March 7, 2016

Indiana Statesman For ISU students. About ISU students. By ISU students.

Monday, March 7, 2016

Volume 123, Issue 64

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Archive aims to preserve student legacies at Indiana State Jamina Tribbett

ISU Communications and Marketing

Indiana State University Archives is working to preserve the legacy of student organizations by collecting their memorabilia.

“History is important,” said Katie Sutrina-Haney, university archivist. “Collecting student organizations’ memorabilia tells us a story of what a group of people have done and how

they impacted Indiana State.”

University archives, located on the third floor of the Cunningham Memorial Library, want students to donate material that holds meaning to the organization in order to capture its history on this campus.

The department is interested in material such as photos, flyers, newsletters, newspaper clippings, minutes, organizational bylaws, programs, trophies,

membership lists, scrapbooks and more.

“We understand that the times are changing and most of what we have is stored on our computers, but we want that stuff, too,” Sutrina-Haney said. “Digital history is still history.”

All of the memorabilia collected by university archives are assessed, cleaned and carefully stored.

Every item that is donated will be put on a digital inventory online for people

to search university records.

“In order to keep your memorabilia intact and to prevent any further degradation, we protect it with acid free folders, sleeves and boxes,” Sutrina-Haney said.

The purpose of collecting your history at Indiana State is not only for future members of the organizations. The university and community are also interested in what they are do-

ing on campus now to affect change in the future. In order to preserve organizations’ memories and histories, it must be publically accessible.

The university archive is a way to protect this legacy while providing direction to the next generation of student leaders.

“It is easy to access donated memorabilia for viewing purposes,” Sutrina-Haney said. “All you have to do is go the reading

Aces clobber Sycamores in MVC semifinal Alex Modesitt Copy Editor

ST. LOUIS — Indiana State’s performance Friday night against Illinois State in the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament quarterfinals had many ISU fans believing the team had turned the corner on their disastrous finish to the season.

As it turns out, it was an eminence front that came crashing down Saturday afternoon at the hands of instate rival Evansville.

While the defense wasn’t as dogged against Evansville, it was the offense that plagued the Sycamores late in the season that reared its head and led to a 68-42 rout.

ISU went 14-55 from the field, including a 1-16 mark from beyond the 3-point line, and couldn’t attack on the offensive end with much consistency.

ISU had opportunities throughout the game to knock down open looks, but senior guard Devonte Brown said when their shots aren’t falling they have to rely on their defense and not allow the misses to frustrate them.

“That’s just the game of basketball,” Brown said.

“Missed shots happen. People are going to miss shots, but that doesn’t take away from what we have to do on the defensive end and

Katy Murphy

STANFORD, Calif. — In its 125 years, Stanford University has spawned legendary tech companies and claims 32 Nobel laureates, but has yet to solve a pressing problem on its own campus: the lack of women on its faculty.

Only about one-fourth of the professors at Stanford are women, a disparity that is even more lopsided at the top: Of its full professors, a rarefied group with great power and influence over their respective fields, only 22 percent are women.

It’s a problem at elite universities across the nation, but Stanford’s imbalance is greater than most: Of the schools ranked in the top 10 by U.S. News & World Report, only the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Caltech had lower percentages of women on their faculties.

“There is the false sense that things are getting better,” said Shelley Correll, a

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Though the Sycamores won the quarterfinal match against Illinois State Friday, they couldn’t maintain the same energy Saturday when they took on the Evansville Purple Aces, falling in a 68-42 rout.

we allowed that to carry on.

The Purple Aces on the other hand found their stroke early, connecting on 50 percent of their 3-point tries in the first half, going 5-10 and shooting a shade

over 46 percent from the field.

They cooled in the second half, but long after the game was in hand.

Head coach Greg Lansing lauded Evansville for

their play, but noted that ISU’s defense strayed from the game plan, allowing the Aces to shoot such a high percentage.

“Yesterday we were really trying to get in the

gaps and take things away and make them shoot jump shots and score over us,” Lansing said. “Evansville is

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room, located on the third floor of the Cunningham Memorial Library, and our staff will help you find what you are looking for.”

To be a part of Indiana State history and donate a student organization’s memorabilia, contact Katie.sutrina-haney@indstate.edu a business day in advance of dropping off any material to university archives, which is open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.

Stanford sociology professor who directs the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Research on Gender.

“At this rate, we’re not getting anywhere fast.”

One commonly cited reason for the lag is Stanford’s emphasis on engineering and computer science, fields dominated by men.

Its engineering school faculty is 85 percent male.

Still, even in fields flush with women earning advanced degrees — business, humanities, education, political science and law — Stanford is far from achieving gender equality.

And despite initiatives to diversify its faculty, just 33 percent of the university’s new hires were women in the past five years, and 35 percent of those hired for jobs outside the engineering school.

And there is the lack of women at the very top.

Stanford has never had a female president, and its appointment this month of neuroscientist Marc Tess-

ier-Lavigne was to some a reminder of the status quo.

The majority of Ivy League colleges, including Harvard and Princeton, have had women in the role.

“We’re kind of standing out now as a top university without having had a female president,” Correll said.

At Harvard and Princeton universities, less than one-third of all faculty are women.

Columbia University in New York City has the highest representation of women among top 10-ranked schools — about 40 percent, including those in its medical center — but among its full professors, roughly a quarter are women.

In the nation’s four-year public and private colleges in 2013, roughly 43 percent of faculty were women, but only 28 percent of full professors.

The advancement of women at Stanford is another concern.

A little over two years ago, after sharing frustrations over dinner about what seemed like a lack of women in leadership, a group of Stanford professors decided to see if the numbers reflected their experiences.

The group’s findings were striking, though they stressed that the figures in their 2014 report were merely estimates based on publicly available data: Women leaders oversaw just 14.2 percent of the university’s budget, and led schools with 5.5 percent of Stanford’s faculty.

