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State Dance Marathon exceeds goal Adrienne Morris Reporter

Indiana State Dance Marathon hosted its eighth annual dance marathon fundraiser for the Riley Hospital for Children this past Saturday. This all-day event was extremely successful, raising approximately $116,850 for the kids at Riley. Throughout the event, participants gathered together for eight hours in which they remained standing or dancing in an act to raise money for the Riley Children’s Foundation. Indiana State University alum, Evan Austin, spoke to the audience about his experience with his illness and how Riley Hospital has impacted him throughout his life. Austin also discussed his Paralympic endeavors and his other career highlights as a Paralympic swimmer for Team USA. “When they got up there and were talking about the impact that this makes, I thought I was going to cry. It was so moving how passionate people are about the Riley

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Many groups like this one, attended Dance Marathon and danced the night away for the children of Riley.

Children’s foundation,” ISU senior Markanda Baugh said. Many fundraisers throughout Indiana, such as StateDM, help the Riley Hospital to maintain its pediatric research and the constant treatment for many children. Riley Hospital has existed for 90 years, and throughout that time,

it has become Indiana’s largest research program and known as one of America’s best children’s hospitals. The Riley Children’s Foundation is supported by multiple groups throughout the state of Indiana, including high schools and colleges.

“As a titleholder for the Miss America organization, Riley is one of those organizations that we definitely volunteer and spend time working with, and I think it is pretty cool that the school I go to is hosting one of these events. I’m really just here to come out and

support the families and children that are a part of Riley Hospital,” Miss Indiana State Tiarra Taylor said. Throughout the night, the event was filled with ISU students who were actively participating and showing their support for the Riley Hospital and the Riley Children’s Foundation as a whole. “I definitely think it’s good for college students to get active and volunteer and take the time out of their day to raise money for these children. The money that we raise tonight goes to these children and their families. This is reality for families and sometimes as college students we take what we have for granted,” Taylor said. At the end of the night, the StateDM fundraiser raised over $100,000 for the Riley Children’s hospital, exceeding its initial $80,000 goal. “It shows that ISU is invested in the community, and it shows that ISU is more than just a college. It’s making a difference, and these kids are going to remember that,” Baugh said.

Speaker visited campus for Black History Month Anthony Goelz Reporter

Vagina Monologues brings awareness to sensitive topics Grace Harrah Features Editor

“The Vagina Monologues,” a play originally written by Eva Ensler, was performed by Indiana State University students over the weekend. The performance was sponsored by Feminist Majority, an ISU organization that promotes and advocates for gender equality and to demystify feminism. This year the play was directed by Sierra Stein and Kate Forness. Stein is the president of Feminist Majority at ISU, which was founded in October of 2013. The play cost $5 for students and $10 for general admission. The proceeds raised from the play went directly to Terre Haute’s Council on Domestic Abuse and the VDAY foundation to help end domestic violence. VDAY foundation supports the prevention of violence against women and children in the local

CODA shelter. “The Vagina Monologues,” despite the title of the play, is based off of real interviews of women done originally by Eve Ensler. The play has been performed on Broadway and HBO, finding popularity and bringing awareness to topics such as rape, genital mutilation and self-discovery. The monologues also includes personal and touching stories of women through different perspectives of strictly woman related experiences. T-shirts were also sold at the event, supporting the proceeds that go toward VDAY and CODA. Melissa Mitchell, junior at ISU and a performer for “The Vagina Monologues,” expressed her enjoyment of being part of the play for the second year in a row. “I enjoy hearing the different monologues and the stories of real women that are like me the most. Sometimes, as a woman, it’s taboo to discuss the issues we

face such as menstruation, sexual encounters and other more ‘intimate’ situations. It was nice to hear those stories being told unabashedly by real women, and to be able to connect with them as my cast members is a unique experience that many women don’t get to have,” Mitchell said. The play brings awareness to issues that often go unheard and not talked about. “I think the guests that attended the event benefitted the most from hearing the stories of real women that may have gone through the same situations or felt the same way about something as them. I also believe that the play in general shows the audiences that women should be just as comfortable with their bodies and sexuality as men are, and that our bodies are nothing to be ashamed of. ‘Vagina’ is such an unmentionable word in our society, and this play broke that mold in a great way,” Mitchell said.

President and CEO of Indiana Black Expo, Tanya Bell, visited Indiana State University to give a talk in honor of Black History Month on Thursday. Bell began speaking to the large crowd about the current problems with modern day education. “(Black History Month) is a time to showcase the contributions and accomplishments that African-Americans have made to society. It is a time for us to acknowledge the complete history because so often our history is forgotten, is concealed, it is erased,” Bell said. It is a commentary on the fact that African-American history is not a separate entity from the history taught in schools today, but is in all actuality American history. During the talk, Bell played a clip from Glenn Beck’s “Founder’s Friday” that originally aired on May 28, 2010. Throughout the clip, Beck kept emphasizing the heroes of the American Revolution, those heroes who have been forgotten by many educators due to an education system desperately in need of improvement. So often is African-American history left out of textbooks, despite these unknown people holding significance rivaling that of the more commonly known founders such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. The second half of Bell’s talk was focused around her trials

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and tribulations to get to where she is today. She was a first generation college student, a single mother and had a low LSAT score, but battled past adversity with determination and hard work. This half Bell emphasized on the meaning of hard work and what it can produce. This was an encouraging message that was well-received by the people in attendance. Bell is the President and CEO of Indiana Black Expo. Indiana Black Expo has been a pillar of the African-American community for decades as a year-round, multifaceted community service organization with 12 chapters around the state of Indiana. Indiana Black Expo offers multiple programs. “The Youth and Family Programs Department strives to serve as a catalyst throughout Indiana to foster relationship between businesses, governmental agencies, educational institutions, youth service agencies, churches and other community-based organizations. This department serves as a clearinghouse for quality chapter youth programs that address issues affecting youth while preparing them for full participation in society as adults,” according to the IBE website. This is to live up to their mission statement, which is “to be an effective voice and vehicle for the social and economic advancement of African-Americans, and to achieve their vision that African-American youth and families achieve their highest potential and reflect pride in their ethnicity.”

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Therapists are having a hard time talking about Trump Soumya Karlamangla

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Hate crimes are up, according to the FBI.

