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Volume 124, Issue 55

Employment endeavors

Career Center hosts annual Spring Career Fair Anthony Goelz Reporter

ISU Communications and Marketing

The ISU Career Center is hosting their annual Career Fair, which allows students to meet with local employers.

The Indiana State University Career Center will be hosting the annual Spring Career Fair, giving students the opportunity to seek future jobs and internships.

The event will take place in the Hulman Center on Wednesday, Feb. 22.

The Career Fair provides an opportunity for participants to interact with representatives from various organizations who are recruiting for full time positions, internships, job shadow opportunities, part-time and summer positions, as well as graduate and professional programs.

The Career Fair is an opportunity for both students and alumni. Those in attendance will get a chance to have face-to-face interactions with the over 100 employers that will take part in the career fair. While interacting and networking with representatives, students and alumni are

able to learn more about specific organizations, discuss what opportunities are available and receive direction about the next steps to take in the application process. This is also a chance for underclassmen to network and get comfortable with the many parts of the hiring process.

It allows them to make contacts within their career field and learn what skills they can develop to make them more marketable. It is also a chance for students to begin practicing for interviews and career preparation skills.

Registration is currently available on the ISU website. Along with registering, the Career Center section of the ISU website has a list of helpful tips for preparing for, attending and even what to do after the Career Fair is over.

There is advice on how to dress professionally, how to speak to employers, how to prepare a resume, what employers are looking for and even how to stand out to these employers. There

are also some testimonials from students and alumni. All of this information can be found by searching “Career Fair preparation” on the main ISU website.

There is also an easy to follow YouTube video entitled “Indiana State University Career Center Career Fair.” The video covers the same topics stated earlier, but in a more visual way. The video follows a student going through the process of preparing, attending and what to do after the event. There are also interviews with employers about what they are looking for in students and how to make an impression.

According to the website, students are required to use the entrance on 8th Street, to have their Sycamore ID for check-in and to pass a clothing check.

The clothing check can be easily passed by following the clothing tips on the Career Center page on the ISU website. Spring Career Fair will begin Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the Hulman Center.

Man sentenced to 112 years for deadly shooting at Seattle university in 2014 Sarah Jean Green

The Seattle Times TNS

A mentally ill man who killed one student and wounded two others at Seattle Pacific University in 2014 — a shooting inspired by the Columbine High School massacre a decade and a half earlier — was sentenced Friday to 112 years in prison.

“I wish I could take back what I did, but I can’t,” Aaron Ybarra said before he was sentenced.

Ybarra, 29, was convicted in November of premeditated first-degree murder, three counts of attempted first-degree murder and one count of second-degree assault after a monthlong trial.

The charges all carried firearms enhancements as well as an “aggravator” because of the impact the shooting had on the entire Seattle Pacific University community, elements which added to the length of Ybarra’s sentence.

The state had recommended a sentence of about 112 years in prison, while the defense had recommended roughly 90 years.

“Over the past 2 1/2 years I’ve realized I damaged more than just innocent people. I damaged the community and even the world,” Ybarra said haltingly.

He said he hopes he now gets the help he needs to “stop the throbbing in my head.”

Ybarra was armed with a 12-gauge shotgun when he drove to the campus on June 5, 2014 — the second-to-last day of classes — and killed freshman Paul Lee, 19, of Portland, on a sidewalk outside Otto Miller Hall and wounded a second man, Thomas Fowler, who was

struck by pellets that passed through Lee. He then tried to shoot a female student, but his shotgun misfired and she ran away, jurors were told.

Ybarra then walked into Otto Miller Hall, where he shot and critically wounded student Sarah Williams, then 22, as she walked down a flight of stairs.

Ybarra pointed the shotgun at another student, but the gun misfired again and Ybarra was tackled by student-safety monitor Jon Meis.

Lee’s father and brother were in the Seattle courtroom for the sentencing. A video showing photos of Lee as a youth and young adult were played before the sentence was announced.

Ybarra’s guilt wasn’t contested during his trial after he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Jurors had to weigh whether they thought Ybarra knew at the time of the shooting that his actions were legally and morally wrong, or if he was legally insane.

Ybarra, of Mountlake Terrace, testified that he was following a plan created by God, Satan and Lucifer, but on cross-examination admitted he was angry that Lee and three other students didn’t take him seriously or respect the danger he and his shotgun represented.

He told jurors he never intended to kill anyone, contradicting both entries made in his journal and statements made to police immediately following his arrest. He also discussed his obsession with school shootings and admiration for Eric Harris, one of two student gunmen responsible for the mass

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Kabrisha Bell | Indiana Statesman

Indiana State University Jazz Fest welcomed both local and guests performers.

Jazz Fest welcomes performers Grace Harrah Features Editor

One of the biggest events of the year for the School Of Music at Indiana State University was hosted this past Saturday, bringing jazz and classical musicians from all over the state of Indiana to perform on campus. The 43rd Jazz Festival took place all day on Saturday, welcoming high school and middle school student performers from all over Indiana and Eastern Illinois.

The festival also included top performers from the school of Music at ISU, faculty performances and special guest performances. The headliner for the event was a guest performer, Victor Rendon.

This event also included a competition amongst ISU performers.

Victor Rendon is a drummer and a composer, who currently is a part of Group Latin Vibe, a salsa group with Latin-Jazz background. He is also the leader of his own band, Blue Mambo. Rendon is well known for his Mexican-American background and is praised for his influences through the New York City Latin music scene. Rendon held two sessions throughout the day to teach the students his techniques and skills of percussion and timbales.

Students and faculty that joined the sessions were able to learn the skills from a professional performer and have a unique experi-

ence through the basics of Latin-Jazz background.

Jazz Festival is an event that is held every spring at ISU, welcoming students not only from the ISU School of Music but from other departments to appreciate the art of music.

Polina Kanyuka, graduate assistant at ISU and an international student from Ukraine, was one of the many that attended the festival.

“It was my first time attending the festival, and although I could only stay for a short session, I really enjoyed the music. I think it is a great event to have at ISU, and I wish they could advertise it more so more people could come enjoy

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Thousands rally for immigrant rights in downtown Los Angeles Emily Alpert Reyes and Andrea Castillo Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Howard Lipin | San Diego Union-Tribune | TNS

Supporters of immigrant rights held a rally before the March in Solidarity with Immigrants, San Diego, which began at the San Diego County Administration Center, and ended at Civic Center Plaza on Saturday, Feb. 18. 2017.

LOS ANGELES — Thousands of activists marched through the streets of downtown Los Angeles on Saturday to oppose immigration enforcement raids and demand that local officials take concrete steps to thwart the “deportation machine” under President Donald Trump.

