October 13, 2017

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Volume 125, Issue 20

French language shows global connection Ian Bonner-Swedish Reporter

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Students participated in the 2017 Spectrum drag show, showcasing their costumes and outfits.

Indiana State meets Burlesque: Spectrum Drag Show Jada holmes Reporter

Spectrum, the LGBTQ organization, took the students of ISU by storm through a drag show with an eccentric Burlesque twist and humor during the annual event Wednesday.

Taking place in Dede 1 of the Hulman Student Memorial Union, the organization produced a showcase of a variety of performances from contestants dressing in drag.

The contestant lineup included Jax Daniels, Angelica Foxx, Charlie Ace, Brittany Sapphire, Valentino, Cheryl and special guest Carmen Dioxide of Purdue University.

Participants entertained the audience, intrigued and amused, through multiple musical numbers in which they lip-synced and incorporated subtle choreography.

With Angelica Foxx and Cheryl serving as Wednesday evening’s hosts, the crowd expressed laughter and enthusiasm.

Contestants were granted the opportunity to expand upon their personal interest in drag culture.

Spectrum Vice President Aubrey Stephens proposed the question, “What is the most important thing about drag to you and why?” Explanations ranged from pure interest and desire in the liberty of dressing as the opposite sex, to loving the art of performance, generally.

The program concluded with a crowd participation segment which allowed the student audience to decide their fan favorite. With Daniels and Sapphire settling at the final two, Sapphire was awarded the glory after being met with applause.

Wednesday was also dedicated as National Coming Out Day. Drag show attendee and Donai Long, a senior chemistry and business double major, explained her reasons of celebration with her friends aside from Spectrum’s

event, which included in-depth discussions regarding matters of interest to the LGBTQ community. However, she said she appreciated that LGBTQ representation could be acknowledged throughout the evening.

“It was awesome, and it was nice seeing a lot of diversity,” she said. “It was a lot of LGBT appreciation here.”

Long suggested that an increased appeal to exhibiting variety would solidify the Spectrum event as a more inclusive and truly diverse experience in the future.

“I feel like we have such a diverse student body within the LGBTQ community,” Long said. “You don’t get to see a lot of other races other than white drag queens.”

Vice President Stephens hopes to increase collaboration among student organizations, especially representatives of Indiana State University’s National Pan-Hellenic Council and minority student organizations.

Stephens would like to attract more student involvement in future drag shows and with the Spectrum organization. “Because I am bringing all forms of the community together, LGBT and non,” Stephens said.

Stephens described the developmental process of creating this year’s Burlesque-themed show as stressful, but was satisfied with the attendance and involvement outcomes for the night.

Motivation for Wednesday’s theme wasderived from Stephens’ interest in merging two dynamic and well-known art forms together to generate exhilarating performances. “When you give a queen a stage, she’ll give you a show.”

Stephens welcomes everyone to engage with the Spectrum organization every Tuesday at 7 p.m. in HMSU Room 321. She hopes that students who do get involved and want to experience drag will open themselves up to the experience.

“When you give a queen a stage, she’ll give you a show.”

Aubrey Stephens, vice president of Spectrum

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The drag show showcased diversity through the LGBTQ community.

National Coming Out Day 10-11-17

LGBTQ Student Resource Center host tie-dye event at Dede Plaza

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Shakur Silas (right), the coordinator of the event, works with Kaila Brusdal during the event.

America might not think about much else French besides the Eiffel Tower. However, French is much more global than many may believe. Kevin Mboyo hopes to broaden the knowledge of Indiana State University. He held a presentation detailing the many facets of the French language from teaching attendees how to speak French, to exposing those attendees to French hip hop artists such as La Fouine and some of the culinary dishes popular in France.

Still, the French is a language beyond its borders; this was revealed to attendees in a very entertaining and delightful way when he played the movie “Kirikou.” The movie, originally told in French, detailed the journey of an extremely tiny child whose bravery and wisdom is put to the test as he attempts to save the village from a sorceress.

Mboyo had a humble reasoning that prompted him to attempt this feat.

He said, “Well me being from Africa and speaking French, I feel like French is the language that most people speak, so why not host a French event to teach about French culture, cuisine and French movies, just so people can have more knowledge [on] what French has to offer.”

Mboyo also feels that the movie he had chosen was impactful and something that was not only entertaining but also beneficial to the participants.

“I just wanted [to] have a movie that had a purpose,” he said.”I was going to do a cookie movie; I didn’t think it had a purpose. His focus was to find out what happened to the witch and his grandfather, and he accomplished his goals. It had a purposeful meaning, and I thought to myself that ‘this kid is so brave. Why can’t I be brave?’ So that’s why I chose the movie.”

Knowing French has also gained Mboyo great ground in a rapidly diversifying world.

“I’ve met a lot of people [and] that way I’ve taught a lot of people how to speak French. Just being bilingual will definitely help my future; I’ve gotten jobs that other people couldn’t have because I could speak French,” he said.

As of now there are no immediate plans to continue this project, but he hopes to maybe incorporate chances to teach people French games and cuisine.

Still, it was surely enjoyable.

Such a sentiment was felt by Adam Payne, an attendee of the event. ”It was really interesting,” Payne said. “It was a great experience. I never realized how widespread French is in high school; I never understood why people study French and not Spanish because Mexico is so close. “ Payne hopes to learn at least short phrases for now and boost his French vocabulary.

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Almost no Puerto Rican households had flood insurance Tim Johnson and Kevin G. Hall McClatchy Washington Bureau (TNS) One of the most eye-opening statistics in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria’s roar through here is that there were just 5,675 federal flood insurance policies on an island with nearly 1.57 million housing units.

That means less than one-half of 1 percent of the commonwealth’s homes were covered. Many will instead try to tap low-interest federal loans to rebuild.

The dearth of flood policies in Puerto Rico means the federal program will be required to pay little of the perhaps $85 billion in privately and federally insured losses from Hurricane Maria; the total includes not just home-

owners’ flood claims, but also, for instance, property damage. Most of the losses occurred in Puerto Rico.

