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Volume 124, Issue 68
Students gear up for Spring Week activities Adrienne Morris Reporter
With the spring semester coming to an end, Indiana State University will recognize Spring Week, a week of activities geared towards ISU students and Sycamore pride. Spring Week allows for students to participate in various events that will occur throughout ISU’s campus. During Spring Week, students, faculty and staff will have the option to donate blood at two blood drives. The blood drives will occur on April 3 and 4 in Dede Plaza from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. In order for students to get prepared for the upcoming events, there will be a Spring Week kick-off.
During the kick-off, students will be able to learn more about the events occurring during the week and how they can get involved. People will also have the opportunity to receive prizes and snacks during this event. The kick-off is set to begin on April 3 at 11 a.m. in Dede Plaza. On Monday, April 3, ISU will host a Tri-Athlon. The Tri-Athlon will feature co-ed teams of six. The teams will participate in swimming, basketball, trivia and running, which will all be timed. The Tri-Athlon will begin at 6 p.m. and end at 10 p.m. at the Student Recreation Center. Spring Week will also be filled with opportunities for students to volunteer such as Donaghy Day and Stop and Serves.
Donaghy Day will begin at 12 p.m. until 4 p.m on April 3 in various locations. There will also be a second Donaghy Day, which is set to occur on April 6 and will also be held in various locations. The Spring Week Stop and Serve will allow students to prepare different kits for people who are in need. This event will occur on April 5 at 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. in the Commons. On April 5, Spring Sing, originally known as Sycamore Remix, will take place in Hulman Center beginning at 7 p.m. and ending at 9 p.m. The event allows teams to compete in a lip-sync battle. Students are encouraged to attend to cheer on their peers during their performances. The live-action version of Battleship
will allow teams to compete against one another by attempting to sink each other’s boats. Battleship will be located in the pool of the Arena. Students, faculty and staff are able to see the event on April 6 from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. One of the final events of the week will be Sycamore Sessions. Sycamore Sessions will feature live performances and the opportunity for people to win prizes. This will also be the last Sycamore Sessions of the semester. The event will occur on April 7 in Tilson Auditorium from 8:30 p.m. until 10:45 p.m. The qualifying Tandem participants will able to compete alongside different teams in the annual bike race. The Tandem race will occur at Recreation East on April 8 at 11 a.m. until 1 p.m.
Spring Week event schedule TUESDAY, APRIL 4 Blood Drive — 10 a.m. in Dede II and III Sycamore Cinema — 7 p.m. in Dede I
MONDAY, APRIL 3
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5
Blood Drive — 10 a.m. at Dede Plaza Kick-off — 11 a.m. at Dede Plaza
Spring Sing — 7 p.m. in Hulman Center
THURSDAY, APRIL 6 Battleship — 7 p.m. in the Arena
SATURDAY, APRIL 8
FRIDAY, APRIL 7 Pack the Pantry — 11 a.m. at Dede Plaza Tandem qualifications — 4 p.m. at Rec East
Tandem race — 11 a.m. at Rec East
Student Media video team starts baseball, softball productions The Indiana State Sport Network is now broadcasting home baseball and softball games onto ESPN3. Broadcasting the games has introduced new challenges to the Student Media team lead by Seth Payne, sports video manager. “Baseball is more drawn out,” Payne said. “There is time in between pitches and innings, so it is a slower-paced game than football and soccer, both of which we have broadcasted before.” The on-air announcers need to prepare additional information so the games are interesting for the viewers. “The announcers need to do more preparation to have more to talk about because they need to fill more space,” Payne said. “We also prepare graphics to give the viewers more to look at while the games are going.” Chase Eyrich, a junior communication student from Bourbon, Ind., has been with the sports network since fall 2015 and has announced the baseball and softball games. “The pace of the game is different (from) any other sport we work with, so trying to figure out how to fill that space with the right amount of content has been difficult,” Eyrich said. The production team has to work with more than the equipment. They also must work with the weather.
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Once the game ends, it takes approximately an hour and a half to load the equipment. “I expect there to be some struggles for us,” Eyrich said. “We haven’t worked with the two sports before so everyone has to get a feel for what they are doing. I think we have strong and motived people on our team that will put in the work to help make our productions better each time.”
Indiana State University’s theater department gave student playwrights and actors a chance to apply their craft in the New Play Festival. “The concept of the New Play Festival is to get student’s works out there. All of the people involved are students, student directors, student actors, student playwrights and student designers,” junior theater major Jenna Houchin said. Caleb Clark, president of the Student Theater Association, expressed his excitement for the festival along with the ISU theater department. “It’s great that we have a department and a university that is willing and excited about student work. This will provide a lot of great opportunities our playwrights and directors that can benefit them in the future,” Clark said. There were three short plays featured in the festival. The first of which, “The Weird Ones,” written by J. Myles Hesse and directed by Houchin, is a story of two couples with communication problems. The problems are only solved when they stop being selfish and open up to one another. It focuses on a basic
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A student films a baseball game for ESPN3. Baseball and softball were added to ESPN3 this year.
“The home opener on March 17 was cold and misty with rain, and Saturday was cold and windy,” Payne said. “Sunday had nice, decent weather. We were able to focus on the game and production instead of fighting with the weather.” As long as games are being played, the sports network will broadcast. Equipment is covered with rain gear, cleaned with microfiber cloths and supported with sandbags so that the game can still
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air during inclement weather.The sports network’s 12- to 15-person team arrives to the stadium four hours prior to the games start to set up. “It takes about two and a half hours to set up our equipment,” Payne said. “I want my team to have time to troubleshoot and make sure everything is working plus have about a 45-minute break for food and drink. The games can be long, and we want them to make it through comfortably.”
