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Friday, Oct. 23, 2015
Volume 123, Issue 28
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African American Cultural Center to be renovated Morgan Gallas Reporter
The African American Cultural Center will be renovated in the near future to add more space for student congregation. The plans are in their early stages and more information will become available once plans are finalized. “We are currently working with Student Affairs to scope what a potential renovation project in the African American Cultural Center may involve,” said Diann McKee, the university treasurer and vice president for financial and administration. “Until this process is complete, there really is nothing to share at this point regarding cost or schedule.” While there are not yet any ideas set in stone, some feel changes need to be made. “We are hoping to reconfigure the current space to add more lounge space for students, replace furniture, paint, flooring and create a multipurpose space on the main level,” said Willie Banks, vice president of student affairs. Some feel there is not enough space for student activities in the present lay-
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Many hope the renovation will provide more space for student activities such as meetings, lectures and mentoring.
out, which is a reason why many seek a renovation. “The multipurpose space would be used to accommodate lectures, class meetings, student meetings and one-onone mentoring,” Banks said. “Additionally, we will be looking at updating the heating and air system and updating the
basement area.” The goal of the changes is to create a space for students to feel comfortable gathering and using as their own. The renovations were seen as necessary because the center has not been updated recently. This has left many students using the
spaces they could find instead of having somewhere dedicated to them. “The (African American Cultural Center) is an important part of ISU, and after touring the space in the summer, it was quite evident that we need to update the space for the campus,” Banks said. “Every space needs attention and examination. It was time for the (Center) to have some attention and updates.” The African American Cultural Center’s changes will help students around the university. “The entire ISU community will benefit from the updates, but our students will be the main beneficiaries of the updates,” Banks said. “As students and student groups are the main uses of this facility, I believe they will be quite happy with the renovations we have in mind for the space.” There is not a schedule for the renovations yet because none of the plans have been finalized. “Our hope is that the (African American Cultural Center) will be even more inviting to the campus community,” Banks said.
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The Student Government Association is working to ensure that peace remains between students on campus and a preacher who comes to campus to condemn students who do not share his and his staff ’s own beliefs. In light of the backlash that broke out at DePauw University with this outspoken ministry, SGA is attempting to make sure that the same thing does not happen on the ISU campus. Rob Lafary, the SGA Director of Public Relations, is involved in helping students understand their rights in regard to this group on campus. “Basically what happened was, he’s here all the time, he’s been here for years, and the situation really didn’t get brought to me until he actually went to DePauw where there was a major problem between him and students there,” Lafary said. “It was the preacher’s first time at the campus and things did not go well, resulting in police having to become involved.”
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Bayh College to honor legacy at 150th celebration Betsy Simon
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A celebration of Indiana State University’s Normal School roots will be at the heart of the Bayh College of Education’s “A Legacy in Education: State Celebrates 150 Years” event on Nov. 6. “It’s been a rich history held by so many,” said Brad Balch, dean emeritus and professor of educational leadership in the Bayh College who chairs the college’s sesquicentennial committee. “It’s a privilege for me to share those historic elements that I know and understand about the college with a host of
others, including emeriti, external stakeholders, students, graduates, faculty and staff, each with their own rich perspective on the good work of the college.” Made possible with support from the university’s sesquicentennial committee, the event will begin with a 5 p.m. reception in the University Hall Atrium. A program will follow at 7 p.m. in University Hall Theater, where Suellen Reed, Indiana’s first female and longest-serving superintendent of public instruction, will receive the first Leaders and Legends in Education Award. The award recognizes an individual who has made a major impact on education in Indiana. Reed, who was selected by
the Bayh College’s 13-member planning committee, served as state superintendent of public instruction from 1993-2009. She played a fundamental role in major Indiana educational reform initiatives, including academic standards outlining clear and rigorous expectations for K-12 schools and the state accountability system to ensure continued improvement of Hoosier students and schools. “We decided from the very beginning that we wanted to celebrate the profession of teaching as the cornerstone of our 150th celebration,” Balch said. “We came up with the Leaders and Legends in Education Award as part of a larger initiative to cel-
ebrate teaching in education as a profession, and there was resounding support to reach out to Suellen Reed.” The celebration also will include a keynote address by Stacey Bess, whose memoir “Nobody Don’t Love Nobody” inspired the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, “Beyond the Blackboard.” She also is a recipient of the National Jefferson Award for Greatest Public Service and graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in elementary education. Both speakers highlight the significance of the Bayh College as a place where educators have been molded for centuries, said
Denise Collins, associate dean of the college. “The Normal School was the first state institution to certify teachers, and we want to recognize our place in Indiana,” she said. From the strong, solid roots of the Bayh College, many branches have extended, and leaves have grown, said Kandi HillClarke, dean of the college. “As a college, we have evolved over time and we continue to have a significant impact on our city, state, nation and the world. We are the foundation and roots of this great institution and are proud of our impact,” she said.
