January 17, 2018

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More than 900 Sycamores participate in winter commencement Indiana State University sent the Class of 2017 into the world with parting words from fellow Sycamores at the winter commencement ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 16.

There were 906 Indiana State students who applied to graduate, of which 386 undergraduates and 198 graduates signed up to participate in the commencement ceremony at Hulman Center.

Student speaker and political science major Shayla Bozdech of Effingham, Ill., offered her fellow graduates a message about sacrifices.

“Look at the world in which we live.

There are many circumstances around us that might cause us to become disheartened and feel defeated. There are old problems in our world that have come back into light, and new problems that we, as the next generation of world leaders, are tasked with solving,” she said.

“These problems, they won’t be solved by thousands of people choosing to simply follow their dreams. That’s not how you got here today, is it? Your dream may have been to go to college, but when you look up in the audience and find the people in your support system, you can realize that you are not the product of a thousand dreams. You are the product of a thousand sacrifices.”

She reminded the graduates that sacri-

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Carly Rueho was one of the 900 students that graduated Indiana State during the winter commencement.

fice for others is a message that was driven home at Indiana State.

“At Indiana State, we have learned that, if service is beneath us, then leadership is beyond us,” Bozdech said. “We have been taught the importance of making an impact in our communities through service.

ISU has taught us the value of making sacrifices for our neighbors, and we have seen how connected we are at our core.”

Bozdech’s wish for her fellow graduates

was for them to “recognize the sacrifices that must be made for the good of others.”

“I hope that we will always do what is right, even if it does not mean following our dreams,” she said. “In turn, I hope that our dreams will turn into those of integrity, honesty, love, respect, patience, joy and peace. Because with these dreams, we can become humble servants. With these dreams, we can have hope.”

Alumnus Michael Scott Jr., ‘10, used

the opportunity as the alumni speaker to encourage his fellow Sycamores to focus the talents and skills they honed at Indiana State toward making a difference in the lives of the next generation as he did post-graduation.

Scott serves as an instructional fellow with the Uncommon Schools in Brooklyn, N.Y. - a nonprofit network of public charter schools closing the opportunity gap primarily for students of color from low-income communities in New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey.

“As an alumnus, it’s my duty to impart wisdom or lessons that, hopefully, allows you to avoid an obstacle or two that I encountered,” he said. “So, what lessons have I learned? Lesson one. Embrace difference. Expose yourself to new experiences. Meet new people. By listening to folks who you would normally shun or not gravitate toward, what you’ll learn is you have far more in common than you have in contrast.”

Lesson two, Scott said, is to seize the moment and live life to the fullest.

“You’ve got one life to live and only one chance to live it,” he said. “Two weeks after I walked across this stage, my father’s years among the living were cut short at the age of 53. From that pivotal moment, I committed to not live for tomorrow, but

Jump starting into the semester Kiara Dowell Reporter

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Officials cut a blue ribbon to the new Health and Human Services facility Friday at Indiana State University.

Indiana State cuts ribbon on $64M Health and Human Services facility The largest state-funded project in Indiana State University’s history was unveiled to the public with the ribbon cutting of expanded the Health and Human Services facility on Dec. 15.

The ceremony in the North Gym addition was followed by tours of the facility for students, employees and the community to get a glimpse into Phase I of this $64 million, state-funded project.

The building will be ready for occupancy later this spring, followed by the start of the project’s second phase, which will include renovation of classrooms and labs in the existing Arena building that was constructed in the 1960s. Phase II of the project is expected to be completed in spring 2019.

“It is exciting to be here today to celebrate the largest capital project in our university’s history,” said Indiana State President Dan Bradley. “This new facility will provide high-tech labs and facilities to support the fast-growing College of Health and Human Services, ISU’s second largest college which services 2,700 undergraduates and nearly 750 graduate students.

The faculty in the College of Health and Human Services has worked diligently to develop new degree programs that are helping address the state’s critical shortage of health care professionals.”

Bradley noted the collaborative environment the facility will create for training future health care providers from different fields to work alongside each another.

“Inter-professional education is key to improvements in health care, and we truly are at the forefront of that at Indiana State,” he said. “In addition to the impact the facility will have on our students and local and state workforce, it will dramatically transform the appearance of our campus from Third Street and create a new main entrance to Indiana State.”

Construction on the facility project began in July 2016 and includes an 87,000-square-foot expansion to house new academic programs. Major upgrades will improve temperature control and air quality in the building as well as technology.

Interior space will be reconfigured to enable academic pro-

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Jumping into January was an event that took place on Wednesday January 10 in the Cunningham Memorial library.

Linda Niemiec hosted the event and talked about helping Indiana State teachers facilitate learning in their classrooms.

The event was from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. and covered the idea of knowing illusion. The faculty at ISU plan to teach students to learn from their mistakes and use that knowledge in their studies. They want to influence their mistakes and their learning.

Residential Life members and students were able to give some advice on how they plan to jumpstart their learning experience this semester.

“I’m going to start the semester by not taking as many naps, getting a head of my work, and asking when I need help, because my problem was waiting till the last minute and getting stuck,” Resident Assistant Kaden Mendenhall Said.

Setting goals is one way to start the semester out with some good habits. Creating study habits and using the professors office hours can help increase the student’s chances of success.

“I need to focus more on my studies and need to utilize my resources. I really need to focus on my major and study for my tests.

I want to also use the science building and the library and actually take time to study,” Resident Assistant Hannah Kazol.

There are many other ways to stay ahead this semester. Time management and keeping a planner can help keep everything organized. Being involved with class can also help professors know what the student needs and help the class to become more successful in the class.

“I think students should get a planner and stay organized with everything in their classes,” said

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Mentalist Chris Carter to entertain ISU on Wed. Alexandria Truby Reporter

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Kazol. “They should print out the syllabus to keep track of everything in the class. Go to the library and put together study groups to get a head of the game.”

Professors like when students are involved in the class. It keeps the classes more interesting and motivates the professors to push through class and make it more enjoyable, according to Kazol. It is important for students to be involved in order to achieve the highest success.

“I feel like a good way to get students more involved would be to have more group discussions. It will make the end goal much more rewarding to create study habits to carry on throughout the semester,” Sophomore Chaianne Cannon said.

Students also like some help from professors even though they are not willing to ask.

Sometimes students need time to understand their classwork before they can move on to the next topic.

“The professors could explain things better in class, provide better notes and slow down on notes,” said Kazol. “Put less on the PowerPoints or give the students time to write things down

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If your mind is still on break or you are looking for something fun to do as you reunite with your friends that you may not have seen in a month, you are not alone.

