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Climate

Simple ways to save the planet Four points students can keep in mind to minimize climate change.04

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Gaining experience

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Brigadier general

Brig. Gen. Twanda Young has built a kinship with her soldiers.12

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MOVING IN Andrew Harp Interim News Editor After three months of boarded up windows and doors, the former Theta Chi house, located at 1100 W. Riverside Ave., has a new lease on life.

Ball State’s Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, the Theta Alpha chapter, is now occupying the house after leasing agreements.

The Theta Chi national headquarters revoked the Ball State chapter’s charter, citing violations of Theta Chi’s policies in October 2018. All members of the fraternity

had to vacate the property and cannot join other fraternities unless it is outside of the National Interfraternity Council.

In November, Scott Thomas, president of the Ball State Theta Chi Alumni Corporation, which owns and maintains the property, said the Alumni Corporation was looking to lease the house to another organization and had no plans to sell the house.

The corporation received leasing inquiries within 24 hours of the announcement of the closing from Greek and non-Greek organizations. However, Thomas said in an email the corporation desired a Greek organization for the lease.

Alpha Tau Omega fraternity fills vacancy in Theta Chi house.

From there, Thomas said Alpha Tau Omega was able to achieve the lease primarily because of its speed in working with the corporation and ability to begin subleasing this academic year.

Matt Smith, president of the Alpha Tau Omega alumni association, was one of the members of the association that helped the chapter with the lease.

Smith said in an email the fraternity reached out to the Theta Chi alumni leadership and the property manager in October 2018, which led to ongoing discussions in the fall before signing the lease.

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Board of Trustees approve strategic plan

Loved ones remember Ball State freshman

Trustees voted Dec. 14, 2018, to approve the newly-named strategic plan, Destination 2040: Our Flight Path: 2019-24 Strategic Plan for Ball State University. President Geoffrey Mearns said it’s projected for the strategic plan to be implemented at the upper-level of the university by February or March.

freshman speech pathology major, died in a car accident Dec. 13, 2018, in Huntington County. Friends and family who reflected on her life remember her as a driven, smart, fearless and caring person who went out of her way to be there for others. She loved “Star Wars,” Fazoli’s breadsticks and Marvel.

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Men’s volleyball wins first games

4Jan. 5: Ball State Men’s Volleyball kicked off its 2019 season with wins over Princeton and New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Freshman outside attacker Kaleb Jenness lead the team with 14 kills in the 3-0 sweep over Princeton.

Three aces from junior outside attacker Matt Szews helped the Cardinals to a 3-2 win over NJIT.

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Men’s basketball falls in double overtime 4Jan. 8: Ball State and Eastern Michigan traded the lead six times over the course of 50 minutes of play. The score was tied up on eight different occasions, two of which occurred as time expired.

The Cardinals and Eagles battled through regulation as well as two overtimes before Eastern Michigan prevailed with a score of 84-82.

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4Jan. 4: Facing conferencefavorite Toledo in its first conference game of the season, Ball State Men’s Basketball shut down the Rockets in a 79-64 win. The Cardinals limited the Rockets’ leading scorer, senior forward Nate Navigato, to two points on the night. The Cardinals will face Ohio Saturday at home.

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4Jan. 9: Freshman forward Thelma Dis Agustsdottir and sophomore forward Oshlynn Brown each dropped more than 20 points to drive Ball State to a 77-70 win over Bowling Green. The duo only missed a combined three shots and pulled down a total of 18 rebounds.

The Cardinals will face Ohio Saturday in Worthen Arena.

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4ON THE COVER: Alpha Tau Omega’s letters have not been placed on their house as of Jan. 8, 2018, on Riverside Avenue. The house Theta Chi once resided in has been leased by Alpha Tau Omega until Theta Chi can begin return plans in the fall of 2021. MADELINE GROSH, DN

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IFC gives girls basketball programs $1,500 The Ball State Interfraternity Council granted $1,500 to girls basketball programs at Southside Middle School to purchase 17 pairs of shoes. Jaleel Pryuer, Delta Tau Delta president and seventh grade girls basketball assistant coach, raised the issue to IFC about the need of shoes for the teams.

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HOTTER VACATIONS Climate change expected to impact Indiana tourism Rohith Rao Reporter Apart from agriculture, water, health, climate and the environment, tourism in Indiana is a sector said to be impacted by climate change.

Purdue University’s Indiana Climate Change Impacts Assessment report states climate change and warmer temperatures

will directly and indirectly have an impact on Indiana’s tourism, recreation and hospitality industries.

“We are not projecting that the changes will be drastic. But there will definitely be changes,” said Jonathon Day, associate professor in Purdue University’s school of hospitality and tourism management and co-author of the report. “The Indiana of 2080 looks very, very different to the Indiana of today.”

