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Price is Right Live was priceless experience DEB BETHEL Features Editor | @thedebbethel
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V’s longest-running game show came to Illinois State’s Braden Auditorium Wednesday, and the crowd seemed to have a priceless experience. Excited crowd members swarmed in to the Bone Student Center hours before the show started at 7:30 p.m., taking pictures in front of a Price is Right backdrop, showing off flashy costumes and practicing their best “Jerry, Jerry,” chants in anticipation for the live show host,
Jerry Springer. Differing from the filmed show in that the contestants’ names are randomly drawn instead of the contestants being cast, the majority of the audience didn’t dress up quite as crazily as most do on the TV show. However, many groups came in homemade shirts, donning Springer’s face and the show’s iconic catchphrase “Come on down!” One group came in dressed as the actual podiums that contestants stand at while guessing the prizes during each round, carrying cardboard boxes hanging around their bodies with prices written to look just like the
real thing. Comedian Andy Martello, seen on Comedy Central, was the co-host of the show – the lucky one that got to tell contestants to “Come on down!” He and Jerry made a great duo, but Springer definitely stole the show with his dad jokes, self-deprecating humor and overall charm. Throughout the show Springer compared the Price is Right Live to his own daytime show, which he has hosted for 26 years. He appreciated the warm atmosphere and happiness of the crowd. He also commented on the beautiful models who showed off the prizes, joking that he’s “not used
to women having teeth on (his) show, either.” The game started with the game Punch-A-Bunch, during which the contestant, Donnabelle Franz from Heyward, had a chance to win anywhere from $5–5,0000. The first dollar amount Franz punched out was $500, but she decided to keep going. Although she ended up with $300, she and her husband of 53 years (Jerry ate this up, saying they would thankfully never end up on his show) left happily.
ABOVE: Jerry Spring hosted Price is Right Live in Braden Auditorium at the Bone Student Center Wednesday.
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Illinois State University’s hometown was named one of the top 10 college towns in the United States, according to a new study from the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER). Bloomington-Normal ranked 10th based on its quality of life, economic health and demographics. “ISU isn’t just a place for education, it’s a place to live, learn and grow,” School of Communication academic adviser Julie Navickas said. The area has one of the most thriving small business areas along with an abundance of “active” spaces such as parks, art and entertainment venues. “The university and the town always (have) something to do,” Navickas said. “Whether it’s dining at a local restaurant [within walking distance of campus], attending an arts festival, enjoying live music on the Circle or watching a local sporting event, there is something for everyone.” The town’s business district, Uptown Normal, is home to an ample amount of local and chain restaurants, pubs, two hotels, an art-house movie theater and various shops. Those convenient aspects of the town make it extremely accessible for students who do not have their own form of transportation. “There are so many opportunities to get out and try new things in the town,” senior public relations major Krista Bilow said. “Being
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Council approves video gaming ordinance Citizens voice concerns over possibility of problems with gambling, disorderly conduct in area DYLAN STEVENS News Reporter | @dkstevens12
A new ordinance could keep restaurants that have video gambling 200 feet away from a single-family neighborhood, if passed by the Normal Town Council. Concerned citizens close to gaming parlors brought up the issue at Monday’s meeting. There is a stereotype that video game gambling restaurants with liquor licenses will attract a crowd that will become drunk and disorderly. The next portion of that fear is that those who become intoxicated or lose money at the parlor will become angry and cause a disturbance in nearby neighborhoods. City Manager Mark Peterson has voiced that there have been no problems whatsoever within these gaming parlors. One action being considered is whether it is necessary to establish residential setback requirements for video gaming establishments. The council unanimously approved the ordinance at the most recent meeting, yet still hopes to clarify all aspects of it in the coming future. Normal resident Grant Jones spoke regarding the order. He was supportive of the idea, however, as an owner of a video game parlor, he asked if they could make the ordinance retroactive to support local video gaming parlors. “Currently out of the seven video gaming parlors, two of them have restaurant
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Resident Grant Jones spoke during Monday’s Town Council meeting in regards to the ordinance regarding video game gambling. licenses that operate the same fashion as a parlor such as the ones I operate, and it’s very hard to compete when they have four to five extra hours per day of working time,” Jones said. “I hope that you do make it retroactive. As someone who grew up here all my life, it’s difficult to struggle and watch somebody who is not from this
area be successful with kind of an unfair advantage.” Regarding enforcing the ordinance retroactively, Cor poration Counsel for Normal Town Council Brian Day acknowledged that it probably is not possible with respect to video gaming. “Some portions obviously when people
come back to get renewals for liquor licenses we’ll have to make sure to meet the standards,” Day said. “But we wouldn’t be applying for instance the 200-foot buffer retroactively because there are constitutional issues involved with that.” Mayor Chris Koos discussed the items that were brought up at their strategic retreat. One of them being the overall situation with gaming parlors. “We felt that there were some changes the council wanted to see as well as referencing gaming, also the issue of restaurants and what is a restaurant, we wanted a little more clarification on that and that is what we’re primarily trying to do here tonight,” Koos said. C ounci l member R .C. McBr ide commented on the issue. He wants to keep the homeowners and other residents who have concerns in mind, but also wants to be fair to video game parlors and restaurants as well. “I know what a wrestling match the restaurant standards are given the town’s history,” he said. “With this particular issue, we are again trying to find that sweet spot and keep up with times. What we thought of a restaurant kitchen 20, 30, 40 years ago is not necessarily what is required these days.” Dylan Stevens is a news reporter for The Vidette and can be reached at dkstev1@ilstu.edu. Follow him on Twitter @dkstevens12.
