Controversy is stirring over a potential protest by a white traditionalist group during a presentation by Tim Wise at 7 p.m. in the University Hall eater. Wise, who is the author of “White Like Me,” “Speaking Treason Fluently” and “Colorblind,” is a well-known Caucasian speaker who advocates against racism and white privilege. He recently appeared on FX’s “Totally Biased,” which is hosted by W. Kamau Bell and deals mostly with racial issues. e event was scheduled and promoted on social media by the Indiana State’s Office of Diversity to coincide with the theme of this year’s “Eye on Diversity” series — class, social and racial differences, said University Diversity Officer Elonda Ervin. “Tim Wise is actually part of the conversation instead of being the conversation,” Ervin said. “Tim is a prolific writer about the foundation of racism in America — how it came about, how it’s an ideology, not a way of being.” An event feed was created to highlight Wise’s appearance on the office’s Facebook page and was discovered by a member of the Traditionalist Youth Network, a group founded by Matthew Heimbach, the subject Elevator entrapments happen frequently on campus, but the Indiana State University Chief of Police says his officers respond quickly. Otis Elevator service technician Daren Krockenberger said campus elevator entrapments occur as a result of safety devices within the mechanism. Just as handguns have a safety feature, elevators do too, he said. “e majority of the shutdowns that cause people to get trapped in elevators are due to safety devices,” Krockenberger said. He said elevators have so much safety built into them to keep people from getting hurt and it usually causes the problem. “It’s usually a safety that shuts the elevator down,” he said. Whether the elevator has been overloaded or the door held open too long, safety features are the main cause of elevator entrapments, he said. ere are approximately 70 elevators on campus that provide service to students and staff 2,000 to 2,600 times a day, Krockenberger said. So, that actually means that the doors close twice as many times, he said. While they are weather-beaten, he said they are safe, strong machines and closed elevator doors can withstand a force of up to 200 pounds. ere’s actually is little potential for an elevator to fall and crash to the ground - as moviegoers oſten see from Hollywood’s visionaries, according to an experiment conducted by Otis Elevator founder Elisha Otis. Otis, who is responsible for the majority of safety features that exist in modern elevators, demonstrated the safety of elevators at the 1853 World’s Fair when he ordered that the steel rope be cut for the elevator he was standing in. It fell only a short distance, and Otis was not injured. He demonstrated that if the rope mechanism fails, the elevator will reach operational speed and then stop. “e farthest I’ve ever seen an elevator fall is a floor and a half,” said Krockenberger based on his 26 years in the elevator business. JOSEPH PAUL Features Editor Thomas Buhls (center) is surrounded by angry counter-protesters during an April 2012 protest he organized in Bloomington, Ind. Buhls is expected to lead a protest on the ISU campus today (Photo by Mark Felix and reprinted with permission from the Indiana Daily Student). Controversy looming A nti-racism author Tim Wise ’s appearance today at Indiana State University is expected to draw protest from Traditionalist Youth Network CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 Wednesday October 9, 2013 Indiana State University www.indianastatesman.com Volume 121 Issue 20 Safety glitches to blame for elevator entrapments *Free speech: How much can we say without crossing the line? PAGE 6 EMILY STARBUCK Reporter CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 INSIDE THIS ISSUE Sweet moves: Renowned Indian Dancer brings culture to Indiana State PAGE 12 The year of the athlete: Sports reviews a successful year for four athletic teams PAGE 8
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Controversy is stirring over a potential protest by a white traditionalist group during a presentation by Tim Wise at 7 p.m. in the University Hall � eater.
Wise, who is the author of “White Like Me,” “Speaking Treason Fluently” and “Colorblind,” is a well-known Caucasian speaker who advocates against racism and white privilege. He recently appeared on FX’s “Totally Biased,” which is hosted by W. Kamau Bell and deals mostly with racial issues.
� e event was scheduled and promoted on social media by the Indiana State’s O� ce of Diversity to coincide with the theme of this year’s “Eye on Diversity” series — class, social and racial di� erences, said University Diversity O� cer Elonda Ervin.
“Tim Wise is actually part of the conversation instead of being the conversation,” Ervin said. “Tim is a proli� c writer about the foundation of racism in America — how it came about, how it’s an ideology, not a way of being.”
An event feed was created to highlight Wise’s appearance on the o� ce’s Facebook page and was discovered by a member of the Traditionalist Youth Network, a group founded by Matthew Heimbach, the subject
Elevator entrapments happen frequently on campus, but the Indiana State University Chief of Police says his o� cers respond quickly.
Otis Elevator service technician Daren Krockenberger said campus elevator entrapments occur as a result of safety devices within the mechanism. Just as handguns have a safety feature, elevators do too, he said.
“� e majority of the shutdowns that cause people to get trapped in elevators are due to safety devices,” Krockenberger said.
He said elevators have so much safety built into them to keep people from getting hurt and it usually causes the problem.
“It’s usually a safety that shuts the elevator down,” he said.
Whether the elevator has been overloaded or the door held open too long, safety features are the main cause of elevator entrapments, he said.
� ere are approximately 70 elevators on campus that provide service to students and sta� 2,000 to 2,600 times a day, Krockenberger said. So, that actually means that the doors close twice as many times, he said.
While they are weather-beaten, he said they are safe, strong machines and closed elevator doors can withstand a force of up to 200 pounds.
� ere’s actually is little potential for an elevator to fall and crash to the ground - as moviegoers o� en see from Hollywood’s visionaries,
according to an experiment conducted by Otis Elevator founder Elisha Otis.
Otis, who is responsible for the majority of safety features that exist in modern elevators, demonstrated the safety of elevators at the 1853 World’s Fair when he ordered that the steel rope be cut for the elevator he was standing in. It fell only a short distance, and Otis was not injured. He demonstrated that if the rope mechanism fails, the elevator will reach operational speed and then stop.
“� e farthest I’ve ever seen an elevator fall is a ¢ oor and a half,” said Krockenberger based on his 26 years in the elevator business.
JOSEPH PAUL Features Editor
Thomas Buhls (center) is surrounded by angry counter-protesters during an April 2012 protest he organized in Bloomington, Ind. Buhls is expected to lead a protest on the ISU campus today (Photo by Mark Felix and reprinted with permission from the Indiana Daily Student).
