November 16, 2015

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Monday, Nov. 16, 2015

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Possible changes coming to Sodexo dining

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Morgan Gallas Reporter

Indiana State University hopes to take advantage of ideas from Sodexo’s Better Tomorrow Plan Summit in Atlanta, Georgia, which took place Nov. 2-3.

Barbara DeGrandchamp, the director of Retail Operations and Residential Dining at ISU, went to the conference and brought back information to improve ISU’s campus.

“The highlights (of the conference) include a presentation from Stephen Ritz,” DeGrandchamp said. “Stephen is a South Bronx educator and administrator who believes that students shouldn’t have to leave their community to live, learn and earn in a better one.”

Another speaker was Erica Dhawan, the co-author of the book “Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence.” There were also other speakers who led break-out sessions for the attendants.

“Just before I left for the summit, we as Sodexo and ISU held our own Better Tomorrow Plan,” DeGrandchamp said.

“This included Sodexo’s sponsorship of the Diversity Research Symposium (held Oct. 24).”

Sodexo also participated in the Wellness Bash on Oct. 28 and Weigh the Waste, which took place on Oct. 27 and 28.

The Better Tomorrow Plan has four sections to it: diversity, wellness, sustainability and community involvement.

“Diversity and inclusion is a really important topic right now, and as you can see with (the) University of Missouri, we shouldn’t ignore it,” DeGrandchamp said.

“We are all diverse with different ages, genders,

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A crowd gathers for a vigil in honor of the victims of terrorist attacks in Paris at Lafayette Square, outside the White House, on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015, in Washington, D.C.

Paris grieves while search goes on Mitchell Prothero

McClatchy Foreign Staff (TNS)

IRBIL, Iraq — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Saturday for the attacks that killed at least 129 people across Paris Friday, issuing both written and audio statements promising that the violence was only the “first of the storm.”

If confirmed as genuine, the statements would make Friday’s coordinated violence the first major operation by the group outside an area where it has a significant presence.

The Islamic State claim came as French authorities struggled to put together what took place Friday night, and security officials worried that the network that supported the attacks was still at large and planning more.

Police arrested one of the people thought to be involved in the attack trying to drive back into Belgium, where three of the dead attackers are

known to have lived. In addition, Belgian police “made several arrests” of those suspected of involvement in the terrorist plot, according to French media reports.

French officials used the fingerprints of one of the dead attackers to identify him as a 30-year-old French national from the Paris suburb of Courcouronnes who had been previously flagged as having extremist ties.

And Nikos Toskas, the Greek minister for citizen protection, said a Syrian passport found near the bodies of two suicide bombers had been recorded as entering Europe through the island of Leros as a refugee. The minister noted that it was not clear that the passport belonged to an attacker.

The death toll was expected to rise.

An estimated 352 were wounded in the attacks, at least 99 of them critically. Medical officials called for off-duty doctors to report for work at hospitals treating the wounded.

In Washington, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Americans were among the wounded. He would not say if any had been killed, but French news reports said at least one American student had died.

The claim of responsibility was released on an encrypted online channel previously used by the group, and the banners and accompanying Quranic verses conformed with the group’s previous announcement of a major attack in Tunisia.

The logo referred to the group as the Islamic State of France. The statement was released in French and said the attacks were revenge for French military participation in the U.S.-led anti-Islamic State coalition and perceived insults to the Prophet Mohammed, a reference to January’s attack on a French satirical magazine prone to mocking Islam by gunmen from the

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Ingesting powdered caffeine can have deadly consequences Nevia Buford

Assistant News Editor

Powdered caffeine can be dangerous and has caused overdosing and fatalities.

A story reported by wthitv.com stated that two young men from Ohio and Georgia overdosed from using powdered caffeine.

In September, the Food and Drug Administration issued warnings to five companies that sell powdered caffeine, telling them they needed to work on the labeling of the product.

Dr. Donna Crawford, an assistant professor in Indiana State University’s Department of Nursing, said, “The FDA has spoken to those companies

and told them they need to work on their labeling, or stop selling it because of the dangers.”

The problem is not the powdered caffeine itself, but rather the potential to use too much because the product is so strong.

“The recommended intake, the dose for promoting alertness is 100 to 200 milligrams of caffeine about every three to four hours. So that’s a little more than, or in the area, of a cup a coffee, say at Starbucks,” Crawford said. “Used in that way it is safe, that almost no one overdoses on caffeine.”

Crawford said the difference between powdered caffeine and the caffeine in coffee is the powdered substance is much stronger, and harder to measure

out.

“A teaspoon of powdered caffeine can equal … 28 cups of coffee,” Crawford said. “So the problem with this is that most of us have measuring spoons in our kitchen, that we’ll get a teaspoon, half teaspoon, quarter teaspoon, maybe an eighth but at home, but we couldn’t measure out … a safe dose,” Crawford said.

The recommended dose of powdered caffeine is measured by weight, but measuring spoons are a measure of volume.

According to wthitv.com, “You would need a kitchen scale to measure out 400 milligrams of powdered caffeine, which the FDA says is your maximum daily dose.”

The article from wthitv.com quoted Dr. Jack Hanson, who said that a person who has taken too much caffeine “would be tremulous, they might have trouble sleeping, they might do a lot of sweating, they might complain of palpitations or shortness of breath. The later stages though are very fast heart rate, seizures, altered mental status and cardiac arrest.”

There are other alternatives to powdered caffeine.

“You can buy some products like Low Dose that have some caffeine in them as well; they seem to be around 200 milligrams,” Crawford said. “I saw capsules for sale online that were about 200 milligrams. So that’s a strong cup of coffee, so that’s not so bad.”

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U. of I. OKs $875,000 settlement to end dispute Jodi S. Cohen

Chicago Tribune (TNS)

CHICAGO—The University of Illinois’ decision last year to revoke a job offer to controversial professor Steven Salaita will cost more than $2 million, including an $875,000 settlement that trustees approved Thursday.

Salaita, who lost a tenured faculty position after posting a string of antiIsrael comments on social media, will get $600,000 in the deal in exchange for dropping two lawsuits against the university and agreeing he will never work at the University of Illinois.

Salaita’s attorneys will get $275,000.

The settlement — to be paid out within 30 days — is on top of the $1.3 million in legal fees the university has spent during the past 14 months on Salaita-related issues, including a federal suit brought

by Salaita that alleged breach of contract and violation of his free speech rights.

Trustees voted 9-1 to approve the agreement, in which the university admits no wrongdoing. The settlement will be paid for by self-insurance and institutional funds, which includes some taxpayer money. Trustee Timothy Koritz voted against it, saying the trustees’ decision last year to rescind the offer was “in the best interest of students.”

“I hope the settlement brings some closure to a challenging period for our entire community,” Urbana-Champaign interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson said after the vote. “I truly believe it marks a point in time when we can collectively shift our conversations from what has happened in the past to where we want to go in the future.”

Indeed, the past year has been a particularly unpleasant and divisive one for the campus, marked by faculty boycotts and protests, and votes of no confidence in the former chancellor. Critics of the university’s decision called it an affront to free speech and academic freedom — the principle that protects faculty who speak out on controversial issues.

In an emailed statement, Salaita called

Naming contest sparks creativity among students Miguel Lewis Reporter

The scholarship management system will soon receive a new name from an Indiana State University student. The winning submission from the “Name AcademicWorks” competition will be the new name of the online system. The winner of this contest will receive their choice of a Lenovo Ultrabook or a $500 scholarship.