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Proposed act might make textbooks more affordable
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To get all of the textbooks or not is a huge question that college students are struggling with. The rising cost of books has left students wondering if they could get by not having completed a few assignments. According to College Board, the estimated cost of books per year for an undergraduate student attending full-time at a four-year college is about $1,200. Many college students cannot afford their textbooks, even with the options to buy books used or rent them. U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin, Al Franken and Angus King introduced the Affordable College Textbook Act to Congress as a possible solution. An article by USA Today states, “The bill would create a grant program to support the creation and use of open college textbooks — textbooks that are available under an open license, allowing professors, students, researchers and others to freely access the materials. The bill will also require entities who receive funding to report on the effectiveness of the program and for the Government Accountability Office to report to Congress by 2017 on the updated trend of textbook prices as well as improve the existing requirements for publishers to make all textbooks and materials available for purchase individually rather than a bundle.” This allows the materials to be accessible online, for free, while the printed versions would be available at a lower cost. Durbin had attempted to pass similar legislation in 2013. The Senate is considering the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act; Durbin is working to add the Affordable College Textbook Act to the package. The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resource Coalition are strongly backing the Support of this bill. In a recent iSchoolguide article, Nicole Allen, the director of SPAARC, said, “It is time to focus on solutions that deliver meaningful, long-term savings for students and open educational resources are the most effective path forward.” Rachel Bell, a freshman art major, shared her opinion about the passing of the Affordable College Textbook Act. “It would be beneficial overall,” Bell said. “Students don’t have to pay for their textbooks. Therefore, allowing students who can’t afford books to have open access to them and help their grade. Students who don’t use their textbooks don’t have to pay for them. When a student finds out that they need their textbook, they can get one available to them for no cost, rather than taking a chance by getting a book and not needing it, causing them to waste money, or not buying the book due to not being able to afford it and needing it to do extensive amounts of homework.”
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Michael Deem, assistant professor of philosophy at Indiana State University and an affiliated faculty member with Indiana State’s Center for Genomic Advocacy, stands next to a patient monitor in the newborn intensive care unit of Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. Deem is serving a bioethics fellowship at the hospital.
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A new Indiana State University professor is spending his first year as a faculty member tackling ethical issues in neonatal and pediatric care, thanks to a fellowship at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. Three months into his one-year assignment, Michael Deem, assistant professor of philosophy and an affiliated faculty member with Indiana State’s Center for Genomic Advocacy, said the experience has already been enlightening. “The thing that has been most impactful is my experience walking through the (neonatal intensive care unit), learning about some of the conditions that these babies have and being around the families while physicians and other health care professionals are feverishly trying to find out what’s wrong and what can be done to help these babies,” Deem said. It’s easy to sit behind a
desk and work through ethical problems, he said. “But ... the experience of actually seeing decisions being made in a very emotionally charged, stressful and rapid way has impressed upon me the need to tailor ethical approaches to specific contexts. It’s not until you see the faces of the families and physicians that you begin to understand and appreciate the complexity of each individual case and realize that the sort of ‘one size fits all,’ or robotic application of general principles to cases really doesn’t make much of an impact in the real world of health care.” At Children’s Mercy, Deem is working with the hospital’s Center for Bioethics and Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine on research funded by the National Institutes of Health to study genomic sequencing in children and disability issues. “We chose Michael because he seemed to have the right combination of background in philosophy, focus on genetics and a particular interest in disability studies,” said John
Lantos, director of the hospital’s Center for Bioethics. “One of the projects he is working on is to address some of the critiques that have arisen over the last few decades about genomic testing as it’s been used in other clinical contexts, such as pre-natal screening, and then speculate about how those controversies might play out now that genomic sequencing is becoming more affordable and clinically practical.” Several disability rights advocates have raised concerns that implicit biases against disabilities have a harmful impact on the way health care professionals counsel families in light of positive diagnostic results from genetic testing. Deem said one way health care professionals and bioethicists can mitigate the negative effects of any such bias is by listening to the actual perspectives and reported experiences of members of the disability community and their families, and recognizing the ways in which some representatives of the medical community may
have unwittingly devalued or disregarded the interests of disabled persons. Because whole-genome sequencing holds the promise of identifying a large number of novel genetic variants and discovering many new gene-disease associations, the need for health care professionals and bioethicists to attend to the concerns of the disability community and reestablish relationships of trust is especially urgent, he said. Deem said the hospital is looking at a novel tool known as STAT-Seq, a rapid whole genomic sequencing tool administered on acutely ill infants in newborn intensive care whose symptoms are not easily diagnosed via conventional methods. “The trials are trying to determine whether STATSeq is effective for yielding faster diagnosis and improving health outcomes,” he said. “If it turns out it will improve outcomes and possibly even lower costs, perhaps this will become more routine in the genetic
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Western Digital to buy SanDisk for $19 billion Samantha Masunaga David Pierson Los Angeles Times (TNS)
LOS ANGELES — In a deal that underscores the dramatic shift from desktops to thin laptops and handheld devices, hard-drive maker Western Digital Corp. said Wednesday it will acquire flash-memory manufacturer SanDisk Corp. in a cash-and-stock deal worth about $19 billion. Under the deal, Western Digital, based outside Los Angeles, in Irvine, picks up one of the leading manufacturers of the small memory chips crucial for smartphones, tablets, ultra thin laptops and increasingly, the data centers that power cloud computing. The combined company will be headquartered in Irvine and led by Western Digital Chief Executive Steve Milligan. After the deal closes, SanDisk Chief Executive Sanjay Mehrotra is expected to join the Western Digital board of directors. Western Digital had about 76,500 employees and generated revenue of $14.6 billion in its fiscal year that ended July 3.
