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Monday, Feb. 8, 2016
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ISU movement organizes ‘Float to Flint’ water drive Tyler Davis Reporter
Cases of plastic water bottles stacked halfway to the ceiling reflect sunlight from the adjacent window, in which the sun bears its golden face. Water jugs by the gallon sit on top of an oak table next to which a record of donations lay flat. Amounts of such contributions are written out next to the scribbled names of those supporting the cause. The “Float to Flint Water Drive” is currently accepting water by the case or gallon until Friday. Donations may be brought to the Charles E. Brown African American Cultural Center located at 301 N. Eighth St. right across from the Hulman Center. Offerings will go to help thousands of Flint, Michigan, residents who have been living under a state of emergency since Jan. 5 due to city drinking water that proved to be toxic. Lead has found its way into the water source due to corroding pipes, and has subsequently affected the public. A declaration of emergency enacted by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder stated
the contamination “has either caused or threatened to cause elevated blood lead levels, especially in the population of children and pregnant women, and is causing a potential immediate threat to public health.” Questions are being raised about the sudden change in quality of drinking water, and according to CNN the city of Flint stopped pumping from Lake Huron in favor of the Flint River, “a notorious tributary that runs through town known to locals for its filth.” The movement known as #FREEISU, which stands for “Facilitating the Release of Equity and Excellence at Indiana State University,” has created an avenue through which the community can take part in the contribution efforts going towards the cause. Valerie Craig, assistant director of the cultural center, coordinates with MAPS (mentoring program) students. Craig explained that graduate student Amber Wilson, “was livid” and “couldn’t believe something like this could happen in America.” Wilson took it upon herself to make
something happen, building the concept into fruition by proposing the idea to the student body who “immediately said yes.” With the additional support of the African American Cultural Center and Craig, the water drive was up and running in a flash. Although at first donations were slow to come in, they are now flowing steadily. The next task, finding a specific area to send the water in Flint, was not at all simple. School districts are no longer accepting donations due to being at “full capacity;” however, schools alone cannot provide enough assistance needed to service the community. Catholic Charities then became the ideal destination for the water since they do not have stipulations on how much water an individual can accept and also have strong relations with the Flint community. It will sure be a daunting task for Flint to recover from such an ordeal, one not different from the long road to recovery of those who experienced Hurricane Katrina almost a decade ago. “I felt helpless watching Katrina,” Craig
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Students donate water at the table in the HMSU.
said. “We actually took a faction of kids from ISU and went down, and there was still devastation almost two years later.”
University Daily Kansan editors sue KU Chancellor over funding cut Ian Cummings
The Kansas City Star (TNS)
Tre Redeemar | Indiana Statesman
Above: Nikolas Pine, pianist and senior music performance major, plays a selection of Beethoven’s Sonata in E major, op. 109. Below: Laura Fultz Sprouls, mezzo-soprano and sophomore music education major, performs Franz Schubert’s “Der Tod und das Madchen,” accompanied by Sharilyn Spicknall on piano. The recital took place Sunday afternoon in the Landini Center for the Performing and Fine Arts’ Recital Hall. The event was a part of the Student Recital Series.
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The editor-in-chief of the University Daily Kansan has sued University of Kansas Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little, claiming the student newspaper’s funding was cut because of its coverage. Gray-Little and Tammara Durham, vice provost for student affairs, were named in the suit filed Friday in federal court. The suit says a $45,000 annual reduction in student fees for the newspaper was retaliation for an editorial criticizing the Student Senate. Kansan editor Vicky Diaz-Camacho and former editor Katie Kutsko brought the suit, alleging that student government leaders, in a series of February meetings on Kansan funding, complained about a May 2014 editorial before voting to cut the newspaper’s funding. A Student Senate committee member allegedly said the funding cut was a chance for the Kansan to “fix their content.” In later meetings, a Student Senate member allegedly said the newspaper “bit the hand that fed” it and the staff “got what you deserved,” according to the suit. The Kansan is funded by student activity fees and the sale of advertising. The Student Press Law Center, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that gives legal advice to student publications, told KU officials the funding cuts were unconstitutional. KU officials could not immediately be reached for comment Friday night. The lawsuit seeks an injunction against the administrators to stop the funding cut, plus attorneys’ fees and “nominal” damages. ©2016 The Kansas City Star (Kansas City, Mo.). Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
Bestselling author, alumna, to return to ISU for presentation Carey Ford
Editor-in-Chief
An Indiana State University alumna who writes under the pen name Lexi Ryan will return to Terre Haute this week. Ryan is a self-published romance au-
thor who will give a presentation and reading Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Vigo County Public Library, which is located south of campus at Seventh and Poplar Streets. In the presentation, Ryan will discuss her book “Unbreak Me” and her success
in the self-publishing industry. Ryan is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, and her most recent novel, “Holding Her Close,” was released Jan. 19 of this year. In addition to the presentation Tuesday night, Ryan will give a reading of her
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work on ISU’s campus Monday, Jan. 15, at 3:30 p.m. in the Heritage Ballroom. Both events are presented by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Center for Community Engagement and the Creative Writing Committee, and both are free and open to the public.
