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State researcher unlocks genetic secrets to birds’ behavior, evolution Libby Roerig

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Nearly 30 years of fieldwork coupled with cutting-edge technology has yielded important genetics insight recently published by the academic journal Current Biology and reviewed in Science Magazine. For Elaina Tuttle, it’s like winning an Oscar. “I think of all the researchers throughout the years, all the field assistants and graduate assistants who have been collaborators. It’s nice because even though they may not be in authorship, a little part of them is in there,” said Tuttle, professor of biology and associate dean of graduate programs at Indiana State University. “I think about my first years, not knowing what we’re doing, and now I think about the well-oiled machine we are with the white-throated sparrow project.” Tuttle and fellow State biology Professor Rusty Gonser have led 27 years’ research into white-throated sparrows at Cranberry Lake in New York. Their efforts have led to greater understanding of the birds’ supergene, its apparent degradation and the species’ evolution. The white-throated sparrow has two morphs — tan and white — that differ in color and behavior because of a chromosomal inversion. “There’s this large chunk of chromosome two that is rotated. It acts like a supergene and prevents any sort of recombination. It links those genes so there are no changes in them, generation after generation after generation,” Tuttle said. With these supergenes, the good traits are passed on together to offspring and never unlinked. “If you’re really aggressive and it’s good to be aggressive with your bright color, that’s always linked together and passed on together,” she said. “It prevents the breakup of good combinations. But it can also harbor bad combinations.” By sequencing the genome, Tuttle and the team of researchers — including Sycamore graduate students Marisa Korody and Adam Betuel — have identified more than 1,000 genes and where they are located. “What we find is that in the white morph, (the supergene is) degrading,” she said. “Not only is the white supergene degrading, but it’s dragging the tan supergene along with it. It’s called purifying selection — it’s getting rid of all those bad combinations. You’re going to be left with only the good combinations.” The findings have important parallels to human sex genes. “So, kind of like the X and the Y sex chromosomes in humans, the X chromosome is really large, and the Y chromosome is really tiny. They think it was (once equal),” she said. They also unlocked key components to the birds’ evolution — the white morph is newer, and the tan morph is the ancestral form.

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Board fires Missouri professor Koran Addo

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The University of Missouri Board of Curators has fired embattled professor Melissa Click. Click was caught on camera

in November calling for “muscle” while blocking student journalists from covering a campus demonstration. A second video surfaced this month showing Click cursing at a police offi-

cer during the University of Missouri-Columbia’s homecoming parade. Later, more than 100 Republican lawmakers in the Missouri Legislature sent a letter to the university calling on the administra-

tion to fire Click. Interim Chancellor Hank Foley said Sunday that Click’s conduct was “appalling” and that he was angry and disappointed at her “pattern of misconduct.” The board voted 4-2 in

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Beyond Paris, questionable efforts to combat climate change Markos Kounalakis

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Germany has long been a leading advocate for confronting and ameliorating climate change. But actions speak louder than words — or signatures on an international accord. The recent Volkswagen scandal is only the latest case of climate policy hypocrisy. Meeting in Paris last December, countries around the globe finally recognized the generally accepted scientific eviSEE BIRDS, PAGE 2 dence that climate change

is real. They also accepted some responsibility to do something about it. To much fanfare, 195 countries, including Germany and the United States, signed the Paris agreement pledging to hit targets to drop emissions, cut carbon and keep our aging earth from experiencing too many hot flashes and cold extremities. Developed democratic countries, pushed by their citizens, led the charge for a comprehensive agreement to atone for past polluting and to prevent developing states from repeating their own sins.

Canada, England, France — they all chimed in and tried to convince, coerce and cajole those developing countries to be energy ascetics. That was a tough sell. The developing world now wants its turn to crank out the carbon and catch up to the already rich, gasburning and global-warming recidivists. Looking beyond the narratives of the industrialized world’s planned sacrifice, however, some of the stories seem a little less noble or credible. France, for example, is fine with less fossil fuel because it depends most-

ly on nuclear power for progress: Up to 78 percent of its electrical needs are met by the near zerocarbon emitting nuclear plants. Future plans to cut its dependency on nuclear plants while also cutting carbon emissions will certainly be a challenge. Germany boasts that it is able to reduce the amount of carbon it emits and shut down its nuclear power plants because it has developed enough alternative wind and solar power to provide clean and nearly free energy for all. In fact, German statistics recently peaked

when satisfying more than 50 percent of its electricity demand through solar power, and nearly 80 percent through all renewable resources. In each case of selective carbon curtailment, it is expected that a nation seeks its self-interest while also acting simultaneously to protect its competitive advantages. But Germany recently went one step further by publicly advocating an anti-polluting stance, while at the same time a dominant corporation powering the Ger-

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Tennessee asks for Peyton Manning claims to be removed from federal lawsuit MJ Slaby

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Lawyers for the University of Tennessee are asking that references to allegations against Peyton Manning be removed from a federal lawsuit that accuses the university of violating federal laws and creating a hostile environment when it comes to sexual assault cases. In the motion, filed late Tuesday, UT lawyers said the 20-year-old allegation from the professional football star’s time as a student-athlete at UT is “immaterial, impertinent, and scandalous” and was included in “a misguided (and unfortunately successful) attempt to generate publicity.” The lawsuit was filed earlier this month in Nashville, Tenn., by six unidentified women, five listed as rape victims and includes the allegations against Manning in a section about ongoing issues within the UT administration and athletic department. Four of the women are accusing athletes in their cases. The one-paragraph description of the 1996 allegation by Jamie Naughright, then Jamie Whited, has since sparked national

media attention. David Randolph Smith, lawyer for the women in the federal lawsuit, said he wasn’t expecting the slew of attention on the suit. But UT lawyers argued the “only purpose” in including Manning is negative press coverage about UT. According to the lawsuit, Naughright, the first female associate trainer at UT, reported to the Sexual Assault Crisis Center in Knoxville, Tenn., that Manning had “sat on her face” while she was assessing an injury. The incident was settled in 1997 for $300,000 and on the condition that she leave her job at UT. Yet those allegations are irrelevant and cast a “derogatory light” on the UT alumnus, university lawyers argued, adding that the lawsuit includes plaintiffs with cases that occurred between 2013 and 2015 and doesn’t make allegations against administrators or students who were present in 1996 when Manning was a student. The lawsuit’s section about ongoing issues starts with the arrests of two UT football players, Nilo Sylvan who was charged with rape and Leslie Ratliffe who was charged with assault. Both were in 1995, the year before the alleged

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Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning on the field before action against the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, on Sunday, Feb. 7.

