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The first presidential debate took place Monday evening at Hofstra University between presidential nominees Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Students and faculty were invited to watch the debate as part of a university hosted watch party.
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University students and faculty gathered Monday night in Carter Hall to watch the presidential debate and engage in a civil discussion. Before the debate began, faculty members including Associate Professor of Social Work Wendy Turner-Frey and Associate Professor of Political Science Matthew Hanka spoke on the importance of civility in debates between people who disagree. They said emotions run high in these confrontations and opposing sides take issue with differing political views. “When we have strong emotions like that, it’s
difficult for us to think logically,” Turner-Frey said. She explained how such “strong emotions” result in debaters identifying logical errors and using them to sway others’ opinions. This, she said, is known as a fallacy. Fallacies, such as ad hominem, strawman and appeal to fear all distract from the subject and can lead to uncivil and unconstructive debates. Ad hominem relies on an argument based on an individual and not their position. Strawman is the exaggeration or fabrication of someone’s argument and appeal to fear is the attempt to create fear or prejudice toward one side. When it came to the debate itself, several students found it to be more about insulting and less about policy.
“As a Trump supporter, I don’t agree with the way that Trump handles himself and speaks,” said junior accounting major Kyle LaFaive, sporting his “Make America Great Again” hat. “I am more with him for his policies and his opinions on things.” LaFaive said his criticalness toward how Trump presented himself stems from what he learned about the fallacies. “I think that Trump hasn’t really changed, especially in the debate manner,” he said. “A lot of people like him for speaking his mind and saying ‘inappropriate things’ that other people just wouldn’t feel comfortable saying.” He said both candidates utilized many of the fallacies and lacked the civility he was hoping they would apply.
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‘Diversity isn’t a weakness’ Takei speaks to community as part of Diversity Series
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George Takei gives the Vulcan salute to a crowd at ComiCon. Takei was the most recent speaker in the Evansville Diversity Lecture Series.
by Sarah Loesch editor@usishield.com @seloesch
George Takei may have stepped onto the Victory Theatre stage with the Vulcan salute held high,
but his speech touched on much more than his years as Lt. Sulu on Star Trek. Takei used his time as a speaker with the Evansville Diversity Lecture Series Tuesday evening to discuss his childhood spent
in a Japanese internment camp, his decision to officially come out as gay and his social activism. Takei said that after the bombing of Pearl Harbor there was an instant change with how Japanese-Ameri-
cans were perceived. “Overnight we were looked at with suspicion... and outright hatred,” Takei said, “simply because we looked like the people that bombed Pearl Harbor.
The transgender bathroom accessibility discussion reached the Student Government Association meeting Thursday, with ideas to eliminate gender specific restrooms. SGA invited economics professor Perry Burnett to speak about his proposal to remodel all bathrooms on campus in an attempt to eliminate gender specifications, while also enabling them to maintain their privacy. Burnett’s plan includes implementing full, private stalls along the bathroom, which people of any gender may use, and they can then wash their hands at a public sink “It was frustrating for me to watch society fail to do this (identify problems and offer solutions) properly,” he said. “They continue to mix together two separate issues: gender and privacy.” Burnett said the bathroom
issue has nothing to do with gender, but it is privacy that is the issue. He said society continues to mix these two problems and the level of privacy we have now is not appropriate. He also cited bathroom legislation like the North Carolina bathroom bill, House Bill 2, saying it doesn’t address the issue. “We need individual privacy not group privacy,” he said. “The current solutions don’t understand this and must resort to excluding people from some defined group.” SGA members understood that policies need to be changed. “Adjustments are necessary and I think that a lot of times people are uncomfortable with change,” said College of Business representative Bradley Flittner. While Flittner agrees with Burnett’s proposal, he thinks a trial run with a third bathroom would ease people into the idea of gender neutral bathrooms.
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“It would get people more comfortable with the idea and show that anarchy will not ensue from people just going to the same bathroom,” he said. Burnett said he contacted a couple of administrators like Romain College of Business Dean Mohammed Khayum and university President Linda Bennett about his idea, but did not talk at length. He decided to reach out to SGA to see if they would hear his proposal. “Our university prides itself on being ‘studentcentered’ so I went to the group with the power,” he
said. Burnett said does not know of anyone who has a problem with the current system and has no polling data on those affected by the system. He is also unsure of the cost to remodel all bathrooms on campus, but disagrees with the idea of creating a third “family bathroom.” “This is an issue that we have to solve,” Burnett said. “Why not be an example to our society that USI and Indiana are an innovative and inclusive community that solves actual problems.”
