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Controversial legislation shut down, gender-neutral housing discussed Max Lewis SGA Reporter The majority of the Student Government Association Senate meeting Wednesday was spent discussing the controversial Senate amendment to strip SGA President James Wells of his ex-officio status.

Senators said the amendment was needed to repair a conflict of the Senate bylaws and the SGA constitution and discussed the pros and cons of the amendment for more than 30 minutes.

The Senate eventually voted on the legislation — the amendment received 61 percent of the vote, but because amendments need twothirds support to be passed, the legislation was struck down.

Senator Trevor Holland opposed the bill and said Wells has “a lot of experience” that could be useful.

“It’s beneficial to the student body,” Holland said. “Take that right away and it would be a huge negative.”

There was a lot of support for the bill from other senators, however, including Senator Zoe Taylor.

“The constitution stands for a reason,” Taylor said. “It’s the balancing of power, not the taking away of power.”

The amendment could still be sent to the senate judiciary committee, which will then determine the constitutionality of the amendment.

Despite recent rumors, manager confirms Brothers is here to stay Brynn Mechem & Devan Sticka Daily News Reporters

Despite recent rumors that Brothers Bar & Grill is leaving the Village, general manager Dan Zimmerman said the bar doesn’t have any plans to leave.

“I find that rumor hilarious, honestly,” Zimmerman said. “Yeah, there’s no chance we’re leaving.”

Although the Brothers staff doesn’t know where the rumor came from, Zimmerman said it could have come from an angry customer or employee.

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Brooke Kemp Daily News Reporter Sunday morning television is often associated with cartoons, but for members of the Japanese Animation Society, Sundays are a time for a different type of animation.

Every Sunday from 6 to 9 p.m., the Japanese Animation Society meets in

the L.A. Pittenger Student Center to watch popular Japanese programs, known as anime.

Anime is not, however, the Japanese equivalent of American cartoons.

“I just see it as a different form of entertainment. America has a lot of live-action entertainment that we kind of latch onto and Japan has kind of branched out more into the animated style,” said Travis Newman, the group’s president. “It allows them some freedoms when it comes to ways they

tell different stories, things we couldn’t do in the real world.”

Newman, who is now a senior, recalls there being about six members total in JAS his freshman year.

It was that year that the club almost had to disband.

“There comes a point where you’re running a club and it’s just the officers and a couple other people, and you have to really wonder if it’s worth the time and effort to keep something going,” he said.

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Campaign focusing on getting Muslims more active in politics The Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A nationwide campaign to get more Muslim Americans involved in local politics is being launched by a Massachusetts nonprofit.

Jetpac Inc. is focused on training Muslim Americans how to leverage social media, data analysis and other critical political tools to build winning campaigns for city council, school committee and other down ballot races.

A separate political action committee, the Jetpac Action Fund, is also being formed to raise money for Muslim American candidates.

The goal is to build stronger, more sophisticated grassroots political organizations with an eye toward the 2018 elections, according to Shaun Kennedy, Jetpac Inc.’s executive director.

“The community as a whole is about 50 years behind in terms of organizing,” said Kennedy, who is not Muslim. “The younger generation is trying to step up. The older generation just tried to fly under the radar. They didn’t want to be part of the political conversation. Unfortunately they are now, whether they like it or not.”

Roughly 3.3 million Muslims were living in the U.S. in 2015, representing about one percent of the population, according to estimates from the nonpartisan Pew Research Center. But Muslims hold few notable elected offices.

There are currently two Muslim members of Congress — Minnesota Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison and Indiana Democratic Rep. Andre Carson — and just a handful holding local offices in California, Michigan, New Jersey and elsewhere.

“When I’m asked to give a number, I usually respond with ‘not enough’,”

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Kennedy said.

Jetpac’s effort is among a number seeking to turn the energy of recent protests against President Donald Trump’s administration into political momentum for the next election cycle, observed Deborah Schildkraut, a political science professor at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, who’s not affiliated with the organization.

“The timing is very smart,” Schildkraut said. “With all the marches and protests we’ve been having, there’s this question about how to turn this into something of consequence. It’s about harnessing that energy and striking while the iron is hot.”

Schildkraut said it remains to be seen whether the Muslim American community’s primary challenge is developing and recruiting candidates and campaign operatives, or actually getting non-Muslim voters to support them.

Jetpac, which stands for Justice, Education and Technology, grew out of the political campaigns of founder and Democratic Cambridge City Councilor Nadeem Mazen, Massachusetts’ first elected Muslim officeholder.

