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Volume 125, Issue 74

Celebrating ISU’s annual Earth Day Claire Silcox Features Editor After being named one of the top 11 places to celebrate Earth Day in the US in 2016, ISU and the Terre Haute community have had high standards of the holiday.

This year Earth Day will be celebrated on the Quad today, April 18, for most of the day.

From 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. there will be a cigarette pickup around campus, meeting at the quad in the morning.

The Sustainability Festival will be hosted from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the quad with more than 50 exhibitor booths. There will also be live music, corn hole and other outdoor games and a Sodexo catered picnic.

In the middle hour of the event President Curtis will be in attendance at the Awards Ceremony from noon to 1 p.m.

“Since 2009, the campus has welcomed students and community members alike to have open discussions about the state of our environment and how we can work to improve our climate,” Rachel Rieger with the Leaf Filter said in 2016.

Not only will there be the festival, the Student Recreation Center will be hosting three classes outdoors to celebrate Earth Day with the rest of campus. Usually the SRC hosts their GroupX classes indoors but they will be holding their Yoga and Kettlebells classes on the Quad.

Yoga classes at 10 a.m. and another at 1:30 p.m. and Kettlebells at 1 p.m. All three classes will be 30 minutes long.

ISU has been a part of Earth Day Network, the largest environmental movement in the world since 2014 according to the University website.

The annual Earth Day will host 50 exhibitors and activities throughout the day from 9 am to 2 pm.

Campus Glow Run benefits Timmy Global Health Devin Neely Reporter With a good forecast coming up this week, it’s just in time for the Glow Run, sponsored by Timmy Global Health.

On Thursday, April 19th at 8pm, students will have the ability to participate in a Glow Run here on campus.

For $15, students may participate and receive a t-shirt for the event, or $10 to simply participate without the t-shirt. Students may also bring an unopened sunscreen bottle to knock $5 off the ticket price, no matter which ticket you purchase.

The team is expecting to see a good majority of students to sign up at the registration, which takes place before the event.

Check in for the run begins at 8pm in front of the Student REC Center, where students will pay and get their t-shirt if choosing to do so, and the run will then begin at 9pm.

Students will be given glow sticks, and the route will be illuminated by black lights. With the assistance of the event volunteers, they will be located around the route to direct students where to go throughout the path.

The Glow Run, which is

being organized and led

by Cierra Natt, is meant to get word out about the program known as Timmy Global Health, and to also help raise funds for the Timmy Global Health headquarters.

Timmy Global Health, also widely known as just Timmy, is a non-profit organization that aims to provide healthcare to rural communities in countries such as Ecuador, Guatemala, Nigeria, and the Dominican Republic.

“What makes Timmy different from the other organizations similar to it is that Timmy works to make the healthcare in the communities that we visit more sustainable,” Said Natt. “What our organization at Indiana State University does, more specifically with Timmy Global Health, is mostly fundraising, quite a bit of advocating for global health with various events, and we serve locally in different places throughout Terre Haute. We take two service trips, a domestic trip in the fall, and then an international one to Guangaje, Ecuador, at the beginning of the spring semester.”

All proceeds that the program receives goes directly to Timmy Global Health.

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ISU selects dean for College of Technology Indiana State University officials have named an exceptional educator, researcher and administrator to serve as dean of the College of Technology.

Neslihan “Nesli” Alp comes to Indiana State from the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, where she is associate dean of academic affairs and department head of engineering management and technology in the College of Engineering and Computer Science.

She has taught and held various administrative positions at UTC for the past 19 years.

“We are thrilled Nesli is joining the Indiana State community at this exciting time in the university’s history. Out of a competitive pool of candidates, she has an impressive record of not only creating new programs but also providing the leadership for them to achieve excellence,” said Mike Licari, provost and vice president of academic affairs at Indiana State. “She is well suited to grow our new engineering program - working with faculty and staff to recruit students, maintain quality and attain accreditation.”

Alp will begin her duties at Indiana State on Aug. 1.

“It is truly an honor to be selected to be the next dean of Indiana State University’s College of Technology.

The college has already strong and well-established programs and resources. The addition of new engineering program, diversity of existing programs, applied engineering and technology focus, commitment of faculty and staff, engaged student body, and very supportive com-

Neslihan “Nesli” Alp.

munity have attracted me to this position,” Alp said. “My 25 years of higher education experience, working in variety of administrative positions for the last 12 years, and developing and growing new programs will be very beneficial for the college. Our ultimate goal is to serve our students and prepare them for the real world. I am excited to work with all constituencies to move the college to the next level.”

The College of Technology is nationally recognized for providing a state-of-the-art learning environment in a wide spectrum of applied engineering and technology fields.

Its five departments serve almost 2,200 undergraduate students majoring in engineering and technology fields and more than 200 graduate students.

Faculty members across more than 20 undergraduate programs and six graduate programs have industry experience and emphasize developing students both pro-

fessionally and academically. More than 30 specialized instructional laboratories offer students the opportunity to engage with workbased learning experiences in order to gain technical and professional competencies. An industrial advisory board comprised of managers, professionals and experts in the field helps to keep college administration and faculty apprised of current industry trends.

“The whole search committee was deeply impressed with her wide range of experience as a faculty member and administrator and with her familiarity with so many of the diverse programs housed in our College of Technology. She also earned very positive comments from faculty, students, staff and community members when she came to campus,” said Chris Olsen, chair of the search committee and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. “Personally, I think her vision for a rigorous, interdisciplinary curriculum is perfectly suited for the next two decades of higher education.”

