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Volume 124, Issue 50

Lindsay Allman named head volleyball coach ISU Communications and Marketing

Indiana State University Director of Athletics Sherard Clinkscales announced Tuesday (Feb. 7) that Lindsay Allman has been named head coach of the Indiana State volleyball program. Allman comes to Terre Haute after a season as an assistant at Wake Forest.

“I am proud to announce that Lindsay Allman will be leading the Sycamore volleyball program. Lindsay is an outstanding communicator, dedicated to the full student-athlete experience. She will build a championship culture on and off the floor,” Clinkscales said. “Lindsay embraces the challenge of competing in the rugged Missouri Valley Conference and to earn the opportunity to compete in the NCAA Tournament. She will be involved in this community and will grow the ISU Volleyball footprint across the Midwest.”

At Wake Forest, Allman coached two players named to the All-ACC Freshmen Team in outside hitter Caroline Rassenfoss and middle blocker Caitlyn Della. It marked the first time a Demon Deacon had earned an all-conference honor since

the 2014 season.

“I am honored to coach at a university that feels like home. I have been a fan of Indiana State for a long time and I could not be more excited to get started. I want to thank President Dr. Daniel Bradley, Athletic Director Sherard Clinkscales and Senior Associate Athletics Director Angie Lansing for this incredible opportunity,” Allman said. “I also would like to thank Wake Forest University for their on-going support, my mentors who have helped get me here and the many student-athletes I have had the privilege to work with over the years. Together with this amazing community, student-athletes, coaches, alumni and fans, I have no doubt we will build a winning program, and I am humbled to be a part of it.”

Along with coaching and recruiting responsibilities with the Demon Deacons, Allman also oversaw all camps as well as renovations to Reynolds Gymnasium, the home court of Wake Forest Volleyball.

“I am excited to work with Lindsay and feel that she brings all characteristics of a great head coach to Indiana State. She is

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Lindsay Allman has been put in charge of being the head coach for the volleyball team.

Victim advocacy program brought to Sycamores Ashton Hensley Reporter

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This week, Indiana State University will be hosting a Hoopla event to hopefully get students involved in spirit of men and women’s basketball.

Hoopla sets ISU up for week of fun Erica Garnes Reporter

Hoopla is a week of events and student involvement to get Sycamores in the spirit for the Indiana State men’s and women’s basketball game that will take place this weekend. Student organizations, departments, athletic teams and residence halls are all encouraged to get involved and participate in the Sycamore Hoopla window decorating competition.

Freda Luers, the director of Campus Life at ISU, helps coordinate the week’s events. Luers explained how simple the competition was: as long as they provide the people to help decorate, they will provide everything needed.

“This year the design is based on a few different themes. Basketball obviously being one; the second theme is ‘This is our

house’ and also the celebration of winter,” Luers said.

The window-decorating event will take place this Thursday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Hulman Center. At this point no one has started; the goal of the competition is to decorate the best window in a certain amount of time. Each year approximately 150 to 200 people are involved in the window decorating contest.

Furthermore, for the students who are attending the game, the doors will open a little early on Saturday, and walking tacos will be available as well.

The windows will all be judged on Friday. Meanwhile, multiple events will take place on campus.

On Saturday, Polar Plunge will take place in the Rec Center at 10 a.m. it will help raise money for the Special Olympics in Indiana.

A full schedule for Hoopla events can be found at hulmancenter.org/sycamore-hoopla.

An Entire Week of Fun!

For an event schedule, visit www.hulmancenter.org.

A victim advocacy program for students was implemented at Indiana State University to support those who are in need of a confidential resource on campus.

Amanda Hobson, assistant dean of students and director of the Women’s Resource Center, explained that the need for a victim advocacy program was realized after Vigo County started the Council on Domestic Abuse in Terre Haute.

“It is important that the university offer those services for the more than 13,000 students,” Hobson said.

The program offers services to ISU students who have survived sexual abuse, relationship abuse or stalking. The purpose is to help these victims understand their options for support medically, legally, and from the university.

“Our services are available to all ISU students, regardless of one’s sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race ethnicity, religious identity, veteran status, age, national origin, and/or disability,” Hobson said.

The victim advocates are available at any time through the help line students can call. The advocates can assist the victims who seek their help through the entire process of dealing with the abuse they experienced.

“A victim advocate can be present with victims through evidence collection and hospital visits and during all aspects of the criminal process, including police and campus investigation interviews,” Hobson said.

Advocates for the program are all people who have volunteered.

Volunteers are chosen based on certain requirements the program deems necessary in order to help victims of abuse such as availability and sympathy.

“Volunteers must have compassion and a dedication to aiding student through a crisis situation,” Hobson said. “At this

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NEWS

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Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017

Lawyers swamped in wake of travel ban Robert Channick

Chicago Tribune (TNS)

CHICAGO — While President Donald Trump’s suspended travel ban may be up in the air, one thing is certain: His executive order has put the field of immigration law front and center.

“It’s extremely busy. I’m fielding a lot more calls than I normally would, not only from new clients, but also from clients who have pretty settled legal status,” said Michael Jarecki, a Chicago immigration attorney. “I even have Canadian citizens who have status in the United States call me and say, ‘Can I go back to Canada? What’s the likelihood that the borders are going to be shut?’”

The executive order, issued Jan. 27 with the intention of protecting the U.S. from foreign terrorists, temporarily barred entry for people from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

The order precipitated chaotic scenes at airports across the U.S. that weekend, including Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Responding to calls from the International Refugee Assistance Project, lawyers flocked to airports, offering assistance to the families of stranded travel-

ers.

On Friday, a Seattle federal judge temporarily blocked the immigration order. A federal appeals court will hear arguments Tuesday on whether to reinstate the ban.

Despite the uncertainty of the travel ban and the potential difficulty of companies recruiting and maintaining foreign talent, one conclusion has emerged in the first few weeks of President Trump’s administration: Lawyers with immigration knowhow are in high demand, both by companies with deep pockets and families of modest means.

Marketa Lindt, a Chicago business immigration lawyer and a vice president of the 14,000-member American Immigration Lawyers Association, said confusion is the order of the day for many companies.

“We’ve had many calls from both the companies we work with as well as their foreign national employees, asking how the travel ban affects employees, and whether they need to cancel their own family or business travel — even if they’re from countries other than the seven named in the executive order,” Lindt said.

For family-based immigration issues, the legal aspects of the travel ban are complicated by the

Erin Hooley | Chicago Tribune | TNS

Attorneys Kim Beis, left, and Iman Boundaoui, center, confer Feb. 4, 2017, at a makeshift office for volunteer attorneys inside the international terminal at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. The lawyers came to support travelers attempting to enter the country from seven countries identified in President Donald Trump’s travel ban.

limited financial resources available for many of those affected.

Attorneys are stepping up.

On Thursday, a seminar to train corporate attorneys from Chicago law firms on immi-

Pence casts historic tie-breaking vote to confirm DeVos, 51-50 Bridget Bowman CQ-Roll Call (TNS)

WASHINGTON — For the first time ever, the vice president was called to Capitol Hill to break the tie on a vote to confirm a member of the Cabinet.