David Abud, one of the organizers of the march, said the coalition of activists is demanding that city and county officials refuse to invest any resources in immigration enforcement.

Activists also want to ensure that a new fund to provide legal assistance to immigrants won’t exclude

those with criminal convictions. They are also asking the city and the county to invest in programs that help immigrants, including day labor centers.

“We want the city and the county to not just declare Los Angeles a ‘sanctuary city’ — which they have not — but to take these strong, concrete policies,” said Abud, who works with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network.

About 11:30 a.m., thousands of demonstrators gathered at Pershing Square spilled into the intersection of 5th and Hill streets. Latin music played on loudspeakers as the numbers grew from the hundreds to more than 1,000. Some vendors sold bacon-wrapped hot dogs on carts or shirts reading “Not My President.”

Rain that threatened the march had stopped earlier.

Large American, Mexican and LGBT flags dotted the scene. Many marchers held home-drawn signs, some with likenesses of the Statue of Liberty and President Trump.

Carmen Bermudez’s sign was honest: “I usually sleep in on Saturdays.”

It was the Mexican immigrant’s first protest. She carried another sign that read, “We gave you guacamole.

Have some respect.”

Bermudez said she was lucky that no one in her family is undocumented, but that she felt she needed to support the entire immigrant community.

Vanessa Velasquez, 17, and her younger sister

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Trump said he would isolate his family businesses, ‘High risk’ of flooding Monday in but they have already seeped into the White House. Northern California as waterways reach their limits that ultimately will create profits use the bully pulpit to punish N B J T oah

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Tribune Washington Buraeu (TNS)

Twenty-four hours before taking the oath of office, President Donald Trump strutted into the presidential ballroom of the Trump International Hotel to toast congressional leaders, top donors and the people he had picked to fill out his Cabinet.

Trump joked that “a total genius must have built this place,” underscoring the message: He would make little effort to separate his presidency from his identity as a business tycoon.

Less than a month in, his intentions are even clearer. The ethics firewall built by Trump’s attorneys already has failed to prevent complications from his family’s businesses from seeping into the presidency.

A top aide was scolded by the government ethics office and the GOP oversight chairman for pitching daughter Ivanka Trump’s fashion line on television, after Trump and another aide attacked Nordstrom for dropping her brand. Another business, Trump’s Florida country club, drew bipartisan security concerns after Trump appeared to discuss a North Korean missile test with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in full view of club members on a dining patio.

And Trump’s sons have prompted deep concern from ethics watchdogs as they pursue plans to launch a new U.S. hotel chain, possibly with the help of money from foreign investors

for the president.

“They don’t seem to have any safeguards,” said Richard Painter, the chief ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush, who serves on the board of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog group that has sued the Trump administration, alleging ethics violations.

Trump is probably the wealthiest businessman to serve as president, and the first without government or military experience. His success in branding and building hotels, casinos and a media business brought him to prominence, and many of his supporters see that experience as his most valuable asset.

But the Trump Organization, with real estate deals all over the world, presents unprecedented possibilities for conflicts. Trump declined to sell his holdings, instead announcing before he took office that he would turn his company over to his sons.

It was an attempt to assure the public that he was “completely isolating himself from his business interests,” in the words of his lawyer.

But in his first weeks in office, Trump has made little effort to maintain the appearance of keeping the family business at arm’s length.

After Nordstrom dropped his daughter’s clothing and accessories line, Trump tweeted angrily that Ivanka Trump had been “treated so unfairly” by Nordstrom, leaving the impression that the administration would

companies that sever ties with the family. Spokesman Sean Spicer accused the company of “a direct attack” on Trump’s policies and his daughter’s name.

Finally, senior counselor Kellyanne Conway, in a televised interview from the White House, suggested that viewers of “Fox & Friends” should “go buy Ivanka’s stuff.”

In a letter to the White House, the Office on Government Ethics said Conway’s plug crossed a line. But it’s the administration that will decide whether Conway, who got a mild rebuke from Spicer, will face more discipline.

Neither the White House nor the Trump Organization responded to questions.

The Conway episode showed that Trump’s indifference to questions of conflicts already was trickling down to his staff, said Paul Ryan, a lawyer for the progressive group Common Cause.

“We’re supposed to trust that this president who has shown a disregard for these norms is going to enforce the rules against one of his closest staff persons,” he said. “Hopes aren’t high.”

Even as controversy swirled over that dust-up, Trump was taking Abe for a golf weekend to his Florida club, Mar-a-Lago, which Trump and his team have aggressively branded as the “winter White House” — and which doubled its membership fee to $200,000 after Trump was elected.

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Louis Sahagun and Sonali Kohli Los Angeles Times (TNS) Officials said there was a high risk of flooding in parts of already-saturated Northern California as the latest “atmospheric river” storm moved in.

The National Weather Service on Sunday said the highest risk for flooding was in a large swath of the region from Monterey to Marin County on the coast then into the Sacramento Valley and Sierra Nevadas. The storm is expected to put added stress on levees, streams, creeks and rivers that are already approaching dangerously high water levels.

Parts of Northern California are already on track to have the wettest winter ever recorded.

On Sunday, the NWS warned that the San Joaquin River at Vernalis “has reached danger stage. Greater risk for levee problems.”

On Saturday, water stood a foot high in Maxwell, a small rural town in Northern California’s Colusa County. Crews had to evacuate 100 people in the town about 2 a.m. because of flooding, some by boat.

Maxwell is about 50 miles from Oroville, which for the last week has been the scene of a national drama as both spillways at the Oroville Dam were damaged, sparking fears of a catastrophic flood and forcing the evacuation of more than 100,000 people.

Officials were able to reduce the water levels in the reservoir this week and say they are pre-

pared for the new storms.

As the sun rose over the beleaguered Oroville Dam on Saturday, an aerial lineman performed the high-risk task of cutting power lines over the facility’s damaged main spillway while attached to the end of a cable dangling from a helicopter.

Hundreds of feet below, construction workers manning trucks, cranes, skip loaders and dredging equipment gathered near a pool of turbulent murky water churning at the bottom of that spillway, preparing to remove a mountain of debris piled up beneath the surface.

At the same time, state Department of Water Resources engineers began incrementally decreasing the flow of water in the spillway from 70,000 cubic feet per second to 55,000 cfs to give crews room to remove the estimated 150,000 square yards of debris.

It was all part of the effort to pump enough water out of the lake to absorb runoff from incoming storms and to keep the lake from overflowing as it did last weekend.

That overflow badly eroded an emergency spillway and sent debris flowing into a pool at the bottom, forcing the closure of an underground hydroelectric plant.