Provost John Etchemendy created a task force on women’s leadership in response to the findings.

Later that year, Stanford named a woman, physics professor Persis Drell, as dean of its School of Engineering.

Drell’s appointment and other steps encourage Andrea Goldsmith, who was part of the study group and is one of five women in the

university’s electrical engineering department.

Now, as a member of the provost’s task force, she said its recommendations, due this year, will include removing leadership barriers, nurturing those with leadership potential, and regular data reports on how the university is progressing.

“When you start reporting statistics, especially when they’re really low, they get people’s attention,” Goldsmith said.

Although female graduate students are outnumbered in the physical sciences, mathematics and engineering, there is no shortage of women entering academia overall.

Each year since 2002, women have earned a majority of doctorates awarded to U.S. citizens and permanent residents, according to an annual census sponsored by six federal agencies.

“Right now we have all

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Freshman Kevin Dorsey, one of three Minnesota basketball players punished after a videorecorded sex act appeared on one of his social media accounts, reported that his cellphone was stolen from a Mall of America store days before the explicit imagery was posted online.

Bloomington Deputy Police Chief Mike Hartley emphasized Thursday that his department is dealing solely with a report of a missing phone and not trying to determine what role, if any, the phone had in the recording of the sex act or the posting of that video on social media.

On Sunday, Dorsey told police the phone was stolen the night of Feb. 24 after he set it down while in House of Hoops, an athletic shoe store at the mall, Hartley said.

The video appeared online on Feb. 26.

“Somebody walks up and takes” the phone between 7 and 9 p.m., Hartley said Dorsey reported.

Hartley said he does not know why Dorsey waited until Feb. 28 before contacting police.

Hartley said there is instore video during that time frame, and “we are following up” on what it might show.

Dorsey, Nate Mason and Dupree McBrayer were issued a suspension Tuesday for the rest of the season, less than 48 hours after reports surfaced of a sex video appearing on a social media account belonging to Dorsey, who was identified in the video by some of those who saw it online.

The video has since been deleted, as has Dorsey’s entire Twitter account.

There has been no disclosure of when the video was recorded, but Dorsey’s family said in a statement given to the St. Paul Pioneer Press that “Kevin did not post any sexually explicit images or videos, nor did he consent to any such videos being posted.”

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LOS ANGELES — A prostate cancer drug developed at UCLA will provide hundreds of millions of dollars for research under a recordsetting deal announced Friday by university officials.

Royalty Pharma, a New York-based pharmaceutical investment company, paid $1.14 billion for royalty rights to the drug known as Xtandi.

It was the largest-ever technology transfer deal involving a University of California invention.

UCLA pocketed $520 million of the proceeds for its 43.9 percent ownership stake in the drug. The funds will be placed in a portfolio that is expected to generate $60 million a year to fund campus research, scholarships for undergraduates and fellowships for graduate students. The annual haul will continue until 2027, when major patents on the drug expire.

The money will help UCLA offset declining federal dollars for basic research and diminished state support for general operations, campus officials said.

UCLA Chancellor Gene Block said the sale allows the university to serve one of its “essential missions — funding and generating research with practical applications that serve the public good.”

Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in America, affecting about one in seven men at some point in their lives. Last year, more than 220,000 new cases were diagnosed in the U.S., and about 27,540 men died of the disease, according to the American Cancer Society.

The work that led to Xtandi began in the early 2000s, when researchers pressed to understand why prostate cancer tumors sometimes continued to grow even when drugs were able to suppress testosterone, the hormone that fuels the malignant cells.

Xtandi, also known by the generic name enzalutamide, prevents testosterone from latching on to prostate cancer cells.

With less fuel, the cancer cells can’t grow as well.

In clinical trials, men with metastatic prostate cancer who took the drug lived longer — and in some cases were able to delay chemotherapy treatments — compared with similar patients who took a placebo.

UCLA patented the

key chemical compound and, in 2005, licensed it to Medivation Inc. of San Francisco. The company received FDA approval to market Xtandi as a prostate cancer medication in 2012 and reported $1.9 billion in worldwide sales of the drug in 2015.

Xtandi generated $33.3 million in royalties and other income for the University of California last year, more than any other UC-developed drug.

Still, experts from Westwood Technology Transfer, a not-for-profit advisory board launched

by UCLA 18 months ago to help the university squeeze more value out of its patents, recommended the deal with Royalty Pharma.

Tom Unterman, the board’s chairman, noted that revenue could drop at any time if drug prices were to fall or better therapies become available.

“It was deemed prudent to (cash out) the royalty interests,” Unterman said.

(Earlier in his career, Unterman served as chief financial officer for Times Mirror Co., the Los Angeles Times’ former owner.)

Xtandi is hardly the first blockbuster drug to emerge from research labs in Westwood.

UCLA pharmacologist Louis J. Ignarro’s studies of nitric oxide’s role in the body won him the Nobel Prize in medicine and led to the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra.

And Dr. Dennis Slamon spent years investigating the role of genetic mutations in breast cancer, resulting in the drug Herceptin, which targets a mutation seen in about one in four women with breast cancer.

UCLA never received royalty payments for either of these drugs. Westwood Technology Transfer aims to help UCLA structure its research programs so that opportunities like these aren’t overlooked again, Unterman said.

The research on Xtandi was led by chemist Michael Jung, who has been at UCLA since 1974, and Dr. Charles Sawyers, now at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

The two men and six other researchers will share equally in the proceeds from their 37.5 percent stake in the drug’s royalty interest.

The remaining 19 percent was owned by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which helped fund Sawyers’ work. ©2016 Los Angeles Times.

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Democrats debate Sunday in Flint

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Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a campaign rally at Macomb Community College in Warren, Mich., on Saturday, March 5, 2016.

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WASHINGTON — When Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders face off Sunday night in Flint, Mich., the city itself will be part of the debate.

