March 6, 2017

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Volume 124, Issue 61

Aviation Program sees fee changes due to popularity Cal Hart Reporter

The aviation program at Indiana State University is growing in popularity and with this growing popularity, the fees students in the program have to pay will increase.

The program is approaching its fifth year this upcoming fall and shows no signs of stopping its continual growth. Due to the growth the program has seen, the cost of the program and the classes are slightly increasing.

Stephen McCaskey, who is an associate professor and the interim chair of the department of aviation technology, specified that there will be a “2 percent increase in flight fees.”

With the higher demand of the aviation program by the students, the fees are changing by 2 percent this upcoming fall semester.

McCaskey provided an article created by ISU discussing the program’s fee changes.

According to an ISU online article, “Increased financial support is also necessary for upgrades

to be ‘Next Generation’ compliant by 2020, along with costs associated with implementing and operating the TALON SMART safety management systems.”

The fee change will be effective in the upcoming fall, and according to the article, is non-refundable unless the student drops the course for the certification or withdraws from the university.

Students already in the program do not seem too excited about the future changes, like freshman unmanned systems major, Trevor Brown.

“We already pay a lot for each course we take. For the degree, you already have to pay over $1,600 in the four years of schooling, but with each course you have to pay $250 for each extra course which adds about $2,000 overall for course fees overall,” he said.

“Many regional airlines have taken extra measures to recruit new pilots by interacting and providing pathway programs and incentives to universities and flight schools,” according to the Indiana State University article discussing the future fee changes.

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Due to the increase in popularity in the ISU flight program, fees are forced to increase.

Sycamores taught how to recognize, intervene in substance abuse cases

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FiT had their annual conference to encourage young women to stand out in the technology field.

FIT encourages women to stand out Anthony Goelz Reporter

On March 3, the Females in Technology (FiT) held their 10th annual FiT for the Future Conference.

The ISU website describes the conference as a “fun-filled day of career exploration will offer hands-on activities facilitated by ISU technology students along with shared experiences from professional women working in a variety of technical fields.”

This event was for high school girls with an interest in entering a technical field. According to members of FiT there were 143 students from 14 different high schools attending the conference on Friday.

The conference was opened with keynote speaker Heavenly Goodrum-Mitchell, an Indiana State alumni with a B.S. in computer engineering technology and information technology. During her time at ISU, Goodrum-Mitchell also served

as the treasurer of FiT. According to her bio in the conferences program, Goodrum-Mitchell is “a business intelligence developer at MasterBrand Cabinets.”

Mitchell spoke about her time in her field and the basics of her job. She also shared tips on succeeding in the tech field.

“We are trying to have a support system for females in STEM fields, which would be science, technology, engineering and math,” said Lacrisha Clinton, an information technology major and the president of FiT. The goal of the conference is to “try to encourage them (high school women) and interest them in STEM fields. So we try to provide them different activities to show them that it’s not boring,” Clinton said.

This event also tries to do away with the idea of tech fields being a “boys club.” “When we think about fields like nursing, the first thing you think of is ‘oh that’s for girls,’ and now men are starting to, and they need more men in nursing. Well it’s the same thing in STEM fields, is that men and

women do think a little bit differently, so by providing a different way of doing things is actually very imperative for the advancement of those fields,” Clinton said.

Kari Kelsey, a packaging engineering technology major, ran the Egg Drop Workshop. “It’s really exciting to bring all these girls in and encourage them to get into these STEM majors, because these fields are going to get them really far in life,” Kelsey said. The goal is to build something to protect an egg from a fall using available materials.

Both members of FiT said that it can be a little weird being a woman in a male-dominated field. Both talked about how there were many times that they were the only female in a class.

Kelsey added that she does not want to play the victim, but she does “stand out.”

“I think it’s important to note we are not a feminist organization. We are not here to say ‘we are women — hear us roar.’ We are here to say ‘we can do this,’” Clinton said.

A substance abuse training model is helping Indiana State University’s social work, nursing and physician assistant students make a real-world impact.

The College of Health and Human Services received the Screening, Brief, Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) federal grant through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration two years ago. Now fully implemented, it trains social work, nursing and physician assistant students to screen for risky alcohol and drug use behaviors and provide intervention.

“It’s a federal grant that looks at substance abuse and mental health issues,” said Jennifer Todd, program director.

The grant provides future healthcare professionals with methods to locate and assess substance abuse in the early stages, provide intervention and make a treatment referral.

“It’s not a treatment, it’s to train new professionals in the field, and how to basically screen patients for harmful drinking and substance use,” Todd said.

“The basic premise is to take this grant, train these students that are going to work in your communities and use this prevention model.”

The grant is being used in a variety of ways, from training, to coursework, to real-world approaches. State offers two classes to teach the SBIRT model — a one credit hour class and a substance abuse class.

The classes are offered as electives and open to all majors but are also included in the social work and nursing major degree program.

“We’ve done curriculum in a few ways, depending on the department. We have looked at the courses within each program that could fit,” Todd said. “For

example, nursing has a psychiatric nursing class where the model was delivered in that class.

The PA program is considered a clinical skill, so we included it into their clinical hours. In social work, we include it in the assessment and screening model.”

Not only is the model being taught in the classroom, but also because of the grant funding, professionals in the community are being trained in this approach as well. Integrating the method into the professional field is beneficial to current facilities and to future practitioners.

“The best part, I think, is this idea that our students often go back and work in communities that have a lot of issues with alcohol and substance abuse,” Todd said. “This model is one of the ways to equip our students with the tools to go and do a prevention approach.”

Now, students are graduating with extra resources to be more impactful with the community.

“Oftentimes when people get to the point where they are dependent or addicted, we don’t always have the resources. I like that our students are getting another tool before they leave to have a concrete intervention approach,” Todd said.

The effects of the grant are also built to be long-lasting, so these courses and opportunities won’t fade after the funding is finished. “(Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) is asking us by year three to build something sustainable,” Todd said. “So after the grant, we have to make sure the model is still being taught.”

More than 400 students are expected to go through the training during the three-year program, and they complete surveys before and after the course.

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Swope Art Museum shares reflections on famous artists Claire Silcox

Monroe were front and center for guests to admire.

