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PAC may get face life

By JAMES VAUGHNStaff writer

The Physical Activities Cen-ter (PAC) has not been given a facelift since it opened its doors in 1979, but that may change if the state legislature authorizes the $18 million in funding the university is requesting.

The money would also fund renovations in the lower level of the Science Center and in the Technology Center, but Stephen Helfrich, director of Facilities, Operations and Planning, said the PAC would require the big-gest chunk of the money.

Helfrich said the PAC has not been touched because there have always been other priorities.

“To do a renovation like this is expensive,” Helfrich said. “There were always other build-ings that needed it or other fa-cilities that we wanted to build.”

The project has been included on a capital improvement budget request for the past six years.

He said the renovation and, more importantly, the expansion of the PAC, have now become the university’s top priority.

Helfrich said he would like to add more faculty offi ces, classrooms and laboratories and make improvements to the nata-torium and the general appear-ance of the building.

“The building looks dated,” he said. “It was low-budget back in the late 70s.”

Helfrich said before they be-gan coming up with ideas for the overall renovation and ex-pansion, the gym was upgraded with new wood fl oors, bleach-ers, lighting and a fresh coat of paint.

Therefore, the gym won’t be included in the plans for the project.

He said more special events are being held in the PAC now than ever before, which is why appearance, as well as entry ca-pabilities and circulation within the building, are a concern.

A concourse, which will bet-ter accommodate large crowds, is something that is being con-sidered. Helfrich said they’ve been discussing concepts and ideas for the PAC, but nothing is offi cial yet.

“If we see a better possibility of the project being approved and funded, then we’ll jump into planning mode,” Helfrich said.

He said he’s not confi dent USI will receive the funding this year because the economy has not picked up enough. Helfrich said he has also been talking to faculty and staff in the PAC to see what they think needs to be done.

By NICK EBERTZSpecial to The Shield

USI’s three sororities - Alpha Sigma Alpha, Delta Zeta and Gamma Phi Beta - formally accepted 121 new members during their acceptance ceremonies Monday night in Carter Hall. Sorori-ties on campus now boast a total of 301 women.

“It’s really incredible how (Gam-ma Phi Beta sorority) has grown...” Gamma Phi Beta president Aurelia Vanderkolk said. “It’s gotten better and better every year,”

Emotions ran high for the new mem-bers, as many were screaming, crying, jumping up and down and hugging one another.

“It feels like the best night of my life,” new Alpha Sigma Alpha member Kristen Cameron said as she wiped a

tear from her eye.Cameron said she joined the sorority

because she wants to help people.“I hope to experience sisterhood,”

new Delta Zeta member Alex Malhotra said.

Malhotra said she was excited about the evening.

The chapter leaders were also caught up in the emotion.

“I’ve been happy all day long,” Vice President of Recruitment for Alpha Sigma Alpha Emily Ellison said.

This fall is her second year being vice president of recruitment, and she said it has made her a better person.

In addition to the new members, Rho Sigmas, or recruitment counselors, were welcomed back into their home sororities. Rho Sigmas temporarily re-nounce their sisterhood in order to of-

121 women join sorority life

By SHANNON HALL Staff writer

Biology Instructor Barbara Kalvelage wanted to be in the top 10 list for ratemyprofes-sors.com, and this year she received her wish.

“I got an email a couple weeks ago that said I had made the national hot list,” Kalvelage said. “I thought that was so silly. I called my husband and said, ‘Someone is trying to Punk me.’ … I really thought I was being Punk’d.”

She wasn’t Punk’d - she made the list, but the wrong list, she said.

“Of course, the list I want-ed to be on wasn’t the hot list,” Kalvelage said. “I want-ed to be on the quality list… but I got roses out of it. My husband bought them for his hot wife.”

Kalvelage said she is “hooked” on ratemyprofes-

sors.com.She has more than 340

ratings on ratemyprofessors.com with her overall quality being a 4.8 and an easiness level in the middle, at a 3.8, both out fi ve.

The highest-ranked teacher on ratemyprofessors.com is a professor from New York with an overall quality of 5 and an easiness level of 4.8. He has 37 ratings.

“I really don’t see how a professor could get all fi ves,” Kalvelage said. “You can’t reach every student, but when you do reach them, it’s good.”

