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The African Global Night was held in University Hall Friday and was hosted by the African Student Union.

African Global Night showcases tradition, culture, food Anthony Goelz Reporter

The African Student Union held their annual African Global Night in the University Hall auditorium on Friday.

“The African Student Union always hosts what we call a ‘global night.’ Every spring semester we come up with a theme that is generalized around the continent of Africa, and we put together performances such as dancing, drumming, poetry, singing and any other stuff to educate the Terre Haute community and the other students on campus about the continent of Africa,” said Sonia Npke, an athletic training major and the president of the African Student Union.

Npke also explained how this is the only way to showcase the culture of Africa since many people have never been there.

The MCs at the event kept the audience entertained in between acts and the crowd spurred on with thunderous cheers. The most interactive demonstration was during the African drums performance given by Colleen Haas, a full time instructor at Indiana State University. “(Haas’) areas of specialization are in the performing arts in West Africa and the African diaspora where the integration of visual, verbal and movement arts are integral to the conception and creation of live musical performance,” according to the ISU website.

Haas’ demonstration was quick but informative.

She went over the role of the drums and the basic rhythms associated with said drums. Haas then brought audience members up to perform for the crowd. After the demonstrations, one of the MCs said

that there is a class on African drums next semester and over the summer.

“Even before the spring semester starts, people always ask ‘Are you guys going to do the African Global Night?’ because it’s something that people actually do look forward to,” Npke said.

“I was very glad that it was an event on campus that students and faculty and staff know about it. So everybody is always looking forward to this program,” Npke said. She also explained that usually the event draws about 200 to 300 people. Despite inclement weather, people still showed up in droves to support and enjoy the event.

Following the event, a dinner was served at the Centenary United Methodist Church.

“This time around the food we are serving is mostly from is mostly from Nigeria and from Ghana, and those are located in West Africa … and we also tried this year to make traditional drinks from Ghana and Nigeria.” The food was provided by a caterer from Indianapolis who “specializes in cooking African dishes,” Npke said.

Npke said that events such as this are important for the ISU community because it allows education about cultures that may be unfamiliar to most.

“Where we are in the world is like a global village, you can get in touch with a lot of people in a very short amount of time. So the extent that you have to go in order to learn from another country is not that far,” Npke said.

She added that anyone with questions about the countries in Africa or the organization itself are welcome at meetings, which are open to all students.

“It’s a good platform to learn about 54 countries in one single organization,” Npke said.

Construction affects student, professor daily routines Kiara Dowell Reporter

Construction between the Science Building and Holmstedt Hall has begun.

The construction workers are working on the roof and the second floor of the science building as they did for the first. While this construction is needed, it is impacting students. The construction will go on well into the summer. Two sets of doors that students use to enter the building have been blocked off.

“We are classroom and event technology support part of OIT, they are doing roof work and the second floor is also being upgraded like the first floor this summer,” graduate Gerrick VanLue said.

“My group is also installing new projectors in some of the science classrooms, but we won’t know till after school is out.”

Teacher assistant for the English Department Ashley Rogers believes that they should have chosen a later date to start the construction.

“Why do we have to do this now at this crucial time of the semester? Everybody is studying for finals, everyone is trying to figure out where they go for their finals, we got projects being turned in, and summer is only two or three weeks away. It makes you question why you couldn’t just delay this for another couple weeks just to get through the end of the semester,” Rogers said.

VanLue disagrees, saying the process is not going to hinder the student’s ability to function for the rest of the semester.

“The project management typically ensures that impact to students is very little, especially during finals,” VanLue said.

Many students think the construction is very inconvenient because they now have to enter

through different sets of doors.

Some students and teachers have to change up their routine in order to accommodate for the blocked doors.

“I can’t get in from the back to cut to Dreiser,” said freshman Sammy Batchelor. “It also may make some have to change their walking schedule to get to class on time.”

Teachers also have to change their schedule in order to make it to class on time.

“It’s so inconvenient both traversing through and around that side of the building,” sophomore Alex Duncan said.

Rogers also thinks that the construction is a major inconvenience because the journey to class is difficult for her and her office neighbor.

“My office neighbor teaches in the science building, and we always walk together, and she has to walk all the way around the building,” Rogers said. “Once she gets into the building, she has to take an alternate route. It takes her ten minutes longer to get to her class.

Then we have to leave earlier, and it cuts into our office hours.”

According to VanLue, the construction at the fountain was more inconvenient than the current construction because of the location and the other construction sites.

“This is not as bad as the fountain construction,” VanLue said.

“That was going on the same time as the towers project and the first floor of the science building. I calculate that almost 30 percent of campus walkways were closed.”

Even though the construction may seem inconvenient, it is necessary. The buildings are in need of remodeling and it is that time for it.

“It will be worth it in the end,” VanLue said. “The science building needs the update.”

SGA proposes resolution barring student athletes with sexual assault records Ashton Hensley Reporter

The Student Government Association has authored a resolution to not allow a student athlete into Indiana State University athletics who has guilty charges of sexual assault on record.

The resolution was passed by unanimous vote during the SGA meeting last Wednesday.

“It’s important to know that a resolution is a position statement of a body, so this is going to be upon passage, the official statement of the student government,” SGA senator and chairman of the ethics committee Levi Allen said.

Allen authored this resolution with the intentions of adapting similar policies to ISU.

“This resolution was brought about because of schools across the country, including Indiana University, implementing this type of policy,” Allen said.

The resolution states that prospective student athletes who have sexual allegation charges on record would not be allowed into the program.

“The resolution basically asks for the department of athletics to adopt a policy that would bar entry of student athletes who have a history of a felony sexual assault charge that they were found guilty of or plead no contest to, meaning they’re pleading guilty,” Allen said.

Allen said that when it comes to current athletes with guilty charges and students accused but found not guilty, it would be up to the athletics department to

make decisions.

“Upon passage, the resolution will be sent to the athletic director and all head coaches,” Allen said.

Since it was passed, this is the next step for SGA. It will be up to the athletics department to make the resolution official policy.

“I am looking forward to reviewing it and sharing our thoughts to then work with the SGA to make this thing happen,” Athletics Director Sherard Clinkscales said.

Clinkscales said his main concern is making the policy for ISU, not copying IU’s policy.

“I just don’t want to mirror IU’s policy, I want to do something that makes sense for us and meets the needs for our universi-

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Her Color Shines recognizes students Claire Silcox Reporter

Celebrating women of color on Indiana State University’s campus, the Multicultural Services and Programs Division of Student Affairs hosted their second annual Her Color Shines event in University Hall on April 29.

