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Pro and anti-gay marriage demonstrators rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court as it hears arguments on the question of same-sex marriage on Tuesday, April 28, 2015, in Washington, D.C.
Worries for gay rights backers as Trump team sends mixed signals
Rob Hotakainen
McClatchy Washington Bureau (TNS)
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump made history last week, becoming the first sitting Republican president to issue a public affirmation of LGBTQ individuals and vowing to protect them from discrimination if they’re working for federal contractors. And only days after his election in November, he called gay marriage “settled” law as a result of the 2015 Supreme Court ruling that gave same-sex couples the constitutional right to wed, adding: “I’m fine with that.” While some say Trump has established a clear pro-gay record, critics
fear that the president has sent conflicting signals and his administration might end up leading a full-scale assault on gay rights. Among the mounting worries: Vice President Mike Pence, along with many of Trump’s conservative Cabinet picks and his new Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, have long opposed gay rights. And as a presidential candidate, Trump said he would sign a bill pushed by Idaho Republican Rep. Raul Labrador that would give new federal protections to those who oppose same-sex marriage for moral reasons. Meanwhile, a leaked copy of a proposed four-page executive order that Trump may impose is circulating
Science speaker to present on campus Adrienne Morris Reporter
Each year, multiple speakers are invited to Indiana State University to deliver speeches on a variety of topics. Of the Speaker Series on campus, the Darwin Keynote Speaker series is the only series that focuses on one particular topic: science. On Feb. 7, the Darwin Keynote Speaker, Dr. Barrett Klein from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, will deliver his speech “Honey Bee Communication: The Tale of a Sleep-deprived Dancer and Her Unwitting Followers” in honor of International Darwin Day. International Darwin Day is a celebration that is dedicated to the famous scientist Charles Darwin. It is a day dedicated towards science and the impact that Charles Darwin had on the development of science and technology. Dr. Klein is an associate professor of biology at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. He is currently studying insect behavior and how insects have affected humans overtime. Dr. Klein has an assortment of published academic works. He also illustrates different insects which are available to view on his web-
site. The Darwin Keynote Speaker series was implemented 12 years ago. Its purpose is to engage the community and increase opportunities for the surrounding communities of the Wabash Valley, including faculty and staff of ISU. It is also a great way for students to engage in a professional setting that includes an intellectual talk over the topics. “I think the concept of this speaker series is great. It’s really cool how its goal is to bring the community together,” sophomore Michael Christopher said. The Darwin Keynote Speaker series is sponsored by several different groups, which include the Department of Sciences & Mathematics at Saint Mary-ofthe-Woods College, the Honors Program, the Lilly Endowment, Office of Admissions and the College of Graduate and Professional Studies. “The different groups that helped to make this happen is great. I think it’s important that organizations come together, and I think this event does a great job at doing this,” junior Raven Collins said. The event is set to occur in the Cunningham Memorial Library Events Area on Feb. 7. It will begin at 7 p.m. There will be a reception before the event that will include snacks.
among advocacy groups and members of Congress, stoking more worries. When asked about a possible executive order on Thursday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said “there is nothing new on that front” but added: “There are a lot of ideas that are being floated out.” “But until the president makes up his mind and gives feedback and decides that that’s final, there’s nothing to announce,” Spicer said. On Tuesday, the White House had released its statement proclaiming Trump a champion of gay rights and said the president would keep in place a 2014 order by former President Barack Obama that protects all employees from discrimination while
working for federal contractors. While Labrador’s First Amendment Defense Act fizzled last year, the bill ignited a furor, with opponents saying it would open the door to legalized discrimination against gays and lesbians. Labrador, who won a fourth term in November, said he would introduce the legislation again this year, confident that its prospects of getting signed into law have improved with Trump in the White House. “I think chances are better — absolutely,” he said in an interview. Labrador, who helped create the conservative House Freedom Caucus in 2015, said no decision had yet been
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ISU performing series bring Blood, Sweat and Tears Anthony Goelz Reporter
Blood, Sweat and Tears featuring Bo Bice will be performing in the Tilson Auditorium on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. as a part of Indiana State’s Performing Arts Series. The Performing Arts Series has already hosted performances such as the “Children’s Nutcracker” and magician Mike Super. The series will also be featuring performances of “Driving Miss Daisy” and the famous Broadway musical “Annie” in the upcoming months of March and May. First assembled back in 1967 by Bobby Colomby, Blood, Sweat and Tears is a jazz and fusion rock band. According to the Blood, Sweat and Tears website, Colomby had a vision of a jazz and fusion rock band with horns. He explained that he was not afraid to take musical chances that could potentially change the music scene forever. Some of the greatest musicians in the world have passed through BS&T. The website also totes the band’s 10 Grammy nominations of which they won three, including Album of the Year beating out the Beatles’ “Abby Road.”
Throughout the years, the band’s members have changed multiple times. Blood, Sweat and Tears is always hiring the most talented musicians from around the world. BS&T originated in 1967 in New York City. “Nearly 200 band members have come and gone throughout the years,” said Alyssa Harvey in an article with the Bowling Green Daily News. This is similar to the hit funk-rock band Here Come the Mummies. Here Call the Mummies guard their identities by dressing as mummies. Rumor has it that this is because the members of the group are under contract with other record labels and hide their identities to keep from causing contract disputes. Harold Elwin “Bo” Bice, 41, is well known for being the runner-up in the fourth season of American Idol, losing to Carrie Underwood. Bice has been the lead singer of Blood, Sweat and Tears since 2014. “Although now lead singer Bice was born in 1975, some eight years, multiple awards and albums after Blood Sweat & Tears was formed, you can’t help but think they were destined to collide with each
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Trump’s comparison of Russia’s sanctioned killings Laura King
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
President Donald Trump’s professed admiration for his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is again causing headaches for fellow Republicans and drawing fire from Democrats –– but this time, with a twist. When Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly observed while interviewing Trump that Putin is “a killer,” the president retorted: “You think our country is so innocent?” Vice President Mike Pence, asked in several talk-show ap-
pearances Sunday about the president’s seeming comparison of officially sanctioned extrajudicial killings in Russia with unspecified U.S. actions, said Trump had merely intended to stress his desire to re-engage the Kremlin. “I simply don’t accept that there was any moral equivalency in the president’s comments,” Pence said on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” casting the remarks instead as “an attempt to deal with the world as it is…to start afresh with Russia.” Some congressional Republicans, though, sought to distance
themselves from Trump’s apparent comparison –– or attack it outright. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who ran against Trump for the Republican presidential nomination last year, said in a Twitter post: “We are not the same as Putin.” Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., on ABC’s “This Week,” also said he saw no equivalency between the U.S. and “murderous thugs” acting at Putin’s behest, but said there might be additional context in the Trump-O’Reilly interview, which had not aired in full at the time he spoke. Excerpts had been
released in advance. Democrats were harsher in their response. “I really do resent that he would say something like that,” said Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., also on ABC. She said she did not think there was any comparison to be made. From his campaign days forward, Trump has spoken repeatedly of his hopes for a friendly relationship with Putin, prompting expressions of concern from some lawmakers and from European leaders who fear he is not sufficiently mindful of Russia’s bellicose moves in Ukraine and
elsewhere. Trump also spent the early days of his presidency feuding with the U.S. intelligence agencies over their assessment that Russian cyberattacks were intended to sway the American presidential election in his favor. Trump has made similar remarks in the past about Putin’s reputation for violent retribution against perceived political enemies. He told interviewer Joe Scarborough in 2015 –– when the talk-show host pointed out
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Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton next in Speaker Series Mary Lou Retton may be as popular today as she was when she won America’s first Olympic gold medal in gymnastics in 1984, and she’s coming to Indiana State University as part of the University Speaker Series on Feb. 28. Retton, who won the hearts of Americans with her performance at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, will speak at 7 p.m. in Tilson Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. She was not only the nation’s first gold in gymnastics, but also won silver medals in team and vault and bronze medals in the uneven bars and floor exercise, making her the most decorated athlete at the 1984 Olympic games. Before her retirement in 1986, Retton was the only women to win three American Cups between 1983 and 1985, the
only American to win Japan’s prestigious Chunichi Cup in 1983, won two U.S. Gymnastics Federation American Classics in 1983 and 1984 and won the All-Around title at both the 1984 National Championships and Olympic trials. Retton’s post-professional sports career has included motivational speaking, serving as a corporate spokesperson, a “fitness ambassador” and national chairperson and member of the Board of Governors of the Children’s Miracle Network. She also has been a commentator for NBC at the 1988 Olympics, wrote a daily column for USA Today during the 1992 and 1996 Olympics and co-hosted the weekly television series, “Road to Olympic Gold.” A married mother of four, Retton has also appeared as an actress on the big and small screens.