But if Maria doesn’t require major outlays from the federal flood insurance program, the storm has underscored the issue of the affordability of these policies on the island and elsewhere.

Virtually none of the residents McClatchy spoke with recently at a suburban Costco in San Juan’s Carolina district had flood insurance, let alone a homeowners’ policy for storm losses. Just one person, a condo owner, said she had a flood policy; it was required by the bank issuing her mortgage.

Others simply played the odds.

“The probabilities are not very high that a hurricane will hit,” said Julio Soto Quijano, a jeweler.

“Why have the expense year after year if there is no assurance that you will face the problem?”

Housewife Jailyn Colon Reyes, 37, saw one room flooded and a garden wall damaged. With no insurance, she expects to pay almost $2,000 out of pocket for repairs.

But that doesn’t mean she’ll be buying a policy in the future. “Our income doesn’t allow us to pay for insurance,” Colon said.

“You’ve got to pay the light bill, the water, medicine, food, gasoline, additional expenses.”

This isn’t a problem limited to Puerto Rico.

The latest federal flood insurance data, as of July 31 before the storms hit, shows a little more than 4.9 million active flood policies in a nation of 135 million housing units, or about 3.6 percent. More

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Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney speaks at a news briefing at the White House. Mulvaney said the National Flood Insurance Program is not fiscally sustainable in its current form.

than a third of them, 1.7 million, are in Florida.

Texas was a distant second with 584,637 policies.

The upshot: More households should have the insurance, but many

can’t afford it — and the federal program is at a breaking point in any case, says the Trump administration, which has proposed revamping the national flood insurance

10 at LSU charged in alleged hazing that killed freshman

Alexis Stevens The Atlanta-Journal Constitution (TNS)

The arrests of 10 people associated with a college fraternity for an alleged hazing incident that killed a freshman are intended to send a tough message: Louisiana State University will not tolerate the alcohol-fueled behavior.

But the arrests alone may do little to end a campus tradition that has killed at least one American college student a year since 1961, experts said Wednesday.

“It’s unusual for such stiff penalties to be placed. What would be more unusual is if the penalties are successful,” said Hank Nuwer, an associate journalism professor at Franklin College in Indiana, who has studied hazing for four decades.

“We just saw that at Penn State. It’s very hard for them to stick.”

On Wednesday, eight current and two former LSU students were charged with hazing following the Sept. 14 death of Max Gruver of Roswell, Ga., the university said. One student, Matthew Alexander Naquin, was also charged with negligent homicide.

Gruver was the second LSU student in 20 years to die from excessive alcohol at fraternity events. On Aug. 26, 1997, Benjamin Wynne, 20, died after an estimated two dozen alcoholic drinks to celebrate his acceptance into a fraternity. No one was arrested in connection with Wynne’s death, which also made national headlines.

Louisiana is one of 44 states with a hazing law, according to Emily Pualwan, executive director of Hazing Prevention, a Georgia-based nonprofit. And the laws vary greatly from state to state, she said.

In Louisiana, like many states, hazing is a misdemeanor, meaning a fine is a typical punishment if convicted.

“Clearly it’s a problem if you can’t even charge someone,” Pualwan said. “It’s hard to enforce it and send a strong message that this won’t be tolerated.”

In the LSU case, the negligent homicide charge is punishable by up to five years in prison if convicted. But hazing charges are hard to prosecute because it’s difficult to prove and, in some cases, the victim is blamed, experts said.

“It’s easy to say, ‘They just should’ve walked away,’ ” Pualwan said. “But when you’re in the moment and you want to be-

long, it’s very difficult to do.”

Gruver, 18, had an alcohol level of 0.495 percent — more than six times the legal limit for drivers — at the time of his death, the East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner’s Office said Wednesday. He died the morning after a suspected hazing incident at the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house, according to investigators.

“There’s no way he was capable of making his own decisions,” Nuwer said.

An autopsy determined Gruver died from acute alcohol intoxication with aspiration, the Coroner’s Office said. Preliminary tests showed a highly elevated alcohol level, and Gruver also had THC — the chemical found in marijuana — in his urine.

LSU President F. King Alexander suspended all Greek activities after Gruver’s death. The fraternity’s national headquarters also suspended the LSU chapter. Gruver’s family was informed of the investigation findings and charges.

“Today’s arrests underscore that the ramifications of hazing can be devastating,” Alexander said Wednesday in an emailed statement. “Maxwell Gruver’s family will mourn his loss for the rest of their lives, and several other students are now facing serious consequences — all due to a series of poor decisions.”

Gruver was a 2017 graduate of Blessed Trinity High School in Roswell and planned to study journalism at LSU. He loved sports and helped coach younger children, including his sister’s basketball team, according to his family. “Max was very lovable. He cared a lot about people,” Eugene Gruver, Max’s grandfather, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution the day after his death. “He was bright, he was intelligent. He was so talented. He knew all about sports.”

But what it will take to end hazing rituals, which involve alcohol a majority of the time? It’s crucial that education begin before students step foot on campus, Pualwan said. As early as middle school, students can be taught about the dangers of peer pressure and belonging to groups, she said.

Nuwer said a “dry” Greek system ultimately would help, but it isn’t a popular idea on campuses.

“This is a period where fraternities are under attack,” Nuwer said. “It’s got to go dry. Alcohol and hazing are synonymous.”

Florida school district blamed third-graders who were molested Scott Travis Sun Sentinel (TNS) For a dozen years, the Palm Beach County School District insisted that four third-grade girls bore the responsibility for allowing their teacher to molest them in 2005.

In court documents, the district said the children were old enough to know better than to listen to their teacher when he told them to fondle him.

That defense, made in response to a lawsuit from the girls’ families, had at least two Palm Beach County School Board members expressing outrage Wednesday.

“I don’t think a child can ever consent to being sexually abused,” said School Board member

Frank Barbieri, whose district includes Coral Sunset Elementary west of Boca, where the molestations took place. “The School Board never authorized such a defense.”

School Board member Erica Whitfield said she was told by district officials that the defense was a mistake.

The contention that the victims were responsible “is not how I personally feel and I don’t think that’s how the board feels,” she said.

