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Earth Day activities include live music, food and vendors for students to explore. The excitement will take place Wednesday on the Quad.

Earth Day celebration set for April 19 Claire Silcox Reporter

Indiana State University will celebrate Earth Day on April 19 on the quad and around campus.

Earth Day at ISU is on its 18th annual celebration. It began as a speaker series within the biology department, but it has since grown into a campus-wide event.

“Earth Day is important because it brings awareness to the ISU community and the Terre Haute community about

sustainability,” Alexandria Hendrix, events coordinator at the Institute of Community Sustainability, said.

Unlike most think, sustainability is not just about “reduce, reuse, recycle.”

The definition of sustainability is “the ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level,” according to Google.

For the Earth, however, the simple definition is much more complex. The goal of Earth Day is to raise awareness about sustainability.

Sustainability is what the community and society needs to do in order to keep the Earth alive for as long as possible.

Earth Day will be held on the Quad with live music, a picnic by Sodexo, more than 30 local vendors, games, a rock climbing wall and a sustainability ceremony.

To finish up the day, there will be a tailgate before the ISU against Purdue baseball game on Bob Warn Field.

All day during this event there will also be a display of the Interior Architecture Design Sustainable projects in the Myers Technology center.

Hendrix and the staff members within the Institute of Community Sustainability have been planning this celebra-

tion of Earth Day since October 2016.

The event will continue rain or shine on Wednesday.

Hendrix thanks all of those that are involved in making this event possible.

“Earth Day has always been a successful event on Indiana State’s campus and I plan on keeping that tradition alive,” Hendrix said.

From starting as a speaker series in the biology department to one of ISU’s most successful events, Earth day at ISU has grown into a celebration for students and community members alike.

Res Fest allowed students to kick back, let their hair down Anthony Goelz

Kiara Dowell

Reporter

The Residence Hall Association gave students a chance to let their hair down before finals at Res Fest Friday night.

“We try to do an annual thing to kind of show our residents that we appreciate them. We know April can be a really stressful month for college student with finals around the corner, a lot of final projects coming up,” said John Farley, an economics major and the vice president of programming for Residence Hall Association.

“It’s a way to give back to our residents. Give them a little time to cut loose, have some fun, make new friends and just overall have some fun before finals come along,” Farley said.

The event had food, games and prizes for students.

“We contracted a DJ, we had three blowups, we did door prizes, we offered snacks to our attendees and a few days prior to this were approached by Young Americans for Liberty. YAL was wanting to come in and set up their Free Speech Ball,” Farley said.

The door prizes included two hammocks, a cooler, a chair, hats and Frisbees. The large door prize included a tablet, which was given at the end of the event to a student.

Farley said that there were a little over 100 students who attended throughout the night.

“I think we had a pretty good turnout. With it being on Good Friday, we kind of expected a lot of people to be gone, and we didn’t expect the numbers that we did, so we’re pretty proud of it,” Farley said.

“This is my first semester working with RHA. I was Hall Council,

SGA passes reform after recent impeachment Reporter

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Res Fest, which included bounce houses and games, encouraged students to take a break from work for fun.

I ran the budget for Hines Hall and I ran and was elected for programing, so I had about four weeks to literally just come up with something out of nowhere,” Farley said.

“We were under a bit of a time crunch, and every year RHA does something similar to this.”

Although they didn’t have much time, Farley said the event came together because of the help of the university.

“I just want to thank everyone who was involved from advisors, to the university and all the way up to the Hall Councils themselves.

The Hall Councils were really great with advertising this event, pushing to get more people involved,” Farley said. “We wouldn’t have been able to do it without the faculty, without the advisers and definitely without the halls.”

Res Fest reminded students in attendance to take a step back and relax a little before one of the most stressful times for a student.

Student Government Association passed a bill by the senate to establish transparency, accountability and oversight in the student government.

The bill was passed on March 1. The Government Affairs Reform Act aims to help solve future problems by adding an ethics committee to establish oversight on all the SGA chair members. In order for the bill to pass, there must be a majority vote; in this case, a roll call vote resulting in the 13-2 vote.

Accountability, oversight, reform and transparency were the building blocks to the creation of the GARA. According to GARA, “This comprehensive bill was designed to reform the government in wake of numerous impeachment trials, procedural issues, and vague wording, and it more fully describes the powers of the Legislative and Executive Branches, as well as creates reforms for out SGA election.”

Director of Governmental Affairs Stephen Lamb explained that he wrote the bill to help hold members of SGA accountable for their actions and responsibilities.

“We ran into a lot of problems that we did not have the solution for,” Lamb said.

Due to impeachment issues, SGA needed a more secure way to handle issues before they get out of hand.

“Levi Allen and I were able to guide (the bill) through senate,” Lamb said. “Once it passed 13-

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Grant connects ISU with social service experiences in rural areas Kaila-Danielle Clements is ready for graduation day.

The Indiana State University senior social work major from Terre Haute has already lined up a job as a family case manager with Parke County Department of Child Services, and she is nearly finished with her required 175 hours per semester during her full academic year placement, which she was able to complete with her soon-to-be employer.

“I went to a school in Parke County for my sophomore through senior year of high school, and my family lives in the area. I like the environment up there, and Rockville was my choice of places to do placement,” Clements said.

Getting to know the place she will soon call home has been an invaluable experi-

ence, but also a costly one. Since beginning placement in Rockville last fall, Clements spends about $20 to $25 a week in gas to travel to placement.

Clements is one of several Indiana State social work students who travel several days a week to rural placements and internships at their own expense, but a grant from the West Central Indiana-Area Health Education Center will alleviate some the financial burden.

Melissa Ketner, instructor and field director for the social work program, applies every fall to cover students who travel 20 miles or more in each direction for their all-academic year placements and works with West Central Indiana-Area Health Education Center Director Jackie Mathis to

coordinate the reimbursements.

“We have field placements happening all academic year, but sometimes we have a ton of students who travel and other times we don’t,” Ketner said. “We’ve been able to adapt the grant as we’ve needed to to cover students in our graduate program too, which has a rural focus. The mileage helps bridge the financial gap, so they can access placements in rural areas.”

A recipient of the Title IV-E Scholars Employment-Based Practicum scholarship through the Indiana Department of Child Services, Clements went into her placement knowing that the Department of Child Services would place her in a county in the area where she will work for two years after graduation.

