September 14, 2015

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ISU updates conflict of interest policy Kristi Sanders News Editor

Conflict of Interest Policy 912 was adopted by the Board of Trustees on June 11, but contained two clerical errors.

At the Aug. 27 meeting, the Board of Trustees approved the new version of this policy.

In the agenda for the Board meeting it stated the two clerical errors as, “Specifically, the two sentences in Section 912.3.3 ...

Section 912.3.4 Duty to Modify should contain the notification requirement to the dean, associ-

ate vice president or vice president, the notification to the Office of Human Resources, and the development of guidelines for each division.”

Bridget Butwin, the general counsel of Indiana State University, explains why the policy was updated in June.

“We merged multiple policies for both personal and financial conflict of interest,” Butwin said.

“They needed clarification.”

Financial conflict of interest is governed by state law so ISU focused on personal or family conflict of interest, Butwin said.

“We want to be clear on what

Second arrest made in shooting incident

disclosure is,” Butwin said. “We needed a clear process to go through if there was a conflict of interest.”

Examples of these conflicts could be if a spouse is a boss or if a student is taking a parent’s class.

“If a situation of (conflict) happens we must have a way to modify the arrangement to make sure everything is fair,” Butwin said.

One update was in personal conflict.

“This includes personal and sexual relationships,” Butwin said. “It wasn’t clear before and

we wanted to clarify what everyone needed to do so evaluation and supervision is fair.”

Before the updates, nepotism was a hard policy to find and wasn’t directly associated with the conflict of interest policy, Butwin said. “(Nepotism) was buried and we wanted it moved to the forefront with the conflict of interest policy,” Butwin said.

Butwin said to make sure this was completed, the faculty senate and other groups on campus were contacted. The new policy was then taken to the Board of Trustees meeting in June.

In the August meeting clerical errors were fixed and approved by the Board.

In the meeting agenda it states, “Indiana law requires public servants to disclose any financial conflicts of interest connected to contracts and purchases of the governmental entity which they serve. In compliance with this law, Indiana State asks all members of the Board of Trustees along with the president and vice presidents of the university to submit a conflict of interest disclosure statement on an annual basis and/or when these conflicts occur.”

Bid Day 2015

Kristi Sanders News Editor

Indiana State University student Deonta Moore, 19, has been arrested in connection with the Aug. 23rd shooting incident at Fifth and Elm Streets.

Moore was behind the wheel of a vehicle found on campus on Thursday, Sept. 10, that was identified by officers as possibly being involved in the incident on Aug. 23.

Upon investigation, a Glock handgun was found in the car and Moore was arrested. The investigation continued through the night by ISU Police. After conferring with the Vigo County Prosecutors Office, Moore was additionally charged with criminal confinement with a vehicle and possession of a schedule three controlled substance, both felonies.

Moore made an appearance in Vigo County Court on Friday and bond was set at $25,000, no 10 percent allowed.

Moore is the second person arrested for the incident. Earlier this month, former student Alec Boose, 19, was arrested by Terre Haute Police Department after ISU officers obtained an arrest warrant for Boose.

There were no injuries in the shooting incident.

“The investigation continues and more arrests are likely,” said Joseph Newport, ISU chief of police.

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After a long week of sorority recruitment at Indiana State, the sisters of Chi Omega rushed toward their new recruits as part of the Bid Day festivities on Sunday.

Sycamores hammered at the hands of the Boilermakers Rob Lafary Sports Editor

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.- By no means was Indiana State football the favorite on Saturday afternoon heading into its matchup with Purdue, but there were certainly several who felt as if the Sycamores had a chance to knock off an in-state rival and Big Ten team.

Led by three big plays downfield, Purdue capitalized on opportunities and held on to its early momentum to the tune of a 38-14 victory at Ross-Ade Stadium.

The game marks the final contest between the two Indiana teams, leaving ISU head coach Mike Sanford and his group with a sour taste in their mouths as they made the trek back to Terre Haute.

“It’s very simple ... we did not play well

enough to win that game,” Coach Sanford said following the loss. “We didn’t play like anything that our expectation is. Our plan to play to get a win is to play good defense but today we gave up too many big plays. Our offense was too inconsistent, especially early in the game. Our special teams wasn’t good enough.

I think it’s pretty simple.

They (Purdue) beat us in all three areas.”

Perhaps more than Indiana State, Purdue had something to prove on Saturday after watching a lead go by the wayside a week ago in a 41-31 loss to Marshall and it showed on the first series of the game.

After an early run for a first down by the Boilers’ D.J. Knox, quarterback Aus-

tin Appleby completed a 57 yard bomb to Cameron Posey that resulted in a touchdown and gave the Boilermakers a 7-0 lead with 13:25 on the clock.

The home team then followed up with another big pass play, this one a 50 yard pass to DeAngelo Yancey for a score that made it 14-0 after one quarter.

Spending much of that first quarter scrambling around, Indiana State’s offense finally put together a consistent series early in the second quarter and cut the deficit in half with 9:34 on the clock when Matt Adam found Gary Owens wide open in the end zone from 17 yards out to make it 14-7 following the extra point. But unfortunately that’s where ISU

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momentum stopped and the Boilermakers again controlled the game.

