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‘WE’RE FOR INDIANA’

ISU campaign focuses on building the school’s statewide reputation

Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013 Indiana State University www.indianastatesman.com Volume 120 Issue 56

Students gather at Hulman Center to White Out Wichita State University

Junior guard Manny Arop finished with 17 points and nine rebounds in the 6266 loss against Wichita State University Tuesday (Photo by Mae Robyn Rhymes).

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Shown above is the campaign logo for the recently launched ISU marketing campaign geared towards Indiana legislators, business leaders and alumni (Submitted photo).

BRIANNE HOFMANN News Editor A university official said Indiana State is spending over $470,000 to fund a new marketing campaign.

Last month, Indiana State launched the “More to Blue”

campaign through a series of print, radio, television, digital and outdoor advertisements.

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Mindpower, the advertising agency behind the “More to Blue” campaign, films one of the three television spots aimed at highlighting Indiana State’s economic development, research and technical innovation (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing).

John Beacon, vice president for enrollment management, marketing and communications said the $470,000 was used to cover the discovery phase, consultant travel, creative and design work, text language, market research, print materials, production of commercials and media advertising space.

In addition to the $988,000 recruiting buy, Beacon said campaignrenewal expenses will put the year’s advertising cost over $1.5 million.

Beacon said that while the campaign is “very expensive,” it’s necessary for revamping the university’s presence statewide.

The university is running two, 15-second television spots and one 30-second spot, highlighting its economic development, research and technical innovation throughout Indiana.

The media spots are heavily advertised in

densely populated areas such as Fort Wayne, Indianapolis and Evansville.

“A few years ago, we were considered a regional campus,” Beacon said. “Not a lot of people knew much about us. My goal was to convince [the public] we were every bit as technological and forward thinking as any other university in the state.”

Unlike the “More from Day One” campaign, which is aimed at student recruitment, “More to Blue” is designed to raise awareness about the university’s contributions to the state, appealing to business leaders, alumni and legislators as opposed to students and parents.

Beacon said the need for a fresh campaign arose a year and a half ago when President Daniel J. Bradley attended a board retreat. Two university officials approached the president,

“People in Indianapolis really had no image of us. Indiana State University had no visibility at all.”

John Beacon, vice president of enrollment management, marketing and communications

voicing concerns that Indiana State didn’t have an image, especially in the state capital.

“People in Indianapolis really had no image of us. Indiana State University had no visibility at all,” Beacon said.

This wasn’t the first time Indiana State’s advertising strategy had undergone an overhaul, Beacon said. After taking office in 2007, Beacon wanted to alter the outdated recruitment campaign.

“You could stick any university’s name in front of [the advertisements] and they’d be the same,” he said. “What I wanted was something that would set Indiana State University apart.”

As a result, Beacon said he spent little time worrying about the image of the university among the general public.

Now that enrollment is increasing rapidly, however, he said it was the right time to switch the university’s focus.

A year ago, the university began scouting seven advertising agencies from across the country and outside of Indiana.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 The reason for keeping the search external was to find a company unfamiliar with the university, Beacon said.

Indiana companies “knew too much about us and brought too much baggage with them. We were looking for fresh eyes,” Beacon said.

Indiana State picked Mindpower, a branding agency based in Atlanta, Ga., to oversee the “More to Blue” campaign.

Beacon said he wanted a company that would take chances and be willing to do things that no other university had done before. Mindpower was “fun” and “creative,” a combination that Beacon was looking for.

“I want people who are always pushing the edge,” he said. “You can’t fail first if you don’t take risks.”

Once the company was selected, Mindpower representatives made two trips to campus and set up 10 focus groups consisting of campus administrators, students, faculty,

alumni and business leaders to determine which of the university’s attributes resonated with the public.

Through the “campus discovery” phase, it was decided that Indiana State needed to “own” the “state” part of its name as well as the color blue and what that embodied, Beacon said.

“It’s a campaign to keep the university growing five or ten years from now. You all want to go to a school that you’re proud of. You want to be able to say ‘I’m going to State,’” Beacon said.

“More to Blue” will run until June, at which point the university has to choose whether or not it will merge with the ongoing recruitment campaign.

“We’re in the business of enrolling students and helping them to succeed and get a degree. Ultimately, it comes back to that,” Beacon said.

For more information on the “More to Blue” campaign, visit http://blue. indstate.edu/.

Mindpower shoots another television spot in University Hall for the “More to Blue” campaign (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing).

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Indiana State releases ‘National Survey of Student Engagement’ Andrew Christman Reporter Over 1,100 freshmen and seniors have completed the “National Survey of Student Engagement,” which helps Indiana State University become a more efficient institution for both students and professors.