It took 12 years for the district to decide whether it bore any responsibility in the child abuse case involving Blake Sinrod, a third-grade teacher at Coral Sunset Elementary.

He pleaded guilty to molesting two of the children

in 2006.

The district is now poised to pay $3.6 million to settle the lawsuit.

The defense was drafted by an outside law firm, not by district staff or School Board members, said Dale Friedman, an attorney with the Hollywood firm Conroy Simberg, which has worked on the case since 2006.

The defense centered on the contention the children were “old enough to appreciate the consequences of their actions,” the court documents stated.

That line of defense has been included since the lawsuit was first filed, Friedman said.

“We have never blamed

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program.

“The NFIP is simply not fiscally sustainable in its present form,” Budget Director Mick Mulvaney

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The Boy Scouts of America has announced it will admit girls into the Cub Scouts starting next year.

First came acceptance of gay and transgender Scouts; now girls can join Kurtis Lee Los Angeles Time (TNS) The Boy Scouts of America announced Wednesday that it will admit girls into the Cub Scouts starting next year and establish a new program for teenage girls, a move that marks a historic shift for the organization founded for young men more than a century ago.

Citing years of research and feedback from Scouts nationwide, officials from the group said that Cub Scout dens — the smallest unit — will be single-gender, either all boys or all girls. Cub Scout packs, which are larger and include a number of dens, will have the option to welcome both genders if they choose. The group’s board of directors voted unanimously in favor of the changes.

“This decision is true to the BSA’s mission and core values outlined in the Scout Oath and Law. The values of Scouting — trustworthy, loyal, helpful, kind, brave and reverent, for example — are important for both young men and women,” Michael Surbaugh, chief executive of the Boy Scouts of America, said in a statement.

“We believe it is critical to evolve how our programs meet the needs of families interested in positive and lifelong experiences for their children. We strive to bring what our organization does best — developing character and leadership for young people — to as many families and youth

as possible as we help shape the next generation of leaders,” he said.

The program for older girls is expected to start in 2019 and will enable girls to earn the coveted rank of Eagle Scout.

For decades, the Boy Scouts’ Explorer program has allowed limited participation by girls, but Wednesday’s announcement expands their involvement. Since 1971, the group has offered coed programs in exploring and venturing.

The shift by the Boy Scouts comes as the group has found itself embroiled in larger national debates about gender roles and sexual orientation. These debates, in turn, have led the Boy Scouts — which has about 2.3 million members — to examine long-held policies that date to its founding.

In August, Kathy Hopinkah Hannan, the president of the Girl Scouts, sent a letter to the Boy Scouts of America accusing the group of carrying out a “covert campaign to recruit girls into programs” in the hopes of bolstering declining membership. Hannan wrote that it was “reckless” and shortsighted in “thinking that running a program specifically tailored to boys can simply be translated to girls.”

On Wednesday, officials from the Girl Scouts did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Even so, an individual close to the Girl Scouts, who requested anonymity to speak freely about

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FEATURES

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Jonathan Garcia | Indiana State University

Jonathan Garcia | Indiana State University

From left, Indiana State students Kaitie Moore stars as Sissy and Tristan Crutchfield is Rory in the upcoming production of “A Piece of My Heart,” which runs Oct. 18-22 in Dreiser Theater.

From left, Indiana State University students Kaitie Moore stars as Sissy, Peighton Emmert is MaryJo, Morgan Vaclavik is Whitney and Jo Garcia-Reger is LeeAnn in the upcoming production of “A Piece of My Heart.”

Play to examine women’s roles in Vietnam War One of the nation’s most enduring theatrical productions about the Vietnam War will open Indiana State University’s department of theater 2017-18 production season on Oct. 18.

“A Piece of My Heart” is based on the true events of six women who served in Vietnam -- three nurses, a USO performer, a WAC intelligence specialist and a country-western singer. The play takes a look at the women’s lives before, during and after the war as they experience the best and the worst of times.

“There a lot of plays about the Vietnam War, but women in war is a perspective that isn’t explored,” said Julie Dixon, the play’s director and associate professor of theater at State. “I chose this play because I’m interested in women’s stories being told because they aren’t told enough. We want to show what the women in Vietnam

“The actors are in so many different places that they create the places and scenery with their words,” Dixon said. “You have to listen to the words or else you might not always understand where you are. The actors will describe their experiences in a way that the crowd can create their own visual of what is being described. The story is interesting enough for the crowd to be involved and pay attention to what is going on.”

Along with learning the script for the play, the actors also had to learn about the Vietnam War and what all it entailed.

“Over the summer, I gave my actors a list of things to watch and read to give them an understanding of what the war was about,” Dixon said. “We talked to women

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Artist of the week: Katelyn Moore

John Spicknall’s Jazz Piano Trio to perform Oct. 8 John Spicknall’s Jazz Piano Trio adds saxophonist Sam Fagaly to the band to perform “Jazz Standards Revisited” at 2 p.m. Oct. 8 on the Indiana State University campus.

The trio consists of pianist John Spicknall, bassist Joe Deal and drummer John DiCenso. These musicians began working on arrangements of “Great American Song Book” repertory and jazz standards more than ten years ago that continues to grow and develop. The band has often appeared backing up guest musicians at Indiana State including performances with Bobby Shew, Jim Ketch and Jim Perry.

The program will include both familiar standards as “Autumn in New York,” “Like Someone in Love, My Old Flame” and jazz compositions “Lament,” “Lady Luck” and Sam Jones’ “Bittersweet.”

The program will be held in the recently renamed Boyce Recital Hall of the Richard Landini Center for Fine and Performing Arts and is free and open to the public.

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went through.”

The adaptation of the play comes from “A Piece of My Heart,” a book written by Keith Walker. The play has received high praise from The New York Times and Variety. The Vietnam Veterans Association called it “the most enduring play on the Vietnam War.” “What makes this play enduring is that it encapsulates a whole experience,” Dixon said. “It’s not using Vietnam as a backdrop for a story. It is about Vietnam, the people who chose to go and why they chose to go, the different experiences they have while there and what they experience coming back. Other Vietnam plays fiddle with the truth, but this is a true story.”

