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Indiana State University senior Julian Winborn, a columnist for the Indiana Statesman, has won first prize Students gave ISU high marks for service learning on the National Survey for Student Engagement (ISU Communications and Marketing photo). for his contest entry submitted University freshmen and seniors surveys were outstanding, said Joshua KATIE FARTHING Reporter to Press the participate in the National Survey for Powers, associate vice president for President, Results in national survey indicate Student Engagement [NSSE] to assess student success. an online ‘‘The results revealed most notably that Indiana State seniors and freshman students’ engagement in effective collaborative educational practices. that community engagement/service are pleased overall with the university’s blog.

Last spring at Indiana State, 637 learning is indeed extraordinarily strong commitment to service.

The goal of the freshmen and 633 seniors completed at Indiana State, real affirmation of the Every three years, Indiana State contest was to the NSSE. The results of the University’s CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 promote political journalism JULIAN WINBORN among university students on newsworthy topics.

The Lady Sycamores headed to Missouri on shutting Missouri State down. Indiana ALEX MODESITT Sports Editor Those who entered competed for the State Friday for a matchup with the Lady State was able to hold the Lady Bears first prize of $500, second prize of $250 The Indiana State men’s and women’s Bears. Indiana State came into the game to just three field goals and 13 percent and third prize of $125. basketball teams hit the road this past hoping to get the same results they got shooting in the first half.

Winborn’s entry “A Step Towards weekend looking to improve their in their previous matchup with Missouri The defensive pressure allowed the Bank Accountability” discussed an seeding for the upcoming Missouri Valley State, a 74-57 thrashing of the Lady Bears. Lady Sycamores to build an early lead issue he cares about that allowed him Conference Tournament and bolster their From the opening tip it was obvious and impose their will on the home team. to showcase his writing abilities. case for a berth in the NCAA Tournament. that the Lady Sycamores were focused CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 CONTINUED ON PAGE 8

Sycamores continue quest for solid tournament standing

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Political finger pointing: But with all the mudslinging, are American citizens distracted from the real issues?

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All that jazz: Festival

brings pros and beginners together PAGE 10

Just a fad: Dieting

shouldn’t be one of your weight loss options PAGE 13

Unstoppable: Softball sweeps all four games in weekend tournament PAGE 16

NEWS

Wednesday, February 26, 2014 • Page 2 News Editor, Andrew Christman isu-statesmannews@mail.indstate.edu

Networks Financial Institute helped shape Federal Insurance Office report Dave Taylor

work in understanding the evolving 21st Century financial services landscape and its impact on the world economy.

Indiana State University’s Networks For that reason, NFI’s recommendations Financial Institute provided significant have been and will continue to be taken input into the Federal Insurance Office’s seriously by Director (Michael) McRaith recently released report on and members of his staff,” modernizing and improving Schmelzer said. insurance regulation.

Brien Smith, dean of the For more than a decade, Scott College of Business, is NFI — an outreach of breaking new ground and Indiana State’s Scott College creates a new federal role in of Business — has been insurance regulation. working to answer challenges “It makes a strong case surrounding the financial for Congress to launch a services industry. A 2011 federal initiative to improve NFI policy brief provided insurance regulation,” Smith detailed recommendations said. “We are pleased that for the insurance office’s the college and NFI had the congressionally-mandated “We are pleased expertise in this area to be report on how to respond that the college able to play a vital role in to questions posed by the and NFI had the shaping this report.”

Dodd-Frank Wall Street NFI’s strongest expertise in this recommendation Reform and Consumer was for the area to be able new Federal Insurance Office Protection Act. The act brought the most to play a vital to focus on the insurance sweeping changes to U.S. role in shaping industry and not become financial regulations since with financial this report.” preoccupied the 1930s. NFI’s analysis services issues that are not and recommendations made relevant to, or do not make an important contribution sense for, the insurance Brien Smith, to the Federal Insurance dean of the Scott sector, said John A. Tatom, Office, said Roger Schmelzer, an NFI consultant and president of the National College of Business former research director for Conference of Insurance the institute.

Guaranty Funds.

“The insurance office report follows “NFI has established itself among this recommendation well,” Tatom said. federal policy makers for its thoughtful “While it provides an excellent review

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of the issues surrounding the failure and bailout of AIG, it downplays the notion that the insurance industry is a source or victim of systemic risk and that it requires close attention from federal regulators overseeing systemic risk regulation.

Apparently, the office has followed our recommendation that it become a central proponent and educator for the unique role and characteristics of the insurance industry.”

The report points out the relatively high cost of the state-based system and its lack of uniformity despite the efforts of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. It suggests that Congress take strong measures to force uniformity if states do not act quickly and effectively.

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when the error occurred.

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importance of regulating on a consolidated basis and strengthening the ability of regulators to monitor large companies across both national and domestic borders.

The report recommends that the office “engage in supervisory colleges to monitor financial stability and identify issues or gaps in the regulation of large national and internationally active insurers.”

The insurance office indicated in its report that it will conduct a new study of the use of personal information for insurance pricing and coverage.

The office said it will also work with state regulators to establish new pilot programs for rate regulation seeking to “maximize the number of insurers offering personal lines,” and will work to develop personal auto insurance policies for U.S. military personnel that are enforceable across state lines.

The office’s recommendations for

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immediate federal action include passage of the National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers Reform Act of 2013 and that the Treasury Department and the U.S. trade representative pursue an agreement for reinsurance collateral requirements.

The office also recommends the development and implementation of federal standards and oversight for mortgage insurers, many of which failed

“We are proud of the work NFI has done since its launch in 2002 and look forward to many more years of thoughtful, well-researched input into oversight and regulation of the financial services industry,” Bradley said.

