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President Bradley’s final fall address

Volume 125, Issue 10

Indiana Statesman | Keanna Askew

During his address President Daniel Bradley talked about few of the successes including record-breaking enrollment this fall, and improved on-time graduation and retention rates. He also gave construction updates.Rhoads Hall, the final building in the Sycamore Towers renovations, will open next fall. Phase one of the Health and Human services building will be dedicated in December and renovation of the Fine Arts building will begin in May. Bradley also talked about the university strategic plan and said that ISU will be spending $5 million on strategic initiatives this year.

Award winners

During President Bradley’s final fall address he

named the winners of the inaugural Inclusive Excellence Awards. The winners are as follows: • Kirk Moore, a graduate student, won the award in the student category.

• Aaron Slocum, coordinator of the 21st Century Scholars, won in the faculty/staff category.

• Jennifer Christian, Americorps program coordinator, also won in the faculty/staff category.

• Spectrum won in the student organization category.

• Bayh College of Education won in the administrative/academic unit category.

President Bradley presents the Inclusive Excellence awards to (from left) Aaron Slocum, Jennifer Christian and Kirk Moore. Left and right photos by Keanna Askew, Indiana Statesman. Center photo by ISU Communications and Marketing.

Students support Hurricane Harvey victims Ashton Hensley Reporter

ISU Communications and Marketing

Community Engagement select website that allow students to donate.

The Center for Community Engagement is making it possible for students to show support for the victims of Hurricane Harvey. They have listed six websites where students can donate money online.

“The sites were selected based on history of outreach and the percentage of the donation that actually goes to outreach support,” Heather Miklozek, director of the CCE said.

“I suggest you explore the six we have listed, along with various other organizations that are popping up for support for Irma and Harvey.”

Most of the websites allow you to donate as much or as little as you want, with a couple asking for a minimum of 10 dollars.

Students can make donations through these websites to show their support.

But that is not the only way the CCE is working to help. They are currently planning trips for students to go to affected areas.

“We work with a group called Hope Crisis Network. This is an agency ISU and CCE

has collaborated with since Katrina. They assess the disaster site and call us in to assist with clean-up and rebuild,” Miklozek said.

The affected areas need to be assessed before sending students to help.

“At this time the communication we are receiving from Hope Crisis Network is “stand by;” Harvey’s waters have receded, but Irma and potentially Jose are still in disaster phase,” Miklozek said.

The CCE must make sure that the students who volunteer for such trips will be safe while they work to help.

“For trips that focus on natural disaster support, we have to make sure the affected area is safe for volunteers to be in, along with housing and food resources are available for volunteers,” Miklozek said.

Miklozek said that they are currently getting names and information needed to be able to plan the volunteer trip.

“Until water levels lower and tasks that are specific to specialized skilled labor (electrical and tree removers) are completed, we will not be able to confirm destination or

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LGBTQ resource center hosts movie night Ian Bonner-Swedish Reporter

Social education is key to Indiana State University. The Multicultural Service and Programs department held an event known as Pick and Play, which is sponsored by the LGBTQ resource center.

Ray Blaylock, the organizer of the event, gave an insight on how the night’s festivity occurred.

“We have a variety of movies and the student or students will pick the movie that will be shown at the event with a light discussion if there is time,” she said.

Their first movie was quite historical and gave an insight into the life of one of the first pioneers of transgender surgery. “’The Danish Girl’ is about one of the first transgender women named Lilli Elbe.

It talks about how her life before she transitioned; she did portraits, and after that he[r] repressed desire to be a woman rekindled.

It shows her transitioning as well as her untimely death trying to complete the vaginal reconstruction. Lily lived her final days as a woman, so they consider her one of the first transgender pioneers,” Blaylock said.

For Blaylock, it was a moment of enlightenment.

“The movie was definitely an eye opener to what goes on in the community, especially when it’s about learning about those who are trans[gendered]. So it kind of shows how much you need to support those who are transitioning, because it can definitely be a very vulnerable state. It also kind of makes you think about how far surgery can be very dangerous. Back then it was very

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LGBTQ event showcased ‘The Danish Girl’ during its Pick and Play event.

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NEWS Get up at least once every 30 minutes:

Friday, Sept. 15, 2017

Failure to do so may shorten your life, study finds Melissa Healy Los Angeles Times (TNS) You can spend a lot of accumulated time on your bottom in the course of a day. Or you can sit for lengthy spells without a break.

Both, it turns out, are very bad for you.

Whether you’re a heavy sitter or a binge-sitter, racking up prolonged sedentary time increases your risk of early death, according to a study published in Tuesday’s edition of the Annals of Internal Medicine.

That conclusion held up even after researchers took account of mitigating factors, such as time spent exercising. Even for people who hit the gym after a long day in a desk chair, sitting can be deadly.

The findings led the study’s authors to suggest that people who sit a lot should get up and move around every 30 minutes to counter the health risks that come with prolonged sedentary behavior.

The study team, led by Columbia University exercise researcher Keith Diaz, tracked the movements of close to 8,000 Americans older than 45 by asking them

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Prolonged time spent sitting increases your risk of early death - try to get up and move around every 30 minutes.

to wear an accelerometer on their hip.

Over a period of 10 days, sitting or lounging behavior took up the equivalent of 12.3 hours over a 16-hour waking day

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is on final approach for fatal rendezvous with Saturn

— about 77 percent, on average.

That’s a whole lot of sitting. But subjects differed in the extent to which they hunkered down for long stretches without

getting up and moving around. When researchers measured the “bout length” of subjects’ sitting spells, they found that 52 percent lasted less than a half-hour, 22 percent lasted between a half-hour and just under an hour, 14 percent lasted 60 to 89 minutes and 14 percent went on for more than 90 minutes.

After tracking subjects for four years, the researchers found that subjects who racked up the most time sitting were most likely to have died during the study period, and those who spent the least time sitting were least likely to have died. That was no surprise.

But when they looked at the death rates as a function of how often subjects went long hours without getting up, they saw a similar pattern: Those whose sitting bouts tended to be lengthier were more likely to have died than were those whose sitting spells tended to be shorter.

Make no mistake, the authors of the new research cautioned: “Accumulation of large volumes of sedentary time is a hazardous health behavior regardless of how it is accumulated.” But logging sed-

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The International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., just received new items for display.

Deborah Netburn Los Angeles Times (TNS) The course has been set.

The end is in sight. There’s no turning back now.

After 13 years of making dazzling discoveries in the Saturn system, Cassini’s time is just about up.

In the early hours of Friday morning, the NASA spacecraft will dive into Saturn at 76,000 mph.