Controversy loomingAnti-racism author Tim Wise’s appearance today at Indiana State University
is expected to draw protest from Traditionalist Youth Network
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Krockenberger’s on-campus office allows him to respond within 15 minutes when an entrapment takes place weekdays between 7:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
At other times “we are generally very close” to a 30-minute response time, Krockenberger said.
Monthly and yearly state-mandated maintenance checks are conducted on the ISU campus elevators, and every five years the elevator is purposely crashed, or shut down, to test the safety devices.
Bill Mercier, director of public safety at ISU, said there has been only one serious injury at ISU as a result of an elevator entrapment.
A resident of Jones Hall who had positioned himself in the elevator shaft was killed in 1991, but the student’s death was not caused by a mechanical problem, Mercier said.
When students are trapped, there is an emergency call button which can be pushed to contact the campus public safety.
“All of our elevators have the emergency phones,” Mercier said. “Pushing that emergency phone button is just like calling 911, so if you’re trapped in an elevator that’s the first thing to do.”
Those calls are routed directly to a police dispatcher, Mercier said.
Mercier stressed if the elevator begins to function before a dispatcher arrives, someone in the elevator should push the call button again and let ISU Public Safety know.
Likewise, if the elevator is crowded and the button is accidentally pushed, Public Safety needs to be advised that everyone inside the elevator is safe, he said.
“Nobody’s going to get in trouble,” Mercier says. “We’d much rather you [let us know], than for us to have to send a police officer. If we don’t get an answer, we’ll send someone to check it out.”
Secondly, do not panic. Mercier assured that students need to know that “help is on the way.”
“We’ll get you out,” he said.
Students on campus are generally aware of the steps to take if there is an elevator entrapment.
Levi Elmore, a junior English major, said he has never been stuck in an elevator before. However, if he were to be, he knows
the steps. “I believe there’s a call button. You push the
button and someone comes to get you,” Elmore said. While he said he may be momentarily alarmed, he believes he would calm down after someone responded to the distress call.
There is a safety hatch located on top of each elevator, and Krockenberger said he’s only had to utilize it twice in 26 years.
“There’s always a safety open,” Krockenberger said. “Just give us a couple of minutes to get there and we’ll get them out safely.”
Students suffer from elevator entrapments around campus, ISU Public Safety Director Bill Mercier says through the years there has only been one death on campus linked to elevators (Photo by Bob Rhodes).
“The majority of the shut downs that cause people to get trapped
in elevators are due to safety devices. ”
daren Krockenbergerotis Elevator service technician
Photography competition themed “Aging in the Wabash Valley”Indiana State University and Arts
Illiana are seeking entries for a photo competition with the contest theme of “Aging in the Wabash Valley.”
The contest is inspired by Jeffrey Levine’s photography exhibition “Aging Across America.”
The exhibit will be on display at the Vigo County Public Library in February and also at Indiana State in Hulman
Memorial Student Union Art Gallery Lounge in March.
The sponsors of the contest include ISU’s Department of Applied Health Sciences; the College of Nursing, Health and Human Services; the College of Arts and Sciences; and the Community School of the Arts, as well as the Golden Frame; Arts Illiana and Hulman Memorial Student Union.
Photo entries should mailed to Arts Illiana, 23 N. Sixth St., Terre Haute, Ind., 47807.
All entries should be addressed in care of the “Aging in the Wabash Valley” photo competition and postmarked by Feb. 13. The winners of the contest will be announced in March.
Entries must include a description of the work in 100 words or less, a ready-
to-frame, high-quality print no larger than 14” x 22” and the completed entry form.
The entries will be judged in two categories for amateur and professional photographers.
For more information about the competition or obtain an entry form contact Tina Kruger at [email protected].
In the midst of Indiana State University students rushing to environmental science class and professors teaching physics laws sits two small worlds of fish and frogs.
For Alan McCune, what started out as a curiosity in these worlds has grown into a much larger interest over the course of many years.
“I have a hobby background in aquariums that branched from being a kid winning a goldfish at the fair to being a teenager having a 20-gallon aquarium that was a Christmas present,” McCune said. “And then as I grew older and had a little bit more money, I got into saltwater tanks.”
Now, the junior earth and environmental sciences major from Silverwood is using his skills to maintain the aquarium and terrarium located outside room 164 in the Science Building.
Although similar in some ways, terrariums vary from aquariums in the fact that the worlds they contain are not completely submerged. However, they both use controlled environments in which the species within rely on “man-made life support” to survive.
“We have to provide support systems [for the creatures] because [Indiana] is not their natural environment,” McCune said.
By the end of the fall semester, the newly renovated terrarium will house three species of poisonous dart frogs that are native to tropical forests such as those in Costa Rica. The frogs’ brightly colored skin lets other species know of their deadly nature. However, the frogs in the terrarium at Indiana State will not be poisonous.
“Poison dart frogs get their poison from their environment, particularly from their food and possibly even from some of the plants they reside on,” geology professor Tony Rathburn said. “We are not going to feed them anything that would cause them to be poisonous or expose them to anything in the tank that would cause them to be poisonous.”
Instead, these frogs will eat wingless fruit flies, which are raised by McCune through a very specific process. The process was developed in part by recent earth sciences
undergraduate James Hardy, who maintained the aquarium and terrarium before graduating and turning over the duties to McCune.
McCune uses a “powdered oatmeal-like media” that contains a mold inhibitor, as well as baker’s yeast and boiling hot water to create the flies’ food. This substance also serves as a place for the fruit flies to lay eggs. Two weeks later, the live flies become the frog’s food. Because the frogs have to be fed regularly, he calls this the “most labor-intensive” part of his job.
“On average, I have to make a batch of fruit flies every two weeks,” McCune said. “And then daily we just sprinkle in some of the fruit flies in with the frogs and they just snap them up. You can actually hear their little tongues.”
The aquarium and terrarium have been student-designed, student-built and student-maintained. However, plans to renovate labs and classrooms in the Science Building years ago forced Rathburn and his students to delay making changes and eventually to take the tanks apart.
“This is the second iteration of the terrarium and aquarium. In fact, we never got to the point where we added frogs in the terrarium because of this impending renovation that kept getting put off,” Rathburn said.