Vice President Mike Pence presided over the Senate for the first time since being sworn in just over two weeks ago, and cast the tie-breaking vote, 51-50, to confirm Betsy DeVos as the next education secretary. The vice president has never done so before, according to the Senate Historian’s office.

That DeVos could not garner support from the GOP-led Senate underscored her weakness as a nominee, Democrats argued.

“She’d come into the department as a very weak secretary of education,” said Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., a member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. “I think to the extent she thought she was going to get major policy changes passed through Congress, that will be made much more difficult.”

But Republicans brushed off questions about whether it was problematic that DeVos barely passed the Senate.

“Not as long as we have the votes, it’s not a cause for concern,” Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, said Monday as the chamber girded itself for an all-night talk-a-thon about the Devos nomination.

GOP leaders stood behind DeVos. On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell encouraged his colleagues to

support her, arguing she “will be our students’ foremost advocate, working to improve our education system so that every child has a brighter future.”

Senate Democrats were unable to block DeVos because of their own actions in 2013. Democrats altered the procedural rules for executive and judicial nominees — except for the Supreme Court — which ultimately allowed DeVos’ nomination to move forward by a simple majority vote to end debate.

Republican leadership did have to carefully time DeVos’ votes once it became clear that two GOP senators would oppose her nomination, leading to a 5050 split. That pushed DeVos’ vote ahead of Alabama GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions’ confirmation to become the next attorney general, since Republicans needed Sessions’ vote to keep the yea votes at 50 and cue Pence to break the tie.

GOP Sens. Susan Collins and Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska both said they would oppose DeVos due to her inexperience in education. They also raised concerns about whether DeVos’ advocacy for charter schools and vouchers would hamper her ability to understand and address the problems facing public schools.

DeVos is a philanthropist who had recently led the American Federation for Children, a group that advocates for school choice.

She garnered attention at her confirmation hearing for not recognizing that the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act was a federal law; stumbling

on a question about measuring growth versus productivity; and suggesting guns should be allowed in schools to protect against grizzly bears.

Murphy argued that DeVos’ performance and her close confirmation vote could signal that she may not have much support from Congress moving forward.

“I can’t see Republicans rallying to her side as a political figure,” the Connecticut Democrat said. “So if she’s the face of any major changes in education policy, I just don’t think that she is likely to be persuasive with Republicans in the way that she might have been had her hearing gone differently.”

Senators said the uproar over DeVos’ nomination overwhelmed their office phone lines.

Murkowski cited “thousands” of calls from Alaskans urging her to oppose the nomination.

The Senate sergeant-at-arms does not release statistics on the number of phone calls to Senate offices, but a source with the office said the high volume of calls caused some callers to experience delays or busy signals when being transferred to voicemail.

Democrats continued to rally opposition to DeVos in the final hours leading up to her confirmation.

Democrats held the floor Monday and into Tuesday’s vote for as long as the rules allowed them, taking them all the way up to the final vote.

But their push was to no avail.

As Republicans predicted, DeVos’ confirmation moved forward.

gration law drew a record 130 attendees, said Tara Tidwell Cullen, a spokeswoman for the National Immigrant Justice Center, a Chicago-based nonprofit that provides pro bono le-

gal services for low-income immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers.

“About 100 of them regis-

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Walker proposes 5% tuition cut, new performance funding for UW system Nico Savidge

Wisconsin State Journal (TNS)

Gov. Scott Walker’s state budget proposal would cut University of Wisconsin System tuition by 5 percent in the 2018-19 school year and provide tens of millions of dollars in new performance-based funding for the System, the governor’s office announced Tuesday.

The budget proposal also includes a new “faculty accountability” policy to monitor how much time UW professors spend in the classroom, gives students the ability to opt out of paying for certain fees and provides new research and financial aid funding.

Walker is announcing the proposal during visits to UW System campuses in La Crosse, Eau Claire and Green Bay on Tuesday.

With $42.5 million in performance funding, $11.6 million in new money for UW employee pay and the restoration of $50 million that was lapsed from the System’s funding in the last budget, Walker’s proposal would increase state funding for higher education by more than $100 million.

“Our investment today ensures student success by making college even more affordable, providing greater opportunities for students to earn their degree, and helping to bridge the gap between higher education and our workforce,” Walker said in a news release. “We want our students to fuel the growth of our

economy.”

5 percent tuition cut The governor’s budget calls for keeping UW tuition frozen in the first year of the budget, then cutting it by 5 percent for the 2018-19 school year, a spokesman said. The proposal includes $35 million in new funding to pay for the tuition cut.

Walker estimates the cut for Wisconsin undergraduates would save UW students $360 per year on average; at UW-Madison, it would reduce tuition by about $500.

The cut is already facing headwinds in the Legislature, however. Both Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos have said they are skeptical of the idea; Vos said he would rather put money into financial aid than fund an across-the-board tuition cut.

The budget proposal also seeks to cut college costs in other ways: It includes a requirement that UW institutions outline plans that would allow students to earn a bachelor’s degree in three years instead of four, increases the number of credits that can transfer from technical colleges to universities and calls for $700,000 in financial aid for students who take UW’s Flexible Option courses.

New performance funding UW System officials will receive the $42.5 million in new state funding they requested last summer, but Walker’s proposal calls for all of that money to be

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What’s driving population declines in more states Tim Henderson

Stateline.org(TNS)

WASHINGTON — Eight states lost population between 2015 and 2016, and 12 others recorded their lowest population increase of the decade, as economic woes and lower birth rates hit some states harder than others.

Connecticut, Illinois, Mississippi, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming lost population. The last time so many states registered a drop in population was from 1986 to 1987, when oil prices collapsed. Twelve Western and Southern states, along with the District of Columbia, lost population then.

Meanwhile, Alabama, California, Hawaii, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Virginia saw anemic growth of between 0.02 and 0.66 percent in the number of people living inside their borders.

That’s less than the nation’s increase in population of 0.7 percent and the lowest growth those states had experienced since 2010.

The reasons behind the declines vary. Some re-

flect national mortality and birth trends, as more deaths occur as the population ages and the millennial generation has fewer babies. That has led to the slowest population growth in the U.S. in 70 years, as Brookings Institution demographer William Frey points out.

Pennsylvania, for instance, had 7,677 fewer people in 2016 than it did in 2015, after having experienced growth every year since 1996. The major reasons: an increase in deaths, a decrease in births and fewer foreign immigrants than other states have.

“There are more and more of us at ages where deaths are more numerous,” said Herbert Smith, director of the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

A state’s economy also plays a part. Like in 1986, the economies of energy-producing states such as Kansas, North Dakota, Oklahoma, West Virginia and Wyoming have suffered from low oil, natural gas and coal prices. People flee a state when jobs evaporate to find work elsewhere if they can.

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indianastatesman.com COACH FROM PAGE 1 well known for her recruiting with strong ties to the Midwest and highly respected in many ways,” said Senior Associate Athletics Director Angie Lansing. “I believe she will be a great leader and mentor to the student-athletes on our team and for the future of our volleyball program.

