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Internships provide experience, set students apart

Jessica Squires Editor In Chief

With the number of college students receiving diplomas on the rise, graduates are finding more ways to set themselves apart in today’s job market.

Junior mechanical engineering technology major Jeff Brier plans to set himself apart by attaining experience through internships.

“Internships put you a step above,” Brier said. “It’s a reassurance of what you can do.”

ISU Career Center director Tracy Powers said that a student’s work towards a career begins immediately. The career center begins working with students to forward their career even as students are admitted to the university, she said.

Powers said that employers in today’s job market expect students to have multiple internships. In light of the desire for employees with diverse experience, she said those looking for interns aren’t necessarily looking for upperclassmen either.

“They’re looking for talent,” she said. “If it comes from a freshman eager to prove themselves and improve the organization, students aren’t going to find those stipulations.”

College of Technology and Student Services Director of Outreach & Student Career Support Bev Bitzegaio said that students find internships through many different resources such as the career center or through contacts

made through networking in organizations.

She said students who take an active role in attaining internships are more successful than others.

“Students with a proactive approach find what their looking for,” Bitzegaio said. “We can help students get the tools they need but they need to do the footwork.”

Chair & Professor of Marketing and Operations, Paul Schikora said that internships are important to a student’s education including the students he sees go through the College of Business. Internships are often very valuable to the students as well as employers and often lead to full-time positions after graduation, he said.

“The best learning comes from applying what they have learned in the classroom to a real life situation in the business world,” Schiroka said. “An internship allows a student to engage in that applied learning when expectations of the employer are lower, and the employer understands they are engaged in part of a teaching process.”

Schiroka also said internships can also benefit the college as a whole. He said hat students who complete internships bring their new experiences and knowledge to share with the classroom.

“I have also noticed that these students exhibit more confidence in themselves after the internship, and develop a desire to actively learn in the classroom,” Shiroka said. “This positive result can be infectious with the other

students in class.”

The Career Center unveiled a new website as well as new services Feb. 1 to help students navigate through finding and preparing for internships.

Students can use Sycamore Career Link to look through postings by employers not only through the Career Center but also from popular websites including internships.com, careerrookie.com, careerbuilder.com and juju. com.

Students can also use the InterviewStream and Career Spots Video links on the Career Center website to prepare for interviews.

Students can practice interviews and send recordings to others for pointers through InterviewStream as well as view videos with helpful planning information on Career Spots Video.

Students can also schedule appointments with the Career Center online or visit the office during walk-in hours for a fifteen-minute meeting with available counselors.

“There is a lot of value in internships beyond something on your resume or the money a student may get,” Powers said. “It’s a chance for students to gain valuable skills as well as network for references and future jobs.”

Brier said that the constant effort to find and land an internship is worth students’ while.

“It really helps you as a person grow up,” he said.

During the Career Center’s On-Call hours, students can walk in without an appointment and speak with a counselor for a 15-minute session.

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Annual ethics, social responsibility conference scheduled

The seventh annual ethics, social responsibility conference is set for March 26 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and is part of the Networks Financial Institute in the Scott College of Business.

The speakers for the event include the owner of RJE Business Interiors in Indianapolis Denny Ponsel, members of the Dean’s Execuive Council for ISU’s Scott College of Business and ISU foundation president Gene Crume. They will give presentations on the “Ethics: It’s a Fine Line,” themed event.

Sponsel is scheduled to start the event by presenting “Five Keys to Success,” while Crume will be presenting ethical leadership during lunch and Baesler will present “Servant Leadership” to close the event.

Accompanying the main presentations, breakout sessions will introduce topics like achieving professional advancement ethically, music piracy and educational equity. Other presenters include State representative Bob Heaton and ISU football coach Trent Miles, among other guests.

Business students involved in the Networks Professional Development Program organized the conference. The event’s goal is to create activities designed to cultivate professional and leadership skills for ISU students.

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Police Blotter March 14 At 11:39 a.m., a found item was returned to the owner off campus.

At 12:10 p.m., an injured person was reported at Burford Hall.

At 2:54 p.m., a suspect was arrested for a warrant at the Public Safety Department.

At 4:02 p.m., theft was reported at the Student Recreation Center.

At 5:29 p.m., a found bank card was reported at Lot 11.

At 8:10 p.m., harrassment was reported on campus.

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Bill Wilhelm, coordinator and associate professor of business education, information and technology, helps lead a presentation at the sixth annual Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Conference at Indiana State University in 2011. Wilhelm will lead one of the breakout sessions during the seventh annual conference on March 26 (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing).

