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Since the war in Syria began, 7.6 million people have been internationally displaced in Syria. Now in Lebanon one in five people are syrian refugees, in Jordan one in 13 people are syrian refugees. Syrian refugees are also relocating to various European countries, scattering the pieces of Syrian culture. illustration by Jessica Stallings | THe Shield
Event calls people to action in effort to help war-torn country by Megan Thorne features@usishield.com @ShieldsterMegan Ellen Small Billard knew from age 11 that she wanted to help the Middle East. After following the war in Syria in the news, she knew it was her time to help. Billard, an alumna, brought attention to the situation in Syria Monday during “Wings for Dreams: The human face behind the Syrian refugee crisis,” by talking about her organization “Road to Mafraq,” which provides education and assistance to Syrian refugees. USI’s KESHO (Swahili for “tomorrow”), which works to empower and inspire woman globally as well as raise awareness of global issues in the university community, brought Billard to campus to help inspire people to take action. Vice President of KESHO Jordan Wright said the organization’s goal is to bring attention to issues people might not know a lot about.
“A lot of people were surprised that there was a war in Syria,” Wright said. “It is important to have speakers come like this and raise awareness for the school.” Wright said she was excited to hear Billard speak about the refugees’ stories, and learn about how there are fourth graders who read at a kindergarten level because of the crisis. “It’s horrible,” Wright said. “Billard is going to be getting these students back into school, and helping them to learn. She will be creating schools in Jordan and it’s just really great.” Billard and her husband chose to name their organization “Road to Mafraq” as a way to partner with the refugees on their journey to Mafraq. The director said at that four years ago more than 50,000 people had been killed and more than a million were left as refugees in Syria. After seeing the destruction, they connected with NGO (NonGovernmental Organization) in Jordan, which is south of Syria. “I think it is important to remember that these
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are real people who are impacted by what is happening,” Billard said. “Those numbers represent real people, those numbers represent real stories and those numbers represent real dreams.” Billard pointed to a picture of a young man in his mid-thirties named Maher, who was sitting on a camel in front of the Roman ruins in Palmyra, Syria. She said he is a Syrian refugee who chose to flee, instead of staying to fight. Despite being called a coward by friends and family, he couldn’t bring himself to battle. “He (told me) no matter how much I believe in this cause, and I do, I cannot bring myself to kill,” Billard said. That’s not typically the picture of the Middle East that is painted for people in America, the director said. Someone who refuses to fight and kill, and risks the social consequences that can come from that, isn’t something people hear about. “This is now happening to people we know,” Billard said tearing up. “ They are no longer statistics, they are our friends.”
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A heated discussion between Faculty Senate members and previous senate chair Jason Fertig took place at Friday’s meeting. “The issue was one of protocol and transparency,” said Faculty Senate Chair Rex Strange. “We would like our constituents to know where the decisions are being made.” The senate was unaware of Fertig’s meetings with President Linda Bennett and the Provost’s Office where he presented his ideas as a collaborative effort with the senate, Strange said. “The president let me know about the meeting and so a heated discussion took place,” Strange said. “In an organization like this it is good for everyone to be on the same page.” “It was a case of the right hand not knowing what the left hand was doing,” Strange said. Fertig, in his own defense, said he spoke with the president and she told him to prepare a charge for the senate. “I really just wanted to get the discussion on the table, and it upset me when it wasn’t even brought up at the meeting,” said the associate professor of management. The issue Fertig was trying to bring up was a fix to a calendar date and Strange didn’t know he was sharing his ideas, he said.
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Scouting ventures onto campus
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Students from the University of Evansville’s Venture Crew kayak in one of the many lakes the Blue Grass Fish and Wildlife area has to offer. Venture Crew 303 is an new club to USI that will focus on getting students outdoors and adventuring.
by nick leighty ndleighty@eagles.usi.edu A new outdoor club has found their place on campus. The Venture Crew 303 is a club focused on exploring the outdoors and granting students leadership experiences in various activities
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through partnership with Boy Scouts of America. This has been an idea in the mind of former professor of public relations Gael Cooper for years. The first week he stepped onto campus in 2003, Cooper met with the Dean of Students and the head of the
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Boy Scouts council to see what could be done in organizing this club on campus. “It wasn’t a good time,” Cooper said. “One of the problems was the fact that the boy scouts program was not all inclusive. Fortunately, the Boy Scouts have changed their policy and it is
no longer an impediment.” There’s a $32 fee to join which covers insurance and participation in the club, but currently the main focus is finding new members. There are a variety of outdoor opportunities at USI that the group is looking to bring to light.
Adjunct Instructors teaching at USI are only paid parttime, but the pay is the highest of the local colleges said adjunct Lisa Wiltsie. “Adjunct instructors are only paid per class they teach, and most adjuncts are only allowed to teach three courses,” said Wiltsie, an adjunct at the Romain College of Business. Professors and full time instructors at the business college are paid on nine month contracts, Wiltsie said, but adjuncts are usually paid a lump sum or are given a monthly stipend. “There are pay discrepancies between adjuncts and regular instructors,” she said, “but I understand the reasoning because it is considered a part-time job.” Wiltsie said there can only be a certain percentage of adjuncts in each college, and that the number is based off of how many courses are being offered for the semester. “I am really comfortable with the pay I get as an adjunct here. It is more than any other part-time job I’ve had in my life,” she said. Adjuncts aren’t only confined to work at one university, Wiltsie said. They can also teach as an adjunct at multiple
colleges. “I was teaching here on a grant offer, but I left when it ended and went to become the program chair at Ivy Tech,” Wiltsie said. “Now I teach as an adjunct for both colleges.” While there are different tiers in a college for full time faculty, she said all adjuncts are simply pooled together as part-time. “Though we have all the same credentials as instructors (such as) a graduate degree in teaching and 18 credit hours,” she said, “the only difference really is that we don’t have the same amount of responsibilities.” Wiltsie said USI is the preferred employer among adjuncts. It pays its adjuncts higher than UE and Ivy Tech. “It still isn’t very much,” she said, “so I can understand how some people couldn’t make a living off of it. I am lucky enough to be a second source of income in my family.” Adjuncts can’t teach more than nine credit hours at a college, and most of their classes are taught entirely online, Wiltsie said, and they differ from college to college. At the College of Liberal Arts, adjunct instructors are given the chance to teach as a part of different programs.
