April 4, 2016

Indiana Statesman For ISU students. About ISU students. By ISU students.

Monday, April 4, 2016

Volume 123, Issue 71

SGA ushers in new era

Megan Tucker Reporter

Student Government Association elections have ended and Andy Velazquez was named SGA president, with Josh Grady named vice president for 2016.

“Following the elections, I feel extremely blessed and thankful for the amount of support this community gave us in general, and I am appreciative of my running mate,” Velazquez said.

“I feel the same, just blessed to have the ISU community behind us and the record numbers and the record turnout.

It was definitely great to see that from the community,” Grady said. With Velazquez and Grady being on the same page

about a lot of their campaign work and goals, it is understandable why the community supported them throughout the election. Working as a team made the two stronger, and now they are going to help make ISU a greater campus.

Much to the surprise of the audience and current President Vernon Cheeks and Vice President Shannon Anderson the voter turnout this year was the highest it’s been since 2012. This year 2,221 students voted, which is 20 percent of the undergraduate class.

“That’s a significant amount of votes,” Anderson said.

In looking at the numbers for the voters this year, six voters abstained. Jor-

dan Marvel and Bo Turner received 561, 25 percent of votes. Andy Velazquez and Josh Grady received 1,639, 75 percent of votes.

The 2016-2017 approved Senate of Indiana State are Shannon Anderson, Sarah Copland, Diamond Eddie, Gabriel Fleck, AiJana’e Hardy, Courtney Harris, Eli Hibdon, Hayley Hooper, Tyler Johnson, Wyatt Lawson, Trevor Leuck, Nicholas McCollum, Gabrielle Noel, Ariana Nolan, Justin Ottino, Matthew Seremet, Brandon Tamayo, Michaela Thomas and Samuel Velazquez.

1,896 voted yes and 108 voted no; there was also 138 who abstained a vote.

Cheeks and Anderson said they’ve stayed in the

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HMSU to undergo renovations Megan Tucker Reporter

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Andy Velazquez was named the SGA president with Josh Grady as his vice president for the 2016-17 school year.

“Her Color Shines” First Awards Ceremony Top: Recipients of the Longevity Award left to right: Mary Seward (34 years), Valentine Muyumba (38 years), Brenda Hall (32 years) and Julia Bruce (35 years). Recipients are the longest employed African American faculty.

Bottom right: Resilient Award recipient, Tionna Harris. This award went to a graduate student who has made contributions to ISU and the community.

Bottom left: The Perseverance Award was awarded to doctoral student, La’Tonya Turner, for overcoming adversity.

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A recent power outage in HMSU marked the beginning of a series of improvements to Hulman Memorial Student Union.

According to Mark Adkins, director of HMSU, along with the electrical equipment being repaired, there are four projects, including a new lighting upgrade being done in the Dedes and in the Gallery Lounge. This will improve the use of electricity and will be much more cost effective for Indiana State University. The new lighting will be LED to create a brighter but softer more enjoyable environment allowing students to relax and enjoy events in the different Dedes.

Other projects in HMSU include the renovation of the seventh floor of the HMSU Tower, replacing the fire alarm system and creating a new east entrance by Dede II. The seventh floor renovation will mean that the student counseling center that is presently there will be permanently moved to Gillum Hall after commencement.

“In place of the counseling center, a multicultural program will be placed on the seventh floor. There will be resource centers such as a Womens’ Resource Center, a LGBT Resource Center, a Latino Resource Center, an International Resource Center and an Open Group Room for all four centers to share,” Adkins said.

The resource centers will be used to help the different groups to create new programs, activities and events for the student body.

“The third project is a more behind-the-scenes project,” Adkins said.

The fire alarm systems in HMSU are outdated and very sensitive. They are easily tripped, and this is why there is a need for a new system.

“They’re gutting the entire fire alarm system through all of HMSU including the Dede Conference rooms, Sycamore Lounge and the Statesman.

All of it is getting taken out and replaced with brand new technology,” Adkins said. The renovations will help prevent students from accidentally tripping the alarm system and the sensitivities to the old system itself.

The last project in HMSU is the new east entrance. The entrance is located near Dede II, where the current fire doors are leading to the Health and

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Technology highlights generational differences Rileigh Roberson Reporter

Social media is a fairly new technology that has certainly impacted the younger generation in many ways. One of those ways involves the level of face-to-face interaction our generation participates in.

Students all around campus join other young adults around the world on different social media sites, whether it be on Twitter, Instagram or Snapchat.

“It has made communication much more convenient,” junior social work student Jalen Faith said.

“We can literally con-

tact someone in seconds through Facebook, Twitter, or other social media outlets.”

According to Pew Research Center, 89 percent of people ranging from the ages of 18 and 29 use social networking sites.

Faith believes social media can be a positive tool in his generation; however, he can see the negative aspects of it as well.

“It has caused our generation to be a lot more disconnected from each other in comparison to older generations,” Faith said.

Terry Nelson, a professor in the Department of Communication, also sees the good and bad aspects of this excessive usage of

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Social media allows younger generations easier access to what is going on in the world, making them more aware; however, it is disconnecting people from the real world.

social media.

“Students are so much more aware of the world,”

Nelson said. “(They) have access to information at their fingertips any time of

day and night.”

This ability to have the “world in our hands” may not be such a good thing.

It is something that is a concern by many people within our generation, and those who are older. Most professors include a policy against cell phone usage during class in their syllabi because of the distraction they cause.

“We are on our phones on Facebook or Twitter all day even when we are having face-to-face conversations, and I feel that has a major impact on whether or not we are actually actively listening,” Faith said.

Nelson sees the downfall to social media in a slightly different way. She

fears that our generation will lose a certain amount of depth since we are used to speaking with a limit of 140 characters.

“There is a risk of a new generation that is aware of a great many topics, but without much depth; one that has a 1000 ‘friends’ yet no one to invite out to dinner,” Nelson said.

There is apparently some value in face-to-face communication that many people think the younger generation is missing out on.

“Social media has created a false sense of security, and young people can create their own world and a false reality,” Nelson said.

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California moving toward more extreme weather Laurel Hamers

San Jose Mercury News

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Michelle Helming (right), winner of 2016 Derby Darling, and Laura Renner (right), runner up for Derby Darling 2016.

The Derby Darlings and Their Fight to End Cancer Stephanie Burns Reporter

Tilson Auditorium was full of laughter on Thursday during the Derby Darling Pageant, the last event of Sigma Chi’s Derby Days events.

The Derby Darling Pageant is a talent-based pageant where two ladies from each participating sorority perform various talents and skits in hopes of becoming the next Derby Darling. Each Derby Days event raises money for the Jon Huntsman Cancer Institute.

The kickoff for the Derby Days events was on Monday, March 30, and it began one of the most successful Derby Days thus far. In the last five years, over $30,000 has been raised for the cause.