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Students and faculty watch the first presidential debate in Carter Hall Monday night. The crowd also engaged in a conversation after the debate about what was discussed.
handle the claims coming from both candidates and if he would fact-check their assertions during the debate. “I think Lester Holt was a little afraid of suffering
be “completely unpalatable characters.” There were also questions in the room about how the moderator for the debate, NBC’s Lester Holt, would
“I thought it was interesting that we saw so many of those logical fallacies that we talked about earlier,” said senior engineering major and President of the College Republicans Daniel McMurtry. “It’s ridiculous how many fallacies were committed and the whole thing was just an insult fight and that’s unfortunate that that’s what our politics has devolved to.” McMurtry said he didn’t learn anything new from either of the candidates and predicted both Hillary and Trump were going to
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Matt Lauer syndrome,” McMurtry said. “To his credit, I think he did an OK job, but I think he threw a lot of softballs to Hillary and didn’t treat them quite equally, but I think he did a better job than I anticipated.” Ultimately McMurtry decided the debate’s winner would be whichever candidate looked the most poised to become the next commander-in-chief. “My biggest takeaway was that Hillary looked presidential,” he said. “I don’t think Trump did the job he should have done.”
Remaining debates oct. 4
Vice presidential debate
Longwood University
The debate will be divided into nine time segments of approximately 10 minutes each. The moderator will ask an opening question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a deeper discussion of the topic.
Second presidential debate
oct. 9
Washington University
The second presidential debate will take the form of a town meeting, in which half of the questions will be posed directly by citizen participants and the other half will be posed by the moderator based on topics of broad public interest as reflected in social media and other sources. The candidates will have two minutes to respond and there will be an additional minute for the moderator to facilitate further discussion. The town meeting participants will be uncommitted voters selected by the Gallup Organization.
third presidential debate
oct. 19
University of Nevada-Las vegas
The format for the debate will be identical to the first presidential debate.
All debates run 9 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Eastern Time. All information provided by debates.org
Takei remembers when curfews were passed for Japanese-Americans and when bank accounts were frozen. Shortly after his fifth birthday Takei’s parents woke him up early in the morning. That morning he and his family were loaded onto trucks with other Japanese-Americans and transported to internment camps. “When (my mother) emerged from the house she was carrying our baby sister in one arm, a very heavy duffle bag in the other and tears were streaming down both her cheeks,” he said. “I will never forget that horrible morning.” Abigail Suddarth, a university sophomore said the portion of the speech about Takei’s childhood really struck her. “I don’t cry because I don’t have normally functioning tear ducts,” Suddarth said, “but I got close at a certain point. Especially when he was talking about his childhood growing up in Japanese internment camps.” The marketing major said in school she never learned much about internment camps during World War II. She always felt it was brushed aside or discussed with a smaller focus than other topics. Kate Grudzinski a sophomore political science major said the part that really got to her was when Takei discussed how long he kept his sexuality hidden. Takei said he knew around 10-years-old that he was “different” from the other boys. Despite this awareness he followed along with other guys his age when it came to dating
and talking to girls. But it was not until 2005 that Takei publically came out after a discussion with his long-term partner and now husband Brad Alt-
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man. “I just can’t imagine living like that for so long,” Grudzinski said. She said she originally came out to the speech because she is interested in diversity and making sure Evansville is an inclusive city. I certainly fit into several different groups that are influenced by diversity. It’s very close to me. “Diversity isn’t a weakness, it’s actually a strength,” Grudzinski said. “In southern Indiana, we are kind of close to the Bible Belt, there can be the idea that we are not very inclusive but as a city, we’ve moved so far and we just keep going.”
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USI Security Incident Log 09/20/16 - 09/27/16 Injury Report Hanly Bldg. - 915A Eckels Ln. 9/20/16 5:31 a.m.
Theft From Vehicle Saletta Bldg. - 910B Eckels Ln. 9/20/16 6:52 p.m.
