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Volume 125, Issue 68

Sycamore Career Summit to increase professionalism skills in students Devin Neely Reporter

A networking lunch, resume reviews and mock interviews conducted by employers will be provided at an all day event, the Sycamore Career Summit which will be hosted by the career center this Thursday, April 5.

Although the seats are filling up quickly, there is still a chance for students to attend. The Sycamore Career Summit will start at 9 a.m. and will last until 4 p.m, making it available to fit any busy schedule that a student may have.

Dustin Bryant, the Indiana State University Career Services Coordinator, is eager to launch this event and see the benefits that students may take from this program.

“The purpose of the event is to bring students together with employers, helping foster networking and professional/ career development opportunities,” Bryant said. “The day will consist of breakout workshops, on a variety of career topics, opportunities for mock interviews (which have to be pre-registered before the Summit) and résumé critiques, which are all done by employer representatives.”

If a student is planning to attend the

Department of Criminology hosting the annual career fair Jack Gregory Reporter Today, Wednesday, April 4, the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice will be hosting their annual career fair from 10:00am to 2:00pm at the Hulman Memorial Student Union II and III. The department hosts this event every year in April and will feature many agencies related to criminal justice. Typically, there are around 40 different agencies that attend and students can talk to recruiters about jobs and internships within their field. All students involved with the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice and students interested in seeing what a career in this field is like can show up for free. Those attending should dress professionally, and, for students looking for a job, make sure to bring a resume.

It’s important to note that this career fair is not just for criminology students.

“It’s designed for everybody. If you’re a nursing major who wants to work at a penitentiary or an accountant who wants to work for the FBI – criminology is very open to other majors,” said Travis Behem, an instructor within the criminology department as well as the man in charge of the Criminology Career Fair.

There are opportunities for students of just about every discipline to find something.

If being immersed in a professional setting is somewhat intimidating, the Career Center on campus can help with that. There are plenty of resources available to aid students in looking for jobs and refining or writing their resumes.

There are walk-in hours as well as tips online to help one prepare for interviews, job searches, and even career fairs. For example, a few tips provided on the Career Center’s Career Fair Prep page: Go to the career fair with a clear goal – a summer internship, a full-time job, part-time job or even just networking purposes. You can also make a list of which employers specifically to talk to. Also, prepare a “one-minute marketing commercial” or “elevator pitch.”

This is a concise statement about yourself that helps you stand out among the crowd and outlines what skills you bring to the table, so to speak. Your goal is to impress the person you’re talking to so that they’ll invite you for a full interview.

Behem also has some advice for attending students, “Do some investigations into the agencies you’re interested in. Find out what they want students to have, like a language minor or something like that, and have a resume made.” The Career Center also advises students on how to fine-tune their resumes. Any student can go to the center for walk-in hours from 10 a.m. to noon, Monday through Friday as well as from 1-3 p.m. for short, 15-minute meetings.

Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing.

The Sycamore Career Summit is hosted by the Career Center and will be an all day event on Thursday, April 5.

Sycamore Career Summit, one may expect to participate in résumé reviews, professional presentations and pre-registered mock interviews throughout the day. Employer representatives will be the host all of the activities.

There will also be a free luncheon; giv-

en that the student has RSVP’d within the first 100 spots of the event.

The idea behind this event is based on the student’s best interests and to help better their chances in finding a job and conducting an interview in the future. It is also a great way to understand the pro-

fessionalism of businesses and future perspectives of their career.

“The benefit is that it gives students the opportunity to network in a professional environment, with professional

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Indiana State students win seven broadcaster awards at state level Indiana State students won seven awards from the Indiana Association of School Broadcasters (IASB) for their work done in 2017.

Students at WZIS, ISU’s student run radio station won five awards. Garrett Short won first place for Radio Sportscast and second place with Corey Clark for Radio Sporting Event Broadcast. Clark also placed third in Radio Interviews. Clark, Chase Stout, Victoria Gifford and Mackenzie McKee won third in Radio Imaging.

Gifford and McKee placed third in Radio Spot Production.

Students associated with Syc Creations won two awards. Caleb Hess, Loryn Perkins and Sophie Morgan won first place in Television Spot Production. Hess, Tyler Ciszar and Bryce Bettag placed third in Television Spot Production.

The awards were announced at the annual IASB conference in Indianapolis on March 24.

“We’re still growing here and we have a lot more work to do, but we’re starting to put our name into being one of the better programs of the state,” station manager Rich Green said.

“ISU students were able to come away with IASB awards because of their dedication and creativity,” Short, a communication major from Beecher, Ill., said.

“We show up and work hard and try to be better than we were the day before which drives us forward.”

Photo courtesy of ISU Communictions and Marketing

Garret Short and Corey Clark both won awards for Radio Sportscast and Radio Sporting Event Broadcast.

IASB is an organization that supports high schools and colleges all across Indiana. It seeks to “promote professional excellence and student recognition in the area of media education,” according to IASB’s website.

“Student broadcasters at ISU have a lot of experience compared to other schools,” said Short, the sports director at WZIS.

“Between WZIS and broadcasting for ESPN3 the students here are calm and organized on air which is half of the battle.”

Any student wanting to learn more about Student Media can visit ISUStudentMedia.com for information.

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Local Hoosier suffragists discussed as National Women’s History month comes to an end Alexandria Truby Reporter To continue National Women’s History Month, the Women’s Resource Center held a presentation on Monday focusing on local suffragists throughout history.

Marsha Miller, social media coordinator for the League of Women Voters of Vigo County and ISU librarian, spoke on the history and importance of voting.

“U.S. women achieved national suffrage – the right to vote in all elections – in 1920, so we have had the vote for 98 years,” Miller said. “People who were against this (men and women) felt that women’s ‘sphere’ was the home and family and that men’s ‘sphere’ was business and politics. Political men against suffrage were worried about the role women’s points-of-view might play in the temperance movement.”

The suffrage movement in

Indiana shortly followed the Seneca Falls, New York gathering in 1848, by having the first Indiana omen’s rights convention held in 1851-1852. In Indiana, Quakers were important to the movement because women were treated more equally. Many people wanted a national amendment and others wanted to do it by state.

“Indiana’s main suffrage movement was run by the thousands of women who were members of the Indiana Women’s Franchise League. Some of them went on to help the suffrage movement in other states as well as nationally.” Miller explained.

Ida Husted Harper, a journalist who rose to the highest ranks of the women’s movement was one of the most important local figures. She wrote articles for the New York Times and other top notch newspaper and magazines.

Harper co-edited one of the most important books published during this time, written

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Marsha Miller, social media coordinator for the League of Women Voters of Vigo County and ISU librarian.

by Susan B. Anthony.

