April 3, 2015

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Bradley answers questions about ISU’s oil wells

Kristi Sanders News Editor

Indiana State University President Daniel Bradley presented “Oil Production and Exploration in Downtown Terre Haute” at Westminster Village on Wednesday afternoon.

There are currently three wells for the area — two oil wells and one water well. The wells were prepared by Pioneer Company, who are responsible for all costs in maintaining and placing the wells.

The event was created by Michelle Bennett, program administrator of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), after several people in the community said they wanted to know more about the oil wells in Terre Haute.

“We had people say to us ‘we hear oil drilling is happening but we want to know the detail,’” Bennett said. “I thought President Bradley would be perfect to help answer their questions since he is involved with the University and knows much about oil itself from his education (several degrees involved with petroleum).”

Bradley started his speech talking about how oil is “essential to us all today.”

He explained that wells have been in the Terre Haute community for a long time.

The first wells were salt wells but eventually oil wells were introduced to the area. Bradley also explained how oil is formed and what ideal conditions for oil drilling are.

Terre Haute’s wells use conventional drilling and have high permeability, Bradley explains.

He also says that hydraulic fracturing

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— what many know as fracking — is not needed in this area.

The wells are dug into North Vernon Limestone, which has a porosity of 21 percent and a permeability of 100 to 300 millidarcy — a measurement of permeability. The well is drilled at a depth of approximately 1650 at subsurface level.

The unit in the Downtown Terre Haute area is the Sycamore-Jefferson Limestone Unit and is 88 acres, stretching from 10th to Fifth street and Wabash to Spruce.

An exploratory well was drilled last summer and there are now plans for a new well under Wolf Field.

When first drilled, the wells produced two barrels of water for every one barrel of oil. Now they produce eight barrels of water for one barrel of oil.

“If the wells start producing too much water per oil barrels produced, the wells will be closed down,” Bradley said.

All the water that comes from the oil wells is then poured back into the water well, back into the earth.

Each company or business involved in the unit receives 15 percent of the profits of the oil.

Some of the companies involved in the unit are Indiana State University, Industrial Supply, Hulman/Clabber Girl, Vigo County School Corp., the city of Terre Haute and the Presbyterian Church.

“The Presbyterian Church has received around $500 for the oil wells,” Bradley said.

ISU is currently keeping the money separate from normal funds and will use it to help upgrade and repair buildings on campus, Bradley said.

To make sure no student, faculty or staff members smell the oil, a catalytic

burner is used to burn off the methane produced by the wells.

“We made sure in the contract that if an odor is ever smelled from the wells, Pioneer will fix the problem immediately,” Bradley said.

The oil produced by the local wells is a sweet crude, Bradley said. This means that it has low sulfur content.

“There is currently around 100 barrels a day produced in the latest data,” Bradley said. “That means it is producing between 800 to 900 barrels a week.”

A student from the Sycamore Environmental Action Club came to the event to see what she could learn about the new wells.

Kara Phelps, a senior biology major, said she is very concerned about the new wells.

“I feel the school isn’t telling the students very much about the wells,” Phelps said. “I walk by the drilling sites every day and I want to make sure there will be no negative effects for the environment from these new wells.”

After watching the presentation, Phelps said she felt like she knew more but still didn’t know enough about the oil wells.

“I feel like everything is behind closed doors,” Phelps said. “I didn’t even know how the methane was dealt with before this event. We don’t know the environmental impacts of the drilling.”

Bennett said she felt the event was a success.

“I was very impressed with how the event went,” Bennett said. “There were 74 in attendance for the event and around 50 people (who) attended were President Bradley spoke at Westminster not a live-in resident for Westminster Village about the three wells in the Terre Village.”

Haute area (Photo by Kristi Sanders).

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Lip Rippers

Fishing club hooks new students 6

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Baseball

Sycamores fly past Cardinals 8

Final Four

A promising weekend in Indy 10

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Activist set to speak at Holmstedt Hall

Libby Roerig

ISU Communications and Marketing Coincidentally, following a week when many Hoosiers were compelled to take to the streets to protest controversial state legislation, one of the nation’s most renowned activists is preparing to visit Terre Haute.

Bill Zimmerman has spent a lifetime protesting pivotal issues such as the lack of civil rights, the war in Vietnam and more recently the nation’s marijuana laws. He will speak at Indiana State University’s Holmstedt Hall 102 at 7:30 p.m. April 21. The event, which is sponsored by the history depart-

ment and Center for Community Engagement, is free. A reception and book signing will follow.

