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Volume 124, Issue 18
Hispanic Heritage Month food Financial literacy 101 fiesta series: Chile Tristian Major Reporter
This week Indiana State Financial aid is teaming up with National Residence hall Honorary: to teach students about financial Literacy. “its important for students to learn now so there prepared for adult hood” says financial aid consultant Randa wells. The program for this movement is called $tart Now. There are four pillars that represent the beliefs of $tart Now. The first pillar is Basic budgeting. They want to empower students by teaching them simply, yet very useful budgeting technique’s. Budgeting technique’s will allow students to have more control over their money. A couple of Tanique’s students should follow, is to keep track of their monthly expenses so they have a keen idea of where the money is going. Students may be able to cut back on unnecessary expenses. Also, when buying a product that isn’t needed students should ask themselves is this worth the “time” I spent working, as opposed to is this worth my money. “ time is a more valuable asset than money” says Wells. The second pillar is saving. “If you save 10% of every check from the age of 20 to 65 no matter the amount, you will become
AJ Goelz Reporter
Last Thursday, Indiana State continued its Hispanic Heritage Month with the Food Fiesta Series: Chile. “This event is one of the events for the Hispanic Heritage month, which is an annual celebration of the contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans to the nation building and culture of the country,” said Adejoke Yusuf, a Graduate Student of the department of Occupational Safety Management and the Graduate Assistant for the La Casita Student Resource Center. “Tonight what we are doing is called the Chile Food Fiesta. This is about appreciating the Chilean country, getting to know the culture and heritage of Chile, their traditions, the way they celebrate and importantly the importance of food in their celebration.” The Hispanic Heritage Month has been hosting events throughout the month. This month has also featured Peru and a TED Talk, an open forum that covered the preservation of Hispanic Heritage, according to Yusuf. “With the way that technology improves every day and the world becomes more of a global village, most if the youths of this particular generation do not particularly carry on the culture and the heritage,” said Yusuf. “To a larger extent one’s culture is part of one’s identity, so preserving the culture is preserving the origin of a particular people,” said Yusuf. “For instance, some people no longer understand nor speak their actual traditional language. There will be some Hispanic youths these days that don’t even understand Spanish, and language is one of the key elements of survival of a particular tradition or heritage. What we’re saying is it’s wonderful that the world is a global village, but it’s also another wonderful thing to know yourself, to know what your makeup is.” This event was not just about food, it was about how food intersects with the culture of a country in a broader context. Yu-
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A performer at the Chile Hispanic Heritage Month food edition event.
suf mentioned how each culture has its own ways of expressing itself. “Every culture has various means of expression including music, fashion, language and, of course, food. So, tonight is celebrating the aspect of food element of culture,” said Yusuf. Yusuf spoke to the number of resources that the Office of Multicultural Services and Programs has to offer students, particularly the International Student Resource Center, the La Casita Student Resource Center and the LGBTQ Student Resource Center. These centers give students the chance to come together and understand one another. For example, the International
Student Resource Center held an event last Friday with this intent. “We often judge people based on their single-story - a glimpse into their lives that they share with us. We never think about who they are and what they have done outside of that single story,” according to the ISU website. “This event will serve as a way to discover other stories and become aware of the dangers of the single story. We will hear each other, build our stories while we all build a stuffed animal of your choice.” Yusuf ’s final words were words of unity and togetherness. She said that she wants people to come together, despite the things that sometimes separate them.
a millionaire” says finance professor Harry Edward Gallatin. Although most people won’t be as motivated to save 10% of their checks until age 65. If you save five dollars a week as an emergency fund it may help you in the long run. ISU student Andren Morgan waited very late to pay for here text books during her freshman year. Causing her to fail multiple classes. She says “ not having my books taught me to always have money saved because you never know when you’ll need it”. Another tip for saving is to put your money in a secure location that is hard to reach. By doing so you prevent yourself from spending your money on stuff you don’t need. The third pillar is credit. Randa Wells advices students to avoid credit cards. The only reason students should obtain credit cards is to mindfully build positive credit by paying off debt. To keep good credit pay off bills on time. The last pillar is student loan repayment. Students should know that there are multiple payment plains available to help students pay their debt off. If you want to hear more about financial literacy check out the $tart now Campion at various residence halls: including Pickroll and Hulman or check them out on the ISU website.
From justice to forgiveness: Rachel Denhollander’s path to empowerment Cheyenne Fauquher Reporter
On Tuesday, Oct. 2, Candles Holocaust Museum & Education Center will have a presentation about women who have been violently or sexully abused, given by Rachael Denhollander. This event will be held in the University Hall Theatre from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Admission for this event is free, but it registration is required before attending the event. Denhollander is a former USA gymnast who accused Dr. Larry Nassar of USA Gymnastics, of sexual abuse. Nassar was found guilty after trial and sentenced to life in prison. After Denholland-
er filed a police report against USA Gymnastics Dr. Nassar, over 300 women came forward as survivors of Nassar’s abuse. Throughout the presentation, Denhollander will discuss her personal strength to speak out and become a voice for hundreds of abused women. Denhollander will share her story of transformation from a victim to empowerment and how she found the will to forgive, relating with Eva Kor, Holocaust survivor, about their journey to becoming international advocates for forgiveness. This event will demonstrate how two victims of violence have overcome the obstacles thrown at them and learned to forgive.
In Las Vegas, it’s called ‘1 October’: how the horrific mass shooting got its unussal name David Montero
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
It was the Pulse nightclub shooting. There was the Aurora theater shooting. Some were shortened to a single word that bears all the weight of the tragedy and a long history: Columbine. Newtown. There isn’t one way mass shootings are named in the U.S. Often they are christened by media and forged through Google. They usually refer to the geography. Or the location. San Bernardino. Parkland became the name most used to refer to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida in February. The largest mass shooting in modern American history is generally referred to as the Las Vegas shooting. Sometimes Route 91, the name of the music festival the gunman targeted. But within the city, it has a different name and it’s used almost exclusively by every elected official and media outlet in the state. It’s called 1 October. The name was inspired by the terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015 that left 130 dead. That attack is commemorated in France as “13 Novembre” — also the title of a documentary released this year. It was thought of during a conversation between Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg and an FBI employee days after the attack unleashed by Stephen Paddock from his Mandalay Bay
suite left 58 dead and hundreds wounded. Fudenberg said he was trying to come up with a uniform name for the tragedy that would be used for all of the reports generated after the attack. He also didn’t want the name “Las Vegas” always mentioned in conjunction with the shooting. He said neither of them liked the names that were being used that week: Las Vegas shooting, Route 91 Shooting, Las Vegas Strip shooting. Fudenberg said she thought the way it had been done for the terrorist attacks in Paris were better — a date that sounded respectful and solemn. But also functional. They agreed on 1 October. Fudenberg called up Clark County Commission Chairman Steve Sisolak to run the name by him. He figured there might be a meeting about it. Sisolak was headed up to the podium for a news conference on Oct. 6. for another media briefing on the shooting. Fudenberg said Sisolak listened and thought it made sense. As he approached the microphone, he decided that’s what it should be called. “It was locked in,” Sisolak said. “That’s what we were going to call it. They knew more about this than I did and I was happy to assist in any way. We needed to come up with a name and we didn’t want to attach the concert to it or the site to it. or anything like that.”
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Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg at his offices on September 27, 2018, in Las Vegas.
