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Science Building sprang to life Wednesday night Claire Silcox Reporter

Halls of the Science Building came to life at the Night at the Museum event on Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m. to teach children the fun of science.

The Department of Sciences contirbuted to the event and put together activities involving science for kids and families, so that they can learn about science and how fun it can be.

“The purpose is to show that science may appear magical, but it is based on physical and chemical principles that a muggle can manage. You don’t have to be a wizard to do magic,” Dr. Richard Fitch, professor of chemistry, said.

Professors and students of the science department worked to engage the community and the children with science and demonstrate what types of activities are offered within the programs of sciences at Indiana State University.

“Most Americans don’t usu-

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An ISU student helps a boy with an experiment during the Night at the Museum event on Wednesday.

ally interact with a scientist, so we would like to provide the opportunity for the public to come into our research spaces and see what we do as scientists,” Dr. Jim Speer, professor of geography and geology said.

Only 34 percent of Americans

Feminist speaker empowers students about sexuality Ian Bonner-Swedish Reporter

Feminist writer and activist Jaclyn Friedman spoke to the Indiana State University community about the importance of sexual safety and consent at the Beyond Consent: How Reclaiming Sexuality Combats Sexual Violence event that took place Tuesday in Dede I. “Sexualization is a phenomenon where people are reduced to their sexual value. I think the best way to combat sexualization is for us to demand and to pay for and to create for ourselves images that are more complex about sexuality. A lot of it is caused by censorship. It lets one image stand for everything, and becomes anti-fun. It’s a bad strategy. To concede ideas about sexuality that you like. Figure out how to support them. The best way to do it is to sort of drown that stuff out that. It’s okay that the grocery store sells potato chips and candy bars — it’s okay.

But if all it was potato chips and candy bars, there’d be a problem.

It also helps to have conversations with your friends so that people have conversations about those ideas and don’t just absorb them,” Friedman said.

Friedman encouraged the students to have a conversation with their partners about sex.

Firstly, one must be surrounded and supported by consent for the entirety of the interaction and understand that it can end at any time.

“Yes means yes,” Friedman said. “’I don’t know’ doesn’t mean yes; silence doesn’t mean yes. Do you want to have sex with someone who is not into it?

No.” Consent also requires your mental presence the entire time.

“You have to show up for your partner when interacting sexually. You can’t zone out and treat them like a live sex doll. You have to pay attention to them and remember that they are a real person that you’re interacting with, who may have different wants and needs from you, and if you’re not ready to do that, you’re not ready to have sex,” Friedman said.

In addition to being present, one cannot lie.

“If your partner says ‘Are we

being monogamous’? And you’re like ‘Yes I’m only having sex with only you,’ and you’re lying, you’re voiding your partners ability to give consent,” Friedman said.

Friedman acknowledged that it’s not a hard concept to grasp, but what is difficult is that getting consent requires talking about sex. Feeling uneasy about it is natural.

“If you’re feeling awkward and weird, chances are your partner also feels awkward and weird,” Friedman said.

The conversation, however, doesn’t start with your partner, but with yourself. Acknowledge your own desires and realize what you really want out of a sexual relationship. Doing so gives you a guide as to where you want to take this conversation and what is really on your mind.

Once doing so it’s still not that easy, so Friedman suggested you “use your strengths.” Approach the situation as authentically as possible.

Boosting one’s confidence is also essential. Friedman discussed how an experiment was done where people created avatars. One group made avatars that closely resembled them, while the other group made “powerful avatars.” It was found that the group who had the powerful avatars had an easier time flirting with people at the party after being able to boost their confidence.

One can also perform the nice person test. According to Friedman, an example of using this test could occur when someone gets within your personal space and upon being asked to back up, that person responds negatively or rudely.

“If they react badly to that what have you learned? They’re not a nice person,” Freidman said.

Friedman suggested that sex should be free of shame, free of fear and shouldn’t be lame. She stated the conditions that sexual interactions should always operate under — it should be freely given, reversible, informed and enthusiastic.

Amanda Hobson, the assistant dean and director of the Women’s Resource Center, felt that the event allowed her to channel a new direction the Women’s

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could name a living scientist in 2011, documented by the Charlton Research Company for Research America.

This event was made to help change that percentage. With around 30 active scientists at ISU, the event showcased their

SGA opposes funding cuts Ashton Hensley Reporter

The decision to cut lecturers is officially being opposed by the Student Government Association through their resolution submitted on March 1.

In the resolution, SGA states that they respectfully disagree with the decision to reduce fulltime lecturers and instructors made by Daniel Bradley, president of Indiana State University.

“The Student Government Association believes reducing these positions will be detrimental to the education of students,” the resolution said.

Nick McCollum, senator and academic affairs chairman for SGA, explained that the cut would affect students due to

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lecturers being replaced by less committed instructors.

“Since they aren’t making as much as a full-time professor, then they would have less invested interest in the success of their students,” McCollum said.

However, President Bradley explained they wanted to stress that lecturers are meant to be temporary and therefore are less beneficial to students.

“Lecturers do not have the long-term commitment, credentials or voice that instructors have,” Bradley said.

Bradley further explained that they had a set goal of how many lecturers and instructors they could employ that was decided on about nine years ago.

“The overall goal is to have 85 percent full-time lecturers and 15 percent part-time,” Bradley

said. “Right now we are over that 85 percent.”

Stephan Lamb, the SGA director of governmental affairs, explained that though they understand that the decision was not made lightly, the negative effects would outweigh the benefits.

“From the perspective of the students, this decision will water down the curriculum within the academic colleges, and it will severely damage student success,” Lamb said. “Students do not deserve to have their futures compromised by budget cuts.”

One of the resolution’s main purposes is to question why they have decided to cut funding in the lecturers department while money is being spent elsewhere.

“If we are cutting funding for

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On March 28, Chris Westfall spoke about his life experiences to ISU students and the Terre Haute community.

Chris Westfall’s message resonated with students, community members Adrienne Morris Reporter

As the sun began to set on March 28, people approached the doors of Tilson Auditorium in order to see Chris Westfall’s presentation.

Westfall, a man of many hats, spent the last few days visiting classrooms, interacting with students and meeting with different people. He is a keynote speaker, author, business coach and a national champion.

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work to the Terre Haute community and encompassed all of the science programs at ISU. With over 10 separate displays, the science building was buzzing with families and students learning about various sciences and their field of studies.

Liquid nitrogen ice cream, strawberry DNA extraction, fly mutations, the importance of bats and many more exhibits came alive in the halls and labs.

Along with exhibits for the children, the theatre department helped bring five famous scientists and explorers back to life to tell about their discoveries.

The chemistry section of Night at the Museum was Harry Potter themed with nine displays.