The original aquarium and terrarium and newly constructed versions were both built by Brian Wrightsman, a 2007 geology graduate who came back to rebuild the habitats after the room’s renovation. Like McCune, he had a background in aquariums, but the world of terraria was something completely new for him.
“I had significant experience with saltwater aquaria and reef ecology, but I had not worked much with terraria,” Wrightsman said. “But I was up for the challenge.”
Both tanks started as bare glass enclosures, but Wrightsman brought life to the terrarium adding a waterfall, a pond for smaller fish, and plants.
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Although Wrightsman now works as a geologist for Barrick Gold in Nevada, he still feels a strong connection to the progress and success of the terrarium.
“It is awesome to see my original vision and plans coming to fruition now with the addition of the frogs to the terrarium,” he said. “I only wish that I could be there to see the little guys go in and explore their new habitat.”
Rathburn said he has partnered with the science education program at Indiana State to teach future science teachers how to build and maintain aquariums and terrariums so that they can bring these smaller worlds into their classroom as well. Webcams will also be used so that teachers and students everywhere can pull up the frogs and fish on the Internet and create a virtual aquarium or terrarium in classroom. He will soon announce an adopt-a-frog program in which community members could name a frog and financially sponsor its food and maintenance.
Webcams are currently streaming live images from the aquarium at http://www.indstate.edu/ees/aquariumstream/index2.html.
“The purpose is basically for education and outreach and these frogs will hopefully generate interest, highlight the importance of preserving natural habitat for these types of creatures and provide awareness for environmental stewardship—not just locally but elsewhere as well,” Rathburn said.
For McCune, this experience has raised his sense of
environmental awareness. Calling the frogs and fish both “very susceptible” to environmental changes, he hopes when people see these “miniature earths” it causes them to also think about their own actions, from recycling to where they dump chemicals.
“I think my favorite part about maintaining the aquarium and terrarium is seeing how it brings joy to people,” McCune said. “They are able to see the beauty of nature and get them thinking about the environment.”
Many people have asked Rathburn why he did not choose to display an environment similar to that of Indiana.
“One of the reasons we chose a tropical environment is because students in the Midwest don’t often get exposed to that type of environment,” he said.
Rathburn said the terrarium and aquarium demonstrate the kind of research opportunities that the university can give students such as Wrightsman and McCune.
“We are working to get an awareness of these ecosystems to children and students in the area in hopes that they recognize that we do this kind of work here. It is possible to go to Indiana State University, become involved in environmental sciences and conduct undergraduate research in remote marine and tropical settings,” he said. “Students at ISU can experience diverse and remote environments, and at the same time be involved with community outreach and make a difference, even as an undergrad.”
Above: Geology professor Tony Rathburn mantains a tank the poisonous dart frogs reside in. Below: Poison dart frogs have found a home in the Science building on campus and will soon be a part of an adopt-a-frog program for community members to name the frog and be its sponsor for food and maintenance (Photos courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing).
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Richard Green began his position as Indiana State University’s new manager of the WISU radio station in the fall, and he already has plans for station’s improvement.
Green said his career interest in radio started by working at a McDonald’s drive-thru with a headset.
“Everyone has a start somewhere,” he said. He was born in Bloomington, Ill. and
attended Illinois State University, recently receiving his Master’s Degree.
“Growing up, I actually wanted to be a sport journalist but that didn’t quite work out, so I got into club DJing for a few years in different places,” he said. “I always thought there was no money in radio, but my friend changed my mind about that.”
He enjoys many genres of music and finds it difficult to choose just one specific genre due to his career in radio and respect for music.
“I just don’t like one style of music because I’ve been in the disc jockey business for a while,” Green said. “I like Kayne West, when he’s not going crazy, Common, Paramore and there’s just so many other bands that I actually enjoy listening to. I just appreciate music itself.”
An advisor in his radio production class suggested that he become her teaching assistant.
Through this experience he learned his interest in teaching was greater than he ever would have thought.
Green has been an instructor, graduate teaching assistant at Illinois State University, an afternoon drive radio host and has worked in the promotions department at Magic 100.7 at Connoisseur Media.
His lengthy resume also includes experience as a studio manager, an undergraduate
teaching assistant and disc jockey at WZND Student Radio.
“After I graduated, I realized that I wanted to be the manager of a radio station. So, I put my efforts into that in graduate school and obtained my master’s degree,” he said. “I started looking for a job and Indiana State was perfect because it’s so close to home. I’m very happy to be here.”
Students and staff members of WISU are impressed with Green’s accomplishments and enjoy his company around the office.
Max Slizewski, a junior communication marketing major and program director of WISU, feels Green is a good fit for the WISU
team and their audience.“Rich is new here and he has been a good
addition to the radio,” Slizewski said. “He has us on the right track to getting us more listeners.”
He also said that Green has already made improvements to the WISU station.
“We’ve seen so many changes already, we have been training new DJs,” he said. “We have worked on getting a five day a week morning show and newscast.”
Slizewski said Green has many changes in store for the radio in the near future including an increase in remote broadcasts.
One of Green’s present projects involves
developing another program he feels will be more appealing to listeners of WISU.
The WISU program format right now is Rock and Pop music in the morning and afternoon with Hip-Hop and rhytm and blues music at night.
But Green hopes to steer the station into creating a program with different mixes of music all the time.
His goal is to improve the station and make it better than it has ever been before.
“I truly will do my best to make this radio station the best it can be for the future,” Green said.
Richard Green (right), the manager of WISU radio station, has already begun making improvements with plans to change the programming to a variety of genres (Photo by Bob Rhodes).
Newly selected manager of WISU radio plans varietyJaelan Collins Reporter
Jed Smock is one of the most controversial figures on Indiana State’s campus. His messages of God’s wrath are something that several students may have heard. He incites riots wherever he preaches, often becoming the victim of violence. Now, he is allegedly going to be given a reality TV show to give a glimpse into the life of the spiteful preacher.
But he is not alone. A political leader in North Dakota by the name of Paul Cobb recently gained the spot light for a brief period as he tried to turn a quiet town into a radical center for white supremacy.
The term, “hate speech” has been prevalent in human history for as long as there have been differences between two men.
