November 18, 2015

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

Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015

Volume 123, Issue 39

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New regulations should simplify financial aid Morgan Gallas Reporter

New loan regulations that are meant to protect students will take effect immediately.

According to WTHITV, the United States Department of Education announced new regulations to help protect borrowers.

“Under the new regulations, students will be able to freely choose how to receive their federal student aid refunds, be given neutral information about their financial aid options and they will no longer be forced to pay excessive fees to access their Federal student aid,” said WTHITV. These changes come at a time when many students are struggling to afford college and understand their loans.

“The guidance that we’ve been given

New fall break announced Kourtney Miller Reporter

There will be a change made to the academic calendar for next year’s Fall Break at Indiana State University. A one-day break will be added to the week of Oct. 7, allowing for a three-day weekend. Dr. Susan Powers, associate vice president for academic affairs at ISU, explained the reason behind this upcoming change.

“The change was made because faculty and students were concerned about the length of time with no break between Labor Day and Thanksgiving and that students seemed to be overwhelmed,” Powers said. “We had eliminated the October break at the time the week at Thanksgiving was instituted, this is an attempt to rectify the resultant issues,” Powers said.

As a result of this change, in fall 2016 there will be three weeks after Thanksgiving break: one week of class, a study week to prepare for finals and then finals week.

No other changes have been made to the semester schedule, and the weeklong Thanksgiving break will continue. The October break will also occur during the 2017-18 academic year.

is to implement these regulations immediately,” said Crystal Baker, student financial aid director. “A lot of the regulations (are) cost saving measures and consumer protection.”

There are two main parts to the new regulations: how refunds are given out and how payments are done.

“Schools who issue financial aid through debit cards instead of disbursing to a student have to change their procedures,” Baker said. “They put the refunds on these cards so students have the choice of how they spend their aid such as putting certain amounts toward tuition, food or books.”

The problem was that the debit cards charged a surcharge, so students were being charged for accessing their funds.

“The regulations make sure that the schools cannot charge a fee for financial aid, and it also gives students the choice

on whether they get their aid through a check, cash or a direct deposit,” Baker said. “That part doesn’t really affect Indiana State students because we don’t use the debit cards here.”

The old way to pay loans was called “Pay as You Go” repayment plan.

“The Feds would calculate your monthly income, then they would look to see how far above the poverty line you are,” Baker said. “The difference between the two amounts is your discretionary income which you pay 10 percent toward your loans.”

This plan was confusing for borrowers because their incomes could change and poverty lines could be different depending on where they live. There was a need to constantly recalculate to find out the amount to pay.

“The new ‘Pay as You Earn’ plan has the feds calculate a set dollar amount

based off of family size and total indebtedness so it will be easier to figure out monthly payment amounts,” Baker said.

While these changes will make things easier for students, there are still problems with the Federal financial aid system.

“I would much rather see major changes in the way that financial aid programs are administered,” Baker said.

“FAFSA is 184 data questions, which is pretty exhausting for first-generation students to fill out.”

Changes to the Higher Education Act may take place in 2016 when Congress creates a committee to review higher education legislation.

“The House Education Committee will review all of the legislative pieces, so hopefully we see some major, positive changes soon,” Baker said.

Opposition to president’s refugee plan grows Maria Recio

and Hannah Allam

McClatchy Washington Bureau (TNS)

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s plan to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees in the next year, criticized as too small and too slow by refugee advocates, came under full-on assault Monday from Republican politicians who said the plan risked U.S. security.

The Republican determination to cripple the plan came as reports circulated that at least one of the suspects in Friday night’s Paris attacks may have slipped into Europe from Syria.

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said Monday he would “immediately address this particular situation,” as lawmakers considered using an end-of-the-year funding bill to curb the plan to admit more Syrian refugees.

Ryan has asked House committees involved in refugee policy to come up with recommendations and for the administration to provide a classified briefing on the Syrian situation for all members of Congress.

“For over a year we’ve been asking for an overarching strategy to combat ISIS. We don’t have one,” he said Monday on “Bill Bennett’s Morning in America,” a conservative radio show.

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mike McCaul, R-Texas, wrote to Obama asking him to suspend admitting Syrian refugees. “We remain concerned that these resettlements are taking place without appropriate regard for the safety of the American people,” he wrote.

Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, who chairs a subcommittee that funds foreign operations, said: “We cannot allow Syrian refugees in the United States in the current dangerous environment.”

In the Senate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., chairman of the Senate’s immigration subcommittee, said he’ll push for a sepa-

rate vote on Obama’s refugee plan, while a group of center-right senators from both parties wrote Obama urging him to more carefully screen refugees.

“While our country has a long history of welcoming refugees and has an important role to play in the heartbreaking Syrian refugee crisis, our first and most important priority must be to ensure that any refugee who comes to the United States does not present a threat to the American people,” the senators wrote.

Among those signing the letter were Sens. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., and Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., who both face tough re-election fights next year; and Sens. Joni Ernst, RIowa, Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., Dan Coats, R-Ind., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. Meanwhile, Republican governors from Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana,

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State’s nonprofit leadership program evolving Indiana State University has new opportunities available for undergraduate and graduate students wanting to launch a meaningful and financially rewarding career in the nonprofit sector.

The Certified Nonprofit Professional credential provides knowledge and practical experience that empowers students to find a job that matters, which is aligned with Indiana State’s focus on post-graduation job acquisition, according to Nathan Schaumleffel, associate professor and campus executive director of the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Certification Program.

Certified Nonprofit Professionals work in careers in all nonprofit subsectors: faith-based; youth, human, and social services; environmental and conservation; animal rights; fine, performing, and studio arts, humanities, and

cultural; educational and historical; health and medical-related; and international non-governmental organizations.

“The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance has always been an effective pipeline to a job for college graduates,” Schaumleffel said. “The mission of this academic program is to strengthen the social sector with a talented, prepared workforce.

The program is based on a nationally validated set of learning outcomes and competencies developed by executives in the nonprofit sector. We are teaching the skills that employers want and the alliance provides resources to Certified Nonprofit Professionals across their entire careers.”

Schaumleffel said the Alliance has invested tremendous resources in new software that allows students to apply

for internships and jobs with all national nonprofit partners using LinkedIn. The national office has also developed the Association of Certified Nonprofit Professionals, alumni from all campus partners.

Students pursuing certification are given networking and job opportunities, as well as post-graduation career opportunities.

