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said goodbye to his long-running talk show two years ago, will say hello to TV again with a new show for Netflix. Netflix announced Aug. 8 that the six-episode series has Letterman combining two primary interests: in-depth conversations and in-the-field segments sparked by his curiosity and humor. In each hour-long episode, Letterman will conduct a long-form conversation with a single guest and explore topics of his own outside the studio. The series, not yet titled, it set to premiere in 2018.

Academy ranked best high school in Indiana

Database shows BSU’s top paid employees

State’s campus was recently ranked No. 1 as the best public high school in Indiana. The Indiana Academy for Science, Math & Humanities, a twoyear, public, residential high school, for gifted and talented juniors and seniors, was ranked best out of 376 public schools in the state by niche. com, a research gathering site dedicated to giving information on K-12 schools, neighborhoods and universities. This is not the first year that The Academy, a unit of Ball State’s Teachers College, was recognized as one of the bests.

paid employee at Ball State? Now you can look it up in The Star Press’ 2017-18 Database.

The database itself allows organization by title, department, compensation or you can do individual name searches. The top 5 Ball State salaries include: President Geoffrey S. Mearns ($450,000), Michael Neu, head football coach ($431,375), James Whitford, men’s head basketball coach ($296,083), Bernie Hannon, treasurer and vice president for business affairs ($280,404) and Kay Bales, vice president for student affairs ($272,687).

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Dr. John H. Meiser, 78, Professor Emeritus, passed away on August 10. He was a professor of chemistry at Ball State University for 46 years, and also held positions at the University of Dayton, Argonne National Laboratory, De La Salle University in Manila (Fulbright Grant), and Indiana University’s program in Kuala Lumpur. He is survived by his wife, Dr. Enya Flores-Meiser, Professor Emeritus in Anthropology. Visitation will be Thursday evening at The Meeks Mortuary and Crematory Mt. Pleasant Chapel. Mass will be held Friday at St. Mary Catholic Church at 11:00 a.m. For more information, visit www.meeksmortuary.com.

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Aug. 7: As Delaware County deputies respond to calls across the county, one student is right with them filming all of the action. Special Deputy and senior telecommunications major Ryan McClain spends several days during the week riding along with deputies, filming their shift and calls they go on. McClain was approached by Sheiff Ray Dudley after working on Unmasked: The Stigma of Meth, to produce a show, “like cops for Delaware County.” To film for the show, McClain spends several days a week riding with the Sheriff’s office for 8 hour shifts.

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Editor’s Note

Adapting for you, our loyal readers The Ball State Daily News has undergone some major changes this summer.

As you can probably tell, our paper is no longer the broadsheet, classic style that our readers have grown accustomed to since this publication began in 1922. Instead, it’s being presented in a newly designed tabloid format.

That is just of the many changes the Daily News has seen in the past year. A new website, www.ballstatedaily.com, was released in January, we’ve increased our focus on digital storytelling and will begin printing just once a week, every Thursday.

We realized that by the time breaking news makes its way into a newspaper the next morning, it’s already outdated. If there’s a story that the students, faculty and the community needs to know about, it’s normally found online, through our social media platforms and from our readers sharing and starting a conversation.

We can’t say for sure how many readers pick up our print edition, but thanks to our analytics, we do know how many readers go to our stories online – a number that continues to increase. That’s why we’ve continued to revamp our focus to an online-first newsroom to reflect changes in our industry over the past couple years.

Those are the types of conversations our writers, editors, alumni and professors had when the potential for change was discussed with coordinators and chairpeople in Ball State’s Department of Journalism.

Meetings lasted several months, and a combination of ideas and concerns regarding the possible changes were exchanged.

While the conversations changed throughout the months, there was one thing that we always kept in our minds, our loyal print-readers.

It was ultimately decided that increasing

our digital focus was the best way to continue serving our readers while developing Ball State’s award-winning student journalists in an Internet age.

These changes mean that The Daily News, while it may look a lot different than when it was first published in 1922, will have better content to serve you, both in print and online.

New sections in the print edition like ‘72 hours’ will encourage readers to explore not only what’s happening around Ball State, but in the Muncie community as well. We want to connect our readers, especially students, with stories that they love – stories about your community.

Our continued independence will allow us to further focus on investigative and in-depth storytelling that our readers enjoy, like our special projects on the arrival of a new President, diving into the life of a Division l athlete or telling the heart-tugging story of a lunch lady on campus.

Our transition will also allow us to listen, reflect and focus on what we need to do better to serve you, our readers. With more people focused on our online coverage, we will be able to better respond to any questions, story tips or thoughts that you may have.

We will continue to discuss our policies to ensure that we’re doing our best to tell the stories that matter to our readers.

We welcome your feedback as we continue to perfect this transition of The Daily News. If you have questions, comments or concerns about our new format, please let us know. Our newsroom can be reached at 765285-8245 or through email at editor@bsudailynews.com.

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President Mearns asks for student involvement with strategic plan

Ball State’s 17th president plans for more community relationships, strategic plan and centennial celebration Allie Kirkman Managing Editor Even though he has only been in office for about three months, President Geoffrey S. Mearns has stayed busy preparing to take on his first full academic year in his new role.

Since his first day in office, Ball State’s 17th president has been very goal oriented with how he will approach his job. Mearns has been working diligently towards fostering a relationship with the Ball State and Muncie community while also planning for the development of a new strategic plan and university’s centennial celebration.

Connecting with the community Throughout his time on campus this summer, Mearns has had the opportunity to meet with a variety of Ball State staff, faculty, administrators and students.

Recently, Mearns has met with the University Police Department, Alumni Association, Ball State’s football players and cheerleaders as well as RAs and hall directors.

“I continue to be out and about on campus meeting with as many people as I can,” Mearns said. “I am looking forward to August 21 when campus comes a live once again.”

Being able to start his job this summer also gave Mearns time to meet other community members off campus. He met with MuncieDelaware County Chamber of Commerce, members of Muncie Sunrise Rotary Club and even Vice President Mike Pence.

“It has been a very good opportunity to meet with people and hear about their perspective on the university and what their hopes and aspirations are for the future,” Mearns said.

One of Mearns’ goals this year is to continue to provide transparency and strong communication with students.

The president has begun sending

Getting student input in the strategic planning process will be so valuable to us.”

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quarterly emails, providing the Ball State community with updates on his progress and involvement in addition to what is going on around campus. He will continue using platforms like his Twitter to communicate.

“We know that when we communicate well and regularly, it provides answers to questions that people have about what’s happening on our campus,” Mearns said. “The more we can do to provide that information proactively, it tends to prevent kind of the speculation about certain events if they don’t have that information.

“We are going to continue to be proactive and responsive.”

Mearns also encourages students to reach out to him is by visiting his office in the Administration Building.

Preparing the Strategic Plan Mearns praised the previous strategic plan and is in the process of developing a new one.

He’s currently working to gather input from stakeholders, staff and most importantly, students.

When asked what areas of Ball State may need improved, Mearns said its too early for him to make any assessments where the university might have strengths and need improvement.

That’s where student input is vital in creating a new plan.