Other events that were included in Derby Days were a day of field games, collection booths in the commons, and an auction where brothers of Sigma Chi were auctioned off to help in the community.

As a part of the Derby Darling Pageant, members of Sigma Chi took turns speaking between performances. Each of them shared how cancer has personally affected their lives and why events like this are so important.

Each brother spoke of a family member who has had a significant impact on their lives while also battling cancer. They were all thankful to those who came to support the cause and help make the lives of those they love a little longer.

One of the speakers, Bryce Lane, ended his speech with, “Cancer moves fast. We have to move faster to find a cure.”

Although this event was competitive in nature, there was a sense of unity among everyone in attendance.

As each performer stepped onto the stage, the sisters of their sorority would cheer them on. It was obvious that everyone was having a wonderful time and really enjoyed being a part of this special event.

Leandra Defrier, who was a first time performer, said that it took her two months to practice her dance routine for the event.

“I will definitely be doing this again next year,” Defrier stated.

Each sorority had what was referred to as a “Derby Daddy” to help with their talents. The Derby Daddies were brothers from Sigma Chi and were a part of every routine.

Ryann Scott had the audience going wild with her blindfolded burrito making skills. Hannah White

took the audience by surprise with her dance routine to a tune by Beyonce. Jodi Buis, dedicating her performance to her mother, performed a rendition of “Lost Boy” by Ruth B. Finally, the closing act of the night, featuring Laura Renner and Michelle Helming from Alpha Sigma Alpha, had the audience in hysterics with their comedy skit, featuring Helming as Ron Burgundy.

The Derby Darling Pageant proved to be a successful conclusion to the 2016 Derby Days. The event raised $21,260, meaning that the brothers of Sigma Chi had surpassed their goal of $20,000.

Sigma Chi member Broc Buckles was proud of his fraternity and its accomplishments.

“Being a part of Sigma Chi gives me the ability to reach out and have an impact on campus,” Buckles said.

After all the votes from the judges were tallied, the winners of the Derby Darling Pageant were announced.

The sorority that won people’s choice, raising $1,553 for the cause, was Sigma Kappa. Best Talent went to Hanna White for her dance skills.

The runner up for Derby Darling was Laura Renner, and the 2016 Derby Darling went to Michelle Helming, a member of Alpha Sigma Alpha.

Voter Registration successful at ISU Tyler Davis Reporter

Around this time every four years competitive debates pit candidates against one another, groups of supporters flocking to street corners with campaign signs and a whirlwind of activity revolving around the primaries.

Last week Indiana State University launched a campaign to help students register to vote for the 2016 presidential election.

The American Democracy Project organized the event in which appointments were taken from faculty and staff in order to “register students in their classes and campus programs for the week of March 28,” according to a press release from the ISU newsroom.

Students were prompted to email the event coordinator, graduate student Allison Ramsey, with the “date, time, and location of (their) class or program,” in order to set up a meeting. The registration process only took approximately 10 minutes per student.

Although there are numerous avenues of which to register to vote, such as online or by visiting a local BMV, Indiana State helps students register by connecting them to individuals on campus that can help with the process.

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Korinna Clay, freshman political science major and Jakyla Bailey, sophomore social work major helped student register for voting.

“We’ve had some really positive feedback from the community,” Ramsey said, adding that, “many community members were able to register while on campus, as well as volunteer in the voter registration drive. The amount of support we received from the campus community was very encouraging.”

Results for the drive surpassed expectations as many faculty members signed up to participate, and the event itself had a

large turnout.

“For it being primary season, there was a great response from both faculty and students registering to vote, by the end of the week we had registered upwards of 550 students,” Ramsey said.

According to research gathered by Harvard University, millennials are less likely to participate in the upcoming elections than the (midterms) held in 2010 (youth turn out totaled about 22 percent).

Future plans for the ISU organization center around further engaging students to make their voice heard during election time.

“The American Democracy Project plans to collaborate with other entities across campus this coming fall to really encourage students to register and get out and vote for the general election in November,” Ramsey said.

Stanford University researchers who studied trends in the atmospheric circulation patterns that affect California’s rainfall have found that conditions linked to the hot, dry weather during the state’s latest drought have become more frequent in recent years.

While this year’s El Nino-driven storms may have brought temporary relief to the state’s parched soil and depleted reservoirs, Californians can expect more frequent droughts in the decades to come, said the study published Friday by Science Advances.

The researchers examined the “Ridiculously Resilient Ridge” — a persistent area of high atmospheric pressure over the north Pacific Ocean. The ridge can divert the path of storms destined for the West Coast, like a boulder in a stream forces water to move around it.

“We have a pretty narrow rainy season — really only a handful of months to see all of our annual precipitation,” said Daniel

Swain, a Stanford University researcher who participated in the study. This ridge can seriously throw off the year’s rainfall total if it sits off the coast at the wrong time of year, Swain said, which has been the case during the past few drought-stricken years.

Swain’s analysis found that the atmospheric conditions that lead to ridging have become more common since 1949 — and that those triggering wet weather might also be increasing.

But California’s reservoir system, which relies heavily on the Sierra Nevada snowpack to gradually replenish, wasn’t set up to handle such conditions.

“While we can certainly fill up reservoirs with rain, that isn’t going to last California in the long run,” Swain said. “There’s a lot of water stored in California reservoirs, but there’s a lot more stored in the Sierra Nevada snowpack.”

Even if enough rain and snow fall over several years, year-to-year inconsistency makes it challenging to manage. Steady precipitation year to year

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UF set to begin quest for $3 billion endowment Christopher Curry

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After months of preparations and low-key fundraising, the University of Florida will soon publicly launch a campaign to double the school’s endowment to at least $3 billion.

UF officials say the school’s largest endowment campaign to date is intended to draw in the financial resources necessary for UF to carve out and keep a space among the top five or 10 public universities in the country.

“This campaign is going to be the catalyst that drives us there,” UF Vice President for Development and Alumni Affairs Tom Mitchell said during a discussion at Thursday’s UF board of trustees meeting.

During that meeting, UF President Kent Fuchs said pushing the endowment to $3 billion or more will give the university the discretionary money needed to establish more endowed professorships, increase the need-based financial aid available to students, construct modern laboratories and buildings and fund graduate student fellowships.

“We are below our public aspirational peers in terms of the size of our endowment,” Fuchs said.

“We need to at least double, and possibly triple, the size of our endowment.”

The UF endowment sits at approximately $1.55 billion.

By comparison, 10 public universities have an endowment of about $3 billion or more, according to a 2016 report by the National Association of College and University Business Officers and Commonfund Institute.

The university systems for the University of Texas and Texas A&M University have endowments of $24.1 billion and $10.5 billion respectively. For an individual public university, the University of Michigan leads the way at $10 billion, followed by the University of California, Berkeley at $8 billion and

the University of Virginia at $6.2 billion, the report showed.

