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Taste of Morocco shares culture across campus Anthony Goelz Reporter
The Moroccan Student Organization held their first event, Taste of Morocco, on Thursday. The event was a night of sharing culture, spreading the taste of Morocco and togetherness. “This event was to promote the culture of Morocco as a country, since a lot of people do not know where Morocco is and partnerships between Morocco and the United States especially the universities,” said Issam Faouz, the vice president of the Moroccan Student Organization. Faouz also talked about some of the history between the U.S. and Morocco. “Morocco was the first country in the world to recognize the Unit-
ed States as an independent country,” Faouz said. “In Morocco we have a lot of cultures there, since we’re close to Spain, Europe and Africa. So it’s a big mixture of culture,” Faouz said. The event displayed many aspects of culture. There was dancing, a fashion show of Moroccan dresses and food. “Chicken, beef and couscous — we call it tajine. It’s really beautiful; it’s organic,” Faouz said. “We wanted to order the food from Indianapolis, from a more authentic Moroccan restaurant, but unfortunately we didn’t have a lot of time so it was Sodexo. We did a demonstration for them and they took notes, and we had a taste in session, and it was close, not the real thing, but close,” Faouz said. He exclaimed the difficulty of preparing an event like this, but
Faouz stressed the importance of the help from Sodexo. “It wasn’t easy, but thanks to their collaboration and hard work we made it,” Faouz said. He continued to thank the Banquet Center for their work. Faouz said that it was very different from what they were used to, but they handled it well. Faouz also wanted to use this event as a way to address the current political climate in the U.S. “I just want to say with what is happening in the United States and what is happening with Trump, we want to show to the American people we are so peaceful, and we are not different. We have to build bridges, be open, meet each other and learn from each other.”
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Moroccan students share there culture with the ISU community.
Tree Campus USA at the Earth Day celebration Claire Silcox Reporter
Tree Campus USA, an Arbor Day Foundation program, was one of the many organizations that celebrated Earth Day with Indiana State University on Wednesday on the Quad. The Earth Day celebration ISU hosted included over 30 local and campus vendors, a Sodexo lunch picnic and live music. Tree Campus USA was one of the vendors that was spreading awareness for their cause and celebrating Earth Day. “Colleges and universities across the United States can be recognized as a Tree Campus USA college by meeting five standards developed to promote healthy trees and student involvement,” According to the Tree Campus USA website. These five standards make sure that every Tree Campus has a tree advisory committee, a campus tree-care plan, dedicated annual expenditures for campus tree programs, an Arbor Day observance and student service-learning projects. ISU is held to these standard and has been a Tree Campus since the programs creation in 2008. There are many other Tree Campuses at various Indiana universities, some of which include Butler University, Indiana University and Purdue University, according to the last updated list from spring of 2016. For Earth Day, ISU’s Tree Campus USA organization had saplings of all sorts of different trees for students, faculty and community members to plant. Attached to every sapling there was a sheet of information about that certain type of tree including the kind of soil they like and where they grow best. Giving out saplings is one of the ways that ISU promotes healthy
Professor put on leave after tweet on Trump Melissa Etehad
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On Tuesday April 19, ISU hosted their annual Earth day celebration that included over 30 vender’s.
trees and getting students involved with trees on campus. Along with this ISU is also helping reduce carbon dioxide. “We inspire people to plant, nurture and celebrate trees,” the Arbor Day Foundation’s mission statement says. The umbrella organization of Tree Campus USA works throughout the year toward reducing carbon dioxide and saving energy with trees. Arbor Day is April 28, only six days after Earth Day, and celebrates trees and all they do for the world. The first ever observed Arbor Day was in 1872 in Nebraska. After giving out trees to guests of the Earth Day celebration on ISU’s campus on Wednesday, Tree Campus USA has helped reduce carbon dioxide and promote the importance of trees to Earth.
A history professor at California State University, Fresno has been placed on paid leave after writing on Twitter that President Donald Trump “must hang” to save American democracy. Cal State Fresno President Joseph Castro announced Monday that Lars Maischak has agreed to go on paid leave for the rest of the spring semester. The professor posted the tweet in late February. Maischak, who teaches five American history classes to more than 200 students, will spend the rest of the semester conducting research off campus, Castro said in a statement. Substitute teachers have been assigned to Maischak’s classes for the remainder of the semester as the university continues to review the incident. Maischak declined to comment Wednesday, but apologized for his tweet in previous statements to the Los Angeles Times and said that “it was never my intent to harm anyone, nor to encourage others to harm anyone.” An investigation is still being conducted by the U.S. Secret Service. In the tweet, Maischak wrote, “To save American democracy, Trump must hang. The sooner and the higher, the better.” Maischak said he wrote the tweet to his 28 followers under the assumption that it would be read by a close group of people he knew who would “place them in their context.” But the tweet made national headlines after right-wing website Breitbart News reported about it in early April. Tim Franklin, a counterter-
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Sycamores crushes Northern Illinois, 17-8 Andrew Doran Reporter
On Tuesday April 19, the Indiana State men’s baseball team scored 17 runs to get the win over Northern Illinois University. It was early on when sophomore third basemen Dane Tofteland began his record-breaking day. In the bottom of the second inning Tofteland hit his first home run of the day, which was a three-run shot over the left field wall to give the Sycamores an early 4-0 lead over the Huskies. In the fourth inning, the Huskies showed momentum as they put up five runs to take the lead over Indiana State. The fourth inning was not the greatest for ISU because they had to use three different pitchers in order to get themselves out of the rough inning. It did not help that Justin Hill came into the game in a sticky situation, but he could not get the job done. Therefore, Evan Giles came in with runners on and was able to only hold the Huskies to a single up the middle giving one run away. In the bottom of the fifth, on Bifano’s sacrifice bunt, an error was committed to allow the team to have bases loaded after pinch hitter Chris Ayers came in and walked, leaving bases loaded for Tofteland. Tofteland
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Dane Tofteland had a record-breaking game on Tuesday against the Huskies.
followed the pinch-hit at bat with a grand slam, giving ISU a 10-6 lead, Tofteland’s second homerun of the day. After the Sycamore pitching staff got it together, they were able to pound the strike zone and put away the Huskies until later
innings. In the bottom of the seventh, after CJ Huntley and Bifano both singled followed by a HBP, the bases were once again loaded for Dane Tofteland. Tofteland, this time, hit a grand slam to deep center to put the Syca-
mores up 17-6 late in the ball game. The final score of this RBI-friendly game ended up being 17-8 in favor the Indiana State men’s baseball team. A record day for third basemen Dane Tofteland as he set a new record for most RBI’s in one game with 11. The previous record was set nine years ago by Brady Shoemaker who put up 10 RBI’s against Illinois State University in May 2008. Tofteland ended the game 4-5 at the plate with three home runs, four runs himself and 11 RBIs to finish the record-breaking day. Not only did the Sycamores receive help from Tofteland but as well with sophomore shortstop Clay Dungen where he had gone 3-5 at the plate with an RBI and a double on the day. The pitching for ISU was not the greatest during the middle innings of the game, but they kept their cool and were able to finish the game strong. Sophomore RHP Evan Giles was able to pick up his first win of the season on Tuesday. Freshman LHP Tyler Grauer made his first start of the season going 3 2/3 innings pitched. Grauer also struck out five in his outing. NIU’s Danny Hyde was the losing pitcher as he gave up five earned runs in the fifth on four hits.
