December 3, 2012

TOUGH LOSS

A second half effort by the Sycamores, that pushed the game into overtime, was not enough as New Mexico hung on for the win

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IN THIS ISSUE THE NIGHT IS OURS: Students rally against domestic violence

Junior Jake Odum goes up for a layup against a Lobos’ defender in the ISU vs. New Mexico game on Saturday (Photo by Mae Robyn Rhymes).

Senior communication major Alexus Tucker yells in support at the student rally (Photo by Jamie Nichols).

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JARED MCCORMICK Reporter “If our guys are going to work that hard, we will win a lot more games than we lose,” said head coach Greg Lansing.

Number 23, in the Coaches Poll, and 25, in the Associated Press Top 25 poll, ranked New Mexico Lobos closed out a loss

for the Sycamores finishing the game 77-68. The Lobos are now 8–0 on the season and the Sycamores are 4-2.

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Correction In the Nov. 30, 2012 edition of the Indiana Statesman Jason Winkle was inaccurately reported as having served in the military before. Winkle never was a soldier but has helped law enforcement officers and military personnel on hand-to hand combat.

Indiana State University student Nick Jones knows the difficulty of describing his senior capstone class to people unfamiliar with it.

He is a part of Sycamore Business Advisors (SyBA), the collection of experiential learning laboratory classes that many seniors majoring in business programs choose to take. But he’d be quick to point out that he’s not in the class that is also known as Sycamore Business Advisors, which provides consulting services to local nonprofits and businesses.

Rather, Jones is working to resolve the confusion created by the two programs going by the same name (the umbrella organization of senior capstone courses and the business consulting class that is part of An Indiana State University student gets a piece of pizza from Executive Express Café in Federal it). Yet he still takes a moment Hall (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing). to explain the newest aspect of runs the Executive Express Café. It also organization over these three businesses the senior capstone experience he is working with: Sycamore Student includes the group added last spring: that we now run,” Sherwood said, “and Sycamore Blitz Promotions, a marketing that’s where Sycamore Student Ventures Ventures. agency that partners with the Indiana comes from, and the mission is really Statesman, ISU’s student newspaper, along the educational” component of the with local companies on advertising and organizations that serve as learning labs. social media initiatives.

Several student groups have been “It’s kind of confusing, so I think it’s working to get the word out about the easier to explain to everybody exactly change to Sycamore Student Ventures. They what our company is in saying we’re created the organization’s social media Sycamore Student Ventures,” Jones said presence, including a Facebook page to of the reorganization, “and under this, we highlight the organization, QR codes and have our consulting firm, our café and additional elements. They also have talked marketing firm.” to different business classes in the Scott The business capstone offerings started College to inform students of the different with the consulting class first known as options available for them to major in a SyBA. About six years later, SyBA creator Scott College of Business program.

Art Sherwood and co-director David “I think that people get it more now Robinson created the Executive Express that the organization is structured better,” Eighteen months ago, they used some Jones said. “But as far as getting people Brien Smith, dean of the Scott College Café. of the same concepts to begin developing to understand that SyBA has changed the Sycamore Blitz Promotions marketing to Sycamore Student Ventures, it is a of Business firm, said Sherwood, ISU associate challenge in itself.”

Students in the senior capstone Business professor of management. All three 401 courses have reorganized their organizations that are part of Sycamore umbrella organization from SyBA into Student Ventures are completely studentSycamore Student Ventures. In addition to run and operated.

“Really what we wanted to do was the consulting business, the organization find another way to build an umbrella

“The experiential learning opportunities that are offered in the Sycamore Student Venture courses help to set apart the student experience at Indiana State University, and particularly the Scott College of Business, from the rest.”

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Several Indiana State University students pose during a Sycamore Blitz Promotions event for J. Gumbo’s (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing).

The different capstone courses provide unique challenges that require students to apply the theory and lessons they have learned about strategic management in their full set of business classes to real-world opportunities.

In the SyBA course, seniors provide business consulting services to companies, while students working with Executive Express Café work on the daily operations of the business, from supply chain management to resolving unexpected issues. Earlier this semester, the students replaced the café’s credit card machine so that transactions could be approved in less than five seconds.

In the newest addition, Sycamore Blitz Promotions, students work as a marketing firm to provide outreach for client companies, several of which are also advertisers for the Indiana Statesman.

“This is something that we’ve been constructing for a while and trying to figure it out,” Sherwood said of the course options offered to students, “and the driver behind this is excellent experiential learning.”

The Sycamore Student Ventures classes are offered each semester, with different companies participating with

Sycamore Blitz Promotions and SyBA each time. Even students working with Executive Express Café encounter challenges that vary from one semester to the next.

“The experiential learning opportunities that are offered in the Sycamore Student Ventures courses help to set apart the student experience at Indiana State University, and particularly the Scott College of Business, from the rest,” said Brien Smith, dean of the Scott College. “Business students sharpen their skill set and gain knowledge through real-world experiences that can be directly transferred to their future employers.”

The opportunities are also benefiting the students working with the restructuring, such as Jones. In addition to working with the new Sycamore Student Ventures initiative, the marketing major also is working on a team that is part of Sycamore Blitz Promotions.