As of late, everyone and their mothers want to come out of the woodwork to protest one thing or another. On Monday, representatives of the Missionaries for Prelife were patrolling around campus handing out fliers that promoted “Pro-choice” philosophy. These fliers described the process of an abortion and flaunted pictures of dismembered fetuses.
Without debating the morality of abortion itself, this would appear as a bit hostile. Not because the group wants to incite some sort of fiasco similar to the Campus Ministry USA’s apparent wishes (Brother Jed and his followers), but in their silent actions that accost students’ lives. Many students literally shuddered in disgust at the images. One student even was heard saying, “OK, there goes my lunch.”
So many groups that practice this hate speech, be it religious affiliations such as the Westboro Baptist Church or Campus Ministries USA or some sort of political and social section like Cobb, the Neo-Nazi movement or Homophobia groups, hide behind the First Amendment as a sort of Kevlar vest. And in so many ways, it works for them.
Let us refresh on what the First Amendment actually says: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” Our forefathers set forth this dictation that has become something of a First Commandment, rather than a designation to follow. They feared the tyrannical oppression of the English Monarchy, and from that fear gave life to a new form of government: democracy. But how long can these groups, seeming only to want to fan the flames of their war, shield themselves with this one line? How much can they say before it officially becomes too much?
On a special 9/11 airing of ABC’s reality TV show, “What Would You Do?” a pair of young actors were paid to spend the day at a local deli, one of a Middle-Eastern decent and the other a Caucasian man who was to accost the other actor on the grounds of being a Muslim. Things went as expected for some time, with many being insulted and disgusted at the Caucasian man’s words and a handful congratulating him. But then, an assumed off-duty US Army soldier walked in. Instantly insulted on the Middle-Eastern man’s behalf, he rose to his defense.
“That is why I wear the uniform. So that anyone can practice their own religion, anywhere,” the soldier said.
One has to wonder, though, would the
same soldier say that about Brother Jed or Paul Cobb?
For us, it can’t be about one side or the other. If we’re choosing to give free speech to those who practice acceptable, morally reasonable and peaceful protests, we will rapidly find ourselves falling down a rather tumultuous rabbit hole. Do people like Brother Jed and
his followers annoy, and sometimes even infuriate us? Absolutely they do. People who take to the streets crying “listen to me” by inciting judgment and anger are some of the lowest of the low. They are the type of people who feel that they are not heard, so instead of altering their tactics in a way that would be beneficial to the whole debate —such as finding a new outlet to communicate through—they simply yell louder. Thus, they draw more attention to themselves, causing a ripple effect that damages everything even vaguely connected to them.
Due to Brother Jed’s hate speech, many students cry havoc and sick their own dogs of war against mass religion in general, calling all Christians bigots and bible thumpers. But just as the soldier from the video said, we cannot concern ourselves with matters of “Am I right or are they? we must concern ourselves with ‘Is everyone getting a fair shot at being heard?’”
In common agreement, the Missionaries for the Preborn went too far on Monday. The images of what are presumed to be aborted fetuses being thrown into our faces was too much. We get that they were going for shock-and-awe tactics, but to assault our campus with such images was absolutely unnecessary and highly disgusting. The best that can be said about these newcomers is, “at least they don’t call us whores and rapists.”
Looking again to Cobb, and indeed the upcoming Tim Wise speech—where an unknown amount of protesters will be demanding his removal on the grounds that he is promoting discrimination and bigotry—we have to wonder how much of this is getting national recognition?
CNN ran an article about Cobb and his new tactics. What happens when our youth see these images and people? Is it fair to submit them to this sort of irreverent behavior? Yes, obviously we can change the channel, and that’s just what many of us do: tune out. While it is necessary to allow these men and women their rights to speech and protest, why do we have to publicize it? We
say, allow five minutes of fame and then laugh them off. They will go on practicing their ignorance and their hate, but do not sink to their level. The moment when it is agreed that all freedoms to expression are lost is when you’re promoting a violent action.
The sheer fact that Jed and his Church have been physically accosted is proof that they need no longer be here. When angry words turn into furious fists, we need to rethink what we’re allowing people to say and do.
Students on campus are disgusted with the images that the Missionaries for the Preborn was providing. If they want to stay, they need to reconsider their tactics and come up with a way that isn’t driving the students away from the fountain, because that is not only hurting us, but also their group, too.
A white supremisist uses his First Amendment right to protest (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).
When is the First Amendment is taken too far?
“So many of these groups . . . hide behind the First
Where does life begin? This is a question that has divided Americans for years since abortion was made legal back in the 70’s. Some say life may actually go back two weeks before conception, others say it begins at conception or not until birth.
Whatever the case, this argument has been
a hot one in the past few months. First, there was the May sentencing
of Kermit Gonsell, a late term abortion doctor from Philadelphia, Pa. who is now serving the rest of his life in prison for
three convicted murder charges out of the seven he was originally charged with. Two of those were babies who had been born alive and then killed. The other was a woman who died under his care.
Then, there was Wendy Davis, a Texas senator who filibustered Texas Senate Bill Five back in June. The bill would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, require abortion clinics to meet the same standards that hospital-style surgical centers do and mandate that a doctor who performs abortions have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. While the bill was eventually passed, Davis was held
in high regard by many pro-choice and feminist groups for standing 11 hours to filibuster the law.
Now, there is a documentary that has come out titled “After Tiller” that describes the lives of the only four doctors in the country who are licensed to perform late term abortions. It takes a look at how these people are treated and the great opposition they face in doing what they do.
Abortion is one of those topics that are never really black-and-white, no matter how people try to spin it. I used to be flat-out against it for many years of my life until I read the book “When She Woke” by Hillary Jordan. In this modern take on Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet letter,” the protagonist had an abortion in Texas after it was outlawed in a futuristic America. She was found guilty and had her skin dyed red, letting the entire world recognize that she was a murderer by law.
Never once had I thought about the women who have the abortions done. I never tried to think of what could push a woman to do such a thing, but now that I’m older, I understand a little more. I still theorize that a better option for women who think they have no other choice is adoption, but maybe for that particular woman, it isn’t.
What a woman does with her body is not my business, nor is it anyone else’s. Abortion is different from sex, obviously, but what needs to happen is that people need to educate each other on the facts. Instead of demonizing the women who get them, let us instead listen to what they have to say, to their story, first before we make any decisions.