The average for all of the USI professors on ratemypro-fessors.com is a 3.68 overall quality.

Kalvelage teaches Biol-ogy 105 and has won Faculty Member of the Year and H. Lee Cooper Core Curricu-lum Teaching Award, both in 2009.

“Outside of (the two

awards), there’s not much that happens for core, and I don’t expect to win either of those again,” she said. “But on ratemyprofessors.com, I can see how I am relating to the students. I am trying to bridge a big generation gap.”

In 2004, 82 percent of about 130 student class passed Biology 105.

“I thought, ‘I will never have that again,’” Kalvelage said. “I wanted to remember that class forever because they worked so well with each other and they asked good questions, and I was so impressed with them. So I got my tragus pierced. I thought I will always have them with me.”

She then issued a challenge for every class afterwards, she said.

“I would tell every class after, ‘This class got an 82 percent. If you can beat that,

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KALVELAGE on Pg. 3

PAC RENOVATIONS on Pg. 3

SORORITY BID DAY on Pg. 3

Biology Instructor Barbara Kalvelage accepts junior psychology major Milo Estrello’s lab practical. After each student submits the practical, she asks them how they liked it and if it was fun.

A member of Gamma Phi Beta, Tatiana Camacho (center) poses for a picture with two new mem-bers, Shelby Spray (left) and Haley Fisher(right) during Sorority Bid Night in Carter Hall on Monday.

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News BriefsClubs conduct voter registration

Several student clubs are conducting a voter reg-istration drive on campus from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday and will have a table set up in the breeze-way between UC East and UC West. The participat-ing student clubs are the Political Science Society, the Sociology Anthropology and Criminal Justice Club, the Pre-Law Club, College Democrats, College Re-publicans, the Black Student Union.

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Kalvelage continued from Pg. 1

PAC Renovations continued from Pg. 1

Mrs. K. will do something for you, too,’” she said.

In 2007, a class beat the percentage, and it realized that, too, she said.

“They asked me what I would get pierced this time,” Kalvelage said.

Instead of a piercing, Kalvelage got a feather tat-too on top of her forearm.

“I call them my feather class,” she said. “I lost two students from that class so I have two tear drops. Ev-ery time I see that feather, it makes me feel so good.”

For any class that beats the 85 percent, Kalvelage said she would get liposuc-tion. For her birthday, she orders chicken and dump-lings with two additional sides of dumplings.

“I tell my students that because that’s why I need the liposuction,” she said.

Before each class, Kalvelage said she plays music that pertains to what is being taught in class.

For example, if they were studying the heart, she would play “I’m Not Going to Break your Heart,” she said.

Kalvelage said if any-one did not like the mu-sic and complained, she would stop it.

In her classroom, she has a comment box.

“If they don’t like some-

thing I’m doing, and they have a suggestion on how to it, they can put it in the comment box,” she said. “Through the years, I’ve learned from my students. Just by trying different things in teaching, I feel like I’m a better teacher.”

Kalvelage started teach-ing at USI in 1999. She said she didn’t plan on teaching – she took a night class at USI and the pro-fessor asked if she would be interested.

“It was only 12 hours a week,” she said. “I could do that standing on my head… (I thought) it would be just until they got someone else. I loved it so much that I quit my other job.”

Before coming to USI, she worked as an aquatic biologist.

“I was the fi rst woman allowed to work on rivers (with the Environmental Protection Agency),” she said. “I had to fi le a griev-ance in order to get on the river because they said women can’t get on boats because women fall out of boats.”

Kalvelage said she doesn’t plan on retiring any it time soon.

“The school might plan on it,” she said. “I cannot imagine not teaching…. I

cannot imagine sitting at home and drinking coffee all day or something. Even over the summer, I felt like I was just losing so much of life.”

Biology Department Chair Henri Maurice said there is a reason Kalvelage received the two teaching awards.

“She is really good at what she does with our stu-dents,” he said. “That is, I think, why she continues teaching. She truly enjoys working with students.”

He said he thinks she becomes more upset about students not doing well than the students do.

Maurice does not use ratemyprofessors.com like Kalvelage does, he said.

“I don’t believe in that because that is not what the university uses,” Mau-rice said. “But I do know she is highly rated on rate-myprofessors.com, and that’s totally fantastic.”