Code of Conduct - Disruption - Class Forum 1 9/20/16 10:15 a.m.
Theft From Vehicle Saletta Bldg. - 920A Eckels Ln. 9/20/16 8:29 p.m.
Code of Conduct - Failure to Comply Forum 1 9/20/16 10:15 a.m. Code of Conduct - Weapons Violation (Non-Law Related) Forum 1 9/20/16 10:15 a.m. Drug Offenses - Manufacture/ Possession of Paraphernalia Forum 1 9/20/16 10:15 a.m. Drug Offenses - Possession Forum 1 9/20/16 10:15 a.m. Illness Report Forum 1 9/20/16 10:15 a.m. Fire - Alarm - Cooking Boon Bldg. - 8025B OʼDaniel Ln. 9/20/16 10:52 a.m. Drug Offenses - Incident OʼBannon Hall 9/20/16 11:49 a.m. Theft From Vehicle Jarrett Ln. 9/20/16 12:55 p.m. Fire - Alarm - Cooking Durbin Bldg. - 901B Eckels Ln. 9/20/16 1:40 p.m. Injury Report Recreation Fitness and Wellness Center 9/20/16 2:24 p.m
Illness Report Ray Bldg. - 8046A OʼDaniel Ln. 9/20/16 9:19 p.m.
9/22/16 8:05 a.m. Traffic Accident Parking Lot J 9/22/16 1:34 p.m. Suspicious Person(s) Parking Lot C 9/22/16 11:39 p.m. Theft - University Property Science Center 9/23/16 12:03 p.m.
Fire - Alarm - Cooking McNutt Bldg. - 7922A OʼDaniel Ln. 9/20/16 10:10 p.m.
Fire - Alarm - Cooking Saletta Bldg. - 924A Eckels Ln. 9/24/16 10:01 a.m.
Criminal Mischief Baseball Field 9/21/16 2:00 a.m.
Theft Residence Life Community Center 9/24/16 9:13 p.m.
Property Damage - University Baseball Field 9/21/16 2:00 a.m.
Fire - Faulty Alarm McDonald West Apts. - Durbin Bldg. 9/26/16 5:08 a.m.
Traffic Accident - Hit & Run Parking Lot A 9/21/16 8:40 a.m. Criminal Mischief Parking Lot B 9/21/16 9:46 a.m. Illness Report The Loft 9/21/16 9:49 a.m. Injury Report Liberal Arts Center 9/21/16 1:52 p.m.
Illness Report Public Safety Office 9/26/16 12:22 p.m. Traffic Accident Parking Lot C 9/26/16 5:10 p.m. Traffic Accident Parking Lot D 9/26/16 5:39 p.m. Fire - Alarm - Cooking Boon Bldg. - 8024A OʼDaniel Ln. 9/26/16 7:09 p.m.
Traffic Accident Branch Bldg. - 804A McDonald Ln. 9/21/16 6:34 p.m.
Fire - Alarm - Cooking Durbin Bldg. - 908B McDonald Ln. 9/26/16 8:28 p.m.
Theft From Vehicle Marshall Bldg. - 936A Eckels Ln. 9/21/16 9:45 p.m.
Illness Report Porter Bldg. - 989 Versity Dr. 9/26/16 9:25 p.m.
Code of Conduct - Deception/ Falsification/Misrepresentation Clarke and Schutte Parking Lot
Drug Offenses - Incident Parking Lot O 9/27/16 2:00 a.m.
Information gathered from USIʼs Public Crime Log, provided by USI Safety and Security.
Larry May to serve as executive in residence Larry May, chairman and president of Keller Schroeder, an information technology-consulting firm based in Evansville will serve as the 2016 Executive in Residence for the University of Southern Indiana’s Romain College of Business. May has been a resident of Evansville for 35 years and earned a bachelor’s degree in computer systems management and a master’s degree in business administration from Murray State University. He currently serves as the chairman of the board of United Way of Southwestern Indiana and serves as a Court Appointed Special Advocate for children volunteer. He has also served as a chairman of the IT Alliance advisory board for Romain College of Business at USI. “The Value of Ownership and Running Shoes,” will be presented at 10 a.m. on October 5, in Carter Hall in University Center West. The presentation is free and open to the public.
