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Scavenger Hunt leads to prizes and friendship Ian Bonner-Swedish Reporter

First-year students cheer at the 2017 Convocation during Welcome Week.

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Freshmen overflow into tower lounges and Lincoln Quads Ashton Hensley Reporter

Due to an overflow of freshman, first year students are currently living in dorm lounges and upperclassman dorm Lincoln Quad. The large number of freshman enrolled this year has forced Residential Life to implement Indiana State University’s overflow policies.

Amanda Knerr, executive director of Residential Life and Housing, said that with Rhode’s Hall closed for renovations and had to plan in order to be able to accommodate the large freshman class.

“As we design buildings, we try to make a variety of multi-purpose spaces. In some of our buildings, we have double occupancy spaces that are designed to be either double rooms or triple rooms. We have turned these into triple rooms for this fall,” Knerr said.

However, tripling the rooms was still not enough to house all of the incoming freshmen this year. The ren-

ovations of Mills, Blumberg and Cromwell Halls included lounges that could be converted to rooms.

“We designed a secondary community gathering space on the floor in such a way that they could be converted to living spaces to house four students. This fall, we have used the secondary community gathering spaces in this way,” Knerr said.

Paul Marvell, the national communications correspondent for the Residence Hall Association, said that the students are being moved to rooms from the lounge when possible.

“When a room has an empty space, we email both the person(s) in that room and a person currently in the lounge and give them 48 hours to prepare for the person in the lounge to move into that room,” Marvell said.

Marvell stated that when a spot opens up, they go by the order in which the students completed their housing contract to determine who will get to move next.

Until then, the students in the lounges get a reduced

housing rate for the time they are in the lounges.

They have also placed freshmen in rooms with RAs and in Lincoln Quad.

These unusual living situations are expected to prove beneficial to the freshman class.

“What we have typically found is that students in supplemental spaces tend to do as well, if not better, academically from their peers in traditional double-occupancy rooms,” Knerr said.

Marvell confirmed the positive impact; he said that he has seen and heard good things from the freshmen.

“Right now we are seeing an amazing effect from it.

Having those larger numbers on each floor has made a more open community.”

Marvell says, “What we’ve seen as a positive impact from this is that we’ve had students having a lot more social interactions with four roommates instead of one.”

Things are a little different as far as the freshmen in Lincoln Quad are concerned. Being in upperclassman dorms could have gone either way.

“Moving them over to

LQ, we were a tad bit skeptical, but seeing it right now, we are seeing that the sophomores we placed them by have not only been caring, they have taken them under their wing,” said Marvell.

Be that as it may, some of the freshmen in Lincoln Quad are not totally convinced of these benefits.

“It kind of sucks that we are far away from everything; it’s a little isolating.”

Ashliegh Adams, a freshman pre-med major said, “The day that I got here they told me I would be in LQ instead of the freshman dorms.”

Marvell said that the students in the towers were told prior to moving in that they would have to be in lounges or triple rooms. However, that did not seem to be the case with the freshmen put into Lincoln Quad.

“When I came down here to pay for my housing assignment, I didn’t really know I’d be in Lincoln Quad,” said Jay Young, a freshman political science major, “I like it, but I expected something different.”

Although the festivities of welcome week have come to a close at Indiana State University, campus life is devoted to improving the experience of Sycamores. To encourage students to explore campus, Programs All Weekend held a first ever photo scavenger hunt Saturday, August 26th starting in Dede I at 12 p.m.

“It’s basically a welcome back event and just to get our students get acquainted with campus and walk around and enjoy the outdoors,” Brooke Biggs, a sophomore programming assistant, said.

The instructions of the event were far from a riddle as the goal of the event was to inspire creativity in the students.

“So the students will come here, they will sign up, and then they will swipe their ID and go out on campus that has about 20 different items around campus they can take pictures of, and they can find their favorite one and post it on Instagram, tag it on Instagram, and we will post it on our Instagram and they could win commons cash. It’s a group or individual event,” Biggs said.

Campus life strives towards the same things in all of their programs, they all share an underlying motive to help students.

“We try and get students to interact with each other, and a lot of ours are creativity based; we have a lot of painting, drawing and making things,” Biggs said.

For Michael Joyner, a senior business administration major, the event was quite beneficial.

“I think it is interesting, it gives you something to do if you’re bored. If you’re a new student, it helps you get to know Terre Haute and where stuff is at. It also

helps you get some good exercise,” Joyner said.

Tiarra Taylor, a sophomore student, formed a group that took an impressive photo in front of the Student Recreation Center runner statue. They took a boomerang photo of the team taking off into a run as if they were at a track meet. Initially she felt out of her element.

“I was like, oh goodness, what are they going to have us looking for? I was kind of curious as to what they were going to have us doing,” said Taylor.

In the end, there were no regrets for her, though.

“It was fun and I was able to meet two new people in the university, so I was very appreciative of that opportunity to spend time with new students on campus,” Taylor said.

According to Biggs, she was happy with the turnout. “It’s been good so far. I don’t know how it will turn out since it’s the first one.

It’s just an event where people go out all the time so were not going to know numbers or anything. We have had a fairly good amount of people come in and out on a Saturday,” Biggs said.

For those that missed the festivity and the chance to win commons cash, Campus life wants to make sure you know there is no reason to fret. There will be more opportunities to have fun.

“Next weekend we partner with Barnes and Noble for First Friday. Saturday we will do ISU Con, it will be in the arena. The weekend after that we’re going to have an ice cream social and spray paint canvas,” Biggs said.

It is certain that this photo scavenger hunt captured more than just a picture; it captured friendships and led students on the road toward many fond memories at Indiana State University.

State’s sororities among top 3 percent nationally

Joining a sorority was not top of the list for Sara Leyes when she was an incoming freshman at Indiana State University.

“But I noticed that a lot of the leaders I saw on campus tended to be in a Greek organization. My welcome team leaders and many of the teaching assistants were all in a Greek organization,” Leyes said. “I thought there had to be something special about it.

So I took a leap of faith and went for it at the last minute!”

What Leyes, a senior healthcare administration major from New Castle, Ind., noticed was true - and a contributing factor to why the Indiana State University Panhellenic Association won the College Excellence Award from the National Panhellenic Conference for the fifth consecutive year.

