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ROTC Detachment 218 cadets huddle for a group photo after their flight on the KC-135 (Photo submitted by Cody Stuttle).
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AARON ABEL Opinions editor Bodies tensed as 300,000 pounds of steel and jet fuel lurched into a cool, cloudy sky over northern Indiana last Friday morning. The 24 Indiana State University Air Force ROTC cadets lining the fuselage of the KC-135 refueling tanker had been looking forward to this day for weeks, and the sunlight streaming
through the four tiny windows as the plane ascended above the clouds exposed the excitement in their faces. “We all jumped right on the opportunity to go on this flight,” junior aviation management major David Matherly said. “We knew it’d be a once in a lifetime experience,” junior aviation technology Matt Culley said.
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Project expands rural business in Indiana Hannah Michaels Reporter The Rural-Urban Entrepreneurship Development Institute (RUEDI) was chosen as one of eight initiatives funded by Unbounded Possibilities (UP) to help grow business in rural Indiana. The institute was created with the purpose to combat an increase of the loss of jobs and population of rural communities in Indiana. “The challenges that our communities face do not necessarily conform to how we have organized ourselves in higher education and, hence, UP is designed to transcend those traditional lines through cooperative effort across departments and colleges,” Joshua Powers, interim associate vice president for student success, said. “The RUEDI has, among its key goals, to stimulate rural entrepreneurship through new business starts as well as entrepreneurship education in the schools.” According to the United States Department of Agriculture, 22 percent of Indiana’s population lives in rural areas, which covers 72 of 92 counties in Indiana. Between 2006 and 2012, it was found that 42 percent of rural Indiana students completed high school, and 14 percent completed college. The initiative hopes to fix these problems
by providing entrepreneur training and exposure to K-12 students in rural public schools in Indiana, creating a new Rural Entrepreneurship undergraduate major, improving information and support services to rural small businesses in Indiana and broadening the marker for locally produced agricultural products by forming regional producer-consumer cooperatives. The initiative is currently working with 49 public schools across rural Indiana. However, it has not worked with companies yet. A data center provides demographic and economic data for clients interested in those areas of information. The institute allows employment and exponential learning for Indiana State University students. Nine students, both undergraduate and graduate, are involved in the institute by designing questionnaires and analyzing the data, as well as logistics. The funding for the RUEDI was provided by grants from UP. For the first 18 months, the institute was given approximately $287,000. “Over time, we have to move away from university funding,” Steven Pontius, professor of geography and director of the RUEDI, said. “By 2017, we have to have 95 percent of our
budget our own and ISU will provide 5 percent. That is part of the goal of sustainability.” The institute will be generating revenue for ISU with external grants, providing client services, and contracts. Further, it is similar to work being done by several groups in other states, including Nebraska, Iowa and North Carolina, Pontius said. However, an aspect that the RUEDI is taking differently from other similar programs involves looking into regional producer and consumer cooperatives for food. “Over half of our students come from rural Indiana and I think we need to provide them a place to return home,” Pontius said. “A strong Indiana depends upon our urban areas and our rural areas being strong.”
“Over half of our students come from rural Indiana ... we need to provide them a place to return home.” Steven Pontius, professor of geography and director of the RUEDI
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Employees of Bay Geophysical discuss the seismic testing with ISU President Daniel J. Bradley and Jeffery Stone, assistant professor of earth and environmental systems (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing).
