November 4, 2015

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

Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015

Volume 123, Issue 33

Grant aids substance abuse training for students

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Down but not out

Injuries strip McKee of her ability, not her passion

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A new training program will offer students in health professions an opportunity to learn the skills necessary to recognize and treat substance abuse.

The Rural Social Work — Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment Grant Project began on Oct. 1, headed

by Dr. Paul DuongTran, who serves as the project director/ principal investigator.

This project will last for three years and will be supported by a $938,000 grant from the Federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, through the Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment grant program.

The purpose of this project is to develop and implement training programs to teach students that are in health professions — such as nurses, social workers or physician’s assistants — the leadership skills necessary to provide evidence-based screening and brief intervention, and also refer patients to treatments that are at risk for substance use disorders.

The RSW-SBIRT project plans to serve at least 435 students who are enrolled or have declared bachelor of social work or master of social work majors, with additional elective coursework completed by nursing and physician’s assistants.

“This would serve 85 students in the first year of the grant and 175 students per year in the second and third years,” DuongTran said. “Students who are not enrolled in these fields still have similar opportunities to enroll in the same coursework as those who are enrolled.”

The main goal of the RSWSBIRT program will be to fully integrate the SBIRT classroom and best practice training, including a sub focus on motivational interviewing into the nationally accredited Bachelor of Social Work and Master of Social Work programs at Indiana State.

Many objectives will be pursued to accomplish this goal, including the Substance and Mental Health Services Association curriculum as well as the Motivational Interviewing curriculum being fully integrated into the undergraduate and graduate courses and fieldwork practices.

A trainer-of-trainers model will be designed for faculty and other supervisors and a regional training program will be implemented for both students and other professionals in health fields.

he Indiana State University women’s soccer season came to a close last week, ending the careers of a dedicated group of seniors for the Sycamores.

While taking the blue and white ISU jersey off for the final time had to be very difficult and emotional, they were still able to take it off on their own, after playing a season full of games.

One senior soccer player didn’t get that opportunity, however, as her jersey was taken from her a year prior, thanks to injuries and a doctor’s strict words.

Molly McKee was a standout soccer player at Terre Haute North High School. She was one of the best players to ever take the field in a Patriots uniform and committed to her hometown school, Indiana State University, during her junior season.

Although her high school career was full of triumphs, she started it off with a scary injury during one of the best games of her life.

“I was having a fantastic game (during my freshman year of high school),” McKee said. “I had just scored my third goal to tie the score up 3-3 to Ben Davis High School.”

That’s when it all went wrong.

“During the second half, I found myself flat on my back not being able to feel anything from the waist down,” McKee added. “(After being) taken off of the field and closely examined by athletic trainers, I found out that I had herniated my L4 and L5 disc in my lower back.”

After the numbness wore off and doctors checked her out, McKee was informed to take the rest of the season off and do some rehab at Terre Haute Physical Therapy during the winter holidays. Once her rehab and rest were over, she got back on the field and finished the three remaining years of her career at Terre Haute North. But the injury reappeared during her time with an Indianapolis club team.

“I had just finished my senior year of soccer at North when things got worse,” said McKee. “I was playing center back during a tournament in Indianapolis when my right leg went

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ISU marks 20-year partnership with Russian university Betsy Simon

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Haley Cawthon understands the value of learning from another culture, having traveled to Vietnam last spring as part of a study abroad experience through the Bachelor of Social Work program at Indiana State University.

Now she will be one of four second-year students in Indiana State’s newly accredited Master of Social Work program to see where the social work department’s international experiences first developed during an eightday study abroad trip to Tambov, Russia, Nov. 21-29, in celebration of the 20-year partnership between Indiana State and Tambov State University.

“This will give us an international element and broaden our understanding of how culture affects our practice,” said Cawthon of Cayuga, who will present research on geriatric social work in Russia. “You often go into

trips thinking you have so much to teach the people you meet, but honestly, the people we meet teach us so much and humble us with their quality of work.”

Traveling with Robyn Lugar, associate professor of social work who developed the partnership, students will present research at a two-day international conference, meet the students in Tambov State’s social work program and visit with social service providers.

A veteran of the U.S. military, William Little of Danville, Illinois, will present research on the role of social work in veteran care in the U.S. “As a veteran, I made a real connection with a social worker when I was on active duty and it pushed me in the direction of studying social work,” said Little, who will be accompanied on the trip by his son, a junior at Terre Haute South High School.

It’s a trip that has the power to change teenagers too, said Katie Lugar of Terre Haute. Having

tagged along with her mother and Indiana State students to Russia several times growing up, she is excited to present her own research on sexism on college campuses during the conference.

“It’s nice to get a different perspective on how another culture does social work,” Katie Lugar said. “Russia does social work differently than we do in the United States because it’s based on the needs of their people, so this will allow us to learn from each other to better serve the people in our countries.”

What Indiana State students witnessed 20 years ago on the first visit trip to Tambov — a group of women going out on their own to provide services — was what the U.S. would have witnessed 100 years ago, Robyn said.

“The woman who made it all happen (in Russia), Raisa Kulichenka, is a testament to how one person can make a difference and change everything by developing an entire profession

in Russia when there was very little there,” she said.

Robyn Lugar took the first group of 12 Indiana State students to Tambov, Russia, in 1996. They spent four weeks working in various social service agencies, including orphanage, residential facility for elders working with veterans and mental health facility.

The two-decades-long partnership has sent a ripple through Indiana State with visits to Tambov and published research by faculty, as well as through the community when Terre Haute and Tambov became sister cities under former Terre Haute Mayor Judy Anderson.

Robyn Lugar and the six groups of students she has already taken to Russia have made a lasting mark by donating $5,000 and 2,000 pounds of supplies to a local orphanage since the partnership began.

Three Tambov State students

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Tenth annual Jam the Bus food drive set for Nov. 4 Mallory Eherenman

ISU Communications and Marketing

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Non-perishable food items that are donated will go to Catholic charities of Terre Haute.

The tenth annual Jam the Bus food drive will be held Nov. 4 at Indiana State University.