Other accolades include: 1984 Sports Illustrated Sportswoman of the Year, 1982 Associated Press Amateur Athlete of the Year, the first gymnast and youngest inductee into the USOC Olympic Hall of Fame, the first woman to appear on the Wheaties Box and one of America’s Top Ten “Most Admired” public figures. The U.S. Olympic Committee established the annual Mary Lou Retton Award for athletic excellence in 1994. The following year, Retton was presented The Flo Hyman Award for her spirit, dignity and commitment to excellence by then-First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and was selected to be a member of the official White House delegation representing the U.S. ISU Communications and Marketing president at the 1992 and 1998 Olympic Games. Mary Lou Retton, Olympic gold medalist, is Story by ISU Communications and Marketing. to visit ISU’s campus on Feb. 28.
Dinosaur surprise: Scientists find collagen inside a 195-million-year-old bone Amina Khan
Michael Doyle
McClatchy Washington Bureau (TNS)
Los Angeles Times (TNS)
Dinosaur paleontology has long been the domain of bones and teeth — but now soft tissues could be changing the game. Scientists say they have discovered collagen preserved in a 195-million-yearold rib from a long-necked Lufengosaurus. The protein fragments, described in the journal Nature Communications, are more than 100 million years older than the previous record-holder, shattering the notion that such soft tissues are short-lived and cannot be preserved. These kinds of samples could offer paleontologists a whole new window through which to study these long-gone creatures. “This finding extends the record of preserved organic remains more than 100 million years, and highlights the importance of using in situ approaches to these types of investigations,” the study authors wrote. For a long time, scientists believed that protein molecules, which make up soft tissues, could only last about 4 million years or so; only hard tissues like bone and teeth could be preserved over longer geologic time scales. Soft tissues like cartilage and muscle typically decay long before they can be preserved. Recent studies have begun to challenge that notion. A study in 2015 found evidence of collagen fibers and red blood cells within a 75-million-year-old claw from a carnivorous dinosaur. That finding met with no small amount of skepticism, said Susannah Maidment, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Brighton who was not involved in the current study but who co-authored that 2015 paper. “Now, the weight of evidence has really shifted,” she said. “There
Trump struggles to stock his Cabinet, leaving a lot of decisions unsettled
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A piece of the 195-million-year-old Lufengosaurus rib, where bits of collagen were found.
are instances in the fossil record where protein can be preserved over really quite long geologic timescales, and we haven’t hit the boundary yet of what those geologic timescales are.” The new fossil evidence comes from a Lufengosaurus, a genus of early sauropodomorph dinosaurs that probably walked on two legs instead of four (unlike their fellow long-necked cousins, the sauropods). Rather than removing the sample from the bone, and thus risk damaging or contaminating it, the scientists used confocal Raman spectroscopy and a type of infrared spectroscopy to study the insides of the bones in detail. Within a rib, the scientists found fragments of proteins, likely from the collagen in the bone’s vascular canals. Those canals were also polka-dotted with collections of hematite — an iron oxide that
may have come in part from hemoglobin and other iron-rich proteins in the dinosaur’s red blood cells. It’s possible that this iron may have acted as an antioxidant, the authors wrote, preventing the proteins from decaying further. “The characteristic infrared absorption spectra of collagen and protein provide undeniable, clear evidence that collagen and protein remains were preserved inside the osteonal central vascular canals of this early dinosaur,” the study authors wrote. Comparing the collagen locked in the bones of different species could compel researchers to redraw parts of the dinosaur family tree, Maidment said. That’s because the proteins in collagen are closely tied to their particular animal group — which could allow scientists to use the samples almost like soft-tissue “fingerprints.”
“As paleontologists, the only thing we have to build a family tree of the dinosaurs is their bones,” she explained. “Now biologists of course have DNA, but we don’t have DNA so we only look at the bones. Our family tree is very much restricted to looking at the hard parts — and that might be swaying our calculations a little bit. If we were able to extract collagen and carry out collagen fingerprinting on these bones, then we would have a whole independent line of evidence.” For now, scientists are still trying to figure out how these protein fragments really managed to last so long in the first place. And the next challenge, Maidment said, will likely be figuring out how to safely extract these collagen remnants so they can be studied in even greater detail.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration has been simultaneously splashy and slow to take shape, hindered by its own rocky transition and congressional Democratic opposition that shows no sign of easing. Six nominees for Cabinet-level positions have been confirmed by the Senate. More than two dozen other Cabinet-level seats remain vacant, the slack only partly picked up by acting secretaries, including in the Departments of Energy, Education, and Health and Human Services. The sluggish pace of approvals is unusually slow. It shows no signs of easing, as Senate Democrats vow to continue stalling tactics that could last weeks. The tardiness, in turn, has consequences that can magnify over time. “Anytime you have an acting anything, you have someone who serves not just at the pleasure of the president, but with a degree of trepidation and a question of their legitimacy,” said Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. “Having somebody permanent gives them an ability to speak about the future; otherwise they’re just speaking about today.” Ultimately, Trump will have about 4,100 administration positions to fill, including about 1,240 that require Senate confirmation. So far, only about three dozen nominees have been announced, according to a database maintained by the nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service and The Washington Post. The former chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Issa
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UC grapples with line of free speech and hate speech Teresa Watanabe, Peter H. King, and Deborah Netburn (Los Angeles Times TNS)
The University of California, Berkeley was just mopping up after what appeared to be a small group of violent protesters from off campus shut down the speech of conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos — an appearance university leaders had staunchly defended despite hundreds of requests to ban him. Then came the tweet from President Donald Trump, which in an instant both blurred the facts and exacerbated the tension. “If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view — NO FEDERAL FUNDS?” Trump tweeted early Thursday. On Thursday, university officials, who had worked hard to make room for free speech, found themselves squeezed between outrage on both the right and the left. Also further inflamed was the already roiling UC debate about campus free speech — not just as it concerned Yiannopolous but also a host of hot-button issues, including anti-Semitism, Palestinian rights, sexual harassment and racism.