“Liquid nitrogen ice cream, frozen objects and how their properties change, greenhouse gases and what they do, magnetic levitation, turning pennies from copper to silver and gold and seeing how salt solutions change the colors of flames (were experiments available to learn about),” Fitch said.

The Vigo County Public Library co-sponsored the event and along with informational pamphlets about all organizations and departments involved, attendees got a stamp scavenger hunt to complete to be entered to win a prize.

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on the hit television show, Shark Tank, Westfall is all too familiar with the topic.

“There’s no ‘opt out’ when it comes to personal branding. You are a brand,” Westfall said.

In the digital age, things have shifted in the way in which people communicate. Over the last few years, social media has become an important tool for big businesses, multi-million dollar companies and individuals.

“Communication happens in a social setting; that means interpersonally, in a social setting, and on social media. There’s no denying the impact of the online world, and you have to make sure that your URL matches up

with ‘IRL’ (in real life),” Westfall said.

Throughout his entire presentation, he kept the attention of the audience with his interactive demonstrations, his use of humor and his many techniques.

Westfall’s presentation was to teach the people in the audience about how to authentically convey themselves and how to communicate with others.

“We connect with the people and brands that we know, we appreciate and we respect. The story you tell – both in person and online – is the centerpiece of that most vital connection,”

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Democrats have little to lose in blocking Gorsuch, Schumer says Laura Litvan Bloomberg News (TNS)

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Judge Neil Gorsuch goes through his confirmation hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee to see if he will be the next U.S. Supreme Court Justice.

Legal stakes at play in California’s case against anti-abortion activists Maura Dolan Los Angeles Times (TNS) California’s prosecution of two anti-abortion activists on felony charges of invasion of privacy appears to be on solid ground, though the case is likely to test the strength of the state’s ban on the surreptitious recording of others, legal experts said Wednesday.

Attorney General Xavier Becerra unveiled a 15-count felony complaint Tuesday against activists David Robert Daleiden and Sandra Merritt alleging that they video-recorded 14 people without their consent at meetings with women’s health care providers in Los Angeles, Pasadena, San Francisco and El Dorado.

An Irvine-based anti-abortion group founded by Daleiden later posted the video online, charging that Planned Parenthood was involved in the selling of fetal tissue.

Investigations eventually cleared the organization of the charges, but the reports sparked threats and violence against Planned Parenthood centers.

Stanford law professor Robert Weisberg said the state appears to have the evidence needed to win convictions.

For the activists to argue the recordings were “in the public interest to expose some very bad activity imputed to the victims here — well sorry, you can’t do that,” Weisberg said. “Becerra is

on very strong ground here.”

Other legal analysts were less certain.

University of California, Hastings law professor Rory Little, a former federal prosecutor, said the question of when deception can be used to gather information affects many areas of the law.

“This one is really interesting because of the political tilt to it,” Little said. “We generally feel like there is a privilege for journalists. If this were The Washington Post having infiltrated the Aryan Brotherhood gang, we might be cheering and saying, ‘Good work.’”

Little said a First Amendment defense by the activists would likely complicate the prosecution, particularly given “the atmospherics” of the case.

“To me,” Little said, “the interesting question is not so much is this a hard criminal case to prove, but that there is going to be a First Amendment challenge to the use of the statute” in addition to charges of selective prosecution.

California has long had stronger privacy protections than most states. A right to privacy is even enshrined in the California Constitution.

But California’s privacy laws have been tested most frequently in the context of civil litigation, not under the higher hurdles of

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WASHINGTON — Democrats may have little to lose in their drive to block U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch because Republicans can go “nuclear” and ban filibusters of high-court picks in the future if they don’t do it now, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.

Schumer said Wednesday it’s a fallacy that Democrats need to drop their effort to block a vote on Gorsuch’s confirmation to ensure they can filibuster possible future nominees during President Donald Trump’s term.

“If they’re so quick to change the rules this time, they’ll be quick to change them next time,” Schumer, of New York, said at a news conference.

Schumer’s remarks reflect a growing resignation in both parties that they’re headed toward

a high-stakes conflict when the Senate takes up the nomination of Gorsuch next week. The Denver-based federal appellate judge would replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has repeatedly guaranteed Gorsuch will be confirmed. The Senate Judiciary Committee plans to vote on the nomination Monday, and a full Senate vote is scheduled for April 7. Republicans control the Senate 52-48 and, under current rules, they need support from eight Democrats to proceed to a final vote.

If Democrats refuse to cooperate, Republicans could unilaterally change the rules — a procedure known as the “nuclear option” — to allow the nomination to advance with a simple majority vote. McConnell has attacked Democrats for ending filibusters for executive-branch and lower-court nominees in

2013.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley said that, one way or another, Gorsuch will get on the court when the Senate votes.

“We haven’t had a vote count” on Republican support for a rule change, Grassley said. “But there’s something to be said for senators who have said that come next Friday or Saturday, this guy’s going to be confirmed.”

He also suggested that Democrats need to be concerned about a “slippery slope” that might eventually lead to a loss of the minority party’s ability to use filibusters even to block legislation.

“I would think they would think that would be very bad and wouldn’t want to do that,” Grassley said.

Schumer said Democrats are determined to try to keep Gor-

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Criminology students simulate offenders reentering society Ashton Hensley Reporter Criminology majors participated in a simulation called Re-entry Correctional Simulation in which they had to assume the role of an offender going through the first month of reentering society after being incarcerated.

The event was held Thursday in Dede II of the Hulman Memorial Student Union.

Mary Ellen Doucette-Lunstrum, an instructor in the criminology department, brought the simulation to Indiana State University.

“I retired from the BOP and know these individuals from my past employment,” Doucette-Lunstrum said. “They conduct similar exercises elsewhere.

I was contacted by one of them last year and asked if this was something we would like to do.”

Re-entry Affairs Coordinators from the Federal Bureau of Prisons Anissa Williams and Leanna Payton hosted the event.

“The program began in Springfield, Missouri and was brought here after Leanna heard about it at a conference,” Williams said. “Now we do simulations for students, professionals already in the field and actual offenders.”

The simulation involved 12 stations that had services such as transportation, drug testing, probation officers and employers that participants had to visit.

“We simulate the first month

of re-entry by having 15-minute rounds that represent one week,” Williams said. “Each person will have a specific set of tasks they must perform for each week.”

The participants all started out with different resources, some had no money, jobs or even identification cards, showing the realities of what it is like to reenter society after being in prison.

Tiara Cross, a senior criminology major and psychology minor, explained before the simulation began that she hoped to gain some perspective by participating.

