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Baseball defeats Kent State in extra innings

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March 29: It took 13 innings,

Women’s golf takes sixth place at EKU

of Trustees met Friday at the L.A. Pittenger Student Center Ballroom.

Willie Snead IV, Baltimore Ravens wide receiver and Ball State alumnus paid a visit to the board as a guest speaker. The board also discussed updates regarding ongoing construction on campus and program updates.

after day one of the EKU Colonel Classic, Ball State jumped to sixth place in the final round on Saturday.

Sophomore Liz Kim notched a career-low 71 during the second round of play. This performance put her in a tie with Eastern Kentucky’s Elsa Moberly for the best score on Saturday.

March 29: Ball State’s Board

but Ball State walked away from Friday’s contest with Kent State with a 9-8 win, bringing the Cardinals’ win streak to eight games. The team gave up a 5-1 lead in the ninth inning, but was able to outlast the Golden Flashes. Ball State is now ranked No. 28 in the nation, and will face Central Michigan Friday.

Transgender protest in Muncie

Doubles lift women’s tennis over BGSU

of Transgender Day of Visibility, 20 members of the LGBTQ community and supporters held a demonstration in downtown Muncie. In particular, demonstrators protested the passage of SB 182, a bill that would not allow individuals to change their gender marker on their driver’s licenses.

Tennis pushed their conference record to the .500 mark and overall record to 13-4 Sunday afternoon after a 5-2 victory over the Falcons.

Senior Audrey Berger and Junior Rebecca Herrington bounced back with a victory in both their doubles and singles matches. The team will face Buffalo Friday.

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Willie Snead IV visits Board of Trustees

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Community

Dunkin’ franchise coming to Muncie

CYCLE SAFETY

How students can protect their bikes on campus

The new Dunkin’ Donuts coming to Muncie will be located at 418 S. Tillotson Ave. Co-owner of the store Raj Patel said several locations in Muncie were considered, but the Tillotson location was selected because of its proximity to Ball State.

The remodeling process begins in approximately 30-60 days and will open by the 2019-20 academic year.

Charles Melton Reporter She locked only the tire of her bike to the rack.

That’s the reason Kianna Blevins, sophomore nursing major, said her roommate’s bike was stolen.

“They just took the bike off the tire and took the rest of the bike and left the tire,” Blevins said.

Warm weather is an invitation for students to get out their bikes and ride them around campus. Spring sunshine also attracts uninvited people — bike thieves.

Cpl. Travis Stephens of the University Police Department (UPD) said bikes are stolen at random, not targeted. He said thieves’ favorite targets are bikes with “inferior locks” — like a padlock or cable locks.

Stephens said at the end of March, UPD arrested a suspect found in possession of two stolen bikes. The suspect was riding one of the stolen bikes as he peddled to the front of Hargreaves Music Building to steal a second.

Stephens said a call came into dispatch as the suspect was attempting the second offense, and police responded within a couple of minutes to make an arrest.

UPD offers students the opportunity to register their bikes. Stephens said four years ago, UPD only registered 30 bikes in an entire year, but this school year the department registered “just short of 400 bikes.”

After a bike is registered, Stephens said they use the serial number on each bike to track it and verify if it belongs to the actual owner.

“A couple summers ago we recovered a bike in Colorado,” he said. “The police department there ran the serial number, because it also gets put into the national database, saying it was stolen.”

Besides registering bikes, Stephens

Campus Freshman Brendan Kogiones registers his bike outside of DeHority Complex August 2017. Participants got a slice of pizza for registering and a better chance at recovering a stolen bike, according to the Ball State University Police Department. KYLE CRAWFORD, DN FILE recommends using a U-bolt-style lock — a lock with a U-shaped bar and a steel crosspiece that costs around $25 to $30.

“In my nine years, I’ve never known [a U-bolt lock] to be cut. It’s usually user error if they do happen to get stolen,” he said.

If a U-bolt lock doesn’t unlock, a machine shop mechanic has to come out to weld or grind the lock off the bike, Stephens said. “[Say you] went out and bought a $20 dollar bike from a garage sale, which by all means is probably the better idea, don’t bring your $1,000 bike to campus,” Stephens said. “But then they don’t want to lock it up and say, ‘Well, I already spent $20 on the bike so I don’t want to spend 50, 30 or 40 bucks on the lock.’”

Stephens said the culprit is not always convicted, especially if the bike is not registered. He said UPD contacts victims and asks if they want to press charges.

Blevins said her bike has never been stolen.

She locks her bike with a cable lock and puts it in the garage of her house. She is also interested in getting her bike registered with UPD. Jason Allardt, manager at Kirk’s Bike Shop,

said the brand of bike is more important to a thief than the style of the bike.

“If there was a style [of bike] that thieves target more than others it would be road bikes over mountain bikes,” Allardt said. “Road bikes generally have a higher value.”

Trek, Specialized, Giant, Cannondale, Electra — those brands are going to be more popular and better looking than department store bikes, Allardt said.

At Kirk’s Bike Shop, all bikes have a serial number that is registered in the shop’s point of sale system and kept on file with the customers’ information, he said.

“A lot of thieves steal bikes then quickly turn around and sell them to a pawn shop or something like that,” Allardt said. “We [Kirk’s Bike Shop] don’t buy used bikes [and] we don’t pay cash for bikes and most people know that.”

