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Indiana State University Board Chair announces leadership of Search Committee, Transition Team The leaders of the Presidential Search Committee at Indiana State University and a Presidential Transition Team were announced today by Board of Trustees Chair David Campbell. President Daniel J. Bradley announced on April 26 his intention to step down as president effective January 2018.

Jeff Taylor will serve as chair of the 15-member search committee, and Kim Smith will serve as vice chair, Campbell said. Both are members of the ISU Board of Trustees. The committee will also include five faculty members selected by the Faculty Senate; Bart Colwell, chair of the ISU Foundation Board; Paul Chaney, Sr., chair of the ISU Alumni Board; Roxanne Torrence, chair of the ISU Staff Council; Tanner Smith, president of the Student Government Association; Bob Baesler, community representative; Diann McKee, senior vice president of finance

and administration and university treasurer; Willie Banks, vice president for student affairs; and Linda Maule, dean of the University College. Campbell will serve as an ex-officio member along with Teresa Exline, Chief of Staff in the ISU Office of the President, who will provide logistical support for the search. Campbell hopes to have the complete committee in place within the next two weeks.

The role of the search committee will be to screen candidates and make recommendations to the Board of Trustees which will make the final decision. Campbell indicated he wants to make the process as open and transparent as possible starting with a series of listening sessions scheduled for Thursday, May 11. The sessions will be conducted by Ryan Crawford, a partner in Storbeck Pimental, the search firm which is assisting with the search.

“The purpose of the listening sessions it to receive input from stakeholders on the qualifications, experiences and qualities the next president should have in order to be successful at Indiana State. We hope to have as many people as possible attend the sessions and/ or complete the online stakeholders form,” Campbell said.

Feedback from the listening sessions and survey will be utilized by the search committee to build a draft position description. The Board of Trustees will review and finalize the description at its June 23 meeting so that the recruitment and advertisement process can begin. Campbell said the tentative timeline is to have the search committee narrow the field to 3 to 4 finalists by late August for on-campus interviews in mid-September.

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The leaders of the presidential search and transition team have been announced.

ISU’s first Buddy Walk Claire Silcox Reporter

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The SGA introduced and swore in there new president and vice president on the afternoon of April 30.

New leaders inducted into Student Government Association Rileigh McCoy News Editor

Student Government Association held a ceremony for awards and to induct the new president and vice president into office.

The ceremony, which took place the afternoon of April 30, began with refreshments. SGA and Student Leadership Coalition members along with beneficial faculty and staff were first recognized for their supportive actions with awards. The inauguration of President Tanner Smith and Vice President Justin Ottino followed, ending the ceremony. Smith and Ottino will officially take office this summer.

“This team went from sometimes operating like the people’s court to writing a nearly 30 page document that provides the framework for how our judicial system will serve the student government,” said Brooks Moore, advisor to SGA. “We appreciate the partnership with Senate for making that a living document because it will provide the framework and the structure that we’re going to need moving into the new year.”

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fairs, Willie Banks, swore in Ottino for his role as SGA vice president.

“I am even more thankful to do this alongside Tanner,” Ottino said in his address after being sworn in. “We talked about running together once, and I didn’t think it’d actually come true. I guess chances make moves; we took a chance and now we’re here.”

Ottino explained in his address some of the work he and Smith have done. It is expected many changes will be brought to campus next year for better parking, better diversity and better game days.

“I’ve enjoyed our time working together trying to get things started, and I’m confident that we will make a great team next year leading the students,” Ottino said.

“We have some great ideas and changes that we would like to see on campus. We will try and see if those changes can happen, and we will do our best to do so. I’m excited for us to make ISU better together.”

President Bradley swore Smith into his role as SGA president.

In his address afterwards, Smith noted that becoming president is a dream come true.

“I still remember two years ago

sitting in the same banquet, and I watched Shannon Anderson and Vernon Cheeks get sworn in as president and vice president,” Smith said. “As a freshman I thought ‘This is never gonna happen, but I want to, I wanna do it — this would be cool.’ Justin approached me with the opportunity to run and I figured, why not? I’ve been thinking about this since my freshman year; there are things I’ve wanted to change on campus. I wanted to help out with students.”

Smith also said a few words of thanks to the previous president and vice president, Andy Velazquez and Josh Grady, pointing out their beneficial guidance to Smith and Ottino.

Ashton Mears, director of public relations for SGA, concluded the inauguration.

“On behalf of the 54th and 55th executive, legislative, and judicial branches along with Sycamore Leadership Coalition and the Board of Elections, I would like to thank everyone for attending this evening,” Meares said. “One more congratulations to both Tanner and Justin — we wish you the best of luck as we look forward to your terms.”

Raising awareness and funds for Down Syndrome Indiana, Terre Haute is set to host their first Buddy Walk at Memorial Stadium on May 6 at 9 a.m.

Before the walk begins at 10 a.m., there will be team awards, information and registration tent, and more activities and resources available.

You can register as a sponsor, team, participant or volunteer. To register your team, visit dsindiana. org/buddywalk.php and select the Terre Haute walk.

The Buddy Walk is a national event being hosted in Indiana by DSI. It is a family-friendly event open to all children and adults with Down Syndrome, along with the members of their support systems.

According to the DSI website, “As a direct result of event sponsorships, team fundraising and generous public donations, Down Syndrome Indiana is able to continue providing New Par-

ent Packets, educational resources, informational programs, parent support networks, and social events for individuals with Down syndrome.”

Buddy Walk has three primary goals: “To promote acceptance and inclusion of people with Down Syndrome, to raise funds locally and nationally for education, research and advocacy programs, to enhance the position of the Down Syndrome community, enabling us to positively influence local and national policy and practice,” according to the website.

The walk will be held at Indiana State University’s Memorial Stadium on Wabash Avenue. The event begins at 9 a.m., the walk at 10 a.m., all ending at noon.

Buddy Walk Terre Haute almost met their fundraising goal of $15,000 on Monday night with a total of $14,617.

This is the inaugural Buddy Walk for the Terre Haute Community. Other Buddy Walks in Indiana are on May 20 in West Lafayette and Oct. 28 in Indianapolis.

‘Annie’ to be the final installment of this years art series Anthony Goelz Reporter

The hit Broadway musical “Annie” is coming to Indiana State University’s Tilson Auditorium as part of the Performing Arts Series on Thursday, May 4 at 7 p.m.

“Directed by original lyricist and director Martin Charnin and choreographed by Liza Gennaro, this production of ‘Annie’ will be a brand new incarnation of the iconic original,” according to the ISU website. “Featuring book and score by Tony Award-winners Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, ‘Annie’ includes such unforgettable songs as ‘It’s the Hard Knock Life,’ ‘Easy Street,’ ‘I Don’t Need Anything But You,’ plus the eternal anthem of optimism, ‘Tomorrow.’”

This production is based on Harold Gray’s popular comic strip “Little Orphan Annie.” The comic strip premiered in the 1920’s in the New York Daily News, and became one of the most widely read strips in the 30s and 40s.

“Annie,” originally set in 1933, is the story of a young orphan girl who believes her parents left her in an orphanage by mistake.

It is the story of a young girl who, through sheer temerity and force

of will, lives through the Great Depression with an optimism rarely seen at the time.