Within minutes it will vaporize in the cloud tops of the ringed planet after valiantly fighting a battle it has no hope of winning.

Cassini’s small thrusters, designed to maneuver the 2-ton spacecraft around the vacuum of space, will be no match for Saturn’s thicker-than-expected atmosphere.

Within minutes of div-

Infographic on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft and the final mission.

ing into the planet’s upper layers, the instruments that revealed the great hydrocarbon seas on Titan and the plumes of water ice shooting off Enceladus will be torn apart, and then melted.

After a small flash of light in the Saturnian sky, the spacecraft will be gone.

“There’s no doubt about it, we’ll be sad at the loss of such an incredible machine,” said Earl Maize, program manager for the Cassini mission at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge. “But we have a great sense of pride in what the mission accomplished. We left the world informed, but still wondering. I couldn’t ask for more.”

Cassini’s fate was sealed Monday, when it made its final flyby past Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.

“That slowed it down just enough so that what is going to happen on Friday is absolutely inevitable,” Maize said. “It got the velocity change it needed, and now it’s on its way into Saturn.”

The spacecraft’s final moments have been scheduled down to the minute.

At 1:08 a.m. EDT Friday it will cross the orbital distance of the moon Enceladus for the last time.

At 3:14 a.m. it will begin a five-minute roll that will point its Ion Neutral Mass

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Move over James Bond, spy museum’s collection just got a lot bigger Kevin G. Hall McClatchy Washington Bureau (TNS) Dinosaur bones and George Washington’s fake teeth are nice, but how about a tiny suicide syringe hidden in a silver dollar and designed for spies working in enemy territory?

What about a piece of the wreckage of an American spy plane that President Dwight D. Eisenhower claimed didn’t exist until its pilot was paraded in front of the cameras by the Soviet Union?

These are some of the new items that will be on display at the International Spy Museum, one of the

hottest museum tickets in the nation’s capital.

The museum on Wednesday announced it has been bequeathed the world’s largest private collection of espionage artifacts, more than 5,000 pieces — tripling the number of the facility’s accumulated treasures.

The donation came from former businessman and author H. Keith Melton, who has scoured the world for decades acquiring a massive collection of spycraft items.

It includes weapons, escape and evasion devices, artifacts used for concealment and cipher machines.

Also: clothing worn by famous Cold War spies,

disguises, secret writings, covert listening devices, radios hidden in other objects and spy cameras.

Melton told a small group of reporters that one of his goals was to help recognize the intelligence field’s historical significance, and to disentangle it from global politics.

“We have very credible adversaries and we should never be dismissive of them,” said Melton, a Naval Academy graduate who became a successful McDonald’s franchise owner in Wichita, Kan., and began collecting.

Although he collected for 45 years, Melton, a

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Senate reconsiders post-9/11 war approvals, but vote falls short

Lisa Mascaro Tribune Washington Bureau (TNS)

In a narrow vote Wednesday that showed lawmakers’ lingering unease, the Senate declined to repeal the authorization Congress gave for military action after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The effort to repeal the 2001 and 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force failed, 61-36, with 13 Democrats joining most Republicans to reject it.

But the vote, which backers called the first in the Senate since the war authorization was approved, expressed the weariness among lawmakers concerning the military involvement abroad.

A sturdy coalition of liberal

Democrats and libertarian-leaning Republicans has increasingly pushed Congress to revisit the authority granted after the attacks, which presidents have relied on ever since for military actions against terrorists.

Several senators remained undecided just moments before the vote. Three Republicans supported it.

“The war has long since lost its purpose,” said Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who led the repeal effort.

Paul has long situated himself apart from traditional GOP defense hawks, notably Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and argued that the initial war authorizations, first approved in 2001 for the operation in Afghanistan, and then in 2002 for Iraq, should no longer be allowed to cover the expanded fight against terrorism

and Islamic State that has taken U.S. involvement far from those initial battlefields.

“Let’s have a debate about all these different wars,” Paul said before the vote. “Let’s not just muddle on and say the president can do whatever he wants.”

The authorizations would have expired in six months under his amendment, part of a broader defense bill making its way through Congress.

The delay was designed to allow time for Congress to revisit the issue and provide a new war authorization, as many lawmakers in the House and Senate have said is needed.

Republicans and even key Democrats raised concerns about repealing the authorization without a replacement, particularly while troops remain

active in the field.

“We can’t replace something with nothing, and we have nothing,” said Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, a former military officer and the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Reed warned that the vote would lead allies and enemies to question the U.S. commitment to fighting terrorism abroad.

But senators of both parties have grown increasingly uncomfortable at what some see as ceding their congressional authority to authorize military activity to the executive branch.

Some have argued that money spent abroad would be better invested at home, while others remain committed to a strong military stance against terrorism overseas.

Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., who said he recently returned from visiting troops in Afghanistan and grew even more supportive of U.S. involvement, nevertheless was among those openly undecided ahead of the vote.

“I hate to say this,” Moran said during the debate.

“I don’t know what the right answer to this question is.” He voted against repeal.

Paul has labored for years to bring a vote forward, and threatened to stall the broader defense bill, which sets policy and pay for the troops and is routinely approved by Congress every year.

The vote came after Monday marked the 16th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

indianastatesman.com SPY FROM PAGE 2 founding board member of the Spy Museum, moved into high gear after the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 and the Soviet Union collapsed soon afterward.

Melton won’t say how he acquired many of the items, such as the hollowed-out silver dollar that contained the suicide syringe.

Reportedly only five were made at a biological weapons operation at Fort Detrick, near Frederick, Md., and contained saxitoxin. That deadly neurotoxin is found in shellfish; President Richard M. Nixon banned its military use in 1969.

Francis Gary Powers had one of the coins with him when his U2 spy plane was shot down on May 1, 1960, during a CIA mission over the Soviet Union. That coin is on display at a counterintelligence museum in Moscow.

Melton also did not divulge how he obtained the partial wreckage of Powers’ downed U2 plane, which he said was not actually struck by a Soviet missile at its altitude above 65,000 feet. One of its wings buckled under a shock wave, he said, and

LGBTQ FROM PAGE 1 dangerous, but now it’s becomes the norm to finally transition. Even though Lily knew she could possibly die, she was willing to sacrifice who she was. That movie was very moving,” she said.

This was not a one-time show. MSP plans to host many more events like this.

“Well, we actually do have a variety of movies like this in our possession. This movie is definitely one of the movies such as Stonewall. I feel like movies like these are definitely educational for those who are in the community or don’t identify in the community. I feel that to become an ally in this community, we have to watch these movies. These kind of movies can influence a positive change in today’s society,” Blaylock said.

