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Thursday, January 24, 2013
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Young professionals give the chance to network, showcase
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By ARIANA BEEDIEStaff writer
People carrying guns on campus could be a re-ality if a piece of proposed Indiana legislation is passed.
Indiana Senate Bill 0097 would allow the “pos-session and transportation” of weapons on state properties including state-funded universities and is up for consideration. If passed, all former uni-versity policies saying guns can’t be on campus would be null and void after July 1.
Bill author and Senator Jim Banks (R) said he had students in mind while drafting the bill. Banks said the bill “isn’t radical” and that Wisconsin has passed similar bills.
Last year Wisconsin legalized concealed carry at the same time University of Wisconsin-Madison banned guns on campus. The state legislation over-rode the university’s policy.
The Indiana bill “prohibits a state agency from regulating the possession or transportation of fire-arms.”
The idea wasn’t created in the Senate but was created by a group of Indiana University students who wanted to express their right to protection.
“The students wrote the legislation,” Banks said. “I introduced it on their behalf.”
Crayle Vanest, a member of IU’s Students for Concealed Carry (SCC) said there were collective concerns about personal safety on campus.
“The university controls what we can carry, when we have the right to have protection,” Vanest said. “Banks has worked with us on this and been behind us for almost three years.”
SCC is a national organization composed of stu-dents, faculty and citizens from across the country that feel “holders of state-issued concealed hand-gun licenses should be allowed the same measure of personal protection on college campuses”.
USI does not have a branch of this organization. The current policy prohibits the “transfer, sale, use of, possession of weapons.” If the bill is passed, the university’s policy would be amended.
“Anytime a new law is passed, the university re-views such law and related university policies that may need to be revised for us to be in compliance,” said Dean of Students Angela Batista.
“It’s my responsibility to work with colleagues and university administration to ensure that we are in compliance with any legal requirement, but al-ways ensuring the utmost physical and emotional safety of the USI community,” she said.
French major Nathan Miller feels students are not ready to carry weapons.
“Young adults are more likely to get into argu-ments where the result could be the pulling of a weapon, and that’s not okay,” he said.
By JESSICA STALLINGS Staff writer
Susan Taylor said if she had the chance to meet Martin Luther King Jr., she would apologize for not keeping his dream alive.
Students and citizens of the community gathered in Carter Hall to celebrate King’s birthday during USI’s annual memorial luncheon Monday.
“I am so sorry for what my generation has al-lowed,” Taylor said to the crowd. “I’m so sorry that
we dropped the baton.”Taylor, the fashion and
beauty editor, editor-in-chief and editorial director for Essence magazine, the recipient of the NAACP President’s Award for vi-sionary leadership, hon-orary degree holder and author of four books, was chosen as this year’s MLK luncheon speaker.
She spoke about chal-lenges young people face today.
Taylor said 86 percent of black fourth graders are reading below grade level and the percentage only
keeps getting higher.“Our privilege is not
just for us; our education is not just for us,” she said. “It’s a weapon that we have to use for social jus-tice. I want to say ‘Amer-ica, the beautiful.’ I really do, but we are not.”
Taylor founded the National Cares Mentor-ing Movement in 2006, a campaign which recruits adults to help children in need and get them on their feet.
The movement’s goals are to increase high school
By JAMES VAUGHNStaff writer
Entrepreneurs, designers, marketers and prod-uct managers will take their ideas to the stage in the Business and Engineering Center during Evansville’s Startup Weekend Feb. 22.
Individuals from the community, including students, will have 54 hours to share ideas, form teams, build products and launch startups begin-ning Friday evening and continuing through Sun-day morning.
The groups will spend the weekend devel-oping a 60-sec-ond pitch.
This is the sec-ond year in a row USI has hosted the event.
Business in-structor Bryan Bourdeau said the event offers individuals great exposure.
“If it shows visibility, it has plausibility,” Bourdeau said.
The first one was a success and offered a wide range of expertise, he said.
“You can spend a day, a week, a year or how-ever long on a project,” Bourdeau said. “But noth-ing is truly innovative until it is touched, smelled, experienced.”
Startup Weekend
When: Feb. 22-24
Time: 6 p.m.
Where: Business and Engineering Center
Cost: $25 for students and $40 for Evansville community members
START UP on Pg. 3
MLK SPEAKER on Pg. 4
Susan Taylor speaking during the Martin Luther King Luncheon on Monday. Taylor founded the National Cares Mentoring Movement in 2006, a campaign which recruits adults to help children in need.
Photo by JIMMY PYLES/The Shield
Top: Student Bashar Esteitien presents the pitch for his app at last year’s startup weekend. Middle: Collaborating, a group of students, work on developing their 60-second pitch. Bottom: Participate sit and listen to the opening presentation of Startup Weekend.