When a suspicious bike does come in, the shop records the serial number and makes sure it doesn’t belong to one of its customers whose bike has been stolen, he said.

Contact Charles Melton with comments at cwmelton@bsu.edu or on Twitter @Cmelton144.

Ball State selects new college deans Seth Beckman and Stephen Ferris will be joining the university as deans. Beckman and Ferris start their new positions July 1. Beckman was chosen as dean of the College of Fine Arts and Ferris as dean for Ball State’s Miller College of Business.

Both new deans come to Ball State with past administrative and academic experience.

Student Government

Mitchell said 14 of 16 points completed Ball State Student Government Association (SGA) President Isaac Mitchell gave his final platform points update to the senate. Mitchell said Amplify, the current executive slate, completed 14 out of 16 platform points. Relocating trash and recycling bins and bins in restrooms for hygienic products were the two points Amplify did not complete.

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Matthew Smith always knew he wanted to work with computers.

“My grandpa got me into computer games for me to play. And that’s where it started,” Smith said.

After finishing his undergraduate computer science degree at Trine University in Angola, Indiana, he got a job as a software engineer at Ontario Systems in Muncie.

A year later, he decided to take his education to the next level by attending the computer science and software engineering master’s programs at Ball State, graduating in December 2018.

Now, however, both of these programs have undetermined futures.

Ball State is suspending the Department of Computer Science master’s programs, bringing the total number of master’s programs in the department to zero.

The master’s degree in computer science program was suspended March 2019 and the software engineering program was suspended November 2018, said Paul Buis, chairperson of the

department and associate professor of computer science, over email.

He said there was one main reason why both of these programs are suspended: enrollment.

“It surprises me a little in that I’m in the industry now and (it) seems like there’s a lot of jobs open,” Smith said. “Just makes you wonder why people are not interested.”

The department did not have sufficient enrollment to offer the programs without having multiple courses with low enrollment each semester.

Buis said paperwork for the suspension has been sent in to the “uppermost” level of administration to be approved.

Kathy Wolf, vice president of marketing and communications, said over email, “The analysis within the College of Sciences and Humanities has led us to place a hold on new admissions to the computer science programs you mentioned.”

As of April 3, there has been no official announcement indicating the suspension of any of these graduate programs. Wolf said the university doesn’t make public announcements about “internal curricular changes.”

Unoccupied computers, keyboards and mice sit in room 284 in the Robert Bell Building April 3, 2019. The Department of Computer Science is housed within Robert Bell and both of its master’s programs have been suspended. ANDREW HARP, DN

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STUDENTS DECLARED IN COMPUTER SCIENCE MASTER’S AND BACHELOR’S PROGRAMS Computer science (bachelor’s)

Yaron Ayalon, faculty council chair, said he was not sure about public announcements with the suspension and dropping of courses, but said such matters are the business of departments and colleges.

Wolf also said that across the university, programs are reviewed periodically “to assess which ones are most attuned to the needs of our students.”

According to Ball State’s Office of Institutional Effectiveness, the number of students who declared a master’s in computer science in fall 2014 to fall 2018 dropped from 39 to 13.

However, in comparing the number of students that declared a bachelor’s degree in computer science between those years, that number rose from 334 to 354.

“I did notice, as I went on, some classes started to get smaller,” Smith said. “I kind of thought that … may have been because they were the upper level classes.”

By the end of his time in the program, Smith said he was the only one working on a capstone project last fall semester.

According to section 22.1 of Ball State’s “Faculty and Professional Personnel Handbook,” the minimum class size is 10 for undergraduate classes and six for graduate classes. Section 22.2 states “each department may offer one underenrolled class section” with permission from the college dean.

He said the department was given permission to offer two under-enrolled courses each semester for the last two years of these graduate programs, but it did not appear the enrollment would increase before fall 2019.

Buis said for a three-credit hour course in computer science, the class sizes need a larger number of tuition-paying students to break even.

He said the majority of students had tuition reductions as part of a graduate assistantship.

“It makes no financial sense to repeatedly offer courses that lose that much money for the university,” Buis said The department of computer science still offers a bachelor’s degree in computer science and minors in computer science and computer security.

“The undergraduate Computer Science program is still very healthy,” Buis said.

As of April 3, the page for the master’s degree in computer science is still on Ball State’s website, however, the page for the software engineering program was not.

Bob Mattax, a 2003 computer science master’s graduate, said the landscape of the computer science industry has changed, and that in the classroom setting, it’s hard to adapt to the same workplace flow in the industry, which includes projects that are fast paced and “ready to pivot.”

“I just went headfirst into it,” Mattax said. “I learned more on the job than I ever did in the classroom, personally.”

He said the internet has played a large part in making fundamental computer science education affordable and accessible to almost anyone in the past decade who is ambitious enough.

Mattax said the classroom setting can teach students coding languages along with some of the principles and best practices, but unless those things are executed in a real-world environment, it’s still just theory.

“The language is never going to be what makes you a good candidate. It’s always going to be your ability to solve problems, it’s always going to be your ability to work within a team, to communicate, to show that you have a passion for those things,” Mattax said.

He said he wouldn’t be surprised to hear other universities’ programs declining in admissions, unless those programs take on huge problems and subjects like artificial intelligence and robotics.

