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Winter weather worries walkers Krisiti Ashby News Editor
Snow has arrived on Indiana State University’s campus and can cause slippery conditions. For this reason here are some safety tips for traveling on campus from class to class. Students should bundle up—this means to wear layers underneath clothes. Students should also wear gloves, hats and scarves to help keep them warm. Since it’s cold and slippery, don’t wear slick shoes. Try to wear something that will keep out wetness and has proper traction. Walk slowly and try to stay on cleared paths as much as possible. Take that extra time to reach class instead of walking over ice and snow. When crossing streets, make sure cars have time to stop. With slippery conditions you don’t want an accident. Sycamores should also pay attention to all latest weather and closing information. Professors might cancel classes or the university could decide to cancel all classes. For this reason, pay attention to your emails and other media outlets for news on any closing information. Keep warm, Sycamores, and stay safe in this snowy, slushy, slippery mess that is campus after winter weather.
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‘Coffee and canvas’ event inspires student creativity
Morgan Gallas Reporter
For the past two weekends, Programs All Weekend [PAW] has been trying to spark creativity in the students at Indiana State University. This week, PAW held Coffee and Canvas on the first floor of Burford Hall on Saturday afternoon. Students were provided coffee, cookies, paints, canvases and brushes. With no set instructions, students could paint whatever they could come up with. PAW offers many events for students to show their creative sides. PAW employs students to work the events that are paid by Campus Life. Deja Spalding, a senior studying human development and family studies, works for PAW. She said that PAW’s reason for doing another painting event is for “the love of crafts.” “[These] events give students something to look forward to,” Spalding said. “Our goal is to have students want to stay on campus during the weekends.” Emilee Hackett, a senior studying communication, has worked with PAW multiple times. She said that every weekend event is fun, free and enjoyable which is why she continues to work with PAW. On average, 60 to 70 people come out to each event. PAW hosted Pottery Painting in Cromwell Hall last weekend, which went over successfully with the students who attended. “Last week, our event, Pottery Painting, had at least 120 people so we made
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PAW provided coffee, cookies, paints, and canvases for students to bring out their inner creativity on the first floor of Burford Hall (Photo by Cicara Moore).
sure that we were ready for a crowd,” Hackett said. Students who participated in the event seemed to enjoy themselves at the event. Evelyn Huffman, a graduate student studying clinical mental health counseling, said this was her first time going to a PAW event. “I never lived in the dorms so I didn’t
know about these events,” Huffman said as she set her paint and cookies down in front of her canvas. “I came today because I like artistic things.” PAW’s next event is a Karaoke Night Saturday, Feb. 7, in the Hulman Memorial Student Union Sycamore Lounge from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. for all students to enjoy.
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Obama’s proposal spurs college conversation Steve Wininger Reporter Student’s reactions during the president’s State of the Union address last week were mostly positive; however, there are still many areas of the proposal that need to be addressed. According to the White House website, President Obama’s plan will make a twoyear degree free and universal. The proposal, which the White House website terms “Tuition-free Community College for Responsible Students” will allow students coming out of high school, displaced workers and those wishing to further their education a free start by paying for a two-year associates or technical degree from a community college. According to the press release, free community college will fill the need for bachelors and technical degrees in the workplace. Some of the proposed requirements are a student must be enrolled at least parttime — six credit hours per semester — maintain a 2.5 GPA while in college and make steady progress toward their degree. Community colleges will be required to offer programs that are fully transferrable to a four-year program and offer occupa-
tional programs and degrees. There are other requirements and standards that the community colleges must meet also. In addition, according to the White House, the states must be willing to invest 25 percent of the costs, with the federal government paying 75 percent. Vice president of enrollment management, marketing and communications, John Beacon said that he does not anticipate the plan to have a significant impact on ISU enrollment. Beacon said not to expect the president’s plan to be law by the start of the Fall 2015 semester. He said that as the way the plan is set up now it is unlikely the party controlling Congress will pass it. “[The President’s proposal] is going to launch a conversation, but it is a worthwhile conversation,” Beacon said. One thing Beacon said needs to be discussed is where the money will be coming from to pay for this. Beacon mentioned the possibility of the government taxing 5/29 college savings plans which, at the moment is not taxed. Beacon said the states will have to figure out where they will get the money to pay their part.