“I want to see how offenders feel,” Cross said. “I hope to find out if the process of reentering society is a smooth transition or if there are obstacles.”

Shannon Barton, a criminal justice professor, explained that she hopes her students who participated see what the process is really like.

“I want my students to better understand what it means for people to reenter society and how quick society is to put them back into jail after their release,” Barton said.

Over 60 students participated, some running the stations and the rest taking roles of offenders.

In the first week of the simulation, most students had to go to the ID station before anything else.

Not one of the offenders was able to complete all of their tasks in week one.

“I think it will be challenging; you’re adjusting to a way of life

and adapting to a new environment, especially if you’ve been in for a long time,” junior criminal justice major Kyle Erickson said before the simulation began.

Payton explained that this simulation went better than when they hosted it at ISU last semester.

“This time we saw much more communication,” Payton said.

“Last time students were not asking for help or talking to each other because they did not want to admit they had messed up.”

Abby Middleton, a junior criminology major, and Evan Tislow, a graduate criminology major, were two of the first students who ended up back in jail during the simulation.

“I failed the drug test I had to take for my probation officer,” Tislow said.

Students could not leave jail unless they or someone else bailed them out. By the end of the simulation, most of the participants were back in jail.

“We really wanted students to see that 60 percent of people return to jail within three weeks of being released,” Williams said.

Payton said that she hopes that by doing the simulation with students at this level, they will be prepared to take the place of employees like herself with the mindset of re-entry instead of sending offenders back to jail.

“We need to teach re-entering offenders how to be successful tax payers instead of teaching them how to be and remain inmates,” Payton said.

Trump travel ban blocked for as long as court battle goes on Kartikay Mehrota Bloomberg News (TNS) President Donald Trump was barred Wednesday from enforcing his revised travel ban on six mostly Muslim nations while he defends it in a court battle that will stretch for months, perhaps years.

While the Trump administration tailored the latest version to shed all religious references, a Honolulu federal judge found that the president’s campaign rhetoric, including calls for a Muslim ban and registry, point toward discriminatory intentions.

The Justice Department will probably appeal the ruling to the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco, the same court that upheld the order stopping Trump’s original travel order.

The ruling may cause further consternation for an administration struggling to enact some of the president’s central campaign platforms. It’s yet another victory for states, advocacy groups, technology companies and universities that challenged the first executive order and its replacement as being at odds with the nation’s founding principles and hurting the economy.

The White House spent weeks crafting its March 6 order after judges rejected the first travel ban, which spurred chaos at

airports across the country and a rush to the courthouse by civil rights groups and states led by Democrats.

In his decision Wednesday in Honolulu, U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson, who ruled on March 15 that the reworked policy was still flawed, extended his temporary prohibition on enforcing it.

He once again pointed to the president’s own statements before the election, such as calling for a “total shutdown” on Muslims entering the U.S. “The court will not crawl into a corner, pull the shutters closed, and pretend it has not seen what it has,” Watson said in his ruling.

“The Supreme Court and this circuit both dictate otherwise, and that is the law this court is bound to follow.”

The revised 90-day ban on approving new visas has also been barred by a federal judge in Maryland, while a Virginia judge declined to do so.

The ruling in Maryland has already been challenged by the administration with a hearing set for May 8 before the 4th U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia.

Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin said in court Wednesday that Trump himself strengthened the case for keeping the freeze on the travel restrictions while the two sides

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fight it out in court. Chin cited the president’s comments at a rally in Nashville, Tenn., within hours of Watson’s earlier restraining order. Trump called the revised policy a “watered-down version” of the first, adding that he still preferred the first.

Those comments belied administration claims that there was no intention to discriminate against Muslims, Chin said.

The “issue of animus has not been cured,” Chin told Watson.

“It’s been intensified.”

Chad Readler, the lawyer arguing the case by phone for the Justice Department, told the judge that the revised order eliminated any reference to religion, including a provision that critics said would have favored Christians over Muslims. He said at the very least, the administration should be allowed to enforce the 120-day refugee ban, which hasn’t been blocked by the Maryland judge.

Any harm to Hawaii would be minimal because only 20 of the almost 500,000 refugees who came to the U.S. during the past eight years settled in the state, Readler said.

That argument prompted a rebuke from Watson, who asked why that evidence wasn’t presented earlier. “Is this a mathematical exercise,” Watson asked.

“That 20 may not be enough to show standing, but 25 might be or 30 might be?”

indianastatesman.com SGA FROM PAGE 1 certain members of the faculty, why is this university gobbling up property in West Terre Haute?” Lamb said. “Why are we hiring new sports coaches? Why do we continue to invest an exorbitant amount of funds into a mediocre football program that loses money for the university?”

Bradley explained that the university’s budget must be balanced; funding must remain

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“I think that for me doing this work on campus that she is talking about is it is helpful to have someone like Jaclyn come and talk about these issues in a bigger way than I can. There are loads of the things I find good about when she talks about this work is switching from a commodity model to a collaborative

CHRIS FROM PAGE 1 Westfall said.

At the end of the event, the winner of the grand prize was awarded a signed copy of Westfall’s book “The New Elevator Pitch” and a $200 gift card to Macy’s.

The audience was able to meet with Chris Westfall and also purchase signed copies of his book at the end of his presentation.

Mazzi Wright, a senior at ISU,

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Friday, March. 31, 2017 • Page 3 within its purpose and cannot be moved around.

“Funding is restricted,” Bradley said. “Money that has been used on renovations was restricted for use on buildings only.”

When voted on by the SGA senate, the resolution was passed unanimously.

“Andy did veto the resolution, but the Senate used its override power and overrode the veto on the March 8 meeting,” McCollum said.

With a unanimous vote it is unclear why Velazquez would veto the resolution.

“Why would the SGA president veto this resolution if it passed almost unanimously?

The answer is that he is still upset about his impeachment proceedings, which only failed by one vote,” Lamb said.

McCollum explained that he thinks it is important for students to be aware of what the decision entails and to support

their professors.

“The most important thing that students need to know is that some of those wonderful instructors that we have at ISU could eventually lose their job as a result of the cuts,” McCollum said.

Bradley explained that they are looking at possibly cutting eight full-time lecturers next year; however, they will not force anyone to leave.

“After a long discussion with

the faculty senate, we agreed that the cuts would be by volunteer only,” Bradley said. “We will not eliminate any job by force.

We also agreed that any faculty being cut would have a one year notice.”

Bradley had not yet been informed of the SGA’s lecturer resolution, but said he invites their input.

“I would be happy to meet with any SGA representatives to discuss the matter,” Bradley said.

model was really eye opening for me,” Hobson said.

Samantha Layung, a student attending the event felt she gained much from Friedman’s presentation.

