February 25 2015

Indiana Statesman For ISU students. About ISU students. By ISU students.

Volume 122, Issue 59

McCauley sentenced

Kristi Ashby News Editor

Calvin McCauley has received a fouryear prison sentence for the shooting in Lincoln Quad last fall.

McCauley, a 21-year-old from Indianapolis, is a former Indiana State University student. His case appeared in Vigo Superior Court 6 on Monday with Judge Michael Lewis presiding.

Joseph Newport, ISU’s chief of police, participated in the investigation of the shooting incident.

“We [ISU] appreciate the importance Judge Michael Lewis placed on this incident,” Newport said. “He specifically acknowledged this happened on the ISU Campus, how serious it was and how much worse it could have been.”

The shooting happened on Sept. 27, 2014, when victim Tevin Moore was shot in the left buttock. The two were involved in a gambling dispute before the shots were fired.

Moore, a 20-year-old, was also a student at Indiana State and a resident of Indianapolis. He was treated at Union Hospital the night of the crime.

McCauley was originally charged with attempted murder, which was changed to aggravated battery on Oct. 2, 2014.

On Monday, McCauley started with aggravated battery and battery by means of a deadly weapon. He pleaded guilty to battery by means of a deadly weapon, a level-five felony. This has a sentencing range from one to six years in prison.

In the plea deal the aggravated battery charge was dismissed.

“In a few years, Calvin McCauley could have been preparing for graduation from this university,” Newport said. “Instead, he’ll be leaving the Indiana Department of Corrections with a violent felony conviction.”

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Spotlight shines on ISU’s theater department Adler Ingalsbe Reporter Indiana State University’s theater department is one of the many choices for students and continues to put in the work on stage for the audience to see.

Dr. David Valdez, a theater instructor, plays many different roles for the department, from teaching to directing and much more.

“I am a faculty member during the school year, teaching theater courses in analysis, leadership, producing and a foundational studies course for non-majors,” Valdez said. Dr. Arthur Feinsod, a professor in the theater department, also plays a big role as he directs and even teaches courses in the Honors Program on campus.

Both have earned many different degrees at other universities and now are vital in making the theater department at ISU a success.

“I have been here since August 2001 and I came in as chair of the department.

I was chair for eight years and was Artistic Director of Crossroads Repertory Theatre for thirteen years, from 2001 until this past summer. I got my bachelor’s at Harvard, my master’s at UC Berkeley and my Ph.D. at New York University,” Feinsod said.

“This is my first year as theater faculty here at ISU. I received my masters of fine arts in Theater from Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida,” Valdez said.

Valdez knew leaving the state of Florida was the right move when he learned about ISU and liked everything they had to offer.

“As I approached graduation at [Florida State University], I realized how integral academic institutions were in my journey to becoming a successful arts administrator,” Valdez said. “I think the industry is moving in a direction where obtaining a

Indiana State’s theater department gives students the opportunity to perform on stage in front of audiences and hone their skills (Photo by ISU Communications and Marketing).

higher education degree is an imperative step in the process. To that end, I loved how the theater department at ISU maintains a liberal arts philosophy, setting students up to be successful both in the business and elsewhere. The students are committed; the faculty is very gifted. It seemed like a great place to be, and I am happy to be here.”

Valdez enjoys the team aspect of everyone coming together to put the best show available on stage. The only downside he’s found so far is the number of people the department has to turn away every semester because of the popularity of it.

“I love the level of collaboration the theater department maintains,” Valdez said. “It really does take a village to produce the final product, or what you eventually see on stage as an audience member. It’s important for students and community members to understand how much work goes into everything we do

— it’s not just a few actors fooling around on stage; directors, designers, stage managers, scholars, administrators and a lot of other people make it happen. Once people understand that, they appreciate it more.”

The theater department’s popularity among students is a boon as well as a curse, Valdez said.

“If I had to dislike something about the theater department, it would be that we can’t bring in more students for our nonmajor classes,” Valdez said. “Our classes always fill up immediately because they are so popular, and we just don’t have the human resources to expand our class load. Which, I guess, is a good problem to have.”