Charnin championed the idea to colleagues Charles Strouse, a two-time Tony-winning composer, and Thomas Meehan, a short story writer for The New Yorker.

It took a great deal of campaigning to get them interested, but the team was finally formed in 1971, when they began to write the musical. After many tribulations and rejections the musical was finally picked up to be performed on stage.

“After being completed, the musical was auditioned for 23 producers, all of whom turned it down. Finally, in the summer of 1976, Michael Price agreed to present it at the Goodspeed Opera House, where it underwent numerous changes, until Lewis Allen and Mike Nichols decided to produce it as their first Broadway venture,” according to the website.

The original 1977 production ran at the Alvin Theatre (now renamed the Neil Simon Theatre) for 2,377 performances and won seven Tony Awards Since the original, the musical has had multiple screen adapta-

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Will sending selfies to Jupiter moon get the attention of an E.T.?

Louis Sahagun Los Angeles Times (TNS) Emcee Tom O’Key seemed giddy as dozens of guests filed into an outdoor theater in this Mojave Desert town on a recent Saturday night to learn about an icy moon of Jupiter and take a stab at connecting with whatever — or whomever — may be living there.

“We’re sending selfies to Europa here tonight, folks,” O’Key told those who had gathered in the Joshua Tree Astronomy Arts Theater. “Take a moment to reach out to the cosmos and say, ‘We here on Earth care.’”

Sponsored by the Southern California Desert Video Astronomers, the public program featured a documentary, 3-D holographic projections, views through telescopes and what was believed to be the first opportunity to send video selfies to a moon of Jupiter that NASA scientists have identified as one of the likeliest homes of extraterrestrial life in our solar system.

Zerrin Leckey, 9, was among the first to take a few deep breaths, smile, then speak into the lens of a video camera connected to a device that converts

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A long camera exposure captures guests staring at twinkling stars and a giant laser beam pointing to Europa, Jupiter’s moon, during a program about the possibility of life on Jupiter’s. The red light on the left is a flashlight used to guide guests to their seats in the dark.

audio and visual images into flashes of laser aimed at the moon — only 37 minutes away at light speed.

“Hi, Europa!” he said. “This is Zerrin on Earth. I’m turning 10.”

Next up was Jean Mueller, 67, a retired telescope operator at the Palomar Observatory who has discovered more than 30 comets.

“I photographed everything in the sky except you, Europa,” she said. “Now, I’m talking to you in person, and that’s pretty nice.”

The casual tone of these pioneering attempts at intragalactic communication was fine with O’Key, who didn’t hesitate to note the limits of the technology in the astronomy club’s “Europa is Alive!” event or “the giggle

factor involved in all this.”

It was O’Key, 63, a retired technical consultant in personal injury litigation cases, and Leonard Holmberg, 62, a retired developer of optics-based products, who put together the selfie-sender: “An instrument comprised of a video camera, a laptop computer, fiber-optics technology and a yellow laser that cost us about

$400,” O’Key said.

“We like to think we’re bringing extraterrestrial adventure to everyday people,” he said.

“Of course, we’d need the power of the sun to generate a coherent beam strong enough to hit Europa,” Holmberg said. “But at least some of the photons in the transmissions we’re sending are reaching their target. No doubt about it.”

The project, Holmberg said, suggests how far technology has advanced since charismatic physicist Carl Sagan popularized the possibility of making contact with extraterrestrial life.

Sagan led a team that developed communications materials that were aboard the Voyager 1 and 2 space probes launched in 1977 to make drive-by visits to planets in this solar system and then continue on to explore space. The packages included images of a nude man and woman and musical samplings, including Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode.”

O’Key and Holmberg consider themselves “Saganites,” inspired

by NASA’s recent announcement that Europa and Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, harbor all the ingre-

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Prosecutors indicate they 1 dead, 3 injured in stabbing at will charge students in Penn University of Texas; suspect in custody State frat-house death ry Gym at 21st Street and SpeedArredondo said he emerged Philip Jankowski and Susan Snyder The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS) Charges are likely against several people in the death of Pennsylvania State University student Tim Piazza, who fell down stairs during a fraternity pledge-night party in February, according to a legal filing last week by Centre County prosecutors.

The filing was made in a dispute between the fraternity chapter’s housing corporation and prosecutors over whether video that police obtained from the fraternity, Beta Theta Pi, of the night the sophomore engineering major fell should be returned.

Prosecutors said in court filings that portions of the video were presented to a grand jury and “will bear to a great degree on the question of probable cause to arrest a number of individuals and play a critical role in the prosecution of these individuals.”

The fraternity has argued that it needs the video returned to prepare its defense. Prosecutors said that the video is subject to grand jury secrecy requirements and should not be returned.

Centre County Judge Thomas King Kistler, who supervises the grand jury, sided with the fraternity in an April 25 order.

Prosecutors appealed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which declined the prosecutors’ request. Prosecutors have asked Kistler to reconsider.

Prosecutors did not say what

charges they would seek in Piazza’s death.

Bruce L. Castor Jr., special assistant district attorney, wrote in an April 26 filing that the investigation “is likely to lead to the arrest and prosecution of a number of individuals for conduct surrounding the death of another person.”

Defense attorneys engaged in the matter said last month that authorities appear to be weighing a variety of charges against multiple people, including hazing, furnishing alcohol to minors, reckless endangerment, and manslaughter.

Piazza, of Lebanon, N.J., was pledging the fraternity and attending a bid night party on Feb. 2. He was intoxicated and fell about 11 p.m. Members of the fraternity did not call for emergency help until about 12 hours later. Piazza, who suffered a collapsed lung, ruptured spleen, and nonrecoverable brain injury, died the next day.

Penn State has permanently banned the fraternity, citing evidence of hazing, forced drinking, and other illegal activity.

Michael P. Leahey, a lawyer for Beta Theta Pi, said Monday that the fraternity had not yet received the video, which under the judge’s order should have been returned by last Thursday afternoon.

Kistler declined to comment.

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When she first heard the screaming, Rachel Prichett thought her fellow University of Texas students were just joking around.

Then she looked over from the line at the Chi’Lantro food truck and saw a man standing with a knife “that looked like a small machete.”

“It was wide and curved,” she said Monday afternoon. “At first I didn’t even think about it as an attack. I thought about it as a fake knife or whatever, and then he just grabbed this guy by the shoulder and stabbed him in the back with it.

“He was just walking around very calmly, like, with no major facial expression or running around,” Prichett said. “He was just walking around with a knife, so no one even noticed when he hit that first guy, I guess, because no one was screaming. Then everyone just screamed and ran away as fast as they could.”

In a matter of minutes, UT police say, biology junior Kendrex J. White, 21, stabbed four students — killing one and injuring three. School officials in the North Texas town of Graham identified UT student Harrison Brown — who is from Graham — as the student who was killed.

Economics senior Ray Arredondo said he saw swarms of people screaming and running from the epicenter of Monday’s attack, a plaza outside of Grego-

way in one of the busiest parts of the large campus.

Arredondo had been walking to a parking garage when he saw a swell of students running.

Believing a shooting to be underway, he ran inside a nearby building.