“Getting student input in the strategic planning process will be so valuable to us,” Mearns said.

“We intend to engage our students in many ways – open forums and surveys. That’s where, frankly, the information will flow to us, particularly to me, will be very beneficial in trying to identify those areas that need improvement.”

Informal engagement will also be beneficial in preparing to create the new strategic plan.

Mearns said he has mentioned that idea to Kay Bales, vice president for student affairs and enrollment services.

He plans on meeting with students and having conversations, discussing what they find unique about the university as well as areas that need improvement.

“In order to participate meaningfully in that process, I need to continue to – for my own orientation – spend most of my fall semester continuing the process of education, listening and learning,” Mearns said.

By the end of the fall semester Mearns anticipates appointing a representative committee made up of faculty, staff and at least one student to participate and kick off the formal planning process by January 2018.

Until then, Mearns hopes to continue to hear from students.

“We need student perspectives,” he said. “They can play a role in shaping the future of the institution, insuring that we are providing a high quality and relevant education for the next generation of Ball State students so the institution continues to be one that they are proud to be associated with.”

Planning the Centennial Celebration Mearns recently met with the Centennial Celebration Committee to discuss finalizing a plan for celebrating the university’s 100th year since its creation by the Ball brothers in 1918.

The celebration will begin in August of 2018 and go until May or June until the following year.

Students can expect to see a variety of events and activities hosted by the university, potentially including throwback activities associated with athletics, concerts, documentary history, a hashtag and other forms of branding.

Mearns said the university is hoping the celebration will also be used as a platform to engage with alumni.

“The students are going to be President Mearns poses for a picture in the Unified Media Lab within Ball State’s Art and pretty excited,” he said.

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Ball State’s 17th president

President’s plans for Ball State, community Geoffrey Mearns shares plans for university upon his arrival to campus

Allie Kirkman & Patrick Calvert Daily News Reporters

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eoffrey S. Mearns has some big plans for Ball State.

As the university’s 17th president, Mearns is very goal oriented with how he will approach his job as president. He believes a crucial aspect in the near future is to reach out to the people.

“The first thing I need to do is meet people and build relationships – that’s how I can learn what has made this institution outstanding for nearly 100 years,” he said.

Mearns wants to focus on developing a new strategic plan for the university, fostering relationships with elected officials and connecting with students, staff and members of the the Muncie community.

“Before I can contribute in a meaningful way to a vision for the future of the institution, I have to be able to create this very solid foundation first,” Mearns said.

Geoffrey S. Mearns began his first day as Ball State’s 17th president with a tour through campus led by student tour guides Diamonds Holsey and Jonathan Wallisch.

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His plans

Mearns has already spent time among state legislators and has met with the governor. In the future he wants to continue to meet with alumni and other partners while continuing to reach out to students and faculty.

“I will try to be very present on campus,” Mearns said. “Real communication, real understanding is fostered by sitting in a room or stopping in the middle of the quad and having a conversation with somebody.”

But that sort of personal communication and transparency can have its pitfalls.

On his first day in office Mearns told the Daily News that he is sure there will be times when people won’t agree with the decisions he makes.

“I think most people, reasonable people understand that not all of their ideas will necessarily be reflected in the plan, but they have to be respected,” he said.

In the long term, Mearns would like to develop a new strategic plan for the university and he wants input from those who are associated with Ball State.

He hopes to put together specific goals with metrics and targets in order to prove to elected officials that the university’s students “put out a great return on the public investment that they provide to Ball State.”

That goal was echoed at the Board of Trustees as they said 79 percent of Ball State graduates stay and work in Indiana following graduation.

The university

The president believes President Ferguson’s Centennial Commitment, a plan that highlighted the concept of entrepreneurial learning, has good attributes, but he also thought that new challenges in education have brought up a need to make some changes to the vision.

“That plan was well designed and well conceived for that time, but I think as higher education continues to change and as we continue to face new challenges, it requires more focus,” Mearns said.

That doesn’t mean that the university will end their commitment to programs that were brought to life following since

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INSTALLATION Sept. 7

United Way Day of Action Volunteers participate in community service projects throughout the day. Projects can include sorting donations, neighborhood cleanups, serving meals and reading to children.

First Thursday The Muncie downtown gallery walk will be from 5-8 p.m.

Community members will have the opportunity to see what some local artists have created while enjoying various shops.

Sept. 8

President Mearns’ Installation At his request, this will be a simple event, according to the email. It will start at 3 p.m. in the John R. Emens Auditorium. If you plan to attend, please call 765285-6555 or email rsvp@bsu.edu.

Campus picnic After the installation, the university will host a picnic at 4:30 p.m. at LaFollette Field (rain location is Worthen Arena).

Geoffrey S. Mearns meets Charlie Cardinal during a tour of campus on his first day as Ball State’s 17th president. REAGAN ALLEN, DN

the strategic plan was put in place.

Mearns would also like to start comparing Ball State with similar schools like Indiana University and Purdue in order to measure where the university is at.

“That isn’t the only way in which we measure our success relative to others,” Mearns said. “I think that’s where it is so important for us to develop a plan that includes our own metrics and goals.”

Muncie community

The community that Ball State is a part of was also a topic of interest to Mearns as he wants to continue to improve and enhance the relationship between the two entities.

“The reality is the university, any university, can’t be great, can’t thrive and grow unless the community that supports it and surrounds it is also growing and thriving,” he said. “Our future, the future of Delaware County and east central Indiana is critical and vital to the future of the institution.”

Mearns views it as a moral

The investiture of a president is an important tradition in the life of any university, including Ball State.

It is a new beginning that honors both our accomplishments to date and our vision for the future.”

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obligation to support the surrounding communities because of the support the university has received from it in the past 99 years.

“It is our turn to make investments in terms of time and effort and ideas to help support the rebirth and vitalization of Muncie and Delaware County and east central Indiana,” he said.

He doesn’t see the struggles that Delaware County and Muncie face as detrimental, he sees it as “a great opportunity for us [Ball State] to have a lasting impact.”

Message to students

One of the best parts of being a college student is the opportunity to learn from fellow students, Mearns said.

“I would encourage students to take advantage of those opportunities,” he said.

“Because sitting right next to you might be the smartest person you will ever meet in your life, but if you don’t engage them in a conversation you will never know.”

He wants the student body to

know that he has a competitive mentality and plans to be a part of the athletics department at Ball State.

“Whether its on the court or on the cross country course I’m going to be rooting for them to win because I’m a pretty competitive person,” he said.

Northern Kentucky is the reigning women’s soccer and men’s basketball Horizon League champions, with the men’s basketball team making the NCAA Division l Men’s Basketball Tournament this year.

The president also said he knows the job ahead is challenging, but he feels like the “rewards far outweigh the challenges.”

He went on to say that it doesn’t get any better than being able to be “involved in an enterprise that day in and day out of this transforming the lives of 22,000 other people with the expectation and the understanding that those people when they graduate are going to have a positive transformative impact on the people they serve.”

Sept. 9

Walk Indiana Half-marathon (13.1 miles) starts at 8 a.m., with a 10K (6.2 miles) at 9 a.m. and 5K right after along the Cardinal and White River Greenways.