For Blaylock, it is important to bring this issue to light.

“Since this is being sponsored by the LGBTQ [center],[the] majority of them will be focused on that, since this is the topic that can be considered taboo by many. It’s kind of like race; people don’t really want to

CENTER FROM PAGE 1 dates,” Miklozek said.

When the volunteers are ready to go, their jobs mostly consist of cleaning up and rebuilding.

“Typically, Hope Crisis Network calls upon ISU to assist with household cleanup, damaged wall removal and collecting misplaced items at debris sites,” Miklozek said. “As progress is made in the area and we have return visits, rebuild begins.”

Miklozek said that at this time monetary donations are the most important to hurricane victims.

“Many organizations across our nation are pulling recourses together, which

Powers ejected.

Powers had left an air base in Peshawar, Pakistan — less than 100 miles from where Osama bin Laden was killed decades later.

Military advisers assured President Eisenhower that the pilot had no chance of surviving a crash, so Eisenhower fibbed and said a weather-monitoring aircraft was blown off course.

When Powers was paraded before the cameras

by Nikita Khrushchev, the rest was, well, you know, history.

A nonprofit organization, the International Spy Museum has had more than 8 million visitors since opening in 2002. At the time, Peter Earnest, its executive director, doubted visitors would pay to see spy-craft items.

“Boy, was I wrong,” said Earnest, who spent 25 years in clandestine CIA operations and later became its spokesman.

The museum has been so successful, in fact, that it’s moving into a facility now being built to house more than 7,000 items and set to open in 2018.

That’s lucky: There will be plenty of room for the suicide coin and Melton’s other gifted items. discuss it, but this cannot be put on the back burner anymore, so I’m very excited to see how it goes,” she said.

She hopes to bring this event to a bigger audience to inform people who might otherwise shy away from the issue’s controversial nature.

“Some of the people who come to the events, most of them come from a class requirement. I would love to see more students become engaged, especially when it comes to the LGBTQIA community. I would love to see more. I understand that some people are uncomfortable with the topic, but I would really love to see that,” she said.

Multicultural Services and Programs hope to push the boundaries and create positive change for everyone on the issues of race, women’s rights and the rights of those within the LGBTQ community. They hope to make a positive change that affects not just the minorities in ISU, the U.S. and abroad, but for everyone, and with one step at a time they push to a more educated and accepting future. includes clothing, food, diapers, hygiene products, etc.”

Miklozek said. “All of those items are important, but with limited safe structures in these communities, there is no place to put them.”

Miklozek said that many student organizations are partnering with organizations like Salvation Army and American Red Cross to show support.

“We are encouraging any student organization who wants to ‘do something’ to collect money and donate to one of the agencies on the CCE website or another respectable organization that is focusing monetary relief to 2017 hurricane victims,” Miklozek said.

Friday, Sept. 15, 2017 • Page 3 NASA FROM PAGE 2 Spectrometer toward the direction of flight, allowing the instrument to gather as much data as possible about the chemical makeup of Saturn’s atmosphere in its final seconds.

At the same time, the spacecraft will reconfigure its systems to allow real-time data transmission back to Earth.

It will enter the atmosphere at 6:31 a.m. One minute later its high-gain antenna will point away from Earth, and the signal from the spacecraft will be gone for good.

It will take an additional 84 minutes for the radio silence to reach Earth.

“We won’t watch it burn up,” said Maize. “We’ll watch it turn away

30 MINUTES FROM PAGE 2 entary time in shorter bouts of sitting “is the least harmful pattern of accumulation.”

Study participants who racked up the most time in a chair tended to be older, were more likely to smoke, and were disproportionately African-American.

They tended to be teetotalers, to have a higher bodymass index, and were less likely to get much intentional exercise. They were also more likely to have diabetes, high blood pressure, worrisome cholesterol readings and a history of stroke, atrial fibrillation or coronary heart disease.

Such findings, of course, beg the question of which comes first — the immobility or the illness that

from us.”

Even in this final journey, however, Cassini has critical science duties to perform. The suicide dive has the advantage of taking the spacecraft’s instruments deeper into Saturn’s sky than they have ever been before.

“In that short period of time we will take the cleanest sample of the atmosphere itself,” said Hunter Waite, director of mass spectrometry at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.

His team will also investigate the phenomenon of “ring rain,” when water vapor and ice grains from the rings descend into the gas giant’s atmosphere.

“We do see the water, but we see other constituents as well,” he said.

“We are working very carefully to

leads to death.

“Observational studies, no matter how well designed, cannot imply causality,” University of Toronto cardiologist Dr. David A. Alter warned in an editorial.

But the findings of this prospective population-based study do fit with those of experimental studies. In trials involving humans sequestered in research labs, scientists have shown that racking up prolonged, uninterrupted bouts of sitting and lounging cause more worrisome short-term changes in metabolic and cardiovascular function than sedentary behavior that’s interrupted by periods of physical activity.

It only makes sense that those short-term chang-

understand all that the data has to tell us.”

Although most of the spacecraft’s instruments are still functioning flawlessly, its fuel tank is empty.

Mission planners decided that vaporizing the spacecraft in Saturn’s atmosphere was the best way to keep it from accidentally contaminating Enceladus and Titan — two of the solar system’s most promising candidates for hosting extraterrestrial life.

“Because of the importance of Enceladus that Cassini has shown us, and of Titan, we had to make decisions on how to dispose of the spacecraft,” said Jim Green, NASA’s director of planetary science. “We must protect those bodies for future exploration.”

es translate over time to more profound changes in the risk for diseases linked to sedentary behavior, said Dr. James A. Levine, an obesity expert at the Mayo Clinic who studies the health effects of sitting.

“If you’re sitting too much, you need to do something about it — like right now,” Levine said.

“Unless you get moving now, you’re in trouble later.”

The finding that a workout will not undo the harms caused by prolonged sitting is unsurprising, Levine added.

“Even if you’re a gymgoer and think you’re safe on account of your excellent effort, you are not,” Levine said. “No one gets away from this stuff. … Excess sitting, this study seems

to suggest, is a death sentence.”

In his editorial, Alter worried that people intent on reversing patterns of sedentary behavior will have a lot on their plates.

To live longer, healthier lives “may require us to count the total number of hours we are sedentary per day, the total number of minutes we sit at a time, the total number of standing breaks we take per hour, the total number of steps we take per day, and the total metabolic equivalent of task-minute volume of exercise we achieve per week,” he wrote.