Manning incident and before the plaintiffs were students. That section of the lawsuit also includes details and cases from 2003 to 2013 before giving details of the plaintiffs’ cases and incidents that happened between those cases. But UT’s Tuesday motion was only about the

relevance of the Manning incident. That incident would only be relevant if the court found that Manning committed sexual assault, but plaintiffs have not given sufficient proof to support that, the lawyers wrote. UT argues that the court should remove the alle-

gations against Manning from the lawsuit and prohibit attempts to introduce evidence of the alleged Manning incident. Doing this would streamline litigation because it would prevent delays and the jury from being mislead as well as not invade Naughright and Manning’s privacy, the

lawyers said. The lawyer’s motion was filed the same day that 16 UT coaches gathered for a news conference to address an “unfair” negative perception of the culture among athletics at UT. ©2016 Knoxville News-Sentinel (Knoxville, Tenn.). Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

Florida Senate endorses Penn paper retracts post making computer coding about Rubio and the Bible a foreign language Kristen M. Clark

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State senators in Florida approved a proposal Wednesday to allow high school students to count computer coding as a foreign language course, although questions linger about whether the two subjects should be considered one and the same. The state Senate passed the bill by Democratic Sen. Jeremy Ring on a 35-5 vote. “With this bill, we’re putting a stamp on it: Florida is a technology leader in this country,” said Ring, a former Yahoo executive. “We are truly, in this state, pioneering something that I believe will be a very significant trend.” Ring said, if it becomes law, the computer-coding measure — which would take effect in the 2018-19 school year — would be the first of its kind in the country. He said “dozens of other states are looking at this.” But critics of the proposal worry it could dilute students’ cultural education and place a burden on public schools that already lack adequate technology resources. The bill includes no funding to improve students’ access to computers at school, and Ring has maintained his proposal has no financial impact on districts. The five senators who opposed the measure Wednesday were Republican Sen. Anitere Flores and Democratic Sens. Dwight Bullard, Jeff Clemens, Eleanor Sobel and Geraldine Thompson. “What I’m fearful of is now we’re at a place where certain students in certain ZIP codes may not have access to those kinds of classes because they may have antiquated equipment,” said Bullard, who

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also is also a high school social studies teacher in Miami-Dade. Ring said amendments added to the bill should resolve any fears of an unfunded mandate on schools. The changes, adopted Tuesday, aimed to sync up the Senate version with a similar-butbroader proposal that’s also ready for floor action in the House. Gone is the requirement that public schools “must provide” computer coding. Instead, if districts cannot or do not offer coding, schools “may provide students access to the course through the Florida Virtual School or through other means.” Clemens said he appreciated the intent of Ring’s proposal but disagrees that computer coding is — as Ring argues — a language, rather than a computer science. “This debate is not about coding,” Clemens said. “It’s about whether or not we value culture and whether or not we value foreign language as a means to teach that.” Miami-Dade Public Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho is among those who have opposed making computer coding a substitute or alternative to foreign languages, especially because of the global economy and Florida’s increasingly bilingual communities. Clemens challenged Ring by asking whether someone who learns computer coding is bilingual. “In my mind, I think yeah,” Ring said. Ring said computer coding is more aligned with the liberal arts than computer science. He argues computer coding is a universal language that helps prepare students for careers in high-demand careers in science, technology, engineering and

math fields. “Computer coding (and) technology is a basic skill in everything we’re going to do,” Ring said. “You can’t do a job in this world … unless you have an understanding of technology or you absolutely will be left behind.” Other senators agreed and praised Ring for his innovation. “We may debate whether or not it’s a foreign language but it (coding) is a valuable skill,” GOP Sen. Aaron Bean said. “Let’s give our students a valuable skill that they’re going to use forever.” Florida’s public colleges and universities would be required to accept computer coding credits toward foreign language requirements for admission. Parents and students would have to sign a waiver acknowledging that out-of-state or private colleges and universities might not honor the credits as a foreign language. The legislation has been marked as a priority by tech companies and other special interests. One of the biggest proponents, Motorola Solutions, gave legislators $88,500 between July and the start of the 2016 legislative session in early January. Republican state Rep. Janet Adkins — the House sponsor — argues the legislation will also have broader effects by helping children who have dyslexia or mental disabilities, which make it difficult to learn global languages. The House version has not been scheduled for floor consideration yet and it still differs from Ring’s. The House and Senate have to pass identical bills in order for legislation to be sent to the governor for his signature.

The University of Pennsylvania’s student newspaper has retracted what it’s calling an “erroneous post” on its website whose effect was so explosive it led to the firing of a key staffer for a Republican presidential candidate. The post, created by student journalists for The Daily Pennsylvanian, included a video of Sen. Marco Rubio remarking about a Bible that a man was reading. Incorrectly interpreting Rubio’s words in a subtitled transcription, the post quoted the presidential candidate from Florida as saying there were “not many answers in it.” Believing it was a real Rubio quote, Ted Cruz’s communications director, Rick Tyler shared the original post on social media, and was later fired. The newspaper retracted the post late Tuesday. In his retraction, Colin Henderson, the DP’s president, wrote “our transcription … was incorrect.” Henderson, 20, a junior in the Wharton School of Business, serves as publisher for the paper, which is independent of university control. The student paper had sent seven journalists by car to cover the South Carolina GOP primary. Saturday morning, the DP posted a video of Rubio walking by a table where Rafael Cruz, Ted Cruz’s father, and Christian Collins, a Cruz staffer, were seated in a Columbia, S.C., hotel, according to an online posting Monday evening by Lauren Feiner, the DP’s editor. The student journalists didn’t know who the seated people were at the time. Nor did they know that Collins was reading a ©2016 Miami Herald. Dis- Bible. As Rubio walked by the tributed by Tribune Content men, he made a remark. Agency, LLC.