In addition to leading debates on regulatory reform, “NFI’s national reputation in the insurance sector has led to nearly 100 percent placement in well-paying careers for Indiana State’s financial services graduates,” “NFI’s national reputation in the Bradley said. institute’s flagship event, insurance sector has led to nearly itsThe 10th Insurance and Public 100 percent placement in well- Policy Summit, is set for paying careers for Indiana State’s March 12 at the Ronald Reagan financial services graduates.” Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. Michael McRaith, director President Daniel J. Bradley of the Federal Insurance Office, will be the keynote speaker.

He is expected to focus on the content of his office’s new as a result of the foreclosure crisis that report and the influence it will have on began in 2006. the direction of insurance regulation.

President Daniel J. Bradley said the Congressional representation at university is pleased that the institute had the summit will include Rep. Randy a influence in the report to Congress.

Neugebauer (R-Texas), chair of the

House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance and Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), member of the Senate Banking Committee.

State regulators will be represented by Monica Lindeen, Montana state auditor and president-elect of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

Representing the industry will be Tim Pawlenty, chief executive officer of the Financial Services Roundtable, and Leigh Ann Pusey, president and CEO of the American Insurance Association.

Other speakers scheduled to appear are Peter Gallanis, president of the National Organization of Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association; Kevin Nixon, managing director, regulatory affairs, Institute of International Finance; Peter Wallison, senior fellow, American Enterprise Institute; and Martin F. Grace, the James S. Kemper Professor of Risk Management and associate director and research associate at the Center for Risk Management and Insurance Research at Georgia State University.

Details about the summit, including registration information, can be found at www.isunetworks.org.

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national award we received this year from Washington Monthly,” he said.

Powers said that the university’s scores on this may be extraordinarily high compared to other institutions.

“Although NSSE officials don’t report it, students rated these kinds of experiences so much higher than others that I wonder if we may have the highest scores nationally on this important example of a high impact practice,” he said.

Not only does the university rank high with community engagement/ service, but the results show that large numbers of students have participated in an internship or field experience, which is another high impact practice that research shows benefits students.

The survey also collects information that helps the university to improve.

“What we also learned through the results are opportunities to strengthen what we provide faculty in support of their teaching, something that has launched this year through Faculty Center for Teaching Excellence,” Powers said.

The 2013 results showed that Indiana Meines recently looked at the results State is slightly lacking when it came of the survey, especially Indiana State’s to advising services, individual results, and especially when it was pleased with what comes to students who he saw.

“I am a third-semester are sophomores and “I am a thirdolder. The university semester senior, so I senior, so I took the is currently devising survey last spring. I am so took the survey last a plan to improve spring. I am so glad that c o m m u n i c a t i o n glad that the university the university has taken b e t w e e n has taken the input about the input about poor upperclassmen and advising and is doing poor advising and is advising staff. about it. I doing something about something Indiana State uses usually complain about it. I usually complain taking these surveys, the information from the survey to inform but this time it was well about taking these both the institutional surveys, but this time it worth my time,” he said. and college levels.

The survey is used to For example, the was well worth my time.” provide data to colleges faculty advising and universities to discussions that are assess and improve Jeff Meines, senior underway now are undergraduate communication major designed to help education, report inform what may to quality assurance emerge as changes to this process for and accreditation efforts and facilitate sophomores and beyond. national benchmarking.

Senior communication major Jeff Since its launch in 2000, more than

1,500 four-year colleges and universities in the US and Canada have participated in NSSE, with 586 U.S. and 27 Canadian institutions in 2013.

The results of the 2013 survey have been recently been released, revealing national and international feedback on the education practices and student engagement on college campuses. The national results are based on about 350,000 randomly-sampled freshmen and seniors that have taken the survey through an online portal.

Sophomore English major Hanna Scheild took the survey last spring and said she felt uninformed as to why she was asked to take it. However, finding out the results has made it worthwhile.

“I had no idea what I was taking. But, as a freshman, you are asked to take a lot of surveys, so I did it anyway. After finding out what it was for, I am glad that I did,” she said.

The next survey will take place in the spring of 2016. For further information on the survey, students can visit http:// nsse.iub.edu.

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Campus life officials strive to keep students closer

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“We’re going to be showing ‘Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ on Saturday A team composed of Campus Life and Sunday at 8 p.m. in Dede 1,” Luers and Student Organizations members said. “There are going to be additional is making plans they said will get more movies shown throughout the rest of the students involved on campus at Indiana semester.”

State University.

Other activities will include a yearFreda Luers, director of Campus Life, long Sycamore Cinema film series and said she and her staff are trying to raise road trips to various locations across the and enhance awareness of programs Midwest. students can participate in.

“These will include Pacers basketball “We really want to games, Paoli ski trips, promote what we do,” “The ultimate benefit Chicago and St. Louis Luers said. excursions of these efforts is to culture Luers said that another and increased student part of the plan is also ensure that students performance series to try and get students find their place through Sycamore who tend to leave during within the university, Sessions,” Moore said. the weekends to stay on Moore said students campus and participate whether it is through who are more engaged in in activities, such as the their residence hall, a campus life have a greater Saturday afternoon bingo student organization, sense of connection to that took place just this last a leadership program Indiana State and are more week. likely to stay in college, Brooks Moore, associate or student activities.” graduating at a higher rate. dean of students and “The ultimate benefit of student engagement, is Brooks Moore, associate these efforts is to ensure also a member of the team students find their dean of students and that that is helping to expand place within the university, student engagement whether it is through their student activities on campus. residence hall, a student “The areas of emphasis include student organization, a leadership program or activities, leadership development, student activities,” Moore said. student organization advancement and While the team is just having their first weekend programming,” Moore said. official meeting this week, they will be “There are also expanded programs in making plans for the rest of the spring partnership with Residential Life that semester and starting to look toward the provide multiple events focusing on fall. providing cultural, social, recreational, Students will also be able to plan their and educational programs for ISU’s own events through student organizations residential students.” and can contact Freda Luers with ideas at Aside from these examples of programs, (812)-237-3830.