The lack of clean water in Flint, a financially struggling, predominantly black city, touches on many of the issues Democrats are campaigning on this year: income inequality, race relations, infrastructure investment and environmental regulation.

Clinton and Sanders have each visited the

city already, solicited donations to help residents and urged Congress to send financial aid. They have opened campaign offices there and aired TV ads about the problems.

Sanders has called for Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican, to resign over the water crisis. The city’s Democratic mayor is a Clinton supporter.

“Every single American should be outraged,” Clinton said in a recent debate. “We’ve had a city in the United States of America where the population, which is poor in many ways and majority African-American, has been drinking and bathing

in lead-contaminated water … If the kids in a rich suburb of Detroit had been drinking contaminated water and being bathed in it, there would’ve been action.”

Snyder, a Republican, is taking the brunt of the criticism for the water crisis, though the Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency also gets some blame.

The solution proposed by the state’s Democratic U.S. senators would cost $600 billion. That’s prompted Republicans to slow the process as some question whether the problem is a federal or a

state and local issue.

The problem started in April 2014, when government officials appointed by Snyder decided to switch the city’s water source to the Flint River to save money.

Corrosive water ate away at the pipes, causing lead to contaminate the water supply. The city switched back to its original water supply, Lake Huron, a year and a half later. But it was too late.

Some blame the water for causing learning disabilities, problems with attention and fine motor coordination in children

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Trump reverses position on torture and

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WASHINGTON — A sudden about-face on torture by Republican Donald Trump Friday suggested a post-primary pivot aimed at wooing general election voters but also threatened to feed growing anxiety among conservatives that he’s too willing to negotiate away earlier positions.

Trump, as recently as Thursday night, doubled down on his threat to target terrorists’ families and engage in enhanced waterboarding, insisting that if he were commander-inchief the military would carry out his orders.

“They’re not going to refuse me. Believe me,” he said at a GOP debate in Detroit. “We should go

for waterboarding, and we should go tougher than waterboarding.”

Even targeting terrorists’ families, moderator Bret Baier asked?

“If I say do it, they’re going to do it. That’s what leadership is all about.”

But Trump issued a statement late Friday reversing course.

“I will use every legal power that I have to stop these terrorist enemies,” he said in a statement. “I do, however, understand that the United States is bound by laws and treaties, and I will not order our military or other officials to violate those laws and will seek their advice on such matters.”

To be clear, he said, “I will not order a military officer to disobey the law. It is clear that as president I will be bound by laws just like all Americans, and I

will meet those responsibilities.”

Trump had been under withering criticism for his pro-torture, pro-assassination-of-families doctrine.

Military officials and foreign policy experts have been sharply criticizing Trump, and raising the possibility of the U.S. military refusing to follow some of a President Trump’s orders.

Former CIA Director Michael Hayden said last month that that military service men and women are “required not to follow an unlawful order” and that some of Trump’s rhetoric would be “in violation of all the international laws of armed conflict.”

Also, 70 Republican foreign policy experts earlier this week penned an open letter to Trump, warning that he “would use the authority of his office to act in ways that make America

less safe.”

They singled out his embrace of increased torture, calling it “inexcusable.”

Changing position on torture was not his only switch this week.

It came after Trump also softened his opposition to visas for more highly skilled workers, visas he once complained would “decimate American workers.”

Trump said Thursday he was changing his visa position “because we have to have talented people in this country.”

All of it comes as Trump this week started openly altering his message to appeal to a general election audience beyond the GOP base as he emerged from Super Tuesday voting with victories in 10 of 15 states and a growing lead in the

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ISU Public Safety police blotter Feb. 29

9:10 a.m.: Suspicious activity was reported in the food court.

10:31 a.m.: Lost property was reported off campus.

12:00 p.m.: A theft was reported off campus.

12:18 p.m.: Lost property was reported off campus.

12:19 p.m.: Property was found in Rhoads.

12:57 p.m.: A disturbance was reported in the West Pay Lot. 1:12 p.m.: A fire alarm was reported in the 500 Wabash apartments.

2:58 p.m.: Suspicious activity was reported in Erickson Hall.

3:02 p.m.: A theft was reported off

campus.

3:05 p.m.: Mischief was reported in Lot 24.

3:08 p.m.: An injured person was reported in Lot A. 11:13 p.m.: A disturbance was reported in Mills Hall.

March 1

7:48 a.m.: Property damage was reported in Lot C. 1:28 p.m.: Missing university property was reported in the Landsbaum Center.

2:06 p.m.: A property damage accident was reported off campus.

2:41 p.m.: A theft was reported in Dreiser Hall.

4:05 p.m.: A disturbance and trespass warning were reported in Jones Hall.

7:40 p.m.: A fire alarm was reported in the 500 Wabash Apartments.

March 2

9:45 a.m.: A false fire alarm was reported in Erickson Hall.

9:48 a.m.: An injured person was reported in the Health and Human Performance Building and Arena.

3:00 p.m.: Criminal mischief was reported in Lot 13.

4:49 p.m.: A theft was reported in Cunningham Memorial Library.

11:18 p.m.: Suspicious activity was reported in Sandison Hall.

11:44 p.m.: Suspicious activity was reported in Sandison Hall.

March 3

12:50 a.m.: A disturbance was reported

in the 500 Wabash Apartments.

8:53 a.m.: A suspicious person was reported in the Foundation Building.

2:52 p.m.: Suspicious activity and a trespass warning were reported off campus.

11:30 p.m.: A fire alarm was reported in Erickson Hall.

11:40 p.m.: An injured person was reported in the Student Rec. Center.

March 4

12:25 a.m.: Suspicious activity was reported in Reeve Hall East.

2:33 a.m.: An ID holder was found on campus.

2:59 a.m.: A false fire alarm was reported in the Health and Human Performances Building and Arena.

indianastatesman.com FLINT FROM PAGE 2 and even violent behavior.