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Do you happen to remember Xanga? If not, it’s not that shocking. Xanga.com was the precursor to most major social networking sites. It was your basic blogging site with an HTML accessory feature that would allow you to design your own background colors. Not too flashy by today’s standards, but back in 2002 it was legendary
Today, we have social networking completely integrated into the fabric of our being. Our reality TV is judged half by calls and half by Facebook and Twitter posts. We no longer have photo albums in the traditional sense. Now, we have profile pictures. Our every thought is heard on every stream on every continent. We are officially tied to each other by an invisible Ethernet cord that allows us to manage our opinions and lives at the click of a button.
We —known as “generation X,” and “generation Y”—have seen the revolution of the world. Within a couple decades, we’ve watched communication make leaps and bounds that are the equivalent to putting a man on the moon, in terms of scope. We went from a device roughly the size of your average brick that can pick up a tolerable signal in the same country to instantly sending messages and pictures to anyone, anywhere. And I say that it’s about time we give up the ghost of the past and start to fully embrace where we are headed.
In a mobile tech special article in Times Magazine, Jeffrey Kluger detailed how our current world seems to be run by current trends like texting, as well as the unmentioned use of other, less popular trends, such as Snapchat and Facebook Messenger. Kluger discussed how he personally jumped straight onto the bandwagon for non-verbal or personal communication such as emails and texting. He cites himself as being told he had the phone ethics “of a goat,” (he actually went on to say how the comment was immediately withdrawn out of respect for goats).
Kluger also went on to discuss some of the adverse reactions of these non-personal communication tactics appear to be having on today’s youth culture. Developmental Psychologists are claiming that youth today is missing out on a valuable developmental
process in the sometimes messy efforts of human interaction. They claim that while the positives are obvious, some of the negatives are not. We appear to be losing our children to texting, as parents complain about how their kids would rather text them than talk.
But is that really such a bad thing? Maybe it was because I was bred into this era of instant gratification and immediate interaction, but by God it’s seriously awesome to be able to text my girlfriend, three other friends and learn to do Tai-Chi all at the same time. While we are seeing a trend in anti-social behaviors in youth today, have we not seen that for decades? Last I checked, not so long ago, the stereotype of a “nerd” was one who was slightly to moderately overweight, sitting in his room with a friend or two playing D&D. These days, that same “nerd” can become a god thanks to things like MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games—think Call of Duty, but with wizards and swords).
Yes, we are seeing a downward spike in interpersonal communication, but that’s not due to our kids not wanting to talk. They figured out that it’s counterproductive to talk face-to-face with one or two people all the time when they could message six friends from five different countries.
Obviously, we as a society and as individuals do need some sort of personal interaction. It’s a part of the human psyche. Don’t believe me? Ask a guy named Maslow about his hierarchy. We absolutely do need to talk one-on-one occasionally and get used to talking in front of people and all that goes with interpersonal communication.
But the common arguments such as “businesses who want to hire you will want to see you can talk to people, face-to-face” are rapidly becoming obsolete. The Sci-fi theory of prerecorded transmissions is now becoming more fact than fiction. Classes in schools can be done entirely from home via a teacher’s recording. Presentations to conglomerates can be done via Skype, where the presenter never has to leave his living room.
When we think of tomorrow, the possibilities are so infinite that we could never know what is coming around the corner. Thirty years ago, people scoffed at the Internet. Ten years ago, people though “blogging” was stupid. Five years ago, people thought texting was a trend. Who knows what’s happening next? All I know is that I’ll be excited to see where we go.
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Last week, Dede II was filled with the sounds of bell chimes.
These bells were attached to the legs of the well-known Bharatnatyam dancer and choreographer Saroja Vaidyanathan.
Not only did she demonstrate the science of Bharatnatyam, a classical form of dance from South India, but she used her body to tell the audience a story during her performance.
Vaidyanathan talked about her history and her involvement with the dance during her workshop and performance.
Bharatnatya first originated in the district of Thanjavoor in a southern-Indian state called Tamil Nadu. The dance can sometimes be difficult when one is first learning it. There are 64 basic maneuvers and they are divided into nine parts, including hand movements, steps and facial expressions.
“You have to go into it with a genuine idea of wanting to learn this dance. You can’t be superficial, you have to love it,” said Priya Aphyankar, a sophomore criminology major who performed alongside Vaidyanathan.
She told the audience that as a child, she lived here in Terre Haute and started learning the dance at the age of 8: she graduated at 10 years old.
“Learning the dance is very demanding physically and mentally,” Aphyankar said.
Later, Vaidyanathan and the members of Indian Student Association took turns talking about their involvement with
the dance and how it improves them personally.
“I have been performing for 60 years,” Vaidyanathan said.
According to Vaidyanathan’s webpage, she was trained by famous Indian dancers as early as seven years old.
She also had training in Carnatic music under P. Sambamoorthy at Madras University. After years of learning and teaching Bharartanatyam, she became famous and wanted students to learn the importance of the dance.
“What gave me passion to learn? I got married, I had children, but one part of me wanted to be separated from everything,” Vaidyanathan said. “There are a lot of book and scholar professionals to learn in a systematic way.”
Vaidyanathan taught ISU students and staff in the audience about the mathematics and science of Bharartanatyam. She added that when a student is done with training and has graduated, they have to wait to be able to dance in public.
She also discussed the four systems of expression of dance with the help of ISU mathematics professor Rita Ghosh.
The first is the body movement, in which each step the hands and facial expressions have to be aligned. The next expression is music and the ability to count the steps. The third was to allow oneself to be conducted by the dance. Last was the customs, with Vaidyanathan explaining that a dancer usually wears a five-piece silk dress.
Denise smith Reporter
Saroja Vaidyanathan demonstrates the science of Bharatnatya, a 2,000-year-old form of dance she has practiced for over 60 years herself (Photos by Mutaz Albar).
THE SCIENCE OF DANCEDancer and choreographer Saroja Vaidyanathan demonstrates Bharatnatyam, a 2,000 year-old dance
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Correction:
In the Oct. 7 issue of the Indiana Statesman, we reported that the NAACP hold their meetings at 6 p.m. when they actually hold their meetings Thursday at 5 p.m. The group
is collaborating with the fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha for its latest event, which is designed to spread awareness of sexually transmitted diseases.