Scores of supporters, including many academics and California lawmakers, jumped in Thursday to defend the actions of Berkeley — home of the free speech movement more than five decades ago — and assert that Trump had no power to cut off federal funds. “Berkeley did everything right,” said Terry Hartel, senior vice president of the American Council on Education, which represents 1,600 universities and colleges. Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks resisted demands even from his own faculty members to ban Yiannopoulos’ appearance. Staff members spent weeks planning extensive security arrangements — bringing in dozens of police officers from nine UC campuses — and helping the Berkeley College Republicans obtain the technical equipment their event required. In a statement Thursday, the College Republicans condemned the “criminals and thugs” for violating their free speech rights — saying, “It is tragic that the birthplace of the free speech movement is also its final resting place.” But they also thanked campus officials for supporting them and protecting public safety. Dirks also condemned the
violence, which he blamed on armed individuals clad in black who used paramilitary tactics to shut down the event. They threw commercial-grade fireworks at police, hurled barricades through windows and started one fire. “The violence last night was an attack on the fundamental values of the university, which stands for and helps to maintain and nurture open inquiry and an inclusive civil society, the bedrock of a genuinely democratic nation,” Dirks said. UC officials did not directly comment on Trump’s tweet about federal funding, but concern about funding under the president already had come up at the Board of Regents meeting last November. UC receives nearly $9 billion in federal funding for education, research and health care — a significant chunk of the system’s $25 billion budget. Federal funds are UC’s single largest source of research dollars, amounting to more than $3 billion. Both the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health declined to comment on Trump’s tweet about a possible cut in funding. But Aaron Parsons, an astrophysicist at UC Berkeley, said Trump’s Twitter threat was not
being taken too seriously around the campus. “People have expressed a little bit of mild concern, but the consensus is this is probably bluster like what we have seen many times coming from the president,” Parsons said. “There are a lot of layers of bureaucracy about what work gets funded, and it’s often decided by a committee of your peers,” he said. “To reach all the way into the bowels of institutions that are supporting science would be an incredible level of micromanagement and there would be very little legal standing for doing so.” Erwin Chemerinsky, a First Amendment expert and the dean of UC Irvine School of Law, said Congress sets conditions for federal funding, not the president, and any attempts to use federal money to coerce local and state governments into desired actions would run afoul of the 10th Amendment. “The president has no authority to cut off funds, nor should he be making these kinds of threats he has no authority to do,” Chemerinsky said. Hartel, of the American Council on Education, said that federal agencies may cut off funding to universities in ways prescribed by law — failing to enforce Title
IX’s ban on sex discrimination, for instance, defrauding students or cheating in federal research grants. But no law allows funds to be slashed for allegations of free speech violations. Bill Foster, a congressman from Illinois who worked as a physicist before going into politics, said Trump’s threat to cut federal funds to Berkeley was completely out of line. “We spent hundreds of years developing the rule of law in this country,” he said. “If everyone is afraid of a strongman, it will set our political culture back centuries.” The UC Police Department has launched an investigation into Wednesday’s violence, which campus officials said was instigated by about 150 masked individuals hurling Molotov cocktails, setting fires, throwing fireworks at police, pushing barricades into windows, and damaging campus and city property. Police Chief Margo Bennett blamed the trouble last night on so-called Black Bloc anarchists, who marched on to campus in military fashion, brandishing clubs, high-grade fireworks, baseball bats and homemade shields. They are well known in the Bay Area, where they often
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indianastatesman.com RIGHTS FROM PAGE 1 made on when to formally introduce the bill, adding it will include “no major differences” from the measure he introduced in the last Congress. “We’re working with leadership here and with the Trump administration just to see exactly when the rollout would be the best,” he said. Labrador’s bill would prevent federal agencies from denying tax exemptions, grants, contracts or licenses to people or businesses based on their beliefs regarding marriage. Many gay rights backers are
KILLING FROM PAGE 1 that Putin kills journalists who oppose him –– that “our country has done plenty of killing , too.” This was the first time since taking office, though, that Trump has used such language in defending Putin, whom he says he hopes to enlist as an ally in the fight against the jihadists of Islamic State.
CABINET FROM PAGE 2 in citing the apparently thin vetting given Trump’s controversial Jan. 27 executive order restricting refugee admissions as an example of the dangers of short staffing. The executive order is being challenged in multiple lawsuits across the country. The lack of confirmed top-level leadership has apparently complicated subsequent efforts by lawmakers to alleviate the executive order’s impacts on their constituents. The office of Rep. Jim Costa, D-Calif., for instance, has been seeking relief for a Los Banos, Calif., family whose 12-year-old daughter has been stuck in Djibouti. For days, they reported hitting brick walls and unhelpful State Department responses. “That just doesn’t suffice,” Cos-
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braced for the possibility that Trump may act on his own by issuing an executive order that would be much broader than Labrador’s bill, guaranteeing religious freedom for “all activities of life.” At a hearing last July, Labrador told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that “no American should be threatened or intimidated because of their belief in traditional marriage.” While Labrador and other supporters argue that his bill would have a narrow scope, opponents say it could give private
companies “special rights” to discriminate against gays and lesbians if they had federal contracts with the government. “That’s the hang-up,” Gregory Angelo, president of the Log Cabin Republicans, the nation’s largest GOP organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender conservatives, said in an interview. “It’s rather ironic that individuals and organizations on the fringe right that have for so long harangued LGBT advocates for demanding special rights suddenly seem to be demanding special rights of their own.” Pennsylvania Republican Rep.
Scott Perry, another member of the House Freedom Caucus, defended the legislation, saying that “discrimination always is in the eye of the beholder.” “To force someone to participate in something that they have a religious aversion to is counter to the foundation of this country,” Perry said in an interview. “And it’s counter to the Constitution. … We are feeling more optimistic. … We’re hopeful to get some action and to get a vote. And the president’s telegraphed willingness to sign it helps its chances for the future.”