“There’s really a good mix” of options, said Jones, a senior from Lafayette. “You can really choose what you want to do and really hone in on the skills that you’ve developed through your years in the Scott College of Business.”

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ISU students shaken up by earthquake simulation

Indiana State students Michael Furnas and Bryce Nord prepare for their earthquake experience (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing).

Jennifer Sicking ISU Communications and Marketing At first the movement felt like Ferdinand.

“It’s like having a nice the swaying of a rocking chair and “If I wasn’t in a seat, I’d have participants relaxed. But bodies been rolling on the floor,” said fudge brownie and when stiffened to absorb the movement Michael Furnas, an Indiana State you tear it apart, the when the rocking became harder, University senior environmental more jolted as the simulated health major from Terre Haute. break in the brownie is earthquake intensified from a 3.0 They were among the a series of cracks, not a to a 5.0. students and Terre Haute When the Indiana Geological residents who experienced the single line like it would Survey’s Earthquake Cottage jolted Earthquake Cottage, which be if you sliced it.” into 20-seconds of a 7.0 earthquake, visited Indiana State at the participants’ hands grasped their request of the university’s earth seats or nearby handles while their and environmental systems feet attempted to brace against department and the Osher Anthony Rathburn, geology the mechanical bull bucking-like Lifelong Learning Institute. professor intensity.

“We have a history here “I was holding on, otherwise it in the Midwest of having would have thrown me into the earthquakes, with some of them geology professor. “We brought cabinet,” said Bryce Nord, a junior being fairly significant,” said the simulator here on campus to business marketing major from Anthony Rathburn, Indiana State allow students to experience an

earthquake in controlled conditions and also to learn more about what they can do to be prepared for earthquakes that will happen here in the Midwest again at some point.”

Since 1817, Indiana has experienced 43 earthquakes between a 3.0 and 4.9, including one in May with an epicenter north of Vincennes that moved the Wabash Valley, said Walter Gray, educational outreach coordinator for the geological survey. Gray also cited research by Indiana University professors Pat and Cheryl Munson, who reported that at least four times in the past 12,000 years earthquakes of 6.0 to at least 7.0 have rattled the Wabash Valley.

As Gray ran the simulator, he

spoke to the participants, teaching them about how to respond if the ground started to move.

“Pictures and mirrors can fall off the walls,” he said. “If you’re in a room with ceiling tiles, those will start to come down at this point as well. This is how most people get hurt in Midwestern earthquakes, by falling objects, which is why we ask you to drop, cover and hold on instead of dropping to the floor and just slightly covering your head and neck.”

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 People should secure pictures, bookcases and other objects to walls, keep emergency preparedness kits and know how to turn off their water, gas and electricity, Gray said.

Michelle Bennett, OLLI program administrator, said they wanted to use the simulator for educational purposes.

“Most of us have lived in the Midwest all of our lives and have never experienced a major earthquake. We all have to be prepared so not to have as much damage or injuries,” she said. “Eventually we’ll have a bigger earthquake and I want my people to be prepared and to have a little more knowledge.”

Indiana has several faults, known as the Wabash Valley Fault System, that lie buried deep below the surface in the southwestern corner of the state.

“It’s like having a nice fudge brownie and when you tear it apart it, the break in the brownie is a series of cracks, not a single line like it would be if you sliced it,” Rathburn said.

“The earth’s crust behaves in a similar

manner. Cracks in rocks where there is movement on either side of the fracture are known as ‘faults.’ Like the cracks in a brownie, faults can move and behave independently from one another and they respond to stress.”

That response can lead to the build up and eventual release of energy that can shake the surface of the earth.

A seismic station in Indiana State’s science building shows that the Wabash Valley experiences earthquake seismic activity almost continuously, usually much below than the 3.0 that humans can feel.

“It is inevitable that we are going to get more earthquakes,” Rathburn said. “Earthquakes are in our future.

The Midwest is second only to the west coast in terms of earthquake danger in the United States. We really need to be better prepared than we are.”

Two of the largest earthquakes recorded in Indiana history (Illustration by Jamie Nichols).

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‘I am become death, the destroyer of worlds’ Opinions News

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The threat of nuclear war is still very alive and well. In fact, the threat is growing.

Far more power-hungry lunatics have fingers on launch buttons today than in the U.S./U.S.S.R. showdown during the Cold War. More factions, more conflict, Aaron more missile trading and Abel more unaccounted for uranium exists today than Keep Off ever before. The weight of The Lawn this present reality increases significantly with a glance back into a “safer” past.

both Russia’s and ours. With respect to date the errors were as follows: the ill-timed insertion of a U.S. training video at a nuclear defense facility, a faulty Russian computer chip, sunlight reflecting from clouds toward a Russian satellite and a memo not sent regarding a NASA rocket launch.

Amazingly, reports from all four of these instances indicate that the reality of lobbing nuclear weapons from one continent to another was a matter of a muscle twitch.