Students, faculty and members of the community can drop off non-perishable foods, as well as cash donations to Hines East from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event is sponsored by the Hulman Memorial Student Union Board and Sodexo. All contributions will benefit the Catholic Charities of Terre Haute.

Each year the donations are collected in hopes of filling an athletic bus to the brim with collected food.

When Jam the Bus was introduced on campus in 2005, 700 pounds of food was collected. Donations skyrocketed from 6,000 pounds in 2011 to 16,658 pounds in 2012, more than a 250 percent increase.

This year’s goal is to raise 20,000 pounds of food for Terre Haute families.

Union Board has challenged campus student organizations and university offices in a competition to see who can donate the most food.

The top student organization will win a pizza party provided by Union Board.

The university office contributes the most canned food will receive a discounted office lunch at Generations Cafe.

Allyson Morris, community service chair for Union Board and a biology major from Austin, Indiana, hopes to break 2013’s record-winning donation.

“The event always happens in November and a large portion of what is donated goes to help Terre Haute families during the holiday season,” Morris said. “I love the atmosphere the day of the event and how students take the time out of their day to come by and donate.”

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Millennials have mixed feelings about smartphones Nevia Buford

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Some millennials have mixed feelings toward their smartphones, according to an article from CBSnews.com.

According to the article, smartphones are an integral part of our lives. “Nine out of 10 younger millennials (ages 18 to 24) check their phones at least once an hour, if not ‘constantly,’ according to the results of a Bank of America mobile trend report.”

The article also said that while millennials are addicted to their phones, they are not happy about it.

Ninety percent of the millennials studied and 96 percent of students felt that their smartphones will help them find new job opportunities.

But 83 percent feared that if they don’t keep up with the latest technologies, they will become less employable.

The study also showed that they were conflicted about smartphones in their daily and personal lives.

Of those studied, 88 percent recognized that their smartphones have brought them closer to people, but less than half of them feel that new technologies will allow them to maintain deeper relationships in the future.

Additionally, 77 percent of the participants felt that in 10 years, the relationships they make will not be authentic because of digital communication.

Dr. Virgil Sheets, a professor of psychology at ISU, gave some reasons why millennials might continue to use their smartphones despite their mixed feelings.

“On the one hand, cell phones enable them to stay connected with others, which is what we all want, to feel connected,” Sheets said. “Thus, staying connected to our friends and family is very important to us, and cell phones provide this.”

Sheets said smartphones affect connectivity.

“On the other hand, what is lost?

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New initiative helps students avoid plagiarism Morgan Gallas Reporter

“iamSTATE. iamACADEMICINTEGRITY” is a new initiative that the Office of Student Conduct and Integrity created to educate students on the importance of academic honesty.

The Office of Student Conduct and Integrity wants students to understand what plagiarism is so that they do not accidentally plagiarize.

Student Conduct and Integrity assistant director Kourtney Barrett has been working with the initiative.

“We have been working in partnership with the Faculty Center for Teaching and Excellence as well as some assistance from Instructional Design,” Barrett said. “We’ve developed a new initiative to address concerns regarding academic misconduct.”

The initiative was created to improve student understanding of what is expected of them.

“The new campaign — and I use ‘campaign’ loosely because there isn’t any other way to address it — called ‘iamSTATE. iamACADEMICINTEGRITY,’” Barrett said. “The idea is that it gives students a brief overview as to what academic integrity is and how they can avoid accidents of academic dishonesty.”

The Office of Student Conduct and Integrity created the initiative with the help of other organizations so that they are able to distribute the information in different ways.

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A recent report by Bank of America suggests that millennials have a love/hate relationship with smartphones, with 96 percent of students feeling that smartphones will help them find job opportunities.

nect digitally, we are not connecting in other ways,” Sheets said. “Some theorists might point out that we have evolved very elaborate means of communication, the human voice as well as non-verbal gestures, the importance of which we barely understand. Are we truly able to ‘communicate’ without the information transmitted via these other means?”

Sheets also said because we have a need to feel up-to-date, we tend to continue using our cell phones despite the unpleasantness.

He also said that we have a desire to compare ourselves to others.

“The ever-present updates received by others feeds our desire for comparison, and too much social comparison, or at least comparison with the wrong groups, can also diminish our sense of well-being and worth,” Sheets said.

Students on campus have mixed feelings about their smartphones as well.

Abby Reisinger, a sophomore psychology major, said she feels there are both pros and cons to smartphones.

“They get in the way of interacting with people… (on an) impersonal basis. It is easier to contact people when needed, but all the extra apps and stuff is sometimes unnecessary.”

Reisinger also said that she would give up her smartphone “Because I could feel myself being more in-tune with the other people.”

Kristen Kilker, a junior communication major, had similar views.

“I feel like they’re making our lives much easier by pretty much compacting all of our daily routines, having all these apps and stuff to do things that you usually would have to do separately,” Kilker said. “But while they’re making our lives easier, they might be affecting our ability to remember things; humans aren’t really that good at multitasking.”

Retirement age increasing for graduates Morgan Gallas Reporter

A recent study found that retirement ages will likely rise for graduates in 2015 and later because of debt and living costs.

An article in USA Today stated, “Students graduating in 2015 will have an average retirement age of 75 due to the increasing costs of living and student debt, according to a study published (Oct. 21) by NerdWallet.”

Student loan debt has been on the rise, which is preventing millennials from investing for retirement.

“NerdWallet’s 2015 New Grad Retirement Report found that factors such as student loan debt and increases in average rent keep millennials from saving for retirement,” USA Today wrote. “Average student loan debt has increased by more than $5,500 since 2012, from $29,400 to $35,051.”

The more student debt a person acquires, the less they are able to put toward retirement, which increases the years spent in the workforce.

Aside from student loan debt, there is also a possibility of the government ending Social Security.

Matt Hetzel, assistant director of the Career Center, explained Social Security.

“There has been speculation that Social Security may or may not exist depending on what the government does with how they fund it,” Hetzel said. “This is because people are living longer, which is a good thing for humans but not for Social Security.”

Social Security was created when people would retire at 65 and live to be about 74. Now,

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A recent study suggests that 2015 college graduates will experience later retirement ages because of increases in costs of living and student debt.

people are living longer, which increases the amount of money needed individually.

