April 17, 2013

DAY OF SERVICE Students and faculty to give back with service trip to Indy

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ISU students and faculty traveled to Indianapolis to help out those in need (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing).

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Speaker shares here experiences in nursing Tuesday night

BRIANNE HOFMANN News Editor

One can learn how to best serve those in need by traveling beyond the parameters of one’s backyard, said Indiana State University

alumna and former surgical nurse, Pam Blesch Tuesday evening.

Her presentation “Serving Through Giving:

A Lifetime of Servant Leadership” detailed Blesch’s 40-year ‘journey’ across the medical field and the globe.

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Indiana State featured as ‘Green College’

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Princeton Review has selected Indiana State University as one of the 322 most environmentally responsible colleges in the U.S. and Canada.

“Indiana State is making progress at becoming more sustainable through the good work of the Institute for Community Sustainability, our facilities management staff, our students, faculty and staff. It is great to see these efforts recognized,” President Daniel J. Bradley said.

The education services company known for its test prep programs and college rankings, ratings and guidebooks, profiles Indiana State in the fourth annual edition of its free downloadable book, “The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges.”

The Princeton Review chose the schools for this guide based on a 50-question survey it conducted in 2012 of administrators at hundreds of four-year colleges. The company analyzed data from the survey about the schools’ course offerings, campus infrastructure, activities and career preparation to measure their commitment to the environment and to sustainability.

In the guide’s profile on Indiana State University, The Princeton Review highlights the school’s commitment to a triple bottom line of environmental, economic and social sustainability for ethical responsibility. It also notes that in a campus-wide survey, 80 percent of the faculty, staff and students expressed concern about conservation and sustainability issues.

“With so many schools competing to be on this list, I am heartened to have them recognize all of ISU’s efforts towards sustainability over the past years,” said Jim Speer, director of the Institute for Community Sustainability.

He said this has been a good year for sustainability at Indiana State by being listed as a Green College, ranked as one of 20 finalists in the Second Nature Climate Leadership Awards and putting up a wind turbine on campus.

“We have been working hard toward sustainable practices and that effort is being recognized. We hope that these accolades will be useful for recruiting students to ISU that are concerned about the environment and interested in learning to live sustainably on the planet,” Speer said.

Robert Franek, senior vice president and publisher of the The Princeton Review, said the publication was “truly pleased” to recommend Indiana State University.

Franek also said his company’s recent survey findings indicate significant interest among college applicants in attending green colleges.

Indiana State University’s wind turbine, located between Mills and Rhoads Halls, is a part of campus efforts to increase sustainablity (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing).

“Among 9,955 college applicants who Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council, participated in our 2013 ‘College Hopes said that when prospective college students & Worries Survey,’ 62 percent said having seek colleges, the university’s commitment information about a school’s commitment to the to sustainability is now part of their selection environment would influence their decision to criteria. apply to or attend the school,” he said.

“Selecting a four-year college is a big choice,” The Princeton Review created its “Guide to 322 she said. “We’re thrilled to team up with The Green Colleges” in partnership with the Center Princeton Review for the fourth year to offer a for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building guide to help make our future college students’ Council, with generous support from United choices a little easier.”

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Rachel Gutter, director of the Center for Green

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ISU alumna shares ‘journey’ through nursing career Blesch had originally planned to attend nursing school in Ohio, but changed her mind after visiting Indiana State her senior year of high school.

“From that first visit to ISU to this evening on the ISU campus as a participant in the University Speaker series, all desires in my heart have been satisfied.”

Pam Blesch, ISU alumna “I could not believe my ears,” she said. “We had a four-year nursing program right here in Terre Haute. I had lived here my whole life and didn’t even know it.”

As she embarked on her time at the university, Blesch was thrust into hands-on training her second day in the operating room at Union Hospital. A surgeon demanded Blesh “scrub in” during a hysterectomy and she jumped at the chance. The experience, she said, was both intimidating and exhilarating.

“I’m standing there, looking across the room at the doctor, and I have no clue what I’m doing,” she said. “And [the surgeon] said, ‘just follow my lead’.”

Since Blesch graduated from Indiana State in 1976, she served as a surgical nurse at Union Hospital for 10 years and then moved on to the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, where she’s an assistant professor of nursing.

She has taken her education and passion for nursing to Africa, Central American and Eastern Europe, often bringing students and faculty along.