Photo courtesy of PHOTO SERVICES
Indiana bill could keep
schools from banning guns
“I’m sorry for what my generation has allowed” MLK luncheon speaker apologizes for tolerating injustice
Men’s basketball recap on pg. 7Professor obtain patent pg. 4
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By JAMES VAUGHNStaff writer
With a fl u outbreak sweeping the nation, university of-fi cials are urging students to take necessary precautions to prevent it from happening on campus.
Dean of Students Angela Batista sent an email to fac-ulty and students Wednesday welcoming everyone back for the spring semester and provided a list of tips to avoid “an anticipated busy fl u season.”
“At this point, we haven’t had any offi cial meetings about it,” Batista said. “But we are monitoring our stu-dents and we haven’t seen anything that would require us to take that kind of approach at this point.”
The list of tips included washing your hands often, avoiding close contact with sick people and avoiding hand-to-face contact.
“If a student gets sick, they should go to the Health Center and get tested because there are different strings of the virus that are happening across the country,” Ba-tista said.
The most important thing to do is get a fl u shot, she said.
“There is still time to do that and we encourage our students to do it,” Batista said.
Sophomore public relations major Ashley Knight said she’s worried because the number of deaths continue to add up every day.
“I think it would be diffi cult for USI to do anything preventative like require everyone to get the vaccine,” Knight said. “But I think they need to enforce something with faculty to keep students with the fl u out of the class-room to prevent further spread of it.”
She opted to get the nasal vaccine, which is a fl u vac-cination, but not a shot.
“I’m not one to typically get the vaccine, or the fl u for that matter, but this year I just had this pit feeling about needing to get it,” she said.
Local pharmacies, such as CVS and Walgreens, are running low on vaccinations.
The Walgreens on St. Joseph Avenue was out for four
or fi ve days last week.The need was so high they had to get a different manu-
facturer in order to keep up.Pharmacist Artie Gateway said they are seeing 15 to
20 patients per day, up from the average of two peopleper day.
Both Walgreens and CVS accept health insurance.Without insurance, the cost for a fl u shot is $31.99.Students can also receive vaccinations at the Student
Health Center.If they have an offi ce visit plan, it’s free. If not, it’s
$20.Health Center Practice Manager Matt Winegar said
there has been an increase in students wanting the vac-cination.
“We’ve got plenty,” he said. “We get shipments infrom Deaconess (Hospital).”
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News BriefsFraternity to host Lego Build-off
Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity will host a Lego Build-off on Saturday, Feb. 2. Registration opens at 1 p.m., and the building will start at 1:30 p.m. Judg-ing will begin at 4:30, and the winners will win a Lego trophy.
Participants must bring their own Legos, and all Legos will be donated to the Dream Center for chil-dren in Evansville.
Running series kicks off USI will kick off its Romain Subaru Screaming
Eagles Running Series on Feb. 9 with the Romain Subaru Hearts on Fire 5K. It will began at 9 a.m. Registration is available online or the day of the event. The cost for a single race is $20 in advance or $25 the day of. Registration for all three races is $55. For more information or to register or volun-teer for an event, visit usi.edu/running or contact Bower by email at [email protected] or by phone at 812/465-1265.
NewsPage 3 - The Shield - January 24, 2013
START UP continued from Pg. 1
Symptoms: • High fever (100-102 degrees F); lasts three to
four days• Prominent headache • General aches and pains; often severe• Fatigue, weakness; often severe• Extreme exhaustion• Chest discomfort, cough; can become severe• Sometimes included a stuffy nose, sneezing,
sore throat
Possible complications: Bronchitis, pneumo-nia; can be life threatening
Prevention: Annual fl u shot or FluMist
Treatment: Antiviral drugs within 24-48 hours of onset
If you get sick: Visit the Health Clinic as soon as possible to get tested.
Flu 101: What you need to know
Shot or dieUSI urges students to avoid fl u outbreak
By JAMES VAUGHNStaff writer
Advising centers are up and running this semester in both the Pott College of Science, Engineering and Education and the College of Nursing and Health Professions.
The centers have been available to students since August and in the actual facility on the third fl oor of the Health Professions building since December, Pott College’s advising center is located on the third fl oor of the Educa-tion building.
Sarah Stevens, Director of Advising in the College of Nursing and Health Professions, loves the new facilities, she said.
“We’ve got beautiful windows that let in amaz-ing light,
“We tried to pick out some really nice and in-viting furniture,” Stevens said. “We want it to be a place where students can walk in and feel at home.”
For example, offi ce desks are cornered so that when an adviser is speak-ing with a student, they don’t have a barrier be-
tween them.The advisers want the
center to be a student-focused, student-friendly space that revolves around student needs, she said.
The College of Nursing and Health Profession’s center currently employs two full-time advisers and one part-time adviser.
Stevens said she knows the center will be busy because during priority registration in November, students went out of their way to fi nd the advisers for consultation.
The advising center in the College of Nursing and Health Professions saw 1,104 students during the Fall semester.
