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Johns Hopkins Univ to name building for Henrietta Lacks Lillian Reed

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Make your Homecoming colorful Cheyenne Fauquher Reporter

On Wednesday, there will be a tie-dye event on the Dede Plaza Lawn from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. This event is hosted by faculty and staff in honor of Homecoming week.

Academic advisors invite the students to come play a game called “Know Your Advisor.” The principle of the game is to help students to establish a relationship with their academic advisor.

The only thing necessary to participate is to know your advisor’s name. After the game, there will be a Spin for Prizes where players will have their picture taken.

To conclude the event, the staff is asking students to bring their own t-shirts to tie-dye. Students

are asked to bring their ID in order to participate due to the limitations on tie-dye color.

Tie-dye is a process of folding, twisting, pleating, or crumpling fabric or a garment and binding with string or rubber bands, followed by application of dye.

Most people like to mix several different colors to give their shirt or died garment a brighter and more eye-catching look.

“Tie-dye is very cool because it gives you your own creative touch,” says Jose Vasquez.

Tie-dye was created in the mid-1960s in the United States from a set of ancient resist-dyeing techniques, after Charles E. Pellew pioneered the technique in 1941. Hippies were especially famous for wearing tie-dye to express a sense of freedom and

free spirit.

“Tie-dying is a way to express yourself and only yourself because it’s your project and your work. You get the choice to mix whatever colors you wish and make it your own,” said Freshman Caroline Cleaver.

Even today there is still a vast amount of people who wear tiedye. Many clothes made nowadays use the tie-dye technique to give a variation of shades or colors for style.

“I freaking love tie-dye because no two people are the same, no two tie-dye pieces turn out identical,” said sophomore Alex Denoyer.

For more information on other Homecoming events, go to the Indiana State University events calendar.

Johns Hopkins University will name a new interdisciplinary building after Henrietta Lacks, a Baltimore woman whose cells were the basis of research for numerous modern medical breakthroughs.

Hopkins officials announced the plans during the ninth annual Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture on Saturday. The building is planned for Johns Hopkins’ East Baltimore campus and expected to be completed in 2022, according to a Johns Hopkins University publication.

The Turner Station woman’s cells, dubbed the HeLa cells, were significant for their ability to survive outside of the body and became the basis for research that lead to techniques including vaccines, cancer treatments and in vitro fertilization. They have become the most widely used human cells that exist today in

scientific research. “(The building) will be a place that stands as an enduring and powerful testament to a woman who not only was the beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother to generations of the Lacks family, but the genesis of generations of miraculous discoveries that have changed the landscape of modern medicine and that have benefited in truth the much larger family of humanity entirely,” said Ronald Daniels, president of Johns Hopkins.

Representatives of the university could not immediately be reached for comment Monday.

The university has a complicated association with the HeLa cells, which were originally collected without Lacks’ permission or knowledge during a diagnostic procedure in the 1950s. Lacks died from an aggressive form of cervical cancer in 1951.

Johns Hopkins officials con-

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Bless the Mic celebrates Homecoming

Chelsea Chapman Reporter

Bless the Mic, an organization that encourages students to come out and showcase their talent in an inclusive, non-competitive, intimate atmosphere, hosted a special edition of Bless the Mic in honor of Homecoming week last Thursday.

Jada Holmes, a junior studying communication, and president of Bless the Mic, has been part of the organization since her freshman year.

“I came to ISU in fall of 2015,” said Holmes. “My second semester as a freshman, I earned an executive role within the organization, so I’ve been learning the ropes of leadership with them for about four years now.”

Bless the Mic has been on campus for nearly fifteen years and has continued to evolve into what it is today.

“Bless the Mic originally began as Spoke and Heard in 2004,” said Holmes. “It’s an open mic production platform, bringing the likeness of poetry, spo-

ken word, hip hop, MC, motivational speaking, in the past they’ve even had praise dancing. We’ve pretty much grown into a variety show. We do like to advertise we are open to comedy, acting, DJ, pretty much anything that revolves around creativity and artistic expression.

As of last year, we kind of wanted to grow and expand by touching on artistic development, helping people grow into themselves as artists.”

This event is similar to Sycamore Sessions in that it allows students to come together to showcase their talents, but there are some major differences between the two events.

“Bless the Mic differs from Sycamore Sessions based on the essence,” said Holmes. “When we originally started, our home, which is still our home base today in the African American Cultural Center, we prided ourselves on an intimate setting, something more personal, an environment that is safe, funky, groovy, that’s everything and more. Aside from the fact that we’ve been here

longer, we have had live musicians in the past, and we’re looking for some now. Bless the Mic is where you go to feel the soul as an audience as opposed to just seeing a demonstration of what they do.”

Holmes believes Bless the Mic is the perfect event for artists who are working their way up to the big stage.

“A lot of artists or musicians, you’ll hear in their music, they say ‘I’m an artist and I’m sensitive about my stuff,’” said Holmes, “some people aren’t necessarily ready to go and take on a big stage like Sycamore Sessions. For those who want a platform that they could get used to before transitioning, I think we are the perfect spot.

Not only that, there’s really no time to get too personal at Sycamore Sessions because that’s where you go for high-energy fun. It’s almost like an on-campus party.”

The students of Bless the Mic decided to take it upon themselves this year to show the freshmen, or people who haven’t been to homecoming, the ropes to

the eventful week.

“This is the only show where we really try to offer advice to people,” said Holmes. “We have a Homecoming show every year, but this is the first time we’ve actually intentionally wanted to help people survive Homecoming. There are a lot of new students who don’t know the ropes and a lot of upperclassmen who know where to go, who to go with, and helping them bridge the gap between so everybody can have some fun.”

Tavon McCollum, a senior studying legal studies and the vice president of Bless the Mic has been part of Bless the Mic since the second semester of her sophomore year.

“I perform at every show,” said McCollum.

“We believe if you are part of the organization, it is very important for you to be involved and on stage at every show. I sing pop, hip-hop, R&B, I like that slow stuff. Bless the Mic just gives an open platform for people to come out and do what they want to do, whether it’s singing, rapping, comedy, spoken

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A performer stands at the microphone on stage at a Bless the Mic event in 2017

word, monologues, anything that you feel like needs to be presented to campus.”