ISU’s director of scholarships Sarah Wurtz said she was excited about the opportunities this competition could bring.

“Hopefully this scholarship will attract some positive attention,” Wurtz said. “We thought offering this scholarship would be a great opportunity to put students’ creativity to the test and assist them in learning more about ISU and some of the changes we have been making.

The actual scholarship stemmed from motivation to get students to log into ISU’s system.”

By Nov. 13, the contest’s deadline, participation in the competition had reached upward of 150 students.

Recreational sports major Ricardo Fonseca was among those interested in participating.

“If all I have to do is be creative, I’m more than willing to make a submission,” Fonseca said.

This was the first time a competition like this one has been done, and organizers weren’t sure how many students would participate. However, Wurtz sent campus-wide emails to students, published an article about the scholarship in the campus newsletter, put up posters around campus and advertised using social media.

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Professor Steven Salaita greets people before speaking on Oct. 6, 2014, at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

the settlement “a vindication” for himself and a “victory for academic freedom and the First Amendment.”

“The petitions, demonstrations and investigations, as well as the legal case, have reinvigorated American higher education as a place of critical thinking and rigorous debate, and I am deeply grateful to all who have spoken out,” Salaita said.

The controversy began in July 2014, weeks before Salaita was to begin a tenured faculty job in the American Indian Studies program on the UrbanaChampaign campus. He had accepted the $85,000-a-year job the previous year, resigned from his position on the faculty

at another university, and had begun the process to move his family to Illinois.

But that summer, after getting feedback from donors, students and parents, thenChancellor Phyllis Wise started raising concerns about Salaita’s anti-Israel Twitter posts, many of which contained profane and inflammatory language.

Salaita had been posting prolifically about the Israeli government and its military actions in Gaza. In one tweet he wrote: “Let’s cut to the chase: If you’re defending #Israel right now you’re an awful human being.”

Salaita has described his tweets as “passionate and unfiltered,” and many fo-

cused on the number of children killed in the conflict.

But Urbana-Champaign officials decided they didn’t want him in the classroom, and they pulled his job offer in August. The U. of I. board of trustees affirmed that decision in a vote the next month.

Salaita sued in January, contending that U. of I. violated his rights to academic freedom and free speech when it rescinded the offer, and that it breached the contract to hire him. The university claimed that the job offer was at all times

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The new face of bias on campus: microaggression Teresa Watanabe and Jason Song

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

LOS ANGELES — University of Southern California junior Vanessa Diaz was raised in Dallas. But at a party two years ago, she was asked if she could speak English.

When Diaz became offended, the other student tried to pass off the question as a joke.

But it did not amuse her, any more than the idea of Mexicanthemed parties on Greek Row featuring students in sombreros and fake mustaches.

“Because of the society we live in, it’s not OK to be overtly racist,” Diaz said. “But that doesn’t mean everything is OK.” Some call it the new face of racism — not the blatant acts of bias that recently led to the University of Missouri’s campus unrest and resignation of the president and chancellor.

Instead, a phenomenon known as “microaggression” — everyday slights and snubs, sometimes unintentional — is drawing widespread attention across college campuses and kicking up a debate about social justice and free speech rights.

Students are sharing their experiences with microaggression on websites and Facebook pages at Harvard, Oberlin, Brown, Dartmouth, Swarthmore, Columbia, Willamette and other universities.

In the last eight years, researchers have conducted more than 5,500 studies on the topic documenting how such seemingly minor slights harm student performance, mental health and work productivity, said Derald Wing Sue, a Columbia University psychology professor and leading expert on the topic.

University of California

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Students listen as the USC Student Government votes on a resolution to increase diversity at the Ronald Tutor Center on Tuesday, Nov. 10.

President Janet Napolitano invited faculty members last year to take training in recognizing microaggression and the messages they send. One handout, adapted from Sue’s research, offered examples: Telling people of color they speak English well sends a message they are perpetual foreigners in their own land, or asserting that America is a “melting pot” denies the significance of a person’s racial or ethnic experiences.

Some critics, however, say they worry that the microaggression movement chills free speech, increases conflict and perpetuates an aggrieved sense of victimhood.

Bradley Campbell, an associate professor of sociology at Cal State Los Angeles, said the movement is transforming so-

ciety from a “dignity culture,” in which people are taught to have thick skins and refuse to allow others to affect their sense of self-worth, to a “victimhood culture” that advertises personal oppression.

Such a shift, he argued, could increase mental health problems and First Amendment conflicts, such as campus speech codes and the recent attempt by University of Missouri students to bar journalists from entering a public area they deemed their “safe space.”

He also said that labeling those who unintentionally offend as aggressors seemed harsh, potentially creating more conflict and alienation among groups.

Others defend the focus on microaggression as the next

step forward in the country’s long, slow march toward greater equality and understanding.

Rini Sampath, USC’s student body president, who is of Indian descent, drew national attention when she wrote on Facebook about an ethnic slur hurled at her. She said that microaggressions should not be shrugged off as trivial.

“People are going to dismiss us … because they say it’s political correctness gone too far,” Sampath said. “But every day, students walk into a room and someone makes fun of their accent or (they get) kicked out of parties, and we have to take those things seriously. Microaggressions lead to macroaggressions.”

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ISU Public Safety police blotter Nov. 11

10:08 a.m.: A bank card was found in Rhoads Hall.

2:15 p.m.: A theft was reported in Mills Hall.

7:07 p.m.: A theft and fraud were reported in the African-American Cultural Center.

10:51 p.m.: A disturbance was reported in Jones Hall.

4:11 p.m.: A property damage accident

was reported in Lot 13.

Nov. 12

12:30 p.m.: A suspicious person was reported in Lot G. 6:01 p.m.: A battery was reported in

the Hulman Memorial Student Union.

11:05 p.m.: Public intoxication was reported in the Lincoln Quad Dining Center.

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PARIS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 group’s rival jihadists, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP. “Eight brothers carrying explosive belts and guns targeted areas in the heart of the French capital that were specifically chosen in advance: the Stade de France during a match against Germany which that imbecile Francois Hollande was attending; the Bataclan where hundreds of idolaters were together in a party of perversity as well as other targets,” the statement said. “France and those who follow its path must know that they remain the principal targets of the Islamic State.”

SODEXO CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 nationalities, races and different ways of going through life, so how can we take what we are and make us feel included.”

One of Sodexo’s next projects is to have their diverse staff members prepare dishes like their traditions prepare them. This would allow for more authentic, home-style food.

“Sustainability is what I was really hoping to learn more about in the Atlanta summit,” DeGrandchamp said. “I wanted to get more insight into what other college campuses are doing for

PROFESSOR CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 subject to the ultimate approval of the board of trustees and that “at no time was Dr. Salaita hired as a faculty member.”

As that lawsuit and a separate state case progressed, Salaita and his attorneys repeatedly called for him to get a faculty position at U. of I. But Salaita recently decided that it was time to “move on,” according to his attorney.

“He wanted to put this case and the University of Illinois behind him,” said Anand Swaminathan of the Chicagobased firm Loevy & Loevy. “They eventually offered a number that was acceptable to Steven and allowed him to have the peace of mind and financial security that he needs to move on.”

Salaita, who currently has a one-year appointment at the University of Beirut in Lebanon, hopes to get a faculty job in the United States, Swaminathan said.

U. of I. also wants to move on.

In particular, the university hopes the settlement will help get it off a list of

The statement also referred to the French capital as a “capital of prostitution and obscenity,” and directly targeted entertainment and nightlife venues.