“Also from Terre Haute, both Eugene V. Debs and his wife, Kate Baur Debs, were not

only socialists but also strong

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Speaker discuss privilege and inclusion Kayla Rogan Reporter Inclusion was discussed among students and guest speaker, Jennifer Christian, on Tuesday.

Christian is the assistant director for the Center of Community Engagement.

She wanted Caucasians to realize their privileges, as it seems to be a challenge for many, she said.

However, there are some who use their privilege to help others who may be less privileged.

“It’s hard for people to see their privilege because many of them are close-minded,” Christian said.

Christian talked about her experience in working with others. She spoke of her being married to an African American man for many years and realizing that she would never know what it is like to be a person of color. Christian continued to educate herself on issues concerning people of all communities. She joined a class called White Privilege 101 that was taught by an African American man, despite her thought of it being taught by a Caucasian

professor.

“I try to focus on all disadvantaged groups, but a lot of my attention has been on people of color,” she said.

Christian made sure everyone at the event spoke his or her truth.

Many people do not realize their privilege until it is pointed out to them. Christian said she would ask questions when she did not understand something.

Education is the key to help build relationships with their peers. Gaining knowledge on what is going on the world, so they can help bring a change for their campus and country.

“It is important for ISU students to build relationships, ask questions and do not judge a book by its color,” Christian said.

Some of the students spoke of how they have been followed into a store, stopped by the police, not having a lot of job opportunities and not trusting people who were not people of color. Numerous people spoke of others being harassed, beat or even killed by police officers. The students had a lot in common with the struggles of being in a less privileged group.

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Right: Jennifer Christian, who spoke about privilege and her experience in working with others.

Challenges of black leadership at Indiana State Jada N. Holmes Reporter Upon the 50th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights royalty, Martin Luther King Jr., and the recent death of anti-apartheid activist, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, an unspoken question of leadership standing is faced with answers of ability and action, brought forth by brave-hearted generations that follow with the assumption of their power.

The existence of Black ISU is undeniable, evident through the acknowledgement of an 18.4 percentile diversity rating outlining the demographic—according to collegefactual. com.

In a time where leadership is undergoing transformation, the undying presence of activists—whether through student organizations or the rebirth of NPHC lineages—are being called to both understand and fulfill

their purpose for the greater good of the university.

Foundational and relational dynamics, however, have proven to be genuine hindrances.

Junior Applied Health Science major, SISTERS TOO President, and Promoting Health Across Campus together Vice President, Jakarra Jenkins, offers commentary on the state of black leadership on campus, with reference to her own journey within newfound access.

“I would describe Black leadership at ISU right now as dog eat dog,” she said. “For the most part, student organizations are only out for themselves and will step on other organizations toes.”

Amidst the redefining of culture, a spirit of competitiveness had once suffocated the potential for organizational connectedness within the prominent demographic.

Historical allusions have presented successful lead-

ership being deeply rooted in objective understanding, unity and fertile soils of equitable motivations.

Positions of leadership at ISU will continue to reap premature springs as a lack of purpose and respectability taints organizational potential.

Jenkins recalls the ills of presidency and hardships of exercising authority amongst peers, describing such peaks as opportunities for growth nonetheless.

“Being president has challenged me the most; I have to constantly be aware of my actions and words,” Jenkins said. “I have to always save face because I cannot allow my attitude or moods to affect the organization. I have learned how to respond to those challenges professionally instead of emotionally.”

Jenkins remains active in roles acquired her sophomore year at ISU, one catering specially to Af-

rican-American women, and the other executively led by a predominantly African-American board.

Morale is not established in popularity, but in character and encouragement.

The concept appears to be of priority to Jenkins, as she explains that keeping the morale of members high is key to helping them to avoid becoming easily discouraged throughout involvement.

It is the morale of an organizations head that distinguishes what the impact of followers may be.

Playing on the thin line between personalism and professionalism, student advocates have always been met with the obstacle of separating both embodiments to live in their collegiate purposes fully.

Despite shortcomings, students have become more aware of efforts to graduate from such mentalities to increase support within the community.

As more students aspire

to follow in the footsteps of leaders that have been historical imprints, or even the leaders that can be spotted on a day to day at Indiana State, solidifying professional impressions through a united effort to shift leadership standards has become most important.

Legacies are created tenaciously, maintained graciously, and are to be founded upon a love of community and service. Legacies are created through experience, and the sharing of knowledge.

Legacies are left through structure and remembrance.

Remembrance that is only sustained with the contribution of our journeys.

Our state of leadership is dependent upon us, Black ISU. May we conquer our challenges together, allowing the stories of our rising be set free.

Democrats see big election weapon in Trump’s ‘No More DACA Deal’ tweets

Kate Irby McClatchy Washington Bureau (TNS) California Democrats have a valuable new weapon to employ as they campaign to topple vulnerable Republicans: President Donald Trump’s “NO MORE DACA DEAL” tweet.

Any deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was regarded as all but dead this year in Washington anyway, leaving lawmakers fighting over who to blame.

But with his tweet Sunday, Trump has personalized the issue like never before.

“It’s no longer he said, she said — it’s he did, he tweeted,” said Jesse Ferguson, a Democratic strategist and former Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee deputy director.

Getting a new way to target Trump as the villain for DACA sympathizers means particular trouble for incumbent Republican members of Congress in California districts with large Latino populations and districts that voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton over Trump in 2016.

The Democratic National Committee pounced quickly, sending a press release Monday morning capitalizing on the tweets, saying Trump “made clear that he was never interested in protecting Dreamers.”

Ferguson said the four words on Trump’s Twitter account will force congressional Republicans such as Rep. David Valadao, R-Calif., to take a position in the coming months on whether they stand

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United States President Donald J. Trump makes remarks after signing the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill at the White House Friday, March 23, 2018 in Washington, D.C. The President praised the increased military spending but noted measure does not protect the DACA program recipients and does not adequately fund his border wall, which he says is vital to national security.

with Trump or for Dreamers, the term for those affected by the DACA program.

Valadao is among seven California Republicans in the House whose districts Clinton won.

Democrats see each as a prime target to topple Republicans in 2018 congressional races. Democrats need a net gain of 23 House seats in November to win control of the chamber next year.

Many of those districts also have significant Latino populations, meaning candidates have a balancing act: Not upsetting Trump voters but also not appearing so conservative that they alienate more moderate voters.

Two of those California House Republicans are retiring. Those seeking re-election are Reps. Jeff Denham, Steve Knight, Mimi Walters and Dana Rohrabacher.