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Over 1,000 people are expected to fill the streets of downtown Bloomington for the Stand with Planned Parenthood rally, begining 10 a.m. Saturday at the McLean County History Museum. About 1,200 people said they were going to the march on the event’s Facebook page, with another 2,500 showing interest in attending. Two sisters, Lauren and Melle Hany, organized the event in support of Planned Parenthood. “When my sister and I dreamed up this event, we did it with Planned Parenthood’s mission statement in mind,” Melle Hany said in a post on the event’s Facebook page. “Planned Parenthood is for ALL people. Men and women, both trans and cis, benefit on a daily basis from the services that they provide, the same services that many people are trying to defund and shut down.” The event will start on the west side of the History Museum. The group will march throughout downtown and finish with speakers outside of the Bloomington Center for Performing Arts. The rally contrasts with the nationwide protest to funding for Planned Parenthood by a coalition of state pro-life groups #ProtestPP. There are rallies planned in surrounding cities Springfield, Peoria and Champaign, but none in Bloomington-Normal.
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The event’s Facebook description encourages those to be respectful towards Planned Parenthood protestors if they show up at the rally. “We plan on having this rally regardless of whether the opposition shows up. Please be prepared and respectful,” the sisters wrote in the description. “We encourage you to ignore them and keep any engagement nonviolent/confrontational.” They said the goal is to show support to everyone in the community. “That is what we are here for — to support every member of this community no matter how difficult it is for us to put ourselves in their shoes,” Hany said. “That’s what it means to support Planned Parenthood. We are all in this fight TOGETHER.” The event is not affiliated with Planned Parenthood.
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Let Liz speak: removing the tape
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or the first time in too long, a woman was silenced for an illogical reason and the nation did not hesitate to flock to her side. Sen. Elizabeth Warren spoke out Tuesday night during a debate of the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions to Attorney General and was met not with respect, but with a disturbing slap across the face to women everywhere. Warren read an excerpt from a letter Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King Jr., wrote to Sen. Strom Thurmond. The letter, dated 1986, detailed her concerns about Sessions’ nomination to be a federal judge. The letter detailed concerns of the rights of African-Americans and called Sessions a “disgrace.” Upon its original reading in 1986, it heavily influenced Sessions’ denial from the position. Now that Warren — a strong woman and Democrat — attempted to read the letter in 2017, she was rudely interrupted and denied. One of the most horrific things we have seen, even considering the past few weeks. Like a line out of a Toby Keith song, Warren was essentially told to “sit down, shut up and
hold on,” words women are too familiar with. The world would think we would be past this sick double standard by now, but even female senators have to jump through the women’s rights hoops. Warren was told she would be violating Rule 19, which prohibits senators from insulting each other while on the floor. This rule, often overlooked, has been
said to rarely be used since its adoption in 1902 due to a literal fist fight that erupted in the Senate. Since then, its use has only come up a mere handful of times. Warren’s punishment? She is barred from speaking for the remainder of Sessions’ nomination and Coretta’s letter could not be used or read. Later that evening in an
interview with Don Lemon on “CNN Tonight,” Warren was finally able to lift the tape from over her mouth and speak out. “I literally can’t be recognized on the floor of the Senate. I have become a nonperson during the discussion of Jeff Sessions,” Warren said. So now we have a woman working for something — not self-promotion, but for the well-
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being of an entire country — who is silenced. Finally, for the first time in what feels like forever, our country has decided to bite back. Twitter was instantly flooded with the trending hashtag #LetLizSpeak, an outpouring of support for our most recent victim to the Donald Trump agenda. “The letter is powerful. The letter is deeply moving. And the letter is an important historical document,” Warren said to Lemon. Though she was not given her right to read the letter in the debate, she later took to Facebook Live to share Coretta’s words, where she received countless responses of support from the American people. The DNC later responded to the events in a statement: “It is a sad day in America when the words of Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow are not allowed on the floor of the United States Senate. Let Elizabeth Warren Speak. The American people deserve to hear how Jeff Sessions is an extremist who will be a rubber stamp for this out-of-control Trump Presidency.”