Scores of leading strategic analysts as well as intellectuals across the board have expressed sentiments similar to Noam Chomsky, who in 2005 opened a talk on international relations with this statement, “If you can imagine some rational observers Apocalyptic Fright from Mars looking at this curious species The potential destruction of human life down here, I don’t think they’d put very via nuclear war has occurred multiple times high odds on survival—another generation over the last 60 years. Oddly, some of the or two. In fact, it’s kind of miraculous that closest calls to mutually assured destruction we’ve come along this far.” But instead occurred as recently as 1979, 1980, 1983 of decreasing the probability of nuclear and 1995. All four of these events were the apocalypse—which would be the actions result of errant early-detection systems— of an intelligent species—we are knowingly increasing it.

For instance, as though an array of nearly undetectable nucleararmed submarines—each capable of destroying the majority of life on Earth many times over—is not enough destructive power, there exists evidence of a push for stationing nuclear deployment systems in space. Despite adding our name to a list of nations participating in an outer space treaty in 1967 the United States has unilaterally blocked recent efforts at the U.N. General Assembly Disarmament Committee to strengthen the consequences for violating the treaty. If this isn’t enough evidence to convince you of our designs, perhaps an explicit call for, “dominating the space dimension of military operations to protect U.S. U.S. nuclear weapons test in March 1954 (Photo courtesy of interests and investment,” Wikimedia Commons).

stated on the first page of a document published by the United States Space Command titled, “Vision for 2020” might lend evidence to our desire to weaponize space—if we haven’t already.

Catch-22 I have no delusions regarding the complexity, the volatility and the stickiness of the situation we find ourselves in regarding nuclear disarmament. To toss aside our nuclear weapons is as equally mad—if not more so—as it is to poise them in space. A very disturbing yet realistic picture of the mess humanity finds itself in is given to us by author Martin Amis in his book titled, “Einstein’s Monsters:” “What is the only provocation that could bring about the use of nuclear weapons?

Nuclear weapons. What is the priority target for nuclear weapon? Nuclear weapons.

What is the only established defense against nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons.

How do we prevent the use of nuclear weapons? By threatening the use of nuclear weapons. And we can’t get rid of nuclear weapons, because of nuclear weapons. The intransigence, it seems, is a function of the weapons themselves.”

Despite having dug ourselves a deep hole, I do believe we can climb our way out of it. I also believe that Amis attributes the title of ‘Monsters’ to man as much as he does to the bombs due to our belligerence. Here’s why: The current nuclear threat is emerging from the Middle East, specifically Iran— so the Western perspective goes, anyhow.

Predominant views in the Middle East, however, find the U.S. and Israel to be far greater threats to the stability of the region—although Iran is generally disliked in the region as well. While Iran has signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (an agreement signed by 189 nations in effort to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons while promoting cooperation in peaceful uses of nuclear energy), Israel hasn’t, and they also refuse to allow inspections of its nuclear facilities. Is it really that hard to see why Iran feels threatened?

But let’s back up a bit. How did we get to this point? Why are America and Israel allowed to do almost anything they wish in the face of continuous condemnation by the U.N. and much of the world at large?

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 Dominating History U.S. planners long understood that emerging victorious from WWII would place our nation in a position of unmatched power. In fact, the U.S. held half of the world’s wealth as well as unrivaled security at the war’s end. The U.S. immediately set its sights on the Middle East, calling it in a 1945 State Department report, “a stupendous source of strategic power, and one of the greatest material prizes in world history.” In 1944, President Franklin Roosevelt wrote in a memo to the American Director of Economic Operations in the Middle East, “The Middle East is an area in which the United States has a vital interest.” This interest, of course, was oil.

Such an interest is evidenced within multitudes of literature stemming from the ‘40s onward. One particular nation of interest naturally became Saudi Arabia, seeing as they held the planet’s majority of oil reserves. This interest is evidenced by Roosevelt’s signing of Executive order 8926, which stated that, “the defense of Saudi Arabia [is] vital to the defense of the United States.” Months before this order was signed, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes suggested to Roosevelt that the U.S. increase its involvement in organizing oil concessions in Saudi Arabia, “to counteract certain known activities of a foreign power which presently are jeopardizing American interests in Arabian oil reserves.” Interestingly, this “foreign power” was Great Britain, as they too had their eyes on the same black gold. Needless to say, by the mid ‘50s the U.S. oil companies controlled 40 percent of Iranian oil—as a result of a CIA-backed coup—and possessed a considerably larger control over Saudi resources.

Dominance over the Middle East soon became a reality.

History in the Middle East since then has been a recurring story of temporary destabilization resulting from one faction being replaced by another with an occasional attempt from outsiders to get their hands

on the oil followed by East is approaching a swift and effective this month, where restabilization via Israel can convene American military with Iran and many might. If the fact that other nations in the U.S. habitually an international supports tyrannical conference on the dictators and regimes establishment of a within the Middle Middle East free of East and elsewhere— nuclear weapons and Mubarak, Noriega, all other weapons of Hussein, King mass destruction.

Abdullah, and many Israel, however, has others—comes as announced that it a shock to you, it will not participate shouldn’t. The game until there is a general we play is that of peace agreement in maintaining control the region. Of course, over resources (mostly U.S. and U.S.S.R nuclear stockpiles over the years belligerent Israeli energy) and control (Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons). actions are often the is far easier to obtain direct cause of tumult by placing one tyrant in our pocket than it is by within region, thereby rendering any peace agreement attempting to herd an entire self-governing democracy beyond the realm of possibility. Furthermore, in the direction we desire. The U.S. has thus incessantly Washington continually asserts that Israel should be squelched the growing and spreading of democracy exempt from any nuclear-free agreements, effectively various times. eliminating any hopes of a paradigm shift.