Multiple analysts noted that the direct targeting of civilians more or less randomly based on the venues — which themselves were picked with obvious care — appeared in line with a previous Islamic State attack in Tunisia, which killed scores of mostly Britons on vacation.

The analysts noted that al-Qaida and its affiliates usually target political, military or economic targets.

Witnesses described the attackers as very specific and methodical in both

selecting the targets and in executing victims, pausing to reload as they shot individual victims.

They waited to detonate their explosive vests only as police closed in.

Hollande, the French president, described the attacks Saturday as an “act of war” in a statement that vowed revenge.

“What happened yesterday in Paris and in Saint Denis is an act of war, and this country needs to make the right decisions to fight this war,” he said. “This act committed by the terrorist army, Islamic State, is against who we are, against a free country that speaks to the whole world.”

“It is an act of war prepared and

planned outside, with outside involvement which this investigation will seek to establish. It is an act of absolute barbarism. France will be ruthless in its response to Islamic State,” Hollande said.

To equip eight well-armed attackers with automatic weapons that are illegal in France and to manufacture the explosive vests the attackers wore, to say nothing of planning an operation that spanned six locations in eastern Paris, likely required a substantial network whose members likely are still at large.

sustainability, but the summit gave a broader spectrum of where we are going in the future.”

The difficult part of sustainability is getting the community to follow along.

“What Sodexo can do for ISU sustainability is to continue to support the community garden,” DeGrandchamp said. “We want to get the message out to the Commons: don’t take what you don’t need. Students don’t need to take the extra bag at Burger King. They don’t always need a straw or lid.”

Sustainability is an important part of the Better Tomorrow Plan because it can

be applied to all areas of life.

“The little things add up,” DeGrandchamp said. “What I learned at the conference is that Americans waste 25 percent of all of the food they buy.”

The third pillar of the Better Tomorrow Plan is wellness, which includes students, faculty, staff and the community.

“Wellness is something that we want all students to care about,” DeGrandchamp said. “We did the Wellness Bash last month in the Recreation Center. We have more signs like out ‘Mindful’ signs that will come out soon.”

The final part of the Better Tomorrow

Plan is community involvement.

“We want to make simple changes to make things easier for everyone,” DeGrandchamp said. “Sodexo at ISU is committed to providing a better tomorrow through diversity, wellness, sustainability and community involvement.”

DeGrandchamp said she hopes these changes can make ISU students feel more at home.

“We have the whole Terre Haute community around us,” DeGrandchamp said. “Everyone eats. When you walk into the dining halls, we want all students to feel included.”

censured universities by the American Association of University Professors.

The prominent group found that U. of I. violated Salaita’s due process rights as a faculty member, acted outside the widely accepted standards of academic governance and created an uncertain climate for academic freedom on campus.

While acknowledging the settlement amount is “significant,” Wilson said it is less than what the university would have paid to continue to defend the lawsuits as they proceeded to the trial and hearing phases over the next year.

The two sides began working with a federal mediator last month to help reach an agreement. Wilson said the university made clear to Salaita that “we were not going to hire him.”

“The university from the beginning recognized that we had disrupted Dr. Salaita’s career and made it difficult for his family,” she said. “We feel some amount of compensation is reasonable and appropriate given that situation.” ©2015 Chicago Tribune. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

BIAS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 Jerry Kang, a professor of law and Asian-American studies at UCLA, said explicit bias may be less visible today, but a growing body of mind-science research has documented that even people who don’t consider themselves bigoted take actions belying that.

Such implicit biases have been correlated with behavior including job interview callbacks, hiring of men over women, use of police force and funding of minority student organizations, he said.

“The microaggression conversation has helped all of us,” said Kang, who was named this year as UCLA’s first vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion. “Having multiple vocabulary and methods for measuring how fair and square we are is always a good thing for society.”

But students say it’s not always easy to call out such slights.

At UC Berkeley, Spencer Pritchard, a biracial student majoring in political economy and African-American stud-

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ies, said he tried to laugh off jests by his white and Asian-American floormates who expressed surprise that he was articulate and good at math.

“After the fact, I got frustrated and wondered why I let that slide,” he said.

“I’d like to not let it bother me if I didn’t see black people disproportionately going to prison, dying at the hands of police or being pulled by their hair in classrooms. Microaggressions are part of a bigger picture.”

At UCLA, Filipino-American student Kevin Casasola said he has learned to recognize the harm caused by seemingly innocuous slights and is more willing to voice his discontent with them.

He said his peers will sometimes ask where he is “really from” after he tells them he was raised in Temecula.

“The covert underlying message is ‘Oh, I don’t believe you’re from here,’” said Casasola, a third-year statistics major. “It perpetuates an idea of xenophobia.” ©2015 Los Angeles Times. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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Event recruits middle school girls to tech careers Kristen Kilker

ISU Communications and Marketing

“Why do we need more women?” Bev Bitzegaio asked a classroom of middleschool girls from Crawfordsville.

A girl in the back of the room raised her hand. “Because we’re better at it,” she said, and her classmates laughed in agreement.

“Why else?” Bitzegaio asked.

“Because we’re cooler than them,” said another, and the laughter grew louder.

“That goes without saying,” Bitzegaio said. Addressing a room of female students with a background in advanced math and science education, it was time to settle down and begin the real discussion. “Anyone else?”

A girl in the middle raised her hand.

“We have a different perspective on things.”

“Yes, that’s it!” said Bitzegaio, director of outreach and student career support in Indiana State University’s College of Technology.

Thus began the closing address for an eventful day of workshops to teach girls about careers in science, technology, engineering and math.

Bitzegaio said it’s important to interest women in these fields for a couple of reasons: ensuring that we have enough people to fill these jobs in a projected upcoming shortage, and seeking the diversity of thought to find creative solutions-best gained by welcoming people with diverse backgrounds.

“One of the most important reasons is to try to get more people in general going into those fields. There are going to be major shortages over the next 10 years, especially in technology and en-

New ‘Star Trek’ puts us closer to streaming service overload Nina Metz

Chicago Tribune (TNS)

Fatigue was the first reaction I had when CBS announced that it plans to launch a “Star Trek” reboot that will only be available through the network’s All Access subscription streaming service.

“Really?” I thought. “Yet another service to which I’ll have to fork over some dough?”

If I’m being honest this is silly, because no, I don’t have to subscribe to anything. Life is short and viewing hours are limited; there’s no way to watch everything so you pick your spots. I don’t feel the same annoyance when I consider how many new book releases I won’t get to. It’s fine.

I wonder, though: How many over-the-top streaming sites are you willing to buy into until it feels onerous?

Dave Tolchinsky, who heads of the department of radio, television and film at Northwestern University, boiled it down to this: “It’s really about convenience versus cost and how much we still find shows to watch by randomly clicking through our TV’s channels versus knowing exactly what we intend to watch and finding it as quickly as possible.”

“How many of us actually watch TV in the traditional sense?” Tolchinsky added. “I watch mostly on my computer — Netflix, iTunes or HBO. Even when I’m watching TV, it’s usually through my Apple TV or iTunes.”

The majority of 15- to 29-yearolds (62 percent) still prefer watching shows on an actual TV screen, according to a study by TV network Revolt cited by AdWeek in April. Only 43 percent said they planned to have a cable subscription five years from now; 61 percent said they would be using a streaming service such as Netflix or Amazon.

What the study didn’t determine was just how many of those online platforms millennials anticipated aggregating into their own private bundles. As they have families and their homes become filled with multiple TV tastes, how will they figure out how many subscriptions are enough?