“Yikes! That sure is a lot of counting over the course of a lifetime — all to reverse the evolutionary patterns of a society gone lazy,” Alter added.

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Sycamores conduct fieldwork abroad Matt Bly had to make sacrifices in order to graduate in three years from Indiana State University, but forgoing the opportunity to study abroad wasn’t one of them.

The 2017 graduate opted this summer to turn the required fieldwork for his earth and environmental systems major into a two-month, international experience, including six weeks at field camps in Sardinia, Italy - the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. “I really wanted to study abroad but didn’t have the opportunity since I wanted to graduate in three years.

In the geoscience major at Indiana State, though, it is a requirement to complete a field study, and I jumped at the opportunity to go overseas to complete this,” said Bly, who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in August. “I chose to go to Sardinia, Italy, because it has an extremely unique geology, and it’s a beautiful location in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.” Bly was one of three Sycamores, along with Joshua Pigg and Matt Barley, who elected to complete their fieldwork abroad this summer. Bly’s fieldwork allowed him to travel from Cagliari, a larger city on southern hub of the island, to the northernmost city of Alghero.

“I had never done anything to this extent, but I had done some field mapping through Indiana State’s geology program, and I was well-prepared for this experience because of the courses I took at ISU,” Bly said. “We started our experience in the northern part of the island and worked our way south, mapping the shoreline and rocks. At the end of the day, we would come back from the field area and go snorkeling or spend the afternoon at the beach.

Snorkeling was my favorite thing to

do in the afternoon because the climate was so hot and there was an immense amount of marine life in the areas we were staying.”

Pigg’s time at Indiana State prepared him for geological field camp in Turkey, where he applied the concepts he learned in the classroom to identifying rocks and interpreting their geological background. Navigating a new culture, though, was an eye-opening experience.

“Being in a new culture and environment that was so different than what I’m used to took some getting used to, but it really pushed me out of my comfort zone and allowed me to see things differently,” said Pigg, an earth and environmental science major from Terre Haute who graduated in August. “There was a learning curve being over there, but what you really learn is that we, as people, have more in common than we think.”

For Barley of Terre Haute, a senior earth and environmental science major with a concentration in geoscience, the five-week experience through the University of St. Andrews in Scotland exposed him to new people, places and experiences before heading into his final semesters at Indiana State.

“I could have chosen to go to a site in the States, but I’ve always wanted to study abroad,” he said. “This opportunity at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland was a newer field camp, and it was at one of the most accredited geology universities in the United Kingdom.”

Each day, Barley and 34 other American students piled in two, 16-passenger vans to take a 30-minute drive to the mapping location.

Assignments involved five to six days at the sites, where students worked from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. plotting the lo-

cation and its geologic features and using background information on the area that they were supplied and their own knowledge to make conclusions on how the features were formed.

“We toured Scotland as we did our field mapping, starting in St. Andrews. We went to Aberdeen, which is the largest city we went to, then to Portsoy and Inverness, which is famous for its Loch Ness. We traveled to Durness in the northernmost part of Scotland and rode the western coast all the way down before we took a ferry to the Isle of Mull, where we spent the end of our experience,” Barley said. “The thing about Scotland is it doesn’t get dark until about 1 a.m. during the summer and then it gets light again around 4:30 or 5 a.m., so we’d fall asleep really late and wake up really early. But it was fun and it is where I got to know a lot of the other students better and spend quality time with the professors.”

Bly built a similar relationship while working side-by-side with four professors and 20 American college students. Although he was eager to return home, graduate the following month and begin his career as a field technician at Professional Services Industry in his hometown of Bloomington, Ill., Bly can’t wait for his next overseas adventure.

“My experience abroad was more than worth the money because it ended up being the best experience of my life,” he said. “It never felt like schoolwork. The experience solidified my passion for geology as a career, and I got to make amazing friends there. I know I’ve only been home a few months, but I’m already planning my next trip back.”

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• (Top) Indiana State University earth and

environmental science major Matt Barley, ‘18, of Terre Haute, poses with the scenery during fieldwork in Scotland ‘18, the five-week experience through the University of St. Andrews in Scotland this summer.

• (Bottom) Indiana State University alumnus Matt Bly, ‘17, of Bloomington, Ill., stops to have his picture taken during six weeks of fieldwork this summer in Sardinia, Italy - the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Photos courtesy of ISU Communications & Marketing

There were big awards season winners and losers at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival Glenn Whipp

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Mayor John Tory had just introduced Guillermo del Toro’s lush movie monster love story “The Shape of Water” at its Toronto International Film Festival premiere, ending with a couple of sentences in stilted Spanish, which Del Toro, taking the stage, translated for the audience: “He said, ‘Guillermo del Toro has gonorrhea.’” Del Toro paused for the laughter. “That is not true.”

It wasn’t the only time Del Toro used Toronto’s mayor for comic effect. Bounding back on the Elgin Theater’s stage (the film uses the historic venue to fine effect in a couple of key scenes), Del Toro told the adoring audience after the premiere: “As the mayor said, ‘Vote early and often.’”

Del Toro was referring to the Toronto festival’s top prize — the People’s Choice Award — which audiences determine by dropping their tickets in ballot boxes held by volunteers at the exits.

But the cinematic showman could well be directing his sales pitch in the coming months to Oscar voters, who have been taking in the buzz from the Toronto, Telluride and Venice festivals in the past week and making mental notes about which movies to prioritize this awards season.

As has been the case for the past few years, Toronto offered a confirmation of the acclaim audiences had bestowed on movies that had already played at Telluride and Venice.

Two world premieres — “The Current War,” a lifeless drama about the rivalry between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, and the rambling Denzel Washington legal thriller “Roman J. Israel, Esq.” — met with tepid response. Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays Edison in “The Current War,” seemed to sense as much, noting the rather ironic failure of his microphone during a Q&A that began after most people

had left the building.

Other Toronto premieres will likely do better, evolving into showcases for their leads and filling out the slates in the acting races.

Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut, “Molly’s Game,” stars Jessica Chastain as a real-life underground “poker princess,” giving the two-time Oscar nominee her best role since “Zero Dark Thirty.” If voters count words delivered per minute, Chastain’s a shoo-in this year.

Two other fact-based dramas drew decent notices for their casts too. David Gordon Green’s “Stronger,” starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a survivor of the Boston Marathon bombing, neatly sidesteps many of the recovery genre’s tropes on its journey toward uplift.

Craig Gillespie’s tragic-comic Tonya Harding biopic, “I, Tonya,” manages to generate empathy for the infamous figure skater within its first five minutes, no small feat.

