April 25, 2018

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Volume 125, Issue 77

Honors council hosts interview workshop Rus’sel Butts Report The Career Center Advisors, Dustin Bryant, and Stephanie Jeffers answered the question of their greatest weakness, and many others at the Honors Council Interview workshop held on Monday in Pickerel Hall.

“Your interview begins the moment you leave the house,” Bryant said. “Make sure you are prepared since that is the main thing. You also need to know your resume inside and out and be ready to back up your points with concrete examples.”

The career center has many resources for students to utilize to prepare for an interview. These include the career center clothing closet where students can pick up professional clothing for free.

Students may also have mock inter-

views and resume/cover letter checkups.

These are all to make sure students get their foot in the door, and they are ready to tackle any questions the interviewer may have.

“I recommend that students do one mock interview each semester,” Bryant said. “That way you are getting a different perspective as you will get a new advisor interviewing you every time along with your resume being updated each semester.”

There are many nuances involved in an interview since each one can be different.

Bryant mentioned to not lean back in your chair as this shows disinterest in the activity. He also stated that interviewees should not fidget with their hands as this makes them look nervous and unable to handle the responsibilities of the position.

Weakness questions are some of the most challenging students will have to face, and Bryant offered some advice by

Spring commencement approaches as seniors prepare for graduation

saying, “If you are ever asked a weakness question, then answer it by showing how you overcame that weakness. You want positivity to be the last thing they remember in the answer, not the negativity.”

Jeffers added on to this by saying students do not need to spill their guts in an interview.

“Focus on something you can improve upon, and do not make it the worst quality about you,” Jeffers said. “Only give one strength and one weakness because if you give too many traits, the interviewer will believe you are not listening to their question.”

Bryant explained that when people get tense during the final part of the interview, you could relieve this tension by thinking about the task in a different light.

“Think about interviewing as a conversation between you and the employer,” said Bryant. “Your answers should be between 1 – 2 minutes in length. The

Plan to donate your time to Donaghy Day

Patrick Chavis Report

Jack Gregory Report

The May commencement ceremony for graduating seniors of both graduate and undergraduate programs will be held in the Hulman center on Saturday, May 12.

Due to the large number of students whom are graduating this May, the ceremony will be split into two different time slots so as to prevent the ceremony from running on too long.

The first session will begin at 10 a.m. and will consist of students who are graduating from the College of Arts & Sciences, Scott College of Business, and Bayh College of Education.

Starting at 3 p.m., students from the College of Technology and College of Health& Human Services will have their ceremony.

For those who want professional pictures taken prior to the ceremony, a professional photographer will be available at 8 a.m. for those attending the 10 a.m. ceremony and again at noon for those attending the afternoon ceremony. These photographers will be located in the Heritage Lounge in Tirey Hall.

April Hay, the Department Head in the Registar and Records office explains why it’s appropriate to have these two separate ceremonies as opposed to just having one ceremony, which was the case prior to Spring 2014.

“Spring 2014 was the most recent commencement ceremony in which tickets were required,” said Hay. Hay also explains the reasoning behind getting rid of the requirement for family members or other guests to have a ticket to attend graduation, which hasn’t been an issue within the past four years.

“Due to increased enrollment and student completion, more students, families, and friends are attending the graduation ceremonies, and so to eliminate the need for tickets, which placed a restriction on who could attend, the university introduced two spring commencement ceremonies to accommodate the participants and their family and friends,” Hay said.

According to the Registar’s office, there will be 928 undergraduate students and 332 graduate students that will be eligible to walk in the morning ceremony.

For the afternoon session there are 906 undergraduates and 332 graduate students who will be qualified to walk

Every student who has been here since they were a freshman remembers their first Donaghy Day – a day dedicated to improving the community in which we all live once we start attending the university.

Donaghy Day is all about public service and ISU students and faculty remain dedicated to that cause throughout the month of April, during which there are several Donaghy Days for people to get involved with. Different colleges within the university have their own event and while most of those days have passed, Indiana State University’s Health and Human Services and the College of Arts and Sciences both have opportunities, on Thursday, April 26 and Saturday, April 28, respectively, for those who wish to get involved.

This Thursday, students will be going to Deming Elementary School to help with the school’s Spring Carnival from 3:30 to 6 p.m. Saturday has a number of different events for students to help out with. Check in is between 8 and 8:30 a.m. at Tirey Hall. Each job varies in length, so be sure to check the times for whatever event is being signed up for.

There are still spots open for

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as well.

“Historically, Indiana State University has had a great turnout for commencement, and for those who are not able to attend the ceremony, the university provides a live stream of the ceremonies on that day,” Hay said.

However, with the graduation ceremony itself only 17 days away seniors are mentally, physically and emotionally preparing for the most important day of their college careers.

Finally all the late nights at the library, cramming of information within short periods of time and general determination to succeed have finally paid off for those who will be graduating.

Many are certainly feeling mixed emotions as the prospect of them graduating and what that means starts to settle in.

Chris Zander, a senior in Communications explained his feelings about going into graduation.

“I’m a little scared that it is so close because it doesn’t feel like I’ve been at ISU for almost four years but at the same time I’m excited to move onto the next chapter of my life,” Zander said. “My plans after school include hitting the job market hard and to try to make the best of the degree that I will have” Megan Garcia, a senior in Criminology shared a similar sentiment towards graduation.

“I am honestly feeling an abundance of feelings, and I’m feeling stressed out currently because of all the papers, finals, and tests that are coming up,” Garcia stated.

“However I’m also feeling excited because I will be a first generation college graduate in my family and means that the next chapter in my life will now be opened up. After school I plan on taking a little bit of time for myself and to be patient finding the first job I want to have in my field of study.”

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The Career Center on campus offeres various resources to prepare students on their interview day.

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Semi anual spring donaghy day will be held on Thursday, April 26. Students will have the opportunity to give back to the Terre Haute community.

working the carnival on Thursday and if you have no way of getting to the elementary school, some people have agreed to use their cars to carpool. For Saturday, almost every job has spots available.

In the morning, volunteers can help with greeting during the third annual Emily’s Walk, a fundraising walk dedicated to benefactor of the Wabashiki wildlife area, Emily Herrington. Other volunteers can

help with check-in for the walk or sign up to be a trail guide. Other jobs include gardening at the ISU Community Garden, cleaning and sanitizing at the Human Society, engaging with residents at Signature Healthcare, restoring a building with Habitat for Humanity or helping out at the Habitat for Humanity Restore, and honey

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Brand new study rooms available in the HMSU Patrick Chavis Report With finals just around the corner, students prepare for what many of them could consider one of the most challenging weeks of the entire semester.

By this point students for the most part have learned most if not all of the assigned course material from their classes and will now have to prepare for the final test or paper that their teacher may throw at them.

To give students another option to consider when studying for finals in the next coming weeks, the HMSU has decided to have rooms reserved for students looking for a nice quiet room to study in.

The HMSU’s study rooms will be available to students starting April 30 and ending May 11.

Mark Adkins, the Director of the HMSU explained that the idea for the study rooms had only been recently thought up and that this would be the first year that the HMSU would be implementing this service.