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The ballots are in Republicans fill most city council seats since 1979, Democrats still majority
SGA addresses freshmen stress, approves Archie’s Army logo by Zackery willem
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Tootie Day reacts to the announcement that the democratic mayoral candidate Gail Riecken conceited from the city council election, which solidified Lloyd Winnecke’s position as Mayor of Evansville for his second term. Many members from the community gathered for the republican watch party at Tropicana Evansville Tuesday to support the party’s candidates as numbers rolled in.
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Special to The Shield Evansville republicans accompany the most seats on city council for the first time since 1979. “I think it’s a message from the citizens of Evansville that says enough with political shenanigans,” Mayor Lloyd Winnecke said. “I think the citizens of Evansville have said ‘we want our local government to be conducted by people with respect and we want our city to continue to progress.’ I think that message was pretty clear tonight.” Winnecke joined the other republican candidates for city council and city clerk at Tropicana on Tuesday night for the Republican Watch Party. Friends, family, constituents and candidates gathered to watch election results roll
in throughout the evening. The results for mayor came in first as Winnecke was elected to his second term with 62.04 percent of the vote. With just over half of the polling centers calculated his opponent State Representative Gail Riecken called and conceded. Winnecke said he appreciated Riecken’s “gracious call” and her desire to make Evansville a better city. Four republicans will join Winnecke this year as city council members which former mayor Russ Lloyd Jr. said has not happened in the past 35 years. “I think for whatever reason the current members became very political and fought the mayor on a number of fronts,” he said. “They made it harder to transfer money, of course they cut the
budget.” Lloyd Jr. said he hopes the new council will look back over some of the ordinances passed and attempt to repeal them. Ward 1 incumbent Dan McGinn won with over 85 percent of the vote, Ward 3 was won by Anna Hargis with over 60 percent of the vote, Justin Elpers won Ward 5 with 63.03 percent of the vote and Michelle Mercer was voted in as an at-large candidate with over 20 percent of the vote. The other wards continued to house democrats with Missy Mosby as the representative for Ward 2, Connie Robison in Ward 4, Jim Brinkmeyer for Ward 6 and the remaining at large seats were won by H. Dan Adams and Jonathan Weaver. Hargis said she is relieved the election is over and hon-
ored that the community voted for her. “What I am really excited about is to take that time and energy that I’ve been spending on campaigning,” she said, “and put it toward creating good solutions, working together with people and asking a million questions, which is one of my favorite things to do.” Hargis said she feels a great sense of responsibility because she is the first republican to represent Ward 3 since the late 70s. “Regardless of who has more control, I know it’s going to be beneficial to have more balance,” Hargis said. “(It will bring) a lot better dialogue, a lot better discussion.”
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There is already a mirror group at University of Evansville, advised by Keith Gehlhausen. The model they have set up is something the club here is looking to imitate, said Jennifer Whitaker, District Director of the Boy Scouts. The model has the group participating in one smaller scale event per month with a larger scale venture once a semester. While they hope to dupli-
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positions will be student led. This will allow students to get the outdoor experience
they desire while also gaining leadership opportunities. The first event is focused on introducing everyone to the group. “We’ve learned that it brings in students who come from all different walks of life,” Whitaker said. “It introduces them to each other and to new and exciting activities which allow them to create some really strong friendships.”
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Student Government Association freshmen at large Maurice Rush and Gabriela Aguilar compiled a list of four things freshman can do to relieve stress at the October 29 meeting. The list will accomplish an increase in bystander intervention and instill a sense of community among current and inbound freshman, said Dean of Students Brian Rush. Rush is also on the verge of completing the Character Group’s constitution and will soon move to have it officially formed as a university organization. The organization will help bring incoming freshman closer together as a community. The SGA will help Rush spread news about his group by advertising information to the campus community. As Archie’s Army wound down from the women’s volleyball season and prepares for the men’s basket-
ball season, the army made an appeal to have their own official logo. The SGA voted in favor of allowing student organization Archie’s Army to have an official brand. The Archie’s Army brand will be symbolically observed by the SGA and any changes to the logo will first be voted on by the Army’s general assembly of student representatives, then by the SGA. The SGA will now formally recognize the Archie’s Army logo. The logo will be available for use on t-shirts and any other items distributed by Archie’s Army. The SGA held three votes to review and reformat certain bylaws in the SGA constitution in hopes to make SGA bylaws more relevant. The changes to these bylaws define that the SGA can use the Archie’s Army official logo on social media, documents, t-shirts and other items.
faculty senate continued from Page 1 “I feel the meeting was the most appropriate place to bring it up,” Fertig said. “It was just due to some miscommunication.” Also in the meeting, the Faculty Senate voted unanimously on an amendment that will help keep up the “status quo” between colleges, said senate chair Rex Strange. The amendment was voted on and added to the Faculty Senate’s constitution at Friday’s meeting and will be extended to the Provost’s Office as a recommendation. The vote endorses that each college hold, at minimum, one annual meeting wher1e faculty can discuss promotions and tenure for faculty members. The meetings will be held in the presence of a newly formed committee consisting entirely of voted on tenured faculty members. The senate hopes the addition of this new amendment will improve communication between faculty and the Dean of Students’ Office. The senate also voted unanimously to refine financial aid regulations for students. Students with low in-
completion grades in classes have their financial aid withheld, and force students with low completion rates (67 percent) to make an appeal to the registrar’s office. The vote was to reword the rule to help make it more understandable to students and faculty, as well as assisting in cases where students aren’t at fault for incomplete courses. The senate body couldn’t come to a conclusion on whether or not to vote in favor of a course evaluation update. The course curriculum hasn’t been changed in a decade, and younger senate members voted to review and revise the curriculum to make it more relative to current courses. Older senate members however argue to keep the curriculum unchanged because there have been no complications with the curriculum thus far. SGA President Alexa Bueltel will attend a Faculty Senate meeting in January to speak on behalf of the campus community as to the complications finals places on graduated seniors. Fertig said he hopes to have the problem voted on and resolved before graduation in 2016.