Described as a “Zelig of the Left” by The Brooklyn Rail, Zimmerman’s activist credentials include work in the preFreedom Rides South; the earliest antiVietnam war demonstrations in 1965; leading the dramatic student uprising at Brooklyn College in 1967; participating in the demonstrations at the Pentagon in 1967 and the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1968; leading medical aid for Indochina from 1971 to 1974; organizing for the dramatic May Day civil disobedience protests in Washington, D.C., in 1971; filming during the bombing of Hanoi in 1972; flying an airlift of food to besieged Indians at Wounded Knee in 1973, which broke an FBI siege there; and helping to lead the first triumphant campaign for Chicago Mayor Harold Washington in 1983.

“I was raised to think only the best about this country, but soon discovered I had been lied to,” Zimmerman said.

“Jim Crow laws in the South and a senseless waste of lives in Vietnam demonstrated that injustice was rampant in the U.S. and could only be ended by an outraged citizenry.”

After earning a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, he gave up a promising career as a brain scientist to become one of the nation’s most accomplished progressive political consultants, winning numerous candidate races and ballot initiatives in California and across the country.

Zimmerman is the author of “Trouble-

maker: A Memoir from the Front Lines of the Sixties.”

Of all the campaigns he has participated in and led, Zimmerman says he’s proudest of “standing up to the war in Vietnam as soon as it was launched and in defiance of virtually all the voices of authority and legitimacy in the country.”

At Indiana State, Zimmerman will describe work he has done over the past 20 years to reform the nation’s marijuana laws, which began in 1996 with his serving as the campaign manager for the nation’s first successful medical marijuana ballot measure, Proposition 215. He will describe various attempts to reform America’s drug laws during that time.

“I became interested in reforming the marijuana laws when I understood how many hundreds of thousands of people could have their pain and suffering alleviated through the medical use of marijuana and how many millions of young people were having their lives distorted by the overly harsh criminalization of marijuana use,” Zimmerman said.

Zimmerman may have started his activism in the 1960s, but he has fully embraced new technology in the effort to involve younger generations.

Between 2003 and 2008, he produced all the television advertising that allowed MoveOn.org to expand from 300,000 members to more than 5 million.

“Social media have definitely been a boon to activism, primarily by allowing for virtually free communication with potential constituents. We used to have to pay the cost of a stamp and the paper for a mailing just to reach a single individual,” he said.

But clicking the “Like” button or signing an online petition is not activism, he warns modern protestors.

“It’s only a start. Many of us fear that while Internet activism is a mile wide,

Bill Zimmerman will be speaking at Indiana State April 21 about trying to change drug laws (Photo by Markus Georg).

it’s still only an inch deep,” he said. “We have to find ways to deepen commitment and involvement if the Internet is going to change the balance of power between citizen activists and the forces that shape and control their lives.”

Despite Zimmerman’s thirst for justice and support of civil disobedience, his sense of balance in life and where he derives his contentment is also an important lesson for future generations.

“My life has been about fighting for justice, so I am most content when I see a well-organized political strategy play itself out and prevail,” he said. “But I also love kicking back with a good book and cup of coffee. I try to organize my life so there is a balance between work, family, kids and fun. So far, I’ve succeeded.”

“We have to find ways to deepen commitment and involvement if the Internet is going to change the balance of power between citizen activists and the forces that shape and control their lives.”

Bill Zimmerman

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Indiana State MBA grad tapped as Small Business Development Center director Betsy Simon

ISU Communications and Marketing Indiana State University alumna Courtney Richey has been named the director for the West-Central Indiana Small Business Development Center operated on campus.

Richey, who assumed the position in late March, received an undergraduate degree in marketing from Saint Maryof-the-Woods College and started managing for a small business in Decatur, Illinois, before returning to Indiana for her Master of Business Administration degree, which she received in 2010 from Indiana State.

As an Indiana State student, Richey served as a graduate assistant and helped lead the MBA program’s recruitment efforts, which was an experience that helped her in her position as director of graduate admissions at The Woods.

The position quickly turned into one of business engagement, which allowed Richey to develop business relationships in Terre Haute, where she became entwined in the downtown area and the

Chamber of Commerce. makes it harder for them to be success“My passion has always been small ful.” business, and I learned what it takes to That’s where Richey hopes she can be run a successful operof help as the director ation in Terre Haute,” of the SDBC. she said. “When I was “I love financing, in the MBA program I strategic planning did a lot of volunteerand building partnering that I thought at ships with businesses,” the time I was doing Richey said. “When to build my portfolio this position came to go work in advertisopen I felt it was a pering in a corporation. fect fit and I hope to Then I did a volunteer alleviate some of the experience with a lostarting or growing cal daycare and it was pains for small busipretty life-changing. nesses owners.”