The red carpet lit up with paparazzi as guests, nominees, families and friends walked into University Hall. The red carpet was from 5:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. just before the event began and provided a fun reason to dress to impress.

“Black, white and gold were the theme colors chosen for the first year and the committee for the event decided to keep them the same,” Makeisha Bickley, senior ISU student, said.

Bickley is a co-chair of the Her Color Shines Committee along with Klaudia Rogers and many

other members. She is also the program coordinator for the Office of Multicultural Services and Programs.

As the second annual event, the only big difference from the first is that Hispanic and Latina decent women had been added to the African American women already being nominated and honored.

“To me, it means letting your inner light shine — leadership, resilience, dedication, academic performance, etc. — whatever makes a woman of color shine with excellence,” Bickley said.

Within the night there were seven awards given to women of color on ISU’s campus, including students, faculty and staff.

First there was the Savvy Award given to Jacinta Frison, Tracy Ortiz, Maycee Davis and Taylor Guevara for their discernment and practical knowledge throughout their freshman or

sophomore years at ISU. The Galvanize Award came next, awarding women that exhibit outstanding motivation and leadership across campus. This award went to Jada Tompkins, Olivia Martin, Tiara Cross, Esther Adams and Jamina Tribbett.

Young women that excelled both academically and as student athletes, such as Jazlyn Rowan and Adrianna Henry, were honored with the Fierce Award.

As fine arts majors with academic achievements and artistic ability, Sarah Deweese and Kenia Ramirez were awarded the Virtuoso Award.

The Resilient Award was presented to Katrina Tunstall and Samantha Escobedo for their contributions to ISU and their community as graduate students.

As doctoral students who overcame adversity and promote ex-

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Pence suggests new health care law won’t come until year-end Ben Brody Bloomberg News (TNS) WASHINGTON — ­ Vice President Mike Pence said he hopes Congress can pass legislation to replace the Affordable Care Act by the end of the year, far later than President Donald Trump has envisioned.

Pence, on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” did not say when Trump would be able to sign a new health care bill, but that he hopes it would be “before the end of the year.”

“We’re hopeful there’ll be action in the House of Representatives soon,” Pence also said.

Trump said April 20 that he believed he could get action on health care “whether it’s next week or shortly thereafter.” Repealing and replacing President Barack Obama’s health care law was on Trump’s to-do list for his

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Vice President Mike Pence said the implementation of the new health care should wait until the end of the year.

first 100 days in office, which ended Saturday.

Republican leaders, under pressure from the White House, had been considering whether to vote last week, after conservative holdouts endorsed a revised bill.

But a number of moderate Republicans remained opposed to the measure, making it unclear

whether it had enough votes to pass. Leaders were also distracted by the need to ensure passage of a stopgap measure to fund the government. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., left open the possibility to try again this week.

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The historic SpaceX rocket booster is hoisted off a barge Tuesday, April 4, 2017 after it arrived back home to Port Canaveral in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

SpaceX scrubs launch of national security satellite SpaceX scrubbed a planned Sunday morning launch of a payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.

The spy satellite, known as NROL-76, was to have been launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The four-hour window for a launch Monday starts at 7 a.m.

EDT. If the launch Monday goes as planned, SpaceX will attempt to land the first-stage booster back at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

North Carolina college requires teachers to sign pledge opposing samesex marriage, abortion Tim Funk The Charlotte Observer (TNS)

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Samantha Masunaga Los Angeles Times (TNS)

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The Hawthorne, Calif., space company last month relaunched a previously used first stage to put a commercial communications satellite into orbit, and then landed the booster on a floating sea platform. Monday’s payload would be launched atop a new first-stage booster.

Few details have been released about the rocket’s payload. Unlike with commercial launches, SpaceX did not say how long it would take the satellite to deploy or to what orbit it would travel.

This may not be SpaceX’s first launch for the NRO, which is part of the Defence Department.

The company is believed to have

launched a small satellite for the intelligence agency as a secondary payload during a December 2010 demonstration flight for NASA. SpaceX and the NRO did not respond to requests for comment about that launch’s payload.

Since being certified in 2015 to launch national security satellites, SpaceX has won two contracts to launch GPS satellites for the U.S. Air Force.

That has put pressure on United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. that has long held a lucrative monopoly on sensitive military launches.

A Christian college in the North Carolina mountains that’s long been associated with the Billy Graham family is in turmoil over the school’s insistence that faculty and staff sign and live in accordance with a new document that opposes same-sex marriage and abortion.

Montreat College’s “Community Life Covenant,” which was recently added to faculty and staff handbooks, uses loftier language and includes many widely admired tenets like “be people of integrity” and “seek righteousness, justice and mercy.”

What’s become controversial are those parts of the covenant that expect those who work at the school to affirm “the sanctity of marriage between one man and one woman” and the “worth of every human being from conception to death” — phrases that translate into condemnations of same-sex marriage and abortion.

Also an issue with some: The covenant appears to favor a literal interpretation of the Bible, calling the book “the infallible Word of God and fully authoritative in matters of life and conduct.”

Some faculty and staff have refused to sign, effectively ending their employment at the college as of mid-May, when the current semester ends.

A small number of the 876 students enrolled at the close-knit college held a public protest on Wednesday, hoisting signs reading “Make Montreat Montreat Again” and “Don’t Break Our Family.” Students are not required to sign the covenant.

The controversy has even riled up some in Montreat and neighboring towns. Black Mountain resident and lifelong Presbyterian Ina Jones Hughs wrote a fiery column for the Asheville Citizen-Times: “What Montreat College has just done is alarming and disgusting. Demanding its faculty and administration to sign a pledge which … treats LGBT Christians as outside the fold and their relationships as spiritually unworthy; stands opposed to women’s reproduction choices; and declares theirs a literal interpretation of the Bible … Montreat College hard-handed ‘covenant’ … brings shame to the history and reputation of Montreat as a welcoming community.”

The new covenant, as well as the college’s mission statement, vision statement, and statement of faith, “are rooted in core biblical values that have been central to Christianity for 2,000

years and central to the college throughout its 101-year history,” according to a statement emailed

by Montreat College spokesman Adam Caress. “They do not represent a change in the college’s core beliefs, but are rather an affirmation of what the college — and orthodox Christianity in general — has always believed.”