One witness who wished to remain anonymous said it took seconds for it to settle in that a man was attacking students. The witness said they were sitting at a picnic table near the Chi’Lantro BBQ food truck at 21st Street and Speedway when a man wearing a bandana approached and stabbed a knife into a table.

He then looked at everyone in what appeared to be a “theatrical stunt” before turning to slash a man in the neck, the witness said. It was only after he walked up to another man and stabbed him in the back that someone screamed, “Run!” Brown died at the scene, and the other three, whose identities were not immediately released, were being treated at University Medical Center Brackenridge.

It was about 1:49 p.m. when UT police received a call of a stabbing. The first officers got to the scene two minutes later, some tending to the wounded while another approached White, according to witnesses and UT Police Chief David Carter, who provided a timeline of events at a media briefing.

Carter said White offered no resistance, immediately complying with an officer’s order to get on the ground.

from the building where he was hiding to see a police officer tending to one man being given CPR near Gregory Gym’s main entrance. About 20 feet from there, another officer was giving aid to a man who appeared to have wounds to his neck and head, Arredondo said.

Other photos on social media showed what appeared to be a medic tending to a third man with wounds to his back sitting on the steps near the Perry-Castaneda Library.

Nearer to Jester Center, Arredondo photographed an officer taking White into custody. He described the suspect’s demeanor as “nonchalant.”

“He looked almost unfazed by the whole thing,” Arredondo said. “He had a grim look on his face, looking back and forth at individuals. He was not struggling.”

The crowded area of students was soon cleared as UT police and Austin police homicide detectives placed barriers marking off the entire intersection. Within two hours of the attack, UT officials canceled all classes and all remaining events for the day, turning the crowded campus into a relative ghost town.

Three hours after the attack, a slow trickle of students strolled through the area, weaving in and out of buildings to avoid the web of bright yellow police tape lining the streets in every direction.

Some could be heard speaking

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Airbnb, HomeAway settle rental-registration lawsuit against San Francisco Tim Funk The Charlotte Observer (TNS)

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The shipping container house of Rick Clegg of the Headwaters Eco Retreat in Jupiter Farms. The container house is being used as an AirBnB rental and as an eco retreat for tourists who don’t want to stay in a hotel or sleep in a tent.

San Francisco has reached an agreement with Airbnb and HomeAway to settle a federal lawsuit and allow short-term rentals to operate in the city while complying with local regulations.

The agreement, which must still be approved by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, addresses concerns by short-term rental platforms about being responsible for ensuring that all users register with the city and comply with local regulations.

Chris Lehane, head of global policy and communication for Airbnb, called the deal “a proverbial ‘winner, winner chicken dinner’” during a news conference Monday.

The lawsuit filed by Airbnb last year challenged a city ordinance that would fine short-term rental platforms $1,000 for each user who rents out property on such sites without registering with the city.

Under the agreement, Airbnb and HomeAway will create systems that give San Francisco information about users when they

register to list rentals on the online platforms. Based on that information, the city will be able to determine if users are registered with the city and abiding by regulations such as a rule that prohibits the use of affordable housing units for short-term rentals.

Creating and rolling out the system will take about eight months, Airbnb said.

Airbnb will deactivate listings if the city notifies Airbnb and HomeAway of a property that has failed to register.

“We need to protect our neighborhoods,” City Attorney Dennis Herrera said. “While we are happy to see a homegrown San Francisco company like Airbnb succeed, it can’t be at the expense of residents.”

Housing advocates have complained that Airbnb and other short-term rental sites encourage landlords to rent to travelers, which reduces rentals available for local residents.

“For those who have been turning badly needed rent-controlled units into vacation spots, that is coming to an end once and for all,” Herrera said in a statement.

Users and other proponents of short-term rentals say they help boost local economies, generate taxes and allow owners to afford to live in San Francisco and other high-cost areas. Lehane said the average Airbnb host generates about $6,000 a year.

In San Francisco, 2,100 shortterm rental properties have been registered with the city, but Airbnb alone has more than 8,000 short-term listings in San Francisco.

Airbnb and HomeAway have vowed to deactivate any listing once the city notifies the shortterm rental platforms that a property is not registered with the city.

“HomeAway is pleased to have reached an agreement with the city to create a more convenient means for owners to comply with local rules,” said Philip Minardi, director of policy communications for HomeAway.com.

Lehane noted repeatedly that the only information shared by Airbnb with the city will be the name, address and ZIP code of the property that is registered

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named by late October.

The transition team will be led

by Trustee Ed Pease and Nancy Rogers, vice president for university engagement. Campbell said the transition team will assist with the celebratory events honoring the Bradleys, which will be centered around this year’s Homecoming and will help ensure the new president is fully integrated into the Indiana State University family.

The transition team will also include trustees Randy Minas and Kathy Cabello; Ron Carpenter, vice president for development and CEO of the ISU Foundation; Exline; Greg Goode, executive director of governmental relations; Sherard Clinkscales, director of intercollegiate athletics; Rex Kendall, executive director of the ISU Alumni Association; four faculty representatives selected by the ISU Faculty Senate, a representative of the Staff Council, and a representative of the Student Government Association. Campbell will serve as an ex-officio member.

dients needed for life to evolve: heat, organic material and vast oceans of water capped by ice.

“What they’re doing is fine with me,” said Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the nonprofit Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute based in Mountain View, Calif. “But it’s fair to say we don’t know if aliens are friendly, or if they even exist. If they do, will they be cute and cuddly like the one in the movie ‘E.T.,’ or will they be like the Kardashians?

“In that case,” he continued,

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ANNIE FROM PAGE 1 tions. The first adaptation was made in 1982 by Columbia Pictures Film. Columbia purchased the rights for $9.5 million according to the “Annie” website. Since then, Disney did a made-for-TV version, which broadcasted in 1999. Most recently, a more modern version of “Annie” released in 2014.

“Since its premiere in 1977, the Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin musical, with book by Thomas Meehan, has enchanted audiences with its infectiously bouncy and hopeful score, sweet story, and just enough old-fashioned Broadway pizazz to spin stage magic,” said Theodore P. Mahne in his review for the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

PENN FROM PAGE 2 an extensive surveillance system unusual for fraternity houses, Damon Sims, Penn State’s vice president for student affairs, has said.

“What we know is that this was

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Austin Jacobs, a freshman who said he lives at Jester Center, said the area is usually buzzing with students.

As police continued to gather evidence, he said he still feels safe. He said that, like others, he had heard rumors that the attack might have had something to do with fraternity life. Carter said investigators have not estab-

“we should keep a low profile.

You don’t want your tombstone to read: I’m responsible for the obliteration of the human race.”

Jim Bell, an astronomer at Arizona State University and president of the Pasadena-based Planetary Society, described the Joshua Tree effort as “delightful.”

“It’s a testament,” Bell said, “to the ability of every man nowadays to have access to technology that was only a dream a decade ago.”

Scientists have been searching the skies for signs of alien civilizations for decades, mostly based on the premise that they,

like us, would use bursts of radio and laser light we might be able to hear or see.

The SETI Institute runs an array of radio telescopes designed to act as an enormous ear capable of scanning more than a million stars over 10 billion radio frequencies. It still has not detected any signal produced by someone else out there.

The Mars lander Phoenix, launched in 2007, carried recorded greetings. A year later, NASA beamed the Beatles’ “Across the Universe” at the North Star, Polaris.