“I think it was very beneficial. I feel like she gave a lot of info and tips as to what she was talking about. I think it also helps to make it more of a conversation and not that it’s mandatory to talk about it. It’s more casual rather than business-like,” Layung said.

Layung felt captivated by the imagery that helped Friedman tie in her message so well.

“The pictures (were beneficial). You have to value yourself, and you can’t let anyone devalue who you are. At the end of the day, you have to judge what is right and what is wrong, and so it’s not only for sex — it’s for anything in life. You have to have fun and not put yourself in any situation you’d be uncomfortable in,” Layung said.

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found that the presentation had an impact on him.

“We read his book ‘Bulletproof Branding,’ and that was really good. I really liked how he illustrated and he proved his points that didn’t know anything about it. I feel like his techniques on stage really prevailed to the students,” Wright said.

Westfall, an Indiana native, has spent a lot of his time traveling around the country and meeting with all types of peo-

ple, but through it all he has remained his true self.

He has been able to teach people how to brand themselves, but without forgetting who they truly are.

“The presentation offered guidance on how to create a connection, build rapport, and set the stage for that kind of leadership conversation, a conversation that makes your listener say, ‘Tell me more,’” Westfall said.

cord in his rulings, and is backed by what the senator called a “dark money” campaign of secret donors.

“If the nuclear option is invoked, it is because Republicans in the Senate chose to do so,” he

said.

So far, at least 29 Senate Democrats have said they’ll oppose Gorsuch and will vote to block a final vote. Republicans are united behind Gorsuch.

professor Laurie Levenson said.

“Even citizen journalists have to comply with criminal statutes,” she said. “That is the bottom line.”

The activists were charged with secretly filming 14 different people in addition to a felony conspiracy count. The affidavit, filed in San Francisco, identified each victim as Doe to protect the workers’ privacy and safety.

Maximum penalties include stiff fines and years behind bars.

Levenson said prosecutions involving hidden recordings tend to be strongly fact-specific.

Defendants can argue the subject had no reasonable expectation of privacy because there were others in the room, she said.

But using a hidden recording device is almost an admission that the other person assumed the conversation was private, said Levenson, a former federal prosecutor.

She called the charges “a very high-profile, perhaps ground-breaking use of the law,” but “not a slam dunk” for prosecutors.

“This is really an important case in that it will help to define the boundaries for the confidentiality of organizations and the tactics that can be used in contentious issues like abortion,” she said.

Just hours after the criminal charges were filed, a federal appeals court decided 2-1 to uphold a preliminary injunction to prevent the activists from publicly releasing recordings that they made during meetings of an abortion rights group.

The panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the claims of the anti-abortion activists that the order by a lower court judge violated the First Amendment.

criminal law.

The California Supreme Court decided in 1998 that the news media could be held liable for recording a private person without consent. The media should not “play tyrant to the people by unlawfully spying on them in the name of news gathering,” the court said.

The case involved a reality television show broadcasting the words of an accident victim.

In a civil case four years after that decision, the court held that under the law, a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy if he or she does not expect that the conversation would be disclosed to a third person.

Experts said they knew of few criminal prosecutions like the kind Becerra has filed.

“It is rare, but it is not bizarre,” Weisberg said. “It is done occasionally, often in situations where the action is repetitive, where it almost becomes a stalking crime.”

The law has some exceptions, but only for exposing certain crimes, such as bribery and extortion, and to protect public safety, he said.

Daleiden has called the charges “bogus” and “fake news.”

Horatio Mihet, chief litigation lawyer for Liberty Counsel, which is representing Merritt, confirmed that the defense would argue the pair had First Amendment rights as journalists and that the prosecution was politically motivated.

Mihet, whose group handles religious liberties cases, called Becerra “a hired gun for Planned Parenthood.”

The law against secret recordings, however, does not shield journalists, Loyola Law School

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Open Mic Night allows students to show off creativity Anthony Goelz Reporter

Programs All Weekend along with the Creative Writing Society of Indiana State University will be hosting an Open Mic Night in Dede III of the Hulman Memorial Student Union on Saturday.

“Open Mic Night is an event for students to get the chance to perform and show their unique talents. It does not matter if their talent is singing, dancing, poetry or comedy — everyone gets a chance to perform,” said Kaila Barnes, a freshman veterinary medicine major and

a programming assistant for Programs All Weekend.

The goal of the Open Mic Night is “to let students express their creativity and individuality openly with their friends and peers,” Barnes said.

Barnes believes that students will benefit from the event.

“The students would benefit from it (because) those who perform get experience of what it’s like on stage and those who watch get free entertainment from their peers,” Barnes said.

This is a free event for students who wish to attend. Barnes also said that food

Facts about the event: • Who: Programs All Weekend & the Creative Writing Society of Indiana State University • Where: Dede III in HMSU • When: April 1 at 5 p.m. will be provided at the event.

“Programs All Weekend has sponsored other events similar to this like our Spoken Word event earlier this semester, but

we do plan on doing more in the future,” Barnes said.

The Spoken Word event was similar to this Open Mic Night. It was a night for students to read poetry back in February.

PAW is an active organization on campus. Barnes said to keep an eye out for word on their many events.

“Programs All Weekend put on different events every weekend. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat to see what we have coming up,” Barnes said.

The Open Mic Night will start at 5 p.m. in Dede III in HMSU. Student ID is required for entry to the event.

Theaters worldwide will screen film version of Orwell’s ‘1984’

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“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

So begins George Orwell’s dystopian drama “1984,” his 1949 novel whose popularity has surged since President Donald Trump took office earlier this year. The book climbed to the top spot of Amazon’s best-seller list in January after Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway defended false claims about the inauguration crowd as merely “alternative facts.”

“1984” has been made into a film on two occasions, first in 1956 and later in — you guessed it — 1984. The latter version is now heading back into theaters, this time as a pointed commentary on our modern times.

On April 4, more than 180 art-house theaters around the United States — along with five locations in Canada, one in England and one in Sweden — will screen the film in protest of Trump’s administration. Theaters in 165 cities and 43 states will host the screenings as part of a joint effort by the Art House Convergence and United State of Cinema organizations.

“A lot of us have felt that (with) the current administration, a lot of our most essential values are sort of under assault,” said Dylan Skolnick, co-director of Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, N.Y., and one of the organizers of the national screening. “In particular, things like the existence of actual facts. And ‘1984’ has had this sudden uptick in popularity because it really explores a lot of those issues.”

Originally released in its namesake year, the more recent

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What the Fork? provides students with vital dining etiquette Ian Bonner-Swedish Reporter

Sycamores who were ready to gain social business skills to set out for their careers joined together in Dede I to learn dining etiquette. In a formal setting, everything has a place, everything has a purpose and everything has a code of conduct.