HIstoric Southern Indiana to present Lincoln Colloquium USI’s Historic Southern Indiana will collaborate with the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial; will present a two-day Lincoln Colloquium on October 7-8 in Lincoln City, Ind. The theme of this year’s seminar is “Lincoln in Public Memory.” “The first day will feature scholarly lectures dealing with Lincoln in public memory and how we view him today. Day two will give participants the opportunity to visit Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial and see where he spent his formative years,” Leslie Townsend, director of USI Community Engagement said in a written document. The event will feature scholars and authors, such as Barry Schwartz, Richard Fox, Edward T. Linenthal and Eric Sandweiss. To register, visit USI.edu/ HSI. For more information, contact Leslie Townsend at ltownsen@usi.edu.
Book adoption day set for Oct. 5
Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society will host their annual Book Adoption Day event from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on October 5 under the cone. There are a variety of books to choose from. There is a suggested donation of $1 for hardbacks and 50 cents for paperbacks.
Gamma Phi hosts annual sand volleyball game
Gamma Phi Beta will be hosting its annual sand volleyball tournament at 6 p.m. Oct. 14. The proceeds from the event go toward the sorority’s international philanthorpy Girl’s on the Run. For the first seven players the cost to create a team is $35. Every player past that is $3 more. To sign up a team email Claudia Cooper at cecooper1@eagles.usi.edu
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‘Break through the noise’ University faculty to participate in TedxEvansville by Kailey boyd kboyd3@eagles.usi.edu
Saturday, two members of university faculty will take the stage at the Evansville Museum as part of TEDxEvansville. Instructor of journalism Erin Gibson and Edith Hardcastle an associate professor of biology, will both give talks at the TEDx event that fall within their academic interests. TED, a nonprofit organzation which began in 1984 aims t spread ideas thorugh
short and focused talks. In local communities T E D x events are organized. This porGibson tion of TED launched in 2009 and since then close to 50,000 talks have been given according to the TEDxEvansville website. Gibson will present her talk entitled “Whoa! Wait.
What?” at 1 p.m. which will focus on helping individuals decipher the news being pres en te d them on a Hardcastle daily basis. “It is a method of evaluating information to help people to become a more discerning news consumer and a better informed person,” Gibson said. “I hope that my talk can maybe break
through the noise a little bit and influence people to just think…just take that hesitance…that just one little moment to think before they hit ‘share’ on anything they encounter.” Gibson said she looks forward to having the chance to share her ideas with a larger audience. Hardcastle will follow Gibson at 3 p.m. to give her talk “Envisioning the Home Landscape.” I’m going to be discussing envisioning the home landscape as a non-toxic place, with native plants in-
stead of just getting rid of all the natives like we just sort of automatically do,” she said. She said her talk will encourage people to reestablish some of the more native plants and stop using as many poisons as are used now. Hardcastle said she has enjoyed working with the organizers for this event. “They’ve been great to work with, they’ve been full of energy and sort of excitement about the process,” she said. “They’ve been very, very helpful.”
complete tedxevansville speaker list
SUnday, October 2nd
3 p.m. - 4 p.m. vesper days The Lake & Take Me Home
Edith Hardcastle
1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Envisioning the Home Landscape
Basel al haj
Roneshia Clark Evans
A Syrian Story
Beyond Black and Blue
tim piazza
James Macleod & joe Atkinson
The Rise of the Generalist
Rising to the Challenge: Evansville Then and Now
erin gibson
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Whoa! Wait. What?
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
jarian Jaffee Taking the Extra out of Extracurriculars
brad garnett
Kay Corpus
The Era of Cyber Insecurity: Protecting out Digital Community
Our Biography is Our Biology
Jill Griffin
Omar Atia
Changemaker Math and the Art of Critical Doing
The Patriotism Roadblock on the Path to Greatness
Exhibit displays travels of former dean, wife
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The McCutchan Art Center/ Pace Galleries is set to display “Global Vision: The Michael and Patricia Aakhus Collection until Oct. 23. Michael Aakhus the former dean of the College of Liberal Arts and his wife Patricia Aakhus, who before her death in 2012 was the director of Interdisciplinary Studies, studied cultures all around the world. In their travels they collected objects from Asia, Africa and Central and South America. These items are featured in the exhibit but do not make up the entire Aakhus collection. The exhibit will close with a reception at 2 p.m. Oct. 23 in the the McCutchan Art Center/Pace Galleries. The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
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Upcoming culture events
Latin dance night Sept. 30
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ARQ - Stupid name, alright movie On Netflix
International food festival oct. 2 The 15th annual food festival will take place at the Islamic Center of Evansville. The event will feature food from Muslim countries such as Egypt and Pakistan. The festival takes place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 4200 Grimm Road in Newburgh.