In 2012, a now-defunct com-

pany leased a huge radio telescope in Carmel Valley, Calif., and offered to transmit personal messages and photos from Earth to various stars for free.

Now, there’s the astronomy club led by O’Key, who as a boy liked to shine a flashlight beam at the Earth’s moon knowing it would get there in 1.2 seconds.

“The only exceptional thing about our attempt to communicate with an alien world,” he said, “is how easy and inexpensive it has become to give it a try.”

a hazing ritual and it involved the gross misuse of alcohol,” Sims has said, declining say whether he had seen the video. “These men were made to ingest enormous amounts of alcohol. … To my knowledge, this is the first time that has happened in a chapter

house where there was a sophisticated surveillance system.”

Tom Kline, a lawyer hired by Piazza’s parents, wrote a letter to the fraternity Monday asking that it preserve all the video, give access for an inspection and “without delay provide us with

a copy of the video footage and images.”

“This is, by all accounts, critical evidence in this case,” Kline wrote.

lished a connection there yet but would not rule it out.

“His motivation, obviously what is going through his mind, I can’t answer that at this time,” Carter said. “It would be premature to indicate or suggest one thing or another.”

Korbin Springer, a 19-year-old junior, said he got to know White in a Spanish class they took together this semester. White was always smiling and happy-golucky when they would chat before and after class, Springer said.

A little over a month ago,

White stopped coming to class, and Springer assumed he had dropped it until about a week ago when White returned, upset about a traffic incident. He told Springer he had been arrested for drunken driving but said he’d had a seizure and hadn’t been drunk.

“When I saw him then, he was very depressed and not the same,” Springer said. “He was a happy guy. He was upset, I think against the police, because he felt they wrongly accused him.”

According to an arrest affidavit, police arrested White on

April 4 on a charge of driving while intoxicated after he was involved in a wreck on campus.

Monday, when Springer heard about the stabbing and saw a photo of White being arrested, he was shocked.

No one answered the door at a house in Killeen where public records indicated White once lived. A woman who answered the phone at the home hung up when she was told she was speaking with a reporter.

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Cinco de Mayo event to focus on history Ian Bonner-Swedish Reporter

A Cinco de Mayo event is taking place at Indiana State University. The event will be held near the information desk in the Hulman Memorial Student Union on Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Creshawn Cole, the organizer of the event, will provide information about the history of the celebrated holiday during that time.

“The event is a rather simple one; it is simply a table in HMSU that will give information regarding the history of the Cinco de Mayo holiday,” Cole said.

Although simplistic in nature, Cole feels it’s necessary to host such event so that everyone can recognize its cultural significance.

“It is simply to provide infor-

mation regarding the history of the holiday. In American society, it has become about eating tacos and drinking too many margaritas. I think it’s important to how the holiday started and its significance in the Hispanic/Latino Community,” Cole said.

Cole said there are a few other important things to take into consideration while planning these type of events.

“It means, as with most of my events, they’re all centered around knowledge, gaining experience and learn about things that you wouldn’t necessarily know about. I am a person that takes pride in learning at all times in any situation. That’s kind of something that I strive to elicit in other people — to just be always willing to learn and be open to learn about things you haven’t been exposed to. That’s what it

means to me. To take something that originated from people from this area or religion or Hispanic Latino people in general,” Cole said.

Although it’s a small event, students will be able to enlighten themselves beyond what they think they know.

“A lot of people think its Mexican independence day, which isn’t the case. It’s celebrating the victory of Battle of Pueblo. They ended up winning the battle, but they lost — the French took over Mexico five years after that,” Cole said.

Students may find refreshments during the event on the seventh floor of HMSU in the La Casita Resource Center. In addition, there will be small souvenirs to take away from the tables such as pens, whistles and mood bracelets.

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Spicy shrimp and avocado tostadas.

Timmy Global trip to Ecuador: ‘It teaches us to care for people’ Like so many others in the frigid Midwest, a group of Indiana State University students flew south in January.

They were not in pursuit of warmer weather, but to help a community in Ecuador with limited access to healthcare.

Timmy Global Health is a foundation headquartered in Indianapolis that focuses on supporting health care in Latin American countries. There are 50 university chapters, including the Indiana State chapter established in 2012 by a small group of students. In 2015, the group sent four students to Ecuador. In 2016, they sent nine students. A week before classes began this year, 19 Sycamores flew to Ecuador.

“So we’ve been doubling in size over the years,” said Eric Glendening, chemistry and physics chair and faculty advisor for Timmy Global Health on campus.

They currently serve five different areas on the continent and four or five sites within Ecuador. The teams travel to select areas and partner with existing healthcare operations to help deliver health care services to under-served areas.

The students worked with medical professionals from both Ecuador and the United States, with a total of six medical professionals on this trip.

These medical professionals worked closely with the students as they set up clinics in remote areas complete with intake stations, vitals and a mobile pharmacy. The students, who came from a variety of backgrounds and specialties, supported the operation in any way they could.

“It’s a great opportunity for the students to realize this is really hard work, but it’s something that’s very special and they come back excited about the

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ISU students pose for a photograph while in Ecuador as part of Timmy Global Health study abroad experience.

experience and it’s a highlight or the highlight of their undergraduate experience. So year after year, our plan is to continue to do this,” Glendening said.

Timmy Global Health at Indiana State receives support from the Center for Global Engagement’s program for faculty-led travel abroad. Global Engagement provides subsidies for the students, who are enrolled in the honors course Global Healthcare Challenges. This class, which meets Thursdays from mid-October through early February, mainly primes students on cultural differences and the history of Ecuador, as well as controversies such as “volun-tourism.”

Students do not need to study health care to go on the trip or to join Timmy.

Glendening says the majority of students who travel are pre-med students, but nursing and business majors have also joined the trips.

Once students are educated on the culture and people of Ecuador, the Global Healthcare class devotes an evening to a mock clinic. Most of the training students receive for the medical portion is on-the-job -- taking vitals or helping to count pills under the review of a trained pharmacist.

Glendening recalled one student on

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“Sniper Ghost Warrior 3” opens on Marine sniper Jon North and his brother Robert as they are tasked with destroying a biological weapons stash near the Russian-Ukrainian border. The brothers complete their mission, but before they can exfiltrate, the pair is ambushed by an unknown group. Jon is spared, but Robert is taken.

Two years later, Join infiltrates Georgia to destabilize a separatist movement. The separatists are just the tip of the iceberg. In his efforts to complete the mission, Jon is brought face-to-face with a secret society that has infiltrated its way into the US military and other parts of the world and the fate of the little brother that was taken from him.

The narrative of “Sniper Ghost Warrior 3” is not anything special. It is a standard and straightforward plot, and what few twists the game has are easy to see from a mile away. The ham-fisted way the game handles its narrative is second only to the bland and lackluster delivery by the voice cast. Everything falls flat and feels robotic.

The most irritating thing about the story is the, by the most liberal of definitions, romantic subplot. On his mission Jon is joined

by Lydia, a former Special Forces operative for the Georgian military, and Raquel, who is a Mossad agent. At different points in the game Jon is intimate with both

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Unicorn Frappuccinos are just the latest food designed with Instagram in mind Jessica Roy

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

If you’ve been online in the past week, you’ve seen a Unicorn Frappuccino in its natural habitat: Instagram.

