aroldis Chapman. The Chicago White Sox traded for the 2015 Home Run Derby Champion Todd Frazier, the Detroit Tigers signed outfielder Justin Upton and starting pitcher Jordan Zimmermann, the Houston Astros traded for flame throwing relief pitcher Ken Giles and the Texas Rangers signed former shortstop-turned-leftfielder Ian Desmond.

In the National League, the New York Mets brought back outfielder Yoenis Cespedes, the Washington Nationals hired manager Dusty Baker and signed second baseman Daniel Murphy, the Chicago Cubs signed Jason Heyward, Ben Zobrist and John Lackey, the St. Louis Cardinals inked starting pitcher Mike Leake to a contract, the Arizona Diamondbacks acquired pitchers Zack Grienke and Shelby Miller, the Los Angeles Dodgers brought starting pitcher Kenta Maeda over from Japan and the San Francisco Giants signed starting pitchers Johnny Cueto and Jeff Samardzija.

After all of the rosters were molded to each general manager’s liking, the teams were prepared to hit the field to open the 2016 season. A large amount of national pundits have said the American League is a much more competitive league, with all 15 teams being able to make the playoffs, where the Na-

tional League has numerous clubs — Braves, Brewers, Padres, Phillies and Reds — undergoing a rebuild and looking toward the future for success.

The Nationals, Mets, Cubs, Cardinals, Pirates, Dodgers, Diamondbacks and Giants are among the NL teams that are expected to contend for the five playoff spots that are up for grabs each year.

While predicting sports can be tough to do, making Major League Baseball predictions at the beginning of the season may be the hardest when considering the length of the year —162 games — the amount of trades that take place each year at the trade deadline and players getting injured.

In the first week alone, the Rangers’ Shin-Soo Choo, the Diamondbacks’ A.J. Pollock and the Cubs’ Kyle Schwarber all went down with some type of serious injury, with the latter two possibly missing the entire season.

Indiana State Students gave their prediction for the MLB season.

Senior Cardinals fan Claire Bailey said with her favorite player leaving to sign with a division rival and the amount of injuries taking place so far, it could end up being a disappointing year in St. Louis.

“We (Cardinals) lost my favorite player, Jason Heyward, to the Cubs. I think the Cardinals will disappoint this season, but might make the playoffs as (one of) the Wild Card (teams),” she said. “Hopefully the Cardinals players can stay healthy this season.”

Unlike Bailey, Cubs fan Dalton Hatcher was pleased to see Heyward sign with the team on the north side of Chicago.

He said he envisions the Cubs ending their 108year World Series drought thanks to the team’s first baseman.

“I believe the Chicago Cubs will finally come away with a World Series Championship (and) Anthony Rizzo will win the NL MVP,” he said. “The team that will be the most disappointing is the New York Mets because they will struggle to score this year.”

Kelli Buchanan, a Washington Nationals fan, can see her favorite player repeating as the National League MVP, but thinks another NL team will be the champions of baseball.

“Bringing Dusty (Baker) on will help the Nats get back to the playoffs after

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Indiana State University softball continues its Missouri Valley Conference schedule by traveling to Carbondale, Illinois this weekend for games against Southern Illinois University at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. on Saturday and 1 p.m. on Sunday.

The Sycamores recently traveled to Normal, Illinois to play rival Illinois State University for a threegame series where they had a cancellation on Sunday, and lost both games on Saturday with scores of 8-0 and 8-5.

In the first game, Indiana State sophomore Bailey Benefiel pitched 3.2 innings, giving up seven earned runs.

Sophomore Rachel Overton came in for Benefiel, giving up one earned run before the game ended in five innings.

The Sycamores only had a total of four hits the entire game. Freshmen Bailey Martin and Shaye Barton, seniors Kelsey Montgomery and Alexa Cavin all contributed to the offense in the game.

In the second game, Benefiel pitched three innings and allowed eight earned runs. Montgomery led the Sycamores with two hits in the contest.