“People are living and thriving well into their 80s and 90s,” Hetzel said. “It’s still quite a big question whether or not the government can make Social Security last through the millennial generation.”

If the retirement age does increase, this can cause problems in the workforce. Fewer jobs will be available for people entering the workforce and there may also be bodily complications for older people.

“While I’m no biology expert, the body does start to break down as you get older,” Hetzel said. “It’s a wonder if the majority of the workforce will be able to work into their 70s, especially in heavy labor jobs, retraining opportunities and technology increases.”

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versity students have many resources available to help plan for the future.

“It’s imperative that students take advantage of the resources at ISU,” Hetzel said. “There is a financial aid officer, Brenda Hall, who works with a partner from Fifth-Third Bank. They do some education sessions over financial planning for students.”

Another option for students is to start paying off loans before finishing school.

“Students loans are so high that the money meant for retirement funds is now going to pay off student loans,” Hetzel said. “If the loans aren’t paid off, the interest keeps growing.

Start paying off loans slowly in college before the interest becomes too much.”

While students may not be able to start saving for retirement at 21, they can start mak-

ing sacrifices to pay off loans.

“Sacrificing some fun for future potential gain is not easy to do, but it will be next to necessary for students,” Hetzel said. “A lot of times, people have extra jobs, like multiple part-time jobs, called underemployment, or a fulltime job as well as a part-time job, just to pay off their loans and save for retirement.”

Hetzel also said students should take advantage of ISU’s resources.

“Students have access right now to go speak to a financial aid adviser or come to the career center,” Hetzel said.

“Students should fill out the FAFSA and read over master promissory notes to understand what is expected. My advice is to make little payments here and there for your loans so there will be less payments later.”

ISU Public Safety police blotter Oct. 30

2:23 p.m.: A wallet was found in the HMSU. 9:30 p.m.: Lost property was reported in the HMSU.

Oct. 31

10:18 a.m.: A BB gun was found at Sixth and Spruce streets.

7:26 p.m.: An injured person was reported in the Student Rec Center.

7:55 p.m.: An injured person was reported in the Student Rec Center.

Nov. 1

1:37 a.m.: A domestic dispute and

tresspass warning were reported in Sandison Hall.

1:00 p.m.: Harrassment was reported in Erickson Hall.

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Turbo vote aims to inform Miguel Lewis Reporter

The prominence of voting is beginning to skyrocket with elections being about a year away. Although the young adult voter population continues to grow every year, it remains important to advertise the importance of elections.

This year Turbo Vote is being broadcast like no other. At Indiana State University, Turbo Vote is a way to keep the campus population informed about information pertaining to elections and how to vote.

According to turbovote.org, Turbo Vote is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that partners with colleges, universities and other non-profit organizations to help reach more voters, which is its goal here at ISU. For generations it has been said that the children, youths, and young people are the keys to the future. Turbo Vote is seen as a way for students, staff and faculty alike to empower each

other with the necessary information to contribute to society.

It is also about keeping Indiana campuses and other campuses nationwide informed about the ideas that go into politics and elections.

Junior nursing major Alicia Bennett had a few words to say about why it’s important for students to be informed, especially freshmen.

“Although I am not interested in signing up with Turbo Vote at the moment, I think it’s a good program for freshmen to sign up with,” Bennett said.

“I feel like many students were not informed about politics and voting at home, so to come here and see a program like this is very beneficial. It allows us students to make more educated decisions about elections and who we want to see in office come 2016.”

According to the website, Turbo Vote does a handful of things to keep society informed.

This includes tracking elections — local and national.

INTEGRITY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 “We worked with Instructional Design to create a video which serves as an educational tool,” Barrett said. “The video was created by myself and Lisa Hughes from Instructional Design.”

Along with the video, “iamSTATE. iamACADEMICINTEGRITY” also has fliers around campus.

“We also worked with Student Marketing Company,” Barrett said. “They helped us design two posters that we have placed in the colleges, departments and key study areas that hopefully encourage students to stop and think about keeping their eyes on their own paper, giving credit where credit is due and upholding the values of integrity in and outside of the classroom.”

The Office of Student Conduct and Integrity has seen academic dishonesty as a problem because students do not completely understand the different types of dishonesty.

“I think students get really caught up with

The program works by keeping track of registration and vote-by-mail rules for all 50 states. The sponsoring organizations are also responsible for disbursing completed forms to those who have signed up.

Once a user has signed up, Turbo Vote sends texts and email reminders out about the registration process, registration deadlines and upcoming elections.

Junior nursing major Julie Demonterey also said she believes a program like Turbo Vote is important, not only to youth voters, but to voters as a whole.

“I think a program like this could be beneficial,” Demonterey said. “I’m not sure what the scope of this program is, but I know what I would like to see if I signed up. Having a leader that is not bought by big business is a big issue this election season. If this Turbo Vote were to display the policies and campaigns of running presidential politicians, I think we would

plagiarism because so many students struggle with the differences between plagiarism and paraphrasing and how to appropriately cite their resources,” Barrett said.

There are also different kinds of academic dishonesty that students may not know about or do not completely understand.

“Students also get tied up into things such as falsification, forgery and obstruction,” Barrett said. “Students need to know that something as simple as sharing your completed worksheet with your friend who maybe ran out of time and couldn’t get their worksheet done in time is facilitating academic dishonesty.”

The video is located on the Facebook page ISU Student Conduct and Integrity: Be Rooted as well as their Twitter account.

“We just want students to be aware of academic integrity,” Barrett said. “They need to be aware that they need to earn their degree. A degree won’t have a lot of value to it if they didn’t do the work that is expected behind the degree.”

have a better idea of what each candidate is like and what they contribute.”

Demonterey said she’s interested to see what information is provided, such as information about the individual candidates and their beliefs, but if it is what she is hoping for, she will sign up for the program.

“Candidates should be talking about the economy, what

they plan to do to grow it, and issues we’ve dealt with recently, like homosexuality,” Demonterey said. “All I have seen so far is a lot of beating around the bush. At moments it seems like the debates we’ve seen so far can be a waste of time. If Turbo Vote can display issues like running platforms and issues that are unique to each candidate, you can sign me up.”

