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Professors remember hardworking graphic design student
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Jacara Buchanan was a graphic design student at Indiana State University. While fighting a battle with cancer, her body manifested a blood clot that caused her to die Jan. 16. Charles Armstrong, an assistant professor in the Department of Art and Design, taught Buchanan in the fall. She was a student in his webpage design class and was also enrolled in his advanced layout course this spring.
Armstrong described her initially as quiet and shy, but she showed a strong will and determination to learn in his class, reaching out to him for tutoring when she needed it. “She was strong,” Armstrong said. “But I think a better word to describe her would be fierce. She was fierce.” Buchanan was passionate about her major and had many other professors who knew and adored her. Fran Lattanzio, a professor in the Department of Art and Design, was Buchanan’s academic adviser and instruc-
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tor in photography class. Lattanzio described Buchanan as someone on the right path with qualities to be successful. “She was a beautiful, capable, respectful student,” Lattanzio said. “Her interactions with others were positive. I know she worked hard and would have completed her degree this year.” Buchanan was a fighter and student who did not give up. Her passion for graphic design Submitted Photo and others were traits that will be missed by many. Buchanan’s Jacara Buchanan was described drive and determination will as a strong, beautiful woman by many of her peers. not be forgotten.
Not only China’s wealthy want to study in the US Frank Shyong
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Three months before the gaokao, China’s all-or-nothing college entrance exam that can determine whether students become cashiers or CEOs, Kenny Fu was having second thoughts. His parents, small-business owners, wanted him to study in the U.S., but Fu’s English was poor and he was afraid he wouldn’t be able to make friends. With the two-day, 10-hour exam looming, he hated the idea of a single test determining his path. The family scraped together money to move him to the United States in 2011. After studying English for a year, he began to attend classes at Pasadena City College, where he volunteers part time and hopes to transfer to UCLA. More than 124,000 Chinese undergraduates are studying in the United States, according to the Institute of International Education. Many are affluent, announcing their presence on campus with Lamborghinis, flashy clothes and the profligate spending that is the hallmark of the fuerdai — the derogatory term for sons and daughters of China’s new wealthy class. But a growing number are like Fu — children from lowermiddle-class families who are looking for an alternative to an overcrowded and unforgiving Chinese educational system. In 2007, just 2,500 Chinese students were enrolled at U.S. community colleges, which have become increasingly attractive to low-income or lowperforming Chinese students who want to escape the pressure of the gaokao. Now more than 16,200, or 13 percent of all Chinese undergraduates in the U.S., are studying at community colleges in this country. Los Angeles’ community colleges host a large percentage of those students, according to a Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp. report issued in 2014. Nearly half of the 20,000 students from China studying in Los Angeles County attended community colleges,
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Lantian Xiang is a Chinese student who started his undergraduate studies at Pasadena City College before transferring to UCLA, where he now is a junior in actuarial sciences
according to the report. Santa Monica College, home to the most international students of any community college campus in the nation, has more than 1,000 Chinese international students — up from roughly 200 six years ago, according to Denise Kinsella, associate dean for international education. In China, a huge industry of intermediary agencies guarantees acceptance letters for a few thousand dollars, and they’ve successfully marketed American community colleges as a stop on the way to a degree at a four-year university. “It used to be that only the top students could come to the U.S.,” said Michael Wan, chief executive of the Irvine-based Wenmei Education Consulting Group. “Now, anybody with money can come.” The trend — a reflection of China’s growing middle class — is eagerly embraced by California’s cash-poor community colleges, which lost nearly $1 billion during the recession. But larger numbers of Chinese students with limited resources or skills will challenge community colleges, which have fewer staff and resources to devote to for-
eign students. Some in academia question whether community colleges can handle the influx of Chinese students. “The number of students is growing much faster than the services for them are,” Wan said. For every fuerdai who shows up with unimaginable wealth, there are several students who are struggling financially, said Amy Yan, assistant director of the international student center at Pasadena City College. “It is a stereotype that all Chinese students are rich and have Benzes and Bentleys. It’s just not true. It’s just that the rich students show off more,” said Yan, who came to the U.S. decades ago as an international student herself. The rising numbers of foreign students in publicly funded universities have irked some parents and legislators. Earlier this year, the UC regents voted to cap the number of out-ofstate and international students at UCLA and UC Berkeley at their current levels — about 30 percent. Supporters counter with a litany of benefits foreign students provide. NAFSA, an interna-
tional education professional organization, estimated the total of almost 1 million foreign students in the U.S. contributed $30.5 billion to the U.S. economy last year. At Pasadena City College, international students pay about $8,000 in tuition a year and generate more than $8 million in revenue. Only a small portion of that goes back into the international student program, said Russell Frank, the college’s interim associate dean of international students. The rest, he said, “funds faculty, programs and students across campus.” But it’s not just the money, Frank said. A larger international student body gives community colleges a chance to make global connections and expose local students to different cultures. At Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut — popular because it’s in the midst of the San Gabriel Valley’s large Chinese population — enrollment of Chinese students has increased from just 27 students in 2005 to 316 last year. The community college has
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Prosecutors reach deal with Missouri professor charged with assault Koran Addo
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Columbia prosecutors have reached a deal with University of Missouri-Columbia assistant professor Melissa Click, in which she will avoid prosecution for a misdemeanor assault charge stemming from a November run-in with student journalists. Click’s part of the deal requires her to complete 20 hours of community service work and not break the law for one year.
“Based on the facts of this case, I believe this disposition to be appropriate,” Columbia City Prosecutor Stephen Richey said in a news release. The deal, he added, is in line with how his office has handled similar cases. He said it “adequately serves the interest of justice by ensuring the defendant will not engage in similar conduct.” Click gained national attention last year after she was captured on video blocking student journalists and calling for
“muscle” to keep the journalists from taking photos and videos of a campus demonstration. Students had gathered on campus to celebrate the resignation of University of Missouri system President Tim Wolfe. Wolfe had angered students over the perception that he was indifferent to a number of racist incidents on campus. The video prompted backlash from members of the public, school officials and legislators, some of whom called for Click to be fired.