At the trustees’ meeting, the UF Foundation brought in John Glier, a partner in Grenzebach, Glier & Associates, a Chicago-based consulting firm that works with universities on fundraising, to discuss strategies for a massive campaign that vaults a university to national prominence and keeps it there.

“We’re not going to get it from tuition and fees,” Glier said. “We’re not going to get it from the state. Ultimately, private philanthropy drives these things.”

Glier said today’s endowment campaigns last longer, sometimes five to seven years, with much less time in between the end of one and the launch of the next. The “hallmark” of a modern campaign, he said, are large “transformational” gifts in excess of $100 million or more.

UF has been successful at fundraising in recent years and giving has not tailed off during the transition from former president Bernie Machen to Fuchs. In fact, the $315 million brought in last budget year was the most to date and the $265 million brought in so far this year is on pace to eclipse it.

But for UF, the massive gifts have been few.

In 2014, UF alumnus Al Warrington IV and his wife, Judy, contributed $75 million to his namesake, the Warrington College of Business Administration.

That represented the largest gift in UF history and made the Warringtons the first $100 million donors in the university’s history.

Last year, Dr. Herbert Wertheim, an entrepreneur who invented the UV coating for sunglasses, among other things, made a $50 million cash donation to the College of Engineering and the Herbert Wertheim Laboratory for Engineering Excellence.

Glier said to attract “very large gifts,” successful university campaigns

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indianastatesman.com SGA FROM PAGE 1 office countless hours working on how they can make Indiana State students more engaged and how they can help.

“With these turnouts, it just makes my heart happy because it shows that the work that Shannon and I have done has really paid off, as far as getting students engaged with student government,” Cheeks said.

“We try to email the students to actively try to get them engaged to ask them how life is on campus,” Anderson said. “There are only 16 in the SGA office and over 14,000 students,

CALIFORNIA FROM PAGE 2 means the Sierra Nevada snowpack remains relatively constant. The melting snow provides a consistent trickle of water over the dry summer months, and wet winters build it back up again.

Prolonged drought wears that snowpack down, leaving less to melt each year. And with the higher temperatures that

so it is impossible for us to know every student’s concerns. We try so hard to find out what the students concerns are or what areas they think need help. For example, a few years ago a senator got the toilet paper in the library changed from one-ply to two-ply, and it could be something like that, as silly as it sounds.”

All in all, both Anderson and Cheeks are extremely happy that 20 percent of students came out to vote, and they hope that more students will continue to vote.

often accompany severe drought, the snow melts away earlier in the spring.

Then when a deluge does come, much of it runs into the ocean instead of the reservoirs, Swain said.

The new study is among recent evidence predicting a shift toward extremes for California, said Noah Diffenbaugh, a Stanford University climatologist who headed the study.

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Human and Human Services Building/Arena.

“What the president wants to do with the new Health and Human Services renovations happening, he wants to increase flow of traffic from the east to west parts of campus, and the major spine will go right through HMSU,” Adkins said.

The new entrance will go through HMSU, creating a way to get across campus in less time.

Questions regarding the seventh floor resource centers can be directed to the HMSU Resource Center Desk.

involve a “dynamic discourse with the donor.”

Those discussions, he said, should focus on how a major contribution will improve a school or program within the university and the university as a whole.

Glier said officials should stress how the university’s goals match up with a donor’s values and how a major gift might advance science or address one of the “intractable problems of this world” such as poverty, hunger or cancer.

In the case of UF, he said the university should invest more in alumni outreach and marketing,

“It’s clear that California is now in a different climate than the climate we had a century ago when water rights were designed, and a different climate than we had half a century ago when California’s water reservoirs were built,” Diffenbaugh said. (c)2016 San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.) Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

pointing to a $23 million effort Stanford University launched to help push that university’s endowment above $22 billion.

Talking about potential challenges, Dr. Steven M. Scott, the chair of the board of trustees, said UF and “Gator Nation” have national brand recognition, but that attention usually involves football, basketball or some other sport. He said the university needs to increase the “academic engagement” among potential donors, because large gifts of $100 million or more typically go to areas like cancer research, physics or engineering, not football.

For Fuchs, an ambitious endowment campaign is not new territory. While at Cornell University, he was part of the Cornell Now campaign that raised $6 billion over a 10-year span.

Toward the end of their discussion, Fuchs told the gathered members of the board of trustees and university deans that the results of the ambitious campaign ahead will impact the university for the next 100 years.

“It is very important to our future that we be successful in this area,” he said. ©2016 the Ocala Star-Banner (Ocala, Fla. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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How to schedule classes efficiently Mustafa Mustafa Reporter

Semesters come and go at impossible speeds and breaks start and end at the blink of an eye.

Soon enough, everyone but the soon-to-be graduates will have to re-start the process from the beginning. Scheduling classes is the first step to any semester. Having a good or bad schedule can be the difference between doing well the whole semester or not; making sure that one is ready to schedule is a good way to start that process as well.

Having a plan when scheduling is one of the essentials when registering. Classes filling up is never a joke; a class

with a 50 person limit can fill up within seconds. Having a backup plan can save a student from a semester of uninteresting classes and major setbacks. This means that waking up 10 to 20 minutes before registration opens is imperative as well, even if it’s only to double check that all the numbers and codes used during scheduling are ready.

When making plans, a delicate balance between classes for your major and electives are needed to maintain footing throughout the semester. While major classes are fun at times, having many of them at once usually leads to a stressful semester.

A way to cure this is to take one or more interesting foundational

be equal to scheduling an 8 a.m. class. While sometimes they are unavoidable, if you aren’t functioning fully during these hours, these classes can be stressful.

While some people can handle 8 a.m. classes, many may not enjoy them.

Save some of those foundational studies for later. It’s understandable for a student doing exploratory studies to take many of them, but for a person with a declared major, pacing them would be the smart way to the classes that break the monot- go. They can break the routine of major classes and help fill credit ony throughout the semester.

Early and late classes are hours when they are needed, esthe bane of college students for a pecially during senior year. reason; having a three-hour night class that goes until 9 p.m. can

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studies classes. Making sure to include these in the initial and backup plans can be extremely helpful throughout your semester. These foundational studies can easily turn out to be one of

‘Batman v Superman’ expected to dominate at box office again Ryan Faughnder

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Warner Bros. Entertainment’s DC Comics film strategy faces another important test as “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” enters its second weekend at the box office.

The Zack Snyder-directed action movie, starring Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill, is expected to again dominate the competition at cinemas after a strong $166 million opening.

Hollywood is waiting to see how far the movie’s tickets sales will drop.

Analysts expect the epic superhero battle will generate $60 million to $65 million in box-office revenue from the U.S. and Canada this Friday through Sunday. That would represent a decline of roughly 60 percent or more from its debut.