“A Piece of My Heart” takes the audience on a journey through the Vietnam War with no representation of physical scenery on stage.

Alexandria Truby Reporter

The Talent This week’s artist of the week is actress Katelyn (Kate) Moore, a sophomore from Madison, Ind; she is a theater major with an acting concentration. In 8th grade Kate tried theater even though she was “never outgoing or good at talking in front of people.” After being in “Guys and Dolls,” this aspiring young actress “fell in love [with acting].”

The Transformation When she found her passion, speaking in first person, “I felt like a completely different person when I was onstage, and I felt like, quite literally, I could conquer the world.

I still feel that way today.” She credits some of her freshman year success in the ISU all female adaptations of “J. Caesar” to her director Julie Dixon.

Kate explained that the role of Brutus was “the hardest role [she has] ever played,” but with Julie’s help she learned to master her part. With opportunities like this under her belt, she feels that “ISU has been such an eye-opening experience so far for [her].” Another catalyst in this actress’s journey has been her involvement with the Crossroads Repertory Theatre over the summer in an ensemble of “Young Frankenstein.” She stated, “Working in a professional theater was amazing; I got the pleasure to not only meet but work with successful professionals who gave

me so much insight on the professional world of theater. It was so fun and educational to get an inside view on how a professional show works.”

The Upcoming Events Last year Kate was cast as Martha in “A Piece of My Heart,” a show that will be opening on ISU’s campus on Oct. 18 and run through Oct. 22. “A Piece of My Heart,” as Kate explained, is a story of six women who served in the Vietnam War, three nurses, a Red Cross girl, a United Service Organizations performer and a WAC Intelligence specialist. Martha is a Navy nurse who takes great pride in her country and is very strong and does her job as a Navy nurse with dedication and excitement. “Despite popular belief, theater is hard, and many, many hours go into these productions. With ‘A Piece of My Heart’, for example, we are in rehearsals for four hours a night, twenty hours a week, for six weeks.” That’s just the acting; on top of that, a whole crew working on different aspects of the show to bring it all together outside of rehearsal, working on things like lighting, stage setup, costumes, props, etc.

“We pour our lives into these shows to produce and run the best productions that we possibly can.

That’s why I’m so proud to be doing what I do. This is my life, and I pour every ounce of myself into my acting.”

Follow Kate on Instagram @katelynrmoore_ to follow her journey.

About the Artist: • Kate Moore is from Madison, Indiana.

• She has a passion for theater.

• Her next debut will be in “A Piece of My Heart” as Martha.

Photos courtesy of Kate Moore.

VIDEO GAME REVIEW: Pyre A.J. Goelz Reporter

“Bastion”, “Transistor” and now “Pyre”, these are all titles by the hit development studio Supergiant Games.

“Pyre”, released earlier this August, is set in a fictitious fantasy world in which, as opposed to jailing criminals, they are cast down to a place called the Downside. All crimes receive the same sentence, exile. The Downside is an area that has no escape that the founders of this society once found themselves. These founders, known as the Eight Scribes, found enlightenment in the Downside and when they emerged founded the society known as the Commonwealth.

The story begins with the player waking the Downside. At this time players are not aware of what crime they committed. The player’s character is rescued other exiles who are part of a triumvirate called the Nightwings. It is revealed that there is a way to escape the Downside and return to the Commonwealth. This is done by competing in Rites. The Rites are the process in which the members of the triumvirates attain enlight-

enment. The player is then revealed to be a reader. The Commonwealth outlawed reading, so finding a reader in the Downside is rare. The player’s job as the reader is to assist their allies in the Rites.

The Rites themselves are the sole aspect of gameplay in “Pyre”. The narrative and plot points are told in a way similar to that of a visual novel, meaning it is all text based. During the Rites, player’s control a team of three exiles. The goal is to take an orb from the center of the playing area and run into the opposing side’s pyre or throw it into the pyre while the other side attempts to stop the player. The game has been affectionately been called wizard basketball by some.

Each character on the field emits an aura. If a character moves into an opposing character’s aura they are banished and will return to play after a set time. Auras cannot defend characters when they are carrying the orb.

When a character is in possession of an orb their aura disappears leaving them vulnerable. This is where players’ strategy comes in. On each side, only one character can move at a time. This means that placement of the inactive characters is important.

Throughout the game, the Nightwings gather more

members for the player in their path to liberation. Eventually, the Nightwings benefactor is revealed. He explains to the Nightwings that they are pawns in a larger plan of his to fundamentally change the Commonwealth through revolution. Once players reach what seems to be the end of the game, it is learned that a Liberation Rite must be held to earn freedom. It is also revealed that only one exile may go free.

After completing the first Liberation Rite, the game picks up speed and really enters into its gameplay loop.

From here on players decide who they wish to face in the Rites and, depending who wins, shapes who they will face in the next Liberation Rite.

“Pyre” has an enjoyable if not slow story. It takes a while for the first gameplay loop to close then each subsequent trip through takes less time. This becomes repetitive near the end, but the gameplay of the Rites remains fun until the end.

“Pyre” is an interesting game that can keep players engaged all the way through its winding story. It is a slow burn but with entertaining gameplay, an amazing soundtrack and beautiful art style “Pyre” is a piece of art.

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Patriotism shouldn’t be measured by reverence for piece of cloth Mary C. Curtis

CQ-Roll Call (TNS)

Over the weekend, a group of white nationalists returned to Charlottesville, Va., faces proudly uncovered and tiki torches in hand, with a message of division.

White supremacist leader Richard Spencer said to applause, “You are going to have to get used to white identity” — and warned of more marches to come.

The story barely lasted one news cycle, perhaps because, this time, no one drove a car into a crowd of anti-hate counter-protesters and killed a woman.

What you have heard plenty about, the story that has made ripples and had serious repercussions, is Vice President Mike Pence’s staged walkout at a Colts-49ers NFL game in Indianapolis — a political stunt that cost the taxpayers plenty — because he disrespected several players’ support of equality, justice and police accountability.

And no matter the spin, that’s what the pregame protests have been about since former San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick consulted with military veteran Nate Boyer and decided to kneel silently (instead of sit) during the playing of the national anthem.