Clark County Undersheriff Kevin McMahill introduced Sisolak. Sisolak got right to it. “In the past four days, we’ve had numerous names assigned to this event — this tragedy,” Sisolak said at the news conference. “For official purposes and in the future, after consultation with the coroner and our first reports coming out this afternoon, the official name that this tragedy will be referred to will be the number one — October. So the digit ‘1’ and October will be the official name listed on all reports and investigations moving forward on this incident.” But the name caught on local-
ly beyond the official report title. It is on bumper stickers, T-shirts and items commemorating the day — including a series of events leading up to the one-year anniversary on Monday. That will include the reading of the names of the 58 victims at night and marquees darkening on the Las Vegas Strip at 10:01 p.m. Local media also refer to it as “1 October” during regular reports and in the extensive updates on the shooting over the past year. KSNV, Las Vegas’ NBC affiliate, is airing a special report on Monday that has “1 October” in its title. Dree de Clamecy, managing
editor at KSNV, said the name took hold and its meaning was always understood locally. “It’s a part of the historical record for Las Vegas,” she said. “The date stands out and ensures it will never be forgotten by our community.” Clark County Undersheriff Kevin McMahill said it’s become so ubiquitous that he forgot how it ever even came to be known as 1 October. McMahill said most shootings are never forgotten, but they are remembered differently in the places they happen. He said calling it 1 October feels personal. “When I hear it, it just makes sense now,” McMahill said.
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Spencer Stone stops an armed Facebook says millions were affected by terrorist with his bare hands of users security breach Tristian Major Reporter
Sam Dean Los Angeles Times (TNS)
Two weeks ago, national hero Spencer Stone spoke at Tilson Hall. During a train ride through Amsterdam, Stone alongside his two colleges Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler stopped an armed terrorist from shooting a train full of pedestrians. When Stone was a boy, his father was arrested for 13 counts of fraud, which drastically influenced Stone to become a “problem child.” “We would knock over trash cans and set off fireworks growing up,” said Stone. As Stone matured he realized that he wanted to put away his childish ways to do something great with his life. After high school stone knew that the United Sates Air Force would be that great thing to do with his life. Stone went through three different jobs while enlisted in the air force until he became a medical technician. While based in Sacramento California, Stone began working in a pediatric facility. Eventually stone was given the opportunity to work as an ambulance technician stationed on a small island off the coast of Europe. This had inspired him to take a European trip with his colleges Skarlatos and Sadler. They planned on traveling through Rome, Amsterdam, and Paris, but their trip would be cut short. While commuting from Amsterdam to Paris, a terrorist named IU armed with an AK47, 9mm pistol, and a knife boarded the train. IU shot a man
Nearly 50 million Facebook accounts have been affected by a security breach that enabled hackers to take over users’ accounts, the social media giant announced Friday. The new breach comes as Facebook strives to convince its more than 2 billion users that it can be trusted. It is grappling with the fallout from the revelation that British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica harvested the personal data of up to 87 million users, as well as the revelation Anna Bartley | Indiana Statesman that it unwittingly played host to Spencer Stone spoke to ISU faculty, staff and students a massive Russian misinformation campaign during the 2016 about his interacction with terrorist. U.S. elections. The new vulnerability was disthrough the neck, which caused people to run past Stone, Skarlatos and Sadler, alerting them of the covered Tuesday afternoon and has been patched, Facebook said. terrorist. “Attackers exploited a vulnerStone got up and ran full speed at IU. IU aimed his AK47 at Stone’s head and pulled the trigger. ability in Facebook’s code that Luckily, the gun jammed. IU hit Stone in the face impacted ‘View As,’ a feature that lets people see what their own STONE CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 profile looks like to someone else,” the company said Friday in an online post. “This allowed them to steal Facebook access tokens” — which gave attackers full access to user profiles, as if the hackers were those users. “This is a really serious security issue, and we’re taking it really seriously,” Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told reporters on a phone call Friday. “We need to be more proactive about defending our community.” No password or credit card data were stolen, Guy Rosen, Facebook vice president of product management, told reporters. He said it was unclear whether the attackers had accessed private messages or posts and whether they had posted from hacked accounts. Access tokens keep people logged in to the social network so they don’t have to log back in every time they open the app, visBob Chamberlin|Los Angeles Times|TNS it the website or use third-party services that rely on their FaceEarly morning joggers pass the Campanile on the campus of the book logins. University of California at Berkeley on September 9, 2015. Facebook said it has reset the said Brigitte Lossing, Berkeley’s to inflation and is now $160, the tokens of all affected users and, interim director for recreational university said. Money from the as a precaution, of 40 million adsports. fee goes into a fund for “inno- ditional users who had used the And it was students who spear- vative mind-body services” that View As feature in the year since headed — and funded — the “address the concerning rise of the vulnerability was introduced. project. mental health complications on The reset in effect logged them In 2015, Berkeley students campus and provide new support off. They will have to log back in next time they use the service. passed a “wellness referendum” for minority student groups.” The company said it is in the that imposed a $146 fee each UC CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 early stages of its investigation year, Lossing said. The fee is tied
UC Berkeley opens ‘universal’ locker room with space for transgender students and people with disabilities Sarah Parvini Los Angeles Times (TNS) University of California, Berkeley opened an expansive “universal” locker room Wednesday, creating a space for transgender or non-binary students and those who want more privacy or need disability accommodations. The 4,500-square-foot locker room, part of the campus’ Recreational Sports Facility, is the first of its kind in California and one of only a handful in the country, the university said. The $2.7-million facility houses private rooms for changing and showering, including 400 lockers, 16 individual changing rooms, seven private showers, five private toilets and four shared sinks. The idea for a universal space was borne out of conversations with students who said they felt uncomfortable having only a traditional choice of locker rooms. “This resource is really important to students on campus,”
into the issue, and has reported the breach to the FBI and to Irish law enforcement agencies. At this point, Rosen said, the company has not determined who orchestrated the attack, where it came from or whether it had targeted a particular subsection of Facebook’s users. Facebook discovered the attack after detecting an unusual leap in user activity Sept. 16, and its investigation revealed the nature of the attack this Tuesday, Rosen said. He said that on Wednesday, Facebook notified law enforcement agencies and began patching the vulnerabilities, finishing Friday morning. Rosen said the attackers exploited a vulnerability in Facebook’s code that took advantage of three separate bugs that were introduced over a year ago, when engineers updated the video upload feature in July 2017, and hinged on reminders to wish friends a happy birthday. The first bug caused the video uploader to create an access token — strange, but by itself not a major risk, since users already had to be logged in to use the video uploader, which meant that they already had a token on their device. The second bug is where birthdays enter the picture. The View As function let users see their profile pages as if they were someone else, in order to determine whether their privacy settings were to their liking. Typically, the video uploader wouldn’t appear in View As mode, but because of the second bug, the video uploader did appear when the page being viewed contained notifications from Facebook urging the user to send birthday messages to friends. The third bug turned those minor errors into a major security issue. If a user viewed their own profile page as if they were a particular Facebook friend — say, an old roommate — and the video uploader appeared on the page, the uploader would spit out an access token not for the user’s own account, but for the ex-roommate’s. That token provided full access to the ex-roommate’s Facebook account. Once the hackers gained access to one account, they could then repeat the process with that account’s friends, over and over. Based on the rapid speed and scale, Rosen said the attack likely involved some degree of automation.