He went on to say states don’t have the money and one option they may look at is the money they already get from the Federal Government in the form of education appropriations. That would essentially take money from four-year schools, Beacon said. “I think there is still a lot of detail that is still not clear about this, and how it will work,” Beacon said. Many students are positive about the plan but most want to know more details. Senior aviation management major Charlie Kaho said he thinks it is a good idea, but is also skeptical about the president’s plan. Education needs to be reformed, Kaho said. Citing the huge costs and problems with the Affordable Care Act, he thinks it should happen at the state level instead of federal level. “The government needs to get involved and actually do something instead of throwing money at it,” Kaho said. There are many things that will have to be worked out with the president’s proposal, but as Beacon said, there needs to be a conversation.
tively withdrawn effective the beginning of the term. Any aid associated [with] that student is then returned to the state or feds.” It is important to note that this only applies if the student has not attended at all over their total classes. This is to help with fraud on the university’s side, but also if a student had registered for classes and perhaps decided to not attend Indiana State. This should not be seen as a replacement for the add/drop deadline if a student is just not going to one class. However, ISU also uses this report as a way to possibly help students’ performance in class. “The University College uses threeweek attendance as an initial intervention point for at-risk students,” said Stephanie Pearcy, the director for first-year student outreach. “Students who have already
missed class within the first three weeks of the semester are typically at a higher risk for failing than students who have zero absences. We ask for specific number of absences so that the Academic Advising team in the University College can then reach out to students who have absences who are still here to work with them in terms of academic success planning so that they do not fall behind.” Pearcy adds that some first-year students may have a misunderstanding of how a college attendance policy works. “Students often think that if the faculty member says they can miss three days of class, that those are free days that they can skip class,” Pearcy said. “They don’t understand that those are meant to be sick days and that if they use them up to skip class and then get really sick they are stuck.” Even if an absence is not counted
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Roof renovation to occur this summer Makyla Thompson Reporter This summer Indiana State University will be getting the roof of the science building renovated, and is said to cost $2.7 million. Indiana State’s commitment to improving campus is made apparent through its constant construction. Mills hall is being reconstructed; new sorority housing was built, Indiana State is in the process of building a new track and much more. This summer the Science Building will be worked on as well, starting with the roof. Diann McKee, the vice president for business affairs, finance and university treasurer, commented on the roof ’s replacement. “The cost of the roof replacement is approximately $2.7 million,” McKee said. “Faculty and staff will remain in the building during these projects.” There might be summer classes going on during these times, so construction workers are going to try their best not to be too disruptive. “We will make every effort to minimize any disruption,” McKee said.
3-week attendance reporting helps keep students in check
Jonathan Baker Reporter The first three weeks of class have come and gone, and now Indiana State University is checking if students are going to class. Roll call, sign-in sheets, quizzes, student ID swipes or even clickers are some of the ways professors collect attendance before submitting their results to the university. But what is the purpose of reporting attendance? “ISU has selected to do a mandatory attendance check on all students to determine if students are attending the classes for which they have registered,” said Susan Powers, the associate vice president of academic affairs. “At the end of the reporting period, the Office of Registration and Records looks at the data and if a student is reported as ‘never attended’ for all classes, then the student is administra-
against a student, Pearcy points out there can be other factors that can affect a student’s grade. “They also don’t understand that if they do skip class and there is a quiz that the faculty member is not obligated to let them make up the quiz, so they take a zero,” Pearcy said. The University College does have a survey that they send to first-year students at ISU to try to help them further understand how the attendance policy works and how students can succeed. “The Spring Transition Survey launches on Monday, Feb. 2 and closes on Friday, Feb. 13,” Pearcy said. “Students should watch their ISU email for information about the survey and can go to http:// www.indstate.edu/uc/Map-Works.htm to learn more about MAP-Works and to view their individualized student report.”