So here we stand with our pit-bull snarling and Future Hopes snapping at the end of its slowly stretching leash, But back to the current “threat.” Having established sternly calling on one nation to cease its nuclear activity ourselves as chess master over the Middle East following while simultaneously allowing and supporting the WWII, we found it beneficial to hire a mercenary state same actions by equally aggressive regimes. Yet for fear native to the region: Israel. Israel has since been used of losing “stability” over an increasingly disgruntled to move the pieces for us, acting as any tyrannical population and their rightful resources, we run the risk child would knowing full well that his big brother has of reigning in humanity’s last hours. Sadly, we’ll tell his back on any mischief that his whim—or his bigger Iran, “The ball is in your court,” knowing full well it is brother—leads him into. firmly clutched beneath our palm.

The next opportunity for the U.S. and Israel to take steps in reducing the nuclear tensions within the Middle

The woman’s perspective: Ever changing and always wanting In Friday’s men’s issue, we published an article titled “A woman’s perspective: what she’s looking for in a partner,” which pondered if any good men were left in the world. Given what I’ve witnessed lately, though, maybe we should be posing that same question about women.

There aren’t too many things more detrimental to womanhood than bubbly Brianne tampon commercials, anything on the Network and “Twilight.” MarriageHofmann E! hungry, baby-obsessed 20-somethings, Write and however, beat all of the above.

As women, we have fairly reasonable Wrong requests; we want equal treatment all around, a stable life and lasting reputations as respectable, intelligent and strong individuals. But I also believe we advertise those requests to the world

with fine print.

Because some of us want those things, yet we continue to say phrases like “Well, if he can’t pay for your meal, he’s not worth your time” and we still insist on bullying our boyfriends into proposing to us, delving head first into an industry (yes, marriage is an industry) that almost entirely revolves around our needs.

Everyone knows a woman who’s hell bent on nabbing her husband by her early twenties and has her ticking biological clock at full blast. She’s the person who shares pictures of her ideal engagement ring on Facebook, who sees that several of her friends are getting married and feels like she’s gotta play catch up.

I have never heard any female in my age group say, “I just want a man that brings exactly what I bring to a relationship” or “I only want love” without equating some of that to a man’s bank account, his physique or his toughness.

Today, we command respect for raising a child

alone, becoming the CEO of our company or taking over a normally male-dominated field such as the entertainment business or athletics. But some of us still get pissed when a man doesn’t pay our way on a date, open a car door for us or propose to us after ‘x’ amount of time. And if you don’t buy that, then check out Pinterest—it doesn’t represent every woman, but based on its popularity, it’s a decent indicator.

Being empowered and owning that isn’t wrong. It’s not wrong to want a man who supports himself or to be proud of who we are. It’s not wrong to want equality either, but don’t be upset when you get exactly what you wished for. Simply having a vagina doesn’t entitle you to anything—not a free meal, not a well-kept man and certainly not a puppet that you can string along to the altar.

We didn’t overcome thousands of years of adversity, just so we can lean on the gender role fence.

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Warmth of Other Suns Features News

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Tuesday Vocal Recital Recital Hall 11 a.m.

Clarinet Studio Recital Recital Hall 5 p.m.

University speaker series welcomed Isabel Wilkerson to discuss her national bestseller book Day’Jonnae Riggins and Hannah Michaels Reporters No one saw it coming. No one expected the impact it would bring to an entire nation. It came in with a strong wind and left millions of people wondering what happened.

Over the course of six decades, six million African Americans fled silently from the South, the land of their forefathers, in hopes to escape the limits of the caste system into which they were born.

The cultural influence of nearly six million

African American’s migration from the South to the North after WWI was presented Tuesday evening by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the national bestseller “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration”, Isabel Wilkerson.

The migration allowed many African Americans with great potential to have the choice of a career and helped shape what the current U.S. culture is made of, such as music and athletics, Wilkerson said.

“All of this that happened for much of the 20th century actually came at a tremendous cost to us as an entire country,” Wilkerson said.

“While all these people were locked in a caste system, many things that could have been happening intellectually and creatively were not being done.”

Monique Winters, freshman exploratory studies, said the lecture was a realization on how great of an impact the migration had on the current US culture.

“She said that Jazz wouldn’t have even existed if they hadn’t come to the North,” Winters said. “I know it came from Ragtime Above: Wilkerson speaking at the 2010 National Book Seller and Blues, and I know it started in New Orleans.

Critics Awards (Photo courtesy of David Shankbone on A lot of important Wikimedia Commons).

things, like inventions, wouldn’t have existed.”

Senior philosophy major Joel Matthews said the extent of all the sacrifices brought to life in the novel is what made it so interesting.

The lecture was centered on Wilkerson’s book, which was created after 15 years of work and took 1,200 interviews. The title of the book comes from a poem by Richard Wright, who migrated from the south to Chicago in the 1920s.

