October 13, 2014

Monday, October 13, 2014 Indiana State University www.indianastatesman.com Volume 122 Issue 23

Trial date set in connection with shooting KRISTI ASHBY News Editor

Country singer Jake Owen returned to Terre Haute Friday to perform at the Hulman Center. Owen visited Terre Haute seven years ago to give a performance to help establish himself as an artist. Since then Owen has toured with Alan Jackson (Photo by Tyler Sanders).

Country concert kicks off Homecoming KRISTI ASHBY News Editor Country singer Jake Owen made ISU’s Hulman Center a stop on his ‘Days of Gold’ tour Friday night.

Seven years ago, Owen visited Terre Haute as an aspiring artist. In front of about 150 people, he performed with one member of his current band, guitar player David Wallace.

“I wrote a song a week before I played here seven years ago,” Owen said. “That song was ‘Don’t Think I Can’t Love You’.”

Owen started playing in college and had his first tour with Alan Jackson.

Students and other fans from around the area came to watch his concert on Friday night. This time, thousands of fans were there to watch him perform.

Omeika Daniels of Terre Haute came out to the concert for girl’s night out.

“I ordered the tickets for this concert three weeks ago,” Daniels said. “I love

country music and I love Jake Owen. I can’t wait to hear him sing ‘Barefoot Blue Jean Night.’”

Many ISU students also attended the concert. Two students were Connor Curley, a junior nursing major, and Dalton Hatches, a sophomore sports management major.

“I received the tickets as a birthday present,” Curley said. “I like Jake Owen’s music and I’m hoping to hear ‘Barefoot Blue Jean Night.’”

The Cadillac Three and the Eli Young Band opened for Owen.

“We started out as a little garage band from Texas,” lead singer Mike Eli said.

The final song the band played was “Crazy Girl,” a No. 1 hit and won a Country Music Award for Song of the Year.

Nikki Nugent of Terre Haute was thrilled to be at the concert. “My friend’s ticket order accidentally got doubled and I got invited to come,” she said. “I brought

along my daughter and one of her friends.

I upgraded the tickets to floor level and I just made the two girls’ day.”

Owen opened with the song “Days of Gold,” entering the stadium from the back and walking through the crowd.

“I’m in a good mood tonight,” he said.

“I feel good.”

Owen invited many fans up on stage; most were adults but one was a young girl.

Another young girl named Bristol Short received a high five from Owen when her dad lifted her up on his shoulders.

The band played several crowd favorites such as “The One That Got Away” and “Eight Second Ride.” Owen also performed one of his brand-new songs titled “What We Ain’t Got.” “This song means everything to me,” Owen said. “We all want what we ain’t got.”

The night ended with a song many fans were waiting the whole night to hear, “Barefoot Blue Jean Night.”

A March 16, 2015, court date has been set for the student charged in connection with the shooting at Indiana State University’s Lincoln Quad on Sept. 27.

Calvin McCauley of Indianapolis has been charged with aggravated battery in the shooting of Tevin Moore, also of Indianapolis, who was shot in the left buttock following a disagreement over gambling.

Moore has made a full recovery from the attack.

The two men had been playing dice earlier in the day of the shooting that occurred at the base of Lincoln Quad Stairwell 17 while Moore was leaving the building at about 6 p.m.

The shooting occurred on Sept.

26, but McCauley was not arrested until Sept. 27, when police found him at his girlfriend’s house.

Police still have not recovered the .380-caliber handgun used in the shooting.

McCauley was originally charged with attempted murder but his charge was dropped to aggravated battery during a court hearing.

McCauley last appeared in court on Oct. 6 in the Vigo County Courthouse in Division 6.

The crime carries a sentence of three to 16 years in prison.

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News Editor, Kristi Ashby StatesmanNews@isustudentmedia.com Monday, October 13, 2014 • Page 2

Carrying firearms in the classroom

MAKYLA THOMPSON Reporter

On Tuesday, Oct. 14, students will debate whether teachers should carry guns on campus.

John Murray, the dean of college of arts and sciences, believes that this debate is a good topic to discuss.

“It’s a national issue, and it’s very controversial. It’s a very emotional, intense, inflected, complicated issue,” Murray said. “It’s a very good topic for a debate, because it’s a very emotional one, and it really does in order to think affectively about it in my view, it needs to have real evidence, and real facts about the issue in front of you.”

Some people believe that they should be able to carry guns because they have the right to. Others feel that the government should control guns because they think it will be safer.

Shootings such as Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook Elementary, Purdue University and the recent shooting on Indiana State’s campus represent the potential

tragedies that could occur if the gun control issue is not addressed.

“You have a set of states that actually ban guns on campuses,” Murray said.

“There are 20 states that ban weapons, there are 23 states and Indiana is one of them that allows universities to decide what to do about it.”