Computer science (master’s) | SUSPENDED Software engineering | SUSPENDED Minors (a combination of all minors declared in the program)

Fall 2014 Computer science (bachelor’s)

Minors

334

83

Computer science (master’s)

Fall 2015

39

Software engineering

0

Computer science (bachelor’s)

Minors

342

83

Computer science (master’s)

It surprises me a little in that I’m in the industry now and seems like there’s a lot of jobs open. Just makes you wonder why people are not interested.”

- MATTHEW SMITH, Ball State computer science master’s graduate “Unless you have a program that’s going to push that and really, you know, tap into that passion piece of people to solve bigger, better, badder, stronger, faster problems, whatever they are,” Mattax said.

“There’s going to be some atrophy.”

Because of these changes, Mattax said universities need to start adapting and offering more incentives for students to want to spend their money and time at these institutions outside of simply learning the coding languages. He said universities can find those admissions by focusing on team projects, real-world experiences and “marrying” the education with the workforce.

Mattax said he recently piloted a program with Anderson University where they hire and train employees for on-campus jobs doing software engineering with a team at about 20 hours a week, giving them that experience throughout their school work.

Wolf and Buis said current students will be provided the needed classes to graduate. However, Buis said undergraduate students thinking of applying to the graduate programs will need to look elsewhere. Both said no faculty will be fired.

In fact, Buis said he hopes the program will return.

“We would have to demonstrate that we could successfully recruit enough students for the program to be viable,” Buis said.

Contact Andrew Harp with comments at adharp@bsu.edu or on Twitter @adharp24.

Fall 2016

Software engineering

33

3

Computer science (bachelor’s)

Minors

372

95 Computer science (master’s)

Software engineering

26

Fall 2017

8

Computer science (bachelor’s)

Minors

376

105 Computer science (master’s)

Software engineering

17

Fall 2018 Computer science (bachelor’s)

7 Minors

354

104

Computer science (master’s)

13

Software engineering

5

Source: Ball State University, Office of Institutional Effectiveness. EMILY WRIGHT, DN

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Finding an answer The key to retention Professor to teach immersive class on rape culture in the age of #MeToo.

Kelli Ross Reporter A creative writing professor will be leading students in an intensive study of rape culture on college campuses nationwide.

Jill Christman, English professor and published author, will be offering an immersive learning class next fall focused on one central question: why, when there are so many well-intentioned people working on the issue of rape culture on college campuses, has the rate of sexual assault not diminished in the 30 years since Christman was in college?

Christman said she was raped at a fraternity party when she was a first-year student attending the University of Oregon. She wrote about her experience for writer Roxane Gay’s 2018 anthology “Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture,” and both her own experiences and her belief that storytelling is a powerful force for change inspired her to create the class, she said.

“I basically couldn’t not do this,” Christman said.

In 2017, University Police Department reported 21 rapes and 16 cases of fondling on campus, according to the Annual Campus Security Report.

This is not considering the students who do not report a sexual assault. According to a report by the Department of Justice titled “Rape and Sexual Assault Victimization Among College-Age Females, 1995–2013,” only 20% of female student victims report an assault to law enforcement.

Christman said she hopes to find perspectives from listening to stories of people who have experienced firsthand sexual assault on Ball State’s campus.

Victims, advocates and sexual assault prevention groups are a few of the groups committed to speak with the class. For the second part of the class, Christman will be working closely with students on podcasts and intensive group-based projects. The class may even go as far as proposing new policies to improve campus safety nationwide, she said.

“I want to see what happens when 15 students who really care about these issues come together and start talking to each other openly,” Christman said.

The class will also examine the innovative policies other colleges are starting to use. She gave an example of the University of Oregon creating a new policy under Title IX that requires student-directed employees to provide resources to a student who has experienced a sexual assault instead of being obligated by law to report to the Title IX office, according to the university’s Office of Investigations and Civil Rights Compliance.

All of the students involved in the class have diverse academic backgrounds — with everything from creative writing and accounting to sociology and criminal justice. Christman said she looked for students with unique skill sets who care about these issues as much as she does.

Rebekah Hoffer, sophomore creative writing major, is one of the students enrolled in the immersive learning class. She said one of the main reasons for enrolling in the class was that she wanted to be more informed on rape culture.

“It’s something that I want to learn about so that I know how to respond when I hear guys doing that sort of locker room talk,” Hoffer said.

Students will earn 15 credit hours from taking the class and it will be the only class they focus on all semester. The credits can be divided up and applied to other classes that relate to the individual student’s major so the class will not affect their path to graduation, Christman said. Students can expect to spend up to 40 hours a week working together.

The Facing Project, a nonprofit that uses stories to try to create an empathetic world and more understanding, and Jana’s Campaign, a nonprofit that provides educational programming to prevent gender and relationship violence, are the two sponsor organizations that will be working closely with the immersive learning class.

Christman felt it was important to incorporate both national and community partners into the class.

The class will be presenting its findings at a safety summit in Chicago put on by sponsor Jana’s Campaign in the fall of 2020.

Contact Kelli Ross with comments at kaross3@bsu.edu.

WHY SEXUAL ASSAULT GOES UNREPORTED A report by the U.S. Department of Justice examined rates of female students 18 to 24 years old who were rape or sexual assault victims from 1995 to 2013.