Following the ISU touchdown, Paul Griggs’s 19 yard field goal pushed the lead back out to 17-7 with 2:40 to play in the first half but Purdue would not be denied another chance to score again. With no time on the clock, Appleby hurled a 51 yard hail mary downfield that was caught in the back of the end zone by Dan Monteroso. The Boilers led 24-7 at halftime.

“That was a heartbreaker,” Sanford said of the hail mary pass that ultimately put the game out of reach. “I don’t think it had anything to do with effort, I think it had to do with Purdue’s guy (Monteroso) making a great play on the ball. We gotta get better pass rush in that situation.”

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US to drop spy charges against professor Tricia L. Nadolny

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PHILADELPHIA—Federal prosecutors are seeking to dismiss their case against a Temple University professor accused of selling sensitive U.S. defense technology to entities in China.

Xiaoxing Xi has remained a faculty member at the university but stepped down as chairman of the school’s physics department since being charged in May with four counts of wire fraud.

In a motion to dismiss, filed late Friday, prosecutors said that since they filed the charges, “additional information came to the attention of the government” that warranted the case being dropped.

A spokeswoman with the U.S. Attorney’s Office declined to comment.

Xi’s attorney, Peter Zeidenberg, said the government decided to drop its case after a meeting last month in which he argued that the emails the case hinged on were “just routine academic collaborations” between Xi and Chinese contacts.

He said Xi is not cooperating with prosecutors on any other investigations as a condition of the case’s being dismissed.

“It was our contention all along that these emails were innocent and did not reflect the transfer of any restricted information or information that was covered by a nondisclosure agreement,” Zeidenberg said. “I think the government simply misunderstood what was being discussed in these communications.”

Xi’s daughter, Joyce, when reached at the family’s Penn Valley home, said her father was not available.

“We’re relieved that the indictment again my father has been dismissed,” she said.

A judge has yet to rule on the motion.

Xi, regarded as a leader in superconductor research, had pleaded not guilty and posted $100,000 bail after his May arrest. In their indictment, prosecutors accused him of plotting to exploit technology he purchased from a U.S. company for the benefit of Chinese entities, including its government.

Prosecutors said that in 2002, Xi worked at a U.S. company that invented a device that revolutionized his field. A year later, he purchased the device for one year to continue his testing. But prosecutors said he violated the agreement to not reproduce, sell, transfer, or attempt to reverse-engineer it.

They cited several emails Xi sent in 2010 to Chinese contacts. Xi, authorities said, offered to build a world-class thin-film laboratory in China.

“We’re very pleased that with this matter behind him, Professor Xi can once again turn his full attention to conducting his research,” Betzner said. ©2015 The Philadelphia Inquirer Distributed by the Tribune Content Agency

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A new physical therapy lab will replace two of the racquetball courts, giving students a place to practice as they pursue a doctor of physical therapy degree.

Construction claims space in ISU’s Rec Center Emily Jordan Reporter

A new physical therapy lab is currently being constructed in the arena in place of two of the racquetball courts.

The doctor of physical therapy program at Indiana State University was recently advanced to candidacy, which means that a class of as many as 90 will be able to fulfill their collegiate goals in the therapeutic field.

Lab space was needed for this new program to advance further, and the ISU administration agreed to give them the area needed.

Howell Tapley, director of ISU’s physical therapy program, commented about the benefit of the lab for stu-

dents.

“The lab will demonstrate to CAPTE, the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education,” Tapley said. “The institution’s commitment to providing a high quality doctor of physical therapy education for Indiana residents.”

Construction for the new lab began over the summer and will be finished within the next week or two.

The lab is being built in the arena in place of two of the racquetball courts.

Lab space on ISU’s campus is limited and the administration of ISU granted them this space.

Planning is still underway so the total cost is still undetermined.

Students and faculty have not been affected by this construction so far due to the construction being limited to

the enclosed areas of the courts.

Kara Ooms, a senior recreation therapy major, said the construction didn’t really bother her.

“As long as there are other courts available I don’t see how it would be a problem” Ooms said. “Especially if they expand to replace the lost courts.”

Other students had the same thought of making new courts.

Kherrion Windburn, a freshman psychology major, understood the need to expand the physical therapy labs but wondered how this would affect students who were using these racquetball courts.

“I don’t think (taking away two courts) is fair to the students using them,” Windburn said. “I think they should create a separate set of courts in a different area of the arena.”

New MySAM updates help students plan ahead Kristi Sanders News Editor

A MySAM update took place from Sept. 8 to 9 for all Indiana State University students.

The update includes new features for both students and advisers. The difference is in the degree plans, which now will have a couple new views.

These views are for students’ four year plans to graduate on time.

Before the update MySAM had the calendar, which had a read-only view of the student degree map and edit views, where only advisers can edit.

The two new views are audit and note.

Audit shows a student’s degree map and an audit of their progress on the same screen. Note shows all notes left by adviser for classes of the semester.

In the note view it will also show information on the 15 to Finish program and information on financial aid.