Searching for oil: Students learn from seismic work
February, ISU’s Board of Trustees approved an oil and gas lease with Pioneer Oil, which will allow the company to develop any oil and gas resources on the university’s property. But prior to drilling, the company needs to know where the reservoir is and how much oil may be there. Tests using seismic waves allow scientists to Jennifer Sicking ISU Communications and Marketing “see” what is underground. The On Tippecanoe Street, an unusual truck crept east. Vibroseis on the truck sends out eight pulses of eightEvery 55 feet, by a small numbered pink flag, it stopped, second seismic sweeps into the ground. The waves react to objects, including sand, rock type and more, and those lowered a disc to the ground and made the earth shake. Daniel J. Bradley, president of Indiana State University, reactions are recorded via computers. The data is compiled professors and students stood on the sidewalk, silenced by and analyzed to discover what lies beneath the streets, the truck’s rumbling engine and the generator powering houses and businesses of Terre Haute. “It’s not something we have around here very often as far the seismic equipment in the disc. The equipment sends out seismic waves sweeping down to 1,800 feet traveling as testing goes,” said Keaton Robertson, a junior geology through rocks, their formations and perhaps reservoirs of major from Brazil. Mark Wysong, permit agent with Bay Geophysical, oil that lie under the university and Terre Haute. “It’s very interesting and exciting for them to actually be which is conducting the testing, explained that the seismic able to see oil exploration in progress,” Bradley said. “Too equipment ran at a 12 to 120 seismic frequency while many people think meat comes from the grocery store and earthquakes register much lower at 3 to 12. “We’re at a higher frequency so we’re not doing any gas from a gas station. This gives people a chance to see damage,” he said. what goes into finding oil.” When the seismic waves pulsed underground, the earth In the late 1800s, oil wells dotted downtown Terre Haute and the land on which Indiana State University now sits. vibrated much as if a large truck rumbled past. “It was really cool to be able to come out and see exactly However, as the city grew, most wells were closed. In
what is happening,” said Nicole Terrell, a senior earth and environmental systems major from Bedford. “I know when people first heard about drilling oil on campus they were really iffy about it, but it’s good to come out and see what is happening.” That was part of the point, according to Jeffery Stone, assistant professor of earth and environmental systems. He brought his class in stratigraphy and sedimentation to watch the process of peering into the earth. “This is a way to look at what’s going on under your feet,” he said. “It’s one prime way of looking for reservoirs of oil or water or gas.” In labs, Stone said, students see the outcome of such tests. “It’s good for them to know where the data is coming from,” he said. “It’s a good experience to see how things operate. A lot of times all they see is the finished product, but now they get to see how it’s done and the raw data.”
“It’s very interesting and exciting for them to actually be able to see oil exploration in progress.” President Daniel J. Bradley
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 The students also attended a lecture by Ernie Hauser, an associate professor of earth and environmental sciences at Wright State University and a 1976 Indiana State graduate. Hauser said he long had a curiosity about the oil under the university. He recalled his advisor and other ISU faculty being called upon when construction crews discovered old wells, such as with the excavation for the foundation of Hulman Center. “They understood what was done in the 1800s and what problems they might encounter with old bore holes,” he said. Hauser lectured on rock formations and where oil and natural gas have traditionally been found in Indiana. He also spoke to the students about hydraulic fracturing or fracking. Bradley said that the university officials have been told that hydraulic fracturing - a controversial method of pumping chemicals down into the ground to further fracture rock and release oil - would not need to be used. Once the company interprets the
seismic data and identifies the structure of the potential reserve, then the drilling can begin. Steve Miller, chief financial officer of Pioneer, said that state laws and regulations prohibit any entity or person from capturing oil from any property where it does not have the legal rights to the mineral interest. If the reserve extends to land where the mineral rights are owned by others, such owners may be able to have their minerals developed and receive royalties, Miller said. Pioneer will pay the university a location fee and the university would receive royalty payments of not less than 15 percent for oil produced. All proceeds will be placed in a dedicated fund separate from university operation accounts and will need board approval before being spent. “The reservoirs are probably only tens of acres, not thousands of acres,” Bradley said about the oil potentially beneath ISU. “No one’s going to retire from this or move to Hollywood.”
Students and faculty watch as the Vibroseis on the truck sends out eight pulses of eightsecond seismic sweeps into the ground (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing).