Matthew Brennan, a professor in the English department, has his own views on teachers having guns.

“I am completely against teachers being armed with guns,” Brennan said. “I am in favor of gun control and I think it would really just lead to more incidents.”

Larry Tinnerman, an associate professor in the college of education, is preparing the debate for a class of his.

“The event is an activity for a class that I teach CINT 475, which is critical thinking,” Tinnerman said. “This class is made up of mostly juniors and seniors and we were talking about how critical thought is the ability to look at all sides on an issue.”

Tinnerman said he let his students

pick the topic and that the class has been working very diligently on the debate.

He also planned to make the students switch viewpoints in order to help them be thorough in finding facts.

“For the last two and a half weeks they have been preparing for the debate in groups,” Tinnerman said. “I have switched the people who were pro-gun carry and put them on the opposing team, and the people who were opposed to gun-carrying, I put them on the pro team so that they would be forced to look at the other side of the issue.”

The teams will be judged by the teachers and graduate students, and each team will be judged by how well they presents their facts.

Tinnerman said he thinks that this is a good event for Indiana State to hold.

“It brings back something that is missing from the university, and that is [an] open forum and discussion about important topics about society,” Tinnerman said.

This class is the first that Tinnerman

A debate will be held on whether or not professors can carry guns (clipart.com).

has taught.

The class will be presenting another debate that deals with public schools and cyberbullying. This event is free and open to the public and will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 14 in the Whitaker Conference Center located in University Hall. The event will start at 2 p.m.

A happy ending for gay marriage

RANDY RICCI Reporter

Same-sex marriage is now legal in Indiana as of Oct. 7. This decision was made in the Supreme Court case Baskin v. Bogan to allow marriage of people of the same sex.

Indiana had previously restricted marriage to heterosexual couples by statute in 1986 and also denied recognition of same-sex relationships established in other jurisdictions by legislation passed in 1997.

On June 25 of this year the Supreme Court ruled in the favor of same-sex marriage and on Oct. 6 they declined to receive any appeals to this ruling.

This is news for same-sex couples around the state who have been waiting to get married but couldn’t due to the law.

Gay marriage has been a widely do. Just because you don’t agree with discussed issue in past years. someone’s lifestyle doesn’t mean you can It is a controversial issue that some tell them how to live.” people oppose because of religion or On the other hand some people think other beliefs, but it seems there are larger issues that like soon all states in the to be taken care of “I think people need U.S. will allow same-sex first. marriage.

Carson Brown, a shouldn’t be Same-sex couples are not discriminated against freshman athletic training the only ones who are glad major, thinks the issue about it being legalized for who they like.” should be left alone. after all these years.

“I don’t swing either Megan Armstrong Megan Armstrong, way when it comes to gay a senior psychology marriage,” Brown said. “I major, thinks people should not be think that there are bigger issues on the discriminated against because of their table that need to be taken care of before lifestyles. gay marriage.”

“I think people shouldn’t be There are many reasons that people discriminated against for who they like,” believe it should be legal.

Armstrong said. “They should be able There are many benefits and legal to do anything opposite-sex couples reasons to get married including

taxes, estate planning, government, employment, medical, death, family, housing, consumer and plenty of other legal benefits and protections.

Allen Zielinski, a junior art education major, is also the president of Spectrum on ISU’s campus.

“For many gay couples, while they would love to see marriage equality, they have their own reasons for not running to get married,” Zielinski said. “One friend of mine stated that a piece of paper is not going to change the way he feels about his husband.”

Same-sex couples can now apply for a marriage certificate at their local courthouse.

The future looks bright for same-sex couples, not only in Indiana but all over the country as more and more states legalize same-sex marriage.

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Wednesday, October 13, 2014 • Page 3

Dave Taylor

ISU Communications and Marketing Recent research that has received national attention had its origins in a Vermont hospital where a maternity nurse worked prior to enrolling in an Indiana State University graduate program.

Tara Matteson Heglund, a 2013 graduate of Indiana State’s master’s degree program in nursing, was shocked and saddened to learn that, during a 2½-year period, five newborns had fallen to the floor at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington. At least one infant who had fallen suffered multiple skull fractures.

“This prompted me to start wondering what was going on,” said Heglund, now a nurse educator for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and adjunct instructor at Indiana State. “It was the first time I had ever heard about this happening.”

A review of hospital records showed that five newborns had fallen from their parents’ arms while in bed in 2½-years, a period in which the hospital recorded about 5,000 births.

The hospital eliminated such incidents after expanding parental education around safe-sleep practices.

“We made sure that if the parent was tired or taking medication that could make them tired that the baby went into their own safe sleep space,” Heglund said. “We previously allowed parents to hold babies skin-to-skin while sleeping, because it’s really good for breast feeding or bonding. But this could turn into a potentially harmful situation. If we found the mom going to sleep, we had to put the baby back into its own bassinet or separate sleep space.”