“I’m here for a purpose—to teach, but I also need to share what’s in my heart,” Blesch said.

Blesch said the trips have also opened her eyes to stark differences in culture and healthcare. On a trip to Africa, Blesch encountered a 15-year-old boy wearing a windbreaker in 100-degree weather.

Unbeknownst to her, the patient was concealing a large parasite that had taken

Pam Blesch, ISU alumna and University Series speaker (Submitted photo).

over his body.

Once she had discovered the parasite, she felt compelled to act, but doctors said there was nothing they could do. The case was something Blesch said she had yet to witness in the United States.

“I felt like I had failed him,” she said. “You never see anything like that here. It really affected me.”

Blesch’s efforts have been featured in the book “Giving through Teaching: How Nurse Educators are Changing the World,” which tells the stories of 70 nursing educators.

She is working toward a Ph.D. at Cappella University and doesn’t know where her adventures will take her next.

“From that first visit to ISU to this evening on the ISU campus as a participant in the University Speaker series all desires in my heart have been satisfied,” Blesch said. “I’m open to whatever God has for me.”

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Indiana Statesman staff receives honors for tornado coverage, design Statesman staff report The Indiana Statesman newspaper staff garnered recognition this week from the Indiana Collegiate Press Association for outstanding achievement during the last year.

Statesman staff members won five awards for design, writing and production of Indiana State University’s student newspaper.

Staff earned a second place award for best themed issue for the summer 2012 “Move-In Guide.”

The Statesman’s coverage of the spring 2012 tornado recovery effort in Henryville, Ind. earned the newspaper a third place award for best special issue, a third place award for best special section front/cover and a third place award for best feature page.

The 2012-13 Indiana Statesman rate card, designed by ISU graduate Brandon Samuels to share advertising specifications with potential advertisers, won a second place award.

Rachel Wedding McClelland, director of ISU student publications and adviser to the Indiana Statesman, said she’s proud of what the staff has been able to accomplish throughout the past two years.

“The designers, reporters, editors, photographers and sales staff of the Indiana Statesman are absolutely committed to moving the newspaper forward to improve

This selection of the Indiana Statesman’s 2012-2013 reporting and design has earned the publication five awards from the Indiana Collegiate Press Association.

the quality of what they do,” she said.

Within the Indiana Collegiate Press Association’s competition, the Indiana Statesman competes for awards in the Division I category, which includes Indiana, Purdue, Notre Dame and Ball State universities.

“Two of the four universities we compete against for these honors have very competitive schools of journalism that enroll hundreds of students,” she said. “So I’m incredibly proud of the work of the Statesman staff. They deserve every bit of the accolades they’ve received.”

The Indiana Collegiate Press Association represents 25 Indiana colleges and universities.

“The designers, reporters, editors, photographers and sales staff of the Indiana Statesman are absolutely committed to moving the newspaper forward to improve the quality of what they do. ” Rachel Wedding McClelland, director of ISU student publications

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Author to give Earth Day presentation on influential environmentalist Biographer William Souder will visit Indiana State University to give an Earth Day presentation on the author who forever changed environmental advocacy.

Souder will discuss “On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson,” Monday at 7 p.m. in the University Hall Theatre.

Souder’s book was published last fall, on the 50th anniversary of Carson’s landmark book “Silent Spring,” which was one of the first books documenting the harmful effects of the thenexploding use of insecticides and pesticides such as DDT. At the time, Carson’s book ignited a flurry of critics and ultimately spurred government action, including the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and the banning of several pesticides.

“She wrote ‘Silent Spring’ to challenge everyone to view the natural world in a different way, that we’re a part of it, and we’re doing damage to the ecosystem,” said Rusty Gonser, associate professor of biology. “She was the first one to call for policy changes to protect human health and the environment.”

Souder’s book “On a Farther Shore” details Carson’s life,

including the variety of responses that the general public had toward the person considered by some to be the founder of the environmental movement.

“This biography tells what she was up against back then and what she was going through,” Gonser said. “[Carson was] someone who became an advocate before advocacy was popular, let alone she was doing that back in the ‘60s and the gender politics in that time.”

The principles included in “Silent Spring” are relevant even today, Gonser said, given the concerns that exist with such recent developments as genetically-altered foods and new chemicals that have been created.

“We could probably write the same book today, based on different things,” he said.