Margot Robbie looks nothing like Harding, but she gives it her all, and Allison Janney is properly monstrous as Harding’s abusive redneck mom. You never bet against Janney in any awards race.

“I, Tonya” sold to Neon midway through the festival, turning it into a hot ticket. One movie flying under the radar, at least until its Sunday premiere, was Cannes sensation “The Florida Project,” an unforgettable, immersive film about itinerant families (particularly their mischievous children) living in the cheap motels in Disney World’s shadow.

Willem Dafoe, who anchors this beautiful movie as the big-hearted manager of one of the budget motels, told me people at the sprawling InStyle/HFPA party kept asking him why he was in Toronto.

“They’re like ‘Aquaman’? ‘Murder on the Orient Express’? Nobody had heard of ‘The Florida Project,’” Dafoe said.

That undoubtedly changed after its Sunday premiere. Of course, many in the industry already knew how special Sean Baker’s

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Guillermo Del Toro at the 88th Oscars nominations announcement.

follow-up to “Tangerine” is.

“When I saw it, nobody wanted to leave after it was done,” said South by Southwest film director Janet Pierson. “It’s so engaging … you don’t want to leave and break the spell.”

A24 Films — the company behind last year’s best picture winner “Moonlight” — bought “The Florida Project” at Cannes. It’s an unconventional awards season movie, starring two pint-sized girls — Brooklynn Prince, 7, and Valeria Cotto, who is 6.

But “Moonlight,” with its microbudget and restrained storytelling, defied the conventions of what a best picture winner (and nominee) can be. Who’s to say “The Florida Project” won’t do the same?

A24 has another remarkable film in contention too. Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird,” a coming-of-age tale about a free-thinking high school senior (Saoirse Ronan) looking

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Best Buddies spread their message to campus with a callout meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 13.

According to its mission statement, Best Buddies is a nonprofit organization that “creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.”

The ISU chapter is only a few years old, and it is eagerly welcoming new members.

The group held a call-out in Holmstead Hall to spread the word and explain what they stand for.

Best Buddies works with Mosaic, the faith-based organization that “advocates for people with intellectual disabilities and provides opportunities for them to enjoy a full life.”

The two collaborate to create friendships between the members.

“We treat the buddies like our friends because that’s what this is about. You wouldn’t want to just visit your friend once a month and say ‘oh, sorry we can only hang out one time each month,’ so we [encourage that everyone] with a buddy reaches out to [him or her] by calling every now and then, or invite them to get

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indianastatesman.com BUDDIES FROM PAGE 4 dinner or any other [form of showing] that we care about them,” Paige Harker, the president of Best Buddies at ISU said.

A common misconception is that every member who joins will be partnered with a buddy. The organization has committees for fundraising, event planning, marketing and social media, along with a standard executive board.

Even if students are on a committee, it is still possible to receive a buddy.

The group only has one meeting and one event per month, so the time commitment is not all that demanding. Any bit of help is welcome.

“The big focus this year is fundraising. We are in dire need of funds,” Harker said.

Just like many other clubs on campus, there are dues students must pay to be a member. The dues for Best Buddies are set to be under $30; dues will most likely cover the cost of a

shirt for its members as well. Dues will also help send the chapter’s president to the International Leadership Conference in Bloomington, Ind. Harker hopes to bring more members to the conference and have a great showing at the Buddy Walk on Oct. 14 in Indianapolis. Overall, the entire committee is extremely excited about the upcoming year and gives thanks to their new advisor, Richard Harden.

To join the organization, one must sign up in two places: at bestbuddies. org and on the ISU Treehouse. Members need to reapply every year to renew their membership.

To learn more, students can attend one of the first official meetings Wednesday, Sept. 20 being held at both 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. in Holmstead Hall.

Come with creative ideas for fundraising this year. Students can also follow the buddies on Instagram @isu_best_buddies_.

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Project Nameless: A mission to educate and uplift Jada N. Holmes Reporter

Project Nameless breaks the barriers dividing sexual assault survivors and religious leaders through an educational platform.

“Project Nameless is dedicated to educating leaders of all religions on offering the best support to sexual assault survivors, especially within their respective faiths,” Abigail Yeargin, senior human development and family studies major and Project Nameless founder, said.

Inspiration for the creation of Project Nameless on the campus of Indiana State University derived from Yeargin’s personal revelation regarding sexual assault by a religious leader.

“Growing up, I didn’t talk about my experiences with anyone because I was very confused. When I finally began to understand what happened (around the time I got to ISU), religious leaders were the first people I tried to talk to,” Yeargin said.

She explained that throughout her efforts to receive support and clarity from religious leaders, she found that while some were helpful, others were “unintentionally detrimental to (her) recovery.”

“I realized that almost all of the religious leaders I had talked to had the best intentions and had their hearts in the right places--they just lacked the formal training that would have taught them how to respond to someone’s experience with sexual assault,” Yeargin said.

Project Nameless provides a foundation for religious leaders to become

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more informed about how to be supportive resources to sexual assault survivors, while incorporating aspects of faith in the most appropriate way.

“I believe that Project Nameless is very beneficial to the ISU community. First and foremost, we are working to provide education to religious student organizations. Second, we provide a place for sexual assault survivors to use their experience for

FILM FESTIVAL FROM PAGE 4 to escape Sacramento (or as she calls it “the Midwest of California”), earned raves at Toronto following a rousing Telluride debut. At a party following the premiere, Gerwig told me she sees “Lady Bird” as a love story between a strong-willed mother (impeccably played by Laurie Metcalf) and her equally fierce-minded daughter.

That mother-daughter relationship is one of the many sharply drawn aspects of “Lady Bird” that is winning audiences’ hearts. Gerwig says she has talked to scores of women after screenings who have told her they have been that mother or that daughter depicted in the film or that they hope their daughters do a better job of raising their girls than they did.

“I just want to hug everybody … and I do,” she said, laughing. “I probably hug more people than is appropriate.”

Certainly, that’s life in the film festival bubble. At the “Shape of Water” premiere, Del Toro apologized for repeatedly cursing, saying it’s not very Canadian of him to do so.

“But I’m really emotional right now,” added the Mexican-born director, who has lived in Toronto for the past few years.

“The Shape of Water,” a romantic fantasy about the re-

something positive,” she said.

Students who would like to support or become a part of Project Nameless are welcome to attend weekly meetings, scheduled at 6 p.m. on Tuesdays in Hulman Memorial Student Union, room 314.