The report states by mid-century, Indiana is projected to lose three to four weeks worth of mild weather per year and the frequency of hot and extremely hot days will increase substantially.

The original Scotty’s Brewhouse that opened in 1996 in The Village closed its doors for good last month. These closings were due to the company filing for bankruptcy Dec. 11, 2018 and a move to close “underperforming” stores by the end of last year.

Hotter summers and reduced air quality will contribute to greater health risks for people participating in outdoor activities.

Winter recreation, including ice fishing and skiing, will also be negatively affected due to reduced snowfall and increased rainfall, the report states.

The report also states that demand for outdoor recreation and tourism during Indiana’s “shoulder seasons” — the months of March, April, October and November — is expected to rise due to an increase in the number of mild weather days during this season.

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Security call leads to drug arrest Muncie police officers arrested Jeffrey Prescott after seeing marijuana in plain view in his apartment Monday morning while talking to Prescott about a security call. His apartment was searched, and investigators found several grams of marijuana, Xanax and three firearms. Prescott was held Tuesday in the Delaware County Jail on a $27,500 bail.

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EARTH’S TIME LIMIT 4 simple ways students can alleviate climate change Taylor Smith Reporter Humans only have 12 years to take the steps necessary to save the planet from irreversible changes to climate and environment, according to The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.

The earth is nearing the critical 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels global warming temperature, which has the potential to cause permanent damage to the planet, according to the IPCC. Reaching this dangerous threshold could lead to extreme weather including droughts, floods and an increased risk in wildfires and food shortages.

While there is limited time, there are a few easy steps people can take to help slow the warming trend.

Unplug: Limit energy expenditure Climate change may become irreversible in 12 years, according to the IPCC. Unplugging appliances is one way to alleviate climate change. UNSPLASH, PHOTO COURTESY

According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, most energy-producing mechanisms involve mass production of carbon dioxide (CO2) and greenhouse gas emissions.

“When we talk about global warming, the first

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thing that comes into our mind is CO2 emission,” said Bowen Zhang, assistant professor of natural resources and environmental management.

Zhang said an IPCC 2015 study concluded that methane and nitrous oxide have 28 times and 265 times higher global warming potentials than carbon dioxide at 100-time scale.

One way to help this is by using less electricity by unplugging devices that are not in use. Purchase a power strip and plug all electronic chargers into it, then simply switch the strip off when it is no longer needed.

Switching to CFL or LED light bulbs and spending less time on electronics can also reduce energy expenditure.

Invest in a reusable water bottle A journal article from “Waste Management” states 389 billion plastic bottles made from polyethylene terephthalate, a common type of plastic, were produced globally in 2010.

The article states these type of plastic bottles are resistant to environmental biodegradation, meaning a bottle that is thrown into the environment won’t degrade for another 500 years.

Each year, 17 million barrels of refined oil are used to produce water bottles, which is more than the amount of oil needed to fuel more than 1 million cars a year.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, drilling affects marine ecosystems,

requires the clearing of vegetation and hydraulic fracking requires immeasurable amounts of water and produces wastewater that oftentimes contains harmful chemicals and contaminants.

“I think it’s little things — not buying plastic water bottles and using the same one over and over, putting your recyclables in the recycling bin instead of the trashcan,” said Connor McCabe, freshman natural resources and environmental management major. “There’s a lot of little things that everyone can do that can make everything a lot better.”

If everyone in the world used a reusable water bottle, using numbers from the article, almost 54 plastic water bottles could be saved per year.

Meaning 1,136,417 water bottles could be saved in a year if every Ball State student switched to a reusable water bottle.

Avoid purchasing products made from petroleum The website of British Petroleum’s Whiting Refinery located in Whiting, Indiana, states 7 million cars could successfully complete their daily travels with the amount of refined oil produced in the Whiting BP branch per day.

With every gallon of gasoline that those vehicles burn, the U.S. Department of Energy states that 20 pounds of carbon dioxide is released into the air that people breathe on campus every day.

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“There’s certainly going to be some businesses that will have an advantage from this,” Day said.

“To some level, people will be able to do more things. Maybe for some of those businesses, the extreme heat of summer is going to have a dampening impact on their business.”

Jim Mansfield, executive director of Muncie Visitors Bureau, said as far as tourism in Muncie is concerned, he doesn’t foresee that much of a loss or gain from the effects of climate change and the warming trend just expands the time frame for outdoor activities to occur in Muncie.

The report states shifting temperature and rainfall patterns can affect the timing, enjoyment and safety of activities like hiking, camping, bird watching, cycling, outdoor spectator sports and festivals, with lasting effects on traveler perceptions.