“The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Certificate Program has given me a better understanding of how nonprofits work and what it takes behind the scenes of an organization,” said Emily Calvin, senior public health major.

Indiana State’s certification program has been in place since 2001 and has been recognized nationally. It received the 2013 Sprint Campus Partner of the Year Award as the top nonprofit

leadership and management academic program in the country and the 2009 Outstanding Student Recruitment Benchmark Award from the national office. In 2015, the Wabash Valley District, Crossroads of America Council, Boy Scouts of America was recognized as the alliance’s National Nonprofit Partner of the Year because of its strategic partnership with Indiana State.

With all of the program’s and student success, Schaumleffel said, the Indiana State program “has evolved tremendously” to include more nonprofitspecific courses, including RCSM-440: Volunteer Management, RCSM-446: Nonprofit Program Evaluation; RCSM483: Fundamentals of Fundraising, and RCSM-489: Advanced Nonprofit Ad-

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French president will visit Washington next week Anita Kumar

McClatchy Washington Bureau (TNS)

WASHINGTON — French President Francois Hollande will travel to Washington next week to meet with President Barack Obama, the White House announced Tuesday.

The meeting comes after last Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris that left 129 dead and more than 350 injured. French aircraft began bombing Islamic State positions inside Syria after the worst attack on French soil in modern history.

This visit will underscore the friendship and solidarity between the United States and France, America’s oldest ally, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said.

The two presidents will consult and coordinate efforts to assist France’s investigation into the attacks, discuss further cooperation as part of the 65-member counter-Islamic State coalition and reiterate their determination to confront terrorism. © 2015 McClatchy Washington Bureau

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‘The Forest’ continues to grow Mallory Eherenman

ISU Communications and Marketing

With Indiana State men’s and women’s basketball seasons underway, The Forest prepares to cheer on the teams at Hulman Center.

Spearheaded by student leader Tommy Lynch in 2012, The Forest has continued to grow.

Since April, membership has increased from 1,100 members to 1,500 student members.

For many, The Forest is the heart and soul of Sycamore pride as fans come out week after week to show their support for their fellow students.

The Forest gets involved by planning theme nights, creating cut-out heads and often making T-shirts to continue their support.

Sebastian Dancler, a senior recreation and sport management major from Indianapolis, has been an active member of The Forest since his freshman year in 2012.

“What I love the most is the sense of community we have.

There’s the same ‘core group’ we have that I see at all football and basketball games, and it’s almost as if going to games is going back to a family reunion,” Dancler said.

Although the majority of the organization’s member-

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Indiana State University’s student section, The Forest, has seen considerable increase in membership, growing from 1,100 members in April to more than 1,500 members now.

ship stems from the Student Resource Fair at freshman orientation and other major fall welcome events, students can continue to sign up throughout the year.

Registration fees begin at $5 for returning members and $10 for new members; new members also receive a free, blue Forest t-shirt with the school

song on the back.

Being a member of The Forest allows students to enter basketball games a half-hour before general admission and have first pick at priority seating for all home games.

Throughout the football season, The Forest has a tailgate for each home game where members can play games and have a

meal with friends.

Throughout the year, there are opportunities for memberonly fan buses that travel to away games for all sports.

To sign up to be a member of The Forest, students can turn the registration fees into the Student Government Association Office in room 621 of HMSU.

University of South Carolina students protest inequalities Monday Andrew Shain

The State (Columbia, S.C.) (TNS)

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Sean Clancy, Kathryn Cleek and Joseph Vogler receive scholarships from the Indiana Athletic Trainer’s Association.

Athletic training students receive scholarships Libby Legett

ISU Communications and Marketing

Three Indiana State University athletic training students have received scholarships from the Indiana Athletic Trainer’s Association State Conference earlier this month.

“Indiana State University has a great athletic training program with lots of history and opportunity to grow within the profession,” said Kathryn Cleek, a senior from Jasper and the recipient of the Dwayne “Spike” Dixon Professional Education Scholarship.

“After experiencing many sport related injuries, I spent a lot of time in therapy and getting familiar with the job of an

athletic trainer.”

The athletic training program at Indiana State is one of the oldest in the country and boasts one of the largest alumni networks as well.

“I chose Indiana State for graduate school because of the rich history of athletic training at ISU,” said Joseph Vogler, who received the John Schrader Post-Professional Scholarship and is a secondyear master’s degree student from Roxbury, New Jersey.

Sean Clancy, a senior from Fishers, received the Robert S. Behnke Professional Education Scholarship.

“I was inspired to become an athletic trainer my freshman year of college when I tore my ACL playing football,”

Clancy said.

Vogler works as head athletic trainer at Marshall (Illinois) High School and is the preceptor in the Indiana State’s undergraduate program.

“I always knew I wanted to enter the health-care field but it wasn’t until joining my high school’s sports medicine club that I realized I loved the profession of athletic trainers and keeping people healthy while competing in their activities,” he said.

The Indiana Athletic Trainers Association is dedicated to advancing the profession and empowering membership through advocacy, education, networking and innovative resources.

Visiting scholar recital set for Nov. 30 Li Lidan of China will perform at 5 p.m. Nov. 30 in the Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts recital hall at Indiana State University.

Her program includes “Susser Blumen Ambra Flocken” (Handel), “Ave Maria”

(Caccini), “Long Time Ago” (Aaron Copland), “Take O Take Those Lips Away” (Amy Beach), “Rompe Sprezza” (A. Scarlatti), “Soldier’s Wife” (Rachmaninoff), “Clair de Lune” (Faure) and “Meine Liebe Ist Grun” (Johannes

Brahms).

The recital is free and open to the public.

For more information, call the School of Music at 812237-2771.

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — A group of about 150 University of South Carolina students walked out of class Monday morning to protest alleged racial and gender inequalities at the state’s flagship college.

Dressed in black, the protesters marched silently two-bytwo, locked in arms from the Longstreet Theatre through the Horseshoe to USC’s administration building where they presented a list of 12 demands to three university administrators.

Spokeswomen for the group, known as USC 2020 Vision, said they wanted to know when the university would meet their demands, which include improving and expanding minority student and faculty recruitment efforts.

“The future of USC is in your hands,” said Clarie Randall, a biology/psychology major from Greenville as she handed the list to administrators.