Supreme Court opens its new term on a quiet note, amid the loud dispute over its future David G. Savage Los Angeles Times (TNS) WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court likes to view itself as the quiet at the center of the storm, and it has never been more so than this week. The eight justices opened their new term on Monday and heard arguments on whether a tiny endangered frog that lives only in Mississippi may also have a protected “critical habitat” in forest land in Louisiana. Weyerhaeuser, a large timber company and wood manufacturer, argues the court should limit the definition of protected habitat to the areas where an endangered species now lives. Meanwhile just a block away, the Senate is tied up in fierce political dispute over whether Judge Brett Kavanaugh should be confirmed to fill the court’s ninth seat. Kavanaugh’s partisan attacks last week against Democrats — who pushed for an FBI probe into decades-old sexual assault allegations against him — threatened to undermine the Supreme Court’s effort to appear independent and above politics. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has repeatedly argued the public has the wrong impression of the court. “We don’t work as Democrats or as Republicans,” he said in a 2016 talk in Boston. But he conceded that highly partisan
confirmation fights only contribute to the view that the justices themselves are driven by politics. The fight over Kavanaugh has divided largely along party lines. Senate Republicans said President Donald Trump’s nominee was being sabotaged by allegations that could have been investigated earlier if they had not been held in confidence by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. Democrats said it would be a historic mistake to confirm a jurist for a lifetime seat on the high court without thoroughly investigating serious charges against him, including Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation that a 17-year-old Kavanaugh assaulted her. When the justices emerged from behind the red curtain at 10 a.m. Monday, all but Roberts had moved to new seats, reflecting the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy. Justice Clarence Thomas is now the longest-serving justice, and he sat to the left side of the chief justice, looking from the audience. On his right now was Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who the chief justice said was marking her 25th anniversary on the court. As usual, the court’s opening day began with an orders list in which more than one thousand appeal petitions were denied without comment. They had piled up over the summer and were disposed of after justices met for the first time early last
week. Among the rejected appeals was a property-rights challenge to California’s coastal development permits from a Silicon Valley billionaire who sought to close the access road to secluded Martins Beach near Half Moon Bay. Over the next two months, the court will hear mostly low-profile cases, but several could yield significant rulings. On Wednesday, the justices will consider whether to overturn a 1980s-era precedent that prevents land owners from suing directly in federal court alleging that local or state zoning rules deny them fair use of their property under the Constitution. In Knick v. Scott Township, a Pennsylvania woman sued after she was told she had to open her back lot to visitors because a newly discovered burial plot was there. But lower federal courts tossed out her claim on the grounds that she had not worked her way first through the Pennsylvania state courts. Legal experts say that if the high court were to agree with her claim, it could have a major impact in California because it could bolster property-rights claims and send them directly to federal courts. On Oct. 10, the court will review a class-action suit from California to decide whether federal agents can arrest and jail legal immigrants who have past crim-
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View of the Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018 in Washington, D.C. Justices opened their new term on Monday.
inal charges on their records, including drug possession. The 9th Circuit Court rejected this mandatory-detention policy and said these detainees can go free after a bond hearing if they are not likely to flee and do not present a danger to the public. But in Nielsen v. Preap, the Trump administration urges the court to uphold mandatory detention. And several major cases are on their way to the court for later in this term. They include the dispute over whether Trump has the authority to end the Obama-era order that shielded the so-called Dreamers
from deportation. Judges have blocked Trump’s repeal from taking effect and the high court is awaiting a ruling on the issue from the 9th Circuit Court. The justices are also likely to consider in the year ahead whether the administration can restrict transgender persons from serving in the U.S. military and whether the 2020 census should include a new question on citizenship. California and other states with large immigrant populations oppose this change, arguing it will dissuade people from being counted.
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STONE FROM PAGE 2 with the AK47, but this didn’t stop him from removing the AK47 from his hands. However IU still had a 9mm pistol, which he aimed at Stone’s head and pulled the trigger, but the
UC FROM PAGE 2 Some students felt so alienated by the lack of accommodations that they avoided using the recreational center, Lossing said — not only transgender or non-binary students, but also those with disabilities, body-image concerns or religious restrictions. The school’s goal is to figure out how to “get people here who don’t feel comfortable,” she said. Ben Perez, manager of Berkeley’s Campus Access Services, said the new locker room is important because it “pushes the societal envelope.” Perez graduated from the university in 2013. He recalled feeling as though the locker room wasn’t the place for him while he was a student. “I just didn’t feel like it was a spot I would or should go,” said Perez, who uses a wheelchair because of a spinal cord injury. “I would change at home, then come use workout facilities and then go straight home to change or shower post-workout.… I felt like, why even bother if there’s not going to be a space that really works for me?” Perez said he appreciates that the idea of a universal space included people with disabilities.
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gun did not fire because the clip had fallen out. At this point, Alek jumped into battle with Stone. Stone put IU in a choke hold, causing him to pass out and be detained. Immediately after, Stone treated the man who was shot in the neck.
“My military training was enough to stop the artery from bleeding,” said Stone. Eventually the train reached the next station, where authorities treated the wounded man and arrested IU. U.S. President Barack
“We don’t yet know for whom it will be the most beneficial, but it will be beneficial to somebody and that will include students with disabilities,” Perez, 29, said. Hung Huynh said he uses the gym at least five times a week. The 21-yearold said he is proud of the new locker room because it fosters diversity and inclusion. “Not just gender binaries, but people with disabilities, people who are anxious to change around others,” said Huynh, who is part of the university’s student government. “I also think this is a model we can replicate around other parts of campus and other institutions can replicate this as well.” For inspiration, Berkeley looked to the University of Arizona, which built a similar locker room in 2017. Lossing visited the Arizona facility last fall while Berkeley was still designing its own. The university began considering the idea of a universal locker room in 2013, she said, when an opportunity arose to build a small fitness center near the campus stadium. That gym served as the “initial spark” and marked the first time the school provided an all-gender locker room.
“It was a little experiment,” Lossing said. The new universal locker room serves “a much wider population,” she said, because it is part of the university’s main gym, where members can access the pool, basketball court and group fitness classes. “It’s not just today’s student,” Lossing said. “We are building for the future. This is the norm. This is today’s standard.” Juniperangelica Cordova, a transgender student majoring in ethnic studies, said she is excited to have a space where she feels it is safe to change before or after a workout. “I have played sports my whole life,” Cordova, 21, said. “But I was always really nervous because of the idea of locker rooms being gendered and my body not really matching either discouraged me.” Now, Cordova says, she can fully take advantage of university resources — just like her peers. “For people who may not be transgender, restrooms and locker rooms are assumed to be available at any time of the day,” she said. “This allows students to focus on their wellness and their health without worrying about the details of their safety.”
Obama and French President Francois Hollande recognized the three men as heroes. Stone was awarded multiple medals and promoted to United States Air Force Staff Sergeant. The three men appeared on talk shows such as “The Tonight Show” and
“Jimmy Kimmel.” They experienced overnight fame and praise, but tragedy was around the corner. One night, when Stone went out for drinks, five gang members stabbed him in the heart, lungs, back, and liver. He nearly
died and was rushed into surgery. Thankfully he recovered. When Stone woke up from surgery he overheard an 18 year-old man dying of pneumonia. “I escaped death twice and yet this man died of Pneumonia,” said Stone.