“For our Panhellenic Association to be recognized for the fifth year in a row by the National Panhellenic Conference is a testament to the leadership and quality of women participating in Fraternity and Sorority Life at Indiana State University,” said Willie Banks, vice president for the Division of Student Affairs. “I am so proud of our Panhellenic community for being role models for others on campus and for displaying the values required to be recognized for this award. Congratulations to Panhellenic and Fraternity and Sorority Life on this recognition.”

Indiana State is one of only 20 institutions nationwide to be recognized in the

excellence category this year, which puts Sycamores in the top three percent of the organizations -- and the only to earn the Excellence Award five years running.

Excellence Award recipients must meet all seven criteria, which includes recruitment, Panhellenic structure, communication with the National Panhellenic Conference area advisor, judicial procedures, Panhellenic programming, academics and Panhellenic community impact and relations, to be considered for the award.

“Indiana State’s Panhellenic is so different from others,” said Emily Sanders, vice president for administration of the Panhellenic Association and a senior management major from Indianapolis. “We genuinely are a huge family of 700-plus women. No matter the chapter, we all want to see everyone succeed. We are always willing to help each other out and give our support. It is about the work that all nine sororities put in, and we as a Panhellenic executive board could not be more proud of everything they have accomplished!”

The women contributed to more than half of the $98,000 raised for charity and 31,450 hours of community service performed by State sorority and fraternity during the 2016-17 school term.

“Our community stresses the importance of coming together to accomplish goals rather than competing against each other to accomplish individual goals,” Leyes said.

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Members of the A O Pi sorority smiles as they recruit new members.

“Yes, we have our competitions in raising money or things such as Homecoming events, but it’s all good fun and we always know what’s really important when it comes down to it.”

Panhellenic President Giovanna Irwin of Liberty, Ind., a senior majoring in special education, was drawn to joining a sorority

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Unmanned systems major interns with Illinois utility Indiana State University senior Grant Hostick spent the summer building connections and working with drones for the largest electric utility in Illinois.

The opportunity with Commonwealth Edison came about from a family friend, who works at ComEd and told Hosticka that the utility had started using drones and that he should apply for an internship.

“The initial legwork involved reaching out to my now current manager at the company with my resume, cover letter and examples of my work, with help from the Career Center,” said Hosticka, an unmanned systems major. “I actually ended up getting the call for an interview during the middle of Tandem practice.”

Since ComEd is one of the nation’s largest electric and gas utility holding companies, each day at ComEd was filled with a rich learning experience for Hosticka.

“My responsibilities are always changing depending on the day,”

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Hosticka said this summer. “Right now I am working on getting a couple drone systems up and running.

Last week, I was vetting a contractor who wanted to use drones while doing work for ComEd. Ultimately everything I have been doing relates to drones, which is awesome.”

Seeing a drone go up in the air always puts a huge smile on Hosticka’s face, so all the duties he had with drones is one of his favorite parts of the experience.

“Honestly, I had not expected

some of the workdays I’ve had,” Hosticka said. “A few days ago, I was up 75 feet in the air in a bucket truck so I could keep the drone in my visual line of sight (a FAA rule), and then shortly after that, I was being escorted around a nuclear generation plant by armed guards to test their security system with drones.”

Although Hosticka has gained a lot of knowledge and experience interning at ComEd, the utility experience

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Brock Turner leaves the Santa Clara County Main Jail on Sept. 2, 2016, in San Jose, Calif. Turner was released after serving three-months of his six-month sentence for the sexual assault of an unconscious woman in January 2015.

Campaign to remove Turner judge ordered to stop collecting petition signatures Tracey Kaplan The Mercury News (TNS)

A judge Friday temporarily stopped advocates of recalling embattled Judge Aaron Persky from gathering signatures on petitions to put his ouster on the June ballot.

The petitions were approved this week by Shannon Bushey, Santa Clara County’s registrar of voters, clearing the way for the campaign to begin collecting signatures.

But the judge sought a restraining order, and retired Orange County Judge Marjorie Laird Carter on Friday afternoon barred the campaign from continuing to collect signatures until an Aug. 23 hearing, 12 days away.

In the court documents, Persky argued that because he is a state offi-

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cer, California’s secretary of state, not the county registrar, should have decided whether the campaign’s signature-gathering could proceed. At the hearing in June, the judge will be asking Laird Carter to order the county to withdraw its certification of the recall petitions, forcing proponents to start over with the secretary of state.

Friday’s ruling was a rare victory for the Santa Clara County Superior Court judge, who last summer gave a relatively lenient sentence to former Stanford University athlete Brock Turner, who sexually assaulted an unconscious, intoxicated woman outside a campus fraternity party.

The six-month sentence and the victim’s powerful statement ignited a national outcry, prompted new state laws in California and touched off a recall movement that forced Persky

to stop hearing criminal cases.

“We’re really pleased,” said Elizabeth Pipkin, one of the judge’s attorneys, after Laird Carter made her ruling. “It’s very important that the rule of law be respected.”

Stanford law professor and recall campaign chair Michele Dauber said she was disappointed but determined not to give up.

“The recall is going forward no matter how much taxpayer money Judge Persky decides to waste on frivolous lawsuits,” she said. “He cannot stop this movement of women who are upset he doesn’t take sexual violence against women seriously.”

But Persky has also mounted an attack on another legal front, arguing that if he winds up losing his judgeship, the governor should fill

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Carol T. Christ, University of California, Berkeley’s 11th chancellor and the first woman to lead the nation’s top public research university, unveiled plans Tuesday for a “Free Speech Year” as right-wing speakers prepare to come to campus.

Christ said the campus would hold “point-counterpoint” panels to demonstrate how to exchange opposing views in a respectful manner. Other events will explore constitutional questions, the history of Berkeley’s free speech movement and how that movement inspired acclaimed chef Alice Waters to create her Chez Panisse restaurant.

“Now what public speech is about is shouting, screaming your point of view in a public space rather than really thoughtfully engaging someone with a different point of view,” Christ said in an interview.

“We have to build a deeper and richer shared public understanding.”

The free speech initiative comes after a rocky year of clashing opinions on campus. In February, violent protests shut down an appearance by right-wing firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos, prompting President Donald Trump to question the campus’ federal funding. A few months later, conservative commentator Ann Coulter canceled a planned appearance after the campus groups hosting her pulled out.

Yiannopoulos has announced plans to return next month to spend days in a “tent city” in Berkeley’s iconic Sproul Plaza.

Conservative author and columnist Ben Shapiro is scheduled to visit Sept. 14.