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Adjunct professor Lisa Wiltsie discusses with the class after a group activity during her marketing of services course Tuesday. Wiltsie teaches courses at both USI and Ivy Tech as an adjunct professor.
Rina Okada, an adjunct at the College of Liberal Arts, teaches Japanese by way of the Alex Foundation. “The foundation helps foreign language instructors teach at colleges who need them while also pursuing their own graduate degree,” Okada said. Okada has taught Japanese at the college for three semesters and has pursued her own schooling while living in Evansville. “The college pays for everything, my tuition, housing and even my food costs,” she
said. “I get paid a monthly stipend, but instead of getting paid a lot of money, I get to go back to school.” Okada will teach at the university for two years or until she finishes her master’s degree as part of the Alex Foundation program. “I won’t have a luxury life,” she said, “but I know that I’m the lucky one. I don’t know of any others apart of the program who get paid as much as me.” Okada is one of two adjuncts at the university teaching under this program.
“If they did offer me a full time job I would accept it,” she said, “but they don’t have the budget to fund an entirely new Japanese department.” While the university does pay for all of her living expenses, Okada said that she thinks it’s a win-win. “They hire graduate students that they don’t have to pay as much, and I get to go back to school for free,” she said. “ I’m sure anyone apart of this program would take the free schooling.”
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Empty bowls to feed souls
Historical memory comes to light through performance Visting speaker talks Spanish Civil War in theatre
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A large crowd of people bumped shoulders and clinked bowls as they made their way through Kilroy’s Fine Dining Saturday during the 2014 Empty Bowl’s event, which sold out in just two hours.
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by Amelia Peterson agpeterson@eagles.usi.edu Through the purchase of handmade ceramic bowls, locals can enjoy hot soup while feeding those who go hungry in the Evansville community. With the instruction of ceramics students, community volunteers created bowls that will be sold for $10 each at the Empty Bowls event to raise money for charity. Free soup will be provided by Tom + Chee, PG, The Dapper Pig, Sauced, Perfectly Fresh and Woodbine. Empty Bowls is a national non-profit organization that lends its name to any group that wants to create ceramic bowls to raise money for hunger. The company sends a stamp to registered Empty Bowls events, allowing each bowl to be stamped with the event’s official seal. “(Empty Bowls) has a national draw,” said assistant professor of art Alisa Holen, who will host the event for the fourth time on Saturday. “It has credibility, and people know what it is without having to give the long explanation.” Holen said the event sells out every year. Although the volunteers plan for Empty Bowls to last for two hours, they usually run out of bowls and soup after only an hour and a half. “It’s like Christmas morning. You do all the preparation, all the wrapping, all the work and then poof, it’s gone,” Holen said. “The beauty is that, even though it goes by quickly, a huge amount of money is given to
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people who can use it to eat throughout the year.” In previous years ceramics students voted on which hunger-based organization would receive the money earned through Empty Bowls. Typically the students researched various community organizations on their own. This year, however, English instructor Audrey Hillyer took up Empty Bowls as a grant-writing exercise. Her students uploaded videos to pitch charities on VoiceThread, and then the ceramics students viewed each video before voting on which organizations would receive donations. “These students did these great presentations and my students were really moved, in particular by ECHO Housing, who takes care of homeless veterans and their families,” Holen said. Although ECHO Housing covers veterans’ homes through government funding, the organization’s grants do not allow it to feed the veterans or assist them with grocery bills. A large portion of the proceeds from Empty Bowls will go toward setting up a food bank for the organization, Holen said. Patchwork Central, which provides food in emergency
situations or to families in need, will be another recipient of Empty Bowls donations. The third recipient will be United Caring Services, which has received a donation from Empty Bowls every year. Some of the groups that donated handmade bowls this year included USI women’s basketball, North Posey High School, Deaconess Hospital, Bosse High School and Arts, Beats and Eats. “The bowls are made by people who sometimes have never thrown a bowl or been on a potter’s wheel before, so it’s fun,” Holen said. “It’s on a lot of people’s bucket lists to learn how to throw pots, and it’s a great opportunity for them to come in and do that.” Holen said the price volunteers pay for the chance to learn to throw on a potter’s wheel is giving up their bowls for the fundraiser. If the volunteers attend the event, however, they can purchase the bowls that they made. Because volunteers signed their bowls, they can find them at the event on the table set aside for their organization. “Bringing almost 200 people into the ceramic studio to make bowls means that there will be almost
200 people who show up to the event, and that’s what I banked on when I first came up with the idea for how to do this,” Holen said. Over the years, Empty Bowls grew to the point where Holen needed to turn away groups that wanted to participate. Holen said that last year there was a line of 300 people who came for the event, and she expects a great turn out this year as well. “I think it’s really beautiful,” Holen said. “I could never give a $10,000 check to my favorite charity, but I can rally the troops. I can get people excited about clay, and then together as a community we can make a difference.” Holen’s ceramics courses are service learning opportunities since the ceramics students help in the creation and preparation of the bowls. “Their service learning is that shortly after they learn how to make bowls, they teach other people how to. Their service learning is to teach volunteers,” Holen said. One of these students, Amanda Graham, said she loved being involved in Empty Bowls because it gave her the chance to help the community through art. “It’s a great opportunity,” Graham said. The sophomore economics major said she trimmed bowls after they were thrown by volunteers. “I really like it,” Graham said. “It’s a great way to practice your own skills while helping someone else.”
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Ellen Small Billard, co-founder and director of “Road to Mafraq,” talked about Syrian refugees during “Wings for Dreams: The human face behind the Syrian refugee crisis.” 6 p.m. Monday.