Pakistan Culture Night oct. 4 7:30 p.m. in the Ruston Hall Multipurpose Room. Join to learn more about Pakistan and its culture.
Indiana latino presentation
“ARQ” is a dystopian sci-fi flick exclusive to Netflix about Renton (Robbie Amell), an apparently brilliant engineer, who wakes up several times. Well, he wakes up several times because an infinite energy source in his garage is causing a three-hour time loop because of reasons. Unfortunately this magical loop starts just before four raiders break into his bedroom. The dialog is chock-ablock full of made-up words and sci-fi jargon from minute one, seemingly written entirely to confuse the audience. With each time loop the viewer should know more about Renton’s world and backstory, so more and more names register. In a world with a strong, interesting backstory in which the writer has spent a good amount of time building, this would be a good enough hook to drive a time-loop movie. This is not the case for “ARQ.” Every generic plot point of a dystopian sci-fi is present in “ARQ”, so much so one could realistically create a drinking game based around spotting elements
lifted from other stories. Some sort of airborne virus killed millions and makes going outside dangerous? Check. A talking head on TV lists a bunch of disasters around the world? Check. Freedom fighters wish to use a magic bullet device to defeat an evil corporation? Check. Said evil corporation is mentioned about a billion times in conversation? Double-check. There are a few nuggets of interesting scenes scattered throughout the story as we follow Robbie “Josh Hutchinson said no” Amell run around a cool futuristic version of a run-down
house, occasionally reminding people he’s a brilliant engineer despite doing nothing particularly brilliant. It’s hard to discuss in any level of detail what particularly happens in “ARQ” that makes it worth watching, but suffice it to say: as the plot progresses, Renton discovers he’s not the only person who can remember what happened in previous time loops. The best thing I can say about ARQ, at least as a scifi aficionado, is I wouldn’t object to a second viewing with friends, if only to have a lengthy discussion of how cool it could have been under better circumstances. On a more conspiratorial note it seems even Netflix shares my feelings for the movie, as the promotional stills on the website and the film’s official poster do everything in their power to cram as much sci-fi imagery in a potential viewer’s face to sell this movie. In truth it’s a low-budget flick made by a first-time director (Tony Elliott) with a cast of seven actors. It might not be the best thing ever saved to hard drive but it’s a fun ride at times.
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Welcome to a new album On Spotify On July 20th when My Chemical Romance flew the Black Parade flag on their website I was ready to pull out the dark eyeliner, cut my side bangs and bring out all of my emo clothes, until I found out that there wasn’t a revival tour but in fact a new album coming out. It was an emotional rollercoaster that day and I have been counting down the days to the album coming out ever since. And on Sept. 23rd as we celebrated MCR’s Black Parade 10th anniversary, I was celebrating about the stellar new album that had just dropped. Originally I thought that all the covers that Twenty One Pilots and Asking Alexandria had previously
leaked were going to be on the album, but it is the original Black Parade album with live demos and rough mixes. Honestly, I couldn’t be happier. During “The Five of us are Dying” track the second verse starts off with a verse from “Welcome to the Black Parade” as the underlying beat carries through
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the song. Although there aren any changes to the origina tracks from the Black Pa rade CD. The band did pro vide live demos for song such as “Mama,” “Kill a your friends” and two ve sions of “House of Wolves Out of all the live dem os, my favorite has to b “Mama” if you listen to after the original track it ha more of a raspy, punk fee to it. So even though, the let us down with the re vival tour, My Chemica Romance has kept up the unique sound and I couldn be more impressed. Make sure you give it listen, it’s definitely wort it.