Some who oppose the covenant are pointing a finger at the conservative Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA), which last month contributed $100,000 to the college’s scholarship fund.

The school and the BGEA both denied that the Charlotte-based ministry — now headed by Franklin Graham, a Montreat College alumnus and an outspoken opponent of same-sex marriage and abortion — had any involvement in writing the covenant or insisting that faculty and staff sign it.

“BGEA had no role,” said its spokesman Mark DeMoss.

“There is a 70-year relationship between the college and the Graham … family, with many gifts being given over the years from individual Graham family members and the BGEA.” The Graham family and organization have had a say in Montreat College policy for years.

Ruth Graham, Billy’s late wife, served on the school’s board of trustees for nearly a decade. (She and Billy were married in the college’s chapel, which now bears their names). Will Graham, Franklin’s son, has also been a trustee.

And two sources told the Charlotte Observer on Thursday that David Bruce, executive assistant to 98-year-old Billy Graham and one of the college’s current trustees, will soon become the new chairman of that board.

The elder Graham, who still lives in the family’s mountaintop home in Montreat, never strayed from a literal reading of the Bible. But in his later years, he appeared to mellow, emphasizing God’s love and offering a more inclusive vision that he said left the judging of others to God. But Billy’s son Franklin, who read a Scriptural passage in January at President Donald Trump’s inauguration, has become a polarizing figure in his sometimes confrontational quest to promote socially conservative views he says are mandated by the Bible.

Corrie Greene, an English teacher at the school, said Montreat College’s new covenant may or may not have been Graham’s idea, “but it certainly didn’t hurt the relationship between the BGEA and the school.”

Economic growth stumbles to worst rate in 2 years Jim Puzzanghera Los Angeles Times (TNS) WASHINGTON — The economy stumbled at the start of 2017, expanding at its slowest pace in two years in a demonstration of the difficulty President Donald Trump will have in boosting growth to a much stronger sustained level.

Total economic output, also known as gross domestic product, increased at just a 0.7 percent annual rate from January through March as consumer spending posted its worst performance in more than seven years, the Commerce Department said Friday in its first of three official estimates.

The economy grew at a 2.1 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter of last year.

“Growth of less than 1 percent means the wheels are up but the economy’s engines cannot gain any altitude,” said Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at Mitsubishi UFG Financial Group in New York.

“Trump’s economics team needs to step up their game as the economy is starting out the year in a hole,” he said.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said the report showed that the economy needed the tax cuts and regulatory reductions promised

by Trump.

“Business and consumer sentiment is strong, but both must be released from the

regulatory and tax shackles constraining economic growth,” Ross said.

Analysts had forecast a first quarter slowdown, but the 0.7 percent growth was below expectations. It was the worst since the first quarter of 2014, when unusually bad weather in much of the country and a West Coast port dispute caused the economy to contract at a 1.2 percent annual rate.

In unveiling a tax overhaul plan this week that would slash business rates, Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin said the administration hoped it would lead to sustained growth of 3 percent a year.

But economists said an aging U.S. population and unhealed scars from the Great Recession made that a stretch.

Friday’s data highlighted the difficulties.

Although consumer confidence has improved significantly since Trump’s election in November, that didn’t lead Americans to open their wallets after he took office.

Consumer spending grew just 0.3 percent in the first quarter, down from 3.5 percent the previous quarter.

The slowdown was driven by a steep dropoff in purchases of long-lasting durable goods, such as automobiles, appliances and electronics. After an 11.4 percent increase in the fourth quarter, those purchases declined 2.5 percent in the first three months of this year.

The last time consumer spending was

weaker was the fourth quarter of 2009, just six months after the Great Recession officially ended.

Overall growth also took a hit from a decline in spending by federal, state and local governments. And unseasonably warm weather appeared to cause spending on utilities to drop.

“A cold winter can lead to delays in construction activities. A warm one, as was the case this year, can produce lower utility bills,” said Brian Schaitkin, senior economist at the Conference Board.

“Sky-high consumer confidence and rising wages suggest that spending should bounce back quickly during the rest of the year, driving the economy to overall growth of around 2 percent in 2017, in line with long-term trends,” he said.

There were some positive signs in an otherwise downbeat report.

Business investment, which has been sluggish the last couple of years, increased sharply. The 9.4 percent increase was more than 10 times the previous quarter’s number and the best since the fourth quarter of 2013.

The change was driven by a “significant surge” in oil and gas exploration and drilling as oil prices have rebounded, Ross said.

And U.S. exports increased 5.8 percent in the first quarter, reversing a 4.5 percent decline the previous quarter.

indianastatesman.com SGA FROM PAGE 1 ty,” Clinkscales said.

Adjusting the policy to fit ISU is also one of the goals of the SGA. “I authored this resolution, and I didn’t steal from their documents; we wanted to make this our own and tailor it to our university,” Allen said.

Though there is no written policy in place currently, Clinkscales said that ISU’s coaches already

PENCE FROM PAGE 2 House Republicans have been examining a provision that would allow states to receive waivers on the current law’s requirement to provide insurance to people with pre-existing conditions.

Monday, May 1, 2017 • Page 3 consider such allegations when recruiting.

“There is no written policy, but our coaches do not pursue student athletes with these kinds of allegations, no matter how good they are,” Clinkscales said. “Our coaches are all on board with recruiting the kind of student athlete that is going to be able to graduate and be a quality citizen.”

Clinkscales said he is ready to work together with the SGA to

make the resolution an official policy. Students are also reacting positively to the resolution.

“I think it’s a good thing. You never know if something else could possibly happen, and it’s a really serious thing to be charged with,” freshman communication major Macy Lowden said.

Libby Stagg, a junior and member of the ISU color guard, shared her opinion as a student athlete.

“I believe that athletics are a

good thing for all people. But if someone has been charged with sexual assault, then their case should be heavily examined before allowing them onto a team,” Stagg said.

Allen said that the resolution goes along with ISU’s It’s on Blue movement that educates students about sexual assault.

“This supports the It’s on Blue campaign that ISU has put a lot of time, money and effort into,” Allen

said. “We feel that this is an important step in the right direction.”

The resolution begins to ask important questions about ISU’s character.

“The question to be asked is what do we stand for as a university?” Allen said. “It’s not about winning a game, it’s about what is our character as a university and what are we going to stand for.”

In exchange, states would have to provide high-risk pools that fund coverage for those people, and insurers would be able to charge them more.

In a series of Twitter messages Sunday, Trump said a “new healthcare plan is on its way” with

“lower premiums & deductibles while at the same taking care of pre-existing conditions!”