Before the advising cen-ters opened, all students had been assigned to a fac-ulty adviser.
Stevens said even though the faculty mem-bers make wonderful ad-visers, they have many other responsibilities and don’t always have the availability to be fl exible.
She doesn’t want stu-dents to feel like the advis-ers are only there to dis-cuss their schedules.
“I think students often
think we’re just here to tell them what class to take next and we’re not,” Ste-vens said. “We can offer a lot more than that.”
Advisers can offer stu-dents tips on being suc-cessful, from where to fi nd tutoring services to study skills, she said.
“Even if it’s just to talk about fi nancial aid or may-be a student is really de-pressed and doesn’t know where to turn to, we’re there,” Stevens said. “We want to be that fi rst point of contact. We’re kind of a one-stop shop.”
The advising centers are still transitioning. Students who had a faculty adviser will continue their college career under that guidance.
Students who entered the university this spring and students who enter the college from now on will be assigned to the advising center. Junior dental assist-ing major Gabrielle Tiggs has taken advantage of the advising center quite a bit, she said.
She said she went in at the beginning of the se-mester to get advice about taking some courses at Ivy Tech and making sure all
of the credits would trans-fer back to USI.
“The adviser did not have all of the answers to my questions at the time, but she always kept in con-tact with me,” Tiggs said. “She emailed me with new information and made sure I was doing all right in the courses I had registered for this semester.”
She said the advising center is a very comforting environment.
“I would defi nitely rec-ommend (that) everyone go because they have al-ways pointed me in the right direction,” Tiggs said.
Elizabeth Daake, Pott College of Science, En-gineering and Education representative for the Student Government As-sociation (SGA), said the advising center is plans to offer advising and have materials available to stu-dents taking the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), Dental Admis-sion Test (DAT) and other pre-professional exams.
Advising centers in the College of Business and the College of Liberal Arts will open in the fall.
Advising centers help students, take load from dept. faculty advisers
Two members of a team work on a logo design for their pitch during last year’s Starup Weekend.
Photo courtesy of PHOTO SERVICES
If the event can produce just one or two businesses, then it’s worth it, he said.
Senior advertising ma-jor Neil Kassinger decided to participate in the event last year as a trial run.
He said he wanted to know if people would be interested in the product that he pitched.
His group was one of the fi nal nine.
“While I didn’t win, I did meet many business men and women from the community that I was able to network with,” Kass-inger said.
He will vote as part of the audience Friday eve-ning. He plans to attend the fi nal presentations on Sun-day to see how far the proj-ects have come, he said.
“I would advise those who pitch ideas to make it relevant to a mass audi-ence and to engage their audience when doing so,” Kassinger said.
Anyone who wants to participate can regis-ter online at evansville.startupweekend.org. There is a fee of either $25 or $40 depending on what the par-ticipant would like to do.
Life & Culture Page 4 - The Shield - January 12, 2012
Professor combines past, future technologyBy ROBERTO CAMPOS Staff writer
Paul Kuban, engineering associate pro-fessor at USI, recently obtained a patent for the technology he created in 2004 to at-tain his doctorate degree in computer sci-ence and engineering. He had envisioned making an interface that would integrate the Controller Area Network (CAN) wired network with the ZigBee Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN).
Nearly a decade later Kuban has at-tained a patent over such a device that he calls the CAN-Bee and seeks to license his device to interested companies.
“CAN-Bee is a gateway between the CAN wired network and the ZigBee wire-less network,” Kuban said. “Many de-vices, for instance, like in the automotive world, require the use of a wired network. The CAN-Bee interface could remove the wired network and allow those devices to operate using a wireless network.”
The patent that was issued to Kuban in August of 2011 allows him to have exclu-sive rights to the technology that he has created.
“A real-world application of this inter-face in the medical fi eld could be a case where someone is in bad shape,” Kuban said. “This person would be hooked up with wires to a lot of different machines and if staff needed to move that patient to the operating room they would have to disconnect those devices then reconnect them.
“This patient would go unmonitored, but with the CAN-Bee we could eas-ily adapt this technology to that situation where the person could be monitored with a wireless transmitter,” he said.
From 2004 to 2007, Kuban worked on getting his idea off paper and onto a working prototype. In 2007, after devel-oping several prototypes, Kuban enlisted the services of several organizations and fi rms to help issue a patent for his CAN-Bee technology.
“It was a pretty extensive procedure to go through the patenting of the de-vice,” Kuban said. “A lot of people were
involved: USI’s Center for Applied Re-search, Indiana University Research Technology Corporation, and Barnes and Thornberg, who are in the top three intel-lectual property law fi rms.”
“From the beginning I wanted to make this into something that could work,” Kuban said. “I’m not the kind of person that would have been satisfi ed with a pa-per version of the CAN-Bee.”