He said once his students give it a try, they end up falling in love with it.

“Theater is a transformative experience in many ways; I find that once my students try it out, they love it,” Valdez said.

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Public library west branch seeks funding for new location

Shan’te Benamon Reporter

The Vigo County Public Library is in the process of approving funding for the relocation of its west branch, located in West Terre Haute.

Kristi Howe, the west branch library director, is very involved in the process of moving the west branch.

“The new location will be adjacent to the community center and has much more space,” Howe said.

The current location of the branch is a small building built in 1948, which is in need of improvement.

“The building we are currently in is only about 2,000 square feet,” Howe said.

The library wants space to accommodate more people since many go to the west branch library because they do not want to drive into Terre Haute.

“The cost for opening the new west branch is approximately at $750,000,” Howe said. “This includes purchasing property, remodeling, new computers and furnishing.”

The goal is for the Vigo County Public Library to open its new location before the end of the year. They are currently

working on the funding process. Securing funding is a multi-step process and the library board has to go through the city council before starting the project.

“The new location will allow us to do a lot of things on the other side of the river that we haven’t been able to do,” Howe said.

The library will not be as big as the main branch located in downtown Terre Haute, but will have much more space than the

current building. It will be a manageable size for people who prefer not to walk as much.

“It will be nice to have a modern but manageable-size library,” Howe said.

The library plans on better meeting the needs of West Terre Haute as well as ISU students who reside in West Terre Haute.

Robin Crumrin, the library dean at Indiana State University, thinks the new location is a good idea.

“I think the new location will be a positive impact, especially for students living in West Terre Haute, because it provides another place to study and access to computers if they cannot make it to campus,” Crumrin said.

Indiana State University and the Vigo County Public Library are partners and share pooled resources to provide the library catalog and technical support.

The new branch will accommodate more materials, though neighborhood branches tend to focus more on recreational needs than educational.

“The new location will have more public computers for electronic resources, and will also have delivery items,” Howe said.

The west branch library directors will meet the day after the next city council meeting hoping to approve the library’s move.

“There will be a multi-step process for final approval to sell the bonds for the project,” Howe said.

ISU officials have not yet discussed helping raise funds for the west branch, but will talk to Howe to see if there is any way they can assist.

acceptance and safety.

Sean McCool, a junior studying elementary education and Spanish education, is the director of programming and historian of Spectrum.

“There are multiple identities that fall inside or outside of the gender binary which can include a gender, which is not identifying with a gender, bigender, or switching between two genders,” McCool said. “It mainly encompasses the transgender umbrella, which is anyone who’s not a male man or a female woman.”

People do not get to choose if they are comfortable with the genitals they were born with, however, the spectrum helps them find where they are most comfortable identifying.

“People do not choose where they fall,” McCool said. “It is usually where they most relate. It can be from self-experiences with where they are comfortable.”

When choosing a non-binary gender, pronouns can change from what has been

the norm. It is important to respect the pronouns a person wants to be used for them. “‘They,’ ‘them,’ and ‘their’ are the pronouns I prefer to be used for me,” McCool said. “There are others as well [such as] zer/zir, xer/xir.”

Respecting pronouns can make people feel safe and accepted. However, that is not the only way.

“A lot of people fall into the transgender non-binary, and they feel unsafe because of many reasons,” McCool said.

“One example is here at ISU. The school’s environment doesn’t have gender-neutral housing, restrooms and locker rooms. It isn’t always easy for a person who looks different from the gender they identify with to walk into a bathroom that they may not be accepted at.”

Some people believe that the spectrum does not exist; some believe there are only the two genders: male and female.

“The institutionalized ideas of sex and

gender being the same is why there is disbelief,” McCool said. “A lot of people think man and male are the same, so they think every male-bodied person is a man because of centuries of being only told of two genders. It’s getting outdated.”

Though some students can feel uncomfortable on campus, Spectrum strives to provide a safe place for anyone.