“The idea was brought back

from a meeting with the Association of College Unions International in Ohio,” Adkins said.

Adkins further explained that if the study room services prove to be effective and students fully utilize these rooms, then the HMSU will consider extending this service for certain times throughout the school year in the future.

The rooms in general due to their size are more geared toward groups of people needing a place to meet to get projects done as opposed to individual people reserving a room, but people are still welcome to do the latter.

Throughout a regular school week these rooms are often reserved for club or organizational meetings and gatherings.

With that in mind, since the reservation service is occurring during the last two weeks of school, school organizations will hardly interfere with students being able to reserve rooms due to the fact that most organizations do not meet during study or finals week.

Lucky for students, the process that they have to follow in order to reserve a room is pretty self-ex-

Mat Adkins

planatory and takes hardly any time at all.

“All people need to do as far as being able to reserve a room is to sign in at the information desk downstairs and ask if any study rooms are available at that time,”

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Temple suspends fraternity while police investigate allegations of sexual assault at parties Barbara Laker The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)

Temple University has suspended one of its fraternities as Philadelphia and campus police investigate at least two sexual assaults at fraternity parties.

Temple police said they had received “multiple credible reports” of alleged crimes at Alpha Epsilon Pi’s house. The allegations include sexual assault, underage drinking, and possible drug use.

Two of the alleged victims are 19-year-old Temple students.

The first alleged victim was sexually assaulted at a party in February and reported the incident to police in April. This case has been referred to the District Attorney’s Office, said Philadelphia Police Capt. Mark Burgmann, who heads the Special Victims Unit.

The second alleged victim told police that in March she went to a party

at the fraternity where she was given several drinks.

“She said she became dizzy and disoriented, and that’s the last thing she remembered until she woke up in bed with one of the members of the fraternity,” Burgmann said at a news conference Friday.

“She believes she was sexually assaulted,” he said.

A third alleged victim spoke with Temple police recently. Burgmann said he didn’t have details about the incident, but hoped detectives will be able to speak the woman next week. No charges have been filed and Burgmann couldn’t say whether detectives have names of possible suspects.

In a statement, Alpha Epsilon Pi said the fraternity members “are appalled by these allegations against our entire chapter. This alleged behavior is absolutely against everything that we stand for as brothers of AEPI, as students at Temple University, and as members of our greater

community.”

The statement further said that the fraternity had “absolutely no knowledge of the actions alleged about our chapter. If we determine that one of our members is responsible — or even has knowledge of who internally or externally is responsible — we will deal with them to the full extent of our powers, including beginning expulsion proceedings from the fraternity and turning them over to local and school authorities.”

Temple urged students to be vigilant.

If students are of age to drink alcohol, they should not leave any beverage unattended, the Temple statement said.

When socializing, students should make a pact to stay together and not leave anyone behind, Burgmann said. “If you go to a party together, leave together,” he said.

Former Eastern nursing student sues university Kelly McKinney Richmond Register, Ky. (TNS) A little more than two weeks before Eastern Kentucky University’s Board of Regents voted to suspend the school’s associate nursing program, one of the program’s former students filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming the university, an instructor and the department chair violated his rights under the state and federal constitutions.

The suit, filed March 21 by former student Jacob Blevins in U.S. District Court Eastern District of Kentucky, claims instructor Jacquelyn Pegram retaliated after Blevins wrote a negative evaluation of a clinical day, held Feb. 27, 2016, overseen by Pegram, and that the university wrongly allowed Pegram to see the evaluation before the end of the semester.

Days after filling out the evaluation, Blevins was scheduled for a second clinical day, but became sick with pneumonia, the suit states. Pegram’s response to Blevins’ notification that he would be absent made it evident that she had seen the evaluation, the suit alleges. Pegram, who the suit states had only interacted with Blevins on his first clinical

day, lectured him on his “poor clinical attitude” and lack of professionalism.

On his rescheduled clinical day, Pegram gave Blevins an “unsafe,” without explaining why and without following up with Blevins in any way, the suit claims.

Pegram also did not file a report of the alleged unsafe event, which she was required to do under federal and state law, as well as by University of Kentucky Hospital policy, the suit alleges.

The suit also claims department chair Bethanie Gamble failed to act as a neutral mediator, and failed to review the patient’s chart. Gamble instead presented Blevins with termination paperwork and enrollment forms for other schools.

Blevin’s attorney, Whitney Dunlap, who filed the suit on Blevin’s behalf, said the university failed to follow its own policies, and failed to review objective information.

“Eastern acted rashly in accepting the recommendation of (Pegram),” Dunlap said. “They had available to them the answer to the question of whether or not the young man had actually done something that was not safe.”

Two and a half years into his program, Blevins was

expelled from any future clinical classes, the suit states. He filed an appeal, which was denied in April 2017.

“I don’t think Eastern really took the interest of the student to heart here,” Dunlap said. “His career hinged on this one wholly subjective statement.”

Blevins, an Air Force veteran who served as an aerospace medical technician, has since enrolled in a nursing program at the University of Kentucky.

The suit claims Eastern Kentucky University violated three provisions of the U.S. Constitution.

The first claim is that the university failed to provide Blevins due process as required by its student policies and procedures, and that failure violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s prohibition against states denying anyone equal protection of the laws.

It also alleges that Blevins was discriminated against because of his gender, in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments applicable to federally funded education programs.

The suit alleges Pegram and Gamble also violated the First Amendment guaranteeing free speech by improperly disclosing his review of Pegram.

“The defendants ... have

acted toward (Blevins) with oppression, fraud, malice, with gross negligence, and with the intentional indifference to plaintiff ’s rights, both substantive and procedural,” the suit reads.

It also asserts that “The defendants’ conduct ... was so outrageous and intolerable as to be offensive against generally accepted standards of decency and morality.”

The complaint demands a jury trial, and asks for damages to compensate Blevins for his psychological and emotional distress and other damages, for punitive damages, for interest on any judgment returned and for court costs and attorney fees.

The suit names the university, Pegram and Gamble as defendants.

Eastern Kentucky University chief external affairs officer Kristi Middleton said Monday the university does not comment on active litigation.

Despite high enrollment and a good graduation rate, the associate nursing program was one of 17 suspended by an April vote of Eastern’s Board of Regents to help bridge a $25-million funding gap.

Reach Kelly McKinney at 624-6626; follow her on Twitter @kellymckinney18.

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Toronto suspect charged with 10 counts of murder, remanded to custody Levon Sevunts DPA (TNS) The man suspected of deliberately driving a van into pedestrians along a busy street in Toronto was charged Tuesday with 10 counts of first-degree murder and 13 counts of attempted murder, the Toronto Star and other media reported.

Alek Minassian, arrested on Monday, made a brief appearance at a Toronto court and has been remanded to custody. His next hearing has been scheduled for May 10.

The 25-year-old was arrested after the van he was driving jumped the curb and mowed down pedestrians in the busy suburb of North York, killing at least 10 and injuring 15.

Minassian, in a white prison jumpsuit during his appearance, does not yet have a lawyer and was represented by a duty council.