Alp received her Ph.D. in engineering management from the University of Missouri-Rolla (Missouri University of Science and Technology) in 1996. She earned a Master of Science in industrial engineering (1994) and a bachelor’s in engineering management (1989) from Istanbul Technical University in Turkey.

Alp’s teaching and research interests include process improvement,

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Poet Maggie Smith to visit campus AJ Goelz Reporter The Thodore Dreiser Visiting Writers Series will continue tomorrow, as poet Maggie Smith is welcomed on campus.

Smith will be reading selections of her work in the Recital Hall of the Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts at 6:30 p.m. This event is being co-sponsored by the Center for Community Engagement and the College of Arts and Sciences.

“Born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1977, Maggie Smith is the author of three books of poetry: “Good Bones”, named one of the Best Five Poetry Books of 2017 by the Washington Post and winner of the 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal in Poetry; “The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison”, winner of the 2012 Dorset Prize and the 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal in Poetry; and “Lamp of the Body”, winner of the 2003 Benjamin Saltman Award,” according to Smith’s bio on her website. “Smith is also the author of three prizewinning chapbooks: Disasterology, The List of Dangers and Nesting Dolls.”

With a B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University and a M.F.A. from The Ohio State University, “she has taught creative writing at Gettysburg College, Ohio Wesleyan University, and in the MFA program at The Ohio State University, and she worked for several years in trade book and educational publishing,” according to Smith’s biography.

“A 2011 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Smith has also received six Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council, two Academy of American Poets Prizes, and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts,” her biography said.

Smith has been getting more recognition in recent years. In 2016, Smith’s poem “Good Bones” went internationally viral. Public Radio International even named it “the official poem of 2016.” The poem was even featured in an episode of CBS crime drama “Madam Secretary” and was once read by Meryl Streep at the Lincoln Center.

After Smith’s reading there will be a Q&A session, followed by a book signing.

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Dr. Elonda Ervin is the Executive Director of Multicultural Services and Programs.

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Muyumba, Perrin receive President’s Medal Indiana State University honored eight educators during its annual Faculty Recognition Banquet Thursday evening.

Indiana State President Deborah Curtis presented the President’s Medal - the university’s highest award for faculty -- to Valentine Muyumba, associate librarian and chair of technical services for Cunningham Memorial Library, and Robert Perrin, professor and chair of English.

Muyumba joined Indiana State in 1978 as an administrative assistant and library associate in the cataloging department and serials catalog and catalog management. After finishing her library degree in 1998, she was hired as faculty, serving as holistic librarian and Diversity Information Online team leader.

“This was so unexpected and I’m very honored to receive it because I love what I do and am very passionate about it,” Muyumba said. “It was a transition going from 20 years as support staff to becoming faculty, but I think my colleagues who have mentored me here in the library and even outside of the library have shown me the way and I give credit to those who helped me get here, especially my late husband, Francois Muyumba. Francois encouraged me to follow my passion and supported me when I had to go back to school for the MLS degree.”

Perrin joined Indiana State’s faculty in 1981, after serving as

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Valentine Muyumba, associate librarian and chair of technical services for Cunningham Memorial Library, and Robert Perrin, professor and chair of English

an English and speech instructor at Waterloo High School in Illinois and as a graduate assistant at the University of Illinois.

He served as director of writing programs for 17 years and has served as chair of the department of English since 2007.

“Like so many people who have received this award, I am truly honored. I have spent my entire college-teaching career at ISU and have valued the broad range of teaching, scholarly, and service experiences that the campus community has provided,” Perrin said. “The work has often been challenging, but it

has always been rewarding. Perhaps, most importantly, I want to express my appreciation for ISU’s students; they didn’t select me for this honor, but the thousands of ISU students I have taught over the years continue to inspire me to teach with passion, write with intention and serve with purpose.”

Muyumba served as monographic cataloging team leader and reference/instruction librarian and original cataloger.

She became the acting chair of the cataloging department in 2008. In 2009, she assumed the position of chair of the technical

Eberman receives Distinguished Service Award Lindsey Eberman, associate professor of athletic training, has received the Distinguished Service Award.

The award, which recognizes distinguished service outside the classroom, was presented Thursday during the annual Faculty Recognition Banquet.

“I am very grateful to be recognized as the 2018 Faculty Distinguished Service Award recipient. Upon earning tenure at Indiana State, I thought long and hard about how I wanted to make an impact on the university and my profession, athletic training,” Eberman said. “A great mentor of mine has repeatedly said that finding your niche for service is a gift, and I have been so lucky to be able to influence my profession in the area of education and accreditation, as well as an opportunity to share in the governance of our institution through the standing committees of the Faculty Senate. I gain tremendous joy from the interactions I have with others in this service and am proud of the discourse and debate of ideas it has yielded.”

Eberman serves as director of the Post-Professional Doctorate in Athletic Training Program. Her expertise is in teaching and learning in the health professions, health care administration and risk mitigation, self-reflective clinical practice and quality improvement and leadership, mentorship and advocacy.

Her accolades include the following: 2017 NATA Emerging Educator Award, the 2017 NATA Professional Development Excellence Award, the 2016 GLA-

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TA Outstanding Educator Award, the 2016 Mildred Lemmon Faculty Excellence Award, the 2014 Caleb Mills Distinguished Teacher Award and the 2012 Honors Faculty of the Year.

She has also facilitated more than 100 theses and research projects with various methods of inquiry and published two book chapters, more than 80 article

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services department, where she handles acquisitions, processing of books, government documents and interlibrary loan. She was granted tenure and a promotion to associate librarian in 2004.