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Preparing for life after school by brandon cole bscole@eagles.usi.edu
Rejection is the biggest fear in the college environment. Being comfortable in your own skin is a lesson everyone should learn, freshman year. High school was a blast, dreadful, boring, exciting, awful and filled with anxiety, but somehow you made it through and graduated. You had your group of friends and most of them looked, acted and sounded like you. Even when things were tough, you found a way through it. You and your friends fit together like a puzzle. Regardless of how
tough the scene happened to be, they were there by your side. Then it happened. The summer was over and you parted ways with many of your friends. Sure you have social media and text messages, but how many old chums will you see on a regular basis. You are walking to classes, trying to figure out what is what. You dress the way you think people want you to dress. You say what others want to hear. You try to fit in with the status quo. Sure, you may have folks that you casually speak with on a daily basis, but are you figuring out the meaning behind college?
You take some classes in math, English, science, history and pursue a major. You make the grades to continue on the course. Peer pressure has you doing certain things to fit in with a group. Some of these things, you are not proud of and others may even be harmful. One day, school is going to be over and you will be in the real world. If you continue to always fit in the mold of making others happy, what will your future hold? You have been at college for a couple months. Your fight or flight response has kicked in multiple times. Maybe you had to flight a
couple of times, but now it’s time to brush yourself off and fight. It is time to get to know who you are as a person, student, friend, leader, thinker and doer. You are on the right track and you are starting to understand, but life is not merely a theory course. It’s time to practice what you learn. Step outside of your comfort zone in a positive way. Find that person that is sitting all alone. Sit down and have a conversation with them. You never know where it could lead. Friends that do not mirror you, help enrich your life. Admit that while you
may have some things planned, you do not have everything figured out and in order. This is okay and will help lower your stress level. Take a short road trip on a slow weekend. Find a good nature trail and examine the beauty in this life. Think about what makes you happy. Are you into 80’s music, Star Wars, football, comic books, writing, card games or singing? Enjoy being you, out in the open. Some people may laugh, but it is only because they are not comfortable being themselves. Do not be cocky, but learn to exuberate confidence. This attribute helps a
person lead. Own your mistakes, but remember to learn from them. Develop a self-constitution. Figure out what is important to you. It may be God, church, family, friends, honesty, integrity, love, etc., but write it out and do not compromise your value structure. Write down what you want out of life and go get it. You will meet some rejection, but you will also succeed. Now that you have your wits about you and a plan, go out and thrive.
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A lack of sections for classes by osman bien aime orbienaime@eagles.usi.edu
I have been attending class at USI for three and a half years now, and there is one thing I simply cannot get over—the limited number of sections for required courses. We are encouraged to pre-plan our course schedules and have a solid plan for transitioning from one course to the next with each semester. Ironically, sometimes the biggest obstacle to graduating is the availability of classes. There is nothing worse than being crowded out of a class and having to wait an entire semester for another opportunity to take it. This has happened to me a handful of times. Take my Research Methods and Statistics course, for instance. I started it this past Spring, after missing out on all the available sections for Fall 2015 in a matter of days. I am currently in RMS2, meaning the RMS sequence takes a minimum of one year to complete. Suppose I experienced an unexpected drop in performance in RMS1 and wound up not passing. Class registration for the coming Fall is already over, and there are no available RMS1 sections for me to get into.
Unfortunately for me, this would mean the earliest I could retake the RMS sequence is next Spring, pushing back my graduation by a full year. And sure, the best first defense against such a massive and expensive setback is to stay on top of your classes and keep your grades in check. That still doesn’t address the students who don’t register for classes immediately or need to change their schedules just before the semester starts. The way I see it, these classes fill up so quickly because of the high demand for them. If there are more sections made available for required courses, there would be fewer students having to extend their undergraduate careers. Going back to my RMS courses, shortly before the start of this semester, a new section for RMS1 opened up to accommodate anyone who missed the initial registration. It is exactly the sort of pro-student move that I’d love to see more of on campus. Graduation is the name of the game for all of us, and opportunity is as much a factor as dedication. We can only benefit as students when we’re allowed more opportunities and don’t have to worry about our schedules.