As for her using pierc-ings and tattoos to moti-vate students for the pass rate, he said he thinks ev-eryone is different.

“I think each person is individual, and if a per-son is excited about doing that, then that’s their pre-rogative,” Maurice said. “I think that’s really cool she does (piercings and

tattoos as incentives). I think other faculty perhaps relate to their students in other ways that don’t have to necessarily be tattoos or piercings. There are other ways to relate to their stu-dents.”

He said he is glad she does not plan to retire.

“It makes my job easier because I don’t have to re-place her,” Maurice said. “She does a lot of really good things with introduc-tory students.”

Junior social work major Kayla Rupp had Kalvelage last spring for Biology 105.

Rupp said she hated bi-ology before Kalvelage’s class.

“She related it to real-life stuff,” Rupp said. “She made it relevant to your life.”

Kalvelage had a strict texting policy where if you texted during class, she kicked you out, Rupp said.

“I wasn’t too fond of it, but it’s her policy... She was very understanding of the college age group, but she stuck to her guns,” Rupp said. “She was still an adult and a teacher, but she understood being young. She’s still young at heart.”

Glenna Bower, associate professor of kinesiology and sports, was a student at USI from 1991 to 1995. She has taught at the university since 1997. She said the only difference she sees between now and then are the gym fl oors and some paint.

“When I walk into this building, I still feel like it’s the same PAC that we had when I went here years ago,” Bower said.

She said she’s hoping for more space. “Our programs cannot grow without enough space,” Bower said. “That’s pretty much what it comes down to.”

She said the biggest challenge the department is fac-ing right now is being at maximum capacity in the PED 186 classes.

The classroom can fi t only 28 students at a time, which

is not a lot, considering that the course is a requirement of the core curriculum.

She said the faculty has not been given an opportunity to discuss ideas for the project in at least three years, but there hasn’t been a need to.

“Until they can sit down and tell us they have the mon-ey, they probably won’t ask for our contributions to the plans,” Bower said.

Senior Sports Management major Melvyn Little said other than improvements to the weight room, he doesn’t see the need to renovate the PAC.

“I’ve played in 26 games,” Little said. “I’ve been in several other gyms and for us to be a Division II school, we have a fairly nice facility.”

He said they are doing the best they can with what they

Sorority Bid Day continued from Pg. 1

nounce their sisterhood in order to offer perspective members an unbiased opinion on each of the sororities.

Rho Sigmas disafi liate for fi ve months, meaning they cannot wear their letters out in public and they cannot be seen by potential members with more than two sorority women. Starting Aug. 1, they cannot have contact with any sorority women besides other Rho Sigmas.

Many members of the sororities held signs that said things such as “Welcome back, Little” and “I Missed My Big” in order to show their excitement for the returning Rho Sigmas.

This was the fi rst year members of USI’s fraternities were allowed to attend the event, showing their support

for the sororities.The addition of the fraternity members represented a

strengthening of USI’s Greek community.“It’s not just fraternities and sororities,” said David

Stetter, program adviser for fraternity and sorority life.Monday night was not the end of sorority recruitment

at USI. Alpha Sigma Tau will start recruitment this weekas a part of USI’s Sorority Extension Effort. The soror-ity currently has seven staff members from the nationalorganization on campus with hopes of accepting 75 newsisters.

The Sorority Extension Effort will also welcome Sig-ma Sigma Sigma to USI’s campus in 2014.

By CASSIDY HELMSSpecial to The Shield

It may be hard to be-lieve, but there will come a day when it’s time iron those big kid pants and leave the well-worn sweats at home.

“Yeah, I have to fi nd that big girl job,” Katie Valen-tine said, after three years of working for the Career Services Department.

The Career Services De-partment at USI is organiz-ing another CareerLINK fair, which is open to all USI students of any major and any skill level.

CareerLINK has hap-pened at USI for the past 10 years, with the past fi ve to six years holding two fairs each. Vendors and companies from the sur-rounding area and from larger parent corporations send representatives to recruit prospective intern-ship candidates and em-ployees.

“We hear back from

quite a number of stu-dents,” said Philip Parker, director of Career Services and Placement. “Students do come back and tell us, ‘Oh, I’ve got an internship lined up from one of the employers at the fair.’”

