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Event series promotes student wellness Kourtney Miller Reporter
The Office of Student Health Promotions at Indiana State University is offering a series of events that cover a wide range of health topics, which include fitness, domestic violence, tobacco use and more. “Wellness Wednesdays” begin Jan. 27 and run every other Wednesday evening at 6 p.m. in the Sycamore Dining Hall. Janet Weatherly, the associate director of Student Health Promotions, said, “Our Wellness Wednesday events cover such topics as ‘Intimate Partner Violence,’ which can affect one’s social, emotional and intellectual wellness negatively. ‘Sexual health’ and ‘Eating Disorders’ deal with physical and emotional wellness. Another topic, ‘Brain Awareness’ can show students how what they think can affect their physical health —
negative thinking and worrying can alter one’s immune system, causing them to get sick more often. It can also lead to overeating or undereating, both of which affect our health.” Student Health Promotions is planning other events as well. There will be a Pillow Power program at the end of January for students, faculty and staff. Anyone who attends the 10-minute presentation about sleep hygiene (healthy sleep behaviors) will receive a free pillow. SHP will present “Smart Approaches to Marijuana” with Ben Cort, director of professional relations for the Center for Dependency, Addiction and Rehabilitation in Denver, Colorado. The keynote address will take place at 7 p.m. in Tilson Auditorium on Feb. 11, with other activities following on Feb. 12. The event offers workshops
that the campus community can attend if they want to ask Cort questions, debate the issue of legalization or talk to him about prevention methods. There will also be free HIV testing through Positive Link in the Student Health Promotion office (Student Recreation Center, Suite 131) once a month, on the third Tuesday of every month except March, because of Spring Break. SHP offers Certified Peer Educator training in late March. Anyone interested in being trained as a peer educator can contact the Office of Student Health Promotion to sign up. There will be tabling about various health topics as well as information on all other SHP programs every Thursday in the HMSU (near the elevators) from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. There are other resources available on campus for health topics on campus from the
Student Counseling Center, Employee Wellness, Student Recreation Center, UAP Clinic, Assistant Dean of Students Office, Allied Health Sciences Department, Nursing Department and Physician Assistant Program. SHP is a division of the Student Counseling Center. They specialize in the prevention of issues that affect students’ academic success and ability to graduate. If you need to speak to someone one-on-one in their office, you can call to make an appointment. They also offer prevention presentations and programs for the classroom, residence halls, sororities and fraternities, athletics and any student organization, as well as design large programs that students can participate in throughout the school year. Weatherly said SHP offers these services to help students
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better themselves before or outside of counseling. “The more we can prevent student issues from being seen as insurmountable obstacles, the less likely a student will need to see a counselor. From alcohol abuse to homesickness, from stress management to sleep management, from roommate conflicts to safer sex, our services are far-reaching,” Weatherly said. “Whatever affects your physical, intellectual, spiritual, social, occupational, emotional, financial and environmental wellness also affects your academics. We hope to teach students that wellness isn’t just about what you eat or how much you exercise. Wellness includes your mental, social, spiritual, financial, environmental and emotional health. So the programs that we conduct are to make students aware of how all these dimensions interconnect to create your overall wellness.”
Sister of man who fell from frat house roof says no one called for help Thomas Peele
The Oakland Tribune (TNS)
“When Student Affairs was approached by the Center for Global Engagement about co-sponsoring the flag display, we jumped at the opportunity to collaborate on this important initiative,” said Willie Banks, vice president for student affairs. “We want all of our students to feel connected to Indiana State and displaying the flags of our international students is just one way to demonstrate the institution’s commitment to including our international students in the Sycamore family. We are thrilled that the rec center will be hosting the flags on display and as one of the most used facilities on campus, we know that a large part of our student body will get to see these beautiful flags on a daily basis.” The flag display also will add to the visual appeal of the rec center, a popular place for both domestic and international students, said John Lentz, campus recreation director. Lentz offered to make the Rec Center home to the flag display after he proposed the idea during a discussion about helping students embrace diversity at a student affairs retreat at the start of the academic year. “We want to show students that we’re
BERKELEY, California — A 22-yearold man who died after plummeting about 30 feet from the roof of a University of California, Berkeley fraternity house last week had been found alive after his fall, but the people who discovered him didn’t know he’d fallen and didn’t call for an ambulance, his sister said late Tuesday. Instead, thinking he was just drunk during a Christmas party, they helped him inside, where he lay down. The next morning he was dead. Jeff Engler was alone when he fell sometime Friday night, Caity Engler told The Oakland Tribune. While some people attending a party at the Pi Kappa Phi house knew he’d gone to the roof, those who found him on the ground didn’t know what had happened, she said. “There was a disconnect.” Sharing information she said Berkeley Police provided her family, Caity Engler said her brother was conscious and spoke with friends after his fall. Police were called at about 7 a.m. Saturday, but Jeff Engler was dead when they arrived. Jeff Engler was a fraternity member but didn’t live at the house and had not attended classes at Berkeley since 2012. “The roof was one of his favorite places,” Caity Engler said. “He’d go up there to write or play his guitar.” Her brother “was with people he loved, at a place he loved. Unfortunately on this night, all that love involved too much alcohol. And a roof.” A Berkeley Police spokeswoman Tuesday evening declined to comment on Caity Engler’s version of events and only said they were still investigating. There was no answer to repeated phone calls to the fraternity house Tuesday. A spokesman for Pi Kappa Phi’s national office said prior to Caity Engler’s statement, that members of the Berkeley house had been urged to fully cooperate with the police investigation. Jeff Engler’s death was the third attributed to alcohol in the past 13 months in a neighborhood near Cal’s Memorial Stadium, dominated by fraternity and sorority houses. “We are investigating the incident and awaiting autopsy results,” Robert Sanders, a university spokesman, said Tuesday. He was not immediately certain where the school’s probe could lead. “Obviously, much depends on the cause of death.” Pi Kappa Phi, the school’s third oldest fraternity, has a troubled past. News reports show it was suspended for a year in 2005 as part of a deal with the university after three members hazed a pledge by shooting him 30 times with a pellet gun.