Speaking to reporters early Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said there is no evidence to suggest the attack was connected to terrorism.

“The events that took place yesterday in Toronto were a senseless attack and a horrific tragedy,” Trudeau said.

“I speak for every one of us in thanking the first responders at the scene,” he said. “They faced danger without a moment of hesitation and there is no doubt that their courage saved lives and prevented further injuries.”

Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders said Minassian, whose alleged actions “definitely look deliberate,” had no prior interactions with Toronto police and was not known to the service.

A LinkedIn profile for a man of the same name as Minassian states he has been a student at Toronto’s Seneca College from 20112018.

Trudeau said that the situation was being closely monitored and that law enforcement around the country were working “to ensure the safety and security of all Canadians.”

CBC News identified one of the 10 people killed in the van attack as Anne Marie D’Amico.

The South Korean gov-

ernment said on its official Facebook site that two of its nationals were killed, and another was injured, the Toronto Star reported.

The incident took place on Monday afternoon at the busy intersection of Yonge Street and Finch Avenue.

Residents have set up a makeshift memorial along Yonge Street, where people have been leaving flowers and candles and writing messages of support and condolence on large pieces of cardboard.

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The more humans spread across the globe, the smaller other mammals get Deborah Netburn Los Angeles Times (TNS) Thirteen thousand years ago Southern California was crawling with enormous mammals — all of which are extinct today.

There were massive mammoths three times bigger than modern-day elephants, giant ground sloths up to 20 feet in length, and strange, armadillo-like beasts known as glyptodons that were roughly the size of a VW bus.

And don’t forget the llamas, camels, dire wolves, cave lions and saber-toothed cats that all called the area home as well.

Today, the largest local land mammal is the bighorn sheep, which weighs about 300 pounds.

And a similar trend can be found on all the continents of the planet.

Over the past 100,000 years, the mean body mass of mammals in Eurasia dropped by 50 percent and by an order of magnitude in Australia. More recently, there was a tenfold drop in the average size of mammals in the Americas.

So, what led to this dramatic shift in mammal size worldwide?

According to a study published Thursday in Science, the answer is us.

“When we look at the fossil record, what we find is that every time hominids get to a new continent there is an extinction event, and that extinction is always large-bodied animals,” said Felisa Smith, a paleoecologist at the University of New Mexico, who led the work.

Her research also revealed that if this pattern continues, in a mere 200 years the largest land mammals left on Earth will be the size of a domestic cow.

“And it shouldn’t escape your notice that we take care of cows,” she added. “If they survive, it’s because we want them here.”

Scientists have long known that the big land mammals were the first to disappear in extinction events that occurred in the past 125,000 years, but there was disagreement about why that might be the case.

Some argued that the biggest animals may have been more susceptible to changes in climate or the environment. Others thought the increasingly skilled hunting prowess of Homo sapiens was the culprit.

What Smith and her colleagues found is that it wasn’t just our own species that was responsible for these global changes in animal size; instead, it was the rise and dispersal of hominids in general.

“We are not the only species of homos that ever hunted,” she said. “Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, Neanderthals and Denisovans all used tools and hunted as far as we know.”

For this study she set out to discover what effect on mammal-size hominids as a group had, and whether it could be detected.

Her first step was to look at the fossil record going back 125,000 years to see if the extinction of large mammals on the various continents coincided with when the first hominids arrived there.

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On a late December morning in 2015, a family of elephants moves across the grasslands of the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya.

This line of inquiry revealed that mammal body mass did indeed drop dramatically when hominids arrived in in Eurasia around 100,000 years ago, when they arrived in Australia around 60,000 years ago and when they migrated to the Americas around 13,000 years ago.

In addition, she found that the extinction events were swifter and more dramatic as time went on. The extinction event was slow and long in Eurasia, and much speedier and deadlier in the Americas. This suggests that as humans developed more advanced weaponry, they

were more effective at eradicating large animals quickly, she said.

A slightly different story came to light in Africa, however, where the largest mammals on Earth reside today. According to the fossil record, the mean size of African mammals 125,000 years ago was roughly 50 percent smaller than you would expect, based on the size of the land mass they inhabited.

Smith and her colleagues conclude that the size of large mammals on that conti-

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indianastatesman.com DONAGHY FROM PAGE 1 suckle removal at Dobbs Park with Trees Inc. There’s even a job that requires volunteers to help paint a mural, install artwork, and help clean up the Garden of Eden on Locust Street. No gardening experience or artistic ability is necessary!

Donaghy Day is named after professor of Life Sciences, Fred Donaghy, who graduated from Indiana State Normal School, ISU’s former moniker, in 1912.

The day was first started in 1979 in order beautify the campus and the surrounding community. It is one of Indiana State’s most important traditions as it not only allows us to give back to our community, but also shows new students what the university is all about.

In 2015, Washington Monthly ranked ISU first in civic engagement and the reason for that is right in the university’s mission statement, “Indiana State University combines a tradition of strong undergraduate and graduate education with a focus on

STUDY FROM PAGE 1 said Adkins.

Adkins explained that reservations would be set in two-hour blocks, so that a large number of students can cycle through these rooms throughout the day.

The rooms themselves will remain as is and students will be able rearrange the room however they see fit.

“The rooms will be available to students from 8am until midnight and for the most part will be located on the 3rd and 4th floors,” Adkins said.

Adkins explained he is very optimistic about the positive impact that he believes this program will have on students and their studying habits.

“I personally think that this

COUNTS FROM PAGE 2 Toronto Mayor John Tory has suspended city council meetings on Tuesday, and cities across Canada have lowered their flags

Monday, April 23, 2018 • Page 3 community and public service,” and in its vision statement, “Inspired by a shared commitment to improving our communities, Indiana State will be known nationally for academic, cultural, and research opportunities designed to ensure the success of its people and their work.”

Community engagement and, in particular, Donaghy Day are not simply empty statements and traditions, but rather and integral part of who the Sycamores are.

Community engagement is important as it shows that not only are we a part of our university community, but a part of the larger Terre Haute community as a whole. It shows that we care and that we want to improve our school and our city so that both can reach their potentials.

For more information on any of the jobs mentioned above or for anyone simply looking for ways to reach out to their community, visit the Community Engagement page on ISU’s website and sign up. There are still plenty of jobs available. service will be successful, our office has heard informal feedback from students saying they will use the service during study and finals week,” Adkins claimed.

Nicole Snare, a junior who works in the HMSU as an information center desk attendant agreed with the idea behind the study room service.

“My supervisor told us about them about a month ago and explained how students would be able to reserve certain rooms when they needed to during study and finals week,” Snare said. “I will probably not use the study rooms but I do think it’s a great idea and I think it”ll be successful for a lot of commuter students or those who live off campus and need a quiet place to study”

MAMMALS FROM PAGE 2 nent may have been affected by hominid hunters going back more than a million years.

“There was a long history of hominids and megafauna interaction in Africa,” Smith said.

“This finding suggests there was already an impact on animal size at this time.”