Parker said students also hear back from employers saying they have hired a USI graduate they met at the fair.

Besides offering job and internship opportunities, CareerLINK will also have representatives from law and graduate schools for those students looking to keep hitting the books and further their education. A complete list of compa-nies and graduate schools is available on the Career Services website.

A few business frater-nities and honor societ-ies on campus are getting involved with the fair and providing services to help fellow students with net-working opportunities. Beta Alpha Psi, an inter-

national accounting honor society will be helping out with promotion, set-up, student check-in, info and various other tasks to help the event run smoothly. The business fraternity Alpha Kappa Psi will run a photo booth to take pro-fessional headshots that students can use on their Facebook and LinkedIN accounts.

LinkedIN is a profes-sional networking site that connects employers, em-ployees and friends. The site connects friends and co-workers to each other’s employers, and users can reference one another’s skills and abilities in the work place, said Bobi Miller, recruiting supervi-sor of Career Services.

Not only are employ-ers at career fairs looking for majors in business, engineering or health pro-fessions, but liberal arts majors are in demand, as well. Though he admits large career fairs such as

CareerLINK are saturatedwith companies that wantbusiness majors, Parkersaid he still encouragesliberal arts majors to at-tend.

“We’ve seen region-ally, studies have shown that employers are moreand more looking at thevalue that liberal arts ma-jors bring to the workplace- their critical thinking skills, their strong commu-nication skills,” he said.“We strongly encourage students from the liberalarts majors to come outto the fair. Don’t be taken aback that your specifi c major may not be listed by that employer.”

Parker said he encour-ages all students to comeprepared with a polished resume, some nice slacks,and a good pitch to show-case your marketableskills.

CareerLINK will beheld from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 26 in Carter Hall.

Iron your big kid pantsCareer Services to host CareerLink fair

Author, speaker, and entertainer Firoozeh Dumas will speak at USI at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday. She is the author of the 2004 best-selling memoir, “Funny in Farsi.” USI students, faculty and staff, and com-munity members gather for a lecture about “Perse-polis,” followed by a question and answer session. “Persepolis” was written by Marjane Satrapi and is her memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Persepolis was part of the University’s Bonding Through Books program and is used in sev-eral classes on campus.

This program is sponsored by the USI Foundation, Student Development, and the University Core Cur-riculum.

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The Avett Brothers“The Carpenter”

Much like The Avett Brothers’ last album “I and Love and You,” “The Carpenter” is a return – actu-ally, more like a continuation – down a familiar path. The blend of its roots-inspired sound melded with the pop harmonization found in an album (once again) produced by Rick Rubin is a combination that will keep listeners on their toes from beginning to end.

The album begins with “The Once and Future Car-penter,” a slow, existential ballad – and my personal favorite – that sets up the album very well. The cho-rus features the thought-provoking line “If I live the life I’m given, I won’t be scared to die.” This song introduces the themes of life and death that are re-peated several times throughout the album.

Other hints of folk and bluegrass are scattered throughout the album, with tracks such as “Winter In My Heart” and “February Seven” being standouts. “I Never Knew You” and “Geraldine” both bring in

a poppy, sing-song element to the al-bum – the latter of the two belonging on a Broadway score. Rock and roll isn’t out of reach in the electric guitar of the bouncy powerhouse “Pretty Girl From Michigan” and the punk-driven “Paul Newman vs. The Demons,” add-ing to the band’s plethora of instrumentation.

“The Carpenter” doesn’t disappoint at all. Even the songs on the album that aren’t as memorable feel like they belong on an album that is, more or less, a collaboration of musical wit and integrity.

Rating: 4/5

By: JAKE TAPLEY, Staff writer

By MEREDITH HARRISSpecial to The Shield

Following his longtime passion for pursuing mu-sic, senior Kurtis Kelley has released a free online mixtape called "The Green Lights Project."

Kelley started The Green Lights Project with his friend Kivon Redd, an Indiana University (IU) student. Together, they put music together and rap as Sonny Osho (Kelley) and Ki (Redd) - The Lunar Crew.

“Some of the instru-mentals we rap over are not owned by us,” Kelley said. “We have to beat for free. It can’t be sold on iTunes or anything.”