Allman is no stranger to the Missouri Valley Conference as she spent three seasons at Bradley as the team’s recruiting coordinator. The 2013 season highlighted her time with Bradley as the team finished the season with 13 overall wins and seven conference wins, its most since 2005. The Braves also made their first Missouri Valley Conference Tournament appearance in eight years and had its first all-conference selection since 2006 in Amy Angelos.

In Allman’s first season, Bradley posted three road wins, matching the team’s road win total from the previous four seasons combined.

PROGRAM FROM PAGE 1 time, volunteers must be employees of Indiana State University with the ability to respond to night and weekend calls for assistance.”

Though many students have not heard of the victim advocacy program, it has received a lot of positive feedback. Many students have been or know someone who have been abused and think that having advocates on campus would be good.

Jocelyn Ricket, a freshman psychology major, explained that she thought having advocates is good.

“I think that’s a really good thing. I know some people personally who have been victimized in relationships, and it’s really good for them to have somebody to speak up for them,” Ricket said. “It’s re-

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Prior to her time with the Braves, Allman had been a member of the Southern Miss. staff for three seasons. In that time, she helped the Golden Eagles to a 63-32 overall record and the 2009 Conference USA regular-season championship.

In two seasons as a graduate assistant and one year as a full-time assistant in Hattiesburg, Miss., Allman’s on-court responsibilities included team serve, serve receive, passing, ball control and outside hitters. She also was in charge of video, scouting, travel, recruiting and fundraising in her final season with the Golden Eagles season after assisting with those areas as a graduate assistant in the two previous seasons.

A native of St. Louis, Mo., Allman graduated from Rockwood Summit High School. An all-district honoree as a high school player, she continued her career at Maine, where she racked up more than 1,000-career kills and 1,000-career digs as

a four-year starter. She was the Black Bears’ team captain in 2008, when she went on to earn First Team All-America East Conference honors. Allman was also named to the America East Honor Roll in 2007 and 2008 in recognition of her success in the classroom.

Allman graduated from Maine in 2009 with her bachelor’s degree in mass communication and minors in public relations and child development.

She went on to earn her master’s degree in social work from Southern Miss in 2011.

Allman is no stranger to Sycamore Athletics as her father, John Allman, a 1980 graduate of Indiana State was a decorated football star with the Sycamores.

He was a three-time AllMVC selection from 19781980 as a defensive back with 13 career interceptions, including a school record three picks in one game. The four-year letterwinner went on to sign with the Saint Louis Cardinals in 1981.

ally hard for them to find their voice sometimes.”

Bradey Schweizer, a sophomore biology major, said that he thought it would help a lot for victims to be able to be listened to without judgment.

“I think it will help a lot; it’s good to have someone to talk to rather than have to hold it in,” Schweizer said.

Roland Wilson, a sophomore operations supply chain management major, said that he has had experience with these kinds of issues ant thinks that the advocacy group will help.

“I was an APA and certain situations like that pop up a lot so it is good to have some kind of advocacy group,” Wilson said.

At the end of the month the victim advocacy program will be looking to train new volunteers as advocates. Hobson said that

in addition to the requirements for volunteers, the training would teach skills on how to help victims.

“The training for volunteer will include topics of communicating with victims of sexual violence, relationship violence, and stalking as well as working with medical and legal professionals in our capacity of advocacy,” Hobson said.

Hobson explained that the training would expand to cover more than just the basic skills the program requires of its volunteer advocates.

“In addition, training will cover the role of the advocate, the neurobiology of trauma, as well as working with survivors of various gender identities and expressions, sexualities, races, ethnicities, religions and abilities,” Hobson said.

LAWYER FROM PAGE 2 tered after the travel ban went into place,” Cullen said. “They realized they can play a really important role in helping immigrants who are going to be targeted by the Trump administration.”

For immigrants who can afford to hire legal representation, the phone calls have been fast and furious since the travel ban was enacted, according to Erin Cobb, 39, a Chicago immigration attorney.

“I’m seeing phone calls from some clients who received citizenship years ago, who aren’t from any of the seven countries, who are now afraid to travel out of the country to visit their family, because

STATES FROM PAGE 2 West Virginia and Wyoming are the two largest coal producers in the country. As coal production declined, West Virginia lost 9,951 people from 2015 to 2016, its fourth straight year of population loss. Wyoming lost 1,054 after having steadily gained population since 1999.

Americans are moving again in more rapid numbers after hunkering down during the recession. And people’s ability to move, as their personal finances or job outlooks have improved, “is now critical to whether a state gains or loses population,” said Kenneth Johnson, a demographer at the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey School of Public Policy.

Aging baby boomers are moving to the Sun Belt or other lower-cost states to retire. Florida’s population, for instance, is among the nation’s fastest-growing.

Workers who are able to move and get a job elsewhere will escape high cost-of-living states. And when businesses find high taxes, high labor costs or

WALKER FROM PAGE 2 distributed based on how colleges and universities perform in a range of metrics.

A news release from Walker’s office Tuesday did not specify exactly what those metrics are.

But it lays out several areas — including “improving affordability and attainability,” “ensuring student success in the workforce” and “administrative efficiency” — that will make up the performance categories.

The System’s Board of Regents would also be allowed to specify two of its own performance categories, and each UW insti-

they don’t know what’s going to happen,” Cobb said.

The ramifications of the travel ban are far-reaching. Nearly 100 U.S. technology companies filed a brief with the appeals court Sunday opposing the ban and arguing the order “disrupts ongoing business operations” and “threatens companies’ ability to attract talent, business, and investment to the United States.”

Amy McCormack, a Chicago-based legal recruiter, expects employment opportunities for immigration lawyers to increase during the Trump administration.

“I suspect everyone in the immigration space has been gearing up since the election,” McCormack

said in an email Monday.

“We have not seen a real uptick in law firm hiring of immigration lawyers yet, but it would not surprise me if it happens.”

McCormack said business immigration attorneys in particular should be in high demand in the coming months as larger corporations navigate the ramifications of potential travel restrictions on their workforce.

While business may be booming, Jarecki said “there are enough immigration attorneys out there” to handle the paid workload, citing pro bono services as the most pressing need. It’s a demand he expects to keep rising if the travel ban is upheld

a shortage of workers and can move, they will and take the jobs with them.

Idaho, Nevada and Washington state are experiencing some of the fastest economic and job growth in the nation.

And their populations are growing along with that, rising at more than twice the national growth rate from 2015 to 2016.

High state and local tax burdens may not force people to pick up and move. Most often it’s for jobs, higher pay or a desire to retire elsewhere.

But taxes contribute to the cost of living and factor into people’s thinking about moving, some research indicates.

Isaac Martin, a University of California, San Diego sociology professor who wrote about the effect taxes had on moving last year, found that the burden of property taxes will prompt some homeowners to move. But that most often happens when they have suffered a drop in income, caused by a job loss or retirement.

“These are not people whose property taxes went up, but rather people whose incomes fell,” he said.

The nonpartisan Tax Foundation, which advocates low rates, said in a new assessment of migration between the states last year, “Taxes are not the sole factor why individuals migrate … but a relationship does exist.”