When Heglund enrolled at Indiana State to become a nurse educator, she was required to develop an evidencebased manuscript. She recalled finding only one published report on the topic of “newborn falls” at the time of the Vermont incidents and set out with Jessica Nelson.

“What we found was that there [still] wasn’t a whole lot on it,” said Nelson,

noting that only three articles were published and one article was from a 1948 issue of the journal Pediatrics.

“The limited available data suggest up to 1,600 such incidents occur annually nationwide, but the actual number is likely much higher,” said Nelson, now assistant professor and chair of the baccalaureate nursing completion department.

“It doesn’t just happen within hospital settings. I think it’s happening more often at home, too,” she said, “Injuries from falls could be as minor as a scrape or as serious as death.”

“If the infant is dropped, parents often do not want to tell anybody, and then the infant is not given an assessment to determine what damage may have occurred,” she said. “Closedhead injuries are traumatic, especially in an infant because they are so fragile.

If parents are not reporting those falls, the children are going to have a lot of effects that you will not see until later when they become too great.

“Educating new parents and hospital staff is important. If a fall happens, there needs to be action taken on what can be done better and follow up steps on how to prevent falls in the future,” Nelson said.

“There are longitudinal studies that could be done following parents and children after a fall,” she said.

The American Journal of Maternal/ Child Nursing recently published an eight-page paper by Heglund, which Nelson said was recognized by the National Institutes of Health as a “premier article.”

It was Heglund’s first published research, Nelson said.

“For a master’s student, that’s pretty impressive because she wasn’t working on a large thesis,” she said. “This article shed light on a problem and now has the potential to impact future practice within a variety of settings.”

“We hope the national attention our research has received will prompt hospitals across the country to examine this little-reported but serious problem and take steps to address it,” Heglund said.

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One ‘bad apple’

Monday, October 13, 2014 • Page 4

Don’t let extremists spoil your views of others Picture it: you are in your mandatory communications class. It is time to give your group presentation. Everybody seems to know what’s going on.

But when it comes time to present, John Doe admits he didn’t do his portion.

Because one person Columnist messed up, the entire group loses points from their grade. It doesn’t seem fair, does it?

So why do we judge the rest of the world the same way?

Lately we seem to be talking a lot about terrorist attacks. When I was a child I would hear a thing here or there, but what I heard usually referenced the 9/11 attacks.

Now children the same age or younger are hearing more about terrorism. When at a party or even just talking to a few

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friends, the central topic always becomes something such as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria — ISIS. I hear people talking about sickening things a religious figure did to a child or someone preaching hateful speech to others just as often. We call these kinds of people extremists. And we use them as the image for an entire race or religion we don’t know about — and that’s a problem.

We judge entire groups of people based on a handful of radicals when, really, they don’t represent what each individual in the group holds to be true.

But for some reason we judge only those with whom we don’t agree in this way.

If it’s our own belief, race or ethnicity, we say they are horrible people and they don’t represent us, similar to what many Americans feel about President Obama.

The biggest example I see in modernday America is regarding Muslims.

We’ve had terrorist attacks from “them” and we are “at war with Islam.”

But we are basing our view of an entire

religion off of what a small fraction of them do. I am not defending the actions that have been taken, but certainly those who aren’t involved should be given a chance to explain their views.

Quite a few Muslims are very kind, peaceful people who are ashamed of their brethren who kill needlessly. So why do we automatically assume every Muslim is bad based on only a small portion?

My roommate was reading something about the restrictions religion can put on women in particular. In one instance the religion declared the woman should serve the man in a patriarchal household and bow to every command. Guess what? It wasn’t Islam.

We discussed why that religion seemed evil and how it promotes such negative messages when it claims to be a religion of peace and tolerance.

Eventually it came down to a single thing: it was a view held by the extremists of that religion. Somehow they were used as an example for all followers of

that faith.

Now we’re put into an awkward situation; how do we know if the ones we see are extremists or represent the majority of that culture?

It’s easy — read a book or two. Do an Internet search. Look into what you want to know. If you spend 20 minutes just looking into whatever it is you will quickly find your answer.

If you let a handful of radicals control your viewpoint, you will fall into ignorance. Naturally we will have to deal with the radicals, but that doesn’t mean we need to exterminate an entire group of people because a hundred of them did something wrong. If that were the case, we would have to wipe out Germany because of Adolf Hitler.

It’s become easy to forget that everyone is part of a bigger picture. It’s easy to let the few individuals with flaws determine the quality of everyone.

We must now move on from this viewpoint and begin giving people the chance they deserve.

Letter to the Editor Dear Editor: On Sept. 27, while on campus for an event I lost my wallet.