Maher’s family was living in Palmyra until recently, when his whole family was evacuated. Maher lost many close family members including an uncle. Most were beheaded by ISIS, which has now taken over the ruins and at the beginning of last week blew the columns up with people strapped to them. “It’s an interesting juxtaposition to make,” Billard said. “The simultaneous destruction of humanity in Syria, as well
as the destruction of the country.” Billard said as of right now there are over four million Syrian refugees that have had to leave their country and another seven to eight million that have been internally displaced inside Syria. “They are willing to risk death, willing to risk drowning and willing to risk being shot at the borders to give their families hope,” Billard said. “In order to give their children wings for dreams.”
The consequence of having a whole generation of children that are uneducated is morally wrong, Billard said. She is determined to provide a learning environment for the children. Billard showed a picture of a 10-yearold boy with “always a good day” written across his shirt. She said he had sand flies and scabs all over his face from infection. The boy ended up in the hospital fighting for his life two months after his photo was taken. Both him and his brother had immediate surgery and survived. Others aren’t so lucky. Hasaan, another 10-year-old boy, hadn’t been to school in three years but was able to extend thanks to the organization. He dreams of one day becoming an engineer and was already making appliances in Syria before his family fled, she said. He now has a chance to make a future and pursue his dream. Mahmud, a 13-year-old boy, designed a piece of artwork for his school that he calls “The Pigeon of Peace,” Billard said. “He (told me) he has seen so much destruction and war, that he wants his school to be characterized by peace,” Billard said. “He is only 13.” Billard said everyone she spoke to said this is who they are now, but back in Iraq or Syria they had so much that they had to leave. Some even left their dreams behind. “In Syria I was an attorney and here I am not even human, I am a refugee,” Billard said a young man told her.
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In Allison Guzman’s lecture, she discusses the memory of the Spanish War in contemporary society and theatre in Kleymeyer Hall. In her discussion, she talked about the public debate occurring in the 21st century.
by Amelia peterson agpeterson@eagles.usi.edu As a hushed audience listened, visiting lecturer Alison Guzman discussed the relationship between theater and historical memory, particularly for playwrights following the Spanish Civil War. The adjunct assistant professor of Spanish at Providence College in Rhode Island delivered her presentation on Oct. 28 as part of the annual Sydney Berger Lecture Series sponsored by the Liberal Arts department. David Hitchcock, associate professor of Spanish, said Guzman’s impressive list of publications includes the introduction to the original Spanish version “Todos Los Que Quedan,” the play that premiered at the university on October 29. The play discusses the outcomes of the Spanish Civil War, which fits Guzman’s interest in that time period. “(Guzman’s) specific areas of scholarly interest have been feminism, postmodernism and the historical memory of the Spanish Civil War,” Hitchcock said. Guzman’s interest in the concept of historical memory shone through her animated gestures and detailed presentation. “For a long time, history was divided from memory,” Guzman said. “History was something taught in textbooks and museums, and memory was something that individuals had.” Later, the idea of collective or historical memory emerged, fusing the twin concepts of history and memory, Guzman said. “Historical memory is obviously not something that just happens in Spain,” Guzman said. “We have it here.” Guzman provided many examples of American historical memory. The first example was the Iraq War, which caused the current destabilization in Iraq. Another example was that the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement came from the historical oppression of African Americans. In this way, current events stem from events in history. In Spain, the leadership following the Spanish Civil War suppressed discussion of the past. Under the fascist leadership of Francisco Franco many playwrights were exiled or jailed. Rampant censorship served to defend the ruling Nationalists. “The few brave Republican playwrights who wrote during this time had to stage their plays in small houses, trying to keep the word from getting out so that they wouldn’t be thrown in jail,” Guzman said. During this time dissenting playwrights could not connect with the public because their plays could not be staged in a normal theater setting, she said. “The objective of theater is for the performance to connect with an audience, and
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they didn’t have that,” Guzman said. After Franco’s rule, the Pacto del Olvido, or Pact of Forgetting, served as an attempt to bury the past. Over time, however, the pact of silence was broken. Through metatheatre and surrealism, playwrights discussed the Spanish Civil War and its effects, Guzman said. “The type of theater that was being written or performed started to change,” Guzman said, “and now historical memory theater is becoming more popular.” After Guzman’s presenta-
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-Alison Guzman Adjuct professor of Spanish at Providence College tion, members of the audience gathered for coffee and had the opportunity to meet the lecturer. Jenny Wagner, a sophomore English education major, said the presentation taught her a lot about a time in Spain she had never considered before. “I love drama, so it was really interesting to me how drama connected to (an event in history) that I didn’t know about,” Wagner said. Wagner said the most unbelievable part of the presentation was when Guzman said Francisco Franco censored Spanish playwrights for 36 years, and then the following leadership suppressed speech related to the civil war for the next seven years. “We appreciate freedom of speech so much here in America,” Wagner said. “So for me, that was the most crazy thing.” Another member of the audience, Darius Wilson, said the presentation gave good insight into a part of Spain Americans don’t often hear about. “The most interesting part was when (Guzman) talked about the time when they were forced to forget what was going on,” the senior exercise science major said, “and the fact that it’s today’s generation that’s starting to talk about it again and starting to find justice for it.”
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Actors meet playwright Spanish play challenges theatre students to adapt
by Abigail Suddarth
acsuddarth@eagles.usi.edu Working with Raúl Hernandez was an honor, junior Coralys Miranda-Reyes said. The Spanish Stage Productions class presented the U.S.’s premiere of “All Who Are Left” translated from Hernandez’s original “Todos Los Que Quedan” at 7:30 October 29 through 31 in the Mallette Studio Theater. Hernandez, translated by Odalys Miranda, said he originally wrote the play in 2007 for a festival in Madrid and Buenos Aires as a two person play. He has lengthened the play and increased the cast since then. The play depicts a young woman by the name of Ana searching for information about her father, Juan Cerrada, who she believes was killed in the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen. “Ana decided to take matters into her own hands when she received a letter about her father and this was after her mother’s death,” MirandaReyes said. “She left all that she knew, her boyfriend and where she lived, and searched for him both in Spain and Germany.” Ana is portrayed by six different actresses to represent all the Spaniards who lost family members to the war and who often never learn what happened to them. “I play the Ana that’s very frightened of what she will find,” the international studies, anthropology and Spanish major said.