In March, Clements learned she will con-

tinue at the Parke County Department of Child Services in Rockville as a full-time caseworker after commencement, making her months-long placement invaluable and the help of AHEC to cover the cost of travel even more beneficial.

“When you add up the other driving I do and coming to campus, I spend a lot of money filling up my car,” Clements said. “The grant really helps because from where I live to my placement site is about 38 miles one-way and those miles add up.

Even though the money doesn’t come until after placement is over, just knowing that it is coming is a big relief.”

When students apply for placement, they identify the populations and agencies they

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People stop by the memorial at the scene of the first blast of the Boston Marathon bombing on Boylston Street in Boston on Wednesday, April 15, 2015.

Boston in celebratory mood as marathon nears, in ‘commemoration’ of terrorist attack Jaweed Kaleem Los Angeles Times (TNS) It was 2:49 p.m. when the bombs exploded on Boylston Street, 12 seconds and 210 yards apart. The two brothers who put them there, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, wanted to tear Boston apart.

Little did they know how much they would bring it together.

Saturday was the fourth anniversary of the April 15, 2013, Boston Marathon bombings, which killed three people, injured hundreds of others and sent a city into lockdown and disarray.

But for Monday’s 26.2-mile run on a course the city expects more than 30,000 people to traverse,

Boston isn’t mourning, somber or quiet.

It’s loudly celebrating.

“The race itself is, in many ways, a commemoration of what happened,” said T.K. Skenderian, a spokesman for the marathon, which will take place for the 121st time. “There is no moment of silence on marathon day.”

The runners will run, and the crowds will cheer them on, as they’ve done since 1897.

Boston Day, as Saturday’s city holiday is called, was expected to bring thousands of residents and visitors out in support of the “resiliency” and “strength” of the streets and people jolted on Boylston Street.

It could be described as a huge

coordinated community service festival across the region.

Volunteers were to honor the youngest victim killed in the bombing, 8-year-old Martin Richard, by doing something he loved to do in his Dorchester neighborhood: picking up trash and planting flowers.

Firefighters and police were to be honored throughout the day.

And at 2:49 p.m., volunteers around the city were to pause for a moment of silence.

“The Boston Marathon is a key part of our city’s identity, and continues to show the world that Boston is strong, and our traditions will endure, no matter what,” Boston Mayor Marty Walsh said in a statement. “The spirit of the

Catholic college removes ‘yoga’ from name of classes, to erase any link to Hinduism Eric Adler The Kansas City Star (TNS) Yoga is designed to help bring peace and wellness to body and mind.

But at Benedictine College — a small and strongly Catholic liberal arts school in Atchison, Kan. — yoga classes per se will soon be yo-gone, out of apparent concern that use of the word “yoga” suggests advocacy for Hindu mysticism.

College spokesman Stephen Johnson said that starting this fall, both recreational classes and for-credit exercise classes that once taught yoga will likely still be taught the same way, but instead will be rebranded as “lifestyle fitness.”

“We’re changing the name,” Johnson said.

The move to recast the practice of yoga, with positions like upward dog and downward dog, into classes of more generic stretching and breathing exercises has landed the college of 2,000 students in something of a doghouse.

An online petition posted by students calls on Benedictine President Stephen D. Minnis to “bring back yoga!” So far, it has

received 105 online signatures.

The petition has also drawn the support of Rajan Zed, a wellknown Hindu cleric in Nevada, who urged the college to “relook into their reported yoga decision.”

Johnson, the spokesman, said the decision to ditch the term yoga came soon after the college began offering recreational yoga classes (as opposed to the onehour, for-credit yoga exercise class it has offered for years) at the school’s new recreation center, which opened last fall.

Complaints, Johnson said, began to come in from alumni, students, faculty and some administrators who argued that as a Hindu practice, yoga was not in keeping with Catholic-based education. Others, Johnson said, argued that the name yoga should no longer be used because in teaching just the exercise aspects of yoga — as opposed to both its physical and spiritual aspects — Benedictine wasn’t teaching true yoga. Thus it should not use the Hindu name.

The college’s school newspaper, The Circuit, first reported on the move April 5 and noted that concern also was raised by Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann

of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas, and Abbot James Albers of St. Benedict’s Abbey in Atchison.

The paper quoted college President Minnis.

“Yoga as created has some potential for eastern mysticism which has caused concern among members of the Catholic Church,” Minnis told the college paper. Archbishop Naumann “has expressed his concerns and the issues surrounding that. We asked ourselves if there was a way to bring those yoga benefits to our students and faculty without the possible effects of eastern mysticism.”

Contacted by the Kansas City Star, the archdiocese sent the following statement from its chancellor, the Rev. John Riley.

“Many people do not realize that yoga … is intended to be more than a series of exercises coupled with deliberative breathing and meditation,” Riley said in an emailed statement.

“It is a mind and body practice developed under Hinduism, the goal of which is spiritual purification that will lead to a higher level of understanding and eventually union with the divine.

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day on April 15 shows the best of Boston: how Bostonians from all backgrounds come together to line the streets, celebrate one another and do good for their community.”

Meanwhile, new details about events leading up to the attacks emerged this past week.

The FBI had said previously that it had interviewed the elder brother, Tamerlan, two years before the bombings, but the agency did not disclose details about that interview until it released a report on the matter Monday.

In 2011, Tamerlan Tsarnaev told federal agents who visited him in Cambridge that he had “respect for all religions and feels that any religion makes your life

better,” according to the report.

The FBI had investigated him after the Russian government suggested he was a “follower of radical Islam” and said he had planned to “join unspecified underground groups.”

But the FBI did not find Tsarnaev, who is believed to have in part been radicalized online, to be involved in “any terrorism activity.”

Tamerlan Tsarnaev died in after the bombings when he was shot by police in Watertown, Mass.

His brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, survived, and was found guilty of attack in 2015.

He is on death row at ADX Florence, a federal supermax prison in Colorado.

Trump’s likely drug-control director is an anti-marijuana hard-liner Sam Wood The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS) The Pennsylvania congressman who appears to be President Donald Trump’s choice as director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy has a track record that is making him a lightning rod for criticism in the drug-treatment community and among advocates for patients’ rights.

Rep. Tom Marino, a former district attorney and federal prosecutor from Williamsport, Pa., is a well-known anti-drug warrior. A staunch opponent of legalizing both medical and recreational marijuana, Marino also has advocated locking up nonviolent drug offenders until they submit to treatment.