Major franchise films tend to post steep drops in their second weekends, partly because most hard-core fans flock to theaters when movies first debut.

Last year’s hit “Furious 7” and 2012’s “The Dark Knight Rises” both dropped about 60 percent week-toweek. “Batman v Superman” could be weighed down by a less-than-stellar audience response, indicated by its average “B” grade from exit polling firm CinemaScore.

Warner Bros. is counting on continued robust overseas sales. The movie has grossed a global total of $435 million so far, with $181 million of that coming from the U.S. and Canada market. “Batman v Superman” cost $250 million to make and is intended to set the stage for a series of future movies based on DC

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The battle between Batman (Ben Affleck) and Superman (Henry Cavill) is lifted in large part from the 1986 graphic novel “The Dark Knight Returns.” (Clay Enos/ TM & DC Comics/TNS)

Comics characters to compete with Disney’s Marvel Studios. Upcoming DC films include “Suicide Squad,” “Wonder Woman,” “Justice League” and “Aquaman.”

Nothing else at the box office is expected to give the caped crusaders much of a fight.

“God’s Not Dead 2,” the sequel to the 2014 indie Christian hit from Pure Flix Entertainment, is estimated to gross $8 million to $12 million in domestic ticket sales, according to people who have reviewed prerelease audience surveys. That would be a solid result for the low-budget picture and provide further evidence of the market for faith-based movies.

The original “God’s Not Dead” opened with $9 million and ended up with $60.7 million in sales — a profitable result for a picture that cost just $2 million to make.

The horror spoof “Meet the Blacks” is getting a mid-level release this

weekend targeting African American moviegoers. The low-budget parody of “The Purge,” starring Mike Epps and directed by Deon Taylor, is expected to take in $5 million or less from its debut in about 1,000 theaters.

In limited release, the well-reviewed Warner Bros. science fiction tale “Midnight Special” will try to expand its audience after earning $374,000 from five theaters. Paramount Pictures is releasing the Richard Linklater film “Everybody Wants Some!!,” a follow-up to his 1993 classic “Dazed and Confused,” while Sony Pictures Classics is launching Don Cheadle’s Miles Davis biopic “Miles Ahead.” ©2016 Los Angeles Times Visit the Los Angeles Times at www. latimes.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

Q&A: ‘Empire’ showrunner discusses second season Yvonne Villarreal

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The first family of music — at least in TV land — is back.

It’s been several long months since we last saw the Lyon family at the center of Fox’s hit hip-hop family soap opera “Empire.” The midseason finale in December saw Lucious (Terrance Howard) losing control of his company to son Hakeem (Bryshere Y. Gray). And who could forget that crazy fall Rhonda (Kaitlyn Doubleday) suffered down that flight of stairs?

While “Empire’s” ratings haven’t been as impressive as they were in its debut season — when viewership grew week to week until hitting an all-time high of 16.7 million for its season finale — the filmed-inChicago drama remains a high note for Fox. “Empire” headed into its three-month hiatus with some power, averaging 11.2 million total viewers and nabbing a 4.4 rating among the advertiserfavored demographic of

A father and son gave it all they had

adults ages 18 to 49 with its midseason finale, and that’s not even factoringin delayed viewing over seven days.

And industry watchers will no doubt keep watch on how “Empire” fares in the ratings with its second leg of its sophomore season, which kicked off Wednesday.

We spoke to “Empire” executive producer and showrunner Ilene Chaiken about how Season 2 is shaking out. The following is an edited transcript of our conversation.

Q: This break has been so long. Do you think this hiatus was a little much, any worry that fans will forget what happened?

A: For me, it just flew by. We’ve been in production throughout the hiatus, so it didn’t feel like a hiatus to me. I know we’ve been off the air for a while.

I hope that it works. I hope we haven’t been gone too long. I don’t think it was.

I’m really excited by what we’re coming back with, so hopefully the folks that love the show will feel that

it was worth the wait.

Q: How would you describe the second half of the season?

A: The second half of the season is really about the family coming back together. I think that’s the big headline: The Lyons family comes back together initially to vanquish their enemies, to take their company back while always and forever competing with one another for all the same things. So, there are shifting allegiances in the context of all that, but it’s very much about the love and the treachery among these wild and crazy people.

Q: What were some of the narrative arc concerns you had this season?

A: We’ve started a couple of stories that we’ve been looking forward to playing through. The story of Lucius losing his company and coming back hard and reconnecting with his gangster past in the course of that has been a big story for us and the repercussions that it has on

his children and on Cookie. The way that Cookie and Lucius reconnect in the course of that is one of the loveliest and most exciting things to me. I think you saw it in our midseason finale — that last scene between Lucius and Cookie just brings back the connection between them, that connection that never goes away. That’s going to be something that we’ll explore much more deeply in the remainder of the season.

Q: Was there a story line in the first half of the season that drew a lot of debate in the writers room?

A: Every single arc and story draws a lot of debate in the room. But certainly the Anika story line — where we were going with Anika, how far we were going with her, and whether or not she is indeed the person who pushed Rhonda. And I would not ask anybody to assume that … In the latter half of the season, I SEE EMPIRE, PAGE 5

Michael Kraft was 16 when he became the man of his family.

It had been more than a decade since World War II ended — but the war claimed his father’s life all the same. Eugene Kraft was likely haunted by his memories of fighting.

He didn’t talk about it.

Instead, he drank. And in the spring of 1959, it killed him.

As the family left his funeral, Michael’s mother told him to take care of his crying sister.

“After that, he always did take care of us,” said Michael’s sister Dee Wayne, now 67. Her voice caught suddenly as she began to cry.

“I’m sorry,” she said, between sobs. “I don’t talk about him often.”

From then on, Michael’s three younger siblings leaned on him, almost as a father.

He helped them through issues at school, taught them to get along with other children, and always listened to their problems — even after he left home and joined the Army.

Until, in early 1967, Michael was deployed quite suddenly to Vietnam. He died there.

Details about his death are scarce. His family knows he was a lieutenant in the Honor Guard at Fort Myer next to the Arlington National Cemetery.

The Honor Guard was sent to Vietnam in January 1967. Many of them died.

“He didn’t know he’d be going to war,” said Michael’s mother, June French, who is now 99.

“Michael just wanted to be a paratrooper, like his daddy.”

In the end, war affected every part of Michael’s life.

He was born in 1943, while the country was in the throes of the second World War. His father left to fight in the Pacific just after Michael was born, so Eugene missed the first years of his eldest son’s life.

The long deployment put several years between Michael and his younger siblings — Michael was 5 when his mother gave birth to her second son.

A year later his sister Dee came, then two years after that his youngest brother.

For a time, the family was at peace.

Eugene and June bought an old school house in Vanderburgh County and remodeled it into a home.