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Students don inflatable “bubble suits” to battle it out in bubble soccer this weekend. This activity was one of several that occurred in the Dedes to help students unwind and have a good time over the holiday weekend.
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ISU to embrace its many cultures with hanging of national flags Betsy Simon
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When almost nothing seems familiar in a foreign land — not the food, language, dress or even the climate — there’s a sense of comfort when someone eyes their native flag flying high. The Center for Global Engagement hopes to bring that pride and recognition each day to the hundreds of international students studying at Indiana State University during the installation of a permanent national flags display from 3-4 p.m. Jan. 20 at the Student Recreation Center. “It makes you feel like your presence has been acknowledged and it reassures you that you made the right choice,” said Zachariah Mathew, associate director of the Center for Global Engagement, who first came to Indiana State as a student from India. “This is a symbolic gesture that shows international students that ISU is welcoming. Being inclusive is the key because it is what we stand for and it represents our mission, as a center and as a university.” The event, which is being funded by the Center for Global Engagement and the Division of Student Affairs, will in-
clude a simple ceremony where a group of Indiana State students from various cultures will hang the national flags of nearly 80 countries that have had student representation at the university, plus the U.S. and Sycamore flags, on the railing around the walking and jogging track. As the flags are being placed, the School of Music’s brass quintet will play an ensemble written by Grammy Award-winning composer Libby Larsen. “To my mind, when international students see their flags on campus it means that they are welcome at Indiana State University and they feel acknowledged by the ISU community,” said Polina Kaniuka, a teaching English as a second language/language studies major from Ukraine and a graduate assistant at the Center for Global Engagement. The ceremony will include remarks from Indiana State President Dan Bradley, Mike Licari, provost vice president for academic affairs, Brooks Moore, associate dean for student engagement, student activities and organizations, Chris McGrew, director of the Center for Global Engagement, Vernon Cheeks, Student Government Association president, and Lola Akinlaja, a Nigerian native and December 2015 Indiana State graduate.
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University seeks retraction, says researcher’s study data is a bunch of bull Sandi Doughton
The Seattle Times (TNS)
SEATTLE — A researcher exploring ways to convert cow poop into electrical power faked data and claimed his laboratory notebook blew into a manure pit, according to a Washington State University investigation. The university also concluded that Craig Frear, who was an assistant professor in WSU’s Department of Biological Engineering, failed to declare a conflict of interest based on his patents and links with makers of dairy-waste digesters. Frear has since resigned, WSU spokesman Robert Strenge said in an email. The university requested that an article based on the data be retracted by the international science journal that published it in 2011. Frear, now director of research and technology at Regenis, a company in Ferndale, Washington, that specializes in digesters, did not reply to emails and phone calls seeking comment. Regenis spokesman Michael Grossman dismissed the incident as “a couple of botched data points,” and said the company stands by Frear and his expertise. The investigation was first reported this month by Retraction Watch, a blog that tracks scientific malfeasance and mistakes. Frear’s research involved a process called anaerobic digestion, in which cow manure is piped into a vessel where bac-
teria break down the waste and convert it into biogas, or methane. Several dairies have such digesters, which help address the problem of manure disposal while also generating electricity from burning the gas. Gas production can be improved by mixing in food waste, such as restaurant scraps and fish trimmings. Frear was working with a dairy in Whatcom County, Washington to quantify those improvements on a large scale. His study, published in the journal CLEAN: Soil, Air, Water, concluded that adding food waste more than doubled gas production and tripled revenue, partly because farmers could charge fees for disposing the scraps. But when a former WSU colleague took a closer look at the numbers, he discovered problems. Simon Smith was helping the Washington Department of Ecology analyze emissions from burning biogas. He compared data provided by Frear with original laboratory spread sheets and saw large discrepancies, all of which made the process appear more efficient. “It just didn’t make sense to me,” said Smith, now based at Idaho State University. When Smith pointed out the pattern, Frear blamed it on student technicians and weaknesses in the analytic methods. “We had some back and forth,” Smith said. “But there was really only one explanation. It had to be fraud.” Frear told the WSU investigation
committee that he thought the original results from the students’ analyses seemed low, so he retested the samples himself. He said he recorded the new data in a laboratory notebook, which was lost when it blew into a manure pit. He also said he lost photocopies of the notebook and overwrote the original data on his computer. The WSU committee didn’t buy those explanations. “Dr. Frear’s explanation of why no physical evidence of his reanalysis exists is not credible,” panel members wrote. The committee concluded Frear “committed research misconduct with respect to (1) fabricating experimental data and (2) knowingly and intentionally falsifying data … ” The committee also pointed out that Frear and a WSU colleague held several patents for a process related to waste digestion and had formed a company that collaborated with the manufacturer of the digester Frear used in his analysis. But Frear did not declare those financial conflicts of interest in the journal article, as required. The incident is the second case of alleged research misconduct connected with WSU this year. In September, a high-profile WSU study of diabetes and obesity in hibernating grizzly bears was retracted after a co-author from the biotech firm Amgen was found to have manipulated experimental data.