“Where you’re homosexual, hetero, pan, ace, we are a place you can feel safe, have fun, and learn,” McCool said.

The Drag Pageant is an event that will be held April 22, in the Dedes. Fliers will be posted around campus for the event.

Spectrum meetings are Tuesday nights in the Hulman Memorial Student Union 407 at 7 p.m. They welcome new members every week.

“You can be super deep in the community and know all of the pronouns and all of the sexualities, or you can know nothing, we will welcome everyone,” McCool said.

The Vigo County Public Library plans to relocate its west branch. The new location will be across from the community center (Photo by ISU Communications and Marketing).

Spectrum supports all students, sexual identities

Morgan Gallas Reporter

Gender and sexual identity are not as clear-cut as they were in the past.

A Huffington Post article analyzed a survey asking how people felt about gender being a spectrum.

Spectrum means that there are not just two choices — male and female — but many in between.

“The survey, which polled 1,000 people between the ages of 18 and 34 on topics including politics and race issues, found that 50 percent of millennials felt that gender is actually a spectrum, and that ‘some people fall outside conventional categories,’” the article said.

These numbers are higher than in years past. The other 50 percent are split.

“While 46 percent said they believed people can only identify as ‘two genders, male and female,’ 4 percent said they didn’t know,” Huffington Post said.

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Mars colony project to take flight by 2024 24 volunteers to set out for space mission It’s finally happening.

I’ve been ranting and raving since this year first started about how we’re nearing closer and closer to living inside an early science fiction flick and it’s finally happened.

Not my incarceration into an insane asylum, the sci-fi thing.

Specifically, we are Columnist finally going to Mars.

Well, not you and me, unfortunately. Humanity in general is going up there to colonize it. That’s right — we’re going to colonize Mars.

Mars One is a Dutch-funded project with the intention of sending six fourman crews to Mars every two years starting in 2024.

The idea being that each group will work on building stations and facilities until all 24 folk can live on Mars.

Eventually they hope to establish a fullfledged colony.

As of right now, out of the original 200,000 that applied, 100 finalists have been announced. From here, they will be training until only the 24 lucky pioneers remain.

Part of why they are waiting until 2024

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is to enable enough proper training.

These finalists are not astronauts; they range from scientists and academics to managers and farmers. So they’ll need all the training they can get.

Another, more important reason is that, based on a recent MIT study, it is unlikely the crews could live more than 68 days if they rely on our current technology. So giving the world’s technology a chance to catch up with humanity’s dreams is indeed part of the wait.

Have I mentioned that this trip is oneway? Even if we had the technology to get them back, it’s unlikely that the explorers would be able to bring enough equipment to make a station for returning to Earth.

So why would anyone want to forsake their friends, family, their entire lives just to ship up onto a desolate red rock that they might not even live past two months on?

The same reason the Vikings and Columbus came to America: to find prospects of new land, sure, but more

than anything for a few of the finalists who have been interviewed, it’s the adventure, and I’m inclined to agree.

Had I known about the project when they were taking applications, you can bet your eyes I would’ve signed up. This is the chance to explore — truly explore — new lands and horizons.

These brave folks aren’t sailing across an ocean to a place already lived in and they aren’t doing it for their country.

They are being shot into the great unknown for no profit beyond the literal progression of humanity’s reach. We have been writing about going into the stars for centuries. We’ve read about this exact scenario in some of our classes and it’s finally happening.

Not in some distant decade or millennia like our novels; it’s being done within nine freaking years. Will these people live through their trials and establish a literally otherworldly Plymouth Rock, or will they become a space-age Roanoke Island? Only time will tell, but these people have the balls

The idea being that each group will work on building stations and falculties until all 24 folk can live on Mars.

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to try, and we should too.

It seems like most of the wars these days have been around the Middle East, over gas, borders or holy land, but why?

Why fight over the same spot of earth we’ve been fighting over for centuries?

Why not follow the course of our ancestors and look outward to new lands that are untapped?