The Office of National Drug Control Policy, advises the president on drug issues and coordinates national and global anti-drug efforts. His appointment as the office’s director would require Senate confirmation.

The Republican was one of the first members of Congress to openly support Trump’s presidential candidacy.

Marino, a self-described “deplorable,” also has been one of

the most vociferous opponents of the Affordable Care Act. The health care law has helped provide more access to drug-treatment services to poor people under an expanded Medicaid program.

In Congress, Marino voted several times against protecting residents of states where cannabis is legal from prosecution under federal drug laws, rejected allowing the Veterans Affairs Department to administer medical marijuana to veterans, and cast votes against measures that would allow industrial hemp.

Marino has said he recognizes that the nation has a substance-abuse epidemic. In 2015, there were more than 52,400 overdose deaths, and nearly 13,000 of those fatalities related to heroin, according to the American Society of Addiction Medicine.

Critics are troubled by Marino’s get-tough solutions. In congressional testimony, Marino said drug abusers should be held in “a secured hospital-type setting under the constant care of health professionals.”

After people plead guilty to drug-possession charges, Ma-

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Homeland Security denies building ‘deportation force’ Laura Litvan Bloomberg News (TNS) Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly Sunday defended plans to hire thousands of additional immigration and border-control agents, saying the Trump administration’s lower bar on criminal behavior by undocumented immigrants merits a larger force.

Kelly, on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” dismissed the idea that he’s creating a “deportation force,” and noted that U.S. law says people here illegally should leave or be deported.

The Trump administration is focused on criminals, mainly with multiple convictions, he said, but the emphasis can be on lesser types of offenses than was the case under President Barack Obama.

The Homeland Security De-

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U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on February 23, 2017, in Mexico City.

partment wants to hire 10,000 more immigration and customs-enforcement officials and 5,000 more border-security

agents. It also plans to expand the number of detention beds to house undocumented immigrants, according to internal documents obtained last week

by The Washington Post.

“The definition of criminal has not changed, but where on the spectrum of criminality we operate has changed,” Kelly said.

‘A Single DUI’ Asked to provide an example, Kelly cited “multiple” offenses of driving under the influence of alcohol, but added that it’s possible a single incident could trigger removal. “Even a single DUI, depending on other aspects, would get you into the system,” he said.

Congress is preparing to resume debate on the administration’s policies on immigration enforcement, and President Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico bor-

der. Lawmakers this month will consider a broad spending bill to fund agencies for the rest of this fiscal year that could include border-security money. If Congress doesn’t act, a partial government shutdown would begin on April 29.

Congress will then turn to next fiscal year’s budget request from the Trump administration, which proposes deep cuts to programs for education and the environment, among others, in part to offset the expense of more immigration enforcement and border-control measures.

Until now, Homeland Security’s activities have been guided by two executive orders Trump signed in January to boost deportations and border security, which also expanded the pool of undocumented immigrants considered a priority for removal.

Kelly said it will be up to Con-

gress to help determine how to treat the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants already in the U.S., including children brought illegally into the country by their parents or guardians.

Obama shielded 750,000 young undocumented immigrants from deportation with a 2012 executive order. The new administration’s plans remain unclear, although Trump has suggested he wants to find a solution that could let them stay.

“It’s very complicated,” Kelly said of the range of undocumented immigrants. “There are people who came here as children. There are people here who came here illegally many years ago and have married local men and women and had children.”

Kelly said one of the biggest

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indianastatesman.com SGA FROM PAGE 1 2-1, it was vetoed by Andy, and the senate voted to override his veto. Andy didn’t even read the bill. There are several senators who can corroborate that claim because he told me that he didn’t read it.”

Levi Allen was a second party involved with the bill; he helped proof read and edit the bill.

GARA was initially 24 pages until the edited it down to 17 pages.

The hallmark of the bill is the Ethics committee, which was set in place to help SGA hold people accountable for their actions.

The entire Student Senate will select the Chair of the Ethics Committee.

According to GARA, “The composition of this committee would be the Chairpersons for all standing Senate committees (Academic Affairs, Finance, Government Affairs, Inclusive Excellence, Leadership, Pride and Traditions, Public Relations, and Student Engagement). Various checks and balances are engrained into the creation of this

ISU FROM PAGE 1 wish to serve and indicate their willingness to travel to their placement sites, especially in rural areas.

“In gaining experience in rural areas, there is usually a higher cost to travel to those sites, so we are glad to be able to provide funds to help students have experiences in those areas and if they gain experiences in rural areas they will know if that is an area for them,” Mathis said. “Our hope is that they enjoy the experience and want to return to that site or a similar place once they are licensed.”

The center’s funding only covers travel to rural Indiana, so Ketner also applies for funds through Indiana State’s Center for Community Engagement to assist students who travel to Illinois or to urban settings. All funds are distributed based on the total miles traveled after placements at schools, child welfare service offices, hospitals or other medical facilities are complete.

Juniors in the Bachelor of Social Work program participate in a 100-hour placement during

Monday, April 17, 2017 • Page 3 committee, so it has the power neither initiate its recommendations nor punish any member of Student Government. This section of GARA also states mandatory ethics hearing be conducted on the leaders on all three branches of SGA.” The ethic committee does not hold the power to punish people.

“The creation of this ethics committee, it mandates that we conduct investigation on an as needed basis, and we can summon any member in the three branches for questioning,” said Sarah Copeland, chairwoman of the governmental affairs committee.

All leaders of SGA have mandatory hearings every fall semester for questioning on whether they did something wrong or not.

According to GARA, “Senate Finance Committee (submits) a weekly report consisting of any and all SGA expenditures, including which accounts the expenditures come from. Previously, the DF was not required to

send these reports. If the Senate is made privy to this information, the Senate will be able to more effectively conduct their role as a check on the Executive.”

SGA is still waiting for the presidential approval or veto on the bill in hopes of putting GARA into effect for immediate change.

Copeland explained that no one really thought about these types of changes of the senate before. “(These changes came) as a shock for everyone, no one was expecting this big of a bill,” Copeland said.