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Bill O’Reilly to leave Fox News with $25 million Meg James
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Fox News’ former star personality, Bill O’Reilly, will leave the network with the equivalent of one year’s salary — or $25 million, according to two people familiar with the settlement terms. Parent company 21st Century Fox on Wednesday fired O’Reilly, 67, after investigators retained by the company began reviewing allegations of sexual harassment and payouts to women who brought grievances against Fox News’ biggest star. O’Reilly’s ouster came just 18 days after disclosures of sexual harassment complaints and settlements by multiple women, and a call last week to Fox’s corporate hotline by Wendy Walsh, who alleged that O’Reilly promised her a coveted spot appearing on his show but reneged after she refused to have sex with him. O’Reilly’s firing was an inglorious end to a spectacular career with Fox News. O’Reilly’s opinion-based show “The O’Reilly Factor” was a tent pole of Fox
News’ prime-time lineup, supporting the suite of programs that surrounded it. Viewers, particularly older men, reveled in O’Reilly’s pugnacious, take-no-prisoners approach and his trademark “NoSpin Zone” version of current events. “The O’Reilly Factor” drew an average of 4 million viewers an episode, according to Nielsen. In recent months, O’Reilly received a new employment agreement that stipulated that he would receive the equivalent of one year’s salary should he be forced out, according to the informed sources. Fox also fired the architect of Fox News, Roger Ailes, after women complained that they were subjected to a hostile workplace and that Ailes suggested they provide sexual favors in exchange for career advancement. Ailes received a $40 million payout when he left. However, after The New York Times detailed settlements to at least five women earlier this month, protesters began agitat-
ing for change. Rupert Murdoch, the company’s co-chairman and controlling shareholder, initially wanted to keep O’Reilly on the network but advertisers began bailing out of the program, making the situation untenable for the Murdoch family. Fox Chief Executive James Murdoch is said to have led the charge to dismiss O’Reilly. On Sunday, after Walsh’s call to the corporate hotline, Fox brought in Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison to investigate. The law firm also investigated complaints against Ailes. “If O’Reilly would have stayed in his position, there might have been other women who would have come forward,” said Marlene Morris Towns, an adjunct marketing professor at Georgetown University. “They probably realized that it was just the tip of the iceberg.” O’Reilly maintains that the charges against him are untrue. His spokesman was not immediately available Thursday.
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Bill O’Reilly attends the world premiere of “Killing Jesus” on March 23, 2015 at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York, N.Y.
UC Berkeley cancels Ann Coulter appearance, citing safety concerns after violent protests Sonali Kohli and Nina Agrawal Los Angeles Times TNS
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Political commentator Ann Coulter in Santa Monica, Calif., in an April 2016 file image. University of California, Berkeley officials on Wednesday, April 19, 2017, canceled Coulter’s appearance at the university next week, citing safety concerns.
Citgo’s gift to Trump inaugural fund surfaces amid national security concern Bill Allison and John McCormick Bloomberg News (TNS)
A U.S. subsidiary of a Venezuelan state-owned oil company that has stirred national security concerns among U.S. senators contributed $500,000 to President Donald Trump’s inaugural fund, federal disclosures show. The contribution from Citgo Petroleum Corp. surfaced just nine days after a bipartisan group of senators expressed concern that “critical energy infrastructure” in the U.S. controlled by Citgo could wind up in the hands of Russian oil giant Rosneft PJSC. Specifically, the senators, who included Florida Republican Marco Rubio and Texas Republican Ted Cruz, cited “a series of international transactions that could have significant national security implications for critical energy infrastructure in the United States,” according to a letter they sent to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on April 10. The letter asked Mnuchin to monitor the situation. The White House referred questions to the inaugural committee, which didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokesman for Citgo also didn’t respond to a request for comment. Petroleos de Venezuela SA, the Venezuelan state oil company that owns Citgo, used 49.9 percent of its Citgo shares as collateral for a loan from Rosneft last year, according to a Nov. 30 financing statement filed in Delaware. The size of the borrowing secured by the Citgo shares isn’t
clear. “It’s completely normal for any company to do,” PDVSA President Eulogio Del Pino said of the arrangement on Venezuelan state television in December. Nonetheless, the bipartisan senators’ group, which also included Democrats Bob Menendez of New Jersey and Dick Durbin of Illinois, cited analysts’ views that PDVSA “could default on its debt in the very near future.” While the company pledged less than half its Citgo shares to Rosneft, “It is our understanding that Rosneft acquired other PDVSA bonds on the open market that could bring their ownership potential to more than 50 percent,” the lawmakers wrote. The senators asked Mnuchin, who chairs the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, to “proactively monitor the situation.” The interagency committee is authorized to investigate and block any transaction or investment that could present national security concerns. Citgo’s $500,000 contribution, which was received by the inaugural committee Dec. 2, helped propel Trump’s inaugural fundraising to $106.7 million, a record. It appears to be unusual for Citgo, which didn’t contribute to inaugurations in 2005, 2009 or 2013. The contribution was among the largest from fossil-fuel companies — which in all donated almost $3.6 million to the inaugural fund, according to a tally prepared by Friends of the Earth, an environmental group.