Joshua Powers, interim associate vice president for student success, said the survey seeks to look at factors about the experience students have in the classroom that link to academic success. It is used by 621 universities this year. The NSSE was conceived in 1998 and ISU has been taking part since 2002.

“We do this in a survey every three years,” Powers said.

“The results will be compiled in a report and produced in August.”

In 2010, results for Indiana State showed that 40 percent of first year students reported that exams challenged them to do their best work and that 33 percent of first year students

spend more than 15 hours a week preparing for class. When it comes to leaving the university, 79 percent of seniors at least occasionally discuss career plans with faculty members.

Powers said that, all in all, the survey is a huge help to improving the university.

“For student academic achievement, this is probably the most widely used instrument in higher education,” Powers said.

Along with the NSSE, there is also the “Faculty Survey of Student Engagement,” which focuses on gathering information from faculty who teach undergraduates in order to better assess teaching, learning and the quality of educational experiences, according to the survey’s website.

“What’s nice about the FSSE is that you get to get a sense of what the faculty perceive about what students are doing and feeling about their classes as compared to what students

see and actually feel,” Powers said. “One would hope those things are aligned, but sometimes they may not be and that’s a very important insight.

Powers encourages freshmen and seniors to fill out the NSSE, giving them the chance to win prizes from random drawings. The prizes include an iPad mini and 15 $100 gift cards for gas or Barnes and Noble.

“The NSSE will take 10 to 15 minutes to complete,” Powers said. “There are other kinds of surveys that students will receive and we want to encourage them to do this.”

The survey will be available for students to fill out until March 10. Students will be emailed as a reminder that it is still open to fill out and will help the university to improve academically.

Other results for the 2010 survey and additional information can be found at www.nsse.iub.edu.

Freshmen results for ISU’s 2010 NSSE:

Seniors results for ISU’s 2010 NSSE:

The 2010 NSSE found that 33 percent of first year students spend more than 15 hours a week preparing for class.

Additional information from the survey indicated that 79 percent of seniors surveyed said they discuss career plans with faculty members (Graphics by Mae Robyn Rhymes).

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News briefs Wind turbine dedication to take place this week On Friday, the Institute for Community Sustainability will hold a dedication ceremony for Indiana State University’s new wind turbine in the west parking lot between Rhoads and Mills residential halls.

An announcement of the winning name for the turbine will be made at this event, as well. The winner of the contest will receive a prize.

The event begins 1:30 p.m. For additional information visit www.unboundedpossibilities.com.

Students talk budget over ‘Pizza and Politics’ The American Democracy Project is hosting a “Pizza and Politics” event today at 7 p.m. in the events area of Cunningham Memorial Library.

Students and faculty will discuss the State of Indiana’s budget and get an outlook on Indiana State University’s funding.

The Indiana Statehouse will also provide an update on the status of funding decisions for the university and President Daniel J. Bradley will lead a discussion on how the state budget affects students.

For more information contact the Department of Political Science.

ISU holding career fair today Indiana State University is holding a Career Opportunity Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the north gym of the Health and Human Services Building.

One hundred sixteen employers will be represented at the 2013 career fair, such as several school corporations and financial services institutions, Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Federal Bureau of Prisons – Health Services, Georgia Pacific, Honda Manufacturing of Indiana, State Police, Indiana Excise Police, Masterbrand Cabinets, Republic Airways and Union Hospital.

AC Entertainment, who will be recruiting interns as well as volunteers for one of its largest music festivals, Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, is new to the fair this year. Indiana State music business alumnus James Shinault will return to campus on their behalf. Shinault works for AC Entertainment

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as Events Engagement Manager.

This event is open to all students.

Register for the fair at Sycamore Career Link.

Provost candidates under review On-campus interviews for Indiana State’s next provost are underway.

On Tuesday, open sessions were held for Cedric Adderley, dean of the college at Capital University and one of four finalists in the search for a new provost and vice president for academic affairs at Indiana State.

Other finalists are Richard “Biff ” Williams, dean of the College of Nursing, Health and Human Services at Indiana State, and Cynthia Pemberton, deputy provost and vice provost for academic affairs at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, with whom open forums took place earlier this month, and Christopher D. Ingersoll, dean and professor of athletic training in the Dow College of Health Professions at Central Michigan University, with whom open sessions are scheduled for Feb. 25.

For a complete schedule of open forums, visit www.indstate. edu/president/provostsearch.htm.