Luers added that movie viewings are “We are giving students the opportunity going to be made available, even before to plan themselves as well,” Luers said. Staff in Campus Life hope that activities like bingo and exclusive film showings will keep the movies are officially released. students planted at Indiana State University over the weekends (Statesman file photo).

“All they need to do is contact us.”

OPINION

Statesman editorial

Wednesday, February 26, 2014 • Page 6 Opinions Editor, Samual Clark isu-statesmanopinions@mail.indstate.edu Editor-in-Chief, Brianne Hofmann isu-statesmaneditor@mail.indstate.edu

Political agendas keeping society dancing on tiptoes

As we see the second half of President Barack Obama’s four-year tenure approach, political parties are beginning to debate possible candidates for the 2016 campaign.

Now, we’re not sure how many of you have tried to run for office, but it’s pretty difficult. Just ask anyone who’s won Student Government Association’s presidency. All that chalking doesn’t happen on its own.

But this column is not about us stepping into the foray as upcoming presidential candidates. This is a pondering thought that has been rolling about society for some time now — why is it that because we don’t agree, we’re supposed to hate each other?

Now, this argument can be taken much, much further than simple Republicans versus Democrats; going anywhere from music lovers claiming one band’s legitimacy over another to an argument over the existence of another dimension beyond a black hole.

But two topics, politics and religion, stand apart from all others as the most aggressive battles yet. These avenues are so touchy that according to modern etiquette, you’re not even supposed to address your specific beliefs in a professional environment. They even made up a cover-all term for that belief, and guess what it’s called — politically correct.

You can’t even align yourself with one side or the other without automatically becoming forced into one specific niche.

Since when does being a conservative mean you’re a prisoner to vulgarities?

Timothy Stanley, a Historian Scholar at Oxford University, asked this exact question in a CNN Opinions blog. Stanley was addressing Ted Nugent’s comment to Obama, calling him a “subhuman mongrel.” This was not the first time that the ex-rock star has attempted to bash

Obama and the Democratic Party. In their sexual orientation” 2007, Nugent announced during a live If you think Indiana has “done goofed” concert that “Obama’s a piece of s**t and with House Joint Resolution-6 and now I told him to suck on my machine gun.” -3, be grateful we’re not putting the Yeah . . . see, we get it that you’re a homosexuals at the back of the bus. big time rock star and all, Nugent, and Ignoring our personal vendetta with we’re not asking you to never ever curse, HJR-3, but none of us are saying it’s but really? Calling out the Democratic fair to deny a human a basic right. To presidential candidate like that? We’d lay create a policy based off of “No shirt, no down $20 that says his big mouth just shoes, no homosexuals” just because you might have lost him his campaign for disagree on one point, that’s just sick. governor of Michigan that year.

If memory serves, wasn’t there a doctor Stanley goes on to point out that somewhere who said something about “what is disturbing is that some serious how he had a dream? I think he might be Republican politicians think that he a little perturbed by the fact that Arizona matters and are happy to count him just said that it’s OK to bring back Jim among their endorsements — as though Crow as long as it’s used against the gays. selling records and getting angry make And don’t think that we’d just let the him a spokesman for the masses. democrats skate by unannounced. Our Animal from the ‘Muppets’ also speaks dear president has seen his fair share his mind, but we’ve yet to of oopsie-daisies. Don’t see him headlining a rally “Our major struggle even get us started on now appears to be the National Security for Chris Christie.”

Shame about Animal, that we are trying Association — though too. We’re certain that to shove all this grey we’re fairly confident whomever snags our one will take the bet space into a tiny no favorite drummer since that Hoover didn’t have Travis Barker probably black and white box.” his fair share of personal is taking our hearts with recordings on literally him, or her to be politically correct. everyone.

All joking aside, Nugent isn’t the only We can go on and on about who did one to hoist the elephant out of the the dirty this time, but when it comes deep end. In much more recent news, down to it, we’re all guilty somewhere. the Center for Arizona Policy and the There was a poet, once upon a time, who Alliance for Defending Freedom — a said some crazy mess about throwing radicalist Christian organization — stones inside of glass houses. And that made a play at putting legislation through seems pretty fair to us. that would allow local business owners Now it’s no secret that both parties to discriminate against homosexuals. have their own agendas. That was the And it passed. very reason for their creation. But both Arizona state senate democratic party’s foundations have become so minority leader, Anna Tovar said in blurred that we’ve forgotten why they an interview last week, “With the were created. We’ve gotten to this sort express consent of Republicans in this of stupor somewhere between the Red Legislature, many Arizonans will find Scare and the mass development of the themselves members of a separate and Internet. We forget to think about more unequal class under this law because of than just the surface value of the issues.

We keep seeing trip-wires such as HJR-3 and freaking out over the initial scare about homosexuality, leading to a huge screaming match when we need to consider topics such as, “How will this affect the community’s employment records and what will happen to the urban community when half the population leaves?”

But much of that stems from this evermore graceful tip-toeing that we have taught ourselves when we realized that we needed to be careful about what we say.

This extreme sense of self-assurance that we have a “handle” on the world is what is rapidly leading us into a rather painful spiral downward.

We’re finding more and more political bloggers and writers who are “biased” and claiming they can no longer represent the people, when we clearly have forgotten that political writing has always been biased.

Our major struggle now appears to be that we are trying to shove all this gray space into a tiny black and white box. So much of our bipartisan system wants to throw these third-party candidates into the back drop so we only focus on the familiar images of “Bible-thumping” Republicans and the “big buisnsess” Democrats, thereby feeding back into the vicious cycle.