University of California, Berkeley officials on Wednesday canceled conservative commentator Ann Coulter’s appearance at the university next week, citing safety concerns following several violent clashes between right-wing and left-wing protesters in the famously liberal city. The decision further heightens a free-speech debate roiling campuses in California and across the country after disturbances have interrupted, and in some cases forced the cancellation of, conservative speakers. UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof said campus police feared that some of the same extremist forces who caused problems during recent clashes would be out in force when Coulter was on campus. Coulter immediately attacked Berkeley’s decision in a series of tweets, saying that “no school accepting public funds can ban free speech.” University of California officials have been caught between left-wing activists who have tried to shut down appearances by conservative speakers and right-wing figures who have criticized them for allowing disruptive protests. University administrators have argued that their campuses should be able to tolerate the views of even farright figures. And some in Berkeley charge that the most extreme protesters on both sides are outsiders provoking violence for their ends. A February scheduled appearance at UC Berke-
ley by conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was canceled amid a violent protest on the campus. That sparked a national debate — in which President Donald Trump took part — about the balance between the right to demonstrate and protecting free speech that some find objectionable. There have been two other clashes in the city of Berkeley since then, including one Saturday in which 21 people were arrested. The UC Berkeley campus is known as the home of the free-speech movement. That’s one reason conservative activists have used it as a setting for several recent rallies. In January, Yiannopoulos and former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli were supposed to speak at UC Davis. But protests prompted officials to cancel the event. Earlier this month, demonstrators disrupted a planned public event at Claremont McKenna College in Southern California featuring conservative commentator and author Heather Mac Donald. Some academics say the stakes are high, particularly as the nation is facing deepening political divisions in the era of Trump. “There is a principle at stake — the principle of the right to speak on campus,” said Todd Gitlin, a sociology and journalism professor at Columbia University. The Berkeley College Republicans, who organized the Coulter event, still plan to host her off-campus on April 27 as originally scheduled,
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Feds say they didn’t deport ‘Dreamer,’ but acknowledge error on his DACA status Cindy Carcamo
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Federal officials acknowledged Wednesday that Juan Manuel Montes’ protected immigration status was not due to expire until 2018, correcting themselves on one point in a case that thrust the 23-year-old Mexican national into the center of a heated debate on illegal immigration. They had said Tuesday that Montes’ protected status ended two years ago. At the same time, Department of Homeland Security officials denied Montes’ claim in a federal lawsuit that he had been deported, saying Wednesday he had voluntarily left the U.S. for Mexico. That could make him ineligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which shields young people from deportation who were brought to the country as children and stayed illegally. While Montes remained in Mexicali, separated from his family in California, his situation generated fury among immigration advocates and drew comment from top officials in the Trump administration. He would be the first so-called Dreamer — as DACA enrollees are known — to be deported by the Trump administration. But administration officials said the case did not signal a policy change. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, appearing on Fox News’ “Happening Now,” said “DACA enrollees are not being targeted,” and said he didn’t know why
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Juan Manuel Montes Bojorquez. On Wednesday, April 19 the Department of Homeland Security attempted to clarify the situation surrounding the deportation of Montes, who was in the U.S. under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, but many questions remain.
Montes was picked up. The administration’s focus is on removing people caught at the border, recent entrants and people who ran afoul of the law, Sessions said. However, he stopped short of saying Dreamers were guaranteed protection. White House press secretary Sean Spicer said circumstances surrounding Montes were “being looked at” and that “the facts are not completely out yet.” Montes’ situation came to light Tuesday when he sued the Trump administration, alleging that he had been wrongly deported to Mexico by officials who refused to tell him why. His attorneys say he was detained by Border Patrol officials on Feb. 17 in Calexico and deported. After the Department of Homeland Security issued its statement correcting Montes’
DACA status and denying he had been deported, his attorneys reiterated their claim that he had been forcibly removed. “Juan Manuel has been unequivocal in his assertion that he never voluntarily left the country while he had DACA. We believe him. We filed a (Freedom of Information Act) lawsuit to get answers. Rather than continue to provide half-truths and varying assertions, (Homeland Security) should respond to our request for documentation,” said Nora A. Preciado, a staff attorney with the National Immigration Law Center and co-counsel on the case. The incident touched a nerve in the immigrant rights community and among Dreamers. An estimated 742,000 Dreamers live in the U.S., one-third of them in
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indianastatesman.com ANN COULTER FROM PAGE 3 off-campus on April 27 as originally scheduled, said Troy Worden, the group’s spokesman and a Berkeley student. “The purpose of the event is to expose the Berkeley community to a (perspective) that they don’t often hear and that the Berkeley administration won’t allow them to hear,” Worden said. In a letter to the organizers sent Tuesday, Berkeley Vice Chancellor for University Relations Scott Biddy and interim Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Ste-
TRUMP FROM PAGE 1 rorism instructor at Arizona State University and former U.S. Secret Service special agent, said that “any kind of threat to the president, whether it comes down to social media or a telephone call, will be evaluated.” But Franklin said it’s becoming more difficult for the Secret Service to keep up with the number of threats made against the president over social media. “The Secret Service is concerned about a repeated history of threats that may escalate. It is difficult to keep track of all this and for it to come to the attention of the Secret Service,” Franklin said. Generally, there is an uptick in threats when a new administration comes to the White House, similar to when President Barack Obama first started his presidency, according to Franklin. “We think our online life is our personal life and that’s not the case. The minute your finger touches the keyboard and transmits something, it becomes public domain,” Franklin said.
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deliver her speech in the afternoon; only students would be allowed to attend; and the speech location would not be announced until close to the event.” Coulter, who planned to speak about immigration, in turn requested that police step in to address “law-breaking by rioters attempting to shut down conservative speakers” and that the university announce before the speech that it would expel “any students engaging in violence, mayhem or heckling to prevent an invited speaker from speaking,” according to a statement by
the group. Mogulof, the Berkeley spokesman, denied that the university limited Coulter’s talk just to students or required that the location be kept secret. In regards to Coulter’s demand, he said the university would not tell students they would be expelled for heckling. “Everything we’re doing here … was about maximizing the chances that the speaker and the students could actually exercise their rights with minimal disruption,” he said. Third-year Berkeley student
Juniper Angelica Cordova-Goff, 20, said she was glad the event was canceled. She believes Coulter’s rhetoric targets marginalized communities, including African-Americans, Latinos and LGBT students, who have the right to feel safe on their own campus. “I don’t think that anyone’s free speech is being impaired,” said Cordova-Goff, who is studying political science and Chicano studies. “I think sometimes the free-speech amendment is used as a way to frame violent conversations as a matter of free speech.”