The New Student Transition Programs are hosting Spring Welcome activities as a way to socialize with old friends, meet new people, and become more acquainted with the university.

One of the first events to kick off the semester is a performance by mentalist Christopher Carter.

Indiana State University invites Carter to perform on Wednesday, January 17 in the HMSU in DEDE I from 7-8:15 p.m. Admission is free for all students, staff, and faculty.

Named Entertainer of the Year, Best Male Performer, and Best Live Novelty Act by Campus Activities Magazine in 2005, Carter’s noteworthy skills vary from being a corporate mind reader to a motivational speaker.

He is known to incorporate his magic with humor and life lessons, so there is something to entertain the many tastes of audience members.

John Gettemeyer, the Program Coordinator of Commuter Services at ISU, states that Carter will provide a good laugh and leave you in shock and awe as he performs – showing you which card you drew from the deck or telling you about an important person in your life.

Spoiler alert: Gettemeyer also shared that Carter is set to illuminate the stage with the help of audience members and two light bulbs for his grand finale.

Sycamores, you do not want to miss this entertaining night, unless you are afraid of what he may find by reading your mind.

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Disney employee training expert to speak Jan. 31 Candid. Passionate. Relevant. The former head of training at the legendary Disney University, Doug Lipp is on a crusade to help organizations strengthen their corporate culture, boost business performance and have fun while doing it.

Lipp, a distinguished international consultant and eight-time author, will kick off the spring Indiana State University Speaker Series at 7 p.m. Jan. 31 in Tilson Auditorium. His latest book is the best-selling “Disney U: How Disney University Develops the World’s Most Engaged, Loyal, and Customer-Centric Employees.”

At age 29, Lipp’s celebrated talent catapulted him to the helm of the legendary Disney University training team at Walt Disney corporate headquarters. Fluent in Japanese, Lipp also helped Disney open its first international theme park as a member of the Tokyo Disneyland startup team.

Drawing on his 30 plus years of combined experience at Disney and in private practice, Lipp inspires and challenges hundreds of organizations worldwide.

In presentations, he shares how Disney overcame spectacular strategic challenges to unleash one of the most improbable success stories in corporate history.

Through riveting examples and powerful, relevant stories about innovation, service, value and leadership, Lipp pulls back the curtain and reveals the behaviors, tools and attitudes that are representative of cultural excellence at Disney and other great institutions. He also discusses common organizational traps that undermine companies and impede their ability to build a thriving and sustainable culture.

Consistently ranked as one of the best presenters every time he speaks, Lipp painstakingly researches and customizes each of his presentations. He underscores

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Indiana State University Professor Qihao Weng at the 2016 Chinese New Year celebration.

Qihao Weng named fellow

by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Indiana State University Professor Qihao Weng has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Recognized by the IEEE “for contributions to urban remote sensing,” Weng has been pioneering urban remote sensing research over the past decades and is instrumental in shaping it as a field.

Through a series of creative and cuttingedge works, Weng invents new algorithms and techniques and has discovered new methods and theories for urban remote sensing.

His scholarship has not only transformed the understanding of remote sensing in the urban and land cover applications, but also has narrowed the gap between geoscience/geography and landscape ecology through remote sensing methods and techniques that he develops.

The grade of fellow is the highest distinction conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon an individual member. It is bestowed in recognition of outstanding accomplishments in fields related to the IEEE to fewer than 0.1 percent of the organization’s voting members annually.

The IEEE is the world’s leading professional association for advancing technology for humanity. Through its 400,000 plus members in 160 countries, the association is a leading authority on a wide variety of areas ranging from aerospace systems, computers and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, electric power and consumer electronics. Dedicated to the advancement of technology, the IEEE publishes 30 percent of the world’s literature in the electrical and electronics engineering and computer science fields and has developed more than 1,300 active industry standards.

Weng’s pioneering works have generated enormous citations and attracted thousands of followers worldwide. He is the author of 210 articles and 10 books and has given 90 invited talks and presented 110 papers at professional conferences. According to Google Scholar, as of December 2017, his SCI citation has surpassed 12,000, with H-index of 50. Many of his publications were extremely influential, which is

visible, for example, from the fact that 29 of them have more than 100 citations each.

A faculty member since 2001, Weng joined Indiana State after working briefly at the University of Alabama and obtaining his Ph.D. at the University of Georgia. He currently serves as a professor in the department of earth and environmental systems and has served as director of Indiana State Center for Urban and Environmental Change since 2004. He worked as a senior fellow at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, December 2009-2018.

In 2008, Weng received a prestigious NASA senior fellowship. He received the Outstanding Contributions Award in Remote Sensing in 2011 from the American Association of Geographers in 2011, as well as the Willard and Ruby S. Miller Award in 2015.

In 2005 at Indiana State, he was selected as a Lilly Foundation Faculty Fellow, and the following year, he received the Theodore Dreiser Distinguished Research Award. In addition, he was the recipient of 2010 Erdas Award for Best Scientific Paper in Remote Sensing (first place) and 1999 Robert E. Altenhofen Memorial Scholarship Award, which were both awarded by American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

He was also awarded the Best StudentAuthored Paper Award by International Geographic Information Foundation in 1998.

Weng is currently the Lead of Group on Earth Observation (GEO) Global Urban Observation and Information Initiative and serves as an Editor-in-Chief of ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing and the Series Editor of Taylor & Francis Series in Remote Sensing Applications.

He has been the organizer and program committee chair of the biennial IEEE/ ISPRS/GEO sponsored International Workshop on Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Applications conference series since 2008 and was a national director of American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing from 2007 to 2010.

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Campus is covered in snow as students return from their winter breaks for the spring semester.

how a company’s current culture is affecting its business, and then provides insights and actionable ideas on how they can build an even better business based on leadership, teamwork and innovation.

After his presentation, which includes experiential exercises and participantcentered activities, attendees will have a blueprint for creating and perpetuating a culture of significance unique to your organization.

Upcoming University Speaker Series appearances include former U.S. Secretary of Labor under the Clinton administration Alexis Herman on Feb. 22 and president of People Ink Ann Rhoads on March 28.

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Letter to the students A welcome from President Dr. Deborah J. Curtis

Dear students, Happy New Year and welcome to the spring semester! It is such an honor to be serving as the twelfth president of Indiana State University, especially as a graduate of Indiana State. I know first-hand about the high-quality education and many opportunities and experiences you are receiving as students of Indiana State University.

My husband, Lynn, and I moved into Condit House on January 2, and my work began on January 3. After three days in the office,

we headed to Florida with the ISU Alumni Association to attend alumni receptions in Sarasota, Tampa, Orlando, and Naples as well as individual meetings set up in between the larger events.