The CAN-Bee interface is a combina-
tion of the past and the future. CAN has been used since the 1980s in the automo-tive industry, while ZigBee WPAN has recently been adopted as a standard with the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Recently Kuban has been working to create interest in the CAN-Bee and try to show his working prototype to interested parties.
“Looking past the patent, there’s still a
lot of work to be done because you haveto get the business community ... awarethat you have this technology available,”Kuban said. “It’s something you have to do before it becomes obsolete because,like with most electronic things, they’rethe greatest thing and then two years laterthey’re gone.”
To help create interest and market his technology, Kuban investigated several patent brokerage fi rms and settled on a fi rm called Adapt IP Ventures.
“In the beginning I wanted to come up with a novel idea to earn my doctorate, so I’m pleasantly surprised that this could besomething that could be a commercially viable product,” Kuban said. “It’s been a real fun hobby coming up with the hard-ware and the software, but it’s also been quite a learning experience, as well, in terms of the business side, to go from anidea to a real product.”
Several options are available to Kuban as he moves forward with his patentedCAN-Bee. He has already begun to toywith new ways to use the interface, in-cluding being able to use Andriod Tablets to control it.
“Everything in terms of the future of the CAN-Bee depends on interest fromcompanies that want to license it,” Kuban said. “There could be individual per-unitlicenses, one big exclusive license or a sale of the license if someone wants tobuy it outright.”
“Ideally what I would like to see hap-pen is to see a steady income stream from the royalties produced from the CAN-Bee,” he said.
Having a working prototype is some-thing that Kuban advises for anyone who has the next brilliant idea.
“It’s always the fi rst question asked of anyone who has expressed interest inthe CAN-Bee - ‘Do you have a working prototype?’” Kuban said. “If you have a good idea that you want to get out there,you can’t get very far with a paper design or a poster. You have to implement the technology and have something physicaland real that you can show potential in-vestors.”
Photo by ROBERTO CAMPOS/The ShieldPaul Kuban the creator of the CAN-bee explains how his invention works. Kuban has attained a patent and is seeking to license his device to interested companies.
MLK LUNCHEON continued from Pg. 1
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How it’s usedIn the hospital, patients are
monitored by and hooked up to different machines, which can pose a problem if staff needs to move that patient to the operating room. Normally, they would have to disconnect the machines and then reconnect them, leaving the patient unmonitored. But with the CAN-Bee, they can monitor the patient with a wireless transmitter.
graduation rates among African American students, end the vio-lence within Black communities and stop the “over incarceration” of young people.
“Mentoring is a low cost, high results way of reshaping lives,” Taylor said. “Even with the most challenging people.”
Student Government Association (SGA) President Sarah Krampe said there is much to learn from King.
“Dr. King impacted this na-tion in so many ways during his lifetime,”Krampe said. “But the quality I most admire in Dr. King was his courage to challenge what was unpopular in pursuit of what was right.”
She said standing for what one believes in is important.
“To stand up for what is right to-day, not knowing what the outcome will be, takes an amazing amount of courage,” said Krampe.
Black Student Union President Kurtis Kelley said things can al-ways change for the better.
“It doesn’t matter what race, I feel like there is a lot of improve-ments we need to make,” Kelley said. “[Taylor’s] call to action is re-ally important and hopefully it in-spires people to take it up.”
Kelley himself tries to make a difference.
“I work at the Boys and Girls
club, and we always take volun-teers,” said Kelley. “Anywhere where you can see that you can make a difference, do it.”
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana Sue Ellspermann was in attendance and said everyone can play a role in helping young people.
“We all are responsible,” she said “We all can play a role with young people mentoring and making op-portunities and helping.”
She said America still has prog-ress to make.
“We are not there yet,” she said. “We still have a long way to go to make sure every child, every young adult can live to their aspirations and have those opportunities,” said Ellspermann. “We need to keep working.”
Taylor was the fi rst and only Af-rican American woman to be rec-ognized by the Magazine Publish-ers of America and the fi rst to be inducted into the American Society of Magazine Editors Hall of Fame. Taylor authored for 27 years one of the magazine’s most popular col-umns known as “In the Spirt.”
During the luncheon entertain-ment was provided by Designed by Grace, Zion Missionary Baptist Church Praise Dancers and Chil-dren’s Center for Dance Educa-tions. Following the key speaker was a performance by Amadeus Percussions.
Life & CulturePage 5 - The Shield - January 12, 2012
By SHANNON HALLLife and Culture editor
For the fi rst time, Frank-lin Street will have a Mar-di Gras Crawl beginning at 6 p.m. Feb. 8.
“We all know that our beloved Evansville street is not being utilized to its potential,”said Leah Spivey, co-founder of the Franklin Street Events As-sociation.
Spivey, who is Tin Man’s social media and marketing director, joined together with Amy Word, Fred Hildenbrand and John Bugg - all Franklin Street business representa-tives - to form the Franklin Street Events Association approximately a month
ago.Businesses who par-
ticipate in the Mardi Gras Crawl will hand out beads to people who check in to the businesses’ page on so-cial media, buy a product, write a recommendation or comment on the website.
