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Volume 125, Issue 62

Disability Awareness Month March brings awareness to the silent civil rights movement Jack Gregory Columnist

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From top clockwise: The opening ceremony of the disablity awareness month took place on March 5. “Be cool. We are” is the theme for this year’s awareness month. Special speaker, Dr. Don Rogers attended the opening ceremony.

Motivation monday discuss sleep awareness AJ Goelz Columnist

Every Monday, the Student Health Promotion Office has its Motivation Mondays in front of the Einstein’s Bagels in the Hulman Memorial Student Union.

“Every Monday we’re in the Commons, promoting some sort of health issue. This week, we’re doing sleep awareness because March is sleep awareness month,” said Meghan McCauley, a co-op student for the Student Health Promotion Office. “We are handing out free pillows and we have researched different topics that revolve around sleep, like how to get healthy sleep habits, when you should fall asleep, not to drink caffeine after 3 p.m., which is very hard for college students.”

At the event students could go and receive a free pillow, and according to McCauley there is a game associated with the topic every week.

“As college students, we’re all busy and studying, cramming for anything and everything, but students need to realize that sleep is the best thing you need to get whether or not you do need to cram for that last test. You will not do as well on that exam if you did not get a good seven to eight hours,” said McCauley.

There have been a multitude of topics covered on Motivation Mondays. According to McCauley past topics have included organ donation and heart health awareness. She said that their plans for future topics are mental health and study tips during study week.

Student Health Promotion puts on programs that promote student health, according to McCauley. “The Office of Student Health Promotion is a division of the Student Counseling Center. We specialize in the prevention of issues that affect students and their ability to be academically successful and graduate,” according to the Indiana State website.

“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.”

“We are here every Monday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and we always give away awesome prizes, so always stop by when we’re at this table in front of Einstein’s every Monday,” said McCauley.

When we think of civil rights in the United States a few key things will likely pop into our heads: the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, the various waves of feminism, and maybe more recent events or protests such as the Black Lives Matter movement. However, it’s not likely that many people would think of our fellow Americans who have mental, intellectual, or physical disabilities.

March is Disability Awareness month, a campaign led by the Indiana Governor’s Council for People with Disabilities, that seeks to promote inclusion, integration, and, of course, awareness of people with disabilities.

The theme for this year is “Be Cool. We Are,” a slogan meant to elevate the idea that, even if someone seems different, we should treat them the way we would want to be treated. As it says on indianadisabilityawareness.org, “acting different around someone with a disability isn’t cool.”

On Monday night,

ISU hosted speaker Amy Sekhar, a former professor turned activist who gave a presentation titled “Disability Rights are Human Rights.”

The goal of the presentation was to educate people about the history of disability rights in society and to showcase the challenges many American with disabilities still face when it comes to inclusion and visibility.

Despite the significant progress in the medical field around the 16th century, and the invention of early prosthetics around the Renaissance period, people with disabilities were not treated as equal to everyone else. They were segregated in hospitals, out of sight of the public.

In the 18th century, people with mental or intellectual disabilities were kept in asylums or workhouses, transported around en masse in “idiot cages” designed to “protect” them from themselves and from onlookers, who would agitate them and laugh at them. The institutionalization of disabled people was on the rise.

By the 19th and 20th

century, institutions were in full force and a patient’s treatment would vary depending on their family’s wealth. If a family was wealthy, you could be taken care of in-home, though likely you would be locked away and rarely mentioned out of shame, but if your family was poor, you could be sent to an institution where you would barely be treated as human.

With the advent of psychology, different types of mental and intellectual disabilities were beginning to be categorized, and though this meant that society was willing to examine and understand these disabilities, that didn’t mean that the disabled were treated any better.

Sekhar drove this point home by showing a shocking image of a patient in a 19th century asylum being force-fed by two doctors and a nurse. Those without institutions may have had the misfortune of being part of a “Freak Show” or an “Ugly Face Club,” wherein two people with clear physical disabilities would be stood facing each

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SGA President and Vice President elect plan in the works Rileigh McCoy News Editor

SGA President and Vice President Elect’s Stephen Lamb and Maha Fahli will officially take office in May after their inauguration at the end of April.

Over the course of the summer and beginning in the fall semester, the pair will be working on implementing the platform as advertised during the election. Their focus will be on mental health, academic success, student engagement, and inclusiveness.

“We ran on a platform with four different pillars to it; mental health, academic success, student engagement, and inclusiveness,” said Stephen Lamb, SGA president elect. “Underneath all those categories we want to accomplish specific things.”

Lamb went on to explain some of the

details of how these aspects will be implemented.

“With mental health, we wanted to provide more access to metal health services on campus,” said Lamb. “We want to provide more monetary resources to the Student Counseling Center so they can hire more counselors and thereby provide more access.”

Lamb explained there has been an issue with students gaining access to these mental health resources in the past and that has become a concern they wanted to address.

“One of the problems with the counseling center right now and why it needs more money is that they’ve had five full time counselors for the past six years,” said Lamb. “Six years ago they saw about 3,000 appointments, not necessarily people, but 3,000 appointments a year. Six years later, present day, they see

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Maha Fahli and Stephen Lamb.

over 6,000 appointments a year with the same five counselors. Right now it takes anywhere between two to three weeks to

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WZIS wins three national awards, nominated for eight others Students and staff at Indiana State University’s radio station, WZIS-FM, 90.7, won three national awards from the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System at the IBS Conference March 2-3 in New York City.

WZIS won first place for Best Use of Twitter, Ryan Gortney won Best News Station Promotion, and Corey Clark and Garrett Short won Best Sports Pre/ Post Game Show.

“I think WZIS won the awards because of all of the practice that we put in,” said Short, a communication major from Beecher, Ill. “The students at the station do high levels of work consistently that allows us to get better weekby-week and it shows in the awards.”

Clark, the student station manager, Short, the sports director, and the faculty advisor Rich Green attended the conference.

“It was an amazing experience. I personally learned so much and I learned different techniques for different departments here that I can use to make our station even stronger,” Clark, a com-

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Corey Clark and Garrett Short sit in with Dan Taylor, midday host from WCBS-FM in New York, to learn about being on-air talent in a major market. Photo by Rich Green.

munication major from Danville, Ind., said.