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Indiana State professor aids high-profile whale study Libby Roerig
ISU Communications and Marketing The same way an indigenous population harvests a whale and uses every part of it for subsistence, researchers around the world have harvested genetic data about the bowhead whale for a variety of uses. During part of a sabbatical in 2011, Indiana State University biology professor emeritus Gary Stuart was among the 30 researchers plus technicians in laboratories all around the world. “What this lab is interested in is slightly different from what that lab is interested in. I think the U.K. people are very, very interested in aging affects,” Stuart said. “There were other people involved who were more interested in cancer and the ability of the whale to survive a very long time with what appears to be less probability of getting cancer. There was a variety of interests in sequencing the whale.” Stuart worked with John Bickham of Purdue University on research mostly rooted in conservation of the species. Bickham, who met Stuart when Bickham was a guest speaker at Indiana State, had been collaborating with the indigenous population in the North Slope communities of Alaska. “They still harvest the bowhead whale in a cultural ceremony. They use products from the whale to survive in that difficult environment. They have these yearly ceremonial harvests; that’s their way of life,” Stuart said. “It’s important for them to understand how the whale is surviving in that environment. Historically, it’s been over-hunted; commercial hunting really did a number on the population.” Stuart, who describes his role in the
overall project as “small,” helped Bickham probe the genetic sequences of the whale to determine the genetic health of the population. Specifically, the team was primarily responsible for generating the transcriptome — the collection of all the messenger RNA molecules expressed from the whale’s genome. When a species is over-hunted, a genetic bottleneck can occur, as “the number of individuals gets so small that the gene pool gets too small ... and lacks all the tools to adapt to a changing environment,” he said. What they discovered is the bowhead whale population has rebounded nicely since commercial whaling stopped. “It’s good — it’s better than perhaps some people may have predicted,” he said. The bowhead whale is one of the longest living mammals — and therefore of interest to the large group of researchers, be it aging or cancer. “Whales have about 1,000 times more cells than we do. If you think of cancer as bad luck, then having 1,000 times more potential for bad luck is a difficult thing,” Stuart said. “One has to ask how can whales seem to avoid cancer? If you put together the idea that they live 200 years and have a 1,000 more cells [so 1,000 times greater chance of a cell going awry], you can’t logically escape the idea that they have cancer-prevention mechanisms we don’t have. It’s likely hidden in the genome how that works.” And interest in these topics extends beyond researchers, as the project’s findings have attracted much media interest around the world. “Will it be a gene that prevents cancer? Probably not. It’ll be a constellation
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of genes that interacts in a way that in the end is preventative in perhaps subtle ways,” Stuart said. “It’s kind of like comparing two different kinds of cars — one gets 50,000 miles and the other gets 200,000 miles. Why are these cars different? They have all the same pieces, they’re pretty much the same. It’s with how they’re arranged and put together to begin with. The same is true for whales versus humans.” Land-locked Indiana may not seem like an ideal place to study ocean life, but Stuart has made a career of it, going back to his study of the highly portable zebra fish. “I’m kind of a nuts-and-bolts kind of guy,” Stuart said. “How does the genome regulate the development of the individual? How is all that processed? What are the mechanics for expressing genes? That’s my history. As I developed here as a faculty member, I became interested in full genomes.” Similarly, Bickham’s affiliation at Purdue was forestry and natural resources — seemingly an ecosystem away from whales. Bickham now works for the research and development company Battelle in Houston. “Once you’re involved in a social network and you know people, you know what they’re capable of doing. Definitely forestry is interested in conservation and natural resources and so is John,” Stuart said. “Just the sheer overlap in that kind of approach — it’s not a tree or a plant, it’s a whale — I think that made sense to them.” Stuart, who is looking forward to future projects researching male genetic
diversity and the role of dominant genes and collaborating with Indiana State colleague assistant professor Yongsheng Bai on mechanical processes of a gene in the whale, is no stranger to group think. Stuart is also affiliated with Indiana State University’s Center for Genomic Advocacy, an Unbounded Possibilities initiative. The center works to develop a community of advocates through interdisciplinary studies in biology, political science, business, ethics and health to help prepare for the societal transformation genomic technology will bring. “In a general sense, it’s really important for scientists to be able to get together in research meetings and talk about things — to get this kind of creative fountain,” he said. “That kind of happened with John and I. It became a goal of mine to work with him.”