“The beads are mostly to get people into businesses they normally wouldn’t go to,” Spivey said.
The person with the most beads or with beads from all the businesses will have his or her name put in for a drawing to re-ceive a basket of gift cards from the Franklin Street businesses.
Mighty Cab is one of the sponsors of the Mardi Gras Crawl and will have
shuttles running through-out the night, Spivey said.
According to the Frank-lin Street Events Asso-ciation’s website, the goal of the association is to improve the life of small businesses on Franklin Street and “bridge the gap between public and private concerns.”
Fred Hildenbrand, man-ager of Winzerwald Win-ery’s Evansville Tasting Room, said the relation-ship between the Frank-lin Street Events Asso-ciation’s co-founders has been a long-standing one.
“We came together with good energy of one of the best places to be in the Tri-State, and we wanted to showcase what we have to
offer,” he said.He said Friday is the
last day for businesses to sign up as sponsors.
So far 41 businesses are sponsoring the Mardi Gras Crawl, with around 15 businesses handing out beads.
For the public to par-ticipate, they will have to buy a $10 T-shirt with an armband included, Hilden-brand said.
The armband allows the public to get into the busi-nesses.
Hildenbrand said the bars have put on a bar crawl before, but this is the biggest crawl yet that will include so many busi-nesses on the street.
“Les Miserables”
The musical-turned-movie “Les Mis-erables” hyped up moviegoers across the country. With top-notch actors and ac-tresses like Hugh Jackman, Anne Hatha-way, Russell Crowe and Helena Bonham Carter, the movie was bound for great things. The movie is a constant chase be-tween Jean Valjean (Jackman) and Javert (Crowe). The two cross paths more than a hooker and her corner.
Jean Valjean transforms himself from a slave into someone who is noble. He takes care of a child that is not his and protects her with all he can, only to leave at a mo-ment’s notice.
Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen - a married couple in the movie - bring the comic relief. Never had I heard so many old ladies laugh at such raunchiness. The time elapsed in the movie spans roughly two decades, ending up at the restoration of the French Revolution.
The ending is the best part because a war is going on, along with fi ghting and tragic death. The music goes so well with
the scenes.According
to the Internet Movie Data-base, all the songs were re-corded live on set, which is odd for a mov-ie. Usually movies record the music for the soundtrack and the actors lip sync.
Musicals are fi ne and dandy, but themajority of the ones I’ve seen usuallyhave “normal” moments without constantsongs. This movie is nothing but singing,though, which makes it awkward for mein some scenes, because whispering andsinging feels painful to me.
Rating: 3.5/5
By SHANNON HALL, Life and Culture editor
“Django Unchained”
Fans of movies like “Pulp Fic-tion,” “Reservoir Dogs” or “Inglorious Basterds” knew a bit of what to expect from Quentin Tarantino’s new movie, “Django Unchained.’’
However, I was much more anxious and anticipatory of the highly-praised and long-awaited fi lm, given that I didn’t know exactly where to set my expectations. The ultra-violent revenge fantasy (spoofi ng a western) might not be everybody’s cup of tea, but it was most certainly mine.
Regrettably, I’ll admit I’ve never really given Tarantino that much of a chance.
So for me, this movie was a great entry into his work. The movie follows a slave named Django (Jamie Foxx) and a bounty hunter (Christolph Waltz) on their quest to retrieve Django’s long-lost wife from a malicious plantation owner and tyrant (Leonardo DiCaprio).
Great performances from Foxx, Waltz, DiCaprio and Samuel L. Jackson really enhance the movie’s intrigue. Waltz went on to win an award at the Golden Globes
for Best Sup-porting Actor for his role as Dr. Schultz.
Something that I was p l e a s a n t l y s u r p r i s e d about was the amount of humor in the movie. I didn’t think that the movie necessarily needed the hu-mor to be good or maintain interest, but itwas a nice touch.
The humor gave the movie a very light-hearted feel, which felt refreshingly out ofplace in a movie primarily about revengeand murder. I think everyone should givethis movie a try and take it for what it is– skilfully-crafted, high-quality entertain-ment.
Rating: 4.5/5
By JAKE TAPLEY, Staff writer
Twenty One Pilots “Vessel”
Twenty One Pilots is a Columbus, Ohio duo that boarders between hip-hop and pop music with infectious lyrics and beats. “Vessel” is the duo’s fi rst full length album since signing with Fueled By Ra-men over the summer.
“Vessel” is a great album but is full of a lot of old music that has been remixed and remastered which was kind of a let down after learning the track list, but for people haven’t heard the old songs, prepare for your mind to be blown.
The newest songs are track six to nine,starting off with Semi-Automatic, whichis a perfect example of who they are. Ithas everything that makes them differentwith their great production and instru-mental, along with a slowed down, upbeatrap verse from Tyler Joseph all the whileJosh Dun beats the hell out of his drums.