Kansas shooting likely to test what Trump views as a hate crime

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WASHINGTON — The shooting at a bar in a suburb of Kansas City of two Indian immigrants, one of whom died, is likely to become the first test of the Trump administration’s view of what role the federal government should play in crimes against ethnic and racial minorities. Police accounts of the shootings in the city of Olathe, Kan., say the suspect singled out two engineers in comments before he fired at the men he reportedly thought were Middle Eastern, yelling “get out of my country.” A third victim was seriously injured when he sought to intervene. White House press secretary Sean Spicer called the shooting tragic, but stopped short of entertaining notions that it was a hate crime, saying it was too early for

the administration to attach such motivations so early in the investigation. “To right now intimate what the motives are, it’s too early to jump to a conclusion,” Spicer said. “We’ve seen that too often in the past in Florida and other places where people jump to a conclusion.” Adam W. Purinton, 51, has been charged with premeditated first-degree murder after allegedly shooting Srinivas Kuchibhotla, 32; Alok Madasani, 32, and Ian Grillot, 24, at an Olathe bar. Kuchibhotla died later that night. Madasani was released Thursday from the hospital where Grillot remains recovering. Purinton fled the scene and reportedly sought help finding a hiding place after, he told a bartender, that he had killed two Middle Eastern men. Kansas doesn’t have any hate crime statutes so the FBI was

called in to investigate possible civil rights violations. The shooting set off a wave of fear throughout the local Indian community and even got the attention of India’s government, which has promised to keep tabs on the investigation’s progress. Kansas lawmakers immediately condemned what they saw as an act of prejudice and “cowardly” xenophobia. “I am very disturbed by last night’s shooting in Olathe,” said U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan. “I strongly condemn violence of any kind, especially if it is motivated by prejudice and xenophobia.” Rep. Kevin Yoder, a Republican who represents Olathe, called the attack “a senseless tragedy,” praised the “vibrant Indian-American community” and said diverse political and religions views are what make Kansas great.

“Ian’s act of bravery, not this cowardly xenophobic act, is the true representation of who Kansans are and what we believe,” said Rep. Lynn Jenkins, another Kansas Republican. President Donald Trump has yet to address the shooting, but Spicer urged caution about attaching any labels prematurely. He cited President Barack Obama’s response to the June 12, 2016, Orlando shooting as an example. Obama called the attack by Omar Matteen that killed 49 people at a popular gay nightclub a hate crime. He also called it a terrorist attack. “Today, as Americans, we grieve the brutal murder — a horrific massacre — of dozens of innocent people,” Obama said following the shooting. “This was an act of terror and an act of

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Marijuana industry angered by White House reversal Jennifer Kaplan and Polly Mosendz Bloomberg News (TNS) The cannabis industry was rattled Thursday after White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said he expects the Department of Justice to increase enforcement of federal laws prohibiting recreational pot, even in states where it’s already legal. Along with the District of Columbia, eight states have legalized recreational use among adults, including California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada just this past November. That means one in five American adults can smoke, vape, drink or eat cannabis as they please under state law. Meanwhile, over half of the nation’s states have legalized medical marijuana despite federal laws prohibiting its sale. The industry is estimated to be worth north of $6 billion and will hit $50 billion by 2026, according to Cowen & Co. “Today’s news coming out of the administration regarding the adult use of cannabis is, of course,

disappointing,” Derek Peterson, CEO of marijuana cultivator Terra Tech Corp., said Thursday in a statement. “We have hoped and still hope that the federal government will respect states’ rights in the same manner they have on several other issues.” Spicer sought to distinguish the prospect of federal enforcement for medical, versus recreational, cannabis use, saying “there’s still a federal law that we need to abide by when it comes to recreational marijuana and other drugs of that nature.” Spicer’s statements reanimated industry concern that first arose when Republican President Donald Trump’s short-list of potential attorney general nominees emerged. The final pick, former Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, a Republican, has long opposed cannabis use, but is a major proponent of state’s rights. In his mid-January confirmation hearing, Sessions said he wouldn’t “commit to never enforcing federal law” but added that “absolutely it’s a problem of resources for the federal government.” He

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Lawmakers are starting to have more interest in legalizing recreational marijuana - and the tax dollars that will come with it.

said that if Congress felt marijuana possession should no longer be illegal, it “should pass a law.” Trump has similarly gone back and forth on the issue of legalization. The Bloomberg Intelligence Global Cannabis Index fell as much as 3.7 percent after Spicer’s press briefing. A crackdown on the industry

would reverse existing federal policy and go against public opinion. The Obama administration largely deferred to the states, instead focusing on preventing distribution to minors, blocking sales across state lines, and keeping it out of the hands of gangs and criminals. A recent poll from

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In her 35 years as a therapist, Arlene Drake has never heard so many clients talking about the same issue. Week after week, they complain of panic attacks and insomnia because of President Donald Trump. They’re too anxious to concentrate at work. One woman’s fear turned into intense physical pain. “It’s just a nightmare,” said Drake, who practices in West Los Angeles. Drake was trained not to reveal her personal beliefs, but now will agree with clients if they say they don’t support Trump. “If this were just another session, if this weren’t such a big thing, if this weren’t so evil, I wouldn’t,” she said. “But I have to stand for what I stand for, and that does cross over into politics.” Therapists nationwide say they’ve been overwhelmed by the strong feelings triggered by one of the most divisive figures in modern political history. Some patients who support Trump say they feel isolated because they can’t share who they voted for in their workplace or home for fear of being harassed or called xenophobic or misogynistic. With few people to talk to freely, they turn to online forums and their therapists. Opening up about voting for Trump has stoked conflict with family and friends. One therapist mediated a case in which an adult son threatened to cut off his relationship with his parents because they voted for Trump. Some mental health professionals, such as Drake, have abandoned neutrality, while others are struggling to maintain it. Therapists on both sides of the political aisle are grappling with how to help patients affected by a national issue over which they have little control. “This is so monumental because we are not in normal anymore,” said Randi Gottlieb, a therapist who heads the L.A. chapter of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. “It’s putting into flux and questioning how do we practice, what is the best way to support the people we care for. We’re beginning those conversations — we don’t really have good answers.” Therapists say the last time so many people came to therapy wanting to talk about the same thing was after the Sept. 11 attacks. Trump has been a topic of discussion for months, even for people who see therapists for issues as seemingly unrelated as relationship troubles or eating disorders. “I had a 10-year-old in my office who was talking about it,” said Paul Puri, a psychiatrist in Brentwood. Over the summer, William Doherty, a professor at the Uni-

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Judge says 1 of 13 additional Bill Cosby accusers can testify at sexual assault trial Steven Zeitchik Los Angeles Times (TNS) A Pennsylvania judge Friday ruled that only one additional woman who has accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault may testify against him in his upcoming trial, dealing a setback to the criminal case against the entertainer. Prosecutors were hoping the testimony of 13 alleged victims would help convince a jury that Cosby was guilty of assaulting another woman at his estate near Philadelphia in 2004. But only one of the 13 women — known in court filings as Prior Alleged Victim Six — will be permitted to testify when the trial begins this spring, Judge Steven T. O’Neill said. Cosby, 79, who is free on $1 million bail, is facing three counts of aggravated indecent sexual assault for a 2004 incident at his Pennsylvania home involving the former Temple University bas-

ketball staffer Andrea Constand. It is the only alleged instance of sexual assault — among the more than 50 women who’ve accused Cosby in interviews and civil suits — in which the statute of limitations has not expired. Prosecutors, however, had argued the women established a pattern of “prior bad acts” — that Cosby essentially had a method of behavior the jury should consider — as they sought to bolster their case. At a hearing in December, the prosecution and Cosby’s attorneys battled. Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele argued that the women’s accusations demonstrated a modus operandi and the defense team, led by Brian McMonagle, said such claims were specious and irrelevant. O’Neill did not provide a reason for the ruling. Key to the defense’s argument was that the instances occurred too long ago to adequately defend (Pennsylvania law looks at time as a factor in whether to permit such testi-