To win a conviction in cases of threats against the president, prosecutors must prove that a statement was intended and could be perceived as a threat. Punishment can include up to five years in prison, according to federal law. Maischak, who has been lecturing at Cal State Fresno since 2006, said in previous statements to the Times that it felt cathartic at the time to write the tweets but he regrets treating Twitter like a journal. He has since deleted his Twitter account so that no one could read his posts and “take them as encouragement to act violently or unlawfully.” In the aftermath of the Breitbart article, Maischak said he has received a flood of threats and hate mail. Eileen Walsh, a former history professor at Cal State Fresno, worked with Maischak for five years until she retired in 2011. She finds the situation aggravating and said that Maischak is a good person and an accomplished scholar.
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tried to scale a fence back into the U.S. He was returned to Mexico. Montes, who said he has lived in the U.S. since he was 9, has learning disabilities after suffering a traumatic brain injury when he was young. He did farm labor and studied welding at a community college before he was deported. Officials said Wednesday that Montes had four criminal convictions — one for shoplifting and three for driving without a license. But those offenses are not serious enough to disqualify
someone from DACA. Montes was approved for the program in 2014 and received a renewal in 2016. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, praised immigration enforcement agents Tuesday on Twitter for removing Montes. “First non-valedictorian DREAMer deported. Border Patrol, this one’s for you,” he tweeted with a photo of a beer mug and a link to a story by USA Today, which was first to report on Montes’ case.
California. The hashtag #justiceforjuan gained steam soon after news about Montes spread, touching off a rally in front of federal immigration offices in the nation’s capital and an online petition to Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly. One point immigration officials and Montes attorneys agree on is that Border Patrol officials detained Montes on Feb. 19 as he
BILL FROM PAGE 3 “It is tremendously disheartening that we part ways due to completely unfounded claims,” O’Reilly said in a statement released Wednesday. “But that is the unfortunate reality many of
us in the public eye must live with today. I will always look back on my time at Fox with great pride in the unprecedented success we achieved and with my deepest gratitude to all my dedicated viewers.”
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ISU to participate in nationwide ‘March for Science’ Adrienne Morris Reporter
Science is an important part of society. All over the country scientists and those who love science are working hard to find out new discoveries to help the general public. The passion of science has forced them to create a march to celebrate and support one another at Indiana State University. The Wabash Valley March for Science will occur on April 22. This event is a part of the nationwide March for Science on Earth Day. The purpose of the event is to take a stand against certain policy changes and show the world that they are valuable parts of society. “Recent policy changes have caused heightened worry among scientists. The incredible and immediate outpouring of support has made clear that these concerns are also shared by the support of hundreds of thousands of people around the world,” according to the Wabash
Valley March for Science website. The website also states that the march is “a non-partisan, non-violent and inclusive event. We welcome all scientists, science advocates, and anyone who supports
Facts about the event: • What: The Wabash Valley March for Science • Where: Dede Plaza, Wabash Avenue • When: Saturday, April 22 Sign making at 4 p.m., speakers at 5 p.m., march at 6 p.m. the free exchange of publicly funded research.” The support from people around the world has allowed the march to occur and has also brought many people together in a cause that they feel passionate about. The Wabash Valley March for Science is a glimpse in-
side the other marches that will be going on throughout the world. The march will be made up of people from different backgrounds who will come together on an issue that they support. The march is to encourage awareness of issues regarding science and the government. The people of the march want others to know that science is important and the reality of global warming should be addressed. The schedule for the event is as follows: Sign making at Dede Plaza at 4 p.m., speakers at DeDe plaza at 5 p.m., and the march beginning at 6 p.m. at the Dede Plaza and Wabash Avenue and back. The Wabash Valley March for Science will take place at the Dede Plaza from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. with a rally. The march itself will take place in downtown Terre Haute. Students of the Indiana State University community are welcome to participate in the march and fight for the cause. Participants of the march are asked to register online at marchforscience.com.
Crossroads Rep Business Engagement Center grant helps empower entrepreneurs promises mind- VentureWell has awarded a grant to the Business bending 2017 $30,000 Engagement Center at Indiana State University to promote enseason trepreneurship and solve a social
Don’t bother adjusting your theater set — this year’s Crossroads Repertory Theatre is all about “The Tricks the Mind Plays” for its upcoming summer season. “Crossroads Repertory Theatre is very excited to bring to the stage a wide array of mind-teasing productions. This summer offers up the comic classic ‘Young Frankenstein: The New Mel Brooks Musical,’ a gothic horror ‘Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde,’ Pulitzer Prize winner ‘Rabbit Hole,’ and finally, the story of the grotesque yet beautiful ‘Cyrano de Bergerac.’ We can’t wait to see you at CRT for our 2017 series of ‘The Tricks the Mind Plays,’” said Chris Berchild, artistic director of Crossroads Repertory Theatre and professor and theater department chair at Indiana State University. In its 52nd year, Crossroads Rep was born as a summer stock theater at Indiana State. The company takes on classic plays and musicals and continues to draw the best talent regionally, and alumni have been featured on prestigious marquees all over the nation and beyond. The 2017 season includes: — Mel Brook’s hilarious 1974 comedy “Young Frankenstein” comes alive on stage through silly songs and unforgettable characters. In this musical parody of a classic horror story, the audience is transported to a small village in Transylvania, where Fredrick von Frankenstein struggles to overcome his family’s sinister legacy... with frighteningly hilarious results. Featuring songs like “The Happiest Town (in Town)” and “He Vas My Boyfriend,” all the music and lyrics were written by Brooks himself. Bill Kincaid returns as director for another CRT season. Shows are 7:30 p.m. June 16-17, July 7, 12, 15 and 4 p.m. June 18, July 9, 16. — In true CRT fashion, creative dramatics and technical innovation combine in an exciting retelling of the literary classic “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.” Witness the evolution and evil as the kind Dr. Jekyll splits his brain and body with the sinister Mr. Hyde. This Robert Louis Stevenson favorite - directed by Berchild - is reimagined as a haunting and theatrical chamber piece that’s guaranteed to entice your mind. Shows are 7:30 p.m. June 2324, July 5, July 8, 13 and 4 p.m. June 25. — A husband and wife struggle to rebuild their lives and maintain their relationship in the wake of a senseless and inexplicable tragedy “Rabbit Hole,” a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning drama by David Lindsey-Abaire. Families and strangers must comfort one another, even as they confront the grief and resentment that threaten to consume them. Share in the drama The New York Times called “exceptional” for its “honesty, accuracy and humor” and its empathetic exploration of love and loss. Lauren Morris will direct this production set for 7:30 p.m. June 30, July 1, 6, 14 and 4 p.m. July 2. — One of literature’s oldest romantic comedies, “Cyrano de
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problem. Applying for the grant required “E-teams” -- or teams of students working on a project that proposes a solution to a social problem. The E-team’s proposal was to create a course that would educate students on entrepreneurship and solve a social problem. The Business Engagement Center is an outreach between Indiana State and the community and helps for-profit and notfor-profit businesses grow and launch by lending the expertise of its students and connecting potential small-business owners and entrepreneurs to resources. The center receives referrals from the Small Business Development Center, Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce, Terre Haute Economic Development Corporation and Launch Terre Haute. “The traditional view of community engagement is working with kids, cleaning up sidewalks, painting buildings or volunteering at not-for-profit facilities. As part of the Division of University Engagement, we do the same thing but in a different manner. To the Business Engagement Center, community engagement involves helping individuals start or grow a business, or helping them to grow their entrepreneurial skills,” Pigg said. “It really doesn’t matter -- wealth creation for that individual, job creation for the community, the creation of some type of company or product or offering that has the potential to bring jobs and eco-