The free speech issue drew the biggest spotlight in the new chancellor’s daylong media interviews and welcoming remarks to 9,500 new students. Christ, dressed in blue ceremonial robes, told the new arrivals that Berkeley’s free speech movement was launched by liberals and conservatives working together to win the right to advocate political views on campus.

“Particularly now, it is critical for the Berkeley community to protect this right; it is who we are,” she said. “That protection involves not just defending your right to speak, or the right of those you agree with, but also defending

the right to speak by those you disagree with, even of those whose views you find abhorrent.”

She drew loud applause when she asserted that the best response to hate speech is “more speech” rather than trying to shut down others, and when she said that shielding students from uncomfortable views would not serve them well.

“You have the right to expect the university to keep you physically safe, but we would be providing you less of an education, preparing you less well for the world after you graduate, if we tried to protect you from ideas that you may find wrong, even noxious,” she said.

Although everyone wants to feel comfort and support, Christ said, inner resilience is the “the surest form of safe space.”

But she also emphasized that public safety also is paramount. At a morning news conference dominated by free speech questions, Christ said the February violence triggered by the Yiannopoulos event had underscored the need for a larger police presence.

Only 85 officers were on the scene, she said, when a paramilitary group 150 strong marched onto campus with sticks, baseball bats and Molotov cocktails.

Under an interim policy that took effect this week, campus police will provide a security assessment for certain large events that could endanger public safety, and the hosting organizations will be responsible for basic costs. Such organizations will have to give advance notice, preferably eight weeks or longer, and provide detailed timetables — and contracts with speakers may not be finalized until the campus has confirmed the venue and given final approval.

The rules will be applied to all events, regardless of viewpoint.

Most of the rules already exist but have not been laid out in a unified, consistent policy known to all, Christ said. She said the student group hoping to host Coulter, for instance, offered her a date and time without checking with campus administrators that a venue was available; none was. Berkeley did not cancel the event, as has been reported, Christ said.

Campus spokesman Dan Mogulof said, “We want to eliminate all gray

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Charlottesville may put the brakes on campus free speech laws Sophie Quinton Los Angeles Times (TNS)

The sight of white supremacists marching through the heart of the University of Virginia, carrying flaming Tiki torches and shouting “Jews will not replace us!”

— followed by the killing of a counterprotester at a rally in downtown Charlottesville the next day — may put the brakes on state efforts to strengthen campus free speech protections.

At least seven states (Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, Utah and Virginia) have enacted such laws since 2014, and many other states considered them this year. But the death of 32-year-old Heather Heyer in Charlottesville this month showed how hateful speech can lead to violence. That might prompt lawmakers to rethink how such bills are written or whether to support them at all.

“It has been really distressing and upsetting to watch violence used against protesters, and I expect that to have a profound effect on how lawmakers view these issues,” said Joe Cohn, legislative and policy director for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonparti-

san group that helps lawmakers write free speech bills.

After Charlottesville, he said, “I think that my work may be cut out for me.”

As emboldened white supremacist groups plan events intended, in part, to provoke diverse, liberal communities, political leaders and even free speech advocates such as the American Civil Liberties Union have struggled to respond.

Legal experts say campus free speech laws are often redundant, because public institutions have to uphold the First Amendment under federal law anyway.

Colleges generally have adequate policies for disciplining overly disruptive heckling and other violations of free speech without being required to by state law, said Michael Olivas, a higher education law expert and professor at the University of Houston Law Center.

But college and university leaders say some measures state lawmakers have considered recently could prevent campuses from disinviting speakers who pose a threat to safety or could suppress the free speech rights of counterprotesters.

Michigan Sen. Patrick Colbeck said the death in Charlottesville hasn’t deterred him from pushing legislation he proposed to promote campus free speech. “I think

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Neo-Nazis, alt-Right, and white supremacists march the night before the “Unite the Right” rally, on Friday, Aug. 11, through the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va.

the clashes that we saw there are more a result (of the fact) that we haven’t had an open dialogue,” the Republican said.

This year lawmakers in 22 states considered bills to protect free speech on public college campuses, according to the latest tally from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. That count includes some bills designed to protect student journalists, said Thomas Har-

nisch, director of state relations and policy analysis for the organization.

Republicans, in particular, have pushed these laws in response to what they see as hostility toward conservative speech on liberal campuses. In recent years student protesters have driven away speakers such as former Secretary of State Condoleezza

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Colbeck said such incidents remind him of the propaganda agency that sought to eliminate free thinking in George Orwell’s novel 1984. “Our universities have devolved into those ‘ministries of truth’ George Orwell warned us about,” he said.

Most of the laws enacted or considered so far don’t go further than reinforcing existing First Amendment law. “We have the First Amendment.

So any law a legislature is going to pass is going to take the form of, ‘and we really mean it,” said Jim Manley, an attorney at the Goldwater Institute, a conservative think tank in Arizona that supports campus free speech legislation.

Opponents say that lan-

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The campus is accepting public comments on the interim policy until Oct

TUNER FROM PAGE 2 the vacancy, not voters. As it stands now, the petitions call for the question of who would replace the judge to appear on the same ballot as the recall. If the courts allow the recall to proceed, the campaign would

guage is too prescriptive and argue that the bill could prevent students from exerting their own First Amendment right to protest.

“I think it’s unconstitutional, this bill,” said Rep. Chris Taylor, a Democrat who represents Madison, home to the University of Wisconsin. “It would kill speech, no doubt about it.”

Meanwhile, universities are trying to figure out how to balance their responsibility to uphold the First Amendment with other considerations, such as campus safety and the need to protect individuals from harassment and discrimination.

Free speech shouldn’t be a free-for-all, said Jonathan Alger, president of James Madison University, a public university in Virginia.

“The First Amendment is not completely unlimited,” he said.

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Christ’s focus on free speech heartened Alex Nguyen, a sophomore studying molecular cellular biology. She said she took the issue especially to heart because her parents were born in Vietnam, where criticizing the govhave until Jan. 16 to gather 58,634 signatures to qualify for June’s ballot.

Even if the county registrar and by extension recall advocates win the case, any further delays would shorten the window for collecting about 90,000 signatures to ensure that

Monday, Aug. 28, 2017 • Page 3 Case law says universities can regulate the time, place and manner of speech. They can stop people from rushing into a classroom and taking it over to talk about an unrelated issue, for instance.

They can stop rowdy students from yelling into bullhorns in the middle of the night, or creating too much noise in a library.

In the days after the demonstrations in Charlottesville, the University of Florida, Texas A&M University, Michigan State University, Louisiana State University and Penn State University all canceled events planned by white nationalists, citing their concern that the events could lead to violence.