mony). Many of the other alleged instances happened in the 1970s and 1980s, while the accusation involving Prior Alleged Victim Six is comparatively recent. The incident in question occurred in 1996. According to court filings, Prior Alleged Victim No. 6 said she came to know Cosby in 1990 at age 29, and had gone to his hotel and home six years later in the hope of receiving professional advice. She claims he offered her a pill and ordered her to take it, and then proceeded to violate her sexually. The woman whose account aligns with that filing appeared two years ago at a press conference organized by Los Angeles-based attorney Gloria Allred. The woman, who identified herself only as Kacey, said she was working for Cosby’s agent when she was invited to his hotel room and given a pill, and then woke up next to a naked Cosby. “I no longer have to feel alone with this secret,” she said in a statement as she explained her

state of mind. Friday’s ruling was a modest surprise to some experts, who thought Steele might prevail in getting the judge to admit the testimony of a few, but not many, of the 13 women. “It’s very difficult to introduce prior criminal acts,” said Dennis McAndrews, a former prosecutor and longtime legal expert in Pennsylvania. “I thought they might get more than one but not many more — something closer to three or four.” The testimony of other accusers is thought to be critical. Many experts believe the Constand testimony on its own is legally vulnerable, both because of a delay in coming forward and several inconsistencies in her account the defense will seek to exploit. McAndrews said the case against Cosby was “a little weaker” than it was before Friday’s ruling, when the possibility existed that multiple accusers could be allowed to testify. But he said that the prosecution still had Constand, Prior Alleged Victim

Six and Cosby’s own deposition to rely on. The judge had earlier ruled the Cosby deposition, in a civil case filed by Constand more than a decade ago, would be admissible. Friday’s ruling was the latest development in a case that began 14 months ago, when the newly elected Steele — who had run on a prosecute-Cosby platform — filed charges against the comedian just before the Constand statute of limitations was to expire. O’Neill has said he wants the trial to start no later than June. Many victims-rights and women’s groups have rallied around the Constand case as the best chance for Cosby to face justice. They also have said they want other victims to have their day in court. Steele issued a statement suggesting the upside of the decision. “(It) is important,” he said, “as the jury will now be allowed to assess evidence that is relevant to establishing a common plan, scheme and design of sexual abuse.”

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versity of Minnesota and a therapist in St. Paul, published a manifesto online declaring Trump a threat to America’s mental health. More than 3,800 therapists signed it. Doherty wrote that Trump’s campaign was creating widespread alienation and fear among Americans. Trump was normalizing behavior that therapists fight to reverse, including “the tendency to blame others in our lives for our personal fears and insecurities,” he said, and “a kind of hyper-masculinity that is antithetical to the examined life and healthy relationships.” These issues haven’t gone away now that Trump is president, Doherty said. He formed a group last month called Citizen Therapists for Democracy to consider issues raised by Trump’s presidency. Therapists aren’t accustomed to advising patients on

how to handle this kind of “public stress,” since psychotherapy has traditionally been limited to private lives and psychology, he said. Among the unanswered questions for therapists: Can they validate clients’ feelings without wading too far into politics? What’s the best way to uphold and act on their personal values? How can they help people deal with something that’s so pervasive and unpredictable? “It’s thrown therapists,” Doherty said. “We’re struggling with it because we’ve never dealt with it — and now we’re forced to.” Mental health professionals have also debated whether to diagnose Trump himself. Though some have publicly done so, an ethical standard known as the Goldwater Rule prevents psychiatrists from diagnosing public figures without personally evaluating them.

In 1964, more than 1,000 psychiatrists said in a magazine survey that then-presidential GOP nominee Barry Goldwater was psychologically unfit to be president. It was an ethical misstep that might have eroded confidence in psychiatry, wrote Maria A. Oquendo, the head of the American Psychiatric Association, in a statement last year reminding members to abide by the rule. At the most recent board meeting of the L.A. County Psychological Association last month, therapists also discussed how to talk about Trump, especially with patients whose political beliefs might differ from their own. It turned into an hourlong discussion that Hillary Goldsher, a therapist on the board, described as “emotional, challenging, difficult.” But Goldsher, who practices in Beverly Hills, said that while she understands therapists’ desire

to condemn Trump, she thinks opening up could isolate some patients. She wants clients to feel free from judgment, so she redirects them if they ask whom she voted for. “You sign up for the notion that your goal as a therapist is to hold a safe space regardless of your own beliefs,” she said. Patients who feel overwhelmed by the new administration should set hard time limits for consuming the news, said Allen Wagner, a therapist in Mid-Wilshire who describes himself as “solution-focused.” He tells people to delete Twitter and Facebook apps from their phones so they’re not constantly tempted to check them. Wagner has encouraged others to turn their anger or frustration into action by attending rallies or contacting their congressional representatives. One of his clients wrote thank-you letters

to President Barack Obama with her children. “It makes them feel like it’s not something they’re watching, like a train wreck, and that there’s some level of control,” he said. “Maybe it doesn’t change the larger narrative, but it makes them feel as though they’re being authentic with themselves.” In many ways, the election has been more challenging for his conservative clients, who feel as though they can’t tell their spouses, family members or friends that they voted for Trump, Wagner said. They fear being automatically labeled bigots or accused of electing a new Hitler, he said. They rely on secret Facebook groups to express their feelings. “It’s almost become irrational in terms of the anger people feel toward each other and the boxes they put each other in,” he said. “I feel for the people on both sides.”

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hate.” But opponents — especially then-candidate Donald Trump — criticized Obama for not being blunt enough against “radical Islamic terrorism.” He used the case as an example of how “political correctness” and soft immigration laws allowed such an attack to happen. “Truly, our president doesn’t know what he’s doing. He’s failed us, and he’s failed us badly,” Trump said during a June 13 speech at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire. “And under his leadership, this situation will not get any better, it will only get worse.” Eric Jackson, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Kansas City office, said it was too early in the investigation to determine if the crime could be classified as a hate crime. “We’re less than 24 hours in,” Howe said. “We want to be sure of the facts versus speculation.” Spicer said it’d be a mistake to start assigning motivation without more information. “Let’s let law enforcement do its job before we start jumping to conclusions.”