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Build-a-Friendship with Multicultural Services and Programs Chelsea Chapman Reporter
The office of Multicultural Services and Programs invited students to make a new best friend last Friday, Sept. 28, but they weren’t talking about the stuffed animals they would be crafting. This event was designed to bring students of different backgrounds together in a way they normally wouldn’t meet. Alyaa Malibari, a graduate student studying structural design and technology, planned this event with her team at MSP. “Usually this event brings a lot of students,” said Malibari. “Sometimes they bring their kids or their friends or their family. It’s a very good way for us to introduce this place and at the same time have the ability for an international student and non-international student to meet and
talk over building a bear.” The students were purposefully split between two rooms when they arrived on the 7th floor of the HMSU. “When we give them their number, we say ‘room number one’ or ‘room number two,’” said Malibari. “For example, if I came with a friend, I’d be in room number one and my friend would be in room two. When they are picking the names and things like that, the conversations start to come and they have fun. Especially when they came early today, one hour before the event, they were talking together. They were enjoying and talking with each other and that, to me is them going out of their comfort zone.” This is not the first time MSP has held this event. In fact, it is a very popular event that they hold twice a year. “We plan on having this event again,” said Malibari. “Every time we increase the number of bears. We have over one hun-
dred and fifty today, almost two hundred. This year we added the unicorn and the dinosaur. We add things we know everyone is going to like. We have some small boards in the rooms [where the animals are built], there is a characteristic associated with each animal, like if you choose one animal it may mean you are wise.” Breanna Pierce, a sophomore studying elementary education, is a student assistant with MSP. Pierce was very excited to see students enjoying themselves at the event, and even had time to make an animal. “I was able to make [a stuffed animal] beforehand,” said Pierce. “I got to make a cute little froggy. I really like the colors. Green is my favorite color and the frog is bright neon green. I love meeting the [attendees] and just seeing them have a good time with their friends and meeting new people, especially people bringing their kids. No one is sad, this floor is just filled
with love when everyone is here making stuffed animals.” Jason Collins, a student studying healthcare communications attended the event for the first time ever. “I’ve always seen these events across event and this is the first time I’ve actually made one when the lines weren’t too long,” said Collins. “I think it’s great that we get to provide a little friend to somebody who is really special and close to us. I chose a lamb because I know [my friend] is a follower of Christ and a lamb is one of the symbolisms for that. Collins was able to make a friend while building his stuffed animal when someone offered to help him. “I didn’t know there was a zipper to put the stuffing in originally so it was just a big mess, and then I had a friend show me what to do.” MSP will be hosting this event for Valentine’s Day in the spring.
Fashion Forward Andra Johnson
Lauren Rader Reporter
Andra Johnson is a computer science major at Indiana State University. He is affiliated with the Brotherhood of Successful Scholars, which is a student led organization that unites young, minority students on campus to be successful and form a brotherhood of knowledge and real world application. To learn more about B.O.S.S, meetings are every Monday at 7 p.m. Q: “Could you give me some background of who you are, what you like to do, and what you’re involved in on campus? Talk about anything you would like to about who you are as a person.” A: “I’m 21 years old and I’ve lived most of my life in a small town in Mississippi. At 15, I moved to Indianapolis. I like listening to music, trying new things, any outdoor activity like football or hiking. I’m currently involved with two organizations on campus. The first being the Brotherhood of Successful Scholars, which I am the current President of, and the other being the
Colligate Entrepreneurship Organization. I like that I’m open-minded, adventurous, and innovative.” Q: “What does your style say about who you are?” A: “It speaks to the fact that I’m versatile and that I like to be comfortable.” Q: “How do you choose your clothes on a day to day basis, and what factors do you consider when getting ready? A: “What I consider when choosing my clothes is mainly what I have to do that day. On Mondays I dress professionally because that’s the day when B.O.S.S meets. The weather obviously plays another part in what I wear. Like I previously stated I like to be comfortable, so those are the main two things that I consider when picking out my clothes.” Q: “Does fashion and what you wear influence your mood, and the way you conduct yourself?” A: “It does to a certain extent. When I’m dressed up I feel more professional so I kind of conduct myself a little bit more professionally, but ultimately that feeling
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comes within so what I wear does not affect my mood too much.” Q: “Do you consider yourself a creative person? If so, explain how fashion makes its way into your everyday creative life.”
A: “I do consider myself creative, and the way I dress allows me to express my creativity, through the way I combine different colors, the way I talk. I feel that fashion in one way or another, has a place in every aspect of my life.”
STATESMAN GAME REVIEW
“Life is Strange 2 Episode 1: Roads” AJ Goelz Reporter
Developer DONTNOD drew eyes back in 2015 with a notable title: “Life is Strange.” Late last week, DONTNOD launched the first episode of the long awaited sequel “Life is Strange 2”. Set in the same universe, “Life is Strange 2” begins in a Seattle suburb. Sixteen-yearold Sean Diaz gets off the bus and is talking about a party later that night with a friend. It’s normal teenage stuff. Players are tasked with fetching provisions for the party: money, snacks and etc. Sean walks around the Diaz home interacting with his father and little brother while completing his tasks. At the end of the first hour, Sean’s little brother Daniel spills fake blood for his Halloween costume on a neighbor and a fight begins. Sean steps in to break it up. Sean ends up shoving the neighbor to the ground as a police officer arrives at the scene. The officer orders the brothers to get on the ground and when their father comes out to see what is going on, gets shot dead. Some kind of blast destroys the area and, upon regaining consciousness, Sean grabs his brother and goes on the run. Within the first hour of the game, it’s clear that “Life is Strange 2” takes a much darker tone than the original. The first game had problems with a clear genre and took to many episodes to decide what the game was about. It took multiple running storylines and it was never clear exactly how they tied together. The sequel, on the other hand, knows
exactly what kind of story it’s telling. It’s a story of loss and brothers trying to stick together in extreme circumstances. The game is not set in one town so it opens up the possibility for many different environments for the game to take place. This episode alone takes place in the woods, at a gas station along the highway and a roadside motel. Everything flows perfectly with the only issue being the lack of characters. This makes when the entire second hour takes place in the woods with both of the brothers. It’s a scene that drives home the point that these two are alone now and need to rely on each other. In the coming episodes, there needs to be more lasting character interactions, as opposed to just these two brothers. These games exist on a small recurring cast and their relationships to the main character that is affected by player choice. Granted the ways that players’ choices affect the way Daniel acts is fairly unique, but if this continues, the game will start to feel sparse. From a gameplay perspective, “Life is Strange 2” is extremely thin. Beyond occasionally walking around in certain areas and making dialogue options, there is very little here. Some games add quick time events or puzzles; “Life is Strange 2” only adds money management. This is interesting, trying living within what Sean has on his person or resorting to stealing. Sadly, this is not enough to propel this game through five episodes. The previous game had a main character with the ability to rewind time and remake important choices and the prequel had a mechanic
in which the main character would argue with people, putting players through a word puzzle. “Life is Strange 2” as a standalone four-hour experience is great, but to continue on for another four episodes there needs to be more gameplay. The biggest flaw of “Life is Strange 2” is how it handles the issue of racism. Politics in video games is a hot button issue right now. Multiple games and developers have handled this and political/ social issues in varying ways. DONTNOD’s decision was to handle it in the most ham-fisted way possible. They create a character to interact with Sean that is a caricature that even Rockstar Games wouldn’t put in one of their games. Rockstar is famous for their “Grand Theft Auto” series that is a satirization of American culture, which is one of the most cartoonishly racist and even at one point mentions building the wall to really beat a dead horse. This isn’t satire or a joke; this is blatant political messaging within a piece of entertainment. It drags the player out of the stakes of the moment, which without this particular character is a great scene. Despites its issues “Life is Strange 2” takes steps forward from its predecessors. Better writing, delivery and the music is on-point. This is a good opening to a larger story. It’s up to DONTNOD to continue to build off of this strong foundation and deliver a truly unique experience. Score 8/10 “Life is Strange 2” is a good start, but multiple games of this style have fallen apart after a strong first episode.