But Strenge said the university hasn’t instituted any additional policies to combat fraud. “All WSU faculty receive training in professional ethics and research misconduct and the university subscribes to the belief that … traditional peer-review … provides the most reliable and effective means of addressing ethical violations such as data manipulation,” he wrote. Smith reported his suspicions to WSU administrators in 2013. According to university guidelines, misconduct investigations are supposed to be completed within nine months, but this one took nearly two years. The final report was issued in March 2015. Smith said one reason he decided to blow the whistle is that he’s concerned about the impact bad data could have on well-intentioned efforts to turn waste into energy. Many dairy farmers are investing in the technology in an effort to reduce their environmental footprint while also bringing in revenue. “These guys are stretched thin and working incredibly hard … to get these digesters functioning,” he said. “So when I see somebody fudging the numbers either deliberately or unintentionally because of conflict of interest, they are corrupting the whole thing.” (Seattle Times researcher Miyoko Wolf contributed to this report.) ©2016 The Seattle Times. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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Students spent the long weekend indoors relaxing with a number of activities in the Dedes.
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FLAGS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 all Sycamores on this campus, no matter where we come from,” he said. “We want everyone to feel welcome, and it will also help American students get a better grasp of what it means to have a global perspective and show them that Indiana State embraces the world.” The first taste of the Indiana State experience for international students begins at the Center for Global Engagement, but each department and office on campus plays a part in embracing them as Sycamores. “The teamwork here and with other offices on campus help make international students feel comfortable trying new things and the flags in the Rec Center say there’s an element of diverse perspectives at Indiana State,” McGrew said. “It’s a
symbolic representation, in a very prominent place on campus, to show people that we are a diverse place.” Mathew hopes to someday have all countries recognized by the United Nations represented on the display, as the Center for Global Engagement strives to embrace all cultures that have enriched the campus community. “This is something I have wanted to do since I came here in 2011 because all of the flags that will be displayed represent these countries coming together under one roof in the U.S.,” he said. “Every time international students look in, they’ll see their flag there as a symbolic gesture that shows them they are valued here and be able to say, ‘Yes, that’s my country. I’m from there, and my presence has been acknowledged.’”
ROOF CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 At the time of the suspension it was also being investigated for allegedly having served alcohol to minors. There was no answer at the door of the apartment-like fraternity house Tuesday morning. Portions of the roof rise in height to about 40 feet, including above where a length of crime scene tape, tied to a pipe, flapped in the morning breeze. A small hutch on the roof has an exit sign glowing in soft green above its door. There appear to be no safety railings on the roof. Engler, a graduate of San Leandro High School who was enrolled at Laney College, had been a bioengineering student at Berkeley’s College of Engineering in the fall of 2011 and from June to December 2012, Sanders said. He was a proud member of the Cal marching band. His sister described him as “a musician, a computer genius, too brilliant for his own good, stubborn, fun-loving, hilari-
ous, wild-haired, wild-spirited.” “Life is full of arbitrary decisions,” Jeff Engler wrote in a Facebook post earlier this year beneath a photo of him having shaved a bushy beard from the left side of his face while keeping the growth on the right. Two others have died in the same neighborhood in incidents where alcohol was involved since November of last year. A 20-year-old UC Davis student, Vaibhev Loomba, died of alcohol poisoning on Nov. 9, 2014. His body was found in front of Zeta Psi fraternity. Apoorve Agarwal, a student from San Ramon, died of head trauma on Dec. 20, 2014, after apparently falling down a brick staircase at a residence on Piedmont Avenue. An autopsy showed he had a blood alcohol content of .31 percent. (Staff writer David DeBolt contributed to this report.) ©2015 The Oakland Tribune (Oakland, Calif.). Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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Indiana State grad named Business Teacher of the Year Betsy Simon
ISU Communications and Marketing
Providing a business education to Indiana students has been at the heart of Jen Petersen Schultz’s work as a teacher at Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis for more than a decade. Schultz’s hard work on behalf of her students led to her recognition as the 2015 Outstanding Secondary Level Business Teacher of the Year by the Indiana Business Education Association. Nominated by the public, Schultz received the award at the association’s annual conference in Indianapolis in November. “It’s exciting and humbling to hear say such nice things about what you do to help students,” she said. “So often, people don’t hear anything unless it’s bad, so it was nice to see that my hard work
on behalf of the students I teach was noticed.” The award is one of many accolades Schultz has received for her contributions to the education of Hoosier students. In 2014, she was named Teacher of the Year at Ben Davis, where she has been a teacher in the business department since 2002. She was named an emerging professional by the North Central Indiana Business Education Association in 2002. Schultz was a recipient of the ISU GOLD (Graduate of the Last Decade) Award, the National Business Education Association Award of Merit and the North Central Business Education Association Distinguished Service Award as Emerging Professional of the Year. Since graduating from Indiana State in 1998 with a bachelor’s degree in business education, Schultz has remained an
The college clock: time management tips Dajia Kirkland Features Editor
College is the busiest time students will ever face in their academic career. With juggling classes, bills and loans, and maybe even a job on top of that, there never seems to be enough hours in the day to get the work that is thrown our way done. It keeps us up until 3 a.m. and wakes us up at 7 a.m for 9 a.m. classes, dragging us through the day. Though these busy times can be overwhelming and cause a surge of uncontrollable emotional instability, there are ways to tackle college’s heavy workload swiftly and efficiently. Post-It Notes can save lives. By jotting down the millions of random things you have to get done throughout the day, these tasks won’t slip your mind and cause your stress levels to go through the roof. Be sure to pick up bright, multicolored post-its, as they will capture your attention more than the dull off-yellow ones. As soon as anything pops up, write it down and post it on a wall or board. By placing these bright reminders high up, remembering the tasks given to you during the day will be easier, and you will find yourself better able to make time to get them all done and out of the way. Use Your Phone’s Alarm Clock Throughout the Day When your schedule is filled to the brim, there is no time for “winging it.” A ship doesn’t leave for sea without a captain, crew and destination. Use the alarm clock pre-installed on your smartphone to plan out the day by the hour. It sounds
overly detailed, but scheduling out a busy day this way gives you the maximum or minimum amount of time needed for each task. Mark the best hours to get work done throughout the day the night before. That way when you wake up you have a plan and you’re ready to go. JUST DO IT As Shia LeBeouf said, “Just do it.” Your work is not going to get itself done, and the more you ignore it, the more it will haunt you, so just do it. Hurry up and get what you need to complete done already. By enrolling in college, you should have expected nothing less than an industrial-sized workload, so this shouldn’t be a surprise. Though it seems like there is little time to get everything done, you have got to make the time to knock things out because at the end of the day, they aren’t going anywhere. Check It and Forget It When you set time and finish what you need to, you are able to check it and forget it. This should be one of your biggest influences to complete tasks. Yes, they can be overwhelming and time consuming, but if they are done right and in the allotted time, you will feel relieved and accomplished. In tackling this work, you will also feel more prepared when more things roll back around or come in a larger form. College is meant to prepare you for the real world and engaging in the busy work that it offers does just that, so take the completion of your work as another step toward life after college.