He and Pence continued to talk down the current law.

“ObamaCare is dead,” Trump said on Twitter Sunday and again on CBS.

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models for students and the community that these faculty, staff and administrators are.

These women are Patricia Bolton, Martha Reed, Mary Kay, Maria Chaqra, Dr. Rosetta Haynes and Dr. Yasenka Peterson.

cellence and commitment in everything they do, Tara Evans and Magnolia Hernandez were awarded the Perseverance Award.

Lastly came the Longevity Award, honoring the positive role

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Chicago couple’s donation among largest in university history Contributing among the largest individual gifts in Indiana State University history was a natural decision for alumnus Todd Osburn and his wife, Caroline Howe.

The couple has been actively engaged with the university for the better part of the past decade, including Osburn serving on the Indiana State University Foundation board of directors.

“The people we meet from ISU are genuine and passionate about ISU and the work they’re doing — whether it’s building awareness of the school or educating students,” Howe said. “They’re sincere and hardworking individuals, who believe in, and work hard at, building relationships.”

The $7.5 million planned gift is uniquely structured to both help the most financially strapped students — those from middle-income families — and to ensure their professional readiness upon graduation.

The Caroline C. Howe and Todd A. Osburn Endowed Scholarship sets aside $5 million to assist Scott College of Business students, and $2.5 million will create the Caroline C. Howe and Todd A. Osburn Career Professional Readiness Fund.

Osburn said the financial challenges faced by students from middle-income families were highlighted during a foundation board presentation by President Dan Bradley. Higher-income parents can afford to pay for their children’s college expenses, and low-income students can qualify for federal and state subsidies. The widest funding gap, however, is among middle income parents who don’t earn enough to pay for their children’s higher education.

“Middle-income families are really getting squeezed,” Osburn said. “That really resonated. When we thought of the gift, we really wanted to target these students who have the biggest financial challenge.”

Osburn and Howe, too, hope to inspire others to support Indiana State’s endeav-

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ISU President Dan Bradley, Caroline Howe and Todd Osburn pose for a photo on campus.

ors. “If everyone continues to give back to those who follow in their footsteps, it can really make a difference,” he said.

“One of the biggest gifts we can give ourselves or each other is education,” she said, adding that Osburn often says education is one of the greatest equalizers.

College is more important now than ever before, Bradley said.

“The difference a college education makes in the earning potential of a person is continuing to widen. Recent studies have shown the annual earnings for full-time working college grads is nearly $20,000 greater than for those with high school diplomas only,” Bradley said. “This kind of support will greatly enhance Indiana State’s ability to provide a quality of

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Garrien Woods, an ISU graduate student with student affairs and higher education, hosted a presentation to enlighten the student body through an anti-bully and bias prevention workshop with a focus on the LGBTQ community. This event was hosted by the Office of Multicultural Services and Programs’ LGBTQ Resource Center. Students gathered on Friday to discuss the issue.

“A lot of people don’t know the right things to say especially from people who don’t identify as LGBTQ, so they’re often trying to figure out ‘What does this mean?

What does that mean?’” Woods said.

For Woods, the foundation of unity is not rooted in our commonality, but in our differences.

“You have to embraces those differences, and if you can’t truly embrace those differences, it’s hard to unite. The purpose of this event … is to build harmony and proactively promote inclusivity of the LGBTQ community, anti-bullying, and bias prevention, but also to learn and apply anti-bullying and bias prevention methods toward LGBTQ and non-binary individuals,” Woods said.

According to Woods, the first and one of the most crucial steps is active listening.

“By having the conversation of sharing experiences, sharing how you feel, and educating someone on what it is you experience, and by the other person doing active listening … (it’s) something more

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education and career training to deserving students - and change their lives forever.”

The middle class was once the leading reason why America led the world in young adults attaining a college education.

“The cost of education is a major hurdle for many students who are seeking the American dream — a college education,” said Brien Smith, dean of the Scott College of Business. “This gift will be a difference maker for many students who want an accredited business degree but can’t find a financial pathway. To say these scholarships will have a lasting legacy is an understatement.”

Osburn, ‘85, of Chicago earned a degree in accounting and is a founding partner of Greyrock Capital Group. Howe earned a

bachelor’s degree in communications and development from Marymount Manhattan College in New York and a master’s degree in education from Hunter College of The City University of New York.

Osburn says the decision to attend Indiana State was a natural one after graduating from Terre Haute South High School.

While attending Indiana State during the day, he worked nights full-time at the Pillsbury plant (now the soon-to-be renovated ICON building) on the Wabash River.

That work ethic combined with people who invested in him has been a key driver to Osburn’s success, he told students when he was the December 2014 commencement speaker.

“My first job after graduation was at Roadmaster Corporation, located in Olney, Ill. It was a terrific experience for me for a number of reasons, one of which was that the owners believed strongly in developing their employees through continuing education and brought in guest lecturers and numerous individuals to teach seminars on a wide range of subjects,” Osburn said at the time.

Upon deciding how to structure the gift to the university, Howe said they asked their nieces and nephews what they wished they had learned in college. Their wish list included job readiness skills such as internships, interview preparedness, communication etiquette, general leadership and corporate social responsibility.

Osburn and Howe hope to help Sycamores be “ready to hit the ground running” upon graduation.

“It’s not just enough to graduate,” Osburn said. “You have to be prepared for that next chapter in your life. ISU was the core thing that prepared me for the next chapter, which was work.”

With this gift, the Career Center at In-

They came to see the survivor, of course.

The Little Theatre at East Aurora High School on Tuesday afternoon was overflowing with students from the Survivor Literature classes who wanted to hear firsthand how Jaycee Dugard lived for 18 years as a prisoner in the backyard of her kidnapper and rapist.

Of how she gave birth to two daughters — not only managing to live through almost two decades of imprisonment and, at times, unimaginable sexual torture, but to later find forgiveness and normalcy.

First, however, Dugard wanted to hear from the East Aurora kids.

After flashing a dazzling smile and waving shyly to her audience, Dugard admitted she was nervous, having never before spoken to a high school group that made her best-selling memoir, “A Stolen Life,” the focus of its annual class project.

“Tell me about your night,” she requested, referring to the 18hour lock-in these students took part in over the weekend that not only helped raise more than $7,000 for Dugard’s JAYC Foundation, but also gave these teens a chance to focus intently on the subject of sexual abuse.