A Night of Concertos; ISU Symphony Orchestra Nicole Nunez Reporter
Indiana State University’s Symphony Orchestra held their first concert, A Night of Concertos, this past Saturday. To begin their concert season, ISU Symphony Orchestra created an arrangement of concertos conducted by Erik Rohde, which also included numerous cultural pieces. The performance featured three ISU student soloists: Ross Hanson, Jon Treadway, and Ben Walden. These students are 2018 Concerto and Aria Competition winners. Each performed a solo piece with the Symphony Orchestra accompaniment. Ross Hanson sang Madamina, il catalogo e questo, which translates to “My Lady, this is the List.” Jon Treadway performed Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in Db major on piano. Ben Walden performed Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in Eb major on clarinet. The Symphony Orchestra welcomed Tianxi Wen to guest conduct her piece, Dance of the Yao People. This piece embodied a beautiful array of the Chinese culture, providing both the audience and the performers with ample variety. A guest that attended the performance was Meira Warshauer, who composed the piece Like Streams in the Desert, which was performed by the Symphony Orchestra that evening. The piece combined three folk songs from around the world. The piece is normally sung and Meira Warshauer gave a realistic view into the culture by singing a few verses herself at the concert. Jack Overton, Symphony Orchestra bassoonist, said this was his favorite piece to perform because “it was Oriental and Middle Eastern, and the actual composer came in and talked to us, which was amazing.” The concert also featured ISU faculty member, Professor Kurt Fowler, on cello for the piece Paranoid Cheese, composed by Marc Mellits. Lydia Miller, ISU student who attended, said this was her favorite piece because she “enjoyed how the ensemble was set up.” Having faculty guest performers allows ISU music students to engage with professionals and get guidance in preparing for their future careers. “It was really powerful and it made me wish I was still in band,” Said Courtney Owens, an ISU student. The Symphony Orchestra concerts, as well as other performances from ISU’s School of Music, are a wonderful opportunity for students to express their passions and talents. They also provide a place for ISU students to attend a dynamic, musical experience that is free and right on campus. “It’s a good break within my day and it can be therapeutic,” Owens said.Being a part of the ISU Symphony Orchestra also provides a whole different experience for ISU students. Being able to attend rehearsal, grow as a musician, and make connections, make partaking in Symphony Orchestra an enriching experience. “It is a nice group and I have a lot of fun,” said Overton. “[Another benefit is] making new friends. Which is important because you have friends to hang out with that aren’t your normal friends, which adds some variety to your life.” This performance embodied a night of culture and concertos that empowered and inspired. “Music is powerful, it is a universal language and everyone can connect to it,” said Owens.
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Bringing awareness to domestic assault Rachel Modi Columnist
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. According to The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, “On average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States. During one year, this equates to more than 10 million women and men.” This means a child, a family member, or a best friend may have experienced a type of domestic violence. Violence can occur in relationships among a spouse or partner, but also through a stranger. Domestic violence does not pick and choose a certain race, gender, age, socioeconomic background, or educational level. Unfortunately, women and men are physically raped and mentally abused every single day, but that does not mean we can’t step in as a society to drop the numbers. Domestic violence involves behaviors like physically harming, causing fear, restricting a partner or forcing them to act differently than they want. There are many different forms such as “physical and sexual violence, threats and intimidation, emotional abuse and economic deprivation,” according to the National Domestic Violence Hotline. If you are currently in an intimate relationship, then you may be questioning the health of the relationship between you and your partner. According to The National Domestic Violence Hotline, here are some questions to consider about your relationship: Does your partner ever: 1. Insult, demean or embarrass
you with put-downs? 2. Control what you do, who you talk to or where you go? 3. Look at you or act in ways that scare you? 4. Push you, slap you, choke you or hit you? 5. Stop you from seeing your friends or family members? 6. Control the money in the relationship? Take your money or Social Security check, make you ask for money or refuse to give you money? 7. Make all of the decisions without your input or consideration of your needs? 8. Tell you that you’re a bad parent or threaten to take away your children? 9. Prevent you from working or attending school? 10. Act like the abuse is no big deal, deny the abuse or tell you it’s your own fault? 11. Destroy your property or threaten to kill your pets? 12. Intimidate you with guns, knives or other weapons? 13. Attempt to force you to drop criminal charges? 14. Threaten to commit suicide or threaten to kill you? To further elaborate, controlling a partner’s decisions and restricting them to talk and interact with other people creates isolation, then justifies those actions through jealously. Jealousy is not attractive, nor is it healthy. Constantly degrading and humiliating a partner through mind games and making the partner feel guilty ties in with mental and emotional abuse. Creating a sense of fear or intimidation through looks, physically harming through hitting, clawing, slapping, choking, pushing and others shows signs of a physically abusive relationship.
If you are hesitant on any of these questions, chances are you might be in an unhealthy or an abusive relationship and might need to leave. Domestic violence comes from the need to acquire and keep power over a partner, because their personal feelings must be the priority of the relationship. Thus, abusers make the partner feel less deserving of the relationship. Often, some partners may justify their abusive partner’s actions because of trending culture or family history. However, it is important to consider that abuse is a choice. You and only you can dictate your own actions. No one deserves any abuse, whether it is physical, mental or any others, it is never okay. It is never and will never be justified. On a more positive note, what makes a healthy relationship? Communication, boundaries, and consent. Communication allows for a serious understanding of each person. Good communication between both partners means: 1. Treat each other with respect 2. Speak openly to one another about thoughts and feelings 3. Feel heard when expressing feelings 4. Listen to each other and compromise 5. Do not criticize each other 6. Feel supported to do the things they like 7. Celebrate each other’s accomplishments and successes Frequently sharing issues and differences with each other builds a connection and expresses what is seen as right in the other’s eyes. This also does not degrade a partner’s emotions and creates an equally healthy relationship.
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What’s not to like about Trump’s Iran oil sanctions? Julian Lee
Bloomberg News (TNS)
President Donald Trump must be overjoyed at the impact his sanctions on Iran are having more than a month before they even go into effect. They are crippling exports from the Islamic Republic, at minimal cost to the U.S. Unfortunately, they have yet to succeed in changing the regime’s policies, and are pushing prices back up to levels not seen in more than four years. Iran’s exports have fallen by 870,000 barrels a day since April, the month before the U.S. pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal. September’s sales look likely to be less than two million barrels a day for a second month running, based on preliminary tanker tracking data. The decline is much steeper than analysts had expected — and exports are likely to fall even further in the five weeks before the curbs take effect. Shipments to South Korea and France stopped in June, and flows to Japan have also halted. Purchases by Indian refiners may also cease completely, with no orders placed for November. Iran endured its longest gap in shipments to China in at least three years and has begun to store
crude on tankers anchored close to its export terminals as buyers retreat. In a second win for Trump, U.S. companies haven’t had to revise their supply chains. It’s America’s frenemies who are bearing the burden: those troublesome allies in Europe and Asia are having to scramble to fill the holes left by dwindling Iranian supplies. Even China appears to have agreed not to lap up cheap Iranian crude — although it remains unclear whether that will change as the Sino-U.S. relationship sours further. Not only are the alternatives more costly than heavily discounted Iranian barrels, they also undermine the economics of refineries and petrochemical plants designed to process Iranian oil. Nowhere is this more apparent than in South Korea, where Iran’s high-sulfur condensate, a light form of crude extracted from gas fields, was an important feedstock for the country’s petrochemical industry. South Korea bought nearly 60 percent of Iran’s total condensate exports in the 12 months through April. Since then it has had to rely on more distant sources such as Norway and the U.S.