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While editing the video, a newspaper staffer interpreted what Rubio said as, “Good book you got there. Not many answers in it. Especially that one.” By early Sunday morning, DP staffers had learned the book was a Bible and noted that in their post. In his retraction, Henderson wrote that “this significantly changed the meaning of Rubio’s words as originally transcribed, as it now purported to show Rubio pointing to the Bible and saying, ‘not a lot of answers in there.’” Later, the students updated the post to reflect that they were growing uncertain of what Rubio actually had said. The accuracy of the DP transcription of Rubio’s words “was brought into question due to the unclear audio,” Henderson wrote. But by then, Tyler of Cruz’s staff had shared the initial post on Twitter and Facebook, Henderson wrote. Tyler later apologized, but Cruz said Tyler had made a “grave error in judgment,” and Tyler was let go. Henderson wrote, “we should have reached out to the parties involved to confirm what was actually said and what book the

Cruz staffer was reading once we realized Rubio was referring to the book in the interaction. We failed to do so.” Upon learning the book was the Bible, the journalists should have re-evaluated the situation, Henderson added. “Again, we failed to do so,” he wrote, adding, “We sincerely regret and apologize for these errors.” Henderson said in an interview Wednesday afternoon that the furor over the newspaper’s errors left some staffers feeling personally attacked. But he added that the pressure of outside criticism hasn’t wavered staffers’ support for one another. “I think people recognized that while mistakes were made, people here are not pointing fingers,” said Henderson. “I’ve been impressed with everyone being careful of people’s feelings.” Henderson said that he and other staffers conferred with professional journalists who had gone to Penn for advice “on how to handle something like this ethically, what we messed up, and what we can learn from this.” ©2016 The Philadelphia Inquirer. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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indianastatesman.com CLIMATE FROM PAGE 1 economic juggernaut acted surreptitiously to undermine environmental goals. Volkswagen, Germany’s industrial behemoth, figured it could advocate for tougher rules for others, but cheat its way to success by developing a workaround to America’s basic EPA auto-emission requirements.

BIRDS FROM PAGE 1 “By using these evolutionary analysis tools, we were able to figure out there was probably hybridization with some extant or extinct species a long time ago,” she said. The morphs breed with the opposite — a tan male with a white female and so on — which perpetuates the species and its health. “We were able to show that when white pairs with white, there’s detriment,”

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VW crafted an elegant, difficult-to-detect and fraudulent solution to the inconvenient pollution standards. It installed software in 11 million diesel vehicles worldwide that triggered a clean-emissions setting calibrated for a laboratory — not actual road use. Moreover, there is evidence that in the case of auto emissions the European Union was, if not

complicit, suspiciously aware of autos failing emission tests years before the VW scandal, according to European tests done as early as 2007. Denied military clout to build and project power, modern German governments have forged uniquely strong ties with industry. Business-friendly industrial policies and an export-focused foreign

policy support and underwrite the economic powerhouse that is a 21st-century Germany’s “Wirtschaftswunder” — economic miracle. Achieving that new modern miracle sometimes seems to take precedence over any other policy, principle, norm, standard or goal. Economics have trumped global environmental and public health

concerns in the past. In the 1980s, when the country was still divided, West Germany tried to export domestically unacceptable radioactively contaminated milk to developing countries, including Egypt. Other European countries were complicit in the practice and caught. So while the world’s leaders are self-congratulating and citizens applaud the historic Paris agree-

ment, the world must not turn a blind eye to the ways that rules can be broken. When a powerful nation like Germany dominantly projects power and influence by export, consumers and countries need to cry foul when those export goods are not so good for the world.

Tuttle said. “They have genetic problems. They also have increased promiscuity — they’re not so happy together. It does pay to pair with the opposite morph.” Typically, researchers have genomics data or they have field data. “You don’t often have both integrated into a nice story together,” she said. And that field data dates back nearly three decades. “We can go back in history and do the genomics

from samples from 1988 and see how genes change over time. It’s a really rich database,” she said. Until genome sequencing capabilities caught up with Tuttle, she says it was like having a black box that needed to be unlocked. “I knew there were secrets in there, and we’re just beginning to see,” she said. “Now, the data can be mined by us and other researchers because it’s on a public database.” As questions are an-

swered, even more are asked. “I’m excited. There’s so many other things we can find out — how genes arise, how they’re maintained, how they work,” she said. “We’re even thinking about doing epigenetics, which is how genes are turned on or off. One of the future projects we’re looking at is how stress turns on certain genes. That’s a big thing in human disease, as well. Stress turns on cer-

tain genes that cause disease later in life. It’s a good model for human behavior as well.” Countless Indiana State students and postdocs, as well as students from other universities — domestic and international — have participated in Tuttle’s research. And this latest paper will become the basis of limitless future work. “It made it even more rewarding having to go through the struggle of

waiting for the technology to get there,” she said. “This is probably my pinnacle paper. Finding the behavioral polymorphism was the beginning of my career with the sparrows. I’m going to still have papers, but this is a big turning point.” To watch a video about Tuttle’s research, go to http://www.cell. com/current-biology/abstract/S09609822%2815%2901562-6.

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Tasting the Globe at the World Food Festival Mustafa Mustafa When thinking of traveling the world, the first thought to pop up in many people’s minds is how expensive it is. The students at Linking Language Learners have gotten rid of that fee. Students may now go on a free world tour by enjoying the many dishes offered from all over the world. All you need to enjoy this biannual event is a sense of curiosity and a healthy appetite — a group of friends to tag along is preferable but not required. The event was made for foreign students to have a place to showcase the ethnic cuisine from their home countries, as well as a way for domestic students to learn about not only the meals offered but also the cultures involved. With the help of the Center for Global Engagement and the United Campus Ministries, the members of LLL are continuing the event that is slowly becoming a tradition. “When LLL started organizing it we did not think that so many people would show up,” said Polina Kaniuka, a graduate assistant at CGE, as well as a member of the International Students Leadership Council and LLL. “I love events like this. Even if I was not a part of these organizations I would still be here no matter what.” The World Food Festival was first held in spring 2015, and it has been held every semester since then. Jennie Martell, the president of LLL, had headed the event, saying that the usual attendance numbers ranged from 150 to 200 students, both international and domestic. Participating organizations and individuals make an average of 15 dishes to be offered to attendees. Many international organizations participated, including the African Student Union, the Saudi Student Association, the Hispanic Student Association and the Indian Student Association. Other meals were also offered by individuals helping with the event. The event was popular from the start according to Kaniuka, but has been changing to accommodate attendees. “It has improved; in the past years we would run out of food after the first 30 minutes,” Kaniuka said. “Now with experience and more people involved, the organization of the event is better.” The students in attendance all seemed to enjoy exposing their taste buds to the different flavors offered at the festival. Joe Myers, a senior finance major, is a regular attendant of the United Campus Ministries. “I really enjoyed how there was a larger turnout than last year. Everyone fit upstairs before, now there are lines leading downstairs,” Myers said. Myers was referring to the spiraling queue of people lined up patiently waiting their turn to try the delicacies offered. As regular visitor of UCM, Myers suggested that students make use of the food pantry offered there every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. All you would need is a valid ISU ID. The organization also offers a home cooked meal and discussions at 5 p.m. of the same day.