CharlieTown President Mearns will join Charlie Cardinal at home for tailgating before the football home opener against the University of Alabama. Meals will be offered at $5 meals (free for kids 5 and under) along with live music, a pep rally and giveaways from noon to 3 p.m. on the Alumni Center’s west lawn.

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Alumnus selected for SUpreme Court Governor Holcomb appoints Ball State alumnus Christopher Goff to Indiana Supreme Court Robby General Summer Editor

Christopher M. Goff, 110th member of the Indiana Supreme Court

Gov. Eric Holcomb selected Ball State University alumnus Christopher M. Goff as the 110th member of the Indiana Supreme Court.

In a press release, Holcomb said that Goff is “a critical, forward thinker with the ability to relate to everyday Hoosiers.”

Goff, 45, graduated summa cum laude from Ball State in 1994 and serves as the Wabash County Superior Court Judge.

He will replace Justice Robert D. Rucker who retired in May after nearly 18 years on the Indiana Supreme Court.

“To say that I am humbled in this moment would be an

understatement,” Goff said in a press release. “I am about to follow in the footsteps of one of the greatest jurists in the history of our great state.”

Goff went on to say, “I am keenly aware that I am not replacing Justice Robert Rucker; I am merely succeeding him.”

The other finalists for the position included Clark County Circuit Court Judge Vicki L. Carmichael and Boone County Superior Court Judge Matthew C. Kincaid.

Goff, a Wabash, Indiana native, began his role as the Wabash County Superior Court Judge in 2005.

During his time in Wabash County, Goff took action to reduce the effects of drug abuse in

the community. He implemented two courts in his community – the Wabash County Drug Court and the Family Drug Treatment Court – in an effort to reduce multiple offenders and help save lives.

Before his appointment to the Wabash Superior Court, Goff maintained a private practice as a partner in a Huntington law firm, served as a part-time child support commissioner for the Wabash Circuit Court and was a part-time public defender for two years.

Other organizations that Goff is a part of include the Indiana Domestic Violence Prevention Partnership and the Northeast Indiana Regional Mental Health Court – both working to address issues facing Indiana courts.

WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING

Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb: “To select a member of our state’s highest court is a great responsibility, one I am humbled to make on behalf of Indiana’s citizens. I am glad to share that we have an outstanding appointment in Christopher Goff. ...

He has profound respect for the Constitution and the rights and principles embodied within it. What’s more, he is a critical, forward thinker with the ability to relate to everyday Hoosiers. These qualities make him uniquely qualified to serve.”

Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Loretta Rush:

“The Indiana Judiciary welcomes Christopher Goff to the Supreme Court.

The legal profession and his local community already know of Judge Goff’s superb legal abilities; now the entire state will benefit from his wisdom and integrity... He is a faithful servant to the Constitution and the laws of our great state and nation. Governor Holcomb and his team have our gratitude for the tremendous work they put into the appointment of Indiana’s 110th Justice.”

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Honors College dean: Education is opportunity John Emert accepts full deanship of college Sara Barker Digital Editor The new dean of the Honors College has an academic background as diverse as the majors of his students.

John Emert became acting dean of the Honors College in 2016, and his full deanship was announced through a campus-wide email on June 19. Emert majored in mathematics and music in his undergrad at the University of Tennessee and went on to receive his masters and doctorate in mathematics.

“I was first a music major. That’s where my car was parked. That’s where my friends were,” Emert said. “But I enjoyed math, and my first thought was to do a minor in math because I thought it was fun.”

Although music and math may seem like conflicting passions, Emert sees “something connected” between the two and eventually double majored.

“In a sense, both provide you a means to break the expectations, to break the system, to push the rules,” Emert said.

Ball State offered Emert a position in

1989, following his graduation from the University of Tennessee, and he accepted, turning down offers from other universities.

“I saw distinct poJohn Emert, tential at Ball State, Honors College both for myself and dean also for the school,” Emert said. “And that potential has been realized even better than I could have imagined.”

Emert saw what he called “forwardthinking” from his first interview with Ball State officials. During his first campus tour, his guide mentioned the thenupcoming Schaefer Tower and a green space that was to replace a parking lot next to Bracken Library.

He took his outward look for Ball State and saw opportunities within the Honors College, one of which included starting a math-based class available to any Honors student.

Now, Emert’s responsibilities include enhancing research, study abroad and fellowship opportunities as well as recruitment of future students, according to the email.

Although he accepted the deanship,

John Emert accepted the position of Dean of the Honors College in June. Emert became acting dean of the Honors College in 2016, after former dean James Ruebel died, and served as associate dean of the Honors College beginning in 2008. SARA BARKER, DN Emert has not stopped instructing Honors classes and making himself available to students.

“I dare say I’m the only academic dean that has immediate access to students,” Emert said. “It’s a great privilege—the

nimbleness—that we can celebrate the good things and address the challenges and still do what the other deans do.”

For undergraduate students who may have opposite passions like the new dean did, Emert encourages them to pursue

both.

“Don’t pigeonhole yourself. Think of yourself as a full person,” Emert said.

“You’re more than an accountant. You’re more than a mathematician. You’re more than a violist. You’re you.”

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Food Mall/Marketplace Salad bar Grill favorites Homestyle & pasta entrees Noodle, rice, or grain bowls Custom-made pizzas Custom-made deli sandwiches Soups Fresh fruit Freshly made sushi Gourmet desserts Grocery area The Retreat Lunch features a la carte entrées, salads, soups, & desserts (faculty/staff & their guests only). Dinner is an all-you-careto-eat buffet (open to all).

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Construction RUNDOWN Updates, changes to campus made over the summer Allie Kirkman, Managing Editor It was a busy summer for construction around campus, and while the final stages of some of the projects are wrapping up, campus may look a little different than it did just a few months ago.

Here’s what you might have missed:

LaFollette Complex

Johnson West Complex

Mysch/Hurst and Woody/Shales halls of the LaFollette Complex came tumbling down this summer as part of the demolition project, designed to make room for new residence halls planned for the north side of campus.

Even though other sections of LaFollette will remain open to house students this year, Jim Lowe, associate vice president for facilities planning and management, said LaFollette is expected to be completely removed in four years. The area will be replaced with two new residence halls, a stand-alone dining facility and road reconstruction of McKinley Avenue.

The LaFollette Complex, built in 1967, housed approximately 1,900 students per year prior to the demolition.

The Schmidt/Wilson halls in the Johnson West Complex are completed and ready for incoming students. The new eight-story home for the Theatre, Design and Dance Living Learning Communities features 500 beds, a black box theater and various studios.

The residence hall was recently installed with new furniture and equipment. The halls were named after two former professors — Angie Wilson, associate professor of social science, and Fred J. Schmidt, professor and head of the industrial arts.