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OPINION A Young Woman’s Guide to College
‘Checklist dating’ snubs spontaneous interaction for interviews
Finding a guy is a lot like filling out a survey. From our beginning flirtations in elementary school, “do you like me, check yes or no,” to eHarmony’s definitive questionnaires, we try to force people into categories that extinguish every possibility for excitement and spontaneity before the first date even occurs. From height, hair color and career goals, it seems as though our culture is quickly adopting a new dating style — one that focuses more on fitting a particular criteria as opposed to natural Columnist expression and individuality. Our classifications have gone so far as to even classify the un-dateable. From jerks to players, even those we know aren’t worthy of our time are receiving immense amounts of it along with the energy we spend complaining about them. After one relationship goes downhill, it’s easy to brush it off and chalk it up to misaligned values, however after what seems like a testosterone tornado, it’s easy to be bogged down and believe you are doomed in all future relationships. Each of us has experienced the forced conversations of awkward first dates and the not-so-smooth first kiss that rushes what should come in patient, respectful time. Therefore, it would seem logical that to avoid these encounters, we should do our digging before dating. Wrong. While preferences are fine, when we begin requiring traits from a person, conversations turn into interviews and affection becomes a test of chemistry. We always dream of finding the perfect partner and when society shows us Ryan Gosling’s beautiful mind and body, it’s hard to distance ourselves from the craving of perfection. However, instead of finding the dreamy gentleman who completes us, we need to focus on settling down with someone who compliments our strengths and challenges our weaknesses. My personal therapist and mother always says “If someone wants you in their life, they will make the time and effort to put you there.” In my sassier teenage years I used
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to laugh and think that I had to seek out the relationship and put in more effort to maintain it. After a few years of maturation I realized that this lesson is a gold mine, which I should have expected all along from my mom. Relationships should not be sought out and forced, but developed over time by two people putting in equal effort. Although it may take time to find the person willing to put you in his or her life, it’s 10 times greater than trying to make room for yourself where you aren’t appreciated. There are two obstacles we must overcome first in order to reach this consensus. First, college is not the time to find a husband. If you look at the majority of our surroundings, they are not fit or equipped for fostering a relationship full of love and caring. Secondly, when we are searching for a significant other, we often choose to look in the wrong places. Surprisingly, those you meet at fraternity parties aren’t looking to settle down. The inappropriate decorations are dead giveaways that some men and women are not ready for serious relationships, not to mention the red solo cup that accompanies every outfit they wear. The most important thing to realize is that in order to truly connect with someone on a deeper level than Thursday through Saturday, priorities and values must align and come before social functions. If you are academically inclined, you will have a better chance of connecting with someone at the library who is putting his or her academics first as opposed to building power-packed muscles at the gym. Relationships need to be deeper than protein and lifting. Not even the best shaker bottle can attract your perfect mate. If you say you want to be in a relationship and to be loved, then be sure it’s coming from a place of compassion and care as opposed to loneliness because in the end, a relationship will only be real if it has the right intentions and two, truly committed people. The beauty of college is that it’s acceptable to not want these things. You can choose to spend your time with friends or working towards your career goals. It is important to find the thing that makes us the happiest and put that above all else.
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Espresso in space: Silly science seeds serious research So based on my previous articles, it seems like I am a major proponent of any and all things that could be argued as technological advancements. However, this is not strictly true. I am a proponent of technological advances, provided they are genuine advances and Columnist not people piddling away money just because they can — I’m looking at you, Apple products. So of course there’s always the issue of “is this really helping us?” There is also the issue of what projects are worth the money spent on the research. Some research subjects involving space travel feel logical. The development of duct tape, which was created for astronauts to have tape
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strong enough to function in space, has benefited all. Some research ideas, however, could be argued as pointless going in. For instance, Tang was made because astronauts wanted to drink something beyond water. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t productive side effects of these experiments. Personally, I think Tang was a stupid and pointless waste of taxpayer dollars, because simply put, astronauts can suck it up. But the research did result in instant drinks such as concentrated juice, lemonade powder and instant coffee, which have given people all around the world easier access to a variety of new drinks. So some useless research projects can result in greatness. Somehow I doubt many would count astronauts being able to drink coffee in space as greatness. That’s right, scientists have invented a cup that gives astronauts the ability to
drink liquid espresso. The whole thing began after Italy announced it would be sending an espresso machine to the International Space Station — because stereotypes exist for a reason. The cup works by using physics to guide liquid toward the drinker’s mouth the second the friction from the drinker’s lip touches the sipping end of the cup. The design is based off of the researcher’s previous workings with the Capillary Flow effect, similar to how they designed plumbing for the spacecrafts. Now if the only reason they were designing this was so astronauts can drink espresso, I would be balking like no one ever balked. However, it was revealed that this was largely initially done so they may test using 3-D printers as well as further progress the capabilities of fluid utilization in low-gravity areas. The idea was to gain practice utilizing the printer enough for “postponed
packing,” if you will, meaning that they will use 3-D printers to bring in nonessential equipment after lift-off. This will make it so the volume and weight of everything that they would bring on the ship will be significantly lessened and make the whole affair far more efficient all around. Any further glorious effects of the endeavor can only be imagined for now. The fluid theories are more toward working on making rocket fuel work more efficiently within the engines. While this does cost money to test on — in fact, one of the researchers has quoted roughly $100,000 as the overall cost when testing is finally done — it has also been stated that doing this with astronauts in space is far more costeffective than testing the same fluidic theories on rocket engines themselves. Engine fuel costs quite a bit to make, and espresso is cheap, relatively speaking.