The university’s board of curators on Wednesday suspended Click until further notice while the university’s general counsel conducts an investigation to determine whether more discipline is necessary. This week, interim Mizzou Chancellor Hank Foley resisted calls to fire Click. He said he would wait for due process to play out. ©2016 St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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The University of California is scrambling to make room for the largest enrollment boost of California undergraduates in years — 6,500 more for the fall 2016 term, with the most selective campuses taking the most new students. UCLA, Berkeley, San Diego and Riverside will each accept 750 more students this year; system-wide, nearly 14 percent more state residents are expected to gain admission. That’s good news for nervous high school seniors and transfer students who competed against 206,000 others in another recordshattering year for UC applications for 2016. The expansion has pressed officials to find more housing, hire additional faculty and expand support services. On Wednesday, UC President Janet Napolitano announced new efforts to build at least 14,000 more beds for both undergraduate and graduate students by 2020. “A key priority is to ensure this housing is and remains affordable to UC students,” Napolitano said at the UC Regents meeting in San Francisco. “Many of our campuses are located in some of the most expensive real estate markets in California.” Campuses are already busy hiring new professors and adding undergraduate courses. In November, the regents approved Napolitano’s plan to boost enrollment of California students by 10,000 over the next three years, a response to criticism about the rising number of students from other states and countries taking UC seats. Out-of-state students pay triple the $12,200 in annual tuition that Californians pay. The Legislature approved $25 million for an additional 5,000 undergraduates this fall, but UC officials will actually admit 6,500 because enrollment dipped last year from 2014, the baseline year for the increase, according to UC spokeswoman Dianne Klein. The funds, however, will pay for less than half the cost of educating the students. That prompted concerns at the meeting that educational quality could decline without more dollars. Daniel Hare, a UC Riverside professor and chair of the Academic Senate, fretted that students could be deprived of more intimate, hands-on learning opportunities in teaching labs and performance studios that he said were crucial supplements to lectures. “You’re slowly filling the balloon, and eventually it’s going to pop,” he said. “Everything we need to maintain for quality requires a commitment for resources that faculty are concerned are not being made.” Mohsin Mirza, UC Student Association undergraduate committee chairman, told the regents that it was “highly irresponsible” to accept more students without making sure they had proper housing, classes, mental health services and other support. He said one student was sleeping in the living room of his university housing, sharing space with two other students. Julia Schemmer, a first-year UC Riverside student, said students are sitting on floors at her campus because classrooms are so crowded. Riverside is undergoing a faculty expansion, however, to lower class sizes from the high 20s to the low 20s, according to Provost Paul D’Anieri. Officials at individual campuses also expressed concerns about how to pay for needed support for all the new students. “It’s a huge challenge,” said Steve Olsen, UCLA vice chancellor and chief financial officer. “The state is saying they want affordability but more access. Those are the marching orders we’ve been given, and we’re doing everything we can to make sure that that’s done in a way consistent with our goals for academic quality,” Olsen said. As one short-term relief measure, Olsen said, UCLA will increasingly place three students in dorms designed for two as officials explore options to build or buy more housing. He said officials hope to eventually add 2,000 beds. Page designed by Hannah Boyd
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New stage for Gustavo Dudamel, Youth Orchestra L.A.: Super Bowl 50 halftime show David Ng
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As a fan of classical music, Chris Martin of the rock band Coldplay has attended Los Angeles Philharmonic concerts at Walt Disney Concert Hall over the years and even struck up a friendship with conductor Gustavo Dudamel. So when NFL leaders tapped Coldplay to headline the Super Bowl 50 halftime show next month in Santa Clara, Calif., Martin turned to Dudamel to join him onstage for the annual musical spectacular seen by more than 100 million viewers around the country. The L.A. Philharmonic announced Thursday that Dudamel will appear with student musicians from the Youth Orchestra L.A. during Super Bowl
50, set for Feb. 7 at Levi’s Stadium. Deborah Borda, president of the L.A. Philharmonic, said students from YOLA have been rehearsing for weeks for the big show, which will air on CBS during the Carolina Panthers-Denver Broncos game. Dudamel, who had been traveling, flew in recently to rehearse directly with them, she said. “I’m delighted about the kind of recognition the students will be getting,” Borda said Thursday. “I think it will benefit them incredibly — the question of music education in our social and musical structure … it’s a touchdown.” No details about the halftime program or Dudamel’s place in the show have been revealed. A spokeswoman for NFL declined to comment on reports that Beyonce, Bruno Mars and
Facebook expanding ‘like’ to ‘haha,’‘wow’ and more in coming weeks Paresh Dave
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actions last September. Users access the new options on Facebook’s app by pressing down on the like button until they pop up. It was unclear how the feature is accessed on Facebook’s website. Facebook declined to comment beyond saying that feedback to Reactions has been positive and that the company hopes to broadly release it “soon.” On Facebook’s news feed, people will now encounter not only a “likes” tally under each post, but also separate counts for “loves,” “hahas” and the rest. If Reactions catches on, it could provide a massive lift to Facebook’s revenue, which relies on getting users to notice ads by showing them ads based on personal interests. Increased understanding of how people react to posts could be used to better target ads.
Facebook Inc. plans to carefully launch in the coming weeks the first major revamp of its signature “like” feature since its introduction seven years ago. The social media giant’s 1.55 billion users will be able to automatically respond to posts with emotions beside “like,” including “angry,” “sad,” “wow,” “haha,” “yay” and “love.” The new options were globally recognizable terms for the mostcommon comments to Facebook posts. Facebook Reactions, as the feature is called, has been tested for several months in Spain, the Philippines, Colombia, Japan and a few more countries. Bloomberg BusinessWeek first reported details of the forthcoming expansion on Wednesday, though Facebook ©2016 Los Angeles Times. DisChief Executive Mark Zucker- tributed by Tribune Content Agency, berg initially hinted about Re- LLC.
other prominent pop stars also will appear at halftime. The Dudamel-led group will feature students from the YOLA at Expo site in South L.A., which is a partnership of the L.A. Phil, the Harmony Project music program for low-income children and the Expo community center near the Memorial Coliseum. The Harmony Project said Thursday that its students started rehearsing for the Super Bowl just after Christmas. “Everyone’s very excited,” a representative said, adding that the appearance is by far the biggest exposure the group has received. The Super Bowl is also a coup for Dudamel, the 35-year-old music and artistic director of the L.A. Phil, who has sought to make classical music more accessible to the public.