Along with the Marilyn’s, the museum Andy Warhol and Marilyn Monroe showcased other Warhol pieces from his were two of the many artists discussed era of screen prints of celebrities. at the Swope Art museum in downtown Before Dr. Ganis began his talk on the Terre Haute on Friday night.

10 Marilyn’s, Susan Baley, the Swope MuSpeaking about Andy Warhol and his seum executive director and curator of Marilyn Monroe piece, Dr. William Gan- exhibitions, introduced the evening dedis taught audience members at the Swope icated to the opening of the “15 Minutes Art Museum on Friday at “Ten Reflec- of Fame: Works by Andy Warhol” exhibit. tions on Ten Marilyn’s.”

Dr. Ganis, a researcher of Warhol’s difThe Swope setfrom up Walker, part ofTexas its gallery ferent mediums of art, spoke with passion Featuring stars Ranger and Dallas to imitate Warhol’s silver studio, using of his works, especially on the subject of foil-looking decoration behind pieces and the night. around pillars. The ten works featuring With the 10 Marilyn’s on display, Dr. Reporter

Ganis discussed his 10 reflections on the piece. Multiples, seriality, meditation, cinema, consumption, celebrity, mask, psychedelic, death and religion.

Dr. Ganis spoke about the forged screen prints of celebrities throughout cinema and the consumption that the 60s was now experiencing. The classic Campbell’s soup and Coca-cola bottles almost symbolizes the over-consumption of Americans in that time, to Ganis.

“She doesn’t look natural,” Dr. Ganis said about the way that Warhol gave Monroe a sort of mask throughout the screen prints. She’s a product made by the movie industry.

Not only was Dr. Ganis talking about Warhol’s screen prints, but he also spoke of his help to the Velvet Underground’s music during the evolving of Haight-Ashbury culture and psychedelic.

He taught the audience that Warhol started painting Monroe works within the same month that she died and at the same time, he was working on pieces about death and religion.

Warhol almost projected the celebrities he painted as religious figures in diptychs.

He was a very religious man and went to church every Sunday. Dr. Ganis told the patrons that he had finally come full circle in the talk.

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ISU welcomes former journalist to teach physiology Of all the life decisions Alberto Friedmann has made, the choice to come to Indiana State University was one of the easiest.

After working 12 years as a journalist who was won top journalist four years in a row and pop columnist three years in a row, Friedmann enrolled in Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville’s in exercise physiology master’s program and went on to study kinesiology at University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Friedmann was training physicians in pulmonary medicine in Aruba when the opportunity to teach at Indiana State presented itself.

“People outside of the exercise science department here are unaware of the reputation the university’s exercise department has. It is one of the top four in the country,” said the lecturer. “I heard people talking about Indiana State, and I came here because I wanted to be here.”

Friedmann teaches physiology, assessment and prescriptions and is passionate learning how to use movement instead of medication. Next year, he hopes to get back into his research on stroke and brain injury with the goal of developing a new protocol for treating people who are in long-term recovering.

Friedmann’s motto is “It is all about moving the right amount and eating the right amount.

The body is really good at taking care of itself when we provide it with the right food and exercise.

People continue to talk about obesity and diabetes, and we talk about it as if we need to find a repair for and a new medication.”

“Yes, there are people with legitimate medical issues, but most people are not doing what they need to. Our concept has not caught up with the changes in our world. Just 50 years ago, making dinner took a lot more effort than we do now. We need

mental shift to occur or else it is going to keep going to get worse.”

Friedmann thrives on the enthusiasm and investment of the athletes and students he teaches.

“I love seeing the connection of when students understand,” he said. “I remember being on the other side. Any time you are passionate about what you do; it leaches into the rest of your world.”

Being a child of immigrants helped to shape Friedmann’s worldview.

“I have a different viewpoint on the U.S. in general because of that and the absolute love for our country because I saw what it did for my family. It gave them opportunities that they couldn’t get in their home countries,” he said.

While Friedmann’s hometown may be Detroit, he is not one to stay put. His life’s goal is to travel to all seven continents. And he’s well on his way; Antarctica as

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the only place he hasn’t been yet.

He has lived in Japan, lectured in the Caribbean and Europe and traveled the orient to Korea as an athlete on the U.S. Martial Arts Team.

An eighth-degree black belt and world champion martial artist, Friedmann began competing in 1993 and is an inductee into the Martial Arts Hall of Fame.

He’s also earned 14 medals — 12 gold, one silver and one bronze — from the World Martial Arts Games between 2000 and 2006.

In 2013, Friedmann was named one of the top 25 living martial artists in the United States. Friedman was competing and coaching in 2004 and stopped competing in 2009 to make his passion a career by coaching with the U.S. Martial Arts Team.

Countless hours of training consumed Friedmann’s life, but he would not have had it any other way.

“It is all so worth it. Standing on the platform when your country’s flag is going up for you.

It is indescribable,” he said.

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Airlines CEO not worried about Trump travel ban’s effect on business Alex Daugherty McClatchy Washington Bureau American Airlines Chairman and CEO Doug Parker said Thursday that he hadn’t noticed any change in international travel in the weeks since President Donald Trump announced his support of an executive order suspending immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries.

“What we do know, over the last few weeks we haven’t seen a material decline in travel from international destinations,” Parker said. “But at the same time there has been a lot of capacity added, so there’s lower fares too.”

American Airlines does not fly to any of the seven countries listed on Trump’s initial travel ban, which was blocked in court. The executive order spawned protests at American Airlines’ hub, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.

“We don’t fly to any of those countries, but certainly we had some customers who were transiting over some places we do fly to … and there was some difficulty, but it wasn’t so much by airline employees,” Parker said. “They arrived and there was some confusion over if they could be in the country or not.

That led to some events going on in airports that made it difficult for some of our customers to get into airports, things like that, but that was a one-time event. I certainly hope that won’t happen again, but it was handled much more by government officials

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Bobby Murphy, 24, left, and Evan Spiegel, 22, co-creators of Snapchat, are seen through a window of the company’s offices on Ocean Front Walk in Venice, Calif.

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After a whirlwind month of IPO preparations and investor discussions, Evan Spiegel popped off his tie and sat down for a black coffee in a brickwalled Brooklyn cafe.