In the end, there’s so very much more than just these two very basic ideas. There’s an infinite level of middle ground that we’re just not exploring, for whatever reason. And it is truly a shame.

Because when we as people fail to step up and take initiative to see beyond the basic principles, demanding more than our two mainline candidates, we will see others do so for us.

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We would like you all to simply mull over the words of the 1964 Republican presidential candidate, Barry Goldwater.

In his 1981 speech to the U.S. Senate Goldwater outlined his personal belief on mixing certain fanatics with politics, specifically those of a religious affiliate.

He outlined how they refuse to budge on issue, because they feel they are inherently

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correct due to their affiliation.

Goldwater carried on, saying “If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both.

“I’m frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral

person, I must believe in “A,” “B,” “C” and “D.” Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?

“And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I

am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of “conservatism.”

Be careful, Sycamores. We as a people hold a lot of power. Make sure it’s not used for the wrong reason.

Video game developers try indie route, forgetting fans Many game developers have balked at the new generation of video game consoles rearing into the market. These consoles show off little to no improvement and only present a bulkier form.

One such person is the recently independent Cliff Bleszinski. For those you not in the know, Columnist of Bleszinski — or Cliffy B, as the gaming community calls him, and no I’m not joking — was the creative director and driving force behind the “Gears of War” series, as well as a vocal advocate for user-friendly games.

Since his departure from Epic Games Studio, many in the industry and gamers have tentatively waited to see what the man will do next. Earlier this week, he spoke and announced he will focus entirely on making video games for PC only, his reasoning being that, “That’s where the community is … The trend will always be the core.”

He said that none of his future games are going to be released on physical discs or copies, instead they will be strictly digital downloads; specifically saying, “I’ll never make another disc-based game for the rest of my career, and [at E3] they’re trying to woo buyers from Target and Walmart.”

This is almost directly following Ken Levine, the creative driving force behind the “Bioshock” series, shutting down

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his studio, Irrational Games, to focus on “smaller games … exclusively on content delivered digitally.”

For those of you not within the gaming community, allow me to explain their reasoning from a developer’s perspective.

Next generation consoles demand updated and improved graphics, engines, physics, virtually all new software and hardware and must be on a disc that can be read by the machine; which means a whole new line-up of manufacturing.

Follow this up by consoles generally only wanting “triple A games,” meaning the equivalent of Oscar bait or summer blockbuster-sized games and you have most video games never making back what they cost.

For instance, Epic Games’ first “Gears of War” game was a major hit, and it still failed to make enough money to justify company growth. Even then, the industry is incredibly unfair to the developers when it comes to rewarding AAA games.

Obsidian Games had to fire much of their production team because “Fallout: New Vegas” failed to be rated .5 percent higher than it was.

All of this combined causes creativity to be sucked out of most big-budget games because they can’t afford to fail.

This causes developers like Bleszinski and Levine to want to work with the independent groups within the PC community because they can easily make games with a handful of people at little cost and little censorship.

Don’t believe me?

Notch built “Minecraft” when there were less than seven people in the company. This is a game that is essentially virtual “Survivor” plus “Legos.” The game would’ve been laughed out of existence if it was made anywhere else.

Having said all this, I take issue with Bleszinski claiming that targeting “Walmart” with game discs isn’t where the “real” community is. I’m not defending Walmart, gods no; I’m defending physical copies for two reasons.

First, there’s something appealing to having a whole shelf of games in the same sense of having a shelf of books. I don’t know how to describe it but if you have one of these you understand what I’m talking about.

Secondly, many gamers simply can’t afford to keep updating their computers and/or pay digitally. I personally couldn’t play less than half of my favorite games on my computer; but I can on my Xbox 360.

I also resent not being a part of the “real community” because I don’t like ordering things online that I can’t pay with cash or can’t afford.

I’ve been playing video games since I was four years old and my dad introduced me to “Gunstar Heroes.” To say I’m not a part of the gaming community because I don’t use PC is just plain stupid.

I agree that going independent is awesome, but many gamers can’t afford PC gaming. So way to be elitist, Cliffy B.

Video game developers are racing to PC gaming for more developer freedom, but fans will have to pay the cost, and many may leave (Photo courtesy of clipart.com).

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FEATURES Continued FROM PAGE 1

“I heard about Press the President and the contest from my boss at The Statesman, Rachel McClelland,” Winborn said. “As a political columnist, I was immediately interested in writing for a political blog and figured that I would just go ahead and submit something for the contest. But I seriously was not expecting to actually win anything!”

Scott Sobel, a judge for the contest, deliberated through a number of competitive entries to find the winners.

“All of the entries were outstanding and showed a considerable amount of research and thoughtfulness,” Sobel said. However, Winborn’s entry “also exhibited creativity, thoroughness and an efficient writing style that really drove home the writer’s points.”

Press the President is a worldwide forum for unfiltered debate about U.S. issues that affect the globe. The site’s founders have created a space where writers can express their opinions freely and are interested in finding people who want to make their voices heard from the White House to Main Street.

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Wednesday, February 26, 2014 • Page 8 Assistant Features Editor, Alejandra Coar isu-statesmanfeatures@mail.indstate.edu

Feature Briefs

New scholarship offered to nurses Indiana State University is offering a new scholarship for registered nurses seeking to complete a bachelor’s degree.

The-$500-per semester award is part of an ongoing effort by the College of Nursing, Health and Human Services

to meet the growing need for skilled health care providers.

To qualify for the scholarship, prospective students must work in Vigo County, enroll in six credit hours per semester and maintain a 3.0 grade point

average or higher.