Some people in Illinois, which lost 37,508 people, the most of any state, think so.

When asked in October whether they would like to leave the state, about half the people polled by the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University said yes.

The most cited reasons: taxes and weather.

Illinois and three other states that lost population — Connecticut, New York and Vermont — had among the highest median property taxes in 2015.

That’s something that Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner would like to change.

Rauner asked legislators to freeze property taxes in his Jan. 25 State of the State address, calling for “property tax relief to reduce the immense burden felt by our families and businesses — and to give them reason to stay here.”

tution would be required to publish a “Performance Funding Report Card.”

Faculty workload, student fee changes, research funds Other pieces of the budget proposal could anger professors and student groups.

In a move aimed at “holding UW System faculty accountable,” the proposal requires the Board of Regents to create a “faculty workload policy” to monitor how much time professors spend teaching.

That information would be made public in annual accountability reports.

Walker made headlines two years ago when he suggested that faculty

could lessen the impact of funding cuts in his 201517 state budget by teaching more classes.

Another item in the budget proposal would allow students to skip paying for certain fees.

The proposal targets “allocable segregated fees,” which at UW-Madison provide funding for student organizations, and also pay for students’ Metro Transit bus passes and the campus radio station.

UW-Madison’s student government estimates allocable fees make up 17 percent of the segregated fees students pay, and will account for $8.2 million this fiscal year.

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Students visited the Indiana Statehouse on Monday to meet with state representatives, and show what they have done for ISU.

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ADP hosts ISU Day at the Statehouse Claire Silcox Reporter

The Indiana Statehouse hosted nearly 50 Indiana State University students for American Democracy Project’s event to provide handson experiences with elected representatives during the day on Monday.

Coordinator of ADP, Dr. Carly Schmitt, spoke of the event as a helpful opportunity.

ADP sponsored this trip to the Statehouse in Indianapolis with 47 students.

The day entailed an “introductory tour of the capitol, followed by a luncheon with legislators where students discuss their work at ISU,” Dr. Schmitt said.

Students who attended ISU Day had opportunities to not only see the capital but also to meet the elected representatives of Indiana.

ADP is an organization on campus at ISU and more than 250 other colleges and universities in the United States.

They recently hosted the day trip to Washington D.C. for the Inauguration of President Trump. The overall goal of the organization is to prepare students of the next generation to be informed about our democracy.

The students who went to the Indiana Statehouse Monday got to share their work with their elected officials present at the luncheon and speak to them about their work on ISU’s campus.

The trip also included a few international students from ISU that got to experience and learn from government backgrounds that they may not be familiar with.

Officials also got to see exhibits made by the students that showcased research they have

5 ways to stop being stressed and start being on time Susie Moore

greatist.com (TNS)

I once had a boss — let’s call her Natalie — who was perpetually late. She would race into the office every morning stressed and disheveled and she’d always have to reschedule meetings.

I almost had a panic attack once when she arrived just 17 seconds before our flight closed for boarding on an important business trip.

I’ve known a few people like Natalie, and I always think: How do they do it? I mean, isn’t it so anxiety-inducing to always race against the clock? If you take a few minutes for preparation and think ahead, it’s way easier than contending with time as a constant enemy.

Natalie’s approach didn’t do her any favors, that’s for sure.

Her lack of organization meant she never got selected for leadership roles and she wasn’t considered for the promotion she wanted. It wasn’t surprising.

The good news is that punctuality is not a gene. Anyone can master it. Yes, even that friend who always makes you lose your table at the trendy new restaurant and the colleague who is consistently 10 minutes late to every. Single. Conference. Call.

I have four inboxes, a business with several facets and I live in a non-central part of the city, so I am constantly on the go. Here’s how I manage to stay on (or ahead of) schedule 99 percent of the time.

1. REFUSE TO TAKE ON TOO MUCH. Overscheduled people (guilty) run the risk of being late because they squeeze more into their calendar than a 24-hour slot will allow. Hey, you can’t fit seven eggs into a half-dozen carton without a mess.

This one simple rule will transform your life. Natalie was always going to unnecessary meetings with unlikely vendors and allowing trivial coffee dates to run way over their finish time within her precious working hours.

1. REFUSE TO TAKE ON TOO MUCH. 2. SET ASIDE A FEW MINUTES TO PLAN. 3. HAVE SOME HACKS HANDY. 4. START BATCHING. 5. JUST LIE. What can you scratch off the agenda before you even begin today? Get real with yourself here. What can you say “no” to in order to give your best to the stuff that really matters? You know, don’t you? So decline. Delete. Reject that caller dialing you with an unknown number who will hold you up. Say “No, thank you,” more than “Well, OK.” 2. SET ASIDE A FEW MINUTES TO PLAN. Look at your day the night before or first thing in the morning.

Where do you have to be and by when? What do you have to do and how long will each task take you? All you have to do is a bit of time budgeting.

Say you have three tasks to complete and two meetings that both require a little prep and travel time. Schedule an approximate time for each of the three tasks and give yourself some extra padding in case you need a little longer than you think.

Accounting for error is not only practical, it allows you to zip

around without worry. Bliss.

Now you have a gorgeous, ontime day ahead with zero schedule-related stress. It can be that simple.

3. HAVE SOME HACKS HANDY. Without dry shampoo, an accessory collection that dials up a basic black outfit and a handbag-ready bright lipstick, getting ready would take me at least 30 minutes more per day. When you have some time-saving hacks in your life, your appearance remains strong in a fraction of the time.

Someone once taught me to decide my outfit for the next day on my commute home every evening. Figure out what’s clean and what will work with the weather to make the next morning that much smoother.

4. START BATCHING. Whether you’re planning Instagram updates, sending emails or even make-ahead meals for the week, batching is a time-saver. Once you’re in a shopping, writing or social media mindset, optimize that by thinking a few days or a week out. When you’re already at Whole Foods, could you satisfy not just your current craving, but also make snacks for the week? A working mum shared with me the secret of batching meals, chores and even paying bills online. Try it — you won’t go back.

5. JUST LIE. Yes, lie. If late people in your life hold you back, tell them that the event is an hour before it actually is. Tell your perpetually tardy friend that the reservation is for 7 p.m. when it’s actually 7:30 p.m.. I do this with my husband a few times a week and I think he secretly doesn’t mind.

He needs the nudge.

How will you save time this week, early bird?

done through ADP. Dr. Schmitt said that the biggest benefit of this ISU Day was “the direct connection between students and the people they elect to represent them.”

Along with the connection, it was also a hands-on civic engagement experience for those students. The students got to directly connect to the officials that they elected.

American Democracy Project at ISU has been involved in multiple different major events and has had a great start to this spring semester.

Another major event will be hosted Wednesday with a special guest and a social advocate, Julie Winokur.

She will be advocating on political issues to students through a panel. The event will be held at 6 p.m. in HMSU, Dede I.

Counselors Day on Campus: all day event dedicated to professionals Anthony Goelz Reporter

Throughout the day, Indiana State will be holding Counselor Day on Campus.