According to the bill, “the president is expected to veto GARA, which provides accountability, oversight, reform and transparency. If he vetoes GARA, it will go back to the Senate, and the Coalition Caucus possesses a veto proof majority. The Caucus will overturn the presidential veto, thereby passing the bill and putting into effect. The outcome is inevitable, so it is a matter of when, not if.”

spring semester, while seniors in the program participate in a 175hour per semester, full academic year placements. Students in the graduate program, which requires a 350-hour placement in the fall and spring semester. All are eligible for travel reimbursement.

This year, six students have received funding to travel to placement sites in Linton, Sullivan, Greencastle, Rockville and Shakamak.

Two or more students placed at the same site can carpool and share the reimbursement, which allowed two Sycamores who did a ride-share to meet with a social worker in Brazil to be reimbursed for their commute.

Since starting her school yearlong placement at the Department of Child Services in Sullivan last fall, Shunte Wilson’s nearly hour commute at least two days a week has cost her about $60 in gas per week.

“The grant funding was very much needed because I have a four-year-old who I have to take back and forth to daycare by Indiana State’s campus and I live south at here,” said Wilson, a senior so-

cial work major from Indianapolis who will work as a family case manager there after graduation in May. “My placement is about 40 minutes away, but this opportunity has helped me get my foot in the door.”

Ketner has a request pending for mileage reimbursement to help students who traveled to internships and clinicals during the spring semester only. The center’s grant funds have also helped send several Indiana State graduate students to training in their clinical area.

“If I had to guess, I would say that more than half of the students driving this year to placements would not be able to get training in these rural settings if it wasn’t for the grant funding,” she said. “We recognize and support AHEC’s mission to recruit people into rural health careers, help students get through graduation and retain professionals in health careers. This collaboration with AHEC is really important to us as a department because we align right with their mission.”

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CATHOLIC FROM PAGE 2 “Although the Catholic Church teaches that much good can be found in other religions, Catholics believe it is only brought to fullness in Christ. …

It is for these reasons that Catholics are alerted to the dangers of the practice of yoga and are encouraged to look for other exercise alternatives that do not incorporate a spiritual dimension.”

Riley said if Catholics want exercises that include a spiritual dimension, they should consider

TRUMP FROM PAGE 2 rino said, they should be placed under “intensive treatment program until experts determine they should be released under intense supervision. If this is accomplished then the charges are dropped against that person.”

Many advocates say forcing treatment isn’t legal and wouldn’t work.

“I’m not sure it would pass constitutional muster,” said Roseanne Scotti, director of the Drug Policy Alliance in New Jersey. “No medical professional would think this is a good idea.

No expert on treatment would think it was a good idea.”

Forcing treatment is rarely, if ever, effective, Scotti said.

For example, heroin users who return to the street after a court-mandated stay frequently die of overdoses soon after release because they have reduced

SECURITY FROM PAGE 2 challenges is people who overstay their visas. Such people were the target of raids in February affecting almost 700 people in California, Texas, New York and other states, 75 percent of whom Homeland Security said

Pietra Fitness, a set of exercises that includes Christian prayer and meditation.

Benedictine yoga instructor Julie Romano, a yoga practitioner for 10 years, questioned the decision.

“I have a moral objection to taking something that people spent thousands of years working on and calling it something else,” she told the school paper.

“I don’t see a conflict in yoga and Catholicism, and I don’t see why we should call it something else to appease others.” their tolerance for the drug, but don’t receive the support they need afterward to stay drug-free.

“We’re not just setting them up for failure,” Scotti said. “We’re setting them up to die.”

Marino’s allies, however, say he’s just what the nation needs.

“This will be wonderful if the president picks Tom,” said Rob Gleason, the former chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican Party, who helped guide Marino on his ascent to Congress.

According to Gleason, the Trump administration is considering re-elevating the Office of National Drug Control Policy director back to a Cabinet-level post. As recently as February, Trump considered eliminating the office.

“The really good thing is that it’s not an afterthought,” Gleason said. “This could be a momentous step in the war on drugs.” were criminals.

“It’s time consuming, but at the end of the day they came here with a promise to leave, and we have to track them down if they’re still in the country and put them in the proceedings to deport them,” he said.

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Coachella Festival is bigger — but is it better?

August Brown

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

When Radiohead’s sound cut out a few songs into its Friday night headlining set at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, one fan watching the performance on the main lawn was spotted putting her head in her hands and wincing.

“This feels like the election,” she was overheard saying, alluding to the sense of sudden shock at an unexpected result.

Radiohead played off the sound system woes with good humor, but the comment was indicative of our increasingly politicized era. Now in its 18th year — and its largest ever — the fest has long positioned itself as a resort-like escape rather than aligning with music’s more rebellious tendencies.

Yet amid a tumultuous cultural climate that followed a divisive election season, Coachella’s stakes couldn’t help but feel a little raised. The festival, produced by AEG-owned Goldenvoice, this year swelled in size by about 20 acres and added a new punk- and Latin-driven stage. This all after a last-minute pop-star lineup switch that saw Beyonce having to step down due to pregnancy and cede the spotlight to Lady Gaga.

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Fans react to a performance by Canadian hip hop artist Tory Lanez on the Sahara Stage on Day 2 at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., on Saturday, April 15.

But some fans felt a little overwhelmed.

“It’s too crowded; you can’t enjoy yourself, and it’s not as fun,” said Jane Gaje of San Francisco. She’d been to four Coachellas and loved each one, but this year she had trouble settling into the broader layout and bigger crowds.

The fest received a permit for an estimated 25,000 additional fans this year, up from 99,000 in 2016. “We only saw the intros to everything,” Gaje said.

But on the first two days of Coachella, any grumblings were notably apolitical.

There were no significant onstage protests

or sense of Trump-driven discord from a typically liberal crowd. Fans were more inclined to play beer pong in the campgrounds or feast on vegan tacos than spend energy on political outrage.

That might change with sets from Lady Gaga and Kendrick Lamar — Lamar released the searing, furious new album “Damn.” just before Coachella, and the typically outspoken Lady Gaga was set to perform late Saturday evening.

Some artists, such as the Argentinian band Las Ligas Menores, had some last-minute visa woes that could have spelled trouble for their sets. The group was approved for travel into the U.S. just 10 days before the launch of the festival, which will repeat again next week on the posh grounds of the Empire Polo Club.

But so far, it seems the youth-driven liberal resistance movement hung up its protest signs for Coachella and is taking the weekend off.