Souder, who was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his previous James Audubon biography “Under a Wild Sky,” will have a reception and book signing following his presentation.

The event is free and open to the public. Copies of “On a William Souder, author of “On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson” will visit ISU Monday Farther Shore” will also be available for purchase.

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Selflessly, compassionately unafraid This Monday, the city of Boston was rocked when two explosions went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

The explosions killed three people and injured hundreds more.

Pictures and videos are clogging up the Internet showing people with dismembered limbs, crying and being carried away on stretchers. Theories and rumors are flying around because there are still no leads on who detonated these bombs.

Even in the brief aftermath, with the explosion still ringing in their ears, people are running towards the detonation site to help the people who are there.

These people didn’t know whether or not there were other bombs there that could kill them. Perhaps it crossed their mind, but nonetheless, they ran to help victims.

This is the type of thinking that makes people proud of their countrymen. Already on various news sites, there are links where people can make donations to the victims. American people have a tendency to want to help fellow Americans in need. Whether it’s natural disasters or school shootings, people want to help. It gives us a sense of unity that we like to think that not many other countries have.

When President Barack Obama gave his address to the people following the Boston explosions, he talked about how Americans refused to be terrorized. He spoke of how the runners of the marathon “kept running to the nearest hospital to give blood, and those who stayed to tend to the wounded, some tearing off their own clothes to make tourniquets,” medical students that “hurried to help,” saying that when they heard, they all came in, and “the good people of Boston who opened their homes to the victims of this attack and those shaken by it.”

Obama’s speech was inspiring, giving the people these stories of kindness and heroism, and most of all, giving us hope. Hope is what brings people together and gives us the strength to carry on.

We aren’t perfect people, but the thing is we care. We care about what happened to those in Boston and will continue to care because we are proud of who we are and what we are. We are Americans, and we will not be scared by a coward that sets off bombs. That bomber will be looking over his shoulder in fear because he knows that we are coming for him, and when Americans set their mind to something, the whole world better watch out.

We are Americans and we are unafraid.

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Immigration is pretty important. Just sayin.

Immigration reform has been on the docket for decades as millions of people immigrate to the United States each year, and the issue has gained momentum as deportations have increased during the Obama Administration. Due to the efforts of the “Gang of Eight,” immigration policy may actually receive the attention that it deserves.

The Gang of Eight is a bipartisan group of senators that includes four Republican senators and four Julian Democratic senators. The proposal from the group Opinions Policy Winborn requires several criteria regarding the U.S.-Mexico border be completed prior to granting provisional The Indiana Statesman legal status to 11 million illegal immigrants and put opinions page is an opportunity Progress for the Indiana State University for them on a pathway to citizenship. community to express its views.

The Gang of Eight would like heavier surveillance Progress’ in areas of the border where more than 30,000 people The opinions, individual and collective, expressed in the attempt to cross with a success rate of 90 percent; Sake Statesman and the student these areas are referred to as “high risk.” Another staff ’s selection or arrangement provision proposes the use of an electronic system at of content do not necessarily airports and seaports that will track visa holders that are departing reflect the attitudes of Indiana the country.

Their legislation will also provide the funds to add State University, its Board 3,500 customs agents across the nation and, more interestingly, the of Trustees, administration, deployment of the National Guard to build fencing and revamp faculty or student body. The Statesman editorial board security systems. writes staff editorials and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney mentioned that the makes final decisions about president is “very pleased with progress” and that the amount news content.

of bipartisanship in comprehensive immigration reform is “remarkable.”

However, on Friday and Monday, the bill will be presented before the Senate Judiciary Committee and opponents of the bill may try to make several amendments that might set back or completely sabotage the legislation, which happened to the 2007 immigration reform proposal. Debate over this bill is not surprising due to the fact that many opponents, primarily Republicans, view the pathway to citizenship as a process that rewards those who have broken the law.

The pathway to citizenship showcases a provision that would grant provisional citizenship to immigrants who came to the country prior to December 2011, if they pay a $500 fine and have a clean criminal record. After 10 years and the payment of several fees, the provisional citizens could apply for permanent residency.

Supporters for this bill say that undocumented immigrants are fearful of deportation and that most of them are law-abiding people who want to be reunited with their families, in addition to seeking employment.