The 26-year-old Snap Inc. chief executive is one of the youngest entrepreneurs in history to a take a company public and perhaps the youngest-ever to lead a $30 billion enterprise.

But the milestone still hadn’t felt real to him, just over an hour after shares of the Snapchat app maker started trading Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange.

“How do we feel? We were just thinking about how do we answer that question,” an exhausted Spiegel said, looking at his co-founder Bobby Murphy beside him. “It’s exciting.”

In an email to their 2,000 employees Wednesday night, Spiegel noted the IPO and all the

wealth and cash it brings mark only a momentary milestone, and he echoed in an exclusive interview that there’s still “a lot of work we have to do.”

Stock market analysts have questioned why Snap went public at 6 years old with nascent revenue-generation and increasing losses.

Spiegel said he sees a benefit in having the company’s value determined by public markets as he and Murphy try to grow the business.

They recognize there’s a disconnect between how investors and much of the public want to see Snap evolve — preferably something as ubiquitous as Facebook — and the path they see the business taking.

Facebook has reached immense value by connecting 1.9 billion people to its social network, but Spiegel believes Snap could become just as valuable by building a smaller, more personal service.

“We built our business on creativity,” Spiegel said. “And we’re

going to have to go through an education process for the next five years to explain to people how our users and that creativity creates value.”

Despite its largely young customer base, he views Snapchat, the messaging and entertainment hub used by 158 million people each day, as appealing to anyone, regardless of age.

“Talking with pictures and making memories is universally appealing,” he said.

And he’s dubious about concerns that Snap can’t continue to add new users.

Though some investors may be closely watching user growth, Spiegel wants them to focus on how and how much users are interacting with the service.

“We’d rather inspire creation because we know a derivative of that is growth,” he said, noting that his head might still be in pitching-to-investors mode.

In other words, if Snap continues to offer fun and novel ways for people to keep in touch with the small group of people whom

they care about the most, the company shouldn’t have trouble attracting attention.

“We’re not just chasing growth,” Murphy said. “It’s engagement that leads to growth.”

Spiegel and Murphy remained coy about what exactly comes next as far as spurring virtual creativity and digital interactions.

Whatever their specific game plan, the company remains focused on its mission, which it has described as reinventing the camera. They are thinking about changing how cameras are made, increasing their capabilities and introducing new ways for images to sync with sophisticated software.

“Five years ago, we came to the realization that the camera can be used for more than capturing memories,” Spiegel said.

“We showed it can be used for talking. The dream for us is expanding the camera and what it can do for your life. It has capabilities beyond making memories.”

Blacks, whites and Latinos agree: Race relations are getting worse under Trump William Douglas and Donovan Harrell McClatchy Washington Bureau African-Americans, whites and Latinos are united in their pessimism about the current and future state of race relations under President Donald Trump, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.

More than half of Americans believe race relations in the country have worsened over the last year and will continue to deteriorate under Trump.

The poll found that 51 percent of registered voters think relations have gotten worse, while only 10 percent think they have improved. And voters don’t have much hope that things will get better with Trump in the White House: Fifty-one percent also said they expect relations to worsen under Trump.

This gloomy outlook spans racial lines, according to Lee Miringoff, the director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, which conducted the national survey. Sixty percent of Latinos, 57 percent of African-Americans and 50 percent of whites think relations have gotten worse over the last year.

“Usually, it’s a different response from different groups,” Miringoff said. “But it’s practically uniform among blacks, whites and Latinos that it will deteriorate.”

There’s little optimism about the future. Among African-Americans, 73 percent said race relations would worsen under Trump, 9 percent said things would improve, and 12 percent said they expected relations to remain the same.

“I’m not sure if everything is going to be OK or not,” said Tessie Ross, 70, an African-Amer-

ican Democrat from Overton, Texas. “I got a feeling that (Trump) is a little bit prejudiced.

I’m not sure where he’ll stand, if he starts taking away rights. I’m trying to save my judgments and see what he does.”

Sixty-four percent of Latinos said race relations would get worse, 19 percent said they would improve and 13 percent think nothing will change. Their grim outlook is fueled in part by Trump’s recent executive orders on immigration and refugees and his campaign vow to build a giant wall along the U.S.-Mexican border, Miringoff said.

Forty-eight percent of white voters thought race relations will worsen under Trump, 29 percent said they would improve and 20 percent don’t expect relations to change under Trump.

“I think we’ve come a long way, but there’s always room for more understanding on both sides,”

said Mary Bailes, 62, a white moderate conservative voter from Boca Raton, Fla. “There definitely has to be more conversations, empathy, definitely.”

By political affiliation, 79 percent of Democrats expected race relations to worsen under Trump, only 6 percent said things will improve, and 12 percent said things would stay about the same.

Republicans voters offered a more optimistic view: 63 percent said race relations would improve under Trump, 22 percent predicted no change, and 12 percent think relations will get worse.

“I pray that things do get better,” said Sandra Church, a 50-year-old white independent voter from Dillon, S.C. “But that’s not saying they will.”

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., told McClatchy that America is “moving in the right direction”

when it comes to race relations while also “hitting potholes along the way.”

“Obviously, there’s more polarization than we’ve seen in recent decades, probably,” said Scott, whose state has been rocked in recent years by the racially motivated slayings of nine African-American churchgoers in Charleston and a debate over flying the Confederate flag.

“That’s probably more the manifestations of the challenges that have been unearthed. …

I think you’ll see tremendous gains in the years to come. But there’s no question that there’s a certain level of distrust that is palpable that perhaps was not as evident before, and we’re all going to have to be responsible for defusing some of those challenges.”

This survey of 1,073 adults was

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Parker was in Washington on Thursday for the 2017 Aviation Summit, a gathering of aviation industry leaders. He scrapped his prepared remarks to take questions from the audience assembled at the Omni Shoreham Hotel on a variety of topics, including revisions in air traffic control and the influence of Middle Eastern carriers in the U.S. market.

Parker, along with executives from United and Alaska airlines, stated his support for privatizing the nation’s air traffic control system and opposed the expansion

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“You’re taking a lot longer to get from one place to another because of the system we have in place,” Parker said of air traffic control. “It’s archaic versus what’s in place in other countries.”