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Robyn Lugar hopes this year’s visit to Russia will provide an opportunity to develop an online social work journal where students from Indiana State, as well as partner institutions in Korea, Russia, Vietnam and Morocco, can publish research.

“We’re going back to celebrate the 20th year because our experience (working with Tambov State) is what led us to get involved in other institutions abroad, like Korea and Morocco,” she said. “We are truly ambassadors when we’re over there and we’re making connections with colleagues and friends.”

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Bieber storms off stage in Norway DPA (TNS)

STOCKHOLM — Canadian pop star Justin Bieber has generated controversy in Norway after storming off the stage after performing just one song, reports said Friday.

Bieber, 21, who has a strong following in the Scandinavian country, said on Instagram that he opted to abruptly end the performance Thursday as “people in the front row would not listen.”

He apologized saying he “did not want to come across mean” and that he had “a rough week.”

Bieber then went to Oslo Airport and left Norway.

Just prior to walking off, a video clip showed Bieber wiping up a pool of water from the stage with a shirt, while arguing with some fans to let go of the shirt.

He then said: “Guys, I am done. I am not gonna do the show.”

About 1,000 fans were at the Chateau Neuf concert hall in Oslo.

Four teenage girls were later harassed on social media, blamed for triggering Bieber’s angry reaction.

Broadcaster TV2, which had planned to tape the show and air it in November, said they were not to blame.

“We strongly reject the angry statements,” TV2 spokeman Jahn-Petter Dahl told Oslo daily VG. In 2013, several secondary schools in western Norway changed their exam dates to allow fans of Bieber to see him live in concert. ©2015 Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH (Hamburg, Germany). Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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Justin Bieber performs in concert at the Colonial Life Arena in Columbia, South Carolina, Monday, August 5, 2013.

Balancing social life and college life DJ Reynolds Reporter

College students face the dilemma of choosing between a social life, sleep and good grades.

It seems impossible to have all three at once, since each requires a commitment of time and effort.

You can have all three and more, but it will take some serious work, balance and sacrifice.

First, classes are important; go to every class even though you may not want to. A person goes to college to earn an education, and skipping one class could leave someone in confusion.

Take the notes you need, pay as much as attention as you can and learn the most by participating and asking questions. You are here for you; don’t worry if someone is going to laugh or groan at a question you need to ask. Also, be punctual. If you are waking up an hour before class and are still arriving late, set your alarm for an hour and a half before or even two hours before class.

Second, you should also leave plenty of time to do homework.

A piece of advice: Have a sheet of paper listing all homework assignments and the dates they are due. Include everything, even big papers or projects that are coming up in a week or two.

It also helps to leave a few hours each night to do any homework.

You should even give extra time to

the assignments that might seem like they’ll only take 20 minutes to do.

Third, don’t let your social life dominate everything else. Everyone needs friends and time to relax, and it’s all right to do that, but give up a little bit of time for friends and set up plans with them. It’s important to know your limit, though.

You are here to study and earn an education, and you need to make sure homework and classes are a priority. Learn to say no when you need to so you can do all the homework that is due the next day.

It’s also important to leave a little time for yourself. Having a fun time with friends is good, but if you don’t have some time to yourself, you might burn out. It doesn’t need to be a whole day to yourself, unless it is what you need or want.

Even an hour a day of lying down or watching a show is enough.

Last but not least, make sure you are getting enough sleep. Get those eight hours of sleep every night. Some nights might require a sacrifice of an hour or two but don’t sacrifice the whole night.

There is always the option of getting up earlier to finish the unfinished assignments.

Everyone is different and has different habits. A person might not need all of this advice, but everyone could learn something to make things easier.

As the online video world grows, content creators must cast a wide net David Pierson

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

LOS ANGELES — Julie Nolke, a cook and host on the digital food and travel channel Tastemade, had just finished filming her ampedup take on the Canadian favorite poutine — a mess of crispy fries smothered with cheese curds, bacon and gravy, spiked with beer and maple syrup.

Then it was time for the editing team to start stirring, cutting the footage different ways to get the video in front of as many eyeballs as possible — wherever they may be.

The clip had to be cropped ver-

tically to fit mobile screens on Snapchat. Another version had to be edited down to a couple of minutes to capture fickle viewers on Facebook’s news feed. Lastly, the segment had to be distilled into a few attention-grabbing seconds to play on Twitter and Instagram.

These are the new rules of distribution in the increasingly crowded world of online video. When Tastemade launched in 2012, YouTube was mostly the only platform the so-called multichannel network had to focus on. Now, staying ahead requires blasting your content across the dozens of video

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USC professor brings computer animation to life Ronald D. White

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

LOS ANGELES — Animator Hao Li, 34, is an assistant professor of computer science at USC, running a small, newly renovated lab with five graduate students at the university’s school of engineering.

His team is working on cutting-edge graphics and animation, including what Li described as “dynamic shape reconstruction, realtime facial and body performance capture, 3-D hair acquisition and garment digitization.”

Li is also the founder and chief executive of Pinscreen Inc., a Los Angeles-area startup focusing on “nextgeneration mobile communications in 3-D.” In 2013, Li was named one of the world’s 35 top innovators under age 35 by the MIT Technology Review.

Formerly with the Industrial Light & Magic visualeffects house, Li’s film credits include “Star Trek Into Darkness,” “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” and “Fast and Furious 7.”

In the last film, Li helped with the animation of the late Paul Walker’s character to make it appear as though Walker was present throughout the movie even though he died in a car accident before filming was completed.

“One of the incredibly difficult things” Li said he was working on at USC with his graduate students is an algorithm that attempts “hair capture,” or movement, making it look as though each strand of hair — there are about 100,000 on a human head — is moving individually as well as changing appearance depending on sources of light or shadow.

Li dubs himself a “German-born punky of Taiwanese descent doing computer graphics,” adding, “I know, #epicfail.”

Born in Saarbrucken, Ger-

many, Li points to the influence of his mother, ChengTze Liu, who was a painter, calligrapher and costume maker for stage dramas, ballets and operas.

His father, Chuan-Tseng Li, was a chemist and engineer for a pharmaceutical company.