Malik Jenkins, a senior

studying exercise science just recently started showing off his hidden talent at

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Kavanaugh fight ignites passions for both parties Sahil Kapur

Bloomberg News (TNS)

WASHINGTON — The most acrimonious Supreme Court confirmation battle in modern times hardened the fault lines in U.S. politics that put President Donald Trump in office but now could give enraged Democratic voters the added motivation to oust Republicans from control of the House.

The fight over Brett Kavanaugh’s elevation to the nation’s highest court inflamed the voting bases of both parties a month before pivotal congressional elections. Republicans hope to gain in their quest to hold the Senate, as the Kavanaugh fight resurrected a defining issue that links the evangelical base to Trump: dreams of a generational lock on a conservative Supreme Court.

Still, backlash politics historically have been the driving force in midterm elections — it’s the first chance for voters to weigh in on the president they picked just two years earlier. Traditionally, buyer’s remorse has meant the party in the White House suffers significant losses.

“For Democrats there’s been a tremendous amount of motiva-

ture, with 12 out of the 13 most competitive races in states won

by Trump in 2016. Some recent surveys show an enthusiasm boost among Republican voters, as Trump and his party allies have said repeatedly that Kavanaugh was treated unfairly by ideological opponents. If Republican voters stay mobilized, it’s likely to boost the party’s prospects of retaining or expanding its razor-thin 51-49 Senate advantage.

“This has energized our base like nothing we’ve been able” to do, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said in an interview just Jennifer Lett | Sun Sentinel (TNS) before the Senate voted 50-48 to Children join the protest against the nomination of Judge Brett confirm Kavanaugh on Saturday.

Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, in Fort Laderdale, Fla., on Saturday, McConnell, Trump and other Oct. 6, 2018 Republicans repeatedly referred tion brought on by the Trump college-educated white women,” to anti-Kavanaugh protesters as presidency, and this has taken it who polls show are breaking for a “mob.” That “ended up being a over the top. We could not have Democrats by a two-to-one mar- big political help to us,” McConhad a more stark reminder of gin. The vulnerable Republican nell said. what’s at stake in these elections,” incumbents include Virginia’s The immediate focus is on five said Donna Edwards, a former Barbara Comstock, Kentucky’s Democratic senators running Democratic Representative from Andy Barr, and Nebraska’s Don for re-election in states where Maryland. “It’s not going to be Bacon. “You’re going to see an Trump won by double-digits in even higher turnout among 2016: Joe Manchin in West Virforgotten.”

Edwards said the Kavanaugh women, particularly in these ginia, Heidi Heitkamp in North fight would help Democrats flip suburban districts that are swing Dakota, Joe Donnelly in Indias many as 20 Republican-held districts,” Edwards said. ana, Jon Tester in Montana, and The Senate is a different pic- Claire McCaskill in Missouri. All districts with “lots of suburban,

but Manchin voted against Kavanaugh.

“Obviously he’s been receiving a ton of pressure from both sides, as one would imagine,” Mike Plante, a Democratic strategist based in Charleston, West Virginia, said of Manchin. “In my time in politics I’ve witnessed a number of Supreme Court confirmations. This one’s been the most contentious — including Clarence Thomas — and the most tribal in nature.” With promises to revive the coal industry, Trump won West Virginia by 42 points in 2016, his largest margin of any state.

Donnelly and McCaskill are depending on high Democratic turnout in urban areas and college towns, including African-Americans who were deeply skeptical of Kavanaugh. Tester and McCaskill emphasized concerns that Kavanaugh’s skepticism of campaign-finance laws could lead to the proliferation of “dark money” in politics. Heitkamp raised questions about the judge’s “temperament, honesty, and impartiality.” All are campaigning on health care, and Kavanaugh’s views about the le-

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Apple to U.S. lawmakers: China did not hack us, as reported Levi Sumagaysay The Mercury News (TNS) Apple is strongly denying to Congress an explosive report that its products have been compromised by the Chinese government.

Apple’s top security officer told lawmakers the company has found no evidence of claims made in a report published last week. His response comes after the Department of Homeland Security and Britain’s national cybersecurity agency both said that they believe denials by Apple, Amazon and others of the Bloomberg report that the Chinese government planted surveillance microchips in servers used by U.S. tech giants.

The chips were reportedly inserted into motherboards for servers made by a San Jose-based company, Supermicro, which also denies Bloomberg’s story.

“We are eager to share the facts in this matter because, were this story true, it would rightly raise grave concerns,” George Stathakopoulos, vice president of information security at Apple, wrote to the leaders of the House and Senate commerce committees on Monday. “A compromise of this magnitude, and the effective deployment of malicious chips like the one described by Bloomberg, would represent a serious threat to the security of systems at Apple and elsewhere.”

This echoes the company’s denial to the press last week, and is in line with Amazon’s response, too.

“At no time, past or present, have we ever found any issues relating to modified hardware or malicious chips in SuperMicro motherboards in any Elemental or Amazon systems,” Amazon said last week. “Nor have we engaged in an investigation with

the government.”

The Bloomberg report, published Thursday, also claims that there is an ongoing FBI investigation into the issue. Supermicro said last week it is not aware of any such investigation, either, and had not been contacted by the government.

Besides raising concerns among consumers, any perceived insecurity of the products or services of U.S. tech giants could affect their ability to land government contracts. The U.S. government has been suspicious of Chinese-made technology and this year forbade its agencies from using products made by companies such as Huawei and ZTE. “Concern for supply chain security is absolutely central to the way we run our business,” said Apple’s Stathakopoulos in his letter to Sens. John Thune, R-S.D., and Ben Nelson, D-Neb., on

LA celebrates inaugural Indigenous Peoples Day Alejandra Reyes-Velarde Los Angeles Times (TNS) LOS ANGELES — Christopher Columbus was the guest of dishonor at this party.

Away from the revelers, a statue of the famous explorer was kept hidden behind a black box in downtown Los Angeles’ Grand Park, decorated with an altar celebrating native people.