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At 12:43 a.m., a hit and run accident with property damage was reported at Lot A. At 12:58 a.m., a found bank card was reported at the Hulman Memorial Student Union.

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ISU partners with OSHA training center

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Indiana State University has partnered with an Occupational Safety and Health Administration training center to provide regional safety training in general industry and construction.

Indiana State is collaborating with the National Safety Education Center in Illinois to provide 10hour and 30-hour courses for certification. ISU is expected to offer one of the four OSHA training courses each month on a rotating basis, said Ernest Sheldon, associate professor in the department of built environment in ISU’s College of Technology. Indiana State will fill the void created when another training center in Indiana ended its services in December, Sheldon explained.

“A lot of employers look very favorably on a safety certification,” he added. “This partnership would allow us to provide those training courses.”

ISU faculty members are expected to teach most of the courses. They hope to attract people from as far as Champaign, Ill., and Vincennes to attend the training sessions.

Indiana State will host its first training class for general industry standards on March 5-8. People can still register until the first day of the training, which costs $800. The classes will last from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day.

ISU “is a regional site to cut down on travel time and costs for people who want to get these classes,” Sheldon said.

Faculty members view the opportunity to provide the training site as a form of community service.

“We hope that people in construction, manufacturing and other areas of industry will be interested in the courses we are offering through this new collaboration,” said Bradford Sims, dean of the College of Technology. “Industry leaders and representatives know the importance of what the OSHA safety certification means. I am happy to see that we are able to provide residents of the Wabash Valley and elsewhere in Indiana and Illinois with the opportunity to take these classes closer to home.”

“We hope that people in construction, manufacturing and other areas of industry will be interested in the courses we are offering.”

Bradford Sims, Dean of the College of Technology

The Myers Technology Center houses many offices and programs for the College of Technology at Indiana State University (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing).

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SGA candidates discuss present and future issues during debate Jacob Asbury Reporter

SGA elections are right around the corner and ISU is seeing the most competitive run for office that it has in the past few years.

Despite an increased interest for the offices of President and Vice-President; student turnout was low.

Political science major and event coordinator Charlie Ricker said that SGA mainly relies on members bringing friends to events.

“Low student turnout diminishes awareness of what SGA does,” Ricker said.

Associate vice-president for student affairs, Nolan Davis said that the rise in candidates is likely due to an increase in visibility, student awareness, rules to streamline the elections and rules that elections be advertised.

Many attendees wore t-shirts in support of presidential candidate Jeremy Butcher and vice-president candidate Cory Porter, both currently serving on SGA’s executive cabinet.

A major area of discussion of SGA communication was dealing with ISU’s retention rate amongst freshmen students.

Candidates attempted to address this problem by focusing on the involvement of students in student organizations on campus. Most candidates believe this will give students, especially incoming freshmen, something to keep them motivated to make grades.

While ISU has such services as the TreeHouse which can help keep students involved in organizations up to date with what’s going on, presidential candidate Andre’ Broussea said “it’s hard to work” making it difficult for students not in organizations to become involved. Broussea’s running mate Brooke Wardle echoed this concern and hopes to implement a student organization tab which would create a centralized database to help students find organizations that fit their interest.

Broussea and Wardle leaned toward an electronic and social media approach to increasing student communication. They

discussed possibilities such as a Facebook page specifically for commuters or a campus central icon display at the fountain on which organizations and departments can post upcoming events.

Wardle discussed SGA’s role in retention by advocating for increased promotion of services offered in Gillum Hall, which offers free tutoring and note taking to all students. Retention isn’t the only area where students need more information according to Wardle, who also promoted the idea of more information on healthy food and nutrition information to students.

The two also said they could increase school spirit, by making the student section an organization in itself to better organize student supporters at athletic events.

Broussea and Wardle also claimed that between our on-campus and commuter population, ISU was now a big enough school to require a more effective transportation system, wanting to implement a shuttle system, which would benefit both commuters and campus students alike.

In order to address communicating organization’s information to the student body Presidential candidate Jules Hampton and running mate Tammy Lewis advocated for increasing the number of freshmen council members and emerging leaders.

It wasn’t just increasing campus political involvement that they wanted to improve, Lewis also wanted to see the method of advertising on campus improved by doing more than just fliers or emails saying.

“There is a lack of advertising and more effort needs to made on the SGA’s part, going bigger and better,” Lewis said.