The nearly 2-year-old organization is looking to export lessons learned during Mazen’s winning campaigns in 2013 and 2015, including how to deal with the inevitable backlash from anti-immigrant and anti-Islamic groups and individuals who target their faith, said Kennedy, who served on the 2015 campaign.

“Any Muslim candidate doesn’t need to draw attention to the fact that they’re Muslim. Someone else is going to do that for them,” he said. “At the end of the day, they are running as Americans. They’re not Muslim American candidates but American candidates who just so happen to be Muslim.”

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When first shown at E3 2016, “Resident Evil VII” swept everyone’s expectations from under their feet. For the last twenty years, the “Resident Evil” series has been mainly thirdperson, with each game building off the last.

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This is balanced out by the writing of the main antagonists: The Baker Family.

The Bakers show Ethan the true meaning of “southern discomfort.” Jack Baker alone easily carries the first half of the game with tense boss fights and a personality that manages to be both entertaining and frightening.

Moving away from the action-oriented cinematic sequences of the past two games, this new entry focuses more on exploration of the sprawling Baker residence.

The residence is littered with fairly simple puzzles, and “Resident Evil VII” keeps its tongue firmly in its cheek. It’s a madhouse, and Ethan outright wonders “who builds this stuff?” Each location in the residence is uniquely designed, and graphically impressive.

For all it offers, “Resident Evil VII” is not without its faults. The first hour feels too scripted, and some jumpscares feel cheap. Ethan feels sluggish as his defensive options are guarding, crouching, and running as fast as a third grader with two left feet. One play-through will last about ten hours; it’s rather short for a full-value game.

Thankfully beating the game once unlocks “Madhouse mode.” Along with increasing damage taken, this gameplay mode switches around item locations and changes the dynamics of boss fights.

“Resident Evil VII” presents a refreshing new entry in the series that provides rewarding gameplay, entertaining characters, well-optimized and aesthetically pleasing graphics, and an ending that’ll certainly result in more “Resident Evil” to come. If you’re just interested in playing through the game once, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to wait for a price drop especially since there’s more free content coming this spring.

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Mike Neu creates 'family atmosphere' Coaching staff diversity brings in strong 2017 recruiting class Robby General Managing Editor One year ago, Mike Neu took over as the head coach for the Ball State football team, right at the tail end of the recruiting season.

But this season’s recruiting class was different.

This time, Neu wasn’t retaining the players who former head coach Pete Lembo and staff brought in. He preached a “family atmosphere” en route to the 27-member 2017 Ball State recruiting class, a class that ranks second in the Mid-American Conference, behind only Toledo, according to 247sports.

“It’s a total effort here in recruiting,” Neu said in front of a packed Alumni Center Tuesday. “We team-recruit better than any staff in the country.

And when I say that, there’s not just one coach that went to see any of these players; … there’s several coaches in the homes of these young men trying to sell Ball State University.”

The different background of the Ball State coaching staff allowed them to balance their recruiting efforts in the states surrounding Indiana, but also expanding down South, to states that revolve around high school football.

Unique backgrounds from coaches like Chevis Jackson and Johnny Curtis allowed the Cardinals to get 10 players from the football powerhouse state of Georgia, where Jackson played for the Atlanta Falcons for two years, and three from Curtis’ home state of Louisiana.

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In his first season of recruiting, Ball State head football coach Mike Neu and his fellow coaches brought in a 27-member, 2017 recruiting class. Using a “family atmosphere,” Neu was able to bring in the second-highest ranked Mid-American Conference recruiting class, according to 247sports.com.

Joey Lynch and running back coach Kevin Lynch’s playing experience within Indiana and special teams coordinator Patrick Dougherty, who played college football in Ohio, made for a diverse recruiting class that contained players from nine different states.

“Everyone has a background and help in different ways,” Joey Lynch said.

“There’s a lot of awful good players here in the Midwest. I think it’s important in the Mid-American Conference that you recruit your home state, you recruit the surrounding states, but I do think you have to go somewhere south. I think, just with the staff makeup, we can kind

of hit all of those areas that we think are important.”

The tight-knit mentality of the coaching staff got in the door down south, where they capitalized on many of the three-star prospects who were just as familiar with each other.

The Georgia connection began with wide receiver Hassan Littles from Stephenson High School in Stone Mountain, Georgia.

Littles helped convince teammates Justin Gibbs and Khalil Newton — both wide receivers — to continue their playing careers in Muncie, Indiana.

“Really, all of those guys really

played around each other,” wide receivers coach Alex Bailey said. “They knew each other, and it was kind of like, ‘Hey man, you’re going to Ball State?’ They had conversations, and with all of us coaches being down there at some point, building relationships with the coaches and the families, it all kind of worked out for the best.”