“What I found was Richey hopes the that a lot of times SBDC will be great people start a business resource to help entrebecause they’re good preneurs streamline at the subject matter, the process of opening Courtney Richey but when they get into a new business or marthe business they have keting a new product. to deal with finance and marketing that “When a business owner says they they may not necessarily be good at or want to grow or start up, we want to love to do. They get bogged down and have a road map for them based on their it takes away from their passion and business needs,” she said. “More times

than not, they need to start at our office because we do business planning at the core. Then, we’ll have a framework of other entrepreneurial assisting partners on campus and throughout the area, which will take a lot of time out of the learning curve for a new entrepreneur.”

The center serves Vigo, Clay, Owen, Parke, Putnam and Sullivan counties, and Richey wants to reach out into the outlying areas to provide more support businesses in those communities.

“When people want to start a business and they’re trying to figure out where to start, it’s not cheap to enlist business counseling but we help them for free — providing market research, business plan development, strategic planning and detailed pro forma financials,” Richey said. “We’re able to be a collective network of resources and I want more people to utilize the center so they are successful faster. I hope people in the community and on campus will talk with us and see how we can collaborate to make the center and the small business community in our surrounding area more successful.”

OPINION

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Black box suggests suicide caused crash A plane went down last week, and those not interested in the fecal tsunami that is the media’s reaction to Indiana’s new “Religious Freedom” bill — also known as “Please God, tell me this is a joke” — have been mildly obsessed with said plane crash.

The two main reasons Columnist are that we don’t actually know what has happened to the people in the plane; at time of writing all 150 passengers and staff are presumed dead, due to a majority of the victims’ DNA being found throughout the crash site.

We also don’t know what caused it.

So while rescue teams do what rescue teams do, we are all left to sit and ponder. The most popular opinion is that the co-pilot intentionally caused the crash, because of evidence officials found in the plane’s black box.

A plane’s black box is a pair of recording devices that monitor the data of the flight itself and record the sounds of the cockpit. The idea is that rescue teams can get an idea of what happened if something went down and that any survivors or witnesses can clarify the situation to a court if something off regulations occurred.

The contents of the cockpit recorder have been recovered in this instance and have revealed that only the co-pilot was in the cockpit and the pilot was locked

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out banging on the door screaming for the co-pilot to let him in. The data recorder is still being searched for.

There are many reasons for the copilot to have not unlocked the door.

One potential reason is that perhaps he was incapacitated; after all, the pilot was met with complete silence when he first knocked to be let back in.

However, due to the co-pilot having a history of suicidal depression and re-

The most popular opinion is that the co-pilot intentionally caused the crash, because of evidence officials found in the plane’s black box. ceiving treatment for said thoughts, the various investigations and media have more or less decided the co-pilot was still suicidal, hijacked the plane and deliberately crashed it in the hopes of dying.

Ironically, the ability to lock the cockpit from the inside was designed after 9/11 specifically to avoid hijacking.

While there is still some wiggle room in the investigation, suicide does seem to be the most logical conclusion so far.

I hope the continued investigation will reveal it as something else because suicide is the most depressing and distressing conclusion for this tragedy.

I may have written about this before, but I am not against the idea of suicide.

As many better writers before me have stated, the one thing all humans have complete control over is whether or not they will end their life.

The only reason I have ever been all right with the concept of suicide is that it only immediately affects one person.

Sure, it will emotionally affect your loved ones, but people’s psyches are resilient; they’ll eventually be able to move on.

But to kill potentially over a hundred people along with you for the simple reason of not wanting to exist anymore?

That’s taking control of lives you have no right to — if indeed anyone has a right to any other life in the first place.

Those people put their trust and lives in his hands. If he broke that trust and killed them for a reason like just not wanting to live anymore, then he was a word we’re not allowed to print here.

Hell, if that’s the case, why didn’t he just wait until they landed and hang himself?

This is why I’m holding out for another reason; I know it’s silly, but I’d rather he turn out to be a terrorist or something.

That would at least be less bleak and horrible if he did it because he believed in something or he was psychotic, rather than just because he was too depressed to think of anything better.

Editorial Board

Friday, April 3, 2015 Indiana State University www.indianastatesman.com Volume 122 Issue 70

Letter to the Editor

Alex Modesitt Editor-in-Chief statesmaneditor@isustudentmedia.com Kristi Sanders News Editor statesmannews@isustudentmedia.com Kylie Adkins Opinions Editor statesmanopinions@isustudentmedia.com Marissa Schmitter Features Editor statesmanfeatures@isustudentmedia.com Rob Lafary Sports Editor statesmansports@isustudentmedia.com Kira Clouse Photo Editor statesmanphotos@isustudentmedia.com Carey Ford Chief Copy Editor The Indiana Statesman is the student newspaper of Indiana State University. It is published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays during the academic school year. Two special issues are published during the summer. The paper is printed by the Tribune Star in Terre Haute, Ind.