Quinnipiac University found 71 percent of voters think “the government should not enforce federal laws against marijuana in states that have legalized medical or recreational use.” The Drug Policy Alliance, a nonprofit organization that advocates for drug policy reform, cited the poll on Twitter in a reaction to Spicer’s statement. Of the more than 1,300 voters polled, 59 percent said marijuana should be legal in the U.S. Notably, Republicans opposed widespread legalization 61 percent to 35 percent. Some in the cannabis industry

see the federal reversal as a contradiction of the administration’s stated positions on state’s rights and job creation. “To have Mr. Spicer say in one sentence that they’re a state’s rights administration and in the very next sentence say they’re going to crack down … it just defies logic,” said Robert Capecchi, director of federal policies for the Marijuana Policy Project, an organization that lobbies for pot-friendly changes to drug-related legislation. The industry is also an abundant source of revenue, according to Patrece Bryan, president of Cannabrand, a pot focused marketing firm. New Frontier

Data says the cannabis industry will create more than 283,000 jobs by 2020. “This is absurd. For a president who ran under the banner of job creation, he actually needs to start looking at where the jobs are being created,” she said. “With Colorado generating $1.8 billion over a 10 month period, this is America’s new agriculture. Why would we take this revenue away from our country?” The Drug Policy Alliance echoed Bryan’s point, noting that eliminating part of the legal cannabis market would mean “wiping out tax-paying jobs and eliminating billions of dollars in taxes.”

Still, not everyone was frantic about Spicer’s comments. The tacit endorsement of medical pot use was comforting, said Allen St. Pierre, a partner at Strategic Alternative Investments, which focuses on marijuana. Ian Eisenberg, founder of Seattle-based pot retailer Uncle Ike’s, was also sanguine. “After the feds learn how well regulated Washington’s adult use and medical cannabis markets are, they will leave it status quo,” he said. Between July 2014 and April 2016, the state reportedly collected close to $200 million in tax revenue on cannabis.

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‘Dream: An American Story’ to show on campus Ian Bonner-Swedish Reporter

Emmy award-winning documentary “Dream: An American Story” will be presented tonight in Dede I. ISU graduate assistant Creshawn Cole will host the event. “The movie is about the Dream Act and the dreamers. It is really just an awareness building. First time I actually met with the students of Hispanic Latino Alliance, we had a passionate discussion about the immigration laws and how it needs to be reformed in America. It gives an insight on the story of immigrants and hopefully figure out a way we can change,” Cole said. Cole had had a previous discussion with the Hispanic Latino Alliance when they

aired the movie “Undocumented” in order to display the struggles of undocumented immigrants in America. “What touched me the most (were) the conversation we had afterwards,” Cole said. “Just seeing how they were so passionate about the family members’ struggles they had trying to get citizenship. It’s just the first step. Hopefully as time goes on and the resource center gains some ground, we can hopefully gain some momentum and start this into a movement.” The showing of the film is also a way to help advocate for the Hispanic and Latina population, and Cole is passionate about these matters. “That was one of the first things I wanted to tackle after I took this job ... Students of Hispanic heritage — they’re really pas-

sionate about it, so I definitely think this is something that can fix that,” Cole said. There is going to be discussion after the film is shown, and there will be someone making a special appearance— the director of the documentary. “I am going to have a director on Skype at the end of the movie,” Cole said. The students will be able to ask the director about his outlook on this issue and the origin of the film. He will be able to talk about the dream act and what it is designed to do. This will be a onetime opportunity that students will be able to personally connect with the director. “We get to get a firsthand look at his thought process and what made him come up with the film. He was also born here

from parents who were illegal. He has a real poignant viewpoint of how the process goes. It is not his story, but he has a real firsthand experience,” Cole said. Cole hopes to be able to advocate for Hispanic and Latino students as much as possible, but he admits it will be a balancing act. “I think that’s something we definitely need to work on. The way things have shaken up with Trump being president it’s kind of tough being a minority. It’s a tough thing to tred. We can’t necessarily let political views be at the forefront. We have to figure out how to tread that line,” Cole said. The movie will be aired Monday, Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. in Dede I.

New history of ‘Casablanca’ has usual suspects Chris Foran

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“Casablanca” isn’t only one of the most loved movies of all time; it’s also one of the most written-about movies of all time. Critics, fans and obsessives have used everything from poetry to cookbooks to celebrate one of Hollywood’s singular creations. Noah Isenberg, director of screen studies and professor of culture and media at The New School, does a good job of synthesizing all of them — well, except for the cookbooks — in “We’ll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie.” Junkies might not find a lot of new insights, but “We’ll Always Have Casablanca” is a hugely readable and entertaining look at how “Casablanca” came to be, and how it came to be such an indelible part of American pop culture. As has been told many times, “Casablanca” got its start in a 1940 play called “Everybody Comes to Rick’s,” by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison, about an American nightclub owner in Morocco named Rick who helps a former lover and the man in her life, a leader in the anti-Nazi underground, escape the Germans. (In the movie, Humphrey Bogart is Rick, with Ingrid Bergman as the ex-flame and Paul Henreid as the underground leader.) While the play has been dismissed as so-so drama, Isenberg notes that much of what makes “Casablanca” “Casablanca” was in “Everybody Comes to Rick’s,” including the use of “As Time Goes By” as “their song.” Although Warner Bros., which bought the rights to the play, put some of its most talented writ-

ers and director Michael Curtiz on the case, casting was crucial. Contrary to reports that Ronald Reagan and Ann Sheridan would star in it, Bogart and Bergman were the preferred choices early on, and the supporting cast was filled with old pros who never missed their marks. In one of the book’s most compelling chapters, Isenberg shows how indebted “Casablanca” was to the many actors and extras in the cast who were refugees who had fled Hitler-dominated Europe. “When shooting the Paris flashback scene of Rick and Ilsa at the French sidewalk cafe, in which the pair asks themselves how long it will be until the Germans storm the capital, one of the female extras burst into inconsolable tears,” Isenberg writes. “ … A small bearded man, another extra on the set, purportedly walked over to the director and tapped him on the shoulder. ‘I am very sorry, sir,’ he said to Curtiz. ‘But that is my wife. Please pardon her. You see, our home was in Paris. And we went through that awful day.’ “ “Casablanca” was an immediate hit and won three Oscars, including for best picture. It gained a sheen of hipness in the 1950s, with help from French New Wave critics and U.S. campus film societies. Since then, the movie has only gotten bigger: It ranks No. 2 on the American Film Institute’s 100 best movies (“Citizen Kane” is No. 1) and No. 1 on AFI’s list of 100 most romantic movies, with six quotes on AFI’s top 100 movie quotes list and No. 2 on AFI’s best movie songs list (“As Time Goes By”). As Isenberg points out, by the time he started work on “We’ll Always Have Casablanca,” nearly everyone involved in its making

ISU’s Department of Theater presents “Art” Claire Silcox Reporter

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had died. Undeterred, he drilled deep; my favorite deep-cut source of his is the unpublished German-language typescript of what became the memoir of Lotte Palfi, a refugee who played a woman trying to sell diamonds in Rick’s in the opening scene.

Through Isenberg’s capable synthesis, reading “We’ll Always Have Casablanca” will almost certainly make you want to watch it again. And that can only lead to the rekindling of a beautiful friendship.