As of Saturday, the estimated costs of shoring up the dam’s main spillway and adjacent emergency spillway had climbed to roughly $10 million, according to a report reviewed by The Times.

Trump reverts to campaign mode Michael A. Memoli Tribune Washington Bureau (TNS) MELBOURNE, Fla. — President Donald Trump returned to campaign mode Saturday with a clear opponent in mind — the media — declaring before thousands of cheering supporters that “fake news” was undermining his nascent administration’s accomplishments.

The White House was running “so smoothly,” Trump said in an airport hangar here. He said the rally was about sharing “our incredible progress in making America great again.”

“I also want to speak to you without the filter of the fake news,” he said. “They’ve become a big part of the problem. They are part of the corrupt system.”

In its first four weeks, Trump’s administration has faced setbacks with little precedent, chief among them the ouster of his national security advisor after just three weeks amid a deepening

controversy over Russian interference in the U.S. government.

Trump’s approval ratings are historically low for a new president; one of his Cabinet nominees withdrew despite a low confirmation threshold; and the courts stalled a major initiative, the temporary ban on travel to the U.S. from seven majority-Muslim nations.

Trump painted a far different picture. “A great spirit of optimism is sweeping — and you see it — is sweeping across the country,” he said, citing recent stock market highs as his chief evidence.

The president has shown frustration with what he considers successes being drowned out by high-profile missteps. That was part of the calculation behind the decision in the West Wing to hold a campaign-style rally so early in Trump’s term.

Trump has often found comfort in crowds of his supporters, and the 9,000 in Melbourne erupted in cheers throughout

his remarks, which lasted about three-quarters of an hour. Their adoration, in the White House’s view, is an important public signal to congressional Republicans who have appeared increasingly wary of Trump’s stumbles.

Lawmakers are beginning a weeklong recess in which many will head to their districts to confront tough questions from constituents about Trump and the GOP agenda. Many Republicans represent solidly conservative districts where Trump is more popular than he is in the nation as a whole.

But gratified as the White House may be from Saturday’s performance, a crucial test looms in a little more than a week, when Trump will appear for the first time before a joint session of Congress. He’ll give what is typically a speech outlining specific policy priorities.

Trump campaigned at the same venue in Florida nearly five

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President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at the Palm Beach International airport on February 17, 2017, in West Palm Beach, Fla. On Saturday, Feb. 18, he held a campaign rally in Melbourne, Fla.

SpaceX launches supplies to space station after delay Samantha Masunaga (Los Angeles Times TNS)

Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel/TNS

A SpaceX rocket sits on launch pad39A on Saturday, Feb. 18, after it was scrubbed 13 seconds before it was expected to launch. The new window for the mission, which will send cargo and hundreds of science experiments to the International Space Station, will open Sunday morning.

SpaceX launched almost 5,500 pounds of supplies to the International Space Station on Sunday morning after scrubbing its Saturday attempt because of a potential issue with its Falcon 9 rocket.

The rocket lifted off at 6:39 a.m. PST from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It was the space company’s first launch from Launch Complex 39A, the pad where the Apollo and space shuttle missions launched.

About eight minutes after liftoff, the first-stage rocket booster landed back on land at the company’s Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

“Baby came back,” SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk tweeted, followed by a snapshot of the return landing.

The Dragon spacecraft, which is carrying the supplies, deployed about 10 minutes after launch. It is set to arrive at the space station early Wednesday morning.

Saturday’s launch was postponed just 13 seconds before liftoff so SpaceX could look into

a potential issue with the thrust vector control system on the rocket’s second stage.

Shortly after, the company tweeted that it would take a closer look at the positioning of the second-stage engine nozzle.

Musk said on Twitter on Saturday that all systems were go for launch, except that “the movement trace of an upper stage engine steering hydraulic piston was slightly odd.”

He tweeted that the company wanted to make sure it wasn’t “symptomatic of a more significant upstream root cause.”

“99 percent likely to be fine,” Musk tweeted. “But that 1 percent chance isn’t worth rolling the dice. Better to wait a day.”

This was the company’s second launch since a launch pad explosion in September destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket and a commercial communications satellite.

Musk said Saturday’s potential problem was “not obviously related” to a “very small” helium leak Friday that he said that the company was investigating. But it also was “not out of the question,” he tweeted.

This was SpaceX’s 10th mission to deliver supplies to the space station for NASA .

indianastatesman.com HOUSE FROM PAGE 2 Facebook pictures of Trump’s dining patio meeting with Abe were taken by a club member who joined after Trump’s election and seemed taken with the access to power he was enjoying.

“HOLY MOLY !!!” Richard DeAgazio wrote on his Facebook page, posting photos of Trump and top aides poring over papers and speaking frantically with Abe. “Wow … the center of the action!!!”

Spicer said later that the officials were not viewing and shining cellphone lights on classified information but were reviewing logistics for a public statement about the nuclear test.

The episodes prompted Rep. Jason Chaffetz, the Utah Republican who leads the House Over-

TRUMP FROM PAGE 2 months ago, on the day after the first of three election debates against Hillary Clinton.

Then, he touted nonscientific online surveys that credited him for a dominating performance over Clinton, his Democratic rival, when more reliable data showed the public deemed Clinton the clear victor. He described her as “crooked” 20 times. This time, it was the “fake” news media.

He portrayed his media criticism as presidential.

“Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln

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Defense testimony also focused on Ybarra’s developmental delays through childhood, his battles with substance abuse and his treatment for mental illness — which included a failed attempt to have Ybarra involuntarily committed.

Prosecutors acknowledged during the trial that Ybarra is mentally ill, but insisted he was driven by hatred and anger, and understood that what he was do-

JAZZ FROM PAGE 1 it. I believe we’ve got a strong program in music, and ISU students are very talented,” Kanyuka said.

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Monday, Feb. 20 2017 • Page 3 sight Committee, to write to the White House requesting numerous pieces of information, including the level of security vetting afforded to club members.

Chaffetz already had requested an investigation of Conway’s comments.

“Who knows? A waiter could be video-recording it,” said Rep. Lois Frankel, a Democrat who represents Palm Beach, Fla., and has been to the club many times for fundraisers. “There’s so much potential for mischief.”

Frankel conceded that Trump is new to the job and may be unaware of the risk, but nonetheless faulted his “cavalier attitude.”

Chaffetz and other members of Congress are under intense public pressure to take a harder line in overseeing Trump’s business ties.

“I have a sense that what he was doing with Abe was showing off,” said Larry Noble, general counsel to the Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit government reform group. “I can’t imagine he doesn’t have private rooms and can’t have a private dinner.