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Get behind me Satan: Does that mean he’s got your back? Opinions News
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Within the Christian faith, Satan catches a lot of flak. He is depicted as a being of pure evil that draws us into sin and seeks to destroy all that is pure in the world. Christian churches unanimously agree that the devil is Devin seriously bad news, and that says something Barker because they can’t seem The to agree on anything Shoulders else. And since everyone people take the of Giants agrees, evil nature of Satan for granted. But how many of those people have actually thought through their beliefs, have examined other interpretations than the one they were given? My guess is very few from the look of things, Satan may actually be the good guy. In order to see the dynamic between Satan, humans, and God one need only to look in Genesis. In Genesis, Adam and Eve are placed in Eden and told not to eat from the tree of knowledge or else they will die. Adam and Eve have free will, so of course they are allowed to choose whether or not to listen to God. After a time, a serpent, depicted as an emissary of Satan, comes along and tells Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge (presumably because
“...maybe we got it all wrong. Maybe Satan is more like Prometheus than we think.” themselves. It sounds from this interpretation that God was lying to Adam and Eve and trying to control them; Satan, through the serpent, gave them knowledge and liberated them from being ignorant and manipulable. God told Adam and Eve that eating the fruit of knowledge of good and evil would kill them, but it didn’t, so technically that was a lie. Also, God, who is said to be omniscient, knew that Adam and Eve would eat the fruit of knowledge of good and evil He put it in Eden, and He did anyway. In legal terms, that is called entrapment. In addition God kicks Adam and Eve out of Eden because He
doesn’t want them to eat from the tree of life, lest they become gods equal to Him. That hardly sounds like the behavior of a good guy. Good guys don’t lie, try to keep people subjugated or punish them for improving themselves. Satan, on the other hand, told Eve the truth about the fruit; thereby enabling her to eat it and gain knowledge. In other words, Satan told us the truth and freed us from ignorance so that our free will could actually mean something. But somehow he ends up as the bad guy? Looking at this interpretation, maybe we got it all wrong. Maybe Satan is more like Prometheus than we think. But the point here is not whether Satan or God is the good guy, or even whether they exist or not. The point is that we need to look at other points of view and challenge what authority tells us, or else be trapped in our own ignorance. Like all other ideas, people should not be angered by the argument that Satan is a good guy. They should consider the facts and decide for themselves what to believe instead of blindly submitting to the assertions of authority, because like Adam and Eve, our knowledge may remove us from an ignorant paradise but it will also engender in us our own authority, the authority of a god.
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knowledge is sinfully delicious) and that she will not die. In Genesis 3:5 Eve and Adam both eat the fruit and become “as gods, knowing good and evil.” Adam and Eve’s disobedience enrages God, who then curses them and banishes them from Eden. It is also worth noting that in Genesis 3:22 the Bible says that God made Adam and Eve leave in order to prevent them from eating fruit from the tree of life and gain immortality, thus becoming gods
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Believe it. It’s not just your family, friends and acquaintances that are reading your social networking posts. Employers are increasingly using social networks as a way of screening both prospect applicants and current employees, a particular concern for college students who will soon be competing for jobs in an already stretched
economy. This practice may be unethical and/or a violation of privacy rights, but it is becoming a fact of today’s business practices and acumen. Social networking is extremely popular among the entire planetary population and all indications point to an increasing use in the future. But beware; what you post may help you or hurt you in regards to your career. A nation-wide survey commissioned by CareerBuilder and conducted by Harris Interactive in February and March of this year, found that among more than 2,000 hiring managers and human resource
employees, 37 percent researched potential job candidates by reading the posts on their social networking sites. Another 11 percent of those surveyed stated that they planned to start using this tool in the near future. Only 15 percent of companies explicitly prohibited using this method to screen applicants. What are prospective employers concerned with? According to the Harris study, 65 percent of respondents used social network research to see if the applicant presented a professional persona and demeanor...
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 ...and 50 percent admitted to using such methods to determine if the candidate would be a good fit within the culture of the company. Only 45 percent used the sites to learn more about a candidate’s qualifications for the position. Twelve percent were specifically looking for reasons not to hire the interviewee. And a full 34 percent claimed to have not hired a candidate over something they had read on the applicant’s social networking site. Prospective employers frequently reject applicants who have posts, (from themselves or others), containing provocative photographs, profanity or sexually explicit language and references to
alcohol and drug use. Speaking badly about former employers or lying about qualifications are two more common reasons for rejecting a candidate. Poor grammar and writing skills were also listed as top reasons to reject hopefuls. Employers who research possible hires through social networks pay attention not only to what you post but also to what posts you receive from others. But don’t run out and delete your Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn account. Like credit reports, not having a social network site is worse than having a slightly questionable one. Since almost 98 percent of young people between the ages of 18 and 24 admit
to having at least one social network site, not having one will appear suspicious. So, again like credit, don’t give it up, clean it up. Your social network can be a positive addition to your résumé, provided none of the formerly mentioned blunders are in evidence. For example; membership in professional organizations is looked upon favorably, as is donating to charities and non-profit organizations. Surprisingly, religious and political posts are not factors in the hiring process. So enjoy your social networking but make sure your site is working for you, not against you.