We need reasons to work together so we don’t have to fight for the resources and we assume the lands are barren. If we all work together to go to Mars — or any planet, really — our countries could share in the oil/gas/whatever so we may share in the glory of true space travel.

As for the “barren” Mars, we only know the surface isn’t anything to utilize, but we’ve no idea what’s beneath until we can start drilling. If nothing else we should be backing this and making copycats because of the glory and history-making. What do we want to leave for our children and our children’s children: an Earth used up fighting over a desert?

Or do we want to give them the ability to choose between planets, maybe even go back and forth like we can from country to country? If the thought of that alone isn’t enough to make you want to at least consider it, then you best go find a coffin because you are dead inside.

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Letters to the Editor

Compromise won’t kill us, but a witch hunt will Dear Editor,

Recently, meaning two weeks ago, President Barack Obama touched down in Indiana for a brief period of time.

While this may be unremarkable as people touch down in our little slice of the Bible Belt every day, what becomes largely disturbing is the general reaction of our state to our president’s arrival.

It seemed that literally anyone who had a basic comprehension of the English language took up pen and pad or keyboard and blog to flame the president with incorrigible hate-speak, striking at the commander’s very existence, with commentary on many major news outlets ranging from WTHI, CNN and Fox News to name a small handful that you can find on your most basic Google searches.

I have neither the knowledge nor the ability to properly debate the political, social or economic effects of most of President Obama’s actions in the oval office. Let that be known right now. I am not attempting to assert that the President is the political messiah that many of us approached him as in the early days of the 2009 election nor as a Don Quixote figure charging in on his donkey to defend us from the evil ne’erdo-wells that a handful of us presumed him to be still in his 2012 election. But what he is, is our president.

While I will not stand here on my mound and claim that he is just another

man, considering that he represents our entire nation in the face of the world, that alone does not make him a superman.

Is he to be held at a higher degree of responsibility? Yes. Is he to be held to a higher degree of scrutiny? Yes. But I would challenge my fellow Hoosiers to take two steps back and realize what we are scrutinizing him for.

If we can demand the Head of State’s head because he rolled up his sleeves during a community address, where is it that we must draw the line in the sand?

But the president’s address is only one fraction of the discord that has come to infect our great nation — a phrase that seems to get kicked around more than most soccer balls. We fire off “In God We Trust” and “We the People” faster than Yosemite Sam does bullets. Just because we’re patriotic does not mean in any way that a divine figure sits in the bleachers with a “Go USA!” sign.

We happen to share our belief that our country is awesome with a handful of others too — Canada, Belgium, Germany, Israel, Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Brazil, just to name a few.

What we don’t share with the very vast majority of these countries is thus — we are so obsessed with drawing our aforementioned line in the sand and doing whatever it takes to make sure that we prove that we are right that we’ve completely forgotten why the line exists in the first place.

That got a bit confusing. Let me reiterate — to your left, we have Group One, who believes that equality and fairness must trump all, that the needs of the many must be above the few, even at the cost of personal liberty. On the right, we have Group Two, who believes that personal liberty and rights are the single most monumental and important part of our world.

That the idea of a large ruling faction is nothing less than a king trying to impose rule when we are already perfectly logical, sane and rational beings who can balance our own checkbooks while managing our own kids. It really shouldn’t be too hard to figure out whom I am talking about.

What is interesting, though, is the fact that these two groups are relatively proximal. Both want the same general idea — a healthy and safe nation that is led by civil-minded, intelligent humans and allows for some level of cooperation among its citizens. Aye, but herein lies the rub, for in that overly simplified definition of the bipartisan system lies an increasingly drastic chasm which I have come to refer to as “compromise.”

What both intrigues and infuriates me as an American citizen and as a human is that the United States built one of the greatest and most controversial political systems in the history of ever.

We thought ourselves so high and mighty that we could be the greater fool and win. The greater fool, for those of

you who don’t know, is an economic term. In the stock market systems, the greater fool is that guy who stupidly takes the high-risk ends, believing that he or she can sell for a greater price than was bought. He’s the last guy left standing in musical chairs. She’s the first up for the patsy. This country was founded on greater fools. And I personally believe it’s time we remembered that.