None issued statements in response to Trump’s tweets about DACA over the weekend.

Sal Russo, a California-based Republican strategist, said the tweet was no different from the president’s usual negotiating tactics, and didn’t mean he was actually against helping dreamers.

“The president has made it clear that he wants a DACA deal,” Russo said. “He tends to use a lot of bravado and exaggeration as bargaining chips — it’s his style. He takes a hard stance, then he compromises.”

After the Sunday tweet saying he wouldn’t support a DACA deal, Trump Monday went back to blaming Democrats for tanking the deal.

He, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., have consistently traded barbs on who is actually responsible for preventing a deal on granting Dreamers permanent legal status.

Pelosi and Schumer said after the passage of a massive budget bill last month that no one on Republican leadership gave them a deal, while Trump has said Democrats have fought a deal from coming to the table.

It was Trump who said last year he would end the Obama-era program, calling on Congress to pass legislation on the issue.

Bob Mulholland, a Democratic National Committee member from California, called Trump’s tweet a “potential disaster” for Republicans in contested districts.

Inaction over DACA will drive

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‘Walk a Mile’ to raise awareness about refugees Center for Global Engagement at Indiana State University is providing an opportunity for students to “Walk a Mile” in the shoes of refugees.

As the sun rises on hundreds of makeshift camps around the world, more than 65 million refugees and internally displaced persons start their day seeking water, food and shelter for their families.

More than half of the refugees are children.

Jesuit Refugee Service program helps students understand refugee crisis and advocate on their behalf. Students at Indiana State will walk a few steps in the shoes of refugees on April 10 when they take part in a refugee camp simulation known as “Walk a Mile in My Shoes.”

As students enter the simulation, they receive an identity card with the name, country of origin and background of a typical refugee. Throughout the simulation, the students assume the role of that refugee. The students, as refugees, then move from a border station to a water station to a food station and a housing station. At each station, they may encounter the frustration and hardships that refugees face daily. The final part of the simulation gives time for students to reflect on the experience and consider ways to advocate for refugee justice.

“The students are moved by the experience, and they need to reflect about the experience as they finish the simulation,” Zachariah Mathew, associate director of Center for Global Engagement, said.

This experience is an opportunity for students to leave their comfort zones and think about the struggle refugees face daily, Mathew added. College students are genuinely concerned about the plight of refugees and want to find ways to reach out to them. An important part of the simulation is pointing out ways students can advocate on behalf of refugees and displaced persons.

The advocacy station at the end of the exercise helps students to learn more about refugees and gives them some action steps to help address this worldwide crisis, including joining the Jesuit Refugee Service Action Network and participating in many of its advocacy programs.

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Wednesday, April 4, 2018 • Page 3 happen if you stopped paying

SEE CONFIDENT, PAGE 5 mand! — and she’s ready to so much attention to the people

support you whenever you call on her. You have the power to choose to focus on words that feel good.

Confident people also carry themselves differently. Their body language allows them to take up more space — they sit taller, gesticulate when speaking, and stand strong.

3. APPRECIATE THAT EVERYONE HAS INSECURITIES Rachel in HR with her perfect style and easy laugh is no exception. Neither is that speaker on stage with the scary-good comedic timing and overall poise.

Every single person on planet Earth is plagued with self-doubt in some area, to some degree — always.

Negative thoughts don’t escape anyone. The difference is confident people do not let uncertainty and doubt drive their decision-making. Courage is moving forward when your heart is still beating fast — not when you feel cool and relaxed, going about your daily routine.

Confident people learn to master their inner critic and drown it out with something stronger: their inner coach.

4. COMPARE DIFFERENTLY When I was working in sales, there were a couple women in my field who were known for being business bada****. They spoke their mind, they were forging new advances in tech, and they were often congratulated for their innovation. But… “Ugh — Sarah is SO fake!” people would say. Or “Becca’s just a CEO kiss-a**.”

And were they? Maybe. But these words of spite were definitely coming from a place of envy.

Instead, these women made me think to myself: Look what’s possible! Sarah was only in the ad tech industry for four years.

Imagine what I can do in the next 12 months!

Can your triggers from other people show you what’s waiting in store for you instead of leading you to negative thoughts and feelings? When you decide to get busy and focus on what you can control, your confidence level skyrockets. Imagine what could

you see in your life, channeled all your force into the mirror, and started getting busy.

5. KEEP COMPLIMENTS CLOSE Austin Kleon, best-selling author of “Steal Like an Artist,” recommends keeping a “praise file” full of compliments, positive feedback and kind notes that people have sent you. These can be from anyone — your boss, a friend, an old teacher, a client — heck, even all the nice comments on your Facebook pics and/or blog posts.

A praise file lets you dwell on the good stuff. The negativity bias (our tendency to focus on one mean comment over nine positive ones) can prevent us from enjoying all the wonderful feedback we’ve been given in our lives. When I pop open my praise file, I smile big and feel 10 pounds lighter. It works — trust me! Store it on your desktop for easy access.

6. STOP FEARING FAILURE Confident people know failure is inevitable and don’t fear it. Worrying about failure can keep us from doing anything at all, but confident people are still confident — even when they fail.

When the tide is against them or they’ve had a negative result, they know it will pass; their bounce-back rate is fast. Can yours get up there too? I mean… haven’t you survived everything that life has thrown at you so far?

Why would that change now?

7. LAUGH MORE There was an Insta post I saw that made me chuckle. It said, “You found that offensive? I found it funny! No wonder I’m happier than you!”

When did life become so serious? Joan Rivers said, “Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It’s all funny.” Doesn’t that idea just provide some pretty immediate relief? And once you get to the point where you can laugh off life’s mishaps, everything becomes easier. You relax. Opening up allows more good to flow to you, and you become a magnet for more laughter. Like attracts like, and I can think of nothing better than attracting more laughter into your life.

DREAM FROM PAGE 4 its own way, settling for broad strokes and testimonials of a predictable sort. Far better, and using some of the same talkinghead interview subjects to fuller, more persuasive advantage, is the two-hour documentary “King in the Wilderness,” now on HBO. Director Peter Kunhardt’s moving account of King’s darkest hours allows us glimpses of a King we may not have seen, or known. It’s not easy to watch the footage, even with King’s words and actions as ballast. The fire hoses. The wiretappings. The white rage, much of it concentrated in Chicago, when King came here to protest housing discrimination. In a few sharp, incisive minutes, “King in the Wilderness” captures a city ruled

by Mayor Richard J. Daley’s jobs-for-votes patronage and Chicago’s long-standing ethnic divisions.