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Latino voters are making the Democrats sweat Albert R. Hunt
Bloomberg News (TNS)
Democrats see their fortunes rising with constituencies they’ll need to run up big victories in the midterm elections. They expect to do especially well with suburban women, even non-college-educated women, and are optimistic about millennials and a decent turnout by African-Americans. They’re concerned, however, about Latinos, especially men. Latinos are likely to vote Democratic, but the issue is whether they’ll turn out in sufficient numbers for Democrats to win key races. “I think there will be a modest uptick in the Latino vote,” said Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, a po-
litical scientist at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas who studies immigration and Latino political influence. That would be good news for Democrats, but not the great news they hope for. That vote will be critical in the uphill battle to win control of the Senate. Of the 10 states with the most competitive Senate races, four — Florida, Texas, Arizona and Nevada — have sizable but quite different Hispanic populations. There’s a large Cuban-American community in Florida that has tended to favor Republicans, while Democratic-leaning unions play a bigger role with Nevada’s Latino voters, who are mostly of Mexican descent. There also are up to a dozen
competitive races in those four states for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. In a few tightly contested ones, for example in Dallas and Houston, Latino voters could provide the margin to unseat veteran Republican legislators. In California, a half-dozen Republican House seats are under challenge. In three of these districts — in the Central Valley, San Fernando Valley and Fullerton — Latinos comprise about a quarter of the voting-age population, a concern to Republicans. Around the country there are a few other districts — such as one around Aurora, Colorado and another in the suburbs of Chicago — where a smaller Latino vote could nonetheless be decisive. In 2016, Hillary Clinton carried all
these Republican-held districts. To be sure, there are several heavily Latino districts where incumbent Republicans are faring well. These include San Antonio, Texas and Miami, Florida, where Representatives Will Hurd and Carlos Curbelo respectively are considered slightly ahead. Unlike most House Republicans, both have selectively broken with President Donald Trump. Clinton won two-thirds of the Latino vote nationally in 2016, exit polls showed, and Trump’s attacks on immigrants keep him strikingly unpopular with this constituency, according to many polls, including a September survey of Latino voters by Hart Research Associates. Nearly two-thirds of respondents to that poll said they dis-
approved of Trump’s presidency. They wanted Democrats to win control of Congress by a threeto-one margin over Republicans. They overwhelmingly preferred candidates who side with the Dreamers, young adults who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children and were allowed to stay under President Barack Obama, and those who oppose building a wall along the Mexican border. Obama was viewed positively by 67 percent of respondents and negatively by only 14 percent. Republicans hope that the strong economy will keep more Latino voters in their corner on Nov. 6, and are also appealing to the cultural conservatives among them.
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Commentary: Green-Card cruelty
David A. Super
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
Doubling down again on its hostility toward immigrants, the Trump administration has proposed denying permanent residency to anyone who receives more than a modest amount of assistance from public benefit programs. If immigrants use a Section 8 housing voucher or buy groceries with SNAP, this revised regulation could label that person a “public charge” — a dependent on the government — and the Department of Homeland Security could deny her or him a green card. Further, if an immigrant left the United States for an extended period (perhaps to care for an ailing parent), the public charge label could also result in being permanently denied reentry. This proposal is, in equal parts, completely pointless, flagrantly illegal and startlingly cruel. Like our budding trade war with Canada, this is the administration responding to a problem that does not exist. The White House
apparently wants to conjure the image of hordes of listless immigrants flocking to our shores to cash in on our public benefits. No such hordes exist. Immigrants consistently work more on average than native-born Americans, albeit often at very low wages. Large numbers of legal immigrants, as well as all immigrants in the United States illegally, are statutorily ineligible for most major public benefit programs. That includes cash assistance (welfare), the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly food stamps), and non-emergency Medicaid. The few exemptions are generally given to immigrants with clear reasons for being unable to support themselves, such as injured torture survivors, or those with demonstrated commitments to working, such as U.S. veterans or those who can claim 40 quarters of work. Anyone who wants to migrate to take advantage of a nation’s public benefits scratched the United States off their list long ago. Further, this new rule doesn’t
even focus on immigrants who are, in fact, failing to support themselves. Instead it would slap the public charge label on an immigrant who receives public benefits valued at more than 15 percent of the federal poverty line (for one person, that annual limit in 2018 would be $1,821). Nobody can get by on $152 per month. The immigrants the administration is targeting are, like tens of millions of U.S. citizens, working hard to support themselves, but unable to afford basic necessities on low wages. The proposed rule so brazenly disregards federal law that it is difficult to imagine how the agency could defend it. Among other things, it counts SNAP’s food benefits toward this new cap on financial benefits. Yet the Food and Nutrition Act, which authorizes SNAP, provides in section 8(b) that “the value of benefits that may be provided under this act shall not be considered income or resources for any purpose under any federal, state or local laws, including, but not limited to, laws relating
to taxation, welfare and public assistance programs.” This regulation is doing precisely what the statute prohibits. The text of the proposed regulation seems to revel in the hardship it would impose on immigrants and their families. It anticipates legal immigrants will use $2.27 billion less in assistance each year. These are not generous benefits to begin with; this country’s safety net programs are parsimonious relative even to those in substantially poorer nations. If immigrants in the United States qualify for these benefits, it is because they will suffer great hardship without the help. Because Congress has refused to maintain a reasonable federal minimum wage — it has been stuck at $7.25 an hour since 2009 — a full-time, year-round minimum wage worker trying to support a family is well below the poverty line. Defenders of the current minimum wage insist that such a worker can escape poverty by supplementing those earnings with subsistence benefits such as SNAP. Yet it is
precisely those benefits that the administration is trying to force immigrants to give up. Moreover, the $2.27 billion annual savings estimate is almost certainly low. Already the mere threat of a reduced chance at a future green card is having a broad chilling effect. Agencies that provide food and prenatal healthcare — services that aren’t even in the scope of the new rule — report that pregnant women are declining to enroll or dropping out for fear of being deemed a public charge. This inevitably threatens the well-being of the children they are carrying, who will be native-born American citizens. Last spring, the Trump administration ripped children away from their immigrant parents at the southern border to dissuade others from coming here. Now it is using the green card process to drive immigrants away from benefits they need and are entitled to. The details are different, but the underlying thinking is the same: Make immigrants suffer.