Monday marked the first celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day in Los Angeles, a year after the county Board of Supervisors voted to reimagine Columbus Day. The covered statue included a note signed by several county organizations indicating the monument will be removed.

“As the City Council member who works with the county supervisor, take my word for it: The statue is on its way out,” said Councilman Mitch O’Farrell, who is of Native American descent and pushed the Los Angeles City Council last year to re-

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Lydia Ponce, from the Mayo Quechua nation and adopted Tongva, raises her arm in support as various indigenous nations take the stage during the Procession of Nations on the steps of City Hall for the first Indigenous People’s Day being celebrated in Grand Park all day Monday, Oct. 8, 2018.

name Columbus Day. Across the street from the

main festivities of the daylong celebration, Soraya Medina, whose ancestors are part of the Caribbean’s Taino tribe, helped assemble the altar. She stood by the Columbus statue, talking to people about the demonstration as they passed by.

Medina said the statue has been in the park for decades and is a shameful reminder of the European push into the Americas that resulted in the enslavement and death of millions of indigenous people.

“It was a mistake. It was money. It was greed,” she said of the exploration. “Imagine we had a history where we would have kept our wealth? The statue is a monument to genocide.”

With the new holiday and the eventual removal of the Columbus statue, Medina said everyday people will now be exposed to the history and culture that schools have long neglected to teach.

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Apple’s top security officer maintains that the company has found no evidence that its products have been compromised by the Chinese government.

the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, and Reps. Greg Walden, R-Ore., and Frank Pallone, D-N.J., on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce,

a copy of which was provided to this news organization. He said he would be available to brief the lawmakers’ staff on the matter —

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State biologists tapped for 8-year study of bats in Missouri When the state of Missouri wanted to determine how forest management practices affect the federally endangered Indiana bat in northeast Missouri, they called on Indiana State University researchers.

This spring, Joy O’Keefe, associate professor of biology, and Diana Hews, professor of biology, will start an eight-year project working on state-owned lands to assess the effects of the timber harvest on Indiana bats.

The scope of their projects begins with three years of pre-treatment data collection looking at the population numbers and demographics, as well as bat health.

During the upcoming two years the state of Missouri will harvest trees in three of the six sites where research will be conducted. The final three years of the project will involve assessment of bat population size and health to determine the impact of the forest clearing.

“This project stems from a larger question that many agencies in many states have, which is if we harvest timber are we negatively impacting these bats that rely on trees in the summer?” O’Keefe said. “The presence of the bat can sometimes impede or halt timber harvest operations because they use trees to raise their pups in the summer. There’s concern that if you cut the trees down during the summer, you might harm bats. Or, if you cut trees down in the winter, you might be taking away valuable habitat the bats need and when the bats come back the next summer and it’s gone, they have no habitat.”

In preparation for the research, a Ph.D. student was hired in August to help Hews run tests.

When fieldwork begins this spring, the Ph.D. student will begin gathering data on Indiana bats and other species that coexist in the Missouri forests.

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LACKS FROM PAGE 1 tend that when the cells were taken there was no established practice for informing or obtaining consent from cell or tissue donors, nor were there any regulations on the use of cells in research.

Members of the Lacks family were in attendance for the announcement Saturday.

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which he said the company has been investigating since it was contacted

by Bloomberg in October 2017 — this week.

One lawmaker, Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, told Bloomberg TV last week that if the report is true, it would represent the “holy grail of hacking.”

Bloomberg has said that it stands by its report, which it told other media outlets is based on more than a year’s worth of reporting, 100 interviews and 17 anonymous sources that confirmed its reporting.

The story became the subject of a book, titled “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” and spawned a movie with the same title.

The National Institutes of Health came to an agreement in 2013 with some of Lacks’ family that required scientists to get permission from the government agency to use her genetic blueprint.

But government agencies do not appear to be convinced.

“At this time we have no reason to doubt the statements from the companies named in the story,” said the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Saturday.

“We are aware of the media reports but at this stage have no reason to doubt the detailed assessments made by AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Apple,” the National Cyber Security Centre, a unit of Britain’s GCHQ intelligence agency, said Friday.

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LA FROM PAGE 2 Last year’s City Council debate to rebrand the holiday pitted O’Farrell, a member of the Wyandotte Nation tribe in Oklahoma, against Councilman Joe Buscaino, who is of Italian heritage. Opponents of the change had argued that celebrating indigenous people should not come at the expense of Italian-Americans, who consider Columbus’ arrival in the Caribbean a significant marker of their heritage.

O’Farrell said renaming the holiday would give “restorative justice” to indigenous people and right a “historical wrong.”

As for the statue of Columbus in Grand Park, several county groups — including the Native American Indian Com-

STUDY FROM PAGE 2 “This is my first time working with bats, and I am coming at it from a health angle because my major research area is broadly defined as hormones and behavior,” Hews said. “I mostly work on reproductive hormones, such as testosterone and estrogen, but I also work on the stress hormone cortisol. When mammals get stressed, they get a surge of cortisol, which helps prepare for demands the animal may have that take energy, like flying, fighting immune infection and reproduction.

“Our hypothesis is that if the Indiana bat is being adversely impacted by the forest management practices, we will see that bats have higher baseline levels of the stress hormone,” Hews said.

Because the Indiana bat is federally protected and large blood samples can’t be taken, they will examine

mission, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission — are pushing for its removal.

Kristin Sakoda, executive director of the county’s arts commission, said the decision to move the statue was solidified in the last few months, and the three groups are in talks about what will become of it. The county is expected to approve funding the removal of the artwork in the next few months, and Sakoda said it likely will be taken down sometime early next year.

In November, as part of Native American Heritage Month, a temporary art installation will be displayed where the current statue sits.

“I would urge for people to do some research and realize that replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day and removing all symbols of oppression and hatred is probably good for all societies, not just indigenous America,” O’Farrell said of those who may oppose removing Columbus’ marker.

The daylong festivities, which were slated to include performances by the Black Eyed Peas and Native American rock group Redbone, included a sunrise ceremony, a 5K run and a Native American powwow.