USC Provost Joan Grabel, standing next to Chief Diversity Officer John Dozier and Student Affairs Vice President Dennis Pruitt, told protesters that the administration would examine the demands. They offered no timetable, though some of the demands were being met in programs adopted by the college.

“Change might not happen right away,” Dozier told the crowd crammed into a small patio area behind the Osborne Administration Building.

Gabel offered to meet with representatives of the protesters inside the administration building, but they declined because they wanted to keep conversations in public.

During the peaceful demonstration, the administrators spent about a half-hour taking questions and listening to complaints about threats against minority students, the loss of minority faculty members and the lack of minority student recruitment.

Aaron Greene, a senior majoring in public relations from Orangeburg, mentioned another large state college that brings minority K-12 students to campus to encourage diversity. “Why are you closing this door?” he asked administrators.

USC 2020 Vision did not provide complete details of all the incidents that led to the protest Monday.

Spokeswomen for the group mentioned any attacks against African-American students that made them feel unsafe on campus but offered few specifics beyond comments on social media. After the protest, a spokeswoman for the protesters — Morgan Lewis — mentioned remarks posted on the social media app Yik Yak that allows users to make comments anonymously.

The list of demands did not say why protesters wanted independent investigations of three administrators: Pruitt, Bobby Gist, executive assistant to the president for equal opportunity programs; Jerry Brewer, associate vice president for student affairs.

After the protest, Lewis, a junior from Blythewood, said the administrators have failed to foster diversity on campus. Protesters did not voice any complaints about USC President Harris Pastides, who is attending a conference in Indianapolis.

Turnout for the protest would have been larger, organizers said, but they did not want to reveal their plans too far in advance. Word started spreading late Sunday night.

USC 2020 Vision was not a direct response to student protests at the University of Missouri that led that school’s president to step down last week, spokeswoman Nona Henderson said.

Organizers have been planning all semester to stage their protest at USC in January or February, but they moved up the event after what happened in Missouri, Henderson said.

USC 2020 Vision also demanded: —Acknowledgment that USC was built by slaves in tours and markers on campus.

—Gender-neutral housing and restrooms, and comprehensive health and mental health care for transgender students.

—Increased funding for the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs.

—Faculty and staff to receive mandatory diversity training. ©2015 The State (Columbia, S.C.).

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They were joined by the Democratic governor of New Hampshire.

President Barack Obama defended accepting refugees. At a news conference in Turkey, where he was attending a Group of 20 meeting, he became testy with questions about his policies and took aim at some Republican presidential candidates for saying only Christian refugees should have asylum.

He said that suggestion from Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush only Syrian Christians be admitted to the U.S. was un-American.

“When I hear folks say that maybe we should just admit the Christians but not the Muslims, when I hear political leaders suggesting that there would be a religious test for which person who is fleeing from a wartorn country is admitted, when some of those folks themselves come from families who benefited from protection when they were fleeing political persecution, that’s shameful,” Obama said. “That’s not American. That’s not who we are.”

That view was seconded by Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the ranking minority member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

“When the world is experiencing a refugee crisis of a magnitude not seen since the end of World War II, are we to abandon allies and partners awash with refugees and refuse to do our part?” Schiff said in a statement.

“To turn our backs on those escaping persecution, many of them religious minorities, runs counter to the proud and generous heritage of a United States that has always helped those in need during turbulent times.”

Governors seemed particularly opposed to the administration’s resettlement plans.

Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire said her state would not accept Syrian refugees.

She joined other Republican governors that included Greg Abbott of Texas and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, who is running for president.

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory asked for more information about any refugees that would go to his state.

“My primary duty as governor is to keep the citizens of North Carolina safe,” he said at a news conference.

However, some Democratic governors, including John Hickenlooper of Colorado, and the governors of Pennsylvania and Washington said they would accept the Syrian refugees.

“We will work with the federal government and Homeland Security to ensure the national verification processes for refugees are as stringent as possible. We can protect our security and provide a place where the world’s most vulnerable can rebuild their lives,” Hickenlooper said in a statement.

The controversy promised to spill over to the presidential race.

Although he did not cite him by name, Obama appeared to single out Cruz, whose father fled Cuba in 1957.

Cruz said Sunday in South Carolina: “There is no meaningful risk of Christians committing acts of terror.

If there were a group of radical Christians pledging to murder anyone who had a different religious view than they, we would have a different national security situation.”

On Monday, Cruz said he planned to introduce legislation banning Muslim Syrian refugees.

Bush said CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday: “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. ... We should focus our efforts as it relates to the Christians that are being slaughtered.”

Two other Republican presidential candidates, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, urged Obama to stop the Syrian refugee program.

Paul on Monday introduced legislation that would suspend visas for residents of countries with a high risk of terrorism and impose a waiting period for background checks on visas from other countries.

“The time has come to stop terrorists from walking in our front door,” Paul said. “The Boston Marathon bombers were refugees, and numerous refugees from Iraq, including some living in my hometown, have attempted to commit terrorist attacks.”

Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton, during Saturday night’s Democratic debate, said the U.S. should accept more than 60,000 Syrian refugees if the U.S. could screen out potential terrorists.

“I do not want us to in any way inadvertently to allow people who wish us harm to come into our country,” she said. © 2015 McClatchy Washington Bureau.

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Most importantly, he said, the program is undergoing significant changes because of academic assessment requirements from the national office. As a result, the curricular model that has been in place for the last decade, the interdisciplinary non-degree curriculum, is being phased out this academic year.

The national office has traditionally required four things for students earning certification: 1) course work; 2) leadership and service experiences in the Nonprofit Leadership Student Association; 3) participation in the Alliance Management Institute (AMI - national conference); and 4) a 300hour nonprofit sector internship.

There are now three degree paths for students to earn the Certified Nonprofit Professional credential.

All ISU nonprofit leadership curricula build the four national requirements into the curriculum.

The paths undergraduate students can take include minoring in Nonprofit Leadership, which eliminates one Foundational Studies requirement for one of the two Upper Division Integrative Electives and can count for the University Honors Program’s Leadership and Civic Engagement Concentration.

Students also can earn a Bachelor of Science degree in recreation and sport management with a concentration in Nonprofit Leadership. Both paths are available in the undergraduate catalog, as well as ready to be added to students’ worksheets in MySam. As with any major change in a student’s course load, Schaumleffel said those wanting to earn the certification should first meet with their assigned academic advisor and work with him or her to add the minor or to change majors on MySam. Then, the student’s MySam plan should direct the student to take RCSM-150: Introduction to Non-

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profit Leadership and Management in the upcoming fall semester.