The young audience responded to her inquiry, tentatively at first, describing their personal discussions during the overnight gathering that took place Saturday evening through noon Sunday. They talked about the emails they wrote to survivors and the T-shirts they made. They told

their guest about the various stations that were set up in the gymnasium that allowed them to discuss issues relevant to her book.

And they detailed some of the more memorable activities, such as having to sit on their hands for 15-minute-intervals throughout the long and sleepless night as a reminder of the many hours Dugard was handcuffed by Phillip Garrido after he kidnapped her in 1991 while she was on her way to the school bus in Lake Tahoe.

“It was scary … agonizing,” is how one East Aurora girl described the hand-sitting exercise.

“I don’t know how you did it.”

It was a statement, no doubt, that was rolling around in everyone’s mind as Dugard gradually began answering questions about her 18 years in captivity. The hardest part, she said, “was being lonely,” especially the first three years when she was by herself.

Following the births of her daughters — they were 15 and 11 when Garrido and his wife Nancy were arrested in 2009 — she never felt alone again. Her children provided that much more incentive to fight hard for survival, and that meant she had no choice but to go along with whatever her captors demanded of her.

Man who had heart attack in Aurora thrift store meets hero who saved his life Man who had heart attack in Aurora thrift store meets hero who saved his life After so many years of living in a tent and shed and scared to disobey any orders directed at her, it became her new normal, Dugard said.

“I had no idea how to ask for the help I needed,” she said, describing Garrido as a master manipulator who thoroughly

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East Aurora High School student Ana Jimenez presents Jaycee Dugard with a T-shirt she designed as a gift from the Survivor Literature class, which used Dugard’s best-selling book, “A Stolen Life,” as the focus of their project this year.

convinced her he had so many supporters on the outside that if she dared to run, no one would believe her story and her daughters would be taken from her.

Still, despite the horrors she described, Dugard insisted she has no regrets about anything in her life. “If this had not happened to me,” she said, “I would not have my kids.”

Just as surprising, Dugard holds no anger.

No matter what questions the inquisitive audience tossed her way, she did not hesitate in her answers. And as hard as I tried

to find it, I could not detect even a trace of hatred or bitterness.

Certainly there was none in her beautiful smile.

“We all have a story,” she said.

“This just happens to be mine.”

And for those in the audience who might have been able to identify with any part of her story, she also had a message: If abuse is going on somewhere around you, don’t pretend you don’t see it. And if it’s happening to you, speak up; find a trusted adult.

“Don’t,” she insisted, “let it be your shame.”

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Students make bath bombs that are used to relax.

To help students relax before final exams, Indiana State University held a Campus Spa in Dede I that was open to all students. This is an annual event.

Kimberly Ngyuen, sophomore biology major, enjoyed the luxury of the event.

“I like all the free stuff. I wish there could be more free stuff. It’s more organized than last year too,” Ngyugen said.

Ngyuen was a fan of the rice socks, an item to be heated in the microwave and used as heat pads. The other two options were to create scented bath salts or a glitter jar reminiscent of a snow globe.

Marquise Black, an RA on campus, was looking forward to something less crafty

but very relaxing.

“The actual message and the breathing thingy is what motivated me to come,” Black said.

During the event, two people worked hard at soothing everyone. Firstly one would massage the hands and make them soft, and then they would rest in a massage chair and have their feet and backs massaged; during this time they had essential oils that the students would breathe in while they waited for the back massage, the finishing touch.

However Black and others were left wanting in some ways.

“I feel (the wait for the massage is) longer than expected. I feel like it should be sped up by having more things to offer at this event so that the line won’t be so long,” Black said.

Ngyuen, who enjoyed the event last year, simply wished there was food.

Kylee Bledsoe, a junior graphic design major, was also looking forward to the massage, but she has one complaint about what she constantly sees occur from the events.

“I wish they made stuff that went in a shower and not a bathtub because we don’t have bath tubs. If they had shower jellies that would be cool,” Bledsoe said.

Nonetheless Brook Briggs, one of the co-organizers for the event, was pleased with the results.

“Last semester we had more people, but I think with the weather being the way it is we had quite a few people. (I’m) very happy with the turnout. We usually get a couple hundred people,” Briggs said.

indianastatesman.com LGBT FROM PAGE 4 proactive,” Woods said.

Humility is a key component to this workshop. Admitting to flaws and faults is necessary to the idea of unity.

“Admitting that ‘I don’t know everything,’ ‘I don’t have all the answers’ (is important), and that goes on both sides,” he said.

Reading is a component that Woods feels is the simplest to achieve; there is more enlightenment one can do, however, without personal interaction.

Another topic discussed was the openness and history of homosexuality within the media

Monday, May 1, 2017 • Page 5 and celebrities. America is constantly showing its contempt for homosexuality. For example, Michael Sam, who came out as the first publicly gay NFL player, received so much backlash for coming out to the point that he resigned.

Wood’s efforts reached his listeners including Becca McGregor, an attendee of the event, who thought that the event was important and educational.

“I appreciate, as being part of the LGBTQ community, (that this) is very respectful and awesome because not a lot of people would do this for our communi-

ty,” McGregor said.

Despite not being a part of the LGBTQ community himself, Woods thought it was important to advocate for education and support of the community.

“I personally do not identify as LGBTQ, and hence represent the community as an ally. However, as part of my allyship and closeness with the LGBTQ and ally student organization Spectrum, I have become extremely passionate about LGBTQ rights and other social justice related issues to the point where I am emerging as an advocate and not just an ally,” Woods said.

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With this gift, the Career Center at Indiana State looks forward to further enhancing and deepening their efforts to prepare Sycamores for the real world.

“ISU is proud of our tradition of helping Indiana families transform their lives through education,” said Nancy Rogers, vice president for University Engagement, which includes the Career Center. “This generous gift will make sure we help future Sycamores achieve their dreams — and to be candidates employers dream of hiring — by providing them the best career preparedness that we can.”

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Friendships can persist even after graduation

Monday, May 1, 2017

Casey Ewart Columnist

For some people, college graduation is hard to wrap their heads around. In reality, people graduate every semester. However, we tend not to think about it unless we, ourselves, or our friends are graduating.

At first, one might start going crazy over whether or not they will have a job or place to live after college. Others might be going crazy over the fact that they might be moving away from their friends with whom they have so many cherished memories and spent so much time in college. They might be trying to spend every minute together before graduation comes.