Commercial airline carriers support a bill sponsored by Republican Rep. Bill Shuster of Pennsylvania that would turn over control of air traffic control from the Federal Aviation Administration to a private nonprofit with congressional oversight. The bill made it out of the House Transportation Committee last Congress but did not

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move to the House of Representatives’ floor after some Republicans objected.

“I know that will continue to be a major piece of contention,” said Kansas Republican Sen. Jerry Moran, who opposes the legislation. “It divides the aviation industry.”

Opponents of the legislation include general aviation pilots and groups that would see increased fees if a private entity took over. Parker argued that private jets would save money in the form of decreased fuel usage due to a more efficient air traffic control system if the legislation passes, which would also have

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benefits for the environment.

Hours before Parker’s remarks, Bob Crandall, former CEO of American Airlines, welcomed Trump’s Twitter attention to help change the air traffic control system.

“Clinging to the technical residue of another age is the last thing we want to do. The people in this room can make this happen,” Crandall said. “If you’re a member of Congress, lend Chairman Shuster your support.

If you’re part of the administration, grab this and run with it.

It’s a classic example of the kind of forward-looking investment on which you ran for election.

And tell your big boss to start tweeting out those who claim to want smaller government and more efficiency.”

“The airlines need a safe and reliable system and they, like the controllers, want the better tools,” Crandall said. “This concept has been adopted by more than 50 other countries in one form or another. No country that has made the change has ever sought to change back.”

Trump had unnerved Lockheed Martin with a series of tweets in December, threatening to move business away from Lockheed unless the cost of F-35 fighter jets went down.

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Hugh Jackman pops his claws one last time in ‘Logan’ Anthony Goelz Reporter

Hugh Jackman reprises his role as the mutant Wolverine in “Logan.”

The film is set in the year 2029, as Jackman plays a greying Logan, who is making a living by driving a limo around the Mexican border.

Logan is also taking care of his old friend Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), who is suffering from a degenerative brain disease. Xavier is suffering seizures that, when mixed with his powers, have extremely devastating results.

The film picks up when a women comes to Logan asking him to take her and her daughter, Laura (Dafne Keen), to North Dakota. The woman is murdered and revealed to be a doctor who was part of a research project attempting to turn young mutants into mindless killing machines.

The young mutants are artificially created from the DNA of other mutants, causing them to adopt the powers of their “parents.”

Laura’s powers are regeneration and the ability to extend two metal claws from her hands and one from each foot, thus making her Logan’s daughter. Logan and Xavier set off to smuggle the girl to safety from those that experimented on her as a young child.

Throughout the film, Logan walks with a slight limp, suffers from coughing fits and is healing at a slow rate. It comes out that the adamantium infused with his

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Logan/Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) tries to protect the young mutant Laura (Dafne Keen) in “Logan.”

skeletal structure is slowly poisoning him.

The film shows a more human side of Logan than previous installments did.

He must deal with the idea that his time on Earth is limited, which makes him jaded and angry with the world. This internal strife allows the film to take a more somber tone. The tone is set to make audiences feel more for Logan, but at times misses the mark and does not complete the emotional connection to the character.

The push to give “Logan” a hard R-rating may have hurt the film. The Wolverine films have all been filled violence, but not in the way “Logan” was. The violence in “Logan” is so close up and in your face; it is almost off-putting. Watching Jackman’s claws tear into flesh, cleave bone and letting heads fly is a bit over the top. It is different from “Deadpool” that also had gratuitous violence.

“Deadpool” offset the violence with

comedy and one-liners. “Deadpool” was similar to a Quinton Tarantino film, in which the violence is so over the top it comes across as comedic. “Logan” delivers its action in a borderline disturbing way.

It does need to be mentioned that the actual violence makes up a small portion of the film, but when it happens, it happens in spades.

There is not much to talk about on terms of music in “Logan.” For the most part, the music is either forgettable or non-existent.

For the most part, “Logan” does not use a background score, instead opting for a more silent approach. There was a missed opportunity musically in the film. Even though “Hurt” by Johnny Cash was used in almost every piece of promotional material for the film, it is completely absent from the film. A perfect spot for the song would have been at the very end of the film. The final and most emotional scene would play, cut to black and the credits role to the somber chords of “Hurt.” Instead the credits roll to another Cash song, “When the Man Comes Around.” A great song indeed, but does not fit the film tonally.

Audience members waiting for a post credit scenes will be left wanting. “Logan” does not feature a post credit scene, but instead feature a pre-film scene involving Ryan Reynolds.

“Logan” delivers a different experience than other superhero films to audiences. It has been slightly over-hyped by critics, but is still a worthwhile and enjoyable film.

Autism talk creates awareness Adrienne Morris Reporter

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The Human Rights Day covers issues of diversity and poverty — this year will focus on hot topics such as the Dakota Access Pipeline.

What to expect from the 16th Annual Human Rights Day Ian Bonner-Swedish Reporter

The 16th annual Human Rights Day devotes an entire day to improving the understanding of human rights issues all over the world. In the past, this event had speakers such as a Holocaust survivor Eva Kor. The Human Rights Day covers issues of diversity and poverty. This year focused on hotly debated topics like the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Lakota Sioux.

Jessica Starr is the program director for the Center for Community Engagement.

“The Dakota-Lakota Indigenous people, known as the Sioux, have created an environment movement of eco-activists around the world resisting the construction of the final section of Energy Transfer Partners’ oil

pipeline adjacent to their reservation in North Dakota. The Sioux and their supporters are doing battle as ‘water protectors’ of the Missouri River as it forms the banks of the lake Oahe. The Native Americans are defending their sources of water, lands and sacred burial grounds against future contamination due to spills.

During the protests many human rights violations have been committed against them by police and anti-riots squads; more than 600 unarmed people have been arrested,” Starr said.

Viewing of documentary will be open to the public at 12:40 and 2:00. A discussion concerning the pipeline will be held after a pictorial documentary of the subject. Donald Trump’s recent presidency has brought about a law suit that will also be a topic.

According to Starr, the topic will center around “a lawsuit

(that) was recently filed against President Donald Trump which claims his business dealings are a clear violation of the United States Constitution’s Emoluments Clause. In fact, several reports have stated that President Trump is currently facing up to 70 lawsuits. During his speaking segment, Terre Haute attorney Christopher B. Gambill will discuss the Emoluments Clause, the lawsuits against the President and the implications from said lawsuits.”