Ball State also capitalized on another teammate pair from the Peach State.

Bailey expanded his receiving core — which next year will be without alltime Cardinal reception leader KeVonn Mabon — with wide receiver Khalil Newton out of Stephenson High School, who will be joined with his teammate Verenzo Holmes, a cornerback from Grovetown, Georgia.

“A lot of them played together in the Cam Newton seven-on-seven league last summer, so they all kind of knew each other and that really helped,” Neu said.

With familiarities on and off the field, the coaches are prepared to see what this year’s class can do for the Cardinals in the future.

“The personality with these kids is strong, and they’re confident,” Joey Lynch said. “I just think that this group is different and they’re going to come in ready to compete.”

That competition will have to wait until June when the remaining recruits, excluding offensive lineman Jake McKenzie who enrolled early, will be on campus preparing to earn starting jobs.

“Obviously it’s on paper right now,” Neu said. “I wish we could fast forward to June 19 to get these kids here."

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Ball State's recruiting class ranks 2nd in MAC Eleven out of the 27 players added were 3-star recruits Colin Grylls Sports Editor Ball State’s coaches logged plenty of frequent flier miles in head coach Mike Neu’s first full season of recruiting.

Just about everyone on the coaching staff would pack their bags and fly to visit recruits and convince them — and their families — that the Cardinals were the right fit.

“It’s funny, you work all year just for them to send a fax,” wide receivers coach Alex Bailey said before Ball State’s Signing Day Party.

The class fared well in the recruiting rankings, with 247sports.com ranking the signing day haul second in the MidAmerican Conference and 83rd overall one year after being ranked 111th, the seventh-biggest difference in the country.

“That’s exciting to [the players] because they expect to come in here and make a difference,” Neu said. “When you see that incentive, it’s a great motivator if you will, to say ‘hey, we were ranked.’”

SOUTHERN CHARM Only five players in the Cardinals’ 27-member recruiting class were from Indiana, with 10 coming from Georgia.

Defensive backs coach Chevis Jackson played for the Atlanta Falcons in 2008 and 2009, so naturally he was assigned to be the area scout.

“But Bailey, he comes down there,” Jackson said. “[Linebackers] coach [Johnny] Curtis comes down there, Coach Neu comes down there, [running backs coach] Kevin [Lynch]

comes down. We work good together as a staff and we team recruit. I think them being able to see us more than one time, or a lot of us together, they can see that it’s a family atmosphere.”

Neu said he didn’t plan on recruiting the South so heavily, but the players who committed early started recruiting their friends.

“We wanted to get down there and really kind of, ‘how’s it gonna go when he gets down there?’” Neu said. “But [Jackson] did such a good job of building relationships and getting to know some of the kids, and just like he said, once we got one or two of those kids on board, it was kind of a snowball effect.”

As well as playing in Atlanta, Jackson played college football at Louisana State University and is originally from Alabama. While Neu is an Indianapolis native and Ball State alumnus, he lived in New Orleans from 2004 to 2015, where he coached the Voodoo, an arena league football team, scouted for the Saints of the NFL, and coached quarterbacks at Tulane University and with the Saints.

Linebackers coach Johnny Curtis, who grew up in Louisiana and coached at John Curtis Christian School, said the staff’s southern ties helped recruits feel comfortable.

“We wanted guys that understood the family aspect of it because that’s what Coach Neu has instilled in our program,” Curtis said. “So yes, in the South and bringing those kids up, having that around and having their parents come up was huge. ... That’s what we want to be, we want to be an extension of their home.”

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At the Signing Day party, one phrase kept being repeated when the coaches introduced the six new linebackers and six new defensive backs — position flexibility.

“If a kid can do more than one thing, his value goes up,” Jackson said. “So we won’t be pigeonholed just having him at this position or that position, we can put him anywhere on the field and he can do a lot of different things. I think it makes our defense more aggressive, more diverse, and [we can] do whatever we want when we want to do it.”

Linebacker Jimmy Daw, for example, played running back at Medina High School in Ohio and set school records for career rushing yards (3,384) and touchdowns (64). Defensive back Verenzo Holmes returned kicks at Grovetown High School (Georgia). Corners Myles Hannah (Stone Mountain, Georgia) and Verenzo Holmes (Grovetown, Georgia) both ran track in high school.

Linebacker Brock Burns, whose older brother Brendan is a junior righthanded pitcher for Ball State’s baseball team, played strong safety at Hamilton Southeastern High School in Fishers and is a 6-foot-4-inch example of Curtis’s recruiting philosophy.