Movie snipes box office records, prompts propaganda accusations Records have been smashed and ceilings have been broken as the new Clint Eastwood movie “American Sniper” starring Bradley Cooper has broken the movie records. Bradley Cooper portrays an American hero Chris Kyle who served his country and defendColumnist ed her interests. On Jan. 16, the release of the movie adaptation of Chris Kyle’s novel, “American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History,” box offices were surprised by receiving $90 million. This sounds great: a hero puts his story out for the world to see and is able to touch the lives of millions through his book and movie. Yet, this is not the time for back-patting or high fives because some believe
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that this is a political issue. Not because of the violence or grotesque nature of the movie, but because it supposedly pushes the Republican agenda. It is preposterous to think that a movie would be created as propaganda for a political party. Critics and analysts alike proposed, before the move came out, it would only appeal to “red states” and not to the general public. Yet, David Edelstein wrote an article that appeared in the Dec. 29, 2014, issue of New York Magazine. He found several problems with the movie and how it portrayed the people in it. In Kyle’s novel he describes the enemy as “savage, despicable evil” and as Edelstein saw it, Eastwood made those words a reality by depicting them the same way. He goes on to fault the movie as a propaganda film to incite hatred and patriotism in Americans. Why are we talking about this movie over the last action movie? This movie holds a certain level of
truth in it that some veterans back up as a fact. This movie was based on a book and that book was written by someone who lived through a war zone. These were the thoughts, feelings and life of a war veteran and that fact cannot be ignored. Storytelling and making movies have a degree of opinion and artistic view. If Kyle stated in his book that his enemy was “savage, despicable evil” then why would Eastwood leave that out? It makes perfect sense to include the depictions as Kyle saw them, and not as some propaganda movie. I am a fan of the movie and not because it depicts something a Republican wants me to see, but because it sheds light in an area we know little about. We are a nation that is sometimes polarized by war and the stories told by those who come home from terrible places. By portraying exactly what Kyle saw and felt, to me, is much more important than worrying about who will accept this film.
To me it would be much more therapeutic for Kyle and others to tell their story the way they saw it than to dress it up. The popular film this year has been shrouded in controversy because this time last year we saw a gripping historical movie tell the story of our past. Now that “American Sniper” gets to be in the spotlight it is hard for some to give up to such a relevant true story. In my personal opinion I think it’s a great movie and one that many more should support because it deals with a reality many do not want to think about. The war is real and our men and women are torn up by it physically and emotionally every day. To say that Eastwood or any other director used this movie as a political platform to press ideas into the public’s face has had a bad childhood. Keep in mind that movies are subject to artistic interpretation but when an American hero can tell us about their life we better stay true to their story.
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Pizza and Politics tackles important debt questions Steve Wininger Reporter
This past Thursday’s Pizza and Politics event at the Cunningham Memorial Library featured a guest speaker: Indiana State University President Dr. Daniel J. Bradley. Over a hundred students filled the library events area to enjoy some pizza and listen to Bradley speak to students concerning debt. Jennifer Monarch, a second-year graduate student majoring in student affairs, said the pizza and politics events have been held for a long time and that attendance has been steady. Monarch said they try to make the events as interactive as possible but this one was not quite as interactive. The topic being discussed can have something to do with the amount of interaction. “Sometimes [the] night of the week helps, I was thinking tonight was a little less than normal, but possibly because it was a Thursday night,” Monarch said. Monarch held a survey last year and determined that students would be more likely to attend the event if it were held on a day other than Tuesday. President Bradley welcomed questions throughout the presentation. Bradley touched on many aspects of student debt and financial aid beginning with the statistics of student debt compared to ISU students and President
Obama’s free community college proposal. “President Obama’s proposal may not be clear, but probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 to 70 percent of students at Indiana State would not get any additional dollars,” Bradley said. Bradley said if students are already 21st Century Scholars or have Pell grants there is a good chance a student would not get any additional aid to go to a community college under this new proposal. “It is a much smaller program than it looks like,” Bradley said. Bradley said he is confident the solution to student debt problem is an income-based repayment program for student loans. Under this program, students upon graduating will pay monthly payments based on their income. After the student works a number of years they will no longer have to pay. “It’s a lot of years, but I think the payment levels are within reason for most people,” Bradley said. Bradley said the cost of tuition has typically gone up as the state appropriations have steadily declined over the past 25 years. He also talked about how the money ISU receives from tuition and state appropriations is spent by explaining each item of the budget. In answer to a question concerning
the demolition of the Sycamore Towers, Bradley said that tuition costs do not cover those costs. “If you are from Terre Haute and you live in your mom and dad’s house for the four years you go to school here, you don’t contribute to the costs of residence halls,” Bradley said. Junior professional aviation major Zach Jones said this was the first Pizza
and Politics event he has attended. However, it is not the first American Democracy Project event he has attended. Jones said he liked the format and the interaction of the event and said he thought the president did a good job of answering the student’s questions. “I think he answered all the student’s questions that were asked, pretty wholeheartedly,” Jones said.