“There are a lot of killers. We have a lot of killers,” Trump said. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., in an interview on CNN, said he wasn’t going to “critique every utterance” of Trump’s, but didn’t defend him either. “I obviously don’t see this issue the same way he does,” he said. “America is different – we don’t operate in any way the way the
Russians do.” Pence, on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” did not directly answer the question of whether he thought Trump had misspoken. He said it was important not to let “semantics” get in the way of exploring ways to work together with Russia. Russia’s harsh dealings with dissenters came under renewed scrutiny this week when a prom-
inent Putin critic –– U.S. green card holder Vladimir Kara-Murza, who lives in Virginia — showed symptoms of poisoning for the second time in two years during a visit to Moscow. Rubio appeared to allude to that case in his Twitter post, asking when was the last time a Democratic political activist had been poisoned by the Republicans, or vice versa.
ta spokesperson Kristina Solberg said Friday. In many cases, being shorthanded makes it impossible for the federal government to take action, particularly if it’s too controversial. Only two of the five seats on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission are filled, for instance, and the resulting lack of a quorum puts all but the most routine decisions out of reach. Some government wheels, though, never stop turning. Even with so many departmental vacancies, the Feb. 4 Federal Register listing various executive branch proposals, meetings and actions spanned 215 pages. In just the past week, for instance, the Consumer Product Safety Commission proposed revising fireworks safety rules, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission started an environmental study of a proposed
Texas pipeline extension and the Defense Department announced a $400 million military contract with Kuwait. “You’re talking about ordinary bureaucratic cases,” said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y. “The bureaucracy just continues to function.” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was sworn in Wednesday. Next week, the Senate is set to take up more Cabinet-level confirmations, starting Tuesday with Education Department nominee Betsy DeVos. In a 52-48 vote along party lines Friday, the Senate agreed to end a Democratic filibuster intended to delay action on the Michigan billionaire. “The nominee for the secretary of education is one of the worst nominees that has ever been brought before this body for a Cabinet position,” declared Senate Minority Leader Chuck
Schumer, D-N.Y., adding that Republicans were trying to “rush her through.” The Democratic base, in particular, appears dead set against DeVos, with calls jamming Capitol Hill phone lines and social media accounts lit up to demand massive resistance. Some of it seems to foreshadow a grass-roots Democratic insistence that the party’s senators filibuster the big nominee coming down the tracks, Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court. Next up are Republican Rep. Tom Price of Georgia, nominee for secretary of health and human services, and Steven Mnuchin, chosen for treasury secretary. Democrats are expected to attempt filibusters and procedural maneuvering is likely to mean debates on each will stretch for a day or two.
PERFORMANCE FROM PAGE 1 ic,” Jackson said. Blood, Sweat and Tears will be another anticipated performing series that will entertain Sycamores throughout the night. The performance is free for students and faculty.
UC FROM PAGE 2 show up at protests. Sgt. Sabrina Reich, UCPD public information officer, said campus police made one arrest last night of a nonstudent, on a charge of failing to disperse. She said police are reviewing video to try to identify suspects, but no one has yet filed a police report about being assaulted or injured. An early estimate of damage is around $100,000, according to campus officials, and includes fixing broken windows at the MLK Student Union, replacing a generator that caught fire and was destroyed, sand-blasting paint off the concrete steps of the student union, cleaning up graffiti and possibly replacing some pavers and trees on Sproul Plaza. One tree on the plaza was badly singed by flames. The city of Berkeley’s Downtown Business Association is reporting damage to more than 10 businesses including several banks, a Starbucks, a TargetExpress and both a Sprint and a T-Mobile store.
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Getting through post-football season depression Barton Goldsmith
Tribune News Service (TNS)
After the Super Bowl, millions of diehard fans will enter a seven-month depression. For many folks, it’s like having a good friend move away. Whether you are a catch-every-minute kind of fan or a let’s-just-have-a-gameon-while-we’re-hanging-out type, you can feel something is missing from your life when football season is over. And those feelings are legitimate. You have formed a relationship with the game, the players, coaches and commentators. You’ve forged an emotional bond and had a good time doing it (unless you’re a Rams fan). This is why we make friends, to have
people to play with, to pass the time with, and watching football on the telly is no different. I know people who watch, play their fantasy game, switch between games and look after their kids (brilliantly) all at the same time. I can barely focus on a game and my dog. Though truth be told, I get in a few paragraphs during halftime. The NFL likes to say that “Football is family,” and I love the sentiment. Some people have no place else, and that’s sad, but if you get a lift from a game, then you can find ways to extend the season. If football is family, then when the Super Bowl ends, it makes sense that millions would be sad about it. Some folks turn to other sports, and that can work, but many people are just passing time until the next gridiron game
gets going. Some people carry it around and are actually emotionally wounded for a while. I do get it and have felt it, but if it goes on for more than a few days, you need to reevaluate your priorities. Missing something to the point of distraction isn’t good, especially if it’s something you enjoy that will return. It’s like Christmas; it’s here annually, and it lasts a lot longer. We don’t have enough love in this world, and adding football to the mix is great, but there is more to life. If football is all you’ve got, you could get more involved with the game at other levels. From Pop Warner to college football, there are many ways to keep the energy going long after the professional season comes to a close. I did some “sports-chology” coaching
for a group of little kids, and it was a blast, as was watching them play, and I didn’t go into it expecting that result. I’m not super involved, but it’s enough to keep me entertained until the pros come back to play. And now that the Rams are practically in my backyard, and we’re getting a second team in LA, I’m sure the fans here will have plenty to get involved with. For those who don’t have a home team (and we didn’t forever) or those who are losing one (and we’ve lost three), it can be very hard. The involvement we have with teams we love can be very strong. I’ve seen news reports that Chargers fans are burning their hats and jerseys and feeling very abandoned. I’m sure some are seeking therapy. It can be that disturbing if you are an intense fan.
Black History Month begins with Gospel celebration Erica Garnes Reporter
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University of Washington professors Jevin West, left, and Carl Bergstrom hope to teach a class on “BS.”