For now, I have a pretty extensive cable package. And Netflix and Amazon. I’m exactly the sort of person who should be subscribing to Acorn TV (which streams shows from the U.K.), but I can’t seem to pull the trigger.

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Girls from Crawfordsville Middle School listen to Indiana State University Females in Technology students and College of Technology staff member Beverly Bitzegaio Nov. 4, 2015 during a daylong program to educate prospective future students about science, technology, engineering and math programs.

gineering. Science and math are doing a better job at recruiting women, although that growth is hard to quantify,” she said.

“Why do companies want more diversity? If you have all the same kind of people that are working, it’s harder to solve problems important problems in unique ways. So, they are looking for diversity of thought.”

Four groups of seven middle schoolers each took turns participating in workshops, taught by Indiana State faculty and undergraduate students — many of whom participated in the NASA Ignite!

Scholar program the previous week, where they received training in the NASA curriculum and learned teaching methods to work with children going

into STEM areas.

In the “Females in Technology” workshop, the middle schoolers learned how to “ask, imagine, plan, create and improve.” The students were paired with the person sitting beside them to make the tallest tower out of 16 plastic cups

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High school teacher is top-notch jazz musician, with charismatic new album Howard Reich

Chicago Tribune (TNS)

CHICAGO — The kids who study music at St. Charles North High School in suburban Chicago may not realize how fortunate they are.

For their teacher/bandleader happens to be one of Chicago’s more commanding saxophonists, an artist who surely could build a full-time international career performing, if he so chose.

When I first heard John Wojciechowski, at the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition in Washington in 1996, I was sure he would take the top prize.

Certainly he deserved it.

He won third place instead, but there was no doubt that a significant player had announced himself to the wider jazz public at that momentous event.

It marked a turning point for him, for he had just come home to the Detroit area after a brief foray in New York and was

contemplating his next move.

A conversation with jazz master Wayne Shorter at the Monk contest inspired him to “stay on the path and keep working hard,” as Wojciechowski told me afterward.

To the good fortune of Chicago listeners, Wojo — as everyone calls him — moved here in 2002.

Ever since, his muscular playing has powered the work of the Chicago Jazz Orchestra, the much-missed Chicago Jazz Ensemble and uncounted smaller groups.

But nowhere has Wojciechowski made a stronger statement than in “Focus” (Origin Records), his charismatic new recording. Listen to the vibrancy of his sound, the ingenuity of his lines and the originality of his compositions, and you’re hearing a once-promising saxophonist asserting himself as a mature master.

He’s joined on the recording by drummer Dana Hall, pianist Ryan Cohan and

John Wojciechowski, a saxophonist.

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bassist Dennis Carroll — all But how does he accomwidely admired Chicago mu- plish this level of work while sicians who have worked with Wojciechowski for years.

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‘Concussion’ doesn’t hold back in addressing NFL’s head-injury crisis Steven Zeitchik

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

LOS ANGELES — Long before its Christmas Day release, the fact-based film “Concussion” was generating speculation and even potential controversy. Would the movie — about the NFL’s handling of football’s head-injury crisis — pull punches in how it addressed the topic?

And if it didn’t, could it alter perceptions of the country’s dominant sports pastime?

On Tuesday night at AFI Fest, “Concussion” made an early statement on those issues when it screened for the public for the first time. While the jury is out on how the film, which stars Will Smith and is backed by Sony Pictures, will echo in a nation obsessed with all things pigskin, the answer to the first question was resolute: The film does not hold back.

That position was encapsulated by its director, the journalist-turned-filmmaker Peter Landesman, who in an interview with The Times af-

ter the screening said of the NFL, “Not to sound dramatic, but they have death on their hands.”

“Concussion” explores the 21st-century discovery of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a disease now believed to afflict scores of former NFL players, including the late San Diego Charger star Junior Seau. The condition results from repeated blows to the head and can include a range of debilitating cognitive and emotional symptoms. One of its most insidious features is that it cannot be detected by traditional scans and in fact is only fully diagnosed after death.

Shedding a light on all this is Bennet Omalu (Smith), a Nigerian-born forensic pathologist in Pittsburgh who, in 2002, notices a strange set of medical circumstances while performing an autopsy on former Steelers offensive lineman Mike Webster, who had committed suicide. That soon sets Omalu off on a research path that unearths more such cases, discovered after their sufferer

also takes his own life.

Needless to say, the doctor quickly runs afoul of the NFL, which seeks, as Omalu’s boss and research partner Cyril Wecht (Albert Brooks) says, to “bury” them. Discrediting Omalu’s research is the least of the league’s measures, according to the movie, which implies that the league played a role in the FBI investigating Wecht and even tormented Omalu’s family.

If you’re waiting for the film to give the NFL a pass or a small moment of redemption, it never comes. Instead, NFL figures are shown as shadowy figures who stop at nothing to protect their interests. There are repeated comparisons between the league and Big Tobacco, the film equating the industries in their allegedly suppressing evidence that their product is deadly.

The NFL has made no comment on the movie. But its position has long been that it has taken the necessary steps to address these health concerns via such action as a so-called “concussion protocol” that re-

quires players to pass a long series of tests before retaking the field after a sharp blow to the head.

The issue of the NFL’s relationship to “Concussion” came to the fore several months ago with reports that the movie had been changed to placate the league. If such changes were considered, they did not appear to make their way into the finished film. “I’m thinking if this is ‘caved,’ jeez, I’d like to think of what the other film” would be, Brooks said at the screening.

Landesman said he did not meet with the NFL — he canceled a scheduled meeting with a top executive at the last moment because he felt it would help the NFL more than it would him — and Sony has maintained that it has been unbowed by the possibility of any league reprisal. The studio, which greenlit the movie after many of its competitors passed, is one of the few corporate-owned Hollywood entities not to have a business relation-

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indianastatesman.com TECH CAREERS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 and one rubber band, only able to pick the cups up with string in a “threading”.

After a five-minute planning session between partners, 15 minutes of completely silent creation led to carefullyconstructed cup towers.

In another classroom, aviation instructor Melanie Abel let the students take to the virtual skies in three Redbird flight simulators, one of which allowed the students to experience motion.

“Our goal today is to expose them to aviation. Currently, only about 6 percent of pilots are female,” Abel said. “So, being a female in aviation, it is important for me to share my love of aviation with them.”

Edie Wittenmyer, instructor of electronics and computer engineering, showed the students how to make their own movie sequences in a video game workshop.

In majors that deal with creating video games, contrary to our idea in the

NFL CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 ships with the NFL. The head-trauma publicity is just one front on which the league has fought.

The NFL has endured a series of public relations nightmares, the latest of which are revelations of photos of graphic bruises on Nicole Holder allegedly caused by her ex-boyfriend, Dallas Cowboys star Greg Hardy.

The bad press does not seem to be dissuading fans. NFL ratings continue their robust performance; “Sunday Night Football,” the game’s crownjewel telecast, is averaging a whopping 23.6 million viewers halfway through the season, a 10 percent jump over last year.

The popularity is high even in nonNFL markets; it was not lost on some viewers that “Concussion” was debuting even as news broke of Robert Iger becoming involved in Los Angeles’ bid to lure one or more NFL teams to the Southern California market.

Indeed, the game seems not only immune to off-field drama but may even be helped by it; Sunday’s game which featured Hardy’s Cowboys, was up about 25 percent over last year’s matchup on the same weekend between the Ravens and Steelers despite those teams sporting a far better collective record at the time the contest took place.