Riverside Ave. was closed off in late July due to construction at Emens Auditorium. REAGAN ALLEN, DN

Emens Auditorium

Heat Plant smokestacks

John R. Emens Auditorium’s main lobby and front entrance have been closed since last year for a $5 million, donor-driven expansion project. The renovations include relocation of the box office to an interior area, more restrooms and office/conference spaces as well as an overall larger lobby area. While construction continued throughout this summer, the university also began a $1.6 million makeover of the front lawn. The lawn will include outdoor gathering spaces and drop-off/pick up areas for elderly and people with disabilities. This will connect to pedestrian and bicycle paths leading up to the upcoming East Mall.

As a result of the university’s $83 million installation of a closed-loop geothermal energy system, two smokestacks on top of the heat plant on campus are being dismantled.

The 180-foot-tall and 125-foot-tall brick smokestacks were part of the coal-fired boilers that were used to heat and cool the campus until they were shut down in 2014. Ball State’s first central heating plant was built in 1924.

PHOTO REAGAN ALLEN, DN

Earl Yestingsmeier Golf Center

Construction began this summer on the new Don Shondell Practice Center, a 19,000-square-foot attachment to Worthen Arena.

Construction started this summer on the Earl Yestingsmeier Golf Center, located along Bethel Avenue on the north side of campus, just southeast of Scheumann Stadium. The university broke ground on the new golf facility, named after Earl Yestingsmeier who coached Ball State men’s golf for 36 years, in March.

The new facility will be approximately 6,400 square feet and feature two indoor hitting bays, a hitting simulator, a putting and chipping area and new locker and restroom facilities for the women’s and men’s golf teams.

Cost: $6.4 million Begin Date: June 2017 End Date: Summer 2018 JOAN TODD, RENDERING PROVIDED

Health Professions Building Construction has started on the Health Professions Building, located in the East Quad at the corner of Martin Street and Riverside Avenue. As part of the STEM and Health Professions Facility Expansion Project, the new facility will be home to the College of Health.

Cost: $6.6 million Begin Date: June 2016 End Date: Fall 2017 Section Cost: $2.3 million Begin Date: June 2017 End Date: 2021

Don Shondell Practice Center

PHOTO REAGAN ALLEN, DN

Cost: $40 million Begin Date: May 2015 End Date: July 2017 PHOTO REAGAN ALLEN, DN

Cost: $195.5 thousand Begin Date: July 26 End Date: August 26 DN FILE PHOTO

Cost: $62.5 million Begin Date: June 2017 End Date: Summer 2019 JOAN TODD, RENDERING PROVIDED

Cost: $1.7 million Begin Date: March 2017 End Date: December 2017 REAGAN ALLEN, DN

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Minor repairs on campus: • Sidewalk and tunnel repairs • Woodworth west entry renovation • Two pedestrian crossovers on Riverside between Sursa Performance Hall and Emens • Re-roofing of Noyer Complex and Service and Stores building • Masonry repairs of Emens Auditorium and for College of Architecture and Planning • Masonry and roof repairs of Bracken Library • Retrofitting the Scheumman Stadium with new lighting fixtures • Bleacher replacement at Cardinal Creek Tennis Center • Geothermal utilities work along University and Talley Avenues • East Quad voltage, communication, manhole and cabling work

Road Work

Two blocks of Martin Street south of Riverside Avenue and Woodworth Drive, which leads from Riverside to the Emens parking garage are permanently closed. A new driveway around the west end of Emens parking garage was built for service vehicles to reach Woodworth Complex.

LEFT: After the removal of the ‘Gum Tree’, the university began work on a driveway around the west end of Emens parking garage. ABOVE: The west entry to Woodworth underwent renovation. REAGAN ALLEN, DN

Some construction is part of Ball State’s Campus Master Plan, which was approved by the Board of Trustees in 2016. It outlines different areas of growth throughout campus for the next 15 to 25 years.

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University Police continues, launches new community policing programs UPD engages campus in events to build stronger ties

Allie Kirkman Managing Editor

UPD will be trying out some new initiatives this year as well.

In response to faculty and staff requests, starting Even though service calls were down this summer this fall, UPD will be assigning officers to monitor on campus, the University Police Department has and stay in the same buildings across campus everyday. This will be similar to the officer liaison been busy preparing for students to return.

The department went through training the past program in the residence halls that was started last couple of months, reflecting and evaluating what year. Both programs are designed to help build they could do better in future situations, similar to connections and feelings of trust with students and those like the nerf gun incident in March and the officers.

“It’s all about taking care of each other and making campus-wide lockdown in September last year. those connections,” Duckham “You always want to evaluate said. “Seeing the same officer how you did in the past,” said everyday will help students feel UPD Chief Jim Duckham. “We are ABOUT UPD more comfortable to come to us always striving to be efficient and if anything happens.” protect the Ball State University • 32 officers work in the Looking at the program in campus.” department the residence halls last year, • The department has one Training also included officers four-legged officer, K9 Fritz.

Duckham said he believes the discussing what community • Officers work day, afternoon overall initiative across campus policing programs went well this and midnight shifts with a will continue to work well. past year and what programs they supervisor always on duty.

“We had cases of sexual • The call center would like to start up in order to assault where some survivors (765-285-1111) is open 24/7. “stay fresh.” have been comfortable enough One of the most popular Reach out to the police to reach out to an officer,” he programs that UPD will continue department? said. “That might not have to host is Lunch with a Cop, which Have any concerns, tips for happened before if we didn’t gives students an opportunity to how UPD can better connect with Ball State students and/ have our officers in there getting sign up to have lunch for free or want to set up an event to really know the students.” with an officer. The lunches offer with UPD? Contact Chief For the first time, UPD students a way to ask questions Duckham at 765-285-1832 or will also be hosting Civilian about how law enforcement works at jaduckham@bsu.edu.

Response to Active Shooter and allows officers and students to Events (CRASE) training for form partnerships. the entire freshman class.

Since it was originally started UPD has hosted training in the past with in 2015 as a collaboration between the Student Government Association and UPD, the program has orientation leaders, RAs and faculty and staff across continued to see an increase in student participation different departments of the university, showing every year. Last school year 375 students participated them how to prepare while also being given options and even though classes haven’t started, Lt. Terrell of how to react and respond if they are ever in an Smith said the department has already received active shooter situation.

“It empowers people because it shows them that requests.

Other programs students can expect to see again if they are even in a situation, they aren’t hopeless,” Duckham said. this year are: Deciding to get the freshman class involved this • Dunk-A-Cop at the Scramble Light August 24 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Students will have the year was part of the department’s goal of reaching as chance to dunk a UPD or Parking Enforcement many people as they can.

Duckham said UPD is looking forward to the Officer with all proceeds being donated to Riley Children’s Health. Students can get 3 balls for $1 new year and continuing to build relationships with students as part of the department’s community or an automatic dunk for $5. policing efforts.

• Tacos and 5-0s “People come with their own stereotypes, • Burglary Prevention program misconceptions, reality of what policing is – I • Alcohol Awareness program want them to get to know what Ball State policing • Embed Code is,” he said. “If you had a negative experience • Literally, anything. Literally. in your community, I want you to have a positive • Bike registration program experience. If you had a positive experience in your • Motorist Assist Program • Free Rape Aggression Defense (R.A.D.) classes community, I want you to have a positive experience Ball State University Citizens Police Academy here as well.”