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YouTube moves closer to becoming a Netflix for millennials David Pierson
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
Could it soon be time to YouTube and chill? The world’s biggest online video platform will officially crack into the paid original content business next week when it premieres the first four titles produced for its new subscription service, YouTube Red, the company said Wednesday. Included in the Feb. 10 launch: “Dance Camp,” a musical teen drama produced by digital network AwesomenessTV; “Scare PewDiePie,” a series that pairs YouTube sensation Felix Kjellberg with the creator of “The Walking Dead” and Maker Studios; “A Trip to Unicorn Island,” a documentary by another wildly popular YouTube star, Lilly Singh, and digital-first studio Astronauts Wanted; and “Lazer Team” a sci-fi comedy made by production company Rooster Teeth and Fullscreen Films. The launch marks an important turning point for YouTube, which is largely responsible for kick-starting the online video revolution but hasn’t generated the same buzz as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video or Hulu in recent years. Those streaming sites have enjoyed massive success with popular series such as “House of Cards,” “Orange Is the New Black” and “Transparent.”
YouTube hopes to do the same, but with cheaper productions and a decidedly younger audience that’s grown up watching YouTube and social media stars in lieu of traditional TV. “Initially, there’s going to be a strong focus on the fan base,” said Susanne Daniels, YouTube’s global head of original content and a former executive at MTV and Lifetime. There are growing signs that YouTube’s homegrown artists have permanently broken into the mainstream. Kjellberg made a recent appearance as a guest on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.” Singh was a recent guest on “The Tonight Show” with Jimmy Fallon. And Tyler Oakley, another massive YouTube “influencer,” had a book land on the New York Times bestseller list and appears on CBS’ “The Amazing Race.” “Each influencer has their unique voice,” said Matt Kaplan, head of AwesomenessTV’s film division. “There’s a reason why (millions) of people are watching them, and it’s not just because it’s free.” YouTube aims to release between 15 and 20 new titles on Red this year. That, combined with an ad-free experience, access to streaming music and offline video viewing, is how the company is promoting its $9.99 monthly service, which was launched in October 2015.
YouTube, which was bought by Google in 2006, has been in talks with Hollywood studios for more content for Red, but it’s unclear what that would include. YouTube declined to comment on what it called speculation. It remains highly unlikely that Red will unseat Netflix, a cultural phenomenon backed by a big budget for premium programming. Netflix owes $10.9 billion in content license fees alone. But comparing the two services may be unfair this early in the game, experts say.
“I think Netflix sees YouTube Red as a completely different beast,” said Alan Wolk, a senior analyst at Diffusion Group, a media consulting firm. “Maybe it captures a segment of audience they wanted in the future, but not one they wanted now.” That hasn’t stopped Netflix from encroaching into YouTube’s territory. The Los Gatos, California, company recently signed a deal with YouTube star Miranda Sings. A year earlier, another YouTube personality, Freddie Wong, sold his RocketJump se-
ries to Hulu. A successful showing by Red could help retain some of those YouTube stars, some of whom were paid bonuses not to jump ship. The challenge will be persuading viewers who have long associated YouTube with free content to break out their credit cards (or more likely, their parents’ credit cards). Given YouTube’s billion-plus viewers, even a small percentage of subscribers could make a big difference to the company’s bottom line. “We calculate that even a low single-digit percentage rate conversion from free ad-supported to paid subscription will allow Google to monetize users at 10 times the annual (revenue per user) versus that derived just from advertising,” wrote analysts at Credit Suisse in a research note. The bank expects YouTube to convert 3 percent of its users to Red subscribers over the next five years, giving Google (and its holding company Alphabet) a valuable new revenue stream beyond just search and advertising. Alphabet shares have soared since Monday, when the technology giant reported an 18 percent jump in revenue for the fourth quarter from a year ago in part because of strong viewership on YouTube. ©2016 Los Angeles Times. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
New generation of mobile ads gets a useful twist Paresh Dave
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
In the fast-changing world of mobile advertising, staples like banner ads, pop-ups and ads disguised as news stories aren’t cutting it anymore. The latest crop of ads reads like novels, mimics the levels of a video game and lets Snoopy hitch a ride on selfies. Advertisers hope those flashier formats will encourage people to interact with ads on the smartphones and tablets that are dominating their lives. Deeper engagement, they say, tends to make brand names stick in people’s minds, translating to higher spending. Mobile advertising is growing fast, with sales expected to top $100 billion this year for the first time. But the banner ads that advertisers relied on for two decades are now being vanquished by ad-blocking software or simply ignored. Native ads, which resemble news stories instead of sales pitches, are distrusted by consumers. That’s created opportunity for Snapchat Inc., Zynga Inc. and other mobile app companies, which are experimenting with a new wave of ad options. They say consumers want more than a static message; they want ads
to be fun and a utility — something they can use and share. “It’s not just buying a Super Bowl ad and a big New York Times spread before Christmas,” said Adam Simon, director of strategy at ad firm IPG Media Lab. “There’s a lot more strategy and debate about what’s the right place to reach your consumers, with a focus on providing them some value.” Los Angeles-based Snapchat lets advertisers create their own Lenses, a type of animation launched in the fall that users select to alter their photos and videos. For instance, one popular Lens on Snapchat lets users overlay a cartoon rainbow on their faces, making it look as if they’re vomiting rainbows. Sponsored Lenses allow advertisers to get in on the fun. Twentieth Century Fox and digital ad agency Avatar Labs recently designed Lens for “The Peanuts Movie” that allowed users to virtually chomp on a waterfall of candy corn while Snoopy danced in the foreground of their photos. Tens of millions of people saw the animation or used it in posts shared with friends. Jason Steinberg of Avatar Labs said Snapchat’s users would remember who made the ad because they respond well to creative,
Correction: The Statesman incorrectly identified first lady Cheri Bradley in a photo caption on Page 1 in the Feb. 5 issue of the paper. We regret the error.