The drink dominated social media, with more than 1.3 billion impressions on Twitter, according to the analytics firm Brandwatch.

On Instagram, more than 150,000 posts were tagged #unicornfrappuccino. Countless more photos and videos made their way onto Snapchat and Facebook.

And then, as quickly as it had appeared, the Unicorn Frappuccino was gone. Starbucks offered it for only five days. So if you missed it, you really missed it.

The limited-time-only pinkand-blue sugary swirled behemoth seemed like it was designed with Instagram in mind. And it almost certainly was.

Chains like Starbucks have always created menu items based on customer behavior. Among the key 18-to-34 demographic, the current consumer behavior is to take a photo and post it online.

So when new foods are being de-

veloped, companies are making sure they’re optimized for a filtered selfie.

“Food is today’s hottest social currency,” said Christine Couvelier, an executive chef and president of Culinary Concierge, a company that tracks food trends and developments. She said one-third of people in that critical millennial age bracket regularly post photos of their food online, so it makes sense that companies would want to capitalize on that by designing Instagram-friendly offerings.

Some foods are naturally appealing: colorful cocktails, frosted desserts, artisanal lattes crowned with delicate foam art. Fast food is traditionally less photogenic. But chains are trying to change that.

In 2015, Brinker International, parent of the Chili’s chain, announced that it would spend $750,000 a year to improve how its food looked in photos. An egg wash would be applied to the hamburger buns to give them an eye-catching sheen, the French fries would be served in stainless steel baskets, and the ribs would be separated and stacked instead of being served as a single slab.

When the initiative was launched, Chili’s had 25,000 followers on Instagram, according to news reports. As of today, it has just shy of 200,000.

Yum Brands owns Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC — the respective homes of the Doritos Locos Taco, the Hot Dog Bites Pizza and the Double Down sandwich, which substitutes pieces of chicken for bread. In a recent interview with Business Insider, Liz Matthews, Taco Bell’s chief innovation officer, said the company’s food development team is always considering how a new menu item will look in photos.

“We want people to talk about it, and blog about it,” Matthews said. “And share their pictures.”

Starbucks wanted that, too. And by tapping into the unicorn trend, the brand ensured that its drink would resonate with its intended audience. Unicorn-themed toast, cakes, coffee drinks and doughnuts have proliferated across Instagram in the past few months.

More than 4.8 million posts on Instagram are tagged #unicorn.

“Unicorns have these various metaphors that people use —

they’re magical, they’re special, they’re original,” said Ira Kalb, an associate professor of clinical marketing at USC’s Marshall School of Business. Furthermore, he said, unicorns are bright and colorful. And, like the Starbucks drink, you only see them for a short period of time before they disappear.

Denise Lee Yohn, the author of the book “What Great Brands Do,” said she was surprised by the Unicorn Frappuccino.

“I thought it was completely off brand for them,” she said.

“I thought it was a cheeky effort to get social sharing about their brand. That’s something Starbucks usually doesn’t do.”

But overall, she said, brands are definitely thinking more about social media when they’re developing their products: “Five years ago, three years ago, that wasn’t a consideration.”

She said creating social-media-mindful food is a hot marketing trend, and that “like every trend, it will get overdone, and it will get burned out, and marketers and brands will have to come up with a different way to get peo-

Courtesy of Starbucks

Starbucks’ Unicorn Frappuccino, here and gone in five days.

ple’s attention.”

In the meantime, does she think we’ll see more things like the Unicorn Frappuccino?

She sighed: “I’m afraid that we will.”

indianastatesman.com TIMMY FROM PAGE 4 the trip who had never flown before, and two days later, she was working in a clinic in Ecuador.

“She had a great time -- but it’s interesting how quickly it just becomes your new normal.

People are people and we don’t necessarily speak the same language, but we have the same concerns and the same needs,” Glendening said.

Sophomore Star Leonard from Kansas, Ill., has flown on an airplane before. It wasn’t the fivehour plane ride to Ecuador that made her nervous; it was the roads.

“The landscape is absolutely beautiful in Ecuador - that is until you are looking at the bottom of a 20,000 foot drop with one tire hanging off the road. However, (our bus driver) Roberto was amazing and we were in great hands,” said Leonard, biology/pre-med major specializing in medical laboratory science.

Glendening said although the students were mostly technicians, the medical professionals

SNIPER FROM PAGE 4 Raquel and Lydia, and that is as far as it goes. There is no standoff between them, no decisions, and Jon does not end up with either of them at the end of the game. While Lydia and Raquel are important to the plot, the “romantic” connection between them and Jon is completely unnecessary and distracting.

On release the game suffered from massive technical issues,

Wednesday, May 3, 2017 • Page 5 who accompanied them were appreciative of their help and thought highly of the group from State.

“Every day, it feels like you’ve expended two days of effort just to run the clinic and then the various chores we have in the evening just to get ready for the next day,” he said. “It’s very hard work, but this very group of students -- not unlike students from the previous years, they just worked very well together and the medical professionals recognized that and at least one or two of them came to me every day saying this is a special group, and they expressed how much they appreciated their dedication.”

Two physicians from Union Hospital travelled with the group from State, including Danielle Cundiff. Every year, Cundiff said, one of the attending physicians at Union Hospital takes a third-year resident on a mission trip. This year, it was her turn.

“I have not had opportunities to do this in the past and thought it would be a wonderful and memorable learning experience,” Cundiff said.

Cundiff, one of six medical professionals on the trip, took patient histories with the help of translators, performed physical exams, diagnosed patients and prescribed medicine.

“I was amazed by the professionalism and energy of the ISU students. They were always willing to work hard and with a smile on their face ... their energy level and desire to learn was contagious,” said Cundiff.

The trip to Ecuador forced her to be resourceful and revisit the basics of her medical training, Cundiff said. She observed that many of the patients had never seen a physician before.

“It is very easy to sometimes get frustrated with the medical system nowadays,” Cundiff said.

“I did not have all the medicines and tests that I am used to having such easy access to. This forced me to truly think about what does this patient needs and what do I have access to help them right now.”

While running a clinic in the Andes with Timmy Global Health obviously taught Leonard medical skills -- the ins and

outs of health care, compliance between stations, the process from patient history to dosage -- it had a larger impact on her personal experience.

“The trip teaches us more than just how to treat patients,” Leonard said. “It teaches us how to care for people.”

Leonard says that when she packed for the trip, she carefully chose which old shoes to bring that she would mind getting ruined or dirty.

“But the locals walked miles up and down mountains in mud just to be seen. This trip was very humbling, and I hope I speak for more than just myself,” Leonard said.

Leonard recalls cleaning up after finishing vitals one day.

While waiting for the rest of the crew to finish, Leonard and others went outside to play soccer.

Smaller children from the community joined them, playing hopscotch and drawing in the sand with sticks.

“The girls would draw something and ask me to say it in English, and then I would ask them what it was in Spanish and

Quechua. We went back and forth, taking turns drawing and saying what the things were in our language,” Leonard said.

The girls would repeat the words back in English; Leonard says her attempts were met mostly with giggles, but she expected that. “It was something so simple but it allowed us to communicate despite the language barriers. It was this moment on the last day that I knew I had learned much more than I intended,” Leonard said.