We also do a lot of kneeling out of respect and reverence in my Catholic church, but apparently Big Brother has decided standing is the thing.

Does that rule apply to the guy sneaking out to the concession stand for nachos, I wonder?

The culture war is in full swing, and our country’s top leaders have picked a side.

Never mind that recent events have reinforced the urgent need for attention on the relationship between law enforcement and the communities they are sworn to protect.

In St. Louis, former officer Jason Stockley was found not guilty of murdering an African-American man, after saying he would do just that on tape.

In Utah, the FBI has been asked to investigate the death of a black man shot by police after he rode his bicycle across lanes of traffic.

In Charlotte, where I live, debates and protest continue after a tape of a police shooting of a Hispanic man has raised questions.

In 2017, the sight of U.S. citizens, mostly African-American men, using their constitutional right to peacefully protest injustice cannot move the vice president — with orders from President Donald Trump — to passion, empathy or a plea for unity. But give Pence a chance to stop traffic and garner headlines and he’s there, hand over heart and ready for his close-up.

But of the white supremacists’ bold moves, Pence and Trump had nothing to say, in the same way Pence backed Trump’s comments that there were “very fine people on both sides” at the earlier deadly march.

Of course the president continued to double down on the tweets condemning NFL players this week, creating a distraction from war threats exchanged with North Korea, feuds with members of his own Cabinet and Republican legislators, and the continued suffering of citizens in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, recovering from hurricane damage. The gutting of clean energy and environmental protections continues under the radar while the country seems to be either on fire or underwater.

Unfortunately, this particular distraction is the point.

It’s the culture clash on steroids. When the president called protesting players profane things and got roaring cheers from an Alabama crowd, it recalled nothing so much as the state’s former governor George Wallace in his full-throated fury — until Wallace saw the light and reconciled with the minorities he once had damned.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and team owners, with one eye on the White House and the other on the bottom line, have gotten the message and, no surprise, have picked the side of power.

Could they be taking the title “owner” a mite too literally? If every player knelt to make the country and world take notice of racial inequality, would Jerry Jones of the Dallas Cow-

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OPINION

Friday, Oct. 13, 2017

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Trump tweet criticizes press Zach Davis Columnist

It’s been a bad week for free speech advocates as individuals in our government have repeatedly attacked those who use it. The constant attacks on the NFL players haven’t yet stopped, and now they’re coming for the press.

An NBC report claimed that Donald Trump wanted to increase spending on the United States’ nuclear arsenal to ten times what it is now. Naturally, that report could look bad since that would put us in severe risk of violating the nonproliferation agreements that began with Former President Ronald Regan, and protected by every administration since.

Trump, however, responded disproportionately to the story. On Wednesday he tweeted, “Fake @NBCNews made up a story that I wanted a ‘tenfold’ increase in our U.S. nuclear arsenal. Pure fiction, made up to demean. NBC = CNN!” He didn’t stop there, though, and later asked via Twitter “at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License,” adding that it is “Bad for [the] country!”

There is an easy answer for that question – never. NBC reported a story they managed to obtain. That is exactly their job. Even more, it is their right, guaranteed to them under the First Amend-

ment which states that “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.”

Challenging NBC’s license might not be Congress passing a law, but it is just as alarming. Freedom of press is guaranteed as a way to keep those in power honest. If we didn’t have a free press then we wouldn’t have heard about the Clinton scandal in the 90s, Benghazi or even Watergate. Recent coverage of Trump has been strongly critical, though, so Trump has been repeating “fake news” and lambasting the critical sources without regard of the truth.

Trump continued his threat Wednesday evening, but he broadened it to all news outlets. He tweeted, “Network news has become so partisan, distorted and fake that licenses must be challenged and, if appropriate, revoked. Not fair to public!”

It’s time we call out the elephant in the room: these are not the words of a U.S. president. They are the words of an authoritarian dictator. It’s made even worse when we see that history supports that theory.

Cuba, infamous for the dictator Fidel Castro, has been known around the world for their restrictions on the press.

His predecessor, Fulgencio Batista, used political corruption in the 1950s to win the national election, and then proceeded to prohibit “inflammatory material” from being published. This behavior led to him being overthrown so Castro could take over and continue the same practices in order to get away with horrible actions against his people.

Russia is necessary to mention since

they have had restrictions on the press almost since the inception of the Soviet Union. While they may have laws protecting a free press now, it is sometimes still questionable whether or not it is freely practiced.

Of course there was Hitler in the Third Reich who managed to take complete control of the press so he could quietly wipe out millions of people. And who can forget our friend Kim Jong-un who isolates his subjects in North Korea from the rest of the world so he can keep uncontested control over them.

All these regimes treated their constituents poorly, a couple of which have wiped out masses of people. It isn’t a good idea to take any pages out of their books, and it’s simply frightening that Trump is okay sounding like them. These principles don’t “make America great.” They spit in the face of the veterans who stormed Normandy to fight the Third Reich and all their horrible actions. They disgrace the men who were drafted to be killed in Vietnam because soviet communism scared us. Worst of all, they fall in line with leaders who took away the freedoms we are guaranteed in our Bill of Rights – the inalienable rights that our founding fathers risked their lives to guarantee to every American person.

“Fake news” might be bad for the country, but many things are worse.

Taking actions against people exercising their rights in an attempt to silence undesirable press is even worse for the country and all those in it. That is a true dishonor to the freedom we have and those who fight for it.

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The International Monetary Fund, echoing increasingly gloomy sentiment in Washington, has concluded that the Donald Trump administration and Congress probably won’t succeed in enacting tax reform or even significant tax cuts.

The Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee calls the White House “an adult day care center” and says he fears that the president’s reckless bluster may lead us into World War III. The president, meanwhile, says he wants to compare IQ test scores with his secretary of state.

Stock market investors do not appear to be worried about any of these things. The Dow Jones Industrial Average set a new closing record Tuesday. The Standard and Poor’s 500 Index and the Nasdaq Composite Index didn’t quite do that, but they did both close at all-time highs last week. The overall performance of the stock market so far in the Trump era — mea-

sured either from election or inauguration — is undeniably impressive. I briefly considered updating my exercise of two months ago, in which I considered stock market performance under every president since William McKinley, but it didn’t really seem worth the effort. Stocks have done well in the Trump era. Period.