SanDisk has over 8,000 employees and generated $6.6 billion in revenue last year. While Western Digital produces a small number of those flash drives, also known as solid state drives or SSD, it has long focused its business on harddisk-drives for a declining market in personal computers. “Western Digital gets to diversify their business into solid state,” said Angelo Zino, an equity analyst for S&P Capital IQ in New York. SanDisk is credited with introducing the first flash drives more than two decades ago. Instead of reading data from a rotating hard disk, computers using far-faster flash memory read it directly from a set of computer chips. The company ranks fourth in global share for flash memory with 14.8 percent of the market, about half that of market leader Samsung, according to research firm IHS. SanDisk holds a 15-year-old joint venture with Japan’s Toshiba to manufacture flash drives, a relationship that will continue, Western Digital and SanDisk said.
The deal between the two companies values SanDisk common stock at $86.50 a share, a 15 percent premium over Tuesday’s closing price. On Wednesday, shares of the Milpitas, California-based company climbed $1.59, or 2 percent, to $76.78. Shares of Western Digital fell $3.42, or 4.5 percent, to $71.44. The acquisition marks the “next step” in expanding the company’s size, products and technologies, Western Digital said in a prepared statement. Part of that evolution has been rapid consolidation the past year. The memory drive industry has reached a record $89 billion in merger and acquisition activity this year, according to research firm Dealogic. No deal has been bigger than Dell Inc.’s $66 billion takeover of data storage company EMC Corp. earlier this month. Smaller deals include Western Digital’s $4.9 billion acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies in March. “The cost of gaining market share in most segments is increasing rapidly,” said Handel Jones, chief executive of International Business Strategies Inc.,
which consults the semiconductor and electronics industry. “With the low cost of money, it’s much better to make an acquisition than develop new products.” Analysts say the deals have also been driven by Wall Street pressure to increase profit margins in a maturing industry. While it’s sound strategy for Western Digital to expand into flash memory, they say, demand for the technology will likely taper. That’s because smartphone and tablet markets are also maturing. Big data and cloud computing will also make memory storage more efficient, again diminishing the need for more flash hardware. The SanDisk acquisition follows Western Digital’s deal with a unit of China’s Tsinghua Unigroup last month. Unisplendour Corp., known as Unis, paid $3.78 billion for a 15 percent stake in Western Digital, giving the data-storage disk maker the funds go after SanDisk as well as access to China, one of the fastest growing markets for memory storage. ©2015 Los Angeles Times. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
ISU Public Safety police blotter Oct. 19
10:00 a.m.: Harrassment and threats were reported in Lincoln Quad. 12:54 p.m.: A vehicle crash was reported in Lot 24. 1:24 p.m.: An unwanted guest was reported in Lincoln Quad.
3:17 p.m.: A vehicle crash was reported at Third and Chestnut Street. 7:15 p.m.: Battery was reported in Hines Hall.
Oct. 20
8:35 a.m.: A knife was found at Wolf
Field. 1:50 p.m.: A domestic dispute was reported in Cunningham Memorial Library. 5:20 p.m.: Lost property was reported in the HMSU. 6:10 p.m.: A theft was reported in
Rhoads Hall. 8:14 p.m.: A theft was reported in Mills Hall. 11:45 p.m.: Suspicious activity was reported in Cromwell Hall.
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“As we move forward with our work in the Bayh College of Education, we will continue to prepare educators and human service professionals who serve, create, innovate, empower and make a positive difference in the lives of others.” Despite the university’s expansion, Balch said educator preparation remains at the core of Indiana State. “Many of our secondary programs — math, science, foreign languages, technology and a host of others — are home to their own academic units, but the Bayh College of Education remains that central unit for all educator preparation on campus,” he said. “The college has a very distinct vision and mission steeped in the preparation of educators and human service professionals. While education is fraught with change, it is my hope that over the next 150 years we can be responsive to the many changes in our profession and that (we in the Bayh College) remain at the very heart of Indiana State University.”
Brother George “Jed” Smock has been coming to the ISU campus for years, and many other campuses as well. He has been to other campuses such as Purdue and Eastern Illinois University. He is part of the Campus Ministry USA organization, and according to the organization’s website, he has preached on college campuses in all 50 states. He has become so well-known that a pilot was filmed for his own reality show. Brother Jed is a graduate of Indiana State University. SGA is exploring different possibilities to maintain peace with the situation. “We’re trying to come up with a statement to release to the students and the entire university,” Lafary said. “Something that’s going to give our thoughts on it and kind of encourage students and staff to kind of go about this the right way, so something that’s happened to other universities doesn’t happen here.” SGA is also considering other ideas, though nothing is concrete.