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More than half of voters polled say Trump has weakened the US Anita Kumar McClatchy Washington Bureau He hasn’t even been in office three months but half of the nation’s voters already say President Donald Trump has weakened the United States’ role in the world, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll. Since he was inaugurated in January, Trump has been criticized for a series of what some call foreign policy missteps: authorizing a raid in Yemen in which a Navy SEAL died, criticizing a deal that calls for the U.S. to accept 1,250 refugees from Australia, and insulting German Chancellor Angela Merkel by refusing to shake her hand when they met at the White House. And in January, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto canceled a meeting with Trump after the U.S. president insisted that Mexico pay for a wall along the U.S. southern border. Fifty-five percent of voters polled said Trump has weakened the U.S.’s role in the world, up from 52 percent in February. That includes 83 percent of Democrats but also includes 59 percent of independents, 17 percent of Republicans and 12 percent of those who called themselves Trump supporters. Thirty-six percent said he has made the U.S. stronger. Nine percent were unsure. Trump has invited several world leaders to the White House, including Prime Ministers Theresa May of Britain, Justin Trudeau of Canada, Shinzo Abe of Japan, Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Lars Lokke Rasmussen of Denmark. He will
meet with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el Sissi Monday and Jordanian King Abdullah II Wednesday. He will Chinese President Xi Jinping later this week at his Florida resort, Mara-Lago. Trump is expected to take his first trip abroad as president in May when he attends the Group of Seven and NATO summits in Belgium and Italy. He is also expected to visit Canada and Britain this year. Trump and his aides have long been criticized for his friendly relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Recently, FBI Director James Comey confirmed that his agency is investigating possible collusion between Trump campaign advisers and Russia. Trump has said he would consider lifting the sanctions imposed against Russia for its annexation of Crimea, and suggested that he is open to recognizing Crimea as Russian territory. The White House already has loosened financial sanctions against Russia’s security agency that the Obama administration imposed as punishment for Russia’s meddling in November’s presidential election and for Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea. By 48-39 percent, voters said Trump’s relationship with Putin is mostly a bad thing for the United States. That includes 80 percent of Democrats, 47 percent of independents, 11 percent of Republicans and 8 percent of those who called themselves Trump supporters. That’s essentially unchanged from February,
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Scarlett Johansson plays The Major in “Ghost in the Shell.”
Asian American media group condemns Scarlett Johansson in ‘Ghost in the Shell’ controversy Gerrick D. Kennedy Los Angeles Times (TNS) This weekend’s arrival of “Ghost in the Shell,” the live-action adaptation of the landmark Japanese anime film, is being met with criticism from the Media Action Network for Asian Americans, or MANAA, which is condemning what it calls the “whitewashed” casting of Scarlett Johansson in the lead role. The organization’s complaint joins the backlash that erupted following the announcement in early 2015 that Johansson had signed on to star in Paramount and DreamWorks’ version of Masamune Shirow’s manga series that spawned the classic animated film. Many fans of the franchise called the casting of Johansson yet another example of Hollywood “whitewashing” because she plays an Asian heroine named Motoko Kusanagi.
When asked about the ongoing flap, Johansson didn’t agree with the critics’ point of contention. “I think this character is living a very unique experience, in that she is a human brain in an entirely machinate body,” Johansson said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” earlier this week. “She’s essentially identity-less. … I would never attempt to play a person of a different race, obviously.” She added, “Hopefully, any question that comes up of my casting will … be answered by audiences when they see the film.” But MANAA leaders who have seen the film say they are angered, and said in a statement that the actress “was lying” in defending her portrayal. “Though defenders of the casting claimed that both the original 1989 manga and 1995 animated Japanese film were vague about
Major Motoko Kusanagi’s original ethnic identity before her brain was placed into the body of a cyborg, this film verifies she was Japanese; her real name, in fact, was Motoko Kusanagi (her cyborg identity, implanted with false memories, was Major Mira Killian),” the statement read. MANAA also denounced the casting of Michael Pitt in the role of Kuze in the film, which MANAA said “is revealed to have originally been named Hideo, meaning he too was Japanese.” “Apparently, in Hollywood, Japanese people can’t play Japanese people anymore,” MANAA President Robert Chan said in a news release. “There’s no reason why either Motoku or Hideo could not have been portrayed by Japanese or Asian actors instead of Scarlett Johansson and Michael Pitt. We don’t even get to see what they looked like in
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Facing backlash, broadband providers say they won’t sell browsing histories Tim Johnson McClatchy Washington Bureau (TNS)
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The company joined Comcast in reacting to Congress’ move to kill privacy rules protecting broadband users, by announcing that would not sell customer browsing histories to advertisers.
WASHINGTON — Just days after Congress moved to kill privacy rules protecting broadband users, two of the largest internet service providers said Friday that they would not sell customer browsing histories to advertisers. In separate announcements, Verizon and Comcast vowed to protect client privacy and avoid enhancing their own profits by monitoring the internet habits of clients and selling the data to advertisers. “Let’s set the record straight. Verizon does not sell the personal web browsing history of our customers. We don’t do it, and that’s the bottom line,” Verizon’s chief privacy officer, Karen Zacharia, said in a company blog posting. A Comcast statement echoed the Verizon position. “We do not sell our broad-
band customers’ individual web browsing history. We did not do it before the FCC’s rules were adopted, and we have no plans to do so,” Gerard Lewis, chief general counsel and privacy officer, wrote in a statement on Comcast’s corporate website. The bill, which has passed both the Senate and House and awaits President Donald Trump’s signature, would roll back rules passed by the Federal Communications Commission last October in what Republicans describe as a “midnight regulation.” Those rules would prevent broadband providers from collecting personal data without consent, then profit from the sale of such data to marketers. White House spokesman Sean Spicer left no doubt that Trump would sign the rollback, saying the Obama administration sought to favor social media companies and search engines at the expense of broadband pro-
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Key red-state Democrat will join filibuster against Gorsuch Lindsay Wise and Bryan Lowry McClatchy Washington Bureau Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill said Friday that she will not support the nomination of conservative Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court and will join a Democratic effort to block his confirmation vote. McCaskill, a Democrat, is running for re-election in 2018 in a state Trump won by 19 percentage points. She has come under heavy pressure from both the right and left in the weeks leading up to her decision. Conservative groups such as the Judicial Crisis Network and the National Rifle Association poured millions into ad campaigns urging McCaskill and other red- and purple-state Democrats to confirm Gorsuch. Her party’s liberal base wanted her to join other Democrats in blocking his nomination vote. With McCaskill’s announcement Friday, Democrats seem to be coalescing around Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s filibuster plans. The Senate’s Republicans would need eight Democrats to vote with them in order to prevent the filibuster,