“What we try to do is recruit those safeties, bring them down to that hybrid, flexible spot, and eventually move those guys as box [middle] linebackers and you just get a really good, seamless rotation,” Curtis said. “At the end of the day, when you run into a special one you might get a good NFL player.”

But even with the flexibility, there are no guarantees.

“We don’t ever promise one kid in recruiting that ‘You’re a starter,’” Neu said.

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Ball State added 27 new football players on Wednesday during Signing Day. The Cardinals’ recruiting class was ranked second in the MidAmerican Conference by 247sports.com.

That being said, Ball State started three senior linebackers in all 12 games last season — Sean Wiggins, Zack Ryan and Aaron Taylor, so there’s an opportunity for some of the new linebackers to earn some playing time. Defensive backs Corey Hall (11 starts) and Martez Hester (10 starts) are also gone, creating chances for the incoming defensive backs.

It just depends on which players earn it.

“There will definitely be some guys in our locker room who are going to play as true freshmen,” Curtis said.

But before they could officially call themselves Cardinals, they had to figure out how to use fax machines.

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Ball State football alumni react to National Signing Day Alumni give insight to 2017 recruiting class Elizabeth Wyman Assistant Sports Editor Former Ball State football teammates quarterback Keith Wenning and wide receiver Jamill Smith like to resort to old ways.

One day after National Signing Day, the pair ran routes on the turf field in the Jo Ann Gora Student Recreation and Wellness Center with some of the current Cardinals roster.

Ball State signed 27 members for the 2017 recruiting class, but Wenning and Smith know the important work comes after signing day.

"Hopefully they come in and do what they got to do," Smith said. "Signing day is just signing day and we know that.

We’ve seen many people come in here and get signed and not do anything, so it's about putting in the work and coming in here and getting better. With the coaches here, they make it easy.”

Wenning is now on the New York Giants' practice squad, but he came into Ball State as an unranked recruit with

a scholarship in 2010. Smith walked on to the team a year earlier and earned scholarship in his time with the program.

Wenning said Smith is a prime example of the work the new recruits will have to put in. "[Smith] knows football," Wenning said. "So for me coming in, and him already being here a year, it was great to work with him and some of the older guys who might not have been the best receivers, but they played hard and were students of the game."

Smith, who lives in Muncie during the offseason, is coming off his best season in his three-year career in the Canadian Football League as a wide receiver and kick returner. His team, the Ottawa Redblacks, won the 2016 Grey Cup (CFL championship) in overtime against the Calgary Stampeders.

"We actually completed our goal," Smith said. "It was an amazing experience to actually go there and finish out."

Smith will be a free agent for the first time on Feb. 14, which is why he came back to the Rec Center.

"Bigger and better goals," Smith said of what's to come for himself. "Just trying to get better each day. We’ve been doing this, coming out here working

and just trying to get to my goal either CFL or NFL, just chasing my dream.”

Working out in the Rec Center has become an annual event for Wenning and Smith.

One former teammate was missing in the annual off season workout however — Willie Snead. The New Orleans Saints wide receiver attended the workout last year, but couldn't make this year's workout. Wenning said he still keeps in touch with Snead and fellow Saints practice squad member Jordan Williams, another former Cardinal.

"We're always trying to look out for each other and l put some work in because we all got the same goals," Wenning said.

Neither Wenning or Smith are certain where the future will take them. But the friends are just looking for opportunities and chances to prove themselves.

"Everybody's trying to make it big," Wenning said. "Any time we can help each other out and work together, it's great.”

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Ball State falls to No. 1 Ohio State Cardinals lose MIVA opener in 4th-largest men's volleyball Worthern Arena crowd Colin Grylls Sports Editor No. 12 Ball State men's volleyball was tied in the first set against No. 1 Ohio State 27-27.

Buckeyes redshirt sophomore Blake Leeson tossed the ball in the air and put all of his 6-foot-7-inch frame behind his serve.

Ace. "You just know you have to be perfect in those moments, because he's not going to make a mistake," Ball State senior outside attacker Brendan Surane said.

"He's going to come out there and bring it, and then he did."

Ohio State (10-0, 1-0 MIVA) scored on the next point to take the first set, and went on to win 3-0 (29-27, 25-19, 25-22).

The recorded attendance for the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association opener was 3,178, the fourth-largest men's volleyball crowd in Worthen Arena's history. With the top-ranked team in the country in town, head coach Joel Walton tried to calm the Cardinals (8-2, 0-1 MIVA) in the locker room before the match.