“Counselor Day on Campus is a day dedicated primarily for P-12 counselors around the Terre Haute area,” said Dr. Ryan Donlan, the acting associate dean of the Bayh College of Education.

According to Donlan, the purpose of Counselor Day is to provide local counselors a day to “get together for a day of professional development, networking and interactive entertainment.”

One of the major goals of this event is to provide the attendees with information on trends and issues of children going throughout the modern day education system and to better serve children and teens.

The event kicks off with registration and a continental breakfast. There will then be a welcome address given by ISU President Daniel Bradley, Interim Dean of the Bayh College of Education Dr. Denise Collins and instructor and Director of the BEST Program Dr. Pamela Gresham.

Following the welcoming will be the keynote address by Dr. James Halik, President and Founder of Compass-Keynote Consulting.

Halik started and has been running Compass-Keynote Consulting since 2013. Dr. Halik’s experience as an educator spans more than 40 years.

He served 20 years as a public school superintendent in the Indianapolis area suburbs.

“In addition to superintendent of schools he held positions as a middle science teacher and coach, part-time adjunct pro-

fessor for nearly three decades at four colleges/universities, and 15 years as a middle school principal,” according to the website.

Halik recently conducted and published a national study on the topic and does the training of “School Board Members Make a Difference.”

After the keynote, there will be a multitude of sessions for the counselors to attend and learn more about specific topics. According to the official itinerary, the sessions will include “Selective Mutism at Indiana State,” “Part one of Supporting Transgender and Gender Expansive Students” and “Writing Letters of Recommendation” along with a few other sessions covering a variety of topics.

At noon, there will be a lunch break during which there will also be two optional presentations. The first is “K-12 School Counseling Experiences That Support Success.”

“BEST scholars will share methods and strategies used by K-12 counselors that assisted in their personal growth and success in moving toward a successful college experience,” according to the itinerary.

The day will end with two more sessions. The second session will run around 50 minutes and include the second part of the transgender presentation from the first session. Other topics will include “Cyberbullying and How It can Lead to Depression and Suicidal Ideations. The final session is a discussion amongst them by splitting into groups of their level of education.

Counselors Day on Campus will take place in University Hall on Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Sycamores to provide therapy services in Haiti

There was a time when modern conveniences like the computer at Meg Ladyman’s office in Indiana State University’s Sycamore Center for Wellness would have fallen under the category of can’tdo-without.

That was before the assistant professor of occupational therapy and occupational therapy clinical director was approached by a student about opportunities for Sycamores to put their skills to work in Haiti.

The inquiry led Ladyman in 2015 to the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country, where she spent nine days working with the therapist at The Meriam Center in Saint-Louis-du-Nord in northwest Haiti,

about a five- to six-hour drive from the airport in Port-au-Prince.

“When visiting another orphanage back in Port-au-Prince, a worker asked if I would come back again and bring supplies and training to help these kids because they don’t have the education to do that,” she said.

Ladyman answered that call. In March 2016, she returned to Hope Home during spring break with six of her students in tow, including Chelsea Dause, Danielle Hobbs, Pam Lemperis, Katrina Antonio, Amanda Criste and Audrey Ortiz.

A smaller group, including Ladyman, Dause, Maggie Bannigan, Lori Hender-

son, who is an occupational therapist from Florida, and Rosie Flammang, who is an DPT from Connecticut Children’s Hospital, will return to Haiti this March to volunteer for a week at New Life Orphanage, which served as home base for the last trip while the group worked in Port-Au-Prince.

“Meg pitched last year’s trip to us as an Alternative Spring Break trip. We thought it was awesome idea and were onboard,” said Dause, of Williamsport, Ind., who graduated in December. “We boarded a plane with 12 suitcases of supplies and donations, in addition to one carry-on item per person. I had done service before, but

last year was my first mission trip. I went as a second-year OT student with little hands-on training, so working in Haiti gave me a feel for the evaluation process and the work involved in coming up with treatment plans with little resources.”

The group departed from New Life Orphanage in Port-au-Prince each day around 9 a.m. and traveled two hours to Hope Home, where a new school was under construction and expecting 30 to 40 students with special needs.

They spent nearly seven hours a day conducting evaluations for about half of

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indianastatesman.com HAITI FROM PAGE 4 the students to determine what accommodations were needed to aid them with everything from vision issues to cognitive skills.

With items they brought from home, the students set up sensory stations to incorporate into the children’s special education curriculum.

“When I was growing up, my mom was a special education teacher, and I always enjoyed helping in her classroom and working with kids with special needs,” Dause said. “It helped me see that I wanted a skill I could use to help people and it drew me to occupational therapy.”

Haiti is a country of 8 million people, including 1 million orphans, and occupational therapy services are in demand.

“We tried to accomplish something in a week that will make a difference in people’s lives long after we leave,” Dause said.

“From a personal standpoint, I saw my compassion for my patients go through the roof and learned to care for others in a way that I did not know was possible. These were people I barely knew and people I may never see again. Working in Haiti gave my work even more purpose because I got to see just how much it can benefit others and improve their lives.”

It is a welcome sentiment for Ladyman, who watched her students’ initial hesitation melt away as they put their skills in motion.

“I’ll never forget that look on their faces when we first walked into the special needs house at New Life,” Ladyman said. “(The students) were overwhelmed because they had never been around kids with such severe disabilities, but it didn’t take them long to warm up and fall in love with the kids.”

The group performed evaluations at the orphanage all day before traveling back to PortAu-Prince each night to write up evaluations and treatment plans.

Trained in cardboard carpentry and how to build equipment before they left, the group spent their nights making walkers and equipment out of PVC pipe.

“We didn’t stop until midnight, but I never heard a student complain the whole time we were there. Not one,” Ladyman said.

It was a small price to pay for Dause, who saw the extent to which her Indiana State educa-

Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017 • Page 5 tion can impact the quality of another person’s life. It’s a lesson that will serve her after she graduated in December and prepares to start her career as an occupational therapist with Team Therapy in South Carolina.

“While we stayed at New Life and got to know the kids there in our off time, we really didn’t get to put our full efforts into their special needs home. By the time we got back there each day, we would be up until midnight coming up with treatment plans, then go to bed and get up the next day and do it all again,” she said. “At New Life, they don’t have a school or rehab techs to do the therapy and the kids need more frequent therapy. That’s why we decided to come back to New Life this time, complete evaluations and come up with treatment plans.”

It was hard work and long days, but an experience that radiated with the importance of serving others.

“I hope they see that they can use their skills above and beyond what they do on their jobs,” Ladyman said. “I’ve worked as an OT for several years and I love it, but there’s also something pretty spectacular about volunteering with other professionals and the camaraderie and team work goes to a whole new level.

When you’re not getting paid but instead paying to be there and learning from phenomenal professionals, it’s an experience that you take with you forever.”

Ladyman is proof. Next to pictures, diplomas and books, she keeps a small dish of mud cookies from Haiti on the corner of her desk as a reminder of the work still unfinished.