a parliamentary maneuver that would make it difficult for Gorsuch’s nomination to get an up or down vote. McCaskill said her decision was “really difficult,” adding “While I have come to the conclusion that I can’t support Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme — and will vote no on the procedural vote and his confirmation — I remain very worried about our polarized politics and what the future will bring, since I’m certain we will have a Senate rule change that will usher in more extreme judges in the future.” The announcement comes a day after The Kansas City Star published leaked audio of the Democratic senator telling donors last weekend that blocking a vote on Gorsuch could result in someone worse being appointed to the court in the future. In the recording, she said that the Gorsuch “was one of the better ones” on Trump’s list of possible justices to fill the seat that became vacant when Antonin Scalia died last year. McCaskill’s decision to reject Gorsuch also coincided with the announcement Friday by NARAL Pro-Choice America
that the abortion rights group would not endorse any lawmaker who supports Gorsuch when they next seek re-election. NARAL has endorsed McCaskill in the past. McCaskill’s spokesman, John LaBombard, said in an email that the only factor in McCaskill’s decision was the nominee himself. Democrats in Missouri cheered McCaskill’s announcement. “Claire McCaskill fighting on behalf of ordinary, working people in Missouri isn’t surprising — it’s what she’s done every day as our senator,” said Missouri Democratic Party Chair Stephen Webber. McCaskill’s statement Friday stressed Gorsuch’s opinions show he “always puts the little guy under the boot of corporations.” She said, “He is evasive, but his body of work isn’t,” adding, “Whether it is a freezing truck driver or an autistic child, he has shown a stunning lack of humanity. And he has been an activist — for example, writing a dissent on a case that had been
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Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) at a news conference in Washington, D.C., on April 26, 2016. McCaskill said Friday, March 31, 2017, that she will not support the nomination of conservative Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
indianastatesman.com MEDIA FROM PAGE 1 Caleb Hess, a sophomore information technology student from Chrisman, Ill., has been working with Student Media since August 2015. He currently works as a video operator for the sports network. “Every sport is shot completely different and creates a new and exciting challenge to capture the best video possible of each event,” Hess said. “My favorite part of baseball and softball so far are the homeruns. There have been a few so far, and they are always exciting.” About 50 students are currently involved in the sports network. “Our application will reopen
TRUMP FROM PAGE 2 when the tally was 47-39 percent. Thirty-three percent of voters polled said the country is less safe from terrorist attacks since Trump became president. Nineteen percent said the county is safer, safe, while 46 percent said it’s about the same. Two percent said they were unsure. Those who feel less safe include 56 percent of Democrats, 30 percent of independents, 5 percent of Republicans and 4 percent of those who called
ASIAN FROM PAGE 2 their original human identities — a further whitewash.” “Though the Japanese versions of ‘Ghost’ took place in Japan, and the latest film version does not specify a location, it was partially shot in Hong Kong and is clearly an Asian city,” Chan’s statement continued. “There are many Japanese/Asian/ Asian-American actresses who could’ve handled the role of the Major, including Rinko Kikuchi, Karen Fukuhara, Kiki Sukezane, Chloe Bennet, Maggie Q, Doona Bae, Li Bingbing, and Gemma Chan.” Chan did not note that most of the actresses he named are not well known to audiences or do not have the proven box-of-
Monday, April 3, 2017 • Page 3 in the fall. No prior experience is necessary in production or sports. We will teach our workers everything they need to know to succeed,” Payne said. The sports network will produce 19 more games this semester. Games are available both on and off campus through ESPN3. com. On campus, viewers can search “Indiana State University” on ESPN3 and watch either live games or games dating back 30 days. Off campus, games are available once a cable provider login is provided on ESPN3’s website. Story by ISU Communications and Marketing.
principle and compromise. “I looked out at the world. I saw so much misery and so much anger and hatred, and I really wanted to do a love story that was more than a love story for just two people. It was one for all of mankind,” Hesse said. The second play, “Side by Side,” written by Houchin and directed by Hesse, is a “story of exploration. It is kind of like a self-journey out loud. This was a self-journey about my exploration of an event that I saw myself as the good guy and the person in my life I saw as the bad guy
and for so long I only thought that. This is kind of me discovering that maybe there is a grey area,” Houchin said. The final play, “Hers is the Head of a Wolf,” written by Maverick Schmit and directed by Clark, shows the descent into madness of a young woman dealing with the trauma of a past sexual assault. The goal of this play was to “shock and force the audience into consideration and discussion,” according to Schmit. “Mav and I pretty much had a unified vision of it. I think what made the script powerful is how punchy it is and how in your
face it is, and I didn’t want to take away from that. So I wanted to tell a real story about someone’s trauma after an event like that and also show the reality of sexual violence in society,” Clark said. This event was an opportunity for students interested in theater to present their work and their talent. “We want to help people get their work out there, build a resume and most of all build a community together,” Houchin said.
themselves Trump supporters. More than half of voters polled said they oppose Trump’s temporary halt on immigration from six Muslim-majority countries: Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. A federal judge in Hawaii last month temporarily blocked Trump’s travel ban hours before it was to go into effect. It was the second time a Trump order seeking to temporarily limit U.S. entry from Muslim-majority countries has been blocked by a federal judge. SURVEY METHODOLOGY
The survey of 1,062 adults was conducted March 22-27 by The Marist Poll, sponsored and funded in partnership with McClatchy. People 18 and older residing in the contiguous United States were contacted on landline or mobile numbers and interviewed in English by telephone by live interviewers. Mobile telephone numbers were randomly selected based on a list of telephone exchanges from throughout the nation from Survey Sampling International. The exchanges were selected to ensure that each region was
represented in proportion to its population. Mobile phones are treated as individual devices. After validation of age, personal ownership and non-business use of the mobile phone, interviews are typically conducted with the person answering the phone. To increase coverage, this mobile sample was supplemented by respondents reached through random dialing of landline phone numbers from ASDE Survey Sampler Inc. Within each landline household, a single respondent is selected through a random selection process to
increase the representativeness of traditionally undercovered survey populations. The samples were then combined and balanced to reflect the 2013 American Community Survey oneyear estimates for age, gender, income, race and region. Results are statistically significant within plus or minus 3.0 percentage points. There are 906 registered voters. The results for this subset are statistically significant within plus or minus percentage points. The error margin was not adjusted for sample weights and increases for cross-tabulations.
fice record of Johannson, who stepped into the role after Australian actress Margot Robbie dropped out in order to focus on “Suicide Squad.” At the New York premiere of “Ghost in the Shell” earlier this week, the film’s cinematographer, Jess Hall, told the Los Angeles Times that he was confused by the flap. “I’ve found the casting controversy quite weird,” Hall said. “If you look at Section 9, it’s really very diverse casting,” he added, referencing the film’s self-defense unit. “You have a Fijian (Lasarus Ratuere), a Dane (Pilou Asbæk), several Japanese actors, including one of the country’s biggest stars (Takeshi Kitano). I don’t really understand it.”