Cundiff was also “humbled” by the gratitude of the people of Guangaje, who would walk for hours in their best clothes, wait in line and thank the volunteers for whatever help they could get.

“I feel like the people of Guangaje touched my life far more than I could have theirs and I will always remember this experience,” Cundiff said. “For those that are thinking of doing something like this, my advice is: do it. Don’t wait, get involved. The experience will last you a lifetime.”

with poor frame rates, textural pop-up and long load times being the most prevalent. Many of these problems influenced the game’s key game play component, sniping, to the degree that it became hard to tell whether or not the game was worth playing.

Since launch there has been fixes implemented, and these problems have become far less of an issue. They are still there but in much smaller quantities. Unfortunately, the fixes do not jus-

tify CI Games shipping a broken game. The game did not even launch with all the promised features, as multiplayer is still in the works and will be patched in at a later date.

Putting technical issues aside and focusing on the general aesthetic of the game, “Sniper Ghost Warrior 3” would look good if it was made a decade ago. Despite receiving the AAA treatment, the game looks horrible compared to modern games. It looks

like a game released last generation on the Xbox 360/PS3. There are games such as “The Witcher 3,” “Fallout 4” and “Far Cry 4” that released on this generation of hardware, are larger in scale and blow this game out of the water in terms of visuals.

Game play may be this game’s saving grace. Sniping is obviously this game’s main feature.

This game features an in depth system when firing the rifle. Distance and wind are factors play-

ers need to keep in mind when lining up a shot. Stealth is also a useful tool when infiltrating areas in the game. Always outnumbered, the player must use their wits to even the odds.

Despite solid game play and fun missions, “Sniper Ghost Warrior 3” is a lackluster experience that is easily forgotten.

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Trump tax plan favors wealthy

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Albert R. Hunt

Bloomberg View (TNS)

The Trump tax plan, unveiled in one sketchy page last week, is like a bottle of bad wine: It’s not aging well.

Central questions remain unanswered. The White House says it will fill in the important details later, in the meantime pushing dubious and duplicitous claims.

Three illustrations make the point. Administration officials won’t say whether the personal exemption would be eliminated, hardly an arcane detail. They falsely suggest that the plan will increase taxes on some wealthy investors by eliminating a tax loophole used by executives of hedge funds and private-equity firms known as “carried interest.” And they rely on the dubious assumption that Congress will no longer allow state and local taxes to be deducted from federal taxes.

As more phony claims and higher costs emerge, the already tough task of reforming the tax system becomes even more difficult. President Donald Trump’s proposal favors more affluent taxpayers and would add considerably to the federal deficit.

The White House trumpets its proposal to almost double the standard deduction, from a maximum of $12,600 to $24,000.

This would benefit many middle-income taxpayers and simplify the code by encouraging more people not to take itemized deductions.

But some of these families actually would face higher taxes if, as with earlier Trump and Republican plans, it also eliminates the personal exemption, currently $4,050 per person. It’s difficult to be precise since the plan lacks specifics on tax brackets where various rates would kick in.

Think of a middle-class couple with three kids. With the personal exemption gone, they’d have to add $20,250 to their taxable income. That’s nearly double the new “benefit” they’d get from the increase in their standard deduction of $11,400.

The personal exemption costs the government somewhere between $1.6 trillion and $1.9 trillion over 10 years, based on estimates of previous Trump and congressional Republican tax plans. That’s money that could offset other cuts if eliminated, or contribute to higher deficits if left in place.

Trump advisers insist that big cuts in tax rates would pay for themselves by generating strong economic growth,

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Trump reflects on history Zach Davis Columnist

After moving into the White House, Donald Trump hung a picture of Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office and laid a wreath on his grave, so there is no doubt that Trump is fond of our seventh president. Since then, comparisons have been drawn between Trump and Jackson. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to draw a comparison between the two if Trump were to model his presidency after Jackson’s. That’s not the case, though, and Trump set up the perfect example of why on Monday.

Trump questioned the necessity of the Civil War in an interview on SiriusXM, asking why conflict could “not have been worked out.” This question has been answered before, though, and a middle school under-

standing of the Civil War could shed light: the North and South were too different. The North wanted to use federal power to abolish slavery, while the South would sooner give up their own lives than free their slaves and live with a larger government.

Trump went further, claiming that Andrew Jackson would have been able to prevent the Civil War – and he might be right. The election of Abraham Lincoln caused a lot of tension between the North and South. It was a problem for the South because he was with the party that wanted to abolish slavery. Jackson, however, was not of that train of thought.

Jackson did, however, resort to military threats to solve domestic disputes. He sent military ships to South Carolina when the state considered not following federal laws. Conflict was narrowly avoided when someone negotiated a deal with South Carolina. Jackson felt that the federal government’s power superseded the states’, even if he felt the government shouldn’t get involved in every issue – like slavery. He even held contempt for the courts when they denied

his attempt to take Cherokee land, saying the judge “has made his decision; now let him enforce it.”

So, Jackson might have avoided the Civil War through different policies – but probably not.

He might have made the South feel more secure in their ownership of slaves and enforced laws that stood protecting it. Though in that case, slavery probably wouldn’t have been abolished, thus causing a different conflict.

While we are speaking in hypotheticals and Trump brought it up, we should consider how Trump would have handled the same situation.

Trump, like Jackson, has argued the courts multiple times, denouncing the way the system works. He believes the president should have more power, like Jackson who misunderstood the way the powers of government are balanced. Jackson displayed this when he fought the appeals court’s decision, knowing that is within the judicial branch’s power.

Jackson also had political experience, as well as experience from the military – neither of which Trump had at the start of

his presidency; both took part in far too many conflicts and insulting many along the way, like Rosie O’Donnell. These acts would have boiled the skin of Jackson, the man who initiated duels with individuals for honor, even though he was rumored to be a gentle soul.

Therefore, I don’t think Trump would have avoided the Civil War. His approach is too similar to Jackson’s. The country needed someone who would respect the powers and the people, one that would respect the government the way the North did but could sympathize with the South.

That’s exactly why Lincoln didn’t prevent the Civil War: he was too supportive of the North.

The Civil War is long over, though, and we can never truly know what would have happened. Either Trump or Jackson could have done wonderfully or horribly. This is a good exercise for us to do, though. It allows us to compare our actions to mistakes made in the past to hopefully avoid repeating history. Maybe if our administrations always do that we can avoid the next conflict.

Democrats in need of serious reform plan Jonathan Allen CQ-Roll Call (TNS)

Since Donald Trump shocked the world by winning the presidency in November, Democrats have had a tendency to bury their heads in the sand.

They want very badly to attribute their defeat to external factors, but the truth is they ceded a lot of basic political turf to Trump and his Republican Party in the last election. Their campaigns, up and down the ballot, had the feel of a party satisfied with communicating only to the parts of the electorate that al-

ready agreed with them.

If they are to make their way back to power at any level in Washington, they’ll have to recapture the spirit of reform that helped animate a series of political takeovers in recent decades.

Trump ran on draining the swamp. So did Barack Obama and George W. Bush. Newt Gingrich, Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner all became speaker of the House by leading campaigns that promised to clean up Washington.