However, graduation does not have to mean goodbye. Yes, it means no more holiday, spring, or summer breaks, unless the profession pursued is teaching.

There is another way. We can work as hard as possible to save up vacation days. Once vacation days have been saved up, we can start planning at least a weeklong vacation getaway with friends. Granted, it is definitely not ideal to cram a year’s worth of not seeing friends into one week of seeing them; however, it could be the best week of the year. It could even be an annual trip.

In the meantime, before we are given vacation days at our new places of employment, we must stay in contact with friends. Friendship can evaporate if proper maintenance is not in place.

There are various ways to stay in contact thanks to new apps and technology. If face-to-face is best, there is Facetime or Skype.

If there is trouble with Wi-Fi or data, friends can talk on the phone. Texting, instant messaging or emailing is an immediate form of communication. Do not forget that there was such a time that people wrote letters to one another. Writing a letter can be more intimate or thoughtful because time was taken to think and handwrite the note.

Snapchat has also proven useful. If shopping alone is frightening because we were accustomed to shopping with our friends, there is a solution. We can try on outfits, take a picture of the new outfit, and ask what our friends think. If they are available to Facetime or Skype, that is even better. They can look with you through the racks of clothes, bags or accessories.

Friendships may need some time to adjust. This can be due to different time zones or simply working different hours. This is a

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The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Thursday, April 27: ——— More than a century ago, to prevent the degradation of open natural spaces and the pillaging of ruins and prehistoric sites, Congress adopted the Antiquities Act, which gives the president the authority and flexibility to unilaterally protect historically or geologically significant federal lands from exploitation.

Four months later, President Roosevelt used the act to establish the Devil’s Tower National Monument in Wyoming, the first of 152 such set-asides. All but three presidents since then have created national monuments under the act to protect federal lands from development, mining or other landscape-altering activities.

Enter President Trump. On Wednesday, he ordered the Interior secretary, who oversees national monuments, to review two decades of designations larger than 100,000 acres (more than two dozen monuments) and, if he decides it’s merited, propose legislation or administrative steps to modify the proclamations. The move dovetails with long-running efforts by some Western politicians to transfer federal lands to the states under

the unpersuasive argument that states know best how to manage land within their borders, an argument that Trump seemed to endorse in his public comments when he signed the executive order.

Focusing strictly on the Obama administration, Trump described the designation of monuments as a “massive federal land grab” and an “egregious abuse of federal power” and said his order would “give that power back to the states and the people, where it belongs.” But the monuments were carved out of existing federal land that has been under Washington’s control since the nation’s westward expansion — and which predates the states themselves. And the states have little interest in protecting the land: They want to be able to open it for extractive industries, which fits in with Trump’s desire to dig, drill and burn more fossil fuels with blithe disregard for the environment.

The monuments were carved out of existing federal land that has been under Washington’s control since the nation’s westward expansion.

This is contrary to public interest. No one has offered a convincing argument that there is a problem in need of a solution or that the previously declared monuments were poorly chosen.

Historically, in fact, Congress often has converted some pres-

identially selected monuments into national parks, which receive an even higher level of protection. They include the Grand Canyon and the Grand Tetons and, in California, Death Valley and Mt. Lassen. The trigger for Trump’s review was President Obama’s designation last year of the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, a stunningly picturesque region that state political figures wanted to open to oil and gas drillers and potash mining companies. But the Interior Department reviews will stretch back to Grand Staircase-Escalante, also in Utah, designated a national monument by President Clinton.

It’s probably too much to hope that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke will report back to Trump that none of the monuments should be altered or withdrawn, and that the Antiquities Act is a valuable tool for a president. Fortunately, the president’s authority to undo the designations of his predecessors is in doubt. The Antiquities Act grants the president the authority to designate monuments but says nothing about the right to change, amend or revoke designations (although Congress can do so through legislation).

Some presidents have reduced the size of monuments, but those changes went unchallenged in court. Environmental groups have promised a legal fight should Trump seek to alter the

designations.

Zinke and Trump both said the review would give the public a chance to weigh in. But it already has. The Bears Ears designation, for instance, came after more than seven years of broad public debate and after a rival land-use plan by Utah’s congressional delegation failed to gain traction.

The Antiquities Act was passed after Americans, following the lead of John Muir and other naturalists, recognized that there was more to the vast expanses of the West than land to be tilled, forests to be felled and ores to be mined. Roosevelt wrote in 1913 that it is “vandalism … to destroy or to permit the destruction of what is beautiful in nature, whether it be a cliff, a forest, or a species of mammal or bird.

Here in the United States we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping-grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy forests, and exterminate fishes, birds and mammals — not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements. But at last it looks as if our people were awakening.”

The people need to remain awake, and they need to fight to ensure that neither the Trump administration nor the fossil fuel-friendly congressional leadership succeeds in this assault on our shared national heritage.

FCC chair sets out to neutralize Net Neutrality

Zach Davis Columnist

The Federal Communications Commission had an interesting beginning. As a result of the Great Depression, the FCC was established as part of the Communications Act of 1934 to provide regulations to ensure fair,

appropriate services to the public. The government had the right to regulate communications services because communications services were established to be “interstate commerce.”

It’s seen two major updates in the past century. First, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 revised the 1934 edition to modernize it some and break up a harmful monopoly. Then the Open Internet rules were established in 2015 to include internet in the scope of the FCC’s power. Known as Net Neutrality, the rules were established to protect consumers from sketchy business practices. The result

was that everyone had fair access to internet services.

Ajit Pai, chair of the FCC, laid out his plans to end open access to the internet and disenfranchising consumers along the way. He wants to remove all federal regulations by dismantling Net Neutrality as a whole, completely deregulating the internet, which will inevitably lead to a drop of service quality to a huge portion of the population, like it was before 2015.

Net Neutrality works by regulating pricing, making it so everybody paid the same amount for the same service. Before providers gave customers that paid

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more money faster speeds than everybody else, which reserved the good services for some, while reducing quality for everybody else.

Providers would also mess with their customers’ services through cheap tactics like throttling. Throttling is when an internet provider intentionally slows connection speeds to legal content. It is also strictly prohibited, as is blocking devices or legal content arbitrarily. These rules yield a more fair market for consumers, preventing big businesses from rolling over the little guys just to flip a bigger profit. They guarantee the con-

sumer gets what they pay for, not a flimsy deal from a dishonest company.

Pai sees all of this as a problem.