It was wonderful to meet so many alumni of Indiana State and listen to stories about their incredible careers and how Indiana State prepared them to succeed. The experience enthused and energized me about the opportunity we have to build upon the many successes that have occurred during the past 10 years

under President Dan Bradley’s leadership.

As you begin a new semester, please do all that you can to make the most of your time at Indiana State. You and your families have made a smart investment that will provide huge returns when you graduate. Best wishes for a great semester, and I look forward to meeting as many of you as possible in the coming weeks.

GO SYCAMORES! Dr. Deborah J. Curtis President

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Students meet and greet with new president, Dr. Curtis in the student union.

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Concert honoring Martin Luther King set for Jan. 29

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Composer Regina Harris Baiocchi of Chicago.

The Indiana State University School of Music will present a concert in celebration of “The Dream” of Martin Luther King Jr. at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 29 in the Boyce Recital Hall of the Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts.

Indiana State percussion Professor Jimmy Finnie, along with 11 music students, eight faculty and three visiting artists will present this concert featuring the compositions of Chicago native Regina Harris Baiocchi.

“Anyone who is familiar or not with percussion music will enjoy this concert,” Finnie said. “It will include percussion with string quartet, percussion with piano, percussion within the context of a brass and vocal oratorio and African drumming. And don’t forget the incredible singing by classical and gospel singer Felicia Coleman-Evans with the ISU Percussion Ensemble & Steel Band.”

The concert is also a result of Finnie’s faculty sabbatical leave in fall 2017. The eight works to be performed by these professionals and students will be recorded and mastered by Terre Haute’s Don Arney over the next few months and released summer 2018 as the compact disc, “Percussing Up a Storm.”

“Regina’s music creates a murky line between Western classical music, Negro spirituals and American jazz,” Finnie said. “I am grateful to ISU for providing this opportunity for me to seriously study, interpret and now perform the music of this outstanding composer and am equally excited my students and colleagues are getting to know and perform Regina’s music as well.”

The performance is free and open to the public, made possible in part by the Indiana State School of Music, Indiana State Arts Endowment Grant, Indiana State Office of Community Engagement, Indiana Arts Commission and 3AP (3Arts Projects) Chicago. A reception will follow provided by the Indiana State College of Arts and Sciences.

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Syc Creations’ student manager uses IT skills to succeed in Student Media Being busy has never slowed Caleb Hess down. With Student Media, Student Government Association, his own business and classes, Hess puts his passion into action.

Hess, a junior information technology student, grew up in Chrisman, Ill. While attending Chrisman High School, he worked closely with his technology teacher.

“I had a good teacher in high school technology,” Hess said. “I became his assistant.

I would go around and help fix teachers’ computers. I also learned programming and a lot of web design stuff.”

Hess joined Student Media as a freshman after attending the campus organization fair.

He is now the student lead at Syc Creations and also has worked with the Indiana State Sports Network.

“I showed Syc Creations my programming experiences,” Hess said. “I was looking for a campus job and Chad (Clark), the director of Syc Creations, seemed impressed with what I had done in the past.”

Clark, student digital media manager, has been working with Hess since his first semester of college.

“Caleb was a rare find,” Clark said. “The thing about Caleb is that he could go anywhere and do anything on campus. Had I not gotten him in Student Media early, someone would have snatched him up.”

As the student lead of Syc Creations, Hess works under Clark to manage projects, students and handle technical issues with electronic media. “(Caleb) is really good at troubleshooting,” Clark said. “It’s hard to teach troubleshooting as it is one of those things you have to experience.”

Being a part of Student Media has given Hess an advantage in his information technology classes.

Caleb Hess with Student Media.

“In the past, my classes and Syc Creations never really overlapped,” Hess said. “This semester, I’m taking a management information systems class that’s all about project management. Project management is 80 percent of what I do at Syc Creations.”

Outside of his work in Student Media, Hess is a Student Government Association senator and has served as the Senate Finance Committee chair. He is a threetime member of the Student Organization Resource Funding Board. Hess and his friend started BluHouse, a business that offers web development, online marketing, video production and photography services to local businesses.

ISU Masterworks Chorale looking for singers

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Hess came to college with little management experience but has developed the skills necessary to be the student lead, chair of the Finance Committee and co-start a business.

“Being a part of Syc Creations has given me the ability to learn management skills and I couldn’t really learn that in a classroom,” Hess said. “It’s always a challenge from my perspective to manage around 20 people effectively, but we’ve got a great group of students at Syc Creations who want to make quality work.”

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The Indiana State University Masterworks Chorale, a large vocal ensemble of students, faculty, and local community members dedicated to the study and performance of major choral works, is looking for singers for the Spring 2017 semester.

The first rehearsal is scheduled from 7-9 p.m. Monday, Jan. 22 in the Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts, room 150, located at Seventh and Chestnut streets.

All regular rehearsals will be from 7-9 p.m. on Monday evenings. Dress rehearsal dates and times will be announced at the first rehearsal.

ISU students interested in joining should register for credit, while there is a $30 fee for community members (which includes non-ISU students) to cover the cost of music for the semester.

This semester the Masterworks Chorale will perform Te Deum by W.A. Mozart, his only setting of an early Christian hymn of praise, and Requiem by Neil Harmon, a seven-movement setting using both English and Latin texts, including Psalm 23 and portions of Revelations.

Participation by campus and community members from throughout the Wabash Valley is encouraged and welcomed.

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Police bodycam footage – public records or personnel files?

Zach Davis Columnist

Over the past few years, police brutality has been heavily scrutinized by both sides of the growing dispute. In some cases, the officers are clearly acting within the scope of their authority, immobilizing an armed or dangerous suspect, while others show some officers are out of line, relying on lethality rather than assessing the situation.

It has become increasingly common for bodycam footage to be released when an officer’s actions are called into question, since it allows individuals to watch the scene from a perspective close to the officer’s. The footage provides an objective account of a situation, and it can be used to determine if an officer acted reasonably given the circumstances. They don’t make a verdict on their own, but they are an important piece of evidence.

The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association has a problem with the way New York City has released bodycam footage recently.

They filed a lawsuit against Mayor Bill de Blasio, Commissioner James O’Neill and the New York City Police Department, claiming violations of New York’s Civil Rights Law. Specifically mentioning section 50a, the PBA is pushing to have police bodycams considered “personnel records,” which would place them under different regulations than public documents.

Public documents are subject to public review, meaning anybody can contact the government office that controls the documents to either inspect the original or receive copies.

This process is governed by the Freedom of Information Act which provides a short list of exceptions. In addition to some smaller exceptions, documents don’t have to be released if they are sealed by a court order or existing law, contain personal information, compromise national security or compromise an ongoing police investigation.