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Boy Scouts’ acceptance step in the right direction MY VIEW KEVIN SCHWALLER | Columnist
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he Boy Scouts of America (BSA) announced the group will begin accepting transgender boys Jan. 30, which is a much-needed breath of fresh air amongst seemingly never-ending White House clamor. “For more than 100 years, the Boy Scouts of America, along with schools, youth sports and other youth organizations, have ultimately deferred to the information on an individual’s birth certificate to determine eligibility for our single-gender programs,” the Scouts said in a statement on its website.
“However, that approach is no longer sufficient as communities and state laws are interpreting gender identity differently, and these laws vary widely from state to state.” Under this new policy, membership in Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts will be based on the gender indicated on an application. The new policy will take effect immediately. This is incredible news for transgender boys who wish to join the Scouts and for the cisgender boys who will learn and work alongside them. I think this is a milestone for LGBT rights across the country. Previously, the organization relied on an individual’s birth certificate to determine eligibility. The BSA is no stranger to conservative values that have stirred up controversies. Over the last several decades, the Boy Scouts
have been under fire for its rejection of homosexual, atheist and transgender members. After years of protests and petitions, the Scouts finally allowed the inclusion of homosexual boys in 2013. The group lifted the ban on homosexual Scout leaders two years later. It is, or should be, a basic human right to allow a person identifying as a certain gender to be a part of a group exclusively made up of that gender. BSA should not be allowed to deny a child’s involvement in its organizations because the birth certificate says information that differentiates from what the person identifies as, and I’m happy to see the BSA changed the rather outdated stance on the issue. I never understood the desire to exclude others based on who they are, but to be fair, I’ve also never understood the desire to be a Boy Scout, either.
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However, when I first heard this news, I thought about Joe Maldonado, a young transgender boy who was rejected from the Scouts due to his gender identity last year. Maldonado was asked to rejoin the Cub Scouts once the new policy was initiated. It’s also important to note that Girl Scouts (with no relation to Boy Scouts) accepts transgender girls. The group added its stance to the website over five years ago. According to the Girl Scouts website, “if the child is recognized by the family and school/ community as a girl and lives culturally as a girl, then Girl Scouts is an organization that can serve her in a setting that is both emotionally and physically safe.” So many people unfortunately don’t understand or agree with the transgender community. Why should people be punished
because they were not born as who they are or wish to be? “What if” scenarios should not be valid enough reasons to deny somebody, especially a child, rights they are entitled to. Children who learn to see others for who they are grow into much more understanding adults. In a time of hateful rhetoric thrown left and right, we should be teaching the younger audience to be more open-minded and accepting. I applaud the BSA for finally including everyone who identifies as male. I hope to hear positive stories about Maldonado, and other transgender boys hoping to join the Scouts, in the near future. Kevin Schwaller is a news reporter and columnist for The Vidette. He can be reached at vidette_ kschwal@ilstu.edu. Follow him on Twitter @kevschwa.
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Redbird Rumble: To Democratic businessman Chris Kennedy who
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Redbird Fumble: To Illinois weather for all the Wednesday snow
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announced he will run for Illinois governor in 2018. Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner should be a one-term governor.
which caused a street parking ban in Bloomington and Normal.
of Illinois who voted against President Trump’s nominee for education secretary.
Senate who confirmed Betsy DeVos as President Trump’s education secretary. The Senate voted 51-50.
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New location for downtown bar drop-offs and pick-ups ALI RASPER News Reporter | @AliRasper4
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Daniel Breyer spoke in the Prairie Room about the challenges of being peaceful during troubling times.
Pacifism topic of International Seminar KATELYN PROVOW News Reporter | @katelynprovow
Daniel Breyer, associate professor of philosophy and director of the religious studies minor at Illinois State University, presented “The Pacifist’s Challenge: How to be Peaceful in a Troubled World” Wednesday in the Prairie Room of the Bone Student Center. Breyer started by explaining that a pacifist is someone who believes any type of violence is unjustifiable. When people commit their lives to being pacifists, they practice how to peacefully stand up to violence in a nonviolent manner. “Pacifism is grounded in the desire to be peaceful and nonviolent, but the pacifist lives in a troubled world,” Breyer said. “This world is uncooperative, this world is violent, this world uses violence to get what it wants and as a citizen of this world, the pacifist is not only subject to be violent but is also tempted perhaps, even compelled, to participate.” Breyer introduced the views of the Christian church and how it relates to remaining peaceful in a troubled world. Breyer read Matthew 5:39 and explained that “turning the other cheek” can be interpreted as taking the moral high road to a tough situation. An idea Breyer emphasized was that being a pacifist does not mean you are submissive toward violence, but instead physically
choosing peace over violence. Breyer noted from the beginning that he cannot personally tell people how to remain peaceful and nonviolent, but instead he draws inspiration from the views of Buddhist, Hindu, Christian and other secular thinkers to come up with the answers.