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The opinions, individual and collective, expressed in the Statesman and the student staff ’s selection or arrangement of content do not necessarily reflect the attitudes of Indiana State University, its Board of Trustees, administration, faculty or student body. The Statesman editorial board writes staff editorials and makes final decisions about news content.

Jacob Rivers Letters to My Fish

Envision a drug that can rewire a total generation’s brain by making them incapable of lasting marriages and still manages to make around $97 billion in 2006. A drug that can’t be taken in common forms, a drug that can only be viewed that can have lasting effects on the brain, yet still has the effects of synthetic drugs. This drug can destroy families, become addictive and has irreversible effects on the brain.

According to National Public Radio, adult films have the power to pleasure three systems in the brain: arousal, satiation and fantasy.

There is a chemical change within the brain when a person is committing a sexual act, but

pornography has no interaction with the viewer.

Dr. Christoph Ahlers from the Austrian Independent, an English newspaper, claims that nearly 60 million people view pornography daily on free websites, while “two-thirds of the visits are made by people at work.”

Statistics show that Internet users who view pornography show similar symptoms; they use adult films to relieve stress and to eliminate social and personal interactions.

Not only does it have physiological effects on those who view adult films, it also has effects on those who stumble upon it, namely children. When children accidentally venture onto the “dark side” of the Internet, pornography etches itself into their brains for life, according to netnanny.com.

What viewers of pornography don’t understand is that the brain is constantly rewiring which means that the more adult films people view, the more their brains build up a tolerance to it and it no longer provides sexual pleasure. Although watching adult films may be popular, it has serious consequences.

Another issue that viewers encounter is the hundreds of categories of pornography available, some more extreme than others.

Over time, viewers may be interested in more extreme sexual acts and therefore no longer find personal intimacy sexually arousing.

Pornography changes how men and women perceive the gender they are interested in.

Therefore men don’t want average-looking females; they tend to seek out women with porn star-like qualities—heavy make-up, large breasts and blond hair. The problem with this is that viewers can’t find someone sexually equivalent to a porn star and end up returning to adult films to fulfill their sexual fantasies or desires.

According to edguider.com, pornography causes a different type of sexual arousal in men than the sexual arousal of men in personal, intimate situations. The more porn a man watches the more he is training his brain to only be aroused by the images he sees, whether it be fetish, gay or lesbian. This can be achieved within seconds by a simple click. Training the brain to achieve sexual stimulation with pornographic images can actually make men impotent because their brain has built up a tolerance to erotic images.

Some specialists say that the damage can be reversed, some say it can’t, but no evidence is concrete, people are always changing and our brains are constantly learning and rewiring. Porn may be a “no-no” for you or something that is a daily habit, everyone is different and you may not have any issues. Porn is a serious thing, so choose carefully how to use it.

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Letters to the Editor

Can education be tested thoroughly by state officials?

Freshman to freshman advice Dear Statesman Editor,

To whom it may concern: I am writing in response to the article “A nation of idiots” published in the February 11 issue of the Statesman. I am a future educator of Indiana. As most of you know, the government is adding new tests to a teacher’s repertoire every day.

That being said, I recently read some interesting information that I think should be shared. Most of us remember George W. Bush as president from when we were younger, and you might remember his “No Child Left Behind” act that began in 2003.

That means this year’s freshmen are the first group of students to have fully gone through the program. Incidentally enough, they are also considered the worst generation of writers to enter higher education.

I agree that literacy is a problem; many Americans don’t realize we face. However, is allowing the government to step in with regulated testing the answer? It is becoming obvious that Bush’s good intentions did not turn out as we hoped. Indiana has recently implemented IREAD-3, which is (surprise, surprise) a reading proficiency test that third graders must pass before moving on to fourth grade. We still have ISTEP+. Oh – and don’t forget about the new RISE evaluation, a tool that measures a teacher’s effectiveness in a classroom, as well as her student’s performance. With state and federal governments enforcing all of these tests, where is our time to teach? Nowadays, teachers are just concerned about preparing students for the next test, in the hopes their students perform well enough so they can keep their jobs.

It is nice to think that the government stepping in will fix our literacy problems, but that is just unrealistic. There used to be a time when parents would actually start teaching their children before they went off to school – by reading books to them before bed, or teaching them how to write their names. There is only so much a teacher can do. We can only hope that somehow, lawmakers will come up with a better way to test our students.

Sincerely, Danielle Daugherty

As a communication major, I find it vital to be absolute in the way one identifies oneself. Being only a second semester freshman here at Indiana State, I still feel there is much to explore on this campus.

As such, I am leaving no stone unturned.