Why would you take the prime minister of Japan to a (club) dining room? Who are you trying to impress?”

Painter said the imagery is only part of the value to Trump.

Club members also know they might run into top administration officials over a drink or by the pool.

“It’s pay for access. It’s legal,” Painter said. “But it’s terribly discouraging for ordinary voters to watch this happen.”

Taxpayers, meanwhile, are picking up some of the tab.

Ric Bradshaw, the Palm Beach County sheriff, estimated local security costs at $60,000 for every day Trump spends in Palm Beach, independent of what the Secret Service and other federal agencies are spending. Bradshaw said he is seeking federal reimbursement.

Meanwhile, the Trump Organization is still facing conflict questions related to its hotel operations — starting with the one a few blocks from the White House. The Trump company leases the property from the General Services Administration, meaning that since he took office, Trump is, in effect, his own landlord. The GSA is now trying to decide whether the president is in violation of a clause in the lease that prohibits any federal official from benefit-

ing from the deal.

The company has announced aggressive plans to expand throughout the United States, with a new hotel brand, Scion, a nod to the Trump family heritage, according to a news release.

At a recent hotel industry conference in Los Angeles, Trump company executive Eric Danziger told The Wall Street Journal that the company had signed letters of intent with developers for 17 of the hotels, which are supposed to be geared toward a younger, trendier clientele than the family’s old-school luxury brand.

In a common business model for the hotel industry, the Trump Organization would not build the hotels, but manage them and receive a fee for the brand name.

and many of our greatest presidents fought with the media and called them out oftentimes on their lies,” Trump said. “When the media lies to people, I will never, ever let them get away with it.”

Saturday’s rally bore a striking resemblance to the last, with one key difference: the plane. Instead of the Boeing 757 private jet bearing his name that was a staple of his campaign, Trump arrived on Air Force One. In September he spoke with his prized jet behind him, but Air Force One was not a backdrop at Saturday’s rally — that would have risked flouting restrictions

on mixing political activity with the trappings of the presidency.

It’s an unprecedented discussion to be having this early in a presidential term. Trump filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to set up a 2020 campaign committee on the day he was sworn in as president (a cover letter indicated that doing so “does not constitute a formal announcement of my candidacy,” however).

President Barack Obama waited until 2011 to file paperwork to seek a second term in the 2012 election. Three incumbent congressmen who are seeking re-election two years earlier than

Trump just filed their paperwork on Friday.

But, asked by the Los Angeles Times about criticism he has faced for resuming a campaign posture so early, Trump answered: “Life is a campaign.”

“To make America great again is absolutely a campaign,” he said on Air Force One before the rally. “It’s not easy, especially when we’re also fighting the press.”

White House officials, while emphasizing that the rally was a political event and therefore one they were not involved in, also stated emphatically that the rally was not for any campaign, but rather “for America.”

Trump’s political organization funded the event, the White House said.

But some of the costs associated with the president’s travel for the event here are borne by taxpayers. While the president and his assistants are required to reimburse the government for airfare, according to a 2012 report from the Congressional Research Service, the costs of Secret Service and staff who are always considered to be on official duty are paid by the government.

Trump himself frequently attacked Obama for using Air Force One during campaign travels.

ing was wrong.

Senior Deputy Prosecutor Kristin Richardson told jurors Ybarra never mentioned God, Satan or Lucifer directing him to kill until months after the shooting, after he’d heard other inmates talk of “God’s plan” through jail ministries.

Instead, Richardson said, Ybarra opened fire at the small, private university “because he was angry at the world.”

The King County jury deliberated for a day and a half before returning the guilty verdicts against Ybarra.

Afterward, jurors acknowledged that they believed Ybarra was mentally ill by the societal definition but that he didn’t meet the legal definition for insanity.

They also said they placed a lot of weight on his journal entries and confession to police since they both showed his state of mind at the time of the crimes.

Nonetheless, jurors said the decision was difficult.

“It’s not easy to commit a man to prison for his entire life, especially when he’s mentally ill,” one juror said.

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study music, she found close ties with her past through the festival and brought back personal memories of her connection with music.

“This festival made me think

back to the years when I used to play the violin. After attending the event, I keep thinking about it, and it made me want to go back to practice the violin after all the years,” Kanyuka said.

Facebook, organizers of the march wrote that local officials had shown “a lack of urgency” in protecting immigrants and argued that L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti had buckled to “empty threats” from the Trump administration to defund sanctuary cities.

Garcetti has called Los Angeles “a city of sanctuary,” but has argued in the past that there is no clear definition of a “sanctuary city.”

“We regularly cooperate with immigration authorities — particularly in cases that involve serious crimes — and always comply with constitutional detainer requests,” Garcetti said in a statement earlier this year. “What we don’t do is ask local police officers to enforce federal immigration laws — and that’s an official LAPD policy that has been enforced for nearly 40 years.”

flipped hot dogs on carts at the northeast corner of Pershing Square. She said they work with their father every Saturday and have recently worked at four separate protests.

She said she likes working the protests because it allows her to lend her support. Her parents, both in the country illegally, immigrated from Guatemala 18 years ago.

Velasquez said her family has been scared since Trump’s election. She said her mother works downtown and recently changed her driving route to avoid the immigration agents rumored to be stopping cars and checking for legal documents.

“If he does and we stay here, we’re going to be by ourselves,” she said. “It’s not fair how the president is treating people.”

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Sycamores take time each month to give back to community Adrienne Morris Reporter

Terre Haute and ISU community members came together this weekend to participate in Sycamore Service Saturdays, an event that takes place every month.

The Center for Community Engagement collaborated with multiple facilities in the Wabash Valley to coordinate this event. Students had the option to choose from volunteering at the Bethesda Gardens Senior Living Community, Griffin Bike Park, Ryves Neighborhood, Upward Sports or the ISU Community Garden.

During the different volunteer opportunities, students were able to assist senior citizens to prepare the ISU Community Garden for the 2017 gardening season coming up in the spring.

The ISU Community Garden allows

anyone from the community to plant their vegetables, and in return they are asked to give a portion of their items to the community food bank.

Those who participated in the ISU Community Garden service day, which worked with the Alumni Board, were able to aide the community in preparing the plots for future gardening.

“I think it’s a great opportunity to get involved. It really benefits the community, and it allows you to build relationships with other people,” ISU sophomore Javonte Williams said.

Students who volunteered to participate at Griffin Park were responsible for removing trash that the winter storms have caused.

Bethesda Gardens Senior Living participants played games with the residents and helped tidy up the area.

At Upward Sports, students helped with greeting people who visited. They also helped with the tunnels, lights and concessions.