To confirm the hypothesis that the decrease in mammal size was directly related to hominid influence and not other factors, Smith and her team also looked

at a database of fossils going back 65 million years to see how extinction events were correlated with climate change and other factors. They also looked to see if in the time period before 125,000 years ago large animals were more likely to go extinct than small animals.

This analysis revealed that for nearly all of the past 65 million years, climate change has never preferentially led to the extinction of large-bodied animals compared with small-bodied animals. And in fact, no extinction event before the rise of hominids

had ever been worse for large animals compared with smaller ones.

However, Smith cautions that we shouldn’t take these findings to mean that climate change won’t influence future extinctions of big mammals.

“In the past, large mammals were able to adapt to climate change by moving to different regions,” she said. “But we have urbanized most of the land, so they can’t move to cope with the changes.”

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Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Education Recruitment Fair

RHA Res Fest

The Education Recruitment Fair provided students with direct contact to school corporations for professional employment opportunities. Students were able to network in one central location along with Interview schedules which were determined by pre-selection before the fair.

This year’s theme was Carniva for the RHA Res Fest. The booths were hosted by the Hall Councils and included inflatables, silent disco, catering

by Twisted Fry and the Tater Tot Stop.

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THE HANDMAID’S TALE -- “Unwomen” --Episode 202 -- Offred adjusts to a new way of life. The arrival of an unexpected person disrupts the Colonies. A family is torn apart by the rise of Gilead. Janine (Madeline Brewer), shown.

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ creator on going to hell and back again for Emmy-winning show’s second season Kate Feldman

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The homecoming in Gilead doesn’t get any easier.

The second season of the “Handmaid’s Tale” returns to Hulu Wednesday and it’s darker, more depressing and more terrifying than last year — and with eight Emmy awards. But showrunner Bruce Miller isn’t letting the trophies lighten his load.

“If you set out to make an Emmy award-winning television show, that’s the quickest way to not make an Emmy award-winning television show,” he joked to the Daily News. “This story was something that transcended time and specific politics. It mattered to people over time.”

But the sophomore season comes with another conundrum: Margaret Atwood ran out of material.

Where the first 10 episodes covered most of the original 1985 book, Miller was tasked with writing a sequel for the timeless dystopian novel.

Part of that involved working with Atwood. Another part involved the writers’ room. And another involved fulfilling the dreams of a man who first discovered Gilead in college.

“There’s a terror going into a second season of a show that people watched and liked and respected. You feel like you’re going to disappoint people no matter what,” Miller, who said everyone on staff had a different idea on how to continue, told The News. “But it pales in comparison to screwing up ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ in the first place.”

The Hulu adaptation doesn’t screw up “The Handmaid’s Tale.” It glorifies it.

The second season picks up almost right after last year’s end. What happens from there tests every character: Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski) must defend her faith; the Commander (Joseph Fiennes) must protect Gilead; Moira (Samira Wiley) must stay safe; Emily (Alexis Bledel) must stay

alive in the Colonies; and Offred (Elisabeth Moss) must find June.

That line dictates most of the early episodes, the distinct line between June and Offred, between handmaid and human being. It’s a line she has to maintain to keep hope. It’s a line she has to maintain if she wants to escape and find her way home.

It’s a line between brave and stupid.

In Atwood’s novel, the narrator and main character is never identified; she exists simply as Offred. But Miller knew he had to name her.

“I was fascinated by the power of your name and how the handmaids take a patronymic name,” he told The News. “We’re very careful about Mrs. Watterford versus Serena, Commander versus sir.”

And June versus Offred, too: One is a vessel for reproduction, the other a mother, wife and activist.

She has to find a way to function as both.

The new season exists more in a time and place than its first run; shots of Fenway Park and the Boston Globe offices and mentions of “Friends” and Twitter cement Gilead in reality. But the outside world — the #MeToo movement and Time’s Up and the political unease in the country — made “The Handmaid’s Tale” more relevant than ever.

“We’re doing what we can with telling this fictional story with real integrity and trying to get the truth of women who have similar stories,” Samira Wiley, who plays escaped handmaid Moira and June’s best friend, told The News. “It proved how much responsibility we have to get this story right.

The relevance, I hate to use the word ‘happy,’ but the relevance is a happy accident.”

Moira, safely in Canada with June’s husband, seems like she’s moving forward. Emily, trapped in the dusty, radioactive Colonies, is waiting to die.

But Offred has something to fight for: Her unborn child.

There’s a sense, in “The Handmaid’s Tale,” that nothing will ever be OK again. And maybe it never will.

In a month and a half the biggest gaming conference of the year, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, will take place in Los Angeles. This means it is almost time for gamer Christmas. The time every year where gamers get a look at what the big developers will be releasing in the coming months and years.

The first press conference will be on June 9 at 11 a.m. PT with the EA conference. The most likely guess of what will be shown is EA’s sports series. FIFA and Madden always show in some form.

I have a strong feeling that EA will announce the next season of FIFA’s story mode, The Journey.

The past two years, FIFA has had a story mode about a young player becoming a pro and dealing with the life as a young person thrust into such a spotlight. Last year’s FIFA ended the story on a cliff hanger with the main character possibly joining the English National Team, so that is probably where this year’s will pick up.

As far as Madden goes, it is possible that we may see a continuation of the story mode in last years. The more certain thing that EA will show is updates to the Madden competitive circuit.

EA is producing a few projects so those would not be surprising to see at the conference. Those would include the new Battlefield, expansions for “Star Wars Battlefront 2” and the big new project from Bioware “Anthem”.

“Anthem” was shown off a bit last year, and with the recent controversy surrounding Bioware and EA, a good reception of this game is extremely important to both companies.

Microsoft is slated to be first on Sunday. Microsoft has been losing the console war against Sony since this console generation started. They are not only down in terms of console sales, but the console is lacking in big name exclusives.

Microsoft needs this conference to go well. For that the studio needs some good announcements. The two big franchises that would make to sense to bring back are Halo and Gears

of War. It has been a few years since either series saw a new game and would be a big draw for fans. From my perspective, Microsoft should end the rumors surrounding “Fable 4”. Supposedly the game is in development at Playground Games, but nothing has been confirmed by Microsoft. This would not only end the rumors and give fans some solid information, but draw more people back to Xbox with this massive franchise.

Microsoft was recently able to bring “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds” to the Xbox. The game was a hit on PC, and Microsoft will most likely spend some time talking about updates to the game. CD Project Red has made appearances in the past and is set to attend this year. It would not be surprising to see the Polish studio come to this conference to speak about their upcoming “Cyberpunk 2077”.

Sunday night at 6:30 p.m. PT, Bethesda is scheduled to have their conference. To me this conference is the biggest enigma.

While these are all predictions, it is hard to think what this studio will show. It is too soon for more Fallout content and “Wolfenstein 2” released recently. It is possible that a new “DOOM” will be shown, but that is entirely based on the last game releasing in 2016 and it would not be surprising to see. Some are speculating DLC for last year’s “Prey”, but the studio needs to show something for the newest Elder Scrolls game that is in development. The most optimistic view would be that Bethesda does what they did with “Fallout 4” and announce that the game will release later that year. At the very least the new Elder Scrolls being at E3 this year is a safe prediction.