As clarification, the NAACP’s mission is to help voice all opinions.
Bharartanatyam dances tell stories and each movement has to be clear enough so the audience can understand the story. Ghosh demonstrated what the postures,
step counts and even what the hand signs meant. From start to finish, the dancers were telling the story and should be able to embody each character, she said.
To give the audience a better idea, Vaidyanathan performed a story about a woman who wanted to be with a flute player. As she started, music flowed through her body and her facial expression told the whole story. Students leaned in with enjoyment as they saw how her steps and bells chimed to the beats of music.
Those who are interested in learning Bharartanatyam, please contact ISU professor Nandini Bhowmick by email at [email protected] or call 225-288-7201.
Vaidyanathan’s performance attracted many individuals from the ISU community with Indian heritage, providing an outlet to experience Indian culture in Terre Haute (Photo by Mutaz Albar).
“Learning the dance is very demanding physically and
mentally.”
Priya Aphyankar
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Kyla Eubank, the current Miss Indiana State University of 2013 and a senior textiles and apparel merchandising major, will soon step down and crown the new Miss ISU of 2014.
“The feeling is bittersweet,” Eubank said. “It didn’t really hit me at first.”
Handing down the crown and title to the next woman can be a very emotional step, even so, Eubank said her experience has been very rewarding.
“I have definitely made lifelong connections,” Eubank said. “I know that the connections and relationships will be there, like if I was to ever need anything or anyone for a reference. It has definitely been an open door to networking.”
Eubank said being Miss ISU has helped her come out of her shell and become more outgoing and confident. She has had the opportunity to serve as an ambassador and recruiter, role model, public servant and entertainer for both ISU and the Terre Haute community.
“I never thought I of all people would win,” Eubank said. “People would come up to me all the time and tell me that I looked like a pageant girl.”
The Miss ISU pageant is a preliminary event for the Miss Indiana and Miss America pageants. Miss ISU represent the university at the Miss Indiana Scholarship Program pageant in June vying for the opportunity to represent Indiana at Miss America.
Miss ISU receives a $1,500 scholarship; the first runner up receives a $500 scholarship and the second runner up receives a $250 gift card from Barnes and Noble. The Miss ISU Scholarship Program is open to any woman who currently enrolled at ISU on the Terre Haute campus; is an Indiana resident or has attended college in Indiana for at
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Eubank prepares to crown new Miss ISU
of a documentary by Vice Magazine who founded a controversial white student union at a Maryland university where he studied.
Tom Buhls, the president of Indiana University’s chapter of the Traditionalist Youth Network, said he has personally worked with Heimbach and targeted ISU’s campus by calling for his chapter and other individuals in the region to protest the event.
“We are bringing a diverse network of activists from outside the Traditionalist Youth Network to come and take part in this demonstration,” Buhls said. “These are folks from Klan organizations, these are folks from the National Socialist Movement.”
Buhls said the group’s values align mostly with those of white supremacists and added that several individuals will be traveling from out of state to demonstrate, including members of the Ku Klux Klan.
“We advocate, and it’s probably a bit of a controversial position, that everybody adopt a tribe or tradition,” Buhls said. “That obviously means that white people need to adopt a white identity or embrace the idea of membership in an extended white tribe.”
Britney Richardson, president of ISU’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a junior social work major, said she had not heard of the protest but disagrees with the values of those who plan to demonstrate.
“I don’t think that would make a great society. I think actually that would hinder our society because the reason that we all have come together is to create something amazing,” Richardson said. “I think that every culture has something to bring to the table and if not, then all of our cultures would not be in one place. I believe that we all come together for a reason.”
Richardson said she “felt sorry” for those who hold traditionalist beliefs.
“I believe that God made us all equal and that the only thing that minorities really want is to be looked at as equal, to have the same opportunities,” she said.
While she was shocked at the idea of the protest, Richardson said she understood that ISU is an open campus and the group is practicing its constitutional rights.
“I’m actually really shocked and a little nervous to see how that goes,” she said.
“I hope that if it is a protest, it’s civil, that they’re just using their freedom of speech, which they can.
“If they’re against it, I completely understand, but it’s the truth and not everyone can deal with the truth.”
ISU, like other public universities with open campuses, has guidelines when accommodating protests and demonstrations, said Dave Taylor, director of ISU Media Relations.
He said the protesters will have a reserved spot between University Hall’s two west entrances and Public Safety will be present.
Protesters will be allowed to carry signs but as a precaution the signs cannot have poles or sticks attached to them so that they cannot be used as weapons. He said warding off the threat of violence or rioting is paramount when preparing for a demonstration.
“We fully expect it will be a peaceful event,” Taylor said.
Buhls, who is also the chief operating officer of the Traditionalist Youth Network, wrote in an entry on the group’s website, www.tradyouth.org, explaining his decision to target ISU’s campus.
“It’s the fall semester at universities around the country, and that means it’s time for the globalists, secularists, modernists, communists and other garden variety loons of the left to invade our campuses and work doubly hard at separating people from their tribe and tradition,” Buhls wrote.
“To the Marxists and Communists at ISU, we are the people your liberal professors warned you about,” he wrote later in the post.
Buhls is no stranger to controversy and protests on campuses he considers “liberal.”
In August, IU’s student newspaper The Indiana Daily Student reported that Buhls led a protest with three other individuals outside a campus bookstore that they believed supported liberal and communist ideals.
The Daily Student reported that the demonstration was met with a counter-protest that ran the group off with garden hoses.
Buhls said he made a courtesy call to ISU Public Safety earlier in the month to inform the university about the demonstration and Richardson said she hasn’t been informed of any planned
counter-protests outside tonight’s venue.Ervin, who is helping to organize the
event and has personally interacted with Wise on several occasions, said the goal of this year’s “Eye on Diversity” series is to talk about differences — the protesters offer another opportunity to do just that.
“My office wants to create spaces and places that you can talk about those differences, that you can explore those differences and that you can learn about those differences,” Ervin said. “It’s not supporting one over the other. It’s providing avenues for discussion about all of them.”
Buhls said the demonstrators who will visit ISU tonight are doing so as a result of a fundamental disagreement with Wise’s ideology.