26%

20% 12%

The report said 20% of victims reported assaults and 80% did not report.

Percentages may not add up to 100% due to victims giving multiple reasons for why they didn’t report. Source: U.S. Department of Justice.

EMILY WRIGHT, DN

Felt it was a personal matter

Had fear of reprisal

10% 9%

4%

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Students using the Learning Center return the following semester and graduate on time.

Scott Fleener Reporter Students stressed about their academic performances might benefit from using the resources available at Ball State’s Learning Center.

According to the center’s Retention and Graduation Report for 2017-18, students who utilize its services or attend supplemental instruction (SI) sessions are more likely to be retained and graduate on time than those who don’t. “[The center] provides that academic support to students that will help them stay at Ball State,” said Jennifer Haley, director of the center.

She said students who use the center’s resources or go to SI sessions are more “proactive” in their studies and the relationship they form with tutors helps them realize they don’t have to do this alone.

Students who are on academic probation and don’t have the required GPA for returning the next semester would have a better chance of appealing for their return if they had been utilizing the resources of the center.

“That speaks more to what they invested in already and that would give them a better opportunity to come back,” Pavlik said.

Students can receive tutoring from the center and attend SI sessions run by SI leaders. These leaders sit in a class that they have already passed that has high rates of withdraws, classes that require a lot of support and D and F grades.

SI leaders hold two or three study sessions a week to help students work together to learn the course material and teach each other, Haley said.

“Students who are successful and feel like they are understanding the material, also feel like they are connected with other students — like what you get within a SI class,” said Rachel Ling, SI leader and sophomore nursing major.

Students who go to these sessions are going to be more likely to stay on campus than those who don’t, Ling said.

At-risk students — those with a 2.0-2.9 GPA when graduating high school and least likely to be retained — are more likely to reenroll the next semester and graduate if they use the center’s resources than at-risk students who don’t, according to the document released.

Students who do not reenroll for the next academic year, leave for a number of reasons.

Pavlik said some reasons why students leave including switching to a major not offered by Ball State, choosing to go to a trade school, financial reasons, athletic reasons, proximity to home or health issues.

She aslo said Ball State has had problems retaining commuter students who sometimes face specific difficulties.

“I think the biggest thing is that [commuter students] ... feel a really hard tug between school and family life and work life,” Pavlik said.

Contact Scott Fleener with comments at jsfleener@bsu.edu or on Twitter @Scott_Reports.

LEARNING CENTER’S IMPACT ON GRADUATION RATES

Students who use Ball State’s Learning Center (LC) have a higher chance at graduating in four years. A report outlined the rates in 2018, showing how many students and “at-risk” students used the center as well as the number from that group that graduated on time.

“At-risk” defines a student who entered college with a high school GPA of 2.0-2.9. Students examined in this study attended tutoring or supplemental instruction eight or more times.

Graduated in four years Did not graduate in four years

STUDENTS

DID NOT USE LC SERVICES

DID USE LC SERVICES

48.52%

68.63%

“AT-RISK” STUDENTS

DID NOT USE LC SERVICES

DID USE LC SERVICES

21.07%

55.71%

Source: Ball State Learning Center. EMILY WRIGHT, DN

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International talent has played a major role in the rise of Ball State Soccer.

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Canada’s famed maple leaf and the unmistakable Swiss cross join Trinidad and Tobago’s vibrant red and black flag outside the fence at Briner Sports Complex. Athletes in the middle of the pitch also catch glimpses of the U.S., Spanish, Swedish and English flags as they chase and make plays up and down the field.

The different colors, different designs, different countries and different origins still come down to meaning the same thing for Ball State Soccer players.

Home.

While seven players from the 2018 Ball State Soccer roster weren’t born in the United States, they all call Muncie a second home. Players come near and far to play for the Cardinals including Trinidad and Tobago, Switzerland, Canada, Spain, Sweden and England.

The Cardinals have made it to back-to-back MidAmerican Conference Tournament championships, but their

success hasn’t always been consistent. After finishing with a record of 4-13-1 in 2009, then-first-year head coach Craig Roberts began to bring in overseas talent to Ball State.

Roberts, originally from England, is currently the winningest coach in Ball State Soccer history. In 2010, Roberts brought in three international players to play for the Cardinals, and the team began to see improvement, finishing with a record of 7-10-2.

“I felt that we needed more diversity,” Roberts said.

“Whether it was from different countries, whether it was going to be race, we just needed to mix things up.”

During the 2011 season, Roberts and the Cardinals finished the year without a losing record for the first time since 2007.

Although the team was earning more wins, Roberts was more focused on creating a better team chemistry for Ball State.

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The NFL is coming to Muncie One of the Indianapolis Colts’ draft picks will be announced April 27 in downtown Muncie as part of the National Football League’s centennial celebration. The draft will visit the towns of the original NFL teams, with Muncie being one of them.

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Ball State only played one game over the weekend after getting rained out Saturday and snowed out Sunday. The Cardinals scheduled a last-minute game against IU Kokomo Monday. They scored all 12 of their runs in the first five innings and got the bench players some experience.

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WHO’S ON FIRST?

Aaron Simpson and Luke Jaksich coached first base in Ball State Baseball’s blowout win.

Zach Piatt Assistant Sports Editor

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“The closer the team is, the better the performance they’re going to have,” Roberts said.