This bipartisan effort from the Gang of Eight has produced an amazing piece of legislation that showcases bipartisanship leading to a promising deal. The entirety of their proposal seems to be well assembled, however many Americans may not be completely at ease with the pathway to citizenship.

To many, this bill seems to wield a slap on the hand against illegal immigrants rather than a just approach.

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I am Jack’s racist mind. I have been listening to the sweet melodies of the country guitar for decades played by the white man and there has never been any music more melodious to grace my Ernest negro ears but when I Rollins heard the “Accidental Racist” song by Brad Project Paisley and LL Cool J, Mayhem my heart sank.

In the song, Paisley wants to befriend an African-American working at the Starbucks counter but is afraid of being judged because of the rebel flag he proudly displays on his chest. Why, oh why, sir are you wasting those beautiful pipes trying to build relationships with African-Americans?

We all know that racism existed in this country and it has not been completely routed

Whenever someone says that racism is cured in my presence, I share a little chuckle with myself. Americans talk about racism as if it is some disease this country suffered from for about 200 Rachel and we think the Leshinsky years antidote was passing the 13th, 14th and Eff this 15th amendments and Noise abolishing the Jim Crow Laws. By lawfully saying slavery can’t exist and that separate is not equal, white people claim that they are no longer racists, even though racial jokes and stereotypes still circulate in conversations.

Country singer Brad Paisley and rapper LL Cool J collaborated on an intriguing, laughable song titled, “Accidental Racist.” The song is basically a way for white people to explain away their not-so-subtle racist actions by putting the blame on people that came before this generation.

Paisley claims in the song that he can

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out yet. America this is a good thing.

Why should we reach out to those we know are different and below us?

Unfortunately we cannot return to the glorious days of the South but now you want to take away the elephant in the room as well.

They like to think because it is 2013 we are all buddy-buddies I know better.

While there are not any Jim Crow laws making the segregation legal some still do it automatically. Take a look at some lunch areas in high schools and colleges. Glorious, I say it again— glorious. Some days it is like oil and water in there. You have your black students huddled together snacking on Burger King, talking about that booty shaking music or whatever and then the white students sitting together working diligently on school work and getting smart cause white students always do their work and do it well.

But Paisley wants to get rid of that by trying to open the conversation. I say no. Mr. LL Cool J, I will continue

to judge you based on your dorag, gold chain and sagging pants. It is not a good look and I really hope you don’t think that is why I don’t like you. Oh, naive, child-like African-American, it is not the clothes you wear I am judging—it is you. What do I look like, the fashion police? No. I don’t like you. We don’t like you. Any true racist will tell you that.

So Paisley I am confused as to why you’re reaching out? Any true, blue, Southern, white American knows then when we wear that rebel flag it is cause we don’t like the “coloreds.” We can’t whip them or say they can’t sit on the same bench as us anymore. It is all we have left to subtly convey that we are racist. But as a white man I know that your judgment is flawless and that you will do the right thing and apologize for saying such slanderous things like trying to understand these AfricanAmerican people.

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Isn’t everyone a little bit racist? wear a shirt with the Confederate flag because it’s in support of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd, and doesn’t understand why it has to be “the elephant in the corner of the south.” Human beings attach meaning to various symbols in order to convey meaning to one another. The Confederate flag evokes a time period in American history where half of the country seceded in defiance to keep slavery legal. So as much as Paisley – and other Americans – would like to claim, the flag is not “southern pride” and instead marks those that wear it proudly as a collection of ignorant people that think racism doesn’t exist anymore.

In a sultry, ballad-like tone, Paisley tells listeners that we are accidently racist because we can’t “rewrite history / Our generation didn’t start this nation.”

Just because we were not around to put the iron chains on slaves or prevent black people from voting doesn’t excuse this generation from being guilty of racism.

If we were not a racist nation anymore, we wouldn’t have to create affirmative action, a program created

and upheld since 1965 that forces government employers to make sure they are including minority groups in the hiring process.

In grand, white fashion, Paisley gives LL Cool J a section between the last set of lyrics to rap to “Mr. White Man” about not understanding what it is like to live in the hood and that just because his “pants are saggin’ doesn’t mean [he is] up to no good.” Is this not the stereotypical depiction of a black man eager to gain the approval of a white man? Why, in 2013, does a black man need to rap about hoping Mr. White Man will one day understand his fashion choices?