The future job seekers learned skills such as how to tell which drink was theirs, how to use napkins, how to pass sugar, how to pass salt and pepper, how to eat the soup and let your servers know you are finished with food, which utensils to use with each course, proper social etiquette, what to order in such a setting and much more.

Janette Winchester, the instructor of the event as well as the owner of her company that helps plan events and weddings, has been hosting events like this for years.

“I’ve been doing this for several years for the college. I started doing this five or six years ago. When they host etiquette dinners walking them through what we do here. It’s a piece that you don’t think about. You can get book knowledge, but it’s that social piece when you’re talking with people, having dinner with them — those parts fall through the cracks, so the university sought me out because they knew I know how to do this kind of stuff.

The Career Center has six of them. I do three in the fall semester and three in the spring semester,” Winchester said.

For Winchester it wasn’t only that they sought her out, but it was important to supply the students with the tools they need to be successful people.

“I’m on the nearing retirement side of

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my career. Everyone in this room is getting their career started… students don’t realize the importance of interaction that helps you get a leg up on people who are going for the same job. It makes them a well-rounded person,” she said.

Monique Croom, a senior with a major in general studies and minor in psychology and aspiring registered nurse, took some vital pieces of information through this experience before she left the room.

“Something I didn’t know was what do if you don’t want your food or if you’re finished with to put your silverware faced down. I would not have known that had I not attended,” Croom said.

It wasn’t just Croom who found this to

be a boon to her future journeys for the proper career. Chaise Watkins, a senior communication major who aspires to be a police officer, did not regret a single moment.

“I feel like the event will only help from here on, especially in a professional setting. If we were to come from dinner, or to come to any setting, the etiquette aspect will help us. It was more a positive than negative,” Watkins said.

All of the students were placed in groups where they knew no one.

“Everybody was really nice and pleasant. At first I was sitting by myself, and I thought it was going to be weird, but then everyone came, and it was just fine,”

Croom said.

This was no small group either.

“This was probably the largest class that we had this year. Usually it’s around 50 to 60, and this time it was 73. I really feel like the tables really interacted well, and no one knew anybody. Usually we get people we try to get them to communicate with each other but they don’t say anything. I notice that a lot of them were seniors. I think really noticed the value of this. They were really attentive the questions they asked were really good. I think they all took away two or three things that they didn’t know that will help them,” Winchester said.

indianastatesman.com ORWELL FROM PAGE 4 film version of the book stars the late John Hurt as Winston Smith, a propagandist tasked with rewriting history to align with the dictates of the Party and its omniscient figurehead known as Big Brother.

(The timing of the screenings is not random: April 4 is the date of the first entry in Smith’s resistance diary.)

Friday, March. 31, 2017 • Page 5 “Orwell’s portrait of a government that manufactures (its) own facts, demands total obedience and demonizes foreign enemies has never been timelier,” a press release for the event stated, adding that the screenings encourage theaters “to take a stand for our most basic values: freedom of speech, respect for our fellow human beings and the simple truth that there are no such things as ‘alternative facts.’ ”

Cinefamily theater in Los Angeles will screen “1984.”

“Obviously ‘1984’ is a nightmare, but it’s also a warning,” said Hadrian Belove, co-founder of Cinefamily and its executive creative director. “We felt that thinking about what all this means is a good thing right now.”

The screenings are free, though theaters such as Cinefamily are asking guests to

donate to the American Civil Liberties Union. (United State of Cinema’s website has a full list of participating theaters.)

“In these times it’s important to think about supporting our nonprofit arts institutions, because they’re going to be receiving less support than ever,” Belove said. “I think that’s something even Orwell could not have predicted — how weird things have gotten.”

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Republicans: Drop the crusade against Planned Parenthood Los Angeles Times (TNS) Millions of Americans who rely on the Affordable Care Act for their insurance coverage dodged a bullet last week when Republican infighting killed a bill by the House GOP leadership to repeal and replace the health care law. So, thankfully, did Planned Parenthood. Embedded in the bill was a provision to bar federal funding temporarily for this well-regarded and crucial health care provider, which the GOP has tried, obsessively, to dismantle for years.

If only that were the end of it.

Sadly, congressional Republicans may take another go at defunding Planned Parenthood in the omnibus spending bill (formally known as a “continuing resolution”) that must pass by April 28 to keep the government running.

So let’s remind legislators, again, how short-sighted and harmful it would be to single out Planned Parenthood, not in an effort to improve health care, but in an attempt to punish it for also providing legal and safe abortions — none of which are financed with federal dollars.

(Congress routinely prohibits federal dollars from being spent on abortions.) And abortions comprise a tiny fraction of the services the organization’s clinics perform; Planned Parenthood estimates that abortions represent only 3 percent of the care provided by the organization.

About 2.5 million people — women and men — are seen annually at Planned Parenthood clinics. They come for breast examinations and cervical cancer screenings, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases and infections, contraception and family planning, urinary tract infection treatments and other primary care services.

Many of the clinics’ patients are lower-income, and almost all of the federal funding that Planned Parenthood receives is through health programs aimed at low-income Americans: Medicaid and Title X Family Planning grants.

Planned Parenthood clinics in California get nearly 1.5 million patient visits each year. To help pay for those services, the orga-

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Weather changes also bring changes in attitude Leah Kennedy Columnist

As the weather gets warmer, more people start wearing less clothing. I mean, honestly, spring is a time for us Hoosiers to shed the dull and drab cloak of winter for bright flowers and green, green grass.

It also, friends, is the time when I start thinking about something that is a serious issue – the way women speak about one another. I’m not even going to delve into the cluster that is rape culture and men sexualizing literally everything. No. Today I am talking to the ladies.

Let me ask you this: in the past month, have you thought (or said) any of the following:“She’s such a slut.” “She shouldn’t be wearing that because she’s too fat (or skinny). “ “Did you hear what so and so did? She’s so easy.”

Have you said something about a woman you would be upset by?

If you have, answer one more question: why are you saying it?

No one is perfect. I find myself doing it all the time. Oh, that girl gave me a nasty look, so she has to be a horrible person right? Or maybe she is just having a bad day and she wasn’t making the face at me. I actually routinely call my best friend “Ho.” Here’s the thing though: guys hear us calling each other these words.

Our children hear us calling each other these words. And in that aspect, we are feeding a culture that we do not like. And people think it’s okay because “that’s how things are.” Well, frankly, I disagree. That may be how things were, but it is not how it has to be.

Answer me this ladies: when is the last time you were afraid

to walk down the street because you thought someone was judging you? When was the last time you put a dress back because your best friend called it “slutty” even though you loved it? Why are you letting people have this power over you? Why are you giving up your happiness, habits or hobbies because society tells you they aren’t okay anymore?