Before every season, Roberts brings the players together for team-bonding experiences. For example, the players will unite and display middle school pictures of one another without telling each other who is who. The players then try to guess to see if their answers are correct.

Junior Yela Ziswiler, from Switzerland, said coming to Ball State was like having a second family right away.

“You come in your first day and you already have friends,” Ziswiler said. “So you already know like 20 people, which makes it a lot easier than if you come here and have no team around you and you kind of have to find friends.”

The Cardinals also bond over a holiday gathering before winter break.

“We will bring players together before Christmas,” Roberts said. “We have kind of a team Christmas dinner. We share customs. It’s an option for them to grow.”

With the shared experience of playing far from home, the players have bonded over the adjustment to college life in the United States — along with some homesickness.

“I had people in my grade that were international, so we helped each other to figure stuff out together,” Swedish junior forward Julia Elvbo said. “It made the adjustment a lot easier than if I came here alone as an international [student].”

The team’s resurgence isn’t solely due to the addition of more international players, but Roberts believes they bring a different style to the game, allowing the players to learn from each other.

Before any international players joined the team, Ball State played more physically. English junior midfielder Nicky Potts said she didn’t know exactly what to do when she first joined the team.

“The people are more physical here, whereas when I’m back home, I played technical; like pass and move,” Potts said. “Now, the players blend their style of play

As Ball State prepared to bat in the bottom of the seventh inning, junior center fielder Aaron Simpson talked with head coach Rich Maloney in the dugout.

When Simpson ran up the dugout steps and onto the field, however, he wasn’t heading to the plate.

Instead, Simpson took a spot just beyond first base, normally occupied by assistant coach Blake Beemer. And when freshman Ryan Peltier singled to left field, it was Simpson who tapped Peltier’s helmet, saying “Good job.”

With a 12-1 lead at the time, Simpson’s day was

done after two hits and a pair of walks. Out of the 34 players on the Cardinals’ roster, 20 got playing time against Indiana Kokomo.

But two got coaching time.

“It was an awesome experience,” Simpson said with a laugh while his teammates teased him from behind. “I just happened to be next to coach, and he said, ‘Hey, you’re coaching first,’ and I said, ‘OK.’ Too bad we couldn’t get any runs, so I didn’t do my part that inning.”

While Simpson was having fun on the field, some playful banter arose from junior pitcher Luke Jaksich in the dugout.

“Everyone in the dugout was kind of booing Aaron

when he went out there because they wanted me to go out there,” Jaksich said. “I was right there, and I was hands on the hips like, ‘Come on coach.’ He goes, ‘Alright, you got next inning.’ I had the stopwatch, the sunglasses and everything. I felt good out there.”

One reason Jaksich thought he should have gone before Simpson was because he had his own coaching helmet. Simpson used Maloney’s, and he said he thought he looked good.

“All the guys were giving me crap,” Simpson said, as senior John Ricotta told him he looked terrible. “I thought it looked fine.”

Jaksich’s, however, wasn’t quite as snug.

“Mine is huge. Mine does not fit at all,” Jaksich said. “I got a small head. It’s Erek Bolton’s old one, and he’s got a big old head. It doesn’t even come close. It goes over my ears.”

Jaksich’s duties in the eighth inning were shortlived as the Cardinals went down in order. While no one got on base, he said fans would have been entertained if someone got a hit.

with both the technical and physical approaches.”

After a couple of years of practicing and playing in what Roberts considers a more international way, the Cardinals took the next step in 2012 and earned their first winning season under Roberts.

The season featured six international players.

Roberts used a website that featured international soccer players’ highlights to recruit internationally.

Before committing to Ball State, sophomore midfielder from Trinidad and Tobango Chelsi Ralph was informed by a recruiter about the website. Three days after posting her highlights, she received a call and offer to play for Roberts at Ball State.

The recruitment process led to six players rostered on the 2013 team, and the Cardinals finished toward the top of the Mid-American Conference, improving to 11-7-4. In 2015, Roberts brought the Cardinals their first regular season conference championship in eight years.

Consistency became the backbone of the team’s play on the field, and Roberts made sure to keep a consistent amount of international players rostered on the team year after year.

In 2016, the Cardinals ended the season with another MAC regular season championship, but Roberts and the Cardinals aimed for a new goal: a MAC Tournament championship.

The Cardinals made the championship game in 2017 and again the following season. The 2018 campaign featured seven international players on the roster, but the Cardinals suffered a defeat after penalty kicks in the championship game against Bowling Green.

To push for a MAC Tournament championship this upcoming season, Roberts said he is bringing in more international players to join the team. If the team holds more than seven international players on their roster for this season, it will be the most the Cardinals have had in team history.

The country flags have been joined by two recent MAC regular-season championship flags, but the Cardinals are still searching for that MAC Tournament flag to join the group. Together, the players join as one, U.S.-born or not, united as a team.

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You come in your first day and you already have friends. So you already know like 20 people, which makes it a lot easier than if you come here and have no team around you and you kind of have to find friends.”

- YELA ZISWILER, Junior soccer player from Switzerland

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DONATING MORE THAN HOPE McKenna Crews uses her childhood experiences to help support and encourage students to become donors.