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How TV beats film in giving women and minorities greater opportunities on screen Scott Collins

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Shonda Rhimes, an African American writer-producer, is one of the most powerful people in the TV business. Last week, Disney’s ABC TV network made history by naming Channing Dungey to head its entertainment division, the first African American to fill that role. In fact, even as the big screen industry is under fire for a lack of diversity, some of the most celebrated shows on TV showcase diversity, whether it is the African American family of ABC’s “black-ish,” the multiracial inmates on Netflix’s “Orange Is the New Black” or the transgender dad on Amazon’s “Transparent.” By most accounts, the small screen has become a more culturally inclusive place over the last decade, and for several reasons. The TV audience itself is diverse — one estimate is that black viewers spend 37 percent more time watching TV than other racial groups — which has forced network executives to find programming that reflects the people watching at home. The TV industry is also significantly larger than the movie business, meaning more opportunities overall, and lately there has been an explosion of new programming. While film studios have been trimming their release slates — Paramount, for example, released just 16 movies last year, down from 21 in 2012 — networks are flooding viewers with new TV series. Last year, an all-time high of

409 original series were produced for television (including streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu), according to a study by cable network FX. That number has doubled in the past six years. “In television, we are fortunate because we get to try a lot of things; we get to take a lot of shots,” Dungey said in an interview. “It gives us a great opportunity to tell many different stories from diverse points of view.” To be sure, neither film nor TV can be said to be truly representative of the U.S. population, at least by the metrics used by experts who have dissected the issue. A study released this week by USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism faulted Hollywood for an “epidemic of invisibility” of minorities and added that media content across the board is “largely whitewashed.” Fewer than 17 percent of the lead actors in a survey of 174 Hollywood movies released in 2013 were members of a minority group, according to a 2014 Bunche Center report (an updated report is expected this week). That compared with slightly more than 10 percent in 2011. Both figures lagged far behind the U.S. minority population overall, which the study collectively pegged at more than 37 percent. Scripted series on cable TV fared somewhat better, with 19.3 percent of lead actors coming from a minority group, including such series as BET’s “Real Husbands of Hollywood.” Broadcast networks remain a long way from that

level, with just 6.5 percent of lead characters played by minorities. However, many hit reality shows such as “Survivor,” “The Voice,” “The Amazing Race,” “America’s Next Top Model” and “Shark Tank” have done a much better job with minority casting than scripted series or films have done. “TV diversity is not great, as we know, but film is pretty abysmal,” said Darnell Hunt, a sociology professor and director of the UCLA’s Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. From actors to directors to executives, “women and minorities are underrepresented … in both television and film. But it’s much worse in film.” Another part of TV’s progress stems from years of scrutiny of the issue. Former CBS Entertainment Chairman Nina Tassler believes the television industry does a better job representing members of minority groups than its film business counterpart in part because of public pressure on TV executives. The change stems from about 15 years ago, when advocacy groups began rating networks on their efforts to represent people of color in TV shows (the group said recently that it plans to target film studios). The network bosses, Tassler said, did not want to be getting Ds and Fs. Tellingly, members of the Multi-Ethnic Media Coalition, who had been at the forefront of efforts to diversify TV, launched a new initiative this month to focus on film studios. Tassler, speaking on

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a panel at Bloomberg News offices in Century City last month, also noted that large numbers of women and minority groups watch TV — making it even more critical to have programming that reflects the audience. Signs of further progress toward diversification on network TV are easy to find. Rhimes now controls all of the Thursday prime-time programming on ABC, with her dramatic hits “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Scandal” and “How to Get Away With Murder.” Last year “Empire,” the hip-hop soap opera on Fox with a nearly all-black cast, became one of broadcast’s biggest breakout hits in years. Filmmakers have undeniably made strides toward diversity too. Last year, many of the most popular feature hits included black actors in top roles, including the Oscar-nominat-

ed Hollywood veteran Don Cheadle in “Avengers: Age of Ultron” and Chiwetel Ejiofor in “The Martian.” But sometimes moves toward diversity in film find unexpected stumbling blocks. Disney won plaudits for casting a major character, Finn, with black actor John Boyega in its smash “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” But the Chinese posters for the movie shrunk Boyega’s face so small that he could barely be seen, reigniting long-held fears in the industry that some foreign markets expect American blockbusters to have white stars. Cheadle said last week that he was compelled to add a white costar, Ewan McGregor, to “Miles Ahead,” his upcoming biopic of jazz great Miles Davis, due to Hollywood’s “finan

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ISU welcomes social justice speaker Vernon A. Wall Grace Harrah Reporter