The pair was also asked how they felt about Sodexo serving alcohol at campus events, in which the two replied that ISU is already only a semi dry campus and that Sodexo is responsible enough to know which events alcohol would be appropriate for and which would not.

Candidates Butcher and Porter furthered the idea that the SGA needs to be more active in promoting student organizations by putting more of an emphasis on SGA cosponsoring organizational events.

Brooke Wardel and Andre’ Broussea answer questions that were delivered by panel members (Photo by Jamie Nichols).

Butcher and Porter also wanted to see that President Bradley shouldn’t have retention increased by promoting school supported the lowering of ISU’s minimum spirit not only through organizations GPA for freshmen from 1.0 to 0.85.

“There is a problem with keeping student but school athletics and mainstreaming retention at every cost, lowering the information from the faculty to students.

On dealing with the issue of lower minimum GPA of students also lowers the standards for student GPA’s, the candidates value of their diplomas,” she said. “Instead warned that there are other variables which we should focus on good students.”

Simeoli also addressed the problem of go into poor student performance and that more awareness needs to be made segragation on campus, not just between involving where students can go to receive ethnicities but between organizations such help. Butcher said ISU could implement the as Greek life as well.

“We need to focus on synergy and use of more incentives for students who to improve the problem of segregation so that perform better.

Although communication was a part of ISU may function as a family and improve Presidential candidate Serena Simeoli and campus life,” Simeoli said.

The SGA elections will be from 6 a.m. running mate Jamal Hampton wanted to see the number of hours for majors reduced. March 27 until 6 p.m. March 28.

This was in part due to Simeoli’s position

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Rush Limbaugh may have a problem with birth control, but community institutions don’t.

In an effort to boost graduation rates, community colleges are supporting course material on pregnancy planning and prevention.

The “Make it Personal: College Completion” campaign tackles contraception myths through its website, posting videos about topics such as pot use and it’s correlation to fertility.

Backed by the American Association of Community Colleges, the campaign hopes to help students “make smart decisions about sex and relationships.” Organizers of the project also see birth control as an efficient and inexpensive measure to keep students on track to graduate.

Although ISU isn’t a community school, it could look at this campaign and take notes. Our retention rate is dropping, and the results of a sex survey conducted by ISU graduate assistants last month showed that students were widely uneducated about condom use. Maybe that isn’t a coincidence.

There are resources available to ISU students—contraceptives are provided through the health clinic and safe sex events are occasionally

held on campus. However, sexual education has yet to be a required part of our curriculum.

University officials assume that students should have access to such information, but, ultimately, enforced sex education ends after high school. By incorporating material on pregnancy prevention and planning, community colleges are acknowledging that retention rates aren’t strictly affected by course load or difficulty. Life happens; even the brightest students are hit with unexpected twists on the road to graduation.

In high school, an unplanned pregnancy often means sacrifice for both involved. The parents may put off going to college, join the workforce early and financially struggle. Although many college students are viewed as more mature and better prepared, an unplanned pregnancy is still a huge time commitment, expense and distraction.

Education doesn’t merely pertain to the classroom.

Students are faced with circumstances in the real world that challenge and test their abilities to survive and think critically. Community colleges are giving their students the tools to succeed everywhere.

“Although ISU isn’t a community school, it could look at [ the Make it Personal: College Completion] campaign and take notes.”

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Student wrongfully punished in Rutgers case

Invisible Children movement more than just ‘bandwagon activism’

In September 2010, Tyler Clementi, a closeted homosexual student at Rutgers University, New Jersey, committed suicide after being “outed” by his roommate. Dharun Ravi, Tyler’s roommate, used his personal webcam to supposedly spy on Tyler’s personal encounter Tiffany with another man. After Freeman viewing the couple kissing, Ravi tweeted, “I Public just saw my roommate Domain kissing a guy.”

Nearly three days later, Clementi jumped off the George Washington Bridge. Ravi was charged, not with the death of Tyler Clementi, but with fifteen other charges, including invading Clementi’s privacy, bias intimidation, and attempted cover up. Bias intimidation carries prison time if found guilty.

Because Ravi deleted the tweets he had posted about his roommate’s encounter, he was charged with a cover-up. Because Ravi had commented to other friends and students that he thought his roommate might be gay, and then used a webcam to view the dorm room while Clementi was occupying the room with another man, he was charged with bias intimidation, because it was assumed he was intentionally trying to bully a gay guy.

And since when is invading someone’s privacy (with the exception of breaking and entering) a crime? In that case, we could charge anyone who accidently pushes the stall door open on you in the bathroom.