Cory Burger, the degree mapping coordinator, commented on the changes of MySAM. “The company (Degree works) took away the views and got a lot of complaints,” Burger said. “For this reason, they brought it back.”

The new views provide a more visual view of courses taken and those that

need to be taken, Burger said.

Rachel Johnson, a freshman elementary education major, said she loves how MySAM is set up.

“I really like the fact you can get notes from your adviser,” Johnson said. “This makes communication easier between you and the adviser.”

Jacob Durcholz, a freshman business major, also said he likes the new updates when looking at his MySAM. “In one of my classes a lady explained how the MySAM worked,” Durcholz said. “I especially like the notes though.

It’s hard to remember everything your adviser says. This makes a quick way to look back and remember the conversa-

tion.”

The changes to MySAM can help students plan out their careers at ISU. “These new updates show students what they need to do to graduate quickly,” Burger said. “It also makes advisers’ jobs easier to help students achieve this goal: graduation.”

“MySAM is very easy to use and understand,” Durcholz said. “This was a great idea and very helpful to all students using this program.”

If students would like some training or assistance on how to use the new views in MySAM, they can contact Burger at cory.burger@indstate.edu.

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Program encourages sustainable practices

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Amanda Knerr, executive director of Residential Life, and Jim Speer, a geology professor, pose with fall 2015 eco-representatives on steps of the Institute for Community Sustainability.

Students in the Eco-Reps program pledge to be more eco-friendly Kristen Kilker

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A group of environmentally conscious Sycamores moved onto campus a week early to be trained in sustainability and cultivated as an educational force.

The Eco-Reps program at Indiana State University is a new peer-to-peer initiative designed to increase sustainability awareness by coordinating events for their residence halls. The result, organizers say, is fellow Sycamores getting excited about easy, everyday sustainability practices.

Versions of the program boast a record of success on other campuses, including Pennsylvania State University, where Amanda Knerr, executive director of Residential Life at Indiana State, had personal experience with the initiative and its benefits before suggesting a reboot of the program here.

She teamed up with the university’s Institute for Community Sustainability, which attempted a similar program in 2012 but had difficulty getting established.

“It was something we’ve been interested in for a while, but not really able to do,” said Caroline Savage, program director of the Institute for Community Sustainability. “When Amanda and Residential Life came in and were interested in making it happen, we were really able to make something new. To have someone who is the director of Res Life, who has that strong a commitment to sustainability, that is amazing.”

Freshman communication major Cierra Venable wanted to kick-start her college experience by exploring different hobbies and becoming more involved. She noticed the call for Eco-Reps while signing up for housing and was immediately interested.

It also helped that freshman fine arts major Brianna Hines, who Venable grew up with, also joined Eco-Reps.

“When I think of ‘eco’,” Venable said, “I think of eco-friendly, green life, giving back to the community. In high school, all I ever did was dance, so I never had time to do anything else. I really just gravitated toward filling out (the application), because it seemed like a great leadership opportunity.”

While most Sycamores were enjoying their final week of summer, the Eco-Reps received intensive sustainability training from Knerr, Savage and Jim Speer, executive director of the institute. They also toured the recycling center, the community garden and other initiatives on campus.

For completing their training, the students were rewarded with a sustainable dinner of pork chops and a melon salad and other fresh produce grown in the community garden.

They also learned about how to earn a certificate in sustainability.

Being the first generation of EcoReps also gives this group of students the ability to define the program and its mission for future generations as well as for themselves. The students were asked what sustainability meant to them, and each student pledged to fulfill what they found most important.

“I pledged to recycle,” Venable said, “and I always encourage my friends to recycle — like, they know when they’re around me to recycle, and they laugh, but they know I’m serious about it. I also pledged to hug a tree.

When I say that, I mean be mindful

of the environment and treat it well.

Others made pledges to take the stairs instead of the elevators. Turn the lights off. They’ve given us ideas, but they’ve also let us incorporate what it means to us, which I think is important.”

Venable says the Eco-Reps are tight-knit and would call each participant a friend. The students may be busy settling into the new school year, but they are already discussing a midSeptember event, tentatively including recyclable crafts and water games, during their flexible, bi-weekly meetings. Students should not worry about committing to a group in addition to schoolwork responsibilities, Venable said, and encouraged the next generation of Eco-Reps to take advantage of the program next fall.

“This is our campus, this is our home. We’re here for four years, and we should take care of it. That’s our goal, really — just peer-to-peer teaching, getting the word out, starting off with something simple like recycling, turning your lights off, turning your water off — little things like that can make a world of difference. And it’s so easy.”

Researchers burrow deep to protect endangered frog Libby Roerig

ISU Communications and Marketing

To protect the locally endangered crawfish frog, researchers at Indiana State University first had to get to know the reclusive amphibian.

Named because it lives in abandoned crayfish burrows, the frog is a secretive species that spends most of its time underground.

“You could live in an area where they occur and you wouldn’t have a clue. You wouldn’t stumble upon them — they’re essentially in burrows 11 months of the year,” said Jonathan Swan, a graduate student majoring in biology.