In all of those cases, the groups had booked or asked to book event space on campus without being invited by a student or faculty group.

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has taught him an especially important value about his field.

“One of the biggest takeaways I’ve learned this summer is that even though drones are cool, executives aren’t just going to give you the go-ahead,” Hosticka said. “You need to prove how you are going to be safe, what the possible benefits are and how cost savings could be realized.”

One of Hosticka’s early experiences with drones was producing videos with friends. He knew drones could be used for inspections purposes but never thought he would be working for a utility company.

“I’ve had an opportunity to go on missions that have certainly built on what I thought drones could do to help a utility,” Hosticka said. “Some of my missions include the right-of-way dumping beneath and near transmission lines, wildlife ernment could lead to im- assessment, inspection of prisonment. lines inaccessible by foot, “I want her to really protect free speech because there’s really high political tensions here,” Nguyen said of the chancellor.

“We’re at the university to SORORITY FROM PAGE 2 learn new things and disbecause she wanted people prove our ideas.” to push her to be her best.

“Not only do you gain sisters or brothers that you can the measure qualifies. depend on, but you gain the Also, the litigation may raise doubts among some support of the entire comvoters about the legitima- munity. Every fraternity cy of the petition drive, and sorority at Indiana State hampering the recall cam- University supports one anpaign’s signature-gather- other,” Irwin said. “I liked ing. On the other hand, knowing that no matter the court’s role in the con- what happens, I was always troversy may be viewed as going to have people to depend on.”

Indiana State sorority members have an average GPA of .2 higher than non-sorority members.

“Scholarship is always on the top of our improvement list,” Irwin said. “This past semester, we were proud our women and the GPA’s they earned.

This semester, we have set

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substation inspection and high-resolution imagery of equipment.”

Hosticka tapped a lot of his classroom lessons, too. “I used ArcGIS to map photos from a mission, which I knew how to use because of a GIS course with Dr. (Stephen) Aldrich,” Hosticka said.

“Bruce Welsh really helped me understand weather for drone missions and professionalism when developing presentations.

Dr. (Troy) Allen gave me a great background in aviation law, so I was well informed when asked to comment on pending legislation by external affairs at the company. And finally, Sam Morgan has helped develop my overall understanding of drones and Part 107 (commercial drone regulations).”

Bruce Welsh, assistant professor in the aviation department, has similar high marks for his student.

“It has been a pleasure having Grant in my classes.

He is a hard worker who is focused, dedicated, cour-

teous and professional,” Welsh said. “His work is always completed professionally and his academic grade truly reflects his dedication and perseverance to a career in the aviation industry. He is respected by the students in our department and especially by the aviation department faculty.”

In his last year at Indiana State, Hosticka hopes to continue to improve his skills, connect and take advantage of more opportunities as they present themselves. While Hosticka isn’t quite set on a specific career path just yet, one thing that’s for certain is having Commonwealth Edison on his resume won’t hurt.

“I could certainly see myself working with a drone startup that I believe in,” Hosticka said. “I’m attending the Drone World Expo this October in San Jose, Calif., and hopefully it will enable me to make more connections and decide on a specific path.”

our goals even higher.”

The start of a new academic year also means sorority recruitment is just around the corner.

“There is a lot of preparation that goes into Panhellenic recruitment, and we want this year to be the best yet,” Irwin said.

This year’s Panhellenic philanthropy is the Circle of Sisterhood Foundation.

“Our goal for Circle of Sisterhood is to raise enough money to build and donate a school for girls and children in an underprivileged country,” Irwin said. “Also, our community interaction is also a goal at the top of our list.

The other two council presidents and I have been working diligently to create events that strengthen the bond between all of our

respective parties. We want to create a community of inclusion and togetherness.”

The National Panhellenic Conference, one of the largest organizations advocating for women, is the umbrella group for 26 national and international sororities.

NPC sororities are located on more than 670 campuses with 380,565 undergraduate members in 3,234 chapters. Alumnae are represented in 3,889 associations throughout the world.

“NPC is proud of all our College Panhellenics receiving recognition, and I congratulate them all on their successes,” said Frances Mitchelson, Panhellenics chairman.

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Event exposes students to Rec Center A.J. Goelz Reporter

On Friday the 25th, the Student Recreation Center put on their annual Rec Fest with the theme Recapalooza, a play on words with the popular music festival in Chicago, Lollapalooza.

Like most Welcome Week events, the point of Rec Fest was to not only familiarize students with each other, but with the campus as a whole.

“Recapalooza is another way for people to get to know the different organizations that we have going on campus,” Megan Webb, a sophomore athletic training major, said.

“It’s a great way to get kids out.

It’s especially good at this time of year when freshman are moving in,” Webb, who works multiple positions in the Rec Center, said.

There were prizes for students to look forward to. Talking to people at booths gave students tickets that in turn give them more chances to win said prizes.

The first 1,000 students to

Four students pose for a photo during the events of Recapalooza on Friday.

arrive were given a commemorative T-shirt, according to the Indiana State University website.

The Rec Center was full of students to celebrate the Rec and

the other organizations participating. The basketball courts had games, music blared from speakers throughout the area, food trucks and booths for stu-

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dents to interact with were set up together and students got the chance to get to know the various organizations around campus.

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There were also some performance based groups who gave live performances that seemed to draw more members to the scene.

Before the event had even started, the line to enter spanned from the door of the Rec Center to the courtyard of Reeve Hall.

Just looking at the line, and given that the event went from 6 to 9 p.m., Webb predicted that up to 5,000 students could attend the event by the end of the night.

Webb urged students to come to the Rec Center because it’s a great way to meet people. This is a consistent theme between all of these types of events. Each event socializes students it in its own way, but the basic concept remains. The concept that one should go out and join campus organizations, find a passion or even just make a new friend.

This sense of community at Indiana State University is something that is consistent from the first week of the semester and spread throughout the rest of the school year.

Students enjoy the movie on the quad A.J. Goelz Reporter

Last Wednesday, new and old students alike gathered on the Quad to enjoy each other’s company and watch “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2”.

Every year a fresh crop of students arrive here at Indiana State University.

Each year ISU hosts a week full of events to familiarize them with the campus and the students who already reside here.

The crowd for the event seemed large.

This being an outdoor event, it is always a valid fear that weather will ruin the festivities. Luckily it was a nice night, and before the event, John Gettemeyer, program coordinator with New Student Programs, spoke.