When one first comes to college, it can be a very intimidating and stressful encounter. Away from home and with no parents on which to fall back, self-reliance and self-responsibility become two of the most important traits a freshman must hone. Without the ability to adapt to the college lifestyle, a freshman might soon find himself/herself to be a “drop-out.”

I, for one, have struggled dearly in this aspect of my life.

Graduating from a small, mostly-white farm town with a class of a 100 or so, it was hard turning around and not finding someone I knew. When I came to college, one can only imagine the culture shock I found when I knew almost no one.

However, that did not stop me. I found myself a niche, a place of comfort around a few good people with whom I got along very well. While I still miss friends from back home, I would not trade my college experience for the world.

With that, I would like to extend a little advice to you that I feel only a freshman can give.

Do not be scared, find comfort in the strangest of places, and never give up. Being in college does not mean you need to run out and party every weekend just because you are away from home. On the other hand, you should never let your stress become too greatly pent up. Being a freshman can be not only intimidating but also overwhelming. You will have your ups and downs, but you have to keep on keeping on.

Do not give up, not even for a second, because for every second of weakness that you show, a second of courage is lost.

Do not be afraid to try new things or step outside your comfort zone.

College is full of refreshing experiences that not everyone has the privilege to take part, so never, not even for a second, take it for granted.

-Morgan Evans

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Economic forecast: Partnerships between education and businesses needed to grow workforce

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Austin Arceo ISU Communications and Marketing Businesses must forge stronger partnerships with education to improve the growing workforce skills gap, Indiana State University’s business dean told members of the local business community.

Brien Smith, dean of the Scott College of Business, suggested to the Groundhog Day Economic Forecast audience that such partnerships would help improve the skills of the workforce that they will need in the future. The forecast event, which was sponsored by Indiana State and the Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce, featured speakers to discuss different aspects of the economy at the local, state and national levels.

Gerry Dick, an Indiana State alumna and president and managing editor of “Grow Indiana Media Ventures”, referenced a statistic that indicated in five years more than two-thirds of all jobs in the U.S. will require an education beyond a high school diploma.

“For all of you, the skills gap is coming, and you know what that means for your industry, for your job, for your company,” Smith said. “So I challenge all of you, let’s all work together. Let’s connect the dots.”

During the event, Dick said that, in northeast Indiana, only 35 percent of residents have an education beyond a high school diploma.

He said there are “lots of examples of how difficult it is for companies to find employees around the state with technical Brien Smith, dean of the Scott College of Business at Indiana State University, skills, but also softer skills: communication talks to the crowd at the Groundhog Day Economic Forecast at Indiana State skills, showing up for work on time, being (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing). able to work in teams, those types of things.”

Speakers also provided insights for the Guell said, with manufacturing faring president of Conley Real Estate Appraisals, coming year. Robert Guell, professor of much better than other sectors. Still, the told the audience that four of the five economics at Indiana State, predicted that unemployment rate in Terre Haute has real estate market indicators he analyzes the economy will continue to “slog along” exceeded the state and national rates for showed improvement over 2012, with the in 2013, likely growing at least 2.5 percent, more than a decade, he said. fifth indicator staying even with last year. with a chance that it might grow slightly Guell explained that Terre Haute more. experienced two recessions in 2000s: the “Go forward, I think things are looking Great Recession, and another recession up,” Guell said. “The election solved many that started when Pfizer announced it was uncertainties, and uncertainty itself, I halting operations in 2007. think was a particular” problem.

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Indiana State University economics professor Robert Guell discusses the state of the economy at the Feb. 2 Groundhog Day Economic Forecast at Indiana State (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing).

“Last year, I said it’s like ‘Groundhog Day.’ I hate coming talking about how it’s been flat,” Conley said. “It’s really nice to come and say things are getting better.”

However, not everything was positive.

Guell told the audience that, in the job growth following the Great Recession, the retail sector has remained dismal.

An increasing number of college students “are either not graduating, or living at home, or when we pull into Starbucks, [are] earning tips on lattes rather than commissions on sales,” he said.

“It is a really scary phenomenon,” especially in light of what Gerry (Dick) said about the skills” gap.

Guell’s presentation was part of The Community Semester, which focuses on the theme “Our Town” and is a way for the College of Arts and Sciences to showcase itself.

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Religious services planned Five student organizations are joining forces to host religious services this week and next week at and around ISU. A Prayer and Praise service Thursday will kick off the “Light the Fire” week of 24-hour prayer.

The service takes place in Dede III beginning at 8 p.m.

A second worship service is scheduled for noon on Feb. 28 in observance with the Collegiate Day of Prayer.

The service will be held at the Christian Student Fellowship building located at 732 N. Fifth St. in Terre Haute.