It also said the management of these parks and activities is expected to become more difficult, including shifts in habitat suitability for plants and wildlife, increased pressure from invasive species and changed timing of biological events that generate tourism.

“There will be forests in the future but they will be different from the forests that we have now,” Day said. “You’ll still be able to go to Turkey Run, but some of the experiences in some of these places are going to be different.”

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05 increasingly face challenges related to extreme weather conditions with heat stress events and flooding projected to increase, the report states.

“If you get two inches of rain over the course of three days, you’re not going to see that kind of [catastrophe] as opposed to two inches of rain in a single afternoon thunderstorm,” said Petra Zimmermann, associate professor of geography at Ball State. “That’s going to lead to a lot of flash flooding that has tremendous impact.”

Mansfield said while flooding might affect low lying areas like parks and greenways near the White River, an increase in precipitation isn’t going to be detrimental to housing or local activities because flooding isn’t a frequent occurrence in Muncie or Delaware County.

Day said the greatest value for this report is for small businesses involved in the tourism industry.

He also said it serves as a good reminder for people to be watchful, up to date and prepared to adapt as things change.

“Most small businesses are pretty good at that,” Day said. “We’re good at adapting.

What we’re not good at is bouncing back from a disaster.”

Besides adapting to these changes, being climate friendly by adopting simple practices like watching electricity consumption is something both businesses and consumers can do to help reduce carbon footprints and mitigate the effects of climate change, Day said.

“I think it’d be completely wrong to say, ‘Oh my gosh, this is terrible news for Indiana’s tourism,’” Day said. “It’s just a good reminder that we need to

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A Purdue Universtiy climate change report shows climate change could have an impact on Indiana’s tourism. By mid-century, Indiana is projected to lose up to four weeks worth of mild weather per year. MICHAELA KELLEY, DN be watching for changes as they happen.”

Indiana Office of Tourism Development’s website states Indiana had 80 million total visitors in 2017 who spent a total of $12.7 billion supporting 199,830 jobs, 5 percent of all Indiana jobs.

Mansfield said that in the past 10 to 11 years, Muncie has doubled the income it generates from tourism, which primarily comes from an innkeeper’s tax that is charged to people visiting

and staying in local hotels.

“I think tourism in Muncie and Delaware county has continued to prosper to gain some momentum,” Mansfield said. “Everyone’s working together to make a positive image of our tourism efforts and certainly the economic impact on our community has been very good.”

Contact Rohith Rao with comments at rprao@ bsu.edu or on Twitter @RaoReports.

On a (sushi) roll Ball State Dining replaces Woodworth stir fry with new options Hannah Gunnell Reporter Ball State Dining has introduced new and expanded food options in Woodworth Commons: • Sushi • Poke bowls • Donburi • Ramen DJ Cleveland, marketing and communications specialist for dining, said in an email the new Woodworth concept is in conjunction with Sushi with Gusto, a sushi bar company.

The new options will be made in front of customers at Woodworth, Cleveland said.

In addition to being served at Woodworth, the sushi options will also be available at the Atrium and the Tally.

Cleveland also said that students who have food allergies will be able to request certain sushi options. The ramen and

donburi will be offered as warm food options as well.

According to the website, Sushi with Gusto is a familyowned company based in South Carolina. They have location in other college campuses including Northern Illinois University and the University of Dayton. This is the first location at an Indiana school.

Freshman Leah Wurtzel said she likes the new variety of food options because it provides the opportunity for people to try new foods.

“I plan on trying them,” Wurtzel said. “I like to try new things, and it gives more options opposed to pasta, pizza and chicken fingers.”

To accommodate for the new food, Cleveland said dining took out the stir fry location in Woodworth. He said a “huge” benefit for the replacement is that it’s much quicker than stir fry.

Sushi is stacked to the brim at the Sushi with Gusto stand Jan. 8, 2019, in Woodworth Commons. Ball State Dining expanded its sushi options over winter break and also added ramen, poke bowls and donburi. HANNAH GUNNELL, DN “However, we knew that some people would still want stir fry, so we’ve made sure that stir fry is a constant option at Elliott Dining,” Cleveland said.

Cleveland said dining made this change because it wants to expand food choices and offer more to the campus community.

“We constantly assess the impact of ingredients and labor to the student body, how we can offer more diverse foods, and what people are talking about,” he said.

Dining takes requests and suggestions year-round to help determine what other foods it can offer.

“We asked the student body last year about custom ramen, poke bowls, donburi, and

sushi, and the desire for having those options on campus was strong,” Cleveland said.

Dining’s menu committee will review the current food offerings toward the end of the academic year and address requests from the campus community to determine if more changes will occur in the future, Cleveland said.