The Wisconsin native was drawn to study the frogs because of their uniqueness, which also poses a problem to protecting

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The endangered crawfish frog has been the subject of researchers at ISU because of its unique nature.

them. He and other researchers, including Rochelle Stiles, a doctoral student in biology, have

been working to establish the natural history of these frogs as a first step to saving the 1,000 or

so adults left in the state.

Crawfish frogs were listed as endangered in Indiana in 1988, but short of a few small studies by naturalists dating back to the 1800s, little is known about the creature, which is comparable in size to a small bullfrog.

“It’s ironic we’re doing this type of research in this decade,” Stiles said. But “in Indiana, we know more than other states about what’s going on.”

That knowledge is thanks to federally allocated state funding awarded since 2009 to Mike Lannoo, professor of anatomy and cell biology at the Indiana University School of Medicine at Indiana State, and partnerships with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and Detroit Zoological Society. Stiles and Swan work with Lannoo in his lab on campus.

In addition to their reclusive-

ness, crawfish frogs have a high mortality rate — of the 4,0007,000 eggs a female lays, maybe one or two will make it to adulthood.

“We estimate it takes five years for one frog to replace itself — to breed and make another adult. That’s not good odds,” said Stiles, a native of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. “Each frog is highly valuable.”

Once reaching adulthood, however, they do have the benefit of being long-lived, up to 10 years. One of Stiles’ research projects was installing time-lapse cameras at the entry of their burrows, which they emerge from to eat. “It’s neat, because you can see how an individual frog spends its day and night,” she said.

Swan has been creating artifi-

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Alumni Association announces 2015 Legacy Award family Dave Taylor

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A family that has produced at least 16 Indiana State University graduates has been selected to receive this year’s Legacy Award from the Indiana State University Alumni Association.

Reflecting the university’s roots as a teachers’ college, the Ahlemeyer family counts nine educators among its Indiana State alumni — including a school superintendent and a university administrator — at least two business owners, an attorney, a World War I veteran and three World War II veterans.

“As we go through the selection process, it’s a gratifying experience to learn more about Sycamore families and their connections to Indiana State University. The Ahlemeyer family and their long history of ISU connections is a textbook example of the legacy family definition,” said Rex Kendell, the director of ISU’s Alumni Association.

The Legacy Award was established in 2011 and recognizes multi-generational Sycamore families who have shown continued interest in and support

of Indiana State University.

Since its inception, five Indiana State families have received the award.

“We are very pleased and we’re excited to have the family support of Indiana State recognized. We know a degree from Indiana State is well-respected,” Elizabeth (Betty) Ahlemeyer Quick, a 1965 master’s degree alumna, said of her family being selected for the Legacy Award.

“We’re being recognized for the seed that was planted through our grandmother and her family of the importance of education,” said Beth Ahlemeyer Tevlin, a 1982 graduate with a bachelor’s degree in English education and a minor in communication. “My ISU education really formed the basis of what I am able to do today.”

Tevlin went on to earn a law degree and serves as executive director of the Wabash Valley Community Foundation, which has provided more than $1.3 million in student scholarships and program support for Indiana State.

“ISU provided me the opportunity of developing leadership skills and knowing about community outreach and participation,” she said. “The nice thing about being (in Terre Haute)

FROG CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 cial burrows for this prairie species. Of course, there’s not much grassland in the state that hasn’t been converted to farmland.

“Their habitat requirements and our land use just don’t align. There are things that could potentially be done, but there aren’t as many corridors or habitats available for them,” he said. Former mining sites that are being reclaimed as grassland are among the species’ biggest opportunities.

While captive breeding hasn’t been attempted, a captive-rearing program with their partner in Detroit has allowed researchers to raise tadpoles to the juvenile

is that I still see so many of my professors.”

Tevlin serves on the house corporation for Indiana State’s Sigma Kappa chapter, on the advisory board for the Bayh College of Education’s department of teaching and learning and on the advisory board of the ISUbased West-Central Indiana Area Health Education Center.

The Ahlemeyer family legacy began in the early 1900s when Cora Schopmeyer Ahlemeyer and her three brothers attended Indiana State. Cora and her brother, Ralph, taught in Clay County while Herman went on to complete a master’s degree at Purdue and a Ph.D. at Iowa State. His research led to the development of high fructose corn syrup. Arthur died during World War I while serving with the Army Veterinary Corps and is remembered with other veterans on a plaque inside Indiana State’s recently restored University Hall.

Other educators in the family have included Mary, Fred, Mina Jane, Francis “Pat,” Beulah and Noble Ahlemeyer. Francis “Pat” also served as school superintendent in Owen and Monroe counties.

Betty and her husband, Jerry, are also teachers. While at Indi-

stage and release them.

“They’re not a species that is receptive to being kept in captivity,” Swan said.

“The tadpole stage is the easiest to work with them. There have been attempts in the past to retain some of these frogs, but the adults die within a short time period.

They’re definitely fickle.”

The captive-raised juveniles, however, are more adaptive than the adults and have used Swan’s faux burrows. But like human teenagers, they go about testing boundaries, moving from burrow to burrow, especially during the wet weather.