In contrast, the law cited by

the PBA requires that “personnel records used to evaluate performance toward continued employment or promotion, under the control of any police agency or department of the state…shall be considered confidential and not subject to inspection or review without the express written consent of such police officer,” unless there is a court mandate.

While it may seem reasonable to assume bodycam footage is used for personnel review, it is more than that. The bodycam footage shouldn’t be used with the sole intent of reviewing job performance, but instead it should be considered a general documentation tool. The reason is simple – the camera records a significant amount of content beyond the officer’s actions. In fact, it can be used as evidence against suspects. The information is reviewed primarily for investigative purposes – or should be, at least.

Further, a police officer is a government employee, and is therefore subject to aligning rules. In fact, the First, Third, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth and Eleventh Circuit Courts have all ruled to protect citizens’ rights to record police activity in public places, with only the Eighth ruling against such rights, largely because police officers are public servants.

Personal information is the most compelling reason to not disseminate bodycam footage, but that has an easy fix: redact it. When submitting FOIA requests, the office will redact any information that falls under one of the exceptions by blacking out the information. Similar can be done to bodycam footage by editing the audio to remove said personal information. There are cases where this becomes a moot point. Especially in cases which are spread nation-wide, the names of the officers and suspects are in public incident reports. Unless the officer’s address, phone number or other similar information is revealed, this is a poor argument to rely on.

We can’t expect this problem to be solved until it inevitably gets to the Supreme Court, who should find it not only legal and useful, but necessary for the public to know how the government operates. The United States government should be transparent, and this is one way to make sure that happens.

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Steve Bannon, left, and Reince Priebus look on as Trump announces Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil M. Gorsuch in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C.

Bannon receives a subpoena Joe Lippard

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Early in the morning on Jan. 16, Republican President Donald Trump tweeted, “The Russian Collusion Hoax is dead, except as it pertains to the Dems.

Public gets it!”

Last week, Steve Bannon was subpoenaed by special counsel Robert Mueller to testify before a grand jury, according to the New York Times. News of the subpoena broke Tuesday while Bannon was testifying in a closed session to the House Intelligence Committee in the Congressional Russia investigation.

The subpoena from Mueller is the latest move from the special counsel’s team as they continue to move forward in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

In fact, it seems that Mueller’s

investigation is heating up; just last week, Mueller added Ryan Dickey, a cyber crime prosecutor from the Department of Justice, to his team. Dickey had prosecuted a case in 2016 involving a hacker by the username of “Guccifer”, who hacked into the private email accounts of Sidney Blumenthal, a Hillary Clinton aide, and Colin Powell, among others.

The day after bringing Dickey onto the team, news broke that Bannon had hired attorney William Burck to represent him in the Russia investigation. Politico reports that their source specifically denied that Burck would be handling any questions about Bannon from Mueller. Rather, Burck would be counseling Bannon when he testified to the House Intelligence Committee.

While Politico reports that Burck won’t have anything to do with Mueller’s investigation, I find that a little hard to believe.

Burck already represents Reince Priebus and Don McGahn in the same investigation.

In fact, Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor and current Illinois Attorney General candidate, posited on Twitter

that Bannon was served with a grand jury subpoena because if they had set up an informal interview (as in the cases of Priebus and McGahn), Burck would likely have been allowed in.

Mariotti supposes that Mueller subpoenaed Bannon in an attempt to keep him isolated. He points out that, when testifying before a grand jury, “their attorney can’t be present in the room with them.” By keeping Bannon from his attorney, Mariotti says that “it will be easier to catch Bannon off-guard and receive truthful answers.”

It’s very convenient that news of Mueller’s subpoena broke not too long after the publication of the novel “Fire and Fury,” an expose by Michael Wolff detailing the turmoil of the White House’s inner workings. In it, Bannon says some things that don’t look too good, like calling Donald Trump, Jr.’s June 2016 Trump Tower meeting “treasonous.”

I think it’s actually kind of fascinating watching this investigation happen from the outside. You can really see Mueller’s team working their way up the

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Freedom Caucus in spotlight as shutdown Albert R. Hunt

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The House Freedom Caucus styles itself as the principled champion of limited government and the rule of law. More often, its members are partisan gunslingers, attack dogs during President Barack Obama’s administration and lap dogs for President Donald Trump.

That’s personified by the two leaders of this right-wing contingent of about three dozen House Republicans: Representatives Jim Jordan of Ohio and Mark Meadows of North Carolina.

If negotiations fail this week to head off a government shutdown, Jordan and Meadows will be in the spotlight. They enjoy throwing grenades. Former House Speaker John Boehner called his fellow Ohioan, Jordan, a “legislative terrorist.”

They’ll brush aside the Republican congressional leadership, but Trump could call them off.

Both men have embraced Trump’s most extreme positions. They’ve demanded the resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions for insufficient ardor in Trump’s defense against the Justice Department probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. “Manufactured hysteria,” they’ve called it.

The Freedom Caucus leaders are a byproduct of a divide in the American conservative movement that’s been widening for four decades. One side is embodied by Jack Kemp, who represented western New York in Congress during the 1970s and 1980s and served as U.S. housing secretary under President George H.W. Bush.

His was a conservativism of openness, inclusion and the opportunity society. The other takes inspiration from former Senator Jesse Helms, a 30-year North Carolina lawmaker until 2003 whose politics relied on stoking animosities and fear. Legislatively, the two camps voted similarly. But their messages and approach to politics

were radically different, with one focused on hope and the other on resentment.

Jordan and Meadows fall into the Helms camp. (Neither responded to calls or emails seeking comment for this column.)

Their influence is mostly negative. A fellow Republican congressman, Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania, said the Freedom Caucus leaders can effectively undercut the House leadership but “just can’t get to yes.”

They couldn’t be more different personally. Meadows, a three-term congressman from the western corner of his state, is affable and outgoing. Jordan, a former wrestling champion, is wound tight, always confrontational in shirt sleeves.

Meadows played a leading role in driving Boehner into retirement. Today, Boehner’s successor, Speaker Paul Ryan, hears Freedom Caucus footsteps.

Jordan habitually exploits the oversight and investigative powers of the House to

pursue phony scandals. He’s been especially bellicose about the examination of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the case of the four Americans killed by terrorists in 2012 at the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi, Libya. Congressional Republicans have held more hearings on Benghazi than on the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when 2,996 people died.

At an all-day hearing to badger Clinton on Oct. 22, 2015, she turned the tables.

When a yelling Jordan recycled some conspiracy theory, an amused-looking Clinton shot back: “I wrote a whole chapter about this is my book, ‘Hard Choices.’