Others say it has led to miscarriages.

Some local, state and federal officials knew there were serious problems with Flint’s water long before they switched the source back to Lake Huron, according to recent reports.

Snyder, who had appointed an emergency

TRUMP FROM PAGE 2 delegates needed to win the Republican nomination.

In his Super Tuesday victory remarks, he called himself a “unifier,” and offered kind words for rival Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.

Many conservatives fear, however, that it’s all part of a move toward a general election campaign and potential presidency in which he’d abandon tough stands he took to win the primaries.

Trump’s resume troubles many conservatives who see the GOP as already too

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manager who approved of changing the water supply, has apologized.

Ronna Romney McDaniel, chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party, faulted Democratic candidates for not reaching out to officials at every level, including Snyder’s office, to fully understand the issue and discuss solutions.

At the Republican debate Thursday, which

took place 65 miles away in Detroit, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida praised Snyder for taking responsibility and blasted Democrats for making it a campaign issue.

“This should not be a partisan issue,” Rubio said.

“The way the Democrats have tried to turn this into a partisan issue, that somehow Republicans woke up in the morning and decided, ‘Oh, it’s a

willing to cut deals with Democrats and betray conservative principles.

“I think the concern is he’s not as true a representative of things he’s saying. The question is, is it campaign posturing?” asked George Urban, 39, a Charlottesville, Virginia, business owner attending a conservative political conference in suburban Maryland this week.

(David Goldstein of McClatchy’s Washington Bureau contributed.)

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these women with Ph.D.s — where are they in the university?” said Stanford sociology professor Cecilia Ridgeway, author of the book “Framed by Gender.”

The barriers are many, Ridgeway and others say: deeply ingrained stereotypes of men and women; the power of male-dominated networks and mentors; different expectations for men and women professors; greater confidence among men; a sense that academic women who also are raising children aren’t as serious or productive.

“If you look somewhat different from a traditional faculty member, some professors are going to think you’re not a serious scholar, that you’re just sort of dabbling,” said Catherine Hill, vice president for research at the American Association of University Women. “People like to hire or promote people who are like them.”

Robin Ely, a professor and senior associate dean for culture and community at the Harvard Business School, says hiring and selection committees tend to operate in a self-perpetuating cycle in which “pools of candidates are composed almost entirely of men.”

“It’s kind of amazing that there are as many women as there are in these visible leadership roles in these elite, powerful institutions,” she said, “because it really is bucking the system for that to happen.”

Recent controversies at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and Hoover Institution, a conservative research institution where some complained of a hostile climate for women, and the university’s handling of sexual assault cases are raising questions about a broader gender problem on campus.

Tammy Frisby, a Hoover

good idea to poison some kids with lead.’ It’s absurd.

It’s outrageous. It isn’t true.”

On Friday, Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives, including Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, visited Flint to hear from families affected by the crisis.

UltraViolet, a national women’s advocacy organization, took out

full-page ads in three Michigan newspapers this week giving residents and businesses cut-out signs to put up in their homes and storefronts declaring, “Governor Snyder Not Welcome.”

“I want Hillary,” said Flint Mayor Karen Weaver.

“She has actually been the only, the only candidate, whether we’re talking Democratic or Republican, to reach out and talk with

us about, ‘What can I do?

What kind of help do you need?’”

It was Sanders who first publicly called for Snyder to resign, and he restated that call at a debate in January.

“A man who acts that irresponsibly should not be in power,” he said.

research fellow, argues they are symptoms of a “problem at the top.”

Only four of Hoover’s 74 senior fellows are women, she said, and in the three years since the university investigated the institution’s hiring practices and treatment of female employees, not one woman

has been hired for the senior fellowship.

Still, Frisby has struggled to find people on campus with whom to mobilize around the advancement of women, often finding others to be caught up in their own related causes.

“Until we act like we’re all up against the same

problem, which we are,” she said, “we’re not going to get the real leadership and cultural changes we need.”

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Quidditch: ISU’s ISU production explores themes of magical pastime hardship, commitment, love Rileigh Roberson Reporter

A new club sport, inspired by J.K Rowling’s “Harry Potter” book series, has found its way to Indiana State University’s campus. Quidditch is a sport that has gained a large amount of popularity since its founding in 2010.

There are almost 200 collegiate teams nationwide with over four thousand players. Although this sport was popular among other schools, ISU had somewhat of a hard time getting things started on campus.

“The biggest obstacle is getting people motivated and taking it seriously,” chief membership officer Kelsey Golden said.

Golden’s role in helping get the club started included hanging flyers and helping Quidditch president Mustafa Mustafa review the constitution.

Abdel Mansour, treasurer of the club, was inspired to become a member by his love of the “Harry Potter” series.

“Our generation grew up reading the books and watching the movies,” Mansour said. “When I was a kid I thought it would be an awesome sport to play in real life, although science has not given us the technology of flying brooms; the Muggle version is still pretty fun.”

Sophomore English student Andrew Rohrer became a member last fall when he discovered the organization at the ISU OrgSync Fair. ISU’s team has about 15 students who

are registered, but only about eight who participate in the practices.

“We’ve been trying really hard to get more people to come out to practice,” Rohrer said.

The mission statement of the ISU Quidditch Club is to promote teamwork, friendship and good sportsmanship. The club provides an inclusive environment that allows everyone, whether or not they are “Harry Potter” fans, to enjoy a competitive sport.

The ISU Quidditch team is now an official club sport, which means they will be able to play other schools in regular matches and in tournaments.

“It took a lot of work from the president and his team to get all the necessary paperwork and people in order,” Rohrer said.

“We officially started this semester, so we are still getting on our feet.”

The team has been working hard in recruiting members and trying to get more people to come to the practices. Another obstacle for the team has been learning all the rules and regulations to this new sport.