“They sell (mud cookies) in the markets to very poor people, who give them to their children when they’re hungry but don’t have enough food. It’s made of mud, oil and salt, but it helps their stomachs not to growl and makes them feel like they’re eating something. It’s pretty sobering,” she said. “When you learn about things like that and then come home, everything seems so extravagant - being in my office, driving my car, going to Starbucks and the grocery store. You just realize the abundance here, and sometimes the waste, so for me I find that I think about things more now before I buy them and contemplate if I could use my money for better things?

“I remember sitting in my recliner at home when I got

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Students who attend Indiana State University are given more than enough opportunities to help others in Haiti.

back and my TV didn’t work. I thought, ‘I’m going to have to call the cable guy and get that fixed.’ Then I paused,” Ladyman said. “That money could be used to provide healthcare and education for three kids in Haiti. I did get the cable fixed but cut down the package. Then I got involved with several organizations and just became a volunteer child ambassador for World Vision so I can go out and help people who want to sponsor children.”

The magnitude of what the Haitian people have endured and the extent of the work that remains also wasn’t lost on Dause, who knows the mission in March will be especially challenging with only five people.

What may be the biggest obstacle, though, is the goal to raise $2,400 to hire a rehabilitation technician to work at New Life

for one year. The group setup a Plumfund page, https://www. plumfund.com/charity-fundraising/therapy-mission-in-haiti-2017, and a silent auction is in the works.

“We can go and do evaluations and a few treatments, but for the kids to really benefit they need someone to carry out those treatments a couple of times of week, just like kids in the U.S. who get therapy,” Ladyman said.

“Our goal this trip is to have everything at New Life Children’s Home ready for Jack, the rehab technician, when we leave, including having him trained. We would like to do once-a-month teleconferences with him and go back once a year.”

With the help of the international travel grant, Ladyman hopes to make connections so other Indiana State faculty can

take students to Haiti for service, as well as begin work to establish an Indiana State clinic at New Life orphanage, where students or alumni could serve in various capacities.

“There is no place in the U.S. where (these students) could just walk in and start getting kids out of wheelchairs and doing evaluations. There are no HIPPA laws or regulations there that prevent treatment. Plus, you see a lot of diagnoses there that you don’t see in the U.S.,” she said.

“It’s really win-win for everyone when universities establish partnerships like this in developing countries. The developing countries get some extra help and students get a chance to serve others by using their skills in ways that they couldn’t have back home.”

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Trump threatens Europe’s peace and prosperity James Kirchick

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Since the end of World War II, the transatlantic relationship has been the bedrock of American foreign policy. Presidents of both parties, from Harry Truman to Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama, all supported a politically and economically integrated Europe bound to the United States by shared democratic values, robust trade and a military alliance — NATO — rooted in the principle of collective security. It is no exaggeration to say that the postwar effort to build a liberal democratic Europe has been America’s most successful foreign policy achievement, helping to ensure peace and prosperity on a continent once racked by total war, genocide and economic privation.

That consistent, bipartisan commitment to a “Europe whole, free and at peace” is at stake now that Donald Trump is president of the United States. Like no American leader before him, Trump has questioned the very foundations of transatlanticism, openly rooting for the dissolution of the European Union and repeatedly denigrating NATO as “obsolete.” Trump’s ascension to leadership of the free world could not have come at a worse time. With Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine, massive migratory waves from the Middle East and North Africa, stubbornly low economic growth, rising Islamic terrorism, political disintegration in the form of Brexit and the rise of nationalist movements across the continent, Europe is facing a series of challenges that collectively pose its greatest crisis since the Cold War. By providing succor to anti-EU populists and forging a new diplomatic entente with Russia, Trump may aggravate these tensions, destabilizing Europe from within and without.

Trump’s opposition to European integration breaks with more than seven decades of U.S. foreign policy tradition.

In a recent joint interview with the Sunday Times and Germany’s Bild, Trump disparaged the EU, saying, “I don’t really care whether it’s separate or together, to me it doesn’t matter.”

Echoing claims one normally hears from Mediterranean socialists, Trump said the multinational body is “basically a vehicle for Germany,” when in reality it restrains German power. Whereas the outgoing U.S. ambassador to the EU warns that 2017 may be “the year in which the EU is going to fall apart,” Trump’s likely replacement looks upon the prospect with glee. “I had in a previous career a diplomatic post where I helped bring down the Soviet Union,” Ted Malloch told the BBC. “So maybe there’s another union that needs a little taming.”

The driving force behind Trump’s antagonism toward Europe is White House senior counselor Stephen K. Bannon. One of the president’s closest political advisors, Bannon’s recent elevation to the National Security Council suggests his portfolio has been expanded to include foreign policy. And it’s in this realm where his influence could be most disruptive.

During a conference held at the Vatican in 2014, Bannon praised the “global tea party movement” formed in “reaction to centralized government” like the EU. “Strong nationalist movements in countries make strong neighbors,” Bannon asserted, ignoring the entirety of Europe’s 20th century history, which suggests exactly the opposite. When he was executive chair of the website Breitbart.com, Bannon provided favorable cover-

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks on Monday, Jan. 30, 2017 before signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C.

Trump proposes even more drafts for executive orders on immigration

Zach Davis Columnist

Immigration has been a hot issue lately as the Trump administration does everything they can in order to fix what they view as a key issue facing our country. So far, a ban has been placed on people from seven different countries while we plan on building a wall between Mexico and the U.S. The Washington Post reported a worrying draft of yet another executive order on immigration. The draft calls for the deportation all “potential” and current “public charge” immigrants – the ones who request government financial assistance such as welfare.

The draft’s logic is kind of hard to follow. The immigrants most affected by this pay a share of taxes on their wages. Immigrants who come here on work visas have to pay income taxes, just like naturalized and natural-born citizens.

The only way around paying taxes is if your job meets a very specific set of guidelines – like an airline worker for a foreign company who is here on work for a short time, or a student or professor here for non-resident study.

Basically, if an immigrant has a

substantial job, they have to pay taxes.

Denying these people governmental assistance, especially temporary assistance, is stupid. Their money is being spent on the government the same as mine and it isn’t right to deny them government services for as long as they pay in. If they need welfare for a short time because they suddenly lost their job, let them have it. Just don’t do so indefinitely.

Here’s where the draft’s logic gets really odd. It states the intention to “seek reimbursement from all sponsors of immigrants for the costs of Federal means-tested public benefits provided to sponsored immigrants.”

In other words, people who sponsor immigrants are going to pay for the food stamps, welfare and other benefits used by said immigrants: the same benefits that will get them kicked out of the country.

So this draft, if signed into effect, would make it so that immigrants come to America, pay taxes which are divided into things like Federal means-tested public benefits and get kicked out if they use them, even though their sponsors are required to reimburse it. The logic, to me, just doesn’t seem to follow.

Another draft also reported by Washington Post outlined a series of other restrictions intended to protect America’s workforce from immigrants, mainly by limiting the amount of work visas granted. The draft targets immigrant workers who are here as temporary workers like transferees, airplane navigation personnel, students and specialists here with an H

1B visa.