“It could be part of their DNA and constitution that during that stage, they’re going to be moving. This is the first time we’ve had the opportunity to work with

ana State, Betty served Gamma Phi Beta sorority as chapter adviser, recruitment adviser, standards adviser and on the house corporation board. She was a national board member of the sorority from 1992-2012, a board member of the National Panhellenic Conference, serving as chair from 2005-07, and has served as judge for the university’s Greek Life Awards for the past three years.

Jerry Quick, a 1961 Indiana State alumnus, went on to complete a master’s degree at Indiana University only to return to Indiana State in 1965, serving as associate director of housing during a period of growth in enrollment and facilities. He also served as vice president of finance and administration at the University of AlabamaHuntsville.

The Quicks contributed to the construction of Hulman Center, have supported the University by providing gifts to the Indiana State University Foundation, have hosted an alumni event in the Gulf Shores, Alabama, area and have assisted in hosting Lambda Chi Alpha alumni events in Sebring, Florida, in recent years.

Jerry Quick has a simple explanation for why he and his

the juveniles at such a young age,” said Swan, who gets up at 5 a.m. every day to monitor the artificial burrows.

Jen Heemeyer, who earned a master’s degree from Indiana State in 2011, tracked the frogs with telemetry and learned they used the same home burrows, year after year. The frogs leave their burrow and travel up to 1,200 meters to breeding wetlands. After breeding, they return to their home burrows, sometimes using different migratory paths. Of course, once they’re out of the burrow, they’re susceptible to predators.

“We have some sense, anecdotally, that these frogs have used these burrows previously — they know where they are, they sort of have this homing beacon and use

wife continue to support the university.

“I started at Indiana State in 1957 as a first-generation college student on an academic scholarship,” he said. “I was the oldest in a family of six, had no money and helped pay my way through college by working in two funeral homes. Indiana State was good to me. It was an institution that had outstanding professors during the time I was there. And then I worked there for 12 years during a major construction period and growth in the institution.”

Through the years, family members encouraged students to attend Indiana State University.

Other family members who are Indiana State alumni include businessman John Dean Gooldy, a 1973 graduate; 1977 graduate Terry Tevlin, vice president of marketing at First Financial Bank, and 1970 graduates Georgia Lee and John S. Quick.

Beth and Terry Tevlin have both taught classes at Indiana State.

The Indiana State University Alumni Association will present the Legacy Award during halftime of the Sycamores’ Sept.

19 Family Day football game at Memorial Stadium.

the same pattern each year,” he said. “It could be that in their younger life, they found these burrows. There seems to be a sense of orientation with them.”

Future research options include creating new breeding ponds and possibly genomic sequencing to determine the genetic diversity of populations around the state.

“It’s been a rewarding project. It’s multi-faceted, monitoring both adults and juveniles and various side projects — all to gather information about the life history and natural history of the crawfish frog,” Swan said.

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Gay marriage benefits all Gay marriage has been debated for a long time. In fact it even made an appearance in Stonewall, New York in 1969, in a riot went on for three days. Samesex couples slowly gained the same rights as heteroColumnist sexual couples, but still could not tie the knot. Then on June 26, 2015, gay marriage finally became a protected constitutional right in the United States. I could not have been more happy — finally we are able to freely love, support and protect the ones we truly want to.

There are many benefits to gay marriage. Marriage can help gay couples adopt children who otherwise might not have homes.

This helps keep kids from growing up without love and caring parents they deserve. Having two moms — or even two dads — can show us different and new ways to raise kids. This will show the world that couples of the same sex are just as productive as straight couples in society.

Another good reason to allow same-sex couples to marry is that they also have to pay for marriage licenses. When anyone wants to get married they have to get a marriage license.

Once they pay for this the money goes to helping in many needed areas. One important way it can help is by cutting the

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budget deficit by almost $450 million in just one year.

More weddings will also lead to lower prices. This would also allow other couples to get cheaper venues, dresses and food.

This helps everyone celebrate their love for a less expensive price. If people have more weddings, then the people running them will charge less because the demand is high. So, it’s also good for business.

Another reason to support gay marriage is because it will lower the amount of psychological problems. A study in 2010 published by the American Journal of Public Health stated that after the ban on gay marriage, gay, lesbian and bisexual people had a 37 percent increase in mood disorders, 42 percent increase in alcohol abuse and a 248 percent increase in generalized anxiety disorders.

By making it legal to marry, we give gay people the resources that straight people have access to, such as proper marriage counseling, support groups and other essential tools to help them be themselves.

Making gay marriage legal was one of the best decisions ever made. It helps raise the kids who do not have great parents, it helps with the economy and most of all helps gay couples be psychologically healthy. Gay marriage has changed our country and has helped many people who are afraid of hiding. Soon, gay marriages will be just as common as straight ones.

Living abroad an adventure Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, Almost five years ago, I graduated from Indiana State University and left Indiana to work at Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University (SSRU) in Bangkok, Thailand. Calling it a life-changing experience would be a grave understatement.

For some background, ISU and SSRU have been sister universities for about fifteen years and continue to collaborate today.