Clark was nominated for Best Student Station Manager for Radio. Rich Green, general manager of WISU and WZIS, was nominated for Best Faculty Advisor for Radio.

WZIS was also a finalist for the Best

College Radio Station on a campus with more than 10,000 students.

“It is absolutely amazing that these students were able to win three national awards,” Green said. “There was a lot of competition but the hard work paid

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NIH fellow to provide Women in Science keynote on March 27 A National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow whose research aims the causes and consequences of sexual signaling in animals, specifically female animals, will deliver the keynote speaker for the 10th annual Women Science Speaker March 27 at Indiana State University.

As part of this year’s Darwin Keynote Speaker Series, Courtney Fitzpatrick’s presentation, entitled “The Evolution of Colorful Females: A Model for Social Evolution,” will begin at 7 p.m. in the events area of Cunningham Memorial Library. Her talk is free and open to the public.

“We’ve long known about the signals that male animals send, especially visual signals, to attract mates. The peacock’s tail is the most famous example. Everybody knows about the male peacock’s tail; it’s even the symbol for NBC television,” Fitzpatrick said. “What’s not nearly as well known and understood are the reasons that females sometimes display visual signals to attract mates as well. That’s what my research is focused on - female baboons, certain lizards, blue crabs and others.”

Fitzpatrick serves as a NIH postdoctoral fellow at Indiana University Bloomington. She received a bachelor’s degree with highest honors in visual art from the Uni-

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versity of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a Ph.D. in biology from Duke University, where she collaborated with the Amboseli Baboon Research Project.

“I will talk about a mathematical mod-

Hair-raising season planned for summer’s Crossroads Rep Crossroads Repertory Theatre is set to make the move to the Dreiser Theater for their biggest musical to date -- “Hairspray.” This year’s season is defined by big-name productions and also includes “Steel Magnolias” and “War of the Worlds.”

“Hairspray” is a musical about Tracy Turnblad, a teenager who aspires to be on a Baltimore TV dance program in the early 1960s.

However, plus-sized Tracy is not anyone’s idea of the show’s typical act.

Based on John Water’s 1988 film “Hairspray,” the play focuses on a girl who is coming of age at time when the whole country is on the cusp of change.

“There are lots of funny moments, and it’s a pretty uplifting musical,” said David Marcia, Crossroads marketing director and dramaturge. “In the early ‘60s, consciousness about the civil rights movement moved out of the black community and into the country as a whole -- that ‘wokeness’ is a big part of Tracy becoming an adult.”

“Steel Magnolias” is a comedy-drama with an all-female cast about the bonds between a group of women who gather in a beauty parlor in rural Louisiana.

“It’s a play where men and women can come and see into each other’s lives,” Marcia said. “Similar to ‘Hairspray,’ it’s a very funny play with some serious aspects to it.”

“War of the Worlds” is a radio play within a radio play, a thrilling homage to the form’s golden age and timely reminder of what fear can do to a society.

“The real war in the play is the one between the established print media and the newer technology of radio,” Marcia said. “Newspapers wanted to portray radio as being too spontaneous, too fast and dangerous for serious news; radio wanted to exploit that speed, as well as the intimacy of being a voice or voices actually present in millions of homes.”

In years past, Crossroads has had a theme to tie their plays together, but this year they are taking a new approach. The theme is going to be the theater itself.

“This is the season at the Dreiser,” Marcia said.

“Sometimes themes can be counterproductive, you’re almost telling people what they should be feeling before they walk into the play. We are focused on the idea of being in the

Dreiser, this exciting new space with a larger audience and different technical capabilities.”

Crossroads has been at Indiana State’s campus for more than 50 years and has called New Theater their home in the modern era. It is unavailable this summer as the space undergoes renovations.

“It’s going to be a very different experience for our established patrons and an interesting experience for the new patrons we hope to develop,” Marcia said.

Crossroads is brought to the public’s eye in the summer, but it is indeed a yearround operation.

“You’re winding up one season or going into the next at all times,” said Marcia. “We want to link the professional summer season with the academic season so there is a consistent communication between us to the community. Without an audience in the seats, it’s just rehearsal.”

Dates and tickets sales for the upcoming CRT season are expected to be available in May. For more information, go to crossroadsrep.com.

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el - but don’t worry, the talk will have more pictures of animals than it will have mathematical equations,” Fitzpatrick said.

“We’ll discuss some of the ideas that are out there that attempt to explain how exaggerated traits have evolved in female animals. The model itself represents an idea that was inspired by my dissertation field work in Kenya, where I was studying wild baboons. So I will talk a little bit about the reproductive biology of female baboons.”

She was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center before her current NIH postdoctoral fellowship at IU as part of the Common Themes in Reproductive Diversity research group.

Her dissertation research, in collaboration with the Amboseli Baboon Research Project, developed non-invasive photogrammetric methods to examine the function and evolution of one of the most commonly cited examples of female ornamentation - the exaggerated estrous swellings displayed by females in some species of Old World primates.

Now she is using population genetic and quantitative genetic models as a general tool to understand the relative strengths of the different selective forces that drive and constrain the evolution of sexual signals in females in a variety of

mating system contexts.

Fitzpatrick’s talk will be coordinated with the Women’s History Month events at Indiana State.

“It’s interesting because when we do research in other primates, females have much more influence and control of their society. (Fitzpatrick’s) research is an interesting take on how we look at the world, particularly this year, when we look at the social movements in the country,” said Rusty Gonser, State professor and coordinator of the department of biology’s Darwin Keynote Speaker Series. “Biologists have spent years studying everything from a male perspective and only now are we starting to explore the field through a female perspective. We’re want to highlight the great contributions that women are making in science and bring these women to campus as role models for students at ISU.” The event is co-sponsored by Indiana State’s department of biology and the department of sciences and mathematics at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. Other sponsors include the Indiana State Honors College, Office of the President, College of Graduate and Professional Studies and Center for Community Engagement.

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Researcher of pollution’s effects on children to speak March 23 Lawrence Schell, director of the Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities at the University of Albany at State University of New York, will speak March 23 as part of the Wittman Speaker Series at Indiana State University.