Addressing a few hundred people from the stage at the foot of City Hall, O’Farrell said Los Angeles is the largest city to adopt Indigenous Peoples Day

in place of Columbus Day, adding that cities both big and small — from Boston to Boise, Idaho — have followed suit.

Native American actor Jacob Pratt, who emceed the event, introduced the Procession of Nations, calling on members of tribes from across the globe, some from the Tongva tribe who inhabited the land where Los Angeles sits today.

“Today, we celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day as a day of remembrance honoring the resilient spirit of Native Americans,” county Supervisor Hilda Solis said in a statement. “While we cannot change the past, we can reflect and recall the pain millions suffered throughout our nation’s history.”

other tissues as indicators of the bats’ stress levels.

Specifically the team will analyze stress hormones in feces and in hair samples.

Fecal samples will provide a quick snapshot of current hormone levels over the last few hours; hair samples record hormones levels over the time that the fur has been growing.

Hair from young of the year, born in June, will let the researchers know how stressful life was both before and after birth.

“We’re going to collect fecal samples, which is a procedure that has really taken off in wildlife biology in the last 15 years,” Hews said. “This method has a lot of ifs, ands and buts. The time course is a problem because the moment the fecal pellet is deposited, then bacteria in the fecal pellet begins to chew apart the molecule you’re looking at. Many bats will provide a fecal sample while in the hand,

so we’ll know that the sample is fresh.”

O’Keefe is using the fall and winter to hire a crew of students, including a post-doctoral student for the entire period of the project. Later on, another Ph.D. student and two master’s degree students will be added. Each summer, she plans to hire a crew of workers to help in the field, about 10 students per summer on average to help manage the six areas.

“Those undergrads will get to work with me, the post-doc and graduate students, and get a lot of hands-on experience, a lot of really important training. They’ll get experience working with an endangered species and with state agency biologists,” she said. “Working on a large-scale project such as this will facilitate undergraduate research during the school year working in concert with Dr. Hews or me. It’s just a tremendous

opportunity because it will be a boost to our undergrads who are interested in wildlife.”

O’Keefe expects challenges with a project of this magnitude, but the knowledge that could be created is even greater.

“I think for the state of Missouri, we’re going to demonstrate more solidly than anyone has done before how timber harvest affects Indiana bats. There hasn’t been a before-after-control experiment like this, so we have measurements before and after, control sites that will never be harvested and then we have these experimental sites that will be harvested.

Since we first discovered Indiana bats roosting in trees back in the 70s, we’ve had questions about how harvest affects the bats. But there’s not been the opportunity to have such a longterm project like this with Indiana bats until now.”

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Fashion Forward Blake Wiseman

Reporter

Q: What do like most about your style?

A: What I like about my style is that I can match anything. I like to wear basketball shorts a lot, but I also enjoy dressing up a little bit too. I make sure everything matches and a lot of the times, my underwear and socks also match my outfit.

Q: How does your style relay who you are as a person?

A: I am a very unique

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person. I am outgoing and friendly to all. I like to wear colorful shirts, mainly blue, yellow, purple, etc. because I am always smiling and laughing so those colors are the warm colors that I feel portray my sense of humor.

Q: When you shop, what do you look for most?

A: When I shop, I look for clothes that many people wouldn’t like. I like being different, so shopping for shirts that no one else has is always fun. I also enjoy thrift shopping to find old-

er clothes that I could still rock.

Q: Explain your favorite seasonal styles and why you like them.

A: I really like the fall and winter look so I can break out my jeans and flannels.

I also like wearing snow boots so it’s a perfect time.

I enjoy the red and orange fall tint. It’s very calming around that time of year so it’s definitely my favorite season. Being able to wear clothes that go with the season is great!

Nicole Nunez Reporter

Lauren Rader Blake Wiseman is a freshman at Indiana State University, majoring in Nursing.

He is a Certified Nursing Assistant, and loves helping others when he can. He is excited to become a nurse, and help people in a medical setting.

Wiseman is also Sandison Hall’s Council President.

Whenever he can, he is helping others.

Wiseman is going on an Alternative Spring Break trip with Indiana State next year to the Bahamas.

Students will be building homes, and interacting with kids and natives in the Bahamas.

Homecoming Kickoff sparks Sycamore pride

Q: Who are your fashion role models, or the people whose style you look up to the most?

A: I love Gus Kenworthy’s style. He isn’t really a fashion model, but he knows how to rock sportswear. He really knows how to dress up. He is also a huge role model for me, because he is a huge advocate for the LGBTQ+ community so when he incorporates that into his style it makes me love him more.

The Union Board Homecoming Committee held their Homecoming Kickoff to start the week of sycamore celebration.

The first portion of the Kickoff was held in the Dede plaza from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. which featured giveaways such as color-changing cups. This portion of the event was a quick and easy way for students to pass by and become enthusiastic for the week’s upcoming events.

The tailgate portion of the kickoff was held at Wolfe Field from 1p.m. to 3 p.m., featuring food, drinks, a football toss, cornhole, and a chance to win prizes. There were funnel cake fries provided by the Union Board.

There was also a wing competition between Buffalo Wild Wings and Wing Stop, where students were given a ticket to taste 3 wings from each location, according to Mikala Poe, Graduate Assistant for Union Board in Campus Life.

Everything at the event was free, thanks to the Union Board.

This event gave a glimpse into the spirit of homecoming week, providing students with relief from their stress and an excitement unique to homecoming week.

“Students should attend to enjoy a good time outside with friends, eat some great food, play some games, and most of all get excited for Homecoming. This whole week will be filled with events for everyone and coming to this event will set the tone for this whole week, plus there’s a chance for a prize... why not?” said Poe. This year, homecoming week and all of its events are not exclusive to students, but are open to the community as well. The Union Board has invited a multitude of companies to help Indiana State University

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indianastatesman.com KAVA FROM PAGE 1 gality of Obamacare’s consumer protections are in doubt.