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Tenn., activist who wants to buy the internet browsing histories of all legislators and their families and publish them. “Let’s turn the tables. Let’s buy THEIR history and make it available,” activist Adam McElhaney wrote on his fundraising page. Another campaign, started by Misha Collins of Los Angeles, has raised more than $81,000 toward a goal of publicizing the internet history only of lawmakers who voted in favor of killing the FCC privacy rules. A third broadband provider, AT&T, issued a lengthier and more combative statement than those of New York-based Verizon and Philadelphia-based Comcast. The Dallas-based company’s
senior executive vice president for legislative affairs, Robert W. Quinn Jr., said the FCC regulations in question discriminated against broadband providers. “In truth, companies that collect and use the most customer information on the internet are not the (internet service providers) but other internet companies, including operating system providers, web browsers, search engines, and social media platforms. And the FCC rules had nothing — literally nothing — to do with these companies or their practices,” Quinn wrote. He said AT&T has privacy protections in place that did not change with the FCC regulations and will not change with the new bill.
promised he would drain the swamp of the special interests, the lobbyists, and politicians who have overlooked the working people in this country. This judicial nomination breaks those promises,” she said. McCaskill’s announcement Friday drew swift condemnation from Republicans. “Sen. McCaskill supports Obamacare, she supports taxpayer funding of abortion,
she voted for two of President Obama’s liberal Supreme Court nominees, and now she is refusing to even give Judge Gorsuch a fair up or down vote in the Senate,” said Judicial Crisis Network’s Chief Counsel Carrie Severino in a statement. “Senator McCaskill is no longer the Senator from Missouri, she is the Senator for Limousine Liberals,” Severino said.
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viders. “The president pledged to reverse this type of federal overreach in which bureaucrats in Washington take the interests of one group of companies over the interests of others, picking winners and losers,” Spicer said Thursday. Critics of the move called it a defeat for privacy, and a backlash is building. At least two internet campaigns have raised more than $270,000 to buy the browsing histories of lawmakers and even their family members for public perusal. One gofundme.com campaign that had a $10,000 goal has surpassed $193,000 in five days. It was launched by a Chattanooga,
GORSUCH FROM PAGE 2 settled, in what appears to be an attempt to audition for his current nomination.” McCaskill said she doesn’t think Gorsuch will deliver on the promises Trump made to Missourians. “Donald Trump promised Missourians that he would look out for the little guy, for working people, for the forgotten. He
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5 book-themed subscription boxes we’re signing up for ASAP Rachel Carter BookTrib (TNS)
I recently binged a bunch of monthly subscription boxes. From jewelry to clothing to artisan cheeses, I became obsessed with delivered boxes filled with handpicked goodies. It felt like someone was sending me a special present every month, and the surprises and originality kept me coming back for more and more. But I soon discovered that the best monthly subscription boxes are definitely book boxes. Compiled by clearly devoted readers, book-themed subscription boxes bring you the best of everything lit-related. Not only do you get actual, physical books, but you also get a bunch of other things guaranteed to appeal to any reader. Including bookmarks, figurines, fancy tea, stickers and so much more. Every box is different, catering to your own specific reading tastes. And they change up every month, delivering a new reading experience, fun surprises and unique trinkets that are usually themed to the book. So if you get a “Harry Potter” novel, you might also get a Time Turner necklace, Butterbeer-flavored candy or a sorting hat quiz to decide your house. The possibilities are endless. With prices ranging anywhere from $10 to $50 a month, finding a great subscription box can be hard to navigate. But don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. Here are five awesome subscription book boxes, handcrafted for every type of reader: UPPERCASE For all you young adult fiction lovers,
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Uppercase is an awesome choice. Not only does it feature some of the top YA titles, all the books are also signed by the author. The box promises a bunch of “surprises,” which range from things like bookthemed socks to fantasy-inspired maps, to advance copies of must-read books. Seriously, the swag in this box is out of control. Harry Potter cookie cutters! Quotation mark earrings! I would invest in this box for the goodies alone (not to mention that signed book!). THE BOOK DROP Created by an independent bookstore called Bethany Beach Books, The Book
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Drop aims to bring lesser-known titles to a wider audience. The books are hand-selected by the bookstore staff, and are all books they’ve personally read and loved. You can pick between four different boxes, including “The Jane,” which delivers heartfelt emotional stories, and a children’s box that offers up new and loved books for ages 8-12. While The Book Drop might not have all the swag of the other boxes, it does have that special, personal touch of knowing that the book you’re receiving is well loved by voracious readers like yourself. NOVEL TEA CLUB Everyone knows a good book goes
hand-in-hand with a good cup of tea. Which is exactly the premise of Novel Tea Club, a box that includes an awesome novel and a unique type of tea. There are also lots of other goodies, like coasters, candy, bath bombs and more. This box screams cozy night in with a good book. You can also choose between three different genres: young adult, fantasy/sci-fi and romance. The hardest part might be choosing just one! OWL CRATE Owl Crate has two options: the junior version for middle grade readers, and a young adult version for readers 14 and up. Both are completely adorable, featuring monthly themes and exclusive items from authors and publishers. Not only do you get a new, hardcover book, you also get all kinds of cool swag. Things like Funko figurines, literary-themed temporary tattoos, and even “Game of Thrones” coasters. The tagline for the box is “Magical Monthly Reads,” which should tell you everything about how whimsical and adorable it all is. PAPER STREET BOOKS AND COMICS If you love graphic novels and comics, then the Paper Street box might just be for you. Shipping every two months, the box features all sorts of comic-related items, graphic novels, books, swag and more. There are three options, including Book Addict, Comic Addict and Book Warrior. Each receives different items, with the Book Warriors taking home it all — an adult fiction novel, a graphic novel and a few fun surprises as well. This box is a great way to discover more artists and novelists who just might become your new fave.
Tom C. Hunley spreads his knowledge Ian Bonner-Swedish Reporter
Poet and author Tom C. Hunley visited Indiana State University on Thursday. Hunley gave an insight into his creativity by reading poems he had written from the perspective of characters from “The Simpsons.” Mustafa Mustafa, a junior marketing major with a minor in creative writing, had a positive experience. “It was wonderful. I had read a few of his poems, and it was great to hear them come to life,” Mustafa said. Mustafa’s involvement was not one of obligation. “I am part of the creative writing society and I am the treasurer for that. We are partially funded the event by the SGA, and I was here to appreciate the art that he made,” he said. Mustafa also gave insight into whom the speaker was. “Tom C. Hunley is a poet from Eastern Washington University, (which) is where he teaches now, and the book he is most known for now is his book called (“The State That Springfield Is In”) and all the poems are from Simpson’s character’s point of view,” Musatafa said. While poems written from
Katherine Langford, left, and Alisha Boe play frenemies in the Netflix series “13 Reasons Why.”