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Junior Tharilyn Bunker portrays Cerrada as a grumpy old man during the performance “All Who Are Left” October 29 through 31. This was the first premiere of the performance in the U.S.
Typically actors would rehearse several hours a day, five days a week, Hernandez said, but for the first several weeks of “All Who Are Left” the class only rehearsed for three hours on Thursdays. “And it couldn’t have been
done without the actors’ cooperation and hard work,” the director said. Hernandez said when researching he read about 5,000 pages over the Spanish Civil War and interviewed real survivors of concentration
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camps. “All Who Are Left” jumps from Ana’s life in the 1970’s to Juan Cerrada’s life during the Spanish Civil War and WWII including the time he spent in Mauthausen. Senior Nolan Spinks, who
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In theaters now “Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse” comes damn close to perfectly blending gross-out humor, teen sex comedies and jump-scare laden horror. It is also considered a bomb on several review aggregate sites, currently sitting at a rotten 33 percent on RottenTomatoes.com. For once I severely disagree with the critics at large. “Scouts Guide” is the second movie to make me genuinely laugh this semester (the other being “American Ultra”). The film follows three high school sophomores who are Scouts, a generic approximation of the real-world Boy Scouts of America. Members Ben (Tye Sheridan), Augie (Joey Morgan) and Carter (Logan Miller) leave their campsite to discover the apocalypse has struck their town. With the help of gun-toting cocktail waitress Denise (Sarah Dumont), the scouts use their survival knowledge to defend themselves against the undead. A huge boon for this movie is its casting. Unlike most films with younger
main characters, such as last month’s “Goosebumps,” “Scouts Guide” chose actors who actually can pass for being 17 years old. For a zombie film, “Scouts Guide” adds little to the genre. You’ve got your basic slowmoving walkers akin to what you’d see in “Night of the Living Dead.” The key difference here is the zombies in “Scouts Guide” retain memories of their previous life. Throughout the film zombies repeat normal everyday actions, opening doors and operating basic machines. One
even uses a trampoline. This was a fresh touch that opened up some wonderful little comedic moments. Gags are appropriately spaced out so the audience has time to forget how overthe-top the movie actually can be. It’s not the classiest humor in the world, but it slots in perfectly with a zombie movie. This film is probably the first to properly use grossout humor since the market was flooded with them after 2007’s “Superbad.” “Scouts Guide” walks that fine line where a joke is both funny and also uncomfortable enough to make a viewer squirm in their seat. It’s not the most creative or revolutionary film, but it retreads old ground in a refreshing and hilarious way. Of course, I’d advise taking this with a grain of salt, considering this is film advice from a man who laughed for five minutes as a “Scouts Guide” character was suspended over a crowd of bloodthirsty zombies, his only handhold being a dead, old man’s penis.
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played Cerrada’s fellow prisoner referred to only as “the German,” said that his character gave a reality to the time period. “I think some people may not have realized that you didn’t just have to be Jewish
or you didn’t just have to be gay or you didn’t just have to be Hungarian or something like that to be thrown into these concentration camps,” the theatre major said. Spinks compares the friendship between Cerrada and the German to fraternity brothers. “And when things get really heavy (the German) tries to lighten the mood sometimes successfully, sometimes not,” he said. Junior Tharilyn Bunker portrayed Cerrada as a grumpy, old man who doesn’t want to “look back.” “He’s not as gruff and mean as he seems,” the theatre major said. “He has an altruistic purpose.” Bunker also played Ma Joad in “The Grapes of Wrath” and only had 10 days to learn her entire part. Because her character was in a wheelchair, Bunker said, she couldn’t rely on her blocking to help her learn her lines which made the role even more challenging. Although the play is fictional, many real people have similar stories, Bunker said. “The Spanish version is much longer and more complicated, more in depth,” she said. “It was really truncated and cut down for our purposes here.” Bunker feels proud to have been involved in the play’s premiere. “You don’t often get to work with the playwright,” she said. “This was really an incredible opportunity.”
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Salaam plays various songs throughout the course of dinner during the Wings for Dreams charity event.
by Abigail Suddarth
acsuddarth@eagles.usi.edu Dena El Saffar and Tim Moore want to touch people’s lives through music. The married couple of 18 years make up the Arabic band Salaam, which performed at the Wings for Dreams at 6 p.m. Monday in Carter Hall. The event raised money to help the Syrian refugees receive an education. “All the time they’re doing stuff supporting the young generation,” said Mervat Odeh, adjunct professor of Arabic. “I love that spirit.” Though the event fell on El Saffar’s birthday, she said she was happy to perform at the event because she felt helpless in the aid for Syrian refugees. “I think a lot of people in this room have had a similar experience where we’re thinking, ‘My gosh, this is happening on my watch, in my lifetime,’” she said. Living so far away from Syria makes it difficult for
Americans to find ways to help refugees, El Saffar said. Salaam performed traditional Iraqi, Syrian, Egyptian, Algerian and Palestinian music as well as a few pieces El Saffar wrote herself. “I would say 75 percent of it was just music that we’ve memorized,” El Saffar said. “But Arabic music has a lot of improvisation incorporated into it, so probably a quarter of what we did was improvised.” El Saffar’s own childhood inspired her song “Train to Basra.” “My dad used to tell me a bedtime story of his childhood, taking a train from Baghdad to Basra and it inspired me to write a song of the same name,” she said. Throughout the course of the evening El Saffar and her husband played several different traditional Middle Eastern instruments. El Saffar played a joza, which resembled a banjo, the an oud which resembled a guitar and a viola. Her husband played the percussion instruments including
two doumbeks, which are goblet-shaped drums, two frame drums called a riq, also known as an Egyptian tambourine, and a daff. “The joza and the oud are traditional Arabic instruments, they’ve been around for over a thousand years,” El Saffar said. “The viola is western, but it’s played a lot in the Middle East.” Originally from Chicago, El Saffar received her undergraduate degree in music from Indiana University Bloomington’s Jacobs School of Music. She and her husband still live in Bloomington, Indiana. “We’re free-lance musicians so we travel a lot for our music and then we also teach music lessons,” she said. Salaam will perform in in Abu Dabi as well as across the U.S. in the spring, El Saffar said. “We have so many experiences through music, meeting people and traveling,” she said. “Music is a lot about the journey more than the destination.”