Kelley said he got into making music when he saw his friends in high school doing it. Interested in what he saw, he soon decided to follow in their footsteps.

He began by making beats, which is like pro-ducing, and then became interested in rapping a couple years ago, he said.

The music featured on the 17-song "Green Lights Project" album focuses on the lives of the two college students, Kelley said.

“We’re not focusing on, you know, being signed or making it big right now," Kelley said. “We’re focus-ing on school.”

He said they rap about love, politics and the life they live.

“(We don’t rap about) too much of the club or too much of money,” Kel-ley said. “We rap about not having money because we’re two broke college students.”

Their music has had a big following on the Inter-net and they are continuing to perform as long as they have a following, Kelley said.

The mixtape is available online as a free download. The Green Lights Project will perform Sept. 29 in Newburgh. Contact Kel-ley at lunarcrewmusic@gmail.com for more in-formation about the venue and time.

Twenty One Pilots “Three Songs”

Twenty One Pilots is a Columbus, Ohio, duo with their own take on pop and hip-hop mixes with in-credible lyrics. “Three Songs” is exactly what the al-bum is called: It contains three songs of their newest music since signing with Fueled By Ramen over the summer.

The album consists of two tracks that have been re-recorded from their second album “Regional at Best” and a new song “Migraine.”

The “Three Songs” ep kicks the album off with “Gun’s with Hands” which sets the tempo for the whole album. This track has lots of energy, the mu-sic starts off with very heavy dance beat mixed with electronics and drums. The lyrics come in slowly then pick up for the chorus. They carry through the rest of the song until lead singer Tyler Joseph starts rapping.

“Migraine” is the second song of the three. It is layered between the two re-recorded track, add-ing new life to the three tracks.

“Migraine” has Auto-Tune sound in the chorus but not the crappy Auto-Tune like T-Pain. It’s used as an accent for the track. The track is one of the band’s most hip-hop-fi lled songs, but it still carries their sound along with a unique vocal pattern that is different from most hip-hop on the radio.

Rating: 5/5

By JIMMY PYLES, Staff writer

A passion for music

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USI around the world

Together four USI students spent a minimum of 140 hours, or almost six days, each traveling to three different countries.

Each student received a Global Engagement Internship, which is a fully-funded internship.

This is part two of “USI all around the world.” Check out last week’s series online with Jordan Whitledge and Catherine Carver.

By ELISE WEAVERSpecial to The Shield

After trekking to Ghana, Africa, where she lived for eight weeks (May 15-July 10), senior Chelsea Heibel can now say she has expe-rienced the "opportunity of a lifetime."

The biochemistry ma-jor decided to make this journey to learn about the health care fi eld in the Third World.

“I’ve always been in-terested in medicine and third-world countries,” Heibel said. “I just re-ally wanted to go in order to get experience in the health care fi eld.”

When she arrived in Kumasi, her home for eight weeks, Heibel dis-covered that her host, Mr. Gwatang, ran a school or-phanage right behind his house.

“(Mr. Gwatang) has

eight rooms for volunteers in his house,” Heibel said. “I actually had my own bedroom, bed, toilet, tub, with a bucket that I used for cold, bucket showers.”

Along with becoming acquainted with her new house, Heibel familiarized herself with the hospital and the school orphanage. While she was working in the hospital, Heibel got to experience many hands-on opportunities.

“When I was in the wards, I would set IVs and draw blood and do other basic nursing things, like give shots and stuff,” she said. “Here, I never would have been able to do that kind of stuff in a hospital.”

There were many as-pects of Kumasi’s city and hospitals that differed from America’s.

“(The natives) speak some English. The educat-ed speak pretty good Eng-

lish,” Heibel said. “They use the British system… in the hospital… their ter-minology is based on the British system.”

She said she was treated like a celebrity throughout the duration of her stay be-cause the residents loved white people. They would shout “Obruni,” which is “white tourist” in Kuma-si’s native language, and chase after her.

“I’d run through the vil-lages and the kids would run after me and shout, ‘Obruni! Obruni!’ and fol-low me until they couldn’t follow anymore,” Heibel said.

But being treated differ-ently did not affect her de-sire to continue traveling abroad.

“I would someday like to go back and do some-thing in a third world country like that,” Heibel said.