active alumna by serving as a presenter for the Business Education Clinic and working with Networks Financial Institute’s K-12 Financial Literacy Task Force in 2003. She served as president of the Indiana Business Education Association from 2002-04 and was an inaugural member of the Scott College of Business’ Young Professionals Board. “Every student will work for a business, whether it’s one they own or they work for someone’s business,” Schultz said. “A lot of our high school-level business courses offer skills, like personal finance, that students will need no matter what they choose to do after high school. Business education is especially important in helping make students ISU Communications and Marketing productive citizens, so I work hard to be Jen Petersen Schultz was named teacher enthusiastic, entertaining and energetic and provide them with fun, creative ac- of the year at Ben Davis High School in 2014. tivities that entice kids to learn.”
Music fans have even more listening options — if they can keep up Randall Roberts
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
For those of us whose passion or work leads us to follow the machinery and magic of recorded music, there are infinite avenues for education. Jumping from platform to platform is the norm. In bursts of listening we search for the perfect beat via online radio stations, playlist generators, mixtapes, podcasts and streaming services. Many of us leap from headphones to car to house using new-era systems including Tidal, Apple Music, Spotify, Soundcloud, Mixcloud, YouTube and Bandcamp. And those of us who harness streaming as a means to monitor the bounty of new music have even more avenues for education through famous and anonymous tastemakers we stumble upon. To paraphrase Sly Stone, everybody is a curator. Your barista might know more about 1990s hip-hop than the dude on Power 106, and she has the YouTube playlist to prove it. Some random girl on Spotify can accrue as many followers via social media as Red Alert or Dewey Phillips did in their prime. In this new landscape, however, even the dedicated music lover can be overwhelmed by a whirlwind of rapid change. How head-spinning has the business been? 2015 closed with news that amid billion-dollar streaming deals the lowly record player was the most purchased piece of electronic gear during the holiday season. As the vinyl resurgence continued, though, music streaming overtook downloads and physical product as the format of choice for the majority of listeners. Behind the scenes, the rapper Jay Z bought a service and relaunched it as Tidal, introducing it in the spring as an “artist-friendly” concern centered on high-fidelity sound, artist-created playlists and exclusive content. Apple Music’s summer arrival generated a media frenzy as well as subscriber numbers that recently surpassed 10 million. A few months later the indie-centric streaming service Rdio was acquired by Pandora, suggesting that Pandora will augment its successful radio model with on-demand action. All the while, Spotify continued to hold a majority of the market with its efficient “freemium” model, established user-base and active social media presence. As industry leader, though, Spotify was also the biggest target for artistsrights activists. In the last month two class-action suits have been filed against the media giant, both claiming unlicensed use of recordings. The year was capped when the Beatles estate finally negotiated terms that landed its catalog on the splash pages of every major streaming service. For
weeks, Beatles songs have been hovering near the top of the worldwide streaming charts. The upshot? All those services offered those same Beatles songs and 30 million others. The average listener, however, need commit to only one such service. But which service is the best? That depends on whether you’re an active or passive listener, how much money you want to spend and how you listen to music. Apple Music, Spotify and Tidal revel in the new world of curated playlists and on-demand listening. Each works well for those who like to keep up on new music by relying on tips from friends, a plugged-in sibling or trusted record-store clerk. Most will find much to love from Apple Music, whose in-house staff of editors and curators drop incisive playlists that mix deep cuts with new sounds across genres. As a springboard into the millions of tracks, the platform’s app offers direct connections to new releases and themed playlists as well as the DJ and artist programmed Beats 1 radio, a timeline-style “connect” portal that allows fans to follow their favorite artists and an algorithm-driven radio service similar to Pandora. A separate “My Music” page collects all the tunes you’ve liked and collected in a separate spot. Spotify’s app is a little more frustrating, mostly because it doesn’t offer one of the platform’s best features: a timeline of what your friends are listening to. Spotify’s desktop version has it, but it’s either buried or hidden on the app. More prominent are worldwide charts, new releases and playlist pages, each of which offers frequently updated tips and recommendations. Within 24 hours of David Bowie’s death, a comprehensive playlist had accrued more than 150,000 followers. My favorite feature is the Spotify Discover personalized playlist, which generates weekly tips based on past listening habits. Audio snobs have long dismissed streaming music as a poor substitute for higher-fidelity formats such as lossless audio files, LPs and compact discs. Neil Young removed most of his albums from many services because he wasn’t happy with how they sounded. But in the last year fidelity has improved across the board. Leading the charge have been two services, Tidal and Deezer. The latter is competitive in Europe and has just announced entry into the U.S. market. Both offer what they advertise as “lossless” audio, and in Tidal’s case, the difference is noticeable. I’m not an audiophile, but I love good sound and know my highs and lows. Tidal’s premium tier costs $19.99, and whether through headphones, Sonos system, car stereo or home system — I compared them all — the extra $10 does