Still, though, other fans were concerned that Coachella’s continued growth would lead to exhaustion.

“It’s not the same. The vibe is still cool, but there’s too many people,” said Eddie Gutierrez, who came down from the San

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Hair Show 2017

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Students participated in a “Hair Show,” where they were able to strut the stage with their own unique styles.

My accident prone past Leah Kennedy Columnist

I’m going to tell you a couple stories about how I got hurt when I was younger.

My whole life I’ve been pretty accident-prone. I fall down, roll ankles, pop hips and hurt wrists more times than I can ever count, but I feel like that’s just growing pain. I also have a very low pain tolerance and am a big baby when I’m hurt, but I get over it.

When I was young, I went to VBS every summer. My mom ran the children’s program for a really long time and she’d take the week off with my sister, me and sometimes our neighbor.

We’d go to the pool and swim, have a picnic and sometimes hike a bit. Turkey Run was one of our favorite places.

This one day, while I was swimming with my best friend

and my mom was laying out tanning, a break was called.

Well, being nine years old, we didn’t care about breaks, so we ran across to the baby pool. She hopped in first, and I hopped in too, but I guess I jumped a little harder or landed funny because I broke my ankle.

Well, technically, I fractured my growth plate. I started third grade in a boot. It left me with a funny story to tell and a lesson.

I now have nieces I take swimming, and the baby pool for sure still startles me. I guess I just learned to be careful. I learned that they don’t let just anyone in for a reason because idiots like me can get hurt messing around.

I could relate that to about a million other things in my life saying that I learned not to jump in with both feet in my relationships or something, and that’s

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Movie music for rap ‘n’ rock crowd: Hans Zimmer will leave the composing room to front his 70-plus-piece band Mikael Wood

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Hans Zimmer’s natural habitat is a dark, windowless room.

As one of Hollywood’s most successful film composers — with scores for dozens of movies stretching from “The Dark Knight” to “The Lion King” — the 59-year-old Oscar winner spends untold hours in screening rooms and recording studios, including his own private space tucked into a larger complex on a quiet industrial street in Santa Monica.

Filled with polished woodwork and red velvet furniture, it has proved to be an inspiring spot for the man whose music combines lush orchestral arrangements with unconventional electronic textures.

But that didn’t keep Zimmer’s friends from pushing him to try

a change of scenery.

“This whole thing started with Johnny Marr and Pharrell Williams sitting me down and going, ‘You’ve got to get out of here and look your audience in the eye,’” the composer said the other day, referring to the Smiths guitarist (whom Zimmer drafted to play on “Inception”) and the hip-hop producer turned pop star (with whom Zimmer worked on “Hidden Figures”).

“And they’re right,” he added.

“At some point you have to see if any of the stuff you’ve been doing while hiding behind a screen actually resonates with people.”

That’s what Zimmer is doing this week by launching the North American leg of his first concert tour, scheduled to stop Friday night at the Microsoft Theater before moving on to a performance Sunday at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival

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Hans Zimmer attends the 2008 AFI FEST closing night gala screening of “Defiance”.

in Indio. (The tour, which the German-born musician took through Europe last year, will re

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indianastatesman.com MOVIE FROM PAGE 4 turn to Los Angeles on Aug. 11 for an encore at the Shrine Auditorium.)

At Coachella, where the bill is dominated by singers and rappers such as Lady Gaga and Kendrick Lamar, Zimmer’s instrumental music will no doubt be an oddity. But the composer insists that the show he’s put together is far from the buttoned-up occasion one might expect.

“The reason I didn’t do this for the longest time is that I’ve always had a problem with the way we present orchestral music,” he said, reclined on a sofa with a cup of coffee. “Why would you spend an evening of your precious time with a man with his back to you and a bunch of people in suits reading the paper?”

Instead, he’s promising a more rock-informed experience, with Zimmer acting not as conductor but as a frontman leading a group of more than 70 musicians through freewheeling renditions of some of his favorite themes.

One of those musicians is Marr’s 25-year-old son, Nile,

COACHELLA FROM PAGE 4 Francisco Bay Area for his third Coachella. While he had a blast seeing acts like the EDM producer and DJ Dillon Francis, he too felt like the expansive festival had become a bit unwieldy.

“It’s a time to enjoy music from all different genres, but it’s not as enjoyable this year. You had to fight crowds to get to see bands, so our night ended early. I feel like people aren’t even really here, they’re just here to say they’re at Coachella.”

Sound system woes aside, however, there was plenty of notable music to be had at the fest. From Father John Misty’s regal sundown set to Stormzy’s fiery modern hip-hop and Sampha’s heart-

Monday, April 17, 2017 • Page 5 who also plays in the British indie trio Man Made and says the Zimmer outfit is “basically the biggest band you’ve ever seen playing the most epic music you’ve ever heard.”

The band approach isn’t entirely new for Zimmer.

Before he moved into composing for movies, he played briefly as a member of the Buggles, Trevor Horn’s late-’70s newwave group that scored a hit with “Video Killed the Radio Star.”

“But after that the record company just wanted us to do the same thing again and again and again,” he said. “So you suddenly realize in rock and roll you’re very easily typecast.”

Film music, in contrast, offered limitless variation. “I wrote ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ and ‘Black Rain’ in the same month, and they couldn’t be any more different.”

Zimmer, who plays keyboard, guitar and banjo in the show, intends to show off the stylistic breadth of his work on tour. But he won’t show images from the movies themselves — they seduce an audience into ignoring

the players onstage, he says. Nor does he plan to deliver any kind of canned commentary.

“Scripted, I’m terrible,” he said.

“Can’t do it. Long time ago, Jeffrey Katzenberg asked me to take part in a presentation about animation at Lincoln Center. And his main press person, I overheard her say, ‘Don’t script Hans — he’s like a plank of wood.’

“The only way I can treat this is like I’m having a dinner party with a few friends. Sometimes I ramble on and lose my way, and sometimes somebody in the band says, ‘Come on, let’s play some music.’”

Is his head sufficiently full of anecdotes that he can conjure stories at the mention of a title?

“Go ahead,” he said. “Name one.”

“Rain Man.” “My first movie in Hollywood,” he shot back. “I’d come to Los Angeles not knowing anybody, not knowing my way around. So I wrote the whole score in Barry (Levinson)’s office.”

Another windowless room.

“It’s my fate.”

felt experimental soul, Coachella’s taste remained as current as ever.