It is a waste of time to restrict immigrants who are here for such a short amount of time as pilots, cruise captains, temporary transferees and the like. They aren’t here for an extended amount of time and all of them are here because they already have a foreign job that brought them here. They aren’t taking any jobs that are available to American citizens.

Specialists here with an H 1B visa, however, do need some tighter restrictions. For example, we accept up to 65,000 specialists a year with at least a bachelor’s degree and up to 20,000 more who can petition with at least a master’s degree. That means we have up to 85,000 specialists coming into our country a year for jobs.

Interestingly enough, that says more about our education systems, which is why we need to lower the caps for H 1B visas.

If we have fewer spaces for immigrants to fill specialist jobs, perhaps we will focus on reforming our education system so that we generate these specialists ourselves. Relying on other countries for specialists isn’t smart when you can make your own and all we need is a few small boosts like cheaper education. Then we wouldn’t need immigrants to come over on specialist visas.

For now, though, something has to be done. One idea is to raise their minimum pay. Right now employers are required to give these workers a pay that is equal to or greater than

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How to help an immigrant who’s under attack Lev Golinkin

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

I don’t need to tell people I’m an immigrant: My accent does it for me. Over the years, when Americans would hear me speak, they’d ask about my origins and what I thought of the United States. But since Donald Trump took up residence in the White House, I’ve gotten a new line of questioning: What can we do to protect and help immigrants and refugees in our towns and schools?

Everyone knows an ACLU lawyer isn’t going to parachute down from the heavens every time a local thug eggs a car or screams at a woman in a hijab. For newcomers, the difference between dignity and humiliation, impotence and security is often an American who’s willing to get

involved.

I was nine when my family fled Soviet Ukraine. We lived as refugees in Austria before finally coming to the U.S. I was young enough to assimilate quickly but old enough to understand that even in the land of immigrants, immigrants are not always welcome.

Some people take out their fears and frustrations on foreigners because it’s easy: Any native-born American, no matter his actual circumstances, enjoys a tremendous power advantage over someone who can’t speak English and whose citizenship status is uncertain. But the moment another fluent English speaker, another unquestioned American, enters the equation to help, that imbalance vanishes.

The simplest course of action is the most effective: Ignore the attacker and ad-

dress the immigrant. Literally stand with him or her. Introduce yourself but resist the temptation to ask “Where are you from?” — it’s a touchy question, especially now, with a travel ban whose future is far from clear. In my experience, the mere act of a friendly local engaging my family was all that was needed to make a tormentor slink away.

It surprises Americans that newcomers don’t simply call the authorities when someone intimidates them or spray paints a slur on a garage door. Americans are taught from birth to assert their rights; most wouldn’t hesitate to speak to a rude employee’s supervisor or call the cops.

Immigrants and refugees are generally wired to do the opposite.

Chances are, they’ve escaped from a region where avoiding people wearing

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badges was a matter of survival. This mindset lingers: My parents — my father is an engineer, my mother was a psychiatrist in Ukraine and became a security guard in the U.S. — have been here for two and a half decades, but they’re still terrified of even the most innocuous encounter with the police.

Instead of easing such fears, landing in America tends to burden newcomers with an additional reason to avoid entanglements with the authorities: The need to preserve a fragile existence in this country.

This doesn’t just apply just to those who are in the U.S. illegally: No matter how they got here, most immigrants are acutely aware that they aren’t Einsteins; they

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age to all manner of far-right, anti-EU political parties, including the United Kingdom Independence Party, or UKIP, France’s National Front and Alternative for Germany. In a break with diplomatic protocol, Trump’s first meeting with a foreign leader after his election victory was UKIP’s Nigel Farage, whom he encouraged London to appoint as its ambassador to Washington.

Planned Breitbart bureaus in Berlin and Paris will bring the brand’s nativist conspiracy-mongering to continental politics, stoking the forces determined to tear Europe apart. Because of her (since-abandoned) open-door policy to Syrian ref-

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aren’t prized entertainers or computer geniuses or vital to U.S. national security.

When green card holders and Iraqi interpreters were detained last week, Americans understood what immigrants have long known: Unless you get citizenship, your stay can be jeopardized at any moment. The immigrant’s overwhelming priority is avoiding attention at all costs.

And the language barrier is crippling. The term “barrier” isn’t strong enough: When you don’t speak English, it’s as if you’ve suffered a debilitating stroke, except instead of being rushed to the hospital, you have to look for a job.

What you value about yourself — your smarts, humor, honesty, eloquence — requires language, but it’s gone. You could be a poet in Arabic; in English, you’re an idiot. Worse, when

Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017 • Page 7 ugees, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is a bete noire for Bannon and his European allies, the symbol of everything they hate about so-called globalism.

On the campaign trail, there was no world leader whom Trump attacked more often or vituperatively than Merkel. Asked whom he trusts more, Merkel or Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump responded, “I start off trusting both,” thus equating one of the world’s most admired and pro-American leaders with a ruthless ex-KGB officer who invades his neighbors and kills his enemies.

Europeans, then, must face the prospect of an American president using his bully pulpit to work over the heads of their elected governments in collusion

with anti-establishment political factions resolutely opposed to the European project. Simultaneously, they must contend with Trump’s proposed strategic rapprochement with Moscow: an external threat potentially even more dangerous to Europe than nationalism.

Trump has indicated that he might lift sanctions placed on Russia for its aggression against Ukraine and recognize Moscow’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula. Either of these moves would undermine the fundamental tenet of Europe’s postwar political settlement — that nations may no longer use force to change borders.

What’s more, the new president has repeatedly expressed reservations about NATO Arti-

you can’t communicate your thoughts to those around you, they can assume you don’t have any in the first place. You disappear; you’re a non-person.

If you want to help erase that non-person status, acknowledge immigrants as individuals with a life, a history, opinions — something other than the product of a godforsaken country whose chief export is helpless creatures.

Along with introducing yourself, simple yes-no questions work wonders, considering that people can understand far more than they can express.

Lastly, please don’t be offended if you don’t get a thank you. Immigrants aren’t Disney princesses — being stuck in a humiliating, even terrifying situation that requires a stranger to intervene on your behalf isn’t an occasion for rejoicing.

I didn’t thank the young woman who gave me a jacket in a Viennese shelter because I

couldn’t comprehend that someone would hand out free clothing with no strings attached.

I didn’t thank the hotel owner who helped persuade the Austrian police to release my mother and sister who were detained for peddling trinkets because I was terrified beyond words.

I didn’t thank every sponsor who welcomed us to America because after six months of drifting through the world as a refugee, I was sick of being a charity case.

I didn’t thank them, but I didn’t forget them. Twenty-six years have gone by, and the honks and angry stares, threats and ridicule have faded like an old scar.

But I can still see the people who helped us, vividly, brightly. I can see their faces from the brief interactions that enabled me and my family to materialize out the ghostly existence of statelessness and feel human.

You don’t forget the good ones.

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Women look for wins to gain momentum for tournament RaShaun Jones Reporter

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ISU men’s basketball team looking to take on the Bulldogs and the Braves this Wednesday and Friday.