Both events are sponsored by the Baptist Collegiate Ministries, Chi Alpha Campus Ministries, Christian Student Fellowship, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and United Campus Ministries student organizations.

Sycamore Singers, Symphonic Band offer concert of “Hope and Peace” Indiana State University’s Symphonic Band will perform a concert Thursday of “Hope and Peace,” featuring the music of eight distinctive composers.

The Indiana State University Sycamore Singers will also be featured.

The concert “pays tribute to all those who lost their lives in acts of violence over the last several years, expresses support for the youth in our community and all those who work to achieve peace, and honors the triumph of the spirit of

peace and over senseless violent acts,” said Doug Keiser, associate director of bands and conductor of the symphonic band.

The first half of the program will include “The Quest for Peace” by Philip Sparke. The selection is a tribute to the diplomatic efforts of Adlai Stevenson as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, particularly in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Also included in the program is “An American Elegy” by Frank Ticheli

written after the Columbine High School shootings in 1999. It is a statement of hope in the face of the tragic Colorado shootings.

The second half of the program features Andrew Boysen, Jr.’s “Grant Them Eternal Rest.”

The piece honors the victims and survivors of the Sept. 11, 2001 World Trade Center Towers attack.

The ISU Sycamore Singers will be featured in the piece “Homeward Bound”

by Marta Keen, a number commonly used as an anthem for veterans returning from overseas.

The final featured piece of the concert is the “1812 Overture” by Peter Tchaikovsky that celebrates the triumph of peace over conflict.

The concert takes place at 7:30 p.m. in Tilson Auditorium.

Admission is free.

For more information, contact the School of Music at 812-237-2771.

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Students discuss Ethnicities in the Bible

Whitney Tipton, junior recreation and youth leadership major, leads the presentation on “Blacks in the Bible” (Photo by Day’Jonnae Riggins).

DAY’JONNAE RIGGINS Reporter The Bible has made a major impact on the lives of people of different races, ethnicities and nationalities.

Students, faculty and staff continues the celebration of Black History Month by , “drawing attention to the diversity that is contained in scripture,” Jason Harshbarger director of Chi Alpha Campus Ministries and ISU alumnus, said.

“Often times we falsely assume characteristics of many of those in the Bible,” Harshbarger said.

“Through this study, we were able to reveal the richness, not only of varying ethnicities in the Bible, but also the reality of diversity that is Jesus’ church.”

Whitney Tipton, junior recreation and youth leadership major, challenged people to realize the power of their differences and then appreciate those differences as they follow Jesus Christ during last Thursday’s event, “Blacks in the Bible.” “[Our purpose] is to challenge students to step aside from some of their preconceived ideas about the

Bible and, specifically, the diversity of ethnicities and personalities that constituted the beginnings of the Church,” Harshbarger said.

According to the presentation, there is evidence of several ethnicities throughout the Bible, many from the same families such as Noah’s three sons; Ham, who was black; Shem, who was Arabic and Jewish and Japheth, who was white.

Many students said that learning about the blacks in the Bible was not an “option”. Many said that it was never an “idea” that the characters in the Bible were anything else but white.

“When you sit and think, it makes sense, but nobody ever sits to think there are different kinds of people [in the Bible],” Tipton said.

Senior Brittany Gordon only agreed slightly with the students in the room.

“Through this study, we were able to reveal the richness, not only of varying ethnicities in the Bible but also the reality of diversity that is Jesus’ church.”

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 “When I grew up, we first were taught that Jesus was white, but they also had pictures of different ethnicities. My mom [even] had the last supper with all black people.

So, I think people try to put [the characters in the bible] in their own race,” Gordon said.

Harshbarger said that it is a possibility that people are accommodating the physical attributes of Jesus Christ and many other Biblical characters too much with themselves.

“It seems like the theme in this is that we’re constantly trying to make Jesus and the people of the Bible look like us and conform them to our image instead of being conformed to God’s image,” Harshbarger said.

Additionally the presentation prompted several solutions to embrace the many different ethnicities in the Bible and around the world.

One student said during the presentation that even Jesus was

surrounded by people of all different ethnicities and it would be assumed “he wants the same for us.”

Valerie Craig, program coordinator for Mentoring for Prospective scholars, suggested that sometimes, as a community, people cannot wait for others to come to them, it has to be reciprocated first.

“There is a movie called Crash and there is a saying that we sometimes intentionally crash into one another because we want to feel something, and I’m looking at it from what I am called to do,” Craig said. “I really do feel that people really want to feel something but we have been so desensitized that we don’t think we are supposed to feel something.”

To reach out to and ask how a person is doing could make a person’s day, Craig said.