How many of those fans — they of course also include the millions who play fantasy football — will see a movie or be amenable to its message as a morally complicit sport remains to be seen; after all, much of the information in it has been known for years and documented in journalistic outlets.

Key to Sony’s marketing efforts is Smith, a movie star with the mainstream popularity to deliver its message in a wider way.

The actor has been candid, if not quite as direct as Landesman, in ex-

JAZZ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 teaching high school?

“It takes a lot of time management,” says Wojciechowski, with a chuckle. “I have to stay really focused.”

Which demands a larger question — why teach high school when you’re playing at this level and could spend all of your time performing, composing, collaborating?

“It really doesn’t feel like work, for one thing,” says Wojciechowski. “Over the years I’ve grown really passionate about sharing music and the things that you learn not only about music, but the things you learn about life through the study of music — sharing that with kids.

“Most of them are not going into music (professionally) … but we’re trying to play music as best as we possibly can.”

The students, adds Wojciechowski, are learning about “working with other people and the beauty of ensemble (and) losing oneself in music. I think those are life lessons you take with you no matter what you’re doing.

“So it’s really satisfying. I teach most of them for four years. I get to see them grow as human beings and as musicians.”

Maybe that’s part of what we hear in “Focus” — not only the breadth of Wojciechowski’s musicianship but the depth of his experiences in life.

There’s a profundity to his expression in these tracks, an expressive power that transcends virtuosity, which makes “Focus” very difficult to put down once you start playing it.

Several years ago, drummer Hall — who’s now director of jazz studies at DePaul University’s School of Music — told me that he considered Wojciechowski to be “exceptional. …

He’s just at the top of my list as far as players in Chicago go — or players in the country, really.”

The saxophonist, added Hall, “can play lead alto in a big band; he can play the solo tenor chair; he can play

Monday, Nov. 16, 2015 • Page 5 media of what a “gamer” looks like, Wittenmyer has witnessed the gender reality of who enjoys games — an egalitarian 50-50 split between male and female students.

Azizi Arrington-Bey allowed her students to create a floor plan for a mall in her interior architecture design workshop while a list of career possibilities graced the large projector. Much like Wittenmyer’s observations of modern video game design, Arrington-Bey agreed that interior design is a component of architecture that women had cut out for themselves.

“I’m a licensed architect, so I’m one of very few females in that, when I go into the interior design sector — because I’m an interior designer also — it’s more women than men, so it’s kind of doublesided,” she said. “But our program is pretty mixed right now, which is good.

When I first got here, it was pretty much all girls, but it’s growing to where we’ve got a lot more guys now.”

Bitzegaio says a mixture of socialpressing criticism of the NFL. “For me it was really conflicting,” he told the audience after the AFI screening, noting his son’s status as a former high-school football player in Los Angeles. Smith said he thought about not getting involved due to his love of the game but ultimately felt compelled to make the movie as an educational tool of sorts.

“I watched my son play football for four years and I didn’t know. I didn’t know,” he repeated. “That became our quest: to deliver the truth. People have to know.”

Landesman said he’s not actively trying to change perceptions, and is skeptical he could anyway, at least in the immediate term.

“Most fans will see this movie and understand there’s a real problem, an insoluble problem, but also like the bloodlust and will go back to watching.”

He said he does believe that in the years to come the issue of head injuries will chip away at interest fans have in watching — and parents have in children playing — the game of football The director waved aside the concern that the NFL has, or even could, do anything to address the issues. “If you’re playing at a certain level, the violence is baked into the sport,” he said.

Omalu, meanwhile, also remains steadfast that the sports has not and in many ways can’t be fundamentally changed As he walked a premiere afterparty, lauded by many well-wishers, the doctor said he did believe a big studio film could carry the message in a way his research and raw numbers couldn’t.

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in a sweet way; he can play in a tough, angular way.”

All of that and more comes through on “Focus,” its title perhaps referencing how Wojciechowski manages to juggle all the things he does.

His jazz autobiography goes back as far as he can remember.

His father — a sheet metal worker who played jazz organ — had music going constantly at home, meaning that “literally from infancy I listened to jazz,” Wojciechowski once told me.

Chicago embraced him as soon as he moved here, Wojciechowski’s extroverted temperament well-suited to the tone and tempo of a town that’s less frenetic than New York but blessed with a more robust jazz scene than most other American cities.

Surely the large scale of his sound and the leonine nature of his expression befits a city that produced such larger-than-life tenor men as Von Freeman, Johnny Griffin, Gene Ammons, Fred Anderson, Clifford Jordan and many more.

As for the Chicago scene today, Wojciechowski remains impressed.

“It almost seems healthier now than when I first moved here,” says Wojciechowski, 41. “There’s this whole crop of young players playing this really creative music.

“The last few years I’ve been really inspired by people like Marquis Hill, who I’m sure everybody is,” adds Wojciechowski, referring to the Chicago musician who won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Trumpet Competition last year and has since moved to New York.

“To have young guys out there who sound the way he does, or the way these young guys do, and do the things they’re doing — it motivates you to keep at what you’re doing and not rest on your laurels.”

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ization, lack of visible role models and lack of understanding of about science, technology, engineering and math fields (which also affect young men), are why more women don’t pursue related careers.

“I’m hoping what we’re doing for females will also attract more guys to this field,” she said. “Manufacturing today isn’t what it was 10 or 20 years ago. Role models and mentoring are a big piece of that.”

Madison Fry and Mariel Oshel, two eighth-graders who attended the event, said they generally felt encouraged to pursue their fields but lacked living female examples outside of their parents and the staff they met at Indiana State.

Fry said her mother works in financing.

Oshel’s mother is a biologist and her father is an electrical engineer. Fry has “always wanted to be a neurosurgeon for as long as (she) could remember,” and Oshel shared her interest in how the brain works.

“A lot of my friends’ moms are doc-

‘STAR TREK’ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 we’ll all eventually just dip in and out of certain services the way people sign up for HBO for new episodes of “Game of Thrones” only to cancel their subscriptions once the season is over.

Maybe this sensation, this exhaustion — this crankiness — with having to contemplate adding yet another service to the credit card bill is just technological growing pains as our habits shift.

“Some of this is your own crankiness, but there are definitely more over-the-top services now (than ever), and there’s going to be a shakedown and (these companies) know it,” said Dom Caristi, a professor in Ball State University’s department of telecommunications. “The marketplace cannot support a dozen different services.”

Caristi even thinks that, in some markets, CBS will eventually decide it no longer needs local affiliates. “The idea of a local affiliate carrying network programming is going to go by the wayside very soon. In an Internet world there’s no need for them, now that all of this can be streamed.”

Ultimately, in five years or so it might be more profitable for CBS to simply rake in subscription fees directly from viewers instead of sharing the advertising revenue with the affiliates. “It would be quite a radical change.”

We’ve been through radical changes. A hundred years ago, Sears and other de-

tors or in the science field, but my mom has been telling me since a young age that women can do anything in science,” Oshel said. “Her parents were ashamed that she was in a science field, and they wanted her to be a flight attendant, so she wanted to make sure I don’t just go along with what other people want.”

Fry became interested in science by taking classes at Purdue when she was “little” and Oshel remembered deciding her career trajectory in preschool.

“My pre-school teacher let us watch the Magic School Bus one day and I was like, ‘Yes, science!’” Oshel said.

Fry and Oshel both attended to learn about career opportunities, and Oshel particularly wanted an early start on her college search.

School gave Oshel the impression that science was only about studying bees and ants.