Lastly, students need to log-in to their MyISU portal and access the OrgSync/Treehouse app to join the Nonprofit Leadership Student Association, the Association of Fundraising Professionals Collegiate Chapter, and the Autism Speaks U Collegiate Chapter.

Graduate students can earn a Master of Public Administration with a concentration in nonprofit leadership through distance education.

“The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance is a good choice for any individual wanting to work for or with nonprofits in the future. It is a great way to set students apart from other applicants,” said Hannah Willocks, senior human resource development major and business administration minor.

According to a LinkedIn study, college graduates who have earned the Certified Nonprofit Professional credential are seven times more likely than college graduates who are not certified to reach a director-level or higher position in a nonprofit organization.

The same study also found that those with certification remain employed in the nonprofit sector 50 percent longer.

“This is powerful evidence that it is worth doing a little bit of extra work to earn the Certified Nonprofit Professional credential,” said Schaumleffel.

“The experience and knowledge you gain in this program cannot be achieved without this program. Recruiters and organizations recognize that,” said Willocks.

Faculty, staff or students with questions about program changes or who are interested in one of the degree paths for earning the Certified Nonprofit Professional credential may contact Schaumleffel at Nathan.

Schaumleffel@indstate.edu.

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Fitness tips Meghan Hayes Reporter

While some of us hit the gym daily, some find it hard to summon the same motivation. With the year 2015 coming to a close and the year 2016 on the horizon, many New Year’s resolutions are coming into view.

One of the most popular New Year’s resolutions is to get back into the gym and start working off that freshman 15 (no matter what grade we’re in) that we gained the semester before. So how can you ensure that you’re going to make your new resolution happen? Or how can you just get into the gym after struggling so hard to find the motivation to do so?

Here are some helpful fitness tips to get you back on your Agame.

1. Try keeping your visits to the gym short. Instead of staying for a long time and not doing much, try to go for a short, intense workout. This will help you get more out of your visit, and you won’t feel like you wasted your whole day at the gym.

2. Get it out of the way. Getting up and working out early may seem impossible to some, but it’s totally worth it. Not only does this help you boost your energy for the day and help you feel awake throughout the whole day, but later on at night when you are worn out from going to class, work or whatever else and are too tired to go you won’t have to worry about it because you already went earlier in the day. Working out earlier in the day won’t give you a chance to skip it later.

3. If you don’t have time to go to the gym that day, or are just too lazy to leave the house, try doing mini workouts during commercial breaks when you’re watching your shows. Doing a 3-minute workout every so often can add up when you have been binge-watching your favorite show for a few hours straight.

4. Getting ready the night before to go to the gym can avoid rushing around in the morning or just not going altogether.

5. Make plans to go with your friends or a group of people.

This will make sure that you are committed to your plans and also will ensure for a better, less self-conscious workout.

6. Have a snack that will boost your energy and get you ready to hit the gym. Also make sure that you are eating healthy afterwards so all of that hard work wasn’t a total loss.

7. Make it a routine. When you get used to going on certain days and it starts to feel like second nature, you won’t feel as tempted to skip workouts. Carving out a special time in advance and keeping a consistent routine will really help you start seeing results.

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Cheap Trick coming to Hulman Center DJ Reynolds Reporter

The rock band Cheap Trick will be performing in Terre Haute during fall break. The concert is set to take place in the Hulman Center on Sunday, Nov. 22 at 7 p.m. Ticket prices range from $35 to $65, depending on seating. Tickets can be purchased in the Hulman Center or online at ticketmaster.com. Any Indiana State University student, staff or faculty member is eligible to receive $5 off their ticket with their ISU ID. If there are any questions about the concert or tickets, call the Hulman Center ticket office at 812-237-3737.

Cheap Trick is an American Rock band that was formed in Rockford, Illinois, in 1973. The band currently consists of vocalist and rhythm guitarist Robin Zander, lead guitarist Rick Nielsen, bassist Tom Peterson and drummer Daxx Nielsen. The band is known for four decades of almost continuous touring.

The group has performed more than 5,000 times, has sold 20 million records and has received 40 gold and platinum recording awards. Over the course of its years, the band has made 16 albums; some of their most famous albums are “Dream Police,” “Lap of Luxury” and “All Shook Up.” Some of their singles have become classics, including “I Want You

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Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick performs at the Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden, New Jersey, on Tuesday, June 23, 2009, as the group kicks off a tour with bands Def Leppard and Poison.

to Want Me,” “Surrender,” “The Flame” and “Don’t Be Cruel.”

In October 2007, the Illinois Senate passed a resolution designating April 1 as Cheap Trick Day in the state. Cheap Trick was ranked as number 25 in VH1’s list of the 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. In 2015, the band was even nomi-

nated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. After their upcoming performance in the Hulman Center, they will be heading to their hometown of Rockford, Illinois to perform twice.

This concert presents an opportunity for Cheap Trick and classic rock fans to rock on and rock out.

How a movie’s food makes it to the screen Daniel Neman

St. Louis Post-Dispatch (TNS)

In some movies — a lot of movies, actually — if you see a character eating ice cream, the actor is really licking mashed potatoes. And that great-looking cake? It may be frosting spread over Styrofoam.

But in “Love the Coopers,” which opens this week, the food is actually food. The turkey is real turkey. The biscuits are biscuits. The green-bean casserole is a green-bean casserole, though a little more gourmet than most.

In movies (and television and advertising), the job of preparing the food seen onscreen falls to the food stylist.

It is the food stylist’s job to make sure all the food looks like it is supposed to, that the items that are going to be eaten are safe and edible and that they can stand up to the timeconsuming rigors of shooting a movie.

“Love the Coopers” is a holiday film that builds to a big scene at a family Christmas dinner. Because the food plays such a major role in the scene, and the actors would actually be eating it, the filmmakers insisted on total verisimilitude. Everything would not just be edible, it would be exactly what it was supposed to be.

The task for creating the movie’s food fell to food stylist Melissa McSorley. In a recent phone interview, she said that director Jessie Nelson “wanted it to be a beautiful

family dinner, but she wanted it to be attainable, one that the average person could make.

She didn’t want it to look like it was made by a caterer.”

So there is turkey, glazed ham, mashed potatoes, a “dump salad” (Cool Whip, Jell-O, fruit and maybe some coconut all mixed together) and that green-bean casserole.