Dear Editor: It is unfortunate that the Statesman assigned two writers on the Religious Freedom Act who hold almost identical opinions. This similarity is important because it does not provide any counterpoint that critically examines the intent and context of the new law.

Both columnists simply repeat what the governor said, and all of them are wrong.

The Indiana law is not like the federal law or the previous state laws. It explicitly gives protection for discrimination to those who can make some vague claim that their actions are based on belief. It covers not only governmental rules but also private individuals who might challenge that discrimination.

Moreover, those who wrote the law and lobbied for it explicitly indicated that its purpose was to allow for discrimination against members of the LGBT community.

It was designed to be homophobic, and it has succeeded in deceiving too many people into thinking it is “only” about religious freedom. Those who want to use the law should be required to post a sign saying, “We are proud to refuse service to people who are not like us.” Let’s be clear about their prejudice so that we don’t mistake them as having the same faith as the tolerant and non-judgmental Christ.

Dr. Keith Byerman, Professor, ISU Department of English

Opinions Policy The opinions page of the Indiana Statesman offers an opportunity for the Indiana State University community to express its views. The opinions, individual and collective, expressed in the Statesman and the student staff’s selection or arrangement of content do not necessarily reflect the attitudes of the university, its Board of Trustees, administration, faculty or student body. The Statesman editorial board writes staff editorials and makes final decisions about news content. This newspaper serves

as a public forum for the ISU community. Make your opinion heard by submitting letters to the editor at statesmanopinions@isustudentmedia.com. Letters must be fewer than 500 words and include year in school, major and phone number for verification.

Letters from non-student members of the campus community must also be verifiable. Letters will be published with the author’s name. The Statesman editorial board reserves the right to edit letters for length, libel, clarity and vulgarity.

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A Young Man’s Guide to College

Being cool and confident a matter of tranquility

It’s understood that a man typically attempts to promote a facade in hopes that others will view him to be more “cool.” But what exactly does it mean for a guy to be cool?

I’ve tried to be cool before and I’ve seen other men try also, yet the harder we try, the Columnist less cool we are. Think of fellow Indiana natives and timeless Hollywood stars James Dean and Steve McQueen; those guys just oozed the phenomenon of cool effortlessly. How were they able to do this and what are the threats when you try to be cool?

Let’s start off with trying to explain this idea of what being “cool” is. What do we guys typically think of when we hear the phrase “That guy is one cool dude”? Some men think that it means to have the ability to sleep with a lot of

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women. Others may think it’s found in their wardrobe or having your house as the location of every party. Why would we think otherwise? I mean, that’s what we sing and rap about with the songs we listen to. Being cool is being the Don Draper or the “it” guy among your peers.

Are you sensing the point I’m trying to make here? All of these sources are telling you what cool is. I don’t know about you, but I’ve never been a big fan of someone telling me what to do or how I should be.

What if this idea of “cool” that’s being promoted doesn’t align with who you really are? Being “cool” is being at peace with your values, style, and — more importantly — your shortcomings.

You know who I think was cool?

Arnold from the cartoon series “Hey, Arnold.” He was the coolest cat on the block and the kid had a footballshaped head. He enjoyed the company of his friends, valued his family, and didn’t really care for influences that tried to disrupt the peace he had with

himself. I think we’ve all met an Arnold sometime in our lives. Maybe he was really good at an instrument and didn’t hang with the jocks, but the jocks still liked and respected him. Why? Because he understands that the jocks are good at sports but he is good at something else. People are attracted to and respect someone else’s tranquility.

Why do I find it important for us guys to understand what “cool” really should be? We do some really stupid stuff whenever we try to be cool. I’ve definitely enjoyed some observations of this at plenty of parties and bars.

The term “try” here is very important because that implies that your original self isn’t good enough and in reaction, you perform to prove otherwise — not good enough according to whom? So, now that reveals the true underlying theme of this problematic endeavor — insecurity.

Insecurity with yourself is a threat not only to you, but to your peers also. When you’re not at peace with yourself you

may tend to put others down attempting to legitimize your position above them or you may look to your friends to give you some sort of approval.

Both methods make your friends less like friends and more like an audience.

Guys do some really odd and sometimes hurtful things, and I believe the reason behind that is the fact that a guy is uncomfortable with himself and has no idea what to do.

This is a men’s advice column, but I’m going to serve you up some mom wisdom: just be at peace with yourself.

Everyone has shortcomings, so quit trying to act like they don’t exist with your sad attempts of hitting on women to prove this false idea of masculinity media shoves down your throat. Quit reacting and following. Quit trying to inherit someone else’s “cool” because just as every guy has shortcomings, every guy has a “cool” — including you — that just hasn’t been discovered yet. Finding peace within yourself is finding your cool.