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Don’t lose your self to selfies by Vanessa Roach vrroach@eagles.usi.edu The cover of a book often attracts attention, but it’s what’s inside that leaves the biggest impression. Instagram and Snapchat regularly create a variety of filters and extensions to improve the selfie-taking experience. Unfortunately, there are no filters in real life, and constant editing can cause one to view themselves negatively. Somewhere in between middle school and high school we stopped posting selfies with “Look at my new kitty shirt!” or “New glasses!” captions. Now they are far less cheesy photos, and with every selfie posted people are silently scrutinized by their followers, or so it seems. Junior business major Henry Lichaj finds the pressure to edit photos not strictly prevalent in females, and he too feels the pressure from society to look perfect on social media. “I edit my pictures and it feels nice to improve yourself, but then again it doesn’t because it’s not the real you. I always hate pictures taken of me that aren’t edited,” Lichaj said. “I just see so many things wrong with me in the picture.” He said he also gets selfconscious when people tag him in photos. “Even though it might get a lot of likes, I want it taken down because I never look good in (tagged photos),” Lichaj said. “I think we live in
a society where we don’t care so much if we look happy in the photo, only if we look good. That’s kind of messed up.” Sophomore special education major Tori Porter finds photo editing alters the way she sees herself. From filtering to smudging, people modify photos in an effort to create the best version of themselves, but the problem occurs when they start to consider their perfected selves as the only version. Constantly altering photos can cause self-esteem issues and set unrealistic expectations in body image. “I’ve always edited my photos somewhat ever since I can remember,” Porter said. “I can’t put a photo up that I haven’t edited because, without editing, I really can’t see anything besides my flaws.” It is messed up that people create “perfect versions” of themselves to feel adequate, and when someone posts a picture of us we feel ashamed. I can always find features about myself that I wish to change, but if I did, then I wouldn’t be me. Even though selfie editing is fun, remember that the “real self” is always the best version, and a smile will forever be the best improvement a photo can have. To end the over-edited epidemic, we need to step away from filters and retouching and accept ourselves—our real selves.
Letter TO THE
Editor
Regarding the university not labeling degree emphasis My undergraduate career began at USI in 2010. I remember the school before the cone (even before the rust, #neverforget). I love how USI has progressed during my years. These new “progressions” come at meeting demands of students, however, there is still an ongoing issue between USI and graduates: Why does the university not label students’ emphases on their diplomas? This issue was brought up in The Shield through an in-depth article asking the same question. The answer received from administration: “The University only wants to honor the degree …” What does that mean exactly? A degree from USI is worth more than a degree from ISU? IU? YALE? I had multiple viewpoints from when I posed the ques-
tion to friends: “USI grads, is not labeling your emphasis on your degree an issue to you?” Therew was a range of responses from, “Yes, it’s super annoying to have to explain I didn’t major in science or art,” “No, It’s just going to sit on the wall and collect dust,” to an older graduate claiming the university did use to label majors. The vast majority of the opinions, however, were in favor of the university labeling degrees with majors. Rather it is to clarify to a coworker, collect dust or even just to end this ever-going quarrel. The university should at least give the demanding students the option for the labeling. I would be happy as newfound alumni to pay per degree to have the changes made.
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Name: Rosa Ornelas Major: Spanish studies Grade: Freshman Answer: “They will get a new sculptor.”
Scheduling to skip Advice for when and why to cut classes by Morgan Falconer mefalconer@eagles.usi.edu I don’t know a single student who hasn’t skipped class at least once. In high school ditching was relatively easy with little to no lasting consequences. In college it’s quite a bit easier, but the stakes are higher. Students can still manage it though, and if done right, it can provide a needed mental break without breaking a grade. Students are always told the worst consequences for skipping class to discourage them from doing so. Ditching can lead to a lot of trouble, but it can also be a benefit in small doses. As a freshman I was terrified to skip class because college was an entirely different world. I was afraid I would be late or miss a class on accident because college is less structured than high school. Then one day I read an email wrong and missed a class. I felt so guilty, but the next time I showed up, it was like nothing happened.
A lot of people often get overworked and stressed out when deadlines start piling up. This can lead to problems with productivity and sleeping. Without sleep our bodies quickly take a turn for the worse. Soon all those stressed and overworked people are sick and are missing out on two or three days. If said people realized the path they were on and took a day off they possibly could have prevented this. When students take a day off, not only are they limiting themselves to one day, they are also able to pick the most opportune day to miss. A day without any big deadlines would be best. I missed four days of school because I refused to acknowledge I was sick and I didn’t go to the doctor until the last minute. By then everything was so much worse. With a doctor’s note, I was able to make up most of the work, but I didn’t have a chance to turn in two papers and my grade took a hit. Skipping one or two days a semester is fine. People get
sick about that much, so as long as there are no excessive sick days on top of that, it’s all good. But if the absences start to add up, grades start dropping. Classes that don’t take attendance are my downfall. I don’t feel compelled to show up if I don’t want to. For this reason I had to take an introductory athletics course twice. Every student is in charge of their own schedule, and I can’t tell anyone to go to class who doesn’t want to. It’s worth remembering that students pay for these classes. Skipping class is paying the school for one day of nothing. Each student needs to find a balance of grades and health that works for them. If someone can manage an A grade and miss the maximum number of days allowed in the syllabus, good for them. If they are OK with a D grade and lots of Fridays off, that’s passing.