I’d be glad to send it to you, Congressman.”

He was even more intense in accusing the Internal Revenue Service of illegally targeting conservative political groups.

He led an effort to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, who wasn’t even at

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indianastatesman.com BANNON FROM PAGE 6 food chain. First they went after George Papdopoulos, someone who worked on Trump’s foreign policy advisor team during the campaign, and charged him with one count of false statements to the FBI. Then they charged Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and deputy Rick Gates with multiple crimes, including making false statements to the FBI, conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy against the United States. Then came Manafort, charged with making false statements.

Finally, here we have Steve Bannon, who hasn’t been charged with anything yet. However, considering that Mueller just brought Ryan Dickey onto the team, things aren’t looking too great. Bannon held a position on the board at Cambridge Analytica, a company that mines and analyzes data. Cambridge Analytica is owned in

part by Robert Mercer, a man who, according to Michael Wolff, had a plan with his daughter Rebekah to “take over the [Trump] campaign and install their lieutenants, Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway.”

While Bannon was on the board at Cambridge Analytica, CEO Alexander Nix contacted Julian Assange from WikiLeaks, asking Assange to help find the 33,000 emails that Hillary Clinton had supposedly deleted from a private email server.

Assange declined to do so. Michael Flynn was also an advisor to Cambridge Analytica during Trump’s 2016 campaign.

Federal investigations like these take a long time. The Watergate scandal took two full years to play out. We’re only a year in. Many of Trump’s supporters, and Trump himself, insist that he’s innocent and that this entire investigation is a witch hunt. But if nothing is wrong, what is there to hide?

JUMPSTARTING FROM PAGE 1 and process it.”

There is always room for improvement when it comes to classes, grades, and personal improvement.

Getting involved outside of class and making sure to have time for a social life is important for student success and to facilitate learning.

Mental and physical health will help improve motivation, help increase attendance in classes, and help motivate students to study.

“Students should actually be involved in class as well as outside of class, because it is part of the learning experience,” said Mendenhall. “Encouraging students to go out and do things and creating and supporting clubs for students to participate in will help facilitate learning.”

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Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018 • Page 7 FREEDOM FROM PAGE 6 the agency when the alleged offenses took place. If he’d succeeded, it would have been the first impeachment of an executive branch appointee since the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant.

It was all bogus. The Treasury Department’s Inspector General concluded that IRS mistakes were bureaucratic, not political; liberal groups were targeted too.

As my Bloomberg View colleague Francis

Wilkinson wrote in November, Koskinen left voluntarily on Nov. 9, 2017 with his impeccable integrity intact. Jordan has lacked the grace to apologize; he even criticized the National Academy of Public Administration for honoring Koskinen’s public service.

Meadows has a history of bigoted remarks. He was an enthusiastic backer of the malevolent far-right fantasy that Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. He once suggested that somebody

900 FROM PAGE 1 after I walked across this stage, my father’s years among the living were cut short at the age of 53. From that pivotal moment, I committed to not live for tomorrow, but to ensure that today was the best and most fulfilled it could be. You see, when you live life to the fullest, doing what you love and what makes you happy, you thrive and spread those positive ripples to the rest of society.”

For lesson three, Scott encouraged the graduates to fall forward.

“Mistakes are unavoidable. It is what you do after that alters the outcome of your next attempt,” he said.

“Embrace error because you will fall, but you’ll get back up. When you rise, honor the reflection. Ask yourself, ‘What did I do wrong? What can I learn from this?’ It is only in the reflection that the move forward happens.”

Scott’s final lesson was for the graduates to give by using their privilege for others.

“The idea of service is not lost on anyone in this institution. Indiana State prides itself on its servant and civic leadership, consistently top ranked in higher education for embracing the idea of service,” he said.

“Within this room, you have completed thousands of hours of volunteer work and your service has made this institution and society a better place. Continue to volunteer at local food banks, homeless shelters and schools. Continue toy drives for foster children, blood drives for the afflicted.”

But volunteering is no longer

should send the Hawaiiborn Democrat “back home to Kenya.” During a hearing on the Affordable Care Act, Meadows objected to mandating maternity coverage, noting, correctly, that it wasn’t something he could utilize.

The Freedom Caucus sometimes does act on principle, opposing expanded government and big spending programs. But Jordan and Meadows both supported the Republican budget resolution that is paving the way for massive

enough, he added.

“Your degree not only makes you more likely to be employed, increases your life expectancy and you are more likely to be attentive and engaged in the national discourse. But, see, your degree also makes you more likely to vote, more likely to have a seat at the table and understand the channels for change and will allow you to earn over $1 million in additional income over the course of your life,” Scott said. “To all graduates in this room, you’ve upgraded. As some would say, Dr. King was a drum major for justice. You must now be a drum major for the voiceless. Be an advocate for those who often go unheard, represent those who don’t have access to the table of power and donate to causes of profound impact.”

Scott knows of what he speaks. He has dedicated his life to working in communities where the odds are not in his students’ favor.

“I advocated before the Texas state Legislature for high academic expectations coupled with assessments that did not diminish a student’s joy for learning,” he said. “I lobbied in Albany for the expansion of education access so more students have an opportunity to realize their greatest potential. Throughout the seven years since I left this place, I have used my voice and the education I received here for advocacy and my vote for policies and candidates that align with my passion for educational equity.”

As an advocate for providing college access and opportunity for all, Scott announced a scholarship in honor of his father that will be avail-

deficits.

Jordan and Meadows are the public face of the Freedom Caucus.

If their aversion to compromise helps provoke a government shutdown, there’s a good chance that they’ll emerge as the face of all House Republicans.

With the GOP facing a tough struggle to retain control of the House in the November midterm elections, that would be good news for Democrats.

able at Indiana State next fall to any rising junior or senior who hails from Indiana and has chosen to major in education or recreation and sport management.

In addition, because college access can be more difficult for men of color, Scott said The Michael Scott Jr. Civic Leadership Scholarship will be available next fall to two males of color who are rising sophomores, juniors or seniors with a demonstrated commitment to service and a willingness to use their privilege in service of underserved communities.

“Use your privilege for others. As you launch on a new and exciting journey in your life, I leave you with the idea of Ubuntu - I am and you are because we are,” he said. “I wish each of you immeasurable success because your success will impact the lives of generations.”

Though the day was about the graduates, Indiana State President Dan Bradley, with his wife Cheri at his side, offered a few words at his 19th and final commencement ceremony as president of Indiana State.