This particular event shall be held at 2:00. According to Starr, the event is meant to inform the entire community.

“The people who are attending are high school students who are coming to campus. We also have ISU students who will go to speaker sessions. Really anyone in the community can go to the speaker sessions. They are

our largest high attendees, high school students. ISU students attend when they hear a speaker that interests them,” Starr said.

Human Rights Day will be devoted to more, however. In fact there will be several programs throughout the day, starting at 8 a.m.

“It was created by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It used to be they pick one topic and focus on that.

Now we cover on the entire declaration. Like what is trending in the U.S … internationally, faculty that have an interest in a certain topic,” said Heather Dalton Milkozek, who is a coordinator of the event.

The 16th annual Human Rights Day will feature 16 speakers total.

All events will be held in the Hulman Memorial Student Union.

Indiana State University, along with the Blumberg Center, hosted a topical conversation that focused on students with autism entitled “5 Things About My Autism” on March 2.

During the year, the Blumberg Center features topics that promote a discussion with people of the community.

The topical conversations are usually based upon special education and understanding more about students who may be different from others.

“Our topics are usually around educational topics: special education and students with exceptionalities,” Director of the Blumberg Center Carol Wetherell said.

“Today’s topic is on autism and how teachers can support those students in their classrooms and just understanding the needs of the student that has been diagnosed with autism,” Wetherell said.

People who attended the event were able to learn more about autism and how to increase the education of people who may not be aware of the disorder.

“This event is to help people understand more things about autism. We have a monthly topical series during the academic year, sponsored by the Blumberg Center, that’s open to the public— students, staff, faculty, community members, teachers, and administrators,” Wetherell said.

The event allowed people to

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SRC 500 competition promotes, challenges students to fitness Ian Bonner-Swedish Reporter

The Indiana State University Student Recreation center hosted a competition challenging the student body: Complete 10 stations, 50 reps each as fast as anyone possibly can, but the event was made accessible to students of all fitness levels.

The White Division allowed novices to still participate and gain the work out of their lives. The Blue division tested everyone’s mettle with much more rigorous exercises. Dasia Wilkerson, a white division participant, expressed her excitement for the event.

“My motivation to compete in this event was my friend,” Wilkerson said.

“She’s been working out and losing weight, and she said, ‘Come do this with me.’ I dragged my other friend along. I

want to know where I am in life,” Wilkerson said.

Although some participants may have been nervous for the competition, Wilkerson showed confidence in her performance.

“I was not nervous at all. No, not at all.

What happens, happens,” Wilkerson said.

Many of the students that competed were able to achieve their fitness goals.

SRC 500 promoted students to challenge themselves and relieve stress through fitness.

“This event helped me to see where I need to be in life … fitness goals, what I need to do,” Wilkerson said.

Fitness has a special meaning to all the people involved.

“Fitness means to overall be healthy — mentally and physically, to have them overall match in a balance,” Wilkerson

said.

For Kyersten Walton, an athletic training major with a focus in rehabilitation, volunteering her time to give the contestants who complete the grueling 500 a massage had another meaning.

“It means just making sure people are following the safety guidelines and helping with people’s injuries. To me, it means helping people maintain their fitness,” Walton said.

Walton volunteered in order to gain clinical hours that will go toward her minor.

“I actually think this is pretty cool. I never heard of it; this is my first time seeing it. It’s basically bringing people out to exercise,” Walton said.

After being able to get her perspective on the event, Wilkerson completed the course making and grasped the atmo-

sphere of the aftermath. “(I’m) really happy with my results. I didn’t think I’d be able to do it; it started getting harder when I started doing the squats,” Wilkerson said.

Motivation is key when it comes to competitions such as SRC 500, Wilkerson explained.

“The man counting everything,” she said. “It was a mental thing having someone right by my side helping me.”

The man who helped her do what she believed she could not is volunteer trainer Austin Armstrong.

“I became a volunteer for this event because it was a good opportunity to kind of spread awareness toward fitness. I like being in and around the realm of fitness,” Armstrong said.

With such an interest in fitness, his ca

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indianastatesman.com SRC FROM PAGE 4 reer goals did not stray from it.

“What I wish to do with the fitness field in the future is hopefully to become a strength and conditioning coach for a college or train high school athletes,” Armstrong said.

According to Armstrong, many great opportunities come with being a volunteer.

“I think just like the overall experience of working on the fitness field — (it’s) going to help you make connections. You’re going to learn more, and it’s always good to put on a future resume,” he said.

Volunteers were also present to help participants such as Michael Passmore, who participated in the harder competition, the blue division.

“I feel really strange right now.

It was a really tough competition. I didn’t realize how much I

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Monday, March. 6, 2017 • Page 5 had to do left until I got half way done and my arms were burning, but afterwards it was a really accomplished feeling, so being able to do it at full capacity is a really empowering feeling,” Passmore said.

Passmore did not actually prepare himself for this event.

“No I didn’t know it was going to happen until about three o’clock today. I found out there was a 5:30 session open … I really enjoy competitions like this so I just jumped on it. I said, ‘why not?’ I don’t regret it at all,” Passmore said.

Michael is no stranger to a challenge; he is willing to run the gambit again.

“Yeah, if they have another one, I definitely would like to.

Maybe next time I can find out a few weeks before instead of just jumping in here,” Passmore said.

The organizer of SRC 500, Cora-Ann Licwinko, had many

responsibilities to make sure the event was beneficial and fun for the competitors.

“Everything from planning the event, making sure the equipment was setup, making sure we had volunteers, making sure we had a good plan and everything was ready to go, attending the meeting, making sure we had prizes for people attending the event and getting sponsorships,” Licwinko said.

She was very appreciative of all her volunteers who were the backbone of this event.

“They were very helpful,” she said. “They do whatever I ask them.”

Prizes were raffled off, and each participant had a chance to win, but the top male and female performers in the blue division got something extra — $250. Jared Boyll and Leah Carter won in the blue division.

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“The presenters today are speech language pathologists here in Vigo County. They have a combined total of 80 years of experience in serving students

with autism. It’s a different perspective of information that gets shared, and it’s helpful,” Wetherell said.

The Blumberg Center continues to help students who live with exceptionalities with topical events such as, “5 Things About My Autism.”