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usable content. Meanwhile, Zynga’s valueladen ads involve what it does best: making games. Advertisers get sponsored levels that sit within games and can affect their results. One ad, by salad dressing brand Hidden Valley, invited players of Zynga’s matching game “Farmville: Harvest Swap” to earn a ranch chicken pizza recipe by matching ingredients, including bottles of Hidden Valley ranch. The brand wanted people to consider using ranch on more than salads, and the game experience conveyed that idea to up to about 1.5 million people. Players spent an average of 25 seconds in branded levels in early campaigns, said Julie Shumaker, general manager of Zynga’s in-house advertising unit, StudioE. And purchase desire for pitched products at least doubled on average. The tactic was notable because mobile games often bribe users with virtual currency to get them to watch video ads. But Zynga wanted users to earn rewards through play. Zynga also can show a lot more of sponsored play ads and charge more for them because they aren’t as interruptive as videos. Smaller companies have twists on online ads too.
Wattpad’s 40 million users submit and read fiction on the app, so the company decided ads should also be stories. They grip people’s undivided attention, the company reasoned. General Electric Co.’s ad-stories on Wattpad were written by top science fiction writers on the service. Instead of pitching GE refrigerators or washer-dryers, the resulting stories chronicled the exploits of young technologists. The stories, carried on GE’s account, were labeled “Sponsored” and garnered 40,000 views, Wattpad said. “It’s becoming harder and harder to find audiences through traditional advertising,” said Sam Olstein, GE’s global director of innovation. “We just want to find new audiences in unconventional ways.” Music streaming app start-up Dash Radio has 3 million users. Instead of intrusive ads that play in between songs, advertisers on the streaming platform — including video game “Halo” and the movie “Entourage” — sponsor their own playlists filled with interviews or songs from their soundtracks. Dash said users listen to sponsored playlists for an average of 25 minutes. The increasingly fancier mobile ads pose a threat to websites, newspapers, radio stations
and cable television — all of which could see revenue sucked away because their business models depend on the oldschool formats. Across the digital landscape, companies are rushing to adapt. Demand Media dramatically reduced the number of ads on EHow.com, Cracked.com and other popular websites, aiming to supplant them with sponsored podcasts, and other deeper ad integrations. Woven Digital, the company behind brands such as BroBible and Uproxx, is heavily investing in creating conversation-stimulating video series that advertisers can sponsor. Still, cheap online ads are a huge business. As they continue to overtake expensive TV buys, worldwide ad budgets are expected to grow slowly to $526 billion in 2016 from $503 billion in 2015, according to research firm Magna Global. Ad executives caution that new technology could quash the promising early endeavors long before they endure as long as banner ads have. Trying “a bunch of tactics to track down a moving target is going to be a reality for a long time,” said Avatar Labs’ Steinberg. ©2016 Los Angeles Times. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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Bestselling author Sarah Vowell to speak Monday Rileigh Roberson Reporter
Sarah Vowell, author of six books on the topic of American history and culture, will be taking part in the Indiana State University Speaker Series on Monday in Tilson Auditorium at 7 p.m. Vowell is most known from her title as an author, but she wears many other hats as well. She is also a social commentator, and she even has an acting career. After hearing her speak, you might recognize her voice from the Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar movie “The Incredibles.” She played the role of Violet, the shy super hero teenage daughter in the popular film. She has also been featured in many
‘Her’: a new kind of love Grace Harrah Reporter
We live in a time where Internet and technology have become necessary to function in our daily lives. We have all the information we want in a matter of a click. iPhones have taken over the global population along with other devices we see every day. What comes with most iPhones is what we call Siri. It is an operating system, sort of like your own personal robot that lives inside your phone. The movie “Her” is set in a time, maybe couple years or a decade from now, where a man falls in love with a Siri-like program. “Her” came out in 2013 and won an academy award for Best Original Screenplay. Many people would consider this movie to be a bit weird and unrealistic because of the unnatural of Siri and a human falling in love. Some might ask the question: how is he able to fall in love with something that’s not real? However, if you ask yourself and watch what others are doing today, this movie might not sound so out of the ordinary. We often hear people directly talking to Siri like it is an actual person. It is possible to even customize your Siri to be a man or a woman with an Australian, Asian, American, British and many more accents from all over the world. The main character, Theodore played by Joaquin Phoenix, divorced wife, who he was very much in love with. He has a stable job, a letter writer and a couple friends he enjoys being with, but is still lonely from the broken marriage. Soon, he hears about the operating system that is promised to fulfill the needs of the owners. Without hesitations, he buys the AI and is quickly surprised by it, or her. The virtual assistant, voiced by Scarlett Johansson, is a woman named Samantha. She is constantly there when he turns the device on and tells him that her thoughts are developing despite the fact that she is not human. He gradually falls in love with Samantha, and she claims to also have romantic emotions that she has never felt before. After a while, they officially start dating. However, it causes problems between the relationships since she is still an operating system. This film is under the category of romance and drama. It may sound like a typical chick flick, but it has elements that will take many by surprise because of the developed technology that is set in the story. Despite the fact that this movie is set in the future, it may not be so far away that we start to have the same type of operating systems and stories just like in the movie “Her.” The ending has an underlying message that defines the evolving relationship between humans and technology. It may not be as far away as you think when we start to experience some of the events such as in the movie “Her.”
other films playing smaller roles. Vowell received her bachelor’s degree from Montana State University in the field of Modern Languages and Literatures, and a master’s degree in Art History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her career as an author has landed her on the New York Times bestselling author list multiple times with her novels about American history and culture. She has also made many appearances on famous talk shows such as “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” as well as “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” and the “Late Show with David Lettermen.” Besides acting, writing and participating in speaker series such as the one Monday night in Tilson, Vowell also sits on the advisory board of 826NYC, which
is a nonprofit tutoring and writing center for children ranging from six to eighteen years old. When Vowell makes her Indiana State University appearance on Feb. 8, she will most likely be discussing the stories of American history and culture found in her novels. Her novels touch on many different subjects throughout American history: from the Puritan’s journey to America and their settlement, to presidential assassinations. Vowell is known for her ability to put her audiences in the scene of her stories about American history, and makes it interesting and relevant by relating it with the present-day. Her storytelling is said to have a comical and interesting way about it that captures the attention of her audience.