The red-state Democrats face a predicament: they need to preserve an image of independence to attract at least some Republican voters, but also need their Democratic base to turn out in big numbers. Midterm elections tend to be low turnout affairs where only about 4 in 10 eligible American voters show up.

In an era where the share of persuadable voters has been declining, campaigns increasingly put a premium on mobilizing the party faithful.

But it’s not all good news for Senate Republicans.

The Kavanaugh debate contains perils for Senator Dean Heller of Nevada, a state won by Hillary Clinton in 2016. He trails in recent polls and was quickly attacked over his support for Kavanaugh by Democratic opponent Jacky Rosen. In Arizona, where Trump’s winning margin was 3.5 points, Democrat Kyrsten Sinema is narrowly leading in the race for

KICKOFF FROM PAGE 4 celebrate throughout the week. The week is a perfect opportunity for students to engage with the Terre Haute community, as well as the ISU community.

“I think the Kickoff and Tailgate relate to our theme of Sycamore Nation be-

MIC FROM PAGE 1 Bless the Mic. “I’ve only officially been part of Bless the Mic this semester,” said Jenkins.

“I’ve always gone to the shows and supported. I’m tapping on stage, I kept it hidden for a long time and I finally decided to come out and do it.”

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an open seat being vacated

by Republican Jeff Flake.

Inflaming the Democratic base and alienating suburban women carries big risks for Republicans.

Underlying the early liberal opposition to Kavanaugh was his lengthy record as a conservative jurist on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, leading to fears that he’d lock in 5-4 majorities in cases involving gun rights and validating voting restrictions, while providing a potential fifth vote to weaken abortion rights and LGBT protections, where retired Justice Anthony Kennedy typically sided with the left.

While #MeToo activists voiced outrage about the sexual assault accusation later leveled against Kavanaugh’s and expressed support for his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, Trump argued that the real victims were Kavanaugh and other men.

Women were “outraged at what happened to Brett Kavanaugh,” Trump told reporters Saturday before speaking at a rally in Kansas. “They’re thinking of their sons, they’re thinking of their husbands and

their brothers, their uncles, and others.” The president called it “a very scary time for young men in America.”

It’s an extension of the us-versus-them approach Trump used in his 2016 campaign, in which he portrayed the “forgotten men and women” suffering under the dominance of a liberal elite. As he campaigns for Republican candidates this year he’s ramped up the dire warnings of what would happen if Democrats return to power.

“They want to erase our gains and plunge our country into a nightmare of gridlock, poverty, chaos and, frankly, crime, because that’s what comes with it,” he said Oct. 4 in Rochester, Minnesota.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Saturday said Trump was “stooping to new depths” when he mocked Kavanaugh’s accuser at a rally in Mississippi on Oct. 2. On Saturday, Trump said his comments were meant to “level the playing field.”

“So to Americans — to so many millions who are outraged at what happened here, there’s only one an-

swer: vote,” the New York Democrat said. “If you believe the Supreme Court should uphold women’s rights, vote.”

In 2010, a mid-term backlash against President Barack Obama sparked a red wave that helped Republicans take over the House and pare back the Democratic Senate majority. Much like Obama at the time, Trump is traveling the country urging his party’s base not to be complacent. He has events this week in Iowa, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky.

“It’s kind of woken people up at this point. I don’t think they’re going to go back to sleep,” Brian Walsh, the president of America First Action, a pro-Trump super PAC, said in an interview on C-SPAN. But Edwards, the former Democratic congresswoman, was skeptical that the Republican enthusiasm boost would last. “This is going to be a short-lived burst for Republicans,” she said. “Very similar to Obama, the people who voted for Trump voted for Trump. So they’re not as mobilized around voting for somebody else.”

cause it’s no longer just our students celebrating alone, we’re inviting the community to join in. Through this partnership with the wing companies we are bringing together the community and the students; growing and celebrating the Sycamore Nation,” said Poe.

The homecoming theme “Sycamore Nation” and the kickoff helped create a disposition of what it means to be a Sycamore. Students come from different backgrounds, but since its beginning, ISU has created a sense of companionship that is held within each and every student.

“We also want to show that even though we have a diverse group of students, we are all still Sycamores and we can all form a nation and celebrate our school with past and present students,” said Poe.

Tre-O Badgett, a junior studying communication explained how networking plays a role in Bless the Mic. “[Bless the Mic] is important to me individually because it’s broadening my fanbase,” said Badgett.

“People are listening to me and finding out what I can do and what I’m capable of.

Even if it’s just a few hundred people. That one ear, you don’t know who they know, who they’re going to tell about me. It’s networking and it’s a wonderful thing to get people to like what I love.”

Badgett encourages everyone to come out to the upcoming Bless the Mic shows, no matter who you

are or what your talent is.

“Bless the Mic is a non-discriminatory environment. We don’t boo anybody off the stage. Everybody is welcome to come to Bless the Mic. No matter what you do or who you are, come out, and if you want to show us, show us.”

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Renaming the NAFTA just might work Tyler Cowen

Bloomberg News

The Trump administration’s renegotiation of NAFTA is decidedly underwhelming, the product of a toxic process that made only a modest modification of the original deal. The administration’s renaming of NAFTA, however — it will henceforth be known as the USMCA, for the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement — could prove to be a stroke of political and marketing genius.

Names really matter, and politicians should give as much thought to them as corporations do. Amazon, Google and Apple, for instance, have been established as iconic names, which probably helps those companies market their services and maintain market share.

So what is wrong with NAFTA? It’s such a nice, easyto-pronounce acronym, reminiscent of the word “nifty.” But some of my fellow U.S. citizens might notice that the North American Free Trade Agreement does not include the name of the largest nation party to it. In fact, they might think the reference to “North American” makes it sound as if U.S. is being swallowed up by some larger entity.

With USMCA, by contrast, it is quite clear which country comes first.

That said, this ordering may be slightly problematic for Mexico and especially Canada, now relegated to third place. But those smaller and less powerful countries will sign off on the new deal anyway. Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s foreign minister, even quoted Shakespeare: “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

When I see USMCA, I also think of “United States Marine Corps,” a connection Donald Trump himself has noted. Of course the Marines have nothing to do with international trade policy, but given the pub-

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lic’s longstanding confidence in the military, the association is unlikely to hurt politically. Other people may confuse USMCA with USCMA, or the United States Catholic Mission Association, another positive connotation.