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by sarah rogers sgrogers@eagles.usi.edu
I always feel awkward when people ask me if I wanted to go to USI. It is actually pretty interesting how I ended up here. Two of my older sisters attend USI, and determined not to be their living shadow, I applied to a college in Chicago. I had it all played out in my head. I told people that I definitely would be going to the school in Chicago before I even heard of my acceptance. But life does this cute thing where it looks at our delicately arranged Legos and knocks them over with its big foot. What do we do when the life we plan does not go as planned? We pick up our Legos and rebuild. Dealing with the rejection of my dream school in the most personal way possible, I soon became overcome with an intense feeling of panic. Not planning on being denied, I applied nowhere but my dream school. To those who say applying to one university is stupid, I completely agree with you. Staying home sick that day from school, which I
more or less was, I applied to USI. I cannot describe the process as particularly enthusiastic. I describe it like reaching for a lifeboat after the cruise ship threw me overboard because they realized capacity could not fit another person. So when people ask me if I always knew I wanted to come to the university, I can only smile and say not exactly. Not exactly. I did not always know I wanted to come here, but it is where life knew I would always end up. I have yet to meet someone where everything in their life fit perfectly in a color coordinated planner. Our success is very much dependent upon our ability to adapt to the curveballs life throws. Our very survival is dependent upon adaptation. According to Daryl Conner, an internationally recognized leader in organizational change and chairman of Conner Partners, states that “people adjust to change, not by learning to like what is taking place, but by forming new expectations that can lead to success under the new conditions.” I certainly would be set-
ting myself up for daily disappointment if I woke up every morning hoping to be in the bustling city of Chicago. Life required me to alter my expectations of what I receive from my university. Fortunately for me, USI turned out to be a wonderful campus, with wonderful teachers, and, you guessed it, wonderful students. Had I not been able to move on from the disappointment of being rejected, to put it dramatically, I would never have discovered that coming to the university would not be the end of life as I knew it. I never would have made the friends I have here. I never would have found the comfiest chair in the library that I do my homework in. I never would have been able to call my sister every other day that I am going to drop out of college, and she would not have been able to meet me for coffee and tell me I am being a drama queen. When you stop wallowing in the disappointment of life not going your way, you discover the beauty of the life that is available to you.
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‘Meshing early on’
Photo courtesy of Jenna Bowman
Jack Anderson attempts to pass the frisbee pass fellow teammate Bruce Fosler during a practice Monday evening.
Ultimate Frisbee aims for regionals by sarah loesch editor@usishield @seloesch
The men’s ultimate frisbee season is in swing for 2016-17 school year. The Shield spoke with senior Joey Cowser to hear how the captain originally got involved with the team and the team’s goals for this season. The Shield: What position do you play on the team? Joey Cowser: I am primarily a cutter. The cutter in ultimate frisbee is primarily charged with cutting, juking and getting open for handler pass to them. The Shield: When did you get involved with Ultimate Frisbee? Cowser: I got involved freshman year. I had no prior knowledge or experience with the sport. I came out to the welcome week game my freshman year and I never looked back. The Shield: What kept you coming back? Cowser: The competitiveness of the sport was kind of what I was looking for. I did a lot of sports When I found ulitmate and realized how competitive it was I fell in love with it. The Shield: Could you imagine a college career
without playing ultimate? Cowser: I couldn’t imagine what I would be doing in college if I hadn’t played ultimate it’s brought me some best friends and some lifelong friends. The Shield: What made it easy to form those friendships? Cowser:The camaraderie that goes along with it, you depend on your teammates on the field. We have a close connection on and off the field. The Shield: Does the team have any specific goals this year? Cowser: Every year we want to be successful. This year in particular we really want to make regionals. That’s pretty much our goal every year. The Shield: Can you give a small description of how regionals works? Cowser: It starts as sectionals, four teams in the sectional go to the regional. It’s just a collective group of awesome ultimate talent. It’s close to the pinnacle of where we want to be in the ulimate community. The Shield: What has stood in the way of regionals in the past years? Cowser: The past few year it hasn’t been what we expected. We went in with fewer numbers than we hoped. We haven’t been able to make regionals by ourselves per say. We haven’t really
Scoreboard University of Wiconsin- Sept.23 Parkside 2-3
USI
Sept. 18 0-3
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Lewis University
WOMen’s soccer University of Wiconsin- Sept. 23 1-0 Parkside
Sept. 25 1-3
Lewis University
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The men’s golf team was led by junior Kyle Tanriverdi at its latest tournament. The team competed in the Division II Midwest Fall Regional at Harborside International Golf Center. Overall the team tied for 13th place. Tanriverdi led the team and tied for 16th after shooting a 12-over 156. The Eagles will head
3-1
Quincy University
The Shield: How did this years first tournament go? Cowser:We went 5-2 in our first tournament. It was really encouraging for the guys to get those wins. The Shield: What strengths does the team have this year compared to past teams? Cowser: I think we are more optimistic this year than we have been in the past. Our attitude toward each other and the sport in general is really optimistic. We are looking forward to what there is to come.