“Through the years, I have worked with many of our ISU students,” Muyumba said. “They have been a big part of the department, and I have been proud to watch them ‘grow’ from freshmen, when they first arrive on campus, to when they graduate and leave ISU.” Muyumba’s research is published in numerous journal ar-

ticles, book reviews, conference reports and presentations. She is also a member of the American Library Association, Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, Indiana Library Federation, Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services and Indiana Black Librarians Network.

Muyumba was recipient of Indiana State’s “Her Color Shines’ Longevity Award” in 2016. In addition, she also serves as secretary on the Vigo County Public Library’s Board of Trustees, where she was appointed by the Vigo County Council.

She has a master’s degree in Library Science and a bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education from Indiana University and a Master of Education degree from Indiana State.

Perrin has authored numerous books, book chapters, and articles. He is also involved in the National Council of Teachers of English, Association of Departments of English, College English Association, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Conference on English Education, Indiana College English Association, Indiana Council of Teachers of English, Indiana Teachers of Writing, Kappa Delta Pi (Education Honorary), Phi Kappa Phi (Honorary) and Sigma Tau Delta (English Honorary). He is a past recipient of the Caleb Mills Distinguished Teaching Award

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Inlow recognized with Caleb Mills Award

Jennifer Inlow, associate professor of chemistry at Indiana State University, was honored with the Caleb Mills Distinguished Teaching Award at an awards banquet Thursday night.

Named for a 19th century educator who helped shape Indiana’s public education system and served as the state’s second superintendent of public instruction, the Caleb Mills Award recognizes Indiana State’s most distinguished teachers. The award was presented Thursday during the annual Faculty Recognition Banquet.

“I am truly honored to receive the Caleb Mills Distinguished Teaching Award,” Inlow said. “During my 14 years at ISU, I have had the pleasure of interacting with so many eager and hard-working students, and they have made it a joy to teach here. I’ve learned a lot from my colleagues in the department of chemistry and physics, and I greatly appreciate the many ways in which they’ve helped me improve my methods and course materials.”

Inlow joined Indiana State’s chemistry and physics faculty in 2003 as an instructor and was hired as an assistant professor the following year. She was promoted to associate professor in 2010. In 2009, Inlow served as interim associate dean for Indiana State’s College of Arts and Sciences, and she is currently the acting chair for the department of chemistry and physics.

Her research interests focus on the relationship between protein sequence, structure and function, and she uses

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bioinformatics methods to make predictions about protein structure. Inlow has designed and published a number of bioinformatics exercises and biochemistry laboratory experiments for use in undergraduate courses.

Inlow earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from Texas A&M University and bachelor’s degree in chemistry and mathematics from Jamestown College.

UNC must disclose sexual assault findings, judges rule Anne Blythe The News & Observer (TNS) UNC Chapel Hill must provide the public with the names of students and employees found responsible for rape, sexual assault or related offenses through the school’s honor court and other internal procedures.

The North Carolina Court of Appeals issued a ruling on Tuesday disputing the university’s claims that federal law prohibits UNC Chapel Hill officials from turning over such records.

The unanimous ruling came almost a month after attorneys for the Daily Tar Heel, the UNC student newspaper, and other media organizations made arguments in a special court session held at NC Central University in Durham.

The court case stems from a Sept. 30 public information request by The Daily Tar Heel. Reporters asked for records “in connection with a person having been found responsible for rape, sexual assault or any related or lesser” offense by the school’s honor court, the Committee on Student Conduct or the Equal Opportunity and Compliance Office.

The university declined to provide the information, calling the data “educational records” protected by the Family Educa-

tional Rights and Privacy Act. The Daily Tar Heel, the Charlotte Observer, the (Durham) Herald-Sun and WRAL filed a lawsuit.

In May 2017, Judge Allen Baddour ruled in Orange County that federal law protecting student records supersedes state law that allows for the release of such information in some cases.

Baddour also found that the state Human Resources Act limits what information can be released about state workers disciplined, demoted or dismissed for disciplinary reasons to the dates and types of actions taken and a copy of the termination letter setting out the reason the employee was dismissed.

The appellate ruling issued Tuesday states that federal law does not prohibit the limited information requested by the Daily Tar Heel “except for the dates of offenses.”

Attorneys for the university argued that release of the records “would interfere with UNC-CH’s Title IX process for dealing with sexual assault” by deterring victims and witnesses from coming forward, as well as jeopardize the safety of those alleged to have committed sexual assaults. “‘It is critical to our system of government and the expectation of our citizens that the courts not assume the role of legislatures.’ Normally, questions regarding

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The Old Well at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. A court has ruled UNC Chapel Hill must provide the public with the names of students and employees found responsible for rape, sexual assault or related offenses through the school’s honor court and other internal procedures

public policy are for legislative determination,” attorneys for the university argued.

The judges did not address the merits of the arguments about public policy, but

noted that federal law “specifically mandates that any disclosures “may include the name of any other student, such as victim or witness, only with the written consent of that other student.”

indianastatesman.com DEAN FROM PAGE 1 project management, decision-making, optimization, quality control, facilities planning, six- sigma, lean systems, operations management and distance education.

Alp initiated many new undergraduate and graduate programs in the areas of engineering, engineering management, construction management and computer science. She has established many two-plus-two programs with local and regional community colleges in order to develop a seamless pipeline for transfer students.

She led efforts to offer online courses and create a fully online master’s program in engineering management at UTC, which was ranked No. 7 Best Online Engi-

GLOW FROM PAGE 1 “The monetary profit, as well as the sunscreen bottle donations, will all go to Timmy,” said Natt. “The proceeds will go towards purchasing the medical supplies sent to the medical brigades.”