Eugene did most of the work, but June designed it and as a finishing touch painted the building in pink stucco.

“So we grew up in a pink school house on a hill,” Michael’s brother Toby said with a laugh.

Michael was an incredibly outgoing and charismatic child. He was the lead in his senior play and an officer in all his classes.

He played in the marching band and escorted the homecoming queen.

Nearly 60 years later, June’s voice still swells with pride when she lists her son’s accomplishments.

“He was so popular,” she said. “We bought him a convertible that year and he was in his glory.”

To his younger siblings, Michael was larger than life — especially after their father died.

“He stepped up and looked after us,” Toby said Wednesday.

“Even now — “ he stopped suddenly, overcome with emotion. For several minutes, he could not speak, and when he did, his voice was pitched in pain.

“You see, I had polio when I was 1 year old, and I grew up wearing braces on my legs. And he would always tell me, ‘Sit up straight. Walk straight.’ “ Toby paused again to cry.

“Not many days go by I don’t think of him.”

After high school, Michael went to college in Illinois for a year, then dropped out to join the Army.

He met his wife while stationed in Fort Benning, Georgia. Marchita was the daughter of one of his instructors there.

The couple had their first son in the winter 1966.

That Christmas, Michael brought his wife and new baby home to Evansville to meet the family.

It was a short, but fun, visit. No one dreamed it would be the last time they would see Michael alive.

Michael was killed April 8, 1967, less than a month after his 24th birthday.

His wife never remarried. When she died in 2014 she was buried next to Michael at Arlington National Cemetery.

“We always think about how different our lives would be, if ...” Dee’s voice trailed off.

“We don’t look upon ourselves as special or anything,” Michael’s sister said.

“We’re just an American family contributing to our country.”

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indianastatesman.com EMPIRE FROM PAGE 4 come to see that Anika’s behavior, although it might have gone a little far, was all in some ways justifiable and motivated by how badly she was treated by the Lyons. She’s going to have a chance to recapitulate and make right the things that went wrong for her.

Q: Is this going to lead to some GIF-worthy moments?

A: I hope so. I hope that it is always GIF-worthy.

Q: Hakeem is the head of Empire Entertainment now that Camilla has taken over. This can’t last long. How is this going to affect the future of Lyon Dynasty?

A: Hakeem is going to have some big choices to make. He made an impetuous move, he made a power grab that miraculously worked. But it’s not clear that he’s ready for it and he’s going to have to choose between power and family and that’s going to be a tough choice for Hakeem.

And he’s also going to have to choose between power and love because although when Camilla left in Season 1, he was heartbroken, he’s fallen in love with someone else. And he’s being offered the opportunity to have all of the power that he thought he was seeking, but at the expense of his heart.

Q: One of last season’s most talked about moments was the fight between Anika and Cookie A: There will certainly be more conflicts on “Empire,” physical and psychological. I don’t like to call them catfights, even though sometimes the women do fight in that way. I like to think our women are every bit as able as men and that their martial skills compare and compete.

Q: How detailed do you get in the script when writing those

Monday, Apr. 4, 2016 • Page 5 scenes?

A: Sometimes we get very detailed. I’ve learned over the years that those scenes really emerge on set and the actors have a lot to do with them, and the directors, and the stunt coordinators. I prefer not to say, “then she pulled her ear,” because it never happens that way. You spend all your energy as a writer writing and imagining the moments and then the actor will say, “I’m not pulling her ear.” But I will say that fight in Episode 10, it didn’t all wind up in the cut.

Lee Daniels came into the room while we were breaking that scene and he was like, “Oh, I know exactly how this fight is going to play out.” He pitched out every single second of it.

“She spits! And then the spit hits her! And then it drips down her face.” It never made the show but he had a really vivid fight in his mind. I think we should put all 25 of those spit shots on the DVD or something.

Q: You guys have the next Empire Artist Contest happening. How did that process go?

A: We selected the “Empire” artist. We finished shooting the season. That artist was selected by our executive producers. The artist that was chosen gets a very big feature spot on “Empire” in our second-to-the-last episode. It was surprisingly successful.

It didn’t take a lot of our time and effort. And because music is such a big part of our show, our obligation was simply to make sure that the artist that won was featured in some small way. But we wound up really liking the work and they felt like “Empire” and we gave them a much bigger spot than we were obliged to give them.

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cia Keys, Rosie O’Donnell and Vivica Fox. Any exciting ones for the second half? Will we finally see Oprah stroll through?

A: I don’t know when we’re going to get Oprah. But the last half of the season is much more about the family. Frankly, we’re not having as many guest stars.

We’re concentrating on telling our stories. That’s not to say there aren’t some amazing actors coming to the second half of the season, but they’re all there in service of the story.

There wasn’t a single instance in which I was told, “Hey, soand-so wants to be on the show, find a way to get them in,” and I had to jump through hoops and break my back trying to accomQ: The show definitely knows modate a story line.

We simply cast all of the charhow to get heads turning with its guest spots. This season saw Ali- acters that we wrote with amaz-

ing actors. I’m not going tell you who all of them are because it Q: The show has spawned would amount to spoilers. a number of “Empire”-branded ventures — clothing lines, Q: The show got very politi- soundtracks, etc. What’s the stacal with a number of nods to the tus of an “Empire” tour?

Black Lives Matter movement. In A: We’re talking about it. I’m what ways will that continue, if at not sure exactly what form it will all? Any chances of digs at Don- take because there’s some really ald Trump or other presidential exciting ideas in the mix. We candidates? want them to always be ideas that A: I don’t think we reference firstly don’t get in the way of our any of the presidential candidates making the show because that’s in the latter half of the season. our first priority. And also we The show is political by its na- want to do something that feels ture. Our characters have politi- like of the world. But, yes, there cal points of view. are definitely conversations goTheir lives are political. They ing on about what that’s going to know people in high places and look like for “Empire.” there’s no question the show ©2016 Los Angeles Times will continue to traffic in those Visit the Los Angeles Times at themes because it’s natural to the www.latimes.com show and fun and it’s what gets us Distributed by Tribune Content all on fire.

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Bernie vs. Hillary: Candidates Clash Over Debate Date

Joe Lippard

Assistant Opinions Editor

Hillary Clinton has refused to debate Bernie Sanders ahead of New York’s Democratic primary on April 19, citing his campaign’s “tone” as the reason for going back on an agreement between the two.

The two candidates had agreed to add four debates to the primary calendar.

The first debate took place in New Hampshire before that state’s primary election. The two candidates agreed that one of these other additional debates would take place in April, and another in May. The specific dates and times were not discussed at the time.

Now, Sanders has proposed a debate in New York, and Clinton’s campaign has rejected Sanders’ request on account of his “tone.” That is, Sanders’ campaign’s requests have been rejected until now.

After nearly a week of not entertaining the idea of debating Sanders, Clinton’s campaign has proposed some possible times to set a Democratic debate.