But in deference to the actors who would be eating it, McSorley gave the casserole some upscale touches. She hand-fried the onion strings on top, for instance, which were such a hit with the actors that she ended up frying 40 to 50 onions.

The dinner scene was shot over seven or eight days scattered throughout a period of about three weeks, and that meant making large amounts of food that the actors enjoyed eating over and over again.

Because they were actually eating it, their plates had to be frequently refreshed. On any given day, they went through about 15 fully cooked, fully seasoned turkeys, she said.

And then there was the challenge of meeting the cast’s dietary restrictions.

“Some were dairy-free, some booze-free, some of them love protein. Some people picked and chose what they would eat off of their plates. … Within the cast there were vegetarians, vegans, those who prefer glutenfree. A couple of people asked, especially because there were little kids, there would not be as much sugar,” she said.

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Star Diane Keaton, for instance, is a vegetarian, “but she absolutely loves cheese.”

So the cheese plate was kept toward her end of the table.

The film includes a running gag about the family dog eating the humans’ food, so McSorley had to keep the dog’s dietary restrictions in mind, too. She made sure the items he was going to eat did not include onions, and they kept him away from foods containing raisins, cranberries and grapes. And most of the sweets he was to eat were made without sugar.

No doggy treats were buried in the food; the welltrained dog chowed down on whatever was placed in front of him.

“He was one of my biggest fans. He probably ate more food than anyone,” said McSorley, who herself has three dogs.

Though she was the food stylist on the food-centered film “Chef,” most of her credits have been on television.

Her work on “Mad Men” gave her the opportunity to cook the food of the 1960s, and, in flashback, the 1930s and ’40s.

The makers of “Mad Men” were fanatical about getting all the period details correct, she said. One pivotal scene took place at a Howard Johnson’s restaurant, and in order to get the look just right they actually found old Howard Johnson’s ice cream scoops, which had a distinctive point on them. But because the ones they found were old, they had them replated to look new.

On the vampire show “True Blood,” she received what she called her “on-the-job” training on how to make edible fake blood that looked real.

Yet it still had to fit within the dietary restrictions of the cast. That means no sugar products including corn syrup, which is often used to make fake blood.

One scene in “True Blood” called for fruit to be infested with maggots. That was McSorley’s job, too. She used tweezers to place the maggots.

“I found you can actually buy them online. They ship them out to you,” she said. ©2015 St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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Balancing Act: Runner with autism, epilepsy to grace cover of ‘Women’s Running’ Heidi Stevens

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Kiley Lyall, 24, fell in love with running when she was 8 years old and completing the final leg of a Special Olympics relay. Her team was in last place when she took the baton, and they ended in first.

Her family has a motto: “Anything you want to do, you go for it.”

Lyall embodies it.

A Bourbonnais, Illinois, native, Lyall was born with autism, mild cerebral palsy and epilepsy.

Her seizures sometimes flare up when she runs — during her first half-marathon, a year ago, she had a seizure at mile 10 and another at mile 11, but she pushed on and finished the race. She ran the Chicago HalfMarathon in September with-

out incident.

In January, she’ll grace the cover of Women’s Running, the largest national magazine dedicated to female runners.

She’s believed to be the first runner with autism ever to appear on the cover of a national fitness magazine.

“There is a misconception that runners are a certain kind of people who have to look a certain way or run a certain speed,” Editor-in-Chief Jessica Sebor said. “What we want to push forward is the idea that every body can run. What that might look like is very different for each person, but we believe in the power of fitness and health, and we don’t want that to be an exclusive club.”

For the third year in a row, Sebor and her staff invited readers to nominate themselves or other inspirational runners to appear on the cover. She said

they received more than 5,000 entries, including Lyall’s, submitted by Lyall’s mom, Kathleen, with whom she runs racing events.

“We always hear from others what an inspiration she is,” Kathleen Lyall said. “I figured, what the heck? I’ll send in the story and see what happens.”

What happened was that more than 10,000 readers weighed in, and Lyall won in a landslide.

“Knowing that we can open doors for other athletes who may have cognitive disabilities but like to compete physically means so much to us,” Lyall said. “It doesn’t matter your abilities. It matters your heart and your spirit.”

The previous cover contest winners are Lindsey Hein, who underwent a double mastectomy in 2013 and works to raise awareness about BRCA2 gene

mutation, and Dorothy Beal, who turned around a life of overeating, overdrinking and smoking by taking up running.

Now she’s a healthy mother of three.

Women’s Running flew Lyall and her mother to San Diego recently for a cover shoot, and treated her to a new running wardrobe.

I spoke with the Lyalls via phone, from the photo shoot.

It can be difficult for Kiley Lyall to speak, but her mom relayed her enthusiasm, and when asked how she felt about her chance to be a cover model, she said: “Happy.”

Same here. Women’s magazines have an opportunity, and I would argue a responsibility, to shift the notion of what it means to be cover-worthy in today’s culture.

I have railed against them in the past — particularly Wom-

en’s Health — for using good health and weight loss interchangeably, as though we’re all on a quest to take up as little space as possible.

We’re not. We are, plenty of us, grateful to inhabit the body we inhabit and would love to read more ways to strengthen, feed and celebrate it — rather than shrink, starve and reshape it.

The Kiley Lyall cover is a beautiful step in so many right directions.

“To open doors and open people’s minds to accept individuals with different abilities and include them,” Kathleen Lyall said. “That’s our goal. It’s pretty amazing to have this stage to inspire others and to change people’s perceptions.”

I hope other magazines follow the lead. ©2015 Chicago Tribune. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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‘Love thy neighbor’ a lesson politicians need to learn

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Since the terrorist attacks on Nov. 13, in Paris, countries have been more reticent to take in refugees.

A passport was found on the body of one attacker that identified him as a Syrian.

This, justifiably, freaked out quite a few people, considering the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria had claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Countries all over the world are letting in Syrians in droves, and if ISIS has infiltrated the refugees, those countries could be putting their own citizens at risk.

I would be more freaked out, however, if the passport the attacker had was actually real. A United States intelligence official told CBS News that the photo on the passport didn’t match the name and that the identification number didn’t match a Syrian passport.

It appears that the passport that has so many people freaked out might be fake.

But facts are pesky things, especially when you need people to vote for you. As a result of the passport being found, many presidential candidates have come out

against the United States accepting refugees from Syria.