By SHANNON HALLLife and Culture editor

Junior nursing major Brit Van Laeken used her parenting skills to help her during her internship to Dharamsala, India.

Van Laeken, a mother of two boys, had to leave her children for the four weeks.

“We used Skype a lot and texted back and forth,” she said.

She said it was diffi cult being far away, but she knew it was a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”

“It was really hard at times, especially on days when I worked with children and their moth-ers were right there with them,” she said.

Van Laeken said her experience being a parent was one of her greatest as-sets.

“My job was to perform medical exams on rural village children, many of whom had never seen a doctor and were initially

terrifi ed of me,” she said. “While the training that comes along with being a nursing student was ex-tremely useful, there were defi nitely times when my experience as a parent was equally as important.”

She performed medical exams on local children and villagers.

Her group, plus her translator, traveled to many rural villages where many dialects are spoken.

At one of the spots, Van Laeken said people piled in to be examined, and the line never ended.

“Some of these people, women mostly, spent miles trekking to get an exam,” Van Laeken said. “They have medical care, but it’s not that good.”

Van Laeken said she spent the day treating as many people as she could, but she couldn’t get to all of them.

“Eventually, I had to turn them away and deny them service,” she said. “It was really upsetting.”

Even with a translator there to explain why she couldn’t look at them, Van Laeken said it was diffi -cult.

“There’s still a wall there, and I couldn’t tell them how sorry I was,” she said. “They spent hours trekking over the mountains to get service, and my ride was leaving. So some came to be turned away.”

During her time there, Van Laeken lived in a ru-ral village in northern In-dia near the Himalayas.

“There was an interest-ing mix of people living in extreme poverty, right next to mansions, with dirt roads shared by cows, motorcycles, monkeys and cars,” Van Laeken said.

She chose India because of the culture as well as possible experience, she said.

“I think I (had) a lot to give to India and a lot to absorb,” Van Laeken said. “It’s rewarding work.”

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By JAKE TAPLEY Opinion editor

The presidential elec-tion is just around the cor-ner. You know what that means - time for every-body’s crazy to come out.

I don’t know what causes some people to be-come political extremists around election time, but it seems to be an infectious tendency.

As Election Day ap-proaches, everyone starts using social media to voice their strong opinions in the

public eye.I hate when people pre-

tend to subscribe to such a strict agenda. I would like to think that, in politics, nothing is as black and white as the media por-trays it to be.

Some people are mis-taken when it comes to their own convictions. They either misinterpret their own beliefs or are ig-norant of the full spectrum in which their alleged be-liefs reside.

All of these talking heads we see on TV por-

tray a small percentage of the population - the politi-cal extremist bigots.

But I think it’s pret-ty safe to say that Bill O’Reilly and Rush Lim-baugh aren’t representa-tive all members of the Re-publican party. Likewise, Jon Stewart’s agenda is Democratic beliefs blown out of proportion.

I think it needs to be said that you’re probably not as strongly conserva-tive or liberal as you think. Whether you plan on vot-ing for Barack Obama or

Mitt Romney in the up-coming election, you still need to embrace the com-mon ground you share with the other party - even if that common ground is just acknowledging the other’s legitimacy.

The media portrays the Republicans and Demo-crats as these fi ercely op-posing parties that can’t even get along, let alone carry on an intelligent de-bate on any of the major is-sues. This portrayal carries over into all of our lives, as well. I’m tired of seeing

students act like they livein a black and white world where the only clear-cutanswers are found withintheir own viewpoints.

I’ve already seen itshow up numerous timesthis semester, and let me just say, you’re wrong.

Your truth is not an absolute truth. Your be-liefs are not standardizedbeliefs that everyone is expected to abide by. Do yourself a favor and quit mirroring the extremistmindsets of your belovedtalking heads.

Politics not black and white

By JIMMY PYLESEditor-in-Chief

On Jan. 9, 2007, a 4.5-inch, 4.8-ounce baby iPhone was brought into this crazy, technology-driven world.

Since 2007, the iPhone has grown up. Going through the changes, Ap-ple has released six versions of the iPhone. The most recent version is the iPhone 5, which was announced last week.

I seem to be only one who thinks the new iPhone doesn’t need to be bigger. It was the perfect the way it was.

Apple should stop trying to make it taller and thinner and go back to being the innovative company I love. Change the stuff on the inside before changing the stuff on the outside.