by Osman Bien Aime orbienaime@eagles.usi.edu Halloween is over, so without further ado, it is time to begin a crucial part of the fall semester: that last, headlong sprint toward finals week. It is important to throw even more effort into every course as we reach this point. This is a hectic time where every student has a presentation due, a 10-page paper that needs writing and what feels like an exam every day of the week. Every day brings a mountain of new notes to absorb. For those who work, the urgency of this period of time is compounded by devising new ways to balance
work and school lives. Now, more than ever, students find themselves staying up later and arriving on campus earlier—anything to get those last few minutes with their study guides before the exam. Walking into class tired is pretty much the norm in November. But there’s a silver lining to it all–I promise. As students move further along in their education, or move on to the workplace, the tasks to keep track of only grow larger. It’s intimidating, but they’ve actually already prepared themselves for this increased responsibility. Late fall can kickstart a reserved motivation hidden deep within, the part that
becomes wildly creative to stay ahead of even the toughest exam. Showing up to campus early, leaving late, all of that is just a part of this forthright desire to make it out in one piece. Students surround themselves with classmates and hold study groups. There’s nothing like a meeting of minds to cut down any anxiety before a major assignment. It’s all a part of continued growth as members of society. As students make that last, empowered sprint toward finals, remember that the effort put in to meeting deadlines today is something that will come easily years down the line.
Unauthorized
Advice
by Gavin Gaddis
Take risks in college Four years ago I took a risk and started my first job in journalism. Three years and 362 days ago I was almost fired from my first job in journalism. Writing for a newspaper contributes nothing to earning a BA in English education, but going down that path has forever changed my life. Entering college as a blank slate is tough, it’s even tougher when one is particularly blank when compared to other slates. Turns out, living out in the sticks with nothing but the internet and homeschooling literature for company isn’t the most effective way to collect friends and life experience during one’s childhood. But this is college, movies and books say college is the time to take risks, so I took a risk and started talking to people. Years ago I was editor in
chief of The Hill, president of SGA, and vice-president of History Club at Henderson Community College. Transferring to USI wasn’t as jarring as starting college at HCC, but the same feeling of being an outcast— a nobody—was strong. For the first semester the riskiest action I took was posting snarky comments on USI Secret Admirers’ Facebook page. This garnered a few chuckles from classmates and one truck-obsessed fellow digitally threatened to punch me. Eight months ago I took a risk and applied to be a staff writer for The Shield. Now I run the Opinion section and manage its three staff writers. For the last four years things haven’t been easy. Deadlines have been missed, family outings re-scheduled, yet I keep at the job. Why?
Name: Jake Duncan Major: Pre-nursing Grade: Freshman Answer: “I think USI will grow into a large university and there will be a Greek Row. It’s only uphill from here on out.”
Name: Christian Mason Major: Finance Grade: Freshman Answer: “Probably die.”
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Question: “How do you think USI will change in 50 years?”
Because this job is genuinely exciting. Each week I get the same electric thrill that hit when the first newspaper with my name in the staff box was published in 2011. Risks are worth taking when in the protective bubble of college. Don’t be afraid of trying a few weird things. If worse comes to worse, you look like an idiot for a few minutes and then the other 9,000 people on campus stop caring. Spoiler alert: college is pretty much the best place to try new things, even if they’re not on DegreeWorks. Go out there and take up learning German, write a letter to the editor or start teaching yourself guitar. Just do me a favor: never play “Wonderwall” by Oasis at a party. That’s a risk not worth taking.
Editorial Board Bobby Shipman Editor-in-Chief Gabi Wy News Editor Megan Thorne Features Editor Gavin Gaddis Opinion Editor Sarah Loesch Sports Editor Ellen Cooper Chief Copy Editor Jessica Stallings Visual Editor
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Stay the course Hillyard named coach of the year, teams move to championships by Mackenzie Drew
mldrew@eagles.usi.edu Mike Hillyard was named cross-country coach of the year after the teams won the GLVC Championships. “To be honest it’s pretty much a given most years that if your team wins you’re given that honor,” Hillyard said. “It’s a reflection of our kids more than anything.” Hillyard ran cross-country in junior high and continued to run throughout college. He started out at Southeast Missouri State University and ended his running career at USI. Coaching was not Hillyard’s first career choice but rather teaching physical education. “(I taught) for a year and decided pretty quickly that’s not what I wanted to do for the rest of my life,” Hillyard said. Since Hillyard ran for the university his connection led to an opportunity to become assistant men’s coach under Bill Stegemoller. After one year Tammy Nolan, the women’s crosscountry coach at the time,
stepped down and Hillyard stepped into her role. Hillyard spent two years with the women’s team until Stegemoller retired. Stegemoller offered the head coach job to Hillyard and he took over both the women’s and men’s teams. “I love coaching both (teams),” Hillyard said. “It’s definitely a different dynamic and there’s different challenges, but the basic physiology is the same.” Hillyard created a familytype atmosphere between both teams, which added to the team’s long-term success. “I think it is important that teams are close,” Hillyard said, “and that they bond on and off the field of play.” When preparing for races like the GLVC championship Hillyard makes sure the team keeps “equilibrium.” The teams don’t make any drastic changes going from early season to championship season. In cross-country changes can take a couple of weeks for the body to get used to, therefore, setting the runner back instead of helping to push forward.
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Johnnie Guy, a senior engineering major, leads the pack during the Stegemoller Classic in which the men’s cross country team finished first at the beginning of the season. Their success this year led to coach Hillyard being named coach of the year
“Really for us the season starts with the GLVC championship,” Hillyard said. Although the women’s team did not qualify for the national championship last year, the men’s team quali-
fied and placed seventh. Hillyard has faith the women’s team potential can put them in the top eight this year and the men will be on the podium at top four. Both the men’s and wom-
Bring your own pep University band encourages anyone to join
by Sarah Loesch
sports@usishield.com @ShieldsterSarah Angela Bohan started playing in the USI pep band when she was in seventh grade. Both of her older sisters went to the university and participated in the pep band, which gave her an early introduction to the group and helped her in her decision to come to the school. “A lot of (the people in pep band) were here when I was originally here. I was just kind of comfortable here,” the senior studio art major said. “Also, I came to visit my sisters, so I knew some of the professors and stuff.” The pep band, which started in 1990, plays at each of the home basketball games during the school year. Music is a huge part of Bohan’s family and she said it was expected she would play an instrument. “My dad plays anything and everything,” she said. “He can literally just pick up an instrument and start playing it, never having seen it before, and all four of my siblings played in band in high school.” Now after playing baritone for 10 years, Bohan found another family at the university.