Although there were pre-registration dates that have already passed, there are still many t-shirts that are available for purchase the day of the run.

Many students are excited for

AWARD FROM PAGE 2 publications and conducted more than 100 international, national, regional and state presentations.

Eberman earned both a doctorate in curriculum and in-

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 • Page 3 neering Management Graduate Program in the nation, according to the U.S. News and World Report. Alp has numerous publications in national and international conferences and journals and served as technical editor for many of them.

Alp is a program evaluator of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)-Engineering Accreditation Commission in Industrial Engineering. She is also a registered professional engineer in the state of Tennessee.

Alp has been married to Birol, who is also an engineer, for 25 years. They have two sons, Kaan, who is senior in high school and will start at Emory University in the fall, and Koray, who is a junior in high school.

Story by ISU Communications and Marketing such an event to take place.

ISU student Riley Anderson said, “I love running and participating in events like this on campus. It’s gonna be fun, and it gets my daily run in in a fun way!”

Some students plan on getting t-shirts at the event and painting them bright colors in order to make them pop more with the glow sticks.

“Overall, it sounds like it is going to be an exciting evening event, with good weather and lots of fun,” said Anderson. struction with a specialization in athletic training education and a master’s in exercise and sport science from Florida International University and a bachelor’s degree in athletic training from Northeastern University.

MEDAL FROM PAGE 2 (1991) and the Theodore Dreiser Research and Creativity Award (2008).

Perrin has a Ph.D. in English with concentrations in drama, rhetoric and composition, 20th-century fiction, and comparative literature from the University of Illinois, a master’s degree in English Language and Literature from Southern Illinois

University-Edwardsville and a bachelor’s degree in English from Eastern Illinois University.

Other award recipients include: • Caleb Mills Distinguished Teaching Award: Jennifer Inlow, associate professor of Biochemistry and Bioinformatics • Community-Based Learning and Scholarship Award: Ken Games, associate professor of Athletic Training • Theodore Dreiser Distin-

guished Research and Creativity Award: Stephen Aldrich, associate professor of Earth and Environmental Systems, Richard Fitch, associate professor of Chemistry, and Michael Shelden, professor of English • Faculty Distinguished Service Award: Lindsey Eberman, associate professor of Athletic Training

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Alexandria Truby Reporter

Why did you choose to teach at ISU? I wanted a university that had a mix of undergraduate and graduate students, where I could integrate research into my courses and one that was at a location that was close to my family. ISU is large enough that I could teach a range of interesting courses and small enough that I know all of my students and most of the students in our major by name.

Who is your favorite sports team?

The Washington Capitals (hockey); I am apparently fond of tragic stories in sports teams.

What can you share about your research?

My research involves studying the skeletons of tiny algae (diatoms) and using that to figure out how the environment they lived in changed through time (usually in response to climate). I’m basically a paleontologist, but with algae instead of dinosaurs. Most of my research takes place in lakes, wetlands, or rivers. Sometimes the work involves algae that isn’t dead yet and sometimes it involves algae that’s been dead for millions of years. Because I work in some pretty remote areas, sometimes I

find some algae that no one has ever seen before, and I get to name it.

Which class do you enjoy teaching the most?

I like aspects of all of my classes, but probably my favorite is Lake and Wetlands. It’s a challenging topic that integrates physical, chemical, and biological sciences, but there’s enough fun stuff that we can do in the course (field trips and lab work) that it never gets boring.

Favorite author?

This is a tough question for me. I go through phases in my reading, but I think it is a three-way tie between: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Salman Rushdie, and Franz Kafka. I am a fan of magical realism.

Where do you go to work or write?

This isn’t an exciting answer, but really my office and my lab. However, the better question might be when do I do my work or write – to which I would answer, weekends, late at night, and over the summer.

The fewer people that are around me, the better I can write, basically.

What advice would you give to undergrad students? Don’t treat the university as a series of tasks to be completed. The courses in your major should be interesting to you and if they aren’t, you should consider finding some that are. If you are curious about the things you are learning about, your courses will always be easier than if you treat them as a task.

If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would that be?

Why can’t I travel anywhere the world?

One of the great things about being a scientist is that we get to travel all over the world. To be a bit more direct: New Zealand would be interesting.

Who is your role model?

Charles Darwin. He never lost his curiosity about how the world worked and he never stopped trying to provide answers for science. He wasn’t always right, but he was always creative and extraordinarily observant.

What was the most difficult job you have ever had? This one. It’s challenging to balance work, research, teaching, mentoring, and still have time to be part of a family. I work through weekends, summers, and holidays. I deal with some pretty challenging inter-personal situations.

Standing in front of a room full of people while trying to figure out how to explain complex scientific ideas is not a simple task. But I think if my job weren’t difficult, it wouldn’t be worth doing.

How do you relieve stress?

Photography. Usually things without people in them. Based on my Instagram page ( @jefferystone ) I apparently have a lot of stress that needs to be relieved.

Do you have any funny stories to share from being a professor?

Oh, I do, but I don’t think I should.

What is the most frustrating thing you see students do?

Push a handicap button to open a door instead of opening a door by pushing or pulling it open when they are perfectly capable. It’s just wasteful.

Where is the most interesting place you have been? I’ve been to a lot of really interesting places, but I think my favorite was the week I spent in Ethiopia (Addis Ababa, mostly). It changed how I view our world.

What is one thing you really want but cannot afford? An Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 300mm pro lens for my camera. I can’t justify spending $2,400 on a camera lens, but I promise you that I would take some beautiful pictures with it.