Bitzegaio said there is a shortage of quality science curriculum, and the Indiana STEM Network is working hard to get better curriculum into the schools. partment stores were one-stop shops for everything. People got out of that habit without much angst. We all adapted to shopping at individual stores for furniture, hardware, clothing, you name it.

And yet that old-school department store model is precisely what Amazon offers its customers. Do we crave that type of convenience more than we realize?

Either way, CBS was smart to do this.

Viewers need a reason to sign up for a service. Exclusive programming is the only meaningful draw, and “Star Trek” has a dedicated fan base.

“CBS is trying to get some original content that people will want to pay to watch — they’re sure not getting many subscribers now, offering old CBS content that you can find online just about anywhere,” Caristi said.

According to CBS, the new “Star Trek” series (set to debut in 2017) will feature “new characters seeking imaginative new worlds and new civilizations, while exploring the dramatic contemporary themes that have been a signature of the franchise since its inception.”

And there’s this. “I think it’s logical they’re releasing ‘Star Trek’ online,” Tolchinsky said. “Shouldn’t a show that’s set in the future be released in a futuristic way rather than in a traditional and perhaps outdated way? Shouldn’t we boldly go where people are going rather than where they’ve been already?” ©2015 Chicago Tribune. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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Don’t skip over Thanksgiving Ryan Ballinger Columnist

In the United States, Thanksgiving is the holiday after Halloween and the holiday before Christmas. I am saying this because many people ignore it.

Stores even influence us to get our Christmas decorations, gifts and cards early. This is how Christmas companies such as Hallmark get their big bucks. They are doing so by ruining what I believe is one of the most important holidays we have: Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving is more important to me because it’s the time to be with family and be thankful. No presents are required to have a great Thanksgiving, and no candy is needed to celebrate this day.

Food, family and tradition are the most important aspects, and we are starting to slowly forget this. Companies sometimes start putting up Christmas decorations right at the beginning of November, or even before Halloween has passed. This helps people get prepared for the holiday season, but it also distracts from Thanksgiving. What if people want to decorate their house with fall colors?

What if we want to hang Thanksgiving decorations on our houses?

This is a holiday that is not only ignored, but most of its values are long forgotten and it’s the “boring holiday.”

Why do I care so much about Thanksgiving, and why should you care so much as well?

That is because there is important history behind Thanksgiving.

In 1621, the Pilgrims and the Indians had a great feast to share ideas and culture. The first feast did not even have bread; all they

had was boiled pumpkin and many other things such as corn and hog. In 1621, though, it was only thought of as a gathering, not officially as “Thanksgiving.” In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln was the first to name this holiday “Thanksgiving” and officially put it on the calendar as the last Thursday in November. In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared the holiday to be on the fourth Thursday of November, believing the change would help boost the economy.

It is important to note that this first gathering back in 1621 was important to our version of today’s Thanksgiving. This is because the values of being thankful and sharing culture, food and coming together were all brought from that gathering long ago.

There are many different stories that tell about the tale of Thanksgiving, but we are all told about that 1621 gathering and that

the Mayflower brought over Pilgrims, who were actually members of an English Separatist Church in England.

They fled because they wanted more religious freedom, which is one of our rights in America today.

So this is why I say save the turkey, or in other words, save Thanksgiving. I feel that we do not take Thanksgiving as seriously as the other holidays. We put too much focus on Christmas, the holiday of giving and spoiling kids. We need to balance this out by showing them a holiday that makes them thankful for whatever they get — a holiday that will not only share culture and food, but also makes others thankful to be alive and well.

Thanksgiving is more than just about eating turkey and going to bed; it’s about embracing family and being thankful for what you do have, even if it’s just one slice of ham to share with all that you love.

much. What good is a 9 mm pistol against someone who is strapped with explosives and shrapnel while carrying grenades and an AK-47?

Not only that, but at least two of these attacks happened in very crowded public spaces. One was at a soccer game, while the other was at a rock concert. Imagine if everyone followed Donald Trump’s suggestion and brought a gun to a European soccer game.

European soccer games are notorious for their riots — they’re much more common than terrorist attacks. Even in America, sports fans often riot if their team loses. Is adding guns into such a potentially hostile environment really a good thing? If everyone brought their guns to a rock concert, I’m sure things would probably get out of hand there as well. At a rock concert, people are loud, raucous, often drunk and sometimes violent. Is Trump really suggesting that taking a gun into a crowd of possibly violent drunk people is a good idea? I’m sorry, but I just can’t believe that taking a drunk, possibly violent crowd and giving them all guns is smart, especially with the risk of riots at soccer games.

Ben Carson and Jeb Bush decided to focus instead on refugees, since a Syrian passport was found near one out of the seven attackers. Carson said that we should just not bring over any refugees.

At the Sunshine Summit in Florida on Saturday, Carson said, “If we’re going to be bringing 200,000 people over here from that region — if I were one of the leaders of the global jihadist movement and I didn’t infiltrate that group of people with my people, that would be almost malpractice.”

Jeb Bush chose to suggest that we should take refugees, but that we should have an extensive screening process to decide which ones we want.

Bush said, “There are a lot of Christians in Syria that have no place now. They’ll be either executed or imprisoned, either by Assad or by ISIS. And I think we should have — we should focus our efforts as it relates to the Christians that are being slaughtered.”

So we have one Republican nominee who builds his platform on his Christianity

On Friday, a number of terrorist attacks rocked the city of Paris, France. With over 130 killed and hundreds more injured in a series of attacks across the city, the attacks were a serious shock to everyone. By the end of the attacks, seven of the perpetrators were dead, with a few more still being hunted. The next day, a car that was identified in connection with the attacks was stopped and three occupants were arrested.

It is obvious that this attack was planned, and it also does seem to appear that Islamic extremism was a factor in the event; Nov. 13 marks the first day of the Muslim lunar month of Safar, a name that refers to a raid on an “infidel” by the Prophet Muhammad. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attacks, but there is no final word on whether they actually committed the attacks.

People began pouring out support for Paris, with the hashtag #PrayForParis trending within minutes of the news breaking. Facebook began offering a temporary filter for profile pictures so people could show support for France in their time of need.

If nothing else, this show of solidarity was nice just for showing that people don’t only think of themselves.

Some people were less supportive of France after the attacks. At a campaign rally Saturday, Donald Trump said, “You can say what you want, but if they had guns — if our people had guns, if they were allowed to carry — it would have been a much, much different situation.”

But what Trump forgets is that the attackers used AK47’s and explosives to carry out these attacks. These were people who were ready for suicide bombings and had automatic weapons. Unless he suggests that every citizen arm themselves to the teeth and carry automatic weapons everywhere, the alternative (a handgun) wouldn’t have done ATTACKS CONTINUED ON PAGE 7

United Nations scheduled to convene on climate change

Zach Davis Columnist

The United Nations is calling a conference beginning late November, hopefully to be held in Paris. The convention is focusing on climate change, a discussion our world leaders need to have.

Climate change isn’t an issue solely because things are changing — it is a major threat to us and we are a primary driving force of the change.

Climate change is impacting the world in a negative way. Climate change is due to a buildup of greenhouse gasses, mostly carbon dioxide. These gasses trap solar radiation on the Earth’s surface, causing a warming effect.

And while the Earth naturally goes through warming and cooling phases, the greenhouse gasses are speeding up the warming phase exponentially.

Because we have a warming effect, we see the global average temperature increase. Some question how humans fit in, seeing how this is such a big event.