March Madness drains a person’s money and time As I sit here and write this we are currently down to the Elite Eight in the NCAA basketball tournament known as March Madness.

This month seems to come so fast for many basketball fans around the U.S., but it is a time of great celebration and great disappointment.

These teams have Columnist worked hard to climb the bracket to the position they are in and achieve one of the greatest honors in collegiate basketball. But do we care too much about the games and not enough about our own futures?

This month is a hard one for most because either your team did not make it in to the tournament, or they lost first round. Yet, for others it is financially hard due to their need to gamble away

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their hard earned money on something as complex as a basketball bracket. Now to put this into perspective ESPN allows anyone to make a bracket prediction on their website and 11.57 million brackets were filled. Out of those only one, yes one, had everything correct until the 64th round came to close making the Elite Eight.

Now that everyone lost their money betting on college players, maybe they will get back to work and worry about their own futures. However, most Americans take hours out of their day to watch these games and work on their brackets.

The months leading up to March are spent with adults clambering over game results and statistical analysis of all the teams going into the tournament. Yet, those who choose to spend their time on a bracket tend to not plan for their own retirement.

We live in a world where it is much

harder to retire on your passive saving from work, due to the lack of saving.

Yet, the madness of getting every game prediction correct consumes many minds for the entire month of March.

We spend so much time watching these players make good plays and bad ones we tend to forget out our lives outside of the game. But it’s not all bad, right?

Can you remember the last time you walked up to someone and had a conversation with him or her that did not include something about the tournament? What is worse than that is going in for an interview only to find yourself talking about it there. It becomes something that you are expected to know and understand how it functions, so you can have a conversation about it — even if you are not a basketball fan.

During all this madness we forget that these players are students going to college to get an education. Yes, they were scouted by the college and given

a scholarship to play there because they have great talent in the game, but they are students who travel the country playing games in multiple states, missing classes and missing valuable education.

Something we do not say enough is that most of these players are very intelligent and maintain good grades even though they are only in class half the time.

Now comes the hard part of all of this and only for the simple fact that I am a fan of the NCAA tournament but I do not agree with what they do.

They allow Americans to have an excuse away from work and their daily lives to enjoy the athletic ability of young people.

Yet, they take away the productivity of the average office worker and take valuable class time away from the student part of the student athlete. By putting so much emphasis on the tournament and the need to win, schools push their players harder every year.

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ISU’s fishing club, ‘Lip Rippers,’ tear up the competition Adler Ingalsbe Reporter Indiana State University unveiled their fishing club — known as the Lip Rippers because of the association with hooking the fish when they bite a lure — three years ago and has seen their group go from a handful of people who enjoyed fishing to a very popular club that continues to grow.

Blaine Timonera, the current Lip Rippers president, said three years ago a group of ISU students saw other colleges traveling around the country, competing in fishing competitions and thought they could do the same thing.

“The team was founded three years ago by a group of four friends who saw other universities traveling the nation and organized national tournaments against other universities and they determined ‘Why not ISU?’” Timonera said.

The club is a part of the FLW Collegeiate Series and the ACA Collegiate Series, which is the equivalent to the NCAA, but do not require their members to compete in a minimum number of competitions.

“Our club is oriented to focus primarily on tournament fishing. We are a voluntary or-

ISU’s fishing club has grown rapidly in the few years it’s existed, and members plan on participating in a number of competitions and tournaments in the 2015 season, both local and national (Submitted Photo).

ganization and therefore we do not require our students to participate in X amount of events, we go by the motto ‘come when you can/want, otherwise well catch you next time,’” Timonera said. “With that being said we fish local tournaments and national tournaments. Some of our popular local lakes which team members travel to include Waveland Lake, Cagles Mill Reservoir, Mill Creek and Raccoon Lake.”

The Lip Rippers try to get out on the lake as much as they possibly can, but with living in the Midwest, the weather can sometimes cause problems for them.

“Our events are sporadic and often are at the mercy of the weather. Living in Indiana and

bound by the school year being from August to May, we generally have August through the end of October and Middle March to May to fish,” Timonera said. “However, within those months, it is not uncommon for us to fish every weekend locally or nationally.”

Timonera said the team has already planned on entering numerous competitions for the 2015 season that will have them traveling around most of the states that make up the Midwest, and they have already competed in some others during the month of March.

“We plan to participate in all FLW Tournaments and all ACA tournaments,” he said.

“We have already competed in

the Cabellas Big Bass Bash ACA Kentucky Lake, FLW Collegiate Open FLW Kentucky Lake and the Indiana Collegiate Ice Box Championship during the month of March.”