Every time I listen to them it still blowsmy mind that two people can make somuch music together.
Rating: 4/5
By JIMMY PYLES, Staff writer
Participating BusinessTin Man Brewing Company
Lamasco Bar and GrillWinzerwald Winery *Evansville Tasting Room*
Heirloom RecordsPG
Stop N RollHagedorn’s - Since 1883
Liquor Locker Franklin Lanes
Paul’s MenswearGerst
SportsmensSmitty’s
SouthWest Grafi x
Break out the beadsFranklin Street to host fi rst Mardi Gras Crawl
• When: Feb. 8• Time: Starts at 6 p.m.• Where: Franklin Street• $10 for Mardi Gras Crawl shirt and armband.
Mardi Gras Crawl
By SHANNON HALL Life and Culture editor
After almost eight months of completion, the road heading away from USI’s campus, University Parkway, has had nine ac-cidents, the most recent in-volving a death. University Parkway is a county road which tees into Indiana 66, a state road. Indiana Department of Transporta-tion (INDOT) oversaw the connection which opened in May 2012.
On Jan. 6, a 92-year-old woman died after running a stop sign going north on University Parkway and striking a car heading east on Indiana 66.
Six of the nine accidents reported near the inter-section involved vehicles going northbound from University Parkway and crossing into Indiana 66. All were driver’s error - falling asleep at the wheel, texting while driving or alcohol/drug involvement.
Near-by resident Alex Schautz said he is sur-prised this is fi rst fatal ac-cident at the intersection.
“It’s not every day that you see a four-lane (road) suddenly stop with noth-ing more than a stop sign,” Schautz said.
In the evenings, it can be diffi cult turning left onto University Parkway from Indiana 66, he said.
“You can’t see the turn coming,” he said. “You have to predict the turn and start turning at a 45-degree angle, otherwise you miss it.”
He said he requested more signs at the intersec-tion.
University Parkway is
a county road which tees into Indiana 66, a state road. The Indiana Depart-ment of Transportation (INDOT) oversaw the connection which opened in May 2012.
Cher Elliott, INDOT’s media relations director, said the state would not
open a road if it broke state or federal law.
The state has to provide county roads with stop signs when the road is a new intersecting road, but the state doesn’t have to maintain the signs after supplying them, she said.
With the speed limit of 55 mph on northbound University Parkway, there is a highway junction sign, a yellow T intersec-tion sign, two stop ahead warning signs, which are followed by two stop signs - one on the median and another on the shoulder.
Elliot said INDOT de-cided to use two oversized 36-inch stop signs and shorter posts to put the signs closer to the pave-
ment in a better in line of sight for drivers.
“In an area with a new traffi c pattern, we think of what we can do in our guidelines to help,” she said.
She said the intersection does not require overhead lighting nor rumble strips by state law.
When a member of the public makes an inquiry, INDOT will look at recent data, but it will not do a “full-blown” study unless there are changes to the area, she said.
Because the road is new, it will take time for motor-ists to adjust, she said.
Vanderburgh County Engineer John Stoll said the T intersection is differ-ent from most.
“We don’t have any (in-tersections) like that in the county,” he said.
He said the county has received requests for addi-tional signs to Indiana 66 besides the single, green informational sign that tells motorists 1,500 feet before the turn which turn is to University Parkway and Saint Joseph Road.
He said he believed ad-ditional signage would not have stopped the accident.
“It’s a new intersection with two busy roads,” Van-derburgh Sheriff Eric Wil-liams said. “It is a little dif-fi cult to see because there is no lighting out there.”
The recent death gener-ated more comments about the intersection, Williams said.
Williams said both roads are designed for faster travel, and he asked drivers to be aware of the surroundings when travel-ing.
State requests time to adjust
You have to predict the turn and start turning at a 45-degree angle, oth-erwise you miss it.
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- Alex Schautz, Evansville resident
9 accidents, recent death raises questions about intersection
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By JIMMY PYLES Editor-in-Chief
Our women's basketball team is 13-2 on the season and just knocked off the fi fth-ranked team in the country, but you wouldn't be able to tell that from the amount of students in the stands.
I take a lot of pride in the athletic program USI has, so I am shocked that other people don't feel the same. You pay to go here, so why not support the school and the student athletes that compete for it?
I see no effort by the RedZone, the student cheerblock at athletic events, to promote or even attend the women's games. The last two women's games had about three people in the goal ends.
Yes, the women's team doesn't have the same fl ash and highlight reel dunks the men's team has, but they are still out there represent-ing our school and deserve the same amount of respect and fan support as all other sports.
The team is doing its part by winning - what more do they have to do to get fans in the stands?
Most students probably don't even know when games are. Like most events on this campus, you have to shove the event down students' throats to get them to notice. Making
a Facebook post a day before the game gets hardly anyone's attention.