He mentioned that they could see up to 2,000 students. He said New Student Transition Programs is the organization that are the wonderful friendly folks who handle orientation for students as they come in during the summer months, and throughout the school year have single day events.

One of the other big events that New Student Programs has a hand in is one that all students at ISU should know, Donaghy Day. New Student Programs is not just the welcoming committee. They work hard to “help students feel welcome to the university, helping them feel like they belong, but also that orientation piece providing the important information that they need to know so they can hit the ground running and be successful from the starting gate,” Gettemeyer said.

Gettemeyer also spoke about other events that this organization puts on. Soup and Substance and the Housing Fair are events made for commuter students or those looking to become commuter students. These events try to help commuter students feel more connected to campus and their fellow students.

Gettemeyer has a piece of advice for the new students who may be feeling a bit overwhelmed or out of place.

Students enjoyed street foods from around the globe such as India, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, Democatic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Venezuela and more.

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‘Hellblade’ can compete with big budget games A.J. Goelz Reporter

Take a trip into the depths of a young woman’s grief stricken mind and stare into the face of death in “Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice.”

“Hellblade” follows the path of Senua as she attempts to revive her deceased lover, Dillion. Senua, driven by tales of the Northman, brings her lover’s head on a journey to the gates of Hellheim. There Senua will have to fight not only gods, but the darkness within her own mind.

Senua is plagued with something that her people called “the darkness.” In actuality, she is fighting with psychosis. This leads to Senua being treated as an outcast and a bringer of misfortune.

The games’ narrative can be confusing.

It is never completely clear if what Senua is experiencing is a figment of her imagination, a shadow to be chased that gives her hope, or if she is actually taking on the gods in a “God of War”-esque story.

It could be true that the answer is somewhere in the middle and that all are true at the same time. It could also be true that the developer intended to keep players guessing and asking these questions.

These questions linger on well after the game is over.

Overall, the story stands tall. Despite being confusing, this is a deep, enthralling and emotional story that will sink its hooks into players and won’t let them go.

“Hellblade” takes a minimalist approach to gameplay, but has zero fat.

There are two main aspects to gameplay, combat and solving puzzles. Combat is simple and bare bones. Light and heavy strikes, a melee attack (usually some kind of kick) that will open up an enemy to a sword strike, a dodge and an ability called “Focus” that slows down time to allow for rapid strikes.

All of these are available to players at the get-go, minus the focus ability that is added a short ways into the game.

Some of the puzzles are simple traversal puzzles, which require players to see through illusions to find a path forward.

Other puzzles are locked doors that can only be unlocked by finding glyphs in the environment. These puzzles are often simple with an occasional tricky one thrown in, but they are all achievable for players who look carefully.

With no Heads up Display (HUD) or tutorial, players are left to their own devices to figure out the game. Even with no tutorials, all the controls are listed in the pause menu. The game finds its own ways to tell the player things that would usually be told to the player through a pop-up window. The game provides explanations of systems through the voices in Senua’s head.

“Hellblade” mixes every system within the lore of the game. The voices will provide the player with advice in combat.

They will whisper things like “look out behind you” to warn the player that they

are about to be struck from behind and when they say “focus” players should activate the focus ability.

There is also permadeath in this game.

Early into the game, Senua is inflicted with the death rot. This starts as a mark on her hand and every time the player dies, this mark spreads up her arm. When it reaches her head, Senua will die and the player will have to start the game over.

This is a fascinating way to integrate a tutorial into a game. As opposed to the game outright telling the player what to do, the player needs to find out for themselves the best way to play the game.

“Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice” is not what most would call a fun game, but has been received as a good game. The game has a bleak and eerie tone, but a tremendous amount of polish. With great writing and performances, this game can stand on equal footing with some other big budget projects.

indianastatesman.com MOVIE FROM PAGE 4 “As you’re heading to college, focus on finding your passion.

This is an opportunity, a place you can explore a lot of different things without having to step

Monday, Aug. 28, 2017 • Page 5 foot off campus. Find the student organization, maybe it’s research, find the faculty member, a staff member who share some of those same passions as you and go reach for them,” Gettemeyer said.

Feisty Taylor Swift is getting grittier Randy Lewis

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Taylor Swift’s sharp-edged single “Look What You Made Me Do,” the opening salvo from her forthcoming album “Reputation” and her first new music in three years, will convey many things to many listeners, but one message is inescapable: This time, it’s personal.

OK, so that’s a bit like saying water is wet, in that nearly everything Swift has delivered since her precocious debut album 11 years ago has felt intensely personal.

In song after song, album after album, she’s reinforced that impression by peppering them with tantalizing tidbits of autobiographical information — names, places, pets — that often sound lifted directly from her diary.

Nevertheless, there’s a more forceful edge and distinctly pointed attitude in “Look What You Made Me Do,” suggesting that, at 27, the former country princess turned international pop superstar is not only sadder with the wisdom she’s attained along the way, but also tougher and harder.

As with much of her music, the new track, which she wrote and produced with one of her most highly regarded collaborators, Jack Antonoff, offers an open invitation for speculation on the real-life inspiration right from the opening verse: “I don’t like your little games / Don’t like your tilted stage / The role you made me play / Of the fool / No, I don’t like you.”

Since the 2014 release of her blockbuster album “1989,” Swift weathered an intensely tawdry public feud instigated by rapper Kanye West over his diss track “Famous,” in which he boasted last year that “I made that (profanity) famous” and, therefore, that he and Swift “might still have sex.”

Additionally, just this month she emerged victorious in court after a jury sided with her allegation that a Denver radio personality had groped her during a 2013 backstage meet-and-greet.

To hear her sing, “I don’t trust nobody/ And nobody trusts me” in the new song is to feel a withering — however slight — of the upbeat, tirelessly positive outlook that’s been both a siren’s call for her multitude of fans and a source of ridicule for her critics.

But whatever the autobiographical elements, Swift also once again uses her artistry to root out the salient lessons in her life experiences, and, ultimately, the song is a testament to the strength forged through trial by fire.

“But I got smarter, I got harder in the nick of time,” she sings at another point in the song. The work opens atmospherically, with keyboard and strings floating gently before a driving beat kicks in and an ominous minor-key motif unfolds to reveal a Hitchcock-esque sense of foreboding.

Swift and Antonoff blow past the production cliches of clap tracks and hiccuped syllabic hooks that have proliferated across Top 40 fare in recent years with boldly inventive textures and fresh melodic, rhythmic and sonic accents.