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ISA hosts Holi festival at Ball State Students poured, smeared and tossed colored powder at one another on March 29 at Ball State’s Holi Celebration on University Green. During Holi, throwing color is a tradition that signifies bringing people together.

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McKenna Crews, at 6 years old, sits in her hospital bed after her bone marrow transplant in Cincinnati Hospital. Crews and her sister were diagnosed with combined immunodeficiency and both were lucky enough to find donors who saved them. MCKENNA CREWS, PHOTO PROVIDED Tierra Harris Reporter After fighting severe cases of kennel cough, chicken pox and pneumonia for years as a child, McKenna Crews and her family suspected something was wrong.

Dozens of hospital visits later, all she got was multiple treatments that didn’t work and many misdiagnoses for cancer.

Finally, at 4 years old, Crews and her 2-year-old sister Sydney found out they suffered from Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, SCID. The disease meant Crews and her sister were born with little to no immune defense, making them more susceptible to infections and diseases. Even a simple cold could turn severe in a matter of days.

Two years later, Crews was given the opportunity for a bone marrow transplant. Because she was able to watch her sister undergo the treatment first, Crews said she had no worries.

“I don’t think that I was at a level where I could exactly comprehend what was going on with me,” Crews said. “I just knew that I was sick all the time, and the bone marrow transplant was supposed to make me better.”

Despite everyone’s high hopes for the success of the operation, Crews suffered complications after the transplant. She was diagnosed

Sophomore McKenna Crews attends a Be The Match event as president of the Ball State chapter. Crews got involved with the organization after she was accepted into her current sorority, Chi Omega. MCKENNA CREWS, PHOTO PROVIDED with graft-versus-host disease, a reaction that develops after a bone marrow transplant.

Doctors gave Crews a boost of cells from her bone marrow donor and then tried chemotherapy and steroid treatments. The long process caused Crews to lose most of her strength.

“I felt powerless,” Crews said. “I have always been a very independent person, even as a kid. I hated not being able to take care of myself and help other people and having to rely on others to even get to my bedroom. My biggest struggle was not being able to do those things for myself. My dad had to carry me upstairs to my bedroom.”

At seven, only a few months after her bone marrow transplant, Crews was introduced to Camp Joy, a camp for children who have faced or are currently facing a variety of different diseases.

Every year following, Crews continued to go to Camp Joy, building lasting relationships and finding what she said was her second home.

“I tell people all the time that I’m so grateful for being sick because it led me to Camp Joy,” Crews said. “There, I found my passion.”

Once she turned 16, Crews became a camp counselor because she wanted to be a part of Camp Joy “for the rest of her life.” Her sister, Sydney, who is now a senior in high school, will also be a camp counselor this summer.

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By partnering with the Muncie Animal Rescue Fund (ARF), seven students studying construction management have taken the step to introduce the Muncie community to the ELECTRI International Green Energy Challenge. Through Ball State’s independent study course dedicated to the challenge, these students, along with Sherif Atallah, a professor of construction management, are working with ARF to help the business become more energy efficient.

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Ignite Music Festival in The Village This weekend, Sight and Sound will host the Ignite Music Festival in The Village. Jake Struble, a student employee at Sight and Sound, said the festival will be unlike any others that have come to Muncie — with 20-foot screens, lights that can be seen a mile away and lasers that require federal wavers. Tickets can be purchased online or at the gates for $7.

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Continued from Page 09 “We’re sisters, and we’ve been through the same hardships,” Crews said. “So, just having that family member that could support me and understand what I was going through was super important.”

... I want to be able to give back in the ways that I can.”

- MCKENNA CREWS, Be The Match Ball State chapter president After coming to Ball State last year, Crews was accepted into her current sorority, Chi Omega, where she learned about Be The Match — an organization that advocated for student donors to assist people in need across the world.

Today, Crews serves as the president of Ball State’s chapter of Be The Match to help try and reach a wider audience of possible donors.

As president, Crews said her top priority is visiting groups around campus to increase the number of ethnically-diverse students who are donating bone marrow to connect those in need with help faster.

Phoebe Scherer, a senior fashion design major and a member of Chi Omega, also heard about

Be The Match through the sorority and decided to sign up for the possibility of being a donor.

“I signed up, but I didn’t really think about it,” Scherer said. “At the end of January of my junior year, I got a call from the Indiana Blood Center, and they told me I was a potential match.”

Even though Scherer signed up before she met Crews, she said Crews was one of the first people she reached out to after she was officially chosen to be a donor.

Because of the need for consensual restrictions, Scherer only knows she donated to a woman who was the same age as her mother; although, in a year, Scherer could have the opportunity to meet her.

“My mom’s 54, so if I could save someone’s mom, then it’s just the coolest thing in the world,” Scherer said.

Scherer said she is grateful for meeting and hearing her sorority sister’s transplant story before she donated because it changed her mindset, and she said Crews provided support before, during and after the procedure.

“What I did was so small compared to what she’s doing, so why wouldn’t it be worth it?”

Scherer said. “[Crews is] just a fighter.”

Although Crews plans to eventually enter the education system, she said she hopes to always be a part of Be The Match to help find donors for people who need them most.

“I can never be on the bone marrow registry to donate,” Crews said. “So, I want to be able to give back in the ways that I can.”

Contact Tierra Harris with comments at tmharris@bsu.edu.