indianastatesman.com COMM FROM PAGE 6 And that gives Trump his third win. The sanctions are giving a boost to U.S. oil exports as Asian processors are being forced to look further afield for alternatives to Iranian supplies. U.S. crude oil exports exceeded 2.5 million barrels a day in the week to Sept. 21 for only the fourth time since President Barack Obama lifted limits on American exports in December 2015. So, if you’re sitting behind the Resolute desk in the Oval Office, what’s not to like? For a start, the sanctions have so far failed to deliver any change in Iranian policy — their main
BADA FROM PAGE 6 Boundaries express comfort levels through sex life, family and friends, and personal space. Boundaries in healthy relationships mean: 1. Allow each other to spend time with friends and family 2. Do not abuse technology to check on a partner 3. Trust each other and do not require your partner to “check in” 4. Do not pressure the other to do things that they don’t want to do 5. Do not constantly accuse the other of cheating or being unfaithful
LATION FROM PAGE 6 “Latinos align with Republicans on some issues,” said Barbara Carvalho, director of the Marist Poll. “But the Trump brand causes such problems for them.” There is no more intense battle than the Senate race in Florida, where Senator Bill Nelson, the Democratic incumbent, faces a strong challenge from Republican Governor Rick Scott. Republicans were cheered last week by an AARP-Univision poll showing Scott with a large lead among Latinos over 50 years old. Democrats countered with other surveys suggesting that Nelson, after an onslaught of negative
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purpose. The Middle East is no safer. The proxy wars in which Iran is backing one side, while U.S.-sponsored Arab countries support the other, show no sign of ending. The Islamic Republic’s leaders aren’t yet buckling under U.S. pressure, and the popular uprising longed-for by National Security Advisor John Bolton still seems a pipe dream. In the meantime, the loss of nearly a million barrels a day and the prospect of more to follow, have done more than anything else to revive the possibility of $100 oil. Little wonder Trump has tweeted his frustration at an increas-
ingly powerless OPEC. Most members of that group are already producing as much as they can. Even if they could squeeze out more barrels, doing so would only raise worries about diminishing the cushion of spare capacity to offset any future disruption to supply Oil at $100 a barrel would be bad news for drivers everywhere — including those in the U.S. — and the sanctions on Iran are making it increasingly likely. With the midterm elections looming, it’s no surprise that the president is trying to deflect blame for outcome of his foreign policy onto foreign oil producers.
Consent is also a major part of boundaries. Both parties, ladies and men in all relationships, LGBTQ or not, must openly say “yes.” This provides affirmative consent. However, one time consent is not enough, it is an every time thing. It does not make it “automatic” to have consent in a new relationship. Implied consent is a myth. Flirting or talking does not provide honest consent. It is not an invitation. Thus, it also falls under other sexual acts. Not all sexual acts are consented to. For example, saying yes to oral sex doesn’t imply yes
to intercourse. Lastly, and most common on college campuses, pressure from friends, threats, or being unconscious or under the influence of some sort, does not mean consent. If you are not able to understand the situation or can’t speak up, that is not consent. Consent is consent. Don’t confuse yourself. If you know someone or is currently in an unhealthy and abusive relationship, reach out. Get out of that relationship as quick as possible, but if not possible, get other help. There are hotlines and laws that can get you out of a relationship.
ads against him this summer, has bounced back into the lead, but only by a narrow margin. In Texas, Latinos are central in Democratic Representative Beto O’Rourke’s surprising campaign to upset the incumbent Republican, Senator Ted Cruz. Most polls show the candidates nearly neck and neck as O’Rourke travels back roads campaigning in each of the state’s 254 counties. DeFrancesco Soto said that O’Rourke was slow to energize Latinos, but that she’s now hearing a lot of Spanish-language radio commercials for the Democrat along with stories of stepped-up grassroots activity. But to win, she said,
O’Rourke has to do better among Latinos; one survey showed Cruz, who’s campaigning as a close Trump ally, lagging O’Rourke among Latino voters by just 9 percentage points. Democratic strategists said that it’s a challenge for any new candidate like O’Rourke to introduce himself to constituencies with a history of low voter participation. “It takes time for new candidates to break through, and we are investing record amounts in outreach,” said Dan Sena, executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “There will be very few Hispanics in the country who won’t get multiple messages.”
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VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 8 24 kills and senior libero Yavianliz Rosado came up with a career-best 35 digs. The Sycamores fell short against their matchup with Illinois State as they lost in four once again. This is now the first time ISU has started 0-5 in Valley play since 2010. The Redbirds are now undefeated in the Missouri Valley Conference. Leading the charge for the Redbirds was Ali line
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as she recorded 12 kills and four blocks on the night. The Illinois native, Courtney Pence put up 30 digs during her playing time for Illinois State. For ISU, Laura Gross and Makayla Knoblauch both posted double-doubles and were two of the four Sycamores in double-digit kills. Gross’s 12 kills and 20 digs marked her 31st career double-double while Knoblauch’s 30 assists and 14 digs marked her eighth. The 25-21 second set
victory for Indiana State marked Illinois State’s first set loss in conference play this year and the Sycamores’ first set win over Illinois State since 2015. This now the fifth straight loss for the Sycamores and are still winless in Conference play. They look to shake off this slow start in the Conference as they come back home this weekend to face off against Missouri State and Southern Illinois.
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Sycamore soccer team loses home game against Loyola Ramblers Jay Adkins Reporter
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ISU Football faced Northern Iowa at home on Thursday Sept. 27. The Forest encouraged students to show up in Neon for a themed student section.
Sycamore Football get shutout at home vs. Northern Iowa Garrett Short Reporter This past Thursday, the Indiana State University Sycamores football team stayed at home to compete against the University of Northern Iowa Panthers. The 2-1 Sycamores headed into the matchup coming off a 55-41 win against the Eastern Illinois Panthers in Charleston, Illinois. The Panthers came to Terre Haute also holding a record
of 2-1 and coming off a 44-0 win against the Hampton University Pirates. Although the Sycamores obtained nearly 300 total yards in the game, they also gained 84 yards on nine accepted penalties and only converted one third down in 14 attempts. Redshirt senior linebacker Katrell Moss finished the game with a teamhigh of 12 tackles. Redshirt senior defensive back Jamal Jones recorded 11 tackles. Sophomore defensive lineman Stephon
Mayes recorded four tackles, a sack, and a forced fumble. On the offensive side for the Sycamores, Redshirt senior running back Ja’Quan Keys led the team in rushing with 76 yards on 16 carries. Redshirt freshman Dante Hendrix caught five passes for a team-high 76 receiving yards. Redshirt junior quarterback Ryan Boyle finished the day with 13 completions, 136 passing yards, zero touchdowns and one interception that had been returned for a touchdown. For the
Panthers, running back Marcus Weymiller recorded 90 yards on 20 attempts. Panthers quarterback Eli Dunne passed for 218 yards. Panthers linebacker Duncan Ferch recorded a 19-yard pick six off of quarterback Ryan Boyle. The Sycamores will look to regroup when they travel to Brookings, South Dakota this Saturday to compete against the #3 South Dakota State Jackrabbits. Kickoff will start at 7 p.m.