So what are we to make of this juxtaposition between a seeming train wreck in Washington and a booming stock market? I’ll leave aside the possibility that stock market movements over a nine-to-11-month stretch are random and meaningless — not because it’s necessarily wrong but because there’s not a lot to say about it. Three other explanations spring to mind: Trump is actually doing a good job for investors. While the media and Washington fixate on every new outrage and absurdity emanating from the president’s Twitter feed, investors may be sifting out the noise and focusing on what’s actually happening. Environmental and financial regulations are being rolled back or delayed. The Supreme Court has kept its business-friendly majority. The president and

Republican congressional leaders have so far proved remarkably incapable of accomplishing anything legislatively, but hey, political gridlock sure was good for markets in the late 1990s.

It’s not about Trump, or even the U.S. The U.S. economy is continuing to grow at about the same slow pace it has for most of the now eight-year-long expansion, but economies elsewhere in the world are picking up speed. That same IMF World Economic Outlook report that discounted the chances of tax reform and predicted U.S. gross domestic product growth of just 2.2 percent in 2017 and 2.3 percent in 2018 upgraded global GDP growth estimates to 3.6 percent in 2017 and 3.7 percent in 2018.

The companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index got 43.2 percent of their earnings from outside the U.S. in 2016; that percentage will surely be higher this year, and it’s probably higher for the Dow companies, too. Recent analyses by the Wall Street Journal and ETF. com found that corporations with the highest foreign-earnings percentages are driving

the market’s gains. The “America first” president may be basking in a market boom driven mainly by overseas economic growth.

Markets are just wrong. One issue is that broad financial markets aren’t great at pricing tail risks (low-probability, high-impact events so named for their position on the tail of a statistical distribution). World War III would be a terrible thing, but the probability of it or some other market-crashing disaster happening is (1) small and (2) really hard to calculate. More generally, stock markets tend to overshoot, a phenomenon that Richard Thaler, awarded the Nobel prize in economics on Monday, played a key role in documenting.

At the annual meeting of the American Finance Association in 1984, Thaler and former student Werner De Bondt asked “Does the Stock Market Overreact?” They answered the question by assembling “winner” and “loser” portfolios of stocks that had performed especially well or poorly over 36-month periods,

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STOCK MARKET FROM PAGE 4 then examining their performance over the subsequent 36 months. The winners underperformed the market during the second period; the losers outperformed. Three years earlier, Robert Shiller (co-winner of the 2013 economics Nobel) had asked a similar question of the market as a whole — “Do Stock Prices Move Too Much to Be Justified by Subsequent Changes in Dividends?” — and also answered

CLOTH FROM PAGE 4 boys carry out his threat, get rid of “his” players and “buy” some new ones?

The Constitution’s First Amendment principles, ones generations of Americans of every color have fought and died for, apparently have limits. Conveniently, religious freedoms, as interpreted by the Jeff Sessions-led Justice Department, would allow employers, the government and business owners to discriminate against many LGBT citizens.

It’s easy to practice patriotism judged on reverence to a piece of cloth rather than taking a hard look at what the flag and anthem represent.

We owe the many who did that difficult, sometimes reviled work.

On Friday, one of those heroes, Fannie Lou Hamer, would have been 100 years old, a milestone that, unless I missed it, passed without a mention by a White House preoccupied with football players.

Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, as a senior member of the Congressional Black Caucus and a co-chairwoman of the Congressional Voting Rights Caucus, did remember, rising to recall the Mississippi-born icon, who made President Lyndon B. Johnson quake in her fight for the vote. She endured police beatings and countless indignities, though she never lost her own dignity.

“Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I’ll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom,” Jackson Lee quoted Hamer and then asked for a moment of silence.

That would be the cue for NFL commissioner Goodell, the league’s owners, Vice President Pence and President Trump to stand up.

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in the affirmative. In a 1989 essay titled “A Mean-Reverting Walk Down Wall Street,” De Bondt and Thaler cited numerous other studies that delivered evidence of overshooting and concluded that this appeared to refute the then-widely-held belief that “financial markets are ‘efficient’ and that the prices of securities in such markets are equal to their intrinsic values.” Decades of debate followed over what drives the overshooting, and I don’t think the matter will ever really be settled, but there is

PLAY FROM PAGE 3 who served in the Vietnam War as nurses to get a better feel for what that was like.”

The experience was a crash-course in U.S. history for Michelle Dabney, a theater major from Indianapolis.

“I learned a lot about the Vietnam War being in this play,” said Dabney, a junior. “I had no idea that vets were hated when they came back from the war. There was also a film and pho-

PR FROM PAGE 2 wrote in an Oct. 4 letter to congressional leaders, noting $16 billion in flood losses from this year’s storms.

Moreover, he warned, the flood insurance program’s administrator —the Federal Emergency Management Agency — would later this month exhaust its financial resources and tap out its $30.4 billion borrowing authority.

The letter proposed creating a means test to determine what homeowners would pay, which could mean subsidized policies for some and higher costs

SCOUTS FROM PAGE 2 these girls or given the appearance of holding the girls responsible for what their teacher did,” she said.

She said the defense is called “comparative negligence,” and it’s used in court filings before all the facts are known.

In February, after another brief in the case was filed, the school district hired a forensic psychologist to examine the victims. He concluded the former students, who are now adults, were telling the truth, Friedman said.

School police investigated Sinrod in 2005, when one of the girls told her

FL FROM PAGE 2 the group’s concerns, said that it believes the policy shift by the Boy Scouts is an effort to increase a membership that has declined by nearly a third since 2000.

Still, the move was widely viewed as long overdue and received praise.

Sydney Ireland, 16, who lives in New York City, is a member of Scouts Canada, which for several years has allowed girls. She started a change.org petition in

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tographs of the war that we watched and saw some of the things that were happening then.”

Not only has the cast worked hard rehearsing five days a week, four hours each night, but also they have put themselves in their characters’ shoes to deliver the full experience.