In the Ryves neighborhood, people in the community passed out flyers for a forthcoming event in the area.

“The different activities really helped people come together. I find it cool how a lot of people participated and gave back to the community,” ISU sophomore Grace Allen said.

In 2015, ISU was ranked number one in public service. According to the Center for Community Engagement website they “coordinate and support opportunities for faculty and students to learn and serve with community partners throughout the Wabash valley and beyond.”

The Center for Community Engagement’s main goals are to “assist area non-

profit organizations, government agencies and private industry and business to develop links with Indiana State University students and faculty, create out-of-class learning experiences, including internships and service-learning, for ISU’s students and faculty, and encourage and coordinate student, faculty and employee volunteerism and service to the Wabash Valley,” according to their website.

“I think that the center helps a lot of people get involved. It helps people to know where to participate. I like that the center tries to better the community as a whole,” Williams said.

The Sycamore Day of Service happens once a month in every month. Students are able to sign-up online for the different activities they would like to become involved with throughout the academic year.

Sports career fair connects Sycamores

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Laura Dern, Reese Witherspoon, and Shailene Woodley in “Big Little Lies.”

Women in control on screen Behind scenes of HBO’s ‘Big Little Lies’

Neal Justin

Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (TNS)

LOS ANGELES — “Sex and the City” and “Girls” may have established HBO as a playground for women seeking love and laughs, but when it comes to serious drama, the pay-cable giant remains a boys’ club.

Of the 20 dramatic series in HBO’s history, only two — the short-lived “Tell Me You Love Me” and the enduring “True Blood” — were headlined by a female actress. HBO has done slightly better with its miniseries, but it took Oscar heavyweights such as Helen Mirren (“Elizabeth I”), Kate Winslet (“Mildred Pierce”) and Frances McDormand (“Olive Kitteridge”) to get their stories on the schedule.

That investment has almost always paid off. Anna Paquin took home a Golden Globe for “Blood.” Mirren, Winslet and McDormand won Emmys. With that kind of track record, “Big Little Lies,” a seven-hour series premiering Sunday in which female characters dictate the action, shouldn’t feel like an anomaly. But it does.

“For 25 years, I’ve been the only woman on set and I had no other women to talk to,” Reese Witherspoon said. “I think they call it Smurfette Syndrome, where she’s got

100 Smurfs around, and she’s the only girl.

I mean, who gave birth to all those Smurfs, anyways?”

This adaptation of Liane Moriarty’s 2014 novel about motherhood and murder in a tiny seaside town probably would be headed to Lifetime or the Hallmark Channel if Witherspoon hadn’t put her weight behind the project, in front of and behind the camera. Along the way, she recruited all-star gal pals Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern and Shailene Woodley to join her.

In less than five years, Witherspoon’s production company, Pacific Standard, has built a solid reputation for shepherding projects not only for herself (“Wild,” “Hot Pursuit”) but other actresses. She gave Rosamund Pike the juicy title role in the company’s biggest success to date, 2014’s “Gone Girl.”

That wasn’t going to happen this time.

The principal character in “Lies,” Madeline Mackenzie, could easily be a grown-up version of Tracy Flick, the annoyingly ambitious teenage politician Witherspoon played in the 1999 film “Election.”

Despite her bald ambition, Mackenzie is realizing that the sacrifices she made to raise two children may have kept her from forming an identity outside of volunteering at the local community theater, sneaking away for

oversized glasses of wine and playing chauffeur to her unappreciative kids.

She grew up wanting to be Betty Grable, one catty neighbor remarks, but she ended up as Betty Crocker. That doesn’t sit well with our heroine.

“When I started this, I wasn’t sure I could play this character, a bossy know-it-all, a busybody,” Witherspoon said last month.

“But as you get further into the series, you start to realize the reasons why she is so controlling, so high-strung, because she’s concealing something very difficult for her to hold.”

Anyone who has read Moriarty’s book, or who watches the first 10 minutes of Sunday’s premiere, knows that Mackenzie’s emotional instability is the catalyst for a gruesome murder at a grade-school fundraiser, setting the stage for an Agatha Christie-style whodunit. But the real draw of the miniseries, directed by Jean-Marc Vallee (“Dallas Buyers Club”) and written by David E. Kelley (every other TV law show), is how events elevate the seething between the females in a California neighborhood into a full boil.

“Women,” comments the husband of Dern’s character, who sits on the board of

Indiana State University students attended the 17th Annual Pacers Sports & Entertainment Career Fair at Banker’s Life Fieldhouse on Feb. 16, where they learned from and networked with representatives from sports and entertainment industries.

Organizations at the fair included: the Indiana Pacers, Indiana Fever, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indy Eleven, Columbus Blue Jackets, USA Football, National Basketball Academy and more.

From 10 a.m. to noon, attendees chose from two of the breakout sessions on the following topics: marketing, corporate sales, ticket sales, basketball operations, finance, broadcasting, communication, human resources or facilities and event services. For Rachel Eckerle, a senior majoring in communication from Plainfield, the chance to hear from a local sports communications professional was the highlight of the trip.

“I was delighted that Bill Benner led the communication breakout session,” Eckerle said.

“He possesses a wealth of knowledge, gained throughout his career in sports-writing and communication. It was remarkable to hear him recount the history of Indiana sports that he has been a part of during his career.”

Jasmine Davis, a senior communication major from Indianapolis, attended the career fair in hopes to find a full-time career or internship for after she graduates.

“There were opportunities for me to talk face-to-face with professionals about the jobs that interest me,” Davis said. “I am looking for an event management job, and this career fair helped me know what their day looks like. It also gave me more details about what they do.”

From noon to 4 p.m., students

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‘What Would You Do?’ is focus of 12th annual Ethics Conference The Networks Professional Development Program within the Scott College of Business at Indiana State University will be asking Sycamores “What Would You Do?” at the 12th annual Ethics Conference on March 1 in the Hulman Memorial Student Union.

On the morning of the conference, the 8 a.m. session hosts business professionals in the Wabash Valley as well as State faculty and staff for a corporate keynote breakfast event to listen to Marc A Nichols Esq., legal counsel and director of compliance-Americas at Rolls-Royce North America. Rolls-Royce is a Fortune 500 company providing highly efficient integrated power systems used for aerospace, marine, energy and off-highway applications.

Following the corporate keynote morning event, there will be three breakout sessions and a noon luncheon with Marc A. Nichols giving the keynote presentation over “Ethics in a Post-Truth and Reality TV World.” Breakout session speakers and topics include: Breakout Session 1 (10-10:50 a.m.): Lori Henson, Ph.D., “Ethics in Journalism To-

day;” Marsha Miller, “Barriers and Bias, the Status of Women in Leadership;” Dr. Shikha Bhattacharyya, “Why ReTHink?”