His talk, entitled “Health Disparities in the U.S. and the Special Case of American Indians,” will be 6-7 p.m. in room 12 of the Science Building, followed by a roundtable discussion from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Earlier that day, Schell will lecture to the introductory environmental science class about pollution and general childhood health.

A professor in the departments of anthropology and epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Albany, Schell’s environmental health research focuses on the physical growth and development of children, especially the effects of pollutants on disadvantaged populations. “(Schell) is a pioneer in looking at pollutants in the environment and how they affect children. He’s looked at this in newborns, taking cord blood and looking at the level of pollutants in the mother’s blood to see how it impacts infants,” said Shawn Phillips, professor of anthropology at Indiana State. “What we know from environmental studies is that poor neighborhoods tend to have higher burden of pollutants - lead, PCPs - so (Schell) has been looking at the consequence of pollutants at low levels. We already know that pollutants at high levels are bad, but we’ve lived in an industrial society for almost two centuries and what we don’t know how the pollutants are low levels are impacting us.”

Schell’s recent publications include a paper on the effects of polychlorinated biphenyls and lead on the timing of human sexual maturation, the role of maternal diet and body composition on the transfer of lead from mother to fetus, influence of infant diet on the infant’s acquisition of environmental lead and growth and

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development of Akwesasne Mohawk adolescents. He also has published several reviews on urbanism, pollution and child health.

“I think the lead in the water in Flint, Mich., is an example of a low level pollutant exposure that is still higher than recommended. We don’t really know if there is a threshold and exposure could possibly have effects at any level,” Phillips said. “The Flint, Mich., case is an example of a problem that is likely to happen more across other communities because it’s expensive to revamp old pipes and water systems. But what’s more expensive - those fixes or children’s exposure to pollutants?”

Now in its second year, the Wittman Speaker Series is funded with a contribution from Laura and Jim Wittman. Laura Wittman, an alumna of the department of earth and environmental systems at Indiana State, wanted to bring to campus

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Early Childhood Education Center renews national accreditation Indiana State University’s Early Childhood Education Center has earned accreditation renewal from the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) - the world’s largest organization working on behalf of young children.

NAEYC accreditation is a rigorous and transformative quality-improvement system that uses a set of 10 research-based standards to collaborate with early education programs to recognize and drive quality-improvement in high-quality early learning environments.

The Early Childhood Education Center is part of the Bayh College of Education’s department of teaching and learning. It has been continuously accredited since 1991.

“We’re proud to once again have earned the mark of quality from NAEYC and to be rec-

ognized for our commitment to reaching the highest professional standards,” said Gail Gottschling, director of the center.

To earn NAEYC accreditation, the center went through an extensive self-study and quality-improvement process, followed by an on-site visit by NAEYC assessors to verify and ensure that the program met each of the 10 program standards and hundreds of corresponding individual criteria.

NAEYC-accredited programs are prepared for unannounced quality-assurance visits during their accreditation term, which lasts for five years.

“When I got the call (my son) had been accepted (to the center), I couldn’t believe it,” said parent Megan Bayler. “I never worry about my son during the day. I know he is having a great time learning, playing and get-

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The Early Childhood Education Center at Indiana State University offers high-quality care for local families.

ting excellent care. It makes a working mom’s day easier.”

In the 30 years since NAEYC accreditation was established,

it has become a widely recognized sign of high-quality early childhood education. More than 7,000 programs are currently accredited by NAEYC - less than 10 percent of all childcare centers, preschools and kindergartens nationally achieve this recognition.

“NAEYC-accredited programs bring our definitions of excellence for early childhood education to life each day,” said Kristen Johnson, senior director of Early Learning Program Accreditation at NAEYC. “Earning NAEYC Accreditation makes the Early Childhood Education Center an exemplar of good practice for families and the entire community.”

For more information about NAEYC Accreditation, go to the NAEYC website.

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indianastatesman.com SGA FROM PAGE 1 schedule an initial appointment with the counseling center and another six to 12 weeks to schedule a follow up appointment. In the fall, one of our top priorities is going to be having a student body referendum to implement a modest $25 semesterly health and wellness fee to go towards Student Health Promotion and the Student Counseling Center so they can be provided more monetary resources and hire more staff to provide more access.”

Lamb explained they are pretty optimistic about implementing this fee to be able to provide students with more access to metal health resources.

While in office, another one of the main areas that Lamb and Fahli will be focusing on is the inclusiveness aspect of their platform.

HOUSE FROM PAGE 1 each other while a crowd of onlookers laughed. Despite some sort of “awareness” growing, things would only get worse.

Indiana was the first state to legalize eugenics, the practice of improving the human population by only allowing those with desirable traits to reproduce.

After the first part of the presentation, Sekhar quizzed the audience. She showed pictures of prominent civil rights leaders and activists, such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Harvey Milk, as well as some lesser-known leaders like, Ed Roberts, the founder of the Independent Living Movement, Judy Heumann, who was Special Advisor for International Disability Rights during the Obama administration as well as a prominent activist involved with protests to get more rights for Americans with disabilities, and Justin Dart, who helped pass the Americans with Disabilities Act. The goal of the quiz was to show how, while many people know of MLK, Mandela, and other renowned civil rights leaders, there were only a few in the audience who could name the people who fought for the rights of disabled Americans. Sekhar herself mentioned that she didn’t know any of these people even a year ago.

“We have to know the history to move forward,” she said.

Wednesday, March.21, 2018 • Page 3 “I don’t think we really have a problem with diversity, it’s mostly just inclusiveness,” said Maha Fahli, SGA vice president elect.

Fahli went on to explain some of the details about how they plan to implement this aspect of inclusiveness partly because the international student orientation process is not the same as the new student orientation process.

“They don’t really get the experience of having the campus tour or meeting domestic students or having all of the activities domestic students have during their orientation, so that’s something we’re going to be working on,” said Fahli.

Fahli explained they hope to implement more programs to increase the level of inclusiveness on ISU’s campus.

Lamb also explained that they hope to increase student engagement on campus by creating a rewards program for student So few people know about the struggles disabled Americans had and still have to go through for basic human rights because very few people see it as a civil rights issue. Even now, protests and movements for disability rights are largely overlooked. Inclusion is an afterthought in many places and at many events.