In 2007, I decided that I wanted to live abroad, but I wasn’t sure where.

In April 2010, an ad in the Indiana Statesman mentioned a position working in Thailand. I expected to be living and working in some northern village but was surprised when I found out I’d be living in the metropolitan city of Bangkok.

Despite my research before leaving, it wasn’t without its surprises. I was short on my initial deposit, as many Thai apartments require three months rent rather than the usual one or two. Thankfully, Thai food is cheap, and scraping by wasn’t too bad. Staying at a friend’s house, they had a large barrel of water rather than a shower or tub.

With a smaller bowl, you would “baptize” yourself to wash up.

Although the water was chilly, it was a welcome escape from the Thai climate. Squat toilets —well, it is technically a healthier way to, uh, go.

Street vendors flaunting me

with, “I love you!” I never had the heart to tell them I couldn’t reciprocate.

I once saw a Saint Bernard wearing green sunglasses and riding a motorcycle. Overall, I can safely say Thailand has taken good care of me. However, I understand people being apprehensive about it.

Living abroad can be both liberating and terrifying. While you become more flexible and open, you’re also more vulnerable, a target for natives both benevolent and conniving.

My second week in Thailand, I pulled out my map only to find myself talking with an overly friendly local moments later.

After an offer for a suspiciously free tuk-tuk ride, I declined and walked away. Scammers roam all over tourist areas, thus giving you an excuse to go off the beaten path.

Ask anyone whose lived/studied abroad the benefits: broader perspective, more open towards other cultures, more adaptable, new language skills and looking at one’s mother tongue differently, new friends, delicious new foods, etc. I would add that one should do their homework before taking the plunge.

Naturally, some things can only be learned by going. Of all the things, I would say Thai hospitality is something I will never forget. An experience I can’t recommend enough.

Sincerely,

Isaac Marchand

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Crisis in Syria divides presidential candidates The American Civil War is known as the bloodiest war that the United States has ever fought. It claimed the lives of more Americans than any other war that we have fought against another country. Civil war is bloody, destructive and it harms innocent lives as the country fights among itself.

Now, in 2015, Syria is Columnist fighting its own civil war.

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is in control of most of the country now, with the Syrian government controlling the second most land. Also fighting are Syrian rebels and Kurds. The civil war has torn apart Syria, leaving streets in ruins.

According to Al Jazeera, a Middle Eastern news organization, over half of their hospitals have been damaged while a third have been destroyed. At least half of Syrian physicians have fled the country. Mosques, schools and cultural heritage sites have all been destroyed as well. About 3.8 million Syrian citizens have fled the country and are now in other countries as refugees.

They also estimate that 7.1 million citizens have been internally displaced, meaning that they had to flee their homes because it was too dangerous to stay there.

This makes for almost 11 million people, about half of the population, displaced by the Syrian Civil War. The people who have fled Syria have found refuge in other Middle Eastern countries and Europe, with Turkey taking the most refugees at around 2 million.

So what role has the United States taken in assisting Syria in this crisis? Well, we have spent around $4 billion giving them humanitarian aid. We’ve provided those still in Syria with food, water and basic health care. We are also on track to take 1,500 refugees.

Refugees in particular have become more of an issue lately; a photo of a drowned Syrian boy washed up on a beach recently went viral, causing pressure to be put on other countries to take more refugees so fewer people — who are only trying to flee from the bombs in their own backyard — will die.

There has been talk about the United States taking more refugees lately as the presidential race heats up. Candidates are split evenly on the issue. Five candidates support taking in more refugees; these include Lindsey Graham, John Kasich, Martin O’Malley, Marco Rubio and Donald Trump. Meanwhile, those who say that we shouldn’t be taking refugees include Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, Bobby Jindal, Scott Walker and Rand Paul.

Ted Cruz says that we shouldn’t take refugees while still providing aid, and he blames Islam as the reason for the crisis.

He appears to make no distinction between the Shiite and Sunni Muslim extremists, but still recognizes that Iran’s Shiite government is actually against ISIS’s extremist Sunni ideology.

He says that by taking in refugees while not actively being militarily involved in the Middle East against radical Muslims, “we will at best be putting a Band-Aid onto

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a life-threatening wound.” He states that moving refugees to a far-away country like the United States is impractical, but impractical or not, shouldn’t we allow refugees to come here regardless?

Carly Fiorina states that we cannot change our criteria to let refugees in. She also then says that we have to choose who to let in so that terrorists don’t enter the country.

What Fiorina doesn’t seem to understand is that we have changed our refugee entrance criteria before; we allowed Cubans to flee from Cuba and we allowed them into the country indiscriminately, even allowing the refugees to then apply for U.S. residency a year later.

Bobby Jindal takes a slightly different approach to the crisis. He blames President Obama for the refugee crisis, claiming that the entire reason for the crisis is because Obama “drew the red line and then backed down.”

His rationale for not taking refugees is that we already provide foreign aid, so why should we allow people who flee the country to seek shelter here? But just providing foreign aid doesn’t do enough; over half of Syria’s population has been displaced, and we’re just going to keep sending water and healthcare like that’ll solve the problem? I feel like that is a slightly ineffective strategy.