Isn’t logic just another form of faith? Imagine that you are sitting in an airport waiting for your flight to board. You see that there are many people speed walking to make their various flights and you can see your airplane up in the distance Andrew pulling through the window. Jones You can feel the comfy Beneath leather of your chair and the annoying vibrations the from the person Surface beside you pounding their fingers into their keyboard. You can smell an over-priced fast food cheeseburger, and you can hear Cartoon by Emily Qualls. the tapping of the high heels and dress shoes worn airport. If someone walked up to you in the dream by businessmen and women as they pass by. You and told you that you were dreaming, you wouldn’t are undoubtedly in an airport, right? But all of the have believed them. A floating, talking zebra could sudden you hear a ringing echoing across the whole have magically entered through the roof and told airport. The noise is extremely loud but no one else you that you were dreaming and you still would be seems to notice it. You become very confused when convinced that you were not in the “dream world.” suddenly you open your eyes in your own bed beside When you were a child and you had a nightmare a ringing alarm clock. about bugs in your bed or monsters or any other You go from an airport to your bed in an instant, scary dreams, what did you do when you woke up? If usually forgetting that you were even in an airport you were anything like me, you probably screamed, and get up and go through your morning routine. jumped a mile in the air out of your bed and sprinted Using this example, I feel I can affirm the fact that our to your parents and told them what was going on. brains are not always correct. By “logic” and “rational And, if you were anything like me, your parents thinking” you would have sworn before waking up most likely said that it was a nightmare and that you from that dream that you were undoubtedly in an should go back to bed. I know that I had repeated
nightmares about “killer bugs” in my bed when I was a child and when my parents told me that it wasn’t true, I told them that I wasn’t lying and that I would take them into my room and show them. I took them into my room to show them the bugs that I knew were undoubtedly there but when they flipped the lights on, they were all gone. In saying this, how can we be sure about anything? Sure, as human beings we naturally look for patterns in everything and try to “figure out” the people around us and our environment. The problem with this is that a lot of times we are completely wrong. We may stereotype all college students as huge partiers or all elderly people as unable to use technology, but many people do not fit these stereotypes. My grandma can easily work a computer and even uses Facebook. Lastly, we may use terms like “logic” or “rational thinking” in providing answers for unanswerable questions, but in reality these terms are just glorified forms of justifying faith. Someone who claims to be an atheist will say that nothing happens after death because “logically” we cannot see this or witness it with our five senses. People who support this idea have faith that nothing will happen when they die. My only disagreement with this is that logic is only based on patterns from experience. But how can a fish in a pond know that an ocean exists?
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Upcoming Events Friday Love and Fame: Works by Indiana and Warhol University Art Gallery 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Faculty Chamber Recital Recital Hall 10:30 a.m. Music Now Recital Recital Hall 1:30 p.m. Student Large Ensembles Concert Tilson Music Hall 7:30 p.m. Saturday Raaga: A Fusion of Life Dede I, II, III 6 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Sunday Miss ISU Scholarship Pageant University Hall Theatre 3:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
The Magnificent Seven sit in the vice president’s office in 1969, the day of the campus sit-in that demanded recognition of black campus groups, black history courses and racial equality (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing).
Day’Jonnae Riggens Reporter A thunderous applause for the men and women who paved the way for the African and African American Studies Program rings throughout the University Hall Theater. As the floor opens up for questions to the members of the Magnificent Seven, who sit center stage, a young man toward the back of the crowd is restless in his seat as he debates whether or not he should rise. He finally stands his voice trembling as he builds up the courage to speak his mind. Garien Woods is an African and African American Studies major from Gary Indiana. He speaks about his struggle to choose a major that reflected what he was passionate about, His story began with him being academically dismissed from Indiana State University and coming back and making the Dean’s List; he began to explain why he is so indebted to the Magnificent Seven for allowing him to finally find his niche. “I’ve always had a passion for African and African Americans, but I never knew it existed [when I came to Indiana State University],” Woods said. “I became just another student, because the things I wanted to learn about were not being offered.” His declared major jumped from music business to secondary education to history, though he wanted something more specific within the department. “I felt somewhat out of place,” he said. “With world history and U.S. history I felt the movement of African Americans was given to us in a narrow description. I knew I wanted to know more about African American history.” It would not be until he would go to the annual Black Leadership Conference and met Terry Clark, an ISU history instructor, who
would tell him about the African American Studies Program. “I knew I was home, I had found my place,” he said. Standing in the theater, he would thank those that put the Charles E. Brown African American Cultural Center and African and African American studies program in its rightful place with much gratitude and appreciation. “[You all] have influenced me in a multitude of ways. [You] knew things were not right, and our history was not being taught, and [you] took those chances and made it challenge to get those things were needed [at ISU],” he said. He acknowledged the drive the African American pioneers on the stage had was the same drive he had to have to get back in school. “I’ve written letters to the president and to the dean and work my way back into the doors of ISU. I had to, in a sense, master the system, which I feel [you all] did. So, thank you,” Woods said. ISU alumni, faculty, staff and students would agree with Woods humble act of gratitude to the Magnificent Seven. The Magnificent Seven wrote the list of demands that would put in place the cultural center for African Americans to interact and learn about one another’s culture in a mutual place on campus and implemented the African and African Studies Program that would allow students like Woods to find their true passion. On Sunday, many alumni and students came to hear first hand the story of the Magnificent Seven and the events that happened at ISU 40 years ago.