There is not a lot of mystery surrounding the Ubisoft conference on Monday. The studio has already announced they are working on “The Division 2”, “The Crew 2”, “Beyond Good and Evil 2” and “Skull and Bones” so those will most likely be at the conference in some form. There may possibly be news on “Ghost Recon: Wildlands” if the studio is going to continue to support the game. My only real questions

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Glow by the fountain, to be held April 26 Claire Silcox

Features Editor

Party at the Fountain is back for round two on Thursday, April 26, from 8:30 to 11 p.m. at the fountain.

With free food, face painting and a live EDM concert, Dede Plaza will be lit by the glow of neon.

Professional producer and DJ, AVSTIN JAMES, will be traveling from Vancouver to give a free concert to the students who attend.

“20 year old Vancouver native Austin McQuay, better known by his stage name AVSTIN JAMES, has released some of this year’s most promising, electronic mashup tracks. His tracks on Soundcloud and Youtube have been enhanced with millions of views, specializing in upbeat, hard-hitting mashups…” James’ website said.

Some of his mashups are Kendrick Lamar and Whethan, Drake and Manila Killa, and Chance The Rapper and Ship Wrek.

Let’s Glow theme will be celebrated with neon face paint and students are welcome to come decked out in their best neon gear.

Before the stress of finals, this event is being hosted so that students can relax, have fun and jam out with their friends and peers.

It is completely free for ISU students. The Sycamore Leadership Coalition, which is a branch of the Student Government, is hosting the event again after popular demand from students.

This is not the first and hopefully not the last Party at the Fountain that has been put on in ISU history.

E3 FROM PAGE 2 are surrounding the future of the Assassin’s Creed and Splinter Cell franchise. The last Assassin’s Creed game did well so the franchise will most likely continue.

The question is will it continue to be an annualized franchise or take some time between games.

The lead of Splinter Cell, Sam Fisher, recently made an appearance in the most recent Ghost Recon, but the future of the franchise is murky. There have been whispers that a new Splinter Cell is in the works, but this would be the time for solid details.

The final conference is always the Sony conference. They have been going over the top with their presentations recently and this year should be no different.

This conference should mostly be updates and current projects.

Hopefully they will give release dates for “The Last of Us Part 2” and “Days Gone”. “Spider-Man” from Insomniac should be a safe bet with its release date set for September. They may spend some time showing off PlayLink a little more, because it has not seen much press, and give firm details on the upcoming game from From Software that was teased at PSX last year. One thing that I am curious of is what Naughty Dog is doing beyond the Last of Us. I have heard rumors that they are working on an unannounced project and I am hoping that it will end up being a new Jak game, but if this rumor is true E3 would be the time to announce it.

Despite some questions remaining, my overall prediction for E3 2018 is that it will be more of the same form last year. I do not see a lot of new projects being announced, instead focusing on updates about current games.

This may not be the most exciting but important all the same.

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DC Comics publishers Dan Didio, right, and Jim Lee pose for a portrait on May 27, 2015 at DC headquarters in Burbank, Calif.

DC Entertainment publishers talk about redefining Superman at 80 Jevon Phillips

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Here’s the challenge for Dan DiDio and Jim Lee, the publishers of DC Comics as the company celebrates 80 years of Superman and the release of “Action Comics” #1000: What can be done to shake up the Man of Steel? “‘Action Comics’ was defined by Superman since he was on the cover of the first issue. [He’s the] first superhero character. It ultimately not just defined Superman himself but the genre of superheroes,” says DiDio. “That’s why we love celebrating ‘Action Comics’ #1000, ‘cause it wasn’t just about Superman, but really, this entire business is built on that idea.”

DC is also releasing a compilation of Superman stories highlighting some of the key storylines that defined the character. Earlier this year, it was announced that Brian Michael Bendis, a longtime influential Marvel writer who recently defected to DC Comics, would be shaping Superman’s new direction.

“Brian’s really going to put his mark on the character and redefine the mythology of the character,” said Lee. “That’s exciting ‘cause it shows that even after 80 years, there are new ways to rekindle and reignite the mythology.”

We sat down with the duo, with Lee calling in from South-by-Southwest (“It’s like Comic-Con without the superheroes!”) and DiDio at the Burbank, Calif., headquarters of DC Comics to talk Superman, legacy and moving forward.

Q: What was the thinking behind the #1000 numbering? Legacy? To excite collectors and fans with a kind of ‘#1’ mentality?

Jim Lee: It’s interesting that you note that collectors and fans like the appeal of the first issue, but I’ll tell you that historically, the next most important number is 100, and historically, this is the first time that a thousand has been reached. We’re already seeing huge interest in this issue as a milestone issue and that fact that it’s the first book to hit this number. I feel like the marathon runner who just stepped across the finish line and got to work on the thousandth issue given all of the incredible stories that were created prior to it.

Dan DiDio: The reality is that we wanted to embrace the history of the character. The best part about “Action Comics” #1000 itself is that while the story that Jim and Brian Bendis are doing is leading into ultimately the new direction of Superman, there are so many different standalone stories in that [80 years of Superman] book that really capture the essence of this character. So with all the promotion and attention around #1000, I think you’re going to get this beautiful pack-

age of so many stories with all the depth and all the history of who Superman is. If you’re a brand new fan or just have casual awareness of Superman, this is the place to start.

Q: What can you say about the redefining nature of the story and the new direction the Man of Steel will be going in?

Lee: I feel like that’s Brian’s story to tell.

All I can say is that it will be startling. It will be interesting. It will be illuminating. It will usher in a new era for the character, which is what you want. We didn’t want to do a celebratory issue that didn’t mean anything. In walks Brian with this great idea, this great premise, to redefine the character, and it unlocked all these other ideas.

DiDio: Let me spoil it a little bit. Brian’s stuff really does challenge the origin of Superman and calls in some new elements that reinterpret everything that’s happened to him up until this point. The piece that you’re going to see in “Action Comics” #1000 takes place after the events in “Man of Steel,” so you get kind of a preview of what’s to come.

We introduce a new villain, and there’s lots of story beats inside there. More important, when you have as many people buying into this, it becomes a great launchpad for everything that Brian wants to do as well as to get a sense of the scope of the DC Universe.

Q: Society, and the comics that represent it, are changing, but do we need a new Superman?

DiDio: It’s the accessibility and relatability of the character that creates our constant need to really contemporize him and move the stories forward. With so much other media with our characters these days, it’s essential for us to stay as innovative as possible.

So we always feel like we have to be in front of them in our storytelling. Reviewing them and finding ways to freshen them up. I think Superman is the perfect example. You’ve seen so many iterations, but he’s always true to what he is, though he’s still built on today’s ideas.

Q: What was the draw for bringing in Bendis?

Lee: We’re longtime fans of his work at Marvel and really jealous that they had such a prolific writer [who] was driving so much of their narrative, their mythology and their universe. So we knew he’s a creator with big ideas. That’s what you want on your biggest character and your biggest issue. He just came in with a passion that you see was a trademark for the work he did at Marvel.