As freshman Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., told me in a Sidewire chat on Friday, Trump’s failure to institute real political reforms

early in his presidency has created a gigantic opening for Democrats to seize that mantle. Khanna would like to see his party reject corporate money and for the country to institute term limits on members of Congress.

I personally am not in favor of term limits, and I am somewhat conflicted on what our political funding system should look like, but Khanna is pointing in the right direction for Democrats.

He seems to understand that offering ideas to reform the political system is important not only on a substantive level but in terms of sending a signal to the American public that the status

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quo isn’t good enough.

“We have a trust deficit in this country,” he said in the text chat.

“Folks don’t trust politicians, media leaders, corporate leaders or big institutions. It’s why Bernie’s message and Trump’s drainthe-swamp message resonated.”

And, he added, instituting some reforms “would go a long way in convincing people that politicians aren’t beholden to campaign interests.”

When Democrats and reformer Republicans argue that the system needs to be rid of big money, the counterargument is usually that such limitations are an infringement on free speech.

And the Supreme Court, of late, has sided with the First Amendment crowd.

That doesn’t mean that the system we have is the right one — or that the right of free speech supersedes the sanctity of our political system completely in all cases. There are existing limits on our free speech, such as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’ formulation that shouting “fire” in a theater is not protected. The case that the potential or actual corruption of our politics is an imminent threat to our security hasn’t been honed well enough

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PLAN FROM PAGE 6 highly to win over a majority of justices, but that doesn’t mean that it can’t be.

Leaving aside campaign finance issues, there are any number of reforms that members of Congress and other political leaders could embrace to win back the confidence of the American public.

That’s true both on the broad policy level and within the party rules for nominating presidential candidates.

Khanna suggests that embracing re-

form agendas could be a point of contrast for candidates in primary elections as well as in general elections. Let’s face it, the leadership of both parties in Washington is deeply indebted to the donors who stock their campaign war chests with enough money that it can be doled out to other incumbents and challengers in exchange for fealty during the legislative season.

The leadership in Congress won’t change unless there’s demand from the rank and file — and that won’t happen

until a cost is associated with supporting the status quo. Democrats found out the danger in doing that at the presidential level — where the party nominee in 2016, Hillary Clinton, essentially chose not to offer a political reform platform — in the face of Trump’s promises to take a buzzsaw to Washington’s influence industry.

Members of Congress, who write laws not just for the country but for their own conduct, haven’t felt enough pressure to clean their own houses. But at a time when voters clearly want a fair shake from

the public and financial sectors — and a sense that the rules aren’t rigged against them — there’s tremendous opportunity for one party or the other to rewrite a handful of laws and rules to address those desires. Trump and Republicans in Congress have given Democrats room to run on a serious reform platform in 2018 and beyond.

It will just take a willingness to risk the uncertainty of moving away from the status quo. To paraphrase Trump, what do they have to lose?

TRUMP FROM PAGE 6 speculative claim, to put it gently.

They also claim they’d add revenue by eliminating most tax deductions, though not the politically popular write-offs for charitable contributions and home mortgage interest. But the plan doesn’t specify which deductions would go, citing only the ones for state and local taxes paid.

Don’t hold your breath. There are 35 Republican congressmen from the high-tax states of California, New York, New Jersey and Illinois, and some of them are already balking.

With a 22-vote margin in the House of Representatives and with no Democratic support, Republican leaders will be dealing with some brutal arithmetic when it comes to eliminating state and local tax deductions.

Buy some more red ink.

The idea of ending the carried-interest loophole was pushed hard by Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign as he sought to establish his populist credentials. His advisers have run with that theme since last week, claiming they’re ready to end that special tax break, which lets hedge-fund and private-equity executives pay lower capital-gains rates instead of the regular rates on ordinary income.

But the Trump proposal would reduce the top corporate rate to 15 percent from 35 percent, meaning it would be lower than the maximum capital-gains rate. Because many hedge funds and private-equity firms are partnerships, their executives would qualify for the corporate rate under the administration plan. So ultimately their taxes on carried interest would be cut, not increased.

So much for populism.

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Indiana State University softball team heads to St. Louis for a non-conference game againt the Billikens on Tuesday evening.

ISU hit the road for midweek doubleheader at Saint Louis Tyler Wooten

ISU Athletic Media Relations

Indiana State will hit the road for its final non-conference midweek series of the season at Saint Louis on Tuesday evening.

The Sycamores and Billikens will square off at 5 and 7 p.m. ET. Rain ended the series against Southern Illinois early, but the Sycamores were still able to take a Game One victory over the Salukis at 2-1 on Senior Day. Southern went on to win a 9-1 run-rule in Game Two before Game Three was washed out on Saturday.

Saint Louis stands at 21-22 overall on the season and 10-10 in Atlantic 10 play.

The Billikens boast a potent offense at a plus-40 run differential on the season and a team slugging percentage of .423. Leading the way at the plate is Allie MacFarlane with a .368 average, 45 RBI and a .640 slugging percentage with 11 doubles, eight home runs and one triple.

Indiana State holds a 10-5-1 advantage in the all-time series against the Billikens.

In order to make the MVC Tournament this season, the Sycamores will need to sweep Bradley in the final weekend series of the season while also hoping that

Loyola is able to sweep Drake in Chicago.

The Bulldogs hold the tiebreaker over Indiana State after a series sweep on April 1-2, but the ninth-place Sycamores (6-17) are only two games back of eighth-place Drake (8-15). If the pieces fall into place this weekend, it will be just the third time since 2007 that Indiana State will have made the Valley Tournament. The Sycamores won the 2015 MVC Tournament as the eight seed.

Freshman Della Gher was up to her old tricks again, shutting the door on the Salukis with 1.2 hitless innings pitched for her fifth save of the season. Gher had already broken the single-season saves record at Indiana State following four saves in a span of a week down in Florida in March.

Gher, a freshman native of Paris, Ill., who should still technically be in high school after graduating early from Paris High School in December, leads the Valley in saves and ranks fifth nationally.

The Sycamore defense has been consistently solid this season, recently going on a 33.2 inning streak without an error that was snapped in the fifth inning of Game Two vs. SIU. This is the second such streak of at least 25 innings this season as the Sycamores also went 28.0 innings without one across three games at Drake and six

innings without one at IUPUI in April.

Indiana State currently ranks third in the Valley in fielding percentage at .964, and still leads the Valley (and ranks tied for 17th nationally) in double plays turned with 24 -- which ties a school record. In MVC play, the Sycamores rank second with a .975 fielding clip. Senior shortstop and Preseason All-MVC honoree Kassie Brown is a big part of that, ranking tied for seventh overall in the MVC with 98 assists.

As the season draws to a close, several Sycamores are moving up in the all-time career top-10 categories: Junior Kenzie Ihle had a superb weekend series against Evansville on April 22-23, blanking the Purple Aces 1-0 in the series opener and nearly throwing a no-hitter in a Game Three loss. In Game One, Ihle was dominant with a 12-strikeout performance – a career-high at ISU and the most by a Sycamore pitcher since March 7, 2012 (Lindsey Beisser, 12, vs. Sacred Heart).