The campus of Indiana State University should expect to see many produced workshops and should look forward to the expansion of this student organization.

lationship between a mute cleaning woman (Sally Hawkins) and a creature straight out of a B-movie, recently won the Golden Lion for best film at the Venice Film Festival. That prize isn’t much of an Oscar bellwether, and the academy has even less of a track record about recognizing movies featuring a merman in a prominent role.

But Del Toro’s extravagantly mounted fairy tale also possesses the kind of deep love for movies — in this case, Golden Age musicals, ‘50s horror, big biblical dramas — that Oscar voters adore.

“I believe there’s art and beauty and power in the images of fantasy and parable,” Del Toro said at the premiere.

Who would argue with that? There’s plenty of room at the inn for this year’s Oscar best picture race, the most wide-open contest in years. Contenders include movies that tell two sides of the same slice of history (“Dunkirk” and “Darkest Hour”), an achingly intense story of first love (“Call Me by Your Name”), another love story in which one of the participants spends most of the movie in a coma (“The Big Sick”) and a stinging horror movie that confronts race with humor and fury (“Get Out”).

It’s a mixed bag, in the best possible sense of the term.

And that’s just what’s been unveiled.

“I love this time of year,” Gerwig said.

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No more ‘repeal and replace’ Editorial

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Time is rapidly running out before health insurers have to commit to the policies and premiums they’ll offer next year to roughly 20 million Americans not covered by an employer-sponsored health plan.

Although those premiums are expected to jump 10 percent or more in many states, Congress can rein in that increase significantly — if it acts quickly.

Doing so, however, will require Senate Republicans to stop flirting with yet another partisan proposal to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, and start focusing instead on steps to make coverage more affordable that can win broad support.

The good news is that leaders of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, who have a reputation for pragmatism, are trying to pull together a narrowly focused, bipartisan bill that would have a direct, and rapid effect on premiums. Although the details are still being negotiated, the measure is likely to continue reimbursing insurers for at least a year — and preferably more — for some $7 billion that the ACA requires them to spend on lower out-ofpocket costs for low-income customers.

Although the law requires the federal government to make those reimbursements, some Republicans have labeled them a bailout for insurers, and the Trump administration has threatened repeatedly to cut off funding.

Those threats have led insurers to seek premium increases of 2 percent to 23 percent in 2018 just to pay for the cost-sharing reductions, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

That’s just one of the factors driving up premiums; others include the

Trump administration’s indifferent enforcement of the ACA’s requirement that all Americans carry insurance, which encourages healthier adults not to sign up for coverage, and the unexpectedly large treatment costs incurred by those who do have policies. The Senate health committee’s bill may not address the rest of those issues directly. Instead, it’s likely to let states try to entice more healthy people to buy coverage by allowing insurers to offer less robust policies than the ACA requires, or by kicking in state dollars to help insurers.

A more direct approach would be to provide the sort of federal backstop that helps hold down premiums in Medicare’s prescription drug plans — such as reinsuring insurers against the cost of consumers with outsize medical expenses.

But even the Senate committee’s proposal would be better than one being floated by Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Dean Heller, R-Nev., which would replace the ACA’s insurance mandate and subsidies with a complex system of aid to the states, while also re-engineering Medicaid to gradually reduce Washington’s share of its costs.

The Cassidy proposal has until Sept. 30 to pass by a simple majority, after which it would need an unattainable 60 votes to overcome a certain Democratic filibuster. It’s irresponsible for Republicans even to flirt with so major a proposal, let alone one so potentially damaging to states with large Medicaid populations. Congress barely has enough time to pass a far narrower bill to shore up the non-group insurance markets in time to affect the 2018 premiums. Lawmakers should focus on that, and get it done.

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Deal reached on DACA—or was it?

Joe Lippard

Opinions Editor

Earlier this month, President Donald Trump put an end to the United States’ Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. This program was in place to allow people who had been brought here illegally by their parents or guardians before they were 16 to avoid deportation and obtain renewable two-year work visas.

I thought this was a good idea in the first place. Those children who came here under the age of 16 likely had no choice in the matter, and most people in that age group have lived in the United States for far longer than wherever their parents came from. First of all, DACA only covered people born after 1981 who came to the United States before they were 16, and even then, they had to have entered the country before June 2007. Plus, DACA required that all recipients of the program be in school or have a high school

diploma. In addition, recipients of DACA benefits also could not have a criminal record.

All this meant that DACA appropriately targeted a specific portion of illegal immigrants for what former President Barack Obama wanted to do. Obama didn’t include criminals or people who weren’t doing anything with their lives. I think it was a good idea.

Of course, having run on a strong anti-immigrant platform, Trump was sure to end the program. I’m not surprised by that. What did surprise me, however, is that on Sept. 13, Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Nancy Pelosi, both Democratic leaders, announced that they had “a very productive meeting at the White House with the President.”

The two then revealed that the meeting “focused on DACA.” The two Democrats then said that “We agreed to enshrine the protections of DACA into law quickly, and to work out a package of border security, excluding the wall, that’s acceptable to both sides.”

This statement is incredibly surprising. For one thing, Trump agreed to exclude the wall in the border policy package. He campaigned on this thing, and suddenly he just agreed to not build it. It didn’t upset me, because I vehemently disagreed with the wall from day one, but it was completely unexpected.

The statement is also surprising because Trump just ended DACA. Now he was negotiating with Democrats to “enshrine the protections of DACA into law”? It just didn’t make sense to me.

Of course, Trump then had to tweet about it. On Thursday, Trump tweeted that “No deal was made last night on DACA. Massive border security would have to be agreed to in exchange for consent. Would be subject to vote.” He continued in another tweet, “The WALL, which is already under construction in the form of new renovation of old and existing fences and walls, will continue to be built.”

First of all, I’d like to point out that fences are not walls, so Trump is still not fulfilling the campaign promise that was practically the cornerstone of his campaign. And even if fences were walls, Mexico still isn’t paying for any of that. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security does that, not Mexico.

But Trump wasn’t done there. After tweeting that the “wall” would be comprised of existing fences and walls, he then tweeted, “Does anybody really want to throw out good, educated and accomplished young people who have jobs, some serving in the military? Really! They have been in our country for many years

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Trump has created a Congress that seems to be moving forward Patricia Murphy CQ-Roll Call (TNS)

If you were a member of Congress, especially a Republican member of Congress, you could be forgiven for having at least some contempt for President Donald Trump.