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Planning for Spring Break — a necessity

Casey Ewart Columnist

It is that time of year again when we all get asked the same question. “Where are you going for spring break?” There are people that prefer to just kick back and be in the moment when or where they decide to go.

Unfortunately, spring break is not the time to wait to plan or to see if ticket or hotel prices will go down. Also, keep in mind if traveling abroad, a passport will be needed. It requires time to go through the application and receive one.

The first item of business in planning for spring break is to decide where we want to go and who we want to go with. Then, the people attending the trip must make a budget.

There will be individual expenses such as plane tickets, drinks and extra activities. There will also be expenses that will need to be split up, such as hotel rooms and possibly groceries, if it is planned to cook some meals together.

It is preferred to book flights months in advance, especially if we are taking a plane with a group of friends. When it gets closer to spring break, costs might rise and there may not be enough room on the same plane for everyone attending our getaway.

This will cause chaos if the party has to splitup and one plane goes through a series of delays and lay-overs, while the other plane with the rest of the group is waiting at the destination for hours.

Not only is there booking the flight, but also the hotel rooms. Room assignments for obvious reasons do not need to be set in stone months in advance. However, the number of rooms side by side will sell quickly, especially if we’re wanting an ocean-view room.

The great part of spring break is having the option to spend the whole week relaxing or going out the entire week. We do not have to budget out every minute of our day while vacationing.

However, there are those that prefer that they stick to a timeline while on a vacation.

Be prepared for anything to happen. Last year, a close friend checked her bank account toward the end of her stay in Florida. All her money was gone. She knew she did not spend it all. Luckily, it was a simple glitch in the system. However, other people are not so lucky.

There is such a thing as people getting DUIs or arrested while on vacation. This requires

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Facebook fights fake news Zach Davis Columnist

Fake news has become somewhat of a hot topic on today’s political stage.

Nearly everybody has claimed a news article is fake – and for good reason.

Every article seems to contradict another, making it difficult to weed out what is real and what isn’t.

It’s a problem because news should be transparent and accurate, making it easy for the common person to get correct information. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be the case.

Fake news saturates our social media, and people aren’t coping well. In fact, people have coped so poorly that social media was largely blamed for the toxicity that surrounded the presidential race – all because of the fake news that users shared. Facebook specifically became a huge target due to the high traffic the website receives.

As Craig Silverman from BuzzFeed pointed out to NPR, Facebook has 1.8 billion people that log on every month,

which is equal to about 15 percent of the world’s population. A lot of these people rely on Facebook to provide them with necessary news, so it’s critical that articles on Facebook are accurate. Some users, though, don’t do their research and share articles that are inaccurate, which bogs down our feeds with inaccurate information.

Many people called for Facebook to hire a team of researchers to sort through news articles and approve of ones that aren’t fake, scrapping ones that they deemed false. Others wanted certain news organizations that some believe provide a lot of false information to be banned. Despite the suggested solutions, most people seemed to agree with one thing: something had to be done to combat fake news.

In response, Facebook took action. A new feature has been implemented that will hopefully cut back on the amount of fake news that permeates our news feed. The feature allows users to report articles as inaccurate, with reasons ranging from spam all the way to fake news.

Facebook has decided to partner with Poynter, a non-partisan international fact-checking organization, to research information in the reported articles. If an article is found to be inaccurate, it will be marked as such so everybody can go check the research and be properly informed.

Allowing a third party to fact-check articles objectively can do an immense amount to reduce the pile of fake news that infiltrates Facebook and make news more accessible to the common person. Now everybody can gain access to the same information while dismissing fake news, making it much easier for everybody to have intelligent, informed discussions.

Many people have expressed concerns that partisan organizations and views will skew what is considered “fake news.” They argue that a single political commentary will be chosen and reinforced arbitrarily; however, many of these individuals don’t seem to know everything about this process they are criticizing. Many have argued that the fact-checking organization could be Snopes, which has been relatively controversial lately.

Facebook, though, chose Poynter due to the Code of Principles that guides their fact checking. They focus on objective, non-partisan facts and transparency. At any given time a user is able to see a list of all contributors, legal statuses, organizational structure and funding of the organization. They do not accept money to skew their findings, and they are willing to do corrections as soon as new information is presented to keep their research

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Words are popping up of a silent coup

Steve Wininger Columnist

Recently a word began appearing in the media and among the pundits that has not been uttered in a long time.

The frequency to which the term “silent coup” is spoken in the media and political circles warrants a closer look into what is transpiring.

Are we experiencing cold-war tactics within our own country?

Many, especially in the conspiracy theory circles will say these tactics have been taking place for some time.

This past weekend, President

Trump sent out a series of tweets accusing past President Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower in New York, which is where Trump and his transition team worked.

“How low has President Obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!” said one tweet by the president while another was even stronger. “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory.

Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”

Some see the behavior by the former president as an attempt to undermine the current president and to, by any means possible, discredit him and his administration.

Many questions, such as why the former president sought FISA wiretaps, are lingering.

Also without answer is what Obama knew, when he knew it and how much overreach there

was in the wiretapping scandal?

For too many, what is transpiring now has a strong resemblance of Watergate, which is where then President Nixon illegally tapped the DNC headquarters in Washington DC. Since being sworn as the 45th president, Trump has had a huge problem with information being leaked to the press. Some of the information being leaked is of a sensitive nature.

While the press has no direct access to information that is sensitive, there are what some refer to as “moles” left over from the Obama administration who have access to this information and have allegedly been leaking said information.

Besides the constant attacks against Trump and even some planted stories that have turned out to be false, the fact is that the press has used poor judgement in leaking sensitive information.

This has led the president to fight back against those in the media who have an obvious

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agenda.

The liberal press is outraged at the fact that Trump prevented some news organizations from attending a gaggle, or informal press briefing.

What the liberal press fails to mention is that Obama also had problems with the press.

In 2013, press associations and organizations complained about Obama restricting the press.

Historically, there has always been tension between the government and the free press. As much as people may want to think that Trump is treading new and dangerous waters, they only need to search history to discover that this is an ongoing battle.

During his presidency, Obama had obvious issues with conservative media.

He mentioned Fox News on many occasions, complaining his ratings would be higher if it were not for Fox News during his run for president in 2008.