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STEPS FOR A BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT A bone marrow transplant is the only known cure for SCID. This transplant uses stem cells donated by a family member or an unrelated donor to replace the unhealthy ones.

3 Stem cells are stored and frozen

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4 The patient gets chemotherapy to kill any unhealthy cells and to destroy their current bone marrow

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A bone marrow transplant is the only known cure for SCID. This transplant uses stem cells donated by a family member or an unrelated donor to replace the unhealthy ones causing the immune system problems. The new cells travel to the inside of the bones and begin to make healthy cells.

The entire process can last multiple weeks followed by multiple months of recovery at home.

Implementing green energy in Muncie Following the restrictions of the ELECTRI International Green Energy Challenge, construction management students suggested eco-friendly changes for ARF. Erika Leak Reporter The concept of saving energy and using more eco-friendly resources has been around for years — businesses like the Indianapolis International Airport have even made the switch entirely to solar panels.

To continue the positive shift, the National Electrical Contractor Association works to partner with universities across the U.S. to present an ecochallenge to students: pitching, integrating and executing green energy plans to local nonprofits.

Ball State is one university that offers a onecredit, independent study course dedicated to the ELECTRI International Green Energy Challenge, and this year, the construction management students in the class have decided to partner with the Muncie Animal Rescue Fund (ARF).

“It’s a good way to network, talk to a lot of contractors and get your name out there,” said Michale Delong, team leader for the challenge and a junior construction management major. “Not only does this help the nonprofit, it also gives students experience with companies and the industry.”

Alongside Delong are seven other team members — Clayton Berrisford, Cassie Dorony, Nick Broering, Casey Fentz, Jeff Gasper, Alisha Health and Kevin Zielinski — led by Sherif Atallah, a professor of construction management.

“It’s important to learn about solar energy,” said Cassie Dorony, a junior team member involved in the challenge. “It’s a big part of our field now. This competition is great for experience and networking.”

This year, students chose to partner with ARF because it was a business that was both willing to work with them and smaller than most businesses involved in the challenge.

Dorony was in charge of reaching out to the nonprofit and upon first contact, members of ARF were excited to get the opportunity to participate.

Over the course of the semester, the goal for the students in the class is to help ARF incorporate the plans and resources suggested by the students into the business, which cannot afford to have the lights shut off at night because of the animals it houses.

So far, solar panels are one option suggested for ARF, but Dorony said the nonprofit would first need a total of 132 panels, which is not very

Kevin Zielinski, Machale DeLong, Nick Broering and Clayton Berrisford work on their project for the ELECTRI International Green Energy Challenge. At different times during the semester, the team was required to meet with a National Electrical Contractor Association contractor. MICHALE DELONG, PHOTO PROVIDED

efficient, so ARF would first implement new resources on a smaller scale as a trial run that would lead to potential greater changes.

“The most challenging part of this project is getting businesses to work with us and creating a

plan that is best suited for their work,” Dorony said.

At the end of the semester, the class will present their written proposals to a jury of contractors and industry partners who will then select the top three teams. The teams that place in the top three will then present their ideas orally at a conference in fall 2019, where a jury will name a final winner.

Both Delong and Dorony hope their team has done enough work and research to make it to the conference.

For years, this challenge has been educating students on the importance of green energy, and Delong said she hopes ARF will implement their suggestions because the decision is entirely up to the company.

“Our main goal to help ARF become more energy efficient is lighting retrofit or changing out all their lights to LED,” Dorony said. “We’re also going to give them brochures about how to save energy at home and reduce thermal loss. It was hard to work with such a small-scale business, but we were helping a great nonprofit.”

Contact Erika Leak with comments at emleak@bsu.edu.

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brating CULTURE The Indian Student Association celebrated Holi on University Green March 29, 2019.

Throwing colored powder in the air and at other participants is common during the festival as a way to bring people together. At the Holi celebration, students were also able to experience traditions from a culture other than their own. JACOB MUSSLEMAN, DN

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Letters to the Editor

Two of Ball State’s political groups discuss Trump’s recent executive order Freedom of speech is a right for all, including university students Editor’s Note: The Daily News publishes Letters to the Editor with minimal copy edits and provides a headline only if the author does not provide one. The views expressed in letters do not necessarily agree with those of the newspaper. We reserve the right to withhold submitted letters depending on the content.

Letters should be approximately 500 words and sent to editor@bsudailynews.com.

Public Relations Director Joe Bursley is on the Ball State College Republicans board and is also the senior features editor for Byte.

Freedom of speech, enshrined as the first of many freedoms guaranteed under the Bill of Rights in our Constitution, is just as important today as it was back in 1791. President Trump’s executive order to ensure that universities and institutions promote free speech is not a government overreach but rather a protection of one of our most basic human rights.

We’ve seen increases in violations and impediments to student’s right to free speech on multiple public universities over the past few years. Fortunately, Ball State University has not created any environment hostile to free expression. However, other students at other campuses have not been so lucky.

Conservative speakers such as Ben Shapiro have been threatened, disinvited and outright banned from public events at universities such as California State University, Los Angeles and

University of California Berkley. A student paper at Washington University in St. Louis ran an op-ed titled “It’s OK that conservatives don’t feel welcome.” Hayden Williams, a conservative student at University of California Berkley was physically assaulted while running a recruiting event for his campus’ chapter of Turning Point USA. This all compounds into a general atmosphere of intolerance toward viewpoints, leading to a OneClass survey where 38 percent of conservative students feel unsafe on public campuses, and 55 percent of these students hide their political views from their peers.