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in Indiana public higher education, which I believe in strongly,” he said. “The student body has a reputation for being very talented and having diverse viewpoints, which benefits students and faculty alike, and it has a reputation for a high level of community engagement. That’s exactly the kind of thing an ethicist wants to see — not just tossing around ideas in the classroom, but working with students who are eager to implement what they learn to the benefit of the community.” Upon completion of his fellowship, Deem will teach medical ethics and
The student governing body has considered partnering with other groups on campus, such as “#SycamoresDontHate” or hosting a panel discussion to better inform the ISU community. Students on campus have mixed feelings about the preachers and their messages and reasons. Brooklyn Hollis, a senior legal studies major, said, “I don’t think that they necessarily have good intentions; I think they’re just here to cause a scene. We discussed in my class that they come to campus and they portray themselves as being these like God sending messengers, to post on their website, so they can get more donations.” Ben Forbes, a freshman recreation and sports management major, said, “I think everyone is entitled to their own opinion; you can say what you want, whenever you want and everyone should be accepting of that. But there are better ways to get your opinion across than the way I think they do it.” Forbes said that he does interact with them at times. “I sometimes will get very heated and emotional about what they’re saying,” Forbes said.
philosophy at Indiana State. He said the fellowship offers “a nice way of spending time on the ground working in the thick of the issues that I will be teaching about.” The fellowship at Children’s Mercy is funded by the Claire Giannini Fund. “The goal is to bring people in from outside of clinical genetics, people who have a background in law or philosophy or social science, and give them an opportunity to have a total immersion experience in a clinical setting,” Lantos said. “They see what the doctors and parents are dealing with and come up
with their own projects to identify issues and try to analyze them in a way that’s going to be helpful to others who are facing the same dilemma.” Rusty Gonser, associate professor of biology and director of Indiana State’s Center for Genomic Advocacy, called Deem’s fellowship “a great opportunity for ISU to be involved with such a cutting-edge program. This will strengthen not only ISU’s reputation, but that of The Center for Genomic Advocacy and the new Master of Science in Genetic Counseling.”
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Sustainability focus of ‘Solar Sycamore’ Libby Legett
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There’s more than meets the eye to Terre Haute’s newest public artwork. “Solar Sycamore,” a sculpture of a leaf on Indiana State University property at 11th and Chestnut streets, can harness energy from the sun to power homes, businesses and other buildings. Art Spaces, Indiana State University’s Recycle Center and Watermark Collective came together to create the piece to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Recycling Center and the ongoing commitment to continue recycling at ISU. Princeton Review has selected Indiana State University as one of the most environmentally responsible colleges in the U.S. and Canada for the past three years, said Petra Nyendick, ISU’s community school of arts director. As a member of Watermark Artists’ Collective, Nyendick helped design, raise funds and promote the dedication of the project. “The dedication truly embodied and demonstrated the spirit of community engagement that we strive for,” said Stephanie Krull, landscape and grounds manager at Indiana State. Krull had input in the landscaping, site furnishing and future developments of the Solar Sycamore. Grounds maintenance crews planted more than 50 shrubs and grasses for the event and additional landscaping is planned for next spring. “The site will be a native prairie-type environment and also helps with parking lot drainage,” Krull said.
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The ‘Solar Sycamore’ is located at 11th and Chestnut streets and can harness energy to power homes and buisnesses.
A dry well will also be added behind the leaf, providing a retention system to help direct storm water runoff back into the ground instead of the street drain. The sidewalk at the site will be completed using a porous surface made from granite and recycled rubber rather than concrete or asphalt.
The surface uses a binder that hardens and leaves air spaces that help clean the water as it passes through, Krull said. “The installation will add to Art Spaces’ nationally recognized sculpture collection,” Nyendick said. Two more sculptures by Art Spaces are planned to be completed by this De-
Hulman haunted house shows students a good time Meghan Hayes Reporter
Clowns, zombies, possessed souls, slasher killers and many more scary characters filled the Dede’s for the first annual “A Haunting in the Hulman.” T his free event held for students was a spooky way to get everyone together for some late-night fun. The main attraction featured a haunted house inhabited by the characters that students could walk through to get in the Halloween spirit. “It really got the adrenaline rushing,” said Caitlin Mayden after exiting the haunted house. “The worst part was when the clown followed me.” She laughed as she and her friends also talked about how they found the guy who popped out of the wall to be one of the scariest parts as well. “It was fun; I would come back next year,” Mayden said. The haunted house was just one of the many things to do at the event. Students were also offered games such as corn hole, also known as bags, where students got to toss the brains into the holes, and a game that involved putting your hand in a box of “eyeballs” and guessing what the item really was, which turned out to be skinned grapes. Along with the haunted house and games, those who attended also got free food and face painting by an artist. Around 400 students attended the event put on by Union Board, a student-run organization that puts on events in the Commons and the Dedes. Special events chairman and coordinator Nathan Hewitt said the goal for this year was to “try to get as many people as we could to come out and get them screaming but also to have as many people having a fun time as possible,” and he feels they accomplished just that. Hewitt also said to prepare to see them again next year, which may be themed. “We are looking into maybe doing an all clowns, or an all of
cember, and there are several sculptures planned for 2016. “The Solar Sycamore truly adds a three-dimensional symbol of the spirit of ISU, while also educating us all about solar power and low-energy lighting,” Krull said.
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The free event that offered games and other fun activities.
one theme for next year,” Hewitt explained, “and while nothing is set in stone yet we sure like the idea. This event is a one-night-
only occasion that has been planned since last semester, and the hard work definitely paid off.”