“If you look out to 2020, though, our new center of dining will have an abundance of new options that excites us to the extreme,” Cleveland said.

The menus for the new concept at Woodworth Commons are not yet available online, but there are paper copies at the dining hall.

Contact Hannah Gunnell with comments hrgunnell@bsu.edu.

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David Apple, president of Alpha Tau Omega, said members moved in Jan. 3 and are currently getting situated. He said the chapter is excited.

“If anything, the house is starting to feel like a home for our chapter,” Apple said.

Apple said despite the excitement and the house serving as a reminder of what the fraternity has accomplished, it also means the chapter cannot be complacent with past success and serves as a catalyst to continually improve.

“We will use this house to break the stereotypes attached by some to Greek Life at Ball State University. We plan to continue being a positive contributor to the Ball State community,” Apple said.

Smith said the alumni are proud of the chapter’s accomplishments and said the time spent occupying the house can be optimized by improving.

The house will be used to conduct meetings, meaning the chapter no longer has to reserve rooms on campus. Apple also said the house will

“further develop our chapter, our communication, our goals and an even stronger brotherhood than we already have.”

Thomas did not share lease specifics, but said the corporation agreed on terms with Alpha Tau Omega that would allow the group to stay in the home until Theta Chi’s planned return.

Recolonization efforts for Theta Chi at Ball State cannot begin until fall 2021.

While there are terms for the responsibility of the house and property, Thomas said, oversight of the fraternity will still be relied on the Alpha Tau Omega alumni group and national organization.

“We are very grateful for the partnership we have found with Alpha Tau Omega and feel fortunate that we have been able to provide an opportunity for another Greek organization to have a housing facility on campus while we plan for our return,” Thomas said.

Apple said the chapter’s alumni association and board of trustees are actively searching for new housing opportunities once the property transitions back to Theta Chi. Contact Andrew Harp with comments at adharp@bsu.edu or on Twitter @adharp24.

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A promising start to the season sends Ball State Men’s Basketball into conference play.

Jack Williams Sports Editor “The power rankings, records and all historical markers of how good a league is are telling us that this is the best the league has ever been.”

15 games later at a record of 10-5, Ball State Men’s Basketball head coach James Whitford believes the Mid-American Conference has reached a historical peak. With seven teams in the top 150 in the nation and two in the top 50, the MAC has raised some eyebrows.

“A lot of us watch the other teams in our conference,” senior center Trey Moses said.

“You see teams like Buffalo and Toledo who are performing well, and we’re excited for the competition. This is why we play.”

Coming off a strong non-conference campaign seeing the Cardinals go 9-4 and 4-0 at home, the team saw contribution from the entire roster. The Cardinal bench has knocked down 242 points this season including a career-high and team-leading 19-point performance from redshirt junior guard Josh Thompson against Delaware State.

“It’s fun to see a guy like Josh have a performance like that,” Moses said. “His first year, he didn’t have a role guys wanted and was a practice player, but he got a chance last year and performed well. Now he’s getting every chance that he deserves. It’s great to have teammates like that who don’t complain whether they play or not.”

With players outside of the starting five showing dependability, the Cardinals are

looking to use that as an advantage going forward. With redshirt sophomore forward Brachen Hazen out with a back injury and sophomore guard Ishmael El-Amin out with a wrist injury, the team is leaning on the bench to continue performing at a high caliber.

“It’s a long season where somebody goes down and we need the next guy to step in,” Whitford said. “We’re going through that right now with Brachen being out and Ish. We need all that depth we can get.”

From the non-conference slate, the team consistently references its matchups against Alabama and Evansville as learning points.

The Cardinals fell to the Crimson Tide 79-61 in the Charleston Classic, allowing 34 points in the first half. They lost to the Purple Aces 89-77 after being outscored 52-32 in the second half. Since the Evansville loss, the Cardinals have won four of their last five.

“Alabama and Evansville were two games that stood out to me,” Thompson said. “Those weren’t our best games. Evansville in the second half we played pretty terrible, and we’ve been playing really good since then.”

Going into league play, Whitford said the balance of the conference is what makes the MAC so competitive. The Cardinals’ next three matchups against Ohio, Bowling Green and Central Michigan have seen each team have success in the past or currently. Ohio has gone to the NCAA Tournament twice in the last 10 years, Bowling Green has a victory over MAC-favorite Kent State and Central Michigan only has two losses on the season.

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22 turnovers by Ball State cost the team its MAC opener to Toledo, 65-58. Sophomore forward Oshlynn Brown led the team with 15 points.

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Indiana State center Devin Thomas guards forawrd Kyle Mallers as he heads toward the net at the Ball State Men’s Basketball game versus Indiana State Nov. 6, 2018, in John E. Worthen Arena. Mallers had a total playing time of 28 minutes. TAILIYAH JOHNSON,

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Sports You see teams like Buffalo and Toledo who are performing well, and we’re excited for the competition. This is why we play.”