Sekhar witnessed it firsthand at the university she used to work at, “It’s not a unique problem. We have the Office for Students with disabilities who make sure that accommodations are being made, but a lot of times faculty are very resistant to providing meaningful accommodation…

There’s just this lack of understanding that faculty have about the meaning of accommodations. It’s not about giving someone a leg up; it’s about removing barriers,” she said.

Things have and are improving for disabled Americans and disabled people worldwide, but progress is glacial. The Americans with Disabilities Act was only passed in 1990 and the disabled are still being exploited in many ways around the world, even here in the U.S. For anyone who missed out on Monday’s presentation, or who want to know more, Sekhar is doing another presentation next Tuesday, March 27, about intersectionality between the disabled rights movement and other civil rights movements. The presentation starts at 6 p.m. and will be in University Hall, Whitaker Room 110G.

organizations.

“Under our student engagement platform, we talked about implementing a rewards program for student organizations,” said Lamb. “The specifics are not totally hashed out yet, it is still in the planning stages. We are working with the Office of Campus Life and other members of student government to start developing the program. Basically what it would do is provide monetary benefits for student organizations that achieved certain benchmarks.”

Academic success is another important aspect of their platform that Lamb explained he hopes will help students achieve more by having access to free textbooks.

“We also want to revive student governments initiative to provide free, open source, online textbooks to students,” said Lamb. “Particularly in the foundation

WZIS FROM PAGE 1 off. Being a national finalist for radio station of the year was also a tremendous achievement.”

Short was also nominated for Best Newscast, and he was nominated twice in the Best Sports Report (Video/TV) category, once by himself, and once with Clark and Trent Buchannon of Franklin, Ind. Gortney, an Indiana State graduate

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studies classes because they are highly standardized and easy to provide students access with besides specific textbooks that a professor themselves wrote. These highly standardized texts that are super thick and exorbitantly expensive that you don’t really used except for the little access code that you can’t buy separately. This would help, hopefully, alleviate that problem. A lot the first year students who don’t succeed in foundational studies courses often don’t do well because they don’t have access to the text; that’s usually because the text is expensive.”

Lamb explained this would hopefully help to remove one of those barriers and help students to succeed more.

These aspects of their platform will be instituted over the course of the next two semesters after Lamb and Fahli officially take office as the next SGA President and Vice President. from Granger, Ind., was also nominated Best Station Promo and for Best Station ID with Mackenzie McKee of Terre Haute.

The trip to New York was supported with a grant from the Indiana State University Center for Community Engagement.

The Intercollegiate Broadcasting System awards is a national college radio competition. There are more than 1,000 IBS radio, TV, and webcasting stations.

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ence and student success.

“We’re lucky when we get a world-renowned, prominent researcher to come to campus,” Phillips said. “When (Schell) started his research decades

ago, he just suspected that problems were out there.

As his work progressed, he and other scientists are showing that these pollutants are in the environment.”

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Constructing the Invisible Cities Digital Art Student Exhibition: Spring 2018 The Turman Art Gallery at Indiana State University will present “Digital Art Student Exhibition Spring 2018: Constructing the Invisible Cities.”

The exhibited works, inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, are by current digital art students from the department of art and design. In addition, the students will present a 360-degree virtual reality artwork bidding farewell to the Turman Gallery of yesterday, and in anticipation of its renovation and reopening in fall 2019.

The public is invited to attend the exhibition’s opening reception on Thursday, March 29 from 4:30-6:30 p.m.

The exhibit features the emerging talents of undergraduate and graduate Visual Art students enrolled in the Intermediate and Advanced Digital Art Classes, taught

by Professor Sala Wong at the Indiana State University

Department of Art and Design.

The participating student artists are: Eric Bolt, Rachel Calkins, Paige Kimbrew, Wyatt Lawson, Lana Majstorovic, Latesha Merkel, Sanchez Miller, Sam T. Morlan, Megen Moore, David Reed, Grant Sailes, Nikki Swanson, Zhengyun Guo, Yichen Hu, Zachary Moore and Clarissa Rawlings. In addition to the Calvino-inspired works, the Introductory-level digital art students will present their projects in sound, digital imaging and animation.

Students from the introduction to digital art class are: Rachel Bell, Rebecca Bettridge, Rebecca Cooper, Alexis Fortman, Ashley Gibbons, Regan Girt, Kyle Hess, Michael Hoffman, Ashley Johnson, Pilias Maloba, Saphire Massey, Alison Miley, Alexis Mullins, Elizabeth Myers, Kevin Naylor and Abigail Reisinger. Also included are

works by fall 2017 students Monica Griesemer, Natalee Link, Joniah Tyson and Brandi Wagner.

The Turman Art Gallery is located on the ISU campus in the Fine Arts Building on Chestnut Street, just west of Seventh Street. The exhibit runs March 27-April 11. The artists will be present at the opening reception on March 29, Thursday. The event is free and open to the public.

Light refreshments will be served.

Gallery hours for this exhibition are Monday through Friday, 11 a.m.- 4 p.m. This exhibition is free and open to the public. For additional information, call 812-2373720.

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Canvas and mocktails to celebrate the National Day of Silence Sydnee Morgan Reporter

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Alicia Vikander in “Tomb Raider.” She plays the lead role of Lara Croft.

Movies in review: Tomb Raider, 2018

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In the never-ending pursuit to create a good movie adaptation of a video game, Lara Croft gets another attempt in the recent release of “Tomb Raider” It would be nice to say that “Tomb Raider” finally bucked the trend of mediocre films based on games, but sadly that is not possible. This film, based on the reboot of the franchise back in 2013, delivers a down right boring film experience. The worst part is that with such great source material this film should have been a slam dunk.

The 2013 game tried to reinvent Lara as a more relatable and down to earth character, and did so with massive success.

The game pits a girl who, despite having ample intelligence, is not experienced in combat and survival against insurmountable

odds and adversity. This forces Lara to adapt and grow as a character and delivered a phenomenal experience. The recent film found a way to adapt the story of the game for the big screen with none of the charm.

The film begins in London.

Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander), refusing to accept the inheritance of her father that the world believes is deceased, is doing whatever she can to make ends meet.

Eventually, Lara reluctantly decides to accept her inheritance and discovers what her father was doing when he disappeared.