Is it fear? Are you afraid to stand up and fight back?

Is it unwillingness to stand out?

Worry that if you say something, someone will judge you?

Let me tell you, I put my opinion on random stuff out here every single week, and it’s nerve wracking. I half expect someone to email me saying they hate my work and that I am an uninformed hot air blower. But they don’t. Or at least, they haven’t yet. Maybe you should try

to stand up the next time. God knows I need to.

See, I don’t like confrontation.

I think it’s easier to just grin and bear it. But we can’t just “grin and bear it” anymore, ladies.

We have to start talking because if we don’t, our daughters and nieces are going to be raised in a world where they have to fear if their shorts are too short to walk from point A to point B without getting judged. That’s not the kind of world I want my tiny princesses to grow up in.

Because you can bet if someone commented on my daughter’s body like she was meat at a market, I’d slap every single taste bud from their filthy mouth.

In conclusion, girls and guys alike, just take a second and remember that the man, woman, child, person, whomever is not meat, and you do not get to judge them.

The open Internet is at risk once again Art Brodsky Los Angeles Times (TNS) The major entertainment companies are putting a lot of money into luring cord cutters — millennials and others who want to ditch their cable companies — to new subscription streaming services that allow viewers to watch their favorite TV shows and movies directly over the internet. The same industry that once blamed the internet for stealing content now wants to use it to sell directly to consumers.

CBS All Access service is one example.

Others are Amazon Prime, Netflix, Hulu, MLB (Major League Baseball), HBO Now and Showtime. Fandango, the movie ticket-selling service, even waded into streaming a year ago with Fandango Now. According to one estimate, the streaming market — known as OTT, for “over the top” — will be worth $30 billion in four years, up from $10.7 billion in 2016.

It’s too bad that the Trump administra-

tion’s Federal Communications Commission is pursuing policies that could seriously harm these innovative efforts, just as the streaming business is getting going.

And it’s really too bad that some in the media industry aren’t taking the threats seriously enough.

The assault will come in the form of telecommunications regulation. Trump’s newly appointed FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, has made it clear he wants to eliminate rules that establish net neutrality.

Net neutrality is probably the worst name for one of the best policies enacted during the Obama administration. A better name might be the Equal Opportunity Internet. It basically means that every company offering services online has to have the same chance to serve the consumer in the same way, and that the companies that move data around on the internet can’t play favorites with one or another of those companies. Pai, a former Verizon lawyer, follows the Republican line that net neutrality must be abolished

because it’s created by regulation and regulation is a bad thing.

To better understand what’s at stake, consider two of the streaming services I mentioned earlier, CBS All Access and Fandango Now. The one big difference between them is their ownership; Fandango Now is owned by NBCUniversal, which is in turn owned by Comcast, the biggest provider of high-speed internet access in the country.

Under net neutrality rules, Comcast’s delivery systems can’t favor one streaming service over the other, even though it has a stake in one of them. Without that equal opportunity, Comcast could, for example, allow Fandango Now to perform better for consumers, with better data speeds, than CBS All Access. The resulting poorer picture quality would make the CBS service less desirable.

Pai, who first joined the FCC as a commissioner in 2012, made his anti-regulation position clear in a 67-page dissent issued in 2015 when the FCC approved its

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net neutrality rules. He blasted the rules as “an unlawful power grab” that favored “government control” over the internet.

Since President Trump appointed him commission chairman, Pai has issued a constant stream of statements and made a host of speeches restating his opposition to net neutrality.

While the grand plan for doing away with equal opportunity and fairness still remains a mystery, Pai has started nibbling at the edges. He moved quickly to suspend FCC rules governing consumer privacy online (the Republican Senate voted to repeal those rules entirely last week), widely seen as a first attack on all Obama-era internet regulations. He also ended a commission net neutrality investigation into wireless companies that allow customers access, without data caps, to some — but not all — streaming services on their mobile phones.

The entertainment industry should be

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CRUSADE FROM PAGE 6 nization’s California branch received about $260 million in Medicaid reimbursements in the fiscal year ending in June 2016. Nationwide, the organization got about half a billion dollars in federal funding in the year ending in June 2015, the vast majority of it from Medicaid as reimbursements for services its clinics provided.

A February letter to lawmakers signed by nearly two dozen national associations of health care professionals and public health groups emphasized how essential Planned Parenthood clinics are to the network of health care providers in the country: “More than 50 percent of Planned Parenthood health centers are in areas with health professional shortages,

rural or medically underserved areas,” the letter states. “Policies that would exclude Planned Parenthood from public health funding would hurt millions of patients and undermine health care access in communities across the country.”

Nor is the public crying out for Congress to freeze out Planned Parenthood.

In fact, recent polls suggest that most voters support the organization and want its funding to continue. A Quinnipiac University poll conducted this month showed that 61 percent of registered voters opposed cutting federal aid for Planned Parenthood. (The number went up to 80 percent when it was explained that federal funding for the provider cannot be used for abortions.) According to Planned Parenthood officials, supporters made more than 122,000 phone calls to members of

Congress over the last several months and organized more than 1,000 events across the country to demonstrate their support.

Finally, the effort to penalize Planned Parenthood through the continuing resolution seems sure to trigger another dysfunctional Washington meltdown that could hurt Republicans politically. Senate Democrats won’t abide a move to defund Planned Parenthood any more than they did the House GOP’s efforts to “defund Obamacare” in 2013. If the House GOP insists on including Planned Parenthood in the resolution, the near-certain result is another standoff that shuts down non-essential government services, to the detriment of the party that picks the fight.

That’s you, Republicans.

The test for House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is whether he can lead strong-

willed members away from this trap, or if he’ll be led by them straight into it. One might say it’s a test for President Trump as well, but it’s hard to tell where he is on the issue. Over the weekend he blasted the intransigent Republicans in the House Freedom Caucus for having “saved” Planned Parenthood and Obamacare by withholding support from the leadership’s repeal-and-replace bill. But on Monday his spokesman wouldn’t say whether Trump wanted to take another crack at Planned Parenthood in the continuing resolution.

If he’s as savvy as he claims to be, he’d recognize a doomed mission when he sees it. Republicans should do the right thing and stop their crusade against Planned Parenthood. In the end, there is no political, economic, or public health gain to continuing it.

CRUSADE FROM PAGE 6 fighting back against Pai’s predilection to undo the Equal Opportunity Internet, but it’s surprisingly oblivious. It doesn’t seem to recognize the threat he represents.