According to Ravi, Clementi asked him to leave the dorm room for three hours because he “needed the room,” so Ravi went to a friend’s room, but not before setting up his webcam on his personal computer out of fear that whoever his roommate was having over might try stealing his iPad, etc.

While in a friend’s room, Ravi used that friend’s computer to log on to a personal chat, which activated his webcam, and witnessed Clementi kissing another guy.

Then, Ravi tweeted about what he had seen. Within 30 hours, Clementi knew of the webcam visual and the tweets and had requested a single room because my “roommate used a webcam to spy on me.”

A day later Tyler Clementi had leapt to his death.

A video produced by the organization Invisible Children has been online for only a matter of days, and already on YouTube has been seen by millions of people. Titled “Kony 2012,” the group producing the video is hoping to bring attention to the Ugandan warlord, Amber Joseph Kony, and keep Jones support for his capture bringing him to Well Read and justice.

The thirty-minute video explains the civil crimes of Kony, which include stealing children as young as five and forcing them to fight in his child army, making them brutally mutilate the faces of other children and even kill their own parents. He has been running rampant through middle-Africa for over twenty years, abducting over 30,000 children, with little international interference. The efforts of the Invisible Children association has gotten the notice of American policy makers, and a small group of soldiers and tacticians have been sent to support African troops, but the concern is that if the American interest wanes, the troops will be pulled out without a second thought. This video is intended to make people both aware of the crimes in Africa and to keep public interest up so that the troops will be kept overseas in the hopes of catching Joseph Kony by the end of this year.

This new phenomenon is wonderful, because it is giving the kids of today something to be passionate about while bringing the full potential of the Internet and social media to fruition. College-age students love being given a direction and something to protest (a la the sixties or the “Occupy [fill-in-the-blank]” movements).

This video, alerting people to a specific cause and enemy, uses the spreads-likewildfire concept of social media to get out their message and gives them a direct course of action.

A lot of people have started to react against the huge outpouring of posts on Facebook and Twitter about the attention on Kony, being irritated with the video being everywhere, or merely seeing it as “bandwagon activism;” many are irritated that it’s been going on for twenty-some years and now everyone’s just “getting all

Text messages were later recovered from Dharun to Tyler, around the time of the suicide, which showed that Ravi felt deep remorse and guilt for having outed Tyler so publicly and contributing to a gossip pandemonium at Rutgers about Tyler’s dorm room activities.

Now Ravi is facing criminal charges and possible prison time for his thoughtless actions.

That’s just the thing. Ravi’s actions were mostly thoughtless. He most likely didn’t think that he would face a jury for tweeting about what he witnessed on his webcam, and he probably didn’t think that Tyler would feel the need to kill himself to get away from the gossip and aftermath. Ravi perchance simply saw the unfortunate event displayed on his webcam and reacted like most college students today, and posted it to Twitter/Facebook, not knowing the horrible events that would follow.

I’m not condoning the rotten action of tweeting and spreading gossip about a roommate/friend’s interaction with someone of the same sex, especially if they are still in the closet about their sexuality, but I don’t necessarily think that Ravi should be facing criminal charges for his actions. Dharun Ravi has already admitted to feeling guilty for his actions (publicly posting comments about Clementi’s homosexual exploits), and will indubitably spend the rest of his life thinking about how his actions most likely contributed to Clementi’s death.

I don’t think that adding “bias intimidation” and invasion of privacy charges to the pot is necessary or right.

Okay, if you do the crime, do the time… but, Ravi wasn’t intending to mentally or emotionally harm Clementi, and it certainly wasn’t a hate crime (it’s not like he posted the video to YouTube, or bashed the kid’s head in for being gay).

Yes, he used his webcam to view Clementi and his “friend,” but that wasn’t his target. Ravi was checking in on his possessions, just like anyone who has home security cameras that they can check from their phones.

If a person witnessed their teenage child having sex with someone while viewing their home security footage, would that be considered “child pornography?” Ravi made a mistake. Isn’t the agonizing guilt he surely feels enough of a punishment for a crime he didn’t actually commit?

worked up,” seeing it as unfair or some other silly reason to not get involved.

It is bandwagon activism, but that really isn’t a bad thing. The video is getting a lot of attention, as it’s supposed to do, and for every 50 people that see the video, one person may just do something, like buy the “action kit,” filled with posters and stickers to post around your local city to make more people aware, along with bracelets and a t-shirt, or will donate to their world peace organization, Tri. Even if just one out of fifty of these “bandwagoners” gets truly active, then there are several thousand more people trying to get the word out about Kony’s civil crimes against children and adults alike.