- TREY MOSES, Senior center, Ball State Men’s Basketball

Ball State sports winter break recap While Ball State went on winter break for three weeks, three different Cardinal athletic teams were in action on the road and at home from women’s basketball to men’s volleyball.

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“There are no programs that are haves and have nots,” Whitford said. “Resources and traditions are pretty balanced top to bottom. You don’t see that in every league. My time in the league, one team has been at the top at one point or another.”

With the Cardinals taking down a top-50 team in Toledo to start conference play, the team believes other MAC squads can expect a strong sense of unity from the Cardinals this season.

“Other MAC teams should expect a gritty team that moves the ball really well and shares,” Thompson said. “We play like one team and one unit.”

Contact Jack Williams with any comments at jgwilliams@bsu.edu or on Twitter @jackgwilliams.

Ball State redshirt junior guard Josh Thompson drives the ball against the University of Indianapolis’ Tye Wilburn during the Cardinals’ exhibition game against the Greyhounds Nov. 2, 2018, in John E. Worthen Arena.

Thompson scored six points. PAIGE GRIDER, DN FILE

Something old, something new Returners and new additions look to bring energy to Ball State Men’s Volleyball this season.

Connor Smith Reporter After participating in four preseason tournaments this fall, Ball State Men’s Volleyball (2-1, 0-0 MIVA) is eager for success this regular season, utilizing the current depth on the roster alongside four newcomers.

The Cardinals finished their 2018 campaign with an 18-12 record; however, the team ultimately fell short of a MIVA Championship qualification with a semifinals loss to Loyola-University Chicago. After being unranked to start the season, Ball State broke into the AVCA Top 15 just this week.

The preseason matches gave head coach Joel Walton a chance to evaluate his team’s chemistry by utilizing different lineups, but he admits the Cardinals struggled to find a consistent offensive rhythm.

“We played all 20 of our guys a relatively even amount in the preseason, and it gave us a chance to evaluate everyone on the roster,” Walton said.

“Because we were playing a lot of newer players, there were inconsistencies in how we served and passed. We want our guys to gel and gain consistency.”

Despite the early struggles, all of the team’s non-graduating veterans from last season, minus former middle attacker Justin Koren, are returning. The Cardinals welcome four freshmen this season, including middle attacker Felix Egharevba, who is helping to fill the void at the position previously held by Koren and former three-time MIVA Player of the Week Matt Walsh.

Egharevba, who previously attended Naperville Central High School in Naperville, Illinois, served

as team captain his senior year and currently holds his high school’s record for blocks in a single season. Another encouraging addition to the Cardinals is freshman outside attacker Kaleb Jenness, who brings experience in both on court and on the beach. “[Kaleb] comes from South Carolina and his team would have to travel great distances to find good competition,” Walton said. “The fact that he played so much outdoor and sand volleyball is something that’ll help hone his skills.”

Other new additions to the Cardinals include freshmen outside attackers Brandon Shepherd and Nick Martinski of Pearland, Texas, and Elk Grove, Illinois.

Being one of the Cardinals’ veterans, junior setter Jake Romano recognizes that this year’s team and its fresh faces bring higher amounts of energy onto the court compared to previous seasons.

“We have some guys who are very talented athletes but not always the loudest on the court,” Romano said. “[The new additions] bring that.”

Last season, Romano was named MIVA player of the week twice and averaged nine assists per set. Romano said he hopes to take advantage of the leadership aspects of his position.

“I oversee a lot of what happens on the court,” Romano said. “Having been here for a few years and seeing how things work on the court has had a huge impact, and I look forward to continuing to help the younger guys as we go.”

In addition to Romano, the team will feature three seniors: libero Adam Wessel, middle attacker Parker Swartz and outside hitter David Siebum. Siebum recently tallied 14 kills and five

Women’s basketball defeats Bowling Green Left: A Ball State cheerleader flies while showing spirit at the women’s basketball game against Bowling Green in John E. Worthen Arena Jan. 9, 2019. Middle: Freshman guard Abi Haynes dribbles the ball at the home game against Bowling Green. Ball State won, 77-70. Right: Bowling Green’s Andrea Cecil reaches for the ball to pull down a rebound in front of freshman guard Gabby Smith. REBECCA SLEZAK, DN

Then-freshman Ben Chinnici sends the ball over the net to Ohio State in the third set of the match. Ball State played in John E. Worthen Arena for senior night April 7, 2018. ERIC

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digs in the Cardinals’ match against New Jersey Institute of Technology on Jan. 5.