Last year, the Lip Rippers were the Indiana Collegiate Ice Box Champions, and Timonera said winning that competition was huge for their program and allowed them to be in charge of this year’s event.

“It was an immense stepping stone for our program. In only our second year competing in the event and with only three teams and limited resources we were able to our perform other Indiana universities which have had longer standing and more prestigious bass fishing pro-

grams,” he said. “As champions we were tasked to run this year’s event, which was held this past weekend (March 27-29).”

He said the club is made up of both males and females and are sponsored by many companies from the Terre Haute area that pay for some or most of the student’s trips to their events, competitions and tournaments, as well as their hotel and the gas money.

“We do have both males and females in our club ... of our 20plus members,” Timonera said.

“We are fortunate enough to be sponsored by a number of great Terre Haute and Community Organizations. As a result, all of our students trips to tournaments are fully or partially covered (hotel and car gas money).”

“Students can get involved by liking the official Facebook page of the Lip Rippers (www. facebook.com/SycamoreLipRippers) and by contacting one of our officers: Jordan Nauert, Jeremy Crocker, Aubrye Cain, Ryland Fluhr or Tyler Wilson or speaking to our members. Dues for the club are $25 a semester and students gain access to the multiple discount programs provided by our sponsors,” Timonera said.

Physics students present research at international conference

Libby Roerig

ISU Communications and Marketing Two Indiana State University students were among the more than 8,000 participants in a recent international physics conference held in San Antonio, Texas.

Tanner Latta of Terre Haute presented his research titled, “Super Atomic Molecular Orbitals of Variably Protonated Symmetric Molecules” at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society March 2-6.

“I studied the molecule cubane with different amounts of hydrogen attached to the molecule,” said Latta, a senior

and member of the Air National Guard.

“While studying the energy levels of the molecule, we found that there is a charge delocalization within the molecules. We conjecture that this charge delocalization could have possible applications to the photovoltaic effect.”

Christopher Rodgers, a senior physics major from Terre Haute, also presented his research titled “A Look at the Dynamics of Ultrafast Magnetization Reversal” at the conference. Rodgers’ research proposes a theoretical model that potentially helps understand the phenomenon of all-optical magnetization reversal, which could help address the “ever-pressing

need” to store more data at faster rates.

“Through a computer simulation, we show that magnetization reversal could potentially occur through the interaction of the circular polarization of an ultrafast laser pulse and the orbital angular momentum of a bound spin particle,” Rodgers said.

An engineering physics major, Latta looks forward to continuing his research this summer, but he hasn’t determined a topic yet. The conference — his first-ever to attend — was a good experience to get the creative juices flowing.

“It was interesting seeing other undergrad, graduate students and doctors

speak about so many diverse topics in physics. It helped me realize all of the great possibilities studying physics can offer,” he said. “It motivated me to look within other areas of physics as well. It also helped me appreciate how focused the physics department is upon its undergraduate physics students.”

Latta wasn’t the only one impressed at the conference.

“This is one of the best meetings that I ever attended. There were lots of excitements and great experience for our students,” said Guo-Ping Zhang, professor of physics at Indiana State, who led the trip.

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Sycamores soar past Ball State Wednesday Rob Lafary Sports Editor Indiana State baseball’s stretch of games against in-state opponents this week came to an end on Wednesday afternoon as the Sycamores hit their way to a 14-5 thumping of Ball State at Bob Warn Field inside Sycamore Stadium.

The victory pulls Indiana State to within a game of .500 at 12-13 and marks the fifth-straight win against the Cardinals in the overall series.

The teams traded runs early in the game, with both striking in the second inning. After Ball State’s Jarett Rindfleisch crushed a shot over the right field fence to give the Cardinals an early 1-0 advantage, Indiana State struck back in the bottom of the frame and never trailed again.

After a pitch hit Andy Young — the first of three baseballs he would be hit by on Wednesday — Jacob Hayes belted a triple that resulted in ISU’s first run of the day.

Hayes then scored on a base hit by Andrew Gutierrez to give the Sycamores a 2-1 lead and a triple by Kaden Moore and a single by Andy DeJesus continued the assault as Indiana State led 4-1 after two.

Ball State picked up two more runs in third to pull within 4-3 but the Sycamores again sent nine batters to the plate for the second straight inning and were quickly back out in front by a large margin.

In repeat fashion from the second inning, Young was again pelted and later scored on an RBI groundball by Gutierrez. Tyler Friis would eventually score soon after and Derek Hannahs drove in two on a single to the outfield to put ISU up 8-4.

Ball State went through three pitchers in the process of the first three innings, giving up eight runs on over 80 pitches.