My birthday is in July, if someone is looking to sponsor my stress relief.

What do you tell people who do not believe in climate change?

I ask them to explain to me how Atlantic Merdional Overturning Circulation works. If they can’t, then I suggest to them that they start with understanding the basics of atmospheric-oceanic interactions before trying to explain my field of study

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to me as if it were an opinion rather than the result of half a century of scientific research. That’s a snarky answer – but in reality, you can’t change someone’s mind about something if they formed an opinion without understanding how it actually works. Most people who don’t ‘believe in climate change’ are just treating it like it’s some kind of team sport where they belong to the rival team. They were probably told to believe something by someone they respect (or a website that claims to understand it) and they do - I don’t try to fight that, because it’s a useless battle.

I don’t want to get into a discussion about politics or opinions. If they want to learn how the science actually works, however, I am happy to discuss that. The evidence is overwhelming, which is why this hasn’t been a real debate in the science community for thirty years now.

How do you recommend people get involved in protecting the environment?

I guess start by not pushing the handicap button when you can just as easily open a door (joking! kind of) If we want to protect our environment, we need to first realize how we are affecting it. There are so many different ways that people could get involved today – anything from just giving

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Student’s senior thesis design to come to reality Grace Harrah Editor In Chief

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Photos of Gabe’s blueprints and others are on display in the Gallery Lounge in the Student Memorial Student Union.

Gabe Burton, a senior interior architectural design major designed a project that is being planned to be built in Dallas Fort Worth, Texas. The senior thesis project was to design a project of their choice with a minimum of 20,000 square feet. 16 senior students in the Studio Six in Thesis class participated in the project which is currently being displayed in the Gallery Lounge inside of the Student Memorial Student Union until April 20.

The displays show the hard work and creativity of the students as well as their realistic architecture design that will prepare them for the career ahead.

Gabe, with his model client as his cousin, created a new construction of a warehouse in Brownsburg, Indiana and took the shell to model his new construction that will be built for his cousin’s company in Dallas Fort Worth, Texas. Gabe’s cousin was in need for a facility to run his company, which trains kids from 6 to 18-year-old to get ready for the college basketball scene.

“They’ve always had to rent out different facilities to practice so he’s come to me to design his own facility that they could use.” Burton said.

Burton is planning to send all of the documents after it is finalized to start the project of his design of being built in real life and professionally stamped.

“I’m very ecstatic about my own design getting built. I’m surprised about it, I’m hoping that once we talk to real life architectures that they tell us that everything is good to build as long as regulations.” Burton said.

His design of the structure replicates a basketball goal and the hoop itself.

The other features of the design are also a replica of various basketball features such as the netting of the hoop, backboard and a basketball itself. It took him about a month to design the entire thesis project.

“I gained the experience of client tell.

Danielle Guy | Indiana Statesman My model client was my cousin and I Gabe Burton also had a mentor that is a licensed architectural designer. I had to interview clients.” them and figure out what they want and The construction of his design is to include it in my design. It’s a lot of go- start in a year up to five years. ing back and forth between me and the

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indianastatesman.com Q & A FROM PAGE 4 some money to groups that protect the environments, to making a change in your own lifestyle, to getting directly involved with citizen science. For me, the most basic thing you could do is vote for a government that represents your environmental interests. No one person or organization is as effective as our government agencies at effecting change across the broadest swath of our population. Outside of that, it comes down to what you feel you can afford to contribute (either time or money) toward the cause.

Why are you looking to research Lake Tanganyika, New Zealand, and South Africa?

Lake Tanganyika is one of the largest and deepest lakes on planet Earth and the region represents one of the main cradles of early humankind. I find it interesting because the lake has an extremely long (millions of years) sedimentary record that allows us to explore questions about

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 • Page 5 climate change, endemism, and evolution. My recent grant proposals have been looking at trying to use Lake Tanganyika to reconstruct ecological food web interactions through time – basically taking what modern ecologists have determined about the existing relationships and see how they changed with long-term changes in climate.

What can you share about the ISU Paleolimnology Laboratory?

I have a lot of great students that work in my lab doing research around the year.

This includes both undergraduate and graduate students. We work on projects from around the world and spanning from millions of years ago to stuff happening in the Wabash River today.

When did you know you wanted to study Geology?

I took two geology courses in my freshman year to fulfill my science requirements – mostly because I had an Earth Science class in high school that I thought was interesting. About half way through the semester I realized that while I could

occasionally justify not attending some of my other courses, I never wanted to miss a lecture in my Geology classes. After taking two more geology classes the following semester and another the semester after that, the advisor for the program contacted me, pulled me into his office, and asked me if I was planning on changing my major to Geology because I was taking a lot of Geology courses and doing quite well in them. It was then that it struck me that I probably should change my major and study Geology – which (oddly) hadn’t even occurred to me before then. Sometimes we just let our feet lead us in the right direction, I guess.

Does your department have any student clubs?

Yes, the Environmental Science Club. I act as our department’s advisor to the club. It is open to anyone that is interested in environmental science, hiking, conservation, or who just likes to get interested in the environment.

Why is your work and research important for ISU and the world?

I collaborate on a lot of interesting science projects with a lot of international scientists. My work involves describing new species, cataloging environmental changes that had the potential to impact human evolution, and major climate transitions or human impacts on the environment.

There really aren’t a lot of professors in US university institutions that do the type of work that I do with diatoms (algae). This has led me to be pretty productive and to be able to develop a bunch of interesting research questions for my students to attempt to resolve. I think because of this, my work and that of my students can provide critical answers that most other fossil organisms cannot about lake systems. I think the research is important for ISU because it has the potential to draw in quality students to our programs and help develop those students into strong early-career scientists. The success of my students is typically how I measure my own success as a scientist.