back to the course Oct. 10-11 when it participates in the Midwest Regional hosted by UMSL in Eureka, Missouri.
Men’s tennis ends strong weekend The men’s tennis team finished a strong weekend at Purdue University for the Purdue Invitational. Freshman Denis Davy-
dov advanced to the semifinals, but eventually fell in three sets. The team ended its fall season with the Invitational. It will return to action for its spring semester March 25.
Volleyball comes back home
hosts McKendree Unviersity. USI is on a three-game losing streak, but players are still reaching records in their careers. Shannon Farrell, a junior libero, was the 11th player in the program to reach the 1,000 dig plateau. USI will host McKendree and then the University of Illinois Springfield.
The volleyball team will return home Friday when it
USI
Sept.24 3-0
Men’s Cross Country
volleyball
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Men’s soccer
8 a.m. Oct. 1 Louisville, KY Greater Louisville Classic
7 p.m. Sept. 30 Evansville, IN Truman State University
5 p.m. Sept. 30 Rensselaer, IN Saint Joseph’s College
7:30 p.m. Sept. 30 Rensselaer, IN Saint Joseph’s College
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3 p.m. Oct. 1 Evansville, IN University of Illinois Springfield
USI
Men’s Golf Sept.26-27 Midwest Regional #1 T 13th of 25 teams
woMen’s Cross country Sept.16 Spartan Invitational 2nd of 12 teams
The Shield: How many tournaments do you play in the fall? Cowser: We do three tournaments in the fall. We had our first one two weeks ago. What those tournaments are is for development help everyone get used to the game.
Upcoming Varsity Games
Volleyball Truman State University Sept. 23
The Shield: What makes you feel this year could be different? Cowser:I’m liking our chances this year with the group of guys we have. The group of freshmen we have assimilated into the sport. We are meshing early on.
briefs Tanriverdi leads Eagles
Men’s soccer
made it on our own. There have been some years where teams drop out and there are open spots.
8 a.m. Oct. 1 Louisville, KY Greater Louisville Classic
11 a.m. Oct. 2 Indianapolis, IN University of Indianapolis
1:30 p.m Oct. 2 Indianapolis, IN University of Indianapolis
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Club Sports
Upcoming Intramurals Sign-up dates arriving soon
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Deadlines
Playing Date(s)
Available Practice Schedules
Quidditch Soccer Night
Broadway
Sept. 22
Wrestling Night
RFWC
Sept. 22
Cornhole Tourney
RFWC Outdoor Courts
Sept. 23
Oct. 1
Disc Golf Singles
Disc Golf Course
Sept. 23
Oct. 2
Flag Football League
Broadway
Sept. 23
Coed Flag Football Leauge
Broadway
Race for the Cure
Eastland Mall
Passed
Sept. 25
Outdoor Climbing/ Camping
Southern Illinois
Sept. 30
Oct. 8-10
4v4 Coed Sand Volleyball
RFWC Outdoor Courts
Oct. 7
Oct. 15
3v3 Basketball
RFWC Outdoor Courts
Oct. 7
Oct. 15
Golf Scramble
Helfrich Golf Course
Oct. 7
Oct. 16
Mondays and Wednesdays 8 p.m.
Rugby Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Non-game day Saturdays Noon
Sept. 23
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Men’s Ultimate Frisbee Mondays, Tuesday, Thursday 6 p.m.- 8 p.m.
Women’s Ultimate Frisbee Tuesday and Thursday 6 p.m.- 8 p.m.
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