He was working on finding a way to bring his wife back from the dead. Deciding to chase a myth of the mysterious death queen Himiko, he goes to the lost island of Yamtai. Instead of following her father’s instructions to burn his research, Lara sets off on a quest to find her father.

There are a number of references to the game. Some sub-

tle and some blatantly obvious.

This is where the similarities to the game end. The film’s story, other than names of characters and places, is original. Unfortunately, despite Vikander’s solid performance, the film’s writing bogged it down. Boring dialogue and story plagued the entire film.

It was extremely predictable and the few action scenes did not add much. Some are praising the film for its grittiness, but the film only captured a fraction of what the source material was able to achieve. The film did take a few scenes straight form the game.

All of them involved Vikander jumping across a gap. Once was fine, but after the third time it was played out and obnoxious.

It is not fair to call this film bad. I was just boring. It will fall into obscurity alongside many a video game film adaptation. For the price of a movie ticket and snacks, it would be better to just buy the game.

People across the nation fall silent on a day that shows support of the LGBTQ community.

Just like other holidays recognized, National Day of Silence is something that is brought to many schools’ attention across the world.

Multicultural Services has decided to take part in this journey with an event being hosted on March 22 in Dede II. This event will be held to all students with a valid student ID. The hosts, Radasia Blaylock and Shakur Silas, encourage students to be in attendance in support of the LGBTQ community at Indiana State.

“The overall mission is to bring students together who come from different backgrounds, religions, races, and sexual orientation. It is to support those who are in the LGBTQ community who feel an overwhelming pressure from society to hide their unique selves,” Silas said.

This day is to honor everyone that has felt harassed, bullied, or discriminated against because of, but not limited to, sexual orientation. National Day of Silence is a symbolic day to represent the students of the LGBTQ community that have been silenced.

“I hope that this event, especially on a college campus, students will view different perspectives other than their own and view the LGBTQ community as equals as they would their heterosexual counterparts,” Silas said.

National Day of Silence is recognized from middle school through college students. Anyone who wants to take the pledge can go to http://action.glsen. org/page/ally-week-pledge this link will then you lead to a short survey that will only take a couple minutes to say that you support and ensure that will you do whatever it takes to support the

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LGBTQ community through your personal experiences.

Silas further explained other ways to show support for the LGBTQ community.

“I would encourage students to show support by keeping an open mind and respecting other lifestyles that contrast to their own. I would encourage them to gain knowledge of the hundreds of them who are in the LGBTQ community and choose to silence themselves due to fear of being “outed” or discriminated towards,” Silas said.

During this event, there will be a screen projected with a mocktail that students can choose to paint, or students can paint a transgender model that will be at the event. This event is not only for painting however, there will also be information on upcoming events as well as transgender awareness verbiage. This is to educate students on the impact of words and phrases that can negatively affect behaviors of transgender individuals.

“Being a gay, black, male here at Indiana State University, I sometimes feel unwanted from both communities. I want this event to unite not only the LGBTQ and heterosexual community, but those individuals who are LGBTQ and identify as black, white, Hispanic, etc.,” Silas said.

Textiles, Appareal and Merchandising speaker lunch in From left: Sam Ripperger, Jordan Koegker, Susan, Hallie Pell, Zach kirk, Terry Weiss, Kera Lynn Little and Danielle Guy.

The lunch in introduced Susan Popvics, who have worked at few of the top fashion industry companies such as Chanel, Bloomingdales and Wolford inc.

She shared her knowledge and experience with working in high end fashion business. Students were also able to enjoy lunch and take pictures with Susan, along with gaining critical adivce of how the profession works.

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Root Family Public Art Project to unveil decorated Coca-Cola bottles The Root Family Public Art Project will unveil 27 Coca-Cola bottles decorated by local artists during a special preview party in Terre Haute on March 22. The six-foot fiberglass bottles will then be distributed to locations throughout the community as selected by their sponsors for permanent display.

“This will be a great opportunity for the public to see all of the bottles at one time,” said Sally Whitehurst, a volunteer who has been leading the public art project. The preview party will take place from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Mace Building located at 658 Walnut Street in Terre Haute.

Admission is $5.

“We announced the project on September 28 of last year, and all of the bottles were sold within hours,” said Whitehurst. “We are so grateful for the tremendous community support this project has received.”

The original contour bottle was designed by the Root Glass Company of Terre Haute in response to a nationwide contest sponsored by the Coca-Cola Company in 1915. In honor of that history, the Root family provided a $10,000 presenting sponsorship for the public art project.

“We are extremely appreciative of the Root family’s support in promoting this unique piece of Terre Haute history,” Whitehurst added.

The project is part of a larger branding effort to have Terre Haute recognized as the birthplace of what has become known as one of the most recognizable product packages in the world, said Teresa Exline, a volunteer leading the overall branding effort.

“We want to make Terre Haute a destination and instill a sense of community pride. This will be an exciting year for our efforts.

The community will be dotted with six-foot tall reminders of the Coke bottle’s origin in Terre Haute, a huge mural will be painted on the side of the forthcoming Vigo County History Center at 929 Wabash thanks to Coca-Cola Consolidated, and

Detail of Gary Greiner’s bottle, which was painted by Jim Shepard, features a vintage car from Gary’s collection.

a Birthplace of the Coca-Cola Bottle Festival will take place in downtown Terre Haute this fall thanks to the Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce and Downtown Terre Haute,” said Exline.

Signage designed by the Coca-Cola Company welcoming visitors to Terre Haute, the birthplace of the Coca-Cola bottle, will also be installed sometime this year, said Susan Tingley, director of development for the Vigo County Historical Society.

Tingley added that current plans, if fundraising efforts are successful, call for the new History Center building to be renovated by the end of the year.

The center will house an exhibit telling the story about the Root Glass Company and the creation of the contour bottle, along with a historic bottling line display and a working soda fountain where Coca-Cola products and memorabilia will be sold.

Tingley worked with Arts Illiana to line up artists to paint the bottles for the Root Family Public Art Project and curate their designs.