make a difference. That monthly payment will grant you velvet rope access to a highly usable system with quality editorial content (most recently, a great selection of artist essays on David Bowie curated by review site the Talkhouse) and much star power. Of all the services, Tidal is best with exclusive content. It’s also devoted to unsigned acts via its “Tidal Rising” feature. But lacking much context, those offerings are spotty and confusing. Though Tidal markets the quality of its stream, for my money Spotify’s $9.99 premium subscription sounds almost as good, especially when using what the company calls its “extreme” sound setting. Though it uses up a lot of bandwidth, the difference is noticeable. Neither Tidal nor Spotify extreme have the muddy feel of compressed MP3 files. Rather, albums sound like excellent recordings worthy of your attention. By comparison, Apple Music is the laggard. With a playback volume that is noticeably lower than its competitors, music played through the service is inconsistent. Passive listeners less concerned with high-definition sound, the cutting edge or on-demand listening will continue to find Pandora unbeatable. Brilliant at intuiting your melodic desires, the service uses complex math to choose hot songs, but it’s hard to tell a machine’s doing the picking. While having a beer recently, I remarked on the bartender’s great taste in music — her playlist had dropped deep cuts by Young Marble Giants, the Raincoats, the Mekons and Television Personalities. She laughed it off. It was, she said, a Pandora post-punk station. Similarly, Slacker Radio thrives on a combination of curated and computer-crafted stations. Like Pandora, Slacker offers a free ad-supported tier. Unlike Pandora (yet), Slacker’s premium tier buys you both on-demand and radio-style options. I use Spotify more than the others. It’s more stable, sounds better than Apple, and enables me to pinpoint trusted tastemakers more easily. When I want people to know what I’m listening to or send album tips to followers, I’ll broadcast it via Spotify, where my friends and followers can see what’s what. If I’m making a themed playlist, I’ll do that via Spotify too. It affords easy sharing, and I can tell who’s digging it. The downside? I want my money to support musicians. And yet, Spotify is the most social of the platforms. It allows me to access the listening activity of friends and peers — Gladwellian “influencers.” My former barista, for example, has impeccable taste in experimental pop. She has no idea how much she’s influenced my listening habits. © 2016 Los Angeles Times. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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PBS sets firm focus on America Jessica Gelt
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Don’t cry for “Downton Abbey.” PBS isn’t. As the popular period drama about the lives of British aristocracy and their domestic servants winds down with its sixth and final season, the network is already setting its sights on what’s next: a new Ken Burns documentary about Jackie Robinson, the new drama series “Mercy Street,” an election in which PBS will partner with NPR, and the much-anticipated documentary about the Broadway musical phenomenon “Hamilton.” “Great stories, well told,” said PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger at the Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena on Monday. Documentarian Burns was on hand later in the day with Rachel Robinson, the 93-year-old wife of baseball great Jackie Robinson, to talk about a twopart film premiering in April. Burns’ documentary explores how the civil rights movement dovetailed with Robinson’s baseball career. In a
clip from the film, President Barack Obama sits beside First Lady Michelle Obama while discussing the importance of the sports star. “It’s a sign of his character that he chose a woman that was his equal,” Michelle Obama says in what proves to be a funny scene as the president stares at her, clearly reading into her statement a parallel to his life. “I don’t think we would have had Jackie Robinson without Rachel Robinson.” We also wouldn’t have Barack and Michelle Obama without Jackie Robinson, Burns said. Rachel Robinson referred to the couple’s work for equality in America as “the experiment” and shared poignant details about their early married life, when she and Jackie were forced to ride in the back of buses and were denied service at certain Southern restaurants and hotels. After one such episode, when they could find nowhere to eat, the couple came back to their little room and “fell across the bed laughing,” Rachel said. “You have to have a reaction that protects you. The tension wasn’t between
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the two of us, the tension was between us and that community.” When Burns first showed her a cut of the film, she said, she had to hide her tears. “This is clearly one of the great love stories of the ages,” Burns said. In her presentation, Kerger was quick to cite ratings for the network’s latest drama, “Mercy Street,” which premiered Sunday night after “Downton Abbey.” The Civil War series, executive produced by Ridley Scott, earned a 2.2 overnight rating, a number that Kerger said exceeded the network’s expectations and would rise. She remained mum on whether the project would be greenlit for a second season, saying only, “We have very much left the door open for a Season 2.” “Hamilton’s America,” which will be part of “Great Performances” in the fall, is a feature film documentary that follows “Hamilton” creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda and his team during the two years leading to the Broadway opening. The hit musical, based on Ron Cher-
now’s biography “Alexander Hamilton” and hailed by some critics as the most inventive Broadway show of the last decade, uses hip-hop to tell the story of the nation’s Founding Fathers. It has been nearly sold out since it debuted on Broadway last summer. Kerger said the documentary literally makes history sing, combining interviews with principal players and behind-the-scenes footage including Miranda composing songs for the show in Aaron Burr’s Manhattan bedroom. “You have these moments when you look at a piece of work and you can tell that it’s changing everything,” Kerger said. “I feel that about ‘Hamilton.’” In politics, PBS is partnering with National Public Radio to share digital, video and audio content leading to the presidential election. In science, PBS will release the sixpart series “Genius by Stephen Hawking,” commissioned by PBS with National Geographic and narrated by the famed theoretical physicist. ©2016 Los Angeles Times. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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‘Friends’: A sitcom for the soul
Kirstyn Quandt Columnist