Musically, the track is constantly shifting, a man-

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Taylor Swift performs on Oct. 23, 2016 in Austin, Texas.

ifestation of the myriad emotional states expressed in the lyrics.

As many times as she repeats the titular hook, she wards off any cumulative repetitiveness by shaking up the way she enunciates it each succeeding time.

She also stretches her approach in the lyrics, in which betrayal is a key theme. Everything isn’t easily spelled out, and she drops teasing clues, almost like an Impressionist painting.

She alludes in one to feelings about being set up, and to the duplicity of those who would engage in such an act: “I don’t like your perfect crime / How you laugh when you lie / You said the gun was mine / Isn’t cool, no, I don’t like you.”

It all combines to instill the single with the same kind of surprise-around-each-corner mystique she employed with the trio of snake GIFs she tweeted and Instagrammed this week leading up to Wednesday’s announcement of the album’s title, the cover image and the Nov. 10 release date.

Even though a “Paradise Lost” regret emerges in some passages, she hasn’t abandoned her dry sense of humor. A mid-song break is built on what sounds like a telephone answering machine message advising the caller that “I’m sorry, but the old Taylor can’t come to the phone right now / Why? Oh, ‘cause she’s DEAD!” Likewise, it’s hard not to smile as she enumerates a list of wrongs, “I got a list of names, and yours is in red underlined / I check it once, then I check twice.”

She may now be better clued in to the wicked ways of the world of adulthood, but it doesn’t mean she can’t still believe in optimism.

And let it not be lost on anyone that whatever else may be evolving in her world, Taylor Swift is still keeping close tabs on who’s naughty, and who’s nice.

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Rallies in Charlottesville take a turn for the worst

Joe Lippard

Opinions Editor

On August 12, a rally was held in Charlottesville, Va., to protest the removal of a statue of General Robert E. Lee. Regardless of the intentions behind the protest, a large number of white supremacists showed up.

A large group of counter-protesters also gathered.

According to the New York Times, at one point during the day, a man by the name of James Alex Fields, Jr. drove a Dodge Challenger into several people and then a parked car, which then pushed a van in front of it into the counter-protesters.

He killed one woman and injured at least 19 more.

Fields was photographed the day before the incident holding a symbol for the group Vanguard America, a group that claims that “a government based in the natural law must not cater to the false notion of equality.” He was described by a childhood neighbor as a teenager who “kept to himself a lot” and “had some trouble in school making friends.” A high school teacher who had Fields as a student told the New York Times that Fields had become interested in the Nazi party, and had even written a report in another class that was “very much along the party lines of the neo-Nazi movement.”

After the attack, CNN reports, President Donald Trump made a statement which read, “We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence, on many sides.

On many sides. It’s been going on for a long time in our country. Not Donald Trump, not Barack Obama. This has been going on for a long, long

time.”

Honestly, this statement is infuriating to me.

A woman died because of a white supremacist, and the President of the United States couldn’t even be bothered to say, “Hey, these white nationalists are bad guys.” I don’t even think that it should be that controversial to say that white nationalists or supremacists are bad.

He could have even kept the denouncement of “both sides” in his statement. A statement that would have been fine with me would have been something like “White supremacists do not hold American values and I denounce them. That being said, there is violence and hate on both sides that I also condemn.” I believe he would have made a statement similar to that if the attack were perpetrated by a Muslim.

Reuters reports that after his statement, Trump faced immense pressure from all sides to completely denounce white nationalist groups. Several advisors on several committees quit, including the CEOs of Merck, Under Armour, and Intel.

Two days later, Trump finally swayed to the pressure and made another statement. “Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans,” Trump said. “We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence.”

Honestly, to me, it sounds like Trump made the statement because he had to, not because he wanted to. Reuters says that the day after making that statement, Trump then told reporters that “[t]hey came at each other with clubs … it was a horrible thing to watch.” He then said that the counter-protesters “came violently attacking the other group.”

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Trump begins to prep Afghan war for sale to India Markos Koulanakis

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Fighting his instincts, reneging on campaign promises, and disregarding his anti-globalist advisers, President Trump told America he changed his mind about Afghanistan. It is the kind of reversal he hates because it dilutes his brash brand.

But true to his gut, he won’t be nation building, constructing hospitals or making sure girls can once again wear miniskirts to school. The Trump strategy instead is to make sure Afghanistan doesn’t further devolve while he looks to hand off the problem to someone else.

Like a distressed property, Trump wants to offload the war and Afghan reconstruction at the right discounted price in a handshake deal.

His ideal buyer is not a mercenary band, though he was pitched and considered the idea. It’s not to a still incapable Afghan government or even to tired and distracted European allies. They aren’t buying. No, Trump figures that with a mini-surge of patching and fresh paint, he can sell this problem asset as an opportunity to someone in the neighborhood with interest in the location, location, location.

India tops the list. India was recognized and flattered in President

Trump’s speech as “the world’s largest democracy and a key security and economic partner of the United States.” The president then threatened New Delhi with punitive trade as an incentive for India to increase its investment in an Afghan solution.

Pakistan, however, was also part of the deal. Not in a good way. Told that it had to buck up and play ball, Pakistan’s untested new leadership and its suspect military and intelligence services were put on notice — as they were by the Obama administration — that the country cannot work against American interests, harbor Taliban, and, at the same time, take American arms and money. The president said all that must “change immediately.”

In presidential summary: India good, Pakistan bad.

Outsourcing solutions and seeking OPM (“Other People’s Money”) to do so is a respectable business strategy. However, the practice usually doesn’t apply in geopolitics. It rarely involves entire nations, risks military and civilian lives, or holds the potential of escalating into adversarial thermonuclear exchange.

Changing the fragile South Asian power balance is a dangerous game.

India and Pakistan are bristling with bombs and jonesing for a fight.

America First is an outsourcing

and OPM foreign policy that allows the president to punt on difficult strategic decisions and commitments abroad. It minimizes American military and financial costs. It has the added benefit of providing the commander-in-chief deniability while relieving him of responsibility for any failures. The new Trump Afghan strategy both dilutes risk and absolves him of duty.

Colin Powell famously applied the Pottery Barn rule to war, where “you break it, you own it.” That rule has been overridden by a new Trump doctrine that simply says any deals made by previous administrations are breakable €” whether the Paris climate accords or the multilateral Iran nuclear deal. Afghanistan is no different. The just announced Trump Afghan strategy is another manifestation of the Trump doctrine €” a doctrine that blames previous administrations for all “messes” and does not bind the United States to any previous commitments or policies. Ever.