The sponsors and the artists who have decorated their bottles are: Arc of Terre Haute, Artist: Jim

Shepard Baesler’s Market, Artist: Jim Shepard CABU, Artist: Becky Hochhalter CANDLES Museum, Artist: Jackie Tice CDI, Artist: Jackie Tice City of Terre Haute, Artists: Susan and Michael Tingley The Corner Grind/ELB, Inc., Artist: Becky Hochhalter Corporate Square, Artists: Valerie Funk and John Criss First Financial Bank, Artist: Becky Hochhalter Gary Greiner, Artist: Jim Shepard Indiana State University, Artist: Courtney Prather JGS, Artist: Edward and Sarah Trover Ivy Tech Community College, Artist: David Gill Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, Artist: Becky Hochhalter Root Family, Artist: Neil Garrison Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Artist: Bryan Bromstrup Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, Artists: Jody O’Neil, Jordyn Lloyd, Bry’Chell Johnson and Bria Hill Scott’s Custom Colors, Artist: Jim Shepard Sycamore Engineering, Artist: Bryan Bromstrup Sycamore Storage, Artist: Cathleen Hogan TBM Building Services, Artist: Troy Fears Terre Haute Chamber/Economic Development Corporation/Work One, Artist: Mary Ann Michna Terre Haute Convention and Visitors Bureau: Jackie Tice Terre Haute Regional Airport, Artist: Jody O’Neil Terre Haute Tribune-Star. Artist: JoAnne Fiscus and Barbara Dreher Wilbert Vault & Custom Stone Products, Artist: Larry Jones Steve Williams, Artist: Bill Wolfe The Birthplace of the Coca-Cola Bottle is a sponsored program of the Wabash Valley Community Foundation.

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Artist Bryan Bromstrup works on the bottle sponsored by Sycamore Engineering.

The bottle sponsored by the Root family was painted by Neil Garrison and showcases the original green-glass bottle which won the contest

by Coca-Cola in 1915.

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Insiders see Democratic House gains of 30-45 seats Stuart Rothenberg CQ-Roll Call (TNS)

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Cambridge Analytica in hot water Joe Lippard

Opinions Editor

During the presidential election, a company called Cambridge Analytica was contracted by the Trump campaign for political consulting. At least, that’s what their term for what they do is.

In actuality, it has been recently discovered that the firm has done some incredibly unethical things.

It turns out that Cambridge Analytica has data on over 50 million Facebook users as a result of a survey disseminated on the social networking site, according to the New York Times. Facebook claimed that the firm paid for the data through an outside

company “for academic purposes” until March 16.

Facebook issued a press release saying that, because the survey requested the users’ data and the users gave the survey permission, the data was obtained legitimately.

But we’ve all seen the Facebook app permissions page when you want to connect something to Facebook. I’m paraphrasing here, but it usually says something like, “[Insert app here] wants to access your Facebook account. This gives [App] access to your friends list and profile.” It generally doesn’t tell you that the app is going to access your Facebook information and activity as well as all your friends’ Facebook information to be analyzed by third parties.

Now, I could see the argument here for actually reading those terms and conditions that everyone skips over to create a Facebook account. I would agree there; we shouldn’t

just be giving big corpo- survey for his collection rations access to every method. They also said part of our lives. However, that they had deleted all Facebook cannot shrug of the ill-gotten data two off the responsibility that years ago as soon as they they carry here. It’s not as found out it was obtained simple as “people agreed unethically, but the Times to it, so it’s fine.” The app was still able to access sets didn’t tell people the extent of data from those profiles. to which their information In addition to this severe would be accessed and, ac- breach of ethics, Camcording to the New York bridge Analytica has found Times, only about 270,000 itself at the center of a sting users consented to have operation run by the BBC. their data accessed in the In secretly recorded vidfirst place. This is an ex- eos, the firm’s political ditreme invasion of privacy, vision managing director regardless of Facebook’s Mark Turnbull has a conpolicies on the matter. versation with undercover Some of the information reporters in which he adobtained by Cambridge mits to Cambridge AnaAnalytica even included a lytica’s role in influencing user’s location, according the 2013 and 2017 Kenyan to the Times. elections. When asked by Cambridge Analytica reporters what they did initially denied that they for the current president, had any Facebook infor- Uhuru Kenyatta, Turbull mation at all, but after replied, “We have rebrandwhistleblower Christopher ed the entire party twice, Wylie exposed the compa- written their manifesto, ny, they confessed to hav- done two rounds of 50,000 ing the data in a statement surveys. Then we’d write to the New York Times. all the speeches and stage The firm also blamed the person who created the CAMBRIDGE CONT. ON PAGE 7

Seven and a half months before the midterm elections, the combination of attitudinal and behavioral evidence leads to a single conclusion: The Democrats are very likely to win control of the House in November.

Just as important, Republican and Democratic campaign strategists also agree that an electoral wave has already formed.

The attitudinal evidence begins with national polling.

President Donald Trump’s job approval rating has settled into a relatively narrow range, with between 39 percent and 42 percent of registered voters approving of his performance. Only 33 percent to 37 percent of respondents say that the country is headed in the right direction, another bit of evidence that reflects the extent of support for Trump and the Republican Party.

The current congressional generic ballot question suggests that Democrats have an 8- or 9-point advantage, a significant margin even if it is at least a couple of points below what Democrats would ideally want going into the midterms.

Taken together, these numbers paint a dangerous picture for the president and his party.

Trump drew about 46 percent of the vote in 2016, so the current numbers suggest a modest, but significant, erosion in support.

Exactly where the slippage has taken place isn’t clear, though it is certainly less severe in rural America and more significant in the suburbs.

That means some states, and some congressional districts, have been affected more than others.

The new March 10-14 NBC News/Wall Street

Journal poll of adults is consistent with other surveys over the past six months. It shows Democrats with a large generic ballot advantage among younger voters, women, whites with at least a college degree and voters age 65 and older.

The GOP’s great strength in the generic ballot is among two pro-Trump groups, men and whites without a college degree.

Unfortunately for the party, the survey also shows Democrats, whites with a college degree and older voters as having the greatest interest in the election (and therefore the greatest likelihood of voting). Each of those groups prefers a Democratic Congress.

Moreover, while independents don’t traditionally turn out in big numbers in midterms, one veteran Republican strategist sees them as a huge problem this year. “They are tired of the drama,” he said.

The worst case for the GOP, of course, would be mediocre Republican turnout combined with strong Democratic participation and independents behaving like Democrats (which is what they did in 2006).