Enough of this belief that says because I am a Democrat, I want to see the country crumble under its own economic debt; or that because he is a Republican, he believes he’s doing God’s work to keep anything non-W.A.S.P. out of this good land.

There’s a witch hunt now, more than ever, from both sides. Politicians have turned into target boards where bloggers, writers and the public take aim and fire. Since when does “bipartisan” mean “political xenophobia?” ‘Us versus them’ doesn’t mean we kill the other side. It means we work together to get what is best.

But on the off-hand chance that I’m nothing more than a vehement young student rambling on because I’m simply young and full of bravado, then let the parties stand. After all, what’s the worst that could happen?

atmosphere was pretty exciting itself.

What I am going to complain about is their treatment of the Bingo caller. It was apparently this man’s first night calling for Bingo and, personally, I thought he was doing fine. Others, however, thought Speed Bingo should be the default.

Although instead of calling for Speed Bingo, cries of “Pick up the pace” and “You need to go faster” were prevalent.

I do not take issue with these people wanting the game to move faster, the night did eventually go to Speed Bingo

as the default and I can’t argue that it wasn’t more enjoyable at that point.

This does not excuse those actively heckling the caller.

Some especially appalling audience members clapped and cheered when the caller took a break and allowed another to take his place.

It is a mystery to me how some people can possess themselves to be so outright rude to another person, going so far as to cheer at their removal. It is unfortunate because I now hesitate to attend another

Bingo night due to the audience’s treatment of this individual.

Despite this, those running the event seem to enjoy what they do and take pride in the events they put on. More power to those people if this is the sort of lot they deal with regularly at their events.

Sam Clark ISU Senior

Rude student heckling ruins bingo game night Dear Editor,

On Thursday, Jan. 19, I attended the Glow in the Dark Bingo night at the Hulman Memorial Student Union’s Dede I. For the most part, this was an enjoyable experience, despite playing the universal game for the elderly.

What was not enjoyable, however, were some of the other attendees. I’m not going to complain about them being loud and excited, because despite the fact that we were playing Bingo the

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Sycamore Smash to help stick it to eating disorders Kayetlin Shady Reporter Sycamores are scheduled to smash out eating disorders at the Sycamore Smash event on Thursday at 5 p.m. in Dede Plaza. Students are encouraged to bring their own scales to smash, although a few will be provided. Students will decorate and smash scales to redefine health without numbers.

Melissa Grinslade, a staff counselor in the student Counseling Center, wants a lot of students to attend the event.

“The Sycamore Smash is meant to be an empowering event, taking the power back from the scale and redefining our beauty, fitness and health through a means other than that number,” Grinslade said. “Too often we give that number too much power by allowing that to define us. Everybody has looked at a scale at some point. Seeing that number and it has told us something that wasn’t positive. Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, our wellness goes beyond weight and it’s time that we start acknowledging that.”

Although the Counseling Center participated in National Eating Disorder Association Awareness Week last semester, this is the first time they have held the Sycamore Smash event.

Grinslade and other students brainstormed the idea of smashing scales in order to help deal with body image.

“I have a planning committee with students on it that got together and talked about some of the things that are out there and the different things we could do,” Grinslade said. “The students gravitated toward the scale-smashing, so we

started to make that happen.”

Grinslade realizes that eating disorders are hard for many people to talk about, so she began a conversation around campus.

“We have started a conversation on campus and we are trying new things to keep the conversation going,” Grinslade said. “Eating disorders have a stigma attached to them and it’s hard to talk about them. People who struggle with disordered eating patterns or are actually clinically diagnosable eating disorders don’t like to say that out loud because they feel like people are going to look at them. All too often I work with students who do not feel that they fit the stereotype of an eating disorder and they don’t feel like they deserve that title.

People don’t understand that you can’t look at somebody and tell if they have an eating disorder. The number on the scale doesn’t even tell you if they have an eating disorder necessarily. We tend to see the stereotypical image of an eating disorder but that’s not what it looks like.