This next point may sound slightly cynical, but here goes: Perhaps being so easy to say and remember has been part of NAFTA’s problem. The sad reality is that voters do not love the idea of free trade once it is made concrete to them, and both Barack Obama and Trump campaigned against NAFTA in its current form. So maybe every time people heard the name NAFTA, they were reminded of how much they disliked it.

I recall, more than a decade ago, hearing talk of a supposed “NAFTA superhighway,” a series of roads that would supposedly bring the three NAFTA countries under some kind of joint, conspiratorial rule, enforced by the movement of vehicles on these connector roads and sometimes in league with Satan himself. The alternative phrase — “USMCA Superhighway” — doesn’t roll off the tongue as easily, so maybe it will be harder to drum up fake news about the new deal.

There is yet another advantage to the new name: Many politicians, especially Democrats, are on record as opposing NAFTA. The change of name gives them a chance to rebrand their opinions, even if they do not wish to do so right now when Trump is touting his victory.

Looking back, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt) had a pretty good name for its time. It conveyed that there was in fact a general agreement, and that branding sold well enough in an earlier, more multilateral era. It might have sounded dull and technocratic, but that was OK for policies which were

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Kavanaugh’s confirmation is disgusting Rachel Modi Columnist

Last week, the United States Senate heard from Brett Kavanaugh. Forty-eight senators denied Kavanaugh’s confirmation, while 50 accepted. 49 Republicans voted yes, while 48 Democrats voted no. One Republican did not vote and one democrat voted to confirm Kavanaugh.

Brett Kavanaugh was then confirmed to the United States Supreme Court.

For those who do not have prior knowledge of the United States Supreme Court, here is some information for you to keep in mind: 1. The United States Supreme Court is a part of the Judicial Branch of our government who interprets the laws passed by the Legislative Branch.

2. The United States Supreme Court Justices (or judges) are nominated by the President of the United States when there is a vacancy.

3. Nine Justices sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.

4. Each Justice is granted life long tenure, which means Jus-

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tices are granted their seat until they die, retire, or are impeached by the Legislative branch.

5. The U.S. Supreme Court interprets the official “law of the land.”

According to Article IV, Section 2 of the Constitution, the Supremacy Clause, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision is considered the law above all. This means that federal law (United States laws) is above state law.

Each state has their own constitution – some very closely duplicate and follow the United States Constitution, and others very loosely. Each state has the power to govern itself, as long as their laws do not conflict with the united federal law. Therefore, if a state declares a decision for a certain case and one of the litigants does not agree with the decision, then the case can be appealed or sent to the Supreme Court to be reconsidered. Due to Supremacy Clause, the Supreme Court can overturn or agree with the decision of the lower/state courts.

After credible allegations of sexual assault surfaced, this confirmation does not surprise me, but disgusts me. Repeated-

ly heard throughout the Senate hearing, women in the gallery, where the public may sit in, yelled out, “Shame!” These cries are again ignored. Since the President is the one to nominate Justices, he can push his political agenda by nominating individuals who would vote in favor for his plans. Trump and the Senate Republicans have created a Supreme Court with conservative judges who are more likely to vote in favor for conservative ideas.

Senator Dianne Feinstein from California tweeted, “Confirming Brett Kavanaugh in the face of credible allegations of sexual assault that were not thoroughly investigated, and his belligerent, partisan performance in last Thursday’s hearing undermines the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.”

Disgusted by the disrespect for the survivors of sexual assault, this shakes my faith in the Supreme Court. The Constitution is allowed for interpretation by the justices on the court, but does not take into consideration the pure morality of situations.

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Ryan Gosling trades la la land for wishing on the moon Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune

There’s enough going on in director Damien Chazelle’s tense, distinctive Neil Armstrong biopic, “First Man,” to leave the climactic, inspired Apollo 11 moon landing sequence aside for a few paragraphs. So hang in there, please, and we’ll get to the damn flag.

“First Man” comes from the James R. Hansen biography of the same name, exploring the far reaches of uncharted territory.

The lunar mission, yes, of course.

But really Chazelle’s film, written

by Josh Singer (“Spotlight,” “The Post”) has its hands and its interests full with prying open, tactfully, the clam that was Armstrong, a famously tight-lipped aeronautical engineer and history-maker.

Ryan Gosling is an apt choice for this role, though he has to work hard at seeming like a regular Joe, even an emotionally bottled-up regular Joe. The actor’s air of vaguely imperious, sphinx-y cool doesn’t easily accommodate conventional, overt heroics. This is also why the casting basically works (better overall, I’d say, than in Chazelle’s previous film, “La La Land”). Chazelle doesn’t use Armstrong’s achievement to make an America First public-service message. Rather, “First Man” prioritizes the sheer, deafening mechanics of each flight, every orbit and the succession of risky missions. The claustrophobic experience of being inside aircraft and spacecraft in one life-and-death scenario after another: That’s the movie you get here, built around a private man.

It’s not Ron Howard’s “Apollo 13,” in other words.” That film,

KAVANAUGH FROM PAGE 6 After these women, Christine Blasey Ford and Anita Hall, came forward to share their story of their traumatic sexual assault by the hands of Kavanaugh in front of millions, their stories were not taken seriously.

“When President Donald Trump was elected, we should have known it was game-over for compassionate politics,” Roxanne Jones of CNN says.

“We gave him the power to build a Supreme Court of his liking, knowing that

rousing and satisfying, got more feel-good feels out of a rescue mission than “First Man” gets out of a climactic mission that required no rescuing. En route to that climax, Chazelle returns cyclically, methodically, to variations on two themes: getting “up there,” and making sense of Armstrong’s life, marriage and buried grief over the early death, from cancer, of the Armstrongs’ daughter, Karen.