Breakout Session 2 (11-11:50 a.m.): Meredith Lynn, “Ethical Issues in Commercial Art;” Craig McKee, “WWID? Problem Solving as an Ethical Business Manager;” Devyn Mikell, “Tricky Situations in Twisted Fry” Breakout Session 3: (2-2:50 p.m.): Kourtney Barrett, “Honoring Thy Institution, Honor Thy Degree;” Ruth Fairbanks, Ph.D., “Historical Ethical Dilemmas Regarding to Immigration;” Angie Lansing, “Financial Compensation in College Athletics” The 16 juniors in the Networks Program were tasked with planning and marketing the event, acquiring speakers and securing sponsorships from businesses in the Wabash Valley and the surrounding area.

Since the beginning of the academic year, they have raised $9,000 from sponsors in order to host the conference.

To get students in a “What Would You Do?” mindset, there will be a speakers panel on Tuesday night before the conference discussing “Ethical Ramifications

The sixteen juniors participating are in the Networks Program.

Surrounding Genetic Testing.” The panelists include: Rusty Gonser, Ph.D., director of The Center for Genomic Advocacy; Michael Deem, assistant director of The Center for Genomic Advocacy; Jill Turner, senior business development manager; and Megan Tucker, genetic counselor. The panel will begin at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28 in Dede I. Students can register for the Ethics Con-

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ference at indstate.edu/ethics. Those who pre-register by Friday, Feb. 24 and confirm their attendance to the keynote luncheon will receive a free lunch. The first 200 students to register will be given a free T-shirt at check-in.

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indianastatesman.com WOMEN FROM PAGE 4 PayPal and the local aquarium, yet spends happy hour obsessing about her social status. “You want to be the envy of your friends, but God forbid you garner too much of it.”

Kidman signed up almost overnight to play Mackenzie’s best friend, an abused housewife with a few secrets of her own.

“I really related to all the women in the book, and I’ve met many women who feel the same way,” Kidman said. “There’s just such an array of emotions in the piece.” Kidman, who is enjoying an Oscar nomination for portraying a very different kind of mother in “Lion,” also signed on as a producer.

Despite the team effort, this is Witherspoon’s

PACERS FROM PAGE 4 networked with representatives from the sports and entertainment field.

Antonio Turner, a senior communication major, left the event with new connections and insight.

“Every person we spoke to at the career fair talked about their experiences before having the job they have now,” Turner said. “I’m very grateful for the opportunity to network with professionals who want to help out those seeking to get what they have already achieved.”

Monday, Feb. 20 2017 • Page 5 moment. She will most certainly be on a shortlist come Emmy time, and Pacific Standard has a tantalizing slate of projects in the works, including a biopic on singer Peggy Lee. “I was watching incredibly talented women playing wives and girlfriends — thankless parts — and I had just had enough,” she said. “We need to see real women’s experiences, whether it involves domestic violence, sexual assault, motherhood, romance, infidelity or divorce. We need to see these things because as human beings we can learn from art. And what can you do if you never see these things reflected? These are the kinds of projects that shift consciousness. That’s where my passion lies.”

More than a dozen communication students committed to take the grant-funded trip to Indianapolis for the event, said Jennifer Mullen, communication instructor and organizer.

The experience for these students was made possible by the Focus Indiana initiative at Indiana State, funded by a $3 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc., which facilitates the university to build job readiness skills into its curriculum and expand its Career Center.

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Scott Pruitt poor choice for EPA

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A rather frightening event occurred last week in the senate: Scott Pruitt was confirmed to head the Environmental Protection Agency.

The EPA is a branch of government charged with ensuring that America’s land stays clean and healthy. Their mission is “to protect human health and the environment” by keeping an eye out for things that are harmful, like toxic emissions and greenhouse gases. The goals are quite noble, and most of their policies have made obvious impacts in the quality of our country.

However, Pruitt doesn’t see it that way. He has spent his career as Oklahoma’s Attorney General suing the EPA time and time again with the belief that their policies are too overbearing on

energy companies and states.

He is a poor choice to head the EPA simply based on principle.

He fights against the policies that keep our air and water cleaner and safer. The Clean Power Plan, for example, would require planet-warming coal emissions to be reduced drastically. It would require carbon emissions be regulated and lowered in every state, fighting climate change and air pollution. Pruitt was an active opponent of the plan.

On his Linked In page, he even describes himself as “a leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda.”

His views seem to directly contradict the EPA’s mission.

There is no reason someone heading an organization, especially a government one, should openly and proudly contradict the mission statement they are charged to uphold. It should be obvious that Pruitt is not on the side of the EPA, which leaves us to wonder whose side he is on.

The New York Times reported that Pruitt often copy-and-pasted segments of correspondences with energy companies, often using the copied segments on official letters and documents to

the EPA. This shows he is clearly in favor of energy companies, many of which can’t make as much money with the EPA’s regulations in place.

Selecting him as the head of the EPA is a lot like picking someone who doesn’t believe in medicine to head a hospital. At his senate confirmation hearing he said, “Science tells us that the climate is changing and human activity in some manner impacts that change. The human ability to measure with precision the extent of that impact is subject to continuing debate and dialogue, as well they should be.”

Pruitt is right in this statement.

We have an extensive impact; we just don’t know how deep it goes.

What we can attribute to mankind already is carbon emissions that would be reduced by the Clean Power Plan, air emissions and regional haze that was reduced by regulations, even mercury emissions that were limited by the EPA. Unfortunately he opposed all of these regulations, even taking a couple of these and more to court to get them repealed.

He seems to think that these things are part of the “debate

and dialogue” he seems to think exists.

He doesn’t seem to realize that there is really no debate about whether or not humans’ carbon and mercury emissions are dangerous to mankind and the environment — at least, not among those educated and qualified to discuss the topic. So while there is a discussion on climate change, it seems to be different than the one he is having.

We are left questioning why someone would deny facts and nearly unanimous scientific findings so readily.

The answer is probably as simple as money. An NPR project reports that he received $40,000 in campaign contributions from energy companies – ones for which he essentially stalled a lawsuit.

It might also be to create jobs, ones he claims the EPA has destroyed over the course of its lifetime.

Frankly, he shouldn’t be concerned with creating jobs. Someone else was picked to head the Department of Labor, so Pruitt should focus less on labor and more on the environment he was entrusted with.

Shortly after being confirmed as the nation’s secretary of education, Betsy DeVos paid a visit to a public school in Washington, D.C. She was met by about 50 demonstrators, including one person who was arrested for blocking the entrance.