Scoreless innings in the fourth and fifth gave way to the Cardinals scoring a run in the top of the sixth before the Sycamores countered with three runs of their own in the bottom of the seventh.

Ball State scored once in the top of the eighth while ISU again scored three, ultimately putting the finishing touches

The Sycamore baseball team defeated Ball State 14-5 Wednesday afternoon. ISU will hit the road Friday for a three-game series against Missouri Valley Conference foe Wichita State, with the first pitch at 7:30 p.m. (Photo by ISU Communications and Marketing).

on the 14-5 win.

Indiana State reliever Nick Martin pitched the ninth inning and sat the Cardinals down in order to close out the game.

ISU collected 12 hits on the day including a 3-4 day from Moore with three RBI’s and two runs scored. Hunter Owen, Hayes, Gutierrez and DeJesus had two hits apiece.

Ball State got two hits each from Rindfleisch, Sean Kennedy, Colin Brockhouse and Matt Eppers.

Ryan Cheek pitched in relief for the Sycamores and earned his first victory of the season on the mound. Cheek went 4.1 innings and gave up two runs — one earned — on five hits while striking out five and walking two.

Trent Lunsford started the game and

gave up three earned runs on six hits through 3.2 innings.

Brendan Burns was tagged with the loss on the hill for Ball State. Burns gave up four earned runs on three hits through 1.1 innings of work.

Indiana State hits the road Friday for a three-game series with Missouri Valley Conference foe Wichita State. First pitch is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.

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Sycamore Track and Field set to open outdoor season at Big Blue Classic The Indiana State track and field team will begin its outdoor season at the Big Blue Classic hosted by Eastern Illinois on Friday and Saturday.

The meet, which features over 1,000 athletes and 16 total teams, will get underway on Friday evening with prelims on the O’Brien Stadium track at 7 p.m. Day two on Saturday morning begins with the field events at 11 a.m. with prelims continuing on the track at 12 p.m.

The Sycamores are coming off a break since earning both men’s and women’s titles at the 2015 Indoor Missouri Valley Conference championships on March 1. The Indiana State men claimed their third-straight indoor conference title while the women picked up their fourth in the past five seasons.

Sophomore Alethia Marrero and junior Adarius Washington also earned their way to the NCAA Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas on March 13-14. Marrero competed in the women’s 800-meter run while Washington earned All-American status by placing fifth in the men’s 60-meter

hurdles.

On the men’s side, the Sycamores will begin its quest for a fourth-straight Valley outdoor championship. Highlighting this weekend’s events include a strong field of Sycamores in hurdles events including Washington, Daley Carter and Marcus Neely in the 110-meter hurdles who finished first, second and third respectively at the MVC Indoor Championships.

Senior Arqeil Shaw will compete in the 400-meter hurdles and a squad of Shaw, Grant Stamm, Jonathan Jackson and Imani Payton will race in the 4x400meter hurdles event.

Sophomore David Timlin, who placed fourth at the MVC indoor championships in the mile, will compete in the 1,500-meter run while sophomore Levi Taylor paces the Sycamores’ field in the 5,000-meter run.

In the field events, Devyn Mikell and Connor Curley will also both look to improve on strong finishes in the indoor season long jump and pole vault, respectively.

The women begin their outdoor quest

for their first championship since 2013 after a highly successful indoor campaign this season. The women return a strong group from last season’s outdoor squad including NCAA qualifying 4x100 relay team of Alethia Marrero, Chidera Obasih, Demetra Camble and Katie Wise.

Wise, an outdoor All-American in the 100- and 200-meter dash last season, will also compete in the 200 at the Big Blue Classic. Marrero and Carmelia Stewart will lead the pack of hurdlers set to perform this weekend.

“We are very deep at the hurdles position, and I’m looking forward to seeing how we will perform in that area,” women’s head coach Angie Martin said.

“But it’s obviously still very early in the season and this weekend’s performance will give us an indication on what needs to be worked on as we move forward.”

Indoor MVC champion freshman LeVisa Evans will compete in the high jump and Nicole Lucas looks to build on her indoor school record in the 5,000-meter run.

In the field events, Whitney Walker

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will compete in the shot put, discus and javelin while junior Kimyanna Rudolph is set for another big year in pole vault, as ranks second all-time after clearing 13-9 1/4 in 2014.

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Sycamores set to entertain Ball State Wednesday

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Regardless of how it ends, this year’s NCAA Tournament will go down as one of the most exciting in recent memory.

On the first day of the tournament, there were five games that were decided by one point and we’ve seen giants fall.

The best part is that it’s not over yet. This weekend promises some entertaining basketball at the Final Four in Indianapolis.

The first game of the night features the Michigan State Spartans and the Duke Blue Devils.