Our impact on climate change comes from our gaseous emissions. Humans release somewhere between five and six billion metric tons of carbon dioxide a year into the atmosphere. That much carbon dioxide is impacting climate

change so much that we aren’t even sure if we can stop it at this point, but we should at least make an effort to not make things any worse.

As temperatures increase, we see things such as ice caps melting. When ice caps melt, the first effects we notice are problems in wildlife.

Polar bears, for example, live around the arctic ice cap, where the ice provides hunting grounds, social areas and shelter. But because the ice is melting they are losing their entire habitat. But that is not the only danger melting ice causes — our sea levels are rising, which is posing a global threat to humans.

If the sea levels rise we can find the coasts flooding, which will push us farther inland and cause us to become even more tightly packed on land than we al-

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As the ice melts, the weather becomes more extreme. We are noticing that tornadoes are becoming stronger and more frequent, as are strong tropical storms and hurricanes.

Scientists have noticed weather patterns that previously didn’t exist in certain regions have suddenly become surprisingly common. The change in weather also suggests that it will impact our sex drive. Some researchers found that with rising temperatures we are also experiencing a decrease in our reproductive success. So trying to help ease climate change really is in our best interest.

A lot needs to happen in order to re-

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ian passport was found near an attacker.

But analysts have pointed out that it’s incredibly easy to obtain a fake Syrian passport. A United States intelligence official told CBS News that the passport numbers did not match the correct numbers to be a Syrian passport and the photo did not match the name. It looks likely that the Syrian passport was fake.

Not only that, but a vast majority of

ATTACKS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 saying that we shouldn’t provide refuge for people fleeing a warzone, and another that says we should concentrate on the Christians that make up about 12 percent of Syria’s population.

That’s not even the worst part of the refugee situation in Paris, though; all this talk of Syria started because a Syr-

Muslims are not extreme. Muslims view ISIS in the same way Christians view the Ku Klux Klan or Westboro Baptist Church. These are the kind of people the refugees are running away from. I don’t think it is morally okay to leave people in a war-torn country with people they’re trying desperately to escape.

The attacks on Paris shook everyone up, but while some people have reacted

in support and love, others have responded with xenophobia and fear of Muslims. It astounds me to see people who look at a tragedy and think that the problem is either not enough instruments specifically designed to kill people, or a religion which billions of nonextremists follow. The United States should be trying to help anyone we can, not closing ourselves off to the world.

CLIMATE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 duce our impact. The upcoming convention surely can’t do everything, and we will need to take our time to fully come to a good resolution, but we have to start somewhere. First and foremost climate change needs to be publicized more. The difficult part is the opposition, those who chose to ignore the evidence and deny that climate change exists. The best way to battle this ignorance is to educate as many people as we can. Everyone should have access to this education so we can come together and work out this issue as a collective.

We also need to consider ways to lower our carbon dioxide emissions. We can start by finding alternative forms of energy that aren’t fossil fuels. Burning fossil fuels like coal and gas, release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. We should look into provisions that change our energy source to something nondamaging, such as solar power. The U.N. can give more contract opportunities to companies which produce solar panels to install them on U.N. buildings to make them solar powered. Governments could make a joint effort to filter their power usage from fossil fuels to solar energy, at least for government buildings, since solar power provides clean and sustainable energy. A clean source of energy can cut our carbon footprint down to a fraction of what it is now, to hopefully slow down climate change so things can happen naturally again.

These are just two of the many things we can do to reduce our impact on climate change. But these are the two most important to achieve. And though we have come a long way in our understanding of climate change, we still need to make a big difference in our way of life in order to truly change our path. So contact your representative or send a message to the U.N. directly. Tell them that things need to change. Suggest any ideas you have and make your voice heard. The first step to changing things needs to be taken, and if you don’t take it you can’t guarantee that somebody else will.

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ISU trumps Purple Aces, falls to Salukis Game One Indiana State volleyball secured backto-back winning seasons for the first time since 1981-82 with a 3-1 victory over Evansville on Friday night inside Carson Center. It marks the second time ever in the program’s 38-year history to post back-to-back positive marks.

Four players hit and posted digs in double-digits on Friday evening, with senior middle blocker Cassandra Willis leading the way on the attack with 18 kills while sophomore libero Stephanie Bindernagel added 18 digs. As a group, the Sycamores hit .296 in the match and recorded 12 team blocks. Junior middle blocker Melody Burdette and junior right side Kynedi Nalls each chipped in 12 kills while redshirt senior Carly Wishlow added 10.

Adding to the Sycamores’ 72 digs along with Bindernagel were sophomore setter Rachel Griffin with 10 and 29 assists for her third career doubledouble in the win. Junior outside hitter Bree Spangler (11) and junior defensive specialist Shannon Murphy (10) had nice numbers in the back row.

ISU claimed the set-one victory, 2517, backed by a .364 hitting percentage and four kills from redshirt senior Carly Wishlow. Despite another above .300 hitting percentage in the second, Indiana State had a hard time stopping the Evansville attack who hit .343 with 16 kills and tied the match up at 1-1 with the 25-17 win.

The next two sets were narrow victories for the Sycamores as it took a 25-23 victory in the third set and a 2-1 lead in the match. The Purple Aces rallied from as many as six down to tie it up 22-22 on a block assist. Wishlow gave ISU the edge on a kill while junior outside hitter Bree Spangler pushed the match to set point also on a kill. Wishlow drove it home with the slam and helped the Sycamores take a 2-1 advantage.

It was a mirrored score in the fourth as Indiana State took the match, 25-23.

The Purple Aces once again challenged the Sycamores, rallying from a sevenpoint deficit in the set. UE would come as close as 22-23 after a ISU attack error but a block by Willis and Burdette along with a Nalls kill was all it needed for the win.

Game Two It was a hard-fought match for Indiana State Volleyball but it just couldn’t pull through, falling 1-3 to second place Southern Illinois (23-25, 25-22, 20-25, 23-25) on Saturday night inside Davies Gym. For the second straight night, Indiana State put four hitters in double figures with senior middle blocker Cassandra Willis notching a team-high 14. Sophomore outside hitter Sarah Peterson (12), junior middle blocker Kynedi Nalls (11) and junior middle Melody Burdette (10) all hit double digits while leading the Sycamores to a .239 hitting clip. Sophomore libero Stephanie Bindernagel led the back row with 15 digs while junior defensive specialist Shannon Murphy chipped in 10.

Sophomore setter Rachel Griffin led with 35 assists in the Sycamores’ 6-2 offense while senior setter Erika Nord added 24 along with a new career-high five service aces. Nalls and Willis combined for each three block assists to lead the defense on the night.

In the opening set, neither team held a larger than two point lead early on, but the Salukis took a four point lead after an ISU attack error (16-20). Indiana State didn’t give up, tying things up at 22-22 and again at 23-23 after a block assist from Nalls and Willis. But backto-back kills from SIU’s Andrea Estrada put the frame away for the home team.

In the second, the Sycamores stormed out to a 9-4 lead before forcing a Saluki timeout and led by as many as six. SIU, who celebrated Senior Night on Saturday, came within as few as two late in the frame. Indiana State was able to cap it off (25-22) on a kill by Wishlow and finished the set with a .400 hitting clip to tie things up at the break.

Coming out of the break, the Salukis took a three-point lead and forced a Sycamore timeout. Nalls and Willis combined for back-to-back kills to knot the match up at 11-11. ISU would hold a brief lead but ball handling errors gave SIU the room it needed to get back in the set, and it controlled it all the way to the 25-20 victory.