“Sometimes opening that door gives you the opportunity to become a witness,” Craig said.

A group of students, faculty and members from the local community engage in discussion following the presentation (Photo by Day’Jonnae Riggins).

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Fresh legs hit the ISU track and field team Sports

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Upcoming Events Baseball

Friday - Sunday at Auburn, Ala. for the Auburn Tournament, 3 p.m.

Softball Friday-Sunday at Southaven, Miss. for the Memphis Tourney, 4 p.m.

Track and Field Friday - Saturday at Cedar Falls, Iowa for the Missouri Valley Conference Indoor Championship, 12 p.m.

Men’s Basketball Saturday at Hulman Center vs. Iona, 11 a.m.

Women’s Basketball

Sunday at Hulman Center vs. Illinois State, 2:05 p.m.

Ernest Rollins Editor-in-chief As athletes on the start line place their feet on the blocks only two thoughts are going through their heads: run fast and win. Among this field of sprinters is Indiana State freshman Katie Wise, who has made an early appearance on the Missouri Valley Conference standing as the top 60-meter dash sprinter of the indoor track and field 2013 season.

“If you would have told me she can go 7.42 already, I would have been surprised,” Geoff Wayton assistant track and field and sprints coach said.

Wise said she is a lot busier as a collegiate athlete but enjoys sleeping in and choosing what time her classes were.

“I do a lot more homework than what I did in high school,” Wise said. “We practice more than what I did in high school. It’s more competition at practice and at meets.”

Wise has been running since the fifth grade. Her parents have said she was always fast at even an early age. In the fourth grade she got her first taste of competition on the track and did a fun meet, which allowed younger kids to run in some of the events at a local high school track meet. Her middle school track coach saw her potential and said he was looking forward to seeing her next year. In her hometown, kids were able to start competing in the fifth grade.

“In high school, from a technical stand Freshman Katie Wise is ranked first in the 60-meter dash and second in the 200-meter point, her high school coaches did a great dash as the ISU women’s track and field team goes into the Missouri Valley Conference job,” Wayton said. “She was fresh she enjoyed Indoor Championship (Photo courtesy of ISU Athletic Media Relations). her success but everything is new to her right now.” rankings and second in the 200-meters. She is second on ISU’s Wise continues to run for one simple fact: she enjoys it. Wise said all-time indoor performance list with 7.42 seconds behind current she enjoys winning events and meets. record holder Holli Hyche from 1994 with a time of 7.21 seconds.

“Practices aren’t my favorite but I like the competition,” Wise said.

Wayton said he is very interested for ISU’s 4x100 meter relay team.

“I like to win and I like to run.”

He’s interested in getting Wise, sophomores Demetra Camble, Kaisha Wise’s selling point for coming to ISU was the coaching staff and Martin and senior Macey Black onto the relay team. He believes that members on the team. this could be the fastest relay team since Hyche’s era. He said this “I felt more at home here than other schools,” Wise said. “The group could approach 45 seconds, which could get this team to the team here is like a big family and everyone gets along. When I went outdoor national competition. to other schools like Indiana University I just felt like they didn’t care “It’s fun working with this whole group,” Wayton said. “We have if I was there or not. The biggest reason I came here was for track and the same goals for Camble and Martin. Wise added a real positive I like the coaches a lot. They had my major here and that was a plus.” group dynamic to a group that was already pretty strong.”

At ISU, she has created an undefeated season in the 60-meter Wise said her early successes were due to her hard work at practices dash in the NCAA Division I field and is in first place in the MVC and her confidence teammates and self.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 “I get nervous every meet, but that helps me,” Wise said. “The more competition I have, the better I run. I really didn’t know if I was going to be as fast as I was in high school, but I’ve gotten better. My times have improved already. I just want to win, that’s my goal.”

Wise also shares her love of track and field with the dream of becoming an elementary school teacher.

“I known for a long time I wanted to work with kids,” Wise said. “I’ve thought between nursing or teaching. In high school my senior year I was in a mentorship class and we got to choose where we wanted go. I choose my second grade teacher’s class. I really liked it and I realized that is what I want to do, which is teaching elementary school kids.”

Wayton said their biggest goal this year is for her to have as much fun as possible competing, get a foundation established and keep her healthy for an entire year. To this point, she has surprised Wayton in a positive way. Wise has been hitting gears in races but they still have much to work on. They are still working on technical things and she can get a lot stronger, as well.

“We are trying to get her in the mind set of, “ Hey. I’m an elite athlete,” Wayton said.

“Believing that and executing that just throughout on a day to day basis, but also keep her ground and make each day a learning opportunity for her,” Wayton said.