If that happens, Republicans would take quite a beating in the fall.

The behavioral part of the equation is just as troubling for Republicans, since it confirms the survey data.

Election results in the Virginia governor’s race last year, the special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th District last week, and other state legislative special elections around the country have shown Democratic energy and turnout, particularly in suburban areas.

Hillary Clinton won Virginia by 5 points in 2016, but Democrat Ralph Northam took the guber-

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Kudlow joins White House that sorely needs cooler heads to prevail Mark Hamrick

Special to McClatchy (TNS)

Quick, raise your hand if you’d like to go to work for the Trump White House.

The president has said he has plenty of willing candidates, with Larry Kudlow being tapped on March 15 for National Economic Council director among them. We are, however, reminded of the comment from White House chief of staff John Kelly that he was being punished by God in moving from the Department of Homeland Security to the White House.

One has to credit either Kudlow’s optimism, sense of patriotic duty, or something else that we’re missing given the chaos we’ve witnessed in the past week, with the departures of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Gary Cohn, among others.

Cohn’s advice on trade, no doubt informed by his experience as an investment banker and Goldman Sachs

executive, failed to prevail.

Since Kudlow has been critical on-air of the president’s decision to back trade tariffs, and of the president’s views on trade in general, the commentator and former Reagan administration staffer seems at odds with the rising influence of White House trade adviser Peter Navarro. The president has seemed to waver between tossing a hand grenade at U.S. commercial policies and opting for proclamations but still demanding stiffer action against the Chinese, all the while seeming to risk a trade war which would put economic growth significantly at risk.

It is, at some level, intriguing that the chief economic adviser post is even being filled given that it began in 1993 under then-President Bill Clinton. After all, President Trump seems often motivated to undo all things originated under President Barack Obama. And we know where he stands with former opponent Hillary Clinton, who continues to be fodder for his tweets.

From a broader perspective, and in all fairness, a number of individuals serving both Republican and Democratic administrations have garnered respect while holding the job, including Robert Rubin, Larry Lindsey, Larry Summers, Laura Tyson and Gene Sperling.

Maybe Trump doesn’t know the position began under Clinton. At this point, Kudlow or anyone else would do well not to disclose that to the president.

In this administration, the outgoing Cohn seemed to be called upon fairly often to serve as the point man to deliver talking points, such as in reaction to the monthly employment reports. Since there’s some part of this administration’s staffing and staging mix that seems to have been pulled from the playbook of “The Apprentice,” one imagines that part of Kudlow’s mission is going to be to talk up administration policy, particularly on network cable television.

It remains to be seen whether Kudlow can step into the role of a

virtual moderating influence in this administration. At this point, that seems like almost too much to ask.

There were hopes that the president’s daughter, Ivanka, might be able to serve more effectively in that role. But if the series of news reports are any indication, the standing of Ivanka and husband Jared Kushner is only in decline. Reports have also indicated that Chief of Staff Kelly’s days are numbered, too. If a retired Marine Corps general like Kelly can’t keep the “troops” in line, what are Kudlow’s chances of overpowering the hardliners, including the nativists? Or maybe he’ll go along to curry favor.

Unlike others in this White House, Kudlow does have experience in government and the private sector. But unlike television, where on-air conflict is sometimes mostly for show, the health of the national and global economy is at stake here. This is an administration where cooler heads need to prevail for the sake of the American people.

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HOUSE FROM PAGE 6 natorial contest last fall by almost 9 points.

Trump carried Pennsylvania’s 18 District by 20 points, but GOP nominee Rick Saccone ran about even with his Democratic opponent last week.

And in a Wisconsin state Senate special election in January, a district Trump carried by 17 points went Democratic by about 10 points.

Of course, not every state legislative contest produced that strong a gain for Democrats, and Republicans held all their open House seats in special elections last year.

But the recent trend is clear — Republicans are swimming against a strong current.

“It’s baked in now,” one veteran Republican campaign veteran told me, noting the GOP’s problems with women and college-educated voters. “We knew single women hated (the Republican Party).

We couldn’t do anything about that. But married women were different.

We figured out how to deal with them by talking about pocketbook issues.

But now college-educated women hate us. Even with

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the current economy. It’s the bullying, the nastiness, the tweeting. It’s all about Trump’s behavior.”

Republican insiders also worry that a chunk of “Trump voters” won’t turn out in November even though they still like the president personally. “There are blue-collar Democrats who voted for Trump but don’t care about the Republican Party. They are unlikely to turn out for a Republican candidate in the fall, though they could still help Trump in 2020,” one GOP consultant said.

The problem for Republican congressional candidates this year is that there are plenty of clouds hanging over the president and the country despite the strong economic numbers and business optimism.

North Korea and the Russia investigation are only the most obvious ones, but the president’s inclination to attack (or counterattack) and disrupt makes it more likely that controversies and chaos will continue.

Indeed, the campaign season is likely to lead to more Trump political rallies, where his freewheeling style and off-the-cuff comments can create more controversies.

So, what is the current trajectory of the 2018 midterms? I interviewed a wide range of campaign professionals, including some sympathetic to the president. All insisted on anonymity, and almost all believe the House will flip.

The veterans generally expect GOP losses in the 30- to 45-seat range, far more than the two-dozen seats House Democrats need for majority control.

The retirement of longtime Republican incumbents from competitive districts is adding to the problem, as is candidate fundraising. While there is plenty of GOP super PAC money available, Democratic House candidates are outraising their Republican counterparts.

Given that, national conservative and Republican groups will need to make tough decisions about who to fund and who to cut off as the election cycle progresses.

Obviously, events between now and November could change things.

But that’s the point. The burden is on Republicans — and the president — to change the cycle’s current trajectory. If they don’t, the House will flip.

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This is insanely concerning. A large amount of Cambridge Analytica’s funding comes from conservative elite Robert Mercer. According to reports from many sources, including the New York Times and the Daily Beast, Mercer and his daughter, Rebekah, who sits on the firm’s chairman board, were the ones who pushed for then-candidate Trump’s appointment of Kellyanne Conway and Steve Bannon, who also used to hold a seat on the firm’s board. We know that Trump’s campaign contracted Cambridge Analytica and that he had advisors who were on the firm’s board. We also know that the CEO of Cambrige Analytica has admitted to engaging in the spreading of misinformation, or “fake news.” Now we know that the firm basically ran the Kenyan president’s campaign in two elections.