He’s not a guy [who’s] scared of exploring, experimenting and really burrowing down into what makes characters tick. As Dan alluded to before, we do not keep these characters encased in amber for all eternity. We need to really keep them modern and fresh,

and that requires risk and that requires change and that requires modernizing the mythologies. And we have a fearless writer in Brian, and that’s something that doesn’t happen very often.

DiDio: It goes back to what we’re celebrating — 80 years of Superman. A lot of times when you have a character for that long, you don’t change the character that much. So what we try to do is bring in fresh voices, a fresh set of eyes and new perspectives.

Q: What kinds of plans do you have to bring in diverse voices on some of the bigger books?

DiDio: We do a level of evaluation on all our books, but you have to understand our perspective as publishers. It’s not just about the DC Universe, it’s our entire publishing line. When you encapsulate our entire lines, from what we’re doing now with the introduction of the young adult line, the introduction of a mature line. If you look at the aggregate, we are really diversifying our talent pool and our perspectives on our characters.

The goal is to play to everybody’s strengths and what works best and really find a way to expand out the universe with a much more ambitious publishing schedule.

Lee: To echo what Dan said. I don’t know how familiar you are with our other lines — DC Zoom, DC Ink, the Sandman Universe, even the upcoming Milestone line. There’s a lot of diversity in our ranks, and it really mirrors the audience that buys and reads our content. It’s been a real interesting past couple of years as we’ve ramped up all of these different initiatives, and now that they’re up and running, I think you can just look at the range of creators that we have. I don’t think we’ve ever had as diverse and interesting of a group of creators lined for the entire publishing slate than we do now.

Q: Comics are comics, but nowadays many people are getting their definitions of DC’s superheroes, including Superman, through other media …

DiDio: As comics, we should be the leaders in some ways for a lot of the creative choices. The interesting part about Superman is that he has this weird synergy with the other mediums. We talk about Jimmy Olsen and kryptonite coming from the radio show, and we’ve seen characters being created in other media that we’ve been able to work back through, but still, from our standpoint, we want to be at the forefront of what’s going on.

It’s great to see these things happening — the launch of the “Krypton” show and the fact that “Supergirl” is on the air and other things happening. But for us, it’s about the comics.

It’s a publishing moment, and we want to celebrate it in that fashion.

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How fair housing expands justice Richard H. Sander Los Angeles Times (TNS)

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Professionalism is an important skill for everyone

Rachel Modi Columnist

The thing about getting older and being in college leads to responsibilities on top of responsibilities.

This means being held accountable for our actions, setting priorities, meeting deadlines and upholding expectations.

From the beginning of high school, my teachers attempted to help us step into the pool of professionalism and slowly required more as the years went on. Many made sure that we knew how to send professional emails with the proper greeting and body text, and some even developed our interviewing skills. The problem with some high schools is that they did not drill how to act around issues with a

mature attitude.

First, people have to realize that the whole world doesn’t revolve around them. If an individual is giving up their time to give you an opportunity to better yourself, then you should obviously take advantage of it, but you should not be selfish about it. This means, do not waste someone else’s time to wait on what you should have taken care of before. Respect that others have things to do, sometimes better things to do. If you are wasting their time because you were not prepared enough, then you can bet that your chances are not looking good. This shows how inconsiderate you may be of someone’s time.

Someone putting time and effort into giving you a chance at something and not taking it seriously is a sign of disrespect and proves you are not ready for the real world.

Of course, this comes with tardiness. We all have things to work on, but the most that college students

struggle with is procrastination. For some reason, many of us wait until the very last minute to rush together a four page paper the night before. Or if you are a pro-procrastinator, then throwing together a four page paper two hours before it is due. Procrastinating, but still getting the items done on time, should be considered an Olympic sport, because those students who can put together a decent paper in the shortest amount of time, honestly, deserve a metal. On the other hand, this can be bad with future career goals. If procrastination becomes a habit or ends up being the only method to get your stuff done, then this may impact your job performance and reliability.

We all need to take steps to improving our tardiness with not only turning assignments in, but arriving early or at least on time.

Coming late to the workplace puts you on a lower level of credibility and gives the boss more reasons to fire you.

Lastly, organization ties along in with being on time. If you are not on time, there is a good chance you are also not organized. An unorganized environment is an unorganized mind.

Yes, you hate when your mother yells at you to make sure you clean your room, but while decluttering your surroundings, you are also decluttering your mind. This puts the mind at more ease for an easier and more positive attitude. It is almost like you are lying to your brain by making it seem like you have your stuff together.

Professionalism is required in every career out there, from teaching children to being a surgeon.

It is a skill developed as an individual ages, but should be improved upon and built to meet requirements for their future careers. With the experience we can earn as college students, we can determine the methods and paths to take in order to achieve our goals.

The Fair Housing Act of 1968 — whose 50th anniversary we marked recently — seemed a monumental achievement at the time, a capstone to the historic measures of the 1960s that sought to transform race relations in America. Today, however, many civil rights activists view it largely as a failure because black/white housing segregation remains the norm in too much of urban America.

But something central has been widely overlooked. Fair-housing laws did bring about substantial change in a significant number of American cities. And a large body of careful research shows that in these areas, integration has had remarkable effects in narrowing racial gaps.

Metropolitan black/ white segregation is commonly measured by an “index of dissimilarity,” which describes, on a scale of 0 to 100, the proportion of blacks who would need to move to another block to achieve the same geographic distribution in a metro area as whites (or vice versa). A score of 100 corresponds to complete segregation, and 0 corresponds to complete integration. Many major metro areas — New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis — have indices above 75 or even 80. But a significant number of other metro areas do much better: San Diego, Seattle, San Antonio and Nashville, for example, have indices between 50 and 65.

On nearly every dimension, social and economic conditions are far better for African Americans in moderate- versus high-segregation cities, in San Diego rather than, say, St. Louis. The benefits of lower segregation especially accrue to low- and moderate-income blacks.

In high-segregation areas, unemployment among

young black men averages about three times the white rate; in moderately segregated areas, it’s 1 ½ times. Black couples that include at least one college graduate have earnings that average about 75 percent of white earnings in high-segregation cities; it’s 90 percent in moderately segregated areas. Even age-adjusted death rates differ: They are 42 percent higher for blacks than whites in highly segregated cities, in moderately segregated cities the gap is 14 percent.

To be sure, significant gaps remain in more integrated areas. It’s also true that, to some degree, better black outcomes are due to who is migrating, and once better outcomes mark a neighborhood, that begets lower segregation.

But compelling evidence shows that lower housing segregation itself is a prime driver of the narrowing racial gaps.

Metropolitan housing integration produces greater — and lasting — school integration; it greatly reduces the concentration of poverty in black communities; it puts blacks closer to job opportunities. It is powerfully associated with lower rates of violent crime, a smaller test-score gap between black and white students, and better health outcomes. Of course, all these developments reinforce one another, which is why the racial gaps in integrated areas continue to narrow over time.