“It was the perfect combination for computer graphics,” Li said. “I had the aspect of art from my mother and the science from my father.”

Still, Li’s parents didn’t see where he was headed while he “played video games several hours a day” on a Commodore 64 computer and began learning simple computer coding and computer languages, like BASIC, in high school.

“Chinese families always wish their sons will go into medicine or become a lawyer,” Li said. “I just kind of refused that and decided I wanted to go into computer science.”

Exposure to effects-heavy films including “Jurassic Park” and “The Terminator” set Li’s sights on a computer animation career. “I saw those special effects and said, ‘Wow, that is what I really want to do.’”

Li said that two of his high school teachers were “instrumental in telling what subjects I would need to take. By 16, they had given me a better idea of what I would have to do to be in computer science.”

Li got a master’s degree in computer science in 2006 from the University of Karlsruhe (now the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) and a doctorate in computer science from ETH Zurich in 2010.

Li followed that up with postdoctoral work at Princeton University and Columbia University through early 2012.

“I got the formal training on the theoretics of computer science. … I started to experiment with graphics and put them on YouTube,” Li said. If it’s well done “it immediately catches attention

in the industry.”

Li said he wound up getting job offers from Microsoft Corp. and Industrial Light & Magic. “At the same time, I started applying for faculty positions,” Li said.

“That’s how I came to USC” in June 2013.

Li said he chose academia over commercial positions because of the stability of academic environments, the resources and because “you can do crazy things and ideas and not worry about commercializing it. … You can also do long-term, fundamental research, something you can’t do in an industry job.”

Stay open to possibilities, Li said, adding, “Have a rough idea of where you want to go, but don’t just stick with that because technology is changing so quickly now. There is no way to plan. You just have to adapt to the changes.”

Li starts off by working with his students closely, but then wants them “to develop their independence. It’s not just giving them a task to do.

They need to have their own agenda, where they decide” the next project they will be working on.

Li sees a future in which self-crafted avatars, enhanced to one’s own tastes, can assemble in a 3-D virtual room for a meeting or social activities.

The technology will “become an integral part of every computer, mobile device and living room,” Li said, “streaming terabytes of data about us and our friends every second over the Internet.”

Li added, “Our world is 3-D, and I want machines to be able to see it like we do.”

Personal: Li, who is single, has taken up cooking as a hobby and currently is working his way through Italian cuisine.

Another leisure pursuit is art, which Li showcases on his website, www.hao-li.com ©2015 Los Angeles Times.

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That’s why the Los Angeles-area media company — likened to a Food Network for the digital age — tailors its cooking demonstrations and travel adventures for Apple TV, YouTube, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Spotify, Twitter, Vessel, Roku and Comcast Watchable.

By casting a wide net, Tastemade leverages rising competition in the digital video landscape to capture the broadest audience available. That’s helped the company establish itself at a time when old media is looking for key investments to stay relevant.

“This is Phase 2” of the online video industry’s development, said Peter Csathy, a streaming video expert and chief executive of Manatt Digital Media, a consulting and venture capital firm. “Multichannel networks are becoming multiplatform networks.”

Driving it all are young viewers who are increasingly likely to watch content on their cellphones rather than a television plugged into the wall.

About 75 percent of all Facebook videos and more than half of all YouTube videos are now viewed on mobile devices.

Advertisers are adapting accordingly.

Digital video will fetch $7.8 billion in ad spending this year, up from $5.8 billion last year, according to EMarketer.

That number will double to more than $14 billion by 2019. Ad spending on TV, meanwhile, will grow about 3.5 percent to $81 billion over the same period, EMarketer said.

To stay abreast of the change, tra-

ditional entertainment companies such as NBCUniversal have sought to increase their digital video presence and know-how by investing in rising brands such as BuzzFeed.

Meanwhile, CNN and the Food Network are reaching millennials on Snapchat’s Discover feature, where publishers can post videos and stories each day.

“We’re in the third inning of a massive shift in dollars from TV to online video,” said Chad Gutstein, chief executive of Machinima, a digital channel similar to Tastemade but focused on video gaming and comic culture. “A tsunami of money is starting to flow.”

Facebook, the biggest name to join the video gold rush, has already demonstrated how it can disrupt the industry’s YouTube-centric status quo.

The social media giant had to defuse a controversy this year over freebooting, a phenomenon in which YouTube videos were being uploaded natively onto Facebook rather than being linked back to YouTube.

That triggered anger among YouTube stars, who complained that they weren’t getting credit for views and the advertising revenue that comes with it.

In response, Facebook introduced technology in August that’s aimed at identifying and ultimately stopping instances of freebooting.

Facebook’s video ambitions remain large. In July, the social media site with 1.5 billion active monthly users started experimenting with splitting ad revenue with video creators — just like YouTube does.

That was followed by new features such as streaming video for celebrities,

360-degree video and word last month that it was testing a news feed exclusively for video.

“No question, Facebook is seen as a direct threat” to YouTube, Csathy of Manatt said. “But that will lead to more experimentation and more choice, which is great for the consumer.”

YouTube, which marked its 10th anniversary this year, announced an adfree subscription service last month called YouTube Red. The service includes access to exclusive content made by some of the site’s biggest stars, such as PewDiePie and Lilly Singh.

Still, many analysts and industry officials have downplayed the competition for now, saying the space is too new to fight over while opportunities abound.

Advertisers, they reason, are likely to spread their spending across platforms rather than choose just one.

“Do we think it’s bad that Facebook is potentially entering the video ecosystem? No. It’s a great thing for video overall because one company cannot build an entire industry itself,” said Jamie Byrne, Director of YouTube Creators.

Byrne said brands like Tastemade and Machinima should distribute their shows as widely as possible to diversify revenue the same way Hollywood does with box-office receipts, television licensing and DVD sales.

Doing so, he said, doesn’t change his belief that YouTube will remain the home base for the vast digital video community — a place where almost everyone got their start.

That’s certainly the case with Tastemade, whose founders saw opportunity in starting a niche network for mil-

lennials geared toward mobile video.

About 60 percent of Tastemade’s audience is 18 to 34, many of whom are reached on Snapchat Discover.