For early arrivals, special guests included Todd Rundgren playing with the Lemon Twigs and Curt Smith of Tears for Fears playing “Mad World” with the L.A. band Zipper Club.

The enormous new art installations — particularly the colorfully psychedelic “Chiaozza Garden” from Terri Chiao and Adam Frezza, and Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan’s pastel-colored monuments — bolstered the feeling of other-worldliness that fans seemed to crave.

For Jesse and Dede Flemming, co-founders of the Do LaB, a longtime Coachella staple, the sense of escapism and rejuvenation through music was more

necessary than ever this year.

Their Burning Man-influenced aesthetic had always been a popular Coachella niche, but in 2017 fans used it as a respite from the heat and throngs — and maybe even to help navigate the tumultuous world outside.

“This blows people away and inspires them, and hopefully all that trickles back into real world,” said Jesse Flemming. His brother and partner agreed.

“They’re not checking the news when they’re here, and you get that purer sense of what community is,” Dede Flemming said.

“People crave that. Living out in real world with politics what they are and now that we’re flirting with new wars, people want to get back to the roots.”

ACCIDENT FROM PAGE 4 true, but I also just feel like keeping it lightweight today.

When I was a freshman in high school, my brother stayed with us a lot, and we always made dinner together. This one particular night after dinner, I was making milk shakes. We had these heavy bottomed cups from Cedar Point, and when I took one out of the cabinet, the others fell down and shattered a glass coffee pot.

I went to catch the cup and ended up cutting my hand on a

huge shard of glass. I remember just staring at my hand and calling for my brother. He grabbed my hand and put it under the faucet.

My mom freaked out and my dad put some pressure on it, but I had to go to the hospital anyway. It took four hours to get two stiches, but the great part was that I didn’t have to play floor hockey in PE for ten days, so that was pretty cool.

I hope you enjoyed my clumsy stories. I’ll have a more serious story next time. Have a good week, everyone.

OPINION

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Don’t leave ISU with regrets

Monday, April 17, 2017

Casey Ewart Columnist

College comes with lots of choices to make every day.

Sometimes, we make a choice and wonder what would have happened if we chose differently.

College is the time to get out of our comfort zones and do things that we would not normally do.

Do not leave Indiana State University without running through the fountain. I know it may sound silly. However, some see it as a rite of passage.

Do not be afraid to rush for a sorority or fraternity. A good portion of ISU is Greek life. Not attending rush because a friend cannot go is not an excuse not to rush.

It is a time to meet with many people and expand social circles.

It is possible to gain new friends and still have friends that have been there since before college.

Take advantage of the Student Recreation Center. There are many free classes for students such as zumba, yoga, kickboxing, etc. They have a swimming pool, sauna, hot tub and intermural sports. Some students do not like class ending sooner than expected or canceled because they want to make the most of their money.

The same could be said about the Rec Center. We already pay for all of the classes and equipment wrapped up in fees. Even if we only use it once, it is better than not using it at all even though we pay for it.

Most students, depending on how many majors or minors they have, are required to take additional classes to fulfill the minimum credit requirement.

Some might choose to take electives in their own field of study.

Although that may provide additional knowledge in that particular field, it may not be as satisfying as taking classes such as martial arts, dance or a foreign language.

Take advantage of the breaks we are given, especially winter, spring and summer breaks.

These are freebies that are given to us.

We should take advantage of them because, before we know it, we will have to work for our breaks at jobs or careers instead of them being given to us by the school. I understand how easy it

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Trump critics’ concerns justified at White House press interview Zach Davis Columnist

Being president is a tough job.

Every president has to make hard decisions that leave someone disappointed. They have to look out for the nation’s security and international relations. They are the face of our government, even though their power is limited.

Donald Trump has made quite a few tough calls himself, leaving him under heavy fire from critics. The most recent topic of discussion is his handling of international affairs.

He’s bombed both Syria and Afghanistan and argued with Russia, all while sending sea forces toward North Korea, provoking their leader into preparing for war with the United States.

A press interview was held last Tuesday with White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, and the reporters heavily questioned Spicer about Trump’s views on

international relations, and his answers only added more reasons to worry. The interview transcript is on the White House website for all to see.

Spicer’s comments provided quite a bit of insight on the way the Trump administration wants to handle issues, including the plan for Syria. Spicer revealed that the plan was to “destabilize Syria — destabilize the conflict there, reduce the threat of ISIS.” Destabilizing a region is a horrible idea, especially after all of our experiences doing the same thing to other regions. For example, when we began destabilizing the Middle East we effectively created Al Qaeda, resulting in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, where nearly 2,000 people died.

Repeating our actions only shows that we have learned nothing and risks the same thing happening again. It would be ignorant for us to do that again.

Spicer explained exactly how Syria should be handled, saying that “by us taking action and deescalating what’s going on in Syria, that’s the greatest thing you can do to support those people.”

Bombing them and destabilizing their nation is exactly the opposite of that, though. That puts them in a state of vulner-

ability, offering another perfect opportunity for a terrorist group to rise to power again, just like Al Qaeda.

The reason Spicer gave for Trump’s bombing Syria is concerning, too, claiming it was “to stop the proliferation and deterrence of chemical weapons.”

That argument is eerily similar to the “weapons of mass destruction” excuse used to start a war in Iraq during George W. Bush’s presidency ­ — one that many Americans ended up resenting. Apparently Trump, though, sees simply using a weapon as a provocative act that needs to be squelched, even though that can cause a war.

A reporter also brought up comments made in Trump’s past that contradicted his actions in Syria. Trump previously made claims that Former President Barack Obama should stay out of Syria until he sought congressional approval.

Spicer, however, justified this by saying that Trump was looking out for our national security. Syria wasn’t an immediate threat, though. He should have sought congressional approval to do anything involving them at this point.

We have even more of a reason to worry about the days to come since Spicer admitted that the

Trump administration is keeping all their plans quiet, exactly the opposite of the last administration.

Spicer was asked a question on whether or not Trump’s administration will continue to stay transparent with their handling of Syria, to which he responded, “I’m going to not get into telegraphing what we’re doing and how we’re doing it.”

I agree the public doesn’t need specific details. Details, though, are vastly different than basic information. The American people have a right to know how their government is handling things internationally, especially if we are going to be in conflict with anybody.