A three actor play about art and its deeper meanings was put on by Indiana State University’s Department of Theater Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 4 p.m. in Dreiser Theater. Originally written by Yasmina Reza and translated by Christopher Hampton, “Art” was directed by Tristen Crutchfield, a theater student at ISU. The plotline of the play seemed simple — three friends argue over a white painting one of them has bought. But as the play went on, the plot thickened. The 15-year friendship they all shared was hanging in the balance, Marc, Serge and Yvan, played by Miguel Lewis, Aaron McLerran Burger and Joshua Luna, had a very long, unwavering friendship before Serge bought a $200,000 painting, one that Marc just couldn’t understand. Set in Paris, France in the 1990s, the scenic design by faculty Ann Warren gave the set three different looks to show the audience whose apartment was whose. With a run crew of only one, ISU student Evan Scott, the show was small compared to other plays many students might assume to be of the same caliber. “It raises one of drama’s eternal questions: how much truth and honesty human beings can stand?” Michael Billington of the Guardian said back in 2014 when “Art” had its 20 year anniversary.

Houseplants help decorate, provide comfort and clean the air Debbie Arrington

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Hanging from the ceiling or making a major green statement in any room, houseplants are back in style. “There was a period when the economy was bad and people were economizing. They’d say, ‘We don’t need it!’ But you really do need houseplants. They clean the air. They make us feel better,” said Kifumi Keppler, owner of Sacramento’s Exotic Plants, which is celebrating its 45th anniversary this September. “People are realizing that now.” Millennials such as Tyler Davis, Orchard Supply Hardware’s green merchant, are helping drive a current houseplant trend. “We’re seeing sales explode,” the nursery expert said. Davis, 31, is himself a houseplant lover. He has more than 150 specimens at his Visalia home. “They’re natural air purifiers,” he said. “Some of them, such as Snake Plant, release oxygen at night. That actually helps you sleep.” Air seems to be a big part of the current houseplant trend. “The trend we see is the growing interest in houseplants that filter the air — such as Peace Lily and Red-Edged Dracenea — and ‘air plants’ — Tillandsia,” said Tami Kint of Sacramento-based Green Acres Nursery & Supply, which also has seen an uptick in houseplants. “Air plants are super easy to care for and can be fun to incorporate into unique displays.” Air plants can live without soil and tend to stay small. That makes them ideal for

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Owner Kifumi Keppler has many moss wall hanging plants exhibited in her Exotic Plants shop.

terrariums as well as hanging displays. Garden Design magazine noted millennials, who are now mostly in their 20s and early 30s, tend to shop for houseplants like they would for furniture or accessories. They’re decorating with living things. “Houseplants let you create your own space,” Davis said. “Everything old is new again. People are still going back to the classics. There’s a little bit of nostalgia, too. People remember houseplants they grew up with or at their grandparents’ house. “Houseplants transcend generations,” he added. “It’s not just millennials. Everybody is getting into houseplants, even my mom.” His favorite is Snake Plant (Sansevieria),

also known as Mother-in-Law’s Tongue. “It’s just so easy,” Davis said. “It’s a foolproof houseplant. You don’t need to be an expert to make this plant grow in your home. It’s also very structural. Snake Plant was really popular during the 1950s and ’60s, the same period as midcentury modern furniture, which is very popular right now, too. They’re perfect together.” Overall, though, this new wave is not the same old houseplants. “Back in the ’70s, it was all hanging plants – Boston ferns, piggyback plants and wandering Jew,” said Keppler, of Exotic Plants. “Now, people are looking for something different.” Large specimens such as 7- or 8-foot-tall

fiddleleaf fig trees, an indoor star for decorators, “fly out the door,” Keppler said. Customers also gravitate to colorful foliage such as neon-green pothos or variegated Chinese evergreen. Easy-care orchids such as phalaenopsis and dendrobium also grab attention — and sales. Such orchids offer weeks of eye-popping flowers with little water or care, even in low light. “Just water them once and a while and put them in the right space,” Davis said. How do you choose? Start with the room where that plant will live. “Choose the right plant for the space you have,” said Green Acres’ Kint. “For example, a plant that has requirements of bright, indirect light won’t do well in a low-light environment.” Anything that blooms needs more light than foliage plants, Keppler noted. African violets, for example, need bright light close to a window while Snake Plants can tolerate much lower levels and will even survive in windowless rooms – if they get a few hours of artificial light each day. Anthuriums, a heart-shaped symbol of Hawaii, “are really catching on,” Keppler said. “They’re pretty easy to rebloom as long as their light is good.” Indoor plants are like pets, she added. They’re totally dependent on their people for their care. “Outdoors, gardens are more forgiving,” Keppler said. “Indoors, if something is wrong, a plant will decline very quickly.” Knowing a plant’s needs will keep it happy and growing. “The secret to happy houseplants is proper watering, lighting and using a

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PLANTS FROM PAGE 4 good, balanced houseplant food such as Bonide 10-10-10,” Kint said. “Keep leaves free of dust (so plants can breathe) by taking them out occasionally and rinsing the leaves or wipe them with a soft cloth. Talking to them doesn’t hurt, either.” So does music, Keppler said. “They like good music; they’ll grow towards it. But nothing heavy metal or too loud. Play heavy metal, they grow the other way.” Many people kill houseplants with kindness, Keppler said. The most common problem is overwatering. “The plant gets too much wa-

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Congress should fix immigration system Los Angeles Times (TNS) The Trump administration is about to learn the difference between rhetoric and reality, and could be setting itself up for a spectacular policy failure. SAD! Earlier this week, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly released his new guidance for immigration enforcement, effectively dismantling years of federal policy and sending a shiver of fear through millions of people living in the U.S. without permission. Even before Kelley’s official directives came out, undocumented immigrants had begun moving into the shadows, thanks to President Trump’s mean-spirited and misguided campaign threats and executive orders. Some families were apparently keeping children out of school to avoid encountering immigration agents. Now that process will surely continue. White House officials tried to argue that there was nothing to panic about in the policies released this week because the administration has no plan for imminent mass deportations or detentions. That’s disingenuous, though. The directives are a blueprint for both; all Homeland Security lacks are the staffing and infrastructure to carry them out. The new rules narrowed the pool of immigrants protected (by the Obama administration) from deportation so that now, nearly everyone living in the country illegally is at risk unless they qualify for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The directives also say anyone deemed inadmissible at the border must be detained during deportation proceedings. Actually ramping up apprehensions and deportations will take more government workers, more detention cells and a bigger immigration court system, as well as cooperation from local law-enforcement officials — many of whom balk at the idea — and the backing of a spending-averse Congress. Trump wants to hire 5,000 more border agents and 10,000 more ICE agents for enforcement in the interior of the country, and he expects to vastly increase the number of detainees from the current 41,000 people. The detention system — particularly the part run under contract by private prison companies — has been condemned by human rights groups over living conditions, detainees’ access to lawyers and lack of adequate health care. Even before Trump’s proposed enforcement surge, agents apprehended 415,816 people at the border last year; the immigra-