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, once a strong supporter of net neutrality, was quoted on the tech website the Verge as saying he wasn’t worried. Even if “the formal framework gets weakened,” Hastings said, “we don’t see a big risk actualizing, because consumers know they’re entitled to getting all of the web services.” He added, “The culture around net neutrality is very strong. The expectations of consumers are very strong.”

Those expectations won’t be enough.

The big telecom and cable companies have more than enough lawyers, money and clout: If the rules are loosened and they can favor the services that are in their pocket, they’ll exploit that advantage and fight to keep it for as long as it takes.

In the past, technology companies and public interest groups pushed hard for net neutrality. Now it’s time for reinforcements.

In late February, CBS CEO Les Moonves was over the moon about his All Access service. If he wants to protect his investment in the streaming-only series “The Good Fight,” or the new “Star Trek” series slated for CBS All Access later this year, he had better start paying attention to the world of internet traffic.

He and his colleagues at established entertainment companies need to protect the open Equal Opportunity Internet. If they don’t, they will lose, and so will we.

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SOFTBALL PREVIEW

Softball plays a three-game weekend series against Drake Austin Vanlandingham Reporter

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Indiana State University looks to take on Drake University this weekend.

Indiana State will make its first Missouri Valley road trip of the season this weekend when they travel to Drake for a three game series.

Indiana State is currently 15-14 on the year and 2-4 in the conference play. On Wednesday, the Sycamores fell at home to in-state rival Ball State 2-1 in extra innings. Junior pitcher Kylie Stober threw her best game of the year for the Sycamores, allowing just two hits and zero earned runs in eight complete innings.

Both teams put up a single run in the first inning. The Cardinals capitalized on an early ISU miscue as Ball State second baseman Maddy Labrador reached base on an error by the third baseman to open the game. Labrador proceeded to steal second with one

out before scoring the first run of the game on a RBI single from Danae King.

The lead was short-lived, though. In the bottom of the first, senior outfielder Erika Crissman plated leadoff hitter Leslie Sims with a sacrifice fly to left field to tie the game 1-1. Crissman also ripped a triple into the left-center. On the day, Crissman was 1-2 with an RBI sac fly and a sacrifice bunt as well.

The pitching for both squads began to take control and the teams battled in a 1-1 tie through seven innings. Stober retired 15 batters in order from the second until the seventh, when she hit a batter and walked two, but still managed to get out of the jam.

With the international tiebreaker in effect in the eighth, Labrador of Ball State was placed on second and advanced to third on a groundout to first by senior Rachel Houck. That play proved

BASEBALL PREVIEW

Baseball continues Big 10 stretch at Illinois this weekend Tim McCaughan

ISU Athletic Media Relations

Indiana State baseball will put their five-game winning streak on the line this weekend when they travel to Champaign for a three-game set with the Fighting Illini. First pitch Friday is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET. The Sycamores and UI will kick things off at 4 p.m. ET Saturday before wrapping up the series Sunday at 2 p.m. ET. Big Ten Network Plus will carry Friday and Sunday’s games with a subscription while all three contests will be available via Sycamore All-Access on GoSycamores. com with Brian Fritz calling the action. All links can be found on the baseball schedule page.

Tony Rosselli (.414) and Kyle Moore (.339) lead the team at the plate while Brandt Nowaskie is hitting .357 in eight games of action for the Sycamores. Designated hitter Dane Giesler and Moore have proved to be reliable forces when runners are on the bases.

Giesler leads the team with 16 RBI while Moore sits just behind with 15. As a team, the Sycamores are hitting .282 and have hit for 43 doubles, eight triples and 19 homers. ISU pitching has struck out 188 batters and hold a combined 5.28 ERA. Illinois comes into play with a 6-16 overall record and have dropped four straight games. The team is led offensively

by Jack Yalowitz (.359) and Pat McInerney (.322). As a club, the Illini are hitting at a clip of .263 while the pitching staff holds a 6.94 ERA. The Sycamores trail in the all-time series with the Illini, 35-40-2. The Sycamores won three-consecutive games from 20042006, but since then neither team has been able to make up much ground as they have traded victories.

Indiana State is in the midst of a fivegame stretch with Big 10 opponents as the Trees face Indiana, Illinois and Purdue over the next week. The Sycamores travel to Champaign this weekend for a threegame set with the Fighting Illini. In total, ISU will play 12 games against Power Five Conference foes this season. The Trees will see both Purdue (April 19) and the Hoosiers (April 11) back in Terre Haute this season.

The Sycamores rank second in the Missouri Valley in batting average as the club is hitting at a .282 clip just behind Dallas Baptist. Five Sycamores are hitting over .300 this season led by outfielder Tony Rosselli who is hitting .414 in 17 games.

Following a phenomenal defense outing a year ago, ISU has picked up where it left off. The Sycamores sit at the top of The Valley with a .978 fielding percentage and have committed just 17 errors this season, five fewer than the next best team.

When it comes to picking up extra bases, ISU has no problem getting it done.

The squad ranks second in the MVC with a .444 slugging percentage. As a team, the Sycamores have 43 doubles, eight triples and 19 home runs on the season. Tony Rosselli leads the Trees with a .724 slugging percentage off of four doubles, four triples and a pair of home runs.

On the mound, the Sycamores have been dominant in the strikeout category, retiring 188 batters via strikeouts through 21 games. Junior Jeremy McKinney leads the charge with 34 K’s through just 24 innings while Will Kincanon has 29 K’s in 26 innings of work.

Junior Tyler Friis has been a tough out for opposing pitchers this season. The shortstop has struck out just four times in 55 at bats this season while boasting 16 hits for the Trees. His 13.75 at bats be-

tween strikeouts ranks top on the squad.

After playing 16-straight contests away from Terre Haute to start the season, the Sycamores hosted Oakland for a threegame set and Eastern Illinois for a midweek matchup. The Trees will now hit the road again for the next eight games with trips to Big 10 opponents Indiana, Illinois and Purdue before opening their MVC slate at Evansville. In all, ISU will play 24 of its first 28 games on the road.

Indiana State’s Tony Rosselli is one of seven players nationally to sit atop the NCAA leaders with four triples this season. Rosselli leads the nation with 0.25 triples per game.

Sycamore outfielder Kyle Moore continues to get better at the plate, upping his average to .339 on the year; second on the team. Moore recorded six hits on the weekend including a season high four hits on Saturday alone. The game signified his first multi-hit game since March 4 when he had two hits against Utah Valley. Moore kicked off the Trees’ midweek game versus EIU with a leadoff home run to up his total to a team best five jacks on the year.

Following a 4-0 loss to Seattle March 8, the Sycamores have won six of their last eight outings, including a pair of games against nationally ranked Washington.