While Kony is not the only powerful, terrifying dictator or warlord in the world, and other situations of injustice have slipped through the cracks of the world’s attention, this is something that we can all become active about. This movement makes it possible for people our age to become a part of the resistance, from donating a couple of dollars to funding the efforts to simply putting up posters to raise awareness. Instead of protesting the bad guys in government, we have the opportunity to step off of our soap boxes and try to actually get something real accomplished and affect the lives of millions of people with just a little time and effort. The results would truly be astounding.

Both the video and links to buy individual merchandise and the action kit can be found at the group’s website, www.kony2012.com, and I strongly urge everyone to, at the very least, watch the video. Even if you just watch it, post it to your Facebook wall and feel good about yourself, you’re making more people aware, and the more people that know, the more that we can do. On that page, there are also links to twenty social stars and twelve policy makers’ Twitter pages, where it is encouraged we all reach out and try to get them to take a stand against Kony and to use their influence to keep up the fight. I will be around at the April 20th gathering of like minds, and I’d love to see as many people as we can get involved there as possible.

This isn’t just about “that one thing I saw on Facebook once.” It’s a huge movement put together by people just like you and me that we can use to fuel a revolution and change the world, one person at a time.

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Sycamix to compose CD, original songs by student musicians

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Student musicians recorded original songs throughout this week for Sycamix Volume 2, a CD that will be released by Spotlight Entertainment and Sycamore Sessions for sale in the near future.

Nearly 40 submissions were entered, and 16 students were accepted to be part of the album.

Senior criminology major Cassandra Mielcarek’s was surprised to hear that her jazzy guitar piece, “Storybook Lovers,” was selected for the mix.

“I was definitely surprised when I found out,” she said, “especially because there were so many applicants compared to last year’s production.”

The piece is an original that Mielcarek wrote about heartbreak and longing for somebody who was once there, she said.

Mielcarek’s submission to Sycamix is the first music piece she has ever entered into a competition.

Matt Pauley, audio engineer for the project, is using several rooms in the Fine Arts building as his setup for the recording equipment as artists come in to record. Friends of the artists are encouraged to attend the sessions to show support.

Freshman finance major Clarence Young also had a piece to be selected for this year’s second annual Sycamix production and it is his first time submitting his music anywhere other than his Facebook page, and he’s excited for any exposure the production might bring, he said.

“It’s the newest song that I’ve written and it’s called ‘Seeing Somebody Else’,” Young said. “I’m playing piano and singing in it.”

Last month, Young performed “Seeing Somebody Else” at the Mardi gras Valentine’s Day event.

Mielcarek accompanies her guitar playing with her own voice, adding that she has been singing ever since she could remember.

Mielcarek minors in music and says she would like to pursue a career in music given the opportunity, but for now she is just happy her music

Indiana State Universtiy students Will Pool and Solly Burton recorded an original guitar and mandolin songpiece in the Fine Arts Building Tuesday that will be included on the Sycamix CD for sale (Photo by Marcus Steiner). received positive feedback.

“Realistically, it’s hard to make a living off of, so I do have my back-up plans,” she said. “I didn’t intend to use the competition for exposure. It’ll just be nice for my friends to listen to my music well-produced.”

Young agrees with Mielcarek.

“I’d want to pursue a career in music, but I’d have to put a lot more into it,” Young said, “For now it’s something just for fun.”

While Young is not bent on making a career out of music, he said it really makes him happy.

“I feel like I could play for the rest of my life. If I’m mad I can sit and just play. It makes life so much easier,” Young said.

Recordings will continue through next week. A contest was also held for the design of the album, which will be for sale sometime in the future.

Participating student musicians include: Will Pool Solly Burton Faren Haas Raven Grant Adam Kozlowski Ella dela Pena Josh Taylor Clifford Franklin Joe Paul Megan Maczmarski Andrew Miller Amanda Riffe Jonathan Wachala Cassandra Mielcarek Clarence Young Christian Chapman

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Pianist finds beat despite disabilities Cassie Hauser Reporter

Tuesday evening, pianist Brittany Maier performed without looking down at the keys she played– not just because she didn’t need to, but because she couldn’t.

Diagnosed as blind and autistic, Maier has been able to succeed as a pianist. Not only has Maier overcome challenges with her diagnosis, but she has also overcome the general challenges with playing piano.