After realizing my loss three hours later, I returned to the location I thought it might be. No luck!

I reported the loss to the Campus Police and spent the rest of the weekend notifying various card holders, banks, medical companies, MEDICARE, ect.

While driving my car for three days absent a driver’s

license I carried my passport in the event that it was needed.

On of the following Monday evening came a call from the police to the effect that my wallet had been recovered and turned in to them.

On Tuesday morning I picked up my wallet to discover that NOTHING was missing. I attempted to find the name of the person and where the wallet had been found but this information was not available.

Thus, I would like to publicly thank this individual

for his/her very good deed. In recent times there has been a lot of knews from ISU that is less than joyful.

How refreshing it is to know that someone on the campus is honest, forthright and willing to put himself/ herself out to do the right thing. May I say also that your parents would be extremely proud of you for your choosing to perform in this kind and honorable act.

Robert L. Cowden, Professor Emeritus

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Statesman editorial

Give me a break: Battling midterm blues

With many of our fellow universities and local high schools taking their fall breaks right now, many of us are watching in dismay wishing for our own fall break.

Getting the weekend of Thanksgiving off is great. It gives out-of-state students time to drive home. Resident Assistants and Academic Peer Advisors have time to close down the dormitories so they can enjoy their break.

Giving us the full week of Thanksgiving off was initially planned to deter skipping the days before. When we had Thursday and Friday off, students would skip Wednesday and leave early. Give us Wednesday, Thursday and Friday off, and many students will skip Monday and Tuesday.

This is a problem, but there will never be a solution to students leaving early for break. But, giving Wednesday off is helpful for RA’s and APA’s as well as out-of-state students who have to travel

a significant distance home for the holidays, meaning everybody actually gets to enjoy Thanksgiving with their families.

On the flip side, Thanksgiving break is the week before dead week, just enough time to forget everything before your finals, and that’s if you didn’t already have a mental breakdown.

For many students, waiting until the end of November for any kind of break is incredibly stressful.

Students will skip classes more often in the middle of the semester just due to stress, and this can negatively impact grades.

We get Labor Day off the second week of school and then not another break for two and half months; that’s just too long for many students to go without a break, especially if they work a job in addition to school.

Many other universities and schools have a separate fall break from

Thanksgiving for their students. Giving time off after midterms is a great idea for students because it gives us a chance to step back, take a breath and recharge for the rest of the semester. We can look at our interim grades and take the week or allotted days off to figure out what needs to be changed or improved for the rest of the semester.

Allowing some time off after midterms could also improve attendance since students won’t feel the need to skip classes just for a break. By giving students time to breathe after the stress of midterms, grades can also improve as schoolwork will not slide to take a selfmandated break.

The downside to taking a fall break, though, is that it will make Thanksgiving break shorter and it will also make things hard on RA’s and APA’s. Out-ofstate students will miss out on their extra time to drive home for Thanksgiving and the dorms won’t let their employees free

until everybody is gone.

No matter which break you prefer, there are positives and negatives to both, but there are a few more positives on the side of a fall break rather than a Thanksgiving break.

There are many different options for a solution. We could have a week-long fall break in October, with just Thursday and Friday for Thanksgiving, we can keep just the Thanksgiving break or we can split up the two into more equal parts.

The best solution would probably be to shorten Thanksgiving break to Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and give the students a four-day weekend in October.

This way, out-of-state students and the residence hall workers have time to get home rather than making a long drive on the Thanksgiving holiday. It would give students a much-needed break in the middle of the semester.

Hollywood not responsible for violence, terrorism I recently read an article about how Hollywood supposedly caused the events of 9/11 to unfold.

When I read the title of the article I thought it was an outrageous statement and there is no way it could possibly happen.

Then I started to understand where the author was coming from and where he was going with it.

Media saturation is everywhere these days, but can we really just blame an Columnist entire industry for what happens to the world around us?

Some people believe that Hollywood has a moral obligation to the people who watch the films, television shows and ads they produce. The film industry has strict standards about how movies are to be rated to protect viewers against violence, nudity and language.

These safeguards were put into place to make sure that sensitive groups are protected. And yet we still blame the film industry for things out of everybody’s control.

The article I read does not directly blame Hollywood

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for the plot to take out the World Trade Center, but it does blame them for implanting different ideas that might never have been thought of before. These ideas have made people, usually those of older generations, rethink how much media they consume.

Yet with today’s video streaming sites like Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu, independent film companies have been given a platform to produce something that usually would not make its way out of planning stages.

I can honestly say I watch about 1,000 hours of video a month on Netflix, and with every series and every movie I see how my ideas about the world around are changing.

Even though I’m an adult, these movies and TV shows have an impact on the degree of thought, not action. I cannot blame Hollywood for making me view the world from a different perspective.