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Sarah Vowell will speak at ISU Monday night at 7 as a part of the University Speaker Series.
Moderation key to avoiding video game addiction Jide Oyedeji Reporter
Computers and video games have been together for years, and it started with a game called “Basic.” Created in 1973, “Basic” was the first computer game ever created. We are now in 2016 and gaming has risen to a whole new level. We now have systems like the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and the Wii. These consoles are the basic systems used to play video games. Now we have games that put the player in a first person point of view or even give them a way to be in the game through eyewear. Marquis Glover, an ISU freshman said, “(Grand Theft Auto) is my favorite game and
will never stop being my favorite. In fact I play it on two different systems.” The gaming industry has gained many fans. It seems like every kid, teenager and even adult wants a piece of the action. Just like our cell phones, games have become addicting. In fact, some
people play video games and don’t realize that their brain is becoming addicted to a world they will never be able to live in. So how does a person who
has lived in a virtual world all their life come back to reality and see the world for what it really is? On Wednesday, March 2 in Tilson auditorium at 7:30 p.m., four gamers will share their experience with video game addiction. “I make sure when I am playing I take breaks in between and do something mentally positive,” student and PC gamer Sharath Raini said. In video games you have many lives. There are some games like Grand Theft Auto V where rules are nonexistent; you can steal without
consequence and hurt without regret. However, in the real world if anyone attempts to steal a car it is almost impossible to escape justice. Video games are fun to play, but know the thin line between games and the real world. It is more important to be successful in reality than live in a fantasy world. The real world is not handed to us on a platter of gold; we have to work and take care of our family and ourselves. When the real world is successful, then we can go out, buy games and play moderately.
Left: Xbox One. Right: PlayStation 4 (Photos by Kirk McKoy/Los Angeles Times/MCT).
Advice freshmen would have liked hearing before sophomore year up a whole new storm of problems just for you.
Mustafa Mustafa Reporter
One moment you start college, the next, you’re drowning in your own tears and on the horrific workload that was thrust on you. You go into sophomore year expecting everything to be the same, but college feels like a completely different place. The year starts off with you thinking that last year, you learned everything needed to survive sophomore year; how wrong you are. While you were home during break, college was brewing
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Your workload won’t be as light. During freshman year, a lot of time is spent studying, hanging out with friends and getting involved on campus. If you guessed that sophomore year would be just as breezy, you thought wrong. Most of your classes will start to assign larger workloads and heighten your stress levels. Finding free time will be harder than you think.
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The Freshman 15 is debatable but the
Sophomore Slump IS real. The Sophomore Slump is a much more dangerous and serious trend. While you have already had at least a whole year of college experience to help you, you also have a whole year to show what could go wrong. College has become a norm and that could cause you to slack a bit. Soon enough you will be left with only two years of college.
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Take foundational classes that you will enjoy, not the ones you were told are easy. You heard that a particular
history class is an easy A. Well, what’s the point of taking it if you don’t like history and will be miserable for a whole semester? That will only add to all the stress you already have accumulating. Take classes that you enjoy and not just because they’re an easy grade. College can be hard, but the best thing you can do during your limited time here is to enjoy it as much as you can while building your education. You will look back at these years fondly someday and hopefully with no regrets to be found.
ISU celebrates Chinese New Year at weekend event Erica Garnes Reporter
This weekend, students, staff and members of the Terre Haute community came together to celebrate the Chinese New Year, which begins Monday, Feb. 8. It is the year of the monkey, an animal known to symbolize intelligence. The Chinese Scholars and Students Association organized a night full of dancing, music, food and culture. Yin Chen is a graduate student at ISU, graphic design major, and the President of CSSA, taking part in the International Student Leadership Counsel. Chen said there would be traditional Chinese food at the event, performers, martial arts
and tai chi demonstrated. Traditional food was served buffet-style, and many students, kids and adults participated live dancing and singing. The first performance was from 8- and 9-year-old girls who were wearing traditional clothing, dancing with beautiful colored flags. Afterward, a soprano singer named Lidan Li sang alongside her pianist Sharilyn Spicknall. Children from the Wabash Chinese School in Terre Haute also came and performed for the crowd. The children had skits, songs and little games for the night. They played a riddle guessing game with the audience and sang a traditional riddle and the audience had to guess what
the animal was. Audience member and ISU student Chris Allen said he enjoyed the event and culture. “Just being able to see what their culture is like is amazing to me. And the kids were enjoyable too. I’m so sensitive when it comes to kids, and that right there was so beautiful. They were so amazing,” Allen said. Toward the end of the night, there was a demonstration of a traditional instrument called the zither. It has the stance of a piano but strings like a guitar. Qiwen Zheng harmonized with the music but still made sure her instrument was heard. One of the last shows was done by a man named Hung.