Music business major Olivia Birkhold holds a certificate in piano pedagogy and understands the level of skill it takes to master such an instrument.

“The piano is often considered a particularly difficult instrument to master because playing it involves the use of the entire body at one time,” Birkhold said. “It requires a lot of coordination and demands the pianist train his or her muscles to work together in ways that they would not on a natural basis.”

“Playing the piano is also difficult since the musician must have a lot of self-discipline and motivation in order to put in many hours of individual practice,” Birkhold said. “Without a passion and deep love for the instrument, a true message cannot be conveyed to the audience.”

The concert was created so that during her concert, Maier plays alongside her mother, who talked about their musical journey and goal of establishing art and music centers for people with special needs, said media relations coordinator Paula Meyer. In addition, Maier’s mother set up a day session for visiting educators.

Music is often seen as an inspiring artform by many, and Brittany succeeded at upholding this idea.

“New pianists can be encouraged by these challenges since they lead to so much enjoyment and self-improvement. They can see it as a potential opportunity to improve their physical selves through coordination and healthy exercise,” Birkhold said.

“However, the most important form of motivation comes from the sheer joy that can come with making a sound so beautiful.”

Maier manages to play a variety of music styles with fluency.

“The piano is an instrument that can convey nearly any range of feeling or emotion and it is very rewarding to know that one may have given the audience a glimpse of the artists’ own heart and world,” Birkhold said.

Maier’s concert was also held in conjunction with Disability Awareness Month and the Bayh College of Education’s annual Counselor’s Day.

Pianist Brittany Maier, diagnosed as blind and autistic, performed Tuesday evening in University Hall (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing).

What English artist from the Romantic Age is known for his painting and his poetry, as well as his unconventional religious views?

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Upcoming Events Women’s Soccer Saturday at Memorial Stadium vs.

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Softball Saturday-Sunday at Eleanor Forsythe St. John Softball Complex vs. Drake University, 2 p.m. and 12 p.m.

Baseball Thursday-Saturday Irish Classic at San Antonio

Women’s Golf Thursday-Saturday Bucknell University Spring Invitational at Las Vegas Paiute Golf Resort, Las Vegas

The three Sycamores who competed at the 2012 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and FIeld Championships (From left Felisha Johnson, Nicole Hope and Brandon Pounds). her getting me as her new coach and with me the 35lb men’s weight throw Saturday. This is his first Thomas Beeler transitioning her to a 3-turn technique,” ISU throws NCAA competition of his college career. He finished Reporter 8th in his flight throwing a distance of 19.18 meters coach Erin Gilreath said.

Johnson also competed in the women shot put (62’ 9”). He finished 16th overall.

For three Sycamores March 9 marked the first day “There’s no doubt in my mind that Brandon was of competition in the 2012 NCAA Division I Indoor throwing a distance of 16.59 meters (54’ 4”). She placed seventh. At the conclusion of the shot put one of the most talented men in the field and he will Track and Field Championships.

Senior Nicole Hope, junior Felisha Johnson and event Johnson recorded her third All-American title be back at that meet next year and surprise a whole junior Brandon Pounds represented Indiana State as a Sycamore. Tia Brooks from Oklahoma won the lot of people,” Gilreath said.

Pounds earned a title of second team AllUniversity. Hope and Johnson were able to score event, throwing 19.00 meters.

“I was very proud of how well she competed in the American. Marcel Lomnicky from Virginia Tech seven points which tied the ISU women’s team for 34th place with Kansas State and Dartmouth. Oregon shot put,” Gilreath said. “She’s a hungry competitor won the event throwing 22.04 meters (72’ 3”) with and that really came out during the shot put where J.C. Lambert from Southern Illinois, also part of the took the national title scoring 49 points.

Johnson started the competition for the Sycamores she upset many girls who came into the meet ranked Missouri Valley Conference along with ISU, placing second. in the women’s 20lb weight throw. The defending ahead of her.”

“It was a good experience even though I didn’t In the women’s pole vault, Hope leaped 4.20 meters national champion threw a distance of 20.52 meters (67’ 3”) and finshed fourth. Southern Illinois’ Jeneva (13’ 8”) placing her 13th in the competition. Hope perform to the best of my abilities,” Pounds said. “I McCall won the event throwing 22.90 meters (75’ 1”). earned second team All-American honors. Georgia’s am now aware of how important the little things are in my technique.”

“Felisha did a great job in the women’s weight Morgann Leleux placed first jumping 4.40 meters.