It’s an effort he has largely made through the L.A. Phil’s music education initiatives, especially YOLA, which provides instruction to disadvantaged students throughout the city. But Dudamel has also appeared on TV programs as varied as “Sesame Street,” “The Tonight Show” and the comedy series “Mozart in the Jungle.” He recently conducted John Williams’ opening and closing music for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” In 2014, soprano Renee Fleming performed the national anthem ahead of the Super Bowl, but the NFL doesn’t often invite classical musicians to perform at its biggest night, which traditionally has been heavy on pop music. A performance slot at halftime is a coveted honor for musicians
of any stripe, if only for the TV exposure. Organizers said that more than 118.5 million people in the U.S. watched last year’s show, making it the most-watched halftime ever. Dudamel wasn’t available for comment Thursday but said in a news release that “this is a wonderful honor and an extraordinary showcase for YOLA, as well as a tribute to youth orchestras worldwide. When we play, it will be for the youth of the world so they can be inspired to create both a better life for themselves and a better future.” The Venezuela native didn’t grow up in America’s football culture and is a soccer fan. “But,” Borda said, “he will learn.” ©2016 Los Angeles Times. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
Football probably OK in moderation says Stanford medical expert Jon Wilner
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Not surprisingly, opinions about the safety of football are split widely between those in the football community and those in the medical profession. Meet a man with one foot in each world. Ed Riley is a professor of anesthesiology, perioperative and pain medicine at Stanford Medical Center, board certified and a graduate of the University of Washington School of Medicine. He also played small-college football, is the son of a former coach and the brother of current Nebraska coach Mike Riley. He has read all the ominous data on head trauma and believes there is “substantial risk involved in pro football.” But he allows his son, Noah, to play the sport — previously at Gunn High School in Palo Alto, Calif., and next season at Whitworth University in Spo-
kane, Wash. Not surprisingly, Riley’s position on the dangers of football is nuanced. Like many in the medical community, he believes a lifetime in football, from Pop Warner through high school, college and the NFL, carries greater risk for cognitive impairment. “Down the road, NFL players have more problems than the average population, no doubt,” he said. And like a growing number of members of the football world — the group includes New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees — Riley is wary of tackle football at the youth level. Flag football is the way to go, at least until high school. That’s when Riley, who played quarterback for Whitworth, veers from the hard-line, antifootball sentiment in the medical community. He isn’t convinced that a limited football career — high school only — poses a greater
long-term risk of brain damage than other activities favored by adolescent boys. The only known data on the topic is hardly current: It’s from a Mayo Clinic study on high school players in Minnesota in the 1940s and ‘50s. The study found no elevated risk for degenerative neurological disease, although the lack of facemasks in that era likely limited the number of helmetto-helmet collisions. “You have to put it in perspective,” Riley said of high school football. “There’s risk, but no more than doing other things.” Could adding four years of collisions in college football elevate his son’s chances for brain damage down the road? “Clearly, there are risks,” Riley said, “but it’s a risk that for him is worth taking.” The football world would agree. ©2016 San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.). Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
ISU Public Safety police blotter Jan. 22
8:17 a.m.: University property was reported missing in University Hall. 2:26 p.m.: Items were confiscated in Rhoads Hall. 8:07 p.m.: Fraud was reported in the Arena.
Jan. 23
6:59 p.m.: Suspicious activity was reported in Reeve Hall East.
Jan. 24
2:20 a.m.: Minor consumption was
reported off campus. 3:30 a.m.: A disturbance was reported off campus. 9:28 p.m.: A warrant was served in Lot 24 West. 10:38 p.m.: Suspicious activity was reported in Erickson Hall.
Jan. 25
12:19 a.m.: Suspicious activity was reported in Lincoln Quad. 7:54 a.m.: A theft was reported in Holmstedt Hall. 2:04 p.m.: A theft was reported in the
Science Building. 9:17 p.m.: Possession of marijuana was reported in Rhoads Hall. 10:19 p.m.: A theft was reported in Lot 14. 11:01 p.m.: Possession of marijuana was reported in Cromwell Hall.
Jan. 26
11:28 a.m.: Criminal mischief was reported in Lot 14. 5:00 p.m.: Battery and confinement were reported in University Apartments Unit 4.
7:03 p.m.: A theft was reported in the Student Rec. Center.
Jan. 27
4:30 a.m.: Public intoxication was reported off campus. 11:17 a.m.: Harrassment was reported in Erickson Hall. 6:46 p.m. A theft was reported in the HMSU.
Jan. 28
1:20 a.m.: Possession of paraphernalia was reported in Lincoln Quad.
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CHINA CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 added several staffers to its international student center, including a full-time international student counselor who can speak Mandarin, said Audrey YamagataNoji, vice president of student services. The biggest challenge, administrators say, is integrating international students into the student body at large — that means getting Chinese students to participate in clubs and make friends with local students. Chinese students in U.S. universities and colleges are unusually isolated by language and culture, said Zoe Wu, professor of Chinese at Pasadena City College. Typical undergraduate struggles, such
as how to register for classes and maintain degree progress, are especially complicated when you add visa requirements and immigration restrictions to the mix. Chinese students are more likely to ask one another or engage a Chinesespeaking education agent for help than talk to a college administrator, which sometimes causes more problems than it solves, Frank said. For example, agents might be receiving all of a student’s mail and preventing colleges from communicating with them. Experts say the number of Chinese students at community colleges is likely to increase. “It used to be that Chinese kids want to go to Harvard, but now there are Chi-
nese students at every level and type of U.S. institution,” said Peggy Blumenthal, senior adviser to the president of the Institute for International Education. “More and more Chinese students are interested in the way America teaches.” And community colleges, Blumenthal said, offer something that teenagers of any nationality crave: the freedom to be indecisive and the ability to change your mind. Lantian Xiang, the only son of two white-collar workers from the Hunan province, came to the U.S. five years ago with ambitions similar to that of any American millennial. “I wanted to have an experience in a foreign country, and I wanted to figure out what my heart wanted,” said Xiang,
22. His mother suggested he study in the U.S. after she attended one of the many U.S. education seminars put on by Chinese education consultancies, and he embraced the idea. The pressure of the gaokao was stifling, and he wanted to experience what he termed the American lifestyle. He ended up at Pasadena City College. “People here have their own attitudes, their own thoughts, their own likes,” said Xiang, now a third-year financial actuarial mathematics major at UCLA. “They just follow their heart and don’t listen to what someone tells them to do. That’s what I wanted.” ©2016 Los Angeles Times. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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Sycamore Video welcomes students of all majors Erica Garnes Reporter
Indiana State University has the perfect place for creative minds to build their work. If you want to become a producer, reporter, director or work with cameras, Sycamore Video is the place to call home. Sycamore Video provides skills and experience with video equipment, news, cameras, and other aspects of video production. Anyone can be a member, and no experience is required to join. Katie Schmidtke, a junior at ISU, is also the executive producer of Sycamore Video. She is in charge of making sure all other officers get their work done. She also helps train new members and officers in the studio and field production.
In the three years she has worked for Sycamore Video, Schmidtke said she has learned skills in studio and film production. “I have learned different camera shots and angles. Almost all of my camera skills and video skills have come from being part of Sycamore Video,” Schmidtke said. The first step is to join Sycamore Video and learn more about production and its different angles. Second step would be to find a quality camera, Schmidtke suggests using a Canon camcorder, and it’s simple to learn how to use and has good video and audio. The most important thing is that it’s cheaper than most cameras and still gets the job done. All creative minds are welcome; they encourage people who are interested in making
shows. All students have multiple opportunities to get their videos on air. Sycamore Video has two weekly shows that appear on their website, sycamorevideo. com, on their vimeo and on the campus cable Channel 20. Sycamore Video has many shows that involve ISU students. A show called, “This Week at ISU,” is set up like a newscast, they show events that are happening around campus for the week. Also, members get a chance to go to events and get interviews with coordinators and students that attend. Recently, they have been working on starting a new show, which will feature two hosts that show and comment on ‘80s and ‘90s music videos, the idea is still being worked on but they are hoping for something good.