Universities who do very little to promote a free and safe exchange of ideas on campus are doing their students and the general public a disservice. President Trump’s recent executive order would restrict federal funding to public universities that do not protect the right of free speech for all students. Universities that receive federal tax dollars should not be implicating policies that limit freedom of expression on campus, as the main goal of a public institution is to learn, discuss, and debate various ideas, even those the University may disagree with.

President Trump’s actions show that his administration is dedicated to upholding the First Amendment rights for all students on every public campus.

-2019 Ball State College Republicans Executive Board

Universities should not allow discriminatory speakers on the basis of free speech Editor’s Note: The Daily News publishes Letters to the Editor with minimal copy edits and provides a headline only if the author does not provide one. The views expressed in letters do not necessarily agree with those of the newspaper. We reserve the right to withhold submitted letters depending on the content. Letters should be approximately 500 words and sent to editor@bsudailynews.com.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Those words, written down by our founding fathers, allow us to protest, to create petitions and to practice any religion. They also allow us to bring speakers to college campuses, an issue that has recently been thrown to the front of campus politics across the country.

On March 21, Trump issued executive order 13864 titled “Improving Free Inquiry, Transparency, and Accountability at Colleges and Universities.” The White House website describes this as a way to “enhance the quality of post-secondary education by making it more affordable, more transparent, and more accountable.”

This executive order was signed because people feel that conservative voices are suppressed on college campuses. It plays into the theory that our “liberal” campuses are indoctrinating us with beliefs.

In a way, they are.

College campuses today are promoting diversity and inclusion, and there is nothing wrong with that. Some may call that “liberal,” but we call that the right thing to do.

When Trump signed the order, he was surrounded by students and told them that people can have different views, “but they have to let you speak.”

To be very clear, we are not opposed to conservative speakers on college campuses.

Colleges are a place for growth, education and being open to new ideas. In order to learn, students should hear multiple different perspectives and be challenged with new ideas.

Our issue lies when certain groups are targeted by a speaker, or security is at risk.

When a group brings in a “controversial” speaker, there are security costs associated with that. Our universities should not be allowing speakers who preach against the LGBTQ community, against blacks or any minority group, and they should definitely not foot security-related bills for them.

Being gay is not a choice. Being black is not a choice. Being a white supremacist is a choice, and they have no right to be given a platform to preach hate, and we have the moral responsibility to stop that hate.

Pressuring universities by holding onto their pocketbooks to bring in such speakers is not only wrong, it is a violation of the First Amendment. Placing a requirement on types of speakers that a university must allow not only forces students to bring someone to their campus they may not want but can be a security risk. Our student body should be allowed to determine what types of speakers we should hear from, and thankfully, our university has avoided this controversy and continues to follow the Beneficence Pledge.

-2018-19 Ball State Democrats Executive Board

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“If there was a ball in the gap or something, I was going to go crazy waving my arms and telling him to go. I was going to scream a little bit,” Jaksich said. “There was going to be something going on that would have been a crowd-pleaser.”

As the self-proclaimed hype man of the team, Jaksich said he loved having the opportunity, but he was still disappointed he wasn’t Maloney’s first choice, especially after being promised by thenassistant coach Scott French last year.

“Everyone was like, ‘Maloney, he got promised last year.’ I was like, ‘You know what, I did. I need to go.’”

Maloney deadpanned.

“He didn’t get us any runs.”

While Jaksich said it was all in good fun, he added that it was a good stepping stone for him because he wants to get into coaching when he gets older.

“I always laugh when I get the chance [to try coaching],” Jaksich said. “I was glad I was able to go out there because it was a fun time.

It’s cool that this team has fun and they all appreciate and support my little first base coach dreams.”

Contact Zach Piatt with any comments at zapiatt@bsu.edu or on Twitter @zachpiatt13.

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2019 Best of Ball State Winners FOOD & DRINK • Best Restaurant/Café – Greek’s Pizzeria • Best Breakfast – The Cup • Best Pizza – Greek’s Pizzeria • Best Multicultural – Puerto Vallarta • Best Coffee – The Cup • Best Sweets/Dessert – Insomnia Cookies • Best Bar/Brew – Brother’s Bar and Grill • Best On-Campus Dining – Woodworth Commons SERVICE & SHOPPING • Best Retail Store– The Vintage Shop • Best Customer Service – Greek’s Pizzeria • Best Grocery Store – Ruler Foods • Best Beauty Service – Hot Heads • Best Liquor Store – Friendly Package Liquors

HOUSING AND RENTALS • Best Large Rental Property Management – Village Promenade • Best Small Rental Property Management – TJ Lennon • Best Amenities – Village Promenade • Best Locations – Village Promenade • Best Price Value – The Haven • Best Resident Hall – Park Hall THINGS TO DO • Best Campus Event – Late Night Carnival • Best Student Organization or Club – Ball State Dance Marathon • Best Greek Organization – Phi Mu • Best Local Hidden Gem – Minnetrista • Best Atmosphere/Ambiance – Minnetrista • Best Local Attraction – Minnetrista

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