Eating disorders don’t discriminate.”

NEDA Awareness week allows students to get out, learn and talk about eating disorders.

Hayley Clark, a freshman technical theater major, said she is glad that the Counseling Center takes eating disorders seriously.

“I think it is good that the student Counseling Center is doing events like this,” Clark said. “You are around so much negativity for body image and even kids that have that … ‘perfect body’ they still feel pressured to do things. I feel that it is good to have these

programs to just remind you that it doesn’t matter what you look like or what you do but it’s about accepting yourself and having that support.”

The Counseling Center will be in the HMSU Vestibule and the Commons every day this week with different events.

Wednesday is “Wellness not Weight” where students can define themselves without numbers by decorating a paper scale then doing what they want with it — whether it be tearing it to shreds or having a daily reminder to not stress about body image.

Thursday is “Sock it to Eating Disorders,” where participants are asked to wear crazy socks. If students don’t have any crazy socks, they can stop by the table for a free pair.

The table is also offering screeners.

Students can take a free screener to see if they exhibit patterns of eating disorders. If so, they can get help at the student Counseling Center.

The student Counseling Center also has a “Healthy U” group along with Yoga for Emotional Balance at the Rec Center. For more information, students can contact the student Counseling Center at 812-237-3939 or by going to their office located on the seventh floor of HMSU.

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SPORTS

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Poor fan conduct can ruin the game for everyone Rob Lafary Sports Editor

One of the luxuries of being a broadcaster and a writer who covers an NCAA Division I team is that I have my own personal seating during games.

I’m either in a press box or sitting at a long table occupied by my fellow media peers. It’s even better that I have some distance away from the typical fan who pays for a ticket to sit there and watch a game.

Let me be the first to say that I absolutely despise most sports fans and solely place the blame for that on all the youth league and high school games I’ve covered and sat through in my life, where I had to deal with a plethora of self-proclaimed know-it-alls who felt the need to scream at coaches, players and officials over the dumbest things.

These are the same people who are constantly complaining about one thing or another. It’s always either the official’s fault, the coach’s fault or it’s because little Johnny or Julie isn’t getting enough playing time or not getting the ball. This makes for consistent screaming and whining, which to me draws away from what should be an awesome sports experience.

By this point I’m sure you think I’m an awful person for thinking fans completely ruin sports. That’s OK — I’ve learned to embrace hate. But in case you are still hanging on to the slightest bit of hope in what I believe in, let me give you a perfect example of fan stupidity at its finest.

Indiana State men’s basketball had no problem handling Southern Illinois on Saturday at the Hulman Center, disposing of the Salukis 78-58 in front of a surprisingly decent crowd that braved the snow and ice to come out and watch the game. For a venue that typically brings in quieter and smaller crowds than a funeral home, this particular day had some good energy and a solid buzz by the start of the game.

That all changed with 8:35 left in the first half. As the Sycamores held a 20-15 lead, Southern Illinois came down on an offensive possession that immediately turned ugly when Saluki forward Bola Olaniyan blatantly gave out a forearm to the face of ISU forward Justin Gant

While members of ISU’s student section and The Forest support our teams at games, some fans practice unsportsman-like behavior that can disrupt other fans’ enjoyment of the game (Photo by ISU Communications and Marketing).

at the top of the key. The act instantly prompted officials to check the video monitor and assess Olaniyan with a Flagrant Two foul, which automatically results in ejection from the game.

While Indiana State fans were more than happy with the call, an older member of the Sycamore faithful sitting behind the Southern Illinois bench decided to use the moment to express his more-than-enthusiastic displeasure with the foul toward the Saluki coaching staff directly.

It was a gesture that SIU head coach Barry Hinson noticed and spoke of in his press conference following his team’s loss.