Attorney, adviser and King confidante Clarence Jones appears in both “King in the Wilderness” and “I Am MLK Jr.” In “Wilderness,” he speaks eloquently of how the Chicago project shook King’s confidence and rattled his belief in the country’s receptiveness to change. All those boys in crew cuts, carrying signs with swastikas, lining up in Gage Park next to young men and women carrying “We want Wallace” signs — it was sobering.

“I’ve seen some hate-filled eyes and mouths in Mississippi and Alabama,” Jones says in “Wilderness.” But “the hate I saw

TRUMP FROM PAGE 2 anger especially among the Latino community, he said, and anger drives turnout.

“Democrats will use these tweets in the fall, and there will

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Standing in front of the former Lorraine Motel, the site of Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination on April 4, 1968, Memphis sanitation workers Elmore Nickelberry, 76, center, and his son, Terrence, left, hold a replica of the placard used by strikers in Memphis, Tennessee.

in Illinois was equal to or greater than any of the hate I saw in Mississippi.”

“King in the Wilderness” makes great use of King’s friend and supporter Harry Belafonte, a first-hand witness to history. “I Am MLK Jr.,” for better or worse, focuses more on younger African-American figures explaining to a different audience what King’s legacy means to them in 2018. In both documentaries, the backroom and public strategies and beliefs of presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson cannot help but directly rebuke our current president’s engagement (or refusal to engage) with the roiling world around him.

Kennedy invited all the key March on Washington speakers to the White House; Johnson, a

more conflicted leader, nonetheless muscled through civil and voting rights legislation. What if they had been in office when the Parkland students spoke out?

Would they have favored the activists’ side of history, or the opposition’s?

Only a figure as large and enduring as King can inspire such speculation. He framed and clarified so many moral and constitutional issues in his short lifetime. He “shook the world,” as Jackson says, twice, in “I Am MLK Jr.,” the second time with incremental, awestruck pauses between the words “shook,” “the” and “world.”

“I Am MLK Jr.” 8 p.m. Wednesday, Paramount Network

be no confusion over who’s at fault. That’s over,” Mulholland said. “He’s increased the Latino vote by huge margins.”

Russo said Republicans needed to make sure they didn’t seem “unreasonable” on DACA, given

it’s an issue with widespread support among voters.

“This is part of a continuing saga on the DACA story, not the end,” Russo said. “But it is a problem that we need to deal with.”

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John Krasinski’s hushed heart-pounder ‘A Quiet Place’

Stephen Whitty

New York Daily News (TNS)

Actually, in space, someone can hear you scream.

And now they’re here.

They’re the alien invaders of “A Quiet Place,” giant insect predators that hunt by sound. Ferocious and voracious, they’ve already eaten most of our planet, city by city. And now they’re in your little town.

Better hold your breath.

It could be your last.

That’s the idea behind this great scary movie from real-life couple John Krasinski and Emily Blunt. They co-star as a couple of New York farmers, with three cute kids, a nice spread upstate — and a horde of hungry, grasshopper-like things trying to get into their house.

The busy Krasinski also directed, and helped produce and script. He has created a smart, surprising little shocker. Because sound has become the most dangerous thing on earth, the family stays as silent as it can. So does the film, giving it a fresh, unearthly feel.

Mom and Dad and the kids mostly talk in sign language. (One of their children is played by the hearing-impaired young actress Millicent Simmonds.) Music and sound effects are kept to a minimum.

Wordless seconds turn into almost un-

bearable minutes.

The actors, though, don’t need dialogue to build characters.

Krasinski brings his own quiet, smalltown decency to the hero. Blunt gives her farm wife plenty of old-fashioned, pioneer-woman pluck. The deserted smalltown locations are genuinely spooky, too, and there are a couple of shocking action sequences.

In one, the pregnant heroine, alone on the farm, suddenly goes into labor — knowing that even a small gasp of pain may bring on the predators. In another, a child falls into a silo, corn kernels sucking him down like quicksand — giving new meaning to the phrase “popcorn movie.”

What’s most shocking about those scenes is the movie’s own unsentimental realism. This may be a sci-fi fantasy about giant man-eating bugs, but it’s grounded in human facts and folly. Little here is safe.

Nothing is predictable.

It’s surprising how effectively the silence increases the scares, too. We’re used to directors who can’t dial up the tension simply pumping up the volume, adding shrieks and screechy music. They trade horror for headaches, monsters for migraines.

“A Quiet Place,” though, cleverly reminds us of just how unearthly nothing can be.

You sit and watch, on the edge of your seat, straining to hear. Wait! Wait, what’s that?

Oh, right. Your heart, pounding.

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Emily Blunt and Millicent Simmonds in “A Quiet Place.”

‘A QUIET PLACE’

With John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds.

Director: John Krasinski Running time: One hour, thirty minutes Rating: PG-13 (violence)

How to be a more confident person Susie Moore

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When I was a kid, we had very little money. This didn’t seem like a problem to me until I went to my friends’ homes and saw that they had actual houses (we lived in apartments and sometimes shared housing). The kids all had their own bedrooms and a nice dining room table — some even had big gardens.

As a kid, I liked what I had until I got older and saw that people with bigger houses and more money were considered better and more important. Then I realized this made feel like I’m less than other people. I had less, so naturally, I felt like a lesser human.

Of course this damaged my self-esteem. If I’d had no clue or paid less attention (hard but not impossible), my confidence in who I was and what I had would have stayed nicely intact.

Comparing and looking for validation outside yourself is a recipe for feeling like sh*t. The root of real confidence is knowing who you are and being OK with yourself just as you are. If you want to be a more self-assured and confident person, here are some steps you can take to experience your best feelings of self-reliance and inner security: 1. MAKE THE DECISION There is no magical formula for feeling confident. It’s not something that anyone is born with — lack of confidence is universal. But the most empowering decision that only you can make is to decide you are a confident person.

And if you feel like you need permission to become confident, I’m giving it to ya right now. Yes, it’s that simple. Even if it doesn’t

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feel like that’s true. It’s your call to be a confident person. No one else can do it for you.

2. SOUND THE PART Have you ever noticed how self-assured types speak differently?

Confident people also don’t say things like, “I don’t know how,” “I can’t,” and “I’m not good at.” Their language is intentional and commanding. Think: How can you switch up your own language?

Consider the difference between two people discussing their travel adventures. One might say, “I love to go to off the beaten path and really explore the world. I have a travel budget and a plan every year. Oh, you like traveling for extended periods too? Awesome! Hey, you can even follow me on Instagram where I post my favorite travel snaps … ” Another fellow traveler might avoid eye contact and laugh nervously, saying, “I should document my travel more, but I haven’t figured out how to properly do that yet.”