“Some people think it is just a club and not an actual sport,” Golden said.

This is one of the reasons she, along with the rest of the executive members, has struggled to assemble a regularly dedicated team.

“We have a solid group of people who are on the team and are dedicated,” Golden said.

Next semester the team

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Adrienne Moore Reporter

The idea of life and death may not always be on a person’s mind, but it often follows them throughout their existence whether they like it or not. A performance of the play “BROKE-ology,” written by playwright Nathaniel Louis Jackson, was shown on Indiana State University’s campus last Thursday evening. University Hall was filled with students, community members, and the lessons of life, death and love.

The play, “BROKE-ology,” tells the story of two sons, played by Indiana State University alum Lester McGee and newcomer to acting Jalen Malone, whose characters are trying to understand their own lives while simultaneously taking care of their ill father, portrayed by Indiana State University professor Michael Irvin Arrington.

The play highlights many prevalent issues that often plague people. It also allows people to understand certain things about life that they may have been unaware of.

“I learned that you don’t take life for granted. You never know what may happen in your life,” actor McGee said.

Shannon Shouse-Hart, who plays the late Sonia in the play, said the seriousness of “BROKE-ology” allowed for her to understand certain things about her life.

“It makes you really think about the future and what your life is go-

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Actors in the ISU production of “BROKE-ology” depict the emotional and economic hardships experienced by a father and his sons.

ing to mean in the future,” Shouse-Hart said.

Although the play sent the audience on a roller coaster of emotions, the main cast was also going through its own feelings regarding the play and the experience of it. Jalen Malone said he received a warm welcome in his first theater production.

“The entire cast welcomed me. I feel honored to be a part of the cast. I’m just sad that it is now ending,” Malone said.

Although the roles were different than the play prior to “BROKE-ology,” Shouse-Hart shared her experience about her time with the cast and how comfortable they were with one

another.

“This cast was already acclimated and very much like a family,” Shouse-Hart said.

Shouse-Hart also discussed the change from being in “Fences” to shifting to the play “BROKE-ology.”

“When we started ‘BROKE-ology’ back in December, it was a very natural fit,” Shouse-Hart said.

McGee’s role had similarities toward his character in “Fences,” but this specific role demanded more seriousness out of him, a characteristic that he was not all too familiar with.

“It was very overwhelming to say the least. I am not

a curser. It was very hard to portray a character that cursed a lot,” McGee said.

Although his role was overwhelming, McGee still understood the important message that the play was trying to convey.

“I know a lot of people are going through what my character went through,” McGee said.

The message of the play struck the cast in a way that made them analyze their lives and understand that things are not always permanent.

“You never know what might happen in your life.

Bad things could happen.

Good things could happen.

You just take life a day at a time,” McGee said.

Church at ISU hosts services in University Hall Erica Garnes Reporter

On March 8, 2016 church is coming to Indiana State University, and everyone is invited.

The event will be held in University Hall and doors will open at 7:30 p.m. There will be performances by Divine Praise, Tevin Studdard, and their head Minister, Tavell Grant.

Nae Lewis — service leader and public relations coordinator for the event — explained why such an event is coming to ISU. “We are all students who have a heart after God, and we put him first in our lives. We want everyone to be able to feel the love of Jesus Christ just as much as we do,” Nae Lewis said.

Church at ISU is a stu-

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The new organization “Church at ISU” hopes to provide a student-friendly worship service on campus every other Tuesday at 8 p.m. in University Hall.

dent organization, and will not be a one-time event.

“Our vision for Church at ISU is to create a com-

fortable environment for college and lose touch with at ISU, recently spoke about praise, worship and to glo- God, and we want to pre- bringing church to ISU. rify God,” Lewis said. “So vent that from here on out.”

“I think this is great, a many students come to Shacara Chrisp, a student service that is on campus,

and gives everyone the opportunity to praise God on campus, while being surrounded by other students as well,” Chrisp said. “It is powerful, and I look forward to attending.”

Services will be held every other Tuesday at 8 p.m. in University Hall. Also, they will have updates and details on their Instagram page, ChurchatISU. Anyone looking to become more involved in the ministry can email ChurchatISU@gmail.com.

“Bringing church to ISU means the world to me; this is something I have dedicated my life to,” Lewis said. “Having Christ in my life has made me the person I am today, and I want everyone to be able to feel the love of Christ just as I have.”

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Terre Haute Symphony presents ‘Elvis’ show Trevor Cornelius Reporter

The Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra performed hit songs from Elvis Presley on Saturday night in Tilson Auditorium to commemorate the “King of Rock ’n’ Roll.”

Saturday night, inside a brightly lit Tilson Auditorium, students, faculty and other fans sat in their chairs listening to the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra and its music director, David Bowden.

Bowden grew up an Elvis fan, and while serving as the music director for almost two decades he has been able to bring that rock ’n’ roll sound to the stage as a full-bodied orchestra.

On stage at Tilson Auditorium, the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra played and allowed the audience to reminisce on the grooves and the gyrating hips of Presley.

The track list for the evening included hits such as “Heartbreak Hotel” and

QUIDDITCH, FROM PAGE 4 will start traveling to play against other schools.

Golden’s hope for the future is that they can start playing other schools around Indiana, and hopefully become a recognized team by the USQ, or US Quidditch organization.

Rohrer wants the team to be viewed as an athletic team first, playing an athletic sport just like any other sport; however, he has other goals in mind as well.

“With enough hard work and commitment we can eventually beat Ball State, who has one of the best teams in the United States,” Rohrer said.

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On Saturday in Tilson Auditorium, the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra presented a show featuring the music of Elvis Presley, performing songs such as “Heartbreak Hotel” and “Hound Dog.”

“Hound Dog.” “I enjoyed the singers tonight. That is something you don’t see a lot with an orchestra,” said audience

member Tanner Dennison.