It wasn’t card games or songs that Chelsea Boink of Carmel had in mind for her client’s next therapy session at Indiana State University’s Norma and William Grosjean Clinic. Instead, Boink, a graduate student in the Bayh College of Education’s clinical mental health counseling program who likes to integrate art therapy into her work, uses an Internet search bar to find activities that would encourage her school-aged client to open up at their next clinic visit. She has successfully utilized coloring pages and song lyrics of favorite artists to assist clients in engaging in the therapeutic process. “I’ve learned how to make any game therapeutic because it’s often the best way to connect and get kids talking about their problems and what’s on their mind,” Huffman said. “It’s a way to help them see that therapy can be fun.” Four years ago, Vigo County School Corp. and Teen Court joined forces with the comprehensive clinic and Indiana State graduate students in the clinical mental health counseling program to provide therapy for students who have been expelled from school, as well as their families. Bridget Roberts-Pittman, director of the Grosjean Clinic housed in University Hall and an associate professor of counseling in the Bayh College, said student referrals usually begin in November for conflict resolution services that help keep students in school as long as they successfully complete a required number of 50-min-
ute sessions. Open for four hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays, Roberts-Pittman said the clinic is unique because its therapy services “wrap around the whole family.” “Our students are invested in the families who are referred to us. At the clinic we provide students an opportunity to work with kids who can be pretty challenging and involve their families, which is often something our students will deal with in community settings after they graduate,” Roberts-Pittman said. “As a training facility for counseling majors at Indiana State, students have a great opportunity to be challenged and grow in the field while under the observation of faculty members and professionals.” Each treatment room is equipped with an observation space, allowing parents and faculty members to view a child’s therapy sessions. “We empower the kids to create change in their own lives by changing their behavior,” said Courtney Hull of Terre Haute. “We help give them skills they need, practical skills like anger management, to be successful.” Now a counselor at Hamilton Center Inc. in Terre Haute, Zachery Milam, a 2011 Indiana State graduate with a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling, has returned to his alma mater to serve as a supervisor in the clinic where he did his practicum in 2010. “My first clinic experience was here at Indiana State, which was great because I was able to practice what I would be doing in the realworld setting and do it under the supervision of professionals,” Milam said. There will be more to learn
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Sweet sounds emerge from 3-D-printed violin Gabrielle Russon
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ORLANDO, Florida — Neal Phillips pulls from a wide repertoire of songs to play on his electric violin. The Valencia College professor opts for some Guns N’ Roses. The “Game of Thrones” theme? A little Taylor Swift? He can play Bach, too. But what makes his music unique is his instrument. It’s made of plastic from 3-D printers inside a lab at the Valencia College engineering building. “When you have something that looks as bizarre as this thing does and then you hear the sound, people want to know more and more about it,” said Phillips, 44, who teaches English. “It’s just magnetic.” Asked by the Orlando Sentinel to watch a video of Phillips playing, Chung Park, University of Central Florida’s director of orchestras and string-music education, says the instrument sounds just as good as any Yamaha violin that might cost $750. The total bill for the 3-D violin: $121.87. “My first reaction was, ‘That’s really freaking cool,’” Park said. At Valencia’s west campus, the lab where the violin was made looks like a typical classroom with rows of computers where students learn drafting. In the back of the classroom, the smell of burning plastic is faint. There is the hypnotic hum of the 3-D printers moving back and forth as they print out pieces of plastic. Some of the printers resemble microwaves. This summer, the lab was empty, with no classes using the equipment. It felt like the right time for lab manager Pat Lynch to devise a more complex project in the lab with $54,200 worth of 3-D printers: the plastic violin.
With the help of two student lab assistants, Lynch found a blueprint online to piece the instrument together. They printed the plastic pieces in about a day. They are held together with nuts, bolts and glue as well as a stainless rod to withstand the tension from the four strings. The Valencia lab workers didn’t pay attention to the colors in the printer when they started. “It just came out patriotic,” said Jackie Uribe, a Valencia student who helped build the red, white and blue violin. Lynch didn’t know that the engineering dean, Lisa Macon, happened to be a singer and a musician. Macon played with other Valencia faculty members in a band called the Rogue Scholars. Macon heard about the violin and recommended the perfect test pilot to play it: Phillips, her band mate with the relaxed demeanor of a California surfer. “I was like, ‘Yes! I want dibs on that,’” Phillips said when he first heard of the violin about two months ago. Phillips, the kind of English professor to rap about research-paper annotations or make his students sing about commas, played the violin for his students this semester and asked them to write a review for extra credit. He expects to use it again when one of his other bands, Spayed Koolie, performs Oct. 24 at the Windermere Beer Festival. For an impromptu jam session at Valencia, Phillips pulls out the electric violin from a borrowed case and plays the themes to “Star Wars” and “E.T.” “I’m showing my age,” he jokes. Lynch listens, tapping her right foot when she hears “Devil Went Down to Georgia.” “We had no idea it was going to sound good,” Lynch said about her violin. “We
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Neal Phillips, an English professor at Valencia College, plays electric violin on Sept. 29, 2015, in the 3-D printing lab at Valencia College where it was created. One of the two 3-D printers that made the parts is shown in the background, at left.