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Student workers at Sycamore Video learn many aspects of video production, including recording and editing techniques.
“It is an amazing learning experience and can really help someone with their resume,” Schmidtke said. “Sycamore
Video is a family and we have an amazing time doing it. It is free to join and anyone can join with any major.”
Live TV version of ‘Grease’ aims to get viewers dancing along Yvonne Villarreal
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During a recent rehearsal for Fox’s upcoming, live broadcast of the musical “Grease,” Aaron Tveit and Julianne Hough waited for their musical cue to jump in the fray and gambol alongside a troupe of frenetic dancers. The number was “We Go Together,” and during the rehearsal on a back lot in Burbank, the Broadway heartthrob and “Dancing With the Stars” alum tried their best to lock down those seemingly impossible shoo bop sha wadda wadda yippity boom de boom foot movements as choreographer Zach Woodlee (“Glee,” “Annie”) hollered commands over the music. The couple were dressed in comfy, casual workout clothing, but come Sunday they’ll be doing these same moves dur-
ing the live broadcast wearing black, body-hugging ensembles similar to those made famous by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John in the 1978 film rendition of the musical. “I used to steal the VHS tape from my parents’ bedroom because I wasn’t allowed to watch PG-13 movies,” Hough said during a break from rehearsal. “I used to go down to the basement and mimic all the dances and sing the songs. And now look at me.” Three years after NBC returned to TV musical waters with live renditions of such stage productions as “The Sound of Music” “Peter Pan” and recent go-round “The Wiz,” broadcast competitor Fox is diving in with “Grease: Live” on Jan. 31 at 7 p.m. Eastern and Pacific. As networks contend with shifting audience habits that
increasingly favor time-delayed viewing, networks are scrambling to create events spectacular enough to battle the power of the DVR. Fox, perhaps of all the legacy networks, is a natural fit for a musical production because it’s the home base for musical powerhouses of the present and recent past: “Empire,” “Glee” and singing competition “American Idol.” “Any time that you can send a message to a broad audience that there is something special happening, like live sporting events, where people are flying without a net and bringing a level of showmanship that you can’t have with a drama that’s been highly edited, is a good thing,” said Fox Television Group CoChairman Dana Walden, who noted her two daughters have done versions of “Grease” at school.
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The revamped-for-live-TV event, a Paramount Television production, features wellknown names among the millennial set. In addition to Hough and Tveit as leads Sandy and Danny, others donning leather jackets and poodle skirts include Vanessa Hudgens (Disney’s “High School Musical,” Broadway’s “Gigi”) as tough girl Rizzo, singer Carly Rae Jepsen as Frenchy, Keke Palmer as Marty, Kether Donohue as Jan, Carlos PenaVega as Kenickie, David Del Rio as Putzie, and more. The elaborate NBC renderings rotated scenes on one New York soundstage; the Fox affair is even more ambitious. The production will unfold over two soundstages housing a number of sets on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank. Production will also take place on Midwest Street —
i.e., a back lot that they’ll use for exterior scenes of Rydell High and the carnival grounds (during rehearsals, however, the lot was still the town of Rosewood seen in “Pretty Little Liars”). “Ask me after it’s all over if I think the multiple soundstages was a good idea,” joked stage director Thomas Kail, known most recently for his celebrated stage work with Lin-Manuel Miranda in the smash “Hamilton.” “I wanted it to feel vibrant and vital the way the film did,” he said. “I wanted locations that felt like real places that could ground us so when we lift off and go to the fantasy of ‘Greased Lightnin” or the Teen Angel arrives, you have something to depart from.” The musical delves into the lives of working-class teenag-
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Above left: Two performers prepare to take the stage at Wednesday night’s Sycamore Sessions event, held in Tilson Auditorium. Above right: Students perform a dance number. Below and below right: Students paint ceramic coin banks and figurines as a part of Friday night’s Pottery Painting event held in Burford Hall.
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GREASE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 during the early 1950s rock ‘n’ roll era. Originally a 1971 theater production in Chicago, the musical became a cultural touchstone when it was adapted for the big screen in 1978 with Travolta and NewtonJohn as its leads. “When we first got together to do the photo shoot, I remember thinking, ‘Are we actually doing this?’” Hudgens said. “It’s sort of surreal to be a part of introducing this iconic musical to a new generation.” Playwrights-screenwriters Robert Cary and Jonathan Tolins were charged with writing the three-hour production, using the familiar Paramount Pictures film as a starting point. But they also worked in elements from the stage show — particularly since the film’s run time is 1 hour, 50 minutes. “We had to figure out how to expand the show without it feeling drawn out and padded,” Tolins said. “And, of course, the other job was coming up with where to put 11 commercial breaks.” Two songs from the original stage show — “Freddy My Love” and “Those Magic Changes” — made their way into the Fox production. Cary and Tolins also found ways to play up Hough’s background by having Sandy dance more than she usually does — including in a scene in which she’s auditioning to be a cheerleader. The show also will feature an original song, “All I Need Is an Angel,” written specifically for Jepsen’s Frenchy by “If/Then” duo Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey. And given the show’s 7 p.m. start time, adjustments were made to some of the more suggestive lyrics in the soundtrack (in those cases, the school-sanctioned production versions of the lyrics were used). “I think we’re very much doing our own slant on it,” said the show’s live director, Alex Rudzinski, who has directed more than 500 hours of live broadcasts on “Dancing With the Stars.” “It would be fickle to try to do a copycat live broadcast. This is a live TV production. If you get too close then all people will do all night is just compare take for take and you open yourself up for problems.” The NBC productions were big ratings draws, but they also proved fodder for plenty of snark of social media. And if “grease” is the word, “Grease: Live” will surely be a con-