Elvis Presley, born in the middle of the ‘30s in Tupelo, Mississippi, began his singing career with Sun Re-

cords label in Memphis after hearing gospel music in church and the rhythm and blues music on Memphis’ Beale Street as a teenager.

His family had relocated to Memphis, Tennessee over a decade after Elvis was born because of the toll the Great Depression was

taking on the south United States.

Christine Wilson of Mississippi History Now said the Presley family, Gladys, Vernon and the ‘twinless twin’ Elvis, found and rented a downtown apartment through the housing authority at Lauderdale Courts, even though Vernon had been imprisoned back in Tupelo for altering a $4 check.

Elvis Aron Presley, who believed he was a “voracious reader,” started taking guitar lessons in high school, the same time he began to grow his signature sideburns.

Wilson said “he took his guitar to school there too — when some rough kids cut the strings on it, other classmates chipped in and bought him a new set. Elvis took more guitar lessons, tagged along with his guitar teacher and played in his band, had a steady girlfriend, and worked odd jobs after school and summers.” Elvis had found a passion in music.

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Laws reflect the will of the government that enforces them If you are sentenced to death for this, then the government would be committing murder.

But then why isn’t the executioner also put to death? Surely he’s guilty.

Murder is illegal in most cases, except when the law can be bent.

It seems killing people in your own country is a heinous crime but going overseas to kill in a war is noble and courageous. But is there a real difference?

There’s a political difference: killing your fellow countryman is antinationalist and works against the society that raised you.

The society that raised you could call you to action, though, and order you to kill people of another country for whatever reason they tell you.

If you wanted to know how it felt to kill another person, but were too shy to try it in the states, this would be your chance to sign up to find out.

That’s the political aspect, the part that looks for flexibility in the law for national interest, but, really, there is no difference.

The law that says you can’t murder this person but you can murder that person would appear to be flawed.

I discuss this regulation in particular not to condone murder, but to identify discrepancies in seemingly the most cherished laws.

But it’s just an idea, and not all ideas are perfect.

For all ideas to be perfect, everybody in the world would need to think exactly alike and agree on everything, and there are too many people for that to be probable.

There are seven billion people on this earth, and we all have differing interpretations of right and wrong, good and bad.

Thus, laws are subject to change.

As more people voice their opinions on a particular social issue, the more likely it is for a law is to be amended.

To pick an obvious ex-

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We live in a society of laws. These laws are to be obeyed and never broken.

If someone should break the law, they would be held accountable for their offense and bear the consequences.

Laws are taken very seriously because, without them, a civilization of people could not maintain order and ensure justice.

Laws are just ideas, generally agreed upon ideas that are kept on record and enforced in a society.

These ideas are mostly statements declaring that you shall not do this or that and that if you do, you will be punished for your felonious behavior.

Whose ideas are these?

Who decides what behavior is worth criminalizing?

People do. People of power make the decisions that prevent you from doing whatever they forbid.

Many of them are nice ideas, such as you can’t kill people. If you kill someone, your government’s body of laws will rule that you be put in jail, where you may stay until you die.

While you’re there, you might be wondering how powerful an idea is that it can influence a government to decide your fate by locking you up for the rest of your life.

If you’ve done worse, your local legislature may even find justification to kill you.

Suppose you kill a family of six people and eat their three dogs.

You could probably expect to be put to death if you get caught — some would call it justice. I would call it hypocrisy.

Should you commit this wacky scenario, you would be committing the crime of murder nine times.

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What’s up with these Superdelegates?

Joe Lippard

Assistant Opinions Editor

On Saturday, a day dubbed “Super Saturday,” five states held primary elections for president.

Kentucky and Maine held primaries for Republican candidate, Nebraska held a primary for democratic candidate and Kansas and Louisiana held primaries for both parties.

On the Republican side, Cruz and Trump both won two states each, and Rubio failed to pull even 20 percent of the vote in any state.

For the Democrats, Bernie Sanders emerged victorious for the evening, winning Nebraska and Kansas, while Hillary Clinton won Louisiana.

The reason that primaries are held is to choose a candidate for each party.

Delegates are awarded to each candidate depending on the percentage of votes they receive.

Those delegates then go to a convention, usually around July, where a vote is taken among delegates to decide each party’s nomination.

In the Republican primaries, candidates need a total of 1,237 delegates to win the Party’s nomination.

Trump has 382 delegates, Cruz has 300 and Rubio has 128.

There are still 1,612 delegates to be awarded. It’s pretty far from over for any of the three Republican hopefuls.

The Democratic primaries work slightly differently, however. The process with delegates and the convention still happens, but there is also an added element: superdelegates.

Superdelegates have a say in the Democratic National Convention’s nomination just like regular delegates.

The catch is that they are not voted on, and they may vote for whichever candidate they choose. They do not have to pledge to vote for a certain candidate until the day of the nomination.

I take issue with the idea of superdelegates. It seems to sidestep the will of

American citizens.

I see these votes as a way for the DNC to get whatever candidate they want regardless of what the people want.

Essentially, I feel as though the establishment Democratic Party is saying, “We see that you guys want this person, but here are all of our people voting for this person so you won’t make the wrong choice.”

This issue becomes exacerbated when news outlets cover the election. Because Hillary Clinton has won a larger percentage of the primary votes so far, outlets like CNN give Hillary most of the superdelegates, even though they don’t necessarily pledge to vote for one specific candidate.

To win the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, candidates must win 2,383 delegates.

According to CNN, Clinton has 1,138, and Sanders has 483.

These numbers include superdelegates though, whose votes can be swayed depending on how well each candidate does in primary elections.

The actual number of pledged delegates, the

number of people who are actually locked in to vote for Hillary Clinton is 663.

Clinton has 663 pledged delegates who will definitely vote for her at the convention in July.

Right now, Sanders has 457 delegates. When these superdelegates we can’t control are taken out of the equation, suddenly the race becomes a lot closer.