“To capture the magnitude of the phenomenon, I chose to trace the journeys of three different people who followed the three main streams of the Great Migration,” Wilkerson said.

The stories of Ida Mae Gladney, George Swanson Starling and Robert Pershing Foster are interwoven along with others who made the journey with the challenges following not too far behind.

Wilkerson said her goal was to make history come alive for anyone who has read the book and to recreate the era in which many African American were forced to travel from their land of birth to seek recognition of their citizenship.

“I had no idea it would take 15 years to complete when I set out on my own journey to research and write this narrative,” she said.

“I wanted to find three beautifully imperfect people. [That’s] what the book is about. It’s more than just the Great Migration, it’s about human beings, [and how] willing they were to achieve freedom. It’s a human story and everyone can identify with that.”

The leaderless migration of the many African American from the South had no influence from government laws or intervention and was solely an outcome of the individual migrators.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 “Nobody thinks that one person can make a difference,” Ashley Colarik, senior liberal studies major, said. “A whole group of people made a difference, and no one want talks about it. I think the people have a lot more power than they realize.”

The cause of the migration was greatly influenced by WWI and the great need for cheap labor in the North and Midwest. Europeans mostly made up the labor force in the northern areas but left the United State for war efforts in their homelands.

The North looked to African Americans from the South and began to invite them to work for cheap labor where many European workers had left, Wilkerson said.

African Americans in the south were under great control and threat of lynching for accusations, such as acting like a white person and passing a white motorist on the road while driving.

The great migration ended approximately around 1975 at the hard work of protesting and the intense pressure of the North, Wilkerson said.

“This is not merely an African American story,” Wilkerson said. “It’s not a story of the North. It’s not a story of the south. It’s a human and universal story about how far people are willing to be free.”

Wilkerson is the first African-American woman in history of American journalism to win a Pulitzer Prize, and she is also the first AfricanAmerican to win for individual reporting.

The night ended with a book signing and snapshots with the author to remember. She thanked Indiana State University for the opportunity to come and speak and was elated to know the Warmth of Other Suns had been required reading for students this semester.

“It was [just] an honor to tell the stories of these remarkable people, of the courage and fortitude of the forebears of many Americans, North and South, and an untold part of our country’s history. I’m glad you enjoyed it,” she said.

The event was sponsored by the Charles E. Brown African American Cultural Center, the Office of Diversity and the History Department, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the African American Studies Program.

“I wanted to find three beautifully imperfect people,” she said, “[That’s] what the book is about. It’s more than just the Great Migration, it’s about human beings, [and how] willing they were to achieve freedom.”

Photo courtesy of (CC) Larry D. Moore on Wikimedia Commons.

Isabel Wilkerson, author of “The Warmth of Other Suns”

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Take Back the Night Students march to raise awareness about domestic violence

Stephanie Robinson Reporter

In April 2007, Debbie Norris was a nervous wreck as she sat with her sister and watched as a police car pulled up in her driveway. There was no way she could have prepared for the news that she received from the Missing Person’s Lieutenant and Chaplin who greeted her at her front door.

Her daughter Heather had been brutally murdered by her abusive boyfriend. He had stabbed her, put her body in a trashcan, poured gasoline on her and set her on fire.

A cold, eerie silence fell across the crowd of staff and students as Norris told her daughter’s story at Take Back the Night last Tuesday evening at Indiana State University.

Members of the audience began to cry, as Norris went on to describe the horrific murder of her daughter.

“He took a chain saw and he cut her up in pieces. He put her in black trash bags and drove around the south side of Indianapolis, throwing her in dumpsters. He threw my daughter away like she was trash,” Norris said with tears

streaming down Above: Students march through downtown Terre Haute, chanting in protest of domestic violence. Below: Debbie Norris shares the story of her daughter Heather, who was murdered her cheeks.

Norris is the by her abusive boyfriend (Photos by Jamie Nichols). creator of Heather’s educate others about this important topic,” said Jackson.

Voice, a cause created in honor of her daughter. Norris says At Take Back the Night, there were other speakers that Heather’s Voice gives her a chance to speak through including career center administrative assistant Martha Reed, Heather to women about domestic violence. She believes who read a poem about violence against women. Domestic that violence against women is a very important topic and violence investigator for the Vigo County Prosecutor’s Office she’s honored to be invited to events like Take Back the Night Irene Miller, shed light on the criminal side of domestic to speak on her daughter’s behalf. violence.

“I go to different schools and universities. I’ve even been on “People call the police and just assume that there’s going to Dr. Phil; I try to stress how important healthy relationships an immediate warrant for the abuser’s arrest and they don’t are and how domestic violence is not something women have to worry anymore about the abuser. That’s just not the have to put up with and that there is help,” Norris said. case. There is a process,” Miller said.

Take Back the Night is an event that raises awareness about Miller said the victim needs to come to the prosecutor’s the prevalence and persistence of violence against women. office to give a statement to an investigator like her, bring Take Back the Night is an international event that has been photographs of the injuries and any witnesses. There is also around since 1976 but it has been an option to file for a protection order. around the Terre Haute Community “Once a warrant is issued, I try to call the residence or since 1991. This year, the students workplace of the abuser to serve them their warrant, so it in the Women’s Studies 450 class doesn’t too take long,” said Miller. planned the event. Tiffanie Merrill, a The victim can also speak to someone in the Council On ISU senior anthropology major, says Domestic Abuse office (CODA) to get support and guidance. a lot of time was dedicated among her The CODA office is located on the first floor of the Terre and her classmates to planning.