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The Business Engagement Center is an outreach between Indiana State and the community and helps for-profit and not-for-profit businesses grow and launch. nomic activity to the area.” As a part of the grant, Eric Anderson’s class of seven students is working on a water filtration system for areas that don’t have access to clean drinking water -an issue that prior to Flint, Michigan’s public crisis seemed very far away from home. “Our group is such that we’re meant to benefit the community in our own way, and the way we do that is by helping businesses start-up and grow and helping individuals figure out whether their business idea has potential, and then to connect them to the resources that they need,” Pigg said. Pigg recognizes that the difficulties of navigating entrepreneurial resources are different for everyone. “I think with any business,
finding the right resources is probably the biggest challenge. In our geographic area, there are entrepreneurial resources, but they’re scattered,” Pigg said. “Individuals struggle to find the right resources. Ultimately, they need someone that can mentor them. Someone who is brutally honest in the assessment of their business or idea, and someone who can point them in the right direction for resources.” After an individual has obtained the right resources, entrepreneurship may be the ultimate leveler. Pigg demonstrates how coming from a lower socioeconomic background introduces unique challenges for entrepreneurship: limited access to healthcare and capital, lack of a support network and less of an emphasis on education.
“A crucial component of being a successful entrepreneur is a strong support network, whether it’s family, personal mentors, or other individuals. Unfortunately, research shows us that less affluent individuals lack the strong support network that more affluent individuals traditionally have. The reality is that the entrepreneurial community in an impoverished area such as ours needs and relies on our entrepreneurship and community engagement resources.” Business Engagement has had a positive response from the community and from the businesses they have helped, such as the Wabash Valley Health Clinic, Twisted Fry and DJ Danny Wayne.
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Campus Earth Day shines light on importance of recycling Ian Bonner-Swedish Reporter
Earth Day kicked off at Indiana State University, and students gathered around to learn new ideas and how to improve the world. A presentation took place in In Dede III by Jadcore, the largest recycling plant in the country, in Terre Haute. Jadcore is truly a savior to the environment and the community. If they wanted to, they could fill the entire Hulman Student Union with plastic 15 times. Grant Bradley, the plant manager, recalled Jadcore’s origins. “Jim Dowdy is the founder of Jadcore. He saw an opportunity when he was actually a manager of a company that was a producer of plastic. He found they weren’t reusing the plastic they were making, so he went on and developed the process to recycle plastic. He started with an extruder and grew it into the largest company in the Midwest. Really founded to cut back on the waste that was holding down the growth of over companies so he wanted to recycle that waste and put it back into use. It was really to eliminate the production and landfill of waste that past companies were making,” Bradley said. The plant began back in 1974 and through his leadership many jobs have been developed. They are able to produce high quality plastic pellets that can be sold to companies. They use a machine called extruder that includes two parts that create heat. After contaminates are sifted through and the plastic melt begins to extract from heating, mechanism blades are used to cut the long strands which causes the formation of the pellets. Why pellets? It’s quite simple. “Plastic can be sold in different types you can grind it, or you can chose to not go through an extruder but every maker of plastic uses pellets, so as a recycler we need to get it back into the form that they use just like they would buy it as the maker of plastic pellets,” Bradley said. They buy and sell to companies within several states.
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Earth Day took place on April 19th, and students gathered to learn new ideas and how to improve the world. “We buy from many different companies, but we support some of the largest plastic makers in the business and have good relationships with all of them. But the real answer is we buy and sell plastic to 22 states,” Bradley said. Companies that dwell in the expertise of consumer products and agricultural products are Jadcore’s primary business partners, but they do leave a mark of their own with what they produce; it reaches out to the common person. “We do reuse a lot of our pellets into the making of trash bags, and we produce trash bags, and we sell those to convenience stores, and we sell those to many different compa-
nies,” Bradley said. Thanks to Jadcore, in one hour alone they make over 30,000 pellets, and all those pellets are being kept out of a landfill — a truly green endeavor that has gone on for 43 years. Jadcore is always looking for Sycamores to join the mission. Bradley informed of the positions they’re always looking for and that he informs the students of during his visits for the technology presentations at Indiana State University. “We’re mainly looking at operators or manufacturing experience. We can teach them how to work the line and manufacture. Engineers are also key to us they need to maintain and fix our machines,” Bradley said.
indianastatesman.com BUSINESS FROM PAGE 4 “We’re happy to say we helped them, but they would have made it whether we stepped in or not,” Pigg said of Twisted Fry. Last year, the Business Engagement Center worked on 49 projects and spent more than 5,000 hours on projects and student activities. One part of the VentureWell grant focuses on solving a social problem such as clean water, while the other half which supports the Business Engagement front may be solving an additional social problem for Terre Haute and similar Midwest cities. Pigg says that like many small, Midwest towns, Terre Haute faces declining wages. Average family income has declined steadily over the years, he says, and hourly income in the area of production and manufacturing has declined while hundreds of jobs have disappeared. “The services we provide are meant to create jobs and bring us back to where we were several years ago. Every job that we can help create has a positive effect on our community,” Pigg said. “That’s the importance of it at the end of the day.” In addition to unlocking individuals’ potential to be job creators, Business Engagement also donates its services to notfor-profits, so these services can focus more resources on the services they provide — many of which aid struggling and unemployed people. “Whether we’re doing annual
CROSSROADS FROM PAGE 4 romantic comedies, “Cyrano de Bergerac” is a bittersweet love story has been delighting readers and theater-goes alike for more than 200 years. The story directed by CRT alumni Arthur Feinsod follows the handsome but hopeless Christian as he attempts to woe
Friday, April 21, 2017 • Page 5 reports, business planning, website development work or logos — every dollar we save them is a dollar that they can provide in the form of services, whether it be medical, dental or housing — every dollar that we save them can go back into our community.” Pigg says that when these notfor-profits become more effective at helping lift people out of poverty that creates a ripple effect that further helps the local economy. “I know it sounds crazy, like how can you claim that you’re helping people for generations down, but the reality is that if you help one person and they’re able to attain a better education, access to healthcare, a higher wage, higher family income, pride of home-ownership, those types of things, that’s what they push to the next generation,” Pigg said. “We become our fathers and mothers in a sense.” Pigg’s father was a truck driver and neither of his parents graduated from high school, although Pigg’s parents demanded that him and his siblings finish high school and go to college. “I don’t want to see you doing what I’m doing in 30 years,” Pigg remembers his father telling him. “You don’t want to work this hard with your hands, 10to-12 hour shifts and driving an hour to get there. You don’t want to miss your family for a whole week because you’re working. You need to use your mind and you’ll go a lot further, make a lot more money, and you’ll be a lot happier, too.”