Brandon Pounds represented the Sycamores in this year. I know that is has been a transition for

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Loss ends ISU 2012 season

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Sycamore Leadership Awards Now Accepting Applications STUDENT AWARDS

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Sophomore guard Jake Odum on offense for the Sycamores during the ISU vs. Robert Morris game (Photo by Kyle Seeley).

Derek Johnson Reporter

The Indiana State University men’s basketball team was in post-season action Tuesday evening as part of the CollegeInsider.com Tournament (CIT) where they were defeated by the Robert Morris Colonials, 67-60, inside the Hulman Center.

With the loss, the Sycamores concluded their season with a final record of 18-15. The Colonials, meanwhile, improved their record to 25-10 and will advance to the second round of the CIT. Sophomore forward RJ Mahurin led the Sycamores with 17 points to go along with six rebounds. Freshman center Justin Gant joined Mahurin in double figures, finishing with a careerhigh 11 points. Also noteworthy; sophomore guard Jake Odum finished one point and two rebounds shy of a double-double. The Colonials were led by sophomore guard Coron Williams and junior guard Velton Jones who finished with 11 and 10 points respectively.

The Sycamores struck first almost 40 seconds into the game as senior center Myles Walker threw down a one-handed slam and was fouled by Williams, but not able to complete the three-point play, giving Indiana State an early 2-0 lead.

Following a turnover and foul on senior guard Dwayne Lathan, junior forward Russell Johnson, knocked down a jumper for the Colonials to tie the score at 2-2. Mahurin converted a layup at the 17:55 mark to regain the lead for the Sycamores, who maintained the lead for the remainder of the

opening stanza. With 10:17 remaining, Indiana State gained their largest lead of the half as Mahurin buried a three-pointer from the wing to put the Sycamores up by 12, 21-9.

Robert Morris began to battle back by switching to a zone defense and knocking down a few open three-pointers, cutting the ISU lead to just five with 3:11 on the clock thanks to a jumper from sophomore forward, Mike McFadden. The Sycamores concluded the half shooting 56 percent from the field, while holding a nine-point, 36-27 lead.

The Sycamores were able to hold their lead for the better part of the second half, but thanks to a stretch of turnovers and defensive mistakes, Indiana State found themselves battling from behind for the last seven minutes of the game.

“We had several guys trying to make the spectacular play,” Lansing said. “But that’s not us.”

Sophomore guard Lucas Eitel, knocked down a three-pointer from the wing with 12:16 remaining in the game to give the Sycamores a 10-point, 4939 lead. Robert Morris then went on a 12-0 run and gained their first lead of the game with 7:14 on the clock thanks to a steal and layup at the other end from freshman guard Lucky Jones. Gant would tie the score for the Sycamores at the 6:47 mark but the Colonials regained the lead a minute later and did not surrender it again, concluding the season for the Sycamores.

“The tougher team won and the better team won,” Lansing said. “We didn’t handle success well and there is a lot to learn from this season.”

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Baseball victorious at home Briefs Derek Johnson Reporter

The Indiana State Sycamores baseball team defeated SIU Edwardsville, 10-2, Tuesday afternoon at Bob Warn Field.

With the win, the Sycamores successfully completed the sweep of their six-game home stand and improved their record to 12-4 overall and have won 12 of their last 13 games. The cougars, meanwhile, dropped to 8-8 on the season.

Freshman pitcher, Kyle Rupe recorded the win and improved to 3-0 on the season, allowing one run on seven hits to go along with two strikeouts in five innings pitched. Senior outfielder, Kyle Burnham, led the Sycamores at the plate with three hits and three RBIs. Junior outfielder,Robby Ort recorded two hits and three RBIs. The cougars got on board first, scoring a run on three straight hits with one out in the first. The Sycamores, however, answered quickly scoring four runs (three unearned) in the bottom half of the first, taking advantage of an error from SIUE junior pitcher Drew Staples and RBIs from seniors Burnham, Jon Hedges and Ryan Walterhouse to give ISU a 4-1 advantage after the first.

“Kyle Rupe came in and pitched a great ballgame for us; fought through some hits early, fought out of a jam in the first,” Head Coach, Rick Heller said of his freshman’s effort on the mound.

The Sycamores maintained the lead for the remainder of the game, allowing only one more run from the Cougars and taking a 10-1 advantage heading into the seventh.

“We bunted extremely well and found ways to get on base,” Heller said. “It was a beautiful day and I’m happy with how we played.”

The Sycamores are currently competing in the Irish Classic in San Antonio.