tion courts have 542,000 pending cases. And that represents just a tiny fraction of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country. Surely they can’t all be detained; even the entire federal prison system only holds 189,130 inmates. Trump might want to consider appointing a Secretary of Reality Check. Adding bodies to the border patrol carries its own risks. The number of agents nearly doubled from 2002 to 2009 and, according to former Customs and Border Patrol internal affairs chief James Tomsheck, new hires were not fully vetted, leading to problems with corruption (some new hires actually turned out to be moles working for the cartels). Independent reports found an internal Border Patrol culture that downplayed corruption and the use of excessive force. Conditions had been improving over the past year or so, and the Obama administration in October hired Mark Morgan, a former assistant director of the FBI, as the first Border Patrol director to come form outside the organization. But Morgan, unpopular with the border agents’ union (which had strongly endorsed Trump), was fired in January, raising doubts about whether the reforms will continue as the department seeks to increase staffing by 25 percent. It’s simply not believable that the government is going to round up and deport even a majority of the people living in the U.S. without permission — many of whom who are guilty of nothing more than violating the civil immigration laws. And beyond the inherent coldheartedness of uprooting and, in many cases, dividing families that have spent decades in this country, it’s manifestly bad policy. The center-right American Action Forum has estimated that deporting all undocumented immigrants would cost the government between $400 billion and $600 billion, shave $1 trillion from GDP, cause labor shortages and damage families — including the 4.5 million American citizens under age 18 with at least one parent living in the country illegally. Even a “lite” version of Trump’s deportation policy would deliver unjustifiable agony to an unacceptably large number of people. If the Republicans in Congress had any sense, they’d refuse to allocate money to pay for Trump’s counterproductive proposals and instead insist the administration work with them on the only rational solution to

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Trump to nix clean water assurance

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Zach Davis Columnist

Nobody can deny that humans need water. More specifically, we need access to clean water. Without it, we would die from poisoning, disease or dehydration. Since it is a universal necessity, we need to ensure that we have as much clean water available as possible. Unfortunately, our current president is taking actions against that. Donald Trump decided that he planned on forcing the Environmental Protection Agency to do what they can to get rid of the Waters of the United States (WOTUS), according to a report from Reuters. The rule was pushed through under the Obama administration in 2015 with a lot of unnecessary resistance from farmers and politicians. The rule that they so vehemently want to get rid of extends the Clean Water Act ever so slightly, which allowed the EPA to regulate water pollutants and discharge, as well as establish laws to prevent harmful waste dumping into rivers and lakes. The WOTUS rule extends protections to tributaries and streams, as well as certain sources of water for each. Ponds, certain wetlands and other large

sources of water are also protected. This rule helps protect these waters to keep people downstream from having to deal with contaminated water. It is not the dangerous anti-farming rule that a lot of people think it is. Power companies and farmers complained that too many water sources could qualify under WOTUS, such as puddles and isolated ponds. That simply isn’t the case. Previously, the only protected waters were defined as “navigable waters” under the original water protections, which is extremely vague. The new rule defines tributaries, large wetlands and certain water sources within 1500 feet of a tributary. This is much clearer and fairer, especially since courts made things more confusing by saying that only significant water sources count – clouding the original definition even more. The newly defined waterways only encompass 3 percent more of the United States’ waters, though, and they are much better defined than they were. It is especially important that we protect our tributaries. Tributaries get their water from their surroundings, such as small ponds and wetlands. These tributaries feed into larger streams of water, and eventually rivers. A single tributary, if contaminated enough, could ruin the water for a multitude of people downstream, as well as all the creatures in it. Many of the species in these waters are sensitive to contamination – or the vegetation that occurs as a result. Certain pol-

lutants can poison the fish or cause algae blooms that deplete the water’s oxygen levels; both things that are bad for the aquatic life. Fish that are exposed to certain pollutants, like mercury, are not safe to it if they survive. Fishing will become less feasible, especially if you want to eat what you caught. Plus, if we don’t protect these water sources, people could die. That isn’t a risk anybody should be taking. We should be doing what we can to protect as many people as possible. Every person should have a right to clean water, no questions asked. Doing away with the WOTUS rule will only serve to hurt that right. Reuters reports that Trump should be ordering the rule to be trashed by Tuesday, and the EPA seems very likely to follow along. Scott Pruitt, Trump’s pick to head the EPA, seems to fully back the decision. Pruitt stated that he wants to rewrite the rule, though he has stated he supports Trump’s stances and desire to abolish the EPA. Doing so would be much easier if he were to get rid of regulations first. The White House shouldn’t put one of our most important resources at risk. It is a move that endangers lives. We need to protect as much water as reasonably possible to help people get access to clean water. Nobody should have to deal with a crisis like the one in Flint, Mich., or shortages like California has recently faced.

Community in uproar over Blue Lives Matter Casey Ewart Columnist

It is no surprise that there are disagreements and prejudices in society. Once a number of the incidents have risen to the surface, that is when movements form. They all serve a purpose to each individual that is a part of that movement. People may join a movement because it is what they believe in. They may join because whatever it supports has affected either

themselves, their family or their friends. Movements generally start out small and then gain traction. One movement that has been in the news recently is Blue Lives Matter. The purpose of Blue Lives Matter is to support law enforcement. In recent years, police have been shown in a negative light. There is always an opposition; when someone is for an issue, another is against. The issue recently hitting the Blue Lives Matter is with car decals. Many people have car decals that have certain pictures or sayings on them. If they did not like or believe in what they are putting on their vehicles, they would not choose to put them on there. It is their freedom of speech.

Catlettsburg Police Department had to remove decals on their police cars due to community outcry. They featured the “thin-blue line” with the Punisher logo and had “Blue Lives Matter” written on them. Police Chief Cameron Logan told Fernando Alfonso III of the Lexington Herald Leader, “Our lives matter just as much as anybody’s. ... I’m not racist or anything like that, I’m not trying to stir anything up like that. I consider it to be a ‘warrior logo.’ Just ’cause it has ‘Blue Lives Matter’ on the hood, all lives matter. That decal represents that we will take any means necessary to keep our community safe.” The public mainly spoke about the Punisher logo being a part of the decal. It is unclear if this was

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the only reason for the outcry. In Orland Park, Ill., residents are required to purchase a vehicle sticker to place on their windshield. They have designed a new sticker featuring the “thinblue line” flag. Some people approve of this new sticker. However, there are others that would prefer to have options. Mike Nolan, writer of Daily Southtown, wrote that, “One man cited the Supreme Court decision in Wooley v. Maynard, and paraphrased the court’s ruling that ‘government cannot force individuals to act as mobile billboards for its ideological message.’” Some of these residents did not want to be pressured into uniformity of participating and putting on a sticker that they did

not choose. The biggest issue that this movement faces is the perspective of those in their community. Everyone needs to view police in a better light rather than a negative one. At the end of the day it is a sticker, but the issue is not with the sticker. Movements may become nationwide. However, not everyone will agree with the movement. The community might have an uproar because of their differences in perspective on the matter. Some communities might take the movement well when it enters into their town. Others towns might receive backlash for the movement entering their town. If we change our perspective, we can change the world.