“It’s a compelling story, and the journey the students go on is pretty remarkable,” Dixon said.

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Still, those 10-year earnings currently include the terrible earnings years of the Great Recession, and even with that the cyclically adjusted P/E is way below that of the dot-com years. So, I really don’t know if the stock market is currently overshooting or not. Neither, by the way, does Thaler, who, when asked to explain the stock market’s run on Bloomberg Radio on Tuesday, said, “I don’t know where it’s coming from.”

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The administration also wants to open the door wider for private insurers to compete.

That’s something insurers have wanted, albeit with some caveats. They want to make the government primarily responsible for issuing policies in the highest risk areas, and for subsidizing policies for low-income homeowners.

Changes to the federal program in 2012 allowed some private insurers to compete with the federal program in zones where flood policies are mandatory. But banks that issue mortgages have been re-

luctant to veer away from the federal program.

“We don’t want to see it disappear,” Tom Santos, a vice president at the American Insurance Association, said of the federal flood insurance program.

The industry also wants to expand its offering of supplemental flood insurance policies to cover pricier properties that would exceed the maximum federal flood policy claim of $250,000.

In Puerto Rico, affordability is blamed for the small number of insured houses, especially for ramshackle wooden structures like those outside the cap-

ital of San Juan; they collapsed like toothpick toys when Maria swept in.

“Usually these properties are poorly built, not even up to code,” said Charles de Jesus Cruz, an architect.

But sturdier housing might not follow in Maria’s wake.

“The problem will be if FEMA comes in and gives them money. They’ll rebuild the same thing, and in a flood zone,” he said, raising a concern that comes up after practically every major storm.

Insurance industry analyst AIR Worldwide estimated that insured losses

in Puerto Rico, for federal and private flood and other policies, could run between $40 billion and $85 billion. Uninsured losses are far higher given the damage to roads, bridges, the power grid, the sanitation system and lost tourism revenue.

The Trump administration on Tuesday asked Congress to make a $4.9 billion low-interest loan to Puerto Rico for immediate recovery efforts, and asked government agencies to provide an estimate, by Oct. 25, of long-term costs expected for the commonwealth’s recovery.

mother that the teacher had fondled her during a reading group. The girl said he touched her under her clothing and instructed her to touch his private area over his clothing, according to a police report.

The three other girls painted similar pictures to police. They described Sinrold inappropriately touching them during a reading group or classroom movie. Some of the girls said they gave him neck rubs, and some said Sinrod instructed them to place their hand on his genital area outside his clothes, according to a police report.

The parents of the four

children filed a civil suit in 2006. Their lawyer at the time, Charles Bechert, said then that the parents believed Sinrod targeted the children because they were immigrants whose parents may not have known how to report crimes to authorities.

Sinrod was fired in 2006 and his teaching license was revoked in 2008.

The case has gone through several amendments and appeals since then. The School Board is expected to approve the $3.6 million settlement on Oct. 18. The amount was negotiated during mediation, said Marc Wites, their current lawyer.

“I would say the girls and their families are relieved that this case is over,” Wites said. “Although they will be unhappy this case is in the news again, they hope the publication of the story will put parents and teachers and students on alert.

One would think a school would be a place where children could be safe but unforgettably that’s not always the case.”

School police determined there was enough evidence to charge Sinrod in all four cases, although the state attorney’s office disagreed and pursued only allegations involving two of the girls. Sinrod pleaded guilty to the child

abuse charges but adjudication was withheld after he met conditions of his probation, according to court records.

As part of its defense against the lawsuit, the district argued that Sinrod’s actions were “unknown and beyond the foresight of reasonably prudent persons.”

However, the parents’ lawsuit says another parent had complained to a Coral Sunset assistant principal in 2003 about a similar incident involving a second-grade girl.

2015, calling on the Boy Scouts to allow her to enroll. To date, it’s attracted nearly 9,000 supporters.

“This change is amazing … it really is,” Sydney said. “People ask, ‘Why as a girl do you want to be a Boy Scout?’ I say because Girl Scouts don’t offer all the programs that the Boy Scouts do. … I just have an interest in the different programs that the Boy Scouts offer.”

The Boy Scouts of America, founded in 1910 for

boys and their male leaders, focuses on promoting responsibility through an array of outdoor activities and educational opportunities.

In the 1980s, Catherine Pollard, a mother from Milford, Conn., sued the group to overturn the ban against female Scoutmasters, alleging it violated sex discrimination laws.

The lengthy legal proceedings — which went on for nearly a decade — drew international attention,

and courts ultimately sided with the Boy Scouts.

More recently, the Boy Scouts have offered entry to new members who had previously been banned based on decades-old policies.

In 2010, the group’s executive board began what would become a two-year review of its policy on gays.

Three years later, as the group faced criticism from lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights groups, the Boy Scouts formally

announced an end to its ban on gay Scouts.

And in January, the Boy Scouts announced that it would allow transgender children who identify as boys to enroll in its boys-only programs. At the time, Surbaugh said, “communities and state laws are now interpreting gender identity differently than society did in the past,” which is reflected in the group’s reasoning for the change.

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Blanca Saez-Illobre, a sophomore breast stroke swimmer. ISU swimming and diving compete this weekend.

Indiana State travels to Illinois then hosts Xavier and Olivet-Nazarene Kate Johnson

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Indiana State swimming and diving will open this weekend of competition with an away meet vs. Illinois on Oct. 13 at 5 p.m. and then return home to host Xavier and Olivet-Nazarene on Oct. 14 at 2 p.m. inside the Vigo County Aquatic Center.

The Sycamores are coming off yet another heavy travel weekend after competing in the Notre Dame Relays on Oct. 6 and then turning around and heading to Chicago to take on the UIC Flames on

Oct. 7.

Indiana State continued to work on swimming while tired in order to properly prepare the young squad for the Missouri Valley Conference meet in February.

At the Notre Dame Relay meet, ISU placed fourth after swimming strong in the non-traditional events that took place.

Indiana State struggled to match the pace of their tough competition throughout the meet.