University of Washington class on how to spot fake data goes viral within hours Katherine Long
The Seattle Times (TNS)
SEATTLE — When it came to picking a title for the course they will teach this spring, University of Washington professors Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West decided to abandon academic stodginess and get edgy. Their new course title? “Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data.” Bergstrom and West figured using a minor profanity was a surefire way to draw attention to the course. And sure enough — within hours of unveiling a wickedly funny webpage they created for the proposed class, and announcing it via Twitter, the BS course went viral. The webpage went live at midnight, and “we woke up the next morning and it was over the whole planet,” West said. “I’ve never seen anything like it … the response has been insane — emails, questions, comments. … “It resonated,” he added, in a bit of an understatement. Although some people online took it as a joke, there’s serious intent behind the provocative title. Bergstrom, a biology professor, and West, an Information School professor, want to teach students how to think critically about numbers and statistics, and recognize when people are
using them to distort or spin an argument. They say they’re tired of seeing a growing number of charts, graphs, algorithms and big data sets manipulated in such a way as to mislead or deceive. “We’re sick of it. It’s time to do something,” the two say on their webpage, “and as educators, one constructive thing we know how to do is to teach people.” As more people have access to tools to quantify the world we live in, West says, people are going to make mistakes when they interpret what they see. After all, humans are fallible. But sometimes, he said, they’re also nefarious. “As we read various scientific papers, or media descriptions of the latest discoveries or the latest claims some startup is making — let alone seeing the kind of stuff you get sent on Twitter — we were like, wow,” Bergstrom said. “There’s so much bulls***.” West and Bergstrom say the course will arm students with critical reasoning skills they can use to identify BS and respond to it. Those skills will take the form of a set of rules to follow, a kind of folk-wisdom BS detector. “We both feel there’s not a more important skill than critical reasoning,” West said. Over the course of 12 weeks, they will define BS, show students how to spot it, discuss its
prevalence in the news media as well as the growth of “upscale BS” (think TED Talks), and explain why social media is the ideal medium to spread BS. They’ll show how BS is created when people ignore the fact that correlation is not causation. They’ll look at how data visualization can be misleading, examine why so many published scientific studies are false, and cover the rise of fake news. They’ll also tackle the ethics of calling BS, including the “differences between being a hard-minded skeptic and being a domineering jerk.” The two professors took an unusual route toward getting approval for the one-credit seminar class: In addition to petitioning a faculty committee for approval, they created the webpage to outline what they intend to teach. On Friday, a UW committee approved the course as a one-credit “special topics” seminar for spring. Now, it’s just a matter of finding a room large enough, Bergstrom said. “We’d like to teach 150 students if possible.” The faculty committee that approves new courses took an earnest, thoughtful approach, asking West whether “Calling BS” might be a little too contemporary, a little too faddish. “So, when I responded back, I said, ‘Well, bulls***’s been around a long time,’” West said,
laughing. “I don’t see this as a fickle topic.” The professors are using the internet to broadcast their ideas because they’d like to push the course materials beyond the walls of the university — teaching it as a MOOC, for example, a freely available course taught over the web. And they’d also like to see materials from their course used in high schools — although they might have to drop the provocative title. West thinks there’s no more important role for education than arming students to face a world awash in BS. He’s fond of a quote from Oxford philosophy professor John Alexander Smith, who, in a speech to his students in 1914, told them pretty much the same thing. “ … If you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education,” Smith said. If they’d picked a more conventional academic title, the course would have been called something like “Critical Reasoning and Statistical Inference.” But who would sign up for that?
Tilson Auditorium was gathered with praise, hope and love on Saturday evening. Indiana State University presented a Charles E. Brown Gospel Celebration to celebrate Black History Month. ISU will have multiple events during the month of February to celebrate Black History Month. Most of the events will be hosted by the Charles E. Brown center at ISU. The Gospel Celebration started at 6 p.m. and featured several powerful performances, including ones from the Covenant Church of Jesus and the event’s MCs. IUS’ s very own gospel choir, Ebony Majestic Choir, also performed. Their strong voices brought the audience to their feet to sing songs such as the Negro National Anthem. Mark Patterson and Cliff Lathan & Brighter Day continued the word and continued the night before the big event. J. Moss and Kierra Sheard were the guest performances that ended the night. J. Moss is the nephew of Gospel’s legendary Dr. Mattie Moss Clark. He started signing at the age of four and was soon signed with Island/Def Jam Records. After his deal with them, he started following another path in life— writing. Kierra Sheard initially came out in 2004 as a solo artist. She is the next-generation member of pioneering Grammy Award winning group Clark Sisters. After some years of background signing for her mother, Karen Clark Sheard, the 27-year-old ventured off in 2004 and debuted her album, “I Owe You.” She followed that up in 2006 with “This Is Me,” which set at No. 1 on Billboard’s Gospel Album charts. Since then she has made hit songs such as “Why Me” and “You Don’t Know.” As she continues her music career Sheard earned her B.A. in English from Wayne State University and is currently enrolled in a clinical psychology Master’s degree program. More events will be coming up throughout the month of February, uniting Sycamores as they celebrate the Black History Month.
How to reset your body clock and get better sleep Deborah Netburn
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Are you sick of going to bed late and waking up tired? Then grab your hiking boots and a tent. A new study suggests that a couple days of camping in the great outdoors can reset your circadian clock and help you get more sleep. The circadian clock is an internal clock that tells your body when it’s time to go to sleep and when it’s time to wake up. Scientists track this clock by measuring the amount of melatonin circulating in a person’s blood at any given time. In a healthy sleeper, melatonin levels rise a few hours before bedtime, stay high through the night, and then settle back down to daytime levels when it’s time to wake up. The span of time when melatonin levels are elevated is known as bi-
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ological night. In our modern society biological night does not usually coincide with night in the natural world. Most of us stay up many hours past sunset and would probably sleep in many hours after sunrise if
we could. The trouble is, if your biological night begins at midnight or later, your melatonin levels may still be high when your alarm clock goes off in the morning. This leads to grogginess, but it may have other
health consequences as well, researchers say. Diabetes, obesity and heart disease have all been associated with people not getting enough sleep. Previous research by integrative physiology professor Kenneth Wright of the University of Colorado at Boulder found that people can reset their circadian clocks by taking a six-day summer camping trip in the Rocky Mountains. That study, published in 2013, showed that by the end of the trip, the camper’s bodies started to release melatonin around sunset, and stopped releasing it around sunrise — an average of two hours earlier than when they were tested at home. Additionally, during the camping trip, the study participants didn’t get up for an
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indianastatesman.com BODY FROM PAGE 4 entire hour after their bodies stopped releasing melatonin, making it easier for them to wake up in the morning. “That original study answered a lot of questions, but it raised more questions,” Wright said. In the new work, published Thursday in Current Biology, Wright’s team set out to determine if our circadian clocks can be reset by a shorter jaunt in nature, and if these biological clocks respond to seasonal influences. To answer the first question, the researchers recruited 14 physically active volunteers in their 20s and 30s. Nine went on a weekend camping trip, while the other five stayed home. At the end of the weekend, the authors monitored the volunteers’ melatonin levels to see if there had been any shift in the timing of their biological night. The researchers report that in just two days, the campers’ circadian clocks shifted so that their melatonin levels began to rise more than an hour earlier then they did in the days before they left on the trip. Overall, the difference was equivalent to 69 percent of the effect that the researchers observed when campers went on a six-day trip in 2013. “This tells us we can reset our clocks fast,” Wright said. The authors also found that the circadian clocks of the group that stayed home shifted even later over the course of the weekend. “Those people stayed up later and slept in more, like lots of us do on the weekend and that pushed their clocks later too,” he said. In another experiment, the authors sent five brave volunteers on a six-day winter camping trip to determine whether the human circadian clock is affected by seasonal changes in day length. When the campers returned home, the authors found that the winter camping group’s biological night was longer than that of the group that went camping for a week in the summer back in 2013.