Who do you think has more fun globe-trotting (and in general)?

Statements like “I love,” “I do” and “I can” have a very different effect on our energy and our impact on others compared to “I should,” “I try” and “I don’t know.” When you use stronger, more intentional language, it impacts your mood, your confidence and even how other people perceive you.

High-achieving, happy people have consciously mastered the art of tuning out their inner critic and dialing up the volume on their inner coach. Your inner coach is there for you — on de

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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks on Jan. 1, 1960 in Washington D.C. King was tragically assassinated on April 4, 1968 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn.

Examining Martin Luther King Jr., in the momentous years after ‘I Have a Dream’ Michael Phillips

Chicago Tribune (TNS)

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was human, not a saint, though many insisted on placing him on that dangerous pedestal, and do still, 50 years after his death. As one character in August Wilson’s ‘60s-set play “Two Trains Running” says, bluntly: “When you get to be a saint there ain’t nothing else you can do but die.”

The years following King’s 1963 march on Washington, D.C., culminating in his deathless “I Have a Dream” oratory, were painful and difficult. In a 1967 interview, the year before he was assassinated in Memphis, the activist and enemy of the FBI acknowledged that “at many points” during those years, the dream he spoke of had “turned into a nightmare.”

This week marks the 50th anniversary of King’s murder, an act committed April 4, 1968, by white supremacist and Alton, Illinois native James Earl Ray. King had lived with violence and death threats for years. He battled spiritual and physical exhaustion; his precepts, methods and conciliatory activist impulses created as many enemies as supporters, even within his own ranks.

On Wednesday Paramount Network debuts “I Am MLK Jr.,” one of three new and historically intertwined nonfiction commemorations of King’s life and legacy. Back in rotation on MSNBC, the two-hour “Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media” premiered late last month on NBC. On

HBO, meantime, the excellent “King in the Wilderness” began airing earlier this week.

The “final founder of American democracy”: That’s what author and CNN commentator Van Jones calls King in co-directors John Barbisan and Michael Hamilton’s “I Am MLK Jr.” The documentary is an absorbing if scattershot 90 minutes; King, of course, will remain an inspiration in perpetuity.

The film connects the 1956 Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott and other, later acts of civil disobedience to the modern day. Footage of King meeting with high school students after he wrote his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” manifesto speaks directly to today’s images of the Parkland school shooting activists, facing stiff opposition from the gun lobby. The minister’s son said it: There is a time “when the cup of endurance runneth over.” That time, whatever the issues, remains forever present.

“I Am MLK Jr.” relies on various contemporary African-American figures, from actor Nick Cannon to NBA all-star Carmelo Anthony to the ubiquitous Jesse Jackson. Some, like Jackson, were King’s associates; others are simply among those inspired by King’s legacy of hope against hope, and action against equal and opposite reaction.

Georgia congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis was 15 when the Montgomery bus boycott got underway. King “inspired me,” he says, “to find a way to get in the way.”

There are times when the documentary gets in

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Spielberg returns with ‘Ready Player One’

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Steven Spielberg is back after his Oscar nominated film “The Post” with a film based on a book by Ernest Cline “Ready Player One.” This film had no right to be as good as it was. Going into it, all the promotional material would lead one to believe that “Ready Player One” would be a hodgepodge of pop culture references ranging back to the ‘80s. While that might be true, to some extent, there is a relatively engaging story underneath all the “Batman” and “Overwatch” references.

Taking place in 2045, the film is set in a world where instead of living in realty the people prefer to live inside a virtual world, the OASIS. The OASIS is a virtual world in which a person can be anyone, can do anything. This is where Wade Watts (Tye

Sheridan), along with a majority of the other inhabitants of the OASIS, hunt for a specific Easter egg.

Upon his death, the creator of the OASIS James Haliday (Mark Rylance), created a challenge for those in the OASIS. The first person to complete three challenges will gain full control of the OASIS and all of Haliday’s stock in his company. This is the quest of the Gunters, or egg hunters. Of course there are not just those with pure intentions, there are also corporations with interest to run the OASIS. Specifically Nolan Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn), the CEO of Innovative Online Industries (IOI).

Five years after Haliday’s death, no one has completed the first challenge. In an attempt to complete it, Parzival (Watts’ online avatar name) comes into contact with Art3mis (Olivia Cooke). Art3mis is a famous Gunter who, after their attempt at the challenge, gives Watts inspiration to

solve the first challenge. After this, Parzival, Art3mis and a few other player form an alliance to solve the remaining challenges and putting in the sights of IOI. There was a surprising amount of narrative hidden amongst the various references. A surprising amount, but an amount without much depth. “Ready Player One” is an archetypal hero’s journey in a quest for the grail. It is a story that has been played out. Add in the romance between Parzival and Art3mis, this is a story that has been told thousands of times before.

Not saying that the story was bad, just nothing original.

The films biggest stumbling block is its writing. It is baffling how some of the dialogue actually got in the film. At one point Wade says, “You killed my mom’s sister.”

That line actually made it into the film.

The sad thing is that the screen play is actually well constructed. Everything in the film ties together well and makes perfect

sense in the end without many plot holes.

The film does slow down when it leaves the OASIS and enters the real world, but even then those moments are ok. The dialogue was just disappointing and let the rest of the film down.

The selling point of this film is the effects. “Ready Player One” is simply a gorgeous film. Because of this the film is able to put a lot on the screen. The first challenge in the film is a massive race.

Before things get crazy and there are dinosaurs and King Kong running around on the track (yes that happens), it is a simple sequence with cars banging into each and exploding, but it looks fantastic. At the end of the film there is an actual fight between a Gundam and Mecha Godzila.

This movie looks incredible.

This film has no right being as good as it was. Within a mass of references is a genuinely good film. It has its problems, but is one of the most enjoyable films in a while.

indianastatesman.com DEMOCRACY FROM PAGE 6 from last month shows the exact script quoted in the Deadspin video. In the article, a local anchor says, “This is so manipulative.” The article points out that segments of former Trump aide Boris Epshteyn were running in place of local news segments on Sinclair-owned stations.

CNN also reports that local journalists took issue with “must-run packages” that the media group provided them.

The article says that these issues aren’t relevant to the local audiences, but are important to conservatives. CNN gives the example of a “Terrorism Alert Desk” segment, which focused on terrorism abroad, something that has no business being on a local news program.

And on top of all this, Politico reported in December 2016 that Jared Kushner had told business executives that the Trump campaign had brokered a deal with Sinclair to cover the then-candidate in a positive light. According to Politico, a Trump spokesman said that the deal included interviews to be shown on their stations across the country and that no money was exchanged.