A native of Morgantown, Ind.,Wise spent her time in high school setting records and being a state champion and state finalist multiple times. While attending Indian Creek High School, she set two individual school records in the 100 and 200-meter dashes and the 4x100 and 4x400-meter relays records. As her time at Indian Creek was coming at an end she had an undefeated season in the 100-meter dash and won the state competition in 2011. Wise also placed third in the 200 meter dash.

“She’s naïve but in a good way. She’s new and it’s very common from kids from small schools,” Wayton said. “It’s about controlling the expectations for her so she can just have fun with this one year journey. My expectations are nothing than what we always kind of preached here from the program. We are always pushing that boulder up the mountain towards each kid’s potential. For some kids, that boulder takes a different path and everybody’s different but with her we are going to do everything we can, from a coaching stand point, to put her in a position to succeed and I do that for every single one of my kids.”

ISU Baseball finish Bulldog Classic with 2-2 record Derek johnson Reporter

The Indiana State Sycamores baseball team opened up their regular season last weekend with a trip to Huntsville, Ala. where they played four games in the 2013 Bulldog Classic. The Sycamores returned home with a 2-2 record, the first time since the 2010 season they have not been swept on their opening weekend of play.

ISU falls in season opener, 0-2 The Sycamores began their weekend with a 0-2 loss at the hands of the IPFW Mastodons at Joe Davis Stadium in Huntsville, Alabama.

Junior pitcher Sean Manaea (0-1) got the start for the Sycamores and pitched into the fifth inning, allowing four hits and one run with six strikeouts and three walks. Sophomore Jacob Hayes and senior Robby Ort combined for the Sycamores only two hits of the game.

With two outs in the bottom of the first inning, ISU looked to get on board first after drawing three consecutive walks to load the bases, but redshirt freshman Jeff Zahn grounded out to the first baseman to end the inning.

Manaea was lifted in the fifth inning after giving up a leadoff walk to IPFW’s Tyler Shepherd, who later scored on a fielding error. The Mastadons added to their lead on a fielder’s choice from Kristian Gayday later in the inning to gain a 2-0 advantage. The Sycamores had another chance to score in the bottom half of the inning as Hayes and Ort recorded ISU’s first and only hits of game with one out. With the two outs and the bases loaded, Zahn was caught looking to end the inning.

IPFW’s Danny Tursell earned the win in relief and gave the Sycamores their third consecutive opening-game loss.

ISU bounces back with a 12-5 win over Alabama A&M ISU rallied around 16 hits to bounce back from their opening loss to IPFW to defeat Alabama A&M last Saturday at Bulldog Field in Huntsville, Alabama.

Senior pitcher Devin Moore (1-0) started the game and earned the victory on the mound for the Sycamores, allowing

five runs on six hits with five strikeouts in five innings. Four ISU relievers combined for a shutout in the final four innings while allowing just two hits. Four Sycamores recorded three hits in the game.

ISU plated three runs in the first inning to jump out to an early 3-0 lead. Though AAMU tallied runs in the first and second innings to make it a 3-2 game after two innings of play, the sycamores were able to score two runs in the third, fourth and sixth innings and one more in the fifth to take a 10-2 lead heading into the bottom of the seventh.

Junior Cody Zimmerman hit a two-run triple in the top of the ninth to secure the 12-5 road victory.

Sycamores split doubleheader with Morehead State The Sycamores were able to split their doubleheader with Morehead State on Sunday at Joe Davis Stadium to return home with a .500 record.

Morehead State defeated the Sycamores 6-5 in game one to earn their third straight win in the tournament, but ISU was able to rally for a 7-5 victory in game two.

In game two, the Sycamores faced a 4-2 deficit. Junior Owen Conway led off the inning with his first career home run over the left field wall. Three batters later, junior Robby Ort drove a pitch into the left-center field gap to give ISU a 5-4 lead. The Sycamores then took advantage of two Morehead State errors that allowed two additional runs in the eight inning, giving ISU a 7-4 lead heading into the final frame.

The Eagles were able to score a run in the ninth, but it wasn’t enough to spark a comeback.

Junior Josh Dove (1-0) earned the win in relief after entering in the eighth inning and closing the game in the ninth with the go-ahead run at the plate.

The Sycamores will return to Alabama next weekend where they will play a three-game tournament hosted by Auburn University. They will face College of Charleston on Friday, Middle Tennessee State on Saturday before finally closing out the weekend in a match-up against with Auburn on Sunday.

Senior Robby Ort up to bat for the Sycamores. (Photos courtesy of ISU Communication and Marketing).