Jeb Bush suggested that the U.S. only take Christian refugees, saying, “I do think there is a special important need to make sure that Christians from Syria are being protected.”

He went on to ask, “Who would take care of the number of Christians that right now are completely displaced?”

But what Bush fails to see is that only 10 percent of Syria’s population is Christian. Yes, they do matter as much as everyone else, but Bush is suggesting that we put them ahead of the 90 percent of the rest of the population when taking refugees.

In addition, he is seriously suggesting that the United States of America, whose founding principles include religious liberty, discriminate in who they help on the basis of religion. I don’t even need to say that I disagree with this.

Bush wasn’t the only GOP candidate to advocate for only taking Christians; Ted Cruz said that the United States could take Christian refugees from Syria because, Cruz said, “there is no meaningful risk of Christians committing acts of terror.”

Senator Cruz told a room of reporters on Sunday that, “If there were a group of radical Christians pledging to murder anyone who had

a different religious view than they, we would have a different national security question.”

I suppose it would be quite a crisis if there were Christian terrorist groups, wouldn’t it?

Too bad there are Christian terrorist groups. And to make matters worse, we don’t even have to worry about Christian terrorists coming into the country with refugees — because they’re already here.

The Army of God is a Christian terrorist group in the United States most known for bombing abortion clinics.

The Army of God also mailed fake anthrax to 280 abortion clinics in 2001, trying to capitalize on the anthrax scare at the time.

Hutaree is another Christian extremist group in Michigan that was charged by the FBI for a plan that called for killing a police officer and then subsequently bombing the funeral.

The judge dismissed the charges, but three members of the group confessed to possessing a machine gun and were sentenced for that.

The point is simple: Christians can be terrorists just like Muslims can, and while we should be careful in taking refugees, to say that we should bar Muslims from being offered refuge because they could be terrorists is ri-

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America is at a loss of words for all that she has brought to be. But one thing is consistent in all that she has bred and that is escape artists.

I don’t mean escape artists in the literal sense, but in figurative terms — we all escape from reality in creative ways: dream of things that we want to be, do things that we want to do that could possibly bring us great revenue and find solace, thus making us all escape artists.

Neurologists report routines can be damaging to the individual’s creativity and mental flexibility.

They encourage the individual to pay attention to their moods: avoiding behaviors that bring negative feelings and promoting changes to one’s routine — especially in the mornings.

The advice to change one’s routine is an indicator of the neurologists’ belief in the importance of “spicing up one’s life.”

Harry Houdini once said, “I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life, all mystery and magic.”

Mystery and magic are two ideas that move the individual to create and dare.

They are like brothers in a family of aweinspiring ideas that each plays a role in enhancing the human experience.

One’s ability to find, learn and obtain a means to be fully submerged into a system of activity that allows one

to breath a unique fresh breath of air, express themselves, and escape normalcy is essential to maintaining one’s health, as indicated by the neurologists.

This idea is why art classes are taught in retirement homes, why meditation is becoming a part of middle-school curriculums and why America is so full of diversity — from appearances to hobbies — the idea of escaping routine is a natural one with many faces.

This idea birthed the settling of America, which began as an escape from religious confinement.

It started the Civil Rights Movement of the ‘60s, which began as an escape from being subjected to injustice.

This idea assisted entrepreneurs in their escape from squalor and helped others create great works of art, which for some began as an escape from boredom.

These hobbies liberated individuals from all over the world who, in larger cases, advanced their culture, or in smaller cases, learned a valuable lesson about themselves, which can be equally important.

For the average person, activity is a must to preserve life. It is true that if a person neglects to move for a long period of time they will pass.

If then we are compelled to move, how much more should we move in variation?

Conversely, if finding a way out of monotony isn’t actualized, as is in the case of the hamster running in a wheel who neither reaches the dangling morsel above its head, nor realizes it could quit the never-ending wheel by stepping left or right, but kept running and running and running, the individual is surely doomed to experience

dissatisfaction or discontent.

In the classic novel

by Herman Melville, “Moby Dick,” the main character Ishmael is an outcast who leaves the busiest city in America, New York City, to become a sailor.

In the opening chapter, he describes being bored with life so much so that he goes to “the extremist limit of land,” to gaze upon the waters and watch the ocean as it moves back and forth like a pendulum that never stops.

The ocean to him is a place of mystery and magic, one that he can stare at and be lost in, or one that he can seize and be wound up in.

Years after J.K. Rowling completed the seventh book of her “Harry Potter” novels, the famous British author continues to type.

When asked why, after she has already made millions of dollars, won awards, and helped make a positive impact on so many people’s lives, she responded by saying “for (her) personal sanity.”

Writing for her is her method of escape as painting, singing and drawing is for others.

Without these methods of escape, life would be lacking in the mystery and magic it so easily affords, by the people who use them.

Lastly, introspection into the life of the “Kangaroo Fish,” or Dolphin would be appropriate in examining why it is important for one to find joy in life in the midst of the mundane.

As the Dolphin travels, it will rhythmically jump in and out of the water again and again until it reaches its destination.

Animal behaviorists suggest that they do this for a number of reasons: to clean themselves of

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Facebook can make sure your loved ones are safe

Zach Davis Columnist

Last week a lot of terrible things happened. Disasters happened everywhere from Paris, France, to Beirut, Lebanon.

When such dangerous events take place our first instinct is to make sure we, then those we love, are safe. Today, luckily, we have an abundance of technology to use for communication to check on our loved ones. We have phones and messaging services that can instantly send a message halfway across the world. But of course the question always arises — are our friends really near the site of something dangerous, or are we just being paranoid? Luckily Facebook has a feature that can check on our loved ones for us.

The feature is called safety check.

When something potentially dangerous happens, such as the earthquake that happened in Mexico or the attack in Beirut, Facebook checks your most recent location. Using location services your location is compared with the location of disasters to determine how close you were. If you are close to the site of a disaster Facebook will send an option to update your status. You become prompted with a box stating what happened and where the catastrophe was centered, then immediately it asks, “Are you safe?” You have two options for an answer: you can select either “I’m safe” or “I’m not in the area.”

Once you make your selection a notification is sent to your friends on Facebook with your response. Safety check also provides a list of which friends may be affected. The list will have all your friends who are close enough to potentially be affected by the disaster so you can check on them yourself.