Not only is the race a lot closer after looking at only pledged delegates, but it has to be stressed that the votes of superdelegates can change.

In 2008, current president Barack Obama had fewer superdelegates than Hillary Clinton until the middle of May. It’s the beginning of March now.

There are still 3,163 delegates left to decide out of 4,763. It’s entirely possible for Sanders to win the delegates necessary.

At the end of the day, the most important thing to do is vote in primary elections.

Primaries are the biggest chance for citizens’ voices to be heard. Indiana’s primary is on May 3. Voters can register online at IndianaVoters.in.gov.

There will always be judgment for those of different circumstance

Shayla Bozdech Columnist

Once there was a man and a woman who had a child — pretty typical, right? Well, these two weren’t married — still not that crazy for this time. Except when these two had a baby, it was totally unacceptable to be pregnant out of wedlock. This woman was not pregnant with that man’s baby, but instead it belonged to someone else.

It seemed this baby boy was doomed from the start, right?

Well, he was. From birth, some people just did not like him. There were many out to get him. Many were cruel and whispered as he walked through crowds.

This continued his entire life, but when he passed, many reflected on their actions and realized they were wrong to treat him in the way they did.

But by then, it was too late. The craziest part of the story was that this man ended up being the man who was the most right, honest and caring of them all.

So why would I tell this short story? Well, as col-

lege students and as young adults, we will face a lot of judgment. Whether it be for our actions or lack thereof, many along the way will tell us what we should and should not be doing.

And, some will even care about us immensely and still feel the need to pass their judgments on us. At times, we might lose sight of who we are and why we are here in the first place. In this story, there are a couple examples where judgment from others could have drastically changed the story.

First, let’s talk about the father of the child, or at least the man that raised this child. He was raising

some other man’s son, but he kept going. There is no doubt that this father’s own family could have questioned him and warned him that he should leave the woman and that he was not responsible for the child. That’s what I would tell him. But, he stuck around for the woman and named and raised the child. He opened his heart to a family to which he had no obligation.

Next, when the son came into the world, many knew that he was being raised by a man that had no relation to him.

Then, he continued his life trying to do the right thing: he tried to be caring and full of integrity, but he

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was judged more than he was accepted. Why? Well, as a man of integrity and love, he was radically different from the rest. Different is not acceptable.

Eventually, some started to see the error of their ways, but by large, it was much too late.

Many of us have chosen a path for our lives that our family, friends and instructors would not suggest for us. Family might tell us that we need to pursue a degree that ensures a well-paying job. Friends might think we should spend more or less time studying or being social. Teachers and professors might think we are not doing enough for our future. They might think

graduate school is the only route, or they might think we are not pursuing enough internships or joining enough organizations.

Everyone will have an opinion on our lives. But, we must follow our paths with diligence. Listening to the opinions of others is important, but it is also important that we do not dwell on those opinions and lose sight of what really matters. There is a path for us, and there will be judgment — let them judge.

If we are truly following a path that is right for us, it will all fall in place. Then, when we all — and our family, friends and instructors — look back, we can see that it was all worth it.

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Senior and first team allconference guard D.J. Balentine led the way for the Aces with 14 point and six assists.

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and was held to just two points, but pulled down five rebounds.

Brown scored a gamehigh 15 points for ISU and collected six rebounds as well.

Brown was the only Sycamore to score in double figures.

Evansville jumped on top early, racing to a 5-0 lead in the first 50 seconds.

ISU tried to respond with buckets on two of

their next three possessions, but couldn’t sustain their offensive flow.

The Aces continued to pound the Sycamore defense over the course of the first half and saw their first double-digit lead, 25-15, come with 7:47 remaining until halftime.

ISU’s porous defense coupled with limited offensive production allowed the Aces to take a 15-point lead into the half.

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The Sycamores continued to struggle while the Aces built an insurmountable lead, growing to 30 late in game.

The Sycamores now head into their off-season regimen and work to find replacements for graduating seniors Brown, Khristian Smith and Brandon Burnett.

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Sycamore women falter in regular season finale

ISU tops No. 25 Oklahoma State Ashley Dickerson

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WICHITA, KANSAS — Two weeks ago it appeared as if Indiana State women’s basketball was on the rise, riding a four-game winning streak that included two victories over powerful Drake and Loyola teams.

But what’s happened since then has left many wondering what exactly is wrong with the Sycamores, now in the midst of a threegame losing streak.

Its latest loss, a 54-53 affair at Wichita State that concluded the regular season, is perhaps the most stinging loss of the three.

Not only did the defeat come at the hands of a Shocker team that entered the contest with just a 7-21 record, but dropping the decision also dropped Indiana State to sixth place in the Missouri Valley Conference, taking away the opportunity to secure fifth had the Sycamores won the game.

All was right early on in the contest for ISU. After getting manhandled at Missouri State on Thursday night 75-41, the Sycamores stormed out to an 11-0 lead in the opening three minutes, looking as if they had corrected mistakes once across the Kansas state line.

However, a timeout called by Wichita following the Sycamore outburst put an end to all the fun.

The Shockers took care of business in a dictating way.

Down 11, Wichita outscored Indiana State 28-12 for the rest of the first half and led 28-23 at intermission.

Indiana State made its runs in the second half and led briefly in the third quarter before Wichita State again put its foot down and got back out in front.

The Sycamores did enough right things in the period to tie the game at 39 by the end of the third, but the Shockers led the entire fourth quarter en route to

Despite the windy weather conditions, Indiana State Baseball (7-5, 0-0 MVC) was able to steal game three from No. 25 Oklahoma State (6-6, 0-0 Big 12) with a 2-0 win over the Cowboys.

The Sycamores played a sound baseball game, getting runners on, moving around the bases and scoring on Cowboy miscues and their own batting efforts.