“Pacifism is grounded in the desire to be peaceful and nonviolent, but the pacifist lives in a troubled world.” Daniel Breyer
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One of the answers the talk brought up is to give a gift to someone. By giving someone a gift, it is a way to combat the way you feel about someone. Even though people can upset others, it does not change the fact that they still care about them. Another answer the talk brought up was to think of people as kinder than the Buddha. In doing this, people
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practice remaining calm and peaceful in situations where others attempt to get in the way of that peace. Breyer adds that while this is in no way easy, it is very doable. “When someone gets upset with you, it becomes really hard to feel like you can remain calm and you start to want to imitate that same behavior,” Breyer said. The last answer was to make people less aggressive. Many times, the object of people’s concern is not in their immediate sphere and should not concern them as much as it appears to. Breyer has published articles on contemporary epistemology, philosophy of religion, moral psychology and Buddhist studies. Breyer is currently working on two book projects. One is on the history of free will and the other is about moral responsibility. Katelyn Provow is a news reporter for The Vidette and can be reached at klprov1@ilstu.edu. Follow her on Twitter @katelynprovow.
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The drop-off and pick-up locations for downtown Bloomington have recently changed for large buses. In the past, large school bus-type vehicles for hire would drop off and pick up downtown nightlife goers in the 500 block of North Main Street. Since students have returned from Winter Break, the Bloomington Police and engineering — among other departments — decided that the drop-off and pick-up location for large buses will now be on North Center Street. This way, pedestrians can cross the road safely without large buses blocking their vision. Executive Director for the Downtown Bloomington Association Tricia Stiller explained the new trial protocol. “As with all things, it is important to evaluate programs and make adjustments along the way to insure best practices are in place. After careful review by both the Bloomington Police Department and the City of Bloomington engineers, it was determined that the large school bus type vehicles for hire, which had been staging on the 500 block Main Street, actually impeded the officers in their efforts toward citizen safety, for they obstructed the view of the sidewalks, putting pedestrians at risk,” Stiller said. Assistant Police Chief Ken Bays and City Engineer Kevin Kothe were two of the many people involved in the decision to start the new program. Stiller said the decision to switch the location was an easy one to make. “A decision was made to relocate the larger vehicles one block west, to Center Street, and designate the east side of Main to smaller vehicles, such as Uber and taxi cabs. This allows the BPD to monitor pedestrians more effectively. Main Street remains open to through traffic, and on street parking is still available on the west side of the street,” Stiller said. Bays had no additional statements to give about the new program. Safety of all pedestrians is of high importance to the
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Downtown Bloomington Association. “First and foremost, this program is in place to provide safe transportation to those who have been enjoying the downtown nightlife. Citizen safety is and always has been the priority,” Stiller said. Senior Kolby Knutson, 21, shared his views on the new program. “I can tell that the police are working towards making it a safer place by blocking off certain roads and helping with pedestrian crossing. Also to make the downtown area a safer place to enjoy the night,” Knutson said. Since it started, the program is working better than the Bloomington Police Department had originally hoped. Bars like Daddios, Fat Jacks and Drifters are all located on Main Street. Several bar owners have also given positive feedback to the new trial program.
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Normal Public Library combines poetry, politics in ‘Poetry is Normal’ MARIDSA CHOUTE Features Reporter | @MaridsaWrites
Every other month, the Normal Public Library opens its doors to poets and visitors to share poems with members of the BloomingtonNormal community. At 7:30 p.m. Feb. 16, the Normal Public Library Poetry is Normal event, hosted in the library’s café, will share poems focused on the subject of political poetry. “This reading lands on the 16th which is a couple days after Valentine’s Day, so we wanted to pick something other than love poems,” Kathleen Kirk, host of Poetry is Normal, who also works in the Normal Public Library said. Kirk said that the theme is fitting not only because it is Black History Month, but politics also seems to be on everyone’s minds right now after events like the Women’s March or social movements like Black Lives Matter. The open mic night will be informal. Guests will be invited to sit and socialize in the café with Kirk and sign in, indicating if they will be reading a poem. Kirk is eager to hear the poems the guests will bring. “Each person can recite one or two poems. And those can be poems that they’ve written or poems by someone they admire,” Kirk said. Junior plant biology major Sam Hartley is excited to attend the event because he thinks it will be a great outlet for poets who have something to say about politics right now. Hartley, who has been participating in open mic nights for the past three years, believes that all students should expose themselves to live poetry if they haven’t yet. “Seeing [poetry] live is a much more engaging experience than just reading it,” Hartley said. “It gives you a more visual and auditory sense of the writer’s emotion.” Poetry is Normal began two years ago when an English student and ISU alum wanted to get more students involved with poetry. Kirk said that the initial goal was to bring students and the community together through poetry. Now Kirk hopes to bring in more college students. “We’ve had a great time whether we’ve had just a dozen people or twenty to thirty, but we would love to see a larger turnout with students,” Kirk said. Anybody is welcome to attend; no one is pressured to recite poems. Kirk will be reading Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus,” which is the same poem at the bottom of the Statue of Liberty’s feet. In the coming months, Poetry is Normal will only expand with upcoming themes such as earth to summer to the winter solstice. During the months in which there is not an open mic, the library will host Poetry is Normal Presents, which welcomes published poets to read their work for the audience.