Pigg followed his dad’s advice, and not only is he happier, but so are those who he helps through the Business Engagement Center, like Danny Wayne Beemer’s mobile DJ service that has been around for 25 years. “I came to the Business Engagement Center at Indiana State University with hopes for a new life online,” Wayne said. Wayne’s business received a website makeover and a modernized logo to accompany his brand. Audie Spencer and his team also helped Wayne transition to a new web-host and email and worked on a direct marketing plan. “During one direct mailing I saw a 40 percent increase in business as a result of the marketing tools provided by the Business Engagement Center at ISU,” said Wayne, who plans to visit the center for additional social media strategies as he expands his entertainment services to Indiana and Illinois. Pigg says it is important to connect people with resources because they don’t realize their potential until they see it demonstrated. “You don’t know you’re poor until you have money, and you don’t know what you can achieve or do unless someone shows you,” Pigg said. “We’re all products of where we come from, and by nature, that’s what influences us. That being said, we all have the opportunity to be greater than where we came from and what we started with.”
the beautiful Roxane, all thanks to the verbal wit of Cyrano, the boastful soldier whose known more for his sizable snout than his bravery. Audiences are sure to enjoy this exciting story of love, poetry and panache, set for 7:30 p.m. July 20-22 and 4 p.m. July 22-23. Season tickets are available for
$64 each, and single-production tickets are $16-20 for general admission. To buy tickets or donate to Crossroads Repertory Theatre, go to crossroadsrep.com or call the box office, which opens June 16, at 812-237-3333.
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What ISU has taught me
Friday, April 21, 2017
Leah Kennedy Columnist
Thirty things I have learned at Indiana State University This is just a list of 30 things I’ve learned in my first 30-ish weeks as a college student. I have hundreds more, but these are a mix of some fun and some serious ones. As always, have a wonderful week, and remember, summer is just around the corner. 1 – This is the most important one. Coming to college made me realize that I would be nothing without my family, my friends, and a select network of teachers, aids and two amazing secretaries from North Putnam. 2 – Sometimes, you have to have a come to Jesus meeting with Jesus himself, and that’s okay. And for me, the best time to do that is on a Sunday morning when I’m doing my makeup. 3 – You don’t have to be best friends with the first group of people you meet. You will learn and grow as the time passes. 4 – Homesickness is the worst, and can only be taken care of by calling home and the occasional cry. 5 – College is not like the movies, at all. 6 – Sometimes the best things to happen to you are just disguised as the worst things. 7 – The freshman 15 is so real. Sometimes you’ll find yourself eating dinner right after you ate dinner just because you can and your friend texts you asking if you want pizza (I always want pizza). 8 – Going to class in leggings is really fun and, coincidentally, no one is distracted by my bare shoulder either. 9 – Sometimes you don’t want to go to class because you’re tired and the walk feels so far. But, you should go, because you’ll feel bad about it later. Additionally, sometimes skipping is the best thing for your mental health. I’m a firm believer in Netflix days. 10 – Free food is good food. 11 – Squirrels are really cute. 12 – This is something I struggled with the first few days: I am supposed to be here. Even on the days I don’t feel like I am. Even on the days I feel like I’m a little kid playing pretend. It’s okay to feel like that as long as I eventu-
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Why not let kids be kids Whitney Slaton Columnist
“Boys can’t play with dolls, just like girls can’t play with action figures.” “Girls wear pink; boys wear blue.” “Girls cook while boys play sports.” These sayings are only a few of the many that are common gender stereotypes. However, what is the reason that the boy is not allowed to play with a doll and the girl with an action figure, that a boy wearing pink or a girl wearing blue is wrong or that a boy should play sports while a girl cooks? Hint: there is none. Gender stereotypes were created long before any of us were born, long before our great-great grandparents were born. However, in today’s society, women are not primarily for household chores like cooking, cleaning, and caring for children anymore, just like men are no longer the sole money-makers. Today, men and women both have to work to provide for their families, both have to take turns caring for children and both have to do household chores; yet
these expectations are still prevalent. Children have an even stronger set of gender stereotypes that are pushed onto them. Children are taught stereotypes in a different way, though, as they do not have to worry about money, cooking or children yet. Instead, they are being taught stereotypes through how they play with their toys and how they dress. Girls are given dolls, dresses and play kitchens, while boys are given action figures, toy cars and building blocks. With these toys, children are being taught that toys can be feminine or masculine, when in reality a boy can play with dolls the same way a girl can play with action figures. Not allowing a boy to play with a “feminine” toy teaches him that only girls should play with that toy, and in turn, when a boy does play with a “feminine” toy, that he is girly, therefore making being a girl an insult to boys. When parents dress girls in pink and boys in blue, all is fine for the first couple of years of the child’s life; however, according to Parents.com, kids learn stereotypical behaviors around the
age of three and effectively harm their development. Many parents (not all) are aware of the gender stereotypes and are trying to allow their children to see genders equally; however, parents are not the only reason for children learning these behaviors. Parents.com says that young children learn these stereotypes from older siblings or teachers, but mostly from the media. The media’s impact on children is sadly the greatest reason why children are learning and believing that there is a difference in the way boys act compared to the way girls act. While there are TV shows that have men and women in gender non-conforming roles, in most TV shows, girls are teachers, secretaries or stay-at-home moms and boys are doctors, police officers or the boss of a company. Children’s movies are no better either; while most now have an equal representation of girls and boys, girls are usually wearing pink and the boys blue. Classic movies for children are still very popular, but also come with the stereotypes of the time they were created. Movies like
“Cinderella,” “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” “The Sound of Music” and “It’s a Wonderful Life” are packed full of stereotypes that the male should make the money and chase after the girl while the girl should be doing the household chores and be submissive to the boys. Along with these stereotypes come negative effects on children. If a boy grows up never having to do household chores like cooking a meal or doing the laundry, when he grows older and is on his own, he will not have the proper skills to live as healthy as he could. In turn, if a girl grows up never having to fix the leaky faucet or mow the lawn, when she grows older, she will have to rely on others to help her with basic tasks that boys are used to doing. Children will learn what they see and what they see is what parents, teachers, peers and the media are showing them. In order to truly have a gender-neutral society, we must first stop teaching children gender stereotypes and start letting kids play with the toys they want, wear what colors they want and be as gender-free as they want.