Early in the program he played his flute and performed Kung Fu for the audience at the end of the show. After his performance, he invited a few of the audience members to the stage to teach them punching techniques. He first demonstrated how to stand, how to hold up their balance and how exactly how to move their head and arms when punching. Even the little ones were learning how to punch. ISU student Ariana Bowman said she enjoyed the event. “I loved it. Seeing how the Chinese culture celebrates made it a beautiful event to attend. The colors, the kids, music and food topped it all,” she said.
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Just let the draft drift away
Zach Davis Columnist
On Dec. 3, 2015 the Department of Defense announced that gender will no longer be considered for positions in the military, which allowed women to fill more physically challenging positions. Now women can be in the infantry if they choose and if they qualify. However, since gender is no longer an issue several military leaders have moved to apply that update to the Selective Service Systems, more commonly referred to as the draft. If successful, everyone who is physically capable of serving in the military will have to sign up for the draft regardless of gender. The first form of the draft was used for World War I due to the low numbers of people in the military. The point is to always have a reserve of men who can go through training and eventually fight in battle in wartime if our forces grow too thin. The draft forces men to sign up starting at 18. If they don’t, they face a slew of legal consequences. While this setup was necessary for many wars, today we have to take another look at it. The first issue with the draft is morality. The draft legally forces U.S. citizens to go into combat and risk their lives. Forcing people to become soldiers forces them to set aside their morals and kill, something that many religions and moral codes plainly forbid. Putting people in a position where their lives are in danger shows how valued they are as a citizen, that the government is willing to let them die to achieve its goal. With how questionable people have found our recent wars, we shouldn’t force citizens to literally support the military with their lives. Also, soldiers who willingly join the military have plenty of issues when discharged, including post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression and other very serious issues. Imagine the effects on someone who
is forced to be in that position. The psychological damage for draftees is probably just as severe, if not worse. Furthermore, we are doing a lot of research on unmanned drones. The world’s militaries are trying to push for this kind of warfare, which is a lot more ideal. If we are going to have unmanned warfare then there is no point in having soldiers. After all, unmanned drones are meant to be unmanned. If the military goes through several drafts in the same war then our population will start decreasing. Several drafts imply that people are either running from the military or are getting killed in combat. If we send wave after wave of draftees will eventually leave us with a smaller population and maybe even nobody to protect. We shouldn’t send citizens out to fight and potentially die if it means destroying our population numbers. The Selective Service Act should just be ended. But it doesn’t seem like the draft is going away soon, and instead women might be added to it. Luckily, the draft does have an option for those who are opposed to war. Individuals who disagree with combat or war in general are called conscientious objectors. Conscientious objectors can be taken out of combat or even left at home, but only if certain requirements are met. Individuals have to prove they are religiously or morally opposed to the actions of killing through their past actions. This route can give the person a non-combative role or even allow them to not join the military. The Selective Service explains that those who are opposed to serving in the military at all are required to have a job that provides “a meaningful contribution to the maintenance of the national health, safety, and interest.” Examples are education, healthcare or even conservation. Ideally the draft would be ended altogether and nobody will have to sign up. Sadly it probably is not going to be ended soon. Men will probably have to continue signing up, and women may have to begin. But we should continue to object to the draft. We need to strive to abolish the draft and stop trying to force people to endanger their lives and kill.
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Nuclear Korea on the rise Joe Lippard
Assistant Opinions Editor
At the Democratic debate in New Hampshire last Tuesday, Bernie Sanders was asked to pick between Iran, North Korea and Russia in response to a question about who posed a greater threat to the security of the United States. Sanders replied at first that the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant was a greater threat than any of those, but then went on to say that, out of those three, North Korea is the biggest threat to the security of the United States. I don’t think Sanders was wrong. Last month, North Korea supposedly tested a hydrogen bomb. According to CNN, a US official linked to the investigation of the launch of the supposed bomb said that “there may have been a partial, failed test of some type of components associated with a hydrogen bomb.” In short, we don’t know exactly what North Korea launched, but we think that they could have possibly
been testing components for a hydrogen bomb instead of an actual bomb. Then, on Sunday, Feb. 7, North Korea launched a satellite into orbit. According to officials, the rocket wasn’t a threat to the United States or our allies and headed straight into space. Many countries, including the United States and the entire European Union, were quick to condemn the launch. Jo Ho-young, Chairman of the South Korean National Assembly Intelligence Committee, suggested that North Korea had planned their satellite launch just ahead of the Super Bowl and the Lunar New Year, an important date in Korea. As a result of the satellite launch, South Korea announced that they would begin talks with the United States to develop a defense system to intercept future missiles midair. This antimissile system could be very important. The rocket that was used to launch the satellite is believed to be based on a ballistic missile that has a range of about 5,600 miles. This puts the west coast of the United States in direct danger of potentially being targeted by North Korean missiles, assuming they have sufficient targeting abilities.