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Let the Blagojevich saga be an important lesson for all Illinois politicians Chicago Tribune (TNS) On Monday justices of the U.S. Supreme Court flicked off the latest appeal from Rod Blagojevich much as they flick lint from black robes. No need to explain why the elaborate arguments from his lawyers went ker-flop. No cause to reconsider the litany of felony convictions, the 14-year sentence, nothing. Next case?

For judges back in Illinois, of course, the next case is never far away. Corrupt politicians have made sport of cheating this state’s 12 million citizens, and the season never ends.

Four of Illinois’ last 10 governors have wound up in federal prisons. With the Supreme Court serially unmoved by Blagojevich’s appeals, the unknown now is whether judges here always will remember the example of U.S. District Judge James Zagel when they sentence the next crooked pols, and the next.

There’s always a cohort of deniers betting that what happened to Blagojevich won’t happen to them.

This state’s politicians, and the judges who’ll likely see some of them in court, never should forget the political corruption tutorial Zagel delivered in December 2011. He first spoke in generalities about the need for tougher penalties to discourage corruption here. Then he handed 14 years to a man whose privileged life had taken him from Northwestern University to Pepperdine Law, to a job as a Cook County prosecutor, to the Illinois General Assembly, to the United States Congress, to the governorship of Illinois. That man today is imprisoned in Colorado, scheduled for release in 2024.

Zagel explained why

Blagojevich’s crimes were so destructive, why corruption is a more serious crime than judges in Illinois had previously treated it. He essentially told other judges that prosecutors and courageous jurors can do only so much, that courts must stiffen corruption penalties. The harm in these cases, Zagel said, isn’t measured in the value of money or property.

“The harm is the erosion of public trust in government.” When a governor goes bad, he damages a system that relies on the willing participation of its citizens. “You,” Zagel said, looking at Blagojevich, “did that damage.”

More than six years later, Zagel’s most important lesson for the political class of Illinois stands unrefuted: If citizens place their trust in you, then you can ruin your life and victimize your loved ones just as this criminal freely chose to do to his. That warning is our focus today, as it was on the day of sentencing: Corruption doesn’t just happen; people who may have fine attributes, impressive resumes and substantial accomplishments make it happen. Exemplary fathers and mothers, career professionals, officials who have done many good things for the people they serve — these otherwise upstanding folks, not just thieving mopes, drive the Illinois culture of political sleaze. Often, Zagel said, these perps may think their many good deeds more than offset their crimes. Not so. Zagel acknowledged that, yes, as governor Blagojevich had acted for the good of others: “Every governor, even our worst, helps someone. … Very few criminals are all bad. … I am more

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Conservative columnist calls GOP “the party of old, white men”

Joe Lippard

Opinions Editor

Conservative politicians seem to be dropping out of Congress like flies. Last week, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan announced he wouldn’t seek reelection in 2018. This leaves the Republican seat in Wisconsin’s 1st district open between two Democrats, a Republican who has hardly raised any money and Paul Nehlen. Nehlen is the leading Republican in the race; he is a politician who calls himself “pro-white,” according to the Washington Post, and controversial website Breitbart has dropped him because

of his “clearly anti-Semitic and white nationalist comments.” Nehlen has been permanently banned from Twitter for racist language, according to NPR. I shouldn’t have to even say how bizarre I find it that a white nationalist politician who was dropped by Brietbart for being too anti-Semitic is the front-running Republican in Paul Ryan’s district. That’s just crazy to me. Breitbart has been called out multiple times for having a rather anti-Semitic stance by such publications as the New York Times. It’s absurd that even they know this guy would do irreparable harm to their brand.

In addition to Ryan’s retirement leaving his seat open to a white nationalist Republican front-runner, Pennsylvania Republican Charlie Dent announced that he would be leaving Congress in the “coming weeks.” Dent had announced last year that he

would not seek reelection in 2018, according to CNBC. Dent is a more moderate Republican, having criticized Donald Trump several times. No political party should be a party of yes-men for the president to order around. That’s incredibly dangerous and it runs entirely against what the Founding Fathers tried to prevent by establishing the separation of powers in the first place. All these Republicans who are actually willing to stand up to Trump for some of the unconstitutional things he has proposed shouldn’t be leaving; they should be staying and standing up for what they know is right.

Looking at a photo of Congressional GOP leaders Trump tweeted on the same day as Ryan’s retirement, conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin is not pleased with the party to which she used to belong.

In an interview with Politico, she described the Republican Party as “the caricature the left always said it was – the party of old white men.” She elaborated, “And that has become more so in the age of Donald Trump, when he is actively courting and stoking white resentment.”

I agree with Rubin. Look at Trump’s cabinet, for example. Out of the 16 current members of Trump’s official cabinet, there are three women (two white) and one black man. In the photo that Trump tweeted out on the same day that Ryan announced his retirement, every Republican Congressional leader was a white man, and Ryan was the youngest one in the room.

Moreover, I agree with Rubin that Trump is “stoking white resentment.”

He legitimately began his

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These are resistance heroes?

Democrats now exalt the guys who abused government power Matt Welch Los Angeles Times (TNS) During his half-century spent defending Americans’ civil liberties, here’s what has changed, according to lawyer Alan Dershowitz: “Now conservatives have become civil libertarians, and liberals have become strong supporters of law enforcement, the Justice Department and the FBI,” the professor and pundit said after dining with President Donald Trump on Tuesday night.