were just hoping.” At another 3-D printing lab at the University of Central Florida, doctoral students are building artificial limbs for children who were born without real ones. Phillips dreams of big things, too, for the 3-D printers at Valencia. Maybe the college could print instruments so children could play music at local schools. It would eliminate the excuse for not having enough funding to pay for the arts. “The possibilities are pretty much
clients of all ages identify the source of their troubles and set measurable goals to work through it. out in the workforce, but the clinic gets students ready “As we work in therapy with the kids, in particular, for real-world experiences using a multitude of thera- we help to show them that they have choices and can pies — individual, family, group and couples — to help make better decisions,” said Lucille Gardner of Jersey
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endless,” Phillips said. “You need to be an idealist with this kind of thing, too. All it takes is one or two people who have the power and influence to say, ‘That’s a good idea.’” Lynch warned against the lab’s converting into an assembly line for massproducing instruments. Her students needed the freedom to experiment and learn and be creative. Yet she didn’t disregard Phillips’ idea completely. “There may be a way we could incorporate both,” Lynch said. ©2015 The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.). Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
City, N.J. “The situations we see here are very real and very much what we will see in a career someday, so we’re being equipped with skills now that we will need to thrive.”
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How to prepare yourself for life after college You m a y t h i n k college is the best time of your life and that growing up is just something Columnist y o u “c a n’t e ven” begin to think about. Of course there is the matter of finding a job, potentially living in a new area, and of course purchasing your first puppy to think of, but most of us just aren’t ready for that kind of commitment. These are stressful and trying times — times that for some bring on anxiety attacks and for others have been a long time coming. My mother always said that when I turned three I turned 30. Call it an old soul, an inclination to play it on the safe side, or whatever you prefer, but in the end, I cannot wait to grow up, get a job and do all of the big-girl things life has in store for me — mainly decorating my future house and making all of my TJ Maxx trips worthwhile. That’s not to say I don’t worry. Of course it is stressful finding internships, building resumes and applying for dream jobs. I’d be lying if I said it didn’t make me want to cry from time to time. But hopefully, with a little support from our dearest loved ones and a whole lot of coffee, we can make it through unscathed and unstoppable. Unfortunately, there is no set preparation for such times. There is no simple combination of extracurricular involvement and a stellar letter of recommendation like we’ve known in the past that will help us get to where we need to go. Instead, it is taking the compilation of all of those “whoops, my bad” moments and the lessons we’ve learned from them and in turn, applying each and every one to our future encounters.
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The greatest advice I have ever received came from my father: “Wake up every morning doing something you love.” So start there. In preparation for the chaotic adult world, realize what it is you love doing and those things that make you miserable. That way, you don’t commit yourself to something that will drive you crazy day in and out. Instead, choose for yourself and your sanity. Dive into something that not only challenges you but also betters you at the same time. Your next step is patience. Don’t fret when you don’t hear back right away for an interview. No two schedules are the same, and it is important to be mindful that things do come up, and they may not always be the most convenient for you. But that’s life. Think about all of the times you locked yourself out of your dorm room and had to trek across campus in the freezing cold for a new key. It was inconvenient and frustrating, but the end result got you where you needed to be. Always remember your P’s: Be polite, proper and all personality. Be polite in the sense that you are thankful for an interview and that afterwards, to show your appreciation, you send a thank-you note for their time and opportunity. In terms of being proper, simply remember your manners and act with class and dignity. And when it comes to your big, shining personality, let them see who it is they are interviewing and if you truly are a fit for the company. It’s a mutual relationship that you have to want to be a part of. The company chooses you as much as you choose them. Elle Woods did it best with her scented pink resume in “Legally Blonde.” While we can’t all be so exceptionally great and cart around our tiny Chihuahuas, we do all have the capability to work toward our future and build it into something we cherish.
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Carson’s vaguely worded statement opens doors to a future of censorship at colleges and universities.