Priority will be given to candidates who apply by April 15. Scholarships may be renewed each semester pending funding and merit. For more information, contact the baccalaureate

Terre Haute mayor to host open forum on Friday The public and is invited to a question-and-answer forum with Terre Haute Mayor Duke Bennett, hosted by Professor Matthew Bergbower during a program from 3:30-5 p.m. Feb. 27 in the Community Conference Center of Federal Hall. Questions will be fielded and facilitated by students from the department of political science. This

event is co-sponsored by the Scott College of Business, the American Democracy Project and WFIU. Community Semester events are free and open to the public. A complete list and description of the Community Semester’s activities may be found at: http://www.indstate.edu/ communitysemester.

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Indiana State Student Success Spotlight

Fresh voices: Student shares first-year reflections

Aaron Schaidle Freshman nursing major

It’s pretty hard to be successful anywhere, especially in college.

When I started my first semester, I was overwhelmed by new classes and the pressure to perform well in them.

Furthermore, I became a part of many different extracurricular activities which made it hard for me to manage my time. As the weeks progressed, I slowly learned how to make the most out of the opportunities presented to me. The most important lessons I took from my first semester were to stay on top of schoolwork and to keep getting involved on campus.

As far as classes go, grades were always my first priority. I knew that I came to college to get an

education which would hopefully lead to a job.

When I wasn’t studying, I tried to get involved In order to land that future job, I devoted a large in student organizations. I joined Alpha Tau amount of time to my studies.

Omega and had a lot of fun during my pledgeship.

The most effective way I I also joined Sycamore found to keep earning good Leadership Coalition, where “The most important grades was to treat studying other freshman like myself like a full-time job, from 8:00 lessons I took from my first learned how our student semester were to stay on government works and helped a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

I worked as much as possible top of schoolwork and to plan activities to help get on homework, projects and interested in campus keep getting involved on students readings. Sometimes I would life. campus.” have to study more, and other By staying ahead in school times I managed to get ahead and staying busy, I got the of my classwork. But after five, I was free to do most out of my first semester, and I hope I can do whatever I wanted. it again this spring.

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Scholarship concert features Indiana State composers Paula Meyer

ISU Communications and Marketing Tickets are now available for the Indiana State University School of Music’s 23rd annual Wind/Percussion Scholarship Concert at 7:30 p.m. March 6 in Tilson Auditorium.

The concert will feature the Wind Orchestra, under the direction of Roby George, and premieres the works of three composers with ties to Indiana State — Dan Powers, Alexis Bacon, and Kevin Howlett. The program also features an arrangement of “Plenty of Horn” by former director of bands, John Boyd.

Works on the program include Powers’ “Intrada,” “Shadows” by Howlett, and Bacon’s “Suite for Band.”

Powers teaches composition at Indiana State and is the composer in residence and violist for the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra.

His catalog of works includes compositions for orchestra and chamber groups, as well as songs and choral works.

He has received commissions from the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra (“Symphony No. 2”) and the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra (“Irresistible Force”), saxophonist Paul Bro (“Riding the Wind” and “Peel Out!”), the Indiana State University Wind Quintet (“Impulse,” recently recorded on CD), and others. In 2003, Powers was the first winner of the Ned Rorem Award for Song Composition.

In addition to his activities with the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra, Powers is a member of the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic and Danville Symphony Orchestra.

Bacon is a violist and composer of electroacoustic and acoustic music.

She has been the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including the 2010 Ossia International Composition Prize.

Her work “Cradle,” for alto saxophone and tape, was the first-place recipient of the 2007 ASCAP/SEAMUS student composition commission, for which she wrote “Cowboy Song” for percussion and tape. During the summers she

serves as Instructor of Music Theory and Electronic Music at Interlochen Arts Camp. She has taught at West Texas A&M University and Indiana State.

Howlett, a senior music liberal arts major at Indiana State, has composed solo works, works for chamber and large ensembles as well as electronic music. His music has been performed by numerous student groups at Indiana State as well as several of the School of Music’s performance faculty.

Howlett is a two-time recipient of the Paul W. Hagan Composition Prize in 2009 and 2011.

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Admission is $5 for students and $20 for adults. All proceeds go to fund scholarships for wind/percussion students.

Tickets may be purchased at the door or in advance from the band and music offices.

Musician Kevin Howlett (center) is one of the For more information, call the School featured composers at the scholarship concert of Music at 812-237-2771.

(Photo courtesy of ISU Communications).

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Area bands jam at festival

Above: Students in the Castle High School Wednesday Jazz Ensemble performed during Saturday’s Jazz Fest. Right: Pharez Whitted of The Pharez Whitted Quintet plays for local bands in attendance.

Whitted is the director of jazz studies at Chicago State University. Below: Another member of the quintet, Greg Arty, keeps the beat during their performance. The group critiqued middle and high school bands from Terre Haute and surrounding communities that day (Photos by SaBrandi Powers).

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Wednesday, February 26, 2014 • Page 12 Sports Editor, Alex Modesitt isu-statesmansports@mail.indstate.edu

Continued FROM PAGE 1

Holding the Lady Bears scoreless for nearly five minutes through the middle of the first half allowed ISU to build a 32-18 halftime lead.

Missouri State came out of the half hoping that the Sycamore defense would ease up, but ISU continued to pressure the ball and force turnovers that the Lady Sycamores turned into 14 points.

Junior forward Chelsea Small led the way in rebounding for the Sycamores with eight and chipped in with two points. Indiana State also got the edge in points in the paint 36-12. Junior forward Racheal Mahan and sophomore forward Marina Laramie led the charge down-low with 12 and 18 points respectively.

The Lady Sycamores cruised through the second half and took home a 73-37 victory.

“Give the kids a lot of credit,” Coach Teri Moren said. ”I thought they just did a tremendous job defensivel . . . We had to piece some things together in the first half and we played a solid first half, and then I thought in the second half we kept our foot on the pedal and that was nice to see.”