Haute courthouse. CODA also offers a shelter for battered “This year the theme we created is women. to “Unmask the Truth” of domestic “I do work very closely with the people in the CODA violence within the Terre Haute office. I try to send every person that comes to my office community. It’s not just women who to their office, just to make contact with them, so that the are abused, it’s men too,” Merrill said. victim knows someone is there to help them and that they’re Taylor Jackson, an ISU junior not alone,” Miller said. public relations major, was also a After the informational rally, President Daniel Bradley student in the WS 450 class. She said led a pledge against violence. The pledge was followed by it was a huge event that took a lot of the march through the streets of Downtown Terre Haute. communication and organization.

During the march, people held up signs and enthusiastically “It was very time consuming but it chanted, “Claim our bodies, claim our right, take a stand, was worth it. I have learned so much take back the night.” more about domestic violence and I feel like it’s important to be able to

“The march is supposed to represent women marching through the streets in the darkness of the night and not being afraid...”

Taylor Jackson, a junior public relations major

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 “The march is supposed to represent women marching through the streets in the darkness of the night and not being afraid, we are taking back the night,” Jackson said.

According to the Domestic Violence Resource Center, on average, more than three women and one man are murdered by their intimate partners in this country every day. If you or someone you know is in an abusive relationship you can call the 24 hour crisis hotline at 812-232-1736 or 1-800-566-2632.

“If you’re ever in an abusive relationship please, get help, you can’t help your abuser,” Norris said solemnly to the crowd.

Students take the pledge to stand up against domestic violence (Photo by Jamie Nichols).

According to the CODA website, you may be in an emotionally abusive relationship if your partner: •Calls you names, insults you or continually criticizes you •Does not trust you and acts jealous or possessive •Tries to isolate you from family or friends •Monitors where you go, who you call and who you spend time with •Does not want you to work •Controls finances or refuses to share money •Punishes you by withholding affection •Expects you to ask permission •Threatens to hurt you, the children, your family, or your pets •Humiliates you in any way You may be in a physically abusive relationship if your partner has ever: •Damaged property when angry (thrown objects, punched walls, kicked doors, etc.)

•Pushed, slapped, bitten, kicked or choked you •Abandoned you in a dangerous or unfamiliar place

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•Scared you by driving recklessly •Used a weapon to threaten or hurt you •Forced you to leave your home •Trapped you in your home or kept you from leaving •Prevented you from calling police or seeking medical attention •Hurt your children •Used physical force in a sexual situation You may be in a sexually abusive relationship if your partner: •Views women as objects and believes in rigid gender roles •Accuses you of cheating or is often jealous of your outside relationships •Wants you to dress in a sexual way •Insults you in sexual ways or calls you sexual names •Has ever forced you or manipulated you into having sex or performing sexual acts •Held you down during sex •Demanded sex when you were sick or tired, or after beating you •Hurt you with weapons or objects during sex

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Sports

Thomas Beeler 812-237-4102 ISU-statesmansports@ mail.indstate.edu

Upcoming Events Women’s Basketball Tuesday at Hulman Center. vs. Northern Illinois at 7:05 p.m.

Friday at Hulman Center. vs. Illinois (Chicago) at 7:05 p.m.

Men’s Basketball Saturday at Morehead, Ky. vs. Morehead State at 2 p.m.

Track and Field Friday at Charleston, Ill. vs. Eastern Illinois at 4 p.m.

The first half started out quickly for the Sycamores, but then slowed down for the rest of the half. Junior forward Manny Arop scored the first seven points for the Sycamores. They were able to battle with the Lobos and the lead changed between the two teams five times. The largest lead for the Sycamores was a five point lead that they held about four minutes into this competition. The Sycamores were held to only 19 points in the first half while allowing the Lobos to score 33.

While the Lobos’ defense contributed to some of the scoring. The Sycamores were only shooting 30 percent from the field, 10 percent on three pointers, and a mere 28 percent on free throws. The statistics for the Lobos were nearly double that of the Sycamores. They shot 50 percent from the field, 22.2 percent on three pointers, and were at 83.3 percent for their free throws.

ISU seemed to be off balance in the first half and were finding it hard to get into rhythm.

Junior guard Jake Odum said that their performance on defense really affected their offense in this half. Odum scored 25 points for the Sycamores.

The second half was much better for the Sycamores. In fact, they were able to overcome a 19 point deficit to put the game into overtime. ISU was more in rhythm and they were able to play their game. The Sycamores quickly got the Lobos into foul trouble so the Lobos were forced to take some of their players out and save them for later. Their shooting percentages were also raised during this half of play. They shot 52 percent from the field, 30 percent from 3-point range, and were at 70 percent for their free throws. The Momentum was back in the favor of the Sycamores and the half was ended by a defensive rebound by Arop that turned into a Sycamores bucket from Odum, with only three seconds left on the game clock, to tie the game at 64–64. The Sycamores were able to hold the Lobos to only 31 points in this half and they were able to score 45.