The Sycamores started off the day with a fifth place finish in the 100 yard butterfly relay as Martina Marks, Jacquie Price and Megan Schade posted a time of 2:57.86.

Indiana State picked up the pace in their second event of the day as Kendall Hansen, Marlene Pavlu Lewin and Madison Brand posted a fourth place finish in the 100-yard backstroke relay.

The Sycamores finished fourth on the day with Oakland narrowly edging into third place.

On Oct. 7, Indiana State traveled to Chicago, Ill. to take on the Flames of UIC. ISU started out slow and fell victim to the soreness of multiple days of rigorous training. After the first few events, the Sycamores picked up the pace and made some headway in the meet.

Ultimately ISU fell to the Flames 177121.

The Sycamores will now take on Big Ten conference member University of Illinois on Oct. 13 at 5 p.m. Indiana State will look to improve on their result from last season where they fell to the Illini 184-77.

Indiana State will then host their first official home meet of the 2017-2018 season on Oct. 14 as they welcome Xavier and Olivet-Nazarene to the Vigo County Aquatic Center at 2 p.m.

Football takes on S. Dakota ISU soccer team looking to break Ciara Lebron Reporter

This upcoming weekend Indiana State University football will be heading down to Vermillion, S.D. to face University of South Dakota at 3 p.m. this Saturday. Indiana State is looking for their first win for the season and for the conference.

Indiana State has been struggling and fighting to earn a win this season. They are looking to play a hard game against South Dakota, who is currently undefeated in their season so far this year.

Last weekend South Dakota played a tight game against Youngstown and earned the win 31-28. In the last seven seconds, Ryan Weese kicked a field goal to give South Dakota the win over Youngstown.

Taylor Lambert was a big help in keeping this win by sacking the quarterback on the last play to end the game.

Chris Streveler, the quarterback from South Dakota, is the player to watch this Saturday. He transferred to University of South Dakota last season from Minnesota. This season, he was named one of the five captains by his teammates.

Streveler has been awarded multiple awards last season for his outstanding performance. He was the first player in five seasons to be named MVFC Newcomer of the year. He finished fourth in the nation in points responsible per game at 18.6.

Chris is also smart, which earned him MVFC Commissioner’s Academic Award and MVFC Conference Honor Roll.

This past weekend Indiana State had a tough loss against North Dakota with a score of 52-0 at their home field, here at

ISU. North Dakota improved their record to 5-0 to remain undefeated in their 2017 season. Bob Pugh and KeAaris Ardley were the leading performers for this game with receiving the ball and having the top tackles.

Indiana State had possession in the beginning of the game and then lost it after not being able to make a play to get a touchdown. North Dakota took over and made sure they didn’t lose their energy. Indiana State looks forward to change things up this weekend against South Dakota.

The player to keep an eye for is Isaac Harker, a redshirt junior quarterback. He has made terrific plays and earned multiple awards, such as Honorable Mention All-MVFC. Last year he also won training camp QB and was 4th in MVFC in passing. Harker also earned Second-Team MVFC All-Academic.

The team’s expectation is to come out with a win on Saturday no matter what record the other team has. They have to execute as a whole to accomplish the task at hand.

Adrian Butler, a junior defensive tackle for Indiana State stated that his goals in this game coming up is just to make plays in the framework of the defense. He will just do his job and all else will fall into place knowing that all 11 players on the field will do theirs.

Indiana State doesn’t plan to change up anything to earn a win this Saturday.

It’s going to be a challenge just like every other week in the MVFC, but they are just looking to be 1-0 every day and on game day because their preparation never stops.

Kickoff will be at 3 p.m.

three-game skid against Redbirds Ciara Lebron Reporter

The Indiana State Sycamore volleyball team came into last weekend looking to prove themselves and compete against two tough in-conference opponents on their own home court.

The team competed but failed to obtain a victory this weekend, losing to the ranked Northern Iowa Panthers and the Drake Bulldogs. Although the Sycamores stayed competitive throughout the game against the Panthers Friday, they couldn’t get a consistent rhythm going.

Each set started off with both teams exchanging blows, but the Panthers frequently capitalized off of the Sycamores’ mistakes and used them to maintain a steady lead throughout the day. The Northern Iowa Panthers would eventually end up sweeping the Indiana State Sycamores 3-0 (25-15, 25-17, 25-20). Junior outside hitter Bri Weber led the way for the Panthers, finishing the game with 20 kills at an efficient .514 percentage. Redshirt senior setter Heather Hook finished the game with 39 assists to go along with nine digs. The Panthers also got solid contributions from junior middle hitter Piper Thomas (12 kills) and sophomore outside hitter Karlie Taylor (11 kills). For the Sycamores, sophomore middle blocker Damadj Johnson led the team with 10 kills while also coming up with one dig and one block. Senior setter Rachel Griffin finished the game with two kills and one block while also leading the team with 29 assists. The Sycamores also got solid contributions from Sarah Peterson (6 kills, 5 digs), Laura Gross (5 kills, 10 digs) Cassie Kawa (5 kills), and Nikkie White (4 kills).

With the loss, Indiana State falls to 5-12 (3-2 in the MVC) on the season while Northern Iowa improves to 15-4 (5-0 in the MVC).

The Sycamores stayed home Saturday to compete against the Drake University Bulldogs. The Bulldogs came into the game already on fire with a nine-game winning streak, and were looking to continue that streak on the road against the Sycamores. Although the Sycamores stayed competitive, they again couldn’t get anything consistent going on offense.

The Indiana State Sycamores ended up getting swept by the Drake University

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Katie Wells (5), junior forward, goes against a Missouri State player.

Bulldogs 3-0 (25-23, 25-18, 25-18). Cathryn Cheek led the Bulldogs in Kills with 11, Paige Aspinwall led the team in assists with 26, and Kyla Inderski led the team in digs with 16.

Sarah Peterson led the Sycamores in kills with 13, Rachel Griffin led the team in assists with 28, and Stephanie Bindernagel led the team in digs with 17. The Bulldogs upped their winning streak to 10 and improved to 17-3 (6-0 in the MVC) on the season, while the Sycamores fall to 5-13 (3-3 in the MVC) on the season.