The Indiana State men’s team followed the women’s team out to Missouri State and met their conference rival on Saturday with less impressive results.

Missouri State jumped out to a quick 5-0 lead before allowing junior forward Demetrius Moore to convert a lay-up over four minutes into the game. The Bears and Sycamores went back and forth, each scoring in spurts during the first 10 minutes of the game, before Indiana State allowed Missouri State to rattle off 13 straight points to extend the Bear lead to 29-14.

Indiana State shot a lowly 27.8 percent in the first half and committed 12 turnovers.

The Sycamores converted 15 of their 16 tries from the free-throw line in the first half but carried a 37-26 deficit into halftime.

The Sycamores stormed out of the half and went on a 9-4 run. The Bears countered with four straight of their own to grow the lead back out to double digits.

The Sycamores continued to push

STATESMAN RUNDOWN Indiana State: Men’s Basketball vs. Missouri State 77-66 (L) Women’s Basketball vs. Wichita State 63-51 (W)

Recent Contests: Men’s Basketball Record vs. Wichita State 65-58 (L) vs. Drake 60-56 (W) vs. Bradley 68-62 (W) vs. Southern Illinois 60-57 (W) vs. Evansville 59-54 (W)

After losing to rival, the Missouri State Bears, 77-66 over the weekend, the men’s team is still looking for a top seed in the Missouri Valley Conference (Photo by Gary Macadaeg).

Missouri State and cut the lead to five, trailing 59-54 with five minutes left in the game. That is as close as the Sycamores would get the rest of the game and would wind up losing 77-66.

Senior guards Jake Odum and Dawan Cummings led the Sycamores in points with 14 and 12 respectively.

No other Sycamores scored in double figures.

The Indiana State men’s basketball team heads to Normal, Ill. today to battle the Redbirds . The game is set to begin at 8:05 p.m.

The Lady Sycamores wrapped up the weekend of basketball action by heading out to league-leading Wichita State.

Indiana State headed out west looking to avenge a 20 point loss they suffered to the Shockers earlier in the season.

The Lady Sycamores blasted out of the gates taking a 10 point advantage early in the first half and led for most of the contest. A three-pointer by junior guard Stephanie Whitman and a layup by senior

guard Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir forced the Shockers to take a timeout down 16-6.

The Sycamores found themselves in foul trouble and gave up a 13-1 run to end the half. The run allowed Wichita State to take a 22-21 lead.

Indiana State came out of the half and battled their way to a 26-26 tie. Junior forward Jasmine Grier hit a jumper three minutes into the second half and gave the Sycamores a lead they would never lose.

The Sycamores would go on to win 63-51.

Grier and Abdul-Qaadir led the way for the Lady Sycamores scoring 22 and twelve points respectively. They were the only two Sycamores in double figures but Abdul-Qaadir managed to dish out 11 assists to complete the double-double.

The Lady Sycamores return home for a weekend stint Friday at the Hulman Center where they’ll face Loyola at 7:05 p.m.

After one day’s rest, the Lady Sycamores will do battle with the Braves of Bradley University Sunday at 2:05 p.m.

Women’s Basketball Record vs. Loyola 58-71 (L) vs. Illinois State 50-53 (L) vs. Southern Illinois 72-35 (W) vs. Evansville 63-56 (L) vs. Missouri State 73-37 (W)

Overall records: Men’s Basketball Rankings Wichita State 29-0 Indiana State 21-7 Missouri State 18-10 Illinois State 15-12 Northern Iowa 13-14 Bradley 12-17 Loyola 9-19 Evansville 11-18 Drake 14-14 Southern Illinois 12-17 Women’s Basketball Rankings Wichita State 22-4 Indiana State 15-10 Northern Iowa 15-11 Loyola 9-17 Illinois State 8-16 Missouri State 12-14 Evansville 11-14 Bradley 6-19 Southern Illinois 4-21 Drake 1-12

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Fad dieting: a gimmick that’s hazardous, unnecessary If you have ever stayed up until 3 a.m.

— studying I am sure — and flipped through the channels on TV, you will run across multiple infomercials. Well, that and reruns of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Most of those annoying, but strangely addicting, commercials are attempting to sell you something that is Nutrition Columnist “guaranteed” to benefit your health.

More specifically, many of them have to do with easy weight control.

Weight-loss efforts support a multimillion-dollar industry. So no wonder we are constantly bombarded with new diets, ideas, and products that will make this dream come true.

However, most of the time these diets yield no results or more commonly provide temporary results.

Fad diets are techniques that focus on fast and stress-free weight loss or other

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desired results. They are not practical approved by a doctor of some sort. You for long term health, no matter how probably would not take diet advice from appealing they may seem to be. half of the professors that have their Practicing these techniques has also doctorates, right? been called yo-yo dieting Many plans will have and is associated with gimmicks, such as not cardiovascular problems eating after 7 p.m., eat and usually results in a grapefruit before “Losing weight or half weight regains larger each meal, or only eating being healthier than the weight that was Special K products for two lost. Severely restricting should not be done out of three meals. Adding calories or specific piece of grapefruit before through dieting at aeach nutrients can lead to meal of scarfing down decreased metabolism. all. Nobody needs to pizza and doughnuts will be on “a diet.” You probably not be helping Once you know what you are looking for, fad diets need to think of it as anyone. are easy to spot and stay Other plans will more of a lifestyle cause away from. you to make strict change. ” Generally fad diets will limitations. It may tell make a guarantee of some you to avoid specific food sort. They will promise a groups, like the Atkins quick fix such as “seven diet or a gluten-free days to Skinny Jeans.” diet. A gluten-free diet is Referencing infomercials again, many only beneficial if you are, in fact, gluten of them will have a celebrity or “actual intolerant or have celiac disease. customers” give enticing testimonies.