Safety check is a useful feature. It is comforting to know that our loved ones

are safe. But many people are criticizing the creator of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, for using the safety check feature after the attack in Paris and not for the one in Beirut.

The complaints are valid, but Zuckerberg made a good point as well. The feature was originally only used for natural disasters. As of earlier this week the page on Facebook describing safety check still stated it is to be used for natural disasters, and never mentions use for an attack. This is fine, except why activate it for Paris? Zuckerberg claimed that the Facebook feature was being tested, and it was an ideal test due to the amount of Facebook activity that took place.

The feature should have been used for every catastrophic event last week due to how many lives were in danger. There were no less than five major disasters, each endangering thousands of people. A lot of people could have used safety check to show their loved ones that they were still okay. Facebook’s policy on when safety check is instituted has been updated to include human disasters as well.

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While the app is good, there is something that should be added. Currently there is no option for “not safe” in the options list the feature provides. While many who are not safe may not be able to use Facebook to begin with, it could potentially be used to find people who are stranded. This missing feature could be used best in natural disasters since it is extremely difficult to search everywhere, and someplace with potential survivors trapped could be blocked off.

A service could be added for those who select “not safe” that automatically sends authorities the most recent location of the endangered person. Simply by sending the location the proper authorities could make their way to the individual and hopefully save their life.

Facebook’s safety check will be used more often than we would like to see, and an improvement can still be made. Otherwise safety check is a useful feature. Everyone who uses Facebook should look more into this and keep up with any news or updates to it so we can all stay in the loop on their loved ones’ safety.

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But it’s not just presidential candidates that have advocated against taking refugees; 27 governors have said that they do not want to take Muslim refugees, with 26 of the 27 governors being Republicans.

Here’s the thing, though: states have no power over refugees. Stephen

Vladeck, a law professor at American University, said, “Legally, states have no authority to do anything because the question of who should be allowed in this country is one that the Constitution commits to the federal government.”

In short, these states can’t do anything but accept refugees because the Constitution specifically gives that ability to the federal government.

This whole refugee thing upsets me.

How can someone look at a country where over 120 people die every day because of a war and think that all we need to do is airdrop more supplies?

By the time we airdrop supplies, the people they were intended for could already be dead.

There’s a complete disregard for suffering people that I just can’t wrap my head around.

What happened to the philosophy that America is supposed to help everyone?

We accept refugees from all over the world, but just because we’re scared of this one area’s religion, we can’t help anyone in that region except Israel?

It just makes no sense to me to see so many of this country’s leaders just turn a blind eye to the crises others face right outside our borders.

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If this final theory is true, then Dolphins, along with many other animals, are escape artists; by jumping from their world of blue, they experience a new one that to them is full of mystery and magic.

The city life gets boring for the city dweller, the ocean gets boring for the dolphin, and both do what they can to escape monotony.

They attach themselves to an activity that allows them to be free and negate their thoughts of boredom. All Americans can relate to existential boredom — feeling like you are simply existing, not living.

Getting closer to the things that one cares about is a big step in the attempt to be a part of life’s mystery and magic. It’s about where you escape to, not how. Everyone is an escape artist, from the employee who never takes a day off, to the person who pursues a hobby or talent relentlessly. It is these people who are alive to life’s mystery and magic because in their effort to be consistent in whatever they do, they strive to create a personal experience in their respective locations that would never exist without them.

This is the essence of the escape artist within us all — to leave life’s suctioning aspect of boredom and complacency and to arrive at a lifelong task of activity that promotes one’s mental stability, sense of accomplishment and unique personal human experience.

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Sycamore women prepare for home slate Zach Rainey Reporter

The Indiana State women’s basketball team looks to get their first win of the young season on Thursday against Eastern Illinois after getting off to a less-than-ideal start to the season this past weekend, losing 73-67 to Northern Kentucky last Sunday and falling prior to that on Friday against Central Michigan, 85-65.

The Panthers enter the contest at 1-1 and played Loyola this week before traveling to Terre Haute. In the Panthers’ first game, they pulled one out at home, defeating the IUPUI Jaguars 77-71 in overtime. The Sycamores should analyze this game closely, as they play IUPUI in less than two weeks. It was a team effort by the Panthers with five players scoring in double figures, compared to just two by the Jaguars.

Grace Lennox would strong case be the Panthers’ player of the game, scoring 19 points, grabbing nine rebounds, and stealing the ball twice. One player who isn’t shy shooting the basketball is Alece Shumpert. Shumpert hoisted up 12 shots with 11 of them being 3-point attempts. While she hit just three of them, she had the confidence in herself to keep

shooting. Erica Brown is the team’s best interior defender, sending back four shots in Friday’s contest.

On Sunday, the Panthers traveled to Memphis to take on a tough Memphis Tigers team.

Brown was the lone bright spot for the Panthers, scoring 20 points and grabbing seven rebounds before fouling out late in the contest. It was a tough day for the rest of the supporting cast however, as the team shot just 30 percent. When you take away Brown’s 9-12 shooting performance, they shot just 7-40 for 17 percent.

On Saturday, the Sycamores will host the University of Nebraska Omaha, who enter the contest 1-0 after defeating the University of Central Florida in their home opener on Saturday. Like Shumpert at Eastern Illinois, Durangos guard Remy Davenport likes to shoot the three-ball.

Against the Knights, Davenport shot 5-13 from three and had 18 points. Forward Mikaela Shaw was right there with Davenport, scoring 18 of her own, but in a very efficient manner. Shaw shot 5-7 from the floor and drained 8-10 free throws. Fellow Maverick guard Amber Vidal had a modest performance as well, shooting 4-13 from the field and 2-8 from

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Junior forward Joyae Marshall has started the season strong posting double-digit scoring in her first two contests.

downtown to finish the game with 11 points.

The Sycamores hope to capitalize on the play of Cierra Ceazer and Joyea Marshall from this past weekend. Ceazer and Marshall both scored in double figures in each of ISU’s first two regular season games. Most recently, Ceazer finished with 18 points at Northern Kentucky

while Marshall added 17 points and 10 rebounds in the loss to the Norse. The early portion of the season continues for Indiana State who is looking to add more firepower along with the upperclassmen duo.

After this week, the Sycamores will play the Saint Louis Billikens next Wednesday before heading off to Kansas City

to take part in the Plaza Lights Classic against Missouri-Kansas City and Stephen F. Austin.