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CONTINUED from PAGE 8 “The events that happened [here at ISU], we’ve heard about them, but it kind of brought it home, it made it real coming from the participants,” alumnus of 1992 Darrell Morton, Jr. said. The event brought students and alumni closer together as they shared and listened to the stories and the process the Magnificent Seven and other
Students who gathered for the protest in front of Gillum Hall (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing).
student activists in the mid-’60s and early ‘70s did to ensure all students equal opportunities on campus. “It links the students from yesterday and hopefully the students [that were] in the audience will understand these stories and understand the struggles and don’t take the education they are getting for granted, because people have actually stood up to principle for the education that they have now,” Morton Jr. said. In most cases when many African Americans were not allowed to go to the same school as whites, ISU would open their doors for them. However, there were many issues that had to resolved. “You only have so many years to make an impact,” former prime minister of the Black Student Union and co-author of the list of demands that were made, Sam Dixon said. “For us we had to make an impact. We were willing to sacrifice us… to have a quality of life that is granted to all citizens.” Many faculty were encouraging current students to go out and take charge like the Magnificent Seven did. “If you see a need on campus like they did I would hope that it would make [students] would go out and make their own demands like they did,” Lisa Phillips, assistant professor of history said. Most were in awe of the fascinating events and stories that are a part of ISU, as the event that was set from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. extended another half hour. “You know the event was a success if it goes over the time allotted and no one complains,” Christopher Olsen, professor and Chair of the History Department said. Following the panel discussion and reception, attendees mingled and networked with the African American pioneers of ISU. “I thought it was awesome. I actually felt like I was learning about my beginnings here at Indiana State,” James Reed , a junior communications major, said.
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CONTINUED from PAGE 1 The cadets chatted and jested with one another, taking pictures of the plane’s interior as the tanker headed south and climbed to 28,000 feet on its way to meet with a B-52 bomber on a practice refueling mission out of Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. At the brunt of these jests was cadet Jacob Abernathy, a freshman majoring in technology who found himself apprehensive amid his first flight. “I wasn’t nervous about it until all the cadets starting psyching me out,” Abernathy said. “It’ll be quite a story to tell for a first flight.” As the plane leveled off and Abernathy’s apprehensions waned, the cadets were allowed to rotate spots in the cockpit’s jump seat behind the pilots, as well as the pod in the tail of the plane where the boom operator controls the tanker’s refueling arm. An hour into the flight the jokes and laughter quieted as the flight’s boom operator walked to the back of the plane to prepare for the flight’s primary mission: refueling practice. “There were two prongs of training on this mission,” ROTC commander Lt. Colonel Mark Adkins said. “The training for the B-52 student pilots and the training for the KC-135 boom operator and pilots.” With the crew settled and the refueling process underway, the cadets were once again allowed to visit the boom pod in order to see the refueling process first-hand and appeared eager to watch the 185-foot wingspan of the B-52 Stratofortress soar up to attach itself with the KC-135’s trailing arm. Cadets returning from the boom pod shuffled back to their netted seats with wide eyes and even wider grins, mouthing, “That was awesome” beneath the loud drone of engines as they pulled out phones and cameras to share their pictures and videos with neighboring cadets. Cadets were in unanimous agreement with freshman political science major Steve Middleton when he said, “Watching our tanker hook up with the B-52 was
my favorite part of the day.” Nearly two hours into the flight, the pilots turned back north over New Orleans, giving cadets a view of the receding coastline behind the still trailing bomber. As excitement ebbed, lunches were eaten and the aircraft’s heat combined with a constant engine drone to produce a lethargic effect on the cadets, many of whom found themselves waking up at the sound of a lowering landing gear. The pilots—both ISU graduates—on the other hand, were still very alert and talkative. Pilot in command, Captain Tim McBee and co-pilot, Major Brad Thompson thoroughly enjoy giving ROTC students an opportunity such as this. “It’s great because it gives them a chance to see what the reserves are like through their everyday basic operations,” McBee said. “It also shows them the diversity of the military and the possibilities we have to offer.” While cruising at 28,000 feet and at a speed of 270 knots (310 mph), McBee said he loves his job and credits his experience at ISU to getting him in the pilot seat. “If I wouldn’t have been to ISU and had the experience I had there I probably wouldn’t have this job,” McBee said. “My advice to students is to keep working hard, but at the same time enjoy your college experience because it only gets harder in the real world.” The cadets exchanged handshakes and thanks with the crew as they filed off the plane, Abernathy was glad to be back on solid ground. Technical Sergeant Kesha Alvis was enthusiastic about the insight afforded to the cadets through this experience. “It gives them an outlook on how it takes everybody’s part to complete a mission,” Alvis said. “Everybody’s role is vital.” “I’ve been in 16 years and I’ve never experienced anything like this,” Alvis said. “I would have stayed in the boom pit the whole flight if they would have let me.”