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indianastatesman.com BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 8 Evansville a 30-25 halftime lead. Laquarious Paige led the Sycamores with five first half points. Evansville scored first out of the break, but Matt Van Scyoc countered with a 3-pointer to draw the Sycamores within four points. After a Clemons defensive rebound, Bell and then Scott scored inside to make it seven points in a row for the Sycamores and tied the score at 32. A circus shot from Clemons with just over 17 minutes to go made it a 9-0 run and staked the Sycamores to their first lead since early in the contest at 3432. After the Purple Aces tied the game, Scott hit a pair of free throws to make it an 11-2 run and ISU held a 36-34 advantage. After the Purple Aces had stretched their lead back out to five points, Emondre Rickman had a big putback inside as the clock ticked under the 13 minute mark and the Evansville lead had shrunk down to 42-39. Rickman scored inside on a second chance opportunity and was fouled with 11:24 remaining to draw In-

Monday, Feb. 27, 2017 • Page 7 diana State within 45-41. The Sycamores survived a missed front end of a bonus opportunity where Clemons found Barnes open on the break for a conventional 3-point play with 10:17 remaining and the Sycamores trailed 45-44. Evansville scored three in a row before Bell tallied a lay-up down low to make it one possession game with nine minutes to go. Brenton Scott hit a pair of free throws out of the under eight timeout to draw the Sycamores within 55-51. Bell scored down low to answer an Evansville jumper as he reached double figures scoring. With 4:24 remaining, Bell hit a pair of pair of free throws and Evansville lead was down to 6055. After the final media timeout, Paige converted a pair of free throws and the Evansville advantage was down to just three points. Evansville went to the free throw line and missed a pair before Scott hit 1-of-2 with 3:25 remaining as Evansville held a 60-58 lead. After Evansville hit a free throw, Bell scored down

low with just over two minutes remaining after a big save off a long rebound from Barnes and the Purple Aces found themselves up 61-60. David Howard then hit 1-of-2 free throws and the Sycamores owned the basketball down just two points with 1:37 to go. Trailing 63-60, Jordan Barnes was fouled on a 3-point attempt and connected on a all three of his free throws to knot the score at 63. Jaylon Brown was then fouled with 2.6 seconds left and after a Sycamore timeout, he hit both free throws to give Evansville a two-point lead before Brenton Scott’s heave just across half court went wide and gave the Purple Aces a 65-63 victory. Evansville was led by 24 points from Jaylon Brown. Indiana State will begin play in the 2017 State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Tournament on Thursday, March 2 inside the Scottrade Center in St. Louis. It will be a rematch of the regular season finale as the Sycamores are the No. 9 seed and will take on No. 8 Evansville in the tournament opener at 7 p.m. (ET).

TRACK FROM PAGE 8 Sophomore Quentin Pierce and David Timlin also punched their tickets to the mile final for the second straight season as a tandem. Pierce ran the fastest prelim at 4:17.60, while Timlin took an automatic qualifier spot at 4:24.16. Timlin also qualified in the 800-meter, stealing the final spot by .29 seconds at 1:54.63. The Sycamore women will send two to the 800-meter finals themselves, with All-American Alethia Marrero earning an automatic qualifier spot at 2:18.40 and freshman Imani Davis snagging one of the at-large spots at 2:14.29. The Sycamores will also have two representatives in the men’s and women’s 400-meter dashes. Junior Oschtisha Jackson ran the third-fastest prelim of the day at 56.05 to qualify, while Tyrell Dowdell snared the seventh spot in the men’s race at 49.29. Freshman Shana Cooper will pull double-duty tomorrow after

SOFTBALL FROM PAGE 8 on the day and her first career round-tripper at Indiana State. Indiana State tacked on with RBI walks by Carter and Riemenschneider in the third, followed by a two-run single by Shaye Barton (1-3, 2 RBI). Mann

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Patrycia Dziekonska, pictured above, is racing through the hurdles. Dziekonska is one of the Sycamores who placed in the Championship in Saturday’s meet.

Five Sycamores earn All-MVC, 17 qualify for finals Tyler Wooten

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Five Sycamore women’s distance runners earned All-MVC honors while 17 others qualified for finals events to be run on Sunday after a productive Day One of the 2017 MVC Indoor Championships on Saturday. The Sycamore women are currently tied with Southern Illinois in fourth place with 21 points, trailing Wichita State (60), Northern Iowa (29) and Illinois State (27). The Sycamore men are in a similar logjam in the middle of the pack, sitting in sixth at 22 points behind Southern Illinois (40), Wichita State (37), Illinois State (25), Bradley (25) and Northern Iowa (25). Indiana State’s biggest performance of the night came at the tail end of Day One as the ESPN3 cameras were rolling with junior Taylor Austin’s All-MVC finish in the 5,000-meter race. Austin, who finished third in the same event last year indoors, finished third again, this time at 17:08.58 seconds. This is the fourth overall All-MVC honor for Austin during the track seasons when including her 2016 MVC Outdoor title in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and her 2015 third-place finish in the same event. Austin was also an All-MVC finisher at the 2015 MVC Cross Country Championships, where she finished 10th overall.

That wasn’t all for the Sycamore women, as four members of ISU’s women’s distance medley relay team also finished third for All-Conference honors. Taylor Rogers (1200 meters), Ahmanah Woods (400 meters), Aleksey Green (800 meters) and Abigail Grider (mile) ran 12:04.92 for the All-MVC distinction – the second-straight for Woods and Green, who were members of ISU’s championship DMR team in 2016. The men’s DMR of Blake Kramer (1200), CJ Anyaebunam (400), Isaac Bentz (800) and Quentin Pierce (mile) also scored high with a fourth-place finish at 10:16.30. The Sycamores had seven additional event scorers in finals events in the field on Day One. Chief among them was sophomore transfer Caitlyn Redmon, who finished fourth in an incredible women’s long jump competition. Redmon leapt a new career-best 5.92m (19-05.25), the eighthbest jump in Indiana State history. But Redmon fell unlucky with the quality of the field this season, as there were six total over 19 feet and two past the 20-foot plateau (there were zero 20-foot female jumpers at the MVC Indoor meet in 2016). Senior Devyn Mikell had a similar experience in what turned out to be a very good men’s long jump as well, finishing fifth at 7.24m (23-09.00). The Sycamore weight throwers came ready to compete on Day One, pushing four through to the finals with three of

them scoring. In the men’s edition, Ryan Chestnut led the way in fourth place at a season-best 18.29m (60-00.25) – just one inch shy of the podium and All-MVC honors in third place. Junior transfer Hunter Schuman hit a new PR in the weight for the second-straight week in sixth place at 18.01m (59-01.25). Sophomore Sam Overton also made the final, finishing ninth at 16.19m (53-01.50). Sophomore Cassaundra Roper represented Indiana State well in the women’s weight throw, finishing fifth at 17.52m (57-05.75) — a near season-best. Two Sycamores also scored in the men’s pole vault: sophomore Riley Smith in sixth place and junior transfer Trey Kennedy in seventh place, both at 4.77m (15-07.75). Most importantly, the Sycamores had a stellar day on the track in qualifying for finals events on Day Two. The most potentially lucrative event for the Sycamores on Sunday will be both editions of the 60-meter hurdles. The Sycamores qualified two in the men’s races and were able to send through three on the women’s side. Seniors Marcus Neely and Daley Carter easily won their heats, running 7.92 and 7.94 respectively. But, UNI’s Jon Rus added some drama to the ensuing final by blowing everyone out of the water with the top qualifying time of 7.78, the 15th-best in the NCAA this year. Neely was the runner-up in 2016 and Carter the