Vernon A. Wall, an Indiana University graduate and a social justice speaker, came to address social justice on campus and how to bring the community together on Monday Feb. 22 in Dede I. Wall began the speech with a quote he heard in third grade from Martin Luther King Jr. — “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” He expressed that it is one of his favorite quotes from a legendary man. Wall’s speech was funny, enthusiastic and had the audience participate in a way that many speakers often do not. It kept the audience on their feet, with his multiple stories that

define social justice and the reality of being in other’s shoes. He explained that social justice is about connecting the head to the heart. “It is easy to talk about how wrong discrimination is and how some events happening in the world right now is wrong, but what many do not do is to act upon it,” Wall said. Wall had his audience find a random partner and made them open up to each other by talking about their uniqueness along with a time when they felt ‘less than.’ Wall also made them take a selfie with one another and called them ‘high five buddies.’ The lesson behind this pairup activity was that everyone is absolutely unique in their own way. No one in the world is ex-

actly like you, and when said to embrace your uniqueness to the fullest and remember the feeling when you felt less than, so that others do not have to feel the same way. Social justice means that people, every single one of us, matter in communities. He had six key concepts to being socially just on campus: individual identity and group membership, identifying groups, equal is not necessarily equitable, be about true service, “Ally” is an adjective or a verb, not a noun, and we are all born bias-free. He explained each of these ideas by connecting them to his own experiences. At the end of his speech, he made the audience go back to their ‘high-five buddies’ to talk

about what each of us can do to make our campus a more socially just campus. Most of the audience of Wall’s speech got to walk out of the event with a new friend and knowledge about what others had experienced in their lives. Wall also ended the speech with the quote “Privilege plus prejudice equals oppression.” He also put up a final PowerPoint, which congratulated everyone from a different background. The audience clapped as he pulled up a list of backgrounds such as “born in the Midwest,” “born outside of the country” or “raised a Christian” Vernon A. Wall’s speech was empowering and brought all of the students together, congratulating diversity and uniqueness.

TECH event connects students, employers Trevor Cornelius Reporter

The John T. Myers Technology Center hosted an event for students to meet employers from different businesses Tuesday evening in the center’s atrium to help initiate relationships. Beverly “Bev” Bitzegaio, the College of Technology Career supervisor and outreach director, skimmed around on the atrium in front of Room 105, announcing to students and employment recruiters alike which section of the night’s event

was to be conducted. Starting at 4:30 p.m., participants walked through the Myers Center doors, grabbed their laminated name tags, poked them into the fabrics of their shirts or dresses and began to mingle in the atrium. A table was set up to provide snacks and refreshments such as cookies, mini egg rolls and meatballs which left only a sauce splattered crock pot to be picked up following the festivities. A quarter after 5 p.m., students were instructed to congregate inside

Room 105, a lecture hall with long tables on each row of steps where the potential employees sat and stared forward. Out in the atrium, employers stood awaiting their allotted time to speak in front of the crowd. “We’re getting excited to really bring in students from (Indiana State University); we’ve hired ISU students before,” said Jared Ell, marketing representative from Police Technical, noting about his personal experience. “I used to be in those seats out there, I used to be the student meeting with employers,

so I am really excited to see the next generation succeed and to bring in some new leadership.” Even though students were never blindfolded during the night, to make the process smoother, employers were given balloons to stand by out in the atrium after speaking in informal presentation inside Room 105. One employer ended their speech with, “and I will be the red balloon,” giving off the vibe that they were going to be approachable. Once all the employers had finished speaking,

they dispersed to their stations. Before the students were let out of the room, a student voiced their discontent with the number of employers, asking where a company representative was that had been advertised as would be in attendance. Back out in the atrium, students talked with the employers, some one on one, others in a half-circle group. When asked about the assertive nature of the students, Kelly Franklin, HR representative/recruiter from Aisin U.S.A. MFG.,

said, “Students here are quite alert, and they are coming with questions I feel I can answer.” Dominique Suggs, IT Consultant at Sycamore Technology Solutions and event raffle winner, gave his student perspective from the Networking section of the evening. When asked if his concerns were diminished after talking to employers, he said, “I felt as though I could be myself and didn’t have to put up a front. The recruiter shared their personal experiences and made it not seem like such an intense moment.”

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FILM FROM PAGE 4 cial imperatives.” Overall, film studios have remained true to their tradition of casting nonminorities in their superhero franchises and romantic comedies. The protagonists and worldview of most major franchise pictures — such as “Jurassic World” and “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2” — remain white. Those movies cost more than $200 million, including production and marketing expenses, leaving many studio heads in no mood to take risks on unproven talent behind or in front of the camera.

“The big movie studios are no longer in the character-driven drama business,” said Tom Nunan, a film producer and former network chief who teaches at the School of Theater, Film and Television at UCLA. “They’re in the franchise business, where it’s big special effects and opportunities for 3-D to help justify audiences leaving their living rooms and going out to a movie theater to watch something.” As a result, TV has come to specialize in the sorts of smaller, more nuanced dramas and comedies that used to find their way to the big screen. The writing staff of “Criminal Minds,” one of the procedurals that form the backbone of CBS’ prime-time lineup,

includes several minorities, including Sharon Lee Watson, an Asian American, and Kimberly Harrison, who is black. “That’s one of the things that’s kept us going, (that) everyone has such a different point of view about the world,” said Erica Messer, who serves as an executive producer on the series. “That makes for a really rich story environment.” Such thinking has penetrated the executive suites. CBS sponsors the Diversity Sketch Comedy Showcase, which bootstraps young performers, and also has mentoring programs for minority writers and directors (its broadcast rivals sponsor similar initiatives, as do talent unions such as the Directors Guild of America and the Writers Guild of

America). “These initiatives are embedded into our network operation and help secure employment every year for underrepresented actors, writers and directors in television,” Glenn Geller, the openly gay president of CBS Entertainment, wrote in an email statement. “The creative talent in these programs have been hired by CBS, as well as the broader entertainment community.” Such moves have, in the space of a few years, changed the face of television. (Staff writers Yvonne Villarreal and John Corrigan contributed to this report.) ©2016 Los Angeles Times. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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Poor sex education has youth looking to porn for answers

Kylie Adkins

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Let’s talk about pornography. Not revenge porn, just normal, everyday, legal porn between two consenting adults. If we’re being honest, most of us reading this have probably seen porn in some form, be it soft core on television or the stuff you can dig up on the Internet; it is there and it is influencing our society and the way we see sex and sexual health. Pornography has, unfortunately, progressed from secretive thing kept in the home for absolutely private use to an educational tool — and this is dangerous. Porn is not created to be treated like a documentary, but more like a film or even a video game. It is unrealistic in how it is made and contains an air of detachment. Normally, these things by themselves would not be problematic, but pair them with young, impressionable minds and very little, accurate sexual education, we start having problems. In Indiana, schools must show a preference for marriage and abstinence, according to the National Coalition to Support Sexuality Education. The National Conference of State Legislatures reports that only 19 states have to use accurate information, which means that more than half of America’s youth are possibly being lied to about how to be sexually healthy. When education leaves gaps, students will go the Internet — especially in today’s day and age. Since pornography is now being used to supplement the poor education students get about sex, it completely