“I wasn’t nervous about it until the cadets started psyching me out. It’ll be quite a story to tell for the first flight.” Jacob Abernathy, freshman technology major
Top: Barksdale Air Force Base’s B-52 prepares to dock with the KC-135 refueling boom Bottom: Pilots Captain Tim McBee and Major Brad Thompson have an in-flight chat in the KC-135 cock pit (Photos by Aaron Abel).
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Zombie Apocalypse planned for Halloween
Students in Dr. Anderson’s Introduction to Public Relations class aim to get Indiana State’s students ready for natural disasters through staging a zombie apocalypse at Recreation East, located at North Ninth Street between Spruce and Sycamore streets. The event will begin at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 31. Registration is required to attend the event Local colleges such as Ball State University, Indiana Wesleyan University, Indiana University South Bend, IU Bloomington and IU East have all held successful Humans vs. Zombies events in the past. The group putting on Humans vs. Zombies here at ISU hopes that their event will be equally as successful. The game starts out with one person being a “zombie.” When the zombie tags a human player, that person becomes infected and turns into a zombie, too. During the game, the human players “kill” the zombies by hitting them with foam balls. This continues until all the players are zombies, or until the humans evade the zombies long enough for them to starve. Students are allowed to wear costumes to the event, and are also permitted to bring their own foam dart guns. However, the guns will need to be approved by one of the game monitors when students check in on the night of the event. For information on registration and the event, please visit the official Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/groups/ISUZombies/ and follow us on Twitter at @ISUZombie Watch.
Students at Goucher College, where Humans vs. Zombies originated, play the game (Photo courtesy of Maxistentialist on Wikimedia Commons).
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Upcoming Events Women’s Volleyball Friday at Normal, Ill. vs. Illinois State at 8 p.m.
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ISU Athletics raise money with 2nd annual talent show Thomas Beeler Sports Editor
Sunday evening all of Indiana State’s athletic teams came together to aid Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and show-off some unseen abilities in the second annual athletic talent show. “Hollywood in the Haute” allowed the teams to reenact some of their favorite scenes from chick flick, sports, musical, comedy, horror and Disney movies with all the proceeds earned going the ISU’s Habitat Humanity House, which received more than $650 in donations. “It was a fun experience. I really liked it,” Sophomore Andrea Frankiewicz, graphic design major and member of the women’s golf team, said. Winning the competition for the second year in a row was the men’s track and field while the women’s golf team won for the first time. “We were friends with the track boys before so we came together as a group,” Frankiewicz said. “We both came up with different stuff, the golf girls came up with the music and the track boys came up with how we we’re going to put it all together.” Each sport’s team were paired with another and given a genre of film to perform. Each pairing would practice outside of their athletic workouts to put into these performances. Frankiewicz said coming up with the acts throughout their performance was difficult because the big personal in the group. When they came together for practice, things would be a little disorganized. They appointed captains to lead them to victory. Seniors Christina Beyerl, women’s golf, and
Members of the women’s golf and men’s track and field teams celebrating their win at the 2nd annual “America’s Got Talent “ athletic talent show (Photo courtesy of ISU Athletic Media Relations).