“We started this company thinking there would be a new generation of channels that would live on digital platforms,” co-founder Larry Fitzgibbon said. “And someone would need to create them and build a brand around them. What’s exciting for us is that we’re starting to see that come together.”

YouTube has been at the core of their strategy. Tastemade has curated over 5,000 hours of licensed video made by amateur talent discovered on the massive video site. A sprawling map painted onto the wall of the company’s headquarters illustrates with head shots and names exactly where the channel’s 1,000 contributors are around the globe.

Tastemade’s Facebook page has gone from a few hundred thousand “likes” in 2014 to more than 3.7 million and counting.

The upswing has been helped by a steady flow of new content to the page, which is uploaded natively rather than sitting on YouTube’s servers.

After that, Tastemade can sit back and watch Facebook’s algorithm and users fan its content around the world.

“Facebook is set up for sharing,” Fitzgibbon said. “People aren’t just watching our content; they’re deeply engaging with it. And that’s a unique aspect of their platform. All these different platforms have something unique going for them.” ©2015 Los Angeles Times. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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Internet is a luxury, not a global necessity

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YouTube Red raises red flags

Zach Davis Columnist

Internet has become an increasingly important staple of our everyday lives.

We use our networks to do homework, play games and watch funny cat videos.

We wanted to connect to the Internet so much that we specifically designed ways to connect with the smallest devices we can, such as phones.

But according to the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, over half of the Earth’s population currently doesn’t have access to Internet.

Some people view this as a problem that needs to be solved, such as Facebook’s own Mark Zuckerberg, who expressed through a Facebook post his desire to provide cheap Internet access to the whole world.

He plans on creating solar-powered drones that fly at 60,000 feet while beaming an Internet signal down. The plan is to build enough of these drones to generate enough signals to allow Internet access for everyone.

Other companies are taking a similar approach as Zuckerberg, instead with different means. A company called OneWeb has a plan as well: mass-produce satellites. If the plan is executed, over 600 satellites would orbit Earth at a relatively low altitude — 750 miles. These satellites beam a signal down to terminals on the ground to emit WiFi and data signals to provide Internet to everyone.

Google is working on project Loon, which is attempting to send balloons up in the stratosphere to provide Internet.

These balloons would be automatically manned and would use the wind currents in the upper atmosphere to carry them where they need to go.

Striving to connect all of humanity through the Internet is a very big, unnecessary goal. Though those who are driving the effort to globalize Internet are striving for a noble goal, other issues should be focused on instead.

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the Internet should be aware of issues that humanity is already facing: climate change, famine and war.

The money and effort should be put toward something more fundamental, like providing clean energy to a large population.

Zuckerberg has already invested over $1 billion in his Internet plane. That money could have been used to buy solar panels to provide power to people who don’t have any. If that many solar panels were installed then we could reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and live a cleaner life, reducing our impact on climate change.

With power we could introduce running water, better hygiene and technology to use the Internet with to people in poverty-stricken areas.

After all, we can’t use the Internet if we don’t have a device or the power to support one.

But instead the plan is to spend the money on a plane that will fly around and provide a luxury.

The technology Google is using to put balloons into the atmosphere could be used to instead preserve wildlife and forests.

Google claimed that it could cost tens of thousands of dollars to build one balloon.

The money used for balloons could buy acres of rainforests for preservations or fund wildlife protection programs.

Perhaps the money could be used to feed starving families or provide funds for medical research.

If we could funnel that much money into research for serious diseases such as cancer or AIDS we could potentially develop a cure, or at least find a way to more comfortably treat a patient.

OneWeb is expecting to spend upward of $2 billion on their project. Topaz Solar Farm — a $2.5 billion project — provides electricity for 160,000 homes and reduces our carbon footprint by 377,000 tons of carbon dioxide yearly.

If we set up another solar plant similar to Topaz, we could preserve the environment even more and still enjoy the benefits of energy.

The positive impact would be awesome.

Although enjoyable and useful, the Internet is a luxury, something we can live without. Though not everybody would enjoy being disconnected we would be able to survive.

Mankind did for millennia before the advent of Internet. We are spending large portions of money on something that isn’t a necessity.

We have serious issues facing things that we are already having trouble with, and the World Wide Web is not the answer.

We need to provide what is necessary for life before we can afford to spend money on a leisure item.

As of Oct. 28, YouTube released a new service called YouTube Red. This is a $10 monthly streaming service with many other supposed benefits.

For one thing, you won’t have to watch ads anymore and you will receive exclusive content from many YouTubers.

You will also be able to download YouTube videos to your system and even close your phone or tablet and continue hearing your video.

So there seem to be many benefits to this new service, but I am really not happy with this idea.

YouTube paved many roads when it came to the Internet. It was a new, free way to share videos worldwide.

They were once trailblazers, but they now feel they need to conform.

YouTube Red is also going to make their own original content from popular YouTube personalities. While this seems great, it is also incredibly frustrating.

The great thing about YouTube is getting to watch anything and everything whenever you want from the general populace.

You’ve had to pay for actual movies and such for a long time now on YouTube, and that never bothered me — they’re actual full-fledged movies.

But content from YouTubers should still be free — that’s one of the things that makes them so popular.

Besides, how are we supposed to keep up so many subscriptions? If you want to watch “Game of Thrones,” “Orange is the New Black” and now “Scare PewDiePie,” you must pay for three separate streaming services.

Now, I can’t blame YouTube.

We did invent AdBlock to prevent them from receiving revenue from the videos we watch.

Those ads pay for the YouTubers we enjoy. They pay the musicians for their music videos.

In a time without MTV and where cable is dying out, we need a way to pay for that content and those who make it.

AdBlock just means people like PewDiePie and Markiplier go hungry.

Is a 30-second ad really too much to pay people for what they provide us?

Due to our selfish need to skip commercials we have created a need for YouTube Red. YouTube has been one of the greatest free speech platforms ever invented, and it has rocked our culture by force.

Unfortunately, though, that culture is quickly becoming pay-to-play.

Entertainment is becoming a bigger and bigger part of our lives — movies and video games are bigger than ever before, and while the expenses have gone up, we aren’t getting paid any more than we were.