changes the climate of teenage sex. Since the porn being produced is meant to be for adults, who have theoretically had at least some experience, it is going to be of a higher caliber than young teenagers really need. Porn itself has changed drastically over the decades, and this has also changed the way we view sex, but more specifically, the way we see women. Porn even 20 years ago would feature women who were more realistic. They were of normal sizes with less plastic surgery and more pubic hair. This pubic hair thing I find particularly troubling. This not only negatively affects the way women see themselves, but also how men see and treat women. I have witnessed friends making fun of ex-girlfriends for having pubic hair. This is problematic because pubic hair is completely natural and actually has health benefits. According to the Center for Young Women’s Health, there are no health benefits to shaving pubic hair, which means that this trend is purely aesthetic. The only small benefit to shaving is that you are significantly less likely to catch crabs or lice, but this isn’t really worth the stigma or the negative effect on mental health. Women are now feeling more and more pressure to adhere to these societal conditions and ideas. Girls are now being pressured by other girls and their male peers to shave, sometimes as early as seventh grade because they don’t look like these porn stars or models in nude magazines. Another problem is the increase in labiaplasty and vaginoplasty. More and more women have been electing to get these surgeries, either out of pressure from a boyfriend

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Kesha, seen here performing at the Hollywood Bowl on June 18, 2013, has filed a lawsuit against her producer for alleged sexual, physical and emotional abuse.

Kesha case heats up Joe Lippard

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In January of 2014, Kesha Rose Sebert, singer of Top 100 hits like “Tik Tok” and “Die Young,” checked into rehab for what she says were issues with an eating disorder. After being released from rehab, the singer filed a lawsuit against longtime producer Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald. Dr. Luke is a major record producer, having produced everything from “Wrecking Ball” by Miley Cyrus to “Teenage Dream” by Katy Perry to “Since U Been Gone” by Kelly Clarkson. There is a long list of allegations contained in the suit, but the most conspicuous of them would be the allegations of sexual assault that Kesha is brining against Dr. Luke. According to Billboard, Kesha claims that Dr. Luke forced her to snort illegal drugs and then gave her what he called “sober pills,” which allegedly contained the date rape drug. Kesha then reports that she “took the pills and woke up the following afternoon, naked in Dr. Luke’s bed, sore and sick, with no memory of how she got

there. Ms. Sebert immediately called her mother and made a ‘fresh complaint,’ telling her that she was naked in Dr. Luke’s hotel room, she did not know where the clothes were, that Dr. Luke had raped her, and that she needed to go to the emergency room.” These are obviously very serious allegations. The lawsuit also alleges that Dr. Luke repeatedly and frequently verbally abused Kesha, which the singer says caused her breakdown and stint in rehab. Kesha is also seeking money for singing the chorus on Flo Rida’s “Right Round” in 2009, for which she claims she was never paid. Kesha also claims that Dr. Luke was incredibly controlling in her career. She has asserted that on her second album “Warrior,” she had written over 70 songs, most of which Dr. Luke refused to even touch, including her favorite song, “Machine Gun Love.” She is currently signed to Sony Records subsidiary Kemosabe Records, which Dr. Luke owns. Her contract stipulates that she has to release music under Dr. Luke’s label, which is not a large label. Dr. Luke is the executive producer on all of Kesha’s albums and the vast majority of records released through Kemosabe. The reason that these charges had never been brought forward until now, Kesha said, was because she was scared to go to the public

with them, since she said Dr. Luke threatened her career. She was supposedly told that her “first strike” was when she hired a manager that Dr. Luke didn’t approve, and that her “second strike” was when she refused to record her second album for a time. What Kesha seeks – apart from the money for “Right Round” – is a severance from Dr. Luke in addition to repayment for damages as a result of the alleged assault. Under her contract, the only way that she can release any music is through Dr. Luke’s label, and she is contractually obligated to record up to six albums with Dr. Luke at his own discretion. With the current contract, Kesha cannot release any more music unless it’s with Dr. Luke. Kesha also claims that Dr. Luke has resisted any contract renegotiations that have been attempted. On Friday, Feb. 19, 2016, it was ruled that there was not enough evidence in the case to void her contract with Kemosabe or with Dr. Luke. Justice Shirley Kornreich said, “What disturbs me is the lack of facts.” Personally, I don’t know if Dr. Luke raped Kesha or not. I won’t take a side on that since it’s pretty much a case of “he said, she said” with no evidence to back up either

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The trouble with ‘racial awareness’ on campus Brendan O’Neill

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When I was at university in London in the early 1990s, Michael Jackson’s megahit “Black or White” was forever blaring in the student bar. As we drank our flat beers, we’d sing along: “It don’t matter if you’re black or white.” On American campuses, that statement might now be perceived as a so-called microaggression. Recently I visited USC and the University of California at Irvine. The students I met saw themselves and their classmates as colors more than characters. They obsessed over the historical baggage their pigmentation allegedly brought with it. “As a white man” — that’s how one USC student started almost every sentence. As a white man he has privilege, suffers from ignorance and requires sensitivity instruction. At Irvine, a black student told me that “white students and white faculty” lack knowledge of the black experience and require education to remedy that problem. I heard a white female student talk about the “privilege of paleness.” Many shared the view that interaction

between the races is all but impossible without the guiding hand of race experts. A white student at UC Irvine told me that his school’s efforts to “ensure a positive climate” for black students isn’t enough: they need seminars on racial understanding to allow white students to better understand black students — “and possibly vice versa,” he added, cautiously. I found it all deeply dispiriting. “Racial understanding” sounds nice; it’s always good to be understanding, right? Yet the logic of it strikes me as dire. It rehabilitates, in politically correct lingo, the belief that skin color is more important than what lies beneath. Indeed, some university administrators now actively encourage their students to be color-conscious rather than colorblind. A University of California document titled “Recognizing Microaggressions” lists various potentially offensive phrases that students and faculty should avoid using. It includes: “When I look at you, I don’t see color;” “There is only one race: the human race;” and “I don’t believe in race.” It goes on to say that “colorblindness,” a refusal to “acknowledge race,” is about