Ball State University Police Department has been going through several months of training and reflecting on what they could do better as they prepare for the new school year. TAYLOR IRBY, DN

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BSUDM Alumni Meet Ball State’s Association selects newest student trustee Marlee Jacocks appointed to two-year term new president Browning chosen as association’s newest leader

Allie Kirkman Managing Editor

Allie Kirkman Managing Editor

Marlee Jacocks wasn’t expecting a call from the governor’s office telling her she was appointed to a two-year term as the Ball State student trustee. But when she got it, she was excited to say the least.

“I was very surprised,” Jacocks said. “I knew a lot of people who were applying for the position and I thought they were all incredibly qualified for it so I really didn’t want to get my hopes up. I was not expecting it at all but when I got the call I was full of emotions.”

Jacocks is a junior English literature major, minoring in French, political science and philosophy. She is an active member of the Riley Dance Marathon Recruitment Committee and Alpha Omicron Pi sorority.

Ball State graduate and former student trustee Dustin Meeks, who finished his term in June, described Jacocks as a “passionate, incredibly brilliant woman.”

“I have known Marlee since she was a freshman in high school,” Meeks said. “I don’t think I have met anyone else who can be that happy. She is this ray of sunshine and she also is incredibly hard working.”

Ever since she was a student at Fisher High School, where she graduated as the president of her class, Jacocks has had a passion for leadership.

“In the past, I have taken on a lot of different positions serving students,” she said. “It’s just a passion I have and I thought this would be an include opportunity to serve Ball State University as a whole and be the voice for the students.”

As the student trustee Jacocks will be responsible for understanding the purpose of the university as an institution, developing a vision for its future and relating effectively to the needs of its faculty, administration, and students, according to bsu.edu.

She will be participating in the bi-monthly Board of Trustee meetings and will vote on various topics including strategic planning and university operations.

Getting to this point was a process. After hearing about the job from her older brother who is good friends with Meeks, Jacocks decided to fill out an application in February.

From there she attended a call out meeting and had an interview with a selection committee led by former Student Government Association Secretary Brock Frazer. After waiting about a month, she then heard from the Governor’s office, which made her fill out another application. Jacocks was interviewed by members of the governor’s staff and was told in June she received the position.

“It was a long process but I kind of went into it on my own and just was about seeing where it all was going to take me,” she said.

Even after graduating in 2016, alumnus Max Browning stays actively involved in an organization that changed his life at Ball State.

Browning, who was involved with Dance Marathon all four years during his undergraduate, has been selected to serve as the Ball State University Dance Marathon Alumni Association’s President for the next two years.

“I’ve been graduated for about a year now but Dance Marathon has stayed something that I am passionate about so I knew that I had to stay involved somehow,” Browning said. “When the Alumni Association said they were looking for a president, I felt that now was a good time to apply and get re-involved with Dance Marathon at a higher level.”

Before graduating with a bachelor’s degree in organizational communication, Browning served in multiple roles in BSUDM, Ball State’s largest student philanthropic event, involving more than 1,000 students participating in 12 hours’ worth of dancing, games and other entertainment for Riley Hospital for Children.

He was the dance relations committee chair, codirector of dance relations, director of stewardship and president in 2015. This past year, he served as the silent auction chair for the gala committee as a part of the Alumni Association.

“There’s a saying, ‘It’s not four years, it’s for life,’ for Dance Marathon I like to say, ‘It’s not four years, it’s for the kids,’” Browning said. “Dance Marathon is something that ... you don’t forget the kids that were at the event. You don’t forget their stories and their faces. It’s an absolutely life changing event.”

Even now working as the grant development coordinator at Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana, Browning said he still finds the time to stay connected through Facebook with the kids and parents he met through Dance Marathon.

“It’s great to keep up with what’s happening in their lives,” he said. “I like being able to scroll through my timeline and see pictures of the kids or get updates on any surgeries they may be going through. These people mean a lot to me.”

As BSUDM Alumni Association’s president, Browning will be responsible for keeping everyone, current and past members connected, as well as overseeing that alumni provide resources to current BSUDM executive board members leading up to the event in February.

“We like to work as a mentorship so we do alumni buddies where we pair up one alumni with one

Max Browning at Ball State’s 2015 Dance Marathon with his group’s Riley Kid. Browning was involved with DM throughout his years of college and is excited to begin his new role at the Alumni Association president.

MAX BROWNING, PHOTO PROVIDED

executive member,” he said. “A lot of the alumni were previous executive members so we know what they are going through and can give them advice on how to be successful throughout the year.”

Browning has goals for his two-year term, even though he said they may not be “qualifiable.”

“I think the Alumni Association needs to stay fluid from year to year because our priorities are going to change and what Dance Marathon is going to need to be successful is going to change,” he said. “We have to be proactive in what is going to be needed for them and not necessarily go in with our own set of goals because that’s not going to always line up.”

Browning also hopes to create more awareness in showing the Ball State community that the Alumni Association exists. He hopes that Dance Marathon members will realize that they have the option to stay involved after graduation.

The new president encourages Ball State students who may not be involved in the organization to give Dance Marathon a shot at least one year in school.

“Hearing the stories, listening to the kids, playing with them and meeting the families ... I promise that those are the moments that will change lives,” Browning said.

Marlee Jacocks has been appointed to a two-year term as the Ball State student trustee. PHOTO PROVIDED

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Jacocks has been planning ahead for what she hopes to accomplish in the position. Her biggest goal - increase communication between students and the board.

“I want to be that connection between students and the whole administration process with the Board of Trustees,” she said.

Jacocks has listened to previous concerns of students including housing options, the Counseling Center and tuition. She plans to use social media as a way to connect and address student questions and concerns.

“I think it would be great to create an interactive Twitter account with a trustee where we can tweet out information after meetings, share the news related to campus and reach out and respond to anything students might want to know,” she said.

“I want to be able to communicate with a lot of people.”

Another idea of Jacocks’ includes setting up office hours for students to visit her and learn more about “the trustee side of things.”

Leading up to the next meeting, Jacocks has been connecting with past and former board members like Board Chair Rick Hall, who has provided her with advice on how to successfully take on her position.

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Groups spruce up Boys and Girls Club

Local organizations renovate Muncie Organization

With the help of several local organizations, the Muncie Boys and Girls Club received several renovations. SAMANTHA BRAMMER, DN

grants can take time, but the benches were something we could do immediately.”

All the pre-work that the Ball State students had When the Muncie Boys and Girls club of Muncie done was then put into motion when the Boys and as the recipient of this years Lowe’s Heroes outreach, Girls Club was chosen by Steve Blair, manager of the several different partnerships overlapped.

Lowe’s in Muncie, to be part of this years’ Lowe’s In the fall of 2016, the club reached out to Ball Heroes project.

State’s construction program in need of help.

The annual project allows each Lowe’s location Having partnered with Habitat for Humanity for 11 to pair with a local nonprofit organization or public semesters, the construction management program at school and volunteer their time and resources to Ball State integrated the club’s needs an established toward helping transform the community.” immersive learning classes.