In one press interview Spicer revealed plenty of reasons for the American people to be concerned about their government.

Trump has made it clear he has no problems with resorting to war to solve issues, even circumventing congress to do so.

Spicer revealed that there are no plans to keep citizens informed about their government, even if they are repeating mistakes that can result in devastating consequences. The government is supposed to be one of the people. That can’t happen if the government keeps things from the public.

World War III top search term on Google: Is the world at war?

Steve Wininger Columnist

For the first time since Google came into existence as a search engine, Word War III is the top search term.

Recent events such as the United States’ bombing of a Syrian airbase – which has strained

relations with Russia, a U.S. strike in Afghanistan – in which the largest non-nuclear bomb the U.S. has was deployed — or the ever increasing tensions mounting between the U.S. and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) seem to have people concerned about the possibility of a world war erupting.

With the war on terror, which seems to plague many countries, and rising tensions, which put the world’s major powers at odds with each other, the possibility for direct conflict between these powers is increasing.

For the first time since the fall of the former Soviet Republic, the threat of nuclear war has risen to near Cold War levels.

A former U.S. secretary of defense, William Perry, claimed in 2016 that the threat of nuclear conflict had already surpassed Cold War levels, and the threat was rising.

Perry specifically cited the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and the tensions between the US and Russia.

Perry also mentioned that the chance of a nuclear conflict between the U.S. and Russia was increasing, and all that was needed to set it off would be a miscalculation or a false flag event.

Add to the mix the latest rhetoric of the North Korean leader, Kim Jung Un, and his nuclear ambitions and the chance of a miscalculation increases.

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Many countries in the region, including Japan and South Korea, are increasingly concerned about the North Korean leader using a nuclear weapon against them.

I would argue that the world has been at war for some time.

Most of the global conflicts that involve the U.S. and Russia are proxy wars.

A search of news organizations Fox News, CNN and Al-Jazeera does not return a lot of headlines about nuclear war or World War III. Political uncertainty, rising tensions and increased rhetoric among key global players, and an apparent increase in the level of conflicts give the perception

of a looming world war.

Citing the prophecy of Jesus Christ in Matthew 24, many Christians believe that World War III and the inescapable end times are near.

Indeed, there are wars and rumors of wars in addition to nation rising against nation as Jesus had explained.

Not everyone subscribes to the Christian explanations of current events; however, there is a lot of tension and fighting taking place around the globe.

The increase in the number of Google searches for World War III could simply be a reaction to the increase in tension and

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indianastatesman.com REGRETS FROM PAGE 6 is to stay home over break. I have stayed home on a few breaks as well; however, at least make all the senior year breaks an adventure.

Take advantage of study abroad. Go to a meeting. Reach

Monday, April 17, 2017 • Page 7 out to find out more about the programs we have. There are some trips that are faculty-led trips that may be a shorter time frame than a semester.

We also have an Alternative Break Program. This entails volunteering at various locations inside and outside of the United

States. These trips are also shorter than a semester.

If the time has come to junior year or senior year and there is still a feeling that something is missing, as if school is not done, there is still something that can be done to fix that void. If it is senior year, we might look on to

graduate school. Also, we could add another major or minor.

Despite how it sounds by adding more years, graduating with a degree in a field that we like is better than graduating with one that we just attended the classes and have learned nothing about, yet somehow managed to pass.

The bottom line: we should not leave without accomplishing every thought, idea or adventure that enters into our head. Do not look back and wonder “what if ” or “what could have happened.”

Live college adventures to the fullest. Each day is a new day with a new adventure.

AT WAR FROM PAGE 6 to the increase in tension and the fact the U.S. is now taking a more pro-military response in global conflicts.

In addition to the increase in the use of military might as was the case in Syria and Afghanistan, there is an increase in the rhetoric coming from all sides involved.

Trump has sent a naval strike group to the Korean Peninsula as a show of force to the North Korean leader, and in return, he has ramped up his rhetoric against the U.S. Although Google reports that World War III has become the top search term, it is unable to explain why.

From that we can only conclude that the way global events are unfolding, the perception and fear of war has risen to a level where people are curious to know more.

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SOFTBALL

Great pitching shuts down ISU in 6-0 finale loss to Wichita Tyler Wooten

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Although the softball team tagged Wichita players throughout the game, they fell short on hits Saturday.

BASEBALL

Indiana State was able to tag Wichita State starter Katie Malone for six runs in the first inning of Game One yesterday, but Malone retaliated by holding the Sycamores to just two hits as ISU fell 6-0 in the series finale at Wichita State on Saturday.

Malone, the Valley’s top pitcher this season with a 21-8 record, opened with four perfect innings for Wichita State (26-14, 11-4 MVC) before senior Brooke Riemenschneider (1-2) broke up the bid in the fifth with a single into left field. Senior Kassie Brown would add an infield single later in the sixth inning, but that

would be it for the Sycamores (18-22, 3-12 MVC) at the plate.

For the first couple innings it seemed Sycamore starter Kenzie Ihle would go toe-to-toe with Malone, throwing two scoreless after running into some jams early on in both innings. The Shockers broke the game open in the third, though, taking a 3-0 lead after an RBI single by McKenzie Adams (3-3, 2 2B, 2 RBI, BB) and a two-run homer

by Paige Luellen (2-3, HR, 2 RBI, BB). The Shockers added three more in the final three innings off reliever Della Gher.

The Sycamores now head up to Chicago for a midweek Valley doubleheader at Loyola on Wednesday, April 19.

TRACK

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Dane Giesler led the Sycamores to victory on Saturday.

Sycamores sweep Saturday Sycamore men win, women finish second at Gibson Invitational doubleheader to take series from SIU

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The men’s track and field team left the Gibson Invitational as winners this weekend.

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Indiana State baseball completed the Saturday sweep over Southern Illinois to take the series and move into second place in the Missouri Valley Conference after improving to 4-2 in the Valley and 17-15 overall.

The Sycamore bats exploded for a season high 18 hits in a 15-2 seven-inning win in the opening game of the day. Dane Giesler led the charge for the Sycamores with a two-home run day en route to a team best five RBIs. In all, six Sycamore hitters went for multiple hits in the team’s best offensive output of the season.

Tyler Friis and Clay Dungan joined Giesler in the three-hit club while Dominic Bifano and Jeff Zahn walked away with two hits apiece.