That snorting sound you hear? That’s a thousand libertarians shooting coffee through their noses at the notion that the GOP is newly sympathetic to issues of law enforcement overreach and intrusive investigative tools.

Republicans had an opportunity as recently as three months ago to rein in warrantless snooping under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. What did they do? They voted overwhelmingly to reauthorize the practice for another six years: 191-45 among GOP members in the House, 43-7 in the Senate.

It’s unfortunate how wrong Dershowitz is about the Republican Party. But what’s

also depressing is that he may be right about the Democrats. In their efforts to oust a potentially lawless president, they are exalting a rogue’s gallery of surveillance-state officials who have abused their power.

Take James Clapper. The man who oversaw a vast surveillance apparatus as director of national intelligence under President Obama is now the toast of left-leaning media outlets including Salon, the Guardian and the Huffington Post for questioning Trump’s “fitness to be in office,” saying that Watergate “pales” in comparison to the current crisis, and quipping that Russian President Vladimir Putin treats Trump “like an asset.”

California Democrat Rep. Adam B. Schiff tweeted his Clapper endorsement last year: “James Clapper is a patriot who served his country for 50 years & knows dangerous bluster when he sees it. So yes, he’s an authority on DJT.” But as Schiff certainly knows through his work on the House intelligence committee, Clapper straight-up lied to Congress and the American people in March 2013 when asked by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) whether the National Security

Agency collects “any type of data at all” on millions of Americans. “No sir. Not wittingly,” Clapper replied. Three months later, after the revelations of phone logs and email data collected by the NSA made front pages, Clapper characterized his lame answer as the “least untruthful” way he felt he could respond. If Trump and his B-movie gang of hangers-on are eventually to be tripped up on a series of lying and obstruction-style charges, surely there are better character witnesses for the prosecution than a perjurer.

It’s difficult these days to get the latest #resistance news without encountering some of Clapper’s partners in government malfeasance. One of MSNBC’s latest contributor hires, for example, is former Obama-administration CIA Director John Brennan. Like former FBI director James B. Comey (coming soon to a bookstore near you!) Brennan is one of the more melodramatic voices on Twitter, delivering stern lectures to a presidential interloper who dares impugn our noble intelligence state.

“When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known,” Brennan tweeted

at Trump last month in a characteristic effort, “you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America. … America will triumph over you.”

(McCabe, the FBI deputy director who got fired the day before his planned retirement, raised a quarter-million dollars for a legal defense fund within six hours, helped out by retweets from the likes of MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.)

Brennan’s moral compass has not always been so prominently displayed. During his tenure as CIA director, the agency got caught spying on the Senate Intelligence Committee’s computers. When confronted by then-Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) about it, Brennan used the same how-dare-they tone he now reserves for the president: “Nothing could be further from the truth,” he said at first.

“We wouldn’t do that. I mean, that’s just beyond the scope of reason.”

By uncritically cheering on such flawed actors, the Trump opposition is sending a clear if unwitting message to future

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GOP FROM PAGE 6 presidential campaign by calling Mexicans rapists and saying that criminals came from “all over South and Latin America, and it’s coming probably— probably— from the Middle East.” All of these countries (and continents) that Trump is painting with one broad stroke have one thing in common: people of color. Trump plays identity politics so that he can rile up the majority population in the country and make them angry about foreigners.

But Rubin wasn’t done with her evisceration of her former party. Actually speaking of identity politics, Rubin told Politico that such tactics are “a dead end for the party. It’s a dead end because it’s immoral and anti-American to base an entire political movement on one racial

GOP FROM PAGE 6 concerned with the occasions when you wanted to use your powers to do things that were only good for yourself.”

None of us ever will know how many exemplary people were cheated out of careers in government, or how many employers lost chances at state contracts because, during the Blagojevich years, the fix was in. His crowning betrayal: He tried to sell a U.S. Senate seat that belonged to the people of Illinois.

In writing about Blagojevich, we’ve acknowledged that we aren’t uninvolved parties. U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald’s sentencing memorandum to Judge Zagel noted that Blagojevich’s

DEMOCRATS FROM PAGE 6 abusers of power: To rehabilitate your image, simply oppose the president with enough flowery adjectives. I predict we will hear more such performances — complete with applause from progressives — during the upcoming book tours of Comey and former CIA Director Michael Hayden.

To the extent that these for-

group, and it’s a dead end because that’s not America and [what America] is becoming.”

Rubin is correct here. You can’t build your entire political movement solely on being a certain type of person.

Usually, when a movement is about a person’s identity, there’s some actual systemic injustice being perceived, which is what’s actually being talked about, but in the case of the Republican party that Rubin describes, that “injustice” simply isn’t there; Its just about getting foreigners out.

Moreover, Rubin makes an important distinction between being a Republican and being a conservative. I also agree with this point. At this point in time, neither the Republican party as a whole nor their talking heads exactly stand for tenants of less government, the free market or “fiscal conservatism,” as Rubin puts it. They

offenses included “demanding the firing of the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board members in exchange for assistance to the Tribune Company for financing in relation to the sale of Wrigley Field.”

Lawyers for Blagojevich and other defendants can argue ad infinitum about when political conduct becomes criminal conduct. But on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court again made clear that public service doesn’t mean self-service.

We hope all judges remember this when they sentence corrupt public servants. Just as we hope Illinois pols remember the fate of a man much like themselves.