versation on Twitter. Good or bad, the cast say they’re ready for it. “Sing along and enjoy it and maybe introduce it to someone new,” Hough said. “It’s inevitable that people are going to say stupid … . But I’ve had the best experience of my life doing this, and I don’t give a crap.” Helping to make the production as seamless as possible is a crew of about 400 people and about 20 cameras. There will also be a secondscreen element in which viewers can get a glimpse of the behind-thescenes action during commercial breaks. “Of course there’s going to be snafus or people tripping up,” Rudzinski said. “But you try and step back from that and you try to be reactive to the problems we’re going to have.” Since the live broadcast will be filmed partly outdoors, a 40-foottall, tent-like shield was recently erected to cover the exterior of Rydell High as a safeguard against an unpredictable El Nino strike. The show will also have a more interactive element than its NBC counterparts. It will feature a live audience that will play a role in the production at various moments (e.g. seat fillers in bleachers during gym scenes, etc.). In a passing of the “Grease” baton, Barry Pearl and Didi Conn (who played Doody and Frenchy, respectively, in the film) will make cameos in Fox’s live production. As the new generation of Pink Ladies and T-Birds rehearsed the scene in which Danny and Sandy’s date at the Frosty Palace gets crashed by friends, Conn was off to the side observing with an ear-to-ear grin. She’ll be playing Viola, the waitress at the diner. But as rehearsal wound down and Jepsen was the only one left at a table, she turned to Conn with her eyes beaming: “It’s so nice to meet you!” Jepsen said to her Frenchy forebear. Conn, who still revels in her “Grease” days by hosting singalongs of the film at the Hollywood Bowl, said being on set was almost like traveling back in time. “The little Didi wants to come out and play Frenchy. But I’m a big Didi now,” Conn said. “It’s just so exciting. They really captured the DNA of the show — the friendship, the love. It touches the kid in everybody. I hope people just get up and dance along.” Cue the music. ©2016 Los Angeles Times. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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Female fans deserve female superheroes
Kylie Adkins
Opinions Editor
I am the woman who only plays women in videogames, but upon playing “Injustice,” a fantastic DC Universe-based fighting game, I realized that there aren’t that many female superheroes to play as, and even fewer female villains to play. I know that there are more than three female villains in the DC Universe. I mean, there’s more than that in Gotham City alone. Two of the three villains were from Batman. However, Catwoman is an anti-hero, so putting her in the villains over, say, Poison Ivy seems strange. Why so few women? We’ve been getting involved in comic books and nerd culture for a while now. Do we really need to ask nicely for some diversity in female characters? This becomes a bigger problem when we look at the movies based on comic books, but it seems especially prevalent within the Marvel Universe’s movies. So far, Marvel has released “XMen,” “Iron Man,” “Thor,” “Captain America,” “The Hulk,” “The Avengers,” “Ghost Rider,” “The Punisher,” “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “The Fantastic Four,” “Spiderman” and “Elektra.” Notice anything weird about that list? It gets worse when we break it down further. There are seven total “X-Men” movies, two of which are focused solely around Wolverine’s backstory, while the other five are still Wolverine doing things. This is especially frustrating in “Days of Future Past.” In the comic book that the movie was based on, it was Kitty Pryde who was sent back to do everything, not Wolverine. In the movie, Kitty Pryde suddenly gains this power out of nowhere and sends Wolverine back in time. Why Wolverine? He already has six other movies. Ellen Page has more than
proved her ability as an actress, so why switch the story around? There are three “Iron Man” movies alone, two “Captain America,” two “Thor,” two “Incredible Hulk,” one “Avengers” and many more on the way for many of these sub-franchises. The interesting thing, however, is that the founding members of the original “Avengers” were Iron Man, Thor, Ant-Man, Wasp and the Hulk. Wasp is a woman — who named the Avengers, no less — yet we have Black Widow in the movie. After the original members, Captain America, Hawkeye, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch — a woman — Swordsman, Hercules, Black Panther, Vision and Black Night joined up. Many more superheroes were added in the ‘70s, five of whom were women. So where are all these women? They were willing to switch the order for Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow, but founding member Wasp is not present. Captain Marvel was set to get her own movie a few years down the line, but that was pushed back until 2017 for yet another Spiderman movie. The bright side is that Angelina Jolie is slated to direct the film, but that isn’t enough. Recently, there have been multiple superhero television shows that have come out as well. Netflix’s “Jessica Jones” is, I think, the pinnacle of what women want in a superhero. The unique brilliance of the show is its everyday criticism of traditional roles. On the flipside, CBS’ “Supergirl” fell flat. It seemed like it would be a great addition to the slowly growing canon of female superhero content, but it did not live up to expectations. Many of the characters felt like static representations of stereotypes rather than natural or organic. Women like superhero movies just as much as men, and we also consume superhero movies and merchandise — just like men. Even though female superheroes are rarely represented on apparel or accessories, we still support these franchises. All we want is equal representation within the hobbies that we enjoy just as much the next person.
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Militants take Oregon Trail to jail
Joe Lippard
Assistant Opinions Editor
At the beginning of January, a group of “protesters” occupied a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon. This group included Ammon Bundy and a man named LaVoy Finicum. Ammon Bundy is the son of Cliven Bundy, best known for his standoff with government officials in 2014, where the government requested Bundy pay to use federal land just like everyone else. Bundy refused to pay the government to use their land, so instead he gathered up a bunch of guys and guns and “defended” his liberty by continuing to use land that wasn’t his. Cliven Bundy’s “protest” more or less fizzled out after the Bureau of Land Management ended a tense standoff, but his son Ammon decided on Jan. 2 that he and some buddies would occupy the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge because two guys were convicted for setting fire to government land.
Now, there were several dozen men holed up inside a government building armed to the teeth. In any other instance, these men would have been called terrorists. Had these men been Muslims, this standoff would not have lasted as long as it has. But most of these men are white, Christian men, so rather than forcibly remove these “protestors”, the government wanted to try to diffuse the situation instead of taking the same action that they would take at any other time. Even though this has all been pretty big news over the last couple of weeks, presidential candidates have been reticent to comment on the situation. The closest any candidates came to issuing a statement was a tweet from John Kasich campaign strategist John Weaver. “I know a good federal compound for Bundy and his gang: a U.S. penitentiary,” Weaver’s tweet read. The militant group has been almost universally condemned in the media. Conservative news site The Daily Beast called the whole event “Wingnut Woodstock.” Several people in the town near the wildlife refuge have spoken out about how they are tired of the conflict and just want the militants to leave.