Rand Paul has a more neutral approach to accepting refugees. He says that “we have accepted a lot of refugees, and I think we will continue to do so.” He then goes on to say that “we also can’t accept the whole world.” But we have only taken 1,500 refugees from Syria, and we only have around 265,000 refugees living in the United States already; refugees make up less than half of a percent of our population.

Scott Walker claims that we do more than any other country in helping Syria just because we spend the most money in humanitarian aid. He said that “we’re doing more than any other country in the world, and it’s got to be clear that the problem that has to be addressed is not the refugee issue — that’s a symptom. The real problem is this administration fails to deal with taking on ISIS.” What Walker doesn’t take into account, however, is that ISIS didn’t even start the Syrian Civil War, and even the rebel groups fighting against the government are fighting against ISIS. What bothers me about saying that we shouldn’t take more refugees is that there are people dying because they can’t find shelter from the war. People who have fled the country for fear for their lives have drowned, washed up on beaches and have been treated terribly by those outside of Syria.

We allowed Cubans to come into the country because of Castro, and I’m sure that if our civil war had been like Syria’s, a large portion of the population would have fled the country trying to find shelter.

Yes, we give a lot of humanitarian aid, but humanitarian aid only helps the people who are still there, not the people who have nowhere to go because their own country isn’t even safe.

The civil war has torn apart Syria, and if the United States is really as magnanimous and kindhearted as politicians say we are, then we should take in more than 1,500 out of the nearly four million refugees just trying to survive.

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Nord hits career milestone in weekend match Megan Veeneman Reporter

Indiana State University volleyball hosted the Holiday Inn Classic Friday and Saturday, competing against UT Martin, Eastern Michigan, Murray State and IPFW. The Sycamores went 3-1 over the weekend, defeating all opponents except Murray State.

In this game, Erika Nord, setter for Indiana State, earned her 2,000th career assist. The next match, Indiana State lost 0-3 to the Murray State Racers. In the final match between ISU and IPFW, the Sycamores destroyed the Mastodons 3-0.

After beating UT Martin 3-0, ISU played Eastern Michigan, winning 3-1.

The Sycamore starters for the first set were Danielle Waedekin, Erika Nord, Carly Wishlow, Bree Spangler, Kynedi Nalls, Cassandra Willis, and Stephanie Bindernagel. The Sycamores won the first set 25-17. In the second set Melody Burdette was hitting left and right. ISU won the second set 25-20. In the third set, Eastern Michigan took a quick lead and won the third set 19-25. The Sycamores won the fourth set 25-20.

On Saturday the Sycamores started with a loss to Murray state with a score of 3-0. In the first set, Ingram had two aces, and Murray State won with a score of 2025. The Sycamores also lost a competitive 24-26 second set. In the final set between the Racers and the Sycamores, the Sycamores lost 24-27.

The Sycamores won their final match

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Senior setter Erika Nord (2) recorded assist number 2,000 in the Sycamores’ 3-1 over Eastern Michigan on Friday. The Sycamores went 3-1 over the weekend and now sit at 8-4 on the season.

against IPFW 3-0. In the first set, both teams had their share of serve errors. The duo of Nalls and Burdette helped win the game for the Sycamores. In the last two plays of the first set, Burdette had a kill

Sycamore golf tees off fall season Monday at Murray State Ace Hunt

ISU Athletic Media Relations The Indiana State women’s golf team, under the direction of fifthyear head coach Greg Towne opens the 2015-16 campaign on Monday and Tuesday at the Murray State Invitational.

The event venue has been changed due to unfavorable playing conditions at Drake Creek Golf Course. The Sycamores’ season opener will now be contested at Miller Golf Course in Murray, Kentucky. As a result the event has been shortened to a 36-hole format with one round on each day of play. There will be a shotgun start at noon on Monday and 11 a.m. on Tuesday.

“The course was changed due to the poor growing conditions that adversely affected the greens,” coach Towne said. “(Murray State) head coach Milkman did a great job in securing another course on such short notice. The format also changed from 36-18 to 18-18. Playing one less round this early in the year will work out fine and maybe give us some extra practice time.”

The Sycamores return three golfers from last season, including junior Marissa Uradomo who earned All-Missouri Valley Conference honors. Also back is senior Shelby Williams as well as sophomore Dawn Turner. Indi-

ana State welcomes seven newcomers to the fold this season as freshmen Megan Mauer, Sophie Benetti, Robyn Blanchard, Samantha Hightower, Abigail Irwin, Alex Jennings and Thilda Staubo begin their Sycamore careers.

“The team has seven freshmen,” Coach Towne said. “So far this fall the struggles have outnumbered the successes. But that will work out because I recruited these girls not because of who they are or what they have accomplished but because of who I think they can become and how much potential they have to grow personally, academically and on the course.

We are looking forward to the challenge. Our tournaments and fields will get progressively more difficult as we move through the fall season. All of it of course is to prepare for the Spring MVC tourney and a chance at an NCAA berth.”

Last season the Sycamores posted a sixth-place finish at the Missouri Valley Conference Championship, including Uradomo who finished 10th individually.