Now, I am absolutely not

EPA FROM PAGE 6 refugees by the end of the decade, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

Climate scientists warn that droughts and flooding will worsen and that hurricanes likely will become bigger, stronger and more frequent. But that is all mythology to the likes of Pruitt.

The EPA came into being four decades ago for a reason. States were doing a lousy job of regulating pollution, which left skies smoggy, rain contaminated with acids and rivers and lakes laced with industrial toxins. The EPA hasn’t always done a good job, but it has played a vital role in

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 • Page 5 against conservative-leaning news stations or focusing on national politics over local ones.

Many news publications, though not all, lean at least a little bit one way or the other, and some publications might be better for national politics over local, and vice versa. However, this is what propaganda looks like.

It doesn’t matter which side of the aisle you’re on – a single media company pushing the views of a single presidential candidate should be raising red flags everywhere. This is simply a terrible thing. Imagine if one of the largest television broadcast groups in the country, with a reach of over a third of the country, was ordering their news stations to push the idea that euthanasia was okay. Obviously, people would be against that.

In addition to all of this nonsense with local news stations, Sinclair is also looking to purchase Tribune Media, which would give the group control of well over 200 television stations.

Sinclair has instructed their local anchors to recite words that aren’t theirs and air irrelevant news segments to push a certain politician’s views. This is propaganda. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. trying to keep our communities healthy and habitable. Pruitt has sought to undo that by ignoring science, distrusting the advice and professional conclusions of his staff and vigorously attacking regulations that evolved through years of deliberation. It’s to the Senate’s shame that it approved Pruitt’s nomination despite knowing that as Oklahoma’s attorney general, he had filed more than a dozen lawsuits challenging regulations and the legal authority of the EPA. And now we hear he may also be ethically compromised. He does not belong in public service. He’s an embarrassment even to this administration.

Which is saying something.

SUFFRAGISTS FROM PAGE 1 advocates of women’s suffrage,” she said.

According to statisticbrain. com, the vote turnout rate of all voting age citizens was only 55% in 2016 for the presidential election. The site also reports that 72.8% of women and 69.1% of men were registered to vote.

“It is a privilege and a duty to be an informed voter. Many people today do not vote. The obstacles faced by women and people of color in the 19th century to get and use the franchise were many and should not be forgotten. Some are similar to current

CAREERFROM PAGE 1 employers,” Bryant said. “The employers who are attending and assisting with the event all come from various work industries, and this will provide assistance to students to help them grow personally and professionally.”

The mock interviews will be approximately 30 minutes, conducted by real-life employers.

Students must pre-register in order to participate in mock interviews.

The deadline for registration

HISTORY FROM PAGE 6 “change the tone and tenure of modern-day American politics for the better.”

Challengers and underdogs must still use multiple lines of attack to have any chance of winning, and White House spokesmen and leakers still try to discredit their opponents and silence their critics.

If anything, the nastiness has increased, even as attacks on a candidate’s private life — “when those attacks have no bearing on a candidate’s fitness or ability to serve in office” — seem to have become less important to voters.

problems today. Many women who fought for suffrage went on to serve in both the Republican and Democratic parties.

While we certainly need to celebrate the ratification of the 19th amendment in 1920, voting for people of color continued to be an issue until the 1960s, which is a sad commentary. Several organizations are working on plans to celebrate the 100th anniversary. In Indiana, SheVotes 2020 is a multi-organizational group headed by Jill Chambers and supported by AAUW (Indianapolis Branch and State Board), the Propylaeum in Indianapolis, IUPUI Women’s Studies, the Indi-

ana Historical Bureau of the State Library, Indianapolis Council of Women, League of Women Voters and the Indiana Commission for Women. Locally, since 2012, the League of Women Voters of Vigo County has marched and held a program. The 2018 march will be held Monday, August 27, in and around the ISU campus.

Everyone is invited to participate in this visible reminder of this major historical story. For a dramatization of the later days of the fight, the ISU Library has the movie, “Iron-Jawed Angels,”, and for a documentary covering the entire suffrage period, “One Woman, One Vote”.” Miller said.

is Wednesday, April 4. In order to register, go to the Sycamore Career Link, log in, and click on the “Interview Schedules” tab.

From there, go to “Interviews I Qualify For” and then to “283/ Mock Interview.” Then, you will have the ability to sign up and choose your desired time slot, thus bringing up a confirmation message on the screen.

However, the rest of the event is free for all students, without registration.

The presentations throughout the day will include information about maintaining a healthy work-life balance, with a vast ar-

ray of other topics leading in to planning for financial success.

Students that participate in this one-day program will also then have the ability to work towards completing their Sycamore Career Ready Certificate.

For more specific details, such as who will be presenting/ hosting a workshop and what company they are representing, where the presentation will be located, and at what time the presentation will take place, students may go to www.indstate. edu/career-center/sycamore-career-summit.

The ideological division between the two parties has grown, and new platforms have made it easier for bizarre accusations based on baseless conspiracy theories to enter the political debate and to circulate very publicly — rather than through whispering campaigns of many decades ago.

The result is that the current political environment — and certainly the current White House — has taken us further away from civility, thoughtfulness, and the tenor and tone that Frost and Linder said they hoped to achieve. And that is a great pity.

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The EPA’s Scott Pruitt has to go Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Kenneth K. Lam | Baltimore Sun | TNS

Sinclair Broadcast Group’s headquarters. Sinclair Broadcast Group plans to sell Chicago’s WGN-TV and stations in New York and nine smaller markets to win federal approval of its proposed $3.9 billion takeover of Tribune Media.

This is extremely dangerous to our Democracy Joe Lippard

Opinions Editor

As Americans, we have seen our fair share of propaganda. During World War I, citizens were encouraged to buy war bonds to help with the war effort.

In World War II, propaganda films explained to the citizens of the United States why the country was in a war overseas. During the Cold War, there were numerous films promoted the “evils” of communism.

In the Iraq War, the New

York Times found that the Department of Defense had sent supposedly retired armed forces officers to news stations across the country, representing themselves as “independent analysts” to try justifying the war.

When Americans have seen the most extreme propaganda, it has most often been to push us into some sort of war, or to justify it. We don’t really see it being pushed outside of those times. However, a video from Deadspin shows such propaganda at work in our society today.

A video published by the website shows no less than 36 local news anchors reciting the exact same speech word for word.

They warn against “biased and false news,” saying that

there is a “troubling trend Sinclair Broadcast of irresponsible, one-sid- Group has spent the last ed news stories plaguing few years buying up loour country.” The anchors cal news stations around also claim, in unison, that the country. According to “some members of the me- NPR, they now own over dia use their platforms to 190 local news stations, push their own personal including WSBT-TV in bias and agenda to con- South Bend. trol ‘exactly what people A paper from Emory think.’”