“These ceremonies and 10 convocations for new freshmen will always stand out as highlights of our tenure,” he said. “We want to thank all of you and all of our students, faculty, staff, alumni and supporters who are not here today who have, over the last nine-plus years, made ISU an incredible place to work, to learn and to play. Cheri and I have dedicated all of our energy to making it a better place and we do not regret one minute.

Know that the best is yet to come.”

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MLK Day of Service On Jan. 15, Center for Community Engagement at Indiana State University hosted a MLK Day of Service in honor of MLK Jr. day.

Students volunteered at various locations in Terre Haute from 9 AM to noon, giving back to the community.

Approxiamately 141 students from ISU volunteered for the event, kicking off the semester by helping those in need.

Few of the locations included Terre Haute Children’s Museum, St. Joseph Parish food pantry, Goodwill, Vigo County Public Library and Boys and Girls Club.

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Jones Medals presented to employees, community members Some colleagues and community members deserve a medal for their dedication to Indiana State University. And that’s just what President Dan Bradley and First Lady Cheri Bradley presented them with on Thursday, Dec. 7.

Bradley, who retires on Jan. 3, awarded the William Albert Jones Medal to more than three dozen people in recognition of their outstanding service, exemplary advice and counsel to his presidency.

“The Jones Medal is one of ISU’s most important gifts to departing presidents. It allows Cheri and I to show our admiration and appreciation to some of the people who have been important to our personal and professional lives,” Bradley said.

Created by President Richard

Landini in 1992 in conjunction with his retirement, the award is named after the first president of the Indiana State Normal School.

Each president since Landini has continued the tradition of recognizing individuals with this award either during their presidency or upon their retirement.

“Narrowing it down to about 40 was extremely difficult,” Bradley said. “I know there are at least an equal number of people from the campus and the community that we considered, but we felt that we need to try and stay close to the number awarded by others.”

The honorees included: • Community members Lant and Amanda Davis, Jeff Lorick, Charlie and Donna Williams, Nancy Brentlinger, Jo Einstan-

dig, Alane Meis and Craig McKee. • Indiana State employees in the President’s Office, Condit House and Sodexo Shawn Chambers, Kelly Cook, Rita Anderson, Kay Ponsot.

• Indiana State employees Linda Ferguson, Patty McClintock, Jim Jensen, Rex Kendall, Freda Luers, Al Perone, Greg Bierly, John Conant, Darlene Hantzis, Linda Maule and Michael Shelden.

• Indiana State Staff Council chairs Karen Adams, Kelly Hall, Beth Phillips and Roxanne Torrence.

• Indiana State Faculty Senate chairs Liz Brown, Bob Guell, Tim Hawkins, Steve Lamb, Chris MacDonald and Virgil Sheets.

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President Dan Bradley and First Lady Cheri Bradley pose for a photograph with Dave Campbell, chair of the Indiana State University Board of Trustees, and his wife, Peggy.

Unmanned systems students team up with public safety officials A quest for community service became a search-and-rescue mission for two unmanned systems students at Indiana State University.

When challenged by their instructor Sam Morgan to do more community outreach, Ehren Staples, a junior unmanned systems major, and Matthew Johnson, a senior criminology major with an unmanned systems minor, approached Terre Haute law enforcement agencies about search-and-rescue assistance using drones.

“We met with the Vigo County Sheriff ’s Office, Terre Haute Police Department and Vigo County Emergency Management Agency, and they were all very interested in starting their programs,” Staples said. “From there, it just took off. After our first initial contact with them, we just kept up communication.

The sheriff ’s office and police department were already looking into starting search-and-rescue

programs but just needed a little guidance. So we identified problems that we could help with and gave them a list of what they would need, and we did demo flights with them just to show what the drones were capable of.”

As the ambassador of the unmanned systems program, Morgan says he wants his students to reach out the community to show them how lives can be improved with this technology.

“There was a lady who got lost south of Indy, and teams with dogs were searching for two hours. Then the fire department showed up with their infrared drones and found her in about 15 minutes,” Morgan said.

State’s unmanned systems curriculum is set on creating a group of operators who can go out and figure the best solution for whatever industry for which they work.

“We are getting our pilots trained to be able to perform a different task within an indus-

try that is projected to be worth billions of dollars when all is said and done,” Morgan said.

“Search-and-rescues with the Terre Haute Police Department gives us the opportunity to provide them with them with the extra bodies they need at less the cost. There are about 10,000 pages of stuff to go through, and we boil it down to 10 hours of PowerPoints in two days.”

Staples added, “We’ve saved them $10,000, because they were going to outsource to some other company, and we said we would do it for free or a much-reduced rate.”

The unmanned systems program at State is listed as a topfive program in the nation and is growing rapidly. Search-andrescue is a key part of Morgan’s vision to expand the program.

“We would like to get a grant to build a hangar at the airfield, and they already said they will put one there as soon as we get the money for it,” Morgan said.

“It would be a large indoor training facility with a bunch of sensors mounted to the ceiling connected to controllers to help learn how to use drones with things such as infrared or looking at dirt or glass, etc., for a different type of feedback.”

While search-and-rescue is a popular use of drone technology, there are also many other applications. Morgan said the three biggest opportunities are when a task is dull (such as staring at a house for 30 hours from inside an airplane), dangerous (instead of flying an aircraft over and getting shot at, you just fly a drone) or dirty (a place where you don’t want a human to go).

“Drones are being used for movies, delivery, dropping off medicine,” Morgan said. “Cell phone companies are looking into putting up a tethered drone with a couple antennas if their network is wiped out because of natural disasters; then, they can

put a mobile unit up for hours, power line companies for the imagery. And the list goes on.

People are paying for the data that you collect and whoever collects the best data for the cheapest price is going to be the successor in drone operating.”

The Indiana State unmanned systems program, which started as a minor, expanded to a major a few years ago to accommodate both student interest and job growth in the industry.

“Unmanned systems have been around since the ’50s. They advanced them in the ’70s, and miniaturized them in the last 10 years,” Morgan said. “They started using them for surveillance and watching people, and then they armed them. Now that they are handheld and affordable, you are starting to see more people using them without licenses, and we want to educate people on the rules that have been put in place so far.” ISU Communications and Marketing

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Women’s Basketball Team Looking to Break Two Game Skid in Annual “Pink Game”header weekend Jay Adkins Reporter

This upcoming Friday, The Indiana State Sycamores women’s basketball team will compete against the Bradley University Braves in the annual “pink game” to raise breast cancer awareness.

The Indiana State Sycamores are 3-13 on the season, with their last two games both being losses against Drake University and the University of Northern Iowa, respectively.

The Bradley University Braves are 9-7 on the season, with their last two games both being tough losses against Southern Illinois University and Missouri State University.