These times? Obviously times when the most amount of viewers can be brought in should be reserved for a presidential debate. Clinton’s campaign has proposed debating on the same night as the NCAA game.

Clinton’s campaign said that they proposed a time that would not interfere with the NCAA Championship, but most Democratic debates start at around 8 p.m. and run late, while the tipoff of the NCAA Championship game is set at 9:18 p.m.

A second time proposed

by Clinton’s team was April 15, on Good Morning America.

I don’t think that I really have to say how absurd it is to propose a debate on a morning talk show. The purpose of a debate is to allow voters to watch it and make a more informed decision about who to vote for. April 15 is a Friday.

Clinton’s campaign proposed a debate on a television show that is not readily accessible.

People have jobs, kids and a whole host of other reasons that they might not be able to watch a debate on morning television.

This tactic that Clinton’s campaign is using does not come as a surprise, however. When Clinton debates Sanders, Sanders gains more support. The debate before the New Hampshire primary has been identified as a possible cause of Sanders’ victory in the state. It only makes sense that Clinton would want to debate him at a time when he would gain the least support.

But it is not fair for the American people to go into these primary elections uninformed. These primetime debates are often the only times that a lot of voters actually hear about policies and important issues from the candidates themselves. Scheduling debates at times when viewership will be low seems like an attempt to keep the American people ignorant.

What’s worse about this whole situation is that now, Clinton can say that she was trying to establish a date, but Sanders just wouldn’t agree to a it. This could make Sanders look bad if Clinton’s campaign continues to use it to cast him in a bad light, even though Clinton has turned down multiple proposals from Sanders’ campaign as well.

What I fear people will

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Educating the future Jim Kreinhop Columnist

Kids spend a lot of time growing up around teachers, going to school at least seven hours a day, five days a week for twelve years. A teacher has plenty of time to educate these students and leave a positive influence on these impressionable children who will soon inherit the country. So, if most kids put in a near forty-hour school week, then some of them ought to come out well rounded with an ability to function in the world around them.

This is made possible by teachers who want to see it happen.

Teachers are the facilitators of learning and are responsible for essentially describing to the kids the history of the world they were born into and how they can navigate through it with math, science and language skills. However, many teachers carry that job title but neglect much of the duties it entails.

When I was a teenager, my high school hired someone to supervise my

economics class. My classmates often referred to him as our teacher, but I knew that couldn’t be accurate because he never taught us anything. Instead, every day we came to class he would tell us to each grab a textbook from the bookshelf and read a certain number of pages to ourselves.

My thought the first day was, “Great, I could use a break from being lectured all day and finally learn something on my own. It’s time I took the initiative to better my education. I’ll gladly read to myself.”

My thought the second day was, “Well, I dozed off while reading yesterday, and the class went on just fine. Come to think of it, we weren’t even quizzed on what we read. I’ll bet I won’t be expected to know this stuff today either.”

Halfway through the semester, the lesson plan appeared to never change.

Every day my classmates and I would walk into class, grab a textbook, lay it open on our desks, and stare blankly for ten minutes at the pages we were assigned to read, wondering if and even hoping that our paid supervisor who has scarcely looked away from his laptop all semester has found any information yet about the economy that he could share with us.

This guy had no answers,

but knew where they could be found. When asked questions, he would lead his students to the answers by pointing toward the bookshelf across the classroom. He was kind of a one-trick pony, but in his defense, maybe he didn’t read the book, so how could we expect him to know this stuff?

He briefly told us to study the material from a list of chapters that we should expect to see on the first exam, which everyone failed. To compensate for our consistently low scores, which reflect the efficacy of his employment, Mr. Hack gave us the opportunity to retake the exam and correct our mistakes through the use of textbooks and online resources.

Our scores improved, our grades went up, and everyone passed, but none of us learned. Those of us who took the class were seniors soon to graduate high school and enter the world via workforce or university.

Some students got pregnant or got someone else pregnant and came out of high school with a family to support, working fulltime, finding later that they don’t make nearly enough money to survive in this economy. Other students went to college with the prospect of a high-paying job that will enable them to pay off student loans, finding later

that they don’t make nearly enough money to survive in this economy.

Maybe not everyone who took his class was doomed to helplessness after graduation, but this guy did a poor job educating us on the economy that we were about to enter and more or less inherit as our generation gets older.

If you’re an education major and you’re not interested in students’ educations, then change majors. That’s what I did. I was studying to become an English teacher primarily because teaching is a source of income. I realized I was in the wrong major because I don’t care about the subjects I’m studying.

I’m not interested in ensuring every child the right to an education, but I saw a lot of people in those classes who are, and I hope they do great things as teachers in the future.

I would make a rotten teacher. Students would dread Mr. Kreinhop’s class because, “he doesn’t teach so much as mumble words from a PowerPoint slide.

He’s got a short temper, and he sometimes pours whiskey in his coffee, which does relax him enough that he’ll stop yelling at the students, but then he’ll start telling racist jokes about everyone in the class.” I

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Why youth votes are vital in this years election

Shayla Bozdech Columnist

As the deadline for voter registration for the Indiana primary quickly approaches, efforts have been made to ensure that Indiana State University students can conveniently register.

However, the convenience of voting is still an issue to be resolved. As young adults, we are stereotypically expected not to exercise our right to vote.

To many politicians, this

is good news, as a sudden influx of young voters can drastically change election results, and therefore policy would also change.

When young adults decide they would like to exercise their right to vote, they can often feel confused or uninformed about the registration and voting process.

Sometimes, partisan politics can discourage the young population from voting and will make the process more difficult for young adults. As college students, we should be concerned about this right.

The right to vote is not only a right — it is a responsibility.

Recently, ISU was denied a voting center. Indiana State was offering to cover a bulk of the costs associated with setting up a voting center, and they were offering free parking. The vot-

ing center would not only make voting convenient for the 13,000 students and roughly 1,500 faculty, but it would also be open to the general public.

The rationale behind denying the proposal was that there could be an issue with sponsorship, but the legal counsel of the Indiana Election Division has since claimed that he was not aware of any legal concerns with the sponsorship. Regardless, the proposal needed a unanimous vote to change the voting center plan, and the proposal will not likely be revisited until

before the 2018 elections.

When young adults show up to the polls, we are doing more than casting a vote. We are making a statement. Like I mentioned earlier, the bulk of the voting population is n o t expecting us

to show up to the

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booth. So, to them, we are showing we do not care. Therefore, politicians rarely have to appeal to a younger crowd.

As a college student, I know this is not true. I see my peers taking the time to educate themselves about current candidates and issues, and it is very encouraging. But it goes beyond educating ourselves.

We most show our faces when it comes time to cast our ballots.

When we do show up, we are proving to the election officials that we care. When we cast our ballots, we are sending a message to politicians that they must appeal to our interests. They must start discussing issues that matter to us.