The Atkins diet or other low Also, do not be fooled by a type of carbohydrate diets are not practical diet or meal planned just because it was because that cuts out your body and

brain’s main source of energy. This will cause your body to draw energy from other sources, which sounds appealing if that other source is fat stores.

But that is not what your body it meant to thrive off of; it can successfully function but not for long. It may just work temporarily because many already overweight participants previously chose snack cakes and other processed, fattening carb choices.

The main reason why some of these solutions do seem to yield results is because choosing to follow one of these plans is making a commitment to being conscious of what you are eating. This can cause confusion between causation and correlation.

Losing weight or being healthier should not be done through dieting at all.

Nobody needs to be on “a diet.” You need to think of it as more of a lifestyle change.

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Sycamore Baseball keeps it rolling with a trio of wins Kevin Jenison ISU Athletic Media Relations to third before Zimmerman drove a twoVersus Lipcomb

The Indiana State baseball team recorded their fourth straight victory and opened the Mule City Classic with a 10-6 victory over the Lipscomb Bisons Friday at Ken Dugan Field at Stephen L. Marsh Stadium on the campus of Lipscomb University.

Indiana State used five pitchers in the game with Kurt Kudrecki (1-1) earning his first victory of the young season in going 5.2 innings and allowing a run on three hits while striking out seven and walking six. Josh Dove worked an inning, A.J. McElderry an inning and a third, and Nick Kolarik a third of an inning. Ryan Keaffaber worked the final two-thirds of an inning to earn his third save of the year.

Junior center fielder Landon Curry has now hit safely in the first five games of the season as he led off the game with a single for Indiana State. Curry raced around the bases to score when red shirt junior right fielder Jacob Hayes drove a pitch off the left field wall for a double and a 1-0 Sycamore lead.

Hayes picked up two more RBI in the top of the third with the Sycamores’ first home run of the season over the right field fence.

Indiana State picked up three more runs in the fifth. Hayes led off the inning as he reached on a wild pitch after swinging on a third strike. He stole second and went to third on another wild pitch before scoring on an RBI single to right by junior third baseman Brian Romero. Senior shortstop Tyler Wampler followed with a single but was out on at second when red shirt junior Connor McClain hit a fielder’s choice. Romero and McClain both scored on a triple into the right field corner by red shirt sophomore Jeff Zahn.

After Lipscomb scored a run in the bottom of the fifth, the Sycamores came back with one of their own in the top of the sixth. Curry walked to open the frame and advanced to third after Hayes bunted and reached safely on a throwing error by the Bison’s catcher. Senior catcher Mike Fitzgerald was hit by a pitch to load the bases before Wampler walked to score Curry from third.

Indiana State made it 8-1 in the seventh as Zahn led off with a single and advanced

out RBI single through the middle of the infield.

Lipscomb scored two in the seventh and two in the eighth to cut into the Indiana State advantage.

The Sycamores were able to gain two of those runs back in the top half of the ninth. Zahn led off the inning with a double and advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt by red shirt junior second baseman Derrick Hannahs. Curry was hit by a pitch and stole second before Zahn scored and Curry went to third on a wild pitch. Curry scored on Zimmerman’s second RBI single of the game to put Indiana State up 10-5.

The Bisons added a run in the bottom of the ninth and was threatening before the Sycamores stopped the rally and posted their fourth straight win.

Versus Belmont

David Stagg won his second game of the season while Ryan Keaffaber earned his fourth save of the season as the Indiana State Sycamores defeated the Belmont Bruins 4-2 in the Mule City Classic Saturday at Rose Park on the campus of Belmont University.

Stagg (2-0) went seven innings for the win, giving up two runs on four hits while striking out a season high 11 batters and walking just one. Tyler Browning took over in the eighth and worked just a third of an inning in giving up a hit and a walk before Ryan Keaffaber came on to earn his fourth save of the season. Keaffaber shut down the Bisons with a strike out and a walk.

Jacob Hayes led off the Sycamore fourth by sending a 0-2 pitch over the right center field fence for his second home run in two games. The Sycamores were not done scoring in the fourth as Mike Fitzgerald walked, Jeff Zahn singled and both advanced a base on Tyler Wampler’s sacrifice bunt. McClain loaded the bases after being hit by a pitch.

Hannahs came through with a two-out double off the left centerfield fence that cleared the bases and put the Sycamores up 4-0.

Belmont picked up a pair of runs in the sixth when Drew Ferguson hit a lead-off home run, Alec Diamond followed with a double and scored on Nick Egli’s sacrifice fly to center.

Versus Middle Tennessee State

Indiana State Baseball headed to Tennessee for the weekend and came home with three more wins to add to their record (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing).

The Indiana State baseball team recorded their sixth straight win of the season as they claimed the unofficial championship of the Mule City Classic after shutting out the Middle Tennessee State University Blue Raiders 9-0 Sunday at Reese Smith Field.

“I thought we played just well enough to win Friday night and Stagg threw well Saturday and we got just enough hits to win a game,” said Mitch Hannahs, Indiana State baseball coach. “Brad Lombard was sick a couple of days coming into today’s game and it was a gritty, gritty performance by him today. Eberle’s pinch hit was big for us and McClain’s home run really got us started.”

Lombard improved to 2-0 on the season as he went 7.0 innings in shutting out the Blue Raiders on four hits while striking out three and walking one. Trent Lunsford worked the final two innings and did not allow a run on one hit while

striking out and walking one.

The long ball got the Sycamores going in the second inning as junior left fielder McClain cleared the right field fence with a three-run home run. Brian Romero reach first with a one-out single and advanced to second when Wampler was hit by a pitch before McClain’s at-bat.

One more crossed the plate in the third as Curry led off with a double, went to third on a Zimmerman single and then scored on a Hayes sacrifice fly to left.