"I told our guys we've got the talent that it takes to beat [Ohio State] this year and they don't have to go out and play a perfect match or play beyond what their ability is," Walton said. "But they have to play up to their ability."

The Buckeyes jumped out to a 21-11 lead in the second, finishing the set with a .321 attacking percentage. Ball State made six errors with nine kills for a .130 attacking percentage.

"Kind of gave it away, and I think that was still on our minds when we got out there at the beginning and luckily we were able to turn it around," Surane said.

Ball State led 21-16 in the first set, but Ohio State — who only lost three sets all season — scored 4 consecutive points to bring the game within one. The

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Senior outside attacker Brendan Surane jumps up for a hit during the game against Ohio State Thursday in Worthen Arena. The Cardinals lost 3-0.

Cardinals also jumped out to a 12-8 lead in the third, but couldn't overcome the Buckeyes' .565 attacking percentage in the set.

"You just can't relax," Walton said.

"Because we played close in game one doesn't mean game two is going to be easy. You've got to maintain the same kind of focus, the same kind of determination through the match if you want to beat a team like Ohio State."

Ohio State finished with a .429 attacking percentage, led by senior opposite Miles Johnson (19 kills, 1 error)

and junior outside hitter Nicolas Szerzen (13 kills, 5 aces).

"Going into it, we definitely knew that Johnson and Szerzen were their two big swings," freshman outside attacker Matt Szews said. "We really worked on it, knowing where they were going to hit the ball and their tendencies and everything. It was just kind of a lack of focus."

Surane finished with 11 kills, and Szews led the Cardinals with 14 kills. The Cardinals finished the match with a .314 attacking percentage.

Ball State turns its focus to McKendree in its next game Saturday, and Walton said it's important for the Cardinals to not overlook the McKendree University Bearcats.

But it's hard not to look ahead to March 25, when the Cardinals get a chance for a rematch against Ohio State.

"We're all really excited," Surane said.

"We can learn from this, and I think there's no way in hell we can't beat them the next time we play them."

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Football recruits showcase all-around athleticism New recruits played multiple sports while in high school Colin Grylls Sports Editor One of head coach Mike Neu’s goals on the recruiting trail was to find players who would make Ball State’s football team more athletic.

The coaching staff accomplished that by going past the gridiron and looking on the basketball court, baseball diamond and soccer field.

“I love the fact that we find guys that play multiple sports, and they excel at multiple sports,” Neu said. “That tells me they’re versatile, they’re competitors.”

Eleven of Ball State’s 27 commits are listed as playing another sport in their athletic department bios.

“I feel like there’s something good from the other sports that you maybe just can’t get from playing the game

of football — the change of direction in soccer, the change of direction in basketball,” Neu said.

David Rueth’s highlight video, for example, shows how skills translate across different sports. Rueth won Ohio’s Division II State Championship as Alter High’s starting goalkeeper, and 22 seconds into his football highlight video, Rueth ranges to his left to cover a receiver in the flat.

He starts crashing to the line of scrimmage, but he stops in his tracks when the quarterback winds up to throw to the corner route developing behind the 6-foot-1-inch linebacker. He leaps to his right like he’s trying to stop a penalty kick in the upper corner of the goal before he hauls in the interception.

Rueth is one of several defenders in the class whom linebackers coach Johnny Curtis and defensive backs coach Chevis Jackson expect to have “position

flexibility” because of his athleticism.

Ball State doesn’t go out of its way to find multi-sport athletes, though.

“I don’t know if we look for it, it’s just something they happen to do,” Jackson said. “With kids nowadays, they don’t just do one thing.”

But having the athleticism and competitive drive to play multiple sports is definitely a plus, Curtis said.

“When guys play other sports, it tells us they’re willing to put themselves out there to compete,” Curtis said. “That’s really what I believe winning programs are built on. That’s where I came from, just about every student was required to play two sports, and we were a national powerhouse.”

Before joining Ball State, Curtis coached at John Curtis Christian School in Louisiana where incoming offensive lineman Sione “Poni” Tu’uta played football and threw shot put and discus. Fellow offensive

lineman Curtis Blackwell also threw shot put, and he qualified for the Indiana state championships as a sophomore and junior at Norwell High School in Uniondale.

Four incoming recruits also ran track in high school — wide receiver Hassan Littles (Lithona, Georgia), and defensive backs Bryce Cosby (Louisville, Kentucky), Myles Hannah (Stone Mountain, Georgia) and Verenzo Holmes (Grovetown, Georgia). Holmes finished sixth in the 100m dash at the Georgia state championships.

“I love guys that run track,” Neu said.

“When you’re running track, man, you’re sprinting to the finish line and it’s a clear cut, you embrace the competition.”