Meaning we are just running ourselves ragged trying to see and play as many things as possible.

Most people find a way around these growing expenses in pirating. Anything you usually have to buy, you can typically find somewhere for free on the Internet.

While this is stealing, many people don’t really care about that.

They just want to watch the new episode of “Game of Thrones” and don’t care how. This is where YouTube gets the advantage.

Their content is all streamed. There aren’t DVDs of these videos, so it can be more difficult to pirate a copy of a YouTube video.

However, they may have shot themselves in the foot since signing up for YouTube Red allows you to download permanent copies of videos onto your PC, this will make pirating these shows infinitely more possible.

Long story short, I understand why YouTube is pushing this new streaming service — we’ve been stealing from them for years.

It’s still sad, however, that we will have to start paying for one of the largest free speech platforms we have to date.

Senator Donnelly should support CPP Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, I urge the editors at the Statesman to call on Senator Donnelly to support the Clean Power Plan (CPP) and reject the Congressional Review joint resolution that threatens this important response to climate change.

In a reply from his office, the Senator states that “Indiana already has one of the world’s cleanest coal” plants.

In actuality, carbon capture and sequestration technologies are decades away. In short, clean coal is a fallacy.

Sen. Donnelly explains that Indiana is being required to reach a nearly 40 percent reduction goal— “one of the

highest.” In fact 13 states have tougher goals and 32 states have goals above 30 percent. CPP allows for regional, multi-state plans. So we’re not exactly on our own as the Senator implies.

The CPP expects eastern region states to produce 20.5 percent of their energy with renewables by 2030.

The Indiana Dept. of Environmental Management says Indiana has

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Clearly these goals are not out of our reach. All we need is the political will. Please encourage Sen. Donnelly to provide that leadership.

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Levi Taylor named to MVC Team Tyler Wooten

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Indiana State sophomore Levi Taylor has been named to the 2015 Missouri Valley Conference Men’s Cross Country Scholar-Athlete Team, the Valley announced Tuesday afternoon.

Scholar-Athlete honors require a top-20 finish at the MVC Championship race and a cumulative 3.2 GPA. Freshmen and first-year transfers are not eligible.

Taylor, a redshirt sophomore from Corydon, Indiana, was the 17th-place finisher for the fourthplace Sycamore men at last Saturday’s MVC Championship in Evansville, Indiana. The finish is an eight-place improvement on Taylor’s 25th-place finish in 2014 that helped lead to an MVC title for the Sycamore men. Taylor holds a 3.99 GPA in construction management — the highest GPA among the men’s honorees in the MVC this season.

Taylor and the Sycamore men (and women) will race again Nov. 13 at the Great Lakes NCAA Regional in Madison, Wisconsin.

Sycamores rank No. 23 in Top-25, Tonyan marks career day Tyler Wooten

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Indiana State football ranks No. 23 in the latest edition of the STATS FCS Top-25, which was released Monday.

This is the 20th-straight week that the Sycamores have been ranked in a Top-25 poll, a school record that extends back to ISU’s historic 2014 season.

Following a tough 27-24 loss at No. 3 Illinois State last week, the Sycamores slid down to No. 23 in the STATS poll from No. 21, and they fell out of the FCS Coaches Poll for only the second time this season. Jacksonville State (7-1) remained as the No. 1 team in the STATS poll, and overtook the No. 1 slot in the Coaches poll as well following former-No. 1 Coastal Carolina’s loss to Charleston Southern.

Six MVFC schools remain ranked overall, the 10th-straight poll in 10 opportunities this season that the Valley has done so. Those ranked schools are: No. 2 Illinois State (7-1), No. 5/6 North Dakota State (6-2), No. 11 South Dakota State (6-2), No. 17/20 Northern Iowa (4-4), No. 21 Youngstown State (4-4) and No. 23 Indiana State (4-4).

Junior wide receiver Robert Tonyan Jr. had a career-day against No. 3 Illinois State on Saturday, hauling in nine passes for 117 yards, three touchdowns and a two-point conversion. However, his second touchdown catch of the day caught the eye of ESPN’s “SportsCenter,” which made it their No. 4 play of the day in their daily Top-10 segment.

The catch, a 10-yard lob from QB Matt Adam to Tonyan in the back-right corner of the endzone, is a truly impressive one considering the circumstances. With no gloves on and amid cold, wet and windy conditions at Hancock Stadium, Tonyan used all of his 6-5, 220 frame to leap over Redbird defensive back Davontae Harris, haul in the pass with only his right hand and keep both feet in-bounds — despite being held by Harris on the play.

Tonyan tied the ISU single-game touchdown record on Saturday, becoming the sixth Sycamore to ever catch three in one game — the second this season after Gary Owens did so vs. Southern Illinois on Homecoming on Oct. 17.

ISU will make the trek up to Cedar Falls, Iowa, this weekend to take on fellow 4-4 school, No. 17/20 Northern Iowa. Kickoff is set for 5 p.m. inside the UNI-Dome.

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Volleyball looks to get back on track Zach Rainey Reporter

The Indiana State volleyball team dropped both Missouri Valley Conference contests to Drake and Northern Iowa last weekend. Those losses dropped the Sycamores to 3-10 in conference play and 14-14 overall with just five matches remaining in the regular season.

ISU is back in action this weekend with a matchup against Loyola on Friday and will then take on Bradley in their final home match of the year on Saturday.

Loyola enters the weekend in fourth place in the MVC with an 8-4 conference record and 19-6 overall mark. The Sycamores have the best overall record in the conference, but the standings are based on conference record.

The Ramblers are led by Morgan Reardorn, who has a teamhigh 271 kills on the season.

Reardorn also leads the team in solo blocks this season with 20 as well as being second on the team in digs with 240.

Right behind Reardorn in kills are Brittany Brown and Amanda Cushen, who have 205 kills and 197 kills respectively.

The Rambler offense has been strong this season, with six players on the team with over 130 kills. Stephanie Kinane has been a workhorse for the Ramblers, collecting 317 digs on the year so far.

On the defensive side, the Ramblers have Maureen Carls, who currently leads the team in total blocks with 74 and is second on the team in total points this season with 234.5.