runner-up in 2015, but Indiana State has not gone through an indoor season without taking at least the top-two spots in the men’s hurdles since 2012. ISU is looking to be the first school to win five-straight men’s titles since the Sycamores did so from 1996-2001. The women’s hurdles were just as exciting, with the top time coming courtesy of a new conference record by Wichita State’s Taylor Larch-Miller at 8.21. However, ISU’s own Ayanna Morgan had a tremendous career performance, running the fifth-best prelim time at 8.53 seconds. Morgan, who just three weeks ago did not rank on the all-time top-10 and had never run sub-8.9, is now tied with teammate Patrycja Dziekonska for third all-time in school history. In the last two weeks, Morgan has now topped out at both 8.68 and 8.53. Dziekonska took the sixth qualifying spot at 8.60 seconds, and the final slot in tomorrow’s final went to Micaela McLean at 8.70 seconds. The Sycamore distance runners took care of business as well. Sophomore star and MVC mile leader Brooke Moore punched her ticket to tomorrow’s mile final as an automatic qualifier at 5:02.34. Moore broke a 19-year-old school-record in the mile earlier this year, running 4:43.04.

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Indiana State found most of its success down low around the basket, but it would not be enough as a pair of Jaylon Brown free throws with 2.6 seconds left were the difference as Evansville won 65-63 at the Ford Center on Saturday afternoon in the regular season finale for both clubs. Indiana State heads into the State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Tournament with a record of 11-19, 5-13 MVC while Evansville improved to 15-16, 6-12 MVC. It marked the 18th game this season that Indiana State has found itself in a one possession game with two minutes or less remaining. TJ Bell led the way for the Sycamores with 14 points as he hit 6-of-9 shots from the field. Emondre Rickman scored eight points off the bench and tallied a career-best 12 rebounds. Jordan Barnes and Brenton Scott added 11 points each off the bench. The Sycamores hit only 22of-61 shots from the field (36.1 percent) and were limited to just a 3-of-18 mark from long range (16.7 percent). Evansville won the battle of the glass by a 43-35 mark. Laquarious Paige hit a mid range jumper to get the scoring going in the contest and then his 3-pointer with 16:45 on the clock tied the contest at five. Emondre Rickman found Brenton Scott for a pass across the lane with 13:35 remaining as the Sycamores inched ahead 9-8 in an early back-and-forth contest. Evansville countered with the next eight points as they found success inside to take a 16-9 lead and forced a Sycamore timeout with 11:25 remaining in the first half. Evansville tacked on two more points before Jordan Barnes found TJ Bell inside with 8:43 left in the first half to get the Sycamores within 18-11.

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ISU mens basketball fell to Evansville 65-63 with 2.6 seconds left on the clock.

The Purple Aces tallied four points in a row but Barnes scored wide-open inside off the feed from Paige as the clock read 7:17 and the Evansville advantage shrunk to 22-13. After a timeout, Scott found Bell inside open for a lay-up and the Evansville lead was down to just seven points. After a UE airball, the run reached six in a row off a dribble drive from Scott and the Purple Aces edge was down to 22-17. Clemons missed a 3-pointer but showed his nose for the ball with an offensive rebound and lay-up as the clock ticked under the four minute mark and Evans-

ville led 25-19. Rickman then scored inside on the next possession after a stop to get within four points. Then a steal and fastbreak lay-up down the lane from Clemons got the Sycamores within 2523 with 3:02 left in the opening stanza and forced Evansville to call a timeout. An Emondre Rickman jumper in the paint with just over a minute remaining answered an Evansville bucket and trimmed the Purple Aces lead down to three points. A pair of Jaylon Brown free throws in the final minute of the first half gave

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Indiana State Softball stormed back from an early lead in the opener against Wright State in the morning and kept the momentum moving in a massive nightcap win over Austin Peay in five innings to wrap up ISU’s stay at the WKU Hilltopper Spring Fling on Saturday. Indiana State improves to 5-4 on the season with two very solid tournament outings under their belt – now including a 3-1 trip to WKU this weekend. “We continued to grow as a team and improve on the small things that will make us a tough team,” said ISU head coach Shane Bouman. “We did a nice job of moving the ball this weekend and found a way to win despite some adversity along the way.” Combined, the Sycamores exploded for 36 runs on 42 hits in four games this weekend – including two grand slams. Having the biggest weekends offensively were newcomers Brooke Mann (5-10, 2 HR, 9 RBI, 1.100 slugging percentage) and Gabi Carter (5-13, 3 2B, HR, 7 RBI), who combined to bat .435 and knock in 16 of ISU’s 36 runs this weekend. Also having a stellar weekend was pitcher Kenzie Ihle, who went 3-1 as she earned all four of ISU’s decisions. In 17.1 innings pitched this weekend, Ihle struck out 18 and held opposing batters to a .288 batting average. Up next for the Sycamores is stop number three in the non-conference tournament tour to Louisville on Mar. 3-5 for the Red & Black Tournament, with games vs. Bowling Green, Wisconsin-Green Bay and the host Louisville. The Sycamores went 0-2 against the Cardinals out in Las Vegas two weeks ago by a deficit of only two runs, falling 6-5 in extra innings before a 1-0 pitcher’s duel in the finale.

It was all Wright State (2-6) through four innings until a Leslie Sims inside-the-park grand slam burst the game open and gave the Sycamores (4-4), a lead it held onto for the early-morning victory. Wright State’s Lauren Deitrick (0-3) was dealing through those first four innings, yielding only two hits to the Sycamores along the way until the explosive rally in the fifth. Senior Erika Crissman started it off with a walk, followed by two bunt singles by Kassie Brown (1-2) and Bailey Martin (2-3) to load the bases for Sims, who cleared the bases with a momentum-swinging insidethe-park grand slam. The home run was a first for the freshman Sims, and the first grand slam for the Sycamores in 2017. That was all starter Kenzie Ihle (3-2) needed, as she went back out to the circle to shut down WSU in the sixth and the seventh for the complete game victory. Ihle struck out four while allowing two earned runs, pushing her weekend total at that point to 15 strikeouts in 14.1 innings pitched. Indiana State (5-4) didn’t wait for theatrics this time around, jumping out to a fast 4-1 lead in the bottom of the first over Austin Peay (4-3) and never looking back en route to a five-inning 17-5 win. In the first frame, the Sycamores got up early on an RBI single by freshman Becky Malchow (2-3, RBI), a throwing error and then a two-run single by senior Brooke Riemenschneider (2-2, 3 RBI). In the second, ISU blew the game out of reach to 10-1 with an RBI single by senior Rylee Holland (3-3, RBI) and a Brooke Mann sac-fly (1-2, HR, SF, 4 RBI), topped off by a grand slam by Gabi Carter (1-3, HR, 5 RBI). Carter’s shot was the second grand slam by the Sycamores

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