The things we watch are mostly fictional stories that were made to entertain — not to aid terrorists in any sort of plot against America. Production companies in Hollywood are worried about making movies that people like to watch to earn more money. They are not concerned about changing the political landscape to benefit them.

We have grown into a nation that does not take

responsibility for our own actions. We have to blame someone else because we can’t handle the fallout. It’s not that Hollywood came up with the idea and forced others to act it out; they chose to act on it.

Study after study shows that the violence in movies makes impressions on children, giving them bad ideas only when they are not taught the difference between fiction and nonfiction.

Knowing from a young age that movies are fictional stories, I knew that I did not have to act out the things I saw. The problem comes down to the parents actually teaching their children, not just relying on someone else to do their job. Our society has always dealt with some sort of media saturation changing the minds of their readers, listeners or watchers.

We have to stop blaming others for our own faults and take ownership of what we do. The events of 9/11 were an act of terrorism and there is nothing we can do to change it.

It does no good to blame an entire industry for the faults of the people at home who take movies and other works of fiction as the truth.

We have the ability to change how these films influence us, but it has to start with educating those most vulnerable to imitation.

FEATURES

Features Editor, Tyler Sanders StatesmanFeatures1@isustudemtmedia.com Monday, October 13, 2014 • Page 6

Zeta and Pike claim Trike victories

Adler Ingalsbe Reporter

After being washed out on Friday due to rain, the 52nd annual running of the Sycamore Trike Derby took place Sunday morning at the Michael Simmons Student Activity Center Rec East.

In the female’s race, Zeta Tau Alpha took the checkered flag for the second straight year, followed by the Residence Hall Association placing second and Alpha Chi Omega coming in third.

In the male’s race, Pike won the championship, Sigma Chi came in second and Sigma Phi Epsilon took third place in windy and chilly conditions.

Ben Ratliff, a member of the Pike fraternity, was very proud of their trike team for all of the time they spent training and for it to pay off with a trike championship.

“I’m extremely proud of the team for winning today. These riders are very talented. They’ve been practicing for this

moment since June and it definitely paid off today,” Ratliff said.

Ratliff did not believe the race being moved from Friday evening to Sunday morning had any impact on the Pike team because of the decisions they made over the weekend.

“The race taking place on Sunday morning didn’t hurt them. None of the racers took part in The Walk on Saturday, which may have helped. They were truthfully crushed that they had to wait until Sunday for the race,” Ratliff said.

Dreyson Boyd, a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, like Ratliff, was very proud of his team for their performance in the race.

“Our guys really gave it everything they had at trike today; I couldn’t have asked for a better performance from them,” Boyd said.

The race was originally scheduled to take place on Friday evening, but the rain never stopped, which made racing

almost impossible to do.

Bart Stucker, Office of Recreational Sports Graduate Assistant, worked the trike race and said since the weather wasn’t working in their favor they really had no other choice other than to move it to Sunday.

“The deciding factor in why the race was moved from Friday to Sunday came down to the amount of inclement weather we had on Friday afternoon and evening. It didn’t seem like it was going to let up,” Stucker said.

He said even though the race was moved to Sunday morning, the race was still one of the best he’s ever been a part of.

“Even though we had two teams scratched from the race, it was arguably one of the most competitive races I’ve seen in the five years I’ve spent at Indiana Sororities and fraternities competed State,” Stucker said.

Hopefully next year’s race will be just Sunday during ISU’s 2014 Trike race (Photo

by Rochelle Weymouth). as competitive.

Indiana State awards distinguished alums

Marissa Schmitter Reporter

Students usually think Homecoming is all about the football game and partying, but Homecoming really exists for the Indiana State University alumni.

Many alumni come back to ISU from all over the country just for Homecoming weekend.

That is why ISU hosts the Distinguished Alumni Awards, presented by the Alumni Association, in order to honor the alumni who have made a difference in the ISU community. The awards have been given out since 1957, with a total of 208 awards given to alumni.

The awards were held in the Sycamore Banquet Center on Friday night at 7 p.m. A live band was playing light jazz as the alumni mingled. Many hugs, handshakes and laughs were exchanged as the evening continued on.

The point of the award ceremony is to honor several alumni who have impacted ISU. The recipients are nominated by other alumni, faculty and other

important people of ISU. Receiving an award is very honorable for the alumni.

Friday evening, four ISU alumni were honored.

Rex Kendall, the Director of the Alumni Association, said the four recipients are true ISU alumni.

The first recipients of the alumni awards were Tom and Debbie Bareford, presented by their old friend Michael Simmons, 1968 graduates of ISU. The three went to school together at ISU, creating a lifelong friendship. Bareford and Simmons created the Sycamore Tricycle Derby that is still part of ISU Homecoming tradition today.