Bobby Web, men’s track and field, guided the direction of the team’s practices. To the start the night ISU’s volleyball and men’s basketball teams paid tribute to Michael Jackson by performing his infamous thriller dance on stage. Next, the women’s track and field/cross country and ISU’s cheer team showed off their dance skills and singing abilities by recreating some classic musicals like “Grease” and “Annie” adding their own Indiana State spirit. Football and softball started things out with a twist with some players dancing to Lil Jon’s “Get Low” while being critiqued by mock judges. Then, they jumped into the Disney realm with a dance number to Lion King’s “Hakuna Matata” and High School Musical’s “Break Free.” They concluded their act with a full group dance to “Crank Da Lion King.” Reimagining some sports movies from the past were the men’s track and field/ cross country team and women’s golf team. The act began with senior runner Brain
“It was fun to come through like that and see our hard work payoff with a little trophy with track and golf on it.” Jordan Colanese, physical education major
Martin playing “I Believe I Can Fly” on the piano as sophomore Israel Mercado sung the lyrics. The two teams would go on performing scenes from “Dodge Ball” and finished with the chant from “Remember the Titans” with an Indiana State spin. The baseball and dance team brought back some funny moment from some unforgettable comedies. Starting with some of the baseball players singing jiggle bell rock in the skirts and tank tops to reenacting the prayer scene from “Talladega Nights,” these two teams were all over the place. To finish out the night were the soccer team and women’s basketball team focusing on chick flicks. Performing scene from “Bridesmaids” to “Bring it On.” “Winning was awesome and it felt good,” Frankiewicz said. “I’m excited to participate next year.” Junior physical education major and track and field member Jordan Colanese said being apart of this experience was fun and a great way to meet new people. “The coaches expect us to win it for some reason,” Colanese said. “It’s was fun to come through like that and see our hard work pay-off with a little trophy with track and golf on it.”
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ISU Cross Country gearing up for MVC championship
Craig Padgett Reporter The Indiana State men’s and women’s cross country teams will head into action at this weekend’s Missouri Valley Conference Championships hosted by Illinois State University. The men’s team will be chasing their fourth consecutive championship title.
Top: Freshman Gabe Ocasio running the course. Bottom: Senior Leeann Michl trying to increase her standing in the Indiana Intercollegiate (Photos by Richelle Kimble).
“The team that takes it Saturday is going to be the team that adapts best to the race conditions and the tempo of the race as it goes.” John McNichols, head men’s cross country coach
Men’s Cross Country Despite being three-time defending conference champions in the Missouri Valley, the Sycamores are usually the underdogs. That all changed earlier this week when ISU was voted first in the pre-championship poll with seven first place votes and Southern Illinois University was voted to finish second. “I’d rather have it the other way around and have us as the underdogs,” John McNichols, ISU men’s head coach said. “The polls are great for speculation, but when it comes down to the racing, they really don’t mean very much. I personally don’t like them, but I am still very glad that they do them because the press releases are great for hyping up the meet.” In the past, the championship was a dual between the Sycamores and the Salukis. McNichols said despite the surgeance of young teams in the league it will probably be Indiana State and Southern Illinois fighting for the title. The Sycamores will be led by freshman and school record-holder John Mascari, who comes into the meet ranked first on the performance list. He is joined by seniors Albaro Escalera and Dustin Betz, who are ranked second and fourth. Southern Illinois senior Zach Dahleen is ranked
third. “There are going to be some great individuals, as well as the Southern Illinois runners that will mix it up on Saturday,” McNichols said. “In the past it has come down as little as one point. I think we could be in for that again this weekend.” If the race comes down to just a few points, then it will be on the shoulders of a the underclassman to carry the team to victory. Sophomore Tristan Selby, freshmen Taylor Head and Gabe Ocasio will be the most likely to fill those important spots that needed if the Sycamores are to emerge victorious on Saturday. “The team that takes it Saturday is going to be the team that adapts best to the race conditions and the tempo of the race as it goes,” McNichols said. “This is my 30th conference championship race and in all those years I know you can’t predict the Missouri Valley. It will come down to who wants it most on race day. I know Southern is very motivated, as well as the Drake guys, Wichita guys and Illinois State in front of their home crowd.” Women’s Cross Country “We were picked fifth by the coaches of the Missouri Valley and objectively that’s probably a good pick,” John Gartland, ISU women’s head coach said. “We ran very well the first couple of meets, and maybe not as well the past few weeks with the tough competition at Notre Dame and Pre-Nationals. So we’re a team that’s sort of hard to figure out right now. I think we have a very strong front runner in senior Jessica Zangmeister,