“denying the individual as a racial/cultural being.” I thought that was precisely the aim of the liberal project: to deny that individuals are “racial beings,” and in fact to fight against such a foul idea. What happened to the truism that race is a construct? Having gone through my life refusing to treat people as “racial beings,” must I now change tack, and think racially, if I want to be seen as good? California’s hardly alone in this. At the University of Missouri, staff have been encouraged to see colorblindness as “disempowering for people whose racial identity is an important part of who they are.” The new racial imagination is reaching its nadir with demands for minority-only or minority-specific spaces. At Oberlin College, students want rooms across campus “designated as a safe space for Africana identifying students. Afrikan Heritage House should not be the only space allotted for the promotion and acknowledgement of our community specifics needs.” At New York University, students are calling for “an entire floor of the mixed use building in the Southern Supblock plan (to) be dedicated to students of col-

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or.” At UCLA, the Afrikan Student Union claims that “black students lack spaces where they feel safe and comfortable.” The solution? An “Afrikan Diaspora floor” branded as “a safe space for all black students.” I guess if you put the word “safe” in front of “segregation,” it’s suddenly all right? This is what the politics of identity has wrought. As we’re implored to define ourselves by our race, gender, sexuality or some other given trait over which we have little control, we become separated from one another. Some will say I can afford to be colorblind because I’m a white man. I don’t experience racialized hardship, so it’s easy for me to say: “Race doesn’t matter.” But challenging racial thinking doesn’t mean denying the reality of racism. Ultimately I find these new campus movements profoundly pessimistic. They’ve accepted the reactionary view that it’s not only possible but desirable to categorize people by color and — as a corollary — that genuine integration is futile. Excuse me for wanting no part in it. ©2016 Los Angeles Times. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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BASEBALL FROM PAGE 8 rently holding opposing hitters below .200 with three holding hitters to .150 or below. Out of all the pitchers BC has on their staff, it’s Mike King who the Sycamores have to hope they don’t face. King gave up just one hit over seven innings with six strikeouts in his lone start this season, and with a career ERA of 2.99, second all-time in school history, it won’t be easy for anyone to hit him. The Chicago State Cougars enter the weekend with a 1-2 record after playing their opening series against Texas A&M Corpus Christi. They won their first game thanks to the quality start from Jake Perkins, going six innings giving up one unearned run on three hits, walking two and striking out eight. His brother Josh then came in and pitched three shutout innings to secure the save and the win for his team. The rest of the Cougar starters didn’t have the same success. In their following game, Justin Wyant got the start and only lasted five innings, giving up six runs on nine hits.

KESHA FROM PAGE 6 side. I do know, however, that if she was actually not paid for her contribution to “Right Round,” she should be paid for the work she did. And really, if she wants out or even just wants to renegotiate her contract, it would be far better than this awful, drawn-out legal battle that hasn’t accomplished anything apart from everyone involved hemorrhaging money.

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At this point, I’m not saying let her out of her recording contract altogether, but renegotiate the contract so that she no longer is required to work with Dr. Luke. Rumors abounded while Kesha was recording her second album that the relationship between her and Dr. Luke was taking a turn for the worse. If the relationship between the artist and the producer is so bad, then why won’t he renegotiate the contract with her? I wouldn’t just assume that

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After that, the lineup takes a dip with the next best hitter coming in hitting at .273. It will be interesting to see who the Sycamores send out to the mound in this one after completing a game against Boston

he’s the one holding up contract negotiations if it wasn’t so obvious that he is. Kesha clearly wants to be rid of him, and his team claims that he’s offered to let her record under a different producer, so what’s the hold-up? Kesha has been performing on college campuses since her rehab stint. It’s clear that she wants to record and release music. Regardless of whether or not all or none of the allegations are true, Kesha is unable to make

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dangerous especially with how available it is on the Internet. When younger teenagers try to supplement poor sexual education with porn developed by and for experienced, mature adults, new pressures are created, and we hardly know how to deal with this shift.

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College earlier in the afternoon. On Sunday, the Sycamores will take on the Dartmouth Big Green. While Dartmouth has yet to play a game this season, the team comes into this season having won eight consecutive Ivy League division titles. The Big Green return some pivotal players this season, including senior Duncan Robinson who is the reigning Ivy League Pitcher of the Year, going 6-2 with a 2.62 ERA. The team also returns Thomas Roulis, who was an All-Ivy League honorable mention second baseman in 2014 before being forced to sit out the entire 2015 season with an injury. The switch-hitter will be counted on to provide clutch hits, likely from the third spot in the order. This past summer, he was named an NECBL All-Star, displaying the ability at the plate that he had before missing out on last spring. The Sycamores will play Villanova on Monday before heading to Charleston to face Eastern Illinois on Tuesday. The team will then travel to Stillwater, Oklahoma for a weekend series with the Big 12’s Oklahoma State Cowboys.

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Sycamore men prepare for Senior Day versus Bradley Adler Ingalsbe

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For the final time in the regular season, the Indiana State men’s basketball team will take the floor as they host Bradley for a Saturday matinee game. Not only is the matchup against the Bears (5-25, 3-14) the final game of the regular season for the Sycamores (1316, 7-10), it’s also Senior Day. Brandon Burnett, Devonte Brown and Khristian Smith will be honored before they step off Nellie and John Wooden Court for the last time, donning the Indiana State home uniform. While the emotions of the day will likely be directed, and rightfully so, to the trio of seniors for everything they’ve done for the Sycamore program, the game is one that Indiana State needs to win. ISU finds themselves in the midst of a six-game losing streak that has caused them to drop from a four-way tie for third place in the Missouri Valley Conference to seventh place where they are tied with Loyola. With a win on Saturday and a Missouri State loss to Southern Illinois, Indiana State could make the jump from seventh to sixth and avoid the Thursday play-in game at the MVC Tournament in St. Louis next weekend. A loss against Bradley would

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lock the Sycamores into the seventh or eighth spot in the conference, depending on the outcome of the Loyola-Drake matchup, and force them to play four days worth of basketball in order to earn a conference crown. In order for Indiana State to have the chance to leap frog over Missouri State, the Sycamores will have to play much better than they did when they played

Bradley in Peoria on Feb. 6. The Bears were able to hold the Sycamores to shoot 35 percent from the field and 29 percent from beyond the threepoint line, while also forcing Indiana State to commit 19 turnovers in the 63-58 BU win. Bradley was also able to get the Sycamores into foul trouble as the Bears got 32 attempts from the charity stripe. A handful of Indiana State