Please don’t abandon net neutrality Los Angeles Times TNS Under its last chairman, Democrat Tom Wheeler, the Federal Communications Commission dramatically ramped up its regulation of telecommunications companies, especially those that provide broadband internet access to the home. Although the telecom industry resisted many of these steps as heavy handed and overly restrictive, internet users, consumer groups and scores of companies that offer content, apps and services online welcomed them as prudent limits on broadband providers who face too little competition. And they’re right about that — far too many consumers today have only one or two practical options for highspeed internet access at their
homes today. Since becoming the FCC’s new chairman in January, however, Ajit Pai, a deregulatory-minded Republican, has moved the agency just as aggressively in the opposite direction, knocking down new FCC dictates one by one. Pai’s latest target is the net neutrality rules the commission adopted in 2015 after a federal appeals court threw out the commission’s previous neutrality regulations. The 2015 rules try to preserve the openness that has been crucial to the internet’s success by barring broadband providers from blocking or impeding legal sites and services, favoring some sites’ traffic in exchange for pay, or unreasonably interfering with the flow of data on their networks. These are all vitally important principles, as even opponents of
the rules recognize. The fight has largely been over how strictly they should be interpreted and enforced. In particular, the dispute has been over the FCC’s move to reclassify broadband providers as utilities, which a federal appeals court ruled the commission had to do before it could impose blanket prohibitions on blocking, throttling or prioritizing data. The reclassification also subjected providers to some of the same, decades-old rules as local phone monopolies. The process of undoing a rule usually requires another public notice and months of public comment on the proposed change. But Pai may take a procedural shortcut next month that undoes the utility classification right away. And instead of having neutrality rules that the FCC would enforce, Pai may
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call on broadband providers to pledge not to block, impede or prioritize traffic unreasonably — with the Federal Trade Commission available to slap the hands of any provider that goes back on its pledge. That’s a laughable idea. Dropping the “utility” classification would make it harder for the FCC to protect net neutrality, but not impossible — Wheeler laid out a way to do so in 2014. Leaving the matter to voluntary pledges and the Federal Trade Commission, on the other hand, would be precious close to having no safeguards at all. A broadband provider could avoid an FTC lawsuit even if it stopped honoring its neutrality pledge. It would just have to adjust its terms of service to reveal any shift — for example, disclosing that it was now blocking web-
sites that did not pay an extra toll to reach their customers, or letting websites buy their way to the front of the data line. More important, opponents of the current neutrality rules have yet to offer a persuasive argument for abandoning them. A common complaint is that they somehow limit investment by broadband providers, but that investment has been trending downward for almost a decade. Meanwhile, networks continue to improve, with increasing speeds and wider availability. Nor can market forces be counted on to protect net neutrality, given how few options for broadband service most homes have. The ongoing wave of telecom industry consolidation threatens to keep the number of competitors low even after
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ally feel I belong here again. 13 – Everyone else is just as homesick as you are. 14 – Having a group of girls to help make you laugh when you’re sad is a must. 15 – Dogs can’t FaceTime, but I sure wish they could. 16 – Calling home is the best way to end a bad day. 17 – Moms and dads come when you need them, even when they say they won’t. 18 – Sisters and brothers come to the rescue when you’re homesick but you can’t see your parents because you wont want them to leave you. 19 – Jesus will save you when you can’t save yourself. 20 – You won’t get made fun of if you don’t party. 21 – Church is good – go to it. 22 – You can be whoever you want to be. 23 – Just because you can doesn’t mean you should 24 – The scariest professors are the nicest 25 – Kisses from your puppy are so much sweeter when you’ve been gone a long time 26 – Coming home is bitter sweet. 27 – Leaving home is even worse. 28 – The hardest days are the first few days, and that’s okay 29 – A lot of the buildings here have pretty ceilings 30 – And finally, I learned that I have a lot of people cheering me on.
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Kyle Moore runs between bases at a recent baseball game.
Baseball team to take on conference rival this weekend Andrew Doran Reporter
This coming weekend Indiana State men’s baseball team will travel to Texas to take on conference rival Dallas Baptist University. They will play a three-game series against the Patriots. With the Sycamores coming off a huge week, the team is looking to take this momentum and carry it into the weekend where conference play will be at stake. Dallas Baptist is currently 21-15, 3-3 MVC so far thus season, and they are on a three-game win streak going into the weekend. The Patriots are more prone to win at home where they have a 14-5 record with their home crowd present. Dallas Baptist so far this season has been doing well against non-conference teams and should be able to continue their success as the season is close to coming to an end. The team currently has five guys in their lineup that are hitting well over .300. Their pitching staff has had substantial help with run support on offense. Junior infielder Matt Duce is currently hitting .321 at the plate and is slugging .555 on the year. Duce also has five homeruns and 31 RBIs in the season. Duce is third on the team in walks with 20 so far.
Sophomore infielder Tim Millard has as also been a huge help for the Patriots this season. Millard is hitting .323 at the plate with 34 hits on the year, four of them being homeruns and 11 being doubles. Millard is leading the team in walks with 30 this season. The Patriots are being backed by their power hitter senior outfielder Austin Listi. He is hitting .299 going into this weekend and is leading the team in homeruns with 11 so far. Listi is slugging and seeing the ball great; he is slugging .642 and has the second most walks on the team with 26. Indiana State needs to take the momentum they are carrying this week and bring it into the weekend. If they want a shot at bettering their conference record, the bats need to be alive this weekend along with their pitching staff hitting their right spots and everything else they need to do in order to come home with three possible wins. ISU has been good lately and if they can bring the heat for this weekend, it should be an exciting one to watch. First pitch is Friday, at 7:30 p.m., then on Saturday at 3 p.m., and Sunday they will begin at 2 p.m. Sunday’s game can be viewed on EPSNU/WATCH ESPN.