This blame, defame, and game routine is, indeed, Trump’s tactical negotiating approach to all global problems. In North Korea, he blames China and places a bigger burden on Japan. Back home, immigration

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Trump continues to deliberate on the DACA

Zach Davis Columnist

Donald Trump is back on immigration again as 10 states – Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Nebraska, South Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Idaho, West Virginia and Kansas – threaten to sue to have the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy removed, according to Politico. The policy, instituted by former President Barrack Obama, aimed to provide twoyear work permits to illegal immigrants that came to the coun-

try as children. Trump needs to make a decision to either cease issuing and renewing permits for individuals under this act by Sept. 5 or face a lawsuit.

The guidelines that govern who is eligible for permits are surprisingly in-depth. The Department of Homeland Security requires individuals to have come to the country before the age of 16 and be under 31 as of June 15, 2012, get at least a high school education and be law-abiding individuals, as well as prove their identity and residency.

Many of these requirements are reasonable. We want everybody here to receive an education, which is why we require kids to go to school, and we don’t want criminals in this country. Everybody in the United States should be held to the same rules and standards, in-

cluding going to high school.

We shouldn’t make an exception in this area based solely on how someone got here. An education can equip them with the skills they need to be more successful.

As a bonus, a study by economists Lance Lochner and Enrico Moretti found that high levels of education reduced crime rates, meaning they are less likely to get criminal records if they go to school.

The issue with this policy is that it is slightly too lenient. By 16, we begin to get the ability to fend for ourselves, which is why many other cultures consider individuals to be adults at that age.

Before then, children are pretty much helpless. They are at the mercy of their caregivers with little control of what happens.

They shouldn’t be punished because they were dragged into illegal activity. By the age of 31,

though, they have been adults for a long time. They have had the ability to begin the legal process of becoming citizens, and it poses a serious issue if they haven’t by then. Pulling that age back somewhere between 18 and 25 is more reasonable.

By this age they should also have at least attempted to get a job or continue their schooling.

The permits would allow them to legally do that, meaning the government would collect income taxes. They would also pay sales tax and property taxes.

We can profit off of their being here, and they would be able to stay here until the naturalization process is completed.

However, the current DACA policy allows them to continually renew these permits instead of requiring naturalization. Every two years they can redo the process and stay for another two

years. We should at least require that these individuals become citizens if they want to stay here.

It seems especially reasonable since these same people practically grew up here and might not have someplace else to go.

Trump shouldn’t outright repeal the DACA policy, but it should be amended. Kids don’t have a say in a lot of things, including where their parents take them. We can’t turn them away just because their caretakers made bad decisions. They have the potential to be productive members of society, and we should give them that opportunity. There is no reason to turn them away because someone else made a mistake; we should hold each person accountable for their actions alone. If these people can be productive in our society we should let them be.

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INDIA FROM PAGE 6 is blamed on Mexico, which is then told it must underwrite an American-built border wall. This is what candidate Trump promised. This is President Trump’s “America First” approach.

In this instance, he is blaming Pakistan and relying on India for a positive Afghan outcome. He thinks it will buy

SOCCER FROM PAGE 6 the 84th minute when Tessa Leong found herself on a breakaway down the right flank. Leong slotted a cross into the box

him time and allow him to cut American losses, spend little more, and achieve the strategic objective of avoiding total collapse. Here, as elsewhere, the Trump Doctrine reflects America’s rapidly evolving global retreat.

It is in this renewed policy environment, where America is betting on India’s friendship, funds, and favor to do

its bidding in Afghanistan, that Trump has chosen sides and a strategic direction. India good.

Since coming into office, the president has been shopping around for Grand Bargains. With Russia to solve Syria, China to rein in North Korea, and now India to manage Afghanistan and the Taliban.

Variations on these bargains have been attempted at various stages by previous administrations, but this time they are being sought by a tempestuous leader who favors big gestures, bets, and deals and is allergic to “losing.”

The Trump brand remains undiluted, but the real cost of his strategy is hard to reckon.

where freshman Alina Steffen slid in just beating an NKU defender for a goal. This gave ISU a late 2-1 lead.

“We improve every day and have a lot of energy and tonight we gave it 110%.

I was trying to get any touch on the ball and I ran front post and got a touch on it and saw it went it. I know Purdue is a great team and this is a great team and we are going to go in with everything we’ve

got on Sunday,” said freshman Steffen.

Indiana State will be back in action on Sunday Aug. 27th for their first road match against Purdue at 1 p.m.

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Money Fight McGregor is strong early but Mayweather’s clinical skill wins out for TKO in 10th Lance Pugmire

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LAS VEGAS _ Floyd Mayweather Jr. closed out his distinguished career at 500. UFC champion Conor McGregor lasted into the 10th round in his pro boxing debut against the best boxer of his generation. So, both men could declare victory Saturday night in their novelty boxing match at T-Mobile Arena. Mayweather, 40, set aside the ills of age after a slow start, finding his groove to hammer McGregor with a series of punches that led to a 10thround technical-knockout victory in front of 14,623 spectators, well shy of T-Mobile’s capacity of more than 20,000. “He’s a lot better than I thought he was, but I was the better man,” Mayweather said. Mayweather did little offensively in the first four rounds, as McGregor landed clean jabs, punches and even some dubious mixed martial arts-inspired hammer fists to the back of the head. But Mayweather soon reverted to the master tactician who knows how to win rounds, peppering McGregor with an impressive three-punch series of right hands in the sixth round. His accuracy and tempo increased into the ninth, when McGregor resorted to desperate holds after being hurt by blows. Mayweather perfectly timed what he said was a strategy to test McGregor’s cardio endurance beyond the longest possible UFC fight. “We know in MMA he fights for 25 minutes,” Mayweather said. “After 25 minutes, he started to slow down.” Said McGregor: “I thought I took the early rounds pretty handily. He had to change his style, and he adjusted.” In the 10th, Mayweather crushed McGregor with three hard rights as part of an onslaught that convinced referee Robert Byrd to stop the fight 1 minute, 5 seconds into the round. “I was just a little fatigued,” McGregor said. “He was just a lot more composed with his shots. I have to give it to him. That’s what 50 pro fights will do for you.” All three judges had Mayweather leading at the stoppage. Dave Moretti had it 87-83, Burt Clements 89-82 and Guido Cavalleri had it 89-81. “I guaranteed everybody this fight wouldn’t go the distance,” Mayweather said. “Boxing’s reputation was on the line. Boxing’s a hell of a sport.” Mayweather’s previous fight, against Manny Pacquiao in May 2015, Los Angeles Times was not a great night for the sport. It was Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregorstare each other down at a press conference at dull and plodding. “I owed (fans) for the the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, on July 13, 2017.