With a three-game sweep over Oakland followed by midweek wins over Eastern Illinois and Indiana, the Sycamores enter the weekend riding a season best fivegame winning streak.

Indiana State knocked off its first ranked squad of the 2017 season when the team defeated No. 12 Washington twice on the road. The Sycamores came away with a 4-2 win in the Friday opener before defeating the Huskies 5-3 on the back end of a doubleheader Saturday.

Indiana State head coach Mitch Hannahs reached 100 career wins at the Austin Peay Invitational (2/17-19). He is the sixth coach in program history to reach 100 wins. Long time skipper Bob Warn leads all coaches with 1,070 career wins at ISU. It didn’t take long for Sycamore fans to know that baseball was in their air Friday afternoon. In the first pitch he saw, leadoff man Tyler Friis went deep for the Sycamores.

Right-hander Tyler Ward became the 12th player in school history to pick up the honor and the first since Ryan Keafabber in 2014. Ward went 6-5 in his rookie season with the Sycamores, holding a 3.81 ERA with a save and 40 strikeouts.

He earned 12 starts in 2016 and made 18 total appearances on the mound for ISU, and finished the season 35-21 overall and second in the Missouri Valley Conference.

He went a season-long eight innings in Indiana State’s 3-2 win over Illinois State where he struck out five. He fanned a season-high six in a win over Bradley on May 14 and picked up the start in the Missouri Valley Conference tournament matchup versus Missouri State.

Indiana State has been picked to finish fourth in the Missouri Valley Conference preseason poll as voted on by the league coaches. The Sycamores are coming off a 35-21 season a year ago and a second-place finish in the conference after a 13-8 MVC campaign. Dallas Baptist tallied 59 points and was named the favorite over second-place pick Southern Illinois (53 points), as the Salukis tallied three first-place votes.

Missouri State (51 points) finished third, while Indiana State and Wichita State finished tied for fourth with 36 points. Bradley was selected in sixth place with 25 points, followed by Evansville (20 points) in the seventh slot and Illinois State eighth (eight points).

critical when Janae Hogg drove the next pitch to deep center field for what ended up being the game-winning sacrifice fly.

The Sycamores will look to focus in on the Drake Bulldogs for their three game weekend showdown. Drake is 16-16 on the year and 0-6 MVC play. The Bulldogs will look to break a seven-game losing streak when they host the Sycamores on Friday. Drake was swept by Southern Illinois last weekend after being swept by Wichita State in the first weekend of MVC play in the previous week. Drake was initially projected to be one of the top teams in the conference, but failed to live up to expectations. They’ll look to right the ship this weekend against Indiana State.

The first game of Saturday’s double-header will be at 1 p.m., and the second game will get under way at 3:30 p.m.

GOLF

ISU golf resumes spring campaign at Bradley Invitational Ace Hunt

ISU Athletic Media Relations

The Indiana State women’s golf team took a one week break after a whirlwind start to the spring campaign, but things start to gear back up on April 1 & 2 at the Bradley Spring Invitational.

The event will be held at the WeaverRidge Golf Club just outside of Peoria, Ill. The par-72 layout will play 6,065 yards. The event will consist of three rounds with 36 holes being played on Saturday, April 1 and the final 18 on Sunday, April 2.

This tournament begins a busy threeweek stretch for the Sycamores, which will continue on April 9-10 with the annual ISU Spring Invitational to be held at The Country Club of Terre Haute and the Missouri Valley Conference Championships from April 17-19 in Cape Girardeau, Mo. This weekend’s event is the second this spring for the Sycamores hosted

by Bradley as they also took part in the Bradley Spring Break Invitational in

Dallas back on March 13-14. Indiana State took eighth in that event. Indiana State opened the spring season at Kiawah Island with a 31st place finish against the largest field in the country that weekend and were seventh at the Lamar Cardinal Challenge.

The Sycamores continue to rank sixth in the Missouri Valley Conference statistics with a 314.23 strokes per round average. Marissa Uradomo currently is fifth in the league with a 75.82 scoring average while Thilda Staubo is 28th as she averages 78.91.

Another tough field awaits the Sycamores as they will be joined by host Bradley, Drake, Illinois-Chicago, Loyola, Missouri-St. Louis, Northern Iowa, South Dakota, Western Illinois and Green Bay. Indiana State won this tournament in 2015 with a three-round score of 944.

The event begins at 9:30 a.m. (ET) on Saturday with a shotgun start. Sunday’s single round begins at the same time.

Live scoring is available at a link on top of this page.

BASEBALL RECAP

Sycamores knock off Hoosiers on the road Tim McCaughan

ISU Athletic Media Relations

A solid day at the plate and on the mound helped Indiana State baseball to their fifth-consecutive victory as the Sycamores knocked off Indiana 7-3 Wednesday night at Bart Kaufman Field in Bloomington.

The Sycamores (12-9) got off to a hot start, scoring one in the first before adding four in the second and two more in the fourth to go out in front 7-1.

It was a tough first couple innings for the Hoosier battery as several balls in the dirt had the Sycamores more aggressive on the base paths. Tony Rosselli put ISU on the board after scoring off a wild pitch.

IU (14-9-1) answered the Sycamore run with a solo home run in the bottom half to knot the game at one. That was when the Sycamore offense kicked it into overdrive, going for four hits and as many runs in the second. After putting two on to start the frame, Tyler Friis drove in the go-ahead runner from third before Rosselli went for a sacrifice fly to extend the ISU lead to 3-1.

Chris Ayers and Dane Giesler each scored a run for the Trees with RBI singles to the outfield.

Three doubles in the fourth pushed two

more runs across the plate for the Sycamores with Friis, Rosselli and Cody Gardner each going for two bags.

Pitching was great throughout the night as ISU starter Ryan Keaffaber went four complete innings, allowing just one run on two hits. The southpaw struck out one and retired the last eight batters he faced.

Right-hander Ethan Larrison continued what Keaffaber started on the mound out of the bullpen. Larrison, a junior, retired the first seven batters he saw before Indiana was able to poke a ball through the hole on the left side in the seventh.

Prior to the hit, Indiana State had retired the last 15 batters they faced. Larrison went a season best 3.1 innings and struck out seven in the outing.

The Hoosiers cut the deficit to 7-3 with a two-run home run in the ninth before Triston Polley struck out the final three batters.

ISU was led offensively by Rosselli who finished 2-for-4 with two RBIs on a single, double and a sac fly. Friis, Gardner and Huntley also added a pair of runs each for the Trees. Friis scored two runs for the Sycamores on the night.

The Sycamores continue their Big 10 road swing this weekend when they head to Champaign for a three-game series with the Fighting Illini. First pitch Friday is slated for 7 p.m. ET from Illinois Field.