He’s used the GOP-led Congress as a punching bag and a scapegoat. He demands absolute loyalty from Republican members, but abandoned them last week the moment he saw an opening to strike a deal to raise the debt ceiling with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

He’s called Republicans losers and flakes. He’s defamed their parents and insulted their spouses. He dispatched a Cabinet secretary to threaten Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, after she blocked an Obamacare repeal bill and told his 36 million Twitter followers that Tennessee is “not happy!” with Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., after Corker voiced concern about Trump’s fitness for office. He has openly courted primary challengers to run against members of his own party, even the ones who have voted for almost all of his agenda.

So it’s ironic that, in more ways than one, Congress is living its best life under Trump. After years of partisan gridlock,

bills are moving, or at least being debated.

Long-sidelined committees are doing essential work. And in a town where party politics has swamped almost every other governing instinct, members of Congress are showing more real independence to speak their minds and vote accordingly.

Somehow, all of the dysfunction between the Republican House and Senate and Trump’s White House has created a Congress that is showing signs of functioning again. In Oprah parlance, Congress is becoming its best self. In Trump verbiage, Congress is making itself great again.

In the last two weeks alone, Congress has quickly approved disaster relief, raised the debt ceiling and dispensed with a government shutdown weeks before the deadline, three items they’ve struggled with for years. Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., struck a fiveyear funding deal in the Senate Finance Committee to extend CHIP funding for five years.

Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., are holding hearings to repair, not replace, Obamacare.

House Speaker Paul Ryan and Pelosi are meeting with House leaders on a DACA bill that has tied Congress in knots for the last five years.

Committee chairmen are leading in

their areas of expertise, leaders are meeting to strike deals, and the legislative branch is finally legislating.

A significant piece of the new dynamic has been Congress stepping up as a co-equal branch of government to rein in and even reject the president when he has said or done things few people can explain, even his fellow Republicans.

That was certainly the case when Democrats and Republicans acted almost unanimously, 517-votes strong, to strengthen sanctions against Russia for hacking American election systems, even when Trump made it clear he didn’t want to.

That was also the case when the House and Senate unanimously passed a joint resolution, which the president must sign, to denounce white nationalists, neo-Nazis, the Klu Klux Klan and other hate groups who caused the violence in Charlottesville, Va., last month.

Standing up for the country, despite the president’s objections, seems to be the primary motivation behind the Russian hacking investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee, which has been serious, disciplined, and bipartisan. And that was absolutely the thinking behind Sen. John McCain’s extraordinary op-ed last month reminding his fellow members of Congress that they don’t work for Trump.

“We must, where we can, cooperate with him,” McCain wrote in The Washington Post. “But we are not his subordinates. We don’t answer to him. We answer to the American people.”

As much as Republicans in Congress are acting out against Trump, he has been acting out against them, too, beyond just mean tweets. Frustrated by slow Republican progress on his agenda, Trump decided to skip the headaches of a GOP-only deal last week and strike the debt ceiling deal with Pelosi and Schumer, over the objections of his own Cabinet officials.

It wasn’t what Republicans wanted, but the deal got done. The crisis was averted, and for once, Congress and the president avoided a self-inflicted wound.

Almost despite himself, Trump has made Congress free enough to act in the country’s best interests and independent enough to act against their own president, no matter their affiliation, if that’s what it takes.

He’s strengthening the resolve of the one group that can make him a success or take him down.

A stronger, more independent Congress may not always be in this president’s best interests, but it is in the country’s best interests, and we have Donald Trump to thank for it.

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DACA FROM PAGE 6 through no fault of their own brought in by parents at young age.”

So after ending the program that allowed these people to stay in the United States, Trump suddenly tweeted out that he actually supported allowing DACA recipients to remain in the country. If that’s the case though,

why end DACA in the first place? If he thinks that they should be allowed in the country, why end the program that kept them here while still not providing a path to citizenship? DACA only covered a very specific portion of the population, so it’s not like just anyone could claim that they were eligible for DACA benefits.

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whole situation is the blatant hypocrisy I see here. Trump ran on the promise of kicking out illegal immigrants, so he ends DACA with no path to citizenship for any of those people. Then about a week later, suddenly he’s reached a deal with Democrats to “enshrine the protections of DACA into law.”

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Then immediately after that, he tweets that he thinks that people who benefitted from the program he just ended should still be allowed in the country.

To me, Trump seems like a huge flip-flopper on immigration, which is ironic because he ran on the premise of being tough on it.

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Indiana Intercollegiates up next for cross country on Friday The Indiana State men and women’s cross country teams will continue their 2017 campaign as they travel to West Lafayette, Ind., on Friday, Sept. 15 to participate in the Indiana Intercollegiates. The races, which will be held at the Purdue University Cross Country Course, begin with the women’s 6K at 3:30 pm (ET) and continue with the men’s 8K at 4:15 pm.

“We left the John McNichols Invitational content with our mental approach to the competition, and I thought we executed our races very well,” head coach Kyle Walsh said. “The season opener is always a good rust buster and I was proud of the way the men and women represented the Sycamores in honor of our legendary Coach McNichols.”

The men’s race will feature three Division I programs as the Sycamores check in at No. 12 in the latest Great Lakes Region rankings released on Sept. 11. Indiana State took second at the John McNichols Invitational behind the strength of three runners who finished in the Top 10. While ISU fell to nationally-ranked Illinois, they were able to top regionally ranked Louisville by three points on their home course. Sophomore Seth Cousins led the way with a time of 25:45.2 and a sixth place finish while junior Akis Medrano posted a time of 25:46.0 which was good enough for seventh. In tenth place was junior Quentin Pierce whose time of 25:59.4 just edged sophomore Ryan Cash who finished 13th with a time of 26:19.2.

“The men got some great experience battling Top 30 Illinois coming off a national qualifying season and beat a historically strong Louisville program,” Walsh said.

“This was a great step forward for the men. Seth Cousins and Akis Medrano lead us with their best season debuts ever. Both moved at different times through the race but were able to close the final straightaway within a second of each other. Quentin Pierce had one of the fastest last miles of the race flying by competitors over the final portions of the race and that will be huge for his momentum.

Ryan Cash really pressed with the top group early and will be able to hold that pace longer this weekend. The #5 man is the staple of the team and Corey Alfredson stepped into that role well at our season opener.”

Joining the Sycamores in the field is Indiana who checks in at No. 2 in the Great Lakes Region and No. 27 in the nation. The host Purdue Boilermakers will enter the race as the No. 8 team in the Great Lakes Region.