University titled “Local “The sharing of biased New and National Politics” and false news has become finds that once a local news all too common on social station was bought by Sinmedia,” the anchors all say. clair, the stations would “More alarming, national become more conservative media outlets are publish- and focus more on nationing these same fake stories al politics over local poliwithout checking facts tics. The paper also reports first.” The words astound- that once these stations ingly echoed Trump’s fre- changed their reporting to quent denouncement of a more conservative slant, “fake news,” or stories that they lost viewership. make him look bad.

To make things more “This is extremely dan- troubling, a CNN article gerous to our democracy, “ the video concludes.

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As long as President Donald Trump is firing Cabinet members, may we make a nomination?

Scott Pruitt, and not just because of the allegations

by Bloomberg and ABC News that he took a sweetheart deal for himself and a daughter for living space in a Washington townhouse co-owned by the wife of an oil lobbyist. The deeper problem is that he is a danger to the planet.

Pruitt, of course, is the director of the Environment Protection Agency, whose mission is supposed to be enforcing environmental laws. But lately he’s been accused of a variety of seamy acts of self-dealing.

Not only did he allegedly accept the cheap rent deal from the lobbyist’s family, but he has spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on travel, flying first class apparently because he doesn’t like getting yelled at by passengers in coach who recognize him. He spent $120,000 of government money on one trip to Italy that included using a military jet and a $7,000 premium commercial ticket for a transatlantic flight, according to the Washington Post and Bloomberg.

In a normal administration, these would probably be sufficient reasons to kick the guy out of his job.

In fact, similar actions cost Tom Price his job running Health and Human Services, even though his shaky ethics were known when he was hired. But in Trumpworld, this is everyday stuff. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke spent more than $12,000 in tax money on a chartered flight to his home in Montana, and Housing and Urban Development chief

Ben Carson plunked down $31,000 for a kitchen set for his office (and then blamed his wife). In an administration led by a president to whom self-dealing is second nature, financial sins seem to come with pre-absolution.

So why are we singling out Pruitt? Because in these dire times, Pruitt’s a danger. It’s not so much that he’s a small-time abuser of the public trust living the high life with taxpayer dollars. The bigger issue is that when he’s not flying luxuriously around the world, he’s single-handedly imperiling the Earth by dismantling the EPA, undoing long-standing, bipartisan-supported rules and regulations and arguing the wrong side of every environmental issue at a moment when the fate of the planet is up for grabs.

(Reportedly, Pruitt is going to roll back fuel economy standards for motor vehicles in the next few days.) That’s why we said in February 2017 that he shouldn’t be confirmed, and that’s why we would be happy if his penny-ante misbehavior brought him down now.

The hot reality is that global warming is real, and that it has already begun to affect the climate. Over the last four winters, the expanse of Arctic sea ice has been the lowest on record, which has endangered native settlements that rely on an iced-up coast to keep winter storms from eroding land. Rising seas and related erosion also have forced the relocation of a village in the Louisiana bayou, and low-lying cities are trying to figure out how to cope with coastal flooding. As many as 20 million Americans could become climate

EPA CONT. ON PAGE 5

When history overtakes a campaign promise Devin Neely Reporter The press release from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee was groundbreaking, if difficult to believe.

The chairman of the DCCC said his committee “will not fund any Democratic candidate who initiates attacks against their Republican opponents of an ‘intimate’ personal nature.”

In response, the National Republican Congressional Committee’s chairman made the same pledge and wrote that the agreement negotiated by the two committee heads “has the potential to truly change the tone and tenure of modern-day American politics for the better.

We each agreed that there is no room in either of our parties for those who would make personal attacks on another candidate’s private life when those attacks have no bearing on a candidate’s fitness or ability to serve in office.”

If you think I just made up those quotes or the bipartisan agreement was the product of my imagination, you are very wrong. That agreement was forged almost 20 years ago, on Sept. 27, 1998, by Tex-

as Democrat Martin Frost, who chaired the DCCC, and Georgia Republican John Linder, his counterpart at the NRCC. But while Frost’s press release was limited to announcing the agreement, Linder used his letter to complain that President Bill Clinton’s allies were trying to discredit his critics: “As we have seen all too often, those whose views differ from the White House often become targets of vicious smears from ‘unnamed sources.’ In today’s Washington Post, Howard Kurtz writes on the White House’s ‘history of attacking its accusers.’ Kurtz writes, ‘James Carville, the president’s friend, openly declared ‘war’ on independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr, and White House officials publicly released negative information about Kathleen Willey after the former White House volunteer accused Clinton of ‘groping her.’”

Linder was particularly upset about rumors being circulated that decades earlier, Illinois Rep. Henry J. Hyde, who chaired the House Judiciary Committee, had had an extramarital affair.

He complained: “The personal smear campaign being waged against my friend Henry Hyde is a shameful attempt by a

hateful few to besmirch one of the most distinguished men to ever honor our nation with his service. These attacks are nothing more than a slanderous bid to intimidate the man charged with overseeing possible impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton.”

About a week earlier, on Sept. 18, The Washington Post had noted that a “leading Republican critic of Clinton, former U.S. attorney Joseph E. diGenova, said yesterday: ‘Their denials are worthless at this point. There is a presumption they are responsible at this point. They’ve made no bones that their tactic is to destroy anyone who disagrees with them. The burden has now shifted to them to disprove the fact that they were responsible for this.’”

(That’s the same diGenova who has defended President Donald Trump and almost joined the president’s legal defense team.) mes While Trump’s affairs — and denials — are getting plenty of attention, most political campaigns have moved beyond issues of personal, “private” conduct.

Indeed, the focus on the current president’s behavior is less about his “private” behavior than it is about whether he lied,

obstructed justice or benefited from the help of a foreign government.

Yes, Pennsylvania Republican Tim Murphy resigned his seat in the House after it was revealed that he had an affair and urged his mistress to get an abortion, and former judge Roy Moore’s Senate candidacy was sunk after revelations about his past personal behavior.

But Moore won a Republican primary even as rumors swirled about bad behavior years earlier, and GOP Reps. Blake Farenthold of Texas and Scott DesJarlais of Tennessee have survived personal scandals.

Personal scandals aren’t what they once were in American politics, though the recent attention to inappropriate sexual behavior has to some extent redefined what behavior is disqualifying for an officeholder or political hopeful and what is not.