Monday, Feb. 6, 2017 • Page 5 “That finding shows we are similar to other animals,” Wright said. Indeed, many animals adjust their circadian clocks in the winter so they can spend more time sleeping as the nights grow longer. Wright explains that changes in the circadian clock trigger other changes as well — for example, causing some mammals to put on weight or change the color of their fur. Wright said the new work suggests we may be more susceptible to changes in the seasons than most of us realize. “I’d love to see someone do an experiment where they take people who have winter depression and have them increase their time outdoors for a weekend,” he said. Wright thinks there are two reasons a sojourn in nature can reset our biological clocks, and both have to do with light. His group found that on the winter camping trip participants were exposed to 13 times more light than they usually are when they go about their normal lives. In addition, the winter campers were not allowed to use flashlights or electronic devices during the weeklong camping trip. That meant that when darkness fell, the only light they saw was from their campfires. He said that both the increased light during the day and lack of light during the night played a role in realigning the circadian clocks. “A lot of people think about light at night and recognize it is not the best thing, but our research has shown that the reduction in light we get during the day is equally important,” he said. Therefore, if you want to change your sleep patterns, but sleeping in tents is not your thing, you might start by trying to increase your exposure to natural light during the day and decrease the amount of electric light you see at night. And if that doesn’t work, there’s always camping.
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Students should evaluate all of their options
Casey Ewart Columnist
We made it to college. Many of us have different reasons for going. Some might have chosen to come to college because it was in their fiveyear plan. Others might have chosen to because their parents made them. And others are more focused on getting a higher paycheck than if they did not have a degree. As there are many reasons to come to college, there are also many reasons why people drop out or pause their studies. Some people look at the debt they will be in and decide that they do not want to continue. Others have medical or family emergencies that will force them to dropout or put a pause on their education. There are also people that party their way out of school. Many people will make pros and cons lists of continuing their education. While making those lists, there are a few things to keep in mind. The first item to think about is that college is made for us to have fun and get an education. It is possible to balance education and fun with friends. College is different because it is a chance for us to live with our friends and stay out as long as we like without our parents telling us that it is a school night. However, some parents would probably not be too happy if they found out that we partied our way out of school. If our grades are starting to slack, it is time to evaluate and regroup. The second item to think about is we do not want to disappoint people. In deciding whether or not to continue our education, many of us must talk to our parents. Our parents might be contributing financially to our college educations. They may be in as much debt as we are or will be. The third item to think about is financials. That big number that we are expecting to be in debt can decrease, but it is up to us. First, we would need to apply to many scholarships. Another way to lower the cost is to get a job. Some people may not be able to balance a job and a full-time student status. There are others that need a job if they want to go to college. Also, look for jobs that have tuition assistance reimbursement options. It is crazy to think that some jobs might actually pay for part of our education. If there is a situation or event that needs attention that is the cause for dropping out or a pause, do not let that stop you from getting an education forever. It may not be on campus. Depending on the situation, attending college online might be a better fit at that time. Maybe slow down and take one class at a time. There are many colleges and ways to attend college. We just need to look for what will fit our needs. In the end, everyone will have a different opinion about their college experiences, whether that is for a semester, year, online or a full degree term. No matter the excuse we make that sounds good to drop out or pause our studies, there is always a solution.
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U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017 in Washington, D.C. Every U.S. president since Dwight Eisenhower has addressed the annual event.
Religious Right has rattling reaction to Trump’s promise
Zach Davis Columnist
Many of us learned about the pilgrims in elementary school. We learned about their voyage over the Atlantic Ocean, fueled by their desire to escape an oppressive, religiously-controlled government. They came to America so they could practice their religions freely. Once the United States was formed, we decided to keep this ideal forever. We adopted religious freedom into our Bill of Rights, and we decided our country should remember to keep a separation between church and state, a line that was necessary to keep the government from favoring one religion over another and protect citizens of different faiths. In 1954, the Johnson Amendment updated the U.S. tax code to reflect this belief, effectively barring non-profit groups like churches, temples and mosques from funding political campaigns so they couldn’t use politics to impose their views on other Americans. The organization los-
es their tax-exempt status if they are found to be intervening in a political campaign. Two weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump aims to try keeping one of his campaign promises to the Evangelical Christians and get rid the amendment. At the National Prayer Breakfast, Trump said in his speech that he is going to “totally destroy the Johnson Amendment,” removing what he views to be a restriction on free speech. In his address, Trump said he will “allow our representatives of faith to speak freely and without fear of retribution.” He seemingly forgets to note that “representatives of faith” already have the freedom to speak about anything— just not in the pulpit. Clergy are able to speak about politics with their congregation one on one, on social media and through other means; but they cannot do so during a sermon. That is it. Even then, the IRS is not known to ping churches for violating the amendment. The Washington Post reports that over 2,000 pastors have intentionally given politically-driven sermons on Sundays since 2008, but only one has been investigated without consequences, according to the Alliance Defending Freedom. Obviously the law isn’t actually restricting churches from preaching like Trump thinks. The law actually forbids church-
es and other non-profit organizations who claim a tax-exempt status from specifically intervening in a political campaign. That means a church can’t officially endorse or condemn any candidate. Discussing current events is still allowed, though. Preaching politics isn’t something that should occur in a religious environment, anyway. Worship times should be reserved to spread the faith, whatever it may be. Religious sermons are where a lot of people go to relax and engage in a community to help wash away the stress of mundane things like politics. We shouldn’t take that place away from people. We all need a break to recharge sometimes, and that can be a good way for some. Politics can also divide your church. Preaching politics introduces a toxic topic in an environment that is meant to be unifying, which destroys a lot of the appeal. It can turn away a lot of people from your faith, which is counteractive if you are trying to spread your religion. Perhaps the most alarming part of repealing the amendment, though, would be the fact that churches would be able to financially intervene in the government. Financially supporting a campaign or counter-campaign as a non-profit organization is forbidden by the Johnson Amendment as well. Otherwise the organization loses its
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Better vetting process needed to weed out terrorists
Steve Wininger Columnist
As with any other decision President Donald Trump makes, the executive order to temporarily halt refugees from certain countries and to deny access to those entering from the list of seven countries has caused quite the stir among the left. Trump is not the first president to issue an executive order restricting entry of individuals from certain regions into the United States. Presidents since