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On the women’s side, the Sycamores enter the race as the No. 13 team in the Great Lakes Region as they jumped up one spot from their preseason position following an impressive third place showing at the John McNichols Invitational. Leading the way for the Sycamores was senior Taylor Austin who posted a 12th place finish with a time of 18:00.2 over the 5K course. This week, the Sycamore women will be adding more kilometers to the their distance from one week ago. Also strong in the season opener was Alli Workman, a sophomore who posted a time of 18:26.3 and earned a Top 20 finish. ISU topped Cincinnati and Evansville while hanging tough with No. 3 nationally-ranked Michigan as well as regionally-ranked Louisville.

“The women got to compete against the National Runner-ups from last year Michigan and that’s a program we highly respect and try to emulate,” Walsh commented.

“Louisville women entered the season as a top 30 program in the nation so it’s great that we get to see top notch competition from the start of the season. Taylor Austin will be excited to battle the best collegiate runners in Indiana after her best season opener ever as a Sycamore. I look for her to be competing with several in state rivals for the Indiana Intercollegiate Championship. It was exciting to watch our #2-#5 runners work together and push each other through different parts of the competition. Alli Workman had a break out race leading the tight group of Megan Doty, Brittany Neeley, and Colleen Madden. I look for Abigail Grider to close the gap on that group at Purdue Friday.”

This Friday, the Sycamores will race against Indiana who enters the event as the No. 3 team in the Great Lakes Region as well as host Purdue who is ranked No. 8. Indiana appeared at No. 26 in the national rankings on Monday. Also in the women’s event is Ball State. The Hoosiers took a team victory in the IU Open while the Purdue women were victorious in their opener at the Crusader Invitational. The Cardinals are coming off a sixth place finish at the Illinois State Invitational last weekend.

“The Indiana Intercollegiate meet has a long history and we are really excited to toe the line vs many of our in state rivals in another great weekend of competition,” Walsh said ahead of the meet.

The event begins at 3:30 pm (ET) with the women’s 6K and continues with the men’s 8K at 4:15 pm. There will be a women’s 6K open race at 5:00 pm and the day concludes with a men’s 8K open race at 5:45 pm.

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The Indiana State football team is winless this season but is aiming to change that on Saturday with a game at No. 19 Liberty.

Hope and optimism surrounded the football team heading into the 2017 season. New coaches, new players and a new system on both sides of the ball spelt out an encouraging future. So far, however, the team hasn’t been able to turn that optimism into fruition.

With losses against Eastern Illinois and FBS ranked Tennessee, head coach Curt Mallory and crew are still looking for win number one.

They have an opportunity to capture that elusive first win this weekend with a game against Football Championship Subdivision ranked Liberty. Liberty is 2-0 in 2017, and are ranked 19 in the STATS FCS Top 25.

ISU leads the all-time series between these teams, winning the only two games they have played each other. The Sycamores won 38-19 in the last matchup back in 2014.

This season, the Flames are carried by a high-octane offense. In just two games they have put up 106 points. They managed to put up 48 points while shocking once Big 12 powerhouse team Baylor in Week 1.

Sophomore quarterback Stephen Calvert is largely responsible for his team scoring 53 points per game. In his second season starting under center, he has been airing it out at an extremely high level.

In 2017, he has completed 70 percent of his passes for 728 yards and has recorded eight passing touchdowns along with one score on the

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In comparison, ISU has thrown for 226 yards this season. The team is still looking to find their footing on offense. Running back Lemonte Booker has been their only premiere threat on that side of the ball.

The coaching staff knows that to be competitive, their offense will have to evolve to more than just a strong running game.

“We’ve got to be able to throw the football better, more consistently to compliment our run-game so we’re more balanced,” Mallory said in ISU football’s press conference this week.

The Flames have been a pass-heavy offense in 2017.

Their win against Baylor is evidence of this. Calvert tossed for almost 450 yards on a whopping 60 attempts.

A slew of wide receivers has helped Liberty’s offense stay potent. Four of the team’s wide receivers have caught touchdowns thus far, with B.J. Farrow and

Antonio Gandy-Golden catching three each.

If Liberty has any weakness, it could be argued that it is their defense. Against Baylor, the defense allowed 254 rushing yards. ISU, who has been a rush-oriented offense, will continue to feed Booker and the rest of the running backs this Saturday.

The Flames haven’t been able to put much pressure on opposing quarterbacks this season. They have just one sack and are being severely out-tackled. However, they have intercepted three passes in 2017.

Liberty has a tradition of winning football games.

The last time they finished under .500 was the 2005 season. Head coach Turner Gill has exemplified that tradition, claiming four Big South titles since he arrived at the school in 2012.

This is ISU’s last non-conference game before opening up Missouri Valley Conference play at Illinois State in two weeks.

This upcoming weekend the Indiana State University women’s soccer team will face two teams in the span of three days: The Fort Wayne Mastodons here at ISU and Butler Bulldogs in Indianapolis.

The Mastodons are on a current seven game losing streak and have only recorded one win to eight losses on the season. The Mastodons most recent loss was to the Valparaiso University Crusaders with a final score of 4-1.

Redshirt freshman forward Breanna Buche leads the Mastodons in assists with having only two on the season. Sophomore’s Kendall Quinn, Chloee Foor, Hannah Kroger and freshman midfielder Jessica Schoenfeldt lead the team in goals with one each. The Sycamores will face the Mastodons on Fri-

day Sept. 15 at the Memorial Stadium here in Terre Haute. The second matchup of the weekend pits the Sycamores against the Butler Bulldogs.

The Bulldogs are coming off a huge 2-0 victory over No. 10 ranked Texas A&M. The Bulldogs this season are 7-1-1 and will most likely be Indiana State’s toughest matchup this season. Freshman forward Caitlyn DiSarcina leads the Bulldogs in goals (2) and points (5). DiSarcina is also tied for the team leading in assists with only having one recorded.

The Indiana State Sycamores are coming off a close 3-2 loss to the Loyola Ramblers. So far this season, the team holds a record of just 3-3-1. After playing in their first conference play, the Sycamores are looking to learn from it and come into this weekend’s matchups with high intensity.

Junior forward Katie Wells and junior defensive midfielder Reilly Teal lead the Sycamores in goals scored with two each. Junior midfielder Caitlyn Eddy leads the team in assists with four on the season. Katie Sullivan and Kasey Wallace both lead the team in minutes played with 638 minutes each. Expect all of these players to be big factors this weekend as the team is looking to bounce back after their tough loss to Loyola.

This weekend’s pair of games will be the biggest challenge this season to the Sycamore’s soccer team because it will test their resilience and show how competitive they are to the rest of the Missouri Valley Conference.

First game will be Friday against Fort Wayne and will begin at 7 p.m. at Memorial Stadium here at ISU.