Capoeira Club’s president JD Lewis, left, and co-instructor, Rose Marshack, teach the class to ginga in a roda.
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Capoeira captivates with culture, dance ISU’s Capoeira Club introduces students to Brazilian language, music, acrobats through unique practice DEB BETHEL Features Editor | @thedebbethel
Walking into a room full of new faces, foreign music and foreign dancing may sound like a nightmare to some, but for the capoeiristas of ISU, it’s an average Monday night. ISU’s Capoeira (pronounced CAP-oo-A IR-uh) Club offers not only a physical stimulus, but a mental one, too, to all ages, shapes and sizes that partake in the weekly class. Capoeira Angola is a Brazilian martial art stemming from the 16th century, started by enslaved Africans in Brazil. As a symbol of hope, play and culture, the practice has become an internationally beloved pastime that continues to honor the history of its origins while having fun with the walks of life it draws in. JD L ew is, president and founder of Capoeira Club at ISU, first heard about the martial art when he was a kid from a video game, Tekken, and was later reintroduced to it his freshman year in a Black music class where his professor showed a video of it. Through some research, he found a group in Champaign that actually wanted to start covering more area. After just a few calls, Lewis organized the RSO and coordinated it so that Aisha Chiaramonte, a student of 13 years under Mestre João Grande,
would come every Monday to help instruct the class. Chiaramonte and her husband, Denis, are the heads of the Capoeira Angola Center of Mestre João Grande in Champaign, where they teach classes to students as young as 3-years-old to as old as 80 at the center, as well as at U of I. A nother element of ISU’s Capoeira Club comes from Champaign as well – Rose Marshack, a capoeira student of eight years and an associate professor of Arts Technology at ISU. Being a former Tae Kwon Do teacher in Champaign, Marshack “always saw the capoeira group dancing around. They looked untouchable and I thought, ‘Oh my goodness, I could never do that,’” she said. However, as she slowly began trying her skills at the martial art, she realized it was much more than one’s ability to “do” capoeira. The martial art incorporates elements of yoga, breakdancing, gymnastics, kickboxing, Brazilian culture, language and music. “To have a martial art that is also combined with music is perfect for me because I really like music, and to me the most important thing in the world is to play,” Marshack said. The concept of play comes in while performing capoeira in the roda (“HAW-duh”), a circle
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“I always wanted to go on a game show,” Franz said at the beginning. “Maybe one day you’ll get to go to a real one,” Springer responded. Cliff hangers; Any Number, the first game Bob Barker ever played on The Price is Right; The Wheel; Check Out and Plinko preceded The Big Showcase, with every contestant enjoying their time on stage and winning cash prizes, although none won the big prize of their round. A crowd favorite, The Wheel, was kept intense and interesting with all three contestants’ spins. The first two spun 90 on their first try, but Terry Haworth of Springfield took the win by spinning 30 and 65, getting closest to 100. Springer made a joke about his Cubs shirt, saying maybe he could make a comeback after his initial spin. “I told my friends that I would wear the Cubs shirt for good luck just in case
made up of the people not playing, with a partner. Whether one considers the partner a friend or an opponent ref lects in what they call the performance – playing or fighting. The f lips, turns and acrobatics are the obvious physical aspects of performing, but there’s much more mental aspects of the art, too. “You have to anticipate what your partner is going to do, and you have to be prepared,” Vice President Andres Garcia said. “There are secret meanings in the music that we learn, too, so there are a lot of different mental games to it. It’s like learning a language with your body.” “You’re always communicating, and you have a choice as to what discussion you’ll have with your bodies,” Marshack added. “It’s like chess, it takes a lifetime to learn and anyone can do it.” While two people are playing in the roda, the rest of the class sings classic capoeira songs in Portuguese such as “O sim sim sim, O não não não” and plays instruments such as the pandeiro (tambourine), atabaque (hand drum) and the berimbau (a bowed percussion instrument), among others. While all of these exotic components may seem intimidating to some, Lewis reassures that everyone goes through the “ugly duck ling phase” when f irst
coming to classes. After just a few classes, the movements become more natural and comfortable. Garcia agreed, add i ng , “There’s so much beauty behind capoeira... There’s no judgement whatsoever.” Mestre João Grande, 84, grand master of Capoeira Angola, has more than 50 years of experience. To help understand his impor tance, Marshack compared him as the Michael Jordan of capoeira. The club recently received funds to bring Mestre Grande to ISU on April 27 where he will give a beginner’s and alllevels Capoeira Angola workshop in the evening in Cook Hall. The workshop will be open to all of ISU and the Bloomington-Normal community. Until then, capoeira club will meet every Monday from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in Centennial East 115. Starting in two weeks, the class will move to CVA 130. The club is free and open to everyone. Lewis noted that there is something for everyone in this club: “There’s so many opportunities for everybody - those who are interested in music, language, the mental and physical aspects, martial arts, dancing or just people who want to prove to themselves that they can do some of these really interesting acrobatic moves.”