Indiana State increased their lead to 9-0 in the seventh as Hunter Smith scored on a Hannahs sacrifice and McClain on a Taylor Steen single through the right side of the infield.

Indiana State continues their road show next week with a mid-week contest at Southern Illinois UniversityEdwardsville on Wednesday and then a three-game set at the University of New Orleans over the upcoming weekend.

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Indiana State wins four games in weekend tourney Blaine Kinsey

ISU Athletic Media Relations The Indiana State softball team (3-3) got off to a quick start in the Tiger Classic Saturday as they defeated Youngstown State (3-3) 5-4 and Dayton (2-7) in their first two games in Nashville, Tenn.

“It was fun to get outside and get some good weather,” head coach Shane Bouman said. “The girls played with a lot of energy and enthusiasm, especially in the second game. It was good to get a couple wins under our belt.”

GAME ONE

The Sycamores got on the board first in the top of the first inning as freshmen Erika Crissman and Kassie Brown led off the game with infield singles and advanced one base on a wild pitch. Crissman then scored on an RBI groundout by senior Shelby Wilson to give the Sycamores a 1-0 lead.

Youngstown State answered back in their half of the first as they led off the bottom of the first inning with a solo home run to tie the game 1-1.

In the top of the third inning the Sycamore offense struck again with four consecutive singles to lead off the inning to give ISU a 2-1 lead.

Indiana State tacked on three more runs in the top of the fourth inning to extend their lead over Youngstown State to 5-2.

Junior Megan Stone led off the inning with a walk and advanced to second on a wild pitch and third on a groundout by junior Yvette Alvarez.

Crissman finished the game 3-4 with an RBI and two runs scored while Brown was 2-4 with an RBI. Alvarez earned the win in the circle while sophomore Taylor Lockwood earned the save.

GAME TWO

In the second game of the day, against Dayton, the Sycamores got off to an early lead and never looked back as they improved to 3-3 on the season with a 7-3 win over the Flyers.

For the second straight game, the Sycamores got on the scoreboard first as Crissman singled to lead off the bottom of the first inning and advanced to second on a sacrifice by Brown. After a walk by senior Morgan Allee, sophomore Alexa Cavin singled to center field to score Crissman and give the Sycamores a 1-0 lead. Freshman Brooke Riemenschneider

crushed her first career home run over the left field wall to give the Sycamores a 4-0 lead after one inning.

The Flyers answered with a pair of runs in the top of the second to cut the Sycamore lead to 4-2.

In the bottom of the third inning, Allee led off with a single to center field before stealing second and third and after a strike out, Allee scored on a wild pitch to make it 5-2.

Dayton once again answered with a run of their own in the top of the 4th to make it 5-3 Sycamores.

Indiana State wasn’t done on offense, however, as they scored two more runs off zero hits in the bottom of the fifth to extend the lead to 7-3.

The Flyers made things interesting in the top of the seventh, loading the bases with no outs but after a pop out, Allee made a leaping catch and turned a double play to end the game with the Sycamores coming out victorious 7-3.

Alvarez and Lockwood each threw complete game shutouts as the Indiana State softball team swept the Tiger Classic on Sunday, defeating Temple 6-0 and Tennessee State 3-0.

The Sycamores finished the weekend 4-0 and improved to 5-3 on the season.

Lockwood was named the MVP of the Tiger Classic while Allee and Crissman were each named to the All-Tournament team.

“When you go 4-0 in a weekend, you have a lot of people step up,” coach Bouman said. “Taylor Lockwood and Yvette Alvarez threw well, Erika Crissman, both catchers [Riemenschneider and Booe] played vital rolls and playing without Shelby Wilson, Ashley Dickerson and Kassie Brown filled in defensively, playing out of position. We were able to get on base and put a lot of pressure on people.

That’s the way we like to play softball. We learned a lot and made some huge strides this weekend.”

GAME ONE

In the first game of the day against the Owls of Temple, the Sycamores struck early as freshman Rylee Holland singled and stole second base. After a groundout, freshman Brooke Riemenschneider hit an RBI single to center field to give the Sycamores a 1-0 lead after one half inning of play.

The Sycamores then scored again in the

Indiana State Sycamore Softball swung its way to four victories in the Tiger Classic tournament this past weekend (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing).

in game two of the day against host Tennessee State.

Erika Crissman singled to lead off the game and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Holland. Junior Aubre Carpenter then hit a bunt single to put runners on the corners before Allee hit a sacrifice fly to center field to give ISU a 1-0 advantage.

Crissman led off the fifth inning with a single and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Holland. After a groundout, Allee singled to third base and advanced to scond on an error as Crissman scored to give the Sycamores a 3-0 lead.

Lockwood then retired Tennessee State in order in the bottom of the seventh to give the Sycamores a four game sweep in the Tiger Classic.

Crissman finished the game 2-3 with two runs scored while Allee was 1-3 with two runs batted in and a run scored.

GAME TWO Lockwood pitched seven complete For the sixth time in eight games the innings, allowing just four hits with seven Sycamores got on the scoreboard first strikeouts.

top of the third inning when Cavin hit an RBI single to shortstop to score Holland and make it 2-0.

Indiana State tacked on runs in the fourth and fifth as well to give the Sycamores a 4-0 advantage heading to the top of the seventh inning.

In the top of the seventh inning, the Sycamore offense struck again. Holland led off the inning with a walk and advanced to second on a single to right center off the bat of Allee. Freshman Madison Booe then advanced both runners one base on a sacrifice bunt.

Cavin then reached on a throwing error to score Holland. Stone then hit an RBI single up the middle to score Cavin and make it a 7-0 Sycamore lead.

Alvarez pitched seven complete innings, allowing five hits with three strikeouts. Allee finished 2-4 with a run scored while Cavin was 1-4 with two RBI’s and a run scored.