Some candidates have i n g started talking about the

issues that matter to most young voters, and they are gaining great support on campus. But our support and our voices must go past a “like” and a “share” on social media. Our voices must be used in the form of ballots.

If a student has registered to vote in Vigo County, they can vote on May 3 in the Indiana Primary.

The voting center closest to campus is the Vigo County Public Library, located at One Library Square, Terre Haute, IN 47807. The location will be open May 3 from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., and is within walking distance of campus. Each voter is required to show an identification before voting, but conveniently, students can use either their Indianaissued ID (driver’s license) or the ISU ID, as it has an expiration date.

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indianastatesman.com FUTURE FROM PAGE 6 would not be very effective in this line of work. Now I’m majoring in English. I like language and literature; that’s why I’m writing this column.

If kids are forced to spend so much time in school anyway, wouldn’t you expect the teachers to have some interest in seeing them come out educated? If you’re an education major and you’re more concerned with how

CLASH FROM PAGE 6 forget is that Clinton’s debate proposals are downright unreasonable. A morning talk show and the night of the biggest college basketball game of the year.

These are not times that I would

Monday, Apr. 4, 2016 • Page 7 you’ll decorate your classroom than how effective you can be in it, then back out. Do something else. Save yourself and those poor kids the trouble.

But if you’re excited to graduate and take on the role and responsibility of being a teacher, then you have my support. We depend on you to make our kids smart so when they grow up they don’t screw everything up for our country. No pressure. agree to debate. Sanders wants to show the American people what he stands for, and Clinton seems keen to keep people in the dark.

Asking to debate at a time when people can actually watch the debate is not an unreasonable request.

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TRACK FROM PAGE 8 The Sycamore women also kept up their good work in the throwing events with two more top-three finishes. Senior Whitney Walker was the runner-up in the javelin at 40.36m (13205), an impressive season-best considering the absurd wind cutting across the javelin runway.

Fellow senior Katelyn Rutz was the runner-up in the discus, tossing a season-best 47.74m (156-07) – which currently has her ranked No. 34 in the NCAA East Region.

ISU also had some top finishers in the high jump as well.

Sophomore and MVC Indoor runner-up Jamie Murtagh was tied for second among DI com-

petition in the men’s high jump, clearing 1.95m (6-04.75). In the women’s edition, LeVisa Evans (1.68m/5-06.00) and Ioanna Koltsidou (1.60m/5-03.00) finished third and fourth among DI schools, respectively.

Also having a solid day in the jumps was sophomore Jamie Newsome, who finished as the third-best DI athlete in the triple jump at 11.41m (37-05.25).

Several Sycamores also placed high in the distance events.

Blake Kramer was the thirdbest DI finisher in the men’s 1500 meter race, clocking in at 4:04.12. In the men’s 3,000-meter steeplechase, Logan Hambrock (9:58.89) and Daniel Swem (10:14.02) finished as the fourth and fifth-best Division I athletes to compete in the frigid

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On the women’s side, AllMVC honoree and sophomore Brittany Neeley finished as the fifth-best DI athlete in the women’s 800 at a respectable 2:21.43 despite the intense winds.

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Sycamores earn weekend sweep over Butler Ashley Dickerson

ISU Athletic Media Relations

Indiana State baseball battled in-state rival Butler on Friday night for 14 innings before saying good night with a walk-off grand slam, from junior Hunter Owen to earn the 13-9 victory.

The Sycamores took an early lead, scoring two in the first inning, before Butler battled back to sneak one in the top half of the second inning, cutting the Sycamores’ lead to 2-1.

Indiana State answered in the bottom of the fourth as they put up four runs on four hits to cushion the lead to a comfortable 6-1.

Scoring again in the fifth inning, junior Tony Rosselli led things off with a bunt single, and eventually scored as Owen reached on a fielder’s choice, extending the lead to 7-1.

Settling into a comfort zone, the Sycamores scored one in the sixth and seventh innings to get to nine, but allowed Butler to score two in the sixth, four in the seventh and two more in the top of the eighth to knot the score at 9-9.

The two teams then extended the game another five innings before the Sycamores defeated the Bulldogs 13-9.

In the bottom of the 14th inning, Rosselli led off with a hit by pitch, followed by a walk for senior Andy DeJesus, and then another hit-by-pitch for senior Andy Young. Butler loaded the bases before dishing up a first-pitch fastball to one of the nation’s top hitters, Owen.

Owen wasted no time, as he swung at the first pitch, sending it well over the left field wall.

This 13-9 defeat in 14 innings marks the third time this season that the Sycamores have won in walk-off fashion,

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Kaden Moore helped lift the Sycamores to a 7-2 win on Saturday with a homerun that extended ISU’s lead.

with the most recent being a dropped third strike walk-off against Illinois on Tuesday.

The Sycamore pitching staff combined to strike out 17 Bulldog batters. In six innings of work, junior lefty Justin Hill struck out 7, as junior Jeremy McKinney also struck out seven in his five innings before sophomore Ethan Larrison came in to close out the night facing seven batters and striking out two.

On the offensive side, senior Kaden Moore went 4-7 with three RBIs and a run scored, while Rosselli led off the fourth, fifth, and fourteenth innings getting on base for the Sycamores.

Rosselli finished 3-4 with one walk, one hit by pitch, and scoring three runs.

Young finished with two hits, a walk, a hit-by-pitch and two RBIs, while scoring three of the Sycamores’ runs. Rounding out the offense was Owen who tal-

lied two hits, two walks, four runs scored, and five RBIs, four of which came from the walk-off, gamewinning bomb.

The Sycamores as a team finished with 17 hits, nine walks, and three hit-bypitches on the night. Ethan Larrison picked up his first win of the season on the mound.

Game Two

Sycamore Baseball defeated Butler in just over two hours Saturday afternoon, behind junior Ryan Keaffaber’s complete game on the mound, the first of the season for the Sycamores. Young led at the plate, going 4-4 with a home run, stolen base and four runs scored.

Indiana State jumped to a 2-0 start in the first inning from back-to-backto-back doubles from Moore, Young and Owen.

The Sycamores struck again in the bottom of the third inning after DeJe-

Sycamores hang tough amid windy final day of Big Blue Classic Tyler Wooten

ISU Athletic Media Relations

Despite a consistently incapacitating howl of wind at O’Brien Field on Saturday, the Indiana State track and field teams were able to get some solid work done to close out their stay at Eastern Illinois for their second meet of the outdoor season.

Senior All-American hurdler Adarius Washington remained perfect in his signature 110-meter hurdles, winning the event despite running either with or against dangerous and unpredictable winds.

The Indianapolis native only mustered a 14.16 in the prelims due to the wind (which was still the top qualifying time), but then exploded to a more familiar time with a windaided (+2.0) 13.74 seconds to win in finals.