watch us play soccer and asked to join, and some members mentioned using soccer to provide a good service for the community and hopefully provide them with a fun time and build friendships through soccer. “Around 10 children in grades K-5 from Ben Franklin were selected by their school to participate in the nearly twohour, afterschool soccer activity on Jan. 29, which included warm-up activities, teamwork-building games and an explanation of the game rules, before the group played an indoor soccer game at the elementary school. “[Soccer] is a game that teaches you how to work together as a team and provides physical activity and good cognitive development,” Park said. “So soccer is not only fun, but it is good for the students
for many reasons.” The ISU Mentor/Mentee Program is sponsored by the Center for the Community Engagement and Vigo County School Corp. to encourage education, acknowledge mentee accomplishments and promote the idea of going to college among students. “To me, this is karma — do good and good things will happen,” said Hee Soo Park, a graduate engineering student at Rose-Hulman. “I also like soccer and working with kids so the combination of them in this activity made me want to get involved.” The opportunity to volunteer was one that Min Su Shin, a senior economics major at Indiana State and a member of the university’s Korean Student Association, also didn’t want to pass up.
“Our association is all about communication and we do a lot of volunteering with Dr. Park, like going to Sycamore Manor,” Shin said. “We know there are people who need help and this is a way for us to volunteer and do something for children in the community.” A Korean school supervisor by trade, Indiana State graduate student Young Ki Kim said, “It is a great experience in helping people. We have fun and can get the students thinking about their dreams for themselves.” The chance to use the activity to share the Korean culture with others was made it a winning idea to Sang Do Park, president of the Terre Haute Community Korean Association. “This is a great way for us to keep our Korean culture in America and be able to share it with Americans,” Park said.
President Bradley spoke about what President Obama’s ‘free college’ proposal will mean for ISU students and how the university uses funds (Photo by Gary Macadaeg).
Korean pastime builds friendships, shares culture Betsy Simon
ISU Communications and Marketing A well-loved Korean pastime — soccer — is about to become a mentoring activity to help native Koreans in the Terre Haute community, including students at Indiana State University and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, share their culture and build friendships with children at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School. “Last year, Korean community members [in Terre Haute] got together and played soccer at Deming Park. It was good for us and helped us make good friends,” said Yong Joon Park, associate professor of elementary, early and special education in the Bayh College of Education. “Many children would come by and
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Monday, Feb. 2, 2015
ISU batters Bradley Braves black and blue Rob Lafary Sports Editor
Indiana State University and Bradley may share the same basketball conference but the Missouri Valley Conference foes entered Saturday afternoon with two completely different situations. The Sycamores have found success in MVC play but were once again put up with the task of getting a win in the wake of a crushing defeat to a conference foe. Bradley was playing its first game just two days after the suspension of leading scorer Warren Jones, starter Ka’Darryl Bell and reserve Omari Grier. In the end, the story unfolded better for the home team as Indiana State walked away with a hard-fought 64-58 victory. “Bradley is going through a rough stretch right now but Coach [Geno] Ford does such a good job and is going to get them back to where they have been in past years,” Indiana State head coach Greg Lansing said after the game. “Bradley came in ready, they tried some different things and we had no idea what to prepare for,” he said. “I felt like before the game that we looked like the team before Christmas. Both ends of the floor we made some mistakes that just aren’t good enough. But we still win the basketball game despite the mistakes and we now look to get better and improve.” Any chance that Indiana State might blow away a practically new Bradley lineup in the wake of its suspensions was quickly extinguished early on in the first half as the Sycamores played perhaps one of its worst halves of basketball all season. The Braves may not have played much better in terms of execution, but their hustle on both ends of the floor made up for it and the visitors were quickly out to a 13-7 lead with 12 minutes to play. A three-point play by TJ Bell two minutes later cut the Bradley lead down to 17-16 but ISU was unable to take a lead. After a four-minute dry spell, the Braves brought the lead back out to three on a basket by Donte Thomas and maintained the margin, taking a 26-23 lead into halftime. “We were certainly disappointed about our performance in the first half and I was ticked off when I came in at halftime,” Lansing said. “We didn’t start the