This means that Bernie Sanders is right to worry about North Korea. On Tuesday when Sanders said that he worried about North Korea more than Russia and Iran, I’ll admit I was unconvinced. But with North Korea’s satellite launch on Sunday, I see Sanders was right. According to CNN, experts have confirmed that North Korea has at least a dozen nuclear weapons, and it’s possible that they have up to 100. The only thing they’ve been lacking was a way to deploy those weapons. If they have the technology to launch a satellite into space with a ballistic missile that goes up to 5,600 miles, they could possibly be close to developing a delivery system that could transport a nuclear warhead. So I now understand Sanders’ concern for North Korea. Iran didn’t have nuclear weapons, and we’ve even gotten them to scale back their nuclear program since we negotiated the Iran deal. Iran agreed that it would never seek to make nuclear weapons, shut down more than two thirds of their first-generation nuclear centrifuges and all of their advanced centrifuges and reduce their stockpile of low-enriched
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Doctoral study a matter of happiness, not just job preparation Leonard Cassuto
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People who study for doctorates in the arts and sciences are typically driven by love — for a particular historical period, author or field of inquiry. But graduate school isn’t just a place to dive into 18th century novels, Medieval art or neurobiology. It’s also, necessarily, a place to prepare for a career. Most graduate programs encourage their students to set their sights on jobs teaching or conducting research at a college or university. They also endorse the notion, whether intentionally or not, that taking a position outside of the professoriate is some kind of failure. That’s insanity. It takes nine years on average for students to obtain a doctorate in the humanities, and the sciences are almost as bad. At the end of that process, students encounter a job market for professors that is a mostly dry well. Only about half of doctoral candidates in the arts and sciences will eventually obtain jobs as college and university instructors. An increasing number of those
openings are short-term gigs, many less than a year long, with no promise of future employment. Even the lucky graduate students who secure a tenure-track position are likely to find a mismatch between their training and their future job requirements. As students, they learn how to become research specialists. But most professors spend most of their time teaching. Only a sliver of the doctorate population gets top-tier, research-first jobs. We would hardly expect a modern journalism school to have a singleminded focus on print newspapers. Yes, there are still jobs to be had at newspapers, but only a small fraction of the number that there once were. A single-minded focus on professorships — on research-dominated professorships in particular — is just as irrational. This attitude is a hangover from the Cold War, when the federal government spent heavily on academic research and higher education for its citizens, first returning World War II soldiers and then the children of the baby boom. Government investment in new public universities and federal loan programs made college affordable for more
Americans than ever before. There was a corresponding shortage of teachers for all those new students, which meant that pretty much anyone who could finish a doctorate could become a professor. The result was the largest generation of professors in the history of American higher education. That one generation turned out to be a historical anomaly. It ended in the 1970s. College and university administrators waited a long time for it to come back. Only now, two generations later, are we finally accepting that the golden age is over. I talk to graduate students all over the country, and they know which way the wind is blowing. They want an education that bears some relation to the diverse career possibilities they know they’ll have to consider when they’re done. A graduate student in math recently confessed to me that he wants to get a job at a bank. I just met a Ph.D. in English who works as a technical writer for a software firm in Silicon Valley. Yet I’ve also heard countless graduate students say that they fear disapproval, even scorn, if they tell their advisers
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they’re considering work outside academia. Professors and administrators need to get over their self-importance and honor nonprofessorial career choices. When professors teach graduate students to disrespect the work that many of them must eventually consider, they’re sabotaging their prospects. But it’s worse than that. When we teach our students that professors’ jobs — preferably research-intensive ones — are the only ones worth having, we’re teaching them to be unhappy. More practically, professors and administrators have to develop programs to help their graduate students professionalize for the job market of today, not 50 years ago. This is already happening here and there. The University of Louisville, for example, runs a series of about 25 professionalization workshops each semester. These help new graduate students get their bearings, and older ones prepare for different kinds of job searches.
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KOREA, FROM PAGE 6 uranium by 98 percent. We, in return, give Iran money that already belongs to them that has been frozen in overseas accounts. The European Union agreed to lift sanctions against Iran several years into the agreement, while the United States
PH.D., FROM PAGE 6 These changes have to continue, and multiply. Our students’ professional lives depend on it. Thousands of graduate students have unionized to protest the conditions of their educational workplaces. Their discontent sends a message that needs to be heard. If tomorrow’s talented college students believe that graduate school is a fool’s errand, they’ll simply vote with their feet and stay away.
That would be a loss not just to universities but to the whole country — because as Thomas Jefferson famously observed, a more educated population makes for a healthier democracy. Ph.D.s don’t all have to labor in the proverbial ivory tower. All of us benefit when more Ph.D.s are in public life. Let’s teach graduate students about all the things they can do, not just one of them. ©2015 Los Angeles Times. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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things happened for us, but — and I sound like a broken record — we still have a long ways to go before the conference meet.” “We had a solid meet,” said ISU women’s head coach Angela Martin. “The competition was at a very high level, so it was nice to see a few of our women step up, and now we have three good weeks to continue to get better.” Indiana State returns to IU next weekend for the Hoosier Hills Invite on Friday.