Claire Foy makes for a quietly fierce and wholly convincing Janet Armstrong, a woman living with uncertainty and potential tragedy every second. Chazelle makes that potential vividly scary in the opening scene, in which Armstrong’s X-15 flights (one of several) bounces off the Earth’s atmosphere, nearly loses control, then lands in the Mojave Desert.

The sequence is a throttling blur of spinning dials, screaming velocity (the sound designer, Ai-Ling Lee, is practically a co-star) and supertight close-ups designed to let us see Armstrong’s response to the chaos, but also to put us behind Armstrong’s eyes.

The script covers eight years in the Armstrongs’ lives. The scenes of family life, and the Armstrongs’ boys, and poolside cookouts, establish the normality; the scenes of the X-15 flight, the later Gemini missions and finally the 1969 Apollo 11 success establish the stark thrill of the astronauts’ accomplishments. Chief among the supporting players, Jason Clarke adds a touching, stalwart quality as Ed White, Armstrong’s friend and steady confidant. Throughout “First Man” death comes suddenly to some, while others are left processing the dread and loss.

there would be multiple vacancies to fill during his term. And it’s unrealistic to think that any amount of division or screaming in the streets would force Trump to willingly give up his power.”

Even after a whole year of a universal recognition of sexual assault, of course, the men of the U.S. Senate still confirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court of the United States.

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This is the director’s fourth film, and the first without a music foreground. Still, “First Man” shares many traits with his musicals “Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench” and “La La Land,” and the jazz psychodrama “Whiplash,” notably a portrait of a man trying to reconcile his work with everything taking him away from that work, and his obsessive focus on getting the notes or trajectories right.

In one interview scene, Armstrong’s asked if his daughter’s recent death has been tough to shoulder. Gosling pauses, and clearly doesn’t want to give his interrogators any reason to doubt his abilities. “I think it would be unreasonable to assume it wouldn’t have some effect,” he manages, carefully.

The key invention in “First Man,” relating to Armstrong’s memory of Karen, will strike some viewers as a bit much, while others will be grateful for the emotional flourish after so much clamped-down onscreen anxiety.

A few things prevent “First Man” from being remarkable, I think, instead of merely expert.

Singer’s script is efficient and effective, no more. Chazelle’s decision, with cinematographer Linus Sandgren, to go full, faux-documentary shaky-cam in the household scenes imparts a cliched sense of movie urgency. Composer Justin Hurwitz has come up with an excellent primary theme, rolling and melodically suspenseful, but the fully orchestrated waltz he delivers for the Gemini 8 flight feels pushy.

(It’s a “2001” nod, among other things, to Stanley Kubrick’s use of the Strauss “Blue Danube.”)

On the other hand, it takes a writer and a director of serious

Not only have the stories been ignored, but our own President mocked and oppressed those women.

The Judicial branch is made to not get involved with political drama and jokes, but it seems to have shifted its use.

Some may see Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation as a positive change, but others may also see this confirmation as a negative swing.

The political sides constantly swing left and right every couple decades, so America may still have hope.

dull and technocratic.

Much worse, however, was the 1995 relabeling into the World Trade Organization, a name which to many people sounds globalist, faceless and sinister.

They might as well have called it SPECTRE, the name of the criminal group in many James Bond novels and films.

Southerners had the right idea when they labeled America’s 1828 protectionist legislation the “tariff of abominations.”

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talent to end “First Man” the way Singer and Chazelle do: with a wary reunion of Neil and Janet, indicating that nothing in this life is ever easy. Subtly the reunion points to what happened years later, outside the movie’s parameters.

Now, the flag. In the moon landing and first-walk passages, which are sublime and make “First Man” well worth seeing, Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin (Corey Stoll) go about their business while Chazelle and company go about theirs. The visual realization of what happened on July 20, 1969, is quite staggering, and also dramatically effective in its hushed quality. This isn’t a Michael Bay movie. The planting of the American flag on the moon’s surface does not get a hammy, over-scored close-up. Instead, we see the flag a couple of times in middle-distance shots. And there’s a full, natural complement of flag imagery throughout the movie.

Our current president has been on the record for weeks now as saying the movie is “terrible,” though he hasn’t seen it, and says he won’t. The Apollo mission, he said a month ago, egged on by a right-wing interviewer, was about one thing above all: getting that

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American flag in place. It’s the only thing people think about when they think about Apollo 11, he says.

Well. It’s still a big country, and we can still disagree openly with xenophobic leaders. “First Man” focuses, narrowly, on a few key ideas and themes. Its aim is to make us feel, and see, what Neil Armstrong felt and saw. It’s less interested in his symbolic weight, and what he “meant.” The movie will likely disorient anyone uncomfortable with a story that has the nerve to side, when it makes sense, with Foy’s Janet. She often gets the last, angriest word in her dealings with her emotionally reserved man, and the wall of men behind him.

I’m glad Chazelle’s film offers some fresh points of view on its subject; it’s proof he’ll be able to keep his filmmaking wits about him, no matter what genre he’s exploring. He has made his Apollo 11 movie. And it’s good one.

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That name has stuck to this day. Who would defend such a tax? But in those days the federal government relied more heavily on tariffs for basic revenue, so the argument for that tariff arguably is stronger than is the case for protectionism today.

What about the Trans-Pacific Partnership?

I have to give that one a thumbs down.

“Trans” sounds conspiratorial, like a power transversing borders, as if no single country is in charge of its destiny.

It also communicates to

voters a vague sense that something big is going to change (e.g., “transform”), not always a positive connotation.

If Trump relabels that agreement, it could also be a step forward.

Of course, government policies should be judged on what they do, not on what they’re called.

But do not underestimate the power of a name to influence public perception.

If only every trade agreement could have a name as short, sweet and popular as, say, Social Security.

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Sycamores volleyball team loses to Missouri.

Sycamores Volleyball team falls to Missouri State in Friday’s game Jordan Koegler Reporter

The Pink Night game supporting breast cancer awareness resulted in a loss for Indiana State when they hosted Missouri State in the arena during Friday’s game.

The final score for the night was Sycamores one and Bears three. The set scores for the evening were 24-26, 25-22, 25-19 and 25-20.