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‘13 Reasons Why’ is Netflix’s newest must-see series Lorraine Ali
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“Mean Girls.” “Freaks and Greeks.” “Heathers.” Perhaps you’ve heard: High school is treacherous place. Students are ruthless to one another. Hormones are bad-behavior accelerants. And adults? Utterly clueless. Now throw in social media-shaming, sexism and suicide, and you have the basic building blocks for the addictive mystery that is “13 Reasons Why.” Directed by Tom McCarthy (“Spotlight”), this Netflix original series is based on Jay Asher’s 2007 young adult novel of the same name. A girl ends her own life, but why? The answer slowly unfolds over 13 episodes, each an hour long and all of which began streaming
Friday. Stock up on provisions because you won’t be leaving the couch for half a day. Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford) appears more confident and insightful than most of her 17-year-old peers at Liberty High so, when she commits suicide, her parents, the faculty and most of the student body appear stunned. She did, however, leave behind a series of “old school” cassette tapes that provide clues to why she ended her life — and who’s to blame. Thirteen of Hannah’s former friends, tormentors and acquaintances receive packages shortly after her death containing the recordings and a map. Speaking from beyond the grave, she explains they are receiving this package because they somehow contributed to her demise. The group must listen to all seven
cassettes and follow her instructions on where to find clues. If they don’t? Their secrets will be publicly divulged. Just how Hannah will exact this posthumous punishment is part of the mystery. Her mild-mannered friend and admirer Clay Jensen (Dylan Minnette) is stunned to discover himself among the 13. He’s not like most of the other students at Liberty who subsist on making each other miserable. Or so he thought. To understand where he fits into the puzzle, Clay must listen through all the tapes. Along the way, he learns the dark secrets kept by those around him, and the lengths to which they will go to keep those secrets hidden. “13 Reasons Why” plays out over a series of flashbacks, effortlessly hopscotch
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Garment Project provides women recovering from eating disorders with clothing Sara Bauknecht
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PITTSBURGH — An outfit that fits just right has the potential to empower. But the process of finding one — which often involves sorting through a dizzying sea of sizes that varies from brand to brand — can be overwhelming, particularly for someone who is recovering from an eating disorder. That’s where Garment Project comes in. Erin Drischler and her fiance, Jordan Tomb, who live on the North Side, recently started the nonprofit that works with treatment facilities to provide outgoing patients with new sizeless clothing. That way, women in recovery can focus on successfully transitioning back to their daily routines and maintaining a healthy lifestyle, without focusing on what size they’re wearing. “Coming home to my closet after multiple different treatment stays and my clothes were too big or too small, I used them as a tool to measure my weight or size,” said Drischler, who struggled with anorexia nervosa for 14 years. “My
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Erin Drischler and Jordan Tomb go through clothing donated to the Garment Project.
clothing didn’t necessarily keep me sick, but it was a constant reminder of the person I was with my eating disorder. Clothing also was a way I could transform myself to be the person I wanted to be.” An estimated 20 million women in the United States have an eating disor-
der, Garment Project states on its website (www.thegarmentproject.org). With fiscal sponsorship from New Sun Rising (a local organization that supports solutions to social issues), the couple launched the project last month, timed with National Eating Disorders
Awareness week, and were humbled by the positive responses they received. One of the first retailers to reach out to them was Cranberry teen clothing chain rue21, which donated boxes of clothing to the cause. Before pieces are packed and shipped to treatment centers for distribution, all tags with sizing information will be removed. Those in recovery will get access to an individualized website where they can browse and select the clothes they like. In addition to options for teenagers, Garment Project is seeking professional apparel and casual wear for adult women. While no clothing has been distributed yet, details are being worked out for a partnership with a national treatment center that would expand the group’s reach beyond the region. About two years ago, Drischler and Tomb started to get serious about turning their ideas for the endeavor into a reality — a leap they felt their professional backgrounds equipped them to take. Until the end of last year, Drischler worked
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indianastatesman.com TOM FROM PAGE 4 the perspective of well-known cartoon characters may seem strange, for Hunley, it made sense, according to Mustafa. “Yes, I believe he said he was to go on sabbatical and he was trying to find something he both enjoyed and that he could do work on, and this was the perfect fit for it,” Mustafa said. According to Mustafa the event allowed much insight into Hunley’s mind and much more to appreciate while reading. “The backgrounds that he gave before every poem (were interesting). You can read the poems
GARMENT FROM PAGE 4 full time at Nordstrom managing a few departments. She’s since scaled back her hours to focus on Garment Project. Tomb works for the marketing agency Deeplocal in the Strip District and uses his experience as a documentarian to chronicle their nonprofit’s journey. Although Garment Project still is in its infancy, the path to this point has been a very personal one for its founders. Drischler and Tomb met about five years ago while attending Point Park University and The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, respectively. When Drischler went to California for a treatment program, Tomb came along, too. “Meeting Erin and becoming close with her was my introduction to this issue,” he said. “I went out to California and participated in some sessions with
NETFLIX FROM PAGE 4 ing through different timelines. What could have easily been one more high school drama about bullies and victims, jocks and nerds, popular girls and outcasts, is instead a nuanced story about the complexities of relationships between friends, families and lovers. The talents of Minnette and newcomer Langford carry much of the story. They are convincing high school outsiders — he still wears a bike helmet, likes science fiction and pays attention to lunar eclipses. She’s insightful, has a sophisticated sense of humor and is individualistic — all deficits for a
Monday, April 3, 2017 • Page 5 that he has but hearing a little bit of background about each poem is great. Why he chose each character from ‘The Simpsons’ to read from is great, and why he did some the poems was great as well,” Mustafa said. For Mustafa, Hunley’s coming to Indiana State University and speaking was a moment of inspiration. “It honestly did inspire me a whole lot. In my writings I try to write something completely new. Seeing his poems from characters that were already existing has a whole new taste to it, and I am excited to try my hands to it at least in some other pop
culture related characters,” Mustafa said. For Mustafa, the events hosted by the Creative Writing Society are a gateway to enlighten the minds of Indiana State University students, especially those interested in creative writing. “I think that students at ISU we have a lot of creative writing classes and (organizations), but the writing series here are my favorite bits; they show students why they should do this. Their teachers could say ‘This is amazing,’ but when they see people doing this in the real world it will inspire them even more,” he said.
her and her team out there and tried to get more comfortable in this conversation.” Drischler is now two years into her recovery and is doing “phenomenally better,” her fiancé said. “I spent a lot of time really learning how to feel confident in speaking and taking up space and knowing that my voice mattered and I had something to offer,” she added. Sometimes, that meant tuning out the images on television, social media and in magazines that depict a narrow view of beauty and a woman’s body. She’s encouraged, though, by the “small steps toward improvement” that have cropped up in fashion campaigns and on the catwalk. Lane Bryant, ModCloth and Aerie by American Eagle are some of the labels that have been at the forefront of incorporating women of more body types (and,
in some cases, not retouching photos) in their ads. Meanwhile, New York Fashion Week in February featured 26 plus-size models (up from 16 last September), according to the Fashion Spot’s latest Runway Diversity Report. (It was the city’s best season on record for including models of a range of sizes, although plus-size women still only made up fewer than 1 percent of all models cast.) The couple hope Garment Project can spark more conversations about healthy relationships between fashion and body image — and maybe someday extend its services to include sizeless clothing for men in recovery, too. “We’re really hoping people will be able to look past numbers and realize what else they have to offer versus the size they’re buying,” Drischler said.