In cooperation with the Muncie Habitat for Two classes were asked to help the Boys and Girls Humanity and the 8twelve coalition, a group of Club, assess their grounds and come up with a plan of residents, nonprofit organizations and businesses what would need to be done to improve the building. that focus on “beautifying the neighborhood and “Many of the youth call it their second home and supporting local businesses,” Lowe’s was able they want a place that is up to date to dedicate two days toward the and clean and looks pretty on the improvement of the Muncie Boys outside and on the inside,” Club and Girls Club.

Interim CEO Jodi Martin said.

“The plans were beautiful, The students took inventory unfortunately for a two-day project it and made a list of renovations/ was more than what we were able to Many of the youth upgrades they felt the facility do, so we had to come up with a list call it their second needed. Some of their plans could of priorities,” Lowe’s Assistant Store home they want a be accomplished by volunteers, Manager Jordan Halberstadt said. others required professionals.

On June 21 and 22, volunteers place that is up to For those projects, the students set out to complete tasks such as date and clean and met with local contractors and pressure washing the outside of looks pretty on the compiled a list of price quotes the building, freshen up paint jobs, outside and the so that the club could understand replace two of three basketball what they had the budget for. backboards, provide netting for inside.”

Students also met with the staff to hoops and plant low maintenance - JODI MARTIN, find out spacial needs and designed plants that didn’t require constant Interim CEO, updated floor and exterior plans for gardening or weeding.

Boys and Girls Club a possible complete renovation.

“What [Blair] wanted to see is “Frankly, if we could help when people drive by, will they see a them in any way at all, we were difference, and they will,” Martin said. pleased,” Janet Fick, instructor of construction “Janet Fick’s class really did a lot of groundwork for management, said. this. It’s a start, it’s the first phase of probably many After extra material was following the spring class, phases that we will be able to bring this building as a the students decided to use it to make benches for the positive, revitalized place for kids.”

Boys and Girls Club.

After completing the project, Halberstadt and “The students were so happy to provide them Fick are looking to return and try some of the with a physical product that the students would work that they were unable to complete during enjoy,” Fick said. “ Waiting to hear back about the original project.

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Familiarize yourself with standard drink servings to ensure responsible consumption. Most Ball State students use alcohol in moderation, and nearly one in five socializes without alcohol. Make memories you can treasure, not nights you will forget.

Students cited for alcohol-related offenses on or off campus will face disciplinary consequences, ranging from parental notification to suspension or expulsion.

Ball State’s alcohol policy can be found at bsu.edu/studentcode/alcoholpolicy.

The examples above are generalizations. Alcohol content can vary greatly and affects everyone differently. Know your limits and consider other factors, such as an empty stomach and medications, which might contribute to a heightened sensitivity to alcohol consumption.

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Intern Spotlight: A look at the cool experiences Ball State students had over the summer

Living the Alaskan dream Allie Kirkman Managing Editor

When Madeline Grosh was looking for a summer internship, she was hoping to find something that combined her photojournalism major with her interests in animals and social media. The 12-week marketing internship with The Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center in Portage, Alaska was Luke Labas sits at his desk while at his summer internship with Eskenzi Health’s Initiative for Empowerment and Economice Independence. LUKE LABAS, PHOTO PROVIDED

Intern advocates for disabled people Allie Kirkman Managing Editor Luke Labas has spent years working as an advocate for people with disabilities. He’s participated in multiple awareness programs and is president for Ball State’s Alliance for Disability Awareness.

But this summer, the Ball State graduate student decided to do even more in his efforts to help break down barriers, specifically between employers and people with disabilities.

Labas is just one of 19 students to intern with Eskenzi Health’s Initiative for Empowerment and Economic Independence program, designed to help students gain skills needed after graduation.

This unique program is fairly new. Last year Eskenzi Health only partnered with Ball State but thanks to a $1.5 million grant from the Lilly Endowment, the program has expanded to more departments and colleges.

Being his second year with the program, Labas has worked as an intern alongside the program manager. His daily responsibilities have included doing data collection and checking in on the progress of other interns.

And Labas has used this opportunity to work on an even bigger project.

“I have been working on developing a curriculum for awareness so business would be more willing to take interns with disabilities,” he said. “I want to basically figure out how to better establish connections between potential applicants and employers. I am hoping the curriculum will be expanded beyond this

program specially.”

The biggest barrier for people with disabilities is overall awareness, Labas said. He believes the more people are aware, the more people with disabilities can be employed and work to provide benefits and contributions to society.

According to Census data, in 2010 only 41 percent of people with disabilities were employed compared to 79 percent of people without.

“We want to narrow the unemployment gap for those with disabilities and those who are able bodied,” he said.

During the nine weeks that Labas has spent with the program, he has had the chance to hold a one-on-one meeting with Ernest Vargo, president and CEO of the Eskenazi Health Foundation.

“He really gave me some quality advice on my career aspirations,which is to develop a nonprofit to assist people with disabilities find more longterm employment,” Labas said. “He is an expert in nonprofits so being able to pick his brain and develop connections and relationships has been the most valuable thing for me.”

Labas credits his friends who have gone through the program before him for recommending the internship program. He also said he had Larry Markle, the director of Disability Services to thank.

Even though he is unsure now is he will be involved again next summer, Labas said he is hopeful he can still work with program in some capacity. He also said he hopes more students from Ball State join the program in the future so they can find jobs after graduation.

“This is very innovative and the only major internship program for people with disabilities,” he said. “One of the hallmarks of the program is when they say you are doing meaininful work, the mean it. ... I am happy I decided to take that jump and get involved.”

It has been a dream since I was 6 years old to come to Alaska, so it’s so exciting that it is actually happening.”

- MADELINE GROSH, Photojournalism intern

the perfect fit.

“It has been a dream since I was 6-years-old to come to Alaska, so it’s so exciting that it is actually happening,” Grosh said.

As an intern, the Ball State junior is responsible for running various social medial platforms by status updating, planning and replying to any questions, comments, concerns, or reviews. She also writes blogs and newsletters.

With her photography background, Grosh also has the opportunity document a variety of animal programs and events AWCC hosts throughout the summer.

This is the first time the Muncie native has been able to visit Alaska and so far, Grosh says she is loving all the state has to offer.

“I’m completely surrounded, like 360 degrees, in the tallest mountains I have ever seen,” she said. “There are just giant bodies over water you have to drive past to get to work and there are mountains on the other

side and it’s just so breathtaking every morning.”

Grosh said working with the animals has been some of her favorite experiences with the center.

“Being able to get into the enclosures with the animals and trainers is so awesome,” she said. “The other day I was in an enclosure photographing some Sitka black-tailed deer.

All the deer were coming up sniffing my camera and rubbing up against me. It was so cute but also like ‘Oh, most people don’t get to do this.’”

In her free time, Grosh likes to do some adventure seeking of her own like looking over the Turnagain Arm and the Chugach Mountains or participating in town festivals. Recently, she visited Matanuska Glacier, one of the largest glaciers in the North America.

“I was able to walk on the glacier and I actually licked it too,” Grosh said while laughing.