The Sycamores won the opening game against the University of Kansas, 2-1, Thursday afternoon.

The win is the first one the Sycamores had over a Big 12 opponent since the Jayhawks again in 1995.

ISU took the lead at the top of the third inning and extended its lead in the seventh innning with redshirt junior Koby Kraemer and Lucas hitting doubles.

The Sycamores will continue the Irish Classic as they take on Houston Baptist Friday. First pitch is scheduled for 5 p.m.

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Softball fall short in midweek double header against Southeast Missouri State

TERRE HAUTE, Ind.—Despite a late rally by the Indiana State softball team in game two of a doubleheader against Southeast Missouri State, the Sycamores dropped both games 4-0, 9-6. The Sycamore defense struggled throughout the afternoon as all 13 of the Redhawks runs were unearned.

Game One In the first game both pitchers dueled back and forth with each pitcher allowing just one hit until the top of the fifth inning when senior Lindsey Beisser allowed her second and third hits of the game.

Fielding errors cost the Sycamores as the Redhawks scored three unearned runs in the top of the fifth to take a 3-0 lead. The Redhawks then scored one more unearned run in the top of the sixth inning to extend their lead to 4-0.

The Sycamores tried to rally in the bottom of the seventh inning when Junior Mackenzie Connelly led off the inning with a double before senior Hailey Tinsman singled to put runners on the corners. Tinsman was then picked off at first base and the Sycamores could not find a way to get Connelly across as they fell 4-0 in game one.

Despite getting the loss, Beisser threw seven complete innings giving up just four hits with no walks and eight strikeouts.

Game Two The Sycamore offense came out and struck first in game two against SEMO as they got on the board first in the bottom of the second inning. Tinsman walked to lead off the inning and was advanced to second on a sacrafice by senior Alyssa Doyle. Freshman Ashley Dickerson then walked and both her and Tinsman advanced one base on a wild pitch.

Senior Alyssa Heller then crushed a ball over the left field wall for a home run to give the Sycamores a 3-0 lead.

SEMO came right back and answered as they put up four more runs in the top of the third inning and just as in game one, they were all unearned. The Redhawks then extended their lead to 8-3 in the top of the fifth inning as they added four more unearned runs.

The Sycamores mounted a rally in the bottom of the sixth inning as Heller walked and sophomore Alex Baumgart singled to put runners on first and second.

Sophmore Danielle Ketner, in just her fifth at bat all season due to injury, hit the Sycamores second home run of the day over the left field wall to cut the Redhawk lead to 8-6.

The Redhawks ended the Sycamores rally with a run in the top of the seventh and the Sycamores could not close the gap any farther as they fell 9-6.

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Student accomplishes on and off court

Joshua Ayala Reporter

Junior business management major Andrea Rademacher began playing basketball at the age of five or six.

Born in Scottsburg, Ind., her parents moved to Borden, Ind., where she spent her senior year of high school. “[When I was] growing up, my dad was a high school coach, so I was always in the gym when his team was practicing or in a game,” Rademacher said.

Rademacher continued her basketball career through high school and into college. She is currently Indiana State University’s star forward/ center.

“I am thankful that I was given the opportunity to play basketball for ISU,” Rademacher said.

Rademacher is also involved in other organizations on-campus. She was a part of ISU’s Business Professionals of America her freshman and sophomore year and is currently secretary of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee in the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance student club.

Rademacher is also part of the university’s honors program.

Managing homework, work and a sport can be a struggle for some students in college. Even though college, work and school can be really hard and stressful at times; she thanks God’s grace for figuring out how to manage everything from classes, practices, homework, traveling, weight lifting and other organizational activities, she said.

“There is a lot of prioritizing, and some nights, sleep is the last thing on my mind,” Rademacher said.

Rademacher also strives to be a positive role model for kids by volunteering with the ISU basketball team and the Student Athlete Advisory Committee at many Terre Haute community events.

“SAAC has raised money for Indiana Special Olympics, Ryve’s Hall Youth Center, Terre Haute Boys and Girls Club and families who were in need of money during the holiday season,” Rademacher said.

Rademacher is pleased with her decision to come to ISU. “It’s not too big or too small, the people are genuine and the community is extremely supportive,” Rademacher said.

In her spare time she enjoys reading, hanging out Junior business management major Andrea Rademacher is currently with friends and teammates and spending time with the star forward/center on the women’s basketball team and is also her family at their river house. part of the university’s honors program (Photo by Jamie Nichols).

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