That competitiveness will come in handy for these players too as Neu said he doesn’t promise any playing time on the recruiting trail.

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Ball State looks to continue three-game winning streak offensive production is the team leaders; redshirt sophomore Tayler Persons and senior forward Franko House.

Throughout the season Persons has averaged 16.1 points per game and over the last seven he has averaged 17.7 with a 24-point game against Western Michigan and a 26-point game against Toledo. House averages 12.9 for Ball State this season and through the last seven, he is averaging 15.1 points.

Men's basketball set to play University of Buffalo today Ryan Flanery Men’s Basketball Reporter Riding a three-game winning streak, Ball State men’s basketball (15-7, 6-3 MAC) welcomes Mid-American Conference East Division foe University of Buffalo (11-11, 4-5 MAC) to Worthen Arena today. The matchup, originally scheduled for Saturday, was switched to 9 p.m. today to be aired on ESPNU. This is the second meeting between Ball State and the University of Buffalo during this calendar year. On Jan. 14 the Cardinals defeated the Bulls on their home floor 92-77.

At 4-5 in MAC play, Buffalo is 3-3 since Ball State handed them a loss.

The Bulls are playing off a 101-91 victory against Central Michigan. In that game senior guard Blake Hamilton scored 27 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for Buffalo.

Tied as the eighth best scorer in the MAC, Hamilton averages 15.7 points per game, but over the last five games and since the loss to the Cardinals, Hamilton has jumped that average up to 17.8.

In the game against Ball State on Jan. 14, Hamilton managed only 14 points.

During the streak in which Ball State has won six of the last seven games, their offense is averaging a total of 86.7 points while holding opponents to 78.0 points.

BALL STATE STATS

• Field goal percentage: 46.7 • Opponent field goal percentage: 40.6 • Assists: 16.3 • Leading scorer: Tayler Persons - 16.1 • Buffalo stats: • Field goal percentage: 43.6 • Opponent field goal percentage: 41.0 • Assists: 15.3 • Leading scorer: Blake Hamilton - 17.0

Grace Hollars // DN File

Guard Taylor Persons pushes his way up the court during the game against Toledo Tuesday in Worthen Arena. The Cardinals will compete against Mid-American Conference East Division foe University of Buffalo today for their second game against the Bulls this year.

For the season, Ball State sits at No. 4

in the conference for scoring, averaging 79.7 points while the defense is ranked

sixth, allowing an average of 73.2 points per game.

Part of the reason for the spike in

Free throws have been key for the Cardinals in the last seven games. Through the first fifteen games Ball State went to the line an average of 18 times a game. In the last seven games the Cardinals have managed getting to the line an average of 26 times per game.

In the first matchup against Buffalo on Jan. 14, Ball State went to the free throw line 26 times, making 21 of those free throws.

Tipoff is set for 9 p.m. today at Worthen Arena.

Contact Ryan Flanery with any questions or concerns at @Flanery_17.

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7 signs you're a chemistry major Kirsten Wamsley Lifestyle Reporter

Between memorizing the periodic table of elements and working with chemicals in the lab, chemistry majors earn some unique quirks and skills along with their degree. Here are some signs you’re a chemistry major, as told by chemistry majors themselves.

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When it came time to elect officers, only two had volunteered and JAS was left to recruit the rest. Because of this, Newman was offered the position of treasurer even though he was a new member.

He slowly rose to his current position as president and with each year gained new members and appreciation for the club.

When Newman came to Ball State, he had no idea what anime was until stumbling upon the JAS booth at the activity fair.

It wasn’t the anime alone that kept him interested — he even admitted that he probably wouldn’t have returned if it weren’t for the people he met. Though the club was small, Newman enjoyed spending every Sunday with his new group of friends.

“There’s something about the appeal of being around people who have a similar interest as you and experiencing the same thing that you both have the same interest in,” Newman said. “It really breaks down that barrier and allows you to be friends with someone very easily.”

As president, Newman tries to maintain the laidback atmosphere of the club. While interested students come and go from week to week, he estimates about 20 students regularly attend.

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shows that go along with the theme.

Newman hopes the club will continue to grow as it has throughout his time at Ball State, but knows that he, and the other officers, must work hard to keep the club going.

Allyson McClain, the club’s public relations coordinator, said she isn’t worried about the club’s future.

McClain’s older brother introduced her to the vast world of anime when she was 7 years old with the popular show “Naruto.”

Anime is a big part of her life, so much so that she founded a graphic novel club in high school to share her passion for anime with others.

When McClain went to Ball State’s activity fair, she was thrilled to see that there was a similar club she could join.