I got called up,” Haworth said. “I got lucky spinning that wheel.” In the Big Showcase, a Bloomington woman and an ISU speech pathology major had the chance to win an Apple computer, grill and smoker, Chevy Sonic and/or a trip to Hawaii, but both guessed too high for the overall price of the package. Both walked away happily with $250 each though, so no one went home at a loss. Along with the obvious amusement from the gameshow itself, Jerry Springer added an overall amusing element to the show. In a somewhat unrelated turn of events, he not only started singing Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” but also slow danced with the contestant that was on stage at the time. Contrary to the Jerry Springer Show that Springer himself joked “ruined our culture,” The Price is Right LIVE enhanced the night of audience members, with everyone leaving feeling happy and right.
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Illinois State cruises past Drake, 82-53, after suffering first conference loss BETH GEISTLINGER Sports Editor | @beth_geist
Illinois State men’s basketball cruised past Drake in the second half after fighting to stay ahead in the first. Drake started the scoring, but ISU was quick to come back and put up a 3-pointer to take back the lead. This would not be the last time the lead changed. Throughout the 40 minutes of play, the game was tied three times and the lead changed nine times. Senior point-guard Paris Lee put
up a career-high 26 points to help keep the Redbirds ahead. In 28 minutes of play, Lee also contributed two steals, two rebounds and two assists. “I passed up a couple shots early and coach Muller got mad at me. He rarely gets mad at me on the offensive end,” Lee said. “When I saw how mad he got at me, Paris I said I don’t want Lee him mad at me like this no more. I have to shoot every
one that looked good.” Keyshawn Evans also netted a career-high number of points with 16. The sophomore also had two rebounds, four assists and a steal. During the second half, ISU went on a 20-0 run to seal the deal with 1:52 left. “I wouldn’t say that’s anything crazy for us. That’s just how we play defense,” Evans said. “It wasn’t out of character. We listened to coach, played with more energy and played fast.” ISU dominated in the paint, scoring 40 points as opposed to Drake’s
12. The Redbirds shot 58 percent from the field, which is a vast improvement from 33.3 percent the team shot Saturday against Wichita State. The team has already moved past its recent 86-45 loss to Wichita State, and it showed tonight. “The last game everyone’s forgot about already,” Lee said. “You have to have short-term memory when it comes down to things like that because if you dwell in the past, that game could have messed up our swag for this game. We still have a chance to win conference. We have
to keep playing.” What kept ISU in the game was its nationally-ranked defense. The Redbirds only allowed Drake to shoot 27 percent from both the field and above the arc. “In the second half they really had a suffocating defense,” Drake coach Billy Wampler said. “They’re athletic and long and one of the best defensive teams in the country for a reason.” The `Birds will be back 9 p.m. Saturday at Doug Collins Court to take on Bradley.