Carson presents plan for censorship in higher education The First Amendment is one of the most enthusiastically defended rights guaranteed by the Constitution. In 2013, when Phil Robertson of “Duck Dynasty” fame got fired from A&E Columnist for railing against homosexuality, people on the right cried out in support of him for using his free speech and freedom of religion. A movement to “stand with Phil” was started that claimed A&E had violated his First Amendment rights by firing him, conveniently ignoring the act that the First Amendment only protects people from being silenced by the government, not private companies. Flash forward to 2015, and now one person on the right is proposing actually violating the First Amendment. Ben Carson proposes withholding federal funding from public universities if the government determines that there is a presence of “extreme political bias” at the school. In an interview with Glenn Beck on Wednesday, Beck asked Carson if he would shut down the Department of Education if he were elected president, to which Carson replied, “I actually have something I would use the Department of Education to do. It would be to monitor our institutions of higher education for extreme political bias and deny federal funding if it exists.” He did not lay out any particulars on what “extreme political bias” entails, how it would be
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monitored or whether the monitoring would be focused on what is taught in the classroom or just universities as a whole. Since Carson did not specify what would qualify as “extreme political bias,” it can be assumed that, obviously, doctrines such as Nazism or Marxism would qualify as extreme, but where does it stop? Ben Carson, being a creationist who believes in a literal six-day creation, has said himself that he believes that evolution “was something that was encouraged by the Adversary (Satan).” So, since evolution is taught extensively at colleges, and creationism (or “intelligent design”) is left out because it isn’t science, would that be considered “extreme political bias”? A democratic socialist student group on campus could potentially be targeted as “extreme political bias,” causing the school to lose funding. A teacher who leans far left could be identified as “extreme,” thus the school loses money. A group of students who fly Confederate flags could be identified as “extreme.” While I am not suggesting that any of these examples are or are not extreme, it still stands that hurting an educational institution financially for any of these reasons is wrong. But Carson did not specify what “extreme” was, so it’s possible. Regardless of any of these issues, however, Carson’s proposal would still be a violation of the First Amendment. Cutting funding to schools for a presence of some sort of bias is censorship. The First Amendment says that the government cannot make a law that abridges free speech. By monitoring schools and cut-
ting funding for perceived biased speech just because someone disagrees with it, Carson proposes something that directly violates the First Amendment. Ben Carson is proposing the very thing he has always claimed he was against. In March 2014, he said, “I know you’re not supposed to say ‘Nazi Germany,’ but I don’t care about political correctness. You know, you had a government using its tools to intimidate the population. We now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe.” But if Carson is so against government intimidating the population, why is he now proposing exactly that? He will make people afraid to say what they actually believe. Of course, I can imagine that Carson will come out with a statement in the next few days, lambasting the “left-wing media” for taking him out of context or twisting his words, but if he would have been more specific, that situation could be at least partially remedied. A Facebook post explaining his position or even some tweets would have been better than just leaving that response out there for all the world to potentially misinterpret. Here, again, we have a case of Carson not being clear enough, and he will surely backtrack on it in the next few days and blame the media for misinterpreting his painfully vague words. People don’t care for having their rights taken away, and taking away the people’s freedom to express themselves in government-owned institutions like public universities for fear of financial retribution like Carson is suggesting is a violation of the First Amendment.
Solar art installation embodies ISU’s commitment to sustainablility Statesman Staff Editorial
Recently Indiana State University broke in a new sculpture at the corner of 11th and Chestnut, but it isn’t just any sculpture. It is a large sycamore leaf that doubles as a solar panel. This sculpture was put up to honor the 25th anniversary of the Recycling Center, and there is honestly not a better way to honor this event. The sculpture seems to embody the Sycamore spirit when it comes to conservation. The site has plenty of greenery planted around it, and they aren’t using
concrete at the site, but rather a porous surface made from recycled rubber. Although many students were concerned about what on-campus oil drilling could mean for our conservation message, this is a refreshing reminder that the school is still dedicated to this message of conservation and sustainability. It is located by the community garden and looks really nice, but may go underappreciated due to its remote location. Many students also don’t seem to know that it exists. ISU has been pushing this conserva-
tion effort in previous years as well with the addition of the windmill in between Mills and Rhoads Halls. This was added in an effort to provide more wind power to the campus. ISU has also had a long-standing recycling initiative, placing recycle bins almost everywhere. They have also started having Trayless Tuesdays in the Dining Halls in an effort to help conserve water and solar panels have also been placed on stop signs around campus to power their LED lights. Overall, these efforts outshine the fact
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Volleyball continues home MVC slate Reporter
The Indiana State volleyball team will look to bounce back from a loss as they play the Missouri State Bears and the Wichita State Shockers in a double-dip weekend here at home. The Sycamores will compete against the Bears on Friday and then face the Shockers on Saturday night. Both matches will be in the ISU Arena. Indiana State is currently 14-9 overall and 3-5 in the MVC. Two wins for ISU this weekend would be huge, returning the conference record to the .500 mark. The Sycamores have lost three of their last five, including their most recent loss this week to Illinois State. The Bears are currently 14-7 overall and 5-3 in the Missouri Valley Conference. The Bears’ last game was against Bradley and resulted in a 3-0 win. MSU has had a rough last five games though, winning only two. The Shockers are 16-6 overall and 7-1 in the MVC. Wichita State has been on fire the last five games and will want to continue its five-match winning streak. In the Shockers last game, they played Loyola and were forced to fend off the Ramblers 3-2 after being up 2-0. The Sycamores continue to be paced in many aspects of the game by Erika Nord, Cassandra Willis, Stephanie Bindernagel and Kynedi Nalls. Nord is a senior setter with 39 kills, 807 assists, 26 aces, 221 digs and 24 blocks. Willis is a senior middle blocker. So far this season, she has 100 blocks, 175 kills, six assists and 28 digs. Bindernagel has had one kill, 48 assists, 14 aces and 330 digs. Nalls, a junior middle blocker, has had 239 kills, two aces, 50 digs and 64 blocks. Both ISU matches this weekend begin at 7 p.m. and can be seen online on ESPN3 or on the WatchESPN app. ISU’s next match is against MVC opponent Drake next Friday night.