In that first game, Ihle yielded just four hits and only allowed one baserunner to reach third base all day (with two outs in the bottom of the seventh) and had four innings with multiple punchouts (including two innings where she struck out the side). In the series finale, Ihle was literally

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NFL

NBA Playoffs: Who’s up for Round 2?

Bengals defend choice of Mixon Sam Farmer

LA Times (TNS)

Playmakers from either side of the Los Angeles college football rivalry — and either side of the line of scrimmage — learned their futures Friday on the second day of the NFL draft.

USC receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster was taken in the second round by Pittsburgh, and UCLA cornerback Fabian Moreau was selected by Washington in the third.

Later in the third, Oakland took UCLA defensive tackle Eddie Vanderdoes.

But the story of the night, one sure to give the league heartburn, was the Cincinnati Bengals using the No. 48 pick on Oklahoma running back Joe Mixon, regarded as untouchable by some teams after video surfaced from 2014 of him punching a woman, breaking her jaw and several bones in her face. Mixon was charged with a misdemeanor, given a deferred prison sentence, and was suspended for the 2014 season.

He returned to the team in 2015, and went on to rush for 2,027 yards and 17 touchdowns in the next two seasons, emerging as one of the top prospects in this class, talent-wise.

Much like the case of former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, however, the controversy flared again when video was released of Mixon punching the woman. Some NFL teams said they took him off their draft boards, and Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops was widely criticized for not kicking Mixon out of the program for good.

Having completed the legal process in Oklahoma, Mixon settled the civil suit last week with the woman he struck, Amelia Molitor.

Enter the Bengals, who have an established track record for signing players with significant character issues, among them Tank Johnson, Vontaze Burfict, Adam “Pacman” Jones, Odell

Thurman and the late Chris Henry.

Bengals owner Mike Brown has long made it clear he’s not looking for choir boys, he’s looking for football players.

But the controversy surrounding Mixon could escalate the scrutiny to a new level. Coach Marvin Lewis defended the selection to reporters.

“We’ve done such a lot of work regarding Joe Mixon, throughout the entire process this year and based on all the time, all the research, we felt that we can continue to move forward,” Lewis said. “Joe’s situation kind of came to a settlement in all ways this week, which also led us to feel better about the opportunity here to move forward. We have done all our due diligence we could do, time spent, interviewing people, everybody around him, everybody around his background, people that have coached at Oklahoma with insight regarding him and how he has carried himself since that day.”

Elsewhere in the AFC North, the Steelers didn’t have to defend the drafting of the 6-foot-1, 215-pound Smith-Schuster. He had 213 catches for 3,092 yards and 25 touchdowns in his career, finishing fourth on school’s alltime list for catches.

“Really kind of a do-it-all guy; can play inside, outside,” Steelers offensive coordinator Todd Haley told reporters. “If you had to say what he excels at, I’d say his ability to catch the ball in combative situations, 50/50 balls as we call them, he usually comes down with them.”

The night started Friday with a flurry of deal-making. The first five picks of the second round came by way of trades. Washington cornerback Kevin King was the opening selection of the night, taken by Green Bay. Two more Huskies defensive backs quickly followed, with safety Budda Baker going to Arizona with the fourth pick of the second round (No. 36 overall) and cornerback Sidney Jones going to Philadelphia at No. 43.

unhittable for five complete innings, taking a no-hitter into the sixth inning in a similarly dominating performance. The Purple Aces ended up rallying in the sixth, but Ihle still struck out eight – pushing her weekend total to 20 strikeouts. In 12.2 innings pitched against Evansville, she allowed just six hits (including only two in the finale). With 15 wins this season, she ranks sixth on the single-season all-time list at Indiana State. Her 117 punchouts this season also ranks tied for fourth overall in the conference.

Ihle was one of the best JUCO pitchers in the nation at Des Moines Area Community College the last two seasons, leading the NJCAA in strikeouts per game (10.1) in 2016 and setting a new DMACC school record for wins with a 31-3 record in two seasons.

The Sycamore defense knows how to turn a double play with 24 on the season, 17th-most in the NCAA this season and currently tied for the team school record set in 2015. ISU had five in one weekend alone against Drake, including two games with two double-plays. Indiana State went the entire weekend without committing an error, a streak that eventually reached 28.0 innings before committing one late against IUPUI.

Garrett Short Reporter

The first round of the NBA Playoffs weren’t exactly closely contested.

The Warriors, Jazz, Spurs and Rockets advanced in the West while the Celtics, Wizards, Cavaliers and Raptors moved on in the East.

Unsurprisingly, both No. 1 seeds swept in their first round matchups. From the get-go, both Cleveland and Golden State were favorites to make it to the Finals.

The rest of the field looks to be simply contending to knock each team out of a third straight Finals.

The No. 5 seed Utah has the chance to do just that to the Warriors.

The Jazz squeaked out of a seven game series against the Clippers thanks to a Blake Griffin injury.

They played at Oracle Arena last night, where the Warriors are practically a sure-thing. The Warriors are a run-and-gun team, which will more than likely cause problems for a more traditional Utah. But the Jazz still have an ace up their sleeve.

The game-changer comes in the form of a seven feet tall Frenchman named Rudy Gobert. Gobert’s defense and presence around the rim may cause issues for Golden State’s small lineup.

This series has major stipulations for Utah’s future. Their cornerstone,

Gordon Hayward, is a free agent this offseason. Advancing to the Western Conference Finals would surely help the chances of him returning to Salt Lake City.

The other matchup in the West consists of an old-fashioned Texas showdown between San Antonio and Houston.

This series features two of the league’s premiere players in James Harden and Kawhi Leonard.

These teams are as opposite as the two superstars are. The Spurs give up the second fewest PPG while the Rockers score the second most. Harden helps with a strictly offensive-minded approach while Kawhi is perhaps the best two-way player in the NBA. What is going to give — defense or offense? Houston’s sharpshooting from beyond the arc has already propelled them to a 1-0 series lead, giving them home-court advantage.

On the east coast, Isaiah Thomas and the Celtics are gaining steam as they take on Washington.

This series may be the most explosive of all. The playoffs are made for stars and these two teams feature some of the best guards in the NBA. A contest between Thomas and the 1-2 punch of John Wall and Bradley Beal will surely run up the scoreboard.

Following the death of Thomas’ sister, Boston stumbled before winning

four straight against Chicago.

After falling behind 16-0 in Game 1 against the Wizards, the Celtics made a miraculous comeback and now lead 1-0 in the series.

The second round finishes with Cleveland taking on Toronto. The Raptors are the underdog but are more than capable of dethroning King James.

The Raptors are notorious for poor play in the playoffs, due in large part to lackluster performances from All-Stars Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan.

The Cavaliers already hold a 1-0 lead in the series thanks to 14 made threes.

However, Toronto can keep this series close if they play well at home. The Cavs aren’t exactly solid when playing on the road, and the Raptors can capitalize if their defense steps up.

The Cavaliers are a dreadful defensive team so Toronto should be able to score; the defense will be the major thing to watch. If Serge Ibaka is able anchor the inside and DeMarre Carroll can help slow down Lebron, maybe Toronto has what it takes to knock off the Cavs.

The first round of the playoffs weren’t exactly tightly contested, with only one Game 7 being played.

However, fans can rejoice that the second round looks much more promising.