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Women’s golf grabs victory at Ann Rhodes Invitational

ISU golf team wins Ann Rhoads Invitational. (Photo submitted by McCall Christopher).

Kevin Jenison Athletic Media Relations The Indiana State women’s golf team captured their second tournament title of the 2012-2013 season and did so in a big way, winning the 2013 BSC Ann Rhoads Invitational by 21 strokes over one of the best Division III teams in the nation.

Indiana State opened the tournament with a round of 311 on Sunday to take first place, holding onto that position with a 321 on Monday to finish with a 632 total.

“There was much more difficult weather today,” said Greg Towne, Indiana State women’s golf coach. “Emily Dixon, McCall Chistopher and Reece Feducia made the All-Tournament team. It was kind of scrappy but the women hung in and got it done.”

Christopher opened with a 77 on Sunday and came back with a 79 on Monday to finish with a 156 total and second place. She was followed by teammates Feducia and Dixon who were third and fourth, respectively. Feducia opened with a 75 on Sunday but fell back with an 82 on Monday for a 157 total while Dixon opened with a 78 and shot 81 on Monday for a 159 total.

It was the second career top five finish for Christopher and her second best career finish after tying for first at the end of regulation play of the 2011 Payne Stewart Memorial. Feducia missed the fall campaign but played well in her first outing of her senior season to capture her sixth top five finish of her career. Dixon now has three top five finishes with two coming this season.

Christina Beyerl made the biggest move on the team during Monday’s final round. The senior shot an 85 on Sunday to enter Monday’s round tied for 21st. Beyerl came back with a 79 on Monday to finish just outside the top 10 as she tied for 11th with a 164 total. Gina Della Camera

rounded out the Sycamore competitors and tied for 17th. Della Camera shot an 81 in Sunday’s opening round but backed up a little on Monday with an 86 to finish with a 167 total.

Harding University’s Brittany Marquez was the individual medalist as she shot a 71 on Sunday and survived an 81 Monday to finish with a 152 total. Methodist’s Kelsie Carralero tied Dixon for fourth at 159 with Harding’s Emily Plyler and Montevallo’s Morgan Natale tied for sixth (160), Methodist’s Jennifer Sullivan was eighth (161), Jackson State’s Stevie Booker ninth (162) and Catawba’s Leslie Long rounded out the top 10 (163).

Methodist University and Harding University tied for second with 653 totals while the University of Montevallo was fourth at 667. Birmingham Southern finished fifth (675) with Catawba College sixth (694), Jackson State University seventh (704), Spring Hill College eighth (731), and the University of New Orleans rounded out the team standings in ninth (742).

“Hopefully the weather will break soon in Terre Haute and we can get out and get some short game work in,” Towne said. “I think we improved significantly from last year. We still have a lot to do but it was a good start.”

Indiana State will be off until they compete in the SMSU Spring Invitational at the LPGA International Legends Course in Daytona Beach, Fla., March 14-15.

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Indiana State’s fan section gets out of their seats as junior guard Dawon Cummings attempts a shot from behind the arc at the “Whiteout” game Tuesday.

NO WHITEOUT WIN FOR INDIANA STATE

A close battle between Missouri Valley Conference leader Wichita State and third place Indiana State ended with the Sycamores losing their first home conference game of the season.

The Shockers (23-5, 12-4 MVC) extended their winning streak to four games after slipping by the Sycamores (16-11, 9-7 MVC) 66-62. This is the second loss at home for the Sycamores this season, the first coming at the hands of New Mexico State in overtime.

The game tied 11 times and the lead changed hands seven as the teams battled Tuesday night.

Indiana State had three players in double figures. Junior guard Manny Arop scored 17 points and had nine rebounds. The Sycamores’ next leading scorers were junior guard Jake Odum with 15 points and junior forward R.J. Mahurin added 13 points.

The Shockers had four players with 10 points or more. Cleanthony Early was the leading scorer for Wichita State with 19 points followed by Malcolm Armstead with 18 points.

The Sycamores outscored the Shockers from the field shooting 41 percent (2049). However, the Shockers led in defensive stats with four blocks and eight steals. In addition, Indiana State had 16 turnovers to the Shockers nine for the night.

Junior guard, Dawon Cummings puts down Next up for the Sycamores is Iona College as part of the Ramada Worldwide a dunk after an ISU steal leads to a fast BracketBusters. Tip-off is scheduled for 11 a.m. in the Hulman Center on Feb. 23. For break. (Photos by Mae Robyn Rhymes) preview coverage and an extended look at Tuesday’s game, pick up the Friday’s issue of the Indiana Statesman.