For the Brave University Braves, junior guard Shunseere Kent has been one of the better key players for the team this year.

Kent who is a 5’7 guard out of Georgia leads the team in points and free throws made with an average of 9.5 ppg and 31 total free throws, respectively. Junior forward Vanessa Markert has also been a huge help for the Braves as she leads the team in field goals made with 58 on the season. Freshman guard Gabi Haack leads the team in three

improvement in order to come out on top at the end of close games.

The team is currently being backed behind senior forward Wendi Bibbins. Bibbins leads the Sycamores in points per game (11.6), field goals made (81), rebounds per game (8.9), blocks per game (1.1), and steals per game (1.7). Sophomore guard Ashli O’Neal has also stepped as an underclassman this year and earned her playing time. O’Neal leads the sycamores in three pointers made per game (1.9), free throws made per game Athletic Media Relatinos (1.9), and minutes per game averaging 30.9 Windy Bibbins (23) leads the sycamores in points mpg. Junior guard Alexis Delgado leads the Sycamores in assist per game with just 1.8. per game.

While this game isn’t the end-all be-all pointers made per game with 1.8. Sophomore forward Chelsea Brackmann rebounds per game of the season for Indiana State, the game and blocks per game with 6.3 and 1.2, Sycamores must play and hopefully win with respectively. Senior guard Anneke Schlueter a sense of urgency to get their season back leads the team in steals per game with 1.4. on track after their latest losing skid. The Senior guard Danielle Brewer leads the team 3-13 Indiana State Sycamores will compete in minutes per game with a whopping 26.8 against the 9-7 Bradley University Braves this Friday at the Hulman Center. The game average court time a game.

Indiana State has had a bit of a slow start starts at 7:00 PM. The game can be seen on TV on The to the season, but they are in crunch-time now where they must get wins from key Valley on ESPN3 and be heard on the radio opponents. Their first half of the year could at Sycamore Radio Network. have been better and there is room for

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The Sycamores fought hard inside the Rose-Hulman Student Recreation Center on Friday night, but ultimately fell to Illinois State during the 14th installment of the CoughlanMalloy Cup. Both teams battled, but in the end it was the Redbirds who came out with a narrow 154148 win over the Sycamores.

The men fell by a score of 79-72, while the women squeaked by Illinois State, 76-75.

“This is tough for us to lose the cup, we’ve had it for 11 years and it’s been a good history,” head coach Angela Martin said. “Our women did a good job, they won by one point and Illinois State is a very good team. Illinois State is a great team on both sides. The men were hoping we could keep it a little closer. Seven points is pretty close, but it’s a tough loss

to handle. The good thing is we have a couple weeks to go and we have some good training to put in. Conference will be, hopefully, another story. We’ve got some athletes that can really step up their game and we had a few people out to injury and illness, but that’s going around right now. I’m a little disappointed, but there’s definitely room to grow and we have high goals for the rest of the season.”

Taylor Austin dominated the women’s mile run for ISU, setting the new meet record at 4:51.08, overtaking the previous meet record set by Illinois State’s Kelly McShea by over four seconds. Austin’s time was also a new personal-best, and moved her up to third on the ISU alltime list. She still holds the top time in the MVC and fifth overall time in the nation.

“Taylor has really taken advantage of her senior season. She had a great cross country season

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the past few years,” distance coach Kyle Walsh said.

In the women’s 800-meter run, Brittany Neeley kept her hot streak alive as she once again claimed victory with an impressive time of 2:13.65. She managed to fend off Hattie Plumb of

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Taylor Austin led the women’s mile run for ISU.

and had a good Christmas break.

She came back hungry as I’ve ever seen her before, and she’s way ahead of where she’s been at this time any year prior. We’re really excited to see this kind of fitness heading into the season.

Ultimately, she thinks she can run some school records in the 3K and the 5K and compete for conference titles like she’s done

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Visiting Indiana State gave Preseason Missouri Valley Conference favorite Missouri State all they wanted but the Bears were able to escape the JQH Arena with a narrow 76-73 victory.

ISU fell to 8-10, 3-3 MVC while the Bears improved to 145, 4-2 MVC. Indiana State senior Brenton Scott moved into the No. 5 spot on the all-time scoring chart with his 13 point scoring performance. He now has 1,574 career points as he went ahead of David Moss and Jake Odum against the Bears.

Tyreke Key tallied a careerhigh tying 16 points as he hit 5-of-10 shots from the field, including a pair of 3-pointers and he also led the way with six rebounds.

Jordan Barnes connected on four 3-pointers in the game to lead the Trees with 18 points.

Clayton Hughes collected a career-high five assists for the Sycamores. Indiana State hit 10 3-pointers in the game and were 15-of-30 from the field after the half (50 percent). Missouri State finished the game with a 46.3 shooting mark after connecting on exactly 50 percent of their shots before the half.

The Sycamores scored first in the second half when Clayton Hughes found Brandon Murphy open in the paint for a dunk. Scott added a jumper and then Hughes buried a pair of charity tosses at the 17:51 mark to draw ISU within 42-36. As the clock ticked down towards the 15 minute mark, Barnes drained his first 3-pointer of the game to cut the Bear lead down

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• Previous recipients include Indiana State employees John Beacon, Jack Maynard and Teddy Lenderman Perry.

“The help that the recipients gave us — some directly related to the mission of the university and some of a more personal nature — made it possible to focus on the university and making it better to a much higher degree than would have been possible otherwise,” Bradley said.

ISU Communications and Marketing good results for the women Overton in the weight as well, as Caitlyn Redmon throw. In the shot put, was able to come away with Schuman posted a mark a win after jumping to a of 16.76m (55-00.00), mark of 1.68m (5-06.00), which fell just short of his a new personal-best. Jamie personal-record.

Newsome was also able Overton posted a new to pull off a victory for personal-best in the weight the women. In the triple throw, hitting a mark of jump, she posted a mark of 17.77mm (58-03.75). The 11.56m (37-11.25).

Sycamores have yet to On the men’s side, Ryan lose a throwing event this Cash led the way for season between both the ISU, crossing the line at men and women.

4:16.73 which destroyed Scott Schreiber and his previous personal-best freshman Myles Aldridge time by nearly six seconds. went one-two in the Leading early on and long jump for the men. never looking back, Schreiber finished at 7.07m Quentin Pierce took home (23-02.50), while Aldridge the win in the men’s 3K posted a mark of 6.99m with a time of 8:31.29, (22-11.25) in his first ever just short of his personal- collegiate meet. record.

The Sycamores will The Sycamore men kept be back in action on control in the field, led Friday, January 19 for the

by Hunter Schuman who Gladstein Invitational at won the shot put and Sam Indiana University.