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Sycamore women suffer setback at Illinois State Rob Lafary
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Indiana State women’s basketball dominated in nearly every statistical category on Friday night but were unable to overcome a barrage of Illinois State 3-pointers as the Sycamores fell to the Redbirds 73-62 on the road in Missouri Valley Conference play. The Sycamores scored 36 points in the paint, scored 27 points off of turnovers, had 13 second-chance points and amassed double-digit numbers in transition and off the bench throughout 40 minutes of play, but Illinois State responded with a 9-15 performance from beyond the arc including an 83 percent clip in the second half to negate any advantage Indiana State might have. The win also evened up the season series between the two teams after Indiana State won the first battle on Jan. 10. More concerning though is the fact that the loss puts the Sycamores at 5-5 in the MVC and makes the team’s quest for a spot in the upper half of the MVC a little more challenging with eight games left to play. “It’s just the inconsistency,” Indiana State head coach Joey Wells said after the game. “We weren’t very smart, weren’t very aggressive; we didn’t play hard in spots. Then we would play hard and battle back but then not play hard again and not be smart. We didn’t play hard enough, smart enough or long enough to win a game like this.” Sycamore senior guard Alexis Newbolt, the team’s point guard and primary ball handler, sat Friday night with a twisted ankle, and her absence showed early on as the team turned the ball over 11
PEORIA, Ill. — Indiana State used a pair of second half rallies to force four ties down the stretch and had a good look at a fifth with 10 seconds remaining, but it was Bradley that held on for a 63-58 victory over the visiting Sycamores in front of 6,028 fans inside Carver Arena. The Sycamores fell to 13-11, 7-5 MVC while Bradley improved to 4-21, 2-10 MVC. Indiana State had won each of the previous four meetings in the series. Devonte Brown scored 15 points to lead Indiana State while Khristian Smith added 10. The Sycamores hit 17-48 from the field (35.4 percent) while Bradley drained 20-of-45 attempts (44.4 percent). Trailing by 10 points at the half, Brenton Scott scored first for the Sycamores after the break to cut into the Braves advantage, and then at the 18:37 mark, Brown converted the conventional 3-point play as the Indiana State drew within 33-29. Indiana State surrendered a basket, but Brown came back with a lay-up to once again make it a four-point lead for the Braves. Scott hit 1-2 free throws just under the 16 minute mark to draw the Sycamores closer at 37-34. Indiana State made it a 4-0 run at the free throw line between Smith and Brown as they got within 40-38 just north of the 13 minute mark. The Braves tallied the next seven points to stretch their lead out to nine before Smith a pair of charity tosses with 8:58 remaining to draw within 47-40. Matt Van Scyoc drained a 3-pointer at the 8:15 mark to make it five in a row for the Sycamores and the Bradley lead was down to 47-43. Everett Clemons made it seven straight as he hit a third chance bucket off an offensive rebound as the clock ticked under eight minutes remaining to cut the Bradley lead down to 47-45. Then on Bradley’s next offensive possession, Khristian Smith grabbed a loose ball on the ground and got the timeout call to preserve the steal. Smith was fouled and hit one free throw at the 6:20 mark to put ISU down just one point. Bradley stopped an 8-0 run with a jumper, but it was Van Scyoc who was true from the corner with 5:35 remaining for a 3-pointer, which knotted the score at 49. Donte Thomas came back with a conventional 3-point play with 4:28 on the clock to establish the 52-49 cushion. After Smith tallied a free throw, Clemons once again went in among the bigs and came down with an offensive rebound and putback to knot the contest at 52 as the clock ticked under the three-minute mark. Antoine Pittman hit two charity tosses to answer and give the Braves a two-point lead. Brown answered at the 1:50 mark with a jumper just inside the arch and both teams had 54 points. Van Bree hit one free throw after being fouled in transition, but with 1:24 remaining Khristian Smith was fouled after pulling down the defensive rebound. Smith hit 1-2 free throws and the score was tied once again at 55. Thomas would go on to hit two free throws with 1:01 remaining, and they went ahead 57-55. The Braves would score twice more from the charity stripe, until a conventional 3-point play by Smith with 27 seconds remaining cut the Bradley lead down to 59-58. After the Braves hit two free throws to stretch their lead out to three points, Scott had a look at the basket from long distance, but it fell just short with eight seconds remaining. Brandon Murphy scored four early points for the Sycamores as he scored on two of Indiana State’s first four possessions. Brenton Scott hit a leaner from just outside the paint at the 16:34 mark to get ISU within 7-6. After Bradley took a 14-11 lead, Niels Bunschoten drained a 3-pointer from the top of the key with 12:44 on the clock to knot the score and then Devonte Brown rolled home a driving lay-up following a Brandon Burnett steal to push the Sycamores ahead 1614. Following a Bunschoten blocked
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times in the first quarter. Indiana State overcame the woes to make the frame respectable, trailing just 18-13 after the first stop and 37-33 at halftime. Indiana State made its best attempts to gain ground in the second half and threatened on a couple of occasions but Illinois State’s trifectas took effect at all the right times in the final two quarters. The majority of the blows came from freshman guard Shakeela Fowler, who drilled 4-5 from behind the line in the contest but she was not alone in terms of hitting timely threes. Katrina Beck nailed three of her own including a pair in the second half while starting forward Octavia Crump’s lone three proved to be the biggest of them all when hers went down in the middle of
an Indiana State run. The Sycamores trailed by just four late in the game, but Crump’s toss with the shot clock expiring found its way through the net, stretching the lead back out to three possessions. Indiana State never threatened the rest of the way as Illinois State soon pushed the advantage out to double figures before settling on the 11-point win. “I don’t want to take anything away from them (Illinois State),” Wells said. “They played their buts off in front of a good crowd. They had players go make plays, and we didn’t. They made some spectacular shots. Crump comes down and hits a three, and I think she had only hit four all season. Execution 20 games into the season should be better than it was tonight.”
Illinois State (6-15, 4-6 MVC) saw all five of its starters in double figures led by Fowler with 19 points. Crump had 15 and Colleene Smith had 14 while Beck and Viria Livingston had 11 and 10 respectively. The Sycamores got an offensive boost from Rhagen Smith who had a career-high 14 points on 5-10 shooting including a 2-3 performance from the three-point line. Cierra Ceazer shared teamhigh honors with Smith and had 14 of her own while Joyea Marshall had 10 points and a team-high eight rebounds. Indiana State (9-12, 5-5 MVC) returns to the Hulman Center this weekend and faces second-place Northern Iowa on Friday before taking on MVC frontrunner Drake on Sunday afternoon.