Redbirds ready to face Valley’s best MIKE MARRA Sports Reporter | @MikeMarraILSTU
The Illinois State women’s basketball team has a tall task this weekend as they travel to face the two teams at the top of the Missouri Valley Conference. To begin the weekend, the Redbirds (6-16, 3-8 MVC) will travel to first place Drake (18-4, 11-0 MVC) on Friday night. The Redbirds and Bulldogs last met on Jan. 15 when the Bulldogs cruised past the Redbirds, 87-36. Drake had four players score in double digits while also shooting 53 percent from the field and 65 percent from three. ISU turned the ball over 19 times, which turned into 30 points for Drake. The Redbirds will once again look to seniors Brechelle Beachum and Taylor Stewart to lead the way for this young roster. Beachum is coming off another
game where she scored 20 second half points in route to a comeback victory for Illinois State. The team will also rely heavily upon Katrina Beck a lot this weekend, after she used a big second-half rally versus Loyola Sunday to propel the Redbirds to a win. Beck scored 14 of her 19 points in the fourth quarter alone. Drake comes into Friday’s matchup riding a 12-game win-streak. Four Bulldogs average double digits and will look to attack the young Redbirds. Lizzy Wendell leads all scorers with 21.7 points per game, followed by Sara Rhine with 11.6, with Becca Hittner averaging 11.3. Caitlin Ingle rounds out the Drake offense with an average of 10.5 points per game. Drake is averaging 82.4 points per game as a team. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. Friday. Before coming back home, the Redbirds will travel to Northern Iowa for a Sunday matinee matchup with
the Panthers. Northern Iowa (16-6, 9-2 MVC) has already beaten Illinois State one time this season. The Panthers defeated the Redbirds on Jan. 13, by a score of 78-40. The Redbirds were plagued by turnovers again, giving the ball away 22 times which resulted in 28 points for the Panthers. UNI is currently sitting in second place in the Valley right behind Drake. The last time the Panthers took the floor, they were beaten by Southern Illinois, 64-59, in Carbondale. The Panther offense is led by two girls averaging double figures. Madison Weekly comes into the weekend averaging 15.7 points per game, while Ellie Herzberg comes in averaging 11.8 points per game. Northern Iowa dons an 8-2 record at home this season. Illinois State has struggled on the road, posting a 1-8 record in road contests.
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Brechelle Beachum scored 23 points against Loyola Sunday. Sunday’s tip-off is set for 2 p.m. The Redbirds haven’t been on the road in two weeks and are coming off a weekend where their offense was stagnant for most of the weekend. This weekend is no easy task for
the young Redbirds. Going on the road to take on the Valley’s two best isn’t what this team wants to do right now as it tries to gain some ground in the MVC standings before heading to Hoops in the Heartland in March.
ISU track and field splits for weekend PAUL STEENO Sports Reporter | @KingSteeno
The Illinois State track and field team will send a large group of athletes to Allendale, Mich. to compete at the Grand Valley State University Big Meet Friday. The meet begins at 10 a.m. with the men’s 5,000-meter run and a full day
of action on the track and in the field concludes at 7:20 p.m. with the men’s 4 x 400-meter relay. Last week at the Meyo Invitational in South Bend, Ind., the women’s 4 X 400-meter relay team broke the school record with a time of 3:41.14. The men’s team struggled, but looks to bounce back on Friday at Grand Valley State. Several top-end ISU track and field
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PREVIEWING THE 2017 ILLINOIS STATE BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL TEAMS
Softball looks up in ’17 MICHAEL MARRA Sports Reporter | @MikeMarraILSTU
The 2017 Illinois State softball season is upon us and for the 32nd season in a row, Melinda Fischer will be in the dugout at the helm of the Redbirds. The Redbirds are coming off a season where they went 20-33 overall, with a record of 10-14 in the Missouri Valley Conference. Fischer will be looking to bring this Redbird team back to the NCAA Tournament, something that Illinois State has not done since the 2012 Melinda season. Fischer The Redbirds were picked to finish fifth in the MVC preseason poll, which would be an improvement from the seventh place finish in the MVC from a season ago. ISU will be returning seven starters from last season, including two preseason All-MVC team selections in senior catcher Jordan de los Reyes and junior infielder R i l e y Strandgard. “I’m very honored. But again it’s a whole ’nother season, you just never know what to expect from any other teams in the Valley,” Strandgard said on being named to the preseason All-MVC team. Strandgard is coming off the 2016 season where she was named NFCA All-Mideast Region Second-Team, All-MVC Second-Team and All-MVC Tournament Team.