game very well and we did a lot of dumb things uncharacteristically. I thought our bench sparked us in both halves but the guys knew that they had to play better in the second half.” The second half made for a complete 180-degree turn by Indiana State, who opened up on fire from the field. After shooting a dismal 7-of-29 from the field in the first half, the Sycamores dazzled in the early minutes of the second, getting 3-pointers from Devonte Brown, Tre Bennett and Brenton Scott to surge ahead 43-37. An Alex Etherington slam off a steal stretched the lead out to eight points at the 12:49 mark. Lansing said the improvement on offense was rather simple. “Bradley had us on our heels in the first half and they dictated the tempo,” Lansing added. “They played a zone and really you don’t have to do much against it. You find the gaps and make passes and eventually you’ll get a shot. We settled for too many threes again and if we are going to do that then ball needs to touch the paint. We moved quicker in the second half and were able to pop the ball out more from the inside.” Indiana State never trailed again despite Bradley’s best attempts at making a run. The Braves were able to cut the deficit to five on two separate occasions inside the last five minutes but timely defensive stops by the Sycamores and free throws by Brown in the closing seconds sealed ISU’s six-point win. A 56-percent shooting mark in the second half boded well for all four Sycamore double figure scorers on the afternoon. Scott led the way with 13 with Brown closely behind at 12. Bennett scored 11 while Justin Gant added 10. Scott, Brown and Bennett combined for all nine of ISU’s 3-pointers in the contest. Tramique Sutherland led Bradley with 17 points. Josh Cunningham, Anthony Fields and Austin Barnes each had 11 points. Indiana State now sets its sights on a rematch with ranked Northern Iowa on Tuesday night at the Hulman Center in Terre Haute. Lansing believes it’s a
The Indiana State Sycamore men defeated the Bradley Braves 64-58 in conference play on Saturday. ISU now sits at 11-11, 7-3 in the MVC (Photo by Rochelle Weymouth).
game that his kids will no doubt be ready for come next week. “If we don’t want to guard on Tuesday night then we have zero prayer in beating Northern Iowa,” Lansing noted. “Our guys will step up. They know how
good of a team that is coming to our place and we have a lot of respect for them. We could play very well and still get beat by these guys. I’m hoping for a really good crowd because it’s going to be a really good game.”
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Sycamores win both sides of Northern Iowa Team Invitational Kevin Jenison
ISU Athletic Media Relaitions The Indiana State University women captured seven events and the men five as the Sycamores took both sides of the Northern Iowa Team Invitational Saturday. The battle of Missouri Valley Conference teams and a preview of the MVC Indoor Championships in four weeks, the invitational did not disappoint fans as every event was tightly contested. Indiana State won the men’s team title with 161 points with Wichita State second, Northern Iowa third and Drake fourth. It was basically the same order of finish on the women’s side with Indiana State coming out on top with 163 points. Wichita State was second with Northern Iowa third and Drake fourth. “This was a very good meet and gave our kids an indication of how tough it will be on the second day of the conference meets,” John McNichols, Indiana State men’s track and field coach, said. “We had a lot of people double for the first time today and they have to realize that even if they are tired, they need to dig down and find another gear towards the end of the meet. We still have a lot of work to do.” John Mascari continued to dominate the 3,000-meter as the Sycamore junior ran to win the event in commanding fashion. Wichita State’s Kilian Schreiner was a distant second. Arqeil Shaw raced his way from third to first in the final 100 meters of the 400-meter to post the win and David Timlin held off all challengers to take the mile. DeSean Prentice posted another win in the men’s high jump as he cleared 6’8.75” while Devyn Mikell took the men’s long jump with a career-best leap of 24’-3.75” that moved him into a tie for seventh on the all-time list with Bryce Armstrong. Gino Brown claimed the win in the men’s triple jump as he went 46’-6.75”. Junior Brett Wehmiller won the Jack Jennet Invite Heptathlon competition by scoring 5,152 points, which is the fourthbest in school history and should rank him in 20th in the nation for the event. Wehmiller opened the second day of the