How much of Trump’s campaign was affected by this British company?

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Athletic Media Relations

Rebecca Gibbs (17) leads the sycamores in total home runs (3) and total bases (34).

Softball Team looks to continue winning streak against Jaguars Jay Adkins Reporter

The Indiana State Sycamores Softball team will travel to Indianapolis tonight to face off against the IUPUI Jaguars twice in a Wednesday double header.

The Sycamores are 15-10 and currently on a threegame winning streak, with all three wins coming against the Valparaiso

Crusaders last weekend in a triple header.

The IUPUI Jaguars are just 4-15 on the season and currently on a dreadful seven-game losing streak, including losses against: the University of Maryland Terrapins (5-1), the Miami University Red Hawks (6-3), the University of Eastern Illinois Panthers (8-4), the Bowling Green University Falcons

twice (4-3) (7-3), and the Lipscomb University Bisons twice (9-0) (2-0).

Mandy Dallas leads the Jaguars in batting average and home runs with .320 and two, respectively. Dallas, the sophomore middle infielder from Greenwood, is also tied for the team lead in hits with Haley Ginger with 16 hits each.

Adison Lorsung leads the team in runs batted in with

10. Pitcher Megan Overton leads the team in Wins and strikeouts with three and 42, respectively.

The Sycamores this season so far have been a little bit inconsistent having started off the season very hot and now are slightly slowing down. With being on a three game win streak, the team should stroll into Indianapolis with confidence playing a

lower caliber Jaguars.

Sophomore outfielder Rebecca Gibbs leads the Sycamores in home runs (3), total bases (34), and runs batted in with 18 on the season. Sophomore infielder Leslie Sims leads the team in hits and batting average with 25 and .424, respectively. Freshman pitcher Arielle Blankenship has been a huge help for the team this sea-

son and stepping up as a freshman.

Blankenship currently leads the team in wins with seven. Pitcher Kylie Stober leads the team in strikeouts with 28.

The Indiana State Sycamores will kick off their double header against the IUPUI Jaguars this Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. in Indianapolis, Ind. The second matchup will begin at 4:00 p.m. later on that day.

Thilda Staubo Records Top 20 Performance At Low Country Intercollegiate Indiana State junior Thilda Staubo recorded a Top 20 individual performance for the Sycamores as they completed play at the Low Country Intercollegiate, hosted by Wofford.

The event was held at the Moss Creek Golf Club, which is a par-72, 5,091yard layout in southern reaches of the Palmetto State.

Staubo led the Sycamores with an 81 on the second day of play, which followed her opening round score of 75 for a two-round score of 156 and a tie for 19th place.

Sophie Benetti followed up Saturday’s 77 with an 82 on Sunday for a total of 159 and a tie for 29th place.

The Sycamores finished the event in 11th place -- in the 14-team field.

ISU carded a final round of 340, which followed a

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Thilda Staubo completed top 20 for the sycamores during the Low Country Intercollegiate.

score of 319 on Saturday.

The total of 659 was 19 shots ahead of The Citadel for 12th place and also topped Gardner-Webb and the Quinnipiac “B’

team. Seton Hall posted a round of 299 on Friday and came back with a 310 on Sunday for a total of 609 to win the event.

“We went a little too hard at it this week,” head coach Greg Towne said.

“We over practiced and should have taken a little time to recover. Everyone

was pretty beat up and that was on me. We have an ambitious schedule with a tournament every week until conference and I will have to make sure we are

mentally and physically prepared for that. Hopefully we can get outside at home this week.”

Dawn Turner posted a 91, which followed her score of 81 for a total of 172 and a tie for 59th place. Sierra Hargens carded two rounds of 86 and total of 172 also tied for 59th place. Alex Jennings finished in the same spot as well as rounds of 82 and 90 for a total of 172.

Robyn Blanchard battled it though this weekend with rounds of 100 and 101 for a total of 201 and a spot in 74th.

The Sycamores return to action on March 25-26 when they travel to Carbondale, Ill., to compete in the Saluki Spring Invitational.

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Sycamore Baseball Uses Seventh Inning Rally to Sweep The Citadel, 5-2 Tim McCaughan

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Indiana State baseball scored three runs in the seventh inning to rally back to take the series finale with The Citadel Sunday afternoon at Joe Riley Park en route to the teams’ sixth-straight win and second weekend sweep of the season.

Jarrod Watkins led the Sycamores with a 3-for-5 day at the plate, scoring a pair of runs and driving one in while Max Wright went 2-for-4 with two runs scored.

During the first two games of the series, Indiana State (11-5) went on top early in the game, but Bulldog starting pitcher Alex Bialakis (2-1) was strong from the start, limiting the Sycamore offense and getting out of an early bases-loaded jam to keep

the Trees off the board.

Bialakis was able to work with an early lead as The Citadel (8-11) struck for a run in the second inning to take the early lead. The Bulldogs added another run in the sixth on a pair of hits in the inning.

Indiana State starter Tristan Weaver battled early in the game, working through a couple tough innings while limiting the opportunities for The Citadel. Weaver would be picked up by the ISU offense in the seventh as CJ Huntley jumpstarted the rally with his first home run of the 2018 campaign on a shot to right field to cut the Sycamore deficit to 2-1.

Sophomore Max Wright would score the game-tying run later in the inning after Jarrod Watkins doubled to right-center. That was when the Sycamores

went to the bench in redshirt senior Dane Giesler.

In his first at bat of the weekend, Giesler sent a ball over the second baseman, scoring Watkins to put the Trees on top.

Clay Dungan would add the insurance runs Indiana State needed in the ninth inning after The Citadel loaded the bases. Dungan came to the plate 0-4 with three strikeouts before sending a liner into left field, scoring two runs.

Weaver went seven complete innings, allowing just one earned run and striking out three batters, improving to 2-1 on the year.

Right-hander Ethan Larrison closed out his fifth game of the season after tossing two innings and striking out one.

Indiana State will close out a four-game road swing Tuesday afternoon at Eastern Illinois. First

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Sycamore baseball has won six straight wins and scored second weekend sweep of the season.

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