girl who wants to fit in at a new high school. Together they bring a depth and charm to their roles, and there’s a chemistry between them that is believable. In this series, written by Brian Yorkey and executive produced by Selena Gomez, Hannah and Clay are also mirrors that reflect how different the teen experience can be for girls versus boys. On one tape, Hannah says, “You probably think I’m taking it too seriously. … Here’s the thing. You’ve never been a girl.” Early on in the series, she gets labeled as a “slut” through a photo posted on social media and more old-fashioned forms of humiliation: gossip and writing on
the bathroom walls. It makes her a leper among many of the other girls — some of whom she used to call friends — and a target for leering boys’ lust and ridicule. When she is cited on a secretly circulated “Hot List,” the bright, multifaceted Hannah is objectified into Liberty High’s “Best Ass.” When she complains to the naive Clay, he asks “but isn’t that a compliment?” It’s one of many moments that deftly captures the encroaching and unfair realities of adult life. “13 Reasons Why” is not just about internal and personal struggles — it’s also fun to watch, told at a pace that engages even the most distracted of viewers
(essentially anyone with cable or an Internet connection). Scenes, events and details here also feel pleasantly retro — Clay rides a bike everywhere like it’s “E.T.” Other characters listen to Joy Division on cassette tape. The teens keep deep secrets from the adults a la “River’s Edge.” Though most of the grownups are unbelievably checked out, Hannah’s mother, played by Kate Walsh (“Private Practice”), is so convincingly devastated by her only daughter’s death she makes the other adult characters here appear ridiculously one-dimensional. And the melodrama of high school life can feel tedious at points, which is something you
might not want to experience again, depending on where you stood (or stand) in your high school pecking order. That social order at Liberty High is brought to life by a large cast of young actors who include Miles Heizer (Alex), Alisha Boe (Jessica) and Christian Navarro (Tony). They all have stories too, and demons, that cause them to act out in reckless, cruel and sometimes noble ways. But who knows, by the story’s end, maybe it’s Hannah who’s the tormentor, and they’re, in fact, the victims? Anything is possible in that confusing, parallel universe called high school.
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Ten things college taught me Leah Kennedy Columnist
ONE — No one else cares what I am doing. As a person with anxiety, I am constantly worried someone is watching me. I worry that my clothes are wrong and my makeup looks bad or that, yes, they saw me trip over air back there. But that’s the beauty about college. Literally no one else cares what you’re doing. They don’t care about the way you look or the way you walk because they’re too busy with their own lives. TWO — You’re going to be hungry, and you’re going to be tired, so you best take a nap and bring a snack. I’m not sure how I survived life without a nap before college, but now, a daily nap is not only a must, I honestly am not sure what would happen if I didn’t take a nap. And I am always hungry. So much, in fact, I tend to have a snack on me at all times. THREE — You don’t have to party to have a good time. I never partied in high school, and I don’t party in college, and I still find a way to have fun. Should I at least experience a party? Probably. Will I? Nope. I’m just really not into it. That’s not my scene, and as someone who has a lot of addiction in her family, I don’t want to run the risk of becoming addicted to that life style. FOUR — Umbrellas and heavy coats and actually sensible clothing are cool again, and to be honest, y’all, I could not be more excited about that fact. It wasn’t really a popular style in my high school to dress for the elements, and now I am all about it. FIVE — No dress code and we can all still function. I’m sure everyone knows about high school dress code. Some may have been more lax than others, but in college, we don’t have a dress code. I literally rolled out of bed one day and went to my 10 a.m. in a tank top and shorts once. And you know what? Everything was fine. No boys were distracted by my bare shoulders, and everyone could get their things done. Funny how that works. SIX — I really love squirrels. I think they’re adorable and so quirky and so small. I want a pet one, and I want to try to feed the ones I see around campus, but I
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Michael Flynn’s forms fester suspicion
Zach Davis Columnist
Tensions have been high since the election. Our new president’s approval ratings are low; we’ve dealt with controversial decisions, and we have been looking into Russia’s interference with the election. Things have only gotten progressively more complicated and confusing as more was discovered. Amid the chaos of investigations, former national security advisor Michael Flynn was forced to resign from his position in February after failing to fully inform Mike Pence of his contact with a Russian ambassador. That was horrible news to find
out during an investigation on Russian ties to the U.S., making him appear on the investigating committee’s radar – from which he might never leave. His ties get even stickier from there with newly-released White House documents showing that Flynn hid more ties to Russia around the same time. A set of financial disclosure forms seem to suggest that he attempted to hide a speech he gave for RT, a Kremlin propaganda outlet. On Feb. 11, two days before he was forced to resign and after the news reported on his discussions with the Russian ambassador, he signed a financial disclosure form that listed 30 sources of income listed in the section “sources of income exceeding $5,000 a year,” none of which were Russian. Surprisingly, Flynn signed another financial disclosure form on March 31 that contradicted the first. The most recent form listed an extra 20 sources of income under the same section. It listed three
Russian companies as sources of income, including the speech for RT, which NBC reports paid $45,000. The discrepancies raise a lot of questions, giving the appearance that he has more ties to Russia than he wants us to know about. That isn’t good, especially since we are still investigating possible Russian connections throughout the government after the election. In fact, it makes Flynn look even guiltier, while at the same time legitimize the controversial investigations even more. The forms will surely hurt his image in more areas than one. For example, last week Flynn requested immunity in exchange for a testimony on Russian interference with the election. The Senate Intelligence Committee denied his request, saying that there are more witnesses and documents that need to be obtained before they will even consider such a request. Flynn’s actions are not helping his case though, especially since they listed his speech with RT as
a point of concern. What is even more concerning is the fact he requested immunity in exchange for a testimony about Russia’s ties with the U.S. Adam Schiff, a ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, reminded us that “we should first acknowledge what a grave and momentous step it is for a former National Security Adviser to the President of the United States to ask for immunity from prosecution.” Flynn seems to agree fully with this statement. He pointed this out during a discussion on aides to Hillary Clinton, stating, “When you are given immunity, that means you’ve probably committed a crime.” If we were to use his logic in this case, we would come to the conclusion that he “probably committed a crime.” He knows that asking for immunity raises a lot of suspicion, and it often means the person has something to hide. That gives us even more of a reason to