Heptathlon by running a career-best 8.39 in the 60-meter hurdles, clearing a career-best 13’-9.25” in the pole vault and running 2:57.99 in the 1,000-meter. “Brett is only going to get better,” McNichols said. “He needed a strong meet like this one to get him going.” The Sycamore opened the Heptathlon competition on Friday by setting career-bests in the long jump, clearing 6’-4”/1.93m in the high jump and running 7.14 in the 60-meter. “This was a good meet with lots of competition,” Angie Martin, Indiana State women’s track and field head coach, said. “We had our ups and downs but we know what we need to work on the next couple of weeks before conference. I was very pleased with many of the results we had today.” Alethia Marrero was a double winner for Indiana State as she won the 400-meter and came back to capture the 200-meter in 24.75. Chidera Obasih ran a career-best 7.53 seconds to win the women’s 60-meter with teammate Kaisha Martin second in 7.64. Katie Wise had the fastest time in the preliminaries at 7.44 but did not run in the finals. Jamie Newsome soared to a careerbest distance of 19’-2.5” to win the long jump competition which moves her into a tie for seventh on the Indiana State All-Time list with Carmelia Stewart. It was Stewart won earned the win in the triple jump as she went 40’-9.75” to capture the victory and Newsome 49’-7.5” to finish second. The Sycamore women were also 1-2 in the shot put with Whitney Walker throwing a career best 49’-1.75” to win the event and teammate Katelyn Rutz going 48’-1.75” to place second. Jessi Conley, Sydney Dickerson, Aleksey Green and Nicole Lucas combined in the distance medley relay as Indiana State dominated with a winning time of 12:06.45. Northern Iowa was second in 12:16.84. Other results for the Indiana State men: Scott Schreiber finished second in the 60-meter with Tristan Parmley seventh. Carl McQuay was sixth in the 200-meter with Terry McGee eighth while Tyrell Dowdell finished seventh and CJ Any-
Indiana State Univeristy track and field took over Northern Iowa Team Invitational Saturday by capturing both sides, men and women (Photo by Ayden Jent).
aebunam 10th in the 400-meter. Daniel Swem made a charge on the final lap of the mile to finish third in a personal best 4:19.95. The Sycamores were second, third and fourth in the 800-meter with Tony Rigoni, Jonathan Jackson and Blake Kramer in a photo finish. Levi Taylor was third in the 3,000-meter and Tristan Selby fourth. Indiana State finished 2-5 in the men’s 60-meter hurdles with Adarius Washington second, Daley Carter third, Marcus Neely fourth and Tristan Joynes fifth. Carter, Nelly and Jones ran personal bests. The men’s distance medley relay team of Blake Kramer, CJ Anyaebunam, Tony Rigoni and Michael Passmore nearly picked up the win in the final 50 meters but finished second as Wichita State held on for the win at the finish line. Jaime Murtagh was fifth in the high jump while Connor Curley was third in the pole vault by clearing 15’-9” and Dallas Miller seventh at 14’-9”. Scott Schreiber was third in the long jump and Kevin Beacham eighth with both personal bests for the Sycamore athletes. Devyn Mikell finished sixth in the triple jump at 43’-11.75”. Ryan Chestnut was fourth in the shot put with a heave of 52’-2.75” with Justin Applegate taking sixth at 48’-2.75”. Applegate and Chestnut each posted personal best distances in the shot put and
did the same in the weight throw with Applegate fourth and Chestnut fifth. Other results for the Indiana State women: Aleksey Green ran a career-best 2:17.14 to finish fifth in the 800-meter with Jessie Conley sixth and Sydney Dickerson eighth. Taylor Austin ran 5:10.29 to finish fifth in the mile with Danielle Muse sixth in a 5:10.86 personal best. Nicole Lucas finished second in the 3,000-meter with Danielle Muse fifth. Carmelia Stewart was second in the 60-meter hurdles with Patrycja Dziekonska fifth and Micaela McLean sixth. Indiana State’s 4x400 meter relay team of Alethia Marrero, Chidera Obasih, Oschtisha Jackson and Jamie Newsome finished second in 3:50.04. LeVisa Evans finished second in the high jump by clearing 5’-7”. Kimyanna Rudolph finished second in the pole vault after clearing 13’-1.5” while Breanna Herring was eighth with a height of 12’-5.5”. Kaisha Martin was fourth in the long jump and Mandy Jones fifth. Katelyn Rutz finished second in the weight throw with a distance of 61’-7” with Jasmine Noel finishing sixth and Summer Blackamore eighth. All three were career-bests. Indiana State will be back in action next week when they return to South Bend for the annual Meyo Invitational Friday and Saturday.
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Discussion debates student debt dilemma
Right: President Daniel J. Bradley spoke at the American Democracy Project’s event, Pizza and Politics: The Cost of Education. Below: Brandon Tamayo, a sophomore legal studies major, expressed his opinion during the discussion. Topics ranged from the current student debt problem to possible solutions to the issue (Photos by Gary Macadeag).