“An unbelievable effort in the second half,” Lansing said.

As overtime began, the optimism for the Sycamores was high. Unfortunately for them though, the first shot that the Lobos took would be a three-point basket. This seemed to defeat the Sycamores. They seemed to not have much left in the tank after the blow from that. The Lobos were able to score 13 points in overtime and held the Sycamores to four points.

Junior guard Jake Odum going down court prepares another play for the Sycamores (Photo by Mae Robyn Rhymes).

“The best guard they had faced all season,” New Mexico head coach Steve Alford said of Odem Odum said that he didn’t care about the stats and it was an honor to get the praise.

He could not do what he did if it was not for his team.

The Sycamore’s next competition will be Saturday Dec. 8 against Morehead State at Morehead State at 2 pm.

“If our guys are going to work that hard, we will win a lot more games than we lose.”

Greg Lansing, head men’s basketball coach

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Sycamores named to MVFC All-Academic and All-Newcomers Teams Ace Hunt ISU Athletic Media Relations

All-Academic Team Three Indiana State Sycamores have been named to the Missouri Valley Football Conference All-Academic Team as announced Nov. 28 by the league office.

Tight End Michael Mardis, linebacker Dillon Painter and wide receiver/return specialist Tanner Riley all were honored by the league’s vote of sports information directors by being named to the honorable mention squad.

Mardis carries a 3.21 grade point average (gpa) in nursing at ISU and earned the first Mary Card Harbaugh School of Nursing Scholarship this past year. Mardis also earned the State Farm Sycamore Scholar-Athlete of the Month honor for September. He was named to the MVFC All-Academic Team last year and is a nominee for the FCS ADA Academic All-Star Team this season. He was the team’s leading receiver with 34 receptions for 408 yards and four TDs, with a long pass reception of 43 yards. Mardis averaged 37.1 yards per game, which ranked 20th in the MVFC and also averaged 3.09 receptions per game, which ranked 21st in the league.

He had eight multi-catch games, including a season-best six receptions at Indiana and against Illinois State.

Painter holds a 3.48 gpa in Exercise Science as was also named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District as a sophomore in 2010. In 2012, Painter started four games at the linebacker position and played in 10 games where he made 37 total tackles, including 16 solos and 21 assists. Painter tallied three tackles for a loss of 10 yards, including one quarterback sack for a loss of eight yards at Western Illinois. He added one quarterback hurry and three pass breakups and reached double digit tackles with a season-best 12 stops at Indiana.

Painter posted 1.5 tackles for a loss of eight yards at Western Illinois as well as another TFL for a loss of two yards against South Dakota.

Riley owns a 3.34 gpa in Business Marketing and had five kickoff returns on the year for a total of 190 yards, including a kickoff return for a 93-yard touchdown in the annual Homecoming contest against Missouri State. He was named the MVFC and National Special Teams Player Of The Week for his efforts against the Bears and paced the team with 10

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punt returns for 80 yards, averaging eight yards per punt return, including a long of 18 against South Dakota State.

Riley added 22 pass receptions for 219 yards and a touchdown at Southern Illinois while enjoying four multi-catch performances, including four in MVFC play and a season-best six catches at Southern Illinois. He tallied a careerhigh 69 receiving yards at Youngstown State.

Forty-four student-athletes, including 11 who earned first-team honors, highlight the 2012 all-Missouri Valley Football Conference all-academic team, announced by the league office today.

Nominees must be starters or important reserves with at least a 3.20 cumulative grade point average (4.0 scale).

Student-athletes must have reached sophomore academic and athletic standing at their institutions (freshmen are not eligible) and must have completed at least one full academic year at their institution. League sports information directors voted on the team by designating 11 players for first-team honors and 11 players for second-team honors.

280 attempts for 1,615 yards and 10 TDs, with a long pass completion of 43 yards. Perish averaged 37.09 yards per game, which ranked 20th in the MVFC and went over 200 yards passing three times, including a season-best 221 yards at Youngstown State. He posted two touchdown passes in three different games while maintaining a 109.88 passing efficiency rating, which was ninth-best in the MVFC. Perish tallied 134.45 yards of total offense per game, ranking ninth in the league.

The Sycamores’ third honoree was redshirt freshman defensive back Mark Sewall, who was named to MVFC AllNewcomer Team just as he older brother Alex did at the same position in 2008. He posted 31 total tackles, including 12 solos and 19 assists with 2.5 tackles for a loss of three yards. Sewall had a 77-yard interception return against Quincy and tallied four pass breakups, recovered a fumble for a touchdown at Western Illinois and blocked one kick. His .11 interceptions per game ranked tied for 25th in the MVFC and he recorded season-best seven total tackles at No. 1 North Dakota State, with a tackle for loss. Sewall broke up two passes against South Dakota State.

Earlier this week, the Sycamores set a school record and led the league with 14 All-MVFC honorees, including five first team selections.

All-Newcomers Team Three Sycamores have been named to the Missouri Valley Football Conference All-Newcomer Team as announced Nov. 27 by the league office following a postseason vote of head coaches, sports information directors as well as a media panel.