Grant Stamm also made the final, where he finished third among Division I competition at a wind-aided 15.29 seconds.

Indiana State also had two finalists in the women’s 100-meter hurdles.

Sophomore Micaela McLean was the sixth-best DI finisher at an intensely wind-aided (+4.2) time of 14.52 seconds.

It was still a career day for the Canadian native despite the wind-illegal performance in finals, as she ran a new PR at a wind-aided (+2.8) 14.76

sus led off the bottom half with a bunt single. Young followed with a single to right center, and both baserunners moved up on a passed ball. Owen then hit a sacrifice fly to score DeJesus, just before Young crossed the plate on another passed ball to put the Sycamores up 4-0.

Butler answered with one run before Young homered for the fourth time this season, putting him back on top of the home run category thus far for Indiana State in 2016, and giving the Sycamores the 5-1 lead.

The Bulldogs answered with one more run in the top of the seventh, cutting the Sycamore lead to 5-2.

Young continued the hit streak, reaching safely for the fourth time in his fourth at bat with a single to center field. Following Young, Moore homered for his first time this season to send the Sycamores

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seconds in prelims regardless.

Freshman Ayanna Morgan also made the final, finishing right behind

McLean as the seventhbest DI finisher at 14.81 seconds (+4.2 wind).

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Game Three

Indiana State Baseball (18-11, 0-0 MVC) earned a sweep over Butler, winning game three by a score of 6-1. Freshman Tyler Ward improved to 3-3 on the mound, while fellow freshman Clay Dungan knocked in three early runs for the Sycamores.

The Sycamores came out of the gates swinging, scoring three in the first inning. DeJesus led things off with a double to left field before Owen was hit by a pitch. Moore loaded

Softball nabs doubleheader win over Northern Iowa Blaine Kinsey

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Senior’s Alexa Cavin and Abbie Malchow hit their first home runs of the season as the Indiana State softball team swept the Panthers of Northern Iowa Sunday in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

Game One

Cassaundra Roper throwing against Illinois State at the Rose-Hulman indoor track and field.

up 7-2.

Indiana State would hold on to win it 7-2, as Keaffaber improved his record on the mound to 3-2 and recorded the first complete game of the season, while throwing to 38 batters and walking only two. Young was 4-4 with a home run and four runs scored, while Moore finished 3-3 with three RBIs and a home run.

the bases with a walk after a long battle at the plate.

With all the bags covered, freshman Dungan stepped in to clear them with a full count, double to right center, notching the Sycamores a 3-0 lead over the Bulldogs.

Butler threatened in the third and fifth innings, putting multiple players on base, but the Sycamore defense remained solid, turning two double plays to work out of each jam.

In the top of the sixth inning, Indiana State loaded the bases on singles from Owen and Moore and a walk for Dungan, but the Sycamores would not push any across.

The Sycamores were patient in the top of the eighth inning as Rosselli and Dungan walked, before senior Andrew Gutierrez singled to left field to tack up another run as Rosselli slid into home safely to go up 4-0.

In the bottom of the eighth inning, the Bulldogs snuck one run across cutting the Sycamore lead to 4-1, but the Sycamores answered in the top of the ninth as junior Kyle Moore doubled before scoring on an Young single. Young then stole second, and came around to score on a Moore double.

The Sycamores would hold onto the lead to earn win number three over Butler, 6-1. Dungan finished 1-for-2 with three RBIs and two walks, while Moore finished 2-for-4 with a walk, a run scored, and a RBI. Moore finished 2-for-4 with a run scored.

Indiana State Baseball will return to Bob Warn Field on Tuesday, April 5 for another in-state battle as they host the Boilermakers of Purdue for a 6:00 p.m. night cap. Follow the team on Twitter and Facebook for all of the latest updates.

In the first game of the day, the Sycamores got an early lead in the top of the first inning as they defeated the Panthers 11-7 in the series opener.

Senior Kelsey Montgomery led off the game with a walk and after a strikeout, freshmen Shaye Barton and Monique Castillo drew walks to load the bases. Junior Brooke Riemenschneider then gave the Sycamores a lead as she hit a double to left field to score Montgomery and Barton.

Junior Mary Turitto then hit an RBI groundout that scored two more Sycamore runs after a throwing error by the Panther catcher, to give Indiana State a 4-0 advantage.

The Panthers tried to claw their way back, scoring one in the bottom of the first and two in the bottom of the third to cut the Sycamore lead to 4-3.

In the top of the fifth, the Sycamores struck again when Barton led off the inning with a single and advanced to second on a sacrifice by Castillo.

Riemenschneider then put runners on the corners with a single before Turitto laid down a perfect

squeeze to score Barton.

Senior Alexa Cavin then brook the game open when she hit her first home run of the season, over the right field wall, to give the Sycamores an 8-3 lead, heading to the bottom of the fifth.

The Sycamore offense kept things going in the top of the sixth, when they scored three more runs off three hits to extend their advantage to 11-3.

UNI tried to answer once again, scoring one in the sixth and three in the seventh but could get no closer, as the Sycamores won the opener 11-7.

Game Two

Despite trailing early, the Indiana State softball team rallied in the second half of the game to earn the doubleheader sweep over the Panthers with an 11-2 win in game two.

The Sycamores threatened in the top of the first inning when senior Kelsey Montgomery hit her first double of the season and advanced to third.

The Panthers struck first in the bottom of the third, taking a 2-0 lead over the Sycamores.

It didn’t take long, however, before the Sycamores retook the lead as they exploded to score seven runs in the top of the fourth.

Barton led off the inning with a single before advancing to second on a sacrifice by Castillo.

Riemenschneider then reached on an error before Turitto loaded the bases with one out on a single.

Cavin then tied the game

with a two-RBI single and advanced to second on the play.

The Sycamores then bunted three straight at bats, leading to four more runs to give Indiana State a 7-2 advantage.

In the top of the fifth, Castillo led off the inning with a walk and advanced to second on a sacrifice.

Turitto then singled and advanced to second on the throw to put runners on second and third before Cavin hit an RBI single to score Castillo and make it 8-2.

The Sycamores kept it going in the top of the seventh, when Turitto singled and scored on an RBI single by Cavin before senior Abbie Malchow hit her first home run of the season to left field to make it an 11-2 Sycamore lead.

Sophomore pitcher Bailey Benefiel, then held the Panthers scoreless in the bottom of the seventh as the Sycamores swept Northern Iowa with an 11-2 game two victory.

Cavin led the Sycamores going 5-6 at the plate with her first home run of the season and seven RBI’s.

The Sycamore defense, already ranked top 10 in the NCAA, turned five double plays on the day, including two unassisted double plays by junior Kassie Brown.

The Sycamores will return to action Saturday when they travel to face the Redbirds of Illinois State in Normal, Illinois.

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