Simmons spoke fondly of his idea. “I said, ‘why don’t we do something that puts Greek life against dormitories?’ I said, ‘we need some tricycles!’” At the first Sycamore Tricycle Derby, there were more than 2,000 spectators.

Both Bareford and Simmons are very proud of the fact that they started a Sycamore tradition.

Husband and wife Tom and Debbie

Bareford were the first couple to be awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award.

“We never thought we’d be included in the group of people that received the award,” Bareford said. “We are tremendously humbled.”

His wife agreed. “It’s very nice. It never crossed our minds,” she said.

Tom Bareford currently serves on the ISU Foundation Board of Directors, still giving back to ISU to this day.

The next recipient of the alumni award was Charles Brown, presented by Hollis Thomas. Brown is a 1976 graduate of ISU. Some might know his name because the African American Culture Center is named after Brown in his honor.

While Brown listed his thank you’s for his award and cracked jokes, he also kept saying how much he loved ISU. “I worked here for 35 years. I love the fact that we’re growing,” Brown said.

Brown is responsible for several campus programs such as the Miss Ebony Pageant and the Black Leadership

Conference. He also founded the Black Student Organization and the ISU Black Greek Council. He has heavily impacted this campus, broadening many students’ horizons.

The last recipient of the award was Krishna Pendyala, a 1986 ISU graduate.

Pendyala’s award was presented by Dr. James Thompson, one of Pendyala’s professors when he attended ISU. “Not in my wildest dreams did I see this happening,” Pendyala said.

As a way to give back to ISU, Pendyala donated three copies of his book “Beyond the PIG and the APE: Realizing Success and True Happiness” to the ISU library. ISU was where he rebuilt his confidence, and he would like to help students currently attending ISU to do the same.

After the recipients received their awards and the audience gave them all a standing ovation, Kendall ended the night with a very enthusiastic “go Sycamores!” concluding the special Homecoming event.

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Nussar captures ‘Miss Ebony’ title Gen Zatkoff Reporter

On Saturday night Tilson Hall held nine poised ladies as they took the stage hoping to be crowned Miss Ebony 2014.

There are many stereotypes about the typical beauty pageant, such as the basic answers about world peace, girls who are superficial and bland and last but not least, the winners taking home their prize money for themselves.

This was definitely not the case at this year’s Miss Ebony.

This pageant has been running since 1974 and is solely based off of the charitable donations and the African American culture at Indiana State.

Miss Ebony is a celebration of success based on what the women have achieved and what they can achieve.

The contestants went through four events based on business attire, talent, evening gown and on-stage questions.

There was a twist for the business attire though.

Everyone had the same article of

clothing but they had to interpret them into their own style.

Contestants could do this in any way as long as they continued to use their assigned article of clothing.

The talent portion was not to be missed. There was a broad range of talents ranging from playing the piano to African tribal dancing and Egyptian belly dancing.

As for the on-stage interview, the contestants were asked to reach in a fishbowl and randomly choose a question.

They were to answer their questions on the spot while also being judged on their ability to respond on a whim.

Not only were the contestants in charge of entertaining the audience but there were also three performances.

Senior and IT major Domonique Wickware and senior Corey Smith, a public relations major, received a standing ovation for their rendition of John Legend’s “All of Me” The areas of competition being judged

on were: 25 percent private interview with judges, 15 percent interview attire, 25 percent talent, 20 percent evening wear and 15 percent on-stage interview.

This called for very stiff competition.

The winner won a $1,500 scholarship, first runner-up walked away with a $750 scholarship and second runner-up earned a $500 scholarship.

At the end of the night there could only be one winner.

Youstina Nussar, a freshman Civil engineering major originally from Cairo Egypt, captured the title of Miss Ebony.

“I feel so blessed that I had the chance to experience this,” Nussar said.

Youstina was all tears and smiles by the end of night.

Her platform for the evening was female empowerment.

She wants to spread the word that women should have just as many rights as men do.

Another contestant for the evening was freshman language studies major Diamond Coleman.

“I thought this pageant was different because they had an interview portion instead of swimsuit wear, due to the fact it’s not a beauty pageant,” Coleman said.

This was her first pageant, but she’s hoping it’s not her last.

Coleman plans to compete in Miss ISU held at the end of October.

“One of the most important portions was the interview because it shows [a] woman can be recognized for success instead of just exploiting their body,” Coleman said.

Ryan Hess, a junior aviation maintenance major of Vincennes University, came to see his girlfriend of a year and a half and support Miss Coleman.

“I didn’t care that she didn’t win, I just wanted to see my beautiful girlfriend rock it as usual,” Hess said.

At the end of the pageant, win or loss, all contestants were all smiles, not only because it was over and there weren’t any more preparations to be made, but for the experience of a lifetime.