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Building networks are important for grads
Casey Ewart Columnist
It is that time of year again. With spring graduation just around the corner, many seniors in college feel more pressure when people ask to hear about after graduation plans. In reality, there are a lot of graduating seniors that still do not know what they want to do or are going to do. Jennifer Rutt, writer for AfterCollege, stated that according to the 2014 AfterCollege Career Insights Survey, “83 percent of graduating seniors said they didn’t have a job lined up as of April 2014, despite 72.7 percent
reporting that they were actively looking for one.” This could be for various reasons, such as not having the experience for the jobs they applied to, or asking for too much money. It could also be that they are only applying to jobs in the field that they majored in or in a specific geographic location. Narrowing down to specifics can lead to fewer job prospects. According to Jessica Dickler of CNBC, Findings from the Accenture Strategy, 2016 U.S. College Graduate Employment study included “21 percent of the class of 2016 accepted a job before graduation, up from 12 percent last year and 11 percent two years ago.” This is not reflective of the number of jobs that were offered to college students but declined. This may seem like glim findings. But those who have yet to find a job, it is ok. There are
many students who are in the same situation. According to the Accenture Strategy 2016 U.S. College Graduate Employment Study, “65 percent of 2014 and 2015 college graduates are working in their chosen fields”. Over half of college graduates are working in their chosen fields. This statistic shows that it is possible to gain work in our field. However, it also means that if we do not start out working in our field, we can remain calm because 35 percent of 2014 and 2015 graduates did not work in their field after college. Just because we get offered a job does not mean that we have to choose to accept it, especially if we know that we will not do our best work because we do not like the company or what the company represents. However, some of us need to keep reality in mind, especial-
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ly if we want to move into our own house or apartment. A job will pay the bills. We need to be realistic when we think about how much money we are going to make. Accenture Strategy 2016 U.S. College Graduate Employment Study found that “39 percent of 2014 and 2015 graduates earn $25,000 or less a year,” while, “82 percent of 2016 graduates were expected to earn more than $25,000 a year.” Just because it was expected, did not mean that it happened. People might think that a bachelor’s degree entitles them to a certain amount of cash flow. It could be because society pushes people to go to college to make more money. Although, graduating with a college degree does not entitle anyone to a specific pay grade. Tips for opening up job prospects: We should not narrow down
into specifics of what we want to do or where we want to go. We need to keep in mind that we may not be able to start out in that perfect dream of a career. We need a backup plan of how to get there. Ways to build experience include: temporary jobs in our chosen field, internships or contract jobs. We need to be able to move to where we can get a job. If we limit ourselves to one city, then we have limited our chances of being able to get a job. We also need to be realistic. It is nice to focus on how much money we want to make. However, it is important to keep in mind how much we need to make to survive. We may not be able to just jump into our perfect career. But, we can step back and plan the path we want to take to get to where we want to go.
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TEN FROM PAGE 6 don’t because they eat squirrel food and not people food. SEVEN — I really miss my dog. I have an all-white German Shepard named Cali, and I adore her. Definitely one of the hardest parts of coming to school was leaving her. EIGHT — Homesickness is no joke,
FLYNN FROM PAGE 6 be suspicious of him. Flynn’s lawyer and Donald Trump both explained his immunity request is to protect him from a “witch hunt.” If he were innocent, though, then immunity wouldn’t be necessary to request before the committee is ready to consider
my friends. I miss my mom and dad and siblings on the daily, and I’d go home much more than I do if I could. I’m from a very tightly knit family. My mom and sisters are my best friends, and I call them both more than once a day. It gets lonely up here because I’m used to always being with them. Though I love my independence, I miss being with them. NINE — Also in college, I learned that
it. All that serves is to suggest Flynn has even more to hide. There doesn’t seem to be an easy way out of this tangled web. On the bright side, the intelligence committees don’t seem like they will let him off easy. Hopefully, we can uncover exactly how deep his ties with Russia are, and close a potential hole in our national security.
boys can still break your heart. But on the flip side to that, I also learned that the way I think of my relationships has changed. I stopped trying to make them perfect, and once I did that, I was so much happier and my relationships got better. Life isn’t a Taylor Swift song. And I don’t need it to be. TEN — Finally, I learned that I can be me. I can think what I want, love how I
MOORE FROM PAGE 8 29 points through seven events scored, falling behind Eastern Illinois (94) and Illinois (63). Senior All-American Alethia Marrero won the 400-meter hurdles in her first try at the event since the 2015 season, running 1:02.08 for the win. Senior pole vaulter Kaitlyn Moricz won the pole vault title, her first height cleared since finishing as the MVC runner-up indoors. Moricz cleared 3.80m for the win, the eighth-best in
want. No one tells me what to say or do, and in finding my own way, I’ve learned more about myself than I ever thought possible. All in all, ISU has been very good to me and rewarded me with all kinds of knowledge. These are just ten things off the top of my head. See you next time ISU. As always, it was fun.
school history outdoors and currently the 27th-best in the East Region. Senior long jumper Devyn Mikell recorded a runner-up finish for the Sycamore men with a season-best performance in the long jump. Mikell leapt a wind-aided 7.21m, a three-centimeter outdoor best this season that currently ranks tied for 29th in the East Region. The Sycamore women had a high finish in the long jump of their own, with sophomore Caitlyn Redmon recording a
wind-aided outdoor best of 5.82m for a fourth-place finish. Sophomore Akis Medrano helped out the Sycamore men with a top-three finish in the 5K, his first race of the outdoor season. Medrano – an All-MVC finisher during the cross country season – finished third overall at 14:35.62. Also recording some solid points for the Sycamore men was Ryan Chestnut in the hammer throw, who finished sixth at a season-best toss of 52.07m.
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Baseball falls to Illinois in walk-off Fashion, 2-1 Tim McCaughan
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ISU baseball lost to Illinois in a tight game, 2-1.