In an ironic comment, DeVos evoked memories of late Alabama Gov. George Wallace, who in 1963 blocked access to the University of Alabama by standing in a door to keep blacks from entering. She said no one should “stand in the schoolhouse door” to keep her out.

While I am not a connoisseur of fake news — something DeVos’ boss, President Donald Trump, frequently talks about — I am well aware that the details of this encounter could easily be misconstrued.

Still, I know enough to defend DeVos’ right to enter this school.

In fact, I think she should see every good and bad thing about our public schools. Perhaps she will then begin to grasp the enormity of the challenges facing American public education.

Perhaps she will then realize the educational needs of Americans cannot simply be solved by charter schools and vouchers.

It’s easy to see how enormously successful capitalist businesspeople like DeVos can actually believe that public education needs the sting of a good competitor to spur it to improvement. I once interviewed men who said they were investing in a scholarship fund to give poor students partial tuition to parochial schools — not to give them a religiously solid education, but because if enough students were drawn away from public schools, the competition would force public schools to improve.

But we are not talking about units of sales here. We are talking about children. We are talking about the principle of public education. During her confirmation hearings, DeVos said that schools need guns in some places to fend off grizzly bears. The comment was laughable, but also revealed a stunning lack of awareness that this is a serious issue for schools in states with liberal gun ownership laws, including public colleges and universities where open-carry is allowed.

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Despite what some think, role models can inspire activism

Casey Ewart Columnist

We all have people that we look up to for different reasons.

We are asked who our role models are at a young age. These are the people that inspire us and have qualities that we look up to.

Typically, the people we choose to become our role models are family members, politicians, or even actors and actresses. If we put someone on a pedestal, they will fall. They will disappoint us, but that does not mean that we cannot learn from them.

If we choose to have someone in our family as our role model, typically it is the one person that we are closest to. Whether that is a mother, father, brother, cousin, grandmother or grandfather, they have an impact on our lives.

Some people may not be that close with people in their family. For the ones that are not close with their family, they might choose a politician as their role model.

If we choose to have a certain politician as our role model, they choose a platform for their campaigns. They run on something they believe in, that they felt they needed to and could change.

These platforms range for each politician.

According to The American Presidency Project, some of Hilary Clinton’s platforms included “Raise Incomes and Restore Economic Security for the Middle

Class, Create Good-Paying Jobs, Fight for Economic Fairness and Against Inequality, Bring Americans Together and Remove Barriers to Opportunities.”

According to The American Presidency Project, some of Trumps platforms included: “Restoring the American Dream, A Rebirth of Constitutional Government, Government Reform, Great American Families, Education, Health Care and Criminal Justice”.

Politicians are not the only ones that we are very aware of and have impact in our lives. If we choose to have an actor or actress as our role models, they might have certain charities that they take part in or certain causes that they stand for.

Recently, Ashton Kutcher spoke to the United States Senate about human trafficking.

Some people might think that

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he just gave his opinion, but he is actually very invested in ending modern-day slavery. He is a co-founder, along with actress Demi Moore, of an organization called Thorn. It is an organization that uses technology to assist law enforcement with rescuing and protecting against child sexual exploitation.

Angelina Jolie is another actress that co-founded an organization for immigrating children called Kids in Need of Defense.

This organization works to assist unaccompanied children going through the legal process to enter into the United States.

Our role models might be someone we can talk through with issues in our lives, or we might just have to ask ourselves what would Trump, Clinton, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore or Angelina Jolie do. We look up to them for our own reasons. May-

be we feel like we can relate to them. Maybe we have the same stance on a particular issue.

Everyone is fighting for something, whether it is human trafficking, immigration of children or quality education. We may not feel like we can take on or change issues that have been listed, but we can. Change starts with one person.

Some victims actually turn into advocates. We could donate money, volunteer or even just spread awareness by sharing news stories on Facebook related to the issues we stand for.

A big part of this is knowing that we are not alone. Our voices can be heard, but that requires us to stand up for what we believe in.

Make some noise. Let the world see what we stand for and let us start making a difference today.

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BETSY FROM PAGE 6 In an even more troubling gaffe, DeVos appeared to have a poor grasp of the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The law sets forth the rights of students with disabilities. Parents of such students need to know this information so they can advocate for their children.

There is much more that DeVos needs to learn to responsibly oversee the country’s education system.

The minute details of public education are bewildering, and hell hath no fury like a parent convinced that something happening in school will harm his or her child.

Keeping DeVos from entering a public school will not enlighten her.

Instead, we should educate her, thoroughly.

SWIM FROM PAGE 8 inaugural season and improved every week they entered into competition.

The Sycamores set new team records at every single meet this season.

Price and Saez-Illobre also earned MVC Honorable Mention for their impressive performances throughout the championships.

“Looking back on the season, these student-athletes have grown and become better people, better students and better swimmers. All in all we’re looking forward to getting back to do some work and setting ourselves up for a better year next year,” Coach Leach said.

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Indiana States women’s basketball team almost won over Northern Iowa, 61-59 in a heated overtime game. They were lead by junior Wendi Bibbins (#23) who put up 18 points.

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Indiana State women’s basketball came up just short Sunday afternoon at the Hulman Center, falling to the second-place Northern Iowa Panthers, 61-59 in overtime. The Sycamores (1213, 6-8 MVC) were led by junior Wendi Bibbins who scored 18 points in the loss. Ashley Taia added 14 points and Tierra Webb scored 10 to round out the scoring for ISU. It was a tale of two quarters in the first half as the Sycamores jumped out on top 15-6 after the first 10 minutes of action, thanks in part to the strong play of Tierra Webb and Wendi Bibbins.

Indiana State closed out the first on an 8-0 run before scoring the first six points of the second quarter.

Indiana State did not score in the final 7:41 of the half.

Northern Iowa’s half-court trapping defense held the Sycamores at bay for much of the

half, forcing ISU into 14 first-half turnovers. The Panthers (20-6, 13-2 MVC) were able to climb back into the game by turning those Sycamore miscues into 11 points. Indiana State held the Panthers to just 5-of-27 shooting from the field in the half and did not allow 3-pointers.

During UNI’s second-quarter run, the Panthers shot all 12 of their free throws of the half, connecting on 10 of them to cut the ISU lead to just one point at 2120 going into the locker room.

The tilting of quarters continued to be the story as the game went on as Indiana State flipped the script in the third quarter to take a six-point lead, followed by the Panthers outscoring ISU 1812 in the fourth to force the second overtime game of the season for Indiana State.