SPORTS

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ISU football humbled at Homecoming Alex Modesitt Editor-in-Chief

Senior quarterback Mike Perish did not play in the “A devastating loss for us.” contest, still feeling the effects That’s how Mike Sanford, head of a concussion suffered against coach of Indiana State football, Northern Iowa. described the 20-18 loss the No. In his place, redshirt freshman 20 Sycamores suffered at the Matt Adam started and nearly hands of No. 15 Illinois State, pulled out the win in front of as the Redbirds foiled ISU’s 7,534 fans.

Homecoming Saturday.

Adam finished the day 21-42 Despite the loss, Sanford still for 201 passing yards and two believes that ISU is a team to be touchdowns, but was sacked reckoned with in the future. four times on the day. His most “I have to give them a lot of efficient play came in the fourth credit — they’re a very good quarter and he attributed the football team, but I also don’t pace of the offense as the main believe that they’re a better reason. football team than we are.

Junior linebackers Kendall Unfortunately, today they were.” Walker and Connor Underwood Indiana State drops to 4-2 anchored a defense that held on the season and 1-1 in firm for much of the afternoon. conference play, while Illinois Walker had 10 tackles and half State protected its unblemished of a sack while Underwood record and improved to 5-0 and finished the game with seven 2-0 in the conference. tackles and a quarterback sack.

For all the work that Walker, Underwood and the rest of the Sycamore defense did all day, it was a botched squib kick that set up the Redbirds with a short field and the game-winning field goal.

Underwood owned up to the mistakes on behalf of the The Forest supports Indiana State at Saturday’s Homecoming game defense, despite the numerous special teams gaffes that led to against the Illinois State Redbirds (Photo by Kira Clouse).

the win.

“That last drive, even though they’re on about the 49-yard line, it doesn’t matter. We should have held them out and crucial mistakes hurt us on that drive,” Underwood said.

The mistake that Underwood is referring to came on a firstand-10 read-option play that led to a 27-yard run by Marshaun Coprich of Illinois State, which helped set up the game-winning field goal.

The day started much brighter for the Sycamores than it ended, going up 6-0 on two field goals from sophomore kicker Eric Heidorn.

Illinois State didn’t light up their side of the scoreboard until their first drive of the second half. The kick off to begin the third quarter was returned 73 yards by Tevin Allen and put Illinois State in prime position to put points on the board.

The Sycamore defense held firm and forced the Redbirds to settle for a 34-yard field goal.

Another special-teams miscue set up Illinois State to take their first lead of the game late in the third quarter.

A “shanked” punt, as Sanford put it, gave the ball to the

Redbirds at their own 26-yard line. Two plays later, Coprich found an opening and put Illinois State up 10-6.

A ten-play, 65-yard touchdown drive early in the fourth quarter gave Illinois State a 17-6 lead, but the Sycamores would not go away quietly.

On the ensuing drive, Adam threw an 18-yard dart to junior wide receiver Gary Owens in the end zone. Indiana State went for two instead of kicking the extra point and failed, making it 1712, Illinois State.

After forcing the Redbirds to punt and all the fans to the edges of their seats, Indiana State again drove the length of the field for a touchdown. This time it was 37-yard strike to senior wide receiver A.J. Johnson.

Another failed two-point conversion attempt made the score 18-17, Indiana State.

A botched squib kick, a short field to defend and a game winning field goal later, Indiana State fell to 4-2 and looks ahead to the daunting task that lies in Fargo, North Dakota.

Indiana State’s next game comes on the road against No. 1 North Dakota State. Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m.

Soccer picks up conference win in rainy match Friday Jeremy Beaver Reporter Light rain filled Memorial Stadium on Friday night as a crowd of 175 watched the Indiana State women’s soccer team slip and slide its way to a 1-0 victory over Missouri Valley Conference rival Northern Iowa.

Led by head coach Erika True, the Sycamores opened up Homecoming weekend by picking up their first conference win and improving their record to 4-7-3.

The Sycamores scored 22 minutes into the first half when junior forwards Sydney Lovelace and Sydney Loesing were on a fast break.

Lovelace passed the ball to Loesing to the left side

of the goal then shot it and watched it go through as it slipped off of the hands of the Panthers’ goalkeeper Whitney Blunt.

Loesing’s goal would end up being the game’s one and only score as ISU spent the rest of the match clinging to its narrow lead.

Lovelace would be credited with the team’s lone assist.

Northern Iowa had nine shots on goal while the Sycamores had a total of 13 with junior midfielder Kate Johnson leading the way with three.

ISU’s sophomore goalkeeper Brittany San Roman upped her season-total saves to 92, which puts her

at 158 career saves, ranking fourth all-time in school history.

Along with three teammates, San Roman played the full 90 minutes and is the only player who has been on the field for every minute of regular season action this year.

Indiana State takes its 1-2 MVC record into this week with a chance of going over the .500 mark inside conference play.