Branch out to promote the games other than via Facebook and Twitter - pass out fl yers, chalk the ground, set up text reminders - just do something to get fans to come out.
I understand students can't make every game, but there is no reason RedZone can't fi nd 100 students to go fi ll the goal end and rock the Physical Activity Center for the wom-en's team just like they do for the men.
I see RedZone only at key women's games, but in the words of women's head coach Rick Stein, "Every game in the Great Lakes Valley Conference is key."
I'm not putting all the blame on the Red-Zone for not having students at the women's games because they can't force students to go games. But there are 10,000 plus students here with about- living on campus. You're telling me you can't get them to come to a women’s basketball game at 1 p.m. on a Saturday?
What's the point in having the home court advantage if no one shows up to cheer on the team?
The members of RedZone have the power and resources to reach the student body in many ways. They have shown they can get enough people to attend the men's games, so why are the women getting snubbed?
By SHANNON HALLLife and Culture editor
I like to dance.I'm not any good at it,
but that's OK because if you're dancing when there is booze around… people tend to not pay that much attention to you.
In Evansville, there are very few places to dance – yes, I mean club dance. No, I don't mean bump-ing and grinding. I mean just dancing to stupid ra-dio songs with little-to-no meaning and letting every-thing go.
RiRa's Irish Pub has a second fl oor dancing area, and a few friends and I went out to have fun.
Problems. Everywhere.First, the DJ played the
same song twice within an hour. Really? And it was "The Wobble." I don't have anything against "The Wobble," but that's danc-ing the same dance over and over a lot. He also played "Hot in Herre" by Nelly. Granted, it was hot in there (no fans), but that song is a million years old or something. The tempo is slow for me.
Second and most impor-tantly, there were old peo-ple up there in the dance area. I know, old people have to dance, too. I re-spect that. These fi ve to six couples were disgusting, though.
They were grinding more than my friends and I even thought about do-ing. One couple – the man was sitting down and his lady friend (in a very short dress, I might add) just rubbed her ass all up and down him. Then she turned around, and he shoved his face in her boobs. I hope that wasn't a family outing for them and their children couldn’t see this. Honestly, and I know I shouldn't do this, but I feel like in a col-lege town dance "club," I should be able to grab any guy next to me and feel all right dancing with him. But too many times when I turned around, there was a middle-aged man standing too close to me for com-fort.
I just suggest that Ri-Ra's add some class to the second fl oor. And pick an-other DJ.
Great team, no support
Professional sports or juvenile keep-away?By JAKE TAPLEYOpinion editor
I’m tired of stupid sports rules. It seems that in every major American sport there has to be some rule that allows one team to employ a strategy that instantly makes the game unfair for the other team.
Since the Super Bowl is coming up, I’ll focus on football.
At the end of the 49ers-Falcons game the other day, with a minute left, the 49ers decided that, in order to ensure they main-tain possession of the ball, they should kneel. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of kneel-ing, allow me to elaborate.
Kneeling occurs when
the ball is hiked to the quarterback, and the quar-terback instantly takes a knee. This allows for two things to occur: the play to end and the clock to run.
So, obviously, this is the play you would want to do at the end of the game whenever you’re winning. Because, you know, just being skilled enough to execute plays for one more minute is asking too much.
I mean, you don’t want the other team to have any chance of getting the ball. If they get the ball, they might actually prove that they're the better team or something.
A very similar (but not quite as ridiculous) strat-egy is executed in sports
such as basketball, soc-cer, and hockey. The win-ning team in each of these sports often decides that, instead of being profes-sional athletes, they would much rather return to their youth – the days of keep-away.
Do you remember keep-away? It was the game where the goal was to simply maintain pos-session of a ball. Because apparently, playing games that actually required skill got super boring.
I don’t know about you, but watching a bunch of grown men basically par-take in a children’s game isn’t my idea of entertain-ment.
In baseball, they have the wonderfully idiotic
concept of intentional walking. This is some-thing you do when the batter has been better at hitting than you have been at pitching. Honestly, it sounds like something a kid would think of when they were losing to bend the rules in his or her fa-vor.
Now, I understand the logic behind all of these rules. I know why teams are doing what they are doing.
However, I think these strategies go against the nature of sports, which encourages fairness, equal opportunity and sports-manship.
And is winning really more important than hav-ing integrity?
Keep it classy RiRa's
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With only seconds left to play in the second half, the USI women’s basket-ball team had to defend a one-point lead to defeat the fi fth-ranked Univer-sity of Indianapolis Grey-hounds.
The Greyhounds put up a shot that was blocked by sophomore forward Anna Hackert, which al-lowed the Eagles to attain a 70-69 victory at home. Hackert, who scored 21 points and had 10 re-bounds against the Grey-hounds, has been named Great Lakes Valley Con-ference (GLVC) Player of the Week for a second time this season in a two-week time span.