There are many shows on the air that lack wholesomeness and creativity. Of course we watch them for their dramatic goodness and to remind ourselves that our life is, in fact, normal. And as a “Bachelor/Bachelorette” fanatic, I love to see just how far the token “crazy one” can make it. While many shows have gripping story lines and shock value, it is hard to come by one that is relatable and sticks with you long after it stops airing. The sitcom “Friends” defies the horrific commonality that shows such as “Party Down South” and “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” has set for viewers today. If you are unfamiliar with the show, it follows a group of six quirky adults in New York City through many obstacles and experiences. Sure, Monica’s competitive spirit gets to be a little much after a while and you learn to love Joey’s intentions although they are never communicated clearly; but more than anything, you find yourself connecting with the characters and cheering them on through every break-up, engagement (more for
Ross than anyone else) and every celebratory moment in between. So, what is it that we can learn from this group of individuals and their experiences? We can learn about balancing work life and outside commitments, the importance of growing up sooner rather than later, and more than anything, the pertinence of strong friendships throughout it all. We all need a Joey and Phoebe in our friend group. Both Joey and Phoebe perfectly exemplify the kind of friends who will always make you laugh. With the best of intentions and love for their friends, they quickly grew to be two of my favorite characters for their wit and sense of humor. Think of the friends you have that you can count on for a smile or a joke any time of the day. Cherish their quirkiness and keep them close. No matter where life takes you, true friends go with you. Throughout each episode, one character or maybe two, encounter obstacles and changes. There are many friendships we have throughout the course of our lives and while some are wonderful and true, others lack depth and consistency. It seems as if our high school friendships were dictated by the fact that we were in the same hallways together for four years and that when we all go our separate ways after
graduation, some may have stayed but many did not. Sometimes you’ll find those great friends in college, or many years after. But when you do, you’ll know it. Some day you will find the Monica to your Rachel or the Joey to your Chandler. Love your friends for who they are. Basic, yes, but true. If you look at every member of the group, each has their endearing traits. Ross is your classic “good guy” — always after love but continuously with the wrong girl. Chandler, although sassy in nature, eventually finds love and happiness with the right woman. Even Rachel, played by Jennifer Aniston, who is a connoisseur of almost everything high-fashion and expensive, is continuously underestimated by everyone other than her friends and in the end, matures probably more than any other character. Ultimately, good books and shows create characters that are relatable. This group of individuals not only illustrates real-life fear and success, but they do it all together with the strength of friendship. This will be the best Netflix binge session yet as you will be introduced to characters that remind you of the best parts of yourself and maybe even your insecurities — and I’d like to think that’s a much better type of reality television.
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Democratic debate boils down to Clinton v. Sanders
Zach Davis Columnist
Clinton and Sanders butted heads at the Democratic debate, trying to secure votes for the primaries coming up in Iowa and New Hampshire. This was the last debate before those elections arrive, and the Democrats are starting to feel the pressure. The tension was thick in the most recent Democratic debate held on Jan. 17. But that tension turned out to be a helpful thing, showing everyone what the central issue in the Democratic Party is, and it is causing the party to become divided. The party is being divided into two parts. The first strongly believes the Obama administration has done some wonderful things, so we shouldn’t have to push so hard toward change. The other part doesn’t agree as much. In fact, those in the second group feel that a lot of change needs to happen
soon so we can better our country. Hillary Clinton is leading the movement and seems to put her trust into the Obama administration’s policies. Bernie Sanders strongly disagrees. He sees a problem, one that is violent and harmful to equality. Clinton stood firmly by Obama’s side through issues such as health care and gun control. She defended the current Affordable Care Act, insisting that any changes to it were attacks on all health care. Clinton also attacked Sanders for switching his vote on a bill that decided if gun manufacturers could avoid prosecution. She wants to send soldiers to Syria to end their conflict. While Clinton is trying hard to gain the votes of Obama supporters, her attempts are falling short. First, the Affordable Care Act leaves a lot of room for improvement. It was only a stepping stone, as far as fixing our health care system is concerned. As Sanders pointed out at the debate, there are still a lot of Americans who still don’t have access to health care. That alone should tell everyone, including Clinton, that there is still a problem that needs to be fixed. As for gun control, Clin-
ton would rather take a less subtle route than some others. She wants to see much stricter regulations. Her remark about Sanders’ voting record was probably meant to make him seem more moderate than she is, which he is; Sanders wants gun control that is as fair to citizens as it is to manufacturers and distributers. And his view isn’t wrong. Guns should be harder to access but manufacturers shouldn’t get prosecuted for their customers’ misuse. Foreign policy only deepened the divide in the party as Clinton expressed her wish to send U.S. troops to Syria to end their conflict. Quite frankly, that is a bad idea. First, we have our own issues here. Second, why should we fight someone else’s war? War is costly, both in money and lives. If she wants to be a president for the people, as all presidents should be, she shouldn’t want to send our soldiers to a dangerous place. Sanders, luckily, opposes a war in Syria. Sanders stated that we should stay out of the Middle East. Instead he wants to work on our problems, something this country desperately needs to do.