Some outlets, such as the Boston Globe, have blamed the standoff on the Bundys’ adherence to Mormonism. While this particular standoff has been relatively peaceful, there has been bloodshed. LaVoy Finicum, one of the militants in the occupation, died at the hands of FBI agents at a traffic stop. Several other militants were arrested at the same traffic stop; They have been denied bail. The judge presiding over the case said that she has no intentions of releasing them while the occupation of the refuge continues. Four militants are still occupying the refuge. Some reports of Finicum’s shooting stated that he had his hands up when the FBI agents shot him. The FBI refuted this claim, releasing a video of Finicum’s shooting that shows him reaching for his gun not once, but twice. Authorities gave Finicum two chances to comply before shooting him. Supporters of the militants rushed to make Finicum out as a martyr against big government. They wondered why more people don’t support him if he died with his hands up, just like people said Michael Brown did. Personally, the reason I
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Doomsday Clock inches closer to midnight
Zach Davis Columnist
Let’s face it: There will always be a person who claims to have a prophetic dream about the end of the world. Normally the evidence comes from one of the many religious prophets. Of course, we don’t have much evidence for these prophecies, but what we do have evidence for is global warming, nuclear and other military tensions and dangerous technology. Any of these can bring humanity’s existence to an end. Luckily, the scientific community has a way to gauge how close we are to these events happening called the Doomsday Clock. Aptly named, the time on the clock is positioned to reflect our current
condition worldwide and how close we are to doomsday. Doomsday refers to the self-destruction of the human race. If conditions are good then the time will be relatively early on the clock. However, if our current condition is bad then the clock will be closer to midnight, which represents doomsday taking place. Midnight is the point of no return, the point when humanity is doomed and we have set ourselves up to be wiped out. The clock was originally made in 1947 by the same scientists who developed the first atomic weapons to represent how close we were to a nuclear apocalypse. Since then, the conditions for the clock’s time have changed to include climate change and technological advancements. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a worldwide organization for physicists and environmental scientists, is in charge of setting the time on the clock every year. The team — which includes quite a few Nobel Prize winners — assesses everything currently hap-
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JAIL CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 don’t support him — or any other member of Bundy’s group — is because they shouldn’t be supported. They’re not taking on a big bad tyrannical government; they’re trying to make the government free two people — who set
fire to government land — by occupying a government wildlife refuge. These men do not fight for a noble cause. It’s particularly frustrating when I think about how this situation would have been handled if this were Black Lives Matter or a group of Muslims. People would be calling for them all to
be put in jail or executed. The standoff probably wouldn’t have lasted for a month, and I don’t think it would have lasted even a week. The media wouldn’t have a problem calling them terrorists. If they were Muslim, we’d hear about how terrible radical Islam is and people
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which can end humanity. The team looks at the nuclear arms and the chances of nuclear warfare, how severe climate change has been the past year and the greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere and technological advancements and their potential risks. This year the clock stays the same as it did last year: three minutes to midnight, mainly because there weren’t enough steps taken to fight climate change. The only time the clock has been closer was in 1953 when the board set the clock at 2 minutes to midnight. This was caused by large amounts of nuclear testing in a very short time and the tensions of the Cold War. The clock’s setting this year is based on several factors, including tensions between the U. S. and Russia, North Korea’s nuclear testing, and the effects of climate change. All three of these have to be a pretty big threat to move the clock three minutes away from midnight. After all, a clock has 1440 different places for a time, but we ended up only three steps away from total demise. The worst part is all of this can be prevented to at least some extent. The first steps we need to take are to fight climate change. Start with easy steps like recycling, using less water and turning off unnecessary lights. We can carpool or walk instead of drive. Even something as simple as using a cloth dish towel instead of paper towels can make a huge difference if enough people do it. And yes, one person does make a difference. We also need to start being kinder to one another, especially across borders. The reason nuclear weapons are such a threat is because we would rather go to war than work out our issues. We wouldn’t have a need for nuclear weapons if we didn’t go to war. Of course, we can’t just stop all war overnight, but we can at least stick to using non-nuclear weapons, such as guns and tanks. The point of war isn’t to annihilate the human race because we decided to use unnecessary weapons. The Doomsday Clock is horrifyingly close to midnight, which means we are dangerously close to destroying ourselves. That isn’t good for anybody. We need to focus on eliminating threats and turning the clock back. All of the reasons we are so close to midnight are very preventable, but only if we start acting now to get rid of as many of these threats as possible.
with he hit a pair of free throws with 6:52 remaining to cut the Loyola lead down to 71-64. Devonte Brown reached double figures scoring with a conventional 3-point play at the 4:44 mark which cut the Rambler lead down to 76-69. Coming out of the final media timeout of the game, Khristian Smith hit a trio of free throws with 3:53 on the clock to draw the Sycamores within 78-72. Brown’s lay-up as the clock ticked towards the three minute mark made it 78-74 in favor of the Ramblers. After Doyle hit a pair of charity tosses, Brown’s conventional 3-point play with 2:40 showing trimmed the Loyola advantage down to 80-77. Another defensive stop and the Sycamore run continued as Khristian Smith scored with a floater in the paint to make it 80-79 with 1:46 on the clock. Yet again, the Sycamores got a stop as they forced a long Milton Doyle 3-point attempt, which missed
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INVITE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 performances, but perhaps none more so than senior pole vaulter and Terre Haute native Connor Curley. Curley had an unbelievable day in the vault, ending up as the victor at the second-best height in school history at 5.30m (17-04.50). This height came after setting a new PR anyway at 5.20m (17-00.75), and he barely missed at breaking the school record and entering the NCAA top-five this season at 5.41m (17-09.00). However, Curley’s height today still ranks tied for 16th nationally and ranks first in the Missouri Valley by nearly six inches. It was also another strong day in the 60-meter hurdles. Senior AllAmerican Adarius Washington tied his season-best in prelims at 7.86 before winning the event at 7.87. Junior teammate Marcus Neely was the runner-up, though, and now joins Washington in the sub-8.00 club after running 7.91 in prelims and 7.99 in finals. Neely now ranks seventh all-time at ISU, giving men’s head coach John
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iron and resulted in a shot clock violation. The Sycamores went back to Smith in the paint who scored inside with 53 seconds remaining as ISU took an 81-80 lead. Montel James went to the free throw line and hit 1-2 free throws to knot the contest at 81 with 38 seconds remaining. The Sycamores then took a timeout. Loyola had a fastbreak as the seconds were winding down, but Khristian Smith made a great block to send the game to overtime. The Sycamore defense held Loyola without a field goal for the final 6:35 of regulation. Brandon Murphy fought for an offensive rebound on the first possession of overtime and hit a free throw after he was fouled to push the Sycamores ahead 82-81. Each team traded points at the free throw line and the Sycamore defense recorded three stops in a row. Indiana State could not score on the first two trips that followed before Brenton Scott drilled a 3-pointer with 1:37 on the clock to
put the Sycamores up 87-85. Milton Doyle hit 1-of-2 free throws with 37 seconds remaining to knot the score at 87. Brown was then fouled on a step back jumper with 14.7 seconds remaining. Peterson hit a running jumper with eight seconds remaining to tie the game at 89 before Brown’s long jumper at the buzzer was short to force double overtime. Loyola scored the first four points of double overtime, but Clemons answered with a lay-up to trim the Rambler lead down to 93-91 with 2:57 on the clock. Brenton Scott trimmed a five-point Loyola lead down to just 96-94 with 50 seconds left in the second overtime as he drilled a 3-pointer from the right wing. Loyola was led in scoring by 28 points from Montel James while Devon Turk added 22. Indiana State has a quick turnaround for their next game, which will be inside the friendly confines of Hulman Center on Tuesday, Feb. 2. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m.