By the end of the song, the artists come to compromise and agree to not judge do-rags and red flags and if Paisley doesn’t judge LL Cool J’s gold chains, he’ll forget about the iron chains. Who knew that hidden in this song is actually the cures for racism?

To clarify, if white people don’t judge the way black people dress, then black people will forget the years of slavery and oppression they’ve had to endure.

Essentially, Paisley is suggesting white

people will stop looking down on black people for dressing differently and not to their standards if black people forgive and forget a part of American history that has lead us to the sentiments America is experiencing today.

There is a disgustingly, cyclical nature about what the song proposes to society. white people explain away every day that racial jokes are acceptable because they are just jokes and that black people are just as racist. I’ll argue that minorities may be prejudice, but can never truly be racist because racism is a creation of white people and therefore, implies one must have privilege to be racist.

Just because the black man in the song sings that “the past is the past, you feel me / Let bygones be bygones” doesn’t mean White people are off the hook. The only good thing this song has done is unite many critics to agree that it’s time to take about the “old can of worms” we call racism.

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Textile students’ wallet design wins competition

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Sophomore Rassan Ridley works at a sewing machine during her textiles, apparel and merchandising class (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing).

Austin Arceo ISU Communications and Marketing While many students eagerly look forward to a spring break respite from classes, a group of Indiana State University students eagerly awaited word from their instructor during the weeklong retreat.

A wallet that a group of textiles, apparel and merchandising students created received runner-up honors in a contest

by Natril Gear, a company that produces backpack-like bags for bicycles known as Luggers.

The students in a class taught by Edie Wittenmyer created a design for a wallet that utilizes Natril Gear’s leftover material from designing Luggers.

“As a class, we were proud of what we came up with,” said Rassan Ridley, a sophomore textiles, apparel and merchandising major from Fort Wayne. “It was a good design,

and a good representation of what we as students do here. It was a good team effort.”

Wittenmyer approached the students about entering the contest, which was on top of their coursework for the semester.

The sewing class students agreed to enter, and students each created separate designs for a wallet before coming together and creating a singular contest submission.

“It was fun. Everybody made an agreement together. There was no bickering or anything,” said Jayna Eckerson, a freshman textiles, apparel and merchandising major from Indianapolis.

“We just thought about what was good and how it satisfies the customer.”

Natril Gear officials wanted to be able to utilize the scrap materials left from creating the company’s trademark Luggers, which

are “saddlebags for a bicycle” that attach to a bike rack.

“Part of the reason we wanted to have the contest was to find creative wallet designs, and the other reason was to spark interest in responsible consumption of resources in other peoples’ lives,” said April Reinhard, co-owner of Natril Gear. “The students in ISU’s Clothing I class did a great job on both fronts!”

The group dynamic helped make the project unique, said Brooke Reed, a freshman family and consumer sciences major from Walkerton.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 Different aspects of multiple designs created by students were incorporated into the final design.

“I’m very proud of the students and their willingness to work as a team to come up with one final design for an entry and win.”

Edie Wittenmyer, Electronic and Computer Engineering Technology instructor “Normally with some contests, you’re just by yourself, and this one, it was actually a group thing and we all could get involved,” Reed said, “and it was actually really nice to get other ideas and have more ideas flowing.”

The students created a draft

of their prototype, and then created their final version in material similar to Natril Gear’s fabric in Luggers. They submitted the creation, along with the design specifications.

Since Natril Gear’s Luggers are intended for cyclists, the Indiana State students approached the contest with the intention of creating a wallet that cyclists would use. Their submission included a variety of different elements, including a coin holder that separates from the wallet and a cell phone pocket.

“Their inclusion of a cell phone pocket was unique,” Reinhard said. “They also incorporated a removable pouch for change that we thought was a smart idea!”

The students also created a component for someone’s photo identification card to be on the outside of the wallet, so the wallet owner wouldn’t have to fish it out.

“I’m very proud of the students and their willingness to work as a team to come up with one final design for an entry, and to win,” Wittenmyer said. “I was impressed with the fact that they

thought about so many things.”

For several of the students in the class, it was the first time they had created a product and entered it in a contest. They were pleased with their finished prototype.

“I want to be a designer anyway, so that really encourages me to come up with a design, and I know that I can go to my teacher and have somebody (help) come up with the actual dimensions and the finished product,” Ridley said.

“It’s a good foundation.”