“This is a man who makes his living defaming white people and saying that white people don’t have a legitimate voice on any issue relating to race,” Buhl said. “We’re going there to tell him he’s wrong.”
But Ervin said Wise is right, with arguments that use historical events and facts to reinforce the existence of white privilege and racism today.
“He’s not the type of speaker who points fingers. That’s not him. He gives the background and where [racism] came from, how it started and then he builds upon that,” Ervin said. “If people want to take issues and want to disagree, you can’t disagree with history. It’s there. You can’t disagree that the Holocaust happened — it happened. You can’t disagree that slavery happened — it happened. You can’t disagree with certain facts, so he builds from that and goes forward.”
Buhls said some of the demonstrators “are also simply concerned white people that have decided that they have a voice and they are coming out to exercise that voice.”
However, Richardson said she disagreed with the notion that white people no longer have a voice and believes Wise’s presentation will exemplify that truth.
“This is the minority truth. To hear it from a Caucasian male when we already know the truth, lived the truth, we deal with it everyday, for other Caucasians to hear it and to hear it from him, I think it will be a lot different and I think some Caucasians will turn their ear off to it because they don’t want to believe it,” Richardson said. “But it is our reality every day.”
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least one semester prior to competition; is between the ages of 17 and 24; is a United States Citizen; is in reasonably good health to meet the job requirements; is able to meet the time commitment and job responsibilities as set forth by the Miss Indiana State Program; and is willing to raise funds for the Children’s Miracle Network. Contestants must reach
a minimum $100 goal to compete. Freda Luers, associate director of ISU
Student Activities, said that the women competing meet as a group for seven weeks prior to the pageant. Getting to know the other students and developing interview and life skills is an excellent opportunity for them, she said.
According to the Miss America website, the program provides personal and professional opportunities for women.
Part of their responsibility includes promoting and advocating a platform that showcases their concerns or interests that will coincide with the goals and objectives of the Miss America Organization. Miss ISU 2012 Ayanna Sykes, a junior psychology major, said she enjoyed her time as Miss ISU.
“I became an even more well-rounded young woman. I went from somewhat shy to blossoming and opening up to people,” Sykes said.
“I was not to much of a public speaker but as Miss ISU, I was able to develop that skill and apply it.”
Apart from giving up her Miss ISU title, not much has changed for Sykes. She still competes in scholarship pageants that may give her the opportunity to become Miss America.
Sykes said that crowning Eubank was like an out-of-body experience and she was surprised about how quickly her reign passed.
Sykes and Eubank spent time together during the Miss Indiana competition week last June, getting to know each other more personally.
“It was time for another girl to embark on an amazing journey,” Sykes said. “I know she has done well with the title.”
The 2014 Miss ISU will be crowned Oct. 27 at 3:30 p.m. in the University Hall Theater.
Reigning Miss ISU Kyla Eubank is crowned by former Miss ISU Ayanna Sykes during the 2013 pageant on the ISU campus (Photo courtesy of ISU Communications and Marketing).
“I became an even more well-rounded young woman. I went
from somewhat shy to blossoming and opening up to
people.”
Ayanna Sykes, Miss ISU of 2012and a junior psychology major
From the soccer team making the Missouri Valley Conference championship finals for the second time in school history to the men and women’s track and field teams both winning the MVC titles for the first time in school history, the athletic program had one of its most successful seasons of competition.
Women’s Soccer Senior midfielder Taylor Reed and
sophomore fielder Sydney Loesing led the team in with four goals each that season, while senior midfielder and defender Shelby Troyer along with Marisa Windisch and Kourtney Vassar, both concluded their collegiate careers at ISU in the 2012-2013 season, led the team with three assists each. Goalie Erin Mitchell had an outstanding season by posting a .720 save percentage.
In the first game of the Missouri Valley Conference tournament, the Sycamores took on the University of Northern Iowa. The Sycamores won the penalty shootout 4-3.
The ISU soccer team defeated Evansville University in the semifinals by a score of 2-1 with goals from sophomore mid fielder Sydney Lovelace and junior fielder Bria Caldwell. Caldwell also assisted on Lovelace’s goal.
The Sycamores played Illinois State in the Missouri Valley Conference championship game. It was only the second time in the history of the program that the Sycamores have played for the championship. Their 5-1 loss didn’t spoil the honor.
Women’s BasketballIndiana State women’s basketball also
had a successful season, going 18-13 with wins against Marshall, Drake and overtime struggles against UT Martin and Creighton.
Senior guard Anna Munn was the leading scorer for the team, averaging 14.5 points per game. Not far behind
her was junior forward Rachel Mahan averaging 13 point per game and leading the team in rebounding, grabbing 245 on the season and averaging 7.9 per game.
The women’s team played the University of Northern Iowa in the first round of the Missouri Valley Conference tournament. The Sycamores ended up losing the contest 71-60, but went out fighting.
They used a 10-0 run in the second half to climb back and even come within two points of Iowa. The Sycamores would get as close as five points twice over the final three minutes, including a jumper by Munn at the 3:08 mark and then again with a pair of Mahan free throws with 2:38 remaining to make it 59-54.
The University of Northern Iowa regained control and didn’t slip up from there. ISU had four players go in double figures scoring, including Mahan who tallied 17 to go with her nine rebounds. Munn posted 14 while junior guard Natasha Zurek scored 12 off the bench. Taylor Whitley, concluding her collegiate
Above: The women’s basketball team went 18-13 last season with big wins against Marshall and Drake. Below: The men’s and women’s track and field teams both won Missouri Valley Conference titles last year (Statesman file photos).
Zach Rainey Reporter
ISU athletics coming off of successful runs last year
career in the 2012-2013 seasons, scored ten points. This eliminated ISU from the Missouri Valley Conference tournament, but still had a chance to play in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament.
Getting invited to the Women’s National Invitation Tournament was Indiana State’s first postseason appearance since 2005-2006. The closest the Sycamores would get to Youngstown State was with 14:53 remaining when they got to within one point with the score being 34-33. The women’s basketball team went on to lose by a score of 63-51, eliminating the Sycamores from the tournament.
Whitley led the team with 15 points, eight rebounds and three steals in her final collegiate game, while Laramie, Munn and Zurek all added ten points. Indiana State out-rebounded Youngstown State by a 43-40 margin, just their second loss of the season when winning on the glass.