Expected to join the Sycamores at the Murray State Invitational are the host school Murray State as well as Marshall, Southern Illinois, Eastern Illinois, Cumberland, Tennessee Tech, SIU Edwardsville, Austin Peay, Tennessee State, Belmont and IPFW.

FOOTBALL CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Coming out of halftime, ISU again did its best to trim down the deficit and brought it to within 24-14 with 3:22 to go in the third quarter on a 27 yard touchdown pass from Adam to Robert Tonyan Jr. but Purdue went on to score twice in the remaining minutes of the second half. Freshman running back Markell Jones, the reigning Indiana Mr. Football, punched one in from a yard out to close out the third quarter and then received a five yard pass from Appleby for the team’s only score in the fourth quarter, putting the finishing touches on the 38-14 win.

The result of Purdue’s big plays throughout the day was 540 yards of total offense including 251 rushing yards and 289 passing yards.

On the flip side, while ISU managed 362 yards of total offense, the Sycamores were just too unbalanced in the contest. Adam threw two interceptions and was forced out of the pocket to scramble the majority of the afternoon while the offense also coughed up a fumble.

that brought the score to 25-24. Nalls, after a long volley, was able to block a hit and it made the score total 26-24, ISU. In the second set, the Sycamores won 27-25.

In the third set, the Sycamores destroyed

the Mastodons with a score of 25-16.

ISU’s next tournament is the ISU classic, which is against Western Illinois, Chicago State and Valparasio. The next tournament will be Sept. 18 and 19.

Soccer loses a pair of contests on the road over the weekend 1-0 Indiana State soccer took to the road over the weekend to square of with the Tulsa Golden Hurricanes and the Oral Roberts Golden Eagles.

The Sycamores wound up dropping both matches and now sit at 3-5 on the season.

Game One Indiana State soccer fell to the Tulsa Golden Hurricane 1-0 at Hurricane Soccer and Track Stadium on the campus of the University of Tulsa on Friday evening. ISU fell to 3-4 on the season while the Golden Hurricane improves to 7-0. It was the first meeting between the two schools.

Indiana State and Tulsa fought to scoreless first half before the Golden Hurricane scored the only goal in the 50th minute. After a ball was played forward, TU’s Annie Sohmer saved it from going out the end line and played it back to Eliza Impagliazzo who hit a shot from five yards out through traffic and found the netting.

Offensively, ISU had 12 shots with three on goal.

Sydney Lovelace and Maddie

To make matters even worse, the Sycamores also suffered their fair share of injuries. After already losing running back Dimitri Taylor for the year to a torn ACL, ISU also played without defensive mainstay Kendall Walker who was suffering from a concussion and eventually in the game, lost starting running back LeMonte Booker and temporarily was without the services of his backup, Roland Genesy. Defensive back Mark Sewall left the game as well and never returned.

“It’s too early to tell exactly what is going on,” Sanford said of the team’s injuries.

“Mark Sewall went out but we don’t know the specifics of that and that was big because Phil Wilson was already out with a concussion. We got beat up today. I don’t know of the remaining ones, who will be back and when they will be back. We’ve got a big game next week against an Ohio Valley Conference team so we’ve got to be able to rebound from a day like today, learn from our mistakes and be ready to go.”

Indiana State (1-1) hosts Southeast Missouri State on Saturday at 3:05 p.m.

3-1 Orf each had four shots. Kate Johnson added two more while Elle Steele and Maggie Richard also had shots.

Brittany San Roman played the full match in net. She earned 12 saves on 22 shots.

Tulsa entered the match averaging 2.50 goals per game, tied for 33rd in the nation for average goals scored per match.

Game Two Sycamore Soccer suffered a 3-1 defeat to the Oral Roberts Golden Eagles on Sunday afternoon at Case Soccer Complex on Oral Robert’s campus in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Sycamores now fall to 3-5 on the season, while Oral Roberts improves to 4-1-2.

The Golden Eagles struck first in the 15th minute. Megan Guico took a shot from the top of the box that got through some traffic to give ORU the early lead.

ISU tied the game up in the 30th minute. Elly Freesmeier fought for a ball along the right sideline and dribbled down to five yards from the end line. Freesmeier then loft-

ed a shot that hit the far left post and deflected in.

ORU took the lead in the 63rd minute. In transition, Kayla Keller played a ball forward to Brittany Lawrence who shot high to give ORU the 2-1 lead.

The Golden Eagles added to their lead in the 89th minute.

After a Sycamore free kick, ORU took the ball in transition and were able to score to give them the 3-1 lead.

Offensively, ISU’s goal was scored by Freesmeier, who tied for the team lead with two shots on the day. Lauren Weigel, Orf and Lovelace each tallied two shots. Kayla Schrubb, Steele, Richard, Johnson, Katie Sullivan and Ashley Gibbons each added one shot.

Defensively, Brittany San Roman played the full 90 in net. San Roman tallied 11 saves in the contest, while stopping several other opportunities during the course of the match.

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Indiana State Football head coach Mike Sanford voiced his displeasure with his team’s performance on Saturday after the game.