Indiana State’s offense couldn’t match the timely hitting of the Drake Bulldogs, falling in consecutive 5-0 losses to Drake in a doubleheader to open the series on Saturday afternoon. The Sycamores (15-16, 2-6 MVC) had no answer for the defensive shift that Drake (1816, 2-6 MVC) put on display on Saturday, tallying just 11 total hits across both games whereas Drake put up 11 hits in the first game alone. Indiana State and Drake will conclude the series on Sunday morning, with first pitch scheduled for 12 p.m. ET. Fans can watch live on The Valley on ESPN3. Drake scored at least one run in each of the first four innings as a Bulldog offensive assault and strong pitching held the Sycamores scoreless in a 5-0 loss in Game One. Kenzie Ihle (11-8) pitched 5.2
innings, but the Drake offense awoke for 11 hits and five earned runs – including two round-trippers. Sophomore Brooke Mann broke out of a recent slump with a 2-for-3 performance to pace the Sycamore offense, ripping a double into right-center in the second inning and then a frozen-rope single to center in the fourth, but would remain onbase both innings. Junior Kylie Stober picked up right where she left off from her terrific outing against Ball State on Wednesday, in which she took the loss in an eight-inning gem. Against the Cardinals, Stober did not allow a hit over the final seven innings she pitched – a streak she continued in the first few innings against Drake in Game Two. Stober opened with three scoreless and hitless innings – extending her hitless streak to 10.0 innings pitched before Drake broke that open in the fourth inning. In that inning, Drake took a 3-0 lead it would never relin-
quish – including scoring one on a sac-fly double play, Indiana State’s third double play of the day. The Sycamores entered the weekend ranked 10th nationally with 16 double plays. Drake added one each in the fifth and sixth to take a 5-0 lead, despite Stober only allowing three hits all day and the Sycamores mustering six themselves. Freshman Leslie Sims had a stellar game, going 3-for-4 with her first two career doubles. On the day, Sims went 4-for-7, improving her season batting average to .457. She also owns a .522 average in Valley games. Entering this weekend, Sims ranked No. 4 in the Valley with a .444 average. Also having a great day at the plate in Game Two was none other than pitcher Kylie Stober in her first three at-bats as a Sycamore. Stober went 2-for-3 with two singles, her first two career hits. While at Minnesota, Stober recorded a strikeout and walk in two plate appearances in two seasons.
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Moore shatters 1500 record Tyler Wooten
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Sophomore distance star Brooke Moore made history yet again after shattering another long-standing Indiana State record in the 1500-meter at the Stanford Invite on Friday evening. Moore, who broke current Indiana State senior associate athletic director Angie Lansing’s 1998 mile record indoors by seven seconds, repeated the effort with almost an eerie consistency, breaking Lansing’s 1997 record in the 1500 of 4:27.92 by seven seconds at a new record of 4:20.02. Most impressively, this was Moore’s first-career 1500-meter race. She won the third section of the 1500 and finished 17th overall with that time. Following the later heats that included faster collegiate times, Moore currently ranks 15th in the NCAA in the 1500. Using the national performance list entering this weekend, her time would have ranked No. 3. Fellow distance runner Taylor Austin had a similarly fast open in her signature event, the 3,000 meter steeplechase, out at Stanford. Austin, the defending MVC steeple champion at a school-record time of 10:17.70, nearly broke her own record in the process today, running her best-ever steeple open at 10:17.73 to finish sixth in the invite section. Austin was among the best in the country, as the four top steeple times in the United States were run in her invite heat tonight. Using tonight’s times and the previous national list, Austin ranks No. 4 in the NCAA. The rest of the Sycamore men’s and women’s track & field teams had a solid first day at Eastern Illinois for the Big Blue Classic with two event wins on a cold and wet Day One. With eight events scored, the Sycamore women sit in second place with 56 points behind current leader Illinois State at 70. The Sycamore men, meanwhile, currently rank third with
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Indiana State University mens and womens track and field teams placed third on Saturday.
Sycamore finish third in EIU Big Blue Classic Tyler Wooten
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Indiana State men’s and women’s track & field both finished third at the conclusion of the 2017 EIU Big Blue Classic on Saturday. The Sycamore women scored 115.5 meet points behind Illinois State (194.5) and Eastern Illinois (139), while the men finished scored 133.5 behind Eastern Illinois (170) and Illinois (156.5). “Today ended up being a beautiful day to compete,” said ISU head coach Angela Martin. “We had some very good performances from our sprint crews and discus throwers. The 4x100-meter relay was a definite highlight.” “We had some other bumps here and there while we’re still adjusting to outdoors,” Martin continued. “The leadership on the men’s team is growing and I look forward to what the rest of the season holds. I see the fight in our athletes, and although we have had a lot of growing pains throughout the indoor season, this group of young people are
really starting to pull together.” Martin mentioned the men’s 4x100-meter relay, who did indeed have an exciting day as ISU’s lone event title. The quartet of Daley Carter, Jaynard Keys, Adrian Gibson and Tristan Parmley won at a sizeable season-best time of 40.91 seconds, the 27th-best time in the NCAA East Region at the moment. Parmley and Keys also had strong days in the 200, with Parmley finishing fifth at 21.73 and Keys seventh at 21.92. Carter also had a strong prelim in the 110-meter hurdles but was disqualified later in the finals. Carter ran a new season-best in the prelim at a wind-aided (3.0) 14.36 seconds, fourth in the prelim and currently tied for 25th in the East. Ahead of him in prelims were former Sycamore and Olympian Greggmar Swift (second, 13.99) and senior Marcus Neely (third, 14.09). Swift ended up winning at 13.81, with the top collegiate finish going to Milwaukee’s Nate Pozolinski (13.87) and the collegiate runner-up finish going to Neely (14.17).
Both the Sycamore men and women performed well in the 400-meter dash with two separate runner-up finishes. Dowdell, who won the 400 at Ole Miss last week at 48.18, finished second at 48.19. Dowdell was later part of ISU’s third-place 4x400-meter relay that ran 3:18.72. Junior Oschtisha Jackson ran an outdoor season-best in her runner-up finish in the 400 at 56.31. Junior high jumper Jaime Murtagh had one of two men’s runner-up finishes in the field, clearing 2.03m (6-08.00) for second place. Freshman Grant Harris claimed the other runner-up finish in the discus in his first meet as a Sycamore. Harris threw 46.04m (151-00) for the high finish. Ryan Chestnut also finished high in the men’s discus in fourth at 45.41m (149-00). Senior and defending MVC discus champion Jasmine Noel kept the success in the discus going for the Sycamores, finishing third at 46.46m (152-05). Indiana State was equally as successful in the triple jump with
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two top-three finishes across the men’s and women’s events. Gino Brown leapt an outdoor career-best 14.75m (48-04.75), which ties for 43rd-best in the East Region. Tasjia Thomas also finished third in the women’s edition, jumping 1.25m (36-11.00) in her first career outdoor meet with the Sycamores. Indoors she set a best of 11.52m (37-09.50). Adding in on the field event fun were pole-vaulters Trey Kennedy and Riley Smith. Kennedy finished third overall at 4.75m (1507.00), an outdoor career-best, with Smith behind him in fourth at 4.65m (15-03.00). Other strong finishes on the day included Imani Davis in the 800 (third, 2:12.24), Taylor Rogers in the women’s steeplechase (11:25.13), Ryan Cash in the men’s steeple (fifth, 9:39.54), and freshman Shana Cooper in the 100-meter dash (eighth, 12.36 finals, 12.34 prelims (3.8 wind)). The Sycamores will head back south next week with a trip to Auburn for the Auburn Invite on April 7-8.