Webb, a sophomore, hit a running layup with just under two minutes left to play in regulation and that would be the last point scored. UNI again used free throws to take the lead in over-

time, eight of their 10 points at the charity stripe in the period.

A season-high 32 turnovers by the Sycamores were costly as the Panthers turned those miscues into 32 points in the game. ISU won the rebound battle 42-35, but UNI corralled 16 offensive rebounds, which they turned into 13 points, including a pair of 3-pointers in the fourth quarter.

The Sycamores shot a staggering 48 percent (24-of-50) from the field while holding UNI to just 28.5 percent (16-of-62), but the Panthers made their chances at the free throw line count as they connected on 22-of-29 at the charity stripe. All 29 attempts came after the first quarter.

Northern Iowa was led by Madison Weekly who had a game-high 20 points and three steals. Ellie Herzberg added 16 points and eight steals for the Panthers.

Indiana State will finish out its road schedule next weekend with trips to Missouri State and Wichita State.

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Indiana State University baseball team pick up their first win, 14-4 against Youngstown.

Sycamores roll past Youngstown State Tim McCaughan

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An offensive showcase was on display Saturday night at the Austin Peay Invitational as the Indiana State baseball team picked up its first win of the season over Youngstown State, 14-4, at Raymond C. Hand Park in Clarksville, Tennessee.

Coming off a Freshman All-American season a year ago, Tyler Ward did not disappoint in his first action of 2017.

The second-year right-hander went five complete innings, giving up just three hits and one run while striking out six.

Ward had it going early, retiring YSU 1-2-3 in two of the first three innings, including a trio of strikeouts in the second.

Indiana State was led at the plate

by Dane Giesler, who finished 3-for5 with a double, four RBIs and three runs scored. Tyler Friis, Clay Dungan and Brandt Nowaskie also added a pair of hits each for the Sycamores. Chris Ayers, Jeff Zahn and Dungan drove in three runners on the night.

The Sycamores (1-0) did not break into the hit column until the third inning when Dominic Bifano singled to right field. That was all it took for the Indiana State offense to get going as they pushed across five runs in the inning and never looked back. Ayers knocked in the first runners of the game as he collected a bases-clearing double to left

center to put the Sycamores on top 3-0.

Giesler, a redshirt junior, would put the knockout punch to the inning when he collected his first home run in a Sycamore uniform on a 1-2 count. Ayers would score on the play as well.

The Sycamores would add three more runs in the fifth inning after Zahn picked up a 2-RBI single and Dungan recorded an RBI groundout to cap things off.

Youngstown State looked to have things going in the fifth, but a good defensive play from the infield caught a would-be runner at the plate to end the threat.

In total, Indiana State finished the night with 14 hits while allowing just six. Austin Conway and Tyler Whitbread finished out the final four innings for ISU. Conway, a right-hander, gave up three runs in three innings of work while striking out two. Whitbread pitched the ninth and struck out two of the three batters he faced.

The Trees answered YSU’s three runs with five of their own in the sixth after Tony Rosselli, Nowaskie and Friis each reached base. Giesler would pick up three of his four RBIs on the day after clearing the bases with a double to center. Dungan later sent Giesler to the plate with a triple. Dungan also picked up another RBI in the eighth when he singled through the infield to score Zahn.

Indiana State will close out the weekend Sunday at 4:30 p.m. ET when they face the host Governors.

The Sycamores swimming and diving team finished up their first Missouri Valley Conference Championship meet tonight after four strong days of competition.

“As we finish the Missouri Valley Conference Championships, I take a step back and look at the season as a whole. I look at the foundation we’ve laid and I couldn’t be more excited for our future,” said head coach Matt Leach.

Indiana State faced off with the rest of the Valley in multiple events for the final day, with numerous members of the Sycamore squad taking the pool.

For the preliminaries, the student-athletes competed in the 200 backstroke, 100 freestyle, 200 breaststroke, 200 butterfly and 1650 freestyle. The evening finals included these same events with the addition of the 400 freestyle relay.

Kendall Hansen, Allie Engstrom, Tessa Muzzy and Katherine Minatra were first off the blocks for ISU in the 200 backstroke.

Engstrom and Minatra swam strong races, both qualifying for finals. Hansen also qualified and set a new school record with a time of 2:04.46.

Following this event was the 100 freestyle, which proved to be a tight race in all heats. Emily Boomershine and Courtney Skelley swam strong, but could not reach the wall quick enough for a spot in the evening.

Alex Malmborg came out hot and was able to bust the previous school record she held by almost two seconds and secure her qualification for finals.

The 200 breaststroke proved to be another challenge for the all-freshmen squad as Taylor Christie, Emily Ratliff and Blanca Saez-Illobre dove in. While Christie and Ratliff each dropped time, only Saez-Illobre came up with a quick enough time to qualify, along with adding two new school records. Saez-Illobre had a 100 breaststroke split of 1:07.06 and her overall time of 2:19.90.

Skelley, Jacquie Price and Mykenzie Kostka followed in the 200 butterfly. Despite having already swam an event earlier, Skelley busted out a 2:08.40, securing her a spot in the evening finals with Kostka, also making the cut.

To end the morning preliminaries, Cierra Campbell, Elisabeth Peskin and Minatra all competed in the 1650 freestyle. This was only the second time this season that Indiana State has competed in this swim, and all three athletes came out strong. Campbell had an especially good swim, setting a new school record with a 17:54.19.

Indiana State used the short break in the afternoon to rest up and prepare for the last day of finals. As the finals began, the Sycamores stood by and watched as swimmers competed in the final heat of the 1650 freestyle; then it was time for the qualifiers to take the

pool for their events.

First up was the 200 backstroke, which featured Engstrom, Minatra and Hansen. All three Sycamores swam a strong race, but most notably was Engstrom’s performance as she dropped two seconds off of her morning preliminary time, giving herself a new in-season best with a 2:06.56.

Malmborg followed for Indiana State in the 100 freestyle. The race was tight from the beginning, but Malmborg kept composure and swam hard for the full length posting a 52.07.

Saez-Illobre was the lone Sycamore competing in the 200 breaststroke where she finished with a time of 2:21.93.

The final individual event for the MVC Championships was the 200 butterfly.

With two members of the all freshmen squad competing, each finished strong for ISU. Skelley finished with a 2:09.78, with Kostka adding a 2:12.18.

Malmborg, Price, Campbell and Skelley finished off conference for the Sycamores competing in the 400 freestyle relay.

This was Indiana State’s first MVC Championships in school history. Multiple members of the squad qualified for finals throughout the week, including three A final appearances which resulted in fifth, seventh and eighth place finishes. ISU finished with a score of 148.

Indiana State had a squad of all freshmen for their

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