Redshirt freshman Connor Underwood was named to the MVFC All-Newcomer Team and finished third in the MVFC Newcomer and Freshman Of The Year balloting, as Sawyer Kollmorgen of Northern Iowa took both honors. Underwood is joined by sophomore transfer Mike Perish and redshirt freshman Mark Sewall on the MVFC All-Newcomer Team.

In addition to his MVFC All-Newcomer honors and third place finish for the league’s newcomer and specialty awards, Underwood is also an All-MVFC Honorable Mention selection as a redshirt freshman for the Sycamores.

He finished fifth on the team with 48 total tackles, including 19 solos and 29 assists and posted 9.5 tackles for a loss of 42 yards. Underwood led the team with six quarterback sacks for 27 yards and added one interception at Western Illinois, with three pass breakups and five quarterback hurries. He averaged .55 quarterback sacks per game, which ranked fourth in the MVFC and tied for 57th nationally while his .86 tackles for a loss was 12th in the MVFC. Underwood recorded a seasonbest 10 tackles at No. 1 North Dakota State with two tackles for a loss and recorded season-best three tackles for a loss of 20 yards versus Drake. He was credited with a season-best two quarterback sacks at North Dakota State.

Mike Perish took home MVFC All-Newcomer honors as he was the team’s leading passer with 155 completions on

Sophomore Mike Perish prepares to begin a play (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing).

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Sycamores conquer Saint Louis 48-46

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Danny Pfrank ISU Athletic Media Relations Junior Anna Munn sank a jumper with 51.1 seconds remaining and the Indiana State women’s basketball team held the Saint Louis Billikens without a field goal over the last seven minutes of the game as the Sycamores earned their first road win of the season, 4846, inside Chaifetz Arena on Thursday night.

Indiana State improves to 4-2 on the season with the win while Saint Louis had their two-game winning streak snapped and fall to 2-4.

The lead traded sides six times at the start of the contest before the Sycamores took control of the half with a 12-2 run over four minutes to take a 26-17 lead with seven minutes until the break. Munn led ISU with seven points during the run while sophomores Racheal Mahan and Natasha Zurek each added four.

Indiana State took a 28-21 lead into the half, led by 12 points from Mahan. The Sycamores also forced 14 first-half turnovers by Saint Louis, leading the 12 points for Indiana State.

Saint Louis came out strong from halftime, flipping ISU’s nine-point lead into a nine-point lead of their own after 12 minutes of play. A layup by Mallory Eggert pushed SLU’s lead to 42-33 with 8:43 remaining, the home side’s largest lead of the game.

Munn began Indiana State’s comeback with an offensive rebound and a layup with 8:16 to go before knocking down a three-pointer out of a media timeout, cutting SLU’s advantage to 42-38 with 7:36 to play. SLU’s final basket of the night came on their next possession, a jumper by Eggert with 7:11 left in the game to put the Billikens in front, 44-38.

Mahan converted a three-point play with 4:03 remaining to bring Indiana State within a single point, at 44-43. Saint Louis answered with a pair of free throws with 3:27 to go, their final points of the game.

Mahan continued her career night with a free throw with 3:06 remaining, before the sophomore forward from Mansfield, Ohio, tied the game at 46-46 with a layup as the game clock rolled under two minutes.

The Sycamores forced a missed shot on SLU’s next possession, calling a timeout after senior Taylor Whitley pulled down the defensive rebound.

The Sycamores ran the shot clock under 10 seconds after the timeout, but were unable to feed Mahan in the post as Munn stood at the top of the key with Junior Anna Munn sprints down the court, bringing the ball to the Sycamores’ basket (Photo by Mae Robyn Rhymes). the basketball. The junior guard from Indianapolis, created a shot for herself and gave Indiana State the Mahan led ISU with a career-high 24 points, going this season and 28-3 in their three seasons under head coach lead, sinking a jumper just inside the three-point line as the 9-for-14 from the field with six rebounds. Munn also went Teri Moren when allowing 61 points or less. Over the final 30-second shot clock expired to give the Sycamores a 48-46 into double-figures, adding 12 points, becoming the first seven minutes of the game, ISU’s defense forced SLU to shoot lead with 51.1 seconds left.

Sycamore since Melanie Boeglin in 2005-06 to start a season 0-for-6 from the field with six turnovers.

Indiana State forced another missed shot and grabbed a with six-straight double-digit scoring efforts. Whitley dished For the game, Indiana State shot 19-for-44 (43.2%) from rebound with 38 seconds left to play, as Saint Louis chose out seven assists for the game to push her career total to an the field while Saint Louis went 19-for-45 (42.2 percent). The to play out the shot clock instead of fouling. Munn missed even 300, becoming just the seventh Sycamore in school Sycamores forced 23 turnovers, turning those miscues into an off-balance three-point attempt, as the Billikens called history to reach 300 career assists.

21 points. timeout with just 2.4 seconds left to play. Saint Louis inEggert led Saint Louis with a 16-point, 10-rebound double Indiana State returns to Hulman Center for their next two bounded to Lorreal Jones at the top of the key, but the clock double while also totaling six steals. games, beginning with a 7:05 p.m. matchup against Northern expired before a shot could be attempted.

With their defense effort, Indiana State improves to 4-1 Illinois on Tuesday, Dec. 4.

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