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Sycamores drop doubleheader at Loyola Tyler Wooten
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Indiana State put together two hard-fought games, but Loyola edged out a doubleheader sweep on Wednesday afternoon, winning 5-3 in the opener before shutting out the Sycamores 3-0 in the finale. The Sycamores (18-24, 3-14 MVC) put up eight hits on Loyola (22-19, 5-12) in the first game but could never overcome a four-run first inning by the Ramblers in the 5-3 defeat. The second contest was a pitcher’s duel between Kylie Stober and Loyola’s Keenan Dolezal with just eight total hits in the game, but Dolezal yielded only three in the complete game shutout. Indiana State will stay on the road this weekend with a series at Evansville on April 22-23. ISU starter Kenzie Ihle allowed just four hits across the final five innings of play, but prior to that Loyola exploded for four runs on five hits in the bottom of the first, building a lead the Sycamores would never quite catch and taking momentum the Sycamores would never quite regain in a 5-3 defeat in the opener. Loyola opened the game with a bunt single by Shannon McGee (1-3), a single into left field by
Erica Nagel (1-3), a sac bunt to move them both over by Alyssa Mannucci and then three straight RBI hits by Katie Kabuske (1-2, RBI, BB), Jordyn Cordell (2-3, RBI) and Jamie O’Brien (2-3, 2B, 2 RBI). The Ramblers would score just one more unearned off reliever Della Gher in the sixth off an error in centerfield. Indiana State nearly matched Loyola’s hit total with eight on the day, but ended up leaving nine runners on – six of which were left in scoring position. Three different Sycamores recorded multiple-hit games – Leslie Sims (2-3, BB), Brooke Riemenschneider (2-4) and Mary Turitto (2-3, SF, RBI). The Sycamores got on the board in the third inning, with Riemenschneider starting a two-out rally with a single through the left side, setting the stage for a Turitto infield single that led to a run-scoring throwing error. ISU started two different rallies in the sixth and seventh and scored runs in each inning. Turitto led off the sixth with an infield single and eventually scored on a Brooke Mann RBI groundout. Sims led off the seventh with a bunt single and eventually scored on an RBI sac fly by Turitto – her third sac fly of the season. Shaye Barton added a double
in the second inning and Erika Crissman had a single in that seventh inning rally to round out the hitting for ISU. Loyola starter Keenan Dolezal threw a gem in the second game, shutting out the Sycamores and throwing six innings of one-hit ball before Indiana State started to mount a rally in the seventh inning in ISU’s 3-0 loss to the Ramblers. Senior Kassie Brown had the lone hit for the Sycamores in the first six innings of play, a screaming single down the left field line with two outs in the third. In the seventh, it was Leslie Sims who started the rally again with a bunt single, followed immediately by a bunt single by Rylee Holland and a near game-tying home run by Erika Crissman that was caught on the warning track that allowed Sims to advance to third. Dolezal settled in with runners on the corners, though, getting two more quick outs to second base to close out the complete-game shutout and the doubleheader sweep. ISU starter Kylie Stober threw a gem as well, with the only blemish on her record today being three runs on five hits – with Loyola having to resort to the suicide squeeze bunt for two of its three runs. Stober struck out three today and walked just one.
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Blackhawks hope lighter mood will lead to better results in Game 4 Chris Hine
Chicago Tribune (TNS)
The Blackhawks walked in single file silently into the Centennial Sportsplex in Nashville, Tenn., on Wednesday. They were already in uniform for practice — perhaps their final one — and their demeanor was all business. The 3-0 deficit they face against the Predators in the Western Conference quarterfinals isn’t going away, but after they took the ice the mood became lighter two days removed from a crushing 3-2 overtime loss in Game 3. That setback cast a pall over the Hawks and this practice was a day after coach Joel Quenneville wanted the Hawks to “stay away from each” on their off day. The extra day between games seemed like an awful idea in the immediate aftermath of Game 3, winger Patrick Kane said, but he believes it turned out to be a good thing as some players did hang out together some.
“It seemed like the guys are ready to try and do this,” Kane said of overcoming such as deficit, which only four teams have done in NHL history. “Obviously waiting two days between games like that when you (blow a) lead isn’t the best thing but we used it to our advantage. “Got away from the game Tuesday and hanging out with each other, being with each other, had some laughs and fun.” The Hawks can thank Neil Diamond for the time off because of his scheduled concert at Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday. It allowed the Hawks to regroup and hit the ice renewed for practice Wednesday, a session that featured work on puck battles but not many changes to the lineup. The most noticeable change, captain Jonathan Toews said, was in the mindset of the team. “Guys were in the right mood,” Toews said. “We did a good job as a team getting our mind off hockey and taking a day to rest our bodies. A lot of that is
having fun, joking around and just enjoy being with each other in the locker room despite our situation. “We’re still here, still alive and have a chance to win (Thursday) night’s game and that’s what we’re going to focus on.” Toews recognized part of the reason the Hawks are in this predicament is his own play. After going goal-less in last season’s playoffs, Toews still hasn’t scored in this series. “That’s something I’m obviously well aware of and no better moment than a game like (Thursday),” Toews said. “I’ve waited long enough. You have to go out there feeling lucky, like you’re going to work for that bounce. I’m just trying to stay patient and smart and do the right things. There’s obviously no more waiting.” The Hawks tried to deploy a psychological weapon on the Predators in their comments, saying the onus is on the Predators to win the series, not on the Hawks to come back. “We don’t really feel any pressure
right now,” Kane said. “Being down 3-0, it seems like all the pressure is on them to win the next game.” Added Quenneville: “We basically have nothing to lose. It’s a tough situation. We’re looking to get a decent start and go from there. But definitely the pressure’s on them.” The Predators shouldn’t feel too much pressure, not with the way they have skated circles around the Hawks and flustered them in the neutral zone all series. The Hawks have to hope they somehow can find a way to reach their peak performance. It hasn’t happened yet and it may be too late. But maybe, as their season is on the verge of ending, they have found a way to play with freer minds. No other tactic has worked. Perhaps this will. “This might be the worst spot we’ve ever been in,” Quenneville said. “To find a way to get back into it you have to look at the real short term and the small picture and try to get momentum back.”