The road to this game has been very different for these two teams. There were times this season where it looked like Michigan State wasn’t even going to make the tournament. After being chosen on Selection Sunday as a seven seed, the Spartans knew their road wouldn’t be as easy as it would be for some teams.

They beat Georgia in their first game before taking on defensive powerhouse Virginia. Virginia was one of the best defensive teams in the country all season, and with arguably their best offensive player returning from injury, it looked as if Virginia was poised to make a Final Four run.

Michigan State played incredible defense against them and senior guard Travis Trice really stepped up, as he has all season. Just as they did a year ago, Michigan State upset the second-seeded Cavaliers by holding them to just 2-17 shooting from beyond the arc, which Virginia always relied heavily on.

They then went on to beat the threeseed Oklahoma and fourth-seed

Louisville in overtime to get to this game.

According to FiveThirtyEight, since 1985, Michigan State has won 14.6 more tourney games than its seed would otherwise indicate.

A player who has made all of this possible is senior Branden Dawson. He switches between the two and the three positions on the floor and rebounds abnormally well.

So well in fact, that he leads the team in rebounding with nine per game, which is better than Jahlil Okafor on Duke. He also averages 1.5 blocks per game which is also unusual for a guard. Look for Tom Izzo to implement a physical defense like he did in the Virginia matchup.

As for Duke, pretty much everyone expected them to be in this game. From the moment Jahlil Okafor committed to Duke, there were instantly national title expectations — as there is every year for Coach Krzyzewski.

Recently he hasn’t played his best basketball. Against Utah in the Sweet 16, he only scored six points. The fortunate thing for Duke is that they have a lot of other players who can score.

Tyus Jones has showed that he is an incredibly crafty player himself and when called upon he can be the team’s main scoring threat.

The player who has really stepped up for Duke in the tournament has been freshman small forward Justise Winslow.

He carries himself like a pro and makes clutch shots and gets to the basket with ease. These three incredible freshmen are brought together by senior guard Quinn Cook. Whenever the team is in a situation where they need on-court leadership, Cook is the guy who takes

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He is a strong player and has dealt with the freshman talent appropriately. Duke is a talented team, which will make this a great game to watch.

Following the first semifinal, the Wisconsin Badgers will take on the undefeated Kentucky Wildcats. All season, senior center Frank Kaminsky has been the talk of college basketball and is up for pretty much every major award including a finalist for the Wooden Award. Kaminsky is a complete basketball player.

He can post up and finish around the basket; he can run off screens for open mid-range jumpers, and if his man is cheating off him at the three-point line as most centers like to do, he is a legitimate threat to rise up and bury the three. Above all else, you can tell that he enjoys playing out there as well as the rest of the team.

The player who has seemingly come out of nowhere to make himself a household name is Sam Dekker. For the season he averaged just under 14 points per game. Since the start of the tournament he has been doing great.

He notched 23 points against North Carolina and had 27 points while going 5-6 from three, including a dagger right in the face of the defender to put the Badgers up eight with 17 seconds to go.

A lot of people thought Arizona would beat Wisconsin since Arizona plays an up-tempo style and people were concerned they wouldn’t be able to keep up. Let’s see if Coach Ryan has one more trick up his sleeve to get past a team who some people are calling the best ever.

Kentucky will look to improve to 39-0

and to get one step closer to winning the championship and being 40-0. Against Notre Dame, we saw that Kentucky can be beat, but it will take the perfect game to do so.

The most dangerous part about this team is that they go nine deep.

There’s very little talent gap between their starters and their subs, which is indicated in their stats as well.

Coach Calipari has done a good job at monitoring his players’ minutes so they would be rested for these games and able to play late in games.

It will be interesting to see how Wisconsin deals with the height and length of Kentucky’s big men. Karl Anthony-Towns has shown he has a good touch around the basket and is great at defending the basket too.

Willie Cauley-Stein could pose more problems for Wisconsin than AnthonyTowns just because of his offensive rebounding ability and his ability to run the floor. Kaminsky will have to work hard to shut down whichever Kentucky big he’s guarding.

While Anthony-Towns has developed into an around the basket scorer; he doesn’t have a great post game.

In the Notre Dame game, that weakness was exposed as the Kentucky big men were only scoring on offensive rebounds for much of the game. The key for this game will be Devin Booker. He gets a lot of his points by kick-out threes, often generated by one of the Kentucky big men being double teamed on the block which opens Booker up for wide open shots.

No matter the result, this will be a very entertaining game.

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Students exposed to the truth of oppression

Right: Nick Weldon speaks to students at Indiana State University’s event the Tunnel of Oppression.

The event allows students to understand the different forms of oppression that college students encounter. The tours included monologues, presentations and videos (Photos by Cicara Moore).

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