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Free games lure players without warning
Mason Moton Columnist
Games have had a great history. From card games, board games, dice and early video games to the introduction of gaming consoles, mobile games and virtual reality that some players have reported saying that they feel like they are actually in the game. But do these games have any effect on those who play them? For example, one can look at anyone’s phone and find a game on it. App stores are filled with what is known in the sales world as “freemium” games — games that are free to open and play, but charge money for enhancing features. These games include titles like “Clash
of Clans,” “Subway Surfer,” “World of War,” “Fractured Space,” “Piano Tiles,” “Boom Beach” and many more. The aforementioned games are not like the games kids had before smartphones became available. These games are based on a sales model that manipulates mobile users — grabbing their attention and their dollars. The goal of any game is to win. But, these games are set up entirely different than the “Super Mario,” “Madden,” “NBA2K,” racing, “Assassin’s Creed,” “James Bond” and “Street Fighter” games kids grew up with years ago. They are founded on the concept of building, and doing so to no end. This has young people trying to obtain a ridiculous goal that takes a considerable amount of time to reach. If you have a credit card linked to your phone or gaming account, the freemium games allow you to bypass portions of the games that would otherwise take hours to complete. Charges can range anywhere from $1 to $100. And once you spend that, you can do it all over again. Most of these freemium games have no final stage. Instead, players can boost
their scores to see how high they can go before losing. This means that most of these freemium games have no end. These games lure players in early, so that when the occasion of instant gratification comes up, players will choose to spend rather than wait. Game designers have modeled the games after casinos in the way that they milk players for their money. The longer you spend playing the game, the more expensive upgrades cost. It’s possible to play the game without making purchases, but it is like trying to cook a turkey with a lighter when you can purchase a deep fryer for $4.99. Players who find themselves addicted to these games suffer from what is known to psychologists as mental diversion caused by entertainment. Players resort to games where they can exert control as a way to find solace in their lives that can overwhelm them with a lack of control. As for players who find themselves having fun playing and spending money, this can form an attitude that doesn’t value money — money that their parents most likely worked hard for.
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As a way to counter these issues that can occur through the game, it is my proposal that these games come with warnings, similar to the warnings found on cigarette packages. These warnings should inform potential players about the game’s addictive nature. Also, about the amount of time players will have to wait, as they make progress in the game, to move to the next level. This way, players and parents can be informed about what they are getting themselves into before they start playing, but moreover, start paying. If I was the CEO of one of these game companies, I’d be more interested in making a profit than the well-being of my customers, but this is socially irresponsible. The attitude that places profit over ethics is one that tears away at the confidence of the conscious minds that understand the sales strategies of these freemium games. Laws should be made to make companies more socially responsible. Until then, consumers will be learning from their own mistakes or not learning at all.
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DEBATE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 Interestingly enough, both Clinton and Sanders seem to agree that there is a racial inequality problem. Just a couple blocks away from the debate center was an AfricanAmerican church where a white supremacist opened fire. The city of Flint, which is having a water crisis, has a large minority population. A man was shot in the back and killed when he ran from the police instead of being chased like
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Greg Lansing joins forces with American Cancer Society at Indiana State House Ace Hunt
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INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana State Basketball head coach Greg Lansing joined forces with the American Cancer Society Tuesday at the Indiana State House to bring awareness for cancer research with members of the state legislature. It is the fourth year in a row that Lansing has made the trek over to meet with Indiana leaders. Similar to next week’s Coaches vs. Cancer campaign, all members of the Indiana State Legislature wore tennis shoes with their suits on Tuesday to raise awareness for the American Cancer Society and to promote physical wellness as an important tool in battling the disease. During the morning visit, coach Lansing spent time with Indiana Speaker of the House Brian Bosma and other state leaders. On Tuesday, coach Lansing joined more than 200 cancer patients, survivors and caregivers from across the state at the Indiana Statehouse and called on the General Assembly to prioritize the 35,620 Hoosiers who will be diagnosed with cancer in 2016. The visit was part of the annual American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network’s (ACS CAN) Day at the Capitol, which brought cancer advocates together to urge lawmakers to ensure access to cancer screenings and support tobacco prevention and cessation strategies. “Tobacco prevention and cancer screening access should be at the top of our lawmakers’ priorities,” said Aurmaudra Bradley, a lead ACS CAN volunteer from Westfield. “More than 135,000 women in Indiana will lack access to breast and cervical cancer screenings this year, and every year, more than 11,000 Hoosiers lose their lives to tobacco-related illnesses. As someone who lost her mother to cancer, I am calling on the General Assembly to help reduce unnecessary deaths from this terrible disease.” Specifically, ACS CAN volunteers asked lawmakers to: Ensure adequate funding for the Indiana Breast and Cervical Cancer Program (IBCCP). IBCCP offers free cancer screenings to low-income and uninsured women throughout the state.
However, many Hoosier women are being turned away from these life-saving services due to a lack of funding for the program. Indiana currently spends approximately $71,000 per year on this program, but that’s only four percent of the Centers for Disease Control’s recommended funding level. Expand access to colorectal cancer screenings. Screening is the most effective way of detecting colorectal cancer early and preventing it altogether. Thousands of colorectal cancer deaths could be avoided each year if people were screened according to recommendations. Unfortunately, many Hoosiers will continue to lack access to colorectal screening and treatment services in 2015. ACS CAN advocates called for increased state funding for screening education and outreach programs. Increase the price of cigarettes and other tobacco products. Indiana’s $0.995-per-pack cigarette tax has not been increased in eight years and ranks far below the national average of $1.54 per pack. This makes it cheaper and easier to smoke in Indiana, which has one of the highest smoking rates in the country. Increasing the price of tobacco by just one dollar would keep more than 55,000 young Hoosiers from picking up a cigarette and help 40,000 current smokers quit the habit. Improve funding for Indiana’s Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Program. Indiana’s Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Program has successfully reduced youth smoking and helped smokers quit across the state, but the program remains underfunded. Indiana currently spends $5.8 million annually on tobacco prevention efforts, but that’s less than eight percent of the Centers for Disease Control’s recommended funding level. ACS CAN is the nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate organization of the American Cancer Society, dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem. ACS CAN works to encourage lawmakers, candidates and government officials to support laws and policies that will make cancer a top national priority. ACS CAN gives ordinary people extraordinary power to fight cancer. For more information, visit www.acscan.org.