Natril Gear named two winners in their competition, which was intended to inspire a wallet design that Natril Gear will create from Lugger leftovers. “... We were impressed with the Clothing I class’s design,” Reinhard said, “and they can certainly expect some features from their prototype to be represented in Natril Gear’s final wallet design.”

For more information on Natril Gear, visit http:// Brooke Reed in the textiles, merchandising and apparel class natrilgear.com/ that submitted a wallet design for the Natril Gear contest. (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing).

Correction On April 15, 2013, the Indiana Statesman ran a story called “Biking to Victory” in its print publication. The story written contained two errors pertaining to the results of the race and the history of the event.

It was reported that the Chi Omega/Sigma Alpha Epsilon took third and Pi Kappa Alpha/ Alpha Sigma Alpha finished second. This information was incorrect. The team of Chi Omega/

Sigma Alpha Epsilon placed second and Pi Kappa Alpha/Alpha Sigma Alpha placed third.

In addition, the Statesman incorrectly reported that Air Force ROTC/Hakuna Matata was the first non-greek competitor to win the tandem bicycle race.

The annual event, which dates back to 1970 when it was a competition between residence halls and Greek organizations, has been won by several other non-Greek competitors.

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ISU community gives back on Indy Day of Service

An ISU student shovels mulch into a wheelbarrow at the 2012 Indy Day of Service. (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing).

Joseph Paul Reporter Members of the ISU community will represent “a very foundational relationship between Special Olympics Indiana and Indiana State University” when they volunteer in Indianapolis on Saturday, said Cat Paterson, a faculty fellow for the Center for Community Engagement.

This will be the third time ISU has hosted the Eugene K. Shriver Indianapolis Day of Service, held in recognition of the founder of the Special Olympics, Paterson said.

Indiana State has held the Special Olympics Games on campus every summer for decades, but Paterson said the university was looking for a way a new way to get involved.

Since a majority of ISU alumni live in Indianapolis, the event has become a way for students and staff to connect through volunteering, she said.

“We wanted a way to incorporate our alumni, as well,” she said. “We have a

lot of service projects that happen in more opportunities for people to west-central Indiana and Terre Haute, volunteer.” in particular, but since a large group of The Indianapolis Department of Parks group of alumni also live in Indianapolis, and Recreation offers nearly 30 of its parks athletes practicing for Special Olympics Indiana, Paterson said.

The Indianapolis Day of Service involves doing general clean up and tasks for park staff in order to improve the condition for the athletes, she said.

“There’s availability for students to make connections with alumni, which I think is an important relationship for ISU to foster and develop,” Paterson said.

“I definitely see that there are students that work hand-in-hand with the Special Olympics athletes and their families, and I think that can be a very powerful and moving experience, as well.”

Eunice K. Shriver, who started a small camp in 1968 that evolved into the Special Olympics, passed away several we were looking for a way to sort of years ago. In response, Special Olympics develop those relationships and create and the federal government recognized

“There’s availability for students to make connections with alumni, which I think is an important relationship for ISU to foster and develop.”

Cat Paterson, faculty fellow for the Center for Community Engagement

the last weekend of September as a national day of service in honor of the organization’s founder.

Since fall is a busy time on campus for ISU, the Center for Community Engagement decided to hold their last annual day of service during the spring semester, Paterson said.

“In keeping with the spirit of the Eugene K. Shriver Day of Service, this is just our part of it,” Paterson said.

The site of last year’s volunteer effort, Garfield Park, will be the same site for this year’s event.

In addition, a canned food drive will be held for those who can’t commit to a full day of volunteering.

A bus ride to Indianapolis is being offered to those who would like to participate, but seats are filling up fast, Paterson said.

In order to get involved, visit the event’s registration page at www.indstate.edu/ publicservice/events/indyService.aspx

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End of the year theater performance set for today ISU Communications and Marketing Staff Indiana State University’s Community School of the Arts will wrap up its spring semester with an end of the year performance by the “fusion” theater group Wednesday at 4 p.m. in the New Theater.

The after-school program provides a fun and educational opportunity for students to learn about theater and to express creativity through hands-on experience.

“Fusion” enables students to find a voice, work collaboratively, problem-solve creatively and feel pride in accomplishment in producing a final performance piece.

Classes led by Sherry McFadden, chair of Indiana State’s theater department, begin with theater games and workshops meant to introduce middle school students to performing and becoming comfortable in front of an audience.