Junior Justin Hill did the work on the mound for the Sycamores, only allowing two hits throughout seven innings and earning the shutout win to improve himself to 2-0.

Sophomore Jeremy McKinney recorded his first save of the year, throwing for one inning.

Much like Saturday’s game, Indiana State struck first, scoring one run in the top of the third inning.

Freshman Chris Ayers started things off with a single through the right side followed by a bunt single from sophomore Tyler Friis.

Senior Andy Young loaded the bases, singling through the left side.

A wild pitch from Cowboy hurler, Michael Mertz, would safely plate Ayers to give the Sycamores the 1-0 advantage.

Indiana State plated another run in the top of the fifth inning after senior Andy DeJesus doubled, junior Hunter Owen was hit by a pitch, and then senior Kaden Moore singled through the right side, sending DeJesus around to score.

This win marks the first over a ranked opponent since last season’s 8-1 victory over No. 12 Dallas Baptist in the Missouri Valley Conference tournament.

Indiana State Baseball returns to action on Tuesday, March 8 for their home opener at Bob Warn Field against SIUE at 3 p.m.

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Junior guard Joyea Marshall makes a run for the basket against Wichita State in the Hulman Center on Jan. 1. The Sycamores played the Shockers again at Wichita in the last game of the regular season, falling 54-53.

the win, holding on for dear life in the final seconds to preserve the victory.

Despite its woes throughout the afternoon, ISU had three opportunities to win the game with five seconds to go in the game.

All three shot attempts underneath the bucket clanged off the iron, which dropped a few Sycamores to their knees in disappointment when the buzzer sounded.

“They (Wichita State) exposed our maturity factor, and we got a little relaxed, lazy and sloppy with the ball,” Indiana State head coach Joey Wells said of the game in his postgame radio interview. “You just can’t do that at a place like this.”

But unfortunately ISU did do those things inside Charles Koch Arena.

Not only were Indiana

State’s season-long maturity issues a factor in the loss, but a plethora of X’s and O’s miscues didn’t help matters.

The biggest of them all was defense, something that comes across as a bit of a surprise granted Indiana State is statistically one of the top three defensive teams in the MVC. Poor defensive positioning boded well for Wichita who drew contact and drilled 19-of-22 from the free throw line, which proved to be the most vital offensive stat of the day.

The Shockers’ 86 percent from the charity stripe bested ISU considerably as the Sycamores connected on just 7-15 from the foul line for 47 percent.

Making it worse was the fact that the majority of the free throws for Wichita

State came late on each respective possession with the shot clock winding down.

Turnovers were also a “bugaboo” as Indiana State mishandled the basketball 18 times. Wichita State scored 16 points off of the miscues.

“For us, there are things we have to do on the defensive end, and we can’t give away points with silly fouls and bailing them out in situations,” Coach Wells added. “We just have to do little things better, and when you can’t score you have to be better on the defensive end.”

Joyea Marshall, a native of Wichita, did her best to put the Sycamores on her back for much of the game, scoring 17 points and grabbing six rebounds.

Fellow Kansas citizen

Cierra Ceazer scored 14 points and tied Marshall with team-high rebounding honors.

Rangie Bessard scored 17 for Wichita, doing damage at the free throw line with a 7-8 performance.

TaQuandra Mike and Jaleesa Chapel joined her in double figures with 16 and 10 points respectively.

The duo was a combined 9-10 from the stripe.

Indiana State finishes the regular season with a 13-6 overall mark and a 9-9 MVC record.

The Sycamores are dealt a tough hand out of the gate in this week’s MVC Tournament in the Quad Cities, facing off against thirdseeded Missouri State.

The Bears won both contests over ISU this season and are 21-9 overall.

Late rally sends Lipscomb past Sycamore softball Blaine Kinsey

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NASHVILLE, Tenn.— The Lipscomb Lady Bisons used a late sixth-inning rally to move past the Indiana State softball team 12-9 in the final game of the Purple and Gold Challenge in Nashville, Tennessee, Sunday.

The Sycamores jumped out to an early lead when junior Kassie Brown was hit by a pitch to lead off

the game and came around to score on an RBI single off the bat of junior Erika Crissman.

Lipscomb answered with two in the bottom of the first, however, to take a 2-1 lead after one complete.

Freshman Bailey Martin then gave the Sycamores the lead once again in the top of the second when she hit an RBI double to score senior Abbie Malchow to make it 2-1.

Lipscomb threatened in

the bottom of the second, however, the Lady Bisons’ baserunner did not tag up on a fly out to center field, ending the inning.

The Lipscomb offense bounced back, plating one in the third and two in the fourth to take a 5-2 lead over the Sycamores heading to the top of the fifth inning. Indiana State got things going in the top of the fifth, however, to retake the lead at 8-5.

Martin and junior Kassie

Brown led off the inning with a singles before freshman Shaye Barton was hit by a pitch to load the bases.

Crissman then hit a twoRBI single before junior Brooke Riemenschneider hit an RBI single to score Barton and make it 6-5.

After a batter interference and a hit-by-pitch, junior Jackie Hernandez hit a double that resulted in three runs scored after a Lipscomb error to give the Sycamores an 8-5 advan-

tage, heading to the bottom of the sixth. Lipscomb responded in the bottom of the fifth with one run before taking the lead with a big sixth inning at the plate.

After two quick outs, the Lady Bisons picked up one run and had the bases loaded before a fly ball to foul territory off the right field line was initially ruled a catch and later over turned by the home plate umpire.

Lipscomb then plated five more runs, only three

earned to make it 12-8.

Indiana State tried to rally with two outs in the seventh, scoring one run off an RBI double by Martin before falling by a final score of 12-9.

Martin finished the game 3-4 at the plate with two RBIs and Crissman was 2-4 with three RBIs. The Sycamores will return to action Friday when they travel to Orlando, Florida, for the UCF Spring Fling.