Ronald Reagan have used their executive authority to restrict, to some degree, people entering the U.S. According to a report by the Congressional Research Service, past presidents have used the Immigration and Nationality Act to varying degrees, and multiple times to deny access to immigrants and non-immigrants at different times of their respective administrations. While Trump’s order is more sweeping than those of his predecessors, it is not illegal, according to senior counsel at the American Freedom Law Center, David Yerushalmi. In a report from Oregon’s KPIC, Yerushalmi argues that most people take the ban as illegal because they are responding emotionally. If one looks at the
media reports, much of the language and context is used to fuel the emotional responses. One argument by the president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, William Stock, is that none of the countries targeted in the ban pose a direct threat to the United States. He argues that previous bans were in reaction to specific threats. Yerushalmi, citing that the ban is for a limited time and that the countries affected are crumbling, claims it is reasonable for Trump to impose a temporary ban. Some argue that the executive order is a ban on Muslims, which it is not since it does not target Muslims, only certain countries which happen to be predominately Muslim. Others, however, argue that it could lead to a Muslim
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ban, citing the rhetoric during Trump’s presidential campaign. Trump told ABC that the ban is for “countries that have tremendous terror.” According to the order, the ban is only temporary while better vetting processes can be instituted. Countries who allow a lot of refugees from the region who do not have a strong vetting process in place are struggling with violence and increased crime. According to a Syrian security report from the House Homeland Security Committee, Islamic terrorists are determined to integrate into the Syrian refugee flow to access the west, and have appeared to have already done so in Europe. The report cites an international terrorist research bulletin that
claims there were already reports where ISIS had infiltrated refugee routes. Of the seven recommendations of the reports, the first one was to temporarily suspend admission of Syrian refugees. The report recommended better vetting practices which filled the voids in the current process. A press release from the House Homeland Security Committee in November 2015 mentions the concerns of top intelligence officials concerning the vetting process of immigrants coming from Syria and other areas of conflict in the Middle East. FBI Director James Comey said there is a risk of anyone coming in from outside the U.S., but it is especially true for those
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tax-exempt status. Churches and other non-profit organizations who have a tax-exempt status don’t pay into the government the same as the rest of us. Even businesses have taxes they are supposed to pay – whether or not they find loopholes to avoid paying up. An organization that doesn’t pay into a government shouldn’t get a say in what that government does. That does not bar the individuals from holding political ral-
VOTING FROM PAGE 6 coming from a war zone, and that there are gaps in the data available to them. In February 2015, the undersecretary for intelligence and analysis at the Department of Homeland Security, Francis Taylor, states that if they are asked to vet people from any part of the world then they want to apply the most rigorous screening that is available to them. As was mentioned by Comey, there are gaps. There is not much intelligence from war regions. There is a problem with foreign fighters coming into countries who are supporting terrorists and they are very difficult to track. The last recommenda-
MOORE FROM PAGE 8 clean over the first three bars at 1.98m (6-06.00), 2.03m (6-08.00) and 2.08m (6-09.75) before succumbing to the bar at what would have tied his career-best at 2.12m (611.50), finishing tied for third at 2.08m (6-09.75). “I felt like our depth today got a little bit better in several events,” Martin said. “The team stepped
lies and making a difference themselves; it only prevents funds from the tax-exempt organization from being used. A church that has millions of dollars a year in donations could redirect all of those funds to a political agenda, representing a mass of people. That sounds almost exactly like a Super PAC. With tax exemption they end up being all but a government-funded Super PAC. Washington Post quoted Valparaiso tax law professor David Herzig explaining people’s concerns being that “if you
tion given in the Syrian Security report was to stop ISIS. While the report was discussing the Syrian refugee crisis it is obvious that ISIS, or terror groups sympathetic to ISIS, have a presence in other Middle Eastern countries who are involved in current struggles, such as those countries other than Syria which the order applies. The branches of ISIS have become so large that it seems the West is more concerned with pruning them instead of destroying them at the root. The only way the refugee crisis will end is to stop ISIS and terrorism, which I firmly believe could be done; however, since 9/11, terrorism has been allowed to continue, evolve and grow. up to the challenge of such a high-caliber meet, and I think we’re on the right track toward what we need to do for indoor conference.” Up next for the Sycamores is a trip down to Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama – site of the NCAA Indoor Championships last year – for the Samford Invite on Feb. 10-11.
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Indiana State University Sycamores track (distance and long jumpers) finished solid on day one of the Meyo Invite.
Distance and long jump lead the way for Sycamores at Day One of Meyo Invite Tyler Wooten
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Indiana State’s distance squads and long jumpers were the story for a solid day by the Sycamores at Day One of the 2017 Meyo Invite inside the Loftus Sports Center at Notre Dame on Friday. Both the men’s and women’s distance medley relay teams had very strong outings amidst a packed field, with both running top-10 times in school history. The Sycamore men’s DMR of Blake Kramer (1200), Tyrell Dowdell (400), Tony Rigoni (800) and Quentin Pierce (mile) finished third overall at 9:56.87 – less than one second off of second all-time in school history. The quartet had a superb race, but the star of the day was the sophomore Pierce, who clocked in a blistering 4:09 mile to close the gap and push the Sycamores to third place. That total time currently ranks
27th in the NCAA and leads the Missouri Valley conference. The women’s medley of Aleksey Green (1200), Jamie Newsome (400), Imani Davis (800) and Abigail Grider (mile) had a similarly impressive day, running the fourth-fastest time in ISU history at 11:49.08. The foursome finished 12th overall and seventh in their heat, but that time currently ranks 35th in the NCAA and also leads the MVC. ISU wasn’t done with the distance events, though, as sophomore Akis Medrano and Megan Doty put together career performances in the 5K. Medrano, an All-MVC finisher during the cross country season last fall, finished 10th overall and third in the first heat on a massive PR of nearly 20 seconds at 14:34.23. Medrano ran a smooth race, starting out slow before attacking the lead pack and never giving an inch down the stretch. He now ranks sixth all-time in
school history, 33rd in the NCAA and leads the Valley in the 5K. Doty had a similar day, running a 15-second PR at 17:20.84 to finish 32nd overall and 10th in the first heat, the sixth-best time in school history and the third-best in the Valley this year. Indiana State also had two impressive finalists in a massive long jump field on both the men’s and women’s side of competition. Sophomore transfer Caitlyn Redmon started the day off on a good note for the Sycamores, finishing sixth in the long jump on her first leap of the day in the first flight, 5.88m (19-03.50). Redmon now ranks ninth all-time in school history and second in the Valley. Senior Devyn Mikell kept up his steady final indoor season with another season-best, finishing third at 7.36m (24-01.75) — currently the third-best leap in the conference. The Sycamores also had a handful of
sprinters advance to semifinals on Saturday following qualifying performances on Friday. ISU will send two to the men’s 60-meter hurdles semifinal on Saturday after senior Marcus Neely ran the top prelim time of the day (7.93) and fellow senior Daley Carter ran the 13th-best at 8.26. Junior Patrycja Dziekonska also qualified in the women’s 60-meter hurdles, running the 19th-best prelim time at a new season-best time of 8.68 seconds – a team-best for ISU this season and the sixth-best in the MVC this year.Junior Tristan Parmley will run in the 60-meter dash semifinal on Saturday as well after running the 10th-fastest prelim at 7.13 seconds. Day Two will pick up at 9:45 a.m. with the semifinals of the women’s 60-meter hurdles. Fans can watch the action live on ESPN3 and WatchESPN from 2-4 p.m. to catch the final hours of the meet.