Ohio State’s rally, Notre Dame’s strength among top 10 things we learned during college football weekend Matt Murschel Orlando Sentinel
Check out the top 10 things we learned during the college football weekend: 1. Ohio State proves the Buckeyes are the team to beat in the Big Ten. Ohio State scored 13 points in the final eight minutes to beat Penn State Saturday, highlighted by a 96-yard game-winning drive engineered by quarterback Dwayne Haskins. It’s the second time this season the Buckeyes managed two second-half comebacks (TCU) and they have a clear path to a Big Ten title. 2. Penn State will be thinking about that fourth-down call for quite some time. After watching Trace McSorley carve up Ohio State’s defense for 461 total yards, it’s inconceivable Penn State coach James Franklin would chose to go with a handoff to running back Miles Sanders on a critical fourth-and-5 with 1:22 left in the game. Sanders was stuffed, sealing an Ohio State win, and the Nittany Lions must face another year of wondering what-if as they wait to see how the Big Ten plays
out. 3. Clemson demonstrated why the Tigers are an elite team. Just about everybody had written off the Tigers after quarterback Trevor Lawrence left the game against Syracuse with an injury, but coach Dabo Swinney’s team leaned on its stout defense and a punishing rushing attack to help backup Chase Brice lead the team back from a 16-7 halftime deficit to remain undefeated and in the playoff hunt. 4. Notre Dame looks like a legitimate playoff contender. The decision to make a switch at quarterback from Brandon Wimbush to Ian Book has paid off handsomely for the Irish. Book has accounted for nine touchdowns and the offense is averaging more than 500 yards the past two games. Couple that with an above average defense and manageable schedule and things are looking up in South Bend. 5. It’s deja vu for the Pac-12. For a conference desperate to rebound after being shut out of last year’s College Football Playoff semifinals, the Pac-12 did itself no favors after Stanford lost to Notre Dame, leaving unranked
Colorado as the league’s only undefeated team. Washington and Stanford appeared to have the league’s best chance of earning a semifinal bid and both already have one loss, leaving things on shaky ground. 6. West Virginia could pose the biggest threat to Oklahoma in the Big 12. The Mountaineers are 4-0 for the first time since 2016 and should be heavy favorites until they have to face Texas, TCU and Oklahoma State in November before the regular-season finale against the Sooners on Nov. 23. Oklahoma, meanwhile, has tough matchups looming against Texas, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech. 7. Alabama isn’t perfect. It’s true. The No. 1 Crimson Tide missed two field goals during their 56-14 blowout of Louisiana. Outside of that, it’s hard to point out any faults on a team that surpassed 500 yards for the fifth consecutive time this season and appears to only be getting stronger each week. It’s easy to see why many believe Alabama is a lock for its fifth appearance in the playoff semifinals. 8. Dan Mullen gets the last laugh. It was an emotional day for
the Florida coach, who returned to Starkville to take on his former Mississippi State team. Despite the hostile crowd, the Gators who pulled out a 13-6 win over the Bulldogs. Florida is getting hot at the right time, with the team preparing to host LSU this week before a critical showdown with rival Georgia in two weeks. 9. Kentucky is an SEC East title contender. Don’t laugh, the Wildcats are for real. Just ask Florida, Mississippi State and South Carolina, who found out the hard way. Kentucky has played with a massive chip on its shoulder all season and it has helped fuel strong play by running back Benny Snell and linebacker Josh Allen, who’ve led the program post its best start in the SEC since 1977. 10. It’s not always easy being the new guy. Scott Frost and Chip Kelly were two of the hottest coaching candidates during the offseason, but things haven’t exactly gone as planned for both as their respective teams, Nebraska and UCLA, are two of four winless teams remaining at the Football Bowl Subdivision level.
Third place finishes for men and women cross country runners at Notre Dame Jay Adkins Reporter The men’s and women’s cross country teams each ran their way to third place finishes at the Joe Piane Invite at Notre Dame this weekend. Strong performances by some younger runners helped the men beat out eight other schools to finish third, only trailing Calvin College and Youngstown State when the meet concluded. Redshirt sophomore Cam Trout ran a personal best to finish 18 overall and second on ISU’s team. Two redshirt freshman followed Trout with Nick Yeend and Cale Killian finishing 32 and 36 overall in the 8K. As a team the Sycamores have been improving, even dating back to last year when they finished fourth in the same meet. While the youngsters had
strong showings, the day belonged to senior Akis Medrano…again. Medrano won his third straight race finishing with a time of 24:31.86. That is just two seconds from his personal best in the 8K. On the women’s side of things junior Brooke Moore led the charge finishing sixth overall in the 5K with a time of 17:33.03. The race was her best time of the season and best since 2016. The team finished third out of 18 teams, behind Utah Valley and Saint Louis. Three Sycamores finished in the top-25 including Moore. She was joined by junior Alli Workman (21) and freshman Jocelyn Quiles (23) who both ran personal bests. Sophomore Michaela Ward finished 26 and fourth for ISU. Excellent performances by both the men and women come at the right time. The next meet
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for ISU is Pre-Nationals at Wisconsin on October 13. Indiana State continues to impress year in and year out. They appeared in the Great Lakes Regional Rankings for the fifth
straight week. The men currently sit at 11 in the rankings. The women moved up to number 13 in the Great Lakes Region. Last week the men were 10 and the women were 14.
This past Saturday, The Indiana State University Women’s Soccer team stayed home to compete against the Loyola University Ramblers. The Sycamores came into the matchup with a record of 6-4-2 after a 1-0 road loss against the University of Evansville Purple Aces. The Ramblers came into the matchup with a record of 4-5-1 and were coming off of a 4-2 win against the University of Northern Iowa Panthers. The Ramblers struck first blood when Jenna Szczesny scored from out the frame of the goal to put Loyola up 1-0. Junior Midfielder Kathryn Besserman’s shot attempt in the first 20 minutes would end up being the Sycamores’ only shot attempt in the first 20 minutes of the game. The Ramblers would score again when Madison Laudeman scored off a free kick after a sycamore foul for her first goal of the season. Jenna Szczesny would end up scoring again for the Ramblers in the 38th minute. This was Szczesny’s seventh goal of the season, which tied her with Sycamore senior forward Katie Wells for the Missouri Valley Conference lead in goals. Although she didn’t score a goal this game, Katie Wells’ shot on goal in the 56th minute gave her 52 shot on goals in her career and moved her into fourth alltime on ISU’s career list. Loyola’s Aleksa Tataryn finished the game off with her second goal of the season in the 69th minute, moving the game to a final score of 4-0. Junior goalkeeper Hannah Sullivan recorded four saves off of eight shot on goals. The Sycamores fell to 6-5-2 on the season, while the Ramblers moved up to 5-5-1. The Sycamores will need to shake this loss off because they will travel to Missouri State this Saturday to face off against the Bears. The game kicks off at 3 p.m. and it will be shown nationally on ESPN+.
ISU volleyball gives Bradley their seventh straight win David Cruz Reporter
This past weekend was a rough one for the Indiana State Volleyball team as they faced off against Bradley and Illinois State and lost both of their outings. Bradley is currently 13-2 and they are also 3-0 in their conference. Bradley in the midst of their best start in school history, and their win against ISU marks their seventh straight win. The Sycamores also fall in four against Illinois State, who are 12-4 in the 2018 season. In their first matchup against Bradley, it was Madeline Williams who led the Sycamores with 12 kills and Damadj Johnson also tallied seven blocks but Indiana State couldn’t cool off a red-hot Bradley. For Williams, it was just the second double-digit kill performance for the freshman. The freshman hitter posted a season-best .545 hitting percentage. Indiana State’s defense provided a challenge for the Bradley’s offense, as they registering 12 total blocks while two Sycamores, Laura Gross and Jade York, both went over the 20-dig mark, with Gross posting a career-high mark. For Bradley, freshman Hannah Thompson notched a season-best
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