ISU women return home one final time Brice Bement Reporter

Indiana State women’s basketball team will be playing two Missouri Valley Conference games this weekend against the University of Evansville Friday and Southern Illinois University on Sunday at the Hulman Center. The Sycamores are coming off two road wins this weekend against Bradley in Peoria, Illinois and Loyola in Chicago. ISU beat the Bradley Braves 68-59 and Loyola 7471. The Sycamores are currently on a three-game winning streak, beating Drake University the weekend prior. It is the first three-game streak of the season. Senior guard Cierra Ceazer scored 28 points against Loyola on Sunday, setting a new career-high. Ceazer shot 11-of-15 from the field and drilled a three-pointer in the final 3:10 of play that helped boost the Sycamores over the Ramblers in come-from-behind fashion. Junior Rhagen Smith chipped in 13 points for the game. Junior Kelsey Dirks and freshman Jennifer Mackowiak helped the Sycamores

with eight points each off the bench. Junior Joyea Marshall was strong for the Sycamores under the boards with 10 rebounds while sophomore Ashley Taia dished out a team-high eight assists. Evansville is currently 1-13 in the conference and sits in last place while Southern Illinois is 10-4 and currently in the fourth-place slot. The Sycamores sit in sixth place with an 8-6 record and are just a half-game behind Loyola for fifth. Northern Iowa claims the top spot in the MVC while Missouri State and Drake are second and third, respectively. Evansville is currently on a ten-game losing streak. Their last game was against Missouri State where they lost 66-47. Southern Illinois is on a four game winning streak, having recently beaten Wichita State, 80-66. Earlier in the season, the Sycamores defeated Evansville 59-44 in a road contest. Marshall led the Sycamores with 14 points while Ceazer followed with 13. Marshall also led the team with a total of nine rebounds. Evansville junior Sara Dickey led the Purple Aces with 18 points in the game but was forced to take several

attempts from the field in order to put up double figures. Indiana State played Southern Illinois and lost 7664 in Carbondale two nights prior to the first meeting against Evansville. Ceazer led the Sycamores with 14 points and eight rebounds. Following her was freshman Tierra Webb with 11 points. Marshall and Smith both put up 10 points each. Southern Illinois redshirt senior Cartaesha Macklin led the Salukis with 19 points in the last matchup between the two teams. Redshirt junior Rishonda Napier followed with 15 points. Junior Carlie Corrigan also helped the Salukis with 12 points for the game. Friday’s game against Evansville is slated for 7:05 p.m. while Sunday’s contest against Southern Illinois will tip at 2:05 p.m. at the Hulman Center. Sunday’s game will be Senior Day for the Sycamores, who will honor departing student-athletes Alexis Newbolt, Cierra Ceazer, Kalliste Haskins and Kelsey Dirks. Both games can be seen on ESPN3 and the WatchESPN app. Radio coverage is available on-air and online at 1230 AM WIBQ.

players had good production in the February 6 road loss, as Brown scored 15 points, Smith added in 12 points and seven rebounds, Brenton Scott put in nine and Matt Van Scyoc nearly had a double-double with his eight points and eight rebounds. The Bears had three of their players score in double figures, with another one point shy of making it four. Donte Brown led the way for

Bradley, scoring 18 points and grabbing five rebounds, while Luuk Van Bree recorded 15 points and six rebounds. Ronnie Suggs added 10 points, six rebounds and three assists, and Dwayne LautierOgunleye scored nine points and dished out five assists. With the victory, Bradley saw their win total go from three to four and have since added another to put their overall record at 5-25. Meanwhile, the loss for Indiana State was the start of their six-game losing streak that they are looking to end. Although the Sycamores are much better in most statistical categories, the stat that may be the most important are the team’s home and road records. Bradley has won one of their 12 road games thus far, with their lone win coming in a onepoint victory against Loyola on Jan. 13. Indiana State is 9-4 inside the Hulman Center and will have the emotions and the buzz from the crowd on their side with it being the final game of the regular season at home. Saturday’s game is slated for a 2:05 p.m. tipoff with Senior Day festivities following the conclusion of the game. The game can be seen on ESPN3 and the WatchESPN app with radio coverage provided by 95.9 WDKE.

Baseball set for lengthy weekend Zach Rainey Reporter

Indiana State baseball kicked off their season in fashion, winning three of their first four games with their lone loss coming in heartbreaking fashion in the bottom of the ninth. The Sycamores look to carry that momentum into this weekend when they take on some formidable opponents. The team will open the weekend by playing the Iowa Hawkeyes Friday afternoon. The Hawkeyes had a stellar season last year, finishing second in the Big 10 with a 41-18 record. This season, however, they stumbled out of the gate. They were swept by a team very much familiar to the Sycamores in MVC rival Dallas Baptist. Their bats were ice cold in the series as their leading hitter Daniel Aaron Moriel walks away from the series with just a .255 batting average. With the sample size being just three games and most of them coming away from the series with less than 15 at-bats under their belt, it’s hard to imagine the Hawkeye bats will stay cold all season. On the mound, the Hawkeyes let their pitchers down. Tyler Peyton went six innings giving up just two unearned runs and held hitters to .095 at the plate but still earned a loss. C.J. Elfred also had a solid outing for Iowa. He gave up

just one earned run to go with two unearned runs and held hitters to .133 at the plate without walking a batter. On Saturday, the Sycamores will play a doubleheader against the Boston College Eagles in the first game and the Chicago State Cougars in the second. The Eagles are coming off a less than stellar 27-27 season, but when you take into account the rigorous ACC schedule down the stretch against national powerhouses like Notre Dame, Florida State and Miami, it can get challenging. The Eagles are off to a hot start, winning all four games they played last weekend. Boston College was led by sophomore outfielder Donovan Casey who hit .656 for those four games, including a triple, a double and 10 total bases. Close behind Casey is senior Logan Hoggarth who is tied for the team lead in RB’s with five, four of which came off a grand slam in the team’s 17-0 blowout of Northern Illinois. Hoggarth’s batting average currently stands at .500 with a perfect slugging percentage of 1.000. He also shows great patience at the plate, drawing three walks, tied for the team lead. On the mound, the Eagles look just as dominant. None of their starters have given up an earned run on the season and are all cur

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