“(The GLVC) is so tough, and that’s why victories like this are so crucial - you have to win at home,” USI women’s basketball Head Coach Rick Stein said. “It’s that time of year in the GLVC where it gets tough.”
Junior guard Aubrey Minix scored a career-
high 18 points against the Greyhounds, scoring four three-pointers in the fi rst half. All of Minix’s 18 points came from three-point baskets.
“I wasn’t afraid to shoot the ball because I had my teammates there to get the rebound,” Minix said. “My team-mates just keep telling me to keep my head in the game and keep shooting the ball.”
Leading the team in steals, junior guard Ariel Barnes had four steals and eight rebounds for the Eagles and scored 13 points.
“In the fi rst half, we had some silly turnovers and our defense wasn’t stepped up to what it should have been,” Barnes said. “In the sec-ond half we came out and brought back the intensity that we were missing in the fi rst half.”
On Monday, the Ea-gles headed to Owens-boro to face off against conference rivals Ken-tucky Wesleyan College (KWC), who hold a con-
ference record of 6-1 with a record of 10-4 overall.
The game against KWC was a battle for fi rst place in the GLVC East Division, and was also the last time the Ea-gles will face off against KWC before the Panthers leave the GLVC.
“At Kentucky we have to play the full 40 min-utes,” Barnes said in an-ticipation of Monday’s game. “It’s a big rival and we just have to stick to what we do well and ex-ecute.”
Despite its determina-tion, the team could not overcome a second-half comeback by the Pan-thers. The Eagles fell 68-59. Hackert led the team with 14 points and a ca-reer-high 20 rebounds.
The Eagles’ conference record currently sits at 5-2 with an overall record of 13-2.
Today, the Eagles travel to Wisconsin to take on the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, who currently holds a GLVC record of 3-4 with a 6-9 record overall.
By ZANE CLODFELTERStaff writer
Coming off of a 90-81 win over St. Joseph’s (IN) where defense looked to be optional at times, Southern Indi-ana head coach Rodney Watson knew his team’s defense had to improve to win games against the GLVC’s other elite teams.
If Saturday’s game was any indication, not only had it improved, but it looked dominant as the 15th-ranked Eagles cruised to a 69-55 win
against fi fth-ranked Uni-versity of Indianapolis at the PAC.
“There’s no question that’s the best we’ve played defensively,” Wat-son said. “We really chal-lenged shots all night and that’s a good shooting team.”
USI defended the boards too, out-rebound-ing the Greyhounds on the defensive end 34-22 while in the process lim-iting Indianapolis (12-2, 4-2 GLVC) to only eight-second chance points.
“We not only chal-
lenged shots but we stayed in and fought for rebounds,” Watson said. “Our matchups were re-ally a problem for India-napolis today.”
Leading the Eagles in scoring was Orlando Rutledge, who tallied 19 points while also col-lecting eight rebounds in helping to pace USI to a 35-27 halftime lead.
“Coach told me to be ready - I think my team-mates did a good job of fi nding me early,” Rut-ledge said. “They are one of the top three teams in
the league so we knew we had to bring it today, and once we lock down, we can beat anybody in the nation.”
Rutledge was one of four double-digit scor-ers for the Eagles, joined by senior Kenyon Smith and fellow juniors Aaron Nelson and Taylor Wisch-meier, who each collected 10 points apiece.
Wischmeier credits the defensive style thrown at them by Indianapolis for the balanced scoring among the upperclass-men.
“They played a lot of man-to-man tonight and we had not seen much of that in awhile,” Wis-chmeier said. “It’s a lot easier to get in a (offen-sive) fl ow against a man-to-man defense.”
Rutledge said the key for the Eagles’ victory was being sound defen-sively and making it dif-fi cult for Indianapolis to get clean looks at the basket.
“They have guys who can shoot once they cross half court,” he said. “So our biggest concern was
putting a hand in their face, and we did a good job with that.”
The men’s team took that momentum to Ow-ensboro on Monday, beat-ing Kentucky Wesleyan College (KWC) 72-53 and bringing its GLVC re-cord to 6-1 with a record of 13-2 overall.
Senior center Keith De-Witt had a team-high nine rebounds in the Eagles’ fi nal match-up against the Panthers.
The Eagles play again tonight at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.
Win one, lose one
Men’s basketball team beats fi ft h and fourth ranked teams
Photos by JIMMY PYLES/The ShieldSophomore forward Anna Hackert shoots a jump shot over a Uindy defender. Hackert led the team with 14 points and a career-high 20 rebounds.
Photos by JIMMY PYLES/The ShieldSenior center Keith DeWitt throws down a huge dunk in the fi rst half of Saturday’s game against fi fth-ranked University of Indianapolis on Saturday. On Monday DeWitt had a team-high nine rebounds in the Eagles’ fi nal match-up against the KWC Panthers on Monday.
Knocking down the ranked
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