It was another doozy in the fourth, which featured 13 ties and five lead changes. The set and match really came down to the final points again when Nord put down two of her career-high five service aces to tie the game at 2222. ISU forced a Saluki timeout when it took a 23-22 lead, but a three-point run would complete the match for the second-place team in the MVC. Story by ISU Athletic Media Relations.

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Men drop regular season opener against IUPUI Zach Rainey Reporter

Indiana State didn’t get off to the start they had hoped for against IUPUI on Friday night, losing 72-70 in a nailbiter at the Hulman Center in men’s basketball action to kick off the regular season.

The Sycamores looked sloppy early in the game and disjointed on offense with players often running into each other. It’s not unusual to see a team struggle on the offensive end in their first game however.

Devonte Brown and Matt Van Scyoc both missed open layups early, but Brown, along with Khristian Smith, were able to get it going for the Sycamores, combining for the team’s first nine points.

At the defensive end, the Sycamores had no answer for the Jaguars’ big men. Not in the sense that a big man was dominating down on the block, but ISU couldn’t refrain from committing fouls.

Sophomore Brandon Murphy picked up two quick fouls, forcing the team to go small and play Brandon Burnett down low. Burnett was impressive in his time on the floor in the first half, going 2-for-2 from the field, while grabbing a rebound on both ends of the floor.

The Jaguars had a very balanced offense in the first half with Evan Hall shooting 4-for-6 in the first half for eight points. Matt O’Leary was close behind his teammate, scoring seven of his own and led the way for the Jaguars on the boards with

six first-half rebounds.

The offensive struggles continued down the stretch of the first half for Indiana State.

After the confusion on offense early in the first half, the team started taking a lot of one-on-one shots rather than moving the ball around, which turned out to be a problem the Sycamores would face all night.

Brown got it going with some fast break layups at the tail end of the first half, giving him 11 points at the break. Both teams left some points on the floor, with the Jaguars going 8-for-12 from the line and the Sycamores going 8-for-11 from the line in the first half. ISU went into the intermission trailing 38-32.

The Sycamores came out of the break rolling, going on a 10-0 run, including two quick layups by Brown to pull the team within one.

Smith then came down and hit a three to give ISU its first lead of the ball game.

The offense looked a lot more composed early in the second half, with Smith doing whatever he wanted.

The lead would be shortlived, however, as foul trouble continued to be an issue for the Sycamores down the stretch, forcing them to give up size. ISU went on to go 9-for-20 from the line, including four two-shot trips to the line where they came away empty.

With the Sycamores trailing late, it looked as if Smith was starting to get in a rhythm, but there were two questionable foul calls at the end of the game when his

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No. 11 senior guard Devonte Brown goes in for a basket.

squad needed a steal or a jump ball.

The Jaguars didn’t do great at the line either, but were able to shoot 72 percent in the second half, including nine second half makes from the charity stripe by Jaguars guard Darrell Combs to secure the 72-70 win.

Brown scored a gamehigh 25 points with teammate Smith close behind with 19. Smith was able to

grab a game-high 10 rebounds for the Sycamores when he was asked to play a big man’s role with the team in foul trouble. Combs lead the way for the Jaguars, scoring a team-high 16 points.

Up next, the Sycamores will take on the Wyoming Cowboys on Monday night at the Hulman Center with the Cowboys coming off of a trip to the NCAA Tournament last season.

Women’s basketball opens season with pair of losses on the road Rob Lafary Sports Editor

Indiana State women’s basketball saw its opening weekend of the regular season on the road hit a couple detours as the Sycamores dropped a pair of contests at Central Michigan and Northern Kentucky.

The Sycamores dropped their regular season opener against Central Michigan on Friday night, falling 8565 at McGurik Arena. The loss marked the first season opening loss for Indiana State since 2008. Coincidentally, that loss was also at the hands of the Chippewas at their home venue.

Whether it was ISU’s youth and inexperience, Central Michigan’s extensive game plan or a combination of both throughout the first half, the Sycamores took an array of haymakers through the first two quarters of play that saw the team plagued by lackluster play on the offensive end and sluggish movement on the defensive end.

The Chippewas raced out to a 21-8 lead after the first quarter and increased that lead by eight in the second frame, owning a 44-23 lead by halftime.

Indiana State shot a dismal 11-of-31 in the first half including a 1-of-10 mark from three-point range.

The Sycamores allowed five CMU buckets from outside the arc in the first half along with a slew of points in the paint that left Sycamore head coach Joey Wells and his ball club a little perplexed by the first 20 minutes of play.

“We just came out scared,” Coach Wells said following the game. “We came out the first 10 minutes like a deer in the headlights. We played

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No. 21 sophomore guard Brooklyn Artis runs the ball down the court.

real timid on the defensive end and that just translated to not being able to move the ball. It’s a tough game to open up with. They (Central Michigan) ran about six different defensives against us.

There may be only one other time this season we see a defense like this.”

Central Michigan (1-0) reached its largest lead of the night at 30 with 53 seconds remaining in the third quarter but ultimately Indiana State improved significantly in the second half, outscoring the Chippewas 42-41 in the final two frames.

ISU ended the night on a positive note, winning the fourth quarter 24-18 and seeing significant improvement on both ends of the floor by the end of the contest. Ultimately, the Sycamores fell victim by the 20-point margin but Coach Wells was pleased to see the bounce back, even though the first half was more than enough to doom his team early on.

“I was very disappointed with our effort in the first half and I think that led to the huge hole,” Wells said.

“But, we bounced back and

did things a lot better and played harder in the second half.”

Despite the shooting woes, ISU managed to put two players in double figures. Joyea Marshall and Cierra Ceazer tallied 14 points apiece. The Sycamores also got a solid contribution off the bench from freshman Regan Wentland, who scored nine points on 4-of-5 shooting.

Central Michigan put six players in double figures.

Presley Hudson, a freshman, led all scorers with 21 points.

In high hopes of a rebound win on Sunday afternoon at BB&T Arena, the Sycamores started off well but ultimately watched a two-possession lead in the final two minutes drift away, dropping a 73-67 decision against Northern Kentucky.

ISU turned the ball over on four-straight possessions in the fourth quarter during the two-minute span, allowing the Norse to come back and secure its second win of the weekend after defeating Miami (Ohio) on Friday afternoon.

“We got outplayed in terms of hustle down the

stretch … just down the stretch, very bad,” Wells said of the final two minutes.

“Bad decisions, laziness in our post, we had three or four straight times where we had the exact same pass to the exact same post player in the exact same spot.”

ISU (0-2) opened the first quarter on an 8-0 run but the lead evaporated and gave way to a seven point NKU lead in the second period before the Sycamores stormed back and led 35-33 at halftime. That lead increased to 55-51 at the end of the third frame before the Norse used the late surge in the fourth to pull away for the win.

On the plus side for ISU was the continuation of solid play from both Marshall and Ceazer from Friday night.

Ceazer led all scorers in the game with 18 points but Marshall tallied a doubledouble with 17 points and 10 rebounds. Alexis Newbolt joined the duo in double figures with 13.

The downside however was the Sycamores turning the ball over 20 times and being outrebounded 49-32, leaving Wells even more frustrated as the team loaded the bus up on Sunday evening to head back to Terre Haute.

“It goes back to sloppiness and a little bit of laziness,” Wells added.

Northern Kentucky was led by Kasey Uetrecht with 18 points. She hit the goahead three that put the Norse out in front for good in the fourth quarter.

Indiana State now sets its sights on two home games this week. The Sycamores face Eastern Illinois on Thursday before facing Nebraska-Omaha on Saturday night.