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Sycamores try to make the history books again Jared McCormmick Reporter
The Indiana State Sycamores are scheduled to take the field this Saturday at Memorial Stadium against the University of South Dakota Coyotes. The Sycamores are coming off of a road victory against Western Illinois University. This will be the first meeting between the two teams. The Sycamores are looking to establish their first five game winning streak in the Missouri Valley Football Conference in team history. The Sycamores are 4–1 in the MVFC. The Coyotes are 0–4 in the MVFC and are 1–6 overall this season. The Sycamores are ranked 15th on The Sports Network poll and 18th by the Football Championship Subdivision Coaches poll. The number 15 ranking is the highest ranking that the Sycamores have held since joining the MVFC and also is the highest ranking under ISU head coach Trent Miles. On offense, junior tailback Shakir Bell leads the Sycamores. Bell has already surpassed the 1,000 yard mark in this season. The Sycamores have continued to build a foundation on defensive success. Senior linebacker Aaron Archie has been awarded defensive player of the week for the Missouri Valley for two consecutive weeks leads the MVFC in tackles per game and has posted double digit tackles in each of the last eight games. With Archie’s award, it would add another Sycamore to the list after senior
defensive back Johnny Towalid’s showing at North Dakota State University. The Sycamores all-around will look to continue to grow in their successes on and off the field. Senior linebacker Michael Mardis has been awarded one of the scholar-athlete awards from the university. The Sycamores are looking to establish their first five game winning streak in the Valley in team history. The Sycamores have also, already, posted the numbers for a winning season for the third consecutive season in a row. This victory would mark the 20th win for Coach Miles for his career at Indiana State. This is the Coyotes’ first full season competing in the MVFC. The Coyotes’ only victory of the season came in week two against Colgate. The Coyotes have typically, except for a 54–0 been shutout by North Dakota State University, kept themselves in each of their contests so far this season, but have just fallen short at the end. This seems to be a season of firsts for the Coyotes because along with this being their first season in the Valley; it is also the first season for veteran head coach Joe Glenn with the Coyotes. The Sycamores will look to continue their rise to success in the MVFC, as well as the nation. This game is scheduled to begin at 2:05 p.m. and will be televised on ESPN 3.
Sophomore punter Tanner Fritschie punting the ball down the field (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing).
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Sophomore Tyler Head making some final stride to the finish line (Photo by Richelle Kimble).
she’s hoping to be all-conference. Nicole Lucas has had a very solid season as our number two runner, Kalli Dalton and Hanna Mercer at three and four. We thought they would have a better seasons than last year, based off of their steeple performances this past spring. They have come up to my expectations, but the problem has laid in our number five.” The Sycamores will be getting the assistance of seniors Leeann Michl and Kylee Thacker to help the team find that fifth runner. “Kylee Thacker has been injured, although she has been cleared to run this meet, so she is going to give it one shot. Then, of course, we have used our outstanding long sprinter Leeann Michl and she’ll run again. I think those two back in there will make that big difference that we didn’t have at the
pre-nationals,” Gartland said. Gartland said, for the season, the Sycamores competed against 200-300 runners but at the conference meet the field is much smaller and may work to ISU’s advantage. “There will be eighty bodies on the starting line, which will be quite different than the past few meets. This will be big for the girls, especially Leeann, as we have very specific goals for her and each one of our runners on where they need to place. I think she’ll know where she’s at in the race better and so will Hanna and Kalli, who sort of got lost in shuffle at pre-nationals,” Gartland said. The pre-championship poll projected that the Sycamores will finish fifth, but that is not the goal going into this championship, Gartland said despite the talent of opposing teams the team
has the potential to beat them. I’m never really happy unless we’re top three,” Gartland said. “Unfortunately we haven’t been in to top three since 2003, when we had the individual champion in Jessica Crowder. We have been fourth through sixth since then, but I don’t think fifth would be victory for us. I think we would have to be top three for me to walk away happy.” The stage has been set and now the Sycamores will head to Normal, Ill. in search of their fourth straight championship. The MVC record is five straight by Wichita State from 19711975. The women’s race begins at 10:30 a.m. (CT) and the men’s at 11:30 a.m. (CT)
Senior Hanna Mercer pareparing to finish her portion of the race (Photo by Richelle Kimble).