Lowering city segregation levels by even 15 or 20 points on a 100-point scale has strong effects in reducing black-white inequality. It reduces racial tensions and produces a broader sense of community. White attitudes in America on matters of race, as measured regularly by the University of Chicago’s General Social Survey, have registered broad increases in tolerance in

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The Democratic wave is receding? Not really Albert R. Hunt Bloomberg View (TNS) Two surveys popped up last week that seem to show improved prospects for Republican House candidates this November. Disregard them!

A Washington Post/ABC News poll released last Monday showed that 47 percent of registered voters prefer the Democratic candidate in their district, as against 43 percent who favor the Republican. The gap was about twice as large at the beginning of the year.

In a Marist Poll that came out Wednesday, voters preferred a Democratic House candidate by a five-percentage-point margin, unchanged from last month.

That kind of mid-sized advantage for Democrats might not be enough to power their quest to regain control of the House of Representatives, for which they will need to pick up two-dozen seats now held

by Republicans.

But Peter Hart, who conducts the Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, which shows a seven-point Democratic advantage, still thinks the blue wave that Democrats hope for is coming.

A Democrat not given to partisan exuberance, Hart cites a more important factor than the generic-preference questions that pollsters are asking now: Intensity.

Two-thirds of Democrats in his survey expressed a strong interest in this year’s election versus 49 percent of Republicans, exactly the intensity advantage Republicans had in 2010, when they won back the House in a landslide.

Other positive indicators for Democrats include the near-record number of congressional Republican retirements.

Money is also pouring in. In two notable upset victories, an Alabama Senate election in December and a March Pennsylvania House contest, the Democratic winners raised more money than they spent. The Political Hotline reported this week that at least one challenger has outraised more than 40 Republican incumbents. That’s unusual.

Most important is to look at what voters already are doing this year at the state and local level. Mark Gersh, a seasoned Democratic strategist with encyclopedic knowledge of political geography, has analyzed the six state-legislative districts that flipped this year from Republicans to

Democrats. None have flipped the other way in 2018.

Two are heavily rural, a Wisconsin state senate district and a Missouri house seat.

In Wisconsin, the victorious Democrat ran 17 percentage points ahead of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 performance in that district and eight points ahead of Barack Obama four years before. That improvement was almost identical in the Missouri venue.

This led the ever cautious Gersh, in a memo, to suggest it’s “another signal that Midwestern rural and small-town districts may be more marginal” for Republicans “than previously thought.”

There also was a huge Democratic victory in a Kentucky state house race in February, with the winner more than doubling the Clinton and Obama tallies there.

On the other hand, the Democratic winner of a Connecticut contest in February barely improved on Clinton’s victory margin in the district and ran behind Obama’s. This could presage trouble for Democrats in that state, where the party’s incumbent governor is unpopular.

On balance, though, there are still lots

of good reasons for Democratic optimism. In Florida, where a half-dozen U.S. House seats, a Senate seat and the governor’s office are in play this fall, a Democrat scored a big February win in a Republican-held statehouse seat in Sarasota, running well ahead of Obama and Clinton. With the huge turnout, Gersh concluded, “This race is a significant trend.”

He perceived the same trend in a New Hampshire victory earlier in the year, noting that “the New Hampshire House typically changes hands when a moderate-high wave is present.”

Trump’s persistent unpopularity, almost a half-year after Republicans passed a taxcut bill and amid a strong economy, may drag down Republicans in other competitive races this year. To be sure, the president still can energize a dispirited base.

In both the special Alabama Senate race last December and the special Pennsylvania congressional contest, election-eve appearances by Trump boosted the Republican turnout, though not by enough to win.

But there are only so many election-eve appearances he can make in the fall, and only so many places he’s likely to help.

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indianastatesman.com FAIR FROM PAGE 6 the last 40 years. But the gains have been especially striking in metro areas with lower segregation.

Importantly, once the black/ white segregation level falls below 70, it never goes back up.

This kind of change is not only profound in its effects, it’s durable.

The 1968 Fair Housing Act targeted discrimination. It made real estate professionals liable to legal action if they denied equal access to racial minorities. Activists fumed because the main enforcement agency — the Department of Housing and Urban Development — was ineffective, but the unsung hero of fair housing was a Department of Justice lawyer named Frank Schwelb, who spearheaded an energetic, national enforcement strategy at the agency in the 1970s. In the 10 years after the act’s passage, an African American’s likelihood of being denied housing in white areas fell by more than two-thirds.

Black mobility increased sharply, but in some metropolitan areas, it mostly affected white neighborhoods very close to existing black enclaves. Even if whites did not flee (and they fled less often than is commonly supposed), the rapid and sustained increase in black demand tended to tip these neighborhoods into resegregation. The net result was

Wednesday, April 25, 2018 • Page 7 more housing for blacks, but no decrease in overall segregation.

The decrease came where black moves were dispersed across many white neighborhoods and where formerly majority-black enclaves attracted some white and Latino migrants (a precursor of contemporary gentrification). Data show that once a “critical mass” of stably integrated neighborhoods existed, they attracted more residents of all races who liked integration, and the cycle toward lasting desegregation was underway.

Contemporary fair-housing battles often focus on where to place subsidized housing, or on quicker processing of discrimination complaints — non-trivial matters but ones that won’t change broad segregation patterns. A new generation of activism should concentrate on nudging mobility patterns. One way to do it is through housing trusts in neighborhoods that are beginning to integrate (or to gentrify) — investing in buildings not to displace tenants or redevelop them but its opposite — to keep rents low and to encourage newcomers. Another method is intensive, free housing counseling to introduce blacks to majority-white neighborhoods and vice versa.

Above all, a greater awareness of the transformative potential of metropolitan housing integration could help turn our generalized desire for racial justice into concrete change.

THREE FROM PAGE 8 the first Indiana born pitcher to throw a major league no-hitter since Don Larsen’s perfect game in the 1956 World Series. He is the first MVC alum to toss a major league no-no since Dan Stieb (Southern Illinois) did it for the Toronto Blue Jays in 1990.

Manaea honed his craft here in Terre Haute and coupled with summer success in the Cape Code League, became a first round draft pick of the Kansas City Royals in 2013. He was trad-

ed to Oakland for World Series MVP Ben Zobrist in 2015. Then after making his Major League debut in 2016 has continued to improve en route to recording the no-hitter on Saturday, April 21 against the Boston Red Sox -who came into the contest sporting the best record in baseball at 17-2.

He did all of this on the very same day that the Indiana State Baseball program welcomed back 39 alums for Sycamore Alumni Day. Additionally, Manaea is engaged to Megan Stone, a native of Farmersburg,

Ind., and one of the top players in the history of Indiana State Softball. Saturday was a special day at the Gibson Track and Field Complex also as nearly 100 alums returned for Indiana State Track & Field Alumni Day including the 1988 Missouri Valley Conference Championship team -- the first earned under legendary head coach John McNichols as well as Holli Hyche -- the most decorated female track and field athlete in the history of the school.

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Sycamores baseball take on Cardinals in Muncie Jay Adkins Reporter

The Indiana State University Sycamores baseball team will travel to Muncie, Indiana today to take on the Ball State University Cardinals today at 3:00 p.m.

The Sycamores are 19-16 (4-8 in the conference) on the season so far and are currently on a two-game losing streak, with both losses coming to the Dallas Baptist University Patriots this past weekend in a three game conference series.