After a hot start to the season, the women’s Sycamore basketball team has fizzled as of late, losing five of the last six. As the “Hoops on the Heartland Tournament” is on the horizon, the team is looking to gain some momentum down the stretch. With seven games left in the schedule, it would be interesting to watch Coach Wells get his team back to its winning ways.

Conference play started off with some promise after the team dropped its conference opener to Evansville. Coach Wells then was able to rally the troops and get the team back on track as they went on to win their next four games.

Nevertheless, after two back-toback road losses on the road to two of the conference’s elites, Drake and Northern Iowa, then dropped back-to-back home games against Wichita State and Missouri State.

The Sycamores were able to shake the Illinois State Redbirds on the road, but fell to Bradley two days later.

The season has been full of ups

and downs, but looking forward, it’s important to highlight some strong points for this team.

Senior Rhagen Smith, who recently scored a career-high 17 points in a game against Wichita State, has reached double figures in points in six of the team’s last eight games. Junior Wendi Bibbins has been a force on the boards, but also has produced offensively with a 22 point outing in a game last Friday in a win against Illinois State.

Junior Ashley Taia has been putting points up in bunches, reaching over 20 points in three games this season; coupled with 15 games, Taia has reached double figures in scoring.

Sycamores’ defense currently ranks second in the conference in scoring defense allowing 53.5 points per game. Sycamores’ defense also ranks first in field goal percentage on the season, and top three in steals. Down the stretch, one thing that can help the team not only close the season out strong, but help them make a push deep in conference tournament is offense.

In fact, in five of the last six games, Indiana State has failed to reach double figures as a team at least once within four quarters.

Defense wins championships, but even the best defensive teams fail when they go on scoring droughts in key moments in games.

The team is built to make some noise in the conference tournament, and despite the seeding, any team can be sleeper that makes that one run to the conference title game.

In reality, looking ahead at the Sycamores’ schedule, this next handful of games can garner some momentum heading down the stretch. On one hand, five of the seven games are against teams that rank in the top half of the conference. On the other hand, six of those seven games are against teams that the Sycamores fell to already earlier in the season.

So far this season, the Sycamores are 11-11 (5-6) in conference play. The Sycamores are back in action Sunday, Feb. 12 as they host the Loyola Ramblers inside the Hulman Center. Tip off will take place at 2 p.m.

ISU seeks edge over Sycamores look to right the ship Braves and Bulldogs with Arch Madness approaching Jeremy Patterson Reporter

The Indiana State men’s basketball team returns to conference play again this week with games against the Bradley Braves and Drake Bulldogs on Wednesday and Friday respectively.

They are looking to improve on what has been a strenuous season as the team boasts an overall record of 8-16, with a conference mark of 2-10.

The Braves will prove to be a tough opponent for the Sycamores, as Bradley is coming off of a dominant win against conference opponent Drake. The Braves are scoring merely 65.3 ppg on an overall 42 percent shooting from the field.

A struggle, however, has been moving the ball efficiently throughout the offensive ranks, yielding only 11 assists each game. The most obvious struggles for the Braves are on the defensive side of the ball as they are giving up 71.8 ppg on 42 percent shooting from their opponents.

Their defense has been inconsistent in the paint as well as outside of the arc, giving up nearly eight three-point shots each contest. The team is also averaging three less rebounds per game than their opposition. All of these things have contributed to the struggles that this Bradley team has seen this year, but like the Sycamores, are looking to come into this contest strong and leave with a win.

After a day off Thursday, the Sycamores will look to bounce right back into it at home against the Drake Bulldogs. Drake is 7-17 throughout the 2016-17 campaign and is currently riding a three-game losing streak with

losses to tough opponents such as Northern Iowa, Wichita State and Bradley.

Hardships have been apparent for the Bulldogs on both sides of the ball, with the more obvious being on the offensive set. While the team is averaging 73.3 ppg on 42 percent from the field, they have been inconsistent in retaining possessions.

Turnovers have hurt the Bulldogs to the extent that they have been unable to recover from their blunders, giving up 13 possessions a game. Defensively the team has held opponents to 76.3 ppg on an efficient 45 percent shooting percentage.

They have managed to nearly close the gap in rebounding with teams, grabbing merely two less than others in the rebounding margin. Overall the Bulldogs have lost multiple close games, finding a way to fall behind late.

They have been unable to finish, and that is something that the Sycamores will have to look to take advantage of in their matchup.

The Sycamores will have their hands full with both of these teams in the back-half of this week. They will have to remain consistent throughout their offensive spectrum, moving the ball efficiently and getting the shots that they need to fall. Defensively they will have to slow down both Bradley and Drake’s offenses, disrupting the rhythm that they cannot afford to allow.

Overall, this week will provide plenty of upbeat basketball and opportunities for the Sycamore men. The matchup with Bradley will tip-off Wednesday at 9 p.m. in Peoria, Ill., while the Drake game will begin at 2 p.m. in the Hulman Center on Friday.

Austin Vanlandingham Reporter

Indiana State suffered another disappointing road loss last Saturday when they fell to Northern Iowa 65-60. The Sycamores are trying to right the ship after suffering their eighth loss in 10 games. With the Missouri Valley Conference a little more than three weeks away, the Sycamores will want to finish out the regular season strong.

Indiana State will carry on in MVC action on Wednesday at 9 p.m. when they travel to Peoria, Ill., to take on the Bradley Braves.

The Sycamores enter with an overall record of 8-16, and 2-10 in MVC games while the Braves enter with a 9-16 overall record and are 4-8 in conference play.

“We played hard, but I’m just disappointed in the outcome. We got up by nine and were playing the right way, but we got a little too conformable,” Coach Lansing said

of his team’s performance against UNI. The Sycamores are ultimately looking for some consistency for this final stretch of the regular season. There are six matchups left remain on for ISU. The Sycamores will be at home for matchups against Drake, Southern Illinois and Northern Iowa, and on the road for Bradley Loyola and Evansville.

A win against Bradley could be a much needed confidence boost going forward. A win on Wednesday would snap a seven-game losing skid on the road dating back to a 62-61 victory at Utah State in the MVC Mountain/West Challenge on Dec. 3, 2016. It would also be the Sycamores’ first MVC road victory since January 6, 2016 — a 79-69 victory at Drake — and end a streak of 13 consecutive road losses in MVC play.

The Sycamores really displayed how they’re improving in their impressive overtime win against

Evansville last Wednesday. Five Indiana State players were in double figures. Everett Clemons picked up 14 points in the contest.

Also in double figures were Matt Van Soyc with 12 and TJ Bell and Jordan Barnes with 10 each.

Junior point guard Brenton Scott led the Sycamores in scoring that day with 22 points. Scott continues to be a source of production for Indiana State this season. In his last two games, Scott is averaging 19 points per game. He’s also moved up to 18th on the alltime scoring list. Sycamores were picked to finish sixth in Missouri Valley Conference race and have fallen short of that prediction while they currently sit in last place.

Indiana State will undoubtedly look to take advantage of the six remaining games on their schedule. A strong finish to the regular season could be exactly what the Sycamores need heading into the conference tournament.