He insists that these regulations are more costly for internet providers, and he’s right. Preventing companies from walking all over their consumers means companies can’t exploit unfair treatment for a profit. That naturally reduces the amount of money they can make.

Companies shouldn’t resort to these questionable tactics to save a few bucks. Treat your customers well, though, and you should

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Companies don’t have a desire to do that, though, and Pai admitted it in an interview with PBS News Hour. He explained that “by imposing those heavy-handed economic regulations on Internet service providers big and small, we could end up disincentivizing companies from wanting to build out Internet access to a lot of parts of the country, in low-income, urban and rural areas, for example.”

His statement translates to “companies don’t want to pro-

UNDER FROM PAGE 6 mentum. Under Armour has become a national powerhouse in athletic gear and footwear.

They are a well-respected company and first class in how they operate. Under Armour and the Sycamores will be a great partnership.”

New Indiana State football head coach Curt Mallory also feels that the partnership between Sycamore Athletics and Under Armour will bolster the many positive activities already happening at Indiana State.

“In just a short amount of time at the helm of the Sycamore Football program, I have been tremendously impressed with the commitment our university had made to our student-athlete experience and well-being,” Indiana State head football coach Curt Mallory said. “Partnering with Under Armour will only enhance the student-athlete experience by providing our team with the best athletic gear available. I can’t wait to ‘March On’ into this next chapter of Syca-

Monday, May 1, 2017 • Page 7 vide equal services to rural areas because it is more expensive.”

That isn’t fair treatment. People in rural areas are there for a reason. Many of them have jobs in the area at places like farms and factories, which are necessary.

Pai thinks it’s unfair for companies to offer equal treatment to these people as well.

Companies should provide services to all consumers equally. That way we know what we are getting. Not providing equal services to all clouds what the consumer is getting. If I am getting one connection speed for one price, I would expect some-

one who goes through the same company and has the same connection speed to pay a similar price. That can only happen if we have regulations, though. Otherwise companies throttle some customers and block services to others.

His plan is up for consideration soon, but the final vote won’t be for a while yet. We probably won’t see the final decision until close to the end of the year. Hopefully the commission realizes the harm that can come by throwing out these rules and ends the effort to overthrow Net Neutrality.

more Athletics with Under Armour.”

Indiana State joins the growing Under Armour roster of NCAA partners that includes South Carolina, Wisconsin, Notre Dame, Navy, Maryland, Texas Tech, Northwestern, Cincinnati, Boston College, Utah, Auburn and fellow Missouri Valley Conference member Southern Illinois.

“Under Armour continues to grow world-wide as a leader in sports performance gear,” Indiana State women’s basketball head coach Joey Wells said. “We look forward to using Under Armour products in our program for many years to come. This partnership will help us make the jump to the next level in our brand recognition for Sycamore Athletics.”

It was a break-through year in 2017 for Under Armour as the University of South Carolina became their first school to reach the NCAA Final Four while the women’s team captured the 2017 national championship.

Indiana State looks to continue its recent success while welcoming Under Armour on board as a corporate partner.

Recently, the Sycamores have reached the college basketball postseason five times including one trip to the NCAA Tournament and two trips to the NIT, advanced to the NCAA FCS Playoffs, the NCAA Baseball and Softball Regionals and have had several student-athletes qualify for the NCAA Track & Field and Cross Country National Championships.

The university’s new official outfitter agreement with Under Armour includes marketing entitlements that will complement the brand’s marketing campaigns through print and on-field presence at the university. Under Armour products are sold worldwide and worn by athletes at all levels around the globe. Notable athletes who endorse Under Armour products include: Steph Curry, Tom Brady, Jordan Spieth and Michael Phelps among countless others.

FRIENDS FROM PAGE 6 new development in the friendships, going from being able to talk and see our friends whenever we wanted to having to plan a time to talk to each other. This requires flexibility and the ability to be understanding. Life happens. We may not get to talk to them every day. Believe it or not, it is okay. This just means that we will have that much more to talk

about the next time we see them.

Friendships can last a lifetime if we want them to. This requires that all parties put effort into the friendship. It is a two-way street.

It does not always have to be the same person to start the conversation. We can do life together so long as we chose to. Rather than saying goodbye to our friends after graduation, we can say hello to a new chapter in our life and in our friendships.

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David Timlin celebrates a successful day after he ran the 1500-meter race on Saturday.

Timlin repeats as 1500 champion, Austin breaks steeple record on final day at Drake Relays Andrew Hile

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Senior All-American David Timlin repeated as the 1500-meter champion to lead the Sycamores at a successful final day of the 2017 Drake Relays on Saturday.

Timlin, who took the title last year by one-hundredth of a second, won in a similarly dramatic fashion – edging out Bradley’s Michael Ward by less than one second at a season-best 3:51.59.

The Chicago native used his signature kick with a very quick final lap split of 55.72 for the win.

Timlin has been a Second-Team All-American in the 1500 each of the last two seasons.

Junior and defending MVC Outdoor champion in the 3,000-meter steeplechase Taylor Austin managed to overcome the weather and have a monster day in her signature event.

Austin finished with a time of 10:13.42, which broke her previous school record of 10:17.70 and was good enough for third overall in the race and second among Division I athletes. Her time ranks 21st in the NCAA, ninth in the East and improves upon her previous Valley-leading time of 10:17.73.

In the 110-meter hurdles finals, Marcus Neely put on a season-best performance of 13.77 and earned a third-place finish behind Iowa’s Aaron Mallett (6th NCAA) and

Milwaukee’s Nate Pozolinski (12th NCAA). His time is now 17th in the NCAA, 10th in the East, and is two hundredths better than his previous top MVC time of 13.79.

The women’s sprint medley relay team made up of Shana Cooper, Oschtisha Jackson, Imani Davis and Alethia Marrero also had an impressive performance today, winning Heat Two and finishing fourth overall with a time of 3:56.37 – fourth-best in school history.

Senior Devyn Mikell had a strong showing in the field today for the Sycamore men, finishing fourth overall and second among Division I athletes in the men’s long jump with a mark of 7.16m (23-

06.00), which was just short of his season best of 7.18m (23-06.75).

“We had several top-three finishes and overall we had a good showing on the track,” said ISU head coach Angela Martin. “It was great to end the meet on a high note with Taylor, Marcus, and David doing so well. We are really looking forward to tuning up for the conference meet the next week and a half.”

Both the men’s and women’s teams will be back in action next week at Indiana University for the Billy Hayes Invitational on May 5-6, the final chance for the Sycamores before the 2017 MVC Outdoor Championships at Wichita State on May 12-14.