I’ve seen this fan before at games while I have broadcasted. I’m not sure who he is but does have a tendency to be a loudmouth and always sits behind the visiting team’s bench. His personal

platform toward Hinson and the Salukis about lack of sportsmanship was uncalled for, especially when Hinson himself was displeased with Olaniyan’s stupidity — and the fans’ too. “[Olaniyan] hit him … in the face,” Hinson said. “One guy’s on my a-- behind me saying ‘Great sportsmanship Hinson,’ and if he thinks for any time or any moment that I coach my ball club like that, he’s an idiot. I’ve never done that and I’ll tell you right now if the assistant coach told me he did it on purpose regardless of what the officials would have done, I wouldn’t have played him. I don’t need somebody telling me ever that I coach that way or have our guys do that. That’s b------t. I’ve never done that before in my life. I don’t need some fan telling me that.”

What’s the moral of the story? I’m not real sure there is one. Is there a lesson

to be learned? Probably not. It’s not like this is going to put a stop to all hollering at sporting events. But if there is anything that can be taken away from Saturday’s incident, it’s to know that there’s a time to be loud and proud and a time to just shut up.

Go out and attend games. Have fun, cheer your team on to victory and enjoy the experience, because when the house is rocking and the crowd is on its feet, the atmosphere can’t be beat. For a school like Indiana State, who needs its fans desperately to support such strong athletic programs, I encourage you to be that kind of fan.

But don’t end up like Old Man River sitting behind the Southern Illinois bench. Make Indiana State a fun and respectable place to visit for games. Have some fun, but show some class in the process.

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Sycamores and Shockers set for showdown Zach Rainey Sports Reporter This is it. The game every Sycamore basketball fan has had circled on their schedule since the day it was released.

It’s been over a year since the last matchup in Terre Haute, where the crowd was absolutely electrifying.

Manny Arop was on total heat check in the first half. Arop hit a jumper at the halftime buzzer with his toe on the line to send the Sycamores to the locker room trailing by one against the No. 2 team in the country.

The Sycamores were within four with 46 seconds to go, but that’s as close as they would get.

ISU lost 65-58 and the hatred for Wichita State lived on for another year.

Friday, the Sycamores have a chance to steal one against a team ranked 11th in the nation.

Even though Wichita State isn’t in the national spotlight as much as they were last year, they still have a big target on their backs to everyone at ISU. Everyone on this roster will have to give their absolute best to win this game.

Even though there are only two games left in the regular season, these two games could play a part in Indiana State’s seeding in the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament.

The Sycamores currently sit third in the MVC, holding a one game lead over Evansville and Illinois State. In their previous matchup this season against Wichita State, the Sycamores lost by 17 on the road.

Even though they were able to contain Ron Baker, they let Fred VanVleet run wild, scoring 21 points while adding six rebounds and four assists. They also let senior Darius Carter put up 17 and snag seven rebounds.

If the Sycamores can’t get scoring out of all five players on

ISU will take on the Wichita State Shockers in a much-awaited matchup 7 p.m. Wednesday (Photo by ISU Communications and Marketing).

the floor at any given time, they need to get defense out of them.

Wichita State has so many weapons that it’s impossible to stop all of them.

The Sycamores will need Justin Gant and Jake Kitchell staying out of foul trouble and attacking the boards for every rebound.

Khristian Smith has proven to be the team’s best rebounder

lately, recording seven in his last game against Southern Illinois.

Smith is going to have his hands full with whichever Shocker guard he is assigned to. With Smith’s size and physicality, he could give Baker or Tekele Cotton problems.

It would be great to see the big men get going early in the paint.

The Shockers like to run with four guards and one forward.

They get out and run the floor but sacrifice size to do so.

Get Gant and Kitchell going early and force them to play one or two of their true big guys to get one of their high energy guards off the floor.

Brenton Scott has been leading the way for the Sycamores on his way to earning his third Missouri Valley Conference Newcomer Of The Week.

The Sycamores will definitely need to get Scott and Devonte Brown going in this game. They will be asked to play hard on both ends of the floor and if everyone buys in, we could see a special feat.

The game tips off at 7 p.m.

Wednesday. The game can be heard locally on 95.9 WDKE and 90.7 WZIS. Video will be provided by ESPN3.