Sycamore milers shine on final day of Meyo Invite Tyler Wooten
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Both the Indiana State men’s and women’s milers put on a spectacular show at the final day of the Meyo Invite on Saturday at the University of Notre Dame. Junior All-American David Timlin was the toast of the track crowd watching at the Loftus Sports Center on Saturday, where he and nine others put on a great show during the men’s Meyo Mile race. Timlin came away the victor in an exhilarating rush to the finish, breaking his own school record at 4:00.42 — just barely missing out on joining the sub-4:00 club again and beating out Michigan’s Mason Ferlic (4:00.50) by less than a tenth at the finish. Timlin took a decent lead after the first lap, but was left alone around the 1200-meter mark before the pack started to make its push on the final lap. Ferlic had taken the lead on the bell lap, but Timlin — who exploded for a 59-second split on his final 400 — snatched away the lead from Ferlic at the finish line. “Last lap I was feeling really good going into it and started moving,” Timlin said. “Mason Ferlic came around me with probably 240 meters to go. Most times when someone passes you, they blow you away, and there’s nothing you can do. But once he got in front of me, he was running about the same pace as me so I waited. At the homestretch I waited a little bit more and beat him at the line by less than a tenth of a second.” “It’s just been a countdown to when he could get into a real good race, and fortunate-
ly he really produced,” said ISU men’s head coach John McNichols. “Unfortunately, the field didn’t really go with him when they should have and that would have made it a little faster.” Despite his already incredible credentials gathered during his first three seasons at Indiana State, Timlin was still seen by some as an underdog due to ISU’s mid-major status. Post-race, Timlin was not mincing words: “I had the second-best 1500 PR in the field,” Timlin said. “I earned that confidence. It was understood.” “Can’t say enough about his effort,” McNichols said. “He’s a guy that’s been around and already done great things, but hopefully this will get him some more recognition.” Today’s race is the logical next step for the junior native of Chicago, who already posted the second-best 3K in school history at IU two weeks ago at 8:08.66. “It’s nice to be hitting these times because we aren’t doing a lot of specific work for it,” Timlin said. “We aren’t focusing on the races. This week we did do a little more prep work than usual, but in general my training right now is based on getting fitter and stronger. It’s awesome to be hitting these PRs when I’m doing normal training. It’s encouraging and proof that all the work that I put in during cross is paying off. I’m excited.” The women’s milers also had themselves an impressive day. Within 10 minutes of each other, both Jessi Conley (4:53.37) and Brittany Neeley (4:43.70) ran what was then the second-fastest mile times in school history. Neeley, a sophomore IU transfer, was up first, and fin-
ished second in her heat for what was then the No. 2 mile time in ISU history. Conley followed that up with a solid eighth-place finish in her heat to bump Neeley down to third. This season alone (and with this weekend taken into account), assistant coach Kyle Walsh’s crew has led an assault on the indoor record book. In the mile alone, Walsh’s active Sycamores own spots two-through-four on the alltime list — trailing only interim director of athletics Angie Lansing’s 4:50.12 from 1998. Freshman Brooke Moore, who did not compete this weekend, owns the other in fourth place at 4:57.07. Moore also ranks ninth alltime in the 3K (9:57.49) and last night Taylor Austin ran the third-best 5K (17:00.90). In the hurdles, the Sycamores were without AllAmerican Adarius Washington, who sat out following a slight tweak during warmups as a cautionary action. Junior Marcus Neely picked up the slack though, making finals on a 7.96 semifinal time before finishing fourth overall at 8.02. In the last two weeks now, Neely has run sub-8.00 four times after never having done so before. Elsewhere, there were several other strong performances out of the Sycamores. Sophomore high jumper Jamie Murtaugh had a careerday, getting over the bar at 2.12m (6-11.50) and finishing fourth overall. Murtaugh now ranks tied for 10th all-time at ISU, which shouldn’t last long; he took three very good attempts at 2.15m (7-00.50). Likewise in the men’s pole vault, senior Terre Haute native Connor Curley posted
another solid week, finishing third at 5.17m (16-11.50). Just last week that would have tied an overall careerbest, but last week at UNI he cleared an incredible 5.30m (17-04.50) to take the lead in the MVC by nearly a halffoot. It was also a good day for the women’s shot putters, an impressive feat considering the field they were competing in against the current worldleader, Raven Saunders of Ole Miss. Redshirt freshman Cassaundra Roper continued her hot streak with another PR at 15.46m (50-08.75) for fifth place, which launches her from 10th all-time to fourth on ISU’s illustrious list behind All-Americans Felisha Johnson, Mary Theisen and Christy Barrett. Also making finals were Katelyn Rutz (seventh, 15.30m/50-02.50, fifth alltime) and Whitney Walker (ninth, 15.06m/49-05.00, season-best). Senior and former football tight end Jamar Brown also made finals in the shot at 17.28m (56-08.50). Other strong performances included Jamie Newsome in the triple jump (12.42m/4009.00) and Tyrell Dowdell in the 400 meter (48.37 seconds, ninth all-time at ISU). “We had a couple breakthroughs,” McNichols said. “One was (Marcus) Neely making an elite final in the hurdles and he ran well in each round to make it in. Also, Jamie Murtaugh did so in the high jump and he had some good attempts at even higher bars as well, so I think that’s going very well. Connor did a nice job again in the vault, and Jamar made the final in the shot. A lot of good
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