Last season, the Cardinals finished with a 12-3 record at Worthen Arena. The Cardinals’ 12-match winning streak at home was snapped Monday against No. 3 University of California-Irvine, but they continue to hope for a supportive crowd.

“We’re going to be playing in our conference against sometimes as many as four or five nationally ranked teams just in the conference we play in,” Walton said. “We’re also going to play ranked team after ranked team here in Muncie, and usually we play very well at home in Worthen Arena.”

Contact Connor Smith with any comments at cnsmith@bsu.edu or on Twitter @cnsmithbsu.

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UPB chooses new films for Friday Night Filmworks For years, the University Program Board has continued hosting Friday Night Filmworks for students at 9 p.m. every Friday in Pruis Hall. On Jan. 11, UPB will kick off the spring semester with the film “First Man,” a biographical drama about the first manned mission to the moon featuring Ryan Gosling.

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Ball State alumna Penny Fisher lays in a hospital bed on Mother’s Day waiting for test results. Fisher said she has spent a lot of time in and out of hospitals since she was first diagnosed in January 2018. PENNY FISHER, PHOTO PROVIDED Alyssa Cooper Reporter Since she was young, Penny Fisher has known breast cancer — a disease her mother and grandmother had — could run in her genes.

Although she took a proactive stance toward her breast health, Fisher could not deny the results after finding an abnormal lump last January.

“When you actually hear the news ‘You have cancer,’ your life, I think, stops for anybody,” Fisher said. “But for me, I was sort of in shock because everybody told me up until that point that they didn’t think it was cancer. So when I heard the news,

like anybody, I was emotional.”

Since her diagnosis of Triple Negative Breast Cancer, Fisher continues to share her experience with cancer to remind others they are not alone, bring awareness to her rare type and fundraise money.

During the first stages of coming to terms with her cancer, Fisher said she never let the disease deter her from focusing on the long-term picture of her life.

“I was like, ‘Okay. What’s our game plan?’” Fisher said. “‘I don’t want to die.

I have two children, and they need their mom. So, what’s our attack plan? How are we going to fight this?’”

After discussing her options, Fisher leaned on her mother for advice, even

though her treatment plan was different.

“She asked me a lot of questions about what I had to go through, how radiation was and how I had therapy,” said Fisher’s mother, Nancy Moore, who was diagnosed in 2000. “She would call and say, ‘The doctors did this today,’ and it’s like, ‘Well, they didn’t do that for me’ because her [type of cancer] was so different.”

While undergoing radiation and other treatment, Fisher shared her experience for the first time during breast cancer awareness month with her article, “My lumps in the road: A column from Naples Daily News editor Penny Fisher.”

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CANCER Alumna fulfills place in Army ‘ohana’ throughout three decades of service

Fisher said she recently finished radiation and is now in a waiting period before she begins oral chemo.

With the help of one of her husband’s fraternity brothers, Fisher now has a family foundation set up to help her reach her goal of raising awareness and money for breast cancer.

Fisher said cancer has changed her perspective on life by helping her realize to take more time to breathe and appreciate life as it is.

“I joke with people at work all the time,” Fisher said. “Eat the chocolate cake, go on vacation, dance in the rain, make a memory because you never know. That doesn’t have to be a diagnosis for cancer; that can be anything.”

Contact Alyssa Cooper with comments at acooper6@bsu.edu

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In every family, there are instinctive roles everyone fulfills — the leader, the jokester, the nurturer.

During her 30 years of service, Brig. Gen. Twanda Young has instinctively stepped into many of these positions while watching young soldiers grow alongside her.

“With how the army takes care of its own, there is no greater ohana, as I would call it — family that you can belong to,” Young said. “[There’s no greater] kinship and fellowship you can be a part of.”

As the deputy commanding general of the Human Resources Command at Fort Knox, Kentucky, Young has worked to build her military family and be the kind of leader she set out to be. “[Young] hasn’t really changed,” said Col. Delwyn Merkerson, Young’s coworker of 15 years. “The work, her personality, her caring for the people that work with her and work for her has always been the same over the years.

“Gen. Young has what I call an Energizer Bunny. She has a motor that just doesn’t stop. She works long, and she works hard.”

Currently in the army, there are only 139 brigadier generals serving active duty compared to the 4,098 colonels, the immediate rank before brigadier general, according to data from the Department of Defense.

As one of only 13 women who hold the uncommon rank of brigadier general, Young has seen her share of hardships over the years, and one particular instance stood out to Young early in her army career.

“When I initially came [into the U.S. Army,] I had a leader that was not supportive of women being in the military and not supportive of my upward mobility of moving within the ranks,” Young said.