Obama also ripped Fox as hav-

ing a destructive viewpoint, saying that the 2016 election would be close, but not because of Clinton’s flaws; it would be because of Fox News and conservative blogs spreading misinformation.

The point here is that Trump is not doing anything wrong.

Presidents will have to manage an unfriendly press at times. The current press is as unfriendly as they come.

Trump has persistently referred to some news outlets as “fake news” because of their reporting stories that later turned out to be false.

Many see much of the mainstream media as a tool used by the former administration and those who want to undermine the Trump presidency.

What is taking place in America by the liberal and progressive left is bad for America.

It is obvious they don’t see that, as they are still throwing childish tantrums because their pick lost.

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FACEBOOK FROM PAGE 6 accurate. These guidelines do an immense amount to ensure that the research is objective and readers can fact-check the research themselves. This organization can seemingly be trusted to stay unbiased. Poynter even has an entire setup

for corrections in case new information is discovered. Thinking that partisan views will affect the assessment of articles is completely unreasonable once you actually look into the process.

Facebook has taken action against fake news, so now we need others to do the same. Other social media sites should

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having enough cash for bail or knowing the right person to call who does.

Keep in mind that we are not the only ones that plan for spring break. Panama City Beach Spring Break has been planning for spring break 2017 since May 2016, according to pcbeachspringbreak.com.

If they are planning that far in advance, we probably should be too. It is never too early to start planning; however, it could be too late.

That being said, start thinking of ideas where a vacation might seem ideal for next spring break and start planning.

It will save us time and stress trying to figure out how to get where we need to go if we work on it early. The earlier, the better.

third, fourth and ninth innings en route to the victory.

Once again, Rosselli came up big at the plate for the Sycamores, going 4-for-5 with an RBI and a run scored.

Gardner added three hits, including a double and a pair of RBIs while Ayers also went for a trio of hits including a double.

Senior Jeff Zahn connected on his second home run of the season on a solo shot in the fourth.

The scoring began in the third

WOMENS FROM PAGE 8 their loss Thursday and prepared themselves for their Saturday matchup with in-state rival Evansville. The team set out to end their regular season on senior night in the Hulman Center with a win. They ended the first

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All the responsibility doesn’t rest on the shoulders of these sites, though. We need to do what we can as individuals to combat fake news, too.

as ISU and Utah Valley traded runs before the Wolverines took the lead in the bottom half with a three-run inning with a two-RBI double and an RBI groundout.

The Sycamores came back in the fourth to score three runs of their own to take the lead once and for all.

Zahn’s solo home run followed by a Tyler Friis double that scored two runs was all ISU needed to get the bats going to the tune of eight hits in the fourth and fifth innings.

Giesler added to the lead in

the fifth on an RBI triple before Moore drove in a run on a single to right-center.

Gardner capped off the fourrun fifth with a double down the left-field line that scored Moore and Bifano, pushing the Sycamore lead to 8-3.

Utah Valley would make things interesting in the eighth as they scored four runs to make it an 8-7 lead but ISU came right back with a three-run ninth to close out the game.

Triston Polley got the start on the hill for the Sycamores and

went two innings giving up three runs.

Right-hander Tyler Ward (21) came out of the bullpen for the first time this year for the win after going five complete innings and allowing only one run while striking out three.

Austin Conway closed out the final 1.1 innings, retiring three of the eight batters he faced via the strikeout.

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Bibbins and Webb were the driving point of the Sycamore offense, combining for 9-18 from the field. As the game progressed, the Aces began to wear down the home team’s defensive

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As the final whistle blew, the scoreboard read 52-44 in favor of Evansville. They held the Sycamores to merely 27.3 percent from the field and an unsettling 16.7 percent from beyond the 3-point line.

Indiana State ends their regular season losing their last six straight, but will look to rebound against a tough Illinois State squad on Thursday, March 9 to begin the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament.

The game will tip-off at 5 p.m. and air on WIBQ .

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Sycamores slink off the court after losing to the Evansville Aces in the MVC tournament on Thursday in St. Louis.

Men’s season comes to a close in MVC loss Zach Rainey Sports Editor

The Indiana State Sycamores’ season came to an end Thursday night, losing 83-72 to the Aces of Evansville in the first round of the Arch Madness tournament in St. Louis.

From the tip, the Sycamores looked flat and almost uninterested in the game with no visible urgency in any facet of the game, due in large part to much of the team having dealt with the flu over the last week. The Aces jumped out to a 20-6 lead due in large part to their 10-0 rebounding advantage.

“I can’t understand how you start a game like that.” Lansing said on the lack of urgency. “I don’t understand how you can’t compete every possession like it’s your last. I don’t get that. We haven’t had that this year.”

The Sycamores simply couldn’t

get stops in their 2-3 zone defense. They were able to get the rim protection they wanted from the defense, but suffered when a forward would have to fight over a back screen on the baseline to contest a shot, giving MVC leading scorer Jaylon Brown plenty of open looks.

“I think they really, they just pushed the ball,” T.J. Bell said.

“We just needed to talk and communicate. I think that was one of the biggest things. Other than that, they didn’t do anything really special.”

The offense wasn’t flowing well for the Sycamores either. They shot just 21 percent from the field in the first half compared to Evansville’s 53 percent. Brenton Scott and Everett Clemons finished the game a combined 8-of32 from the field.

“We were out of sync on offense,” Lansing said. “Quick shooting, taking bad contested shots early in the possession on

one or no passes, really fueled their transition.”

With 15:31 to go, down 5327, the game looked over for the Sycamores. Over the next 11 minutes, the Sycamores chipped away at the lead, but still found themselves trailing by 18 with 4:31 to go. From that point on, you could see the urgency that was missing all game.

Brenton Scott finally found a rhythm, knocking down two 3-pointers with Everett Clemons finding his groove as well, getting two quick layups to fall and a thunderous slam by T.J. Bell shrunk the lead to just seven with 1:47 to go.

The Sycamores would get no closer however, as Scott came down the floor on the next possession, waved off his man that was going to set a screen for him and took a contested 3-pointer at the top of the key that resulted in an air-ball.

With under a minute remain-

ing, trailing by the same margin, the Sycamores rolled the ball on the inbound to let Scott get up the court a ways before picking up the ball and the clock starting.