It was a quick start for the ISU offense as Friis and Dungan recorded back-to-back doubles to kick off the ballgame, before Giesler homered on a 1-0 pitch to left in the first inning. The Salukis added a run of their own in the third before Bifano answered right back in the bottom half with a solo shot to right.

Zahn legged out his first triple of the season to lead off a five-run fourth inning. Brandt Nowaskie singled Zahn home in the next at bat. Rosselli joined the home run derby in the fourth as well with a two-run shot.

Giesler capped off the fourhome run game for the Trees in the fifth with a two-run blast to center for his team best eighth home run of the season.

Friis, Dungan and senior Tony Rosselli added two RBI each in the win.

Right-hander Tyler Ward

earned the win after pitching all seven innings and allowing only two runs while striking out five Saluki batters. With the victory, Ward improved to 3-2 on the season.

It was a completely different game in the nightcap as the series finale turned into a pitcher’s duel between Will Kincanon and Joey Marciano as the Sycamore came away with a 4-1 win.

Kincanon (3-3) struck out 10 Saluki batters on his way to his third win of the season. The right-hander allowed just five hits to the Salukis in seven complete innings.

It was not until the seventh that the Sycamores would get in the scoring column after Dungan came up with a clutch single through the right side of the infield to score Nowaskie.

Giesler continued his RBI hunt later in the inning, sending a ball up the middle to score another Sycamore run later in the inning.

The Trees would add an insurance after Bifano was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to make it a 3-0 ISU lead. Southern Illinois would answer with their first run in the eighth when Logan Blackfan singled in the lone SIU run of the night.

Austin Conway picked up his seventh save of the season after completing the final two innings, striking out two of the eight batters he faced.

The Trees return to action with a pair of midweek contest Tuesday and Wednesday as Northern Illinois and Purdue come to town.

First pitch in Tuesday’s contest with the Huskies is slated for 3 p.m. ET. The Sycamores and Purdue will play Wednesday at 6 p.m. ET.

Indiana State men’s track & field came away as team winners while the Sycamore women finished runner-up at a windy Day Two of the 2017 Gibson Invitational.

The Sycamore men won with a 187-154 decision over Illinois State, while the women fell short 195-153 to the Redbirds. Overall, the Missouri Valley men defeated the Ohio Valley men 474-100, while the Missouri Valley women defeated the Ohio Valley women 491-86 as part of the MVC-OVC Challenge portion of the invite.

“It was a great win on the men’s side because Illinois State and Southern (Illinois) are both very good teams,” said ISU head coach Angela Martin. “I feel like the men’s team is really starting to pull together. For the women, it was a good second place. The weather was a challenge, but it was good prep work since we go to Wichita in a couple weeks and it could be just like this.”

It was a day full of strong performances from the Sycamores, with eight individual titles and two relay victories as well.

Star distance runner Brooke Moore had another phenomenal day, winning both the 800-meter run with a time of 2:12.12 and the 1500-meter run with a time of 4:39.53.

Moore entered the week 21st in the NCAA and 11th in the East Region at her Valley-leading 800 time of 2:06.74, while also ranking 24th in the NCAA and 12th in the East with her MVC-leading 1500 time of 4:20.02 – the ISU school record.

Junior Brittany Neeley also had an impressive performance in the women’s 1500-meter run, finishing second with a time of 4:44.85.

Marcus Neely once again had

an incredible performance in the men’s 110-meter hurdles, setting a new international wind-legal personal record of 13.79. His season-best time today is currently 13th in the NCAA, sixth in the East Region, and top in the Valley. His overall PR of 13.70 was run at an NCAA-legal 3.4 wind reading to finish runner-up to former teammate Adarius Washington at the 2016 MVC Outdoor Championships.

Daley Carter was not far behind Neely, finishing second with a season-best time of 14.09, which is 33rd in the NCAA, 15th in the NCAA East Region and second in the Valley behind Neely. Carter’s career-best is 14.07 from the 2015 MVC Outdoor Championships.

All-American David Timlin made his return to the track today, winning the men’s 1500-meter run with a time of 3:51.99.

His time is currently ninth in the Valley. Quentin Pierce was close to Timlin, finishing third with a new personal record of 3:53.52, which is 11th in the MVC. Senior All-American Alethia Marrero had an incredible day in the women’s 400-meter dash, taking home a victory with a season-best time of 54.79. Her time is currently second in the Valley.

Junior Oschtisha Johnson was close behind Marrero with a new personal record of 55.18.

That time is sitting at third in the MVC. Senior Tyrell Dowdell set a new personal record en route to a victory in the men’s 400-meter dash, winning with a time of 47.24. That mark moves him into a tie for fourth place all-time at ISU, and is 30th in the NCAA East Region, and remains second in the Valley.

The men’s relay teams had a successful day on the track with both picking up victories.

The 4x100-meter relay team

made up of Scott Schreiber, Jaynard Keys, Devyn Mikell and Tristan Parmley set a new meet record with a season-best and Valley-leading time of 40.52.

Their time is also 43rd in the NCAA East Region.

The 4x400-meter relay team of Liam McGrath, Tyrell Dowdell, Tony Rigoni and Justin Wolz also picked up a win with a time of 3:20.42.

In the field, both Jaime Murtagh and sophomore Caitlyn Redmon were able to pick up wins for the Sycamores.

Murtagh took his second-straight title men’s high jump, winning with a mark of 2.05m (6-08.75). His season-best of 2.12m (6-11.50) still sits at second in the MVC and high on the national and regional lists.

Redmon, meanwhile, was victorious in the women’s long jump with a distance of 5.79m (1900.00). Her earlier distance of 5.82m (19-01.25) is still fourth in the Valley.

There were several other strong performances throughout the day, including a second-place finish from Tristan Parmley in the men’s 100-meter dash.

His wind-legal (+2.3) time of 10.46 is a new personal record and ranks second in the Valley and 26th in the NCAA East Region, putting him in good contention for a regional qualifier.

In the field, Kara Cooke and Trey Kennedy both set new personal records. Cooke placed second in the women’s high jump with a big PR of 1.65m (5-05.00), which is fourth in the Valley. In the men’s pole vault, Kennedy placed third with at 4.93m (1602.00), which moves him into third in the MVC. The Sycamores will stay at home next weekend again as they host the Pacesetter Invitational on Friday, April 21 and Saturday, April 22.