De los Reyes collected her fair share of awards last season as well, being named the MVC Defensive Player of the Year, NFCA All-Mideast Region Third-Team, All-MVC First-Team and All-MVC Defensive Team. This year’s squad will be led by two lone seniors, de los Reyes and Annie Heineman. Both girls are two-year captains and have started every game since their sophomore season. “We have two great seniors,” Fischer said. “If you only have to have two, we have the best that I can think of.” The Redbirds will look to their youth to replace last Emma Horath | Vidette Senior Photographer year’s senior pitcher ReganThe Redbirds boast another young roster this season with just two seniors Annie Heineman and Jordan de los Reyes. Romshek. For right now, Illinois State will take on No. 4 Florida in the conference,” Fischer said. Fischer does not know who back end of a doubleheader Saturday, while it Looking at the season, the Redbirds have will be in the circle this year for her squad. “The pitching, I think is gonna be a pitching will close out the weekend tournament with No. another young team that lost its starting pitcher and is a somewhat inexperienced. The two by committee on days. And then I think you’re 6 Michigan. The Redbirds squared off against both teams seniors, Heineman and de los Reyes, will be gonna find a kid that’s gonna get hot and can asked to do a lot, along with Strandgard. take you through a whole ballgame and I’m not last season, dropping both games. This will be the fourth season in a row that This team will go through some growing sure who that’s gonna be and when that’s Illinois State opens up the season at USF. pains early on in the season against some gonna happen,” Fischer said. Illinois State will compete in four other tour- strong competition. For the second year in a row, the Redbirds naments during the 2017 season, which will The top two teams in the Valley are near will own the youngest team in the conference. “That doesn’t bother me as long as people are include trips to Tempe, Ariz., Bowling Green, locks to remain there all season, but expect this Redbird team to come around near the end really willing to work, that they’re coachable, Ky., Baton Rouge, La. and Boca Raton, Fla. The Redbirds will play 30 games on the road and show some real promise. ISU’s projected they understand what we need to get done and they go attack what we need to get done,” or at a neutral site before they have their home finish at fifth in the MVC is fair, but the team opener on April 1, versus Southern Illinois just might surprise some and finish a spot or Fischer said of her team’s youth. two higher. The team will begin the season Thurs- which will be a doubleheader. Fischer said being on the road that long will day in Tampa at the University of South Florida Wilson DeMarini Tournament, not affect her team at all. Illinois State will open up MVC play on the when the Redbirds take on host, No. 25 road March 17 versus Indiana State. USF in the first game at 5 p.m. “There is nothing we can do about that The Redbirds will go on to face two because the Valley, a year ago decided to start ranked opponents on the weekend. the first two weeks with the southern schools, we’re a northern school, and so we are gonna Junior outfielder Caitlyn Daly start on the road for the first two weeks of
Season prediction
Overall: 25–29 Conference: 14–12 Place: Fifth
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Ryan Hutchinson, Noah Sadler and Connor Moroder take a breather during an outdoor practice at Duffy Bass Field.
Redeeming Redbird baseball’s glory NATE HEAD Sports Reporter | @NateHead51
When the Illinois State baseball team was projected to finish at the bottom of the Missouri Valley Conference this season in the preseason poll, few were surprised. The Redbirds finished in the cellar of the MVC last season with a 17-37 record and only returned 19 of 36 players this spring. With the assortment of new faces, competition for vacant roles has raised the importance of team practices. “It’s definitely going to be exciting this year because there are opportunities for a lot of new guys
to step up,” sophomore shortstop Owen Miller said. “You can just tell in practice that it has been more intense this year.” Defending champion Dallas Baptist was selected by the poll to repeat at the top of the MVC, followed by Sout her n Il linois and Missouri State. Those top t h re e -proje c te d teams return six, nine and eight position players, respectively. Miller was the Bo Durkac catalyst of the
on 3-1 and 3-2 counts,” head coach Bo Durkac said. ISU’s pitching staff ranked second to last in the MVC in team ERA at 5.50 and its opposing batting average was the worst in the conference at .293. But a revamped starting rotation leaves Durkac with a sense of optimism. The rotation will be led by senior pitcher Jack Landwehr, who led the team in ERA with 2.89 in 32 relief appearances. Seniors David Meade and Mitch Weis will round out the rotation and provide coveted experience on the mound for the Redbirds. “I think our weekend pitching staff will be our biggest strength. If those guys can come out and do what they do and keep the game close through four or five innings, I think we have enough guys coming out of the bullpen t hat can help us win the game,” Durkac said. ISU w ill turn to a new class of fresh- men to help the program turn the corner. The group is highlighted by Bryce Grimm, Noah Sadler, Jordan Libman and Bloomington native John Rave, all of whom will compete for spots in the opening day lineup. The team opens regular season play on Feb. 17 at the Riverview Inn Governors
ISU offense in the 2016 campaign, slashing .328/.368/.498 in his freshman season. Miller joins sophomore third baseman Ryan Hutchinson as Illinois State’s lone starting position players from last season — the lowest return rate in the conference. The Redbird offense ranked last in all major hitting categories a season ago. The team could look to be more aggressive on the base paths this season in efforts to jumpstart its– scoring production. “I’m probably going to be more liberal in the run game because I think we have guys that can move the ball in hit and run situations Redshirt sophomore Ryan Hutchinson
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Challenge in Clarksville, Tenn. The Redbirds will play Indiana State, Austin Peay and Youngstown State in the tournament. ISU plays its first home game of the season on March 28 against St. Louis and begins the conference schedule on March 31 against Dallas Baptist in Dallas, Texas.
Season prediction Overall: 20–33 Conference: 9–11 Place: Seventh