Scott waited just a half a second too long, however, as his defender Jaylon Brown dove on it to ultimately seal the win.

The Sycamores were without their key defensive player Laquarious Paige, who likely would’ve guarded Evansville star Brown down the stretch. Paige was dealing with the flu that much of the team had dealt with in the days leading up to the game.

“We had stages where I think there was eight or nine of the guys that had the same thing, had the same virus,” Lansing said.

“Some had it Sunday, Monday.

Some had it Monday, Tuesday and just kind of went through. Q was okay this morning, but then he got sicker as the day went on.”

Now the Sycamores will start to look toward next season, which

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Lansing says unequivocally starts with him.

“We have to keep recruiting.

We have to keep working on our roster. I really like what we have coming in here to this point,” Lansing said. “But in the off-season, it’s got to be tougher. I think I said that last year. I’m going to be tougher on them, harder on them. Maybe I don’t develop the leadership or the toughness that we need, and that’s not going to happen again.

That will not happen. I’m going to be very hands-on and involved in everything we do.”

The Sycamores have a bright future, however, as they prepare to return Brenton Scott and have a player by the name of Tyreke Key, who is averaging 38 ppg in high school in Tennessee. This was the worst year for the Sycamores under Coach Lansing. He has a lot of work to do to take the steps necessary to turn this team around.

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Indiana State University womens basketball team fell to their past two opponents and losing the conference.

Sycamores struggle through regular season finale Jeremy Patterson Reporter

The Sycamore women would have preferred a different result in their games this past weekend but were unable to muster enough to walk away with a win in either, losing to conference opponents Southern Illinois and Evansville.

On Thursday evening, the team took on the Salukis who came in to the Hulman Center looking for their third win in a row. From the tip-off, the Sycamores looked sluggish and off-balance, and the Salukis were quick to take advantage of this.

They jumped out to an early lead in the first quarter and didn’t look back. A huge part of the Sycamore struggle throughout the game was not poor defense, as Indiana State was able to force contested shots, but merely

the skill of the Saluki offense. The team shot 45 percent from the field and an overwhelming 70 percent from beyond the 3-point arc.

The recurring theme throughout the night was the play of Kylie Giebelhausen, who had a stellar night offensively and defensively.

Giebelhausen shot an incredible 75 percent from 3-point land, draining 6-of-8 while still shooting 10-of-16 overall. On the other side of the ball, she racked up four rebounds, two blocks and five steals. The Sycamores seemingly had no answer for her, or the rest of the Saluki lineup until the fourth quarter.

With merely 10 minutes of play left in the game and down 53-36, the Trees mounted a ferocious comeback attempt. They outscored their opponent 30-17 in the final period of play, managing to pull as close as three at

one point. However, the visiting Salukis were able to escape the Hulman Center with a final score of 70-66.

Despite the final result, junior Wendi Bibbins was able to have a phenomenal night, leading the team in points (16), rebounds (14) and blocks (2). The performance was also Bibbins’ fifth double-double of the season.

When asked about how her performance throughout the season has attributed to the team, she made sure to give credit to her teammates.

“I’m not satisfied with where I’m at now, and we (as a team) want to reach the goals that we set out to achieve this year. I just need to be a more active player and teammate overall,” Bibbins said.

The team reeled back after

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Indiana State baseball improved to 5-5 on the season after sweeping a Saturday doubleheader against Utah Valley at Brent Brown Ballpark. The Sycamores took the opener 10-5 before winning the nightcap 11-8.

Senior Tony Rosselli led the charge at the plate for the Sycamores, batting .778 on the day.

The Terre Haute native went a combined 7-for-9 with three doubles, a triple and three RBIs. Chris Ayers (.556) and Kyle Moore (.500) also recorded exceptional days at the plate for the Trees. Ayers had five hits and scored a pair of runs to go along with an RBI, while Moore connected on his second home run of the year en route to four hits and four RBIs. Every Sycamore that had more than one plate appearance picked up a hit as the club combined for 32 hits on the day. The Sycamores went for extra bases in 13 of those including nine doubles, two triples and two home runs.

Game One | Indiana State 10, Utah Valley 5 The Sycamores scored four runs in the ninth inning to secure a 10-5 win over Utah Valley (2-8) to kick off the Saturday doubleheader with the Wolverines.

Indiana State got on the scoreboard in the top of the second inning after Dominic Bifano doubled down the right field line and then advanced to third on a Kyle Moore single to left field. Bifano then crossed the plate to give the Sycamores a 1-0 lead on a Jeff Zahn fielder’s choice.

The Sycamores got two more in the top of the third inning after Clay Dungan singled to right field and then scored on a Rosselli double to left. Rosselli then crossed the plate on a Dane Giesler single to center to give

Indiana State a 3-0 advantage.

Utah Valley tied things up in the bottom of the third inning.

Trevor Howell reached on a walk before advancing to second on a Trevor Peterson single. Zac Willis then cleared the bases with a three-run shot over the left field wall to tie the game, 3-3.

The Wolverines responded with a pair of runs in the bottom half of the seventh inning. Howell hit a two-out single to right field and then advanced to second on a throwing error. Peterson then singled to right to send Howell across the plate. Peterson stole second base before touching home on a Willis single to center field, cutting the Indiana State lead to a 6-5 advantage.

With one out in the top of the ninth, Rosselli doubled down the left field line and then advanced to third on a Dane Tofteland single. Bifano then singled in Rosselli. Kyle Moore then hit a threerun homer over the left field wall to give the Sycamores a 10-5 lead.

Jeremy Hill got the start for the Sycamores and went two innings, giving up no runs and three hits.

Jeremy McKinney improved to 3-0 on the young season after finishing the final 6.2 innings, allowing just two runs while striking out seven.

Rosselli led the team with a 3-for-4 performance at the plate that included three doubles and a pair of RBIs. Moore also added three hits for the Sycamores as well as three RBIs. Dominic Bifano also scored a pair of runs and picked up two hits.

Game Two | Indiana State 11, Utah Valley 8 Indiana State used big offensive innings to rally past the Wolverines in the nightcap, besting UVU 11-8. The Sycamores went for 17 hits in the contest and scored three or more runs in the

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