• Indiana State President’s Cabinet members Teresa Exline, Greg Goode, Diann McKee, Nancy Rogers, Kevin Runion and Karl Burgher.

• Indiana State Board of Trustees chairs and spouses Mike and Amy Alley, Bob and Julie Baesler, Dave and Peggy Campbell, Ron and Julie Carpenter, Randy and Nancy Minas.

REDBIRD FROM PAGE 10 Illinois State on the final straightaway, defeating her by just .07.

Cassaundra Roper put on a show in the field for the Sycamores, winning both the shot put and weight throw. In the shot put, Roper was able to pull away with a mark of 14.02m (4600.00), and in the weight throw she posted a new personal-best distance of 18.77m (61-07.00), which moves her into ninth alltime in school history.

It should also be noted that Jasmine Noel finished right behind Roper in the women’s weight throw at 18.11m (59-05.00), and Dayton transfer Erin Reese finished behind her in the women’s shot put at 13.76m (45-01.75).

The high jump yielded

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Key hit a big basket in the lane with 12:40 remaining as he beat the shot clock to whittle the lead down to 50-44. Alize Johnson quickly answered with a trifecta before Ojinnaka came back over the top with a floater in the lane as the clock went under the 12 minute mark to get within 5346.

The Sycamores used a big 8-0 run, including a Barnes 3-pointer with 8:48 remaining to cut the Bear lead down to 5754. Key then hit a pair of charity tosses at the 4:55 mark to draw within 61-60. Demonte Ojinnaka trifecta with 3:31 remaining pushed the Sycamores ahead 63-62 and then Barnes’ third triple of the game at the 2:29 mark staked the Sycamores to a 68-65 advantage.

The Bears would score the next four to take a one-point lead on a Jarred Dixon jumper with 1:24 remaining and the Sycamores had a pair of good looks but couldn’t connect. Alize Johnson would

hit a pair of free throws with 52 seconds remaining to stretch the Bear lead out to 71-68. ISU had another great look at a trey, but it would not rattle home and with 24 seconds left the Bears stretched the lead out to 72-68. After the Bears took a 73-68 lead, Barnes connected on his fourth 3-pointer of the game with 6.1 seconds on the clock to trim the MSU lead down to 73-71. After the Bears hit 1-of-2 free throws, Barnes was fouled with 2.1 seconds left and hit them both to trim the Bear lead down to 74-73.

Kreklow was fouled again and went to the free throw line with 1.2 seconds left where hit a pair to give MSU a three-point lead. With 2.0 seconds left, Barnes reached mid court and had a heave with a chance to tie the narrowly missed, It was an early defensive struggle as the two teams only traded free throws through the first media timeout and then five in a row gave the Bears an early 6-1 advantage.

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grams to function more efficiently.

“You here at Indiana State University have achieved great success and prove to the rest of the state that they, too, can achieve,” said Indiana Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch.

“The College of Health and Human Services is a key to Indiana State University’s historic enrollment growth, and it has also been important to our state by fueling the health care workforce and providing access to health care in our state.”

It doesn’t seem all that long ago, though, supporters of Indiana State were gathering to celebrate the groundbreaking in 2016.

“We broke ground that morning as part of a kickoff to celebrate this history achievement,” said Greg Goode, Indiana State’s executive director for governmental relations. “At $64 million, no other project ... has ever come as close to the magnitude of this type of investment. It is an investment in public higher education. It is an investment in health and wellness. An investment in this campus, in this county and in this community.”

Goode acknowledged that “designing a facility that will meet the needs of a 21st century College of Health and Human Services” was a process that could not have been accomplished without strong advocates. Goode thanked the Indiana State Board of Trustees; state Reps. Bob Heaton, Clyde Kersey and Alan Morrison; Indiana Commission for Higher Education; Terre Haute Mayor Duke Bennett; county council; the ISU Foundation and leaders with the ISU Alumni Association.

“At each step of the way, Dr. Dan Bradley articulated the vision for this facility,” Goode said. “He did so by also leveraging the very real confidence that Indiana State University

has earned in this state through our commitment to enrollment growth and sound fiscal management practices.”

Indiana State aims to steer its approximately 3,400 students enrolled in the College of Health and Human Services into higher paying, highdemand health care careers with the facility, which is fitted with smart classrooms, new labs and the latest technology to facilitate learning and collaboration among disciplines needed throughout the state.

The need for such a facility was articulated Friday by College of Health and Human Services Dean Caroline Mallory.

She cited data from the Indiana Department of Workforce Development that estimates the state annually has openings for 1,200 community and social service professionals, 600 openings for childcare workers and more than 3,000 jobs for nurses, registered nurses, LPNs, nurse practitioner, physician assistants, physical therapists, occupational therapists and athletic trainers.

“This new building ... is concrete evidence in the investment of the state of Indiana in the health, health and wellness and social services workforce needs of Indiana,” Mallory said.

“The College of Health and Human Services is where students come to become professionals, where the faculty teaching scholarship and careerreadiness, and where the public can be assured that we are using their resources to improve the quality of life for all of Indiana. Thank you to everyone who has given large and small to make this project happen. This building will produce a higher quality learning environment for our students.”

Senior health science major Shan Antony reminded the audience that pride in curriculum, faculty and staff are all integral pieces that

sustain the integrity of the school, “one cannot discount the value of a sound, stimulating learning environment.”

He likened the building to a college student wearing a suit - people pause and comment on the student’s attire, and the student feels more pride wearing it.

“This (facility) is a staple that moves every aspiring nurse, dietitian and health administrator to be more.

To be the very best they can be,” he said. “They will see these new walls and the advanced technology in the building and unknowingly attribute value to their education, their career choice and, ultimately, their lives.”

As a physician by training, this project holds extra meaning for U.S. Rep. Larry Bucshon, R-Indiana, who represents the 8th district.

“We have reached a critical shortage in the health care workforce, both in Indiana and in our nation. This shortage greatly impacts access to quality, affordable health care for all of our citizens.

We must do all we can to attract and incentivize students in medical fields,” he said. “This stateof-the-art facility will be a catalyst of learning for the next generation of athletic trainers, physical and occupational therapists, nurses, health educators and all of those willing to dedicate their lives to helping others.”

Indiana State also had a strong advocate in the state Senate with Sen. Jon Ford.

“When I first announced that I was running for the Senate ... my No. 1 goal was and is to be an aggressive advocate for bold ideas and initiatives to make this part of the state more competitive,” Ford said. “No one can say in Terre Haute that no one in Indianapolis pays attention to this part of the state. This $64 million state gift is an investment in this university and this community.”

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