Both games this week are scheduled to tip off at 7:05 at the Hulman Center as part of ISU’s first two regular season games at home. The contests can be seen online at ESPN3 or the WatchESPN app. Audio is available on 1230 AM WIBQ.

MEN’S BASKETBALL: Men grab first win of season Rob Lafary Sports Editor

Indiana State men’s basketball surged for a 19-2 run to end the first half and scored 41 points in the second half to run away with a 70-55 win over Wyoming on Monday in a Mountain West Conference/Missouri Valley Conference Challenge game inside the friendly confines of the Hulman Center.

The win — ISU’s first win of the season — was a major improvement from the team’s woes last Friday night at home against IUPUI. On the offensive end, the Sycamores improved upon their 57 percent mark from the free-throw line this past weekend and shot 19-26 from the stripe for 73 percent.

The biggest improvement, though, came from the defensive end, where Indiana State limited the Cowboys to just 34 percent field goal shooting.

“I couldn’t be any happier … this is a good team win,” said Indiana State Head Coach Greg Lansing following the game. “It was a very good opponent and a very good win for us.”

Indiana State (1-1) got out of the gate slow and traded jabs with a young, inexperienced Wyoming squad early on. Despite their poor shooting, the Cowboys led 13-10 at the 10:23 mark of the first half but that’s when the Sycamores’ resurgence kicked in. Sparked by a Matt Van Scyoc 3-point play and a pair of 3-pointers by Grant Prusator, the home team quickly built a 29-15 lead by halftime.

“The defense in the first half was about as good as it’s been since we’ve been here,” Lansing said of the team’s effort in the first 20 minutes. “Guys were all over the place and we kept

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Senior guard Devonte Brown has led the Sycamores in scoring through their first two games.

guarding. We guarded all night from the opening tip.”

Wyoming (1-1) made a charge in the second half, putting up 40 points, but the Sycamores continued to disrupt on the defensive end and used a 16-21 performance from the charity stripe to keep the visitors at bay. The Cowboys cut the lead down to just six with 12:52 to play at 4236, but ISU went on a 2819 run the rest of the way and pushed the lead back out to double figures.

The Cowboys trailed by double-digits for the final 10 minutes of the contest as the Sycamores picked up the 70-55 victory.

For the second straight game, Devonte Brown led all scorers in the contest.

Despite an off-night from the field, Brown finished with 15 points to go along with seven rebounds and seven assists. Van Scyoc and sophomore forward Brandon Murphy joined him in double figures with

13 and 10 respectively. ISU had nine players shoot their way into the score column.

“We got lots of good contributions tonight,” Lansing noted. “We had eight different guys score in the first half. We had 14 assists. We didn’t shoot well; we should have had 20, but we had only eight turnovers. I’m just awfully happy with how hard we played.”

Josh Adams, the reigning Mountain West Conference Player of the Year, led Wyoming with 13 points but was only 4-13 from the field and 4-9 from the free-throw line.

Jason McManamen joined him in double figures with 10 points.

The Sycamores now prepare for the Paradise Jam Classic in the U.S. Virgin Islands on a happy and positive note following the win.

ISU opens classic play on Friday against Norfolk State.

This weekend marks the beginning of fall break at Indiana State, which means most students will be departing campus and making their way home to be with their family and friends.

The ISU men’s basketball team will also be leaving campus, but instead of going home, they will be heading to the Caribbean.

The U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam tournament will be awaiting them in St. Thomas after a 6 1/2hour plane ride, where temperatures are expected to be in the low 80s.

Norfolk State will be the Sycamores’ opening round opponent with the tipoff scheduled for 8:30 p.m. Friday night.

The Spartans of Norfolk State dropped their season opener 84-69 at South Carolina. The team shot just 34 percent from the field, but was led by redshirt seniors Charles Oliver and Jeff Short. Oliver scored 21 points, while his backcourt mate Short scored 16 of his own.

Another scorer to keep an eye out for on the Spartans roster is senior guard D’Shon Taylor. He scored two points in the loss at South Carolina due to being in foul trouble but averaged 13 points per game a year ago.

While Norfolk State got out the season rolling a little slow with a loss on the road against South Carolina, the team led by thirdyear head coach Robert Jones, has had two solid years in a row.

In his first season at the helm, Jones finished with an overall record of 19-15 and led the Spartans into a postseason tournament.

Last year, he had an even better season. Norfolk State went 20-14 and once again earned a spot in a postseason tournament.

Meanwhile the Sycamores enter the Paradise Jam tournament with a 1-1 record after falling in the season opener against IUPUI, followed by a win against Wyoming, who was in the NCAA tournament a year ago.

The trio of Oliver, Short and Taylor from Norfolk State against ISU’s Devonte Brown, Brenton Scott, Khristian Smith and Matt

Van Scyoc will be one of the more intriguing matchups of the opening round.

The matchup on the sidelines between Greg Lansing and Jones will also be one that could be interesting in terms of coaching styles.

Indiana State will play Tulsa or Ohio University, depending on the outcomes of both ISU-Norfolk State and Tulsa-Ohio. Saturday and Sunday’s schedule for the Sycamores will depend ISU’s results.

A win promises three games in three days while a loss means another game on either Saturday or Sunday.

The Golden Hurricanes of Tulsa come to paradise after they were able to take care of business in their first game of the season when they defeated Central Arkansas, 98-81.

Tulsa shot 58.5 percent from the field and had six different players have double-digit scoring games.

Seniors Shaquille Harris and James Woodard led the Frank Haith coached Golden Hurricanes with Harris notching 22 points and Woodard recording 23.

On the other side, Ohio University has a record of 2-0 after knocking off Florida Gulf Coast and Tennessee State at home. The Bobcats defeated FGCU, 85-75, and took care of Tennessee State by a score of 75-67.

Ohio has a balanced scoring attack and has three players that are averaging at least 10 points per game. Redshirt sophomore Jaaron Simmons leads the way with his 17.5 points per game, while junior Antonio Campbell is averaging 11.5 points per night, and redshirt junior Kenny Kaminski has scored 10.5 per game so far this season.

The U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam tournament also features DePaul, Florida State, Hofstra and South Carolina, who will be matched up against each other on the opposite side of Indiana State’s part of the bracket.

ISU’s opening round game can be seen on ParadiseJam.com with potential Saturday and Sunday games televised on the CBS Sports Network.

All classic games involving the Sycamores can be heard locally on 95.9 WDKE.