Football is back Andrew Doran Sports Editor

Indiana State football is back in action this Thursday night against Eastern Illinois University at Memorial Stadium here in Terre Haute. The Sycamores are looking forward to starting off the year on the right foot against the Panthers.

The Sycamores are coming off a below average year ending the season with a record of 4-7, 2-6 MVC. With the team finishing last in the conference and with their new players and coaching staff, the Sycamores are looking to bounce back to the team they’re used to being.

Curt Mallory is coming into his first season as the head coach for Indiana State. Mallory is the 21st head coach in the history of Indiana State and is looking forward to the start of a new era and building his new program here. Mallory has been the pass a coordinator and secondary coach for Wyoming for the past two seasons, while being the coach of Andrew Wingard, who

was the semifinalist for the 2016 Thorpe Award.

The previous four seasons, Mallory was the secondary coach for the University of Michigan where in his final year they finished the seventh best in the FBS with only giving up 311.3 YPG in 2014.

With returning starting quarterback junior Isaac Harker, the team is pushing all the horses to have a great season. Harker last year was an Honorable Mention ALL-MVFC member after he had become the first Valley QB to 2,000 yards, while ending the season with having the third best passing season in history with a total of 2,559 yards last year.

The offense is also being carried out this season by wide receiver Bob Pugh and tight end Jacquet McClendon. Pugh, who is a returning senior, ended last year with 276 yards, recording one touchdown and his longest run of the year was 56 yards. McClendon, who is returning starter as well, ended last year with playing in 11 games, recording 157 yards and averaging 14 yards a game.

The Sycamore defense is being run by new Defensive Coordinator Brad Wilson, who is changing from the nick set, 3-4 into a 4-3 that gives the front seven guys a chance for better attack. The defensive line is coming back with veterans of experience, which will decrease the run game as much as possible. Senior Kenyota Rolins, who ended the season last year leading the team in tackles with 45, 22 of those also being solo, is ready to bring the power back for the defensive side of the game.

The Sycamores are looking forward to bringing in these new faces to the program to bring back the excitement Sycamore football carried in the past.

With all these new additions, fans should feel excited to see the beginning of a new program that will be good to watch from the first game to the last game of the season.

Kickoff will be at 7 p.m.

Thursday night at Memorial Stadium here in Terre Haute. The game will be televised on ESPN3 and can be heard on the radio at WIBQ 97.9 FM.

Pacquiao fight,” Mayweather said. “I said I wouldn’t back down.” McGregor proudly hung in as total punches landed were 88-82 in Mayweather’s favor after seven rounds. He also showed an impressive jab, landing 27 to Mayweather’s 18. In the end, Mayweather out-landed McGregor 170-111 in total punches, and 152-84 in power punches. But McGregor can boast that nine of Mayweather’s opponents in 12-round fights landed fewer than 100 punches in the entire bout. McGregor posted his 111 in less than 10 full rounds.

“When you’re here in the squared circle, everything is different,” McGregor said.

“He’s composed. Not that fast or powerful, but, boy, is he composed.” McGregor embraced Mayweather afterward, the pair sharing complimentary words. “Conor’s a hell of a champion,” Mayweather said.

After the fight, McGregor said he thought Byrd should have let the bout go on, even though he didn’t immediately dispute the stoppage in the ring after ducking and showing no willingness to throw a punch to answer Mayweather’s attack. “Let me try to recompose myself,” the 29-year-old McGregor said. “I’m brand new to the sport. Let me walk back to my corner.” He was left to accept a moral triumph of sorts, knowing more millions of dollars await as he promised to return to UFC fighting, far prouder than he was when he lost to Nate Diaz in a UFC fight last year. “I’ve been strangled on live TV and came back,” McGregor cracked. Before the fight, UFC executives described McGregor’s involvement in the longshot attempt to defeat Mayweather as a “win-win,” thanks to the massive mainstream attention Saturday’s unique event brought him and the organization. It could be the richest pay-perview fight of all time. There was no shame in losing to Mayweather, the UFC executives reasoned, noting that seven-division champion Pacquiao, along with four-division champions Miguel Cotto and Juan Manuel Marquez, had been convincingly defeated by the tactician. “What can I say? I had a bit of fun and hopefully entertained the fans,” McGregor said. When the fight was over, Mayweather committed to a life in retirement _ although he has come back three times after calling it quits previously _ and said he’ll earn more than $300 million for this fight. “This was my last fight tonight. For sure,” Mayweather said. “I look forward to going into the Hall of Fame someday.”

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Sycamores take down Northern Kentucky

Indiana State women’s soccer faced off with the Northern Kentucky Norse inside Memorial Stadium. The Sycamores defeated the defending Horizon League Champions by a score of 2-1.

“That’s a really good team we just beat.

I’m proud of the kids and I think the kids who came in off the bench did a really nice job of raising the level for us and Casidy Simonis came in and started and had a great day, so I think our senior leadership was really good today,” said head coach Julie Hanley.

The Norse came out hot in the first half and took control of the speed of play right from the whistle. In the sixth minute of play Jessica Frey headed in a cross from Payton Naylor to give NKU an early lead.

Indiana State continued to struggle to break the relentless defensive efforts of the Norse.

The Sycamores backline remained strong as well with Kasey Wallace and Katie Sullivan stepping up and blocking multiple shots. Hannah Sullivan also remained steady making four saves.

Indiana State was able to gain momentum and earn a corner kick in the 19th minute. Caitlyn Eddy sent a beautiful ball to the back post finding senior Casidy Simonis who volleyed it into the back of the net knotting the score up at 1-1.

The score remained tied going into halftime.

Starting the second half neither team was able to gain any momentum going forward. The Sycamores remained solid defensively not allowing the Norse any threatening chances.

Eddy, Simonis and Jensen Margheim kept control of the central midfield for Indiana State, but every play in the final third was off by inches.

The Sycamores once again picked up the pace and gained control of the speed of play late in the second half. Margheim and Wells all had solid shots on goal for Indiana State, but were unable to capitalize on any chances.

This all changed for the Sycamores in

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