Sycamores take a pair of games Under Armour named outfitter of ISU Athletics Saturday to sweep Bradley Tim McCaughan

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Heavy thunderstorms and a torrential downpour overnight in the Wabash Valley would not keep Indiana State baseball away from the Bob Warn Field Saturday afternoon as the Sycamores closed out their series with Bradley with a pair of wins to clinch the series sweep.

After suspending play in game two of the series Friday night in the bottom of the fourth trailing Bradley, 3-2, the Sycamores came back to post a 6-4 win to open the day thanks to a pair of home runs from Dane Tofteland and Clay Dungan. In the finale, ISU saw a masterful performance on the mound from junior Will Kincanon en route to a 4-1 victory.

Two Sycamore (21-20, 7-5 MVC) hitters saw the ball exceptionally well all weekend in Tofteland and junior Tyler Friis. Friis led the team with a .692 batting average during the threegame stretch including a 9-for-10 effort during the final two games.

Tofteland continued the mash the ball, recording three home runs in the series on his way to a .583 batting average and a 1.500 slugging percentage. The redshirt sophomore is coming off a week in which he broke the single-game school record with 11 RBIs and three home runs in a game, including two grand slams.

Game Two – Indiana State 6, Bradley 4 After a Tony Rosselli sacrifice fly in the first inning to give the Sycamores a lead, Bradley bounced back to score a run in each of the next three innings.

Tofteland’s home run in the third cut the Braves lead to just one at 3-2 before Mother Nature opened the skies to cause a suspension of play.

Saturday’s scoring action began with Bradley (18-23, 4-8 MVC) scoring after loading the bases and Andy Shadid picking up an RBI after getting hit by a pitch. That would be all the scoring for the Braves in game two of the series though Ethan Larrison would settle down to shut down the BU lineup with three stellar innings out of the bullpen on his way to the win.

The Sycamores showed their

Sycamore Athletics is ready to March On towards the future beginning with today’s announcement that Indiana State University and Under Armour® (NYSE: UA) have reached a new multiyear partnership agreement. The Baltimore-based global leader in performance footwear, apparel and equipment will become the official outfitter of Indiana State Athletics beginning July 1, 2017.

“This is a historic agreement for Sycamore Athletics that aligns us with the leading global outfitter in sports today,” Director of Athletics Sherard Clinkscales said. “It is an exciting time for our department and the same can be said of Under Armour as both of us continue to grow. As we ‘March On’ to the next chapter in Indiana State Athletics, we ISU Athletic Media Relations

The baseball team powered through the storm on Saturday as they closed their series against Bradley.

power in the seventh when Tofteland hit his second homer of the game to tie it on a two-run blast. Sophomore Clay Dungan would deliver the go-ahead runs with a two-run shot of his own in the seventh, scoring Dane Giesler to make it a 6-4 game.

Austin Conway would come in for the two-inning save (9) for the Sycamores.

Game Three – Indiana State 4, Bradley 1Right-hander Will Kincanon put together another strong performance on the mound for the Sycamores in the finale, going eight complete innings and allowing just five hits.

The right-hander struck out nine Bradley hitters and walked just two as he improved to 4-4 on the season.

Bradley did not have a baserunner until the fourth inning and did not record a hit until the fifth when Andrew Ivelia singled to third to break up the no-hitter.

The Sycamore offense held up their end of the deal with a threespot in the third inning and another run in the fourth for insurance.

In just his third start of the

season, junior Ryan Toliver had himself a game, finishing 2-for-4 with a leadoff single to start the scoring action for the Trees in the third. He would move into scoring position after Friis picked up a walk and would come around to score as Tofteland lofted a double to right-center to put the Sycamores on the board. ISU would add two more runs the very next batter when Giesler singled to center.

Friis continued his hot-hitting with an RBI single to score Cody Gardner in the fourth to make it 4-0.

Bradley ended the Sycamore shutout bid in the eighth when they were able to string together a trio of hits, but it was too little too late for the Braves.

Senior Ryan Keaffaber finished the final inning as thunderstorms rolled into the area. The right-hander sat down the final three batters with ease to pick up his first save of the season.

The Sycamores return to action next weekend when they travel to Normal for a weekend series with Illinois State.

are honored to do it with Under Armour serving as the official outfitter of our programs.”

As part of the multi-year agreement, Under Armour will provide on-field and training gear for all 15 varsity sports as well as coaches and athletics department staff. Several sports programs will transition to Under Armour as their current agreements expire. Under Armour will also be a major contributor to unifying the branding efforts that are currently on-going in athletics and will provide another stream of revenue for the department.

“It’s an exciting time with Indiana State Athletics,” basketball head coach Greg Lansing said.

“Thanks in large part to our new partnership with Under Armour, we now have tremendous mo-

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Tonyan signs with Detroit Lions, Thurman gets invite to 49ers camp Tyler Wooten

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Former Sycamores Robert Tonyan Jr. and Jameer Thurman both got calls from NFL teams following the 2017 NFL Draft on Sunday, with Tonyan signing as an undrafted free agent with the Detroit Lions and Thurman receiving an invite to camp from the San Francisco 49ers.

Tonyan came to Indiana State as a quarterback but left as a receiver, racking up 2,047 yards and 20 touchdowns on 150 receptions.

He finished his illustrious career as ISU’s all-time leader in career TD and single-season TD (10), as well as the third-best receiver alltime in yards (just one yard shy of second place). His 150 career receptions also finished ranked second in school history, and this past season he was awarded Second-Team All-MVFC for a 699yard season with 10 TD. Tonyan was also a two-time MVFC Hon-

orable Mention Scholar-Athlete.

Thurman had a similarly productive career on the defensive side of the ball, becoming just one of 16 members in Indiana State history to join the 300 tackle club. His 340 career stops put him 11th all-time by the time his career ended following another strong campaign his senior season that saw Second-Team All-MVFC honors. Thurman led all Sycamores in 2016 with 92 tackles, 9.0 TFL and also had an interception returned for a touchdown in a career effort at No. 13 Western Illinois. Thurman also earned MVFC All-Newcomer his freshman season in 2013 – during which he also led the Sycamores with 91 tackles and finished second in MVFC Freshman of the Year and third in MVFC Newcomer of the Year balloting. He was named to the MVFC All-Academic Team a maximum three times, and was also on the CoSIDA Captial One All-District Team during ISU’s playoff season in 2014.