The curriculum is based, in part, on the textbook “Theater Games for the Classroom, A Teacher’s Handbook” by Viola Spolin.

The book describes story theater which uses games and improvisation to help students become aware of themselves in the context of a theater production. A workshop and rehearsal schedule is planned at the beginning of the program.

This schedule is given to all the participants and

they are encouraged to share it with their families.

Participants ‘homework’ (includes rehearsal of lines and stage direction) has the potential of becoming an activity in which the family participates.

As the weeks progress, students evolve and become a group theater company where everyone has a role.

Students learn about performance, design, direction and stage and crew management.

The group learns about responsibility; that everyone must contribute and collaborate so that the play is a success.

Learning to share ideas and respect other ideas is an important aspect of “fusion.”

The class culminates with a final theater performance during the last week of classes.

The Community School of the Arts is one of the new programs at Indiana State funded through the Unbounded Possibilities initiative.

The Community School of the Arts provides art learning experiences for children, youth and adults in the Wabash Valley while providing ISU students who are majoring in the arts outstanding opportunities for experiential learning through teaching.

Admission to the event is free.

For additional information, contact Petra Nyendick at 812-237-2575 or Petra.Nyendick@indstate.edu.

Members of the Fusion Dance Company at ISU perform during the 2012 school year (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing).

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Upcoming Events Wednesday Softball at Normal, Ill. vs. Illinois State, 4 p.m. and 6 p.m.

Baseball at Bob Warn Field vs. SIU Edwardsville, 6 p.m.

Friday Track and Field at Columbus, Ohio for the Jesse Owens Track Classic, 11 a.m.

Baseball at Normal, Ill. vs. Illinois State, 7 p.m.

Saturday Track and Field at Columbus, Ohio for the Jesse Owens Track Classic, 11 a.m.

Softball at Cedar Falls, IA. vs. Northern Iowa, 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.

Baseball at Normal, Ill. vs. Illinois State, 3 p.m.

Junior Greggmar Swift earned the MVC men’s track and field Athlete of the Week honors (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing ).

Kevin Jenison ISU Athletic Media Relations Indiana State has swept the weekly Missouri Valley Conference track and field Athletes of the Week honors.

Junior Greggmar Swift was named the Men’s Track Athlete of the Week, along with senior Brandon Pounds as the Men’s Field Athlete of the Week, senior Stacia Weatherford received her second straight Women’s Track Athlete of the Week honor, and senior Felisha Johnson took home her second Women’s Field Athlete of the Week award for the current outdoor season.

Swift posted his second win in three meets this outdoor season as he won the 110-meter hurdles at the Sea Ray Relays, hosted by the University of Tennessee Friday.

Swift was the only competitor to run under the 14-second mark as he won the event in 13.94 seconds. Teammate and fellow junior Maurice Lyke was the second collegian as he ran a career best 14.03 seconds with Purdue’s Brandon

Winters also running.

Swift ranks 23rd in the nation, 12th in the East and leads the Missouri Valley Conference in the event. The junior also ran the second leg for the 4x100-meter relay team that finished second in a season best time of 40.81 seconds.

Kennesaw State won in 40.76 seconds with Southeast Missouri third at 40.97 seconds. The Sycamore relay team ranks 75th in the nation, 37th in the East and leads the Valley this season.

Pounds had an outstanding meet last weekend finishing as the top collegian in the hammer throw on Thursday and then coming back to place third in the discus invitational Saturday.

Pounds had a throw of 64.92 meters (213’ 0”) to finish fourth overall but was named the top collegian in the hammer throw, the second time this season that he has gone 213’ or better.

Purdue’s Chukwuebuka Enekwechi was the second collegian at 62.88 meters (206’-3”) with

Andy Fryman of Mjolnir Throwers Club winning the event at 69.11 meters (226’ 9”).

The senior came back on Saturday with a season best throw of 52.00 meters (170’ 7”) to place third in the discus throw invitational.

Findlay’s Derrick Vicars, ranked third in Division II, won the event at 55.93 meters (183’ 6”) with Tennessee’s Tavis Bailey second at 55.88 meters (183’ 4”).

Pounds ranks 12th nationally in the hammer throw, third in the East and second in the Missouri Valley Conference. He also ranks 89th nationally in the discus, 38th in the East and second in the MVC. Weatherford continued to lower her time in the 400-meter hurdles as she won the event with a season best time of 58.68 seconds Friday.