They already made the phone talk. Why not make it do other humanly functions like clean the kitchen, walk the dog - hell, why not give it super powers? Just make it different.

Apple’s most recent advances to the iPhone have been to introduce the retina screen and create Siri. If

Apple thinks that making the iPhone 5 18 percent thinner, 20 percent lighter and 12 percent less volume are a huge differences from the 4S, they are wrong.

I can hear the creators at Apple now: “Let’s make it slimmer and lighter, call it something different and jack the price up on it.”

Don’t get me wrong - there are some slight changes that make the iPhone more appealing than its pre-decessor.

The iPhone 5’s two big features are the 4G LTE wireless technology and A6 chip that powers the phone.

The A6 chip is twice as fast as the A5 chip in the iPhone 4s. The chip allows web pages and apps to load faster. Oh yeah; the battery is sup-posed to last longer, too. But they have been saying that since the fi rst version of iPhone.

Basically, the 4G LTE is supposed to make browsing the web and down-loading faster, but Apple’s version of LTE is suppose to make it one of the fastest phones on the market.

All that being said - I’m probably going to buy one.

Dear Editor,I’m a transfer student, and this is my fi rst semester here

at USI. I really can’t believe my good fortune in com-ing here. At my last college, we weren’t allowed to citeWikipedia as a source in any of the papers or research wedid. But here at USI, not only can I cite Wikipedia in mywork, but I actually have an assignment to write an articlefor Wikipedia. I’ll be an author in a real encyclopedia. I’llalready have something impressive to add to my resume.

Never mind that all of my old instructors used to tellus students that, while Wikipedia might be useful to getan idea or two, it was pretty much unreliable becauseanyone from 12-year-old to people with an axe to grindcould contribute to its entries. A lot of the informationwasn’t verifi ed and misinformation was rampant on thesite. It sort of boiled down to depending on people to tellthe truth on the Internet. My instructors assured me thatrelying on “if it’s on the Internet, it must be true” was arecipe for disaster.

But now I can see that all of my previous instructorswere wrong. Here at USI, I can cite Wikipedia. No lessa person than the head of the journalism department saysso, and you know how journalists are full of integrity andsticklers for the truth. All of their facts have to be verifi ednine ways to Sunday before they are considered reliable.So if Wikipedia is good enough for Dr. Tew, the Depart-ment of Communications, the College of Liberal Arts,and USI, I know Wikipedia is good enough for me, too.

I’ve got a hot tip for the university that it can use inits recruiting materials. Just let any prospective studentsknow that they won’t have to do any of that diffi cult re-search or analysis stuff in their classes. They can just useWikipedia and take the no-hassle, easy way out. I heardUSI is looking for ways to brand itself and differentiatethis institution from its competitors. Why not use “USI:We’re the Wikipedia of universities,” or maybe “Cometo USI: because it doesn’t get any easier than this,” orperhaps “USI: Wikipedia cited here” for our university’snew slogan? I can’t think of anything more different thatUSI does from other universities than this.

Michael Mezo

By PAT HICKEYSports editor

There is absolutely no reason why the USI and UE basketball teams can’t play every year - besides the Aces’ fear of losing to a Division II team, that is.

Four years ago, it took the UE men’s squad double overtime to edge off USI by four points in front of 9,500 fans at Roberts Stadium. In 2006, the Aces won by justtwo points in front of 11,500 fans.

When the two teams meet this fall, there will mostlikely be a sold-out crowd at the Ford Center – a state of the art, multi-purpose facility that opened up in No-vember 2011 and seats 10,000 for basketball games. The matchup is great for the city of Evansville and makesobvious sense fi nancially.

So why is UE afraid of making this an every-yeardeal? The Aces are expected to win. They have a deeper roster, play against more talented competition and the game is on its home court. Chaos would ensue if it lost.

Then again, the game doesn’t count in the win-loss column. Division I and II teams are not allowed to play against each other in a meaningful game. Exhibition games are designed for teams to play against someoneother than themselves as a tune-up for the regular sea-son.

The players will still be going full-speed, but thecoaches typically use these games to see what works andwhat doesn’t. That means there are going to be playersseeing the court in situations they otherwise might not.