Since then, the 1992 Ball State graduate has held jobs ranging from an executive officer at the company level to working at the Pentagon three times as a staff officer. “[Ball State helped] strengthen my own abilities and capabilities of leading in a better manner because it broadened my aperture of thought,” Young said.

For her current job at the Human Resources Command, Young and her staff handle the distribution and strategic placement of soldiers for the army.

“Our job is to put the right person in the right place at the right time,” Young said.

Young also said she helps take care of military families, even after their serving family member has died, by ensuring these families have a “sustained livelihood.”

While Young said she enjoys what she is doing in life right now, in the future she said she hopes to do more work in her community and have an impact on its members.

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“Like anything else, your heart immediately goes out to them,” said Bill Barker, the president of Naples Daily News. “You care about them.

You think about the impact it’s going to have on them, not only from worry and concern for her, but for her family as well.

“It was a big moment in terms of a real sense of feeling for Penny wanting to reach out and help, encourage her and do everything [we at Naples Daily News] possibly could. The interesting thing was, in a lot of ways, Penny showed more strength than some of us.”

In her article, Fisher touched on her past and present experience with cancer, while also reminding readers they are not alone in their own experiences.

Fisher received support from friends, family and her medical team through her Facebook page, Penny’s Pack, and the #PennyPower T-shirts her coworkers wore during a breast cancer walk, but she also wanted to let readers know she was supporting them.

“We’ve had outpouring support from everyone from her hometown, from college, from the people we’ve met down here, friends, coworkers,” said Fisher’s husband, Adam Fisher. “Because she is Penny Fisher and her family pose for family photos taken so likable, just a nice person, she’s made so many shortly after Fisher started radiation treatment. Fisher is now friends and that really helped a lot through this. done with radition and waiting to begin oral chemo. PENNY They’ve really been here to support her.”

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More to consider Demi Lawrence is a sophomore journalism news major and writes “Unspoken” for The Daily News. Her views do not necessarily agree with those of the newspaper. Write to Demi at dnlawrence@bsu.edu.

I came into this controversial topic with the intent to back up my uneducated opinion of forgiveness.

I have learned that people can change if they wish to. We are Demi Lawrence not the same people we were six Opinion editor months ago or even six days ago. and columnist, We should be willing to offer forgiveness, a token of amnesty Unspoken for past mistakes when someone truthfully apologizes.

“Truthfully apologizes” are the keywords here.

To me, an apology is “I am sorry,” not “I am sorry if I offended you.”

I stand here as an LGBT woman and I say this: I do not know how I feel about Kevin Hart, past and present. I am torn between forgiveness for past mistakes and holding those accountable for their actions so I do not condone homophobia.

I am so torn in fact that I made a “To forgive” and “Not to forgive” list.

To forgive: He apologized twice.

Kevin Hart was announced as the host of The 2019 Oscars Dec. 4, 2018. Not a day later, his homophobic tweets from 2010 surfaced once again, containing multiple slurs and saying how he would hurt his son if he ever found him playing with a doll house.

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Again, as an LGBT+ woman, I thought “OK, he said some pretty nasty stuff. This offends me.

But this was more than eight years ago, and he apologized, so I think it’s OK.” What I realized, though, is that he never actually apologized before Dec. 6, 2018.

All Hart had done before being announced the Oscar host was address the fact that he no longer makes jokes about the gay community.

While he stated in an interview with Men’s Health in 2013 that he doesn’t make gay jokes anymore because it’s “not on his agenda,” he went on to say in an interview with Playboy in 2014, “Whatever you say, any joke you make about the gay community, it’s going to be misconstrued. It’s not worth it.”

I have a major issue with this statement.

Homophobic jokes are homophobic and offensive.

Of course they are going to be misconstrued because they were never funny in the first place.

So how about you just don’t make homophobic jokes. Problem solved.

To not forgive: He was offensive on multiple occasions.

The tweets are one thing, but a bit in his 2010 “Seriously Funny” comedy special is what did it for me.

“I got a lot of fears as a parent… One of my biggest fears as a parent is my son growing up and being gay. That’s a fear. Keep in mind I am not homophobic. I have nothing against gay people, be happy, do what you want to do. Me being a heterosexual male, if I can prevent my son from being gay, I will. Now, with that being said, I don’t know if I handle my son’s first gay moment correctly. Like every kid has a gay moment OK, every kid. Now when that happens you gotta nip it in the bud. You gotta stop it right then. ‘Hey, stop!

That’s gay!’”

Not only did he tweet gay slurs and various other homophobic things, he used homophobia as a puppet for his so-called “comedy.”

His tweets were and are dangerous because the things he said he’d do to his son if he was gay are the realities of many gay youth today. According to a study done by the Williams Institute in 2012, 40 percent of the youth homeless population identified as LGBT+. Parents beating or even killing their kids for coming out as gay or even just showing “gay” qualities are news stories I am no longer shocked to read.