Men’s BasketballThe men’s basketball team had some
very impressive wins last season - in particular their wins against Miami, University of Mississippi, Wichita State and Creighton.
The Sycamores victory against Miami early in the season gave ISU confidence going forward especially seeing how well Miami did down the stretch.
At a point late in the season during which Miami University went on a winning streak, the team was picked to win the national championship.
Indiana State had more important games on the schedule however, they still had to try and compete for a spot in the conference tournament, which would mean an upset here or there.
After losing to Creighton, the Sycamores looked to even the score on their home court. Creighton came to the Hulman Center ranked as the 16th best team in the country but the Sycamores matched that confidence.
Although dropping an overtime game against Drake on the road four days prior, the Sycamores had defeated Wichita State at the Hulman Center. At the time, Wichita State was ranked the 15th best team in the country, so this game against Creighton wasn’t a new scenario to the Sycamores.
The Sycamore defense shut down Creighton’s Doug McDermott, holding him to just eight points for the game. McDermott’s average coming in was 22
points per game.
Men’s and Women’s Track and Field The 2012-2013 men and women’s track
teams were the first time in school history to win both Missouri Valley Conference Outdoor titles. This was the first time the women’s team won in 20 years and men claimed their third straight title by scoring 198.50 points.
Head men’s track coach John McNichols received his 10th Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year award as head women’s coach Angela Martin won her first following the competition.
Heading into the 4x400-meter relay, the final event of the championships, Indiana State trailed two-time defending champion Wichita State 161-156.5.
Senior Shelby Higginbottom, the only non-senior on the relay team, got the race off to a good start and by the time Stacia Weatherford, concluded her collegiate career in the 2012-2013 seasons, finished her leg the women’s team had the lead. Leeann Michl and Macey Black, ended the collegiant track and field careers in the 2012-2013 seasons, maintained the advantage as the relay finished in an Indiana State and Missouri Valley Conference Championship record time of three minutes, 38.76 seconds. The Sycamores needed to win the meet and for Wichita State to finish fourth or worse. Wichita State finished fifth, giving ISU the championship.
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ISU Athletics 2012-2013 Season
• Women’s basketball went 18-13 with big wins agasint drake, marshall and Creighton universities.
• men’s basketball took surprising wins against the university of miami and Creighton.
• men and women’s track and field took both missouri Valley Conference titles for the first time in school history.
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As all of you should know, last weekend was the Sycamores’ Homecoming. All of you may not be aware though if you did not quite make it to the game, that we played the Youngstown Penguins. For those who got side-tracked on their journey to the stadium, it may have been a struggle the next day or even later that night.
Let’s face it, most of us have done it; we had too much to drink then we hate ourselves for it
later. The symptoms of a hangover can be caused by dehydration, inflammatory responses, irritation of the lining of the stomach, drop in blood sugar, constricted blood vessels and lowered quality of sleep. Now I’m not foolish enough to believe the college population is going to give up drinking alcohol, but there are some ways to reduce the torturous aftermath that prevents having a productive Sunday.
The obvious ways of making a pre-emptive strike against being hungovers include not drinking alcohol or drinking in moderation. The other most popular way — perhaps even more popular — is drinking plenty of water while drinking alcohol. Alcohol is a diuretic, which means it causes the body to urinate much more. This causes dehydration which will lead to the headaches, dizziness, light-headedness, and the thirst that many will experience. Try to mix your drinks with flavored water instead of sodas or try to drink one glass of water for every alcoholic beverage you have.
Alcohol causes your blood sugar to drop which causes weakness, shakiness, feelings of fatigue and mood instabilities. To prevent this try to eat something instead of bingeing on alcohol on an empty stomach. Try eating a carbohydrate snack, such as pretzels — the salt will also help you retain water — or something bland like crackers or toast to help raise blood sugar as well as settle your stomach.
Many are drawn to high-fat foods the next morning. Fatty foods will not cure hangovers and may irritate your stomach even further. However, these foods may be able to help prevent you from having a hangover if eaten before you start your
night-time festivities. The fat can help repel alcohol from the stomach lining. Try to stick with foods that have healthy fats, such as avocadoes, fish, nuts, and olive oil.
Alcohol is a vasodilator, which means your blood vessels become larger and more relaxed. This expansion of blood vessels is what causes the feeling of warmth when you drink. At intoxicating levels it is a vasoconstrictor, which is exactly the opposite. Since this causes an imbalance in your body that can cause headaches, it can be beneficial to take Ibuprofen or Tylenol to reverse this effect, if your doctor approves the use of these over-the-counters medications.
If you neglected the previous tips and wake up the next morning feeling like death, incapable of getting out of bed, let alone writing that paper due on Monday, there are some foods and beverages that can help kick that feeling. One of the best items to eat is eggs. Eggs are always a healthy breakfast choice, but they are especially beneficial when you are having a rough morning because they contain amino acid and cysteine. Cysteine helps break down toxins that aid in causing the hangover. Cysteine is a powerful antioxidant that is essential to form something called glutathione, which is crucial in the removal of harmful toxins by the liver. If you are not particularly an egg fan, other food sources of cysteine include poultry, dairy products, quinoa, garlic, onions, red pepper, broccoli, brussel sprouts and oats.
Another way to rid your body of the next day blues is to consume foods or drinks that contain fructose. Fructose helps get alcohol out of your body more quickly so your body can free itself of the toxins and return to a state of equilibrium. Fructose is found in fruit, fruit juices and honey. If you choose the fruit option, this will also aid by adding additional anti oxidants and Vitamin C to your diet.
When you urinate as much as you do when you drink, you are also ridding your body of important electrolytes. Try to replenish your sodium and potassium by drinking milk or a sports drink. This will also help rehydrate your body at the same time. Other sources of potassium can help as well; such as bananas, kiwis or potatoes.
Of course not drinking excessive amounts of alcohol would be the easiest way to avoid the dreaded next morning
hangover, but if that is not your first choice, you can always control the agony with your diet. I am sorry to say there are
no foods to fix the headaches you have the next day from other regrettable decisions, though.
Many ISU students may find themselves battling headaches and nausea as post-weekend hangovers catch up with them (Submitted Photo).
Helpful tips to prevent post-weekend hangovers
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