McNichols three active Sycamores on the illustrious top-10. Neely also now ranks second in the Valley this season behind Washington and 23rd in the NCAA. Junior jumper Devyn Mikell had a huge day in the long jump, winning the event at a season-best leap of 7.47m (24-06.25). He now ranks second in the Valley by three-quarters of an inch behind Wichita State’s Jared Belardo (7.49m/24-07.00). Also scoring was Scott Schreiber in third place (7.02m/23-00.50). The Sycamore men were also able to go one-two in the men’s high jump. Sophomore Jamie Murtaugh won yet again, this time clearing 2.04m (6-08.25) for the win. Teammate DeSean Prentice was the runner-up at 1.95m (6-04.75). The Sycamore men were also able to replicate the success of the Sycamore women in the mile race. Freshman Quentin Pierce started out in dead last on his first couple laps and then exploded to a runnerup finish at a PR of 4:16.21. Junior Daniel Swem also clocked in a career-best at 4:18.30.
The ISU men also received some points from the throws from Ryan Chestnut in the weight throw (second place, 17.97m/58-11.00, seasonbest) and from Jamar Brown (third place, 16.79m/55-01.00) and Vince Laconi (fifth place, 15.13m/49-07.75) in the shot put. “We had some really good events today,” McNichols said. “The hurdles went well. We went one-two and I’m really excited about the improvement both guys made, especially Marcus. He had a nice breakthrough, that 7.91 is pretty tough. Obviously in the pole vault with Connor going 17-04 and a half, that’s obviously up there on our all-time list. He’s doing a great job and has a lot of great things ahead.” “We had a letdown in a few events, though, and kind of let Northern Iowa reel us in from an early lead and then they ended up beating us pretty good,” McNichols said. “Hats off to them, but we’re still trying to put things together and we have four weeks to do it.” Up next, Indiana State travels upstate to South Bend, Indiana for the Meyo Invite hosted by the University of Notre Dame on Feb. 5-6.
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Sycamore gals split road weekend Rob Lafary
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Indiana State women’s basketball saw one season-long problem come back to haunt them on Friday night but solved it on Sunday as the Sycamores split a pair of Missouri Valley Conference road games over the weekend. The Sycamores have been unable to string together a consistent 40 minutes of basketball for large chunks of the season and it showed on Friday night as ISU watched a nine point lead go by the wayside in the second half en route to a 76-64 loss at Southern Illinois. After battling back from an early 10-point deficit in the first quarter, Indiana State embarked on a 19-8 run in the second frame and led 33-28 at halftime. But the final 20 minutes reared its ugly head and doomed the Sycamores. ISU built a nine-point advantage in the opening minutes of the second half but the Salukis salvaged the third quarter by forcing a 53-53 tie at the end of the period. Southern Illinois spent the final stanza scoring 23 points and holding ISU to 11, giving way to the 12-point victory. “It was a game of runs and they (Southern Illinois) made the last one,” ISU head coach Joey Wells said in his postgame interview. “We were coming off of two wins but we hadn’t played good basketball. I was hoping we’d get over that hump but it was just the same old story.” ISU’s defense allowed 48 points in the second half as the Salukis shot above 50 percent from the field. Southern also came back to outrebound the Sycamores 38-36 and forced Indiana State into crucial turnovers late in the contest. The plus side was Indiana State putting four players in double figures including a team-high 14 points from
Cierra Ceazer. Tierra Webb scored 11 off the bench while Joyea Marshall and Rhagen Smith each chipped in 10. Even more pluses occurred on Sunday as Indiana State responded to Friday’s woes with a convincing 59-44 victory at Evansville. The Purple Aces led 13-11 at the first stop but Indiana State controlled the rest of the way, grabbed a lead and never relinquished it. The Sycamores held Evansville to just five points in the second quarter and went up 23-18 at the half, giving way to a second half that was far better than the one played two nights prior. Not only did Indiana State stay aggressive defensively, including holding Evansville to just nine points in the fourth quarter and 25 percent shooting overall in the game, but the Sycamores dominated the glass in the second half, eventually outrebounding the Aces 5033 by the end of the game — a seasonhigh for the Sycamores. “Just feels good to bounce back,” Wells said of Sunday’s win. “Road weekends in our conference are tough and usually the first game sets the tone for your second game. I was proud of us that we didn’t allow the one loss on Friday to turn into two losses. We didn’t play smart all the time but we played hard and shots went in at timely times to keep that gap.” Marshall again reached double figures in scoring and led ISU with 14 points along with a team-high nine rebounds. Ceazer scored 13 points and Alexis Newbolt provided 10 points and six rebounds. Indiana State is now 9-11 overall and 5-4 in the MVC as the first half of the conference season comes to a close. The Sycamores visit Illinois State on Friday night, hoping to make it two wins over the Redbirds this season. ISU won the first matchup 63-56.