He used to be Gov. Rod Blagojevich. mer officials have direct knowledge of matters relevant to the Trump/Russia investigation — and Comey, at least, certainly does — we need to hear from them. But if in these fraught political times we’re taking our moral cues from a gang of former intelligence officials, then our problems run deeper than — and will outlast — the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

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Junior infielder, Jarrod Watkins (2) leads the Sycamores in batting average with at least 15 games played and hits.

Sycamores travel to take on Boilermakers Jay Adkins Reporter

On Wednesday, the Indiana State University Sycamores baseball team will travel to West Lafayette, Indiana to face off against the Purdue University Boilermakers. The two teams also competed against each other Tuesday night in Terre Haute in the first part of a two-day double header.

Indiana State is 17-13 on the season and current-

ly on a two-game losing streak, with both losses coming against the Illinois State University Redbirds this past week in a MVC series weekend. Junior infielder Jarrod Watkins leads the Sycamores in batting average with at least 15 games played (.317), hits (39), and is tied for the team lead in runs with fellow junior infielder Jake Means at 21. Jake Means and redshirt senior infielder Dane Giesler are both tied for the team lead in home runs with six hom-

Brittany Neeley named MVC Female Track Athlete of the Week Andrew Hile

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Brittany Neeley has been named the Missouri Valley Conference Female Track Athlete of the Week, the Valley announced Tuesday afternoon.

Brittany Neeley // Senior // Greentown, Ind. (Eastern HS) Brittany Neeley had a stellar weekend at the Tiger Track Classic, winning the invitational section of the women’s 1500-me-

ter run on Friday with a new lifetime-best time of 4:22.31, which is the second-best time in Sycamore history, currently leads the MVC and is 36th in the NCAA East Region. On Saturday Neeley completed her weekend by winning the 800-meter run, crossing the finish line at 2:08.73, holding off second place by less than a second. Her time of 2:08.15 from Ole Miss still leads the MVC and is 35th in the East Region.

ers each. Junior infielder Romero Harris leads the team in runs batted in with 22 on the season.

Both junior left-handed pitcher Triston Polley and junior right-handed pitcher Tyler Ward have led the pitching staff of the Sycamores. The two are both tied for the team lead in wins with 5 each. Jarrod Watkins leads all fielders on the team in assists with 91 on the season. Dane Giesler leads all fielders in putouts and double plays with 258 and 19 on the

season, respectively.

The Purdue University Boilermakers are 15-15 on the season and currently on a five-game losing streak, including losses against the Indiana University Hoosiers twice (14-1 and 7-5), the Ball State University Cardinals (2-0), and the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers twice (22-7 and 188). For the Boilermakers, sophomore outfielder Skyler Hunter leads the team in hits and batting average with 41 and .336, re-

spectively. Junior infielder Jacson McGowan leads the team in home runs with nine homers on the season. Jacson McGowan also leads the team in runs batted in with 37 on the season. Junior left-handed pitcher Gareth Stroh leads the team in wins with three on the season. Jacson McGowan leads all fielders in putouts with 242 on the season. Senior infielder Harry Shipley leads all fielders in assists with 74 on the season.

With the season half-

way over and the Missouri Valley Conference tournament in over a month, the Sycamores have plenty of time to fix mistakes and get their season back on track.

The Indiana State University Sycamores will compete against the Purdue University Boilermakers this Wednesday in West Lafayette, Indiana at 6:00 p.m.

Softball hosts Evansville Wednesday Garrett Short Reporter

The Indiana State softball team hosts Evansville for a doubleheader Wednesday afternoon after coming away with a 2-1 series win over Southern Illinois this past weekend.

Evansville (11-26, 4-10 in MVC) has lost 7 straight games including being swept by both Missouri State and Illinois State.

The Sycamores’ (20-19, 7-7 in MVC) series win over SIU was shocking because the Salukis were picked to finish second in the conference in the MVC Preseason Poll. ISU shut the door on the SIU offense by allowing three or less runs in each game of the series. The series win could be a source of momentum going forward for Head Coach Mike Perniciaro’s team.

Momentum has been behind ISU sophomore Leslie Sims all season. After hitting .368 as a freshman, Sims has been unstoppable in her second year in Terre Haute. With

an absurd .414 batting average she has been a nightmare for opposing pitchers. She doesn’t stop being a threat after she leaves the batter’s box either. Sims is a perfect 17-17 on stolen base attempts this season which is the second most in the MVC. Sims has been dangerous at the plate this year but ISU as a whole hasn’t exactly been lethal. The team brings in a respectable but not eye-popping overall batting average of .264. Evansville, on the other hand, has really struggled at the plate. The Purple Aces own a .226 batting average, the lowest in the conference.

Evansville has been led by freshman Eryn Gould this season who is hitting .353. The issue for Evansville has been finding production outside of Gould.

Their second best hitter is hitting at just a .254 average. If ISU can provide run support for their pitchers then the Sycamores could manage back to back series wins.

Limiting runs by their

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Leslie Sims (20) is a perfect 17-17 on stolen base attempts this season which is the second most in the MVC.

opponent has proved difficult at times for ISU this season. The team heads into Wednesday’s doubleheader with the third worst ERA in the conference at 3.22. Evansville posts a slightly better ERA coming in at 3.01.

Evansville has Morgan Florey to thank for keeping their team ERA in the vicinity of 3. She has thrown a whopping 146.2 innings and posts a 2.05 ERA. Florey has earned 8

of Evansville’s 11 wins this season and led the conference in strikeouts a year ago. If ISU wants to come away with one or both of the games on Wednesday they will have to go through Florey.

ISU won the season series last year against Evansville 2-1 on the road. This year they play two games at home on Wednesday and the series finale next Tuesday down in Evansville.