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Women’s soccer set for MVC finale Adler Ingalsbe
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The Indiana State University women’s soccer team will hit the road for the final Missouri Valley Conference match on Saturday when they head to Chicago to take on Loyola University. The 8 p.m. start against the Ramblers comes on the heels of a 0-0 double overtime tie against the Northern Iowa Panthers in which the Sycamores’ junior goalkeeper Brittany San Roman was able to notch her third shutout of the season. Loyola comes into the game with an overall record of 6-64 and sports a 1-1-2 record in MVC matches. The team has been up and down as they have only been able to string together two wins in a row once this season. While the Ramblers rank in the middle of the pack in the offensive categories, they also find themselves toward the bottom on the defensive side, as they have given up the third-most goals in the conference. It has been feast or famine for Loyola goalkeeper Maddie Ford this season. She leads the conference with seven shutouts and is third in saves and saves per game, while the team ranks third in goals given up. On the offensive side, the Ramblers are led by freshman
Jenna Szczensy, who has scored four goals and also assisted on three. Senior Jessica Bean has hit the back of the net three times. As for the Sycamores, the team is looking to get back in the win column after falling in their previous two matches before tying with Northern Iowa back on Oct. 18. The team continues to be led by seniors Sydney Lovelace and Kate Johnson, along with juniors Maddie Orf and San Roman. Lovelace remains second in the MVC in goals scored with seven, while being efficient on her shots on goal as she has only taken slightly over 2.5 shots per game. She also finds herself ranking second in the conference in points and assists. Orf has connected on five goals of her own, with two of those coming in game-winning fashion and has also assisted on three goals as well. Johnson has climbed the MVC ranks throughout the season and now has scored three goals, which places her ninth in the conference. She, like Orf, has also three assists this year. The ISU goalkeeper, San Roman, has had herself a very successful season. She has only given up three or more goals in three of the team’s 15 games, which keeps the Sycamores in every contest and gives them a
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chance to win on any given night. She remains the leader in saves with 86. Loyola has a respectable 3-21 record when playing at home this season and will also be paying tribute to their seniors with
the game being the team’s senior night. With that in mind, emotions could be running high on the Ramblers side, which could present a Sycamore advantage as they look for their first road conference win of the year.
4-time defending national champion Bison face Sycamores Zach Rainey Reporter
Coming off the heels of an exciting win over the Southern Illinois Salukis in the homecoming game last weekend, Coach Mike Sanford and the Indiana State football team will now turn its full attention toward the four-time defending FCS champion North Dakota State Bison in a Missouri Valley Football Conference showdown. The Bison come in to the contest ranked eighth in the country with a record that mirrors the Sycamores at 4-2 and 2-1 in conference play. It’s the first time since 2010 the Bison have lost multiple games in a season. The Sycamores’ chances of victory in this game definitely went up after news that Bison starting quarterback Carson Wentz will miss the rest of the regular season after breaking a bone in his throwing wrist. “Carson means a lot to this program both on and off the field, and nobody on this team is more disappointed about this setback than he is,” said Coach Chris Klieman via USA Today. “We’re still going to count on him to help lead this team and mentor our younger players.” Originally, the injury was thought to be just a sprain, but X-rays later showed the break in his wrist. Wentz was off to a stellar start to the season, throwing 16 touch-
downs to just two interceptions as well as over 1,400 passing yards. He scored the winning touchdown in last season’s FCS championship game in which the Bison downed Illinois State 29-27 and was named Most Valuable Player. The injury will propel redshirt freshman Easton Stick into action for the first time in his career. With an injury to a player as significant as Wentz, there’s no easy way to come back from it as a team and expect to achieve the same goals you set at the start of the year looking at it realistically. The injury to Wentz will most likely mean more carries for King Frazier. Having a quarterback like Wentz under center really helped open running room for Frazier, as having Wentz back there kept defenses from loading the box. Frazier was averaging 4.7 yards per carry with three touchdowns on the year. The only problem is that Wentz was also the team’s second-leading rusher with 264 yards, 104 less than Frazier. However, Wentz was the leader in rushing touchdowns for the Bison before he was injured. With a quarterback taking the first snaps of his career coupled with the fact that the Bison are on the road, it could be a long afternoon for the Bison offense. The Bison returned their two leading receivers from a season ago, but until we see what Stick has, their impact on the game remains to be seen.
The Sycamore offense, on the other hand, looks to be firing at all cylinders as they set a season-high for total offense with 585 and rushing yards with 329 last weekend against the Salukis. Matt Adam had another great game, throwing for 190 yards and three touchdowns while picking up 133 yards and a touchdown on the ground. We saw the Adam-Gary Owens duo out in full force as well, as all three of Adam’s touchdown passes were to Owens. It was nice for the Sycamore offense to have their starting running back LeMonte Booker back in action for last week’s contest, in which he ran for 118 yards on 25 carries. The Sycamore offense will have their work cut out for them this weekend, as the Bison rank second in the MVFC in total defense, first in rushing defense, and fifth in passing defense. The Bison are going to do all they can to turn Adam into a pocket passer and minimize the impact his mobility has on the game. The remainder of the schedule looks tough for the Sycamores, as their remaining four games after this are against nationally ranked opponents. The Sycamores are 58138 all-time in conference play and 15-83 against Top 25 teams. The game is set to kick off at 1:05 p.m. at Memorial Stadium. Audio coverage will be provided by 90.7 WZIS and 95.9 WDKE. Video will be online on MVFC TV and on ESPN3.