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CHICAGO — Indiana State placed five players in double figures scoring but it was not enough to down the hot-shooting Loyola Ramblers as they downed Indiana State by the score of 104-96 in double overtime inside Gentile Arena. The Sycamores fell to 12-10, 6-4 MVC while Loyola improved to 10-12, 3-7 MVC. Brenton Scott paced the Sycamores with 28 points — his fifth 20-plus point scoring performance in 10 games of league play. Devonte Brown added 19 as the duo made it 10 MVC contests in a row in which they have reached double figures scoring. Matt Van Scyoc hit four 3-pointers to tally 16 while Khristian Smith added 14. Everett Clemons came off the bench to score a career-best 13 points. Khristian Smith added six rebounds to give him 504 for his career. He is now the 17th player in the history of the program to record at least 1,000 career points scored as well as 500 rebounds. Additionally, Matt Van Scyoc topped the 1,000-career-point mark when combined with his prior two seasons spent at The Citadel. The Sycamores hit 32-66 shots from the field, including 11 3-pointers. Indiana State hit 16-23 attempts in the second half (69.6 percent) and did not allow a Loyola field goal from the 6:35 mark through the remainder of regulation and for all of the first overtime period until their were eight seconds left. That equated to nearly 11 and a half minutes of game time without a field by Loyola. The Ramblers finished the game 32-61 from the field (52.5 percent) and were 18-25 (72 percent) before halftime. Loyola’s 104 points scored marks the first time since January of 1997 that the Sycamores have allowed over 100 points in a game. The Sycamores’ 96 points scored are the most since posting 97 against Alaska-Anchorage in November of 2013. The Ramblers scored the first five points of the game until Khristian Smith grabbed an offensive rebound and tossed inside to Matt Van Scyoc at the 18:33 mark for the Sycamores’ first score of the game. Brenton Scott’s 3-pointer as the clock ticked under the 17-minute mark leveled the score at seven points each. After the Ramblers opened up a four point lead, Matt Van Scyoc and Bren-
ton Scott connected on consecutive 3-pointers around a Loyola turnover the take a 13-11 lead with 13:31 left in the first half. The Ramblers came back with six of their own in a row before Khristian Smith hit a floater in the paint at the 10:50 mark to get within 17-15. After a Loyola basket — their fifth make in a row, Smith hit a 3-pointer with 10:12 remaining to draw within 19-18. Loyola would take a 26-20 lead before Van Scyoc hit his second 3-pointer of the first half and then Everett Clemons used an offensive rebound for a driving lay-up which cut the Rambler lead down to 26-25 with 7:25 left in the half. Brenton Scott hit a pair of free throws and Devonte Brown’s jumper with 6:03 remaining as the shot clock was set to expire knotted the score at 29. But the Ramblers connected on a trio of field goals in a row to spark a 7-0 run and give them a 36-29 advantage at the 3:21 mark, which forced an Indiana State timeout. Loyola’s run reached 11 in a row before Devonte Brown hit a driving lay-up at the 1:13 mark to draw the Sycamores within 40-31. A steal and 3-pointer in transition by Brenton Scott made it a 41-34 Rambler lead. Indiana State had one more look at the basket in the waning seconds thanks to a steal from Smith. Scott led the way for the Sycamores with 13 points as he hit a trio of shots from long distance. Matt Van Scyoc hit a pair of 3-pointers in the first two minutes of the second half to trim a seven-point deficit down to just 44-41 with 18:10 on the clock. But Loyola scored seven in a row until Khristian Smith’s lay-up cut their cushion down to 51-43 with 16:40 remaining. Scott hit his fourth 3-pointer of the game as he stroked another from long range to get within 53-46 at the 15:52 mark. Clemons scored inside off the feed from Emondre Rickman and made it a conventional 3-point play with 14:49 to go as they got within 53-49 on the 6-0 scoring run. The Sycamores clawed back in as Clemons continued to assert himself on the offensive end with a floater in the paint to cut the Loyola lead down to 6157 with 12:40 remaining. Scott reached the 20-point mark for the fifth time during conference play
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Sycamore women finish first, men second at Mark Messersmith Invite Tyler Wooten
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CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — Indiana State’s women’s track and field team came away with a decisive 166-94 win over Northern Iowa, while the Sycamore men came in second to the host Panthers, 174-124. Both the ISU men and women were part of the five-team Mark Messersmith Invite on Saturday at the UNI-Dome. The Sycamore women remain undefeated in scored competition this indoor season, following a win over Illinois State on Jan. 15 to help ISU retain the Coughlan-Malloy Cup. This weekend’s victory came on the backs of sprinter Chidera Obasih — both the 60 and 200 meter dash champion on Saturday — as well as others like Jamie Newsome (long and triple jump), Kimyanna Rudolph (pole vault), Brooke Moore (3,000 meters) and LeVisa Evans (high jump). Once again, though, the limelight fell on the senior sprinter Obasih as the day wore on. The Brookfield, Wisconsin native set new career-bests in both the prelims and finals of the 60-meter dash, blazing to a 7.37 and then 7.36 finals time for the win. She remains third all-time at ISU behind seven-time NCAA Champion Holli Hyche (7.21) and All-American teammate Katie Wise (7.25), but now rests within striking distance of qualifying for the indoor national meet in a tie for 18th on the national list. She wasn’t done there, though, as Obasih won the 200 meter dash in her first 200 race of the season. She clocked in the third-best time in the Valley this season in the process as well, winning at a time of 24.33 seconds. Also getting in the winning spirit was senior All-American pole-vaulter Kimyanna Rudolph. The senior Indianapolis native shook off the rust and cleared a season-high 4.00m (13-01.50) for the win, the No. 2 height in the Missouri Valley this indoor season. The win is an impressive one for Rudolph, who was down to her last attempt on her first bar. More impressive was her clearance of 4.00 meters, during which she clipped the bar, which jumped up a full inch before falling right back into place on the standard for the win. The Sycamore women dominated the 3,000 meter race, as freshman Brooke Moore and sophomore Taylor Austin took the top two spots in the race with impressive times.
In her first career 3K, Moore ran the eighth-fastest time in school history at 9:57.49, and was closely followed by Austin’s 9:59.84 — which only falls five-hundredths of a second shy of cracking the all-time top-10 as well. Also winning yet again was junior LeVisa Evans in the high jump. Evans cleared 1.68m (5-06.00) for the win, and was also joined by scorer Ioanna Koltsidou in fifth place (1.58m/5-02.25). In the women’s 60-meter hurdles, sophomore Patrycja Dziekonska ran two season-best times en route to a thirdplace finish. Dziekonska ran 8.81 in the prelims before exploding for a 8.74 time in the finals — the seventh-best time in the Valley this season. Sophomore Jamie Newsome earned a wealth of points in both the long and triple jumps. In the long jump, she leapt an indoor PR of 5.95m (19-06.25) – the No. 1 jump in the MVC this season and No. 46 in the NCAA. She was also joined by three fellow scorers in Mandy Jones (fourth, 5.67m/18-07.25), Kaisha Martin (fifth, 5.62m/18-05.25) and Darian Mehne (sixth, 5.61m/18-05.00). Newsome was also a force in the triple jump, where she finished runner-up again at 12.02m (39-05.25). ISU also gained quite a haul in the women’s mile, with sophomores Jessi Conley (second, 4:59.88) and Brittany Neeley (third, 4:59.94) finishing second and third, respectively, while breaking the five-minute barrier. With conversions, those times could break 4:57 on the national and conference lists later this week. It was also a very productive day in the throws, where both Katelyn Rutz and Cassundra Roper scored in both the weight throw and shot put. Rutz was the runner-up in the weight at 18.03m (59-02.00) and the fifth-place finisher in the shot at 13.66m (44-09.75), while Roper posted PRs in both the shot (second place, 14.40m/47-03.00) and weight (sixth place, 17.04m/55-11.00). “We had some really good performances today,” said ISU women’s head coach Angela Martin. “This was exactly the kind of meet that we needed to pull together and realize what we need to do in the next couple weeks. We had some very solid wins, and we showed a lot more defiance than what we have shown up until this point in the season.” On the men’s side, there were four event winners and several impressive
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