“I have never run up to a table faster,” she said. “I scared the people at the stand because I ran up to them.”

While McClain doesn’t have time for many extracurricular activities, the unusual meeting time has allowed her to be a member. She also has enjoyed the friends she has made through this club and the relaxed, fun atmosphere it provides.

“Its like being in a movie theater with people who actually get you, and you’re all friends,” McClain said.

McClain knows the common misconception about anime is that it is for children, but she loves showing people that it is for teens and adults and introducing them to the different genres and storytelling styles of the Japanese culture.

“I love the fact that I’m able to get more

YOU KNOW YOU’RE A CHEMISTRY MAJOR IF...

1. “You can draw a perfect hexagon.”

— Katie Bitterman, senior Chemistry majors have to draw bonds elements they are learning about, so they get pretty good at it.

2. “Smelly labs are your new perfume.” — Layla Milton, junior The chemicals in the lab and Cooper Science Building leave a distinct smell on your clothes.

3. “If someone mentions an element by name, you automatically think of the symbol.” — Sarah Pruitt, junior That’s probably because they look at the periodic table so often and memorize it for quizzes — it becomes second nature.

4. “You’ve spent weeks with brown fingers because you didn’t wear gloves when working with the silver nitrate.”

— Bitterman That’s one stain a Tide stick won’t work on.

5. “You always carry a pair of closed toe shoes with you for labs.” — Milton Entering a lab without closed-toed shoes is prohibited, so some chemistry majors have taken to carrying around an extra pair, just in case.

6. “You probably have multiple copies of the periodic table.” — Pruitt It’s on your computer, your phone, your notebook, etc. You never know when you’ll need it.

7. “You get to walk around campus with safety goggle marks.” — Mary Reams, freshman The goggles worn in hour-long labs tend to leave the marks on your face for hours and in turn, it becomes a new fashion statement.

Contact Kirsten Wamsley with any questions or concerns at kmwamsley@bsu.edu.

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Every Sunday from 6 to 9 p.m., the Japanese Animation Society meets in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center to watch popular Japanese programs, known as anime. An estimated 20 students regularly attend, but the club is growing. Japanese Animation

people into this,” McClain said. “I love watching when people really figure out what it is and seeing this new world, seeing this absolutely new place.”

As the club prepares for its second Cardinal Con, a campus pop culture convention, in February, both McClain and Newman are hard at work.

JAS participates in several events,

from Cardinal Con to video game tournaments, which serve as fundraisers.

It hopes to also join with other clubs and host more events in the future, which will hopefully help to further expose more people to their Sunday evening tradition.

Contact Brooke Kemp with any questions or concerns at bmkemp@bsu.edu.

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Jazz ensembles honor 1998 bombing victim

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Ball State’s jazz ensembles performed in Sursa Performance Hall Wednesday for the Tom Shah Memorial Jazz Scholarship Award Concert. Shah studied jazz history and performance, trumpet performance, history and musicology, and was an assistant to Larry McWilliams, the former director of the university’s jazz studies program.

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Trumpeter Andrew Fiorini plays with Ball State’s jazz ensemble II as part of the Tom Shah Memorial Jazz Scholarship Award Concert Wednesday in Sursa Performance Hall. The concert honored a Ball State graduate who was one of the victims of the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.

Grace Ramey // DN

Bassist Wesley Holland plays in the Ensemble III’s performance of Jamey Simmon’s “Second Guess” Wednesday in Sursa Performance Hall for Ball State’s Tom Shah Memorial Jazz Scholarship Award Concert. The concert featured Ball State’s jazz ensembles under the direction of Mark Buselli, director of jazz studies.

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Beginning this summer, students in Greek Life will no longer be under the Office of Student Life, but rather the Office of Greek Life. The new office will give Greek students advertisement and support to expand their community.

Greek Life gets own department

Office comes after 5 percent growth over past 4 years Michelle Kaufman Greek Life Reporter

Beginning this summer, students in Greek Life will no longer be under the Office of Student Life. Instead, the Office of Greek Life will be created and given its own department and office within the division of Student Affairs.

Kari Murphy, associate director of student life, said the office is becoming its own because of growth. The Greek community has increased by five percent over the past four years.

“We’ve seen a growth in all areas of our community,” Murphy said. “We’ve started

some new chapters [and] we’ve seen a lot of success within the community.

Certainly, I think one of the key pieces of this was the sorority housing project that was just approved this past fall.”

The announcement of the move came as a surprise, and Murphy said having an Office of Greek Life uniquely positions her and her staff to be engaged in a lot of new conversations that will guide the Greek community moving forward.