The top four finishers all came from the first

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 with Eastern Michigan’s Asia Rawls second (59.89), Central Michigan’s Bridget Doughty third (1:02.06) and Youngstown State’s Nicole Pachol fourth (1:02.45).

The Sycamore senior leads the MVC in the event, ranks eighth in the East and 18th in the nation.

Johnson was named the recipient of the Tony Wilson Award as the Most Outstanding Female Field Athlete this past weekend.

Johnson set a new Indiana State record in the shot put as she won the event Saturday with a toss of 18.10 meters (59’ 4.75”) which is also the second best throw in the nation this season and was nearly seven feet further than Purdue’s Dani Bunch who was second at 16.10 meters (52’ 10”).

The senior finished as the top collegian in the women’s discus invitational earlier Saturday with a season best throw of 52.59 meters (172’ 6”).

Johnson opened up her work on Thursday as she placed second in the hammer throw with a distance of 186’ 2” (56.75 meters). Findlay’s Jessica Rowland, ranked second in Division II, won the event at 57.86 meters (189’ 10”) with Bunch third for Purdue at 55.09 meters (180’ 9”).

Johnson currently ranks second in the nation, first in the East, and first in the MVC for the shot put. She is also 25th in the nation, sixth in the East and third in the MVC for the discus, and 54th nationally, 22nd in the East and fourth in the Valley for the hammer throw.

Johnson was the co-recipient of the award this week along with Wichita State’s Tanya Friesen.

Senior Stacia Weatherford, who earned the MVC Women’s Track and Field Athlete of Week, ran the anchor leg of the women’s 4x400-meter (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing).

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ISU Softball defeated in three-game Creighton series LeVon Whittaker Reporter The Creighton Bluejays traveled to Terre Haute to face off in a three-game series at Price Field against the ISU Softball team.

No luck in double header, 3-1 In the first game of the doubleheader, freshman Halle Humphrey pitched seven innings allowing six hits and earning four strikeouts for the Sycamores.

Indiana State started early as junior infielder Morgan Allee earned her seventh homerun of the season as she crushed one over the fence for a 1-0 lead in the first.

The Sycamores defense had a hard time stopping the Bluejays in the top of the third inning as they scored three runs to take a 3-1 lead. The Sycamores had a chance to take control of the game in the bottom of the fifth inning when freshman outfielder Kelsey Montgomery walked after a double from sophomore utility player Ashley Dickerson.

With runners in scoring position, Allee advanced both runners on a groundout but freshman infielder Alexa Cavin’s ground out ended the inning.

The game ended in a 3-1 win by the Bluejays.

Sycamores fall in second game, 16-5 The two teams matched up again for a second game Saturday afternoon with Humphrey again as the starting pitcher for the Sycamores.

The Bluejays scored five runs on five hits in the first inning and a solo home run in the second to take on early 6-0 lead.

The Sycamores responded in the bottom of the second when

Senior outfielder Mackenzie Connelly prepares to make contact with the ball during ISU softball match against IUPUI (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing ).

sophomore utility player Megan Stone earned her sixth homer of the year to cut the deficit to five.

Two at-bats later, freshman infielder Abbie Malchow walked then scored on a single from Dickerson bringing the score to 6-2.

The Bluejays came back in the third inning with three runs to extend the lead 9-2. The Sycamores once again did not back down and responded with two runs in the third including a two-run homer from junior utility player Shelby Wilson, her second home run of the day.

The Sycamores performance wasn’t enough as they allowed three runs in the fourth and five in the fifth inning and only earned one more run in the bottom of the fourth inning to allow Creighton to earn a 16-5 victory.

Final game of the series, 9-1 The Bluejays got an lead early with a 3-0 lead going into the bottom of the second. The Sycamores retaliated as Stone hit her seventh season home run right over the center field wall. The Sycamores defense was not able to stop the bats of the Creighton allowing nine runs and could not respond on offense giving them a 9-1 win for a series sweep.

“We got beat by the better team but our girls played hard and hustled,” said Shane Bouman, head softball coach.

“Sometimes you get beat by the better team and that’s what happened, they are the best team in our conference and one of the best in the country and they just played better than we did.”

The team faces Illinois State Wednesday for a two game series in Normal, Ill. looking forward to improving their 1427 record.

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