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Craig Edling, a USI Pep Band member, plays the trombone dressed in costume during a practice in the Grimes Haus.
“A lot of people know (pep band) exist(s), but they don’t realize how hard we work,” she said. “It’s basically a family and people don’t realize that.” Bohan said she brings her nephew to almost every game and occasional practices. “I can bring my nephew and not worry about what anyone is going to think,” she said. Timothy Burklow said when he returned to the university to finish his degree he searched for something music
related. The business management major started playing trumpet 20 years ago and said a pep band on campus can add a lot to the campus culture. “(Pep band) does not get utilized enough,” Burklow said. He said there are things off campus the group could do such as finding opportunities to play in parades around town. The group is a mix of all different ages, but Burklow said that should not stop peo-
ple from wanting to join. The band houses students, alumni and participants who otherwise would have no ties to the university. “I wanted everyone I talked to know that it’s a friendly group,” he said. “If you want to do it don’t let that aspect keep you from doing it.” The group does not have a tryout process or a fee for anyone who wants to participate. “If you enjoy playing (music),” Burklow said, “come out and play.”
en’s team won the GLVC Championship this year and are moving on to compete in the NCAA Championships. The university will host the NCAA II Midwest Region Championships this
year at Angel Mounds. “It’s rare that we host,” Hillyard said. “There’s definitely a home course advantage. (The team) doesn’t have to travel and their routine isn’t disrupted.”
briefs Weekly honors for men’s soccer Kasper Bjoro and Adam Zehme were named GLVC Offensive Player of the Week and GLVC Defensive Player of the Week respectively. Their honors came after the men’s soccer team beat Bellarmine University 2-0. In that game freshman midfielder, Bjoro scored the game winning goal and sophomore goalkeeper, Zehme protected the goal and stopped all of Bellarmine’s attempts to score. Men’s soccer had not earned player of the week honors since 2013 and until now had never taken both the offensive and defensive honors in one week.
Soccer seasons end USI men’s soccer lost the first game of the GLVC Tournament, ending their season with a 1-0 loss. The team played Rockhurst University which is ranked seventh in the con-
ference. USI season ends 8-7-3 overall, a record above .500 for the first time since 2012. 2012 was also the last time USI entered the GLVC Tournament. The women’s team did not enter the tournament after a loss to Bellarmine University ended its season. The team ended the season 5-10-2.
Winter earns 1,000 kill Senior middle blocker Abbey Winter earned her 1,000 career kill in the volleyball team’s game against Drury University. Winter is the third USI volleyball player to earn 1,000 career kills and 500 career blocks. She finished the game against Drury with nine kills to lead the team offensively. The team lost to Drury and continues to have limited success on the road. The women will play their final five games of the regular season in the PAC.
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Rugby continues strong season
Upcoming Games Men’s Basketball
volleyball
2:00 p.m. Nov. 8 Normal, Illinois Illinois State University (Exhibition)
7:00 p.m. Nov. 6 PAC Maryville University
woMen’s Basketball 2:00 p.m. Nov. 7 Cincinnati, Ohio University of Cincinnati (Exhibition)
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TOP: Members of the rugby team huddle before a practice in September. The team won a state title Saturday at the Indiana Rugby Football Union tournament in Indianapolis. BOTTOM: New rugby Coach Tyler Pipes laughs at one his teammates comments as they begin practice.
by Sarah Loesch
sports@usishield.com @ShieldsterSarah USI’s rugby team named Tyler Pipes as new head coach. “He’s doing a great job this year and I’m really impressed,” said Jon Stinnett, head captain of the team. Some players such as Stinnett know Pipes not only as the new coach but as a former teammate. “Tyler and I have a lot of history together. We played together for three years here at USI,” Stinnett said. “It’s a weird transition having him as a coach, but I try and give him the respect that he deserves and let the other players know that as well.” Pipes began his rugby career in the fall of 2009. “Once I got hooked up with the USI team and the
players they had back then, it was a dream come true,” Pipes said. “Those guys were great to me and the other newcomers and the coaching was unbelievable.” Former coach Kurt Murrell impacted Pipes as a coach and once Murrell was relocated to work with Toyota, Pipes felt the need to step up and help his former team. “I want these guys to be able to learn the sport as I once did and to see the benefits that Rugby can give,” he said. Many players who join the rugby team have never played and this is something Pipes takes into consideration when coaching. “Obviously I want to give my players knowledge of the game. It’s hard to play a sport when you don’t know the rules or basic strategies,” Pipes said. “We have to build something out of nothing,
which can seem hard.” Like many coaches, Pipes has a passion for his sport and isn’t scared to take on this challenge of teaching newcomers. Pipes encourages newcomers to “not wait.” The rugby program is one that will never turn away anyone who is willing to try. “The way we see it, any body type or level of experience has a spot on our team,” Pipes said. Stinnett also said everyone is welcome. “If you’re not sure if you want to try because you don’t know how, we will teach you,” he said. “Half of our team hadn’t played before they got into college.” This past Saturday the team played undefeated Bethel in the playoffs and won 31-12. This pushed the team through to play another undefeated team IUPUI where
3:00 p.m. Nov. 7 PAC Univ. of Missouri - St. Louis 7:00 p.m. Nov. 10 PAC Bellarmine University
men’s Cross Country
Women’s Cross Country
11:45 a.m. Nov. 7 Angel Mounds NCAA II Midwest Region Championships
10:30 a.m. Nov. 7 Angel Mounds NCAA II Midwest Region Championships
scoreboard Men’s soccer Oct. 28 0-2 Nov. 1 1-0
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they took the win 20-15. “It was both of those teams’ first year in the league and we were lucky to keep our championship streak alive at four in a row,” Pipes said. “Now, we’re on to St. Louis for a regional qualifier and are looking to return to Elkhart, Indiana for another shot at Nationals.”
Oct. 28 2-0
volleyball Oct. 30 3-0 Oct. 31 3-1
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