With the season halfway over

and the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament coming up in May, the Sycamores need to get their season back on track quick.

The Sycamores have been lead by junior Infielder Jarrod Watkins leads the team in assists and hits with 102 assists and 47 hits on an impressive batting average of .333. Watkins is also one of three Sycamores (juniors infielder Jake Means and Clay Dungan) to start and play in every game this season.

Jake Means and Clay Dungan are both tied for the team lead in runs with 23 runs each.

Redshirt senior Dane Giesler and junior infielder Romero Harris are both tied for the team lead in runs batted in with 22 RBIs each. Dane Giesler also leads the team in homeruns and putouts with seven and 302 on the season, respectively.

Junior right-handed pitcher Tyler Ward leads the team in wins with six wins against three losses this season. Ward has also recorded one shutout this season.

The Ball State University Cardinals are 19-19 on the season (7-8 in the conference) and are

currently on a two-game winning streak, with both wins coming against the 10-25 Bowling Green State University Falcons.

Redshirt senior outfielder Jeff Riedel leads the Cardinals in hits (48), batting average (.343), runs (35), and is tied for the team lead (with senior outfielder Colin Brockhouse) in runs batted in with 27.

Freshman right-handed pitcher/outfielder Drey Jameson and junior right-handed pitcher Nick Floyd are both tied for the team lead in wins with four wins each.

Junior catcher Chase Sebby leads the team in putouts with 250 on the season. Senior shortstop/second baseman Seth Freed leads the team in assists with 89 on the season.

The Sycamores will look to break their losing streak tonight in Muncie against the Cardinals.

This game might not mean much now, but it will matter down the line when the Sycamores faceoff against the top team in the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament.

First pitch is set for 3:00 p.m.

Sycamores head to Evansville for Wednesday showdown

Indiana State continues an eight-game road swing on Wednesday with a single game at Evansville set for a 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT start.

The game will be broadcast on ESPN+, the new $4.99 per month service as part of the updated ESPN app.

Quick Hits • Indiana State is in the middle of an eight-game road trip that started with an MVC series at Northern Iowa.

• The Sycamores have won three of their last five and six of their last 10 contests against Evansville.

• The 22-22 (9-10) mark by the Sycamores places the team in fourth place in the Missouri Valley Conference by win percentage after being selected to finish 10th (last).

• With their 6-3 win over Evansville on April 18, the Sycamores already matched their Missouri Valley Conference win total from a year ago.

• Evansville enters Tuesday’s game having won three of their last four games.

• Indiana State has a 49-46 lead in the all-time series over Evansville.

• A young team this year, Indiana State only has four upperclassmen (juniors and seniors) on its 18-member roster.

Close to Last Year’s Overall

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The softball team needs two more wins to match last season’s win of 24 victories.

Win Total Indiana State needs only two more wins to match last season’s overall win total of 24 victories.

In a transition year last season, interim head coach Tori Magner led the Sycamores to 24 wins just a year after the Sycamores registered only 16 wins.

Matched Last Year’s Valley Win Total With a 6-3 victory over Evansville on April 18, Indiana State registered its eighth conference win of the season. With two series and the final game of the

Evansville series still to go, ISU has already matched its Missouri Valley Conference win total from a year ago. Indiana State went 8-18 in league play in 2017 after posting a 9-15 mark in 2016. The Trees then matched that 2016 mark with a win at UNI on April 21.

Fighting for a Chance Indiana State is fighting for a spot in the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament on May 1012 in Des Moines, a postseason event the Sycamores have not qualified for since 2015. But the

last time the Sycamores made an appearance in the league’s postseason championship event, good things happened. Entering the tournament as the No. 8 seed that year, Indiana State went on a run and won the championship and league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. ISU would go on to the Columbia (Mo.) Regional where the Trees would go 1-2 with a 2-1 win over Louisville.

ConsistenTree Indiana State sophomore Les-

lie Sims has been the most consistent Tree to date at the plate this season. She enters this week’s play leading the Missouri Valley Conference with a .421 batting average while her on-base percentage of .480 ranks her fourth in The Valley.

Mighty Leslie At Bat While Leslie Sims may not be a power hitter but that makes her no less effective at the plate.

The Sycamore sophomore enters this week’s action ranked 38th nationally and first in The Valley in batting average (.421). That makes her a dangerous threat when you consider her speed.

Sims with the Speed Leslie Sims enters this week’s action as the only Missouri Valley Conference player that remains perfect in stolen base attempts (with over 10 attempts on the season). Additionally, her 19 steals ranks second overall in The Valley. The Sycamore sophomore is currently 19-for-19 on the base paths this season.

So It’s No Surprise So it’s really no surprise that Leslie Sims is currently sixth alltime at Indiana State in career steals. Sims needs only three more steals to move into a tie for fifth to match the 42 steals recorded by Sara Lemond (200003).

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Three Sycamores in national spotlight this week Three former Indiana State student-athletes, each with their own story to tell, have been featured in the national spotlight over the past week. It is a great reminder of the nation wide impact that Sycamores have following their careers and how vital support for our current student-athletes is to their success.

The most decorated Sycamore in the history of Indiana State Athletics is the legend, Larry Bird. He and is wonderfully talented teammates took the hardwood 39 years ago and marched all the way to the Final Four. They played Michigan State on March 26, 1979 in what is still the most viewed college basketball of all time and still marks the last time a Missouri Valley Conference school has reached

the national championship game. Along the way, the Sycamores won their first 33 games of the season, thrilled the town of Terre Haute with a pair of unforgettable buzzer beaters (hat tip to Miracle Man Bob Heaton) and sent the Wabash Valley into a fury that is still recollected by many that live here.

Larry Bird went onto a terrific career with the Boston Celtics and continues to make all Sycamores proud through his current role as Advisor to the President of Basketball Operations with the Indiana Pacers. Bird has previously served as the team’s head coach and himself as President of Basketball Operations. Currently, Bird has once again taken his place in the national spotlight over the last week as the Indiana Pacers are cur-

rently tied 2-2 in their best of seven series with the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Playoffs.

Our next student-athlete who has shown in the national spotlight is former soccer student-athlete Katrine Baker. Baker, who played for Indiana State from 2011 through 2014 returned upon graduation to her hometown of Las Vegas to begin a career in modeling and acting.

She has appeared in several national advertising campaigns as well as a trophy model in numerous award shows originating from Vegas, including last week’s Academy of Country Music Awards live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena.

Baker, who has worked on the ACM Awards Show previously as well as the Billboard Music Awards,

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From left: Larry Bird, Sean Manaea and Katrine Baker.

debuted on this show when Miranda Lambert took the award for Song of the Year. In the clip below, you can see Baker hand off the award and escort the winners as well as award presenters to the side of

the stage as well as backstage afterwards.

Arguably, the most notable accomplishment of the past week by a Sycamore happened in Oakland on Saturday night when Sean Manaea became the first

Indiana State student-athlete to throw a no-hitter in Major League Baseball.

Manaea allowed only two base runners in becoming

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