I wouldn’t expect to see today’s campaign committees again swearing off future attacks, and it should be clear to all that the 1998 Frost-Linder agreement did not, as the Georgia Republican hoped,

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Brooke Mann (12) leads the team in homerunners with four.

Sycamores take on Bradley in “Pink Series” Jay Adkins Reporter

This upcoming weekend, the Indiana State University Sycamores softball team will stay at home to compete against the Bradley University Braves in a three game series. All of the games will be played as a part of the “pink series,” an event which raises awareness for breast cancer.

After a 7-1 start to the

season, the Sycamores are currently 16-14 on the season and on a two-game losing streak, both being losses (4-3 and 6-5) to the Illinois State University Redbirds.

For the Sycamores, junior catcher Brooke Mann leads the team in homeruns with four. Sophomore infielder Leslie Sims leads the Sycamores in hits and batting average with 34 and .436 on the season, respectively. Freshman outfielder Bella Peterson leads

the team in runs with 15 on the season. Sophomore outfielder Rebecca Gibbs leads the Sycamores in runs batted in with 18 on the season.

Standout freshman pitcher Arielle Blankenship leads the team in wins with three wins on the season. Sophomore pitcher/ first baseman Della Gher leads the team in saves with four on the season.

Freshman first baseman/ catcher Amanda Guercio leads the team in putouts

with 198 on the season. Junior infinite Shaye Barton leads the team in assists with 69 assists on the season. Senior pitcher Kylie Stober leads the team in inning pitched with 56.1.

The Bradley University Braves are 13-18 on the season and currently on a three-game losing streak, with all three being losses to the Drake University Bulldogs by scores of 2-10, 8-9, and 3-6. Senior utility player/catcher Maria Schroeder leads the Braves

in hits and batting average at 40 and .392, respectively. Sophomore infielder Allison Apke leads the team in runs batted in and slugging percentage with 32 and .816, respectively.

Apke also leads the team in home runs and put outs with nine and 147 on the season, respectively. Sophomore right handed pitcher Emma Jackson leads the team in wins with six wins on the season. Jackson and junior right handed pitcher Julie Kestas both have

two shutouts on the season so far. Senior infielder Elizabeth Leonard leads the team in assists with 50 on the season.

The Sycamores will compete against the Braves this weekend at Price Field. The first game will be played at noon on Saturday while the second game starts at 2 p.m. The third and final game will be played on Sunday at noon.

Taylor Austin and Erin Reese named MVC female track and field athletes of the week Andrew Hile

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Senior Taylor Austin has been named the MVC Female Track Athlete of the Week and Erin Reesehas been named the MVC Female Field Athlete of the Week for the second consecutive week, the Valley announced Tuesday morning.

Female Track Athlete Taylor Austin // Sr. // Distance // Griffith, Ind. (Griffith HS) Taylor Austin ran the best race of her career at the Stanford Invitational in a blazing fast heat of the 3000-meter steeplechase which led to her breaking her own school-record with a time of 9:54.01.

That time gave her a fourth-place finish and it overtakes her previous school-record of 10:02.89 by eight seconds, also pulling her to within three seconds of the overall Missouri Valley Confer-

ence record set in 2012 by Aisha Praught of Illinois State. She now currently holds the top time in the Valley, first in the NCAA East Region and fourth in the nation.

Female Field Athlete Erin Reese // RS Jr. // Throws // Mt. Prospect, Ill. (Prospect HS) During the first event of the day at Ole Miss, Erin Reese set the tone for the Sycamores. In a deep hammer throw field, Reese finished third overall, but she unleashed a big throw that gave her a personal-best and improved her second overall mark in school history to 62.34m (20406). She leads the MVC, is fifth in the East Region and 15th in the country.

The discus throw was also a good event for Reese, as she recorded a career-best in that event as well at 53.98m (177-01) which is fourth in school history, first in the conference, sixth in the East Region and 18th in the nation.

The sycamores opened the tournament on Monday with a spectacular round of 292.

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Sycamores secure second place finish at WG Fort Wayne Spring Classic The Sycamores were fully prepared to battle the wind, cold and rain for a second consecutive day but Mother Nature had other plans as lightening in the area forced the delay and eventually the cancellation of the third round of the WG Fort Wayne Spring Classic. The event was held at Brookwood Golf Club.

Despite less than optimal conditions, the Sycamores opened the tournament on Monday with a spectacular round of 292 -- the second-best single round in the history of the program. It is only topped a second round score of 287 which came at the 2016 Missouri Valley Conference Championship.

The 292 is the lowest ever in the first round of a tournament by the Sycamores.

ISU came back with a round of 298 in the afternoon, which is tied for the 10th-best round in the his-

tory of the program.

The total score of 590 is the best in the history of the program for a tworound event topping the previous school record of 599 set during the fall of 2017 at the Butler Fall Invitational. ISU’s 590 was good enough for second place. The University of Indianapolis won the event with rounds of 284 and 278, which gave them a tally of 562 and won by 28 shots. The Sycamores finished ahead of host Fort Wayne with rounds of 307 and 291 for a total of 598 while Green Bay was fourth with rounds of 303 and 311 for a total of 614.

Detroit tallied rounds of 334 and 318 for a total of 652 while Chicago State was not able to finish the event due to an injury.

ISU got there with a two-under par showing from Thilda Staubo who recorded a 70 on the first trip around the course

and came back with a 71 in the afternoon for a score of 141 and a spot in third place. Sierra Hargens used rounds of 73 and 77 to tie for ninth place with a score of 150. Alex Jennings put together the two best rounds of her career with scores of 75 in both the morning and evening for a total of 150 and a tie for ninth place. Sophie Benetti’s scores of 74 and 77 gave her a total of 151, which is 12th best.Dawn Turner owned rounds of 78 and 75 for a total of 153 and is tied for 15th place.

Playing as an individual, Robyn Blanchard put together rounds of 81 and 79 for a total of 160, which is tied for 25th place.

Staubo tied for third place in the individual race just three shots behind UIndy’s Katharina Keilich who won the event. Keilich recorded rounds of 70 and 68 for a total of 138.

Staubo’s opening round of

70 is tied for the sixth-best round ever by a Sycamore.

Her 141 in the two rounds of the tournament is tied for the best this year by the Sycamore as Sierra Hargens had the same scores in winning the Butler Fall Invitational in a three-way, four-person playoff. That score of 141 is tied for the Indiana State program record.

The Sycamores next host their only home tournament of the year -- the ISU Spring Invitational at 9:30 a.m. (ET) on both Sunday and Monday, April 8-9 at The Country Club of Terre Haute. Admission to the event is free. Indiana State has hosted the event in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 and has won each of the four previous team championships.

By Athletic Media Relations