“I think it enhances things that we already have in place, so it gives us the ability to really strategize around some of the key educational programs we have,” said Kevin Carey, assistant director of Greek Life.

Carey said the new office will give Greek students advertisement and support to grow the community through

education, prevention and membership.

The future location of the office is currently unknown. Murphy and Carey are not sure if they will get to make that decision. There is currently a council office shared by all three governing Greek councils within the Student Center where small meetings take place.

“As we’ve told students … the thing that I think that resonates most with them is they get to celebrate this because it’s the things they’ve done,” Carey said. “[Students] have been really just excited about the fact that they get to celebrate being identified with an office that shares a similar role … that they can kind of call their own.”

Contact Michelle Kaufman with any questions or concerns at mekaufman@bsu.edu.

Student activist to travel to Washington D.C. Sophomore will attempt to defend government programs Kirsten Wamsley Daily News Reporter One Ball State student will be spending her spring break in Washington, D.C., in attempt to defend and help save government programs that support low-income Americans.

Sarah Leone, a sophomore social work major, is a member of RESULTS, a nonprofit organization that is concerned with ending world hunger and poverty in the U.S. and all over the world.

Leone decided to sign up with RESULTS when an application appeared in her email. Since then, as one of the only applicants for her district, she received the fellowship and is finishing

her last year with the organization.

Before leaving, she decided she wanted to make a difference by going to D.C. to speak with Republicans in order to try to convince them that programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and the Affordable Care Act should not be cut.

“I am not naïve,” Leone said. “I know there is issues with SNAP and ACA, but I believe that it is worth fixing it rather than just scraping it and the poor not having anything.”

Approximately 52 million people — 21 percent of the U.S. — participate in major means-tested government assistance programs each month, according to a 2015 Census Bureau report. These programs included Medicaid and SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program.

RESULTS has had success before with

talking to Republicans, and Leone is hopeful to bring change yet again.

“Even if they do not vote for this, they know we are not going to back down,” Leone said.

For Leone, helping people has been something she has always cared about.

Not only did her family benefit from the use of SNAP, but they are involved in the business of helping people. Her father is a social worker and a priest who helps males who are in drug rehabilitation programs, and her mother sells welfare insurance.

She said the experience has shown her confidence and that a voice can make a difference if you know what to say.

“They work for us,” Leone said. “We don’t work for them.”

Contact Kirsten Wamsley with any questions or concerns at kmwamsley@bsu.edu.

“In the service industry there’s always going to be people that are upset,” Zimmerman said. “I really don’t have any concern with it. It’s not something that is going to keep me up at night.”

Brothers is a chain, and the location in the Village is one of 20 in a multi-million-dollar corporation.

Zimmerman said if the bar's profits were to decrease, there would be enough financial backing to correct the issue instead of closing down.

“The only thing at-risk of leaving the area is the management team, which is me,“ Zimmerman said.

Brothers’ location is important to the staff, Zimmerman said, and they value the relationship between their business and students.

“I feel like the students are a big part of our business,” he said.

Zimmerman said Brothers also recently partnered Ball State’s Christian Student Foundation to ensure that all patrons get home safely. The program will enable “safe walks” and “safe drives” home after a night of drinking.

“Our responsibility is to provide a safe, fun environment,” Zimmerman said. “But the emphasis is on safety because they are college kids.”

In the meantime, Zimmerman said he doesn’t believe the bar has been or will be affected by any rumors, and he’s looking forward to continuing operations in the Village.

“It seems like the week we moved in we kind of became the authority on campus,” Zimmerman said. “When we’re controlling a market the way we are, I don’t see any way that we’d be moving out.”

Contact Brynn Mechem & Devan Sticka with any questions or concerns at news@bsudailynews.edu.

SGA

Continued from page 1 During the meeting, the Senate also moved forward with its new genderinclusive resolution.

The resolution was presented on the Senate floor and will set up a system for transgender and gender non-conforming students to live in special “pods” in the residence halls that accommodate such a layout.

Ball State is one of three Mid-American Conference schools that does not have a gender inclusivity policy.

Senator Kam Bontrager, one of the authors of the bill, said many gender non-conforming or transgender students feel “uncomfortable” in the current housing setup.

Transgender and gender non-conforming students will be able to opt-in to live with other students who also choose to do so, and they will share a bathroom with the other students who live in their “pod.”

SGA hopes to test the program next year with a small group of students who have lived on campus for at least two semesters, and senators hope to have it fully implemented by 2021.

Contact Max Lewis with any questions or concerns at lmaxwell2@bsu.edu.