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Sycamore road trip continues against Salukis Adler Ingalsbe
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On the heels of their four-game winning streak coming to an end, the Indiana State University men’s basketball team will look to get back to their winning ways when they travel to Southern Illinois Wednesday night for another Missouri Valley Conference matchup. The Salukis enter the Wednesday night game with a 16-3 overall record and are 5-1 in conference play, which has them sitting with the second-best record among MVC teams. SIU has won eight out of their last nine games, with the lone loss coming at the hands of Wichita State, who has yet to lose an MVC game. The team is led by senior Anthony Beane, whose 20.3 points per game is second most in the conference, as well as Sean O’Brien who is putting in 12.4 points per game. While Beane and O’Brien are the lone Salukis that average doubledigits in the point category, the team has received major contributions from other players on both sides of the ball. Junior guard Tyler Smithpeters leads the conference in three-point field goal percentage, junior center Bola Olaniyan ranks second with his 8.8 rebounds per game, but leads the MVC with 3.1 offensive rebounds per night, while several others have had flashes of scoring the ball. Meanwhile, the Sycamores are coming off an 82-62 loss at Wichita State and have an overall record of 10-8 and are 4-2 against MVC foes. The 4-2 conference record has ISU in third place with a chance to leapfrog the Salukis and regain their grasp on second place with a win. Sophomore guard Brenton Scott kept his shooting hand hot by scoring 24
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points on the road against the Shockers. He held his own against one of the better point guards in the country in Fred Van Vleet. With the 24 points, Scott saw his points per game average increase to 15.4, which is fifth best in the MVC. Senior Devonte Brown put in 14 points of his own against Wichita State and is now the seventh leading scorer in the conference with is 15.2 points per game. Indiana State and Southern Illinois match up quite similarly on paper. Each team’s four highest scorers combined points per game are almost identical. The combination of Beane, O’Brien, Mike Rodriguez and Leo Vincent are averaging 51.2 for SIU, while Indiana State’s big four of Scott, Brown, Khristian Smith and Matt Van Scyoc are putting up a combined 50.5 points per game. Assuming these eight players put up numbers
somewhat close to their per-game averages, the game may come down to the other rotational players on each side. For the Sycamores, guys such as Brandon Murphy, Everett Clemons, Niels Bunschoten and Emondre Rickman have done a great job of this. They will be matched up against a rotational group of Salukis that includes Smithpeters, Olaniyan, Armon Fletcher and Austin Weiher. Both teams are relatively deep off the bench and both coaches are not afraid to use that depth, especially if one of their players is playing at a high level. Although Indiana State is 2-5 in road matchups this season, they are taking on a Southern Illinois team that has two of their three total losses coming on their home court. The game is set for Wednesday with the tip set for 8 p.m. The game can be seen on ESPN3, as well as locally on WTWO and can be heard on 95.9 FM.
Weekend road trip leads to more than just basketball For one sports writer, it’s a dream come true
Rob Lafary Sports Editor
Indiana State women’s basketball dropped a pair of road games at Drake and Northern Iowa this past weekend … but this article isn’t about basketball, at least not on this particular day. This article is about something much more awesome, at least in my own eyes. I am the play-by-play radio voice for Sycamore women’s basketball, a job that gives me the opportunity to do both home and road games for the team during the season, meaning I was with the Sycamores during their road trip to the state of Iowa just a couple days ago. And while most road trips are rather routine, this one ended up being highlighted by one of the coolest moments of my life. In my 12 years as a sportscaster and sports journalist, I’ve met some famous people along the way. I’ve interviewed Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr.; I’ve eaten lunch with Joey Votto; I’ve received personally autographed items from Dick Vitale and I’ve run into more high-profile college basketball coaches, broadcasters and former players than I can count. But none of those occurrences compares to sitting in the lobby of the Marriott Hotel in Des Moines, Iowa, this past Thursday night and running into one of my childhood idols. It was the Nature Boy, the 16-time pro wrestling heavyweight champion, the “stylin’,
profilin’, limousine-riding, jet-flying, kiss-stealing, wheelin’ n’ dealin’ son of a gun” Ric Flair. Yes, a pro wrestler was one of my childhood idols and yes, I still watch pro wrestling — and before you even begin to start in on me, yes I know it’s fake. And yes, it was that pro wrestler, now retired but still relevant, that was standing just a few feet away from me on his cell phone just moments before I was scheduled to leave with the women’s team for a light practice over at Drake University. I cannot begin to tell you just how hard it was to contain the inner nineyear-old inside of me who once sat in the basement of his house watching Flair square off with the likes of Hulk Hogan, Sting and Randy Savage on a weekly basis all while spending the commercial breaks chopping the chest of whatever stuffed animal or doll my younger sister had laying around and loudly screaming his trademark “WOOO” in the process. Yet, enough of that 9-year-old came out long enough for me to excitedly stand up and walk over to him. And with no hesitation, the WWE Hall of Fame member spotted me to his right, stuck out his hand to shake mine and said “Hey kid, how ya doin?” Sounds awesome enough as is, right? I shook Ric Flair’s hand, he spoke, I get to now resume my regular life and go brag all over social media about shaking hands and exchanging pleasantries
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with a pro wrestling legend. Turns out I would get to brag about even more the next night. So here I am again in the lobby, this time on a Friday night, walking with the Sycamores out of the Marriott to catch a bus that would take us to the Friday night game against Drake. Who is sitting at the lobby bar sipping on a drink? You guessed it — “Slick Ric” is still in the house. I couldn’t dart to where he was. I was constricted for time, I was in bas-
ketball mode, I had a broadcast to do and of course the bus filled with ISU student-athletes and coaches wasn’t about to wait around just for me to talk to an idol that most of them didn’t even know a thing about. But knowing that Flair was a prolific partier and someone who was awfully fond of the drink, I told myself that there was a good chance he would still be around when I returned, and if that was the case, I
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