Joining her near the net is Sami Hansen and Gabi Maciagowski, who have tallied 67

MCKEE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 completely numb. I fell to the ground and couldn’t get up. I got off the field, the game ended and my parents and I knew something needed to be done.”

What needed to be done was decided after she had several MRIs and met with a neurosurgeon. She had to undergo surgery. The surgery was set for the day before Thanksgiving. While all surgeries are scary, McKee was assured that she would be able to continue her soccer career after a strenuous rehabilitation and recovery process.

Following the successful surgery, she was back on the field feeling faster, stronger, painfree and ready to begin her freshman campaign as a Sycamore, which was a learning experience for her.

Although she had to earn her time on the field as a freshman, she saw minutes in 17 games, including a start against Missouri Valley Conference rival Loyola. The highlights of her freshman season came when she had the game-winning assist against IUPUI, as well as being a role player on the team that advanced to the MVC tournament championship game.

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and 61 blocks, respectively. The duo also has the most blocking errors on the season.

In their previous matchup on Oct. 10, the Sycamores lost 3-1.

In the contest, Amanda Cushen had a game-high 21 kills, and Morgan Reardon was close behind with 17 of her own.

Bradley enters the weekend in last place in the MVC with a 1-11 conference record and are 6-18 overall. Erica Haslag leads the Braves and leads the team in kills with 242.

Lea Stack has tallied 422 digs

to this point in the season.

One reason the Braves might be in last place is because of their net protection.

Cordelia Murphy, the leading blocker for the Braves, has just 56 blocks on the season, and Raegan Jackson is second on the team with 45.

The Sycamore offense has five players on the team with over 190 kills and four who have over 200.

For the Sycamores, self-induced errors have been a problem, such as the match against

Northern Iowa Saturday night, when the Sycamores committed 25 attack errors on the evening.

The start time for both games this weekend is 7 p.m. and can be seen on ESPN3 or the WatchESPN app. Friday night is also Greek Life Night at the match.

Next weekend, the Sycamores will hit the road to play Evansville and Southern Illinois and finish their season the following weekend on the road against Illinois State before gearing up for the conference tournament.

games and racked up the minutes, while playing in the MVC tournament championship game for the second consecutive season.

The keys to her play during her freshman and sophomore years were being able to play the game free of pain. But her greatest nemesis appeared her junior year and would ultimately win the battle against her play on the field.

While she started 15 of the 17 games, including playing in all 17, she was not on the same schedule as the rest of her teammates.

“I could only play so many minutes my junior year due to pain,” McKee said. “I pushed to get the job done even with the pain, but I was on a different schedule than the soccer girls. I would practice every other day, depending on pain, and then play more minutes on a Friday match and rest more on a Sunday game. All of this varied on the pain I was in.”

The pain would come and go but once it started to get in the way of her daily life, she knew things weren’t looking good.

Following the completion of her junior campaign, McKee had more MRIs done and had several appointments with doctors, which ended with her being scheduled for her second

I was going through my second surgery, I was unsure of what the future held,” McKee noted of the second go-around.

“Some doctors said I would be crazy going back to soccer, others thought it was perfectly okay. My neurosurgeon wanted me to wait to make any decisions about soccer until after surgery, recovery and rehab.”

Going into her surgery, McKee was certain she would be making a full recovery and would be back to play her final season at Indiana State. But following yet another procedure and a rigorous rehab regimen, the pain remained, which again led to more MRIs. “I was having more pain in my upper back now compared to my lower back,” McKee said.

“I had more MRIs done this past summer before coming back to school, and the results were not good. It showed arthritis throughout my entire back and two protruding discs in my upper back. Doctors then looked at me and explained that I could do more damage to my back and risk things for my future.”

McKee knew the surgeries that could be done would not help all that much, but running into opposing players on the soccer field could certainly do a lot of damage. A decision had to be made: Run the risk of returning to the field and injuring her back, which could lead to problems in the future, or close the chapter on her soccer career with the future of her health in mind. After discussions with her doctors and family members, her mind was made; it was time to walk away from the game she loved.

“Hanging up my cleats was the hardest decision I’ve had to make in my life, so far,” McKee said of the decision. “My family was the easiest to talk to. They all wanted me to be healthy and to be able to do things through life as normally as possible.

Telling (ISU’s soccer coach) was very sad. Coach Erika is not only my coach, but she is like a second mom to me and a role model. Not only was I letting her down but I was letting down my 29 sisters on my team. I cried the whole time while telling her, and after the conversation it still felt like I was going to step on the field

and play for her again.”

Unfortunately, she was not going to be able to play for her again but was asked to become the team’s manager, which included a lot of duties, as well as being the team’s biggest cheerleader.

Being on the sidelines for the season was a roller coaster of emotions for McKee, as she found herself upset at times, but happy at the same time.

“Watching my teammates has been hard — sometimes upsetting — and other times it was so exciting,” McKee said.

“It was because I would do anything to play one more minute on that field with those girls (but) it also was extremely exciting; watching great defense, great goals being scored and just watching my teammates work so hard on the field was such a great feeling.”

Although she didn’t play a minute for the Sycamores this year, she was honored with the other five seniors during the Senior Day ceremonies.

Now that the season is over, it’s easy to look back and think what the season might have been like had McKee taken the role of senior defense leader.

She now has her sights set on graduation and what the future holds beyond then.

“I will graduate May 2016,” added the senior. “(While) I’m not sure where I am going to work yet, but I would love to be in sales or marketing with a company, be a buyer or a purchasing agent for Nordstrom or any high-end retail fashion store (and) after that I want to own my own boutique in Indianapolis. On the soccer end, I am currently running and exercising regularly but no soccer. I am coaching a 3 year-old team for Vigo County Youth Soccer Association and loving every minute of it. I would like to continue coaching when time allows.”

Although her soccer playing days have come and gone, the decision McKee made to step away from the game allows her to pursue those future goals that she may not have been able to do if she played and hurt herself even more.

“I wish I could have been able to play more minutes or more games,” she said, “but making the decision I had to make made me an extremely stronger person in life.”

discectomy. This time all of the doctors w e r e n’ t on the s a m e page like they were when she underwent her first surgery.

“When

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