Grosh said she is hoping to get the experience of knowing how to work with a non-profit

as well as how animals work.

“This internship is giving me a chance to dip my toes in to different fields,” she said. “If photography doesn’t work out, then I always have the marketing world to fall back on.”

For now, her dream after graduation is to be a humanitarian or wildlife crisis photographer.

“I want to share photo stories with those who can’t see the story on their own,” Grosh said.

“I have always had a love for taking photographs. I was sitting one day, trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life and I looked at a picture in Time magazine of something happening in Syria and I remember seeing the photo and thinking ‘Wow, that really hit’s you emotionally.’ I decided I wanted to make people feel and discuss photos like that.”

Grosh said she hopes her internship won’t be the only time she visits Alaska. Her goal is to one day go back to gain more experience as a professional photographer.

Madeline Grosh looks at the camera while at her summer internship in Alaska.

MADELINE GROSH, PHOTO PROVIDED

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8th grade trip turns into D.C. internship

Fascination turns to internship

Robby General Summer Editor

Robby General Summer Editor

Anna Muckenfuss took her eighth grade trip to Washington D.C. for one reason, to visit the Holocaust Museum.

When it was time to explore the museum for the first time, Muckenfuss and her classmates spent a few hours inside, not enough time for the girl who had been a life-long history buff.

“They only gave us three hours inside the museum and I needed so much more time,” the senior public history major said. “Going on that school trip and seeing all of those artifacts really just kind of cemented my idea that I wanted to work in museums.”

This summer, Muckenfuss has spent more than three hours inside as a summer intern at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. Last summer, she sent an email to several people at the museum explaining her passion for history and asking them a simple question, “What do I need to do to get an internship here?”

Little did she know, her previous experiences at the David Owsley Museum of Art, the Center of Peace and Conflict Studies and the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum, made her more than qualified for an internship.

“They looked at my resume, and literally said that if I had graduated already, I would be able to get a job there,” Muckenfuss said. “That just gave me the extra push that I needed to motivate me toward the end of my college career. It took something I had only thought about, dreamed about, and made it that much closer to a reality.”

As an intern, Muckenfuss works alongside with visitor services, meaning she is face-to-face with the visitors, making sure their experience as “meaningful and easy as possible.”

Most days, Muckenfuss can be found answering visitor’s questions and interpreting the permanent exhibit which follows the history of the Holocaust from 1933-1945, a subject that she’s been interested in since the fourth grade.

From a young age, she spent years visiting museums and watching the History Channel with her father. In the fourth grade, her parents ordered her “The Diary of Anne Frank.” After reading the book for the first time, Muckenfuss began to develop her passion for Holocaust history.

“I kind of have wanted to share her story, along with the stories of others who didn’t necessarily write diaries and weren’t published like she was, in her death,” Muckenfuss said. “I feel like the 6 million Jews and 5 million others who were killed by the NAZIs were silenced and I want to be their voice.”

Muckenfuss is of German decent and says that the history of the Holocaust is just as much her history as it is for Germany’s. While looking through historical documents, she even realized

Devaugn Jones found his interest in medicine when he was 12 years old, holding his mother’s hand in the delivery room.

The Ball State junior premed major watched as seven doctors worked together in the delivery room, communicating and calming down guests as his mother gave birth to his youngest sister.

“From the beginning of the whole experience, I was so intrigued,” Jones said. “There were so many people in the room, but they all had a role and they all performed it seamlessly.”

It wasn’t until this summer where Jones had his first real experience in medicine during his internship at Columbia

Anna Muckenfuss, second from right, stands with Holocaust survivor Nesse Godin. ANNA MUCKENFUSS,

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that one of her distant family members actually went through the Holocaust.

When Muckenfuss first came to Ball State, she thought that she wouldn’t be able to work in museum studies until graduate school, not knowing that there was an undergraduate program perfect for her.

Originally a journalism major, she set up a meeting with her counselor, quickly realizing that it wasn’t the career path for her. She knew she wanted to work in museums, so her advisor told her about the public history track at Ball State and she knew it would be a good fit.

“I didn’t know that there was a program that could get me into museum studies in my undergraduate work, I thought that was something you did in your master’s program,” Muckenfuss said.

“Here I am 3 years later, completing my public history degree and being so much farther ahead, even some of my colleagues.”

After graduating Ball State, Muckenfuss plans to return to Washington D.C. and work while she gets her master’s degree in museum studies at John Hopkins University, a school that works closely with Washington D.C. Museums.

“I plan to come back to D.C. in a year and work while I’m getting my degree,” she said. “Hopefully, I’ll be back at the Holocaust Museum.”

Here I am three years later, completing my public history degree and being so much further ahead even some of my colleagues.”

- ANNA MUCKENFUSS Holocaust Museum intern

Devaugn Jones stands in front of a podium at Columbia University, where he spent his summer as an intern. PHOTO PROVIDED University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Jones was one of 40 students selected out of more than 3,000 applicants.

As part of the program, Jones has participated in clinical rotations, shadowing doctors, watching surgeries, treating patients and taking courses at the Ivy League school.

He heard of the program from Clare Chatot, interim associate dean of the college of sciences and humanities,

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through an email.

Jones took his time with the application, wrote his personal statement and hoped for the best. After applying last October, he was selected in March, as the first Ball State student picked.

“I was ecstatic,” Jones said. “Being in New York City, there’s not many people who know about Indiana, let alone the university itself. I definitely wanted to represent and leave a positive taste in the mouth of the people in this program.”

At first Jones had doubts, but those went away after he arrived in New York for the summer.

Now he’s not only more confident in his abilities but certain this is what he wants to do for the rest of his life.

“This program solidified within me that all of the doubts that I had,” Jones said. “Even the most successful person has doubts. ... Now, I thought that I could do this.”

He has two more years left in his sociology degree before entering medical school.

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SHADED VIEW: Certified protective solar glasses should have say ISO 12313-2 on the side of them, meaning that they with the international safety standard for filters for direct viewing of the Sun. If you go outside and can see anything other than the sun with your glasses, like clouds or light fixtures, then they aren’t protective enough for safe viewing of the sun.

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olar eclipses happen somewhere on Earth every 18 months or so, but this year’s eclipse is unique because of the path of totality it will take across the United States.

The phenomenon, dubbed as The Great American Eclipse, will begin in the Pacific Northwest in Oregon and travel southeast until it passes over South Carolina and into the Atlantic Ocean on Aug. 21.

The last time a solar eclipses path of totality crossed from the Pacific to Atlantic Ocean was on June 8, 1918, starting in Washington and ending Florida.

Indiana residents will not be able to see a total eclipse on Aug. 21, since it is not in the direct path, but there is anticipated to be approximately 93 percent peak coverage of the sun estimated for Muncie residents.

That doesn’t mean it’s safe to look at the sun without taking a couple of precautions first, however.

“The temptation is that when people hear the word 90 percent, they think ‘Oh that means it’s 90 percent safe [to look at the sun],’” said Ron Kaitchuck, director of the Charles W. Brown Planetarium. “No, it’s still a hundred percent unsafe at that point, all that means is when you burn your eyes, the damage will be a bit less.”