ISU is currently in ninth place in the Missouri Valley Conference with a conference record of 3-7.

Drake is currently in first place with an unblemished 11-0 mark. Southern Illinois sits in second place going 7-4, while Wichita State is in third with a record of 7-5.

Southern Illinois recently played Missouri State, losing 7-6. They won two games in the series, 6-3 and 8-6.

The Salukis have three pitchers in the rotation.

Freshman Brianna Jones has a 2.07 ERA, while freshman Nicole Doyle has an ERA of 3.41. Sophomore Savanna Dover has an ERA of 3.81.

Southern Illinois’ leading hitters include junior Shaye Harre with a .365 batting average.

Sophomore Jessica Hesse follows her with a batting average of .325 while freshman Eyrika Brandenburg has a .314 batting average.

The last time the Sycamores played Southern Illinois was last year, when the Sycamores won 5-1 and lost 7-6.

In the first game, senior Taylor Lockwood pitched all seven innings, giving up only one run.

The Sycamores only had three hits that game, but were able to capitalize and still earn five runs overall.

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No. 3 Junior outfielder Rylee Holland fielding a fly ball against Louisville at the NCAA Regionals.

Southern Illinois had a then senior pitch all six innings.

Senior Kelsey Gonzalez contributed a hit, along with a hit from graduate Kalyn Harker.

Also, Saluki alum Meredith Wilson went 2-3 in the game.

In the second game, ISU graduate Yvette Alvarez pitched five innings, giving up five earned runs. Lockwood came in for her and pitched an inning while giving up one earned run.

Abby Klopp finished off the game for the Sycamores inside the circle.

The Sycamores’ bats were on fire, stringing together six runs. Graduate Mary Turitto led ISU with two hits for the game.

The Salukis pitched Harre for three innings, Dover for two innings and graduate Katie Bertelsen for two innings.

Harker and junior Merri Ann Patterson both strung together three hits to lead their team.

The games this weekend will be shown on The Valley on ESPN3. Indiana State will be home on Wednesday at 2 and 4 p.m. against Loyola.

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which has been a defeat at the hands of the Big Ten’s Illinois Fighting Illini, 7-1.

The Redbirds are currently in last in the Missouri Valley Conference, being one of only two teams in the MVC to have reached 20 losses, joined only by the Wichita State Shockers.

ISU’s senior catcher Kaden Moore leads the team in batting average on the season with a .360

mark followed closely by redshirt junior outfielder Hunter Owen with a .351 average. Hunter Owen and senior infielder Andy Young both lead the team in runs scored on the season with both players scoring 33 runs each.

Owen also leads the team in slugging percentage at .545 followed by Moore at .488.

Ryan Keaffaber earned

MVC Pitcher of the Week honors last week due to a solid performance in the series against Southern Illinois, posting a stand-alone shutout in game two, allowing only three hits and a walk.

With 22 games left in the season, the Sycamores are poised to make a deep run in the MVC Tourna-

The Indiana State Sycamore baseball team will be looking to nurture their current winning momentum when they start a three-game home series against the Illinois State Redbirds Friday in a Missouri Valley Conference tilt.

SEE BASEBALL, PAGE 7 The Sycamores (21-12, 2-1 MVC) have won seven of their last eight games, just recently besting the Southern Illinois Salukis (20-13-1, 1-2 MVC) in a three-game series 2-1, having won the last game 5-1.

These last games against the Salukis were the State squad’s first games this season against MVC opponents.

With their recent spurt of wins, the Sycamores have become one of four teams in the MVC to have reached the 20-win mark on the season, with the other teams being Dallas Baptist University, Missouri State University and Southern Illinois. They are also one of 67 teams nationwide to have reached 20 wins on the season.

The Illinois State RedISU Communications and Marketing birds (8-23, 0-2 MVC) have lost 14 of their last 15 Trent Lunsford is one of the ISU baseball team’s pitchers, a junior from Overland Park, games, the most recent of Kansas.

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