With these, I am reminded of my struggle of coming out, of how at first my family did not accept me. I was never treated with physical violence, but I was silenced, manipulated and

The controversy surrounding Kevin Hart and The Oscars goes beyond right vs. wrong.

abused verbally, mentally and emotionally.

These memories are rampantly familiar in my head though they were several years ago, and I weep for the LGBT+ youth who have fallen victim to so much more.

So, Hart joking about “nipping gay behavior in the bud” with his son’s first “gay moment” hits just a little too close to home for me and all youth victims of homophobic violence.

To forgive: “Times have changed.”

I am also unsure how I feel about this phrase.

It ought to have never been funny in 2010, but homophobia back then was not something that was seen as offensive as it is today.

I have realized, though, that “ought to” is not a scale in which we can measure offensiveness.

Yeah, it should have been seen as just as awful, but it wasn’t. And we cannot change past culture.

To not forgive: He did not apologize until he was thrown into the limelight of the Oscars.

I firmly believe Kevin Hart would not have ever apologized had this firestorm not been started.

This was an apology without assigned blame Kevin Hart faces controversy as tweets from 2010 resurface after he is announced as the host of the 2019 Oscars.

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to another group or individual but himself. But his words on “Ellen” were a strangely different in tone.

From his interview with Ellen DeGeneres about the topic, I felt as if he was victimizing himself.

“Now the headlines are starting to change. The headlines are ‘Kevin Hart Refuses to Apologize for Homophobic Tweets from the Past.’ The word ‘Again’ was left out. Everybody took those headlines and started to run with it, so now, the slander on my name is all homophobia. Now I’m

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a little upset. I’m a little upset because I know who I am. I know that I don’t have a homophobic bone in my body. I know that I’ve addressed it. I know that I’ve apologized.”

So if Hart knew these things were incorrect, then why did the words “I’m sorry” never come out of his mouth? Why did he only “address” it and just mention how he doesn’t joke like that anymore?

Avoiding is not apologizing.

And had Hart never become the host of the Oscars, and had people never dug up past tweets, then I believe Hart would never have apologized for his actions.

He didn’t want to; he was forced to.

My list goes on and on.

To forgive: Everyone makes mistakes.

To not forgive: I am LGBT. See UNSPOKEN, 15

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The foods that one eats on a daily basis — although possibly nutritious — may not be the healthiest options for the environment.

Red meat, beef in particular, is one of the top producers of methane gas. In fact, animal agriculture produces more pollution and excrements than the entire human population.

Additionally, the production of meat is responsible for releasing more greenhouse gas emissions than all transportation methods globally.

“A large amount of methane and nitrous oxide could emit from ruminant animals and nitrogen fertilizer used in agriculture,” Zhang said. “The ever-increasing human population and shifts in diet structure with more meat consumption all lead to the increase in the growing demand for livestock populations, which result in the emissions of the related greenhouse gases.”

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I am at a standstill. I am stuck on right vs. wrong because I do not approve of digging up offensive tweets from eight years ago, but I also do not believe Hart is truly sorry.

At the end of this all, one question still ricochets around my head like a hacky sack: When is forgiveness truly deserved? Does time determine forgiveness? Celebrity status? Truthful apologies? Where is the line drawn to where we can say “Yes, you messed up, but that was then and you have changed?”

I do not know where to draw that line.

All of this goes past Hart, though. It goes past The Oscars/ DeGeneres controversy and even the idea of forgiveness.

At the end of the day, none of us will agree on absolutely everything.

People grow up differently and experience things differently. We all perceive our own lives in unique ways that no one else would understand unless they were us.

So who are we to be the voice for the world if we can only know ourselves and our life experiences? Sure, DeGeneres holds great power in not only Hollywood but also in the LGBT community. But she does not have the power to speak for everyone.

She sat with Hart, perceived his actions and regret for his past, and made the decision to support and forgive him. That was her choice.

So who are we to attack her for formulating an educated opinion?

Who are we to attack anyone for having an opinion formed from their own life experiences? Who are we to say, “You shouldn’t be offended by Hart’s past,” or “You should be more upset at Hart for his blatant homophobia?”

If we as a society cannot reach a civil discourse to say, “You know what, we disagree and that’s okay,” then I am unsure if we will ever grow.

We must be open to new ideas and allow ourselves to listen rather than shoving our self-entitled “truth” down other’s throats. Everyone exists uniquely, and there is always more to consider.

Cultures change. Opinions change. People change. I don’t think Kevin Hart has changed, but only he knows that. And I, like everyone else, must be willing to have ears to listen and minds to learn.

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