Moore breaks school Valiant Effort At UNI Falls Short mile record as Sycamores wrap up at Meyo Invite Ace Hunt
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Sophomore Brooke Moore brought down a 19-year-old school record as more Sycamore distance runners shined again at the conclusion of the Meyo Invite at the Loftus Sports Center at Notre Dame on Saturday. Moore, a native of Notre Dame neighbor Elkhart, Indiana, has been barreling toward current senior associate athletic director Angie Lansing’s 1998 record of 4:50.12 since her first race as a Sycamore at IU in late 2015 (4:57.07). After dealing with some minor injuries the rest of her freshman year, Moore has been a dynamic runner for the Sycamores in her second campaign – earning All-MVC honors as the third-place finisher at the MVC Cross Country Championships in the fall and following with a steadily superb indoor season in which she has set a new PR in the mile and 800 each time she has run either event. Today, Moore ran a steady race early on before jumping into the top pack at the halfway point and challenging for the win down the stretch, obliterating Lansing’s record by seven seconds at 4:43.04 to finish 12th overall and second in her heat – and turning some heads in the process. “Our milers had a good day, but the standout performance has to be breaking a 20-year-old school record set by an NCAA qualifier in Angie,” said ISU head coach Angela Martin. “I’m really excited for Brooke. This is a huge step toward bigger goals down the road, and on bigger scales as well.” At press time, Moore ranks 29th in the NCAA and leads the
Missouri Valley in the mile. The Sycamore men’s milers also kept the pedal down with career-bests of their own. Junior Blake Kramer was 24th overall and seventh in Heat Three at 4:11.74 (the seventh-best time in the conference), and sophomore Quentin Pierce won Heat Two and finished 27th overall at 4:12.51 (the eighth-best time in the Valley). Both are impressive considering they both were part of ISU’s distance medley relay last night – with Kramer running the leadoff 1200 and Pierce anchoring a 4:09 mile to close. Senior All-American Alethia Marrero had another impressive week of double-duty – this week including running the anchor on the 4x400-meter relay and a return to her signature event, the 800-meter. Marrero ran in the women’s invite 800 first, where she finished sixth in the invitational section and seventh overall at a teambest 2:09.24. Marrero hadn’t run the 800 since finishing fifth for First-Team All-American honors at the 2015 NCAA Outdoor Championships. Currently she ranks 43rd in the NCAA and second in the Valley. Not long after, Marrero helped the women’s 4x400 of Imani Davis, Jamie Newsome and Oschtisha Jackson run the sixth-best relay in school history at 3:45.26 (second in Heat Two, 15th overall). The women’s 4x400 has run a new season-best in each meet this indoor season. Junior Jaime Murtagh was also in an invitational in the men’s invite high jump, where he earned a top-three finish with another solid day’s work. Murtagh was
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Indiana State and Northern Iowa went back-and-forth all afternoon long at the McLeod Center before the Panthers eventually pulled away for a 65-60 victory. The Sycamores fell to 8-16, 2-10 MVC while UNI improved to 1112, 6-6 MVC. Brenton Scott led the way for the Sycamores with 16 points. Emondre Rickman came off the bench to notch a new career high with 12 points. The Sycamores led by as many as nine points in the second half, but hit just 20-of-59 shots (33.9 perecnt) for the game. UNI connected on 20-of-45 (44.4 percent). Indiana State hit eight 3-pointers in the contest, led by four from Scott. Scott moved into 18th on the ISU all-time scoring list with 1,224 points. The Sycamores held a massive 43-29 edge in rebounding, paced by 12 from point guard Everett Clemons. Clemons finished the game with eight points and 12 boards. Laquarious Paige did the bulk of the heavy lifting for the Indiana State offense over the first eight minutes as he played the first two segments of the game and led the team with eight points. He hit a pair of 3-pointers and then his driving lay-up at the 14:35 mark cut the Panther lead down to 108. The Sycamores then went with just a pair of free throws over the next five minutes as they stretched their lead out to 17-10. Bell stopped the dry spell with an inside move as the game neared the nine minute mark and UNI held a 17-12 advantage. Northern Iowa ran their lead out to 23-12 before Everett Clemons began to show his might. He hit a pair of free throws and then recorded a second chance bucket to get within seven points. Then Clemons recorded a steal and was fouled going to the bucket with 5:01 to go. He hit both charity toss-
es and his person 6-0 run trimmed the UNI lead down to 23-18. After the Panthers scored, Brenton Scott connected from long range at the 4:14 mark and the Panther lead was down to 25-21. The run continued after another defensive stop when Jordan Barnes connected on a trifecta from the top of the key to make it 12 of the last 14 points and the Panthers edge was just 25-24. Emondre Rickman hit a jumper in the paint with 1:17 left in the opening half and the Sycamores took their first lead of the game at 26-25. Bennett Koch would go on to hit a pair of free throws with 10 seconds on the clock and the Panthers took to the halftime locker room with a slim 27-26 advantage. Laquarious Paige led the way with eight points at the half as the Sycamores trailed by just one point despite hitting just 29.6 percent of their shots from the field. The Sycamores got a defensive stop to begin the second half and Bell banked in a jumper on the first possession to retake a 28-27 lead. After UNI retook a onepoint advantage, Scott buried a 3-pointer on the right wing with 18:01 on the clock as Indiana State went ahead 31-29. The Panthers countered with five points in a row as Klint Carlson hit a fade away jumper with 16:15 remaining and UNI took a 34-31 lead. Scott connected on his third 3-pointer of the game with 15:13 remaining to knot the contest at 34. Carlson hit 1-of-2 free throws before Rickman scored inside and the back-andforth continued as the Sycamores swung ahead 36-35. A Bunschoten lay-up and then a charity toss from Rickman with 12:10 remaining staked the Sycamores to a 39-37 lead. Rickmman continued his solid second half with another jumper as the clock ticked towards the 11 minute mark and before it hit he got a blocked shot and then a dunk and foul with 11:04 to go. Rickman converted the conventional 3-point play and the Sycamores
led 44-37. The 10-0 Indiana State run was capped on a reverse layup by Donovan Franklin, and the Sycamores lead stood at 46-37. But the Panthers scored on consecutive possessions and cut into the Sycamores lead with five points in a row as Indiana State held a 46-42 advantage with 9:14 on the clock. But Indiana State kept the Panthers right there after a big offensive rebound from Clemons as Scott buried a jumper with 7:15 remaining to stretch the lead out to 48-42. After the Panthers cut the Sycamore lead down to three points, Scott connected on a pair of charity tosses at the 6:20 mark for the 50-45 advantage. One against UNI got with a possession, but with 4:41 an offensive rebound for Clemons led to a pair of free throws and the 52-47 Sycamore lead. Jeremy Morgan’s 3-pointer in transition with 3:52 to go staked the Panthers to a 52-50 lead. The Sycamores came up empty after the final media timeout and Juwan McCloud hit a pair of free throws to knot the game at 52. Jordan Barnes connected on a big 3-pointer at the 2:53 mark as ISU regained a 55-52 cushion. Morgan countered with a conventional 3-point play with 2:37 remaining, which once again tied the contest at 55. A missed 3-pointer and pair of free throws for the Panthers pushed them ahead 57-55. A big time put back on the offensive end by Rickman once again tied the contest at 57. Brenton Scott hit a big 3-pointer with 15 seconds left but the Sycamores could not score again as UNi took the hard fought 65-60 victory. Bennett Koch led the way for the Panthers with 14 points as five different players reached double figures scoring. Indiana State stays on the road this Wednesday, Feb. 8 at 9 p.m. (ET) when they travel to Bradley. The game will air live on the MVC TV Network as well as The Valley on ESPN3.