The Sycamores visit nearby Evansville on Wednesday night before heading over the state line to Normal, Illinois on Sunday to take on Illinois State.

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Volleyball sweeps two conference wins over weekend Game One Sophomore outside hitter Bree Spangler and sophomore middle blocker Kynedi Nalls combined for 17 kills as Indiana State Volleyball swept Loyola, 3-0, on Friday night.

Indiana State improves to 11-6 and 3-3 in the Missouri Valley Conference.

Spangler led with nine kills while Nalls chipped in eight for the second sweep in as many meetings with the Ramblers. Freshman defensive specialist Stephanie Bindernagel led with 16 digs in the match.

ISU held the Ramblers to a .076 hitting percentage on the night as it posted its own .197 hitting percentage in the match. The Sycamores were also able to out-dig Loyola, 52-47, but were edged in kills.

Senior middle blocker Kyla Thomas led the Sycamores’ defense with six blocks, including three solos.

Thomas also added six kills as freshman outside hitter Sarah Peterson’s also added six kills.

In set one, Indiana State rolled to a five-point lead early on after a kill by

Indiana State volleyball picked up two Missouri Valley Conference wins against Loyola and Bradley on Friday and Saturday (Photo by ISU Communications and Marketing).

Spangler made it 10-5 in favor of the visitors.

The Sycamores’ defense was able to hold the Ramblers to a -.026 hitting percentage in the match, backed by

blocks from Thomas.

ISU cruised to the 25-16 victory on an ace by Spangler. She led the team with two on the evening, as it posted five overall.

The Ramblers kept it close in set two, as Indiana State escaped with the threepoint victory 25-22.

With things all tied up at 12-12, the Sycamores capitalized on two Loyola errors to regain the lead. A kill from Spangler forced a LU timeout as ISU got to 20 points first.

Loyola would answer with two kills as ISU needed a timeout leading 22-18, but a block and kill by Nalls secured the set-two victory.In the final set, ISU maintained a lead throughout getting a five-point differential on a Willis kill.

The Sycamores led the Ramblers to get within two on a Morgan Reardon kill but answered after a Thomas kill for another four-point lead.

Loyola again cut the lead to two, but ISU closed the set on a 6-2 run for a 2518 victory.

Game Two Picking up another sweep of a conference opponent, the Indiana State Volleyball defeated Bradley in straight sets on Saturday evening. Indiana State VOLLEYBALL CONTINUED ON PAGE 10

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improves to 12-6 overall and 4-3 in Missouri Valley Conference action.

The weekend sweep of the Braves and Loyola marked the first backto-back 3-0 conference victories for Indiana State since 2001.

Sophomore outside hitter Bree Spangler led the Sycamores’ offensive attack with 13 kills as the team hit .292 on the night.

Sophomore middle blocker Melody Burdette also turned in eight kills while junior middle blocker Cassandra Willis added six.

Defensively, ISU got a teamhigh 13 digs from freshman libero Danielle Waedekin while Spangler added nine.

Willis led with five total blocks, having a hand in nearly all of ISU’s seven blocks in the match.

Junior setter Erika Nord handled setting duties with 38 assists on the night, while Spangler also compiled three service aces.

As a team, the Sycamores compiled 41 kills compared to BU’s 17 and outassisted, out-dug and out-blocked its opponent on the evening. ISU also recorded eight services aces.

ISU cruised in set one to a 25-12 victory behind four kills apiece from Nalls and Burdette.

The Sycamores also held the Braves to a -.031 hitting percentage in the frame with just four total kills.

Waedekin chipped in six of her 13 digs in the opening frame, as the Sycamores combined for a .242 hitting percentage in the set.

Falling behind early in set two, the Sycamores pulled out of its deficit on an 11-2 run to roll to a 25-14 victory. Tied at 7-7, ISU rattled off seven straight points to take a 14-7 lead.

Continuing to roll, ISU hit .303 in the set while the Braves narrowly hit in the plus with a .031. They blew open the set on two consecutive kills from Spangler and got help from the Braves to close the set for a 25-14 victory.

Three kills from Spangler and senior middle blocker Kyla Thomas each helped complete the sweep with the 2513 set-three victory.

Bradley hit .000 in the set compared to ISU’s .333 with just two errors in the final frame.

Willis helped on the defensive end by chipping in all three Sycamore blocks.

ISU returns home to host Drake and UNI in weekend action at ISU Arena. Both matches are slated for 7 p.m. starts at ISU Arena.

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Parade brings forth celebration and competition

Left: Students and community members came together on Saturday to celebrate Indiana State University’s homecoming. Above: Jessica Weesner, Miss Indiana State University, took part in the parade by greeting attendees. The parade is an annual event for ISU that allows fraternities and sororities to compete against one another’s float designs (Photos by Rochelle Weymouth).