Both teams must replace top scorers from their teamslast year, meaning there will be much shuffl ing of rosters on both sides.

On Oct. 27, USI men’s coach Rodney Watson will coach his fi rst match-up between the crosstown rivals. He vividly remembers the atmosphere when his team up-set No. 1 ranked Bellarmine at home in February.

To quote former New York Jets head coach Herm Ed-wards, “You play to win the game.”

Letter to the editor

You play to win the game

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By PAT HICKEYSports editor

The Eagles may not have kept up with the Wildcats physically, but they were able to force the team out of its rhythm in the second half, upsetting UK 17-8 on Saturday af-ternoon.

Sticking together as a team and playing with confi dence were the two adjustments the USI rugby team made when trailing by just three points at half-time.

“From a team stand-point, this win speaks wonders,” senior scrum-half Tyler Pipes said. “I don’t mean to bash other sports from our school, but when was the last time any sport beat a D-I side? I think sticking together as a team and pulling this vic-tory out speaks wonders to the dedication and time we’ve put in.”

Pipes gave USI the fi -nal lead in the second half, coming out of a scrum in

Eagles territory. The fi rst UK defender was play-ing wide, and Pipes hit the inside gap as sopho-more Doug Rose pulled away another defender by distracting him. That left Pipes with a hole inside the goal posts as he dove in for a try. The conversion kick made the score 7-3 Eagles.

Rose extended the lead roughly 15 minutes later on a similar play.

“Pipes hit me out of the scrum, and we were re-ally trying to push out so their defense was spread out even more,” Rose said. “As soon as I went in to fake a pass, I saw the guy leaning outside and went in.”

In the fi rst half, the Eagles admitted to pay-ing more attention to what UK was doing rather than concentrating on their own play. As the game went on, this mentality reversed. USI buckled down defen-sively by setting up post and picks to neutralize the

UK offense.USI head coach Kurt

Murrell was in the centerof the action as the ref-eree but was not allowedto coach during the game.He said if there was a close call, he was tougher on his own players.

“We started off a bit slow, but they just don’t have the confi dence they should yet,” Murrell said.“Once they found the con-fi dence in the second half, ... they started to play a little better.”

Though it was an ex-hibition game and won’t count in the win-loss col-umn, the team said UK was the most athletic andfundamentally strong teamit has faced.

The win gives USI much-confi dence as they prepare to make a run at the Indiana Small CollegeRugby Playoffs.

USI will travel to De-Pauw University for itsfi rst league game on Sat-urday.

USI rugby upsets D-I Kentucky

SCOREBOARD

Men’s soccer: The Eagles rebounded

from a well-fought 1-0 loss against Missouri-St. Louis on Friday to shut out Maryville 2-0 on Sunday. Senior midfi elder Ryan Moll and junior midfi elder Kevin Minor came off the bench to score both goals for USI (3-3, 2-2).

Women’s soccer: Senior forward Susan

Ellsperman and freshman forward Madi Vellky each scored two goals in con-vincing home victories over Missouri-St. Louis and Maryville over the week-

end. The Eagles (4-2, 3-1) are on a three-game win-ning streak.

Men’s cross country: The seventh-ranked Ea-

gles fi nished fi fth amongst 27 schools at the Indiana Intercollegiate eight kilo-meter and fi rst overall at the Little State champion-ship (non-Division I) in Terre Haute, Ind., on Fri-day. Senior Michael Jordan was awarded GLVC Men’s Runner of the Week after fi nishing the race in 25 min-utes, 7.5 seconds.Women’s cross country: University of Indianapolis stopped the Eagles’ chance at repeating at Little State,

fi nishing eight points ahead of USI. Junior Erika Wilson fi nished second in the fi ve kilometer race with a time of 18 minutes, 37.2 sec-onds. As a whole, USI fi n-ished ninth overall amongst 26 schools at the Indiana Intercollegiate.

Women’s golf: The second round of the

Screaming Eagles Classic was canceled because in-clement weather, leaving USI with a third-place fi n-ish among 12 teams. Fresh-men Molly English and Anastasia Carter shot a 75 and 76, placing eighth and ninth.

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Photo by JIMMY PYLES/The ShieldShawn Gore brushes off a tackle during the rugby match against the University of Kentucky. USI won the match 17-8.

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