ISU number 20 Madeline Williams, had 12 kills for the night,

leading the team during Friday’s game. Williams is a freshman and is a middle blocker/outside hitter for the team.

Melina Tedrow, freshman defensive specialist, had 35 assists and 18 digs for the night. Tedrow also is the third Sycamore to break a double-double so far this season.

On the other end, MSU junior outside hitter, Aubrey Cheffey had 16 kills leading the Bears for the evening.

The Bears freshman outside hitter, Amelia Flynn, had 17 digs

for the Bears during Friday’s game.

Set one between the Sycamores led with 26 and the Bears followed with 24. The Bears had more blocks and kills, however the Sycamores had more hits during the first set. During set number eight, Rhiannon Morozoff led ISU with a total of four kills.

In the second set MSU had 25 and ISU followed with 22. Cassie Kawa and Madeline Williams both tied leading the Sycamores in kills, totaling four during the

second set. The Bears had more hits during set two than the Sycamores.

In set three, the Bears led with 25 and Sycamores followed with 19. Williams led the team with four kills during the set. Despite ISU being down in score to MSU, the Sycamores did out-block the Bears during the set.

During the final set the Bears had 25 and the Sycamores had 20. A few close calls were made that gave the Bears an advantage during the fourth set. The Bears got a 5-2 run. Though the Syca-

mores outhit the Bears, ISU also received more blocks during set four.

Overall for Friday’s game it was a tough loss for ISU, though the Sycamores led in both kills (6746) and digs (85-78). Sycamores made fewer errors overall in the game, 17 errors for ISU and 29 for MSU. Sycamores have 10 games left in the regular season before going into the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament. The Trees will be in action Oct. 13 for an away game against Evansville.

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Melissa Green named as new ISU Swimming and Diving assistant coach.

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Athletic Media Relations

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - Indiana State Women’s Swimming and Diving Head Coach Josh Christensen has announced the hiring of Sycamore alumna Melissa Giesen as an assistant coach.

“I’d like to thank the athletics department and Josh Christensen for seeing me as the right fit for the assistant women’s swim coach position at Indiana State University,” Giesen said. “As a collegiate swimmer in the state of Indiana and a graduate of Indiana State University, this position feels like it was custom made for me. My family and I have always been strong supporters of the Sycamores and to be able to return to my alma mater as a coach is very exciting. It’s been a quick week jumping in and getting my feet wet, but I couldn’t be more impressed with the girls’ training and work ethic and with Coach Christensen’s creativity and ability as a head coach. We have high hopes and goals for this team and with the path they are on we expect to see great results this year.”

Giesen, wife of former Sycamore basketball player Brian Giesen (1997-2003), comes to Indiana State after a one year coaching stint with the Terre Haute Torpedoes where she was the lead coach for over 50 youth, ages 5-10.

“I am very excited to have Melissa joining our coaching staff,” Head Coach Josh Christensen said.

“She’s a highly motivated, positive person with a strong work ethic. Having been an Olympic Trials Qualifier and Division I student-athlete, she understands what it takes to compete at this level, as well as the responsibilities and stressors our stu-

dent-athletes will be dealing with throughout their collegiate careers. She’ll be an excellent mentor for the young ladies coming through our program.

I am confident we will work well together for the benefit of our student-athletes and ISU Swimming & Diving.”

Prior to her time with the Terre Haute Torpedoes, Giesen worked as an instructor at the Vigo County YMCA where she developed high intensity workouts to help participants meet their fitness goals.

She taught at First Friends Preschool from 20132015 after moving to Terre Haute from Texas in 2013.

While in Texas she served as an age group coach for Blue Tide Aquatics from 2010-2012 and she also worked as a classroom teacher in Humble, Texas for nine years.

She also served as the head coach for the Walden Waves swim team from 2002-2004, where she was responsible for instructing over 100 beginning swimmers.

After swimming at Indiana University from 1996-1998, she attended Indiana State from 19992001.

She graduated from ISU with a degree in Education and a minor in Computer Science in 2001.

Giesen attended Gainesville High School in Florida and was the Florida State Champion in the 500yard freestyle in 1996.

During that same year she won Junior Nationals in the 500 and 1650-yard freestyle. Giesen also qualified for the 1996 Olympic Trials.

She and her husband Brian have 4 sons; Nathan, Tyler, Will, and Nolan. Nathan and Tyler carry on the tradition, and are swimmers for Terre Haute North.

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Sycamores Soccer team tie for third time this season, against the Missouri State Bears.

Jay Adkins Reporter

This past Saturday, the Indiana State University Sycamores soccer team traveled to Springfield, Missouri to compete against the 7-6 Missouri State University Bears.

The Sycamores came into the matchup with a record of 6-5-2.

Their game before this matchup was a tough 4-0 loss at home to the Loyola University Ramblers.

Freshman Midfielder Grace Heenan scored the only goal for the Bears in the 42nd minute when she kicked the ball past Goalkeeper Hannah Sullivan to give Missouri State a 1-0 lead.

Senior forward Katie Wells scored her Missouri Valley Conference-leading eight goal of the season and moved her up to second place all time on the ISU goals list in a tie with Maddie Ord. Wells’ goal was very important because it ended up being the Sycamores’ only goal of the match and helped them to tie the

game up against the bears in the 43rd minute.

The game would go on to be scoreless for the last 20 minutes of regulation and overtime with both teams exchanging shots to no avail.

Katie Wells led the team in shots with four, two of which were on goal. Junior midfielder Lindsey Anstine had the only other shot on goal.

Goalkeeper Hannah Sullivan led the team with four saves in 110:00 minutes.

With the tie, The Sycamores move to 6-5-3 on the season and 1-1-1 in the Missouri Valley Conference, while the Bears move to 7-6-1 on the season.

This was the fourth overtime game of the season for the Sycamores and the third game to end in a tie, with the other two ties being at Purdue Fort Wayne and Akron.

The Sycamores will try to get back on track this Friday when they compete against the 6-5-2 Northern Iowa Panthers at home as part of homecoming weekend.

The matchup will begin at 7 p.m. and can be seen on ESPN+.