Looking into a partial eclipse is the equivalent, if not more dangerous, than looking directly into the sun, making a pair of protective solar glasses a necessity. It’s also dangerous to take a photo of the eclipse with your cell phone or digital camera without taking precautionary measures first.

“Phones will be damaged just like your eyes would,” Kaitchuck said. “They have a lens and they focus light, they can be damaged.”

To ensure that students, faculty staff and visitors are safe, the university will be distributing 10,000 protective glasses leading up to the eclipse on the first day of class. Burris received 665 pairs of glasses on Aug. 11, 6,500 were handed out to university housing residents upon their move in from Aug. 13-16 and the others will be distributed around campus on Aug. 21.

“The only safe way to watch the eclipse is through these filters,” Marc Ransford spokesperson for Ball State said. “Safety is paramount in this issue because you don’t anyone to burn out their eyes.”

Starting last school year and continuing through this summer, the planetarium has been showcasing “Eclipse: The Sun Revealed” which informs visitors about how to safely watch an eclipse.

The planetarium has been selling glasses as a $2 donation, since they do not charge for their shows, and according to Dayna Thompson, assistant director of the Charles W. Brown Planetarium, they should sell out of the 5,000 glasses they have by August 21.

The Charles W. Brown Planetarium is a 52-foot theater is powered by 12 computers. It re-opened in 2014 as the largest collegiate planetarium in the Midwest. BREANNA DAUGHERTY DN FILE PHOTO

ABOUT THE PLANETARIUM The Charles W. Brown Planetarium, which opened to the public in November 2014, is Indiana’s largest planetarium.

Over the past year, the Brown Planetarium hosted 368 events, seeing close to 22,400 guests during that time.

The shows that the planetarium hosts are free of charge and seating is done on a firstcome, first-serve basis. Hundreds of public group and school group guests visit the different shows throughout the year.

If you want to read more about the planetarium, visit Bsu.edu/planetarium.

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“Definitely get out and see it, don’t be afraid,” Thompson said. “If you do research and figure out what works and what doesn’t when it come to you

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In Muncie, the partial eclipse will begin around 1 p.m. and end at approximately 3:48 p.m., with peak coverage occurring around 2:25 p.m.

For those looking online, websites may try to sell protective solar glasses, but they are not always the proper kind for direct viewing of the sun Thompson says.

If the side of the sunglasses have ISO 12313-2 on them, then they comply with the international safety standard for filters for direct viewing of the Sun. “A lot of the ones online, they’ll say they’re ISO, they’ll have a picture showing that, but they won’t have those numbers that are needed,” Thompson said. “Those, you can actually see you office lights and clouds in the sky when you look through them.

You shouldn’t be able to see any of that, you should just be able to see the sun.”

“They’re so dense that the only thing you can see through them is the sun,” Kaitchuck added.

While there are dangers that come with looking at the eclipse, it’s also an experience

program, definitely take the time to experience it to its fullest.”

Peak coverage of the partial eclipse will be over Muncie around 2:25 p.m., but the moon will be passing in front of the sun from 1-3:48 p.m.

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Several Cardinals sign professional contracts Former Ball State baseball players Alex Maloney and Kevin Marnon signed Major League Baseball contracts after stints in the USPBL this summer, while senior Colin Brockhouse faced a tough decision after being drafted. 425

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After sitting out of spring practice, quarterback Riley Neal is focused on improving upon the Cardinals 4-8 finish last season.

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Quarterback Riley Neal runs the ball during the Cardinals’ game against Northern Illinois on Oct. 1, 2016 in Scheumann Stadium. Ball State lost 31 to 24.

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5 FORMER BALL STATE ATHLETES EARN NFL OPPORTUNITIES

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FAR LEFT: KeVonn Mabon jumps over a Northern Illinois player at Scheumann Stadium. LEFT: Martez Hester tackles an Indiana State player on Sept. 13, 2014 at Scheumann Stadium.

BELOW: Franko House attempts to look past Kent State players during a game on Jan. 19, 2015.

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ollowing the 2017 NFL draft, five Ball State athletes earned opportunities to pursue professional football.

Four of them played on the Ball State football team during their collegiate careers, while the other made his presence known on the basketball court.

Three players were signed as undrafted free agents: standout wide receiver KeVonn Mabon signed with the Tennessee Titans, safety Martez Hester signed with the Indianapolis Colts and former power forward Franko House signed with the Chicago Bears.

The other two, linebacker Aaron Taylor and offensive lineman Drake Miller picked up minicamp offers. Taylor received invites from the Green Bay Packers and Tennessee Titans while Miller’s invite came from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

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KeVonn Mabon

Mabon’s career with the Cardinals was one for the record books.

He leaves Ball State with the most receptions (244), third most receiving yards (2,862) and tenth all-time with touchdown passes caught (12) in Ball State football history.

Mabon was with former DeSmet Jesuit high school coach and mentor Pat Mahoney watching the last rounds of the NFL Draft at Mahoney’s home in Tarpon Springs, Florida.

After the 253rd name was called, Mabon didn’t make the cut, so there was a brief moment of disappointment.

But that feeling didn’t last long.

“At first I was kind of upset, because I would’ve preferred to be a draft pick,” Mabon said. “But I got a phone call minutes after the draft so I wasn’t that upset for too long.”

He received calls from the Tennessee Titans, Indianapolis Colts, Kansas City Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens. Each organization whose receiving staffs Mabon had been studying with his agent during the draft.

After the phone calls, Mabon discussed the different possibilities with his agent. Together they looked at specifics like the amount of practice squad positions available and years left on current roster players contract.

“We were prepared for the situation when it happened,” Mabon said. “It was just a matter of seeing who called us going with the team that was the best.”

And in five minutes, he made his choice - to sign with the Tennessee Titans.

For Mabon, who is back in Indiana now, two weeks is what separates him from the beginning of his NFL career. During that time, he plans on taking care of the small things like packing his backs and taking last-minute care of his body.

“It’s an exciting time right now,” Mabon said.

“Now it’s just making sure my body is ready for camp and making sure that my body is in the best shape it can be going into camp.”

Martez Hester

Hester missed the first call from his agent following the draft.

Not because he wasn’t prepared for it, but because of the amount of friends and family gathered in his Maryland home made it hard for him to hear his cell phone.

“It was just a little bit too loud in my house and I wasn’t directly by my phone at first,” Hester said.

“But I called him [my agent] right back and he gave me the news.

“The feeling was just great, it was just like a small weight lifted off your back.”

Hester will be joining an organization no more than an hour away from Ball State, and one that he’s familiar with.

When the Indianapolis Colts held their training camp practices in Anderson, Hester made trips there with several of his Ball State teammates.

“It’s a good feeling,” Hester said. “It’s a really good feeling to be around a team that you already know, one that you’re comfortable with ...

It’s a really good place to be and I’m just really happy to be there.”

The next steps for Hester include the upcoming rookie minicamps, which will be his first “professional football activity.”

From there, the 6-foot-3, 201 pound safety will

spend his time preparing for OTA’s (organized team activities) and preseason camp.

Hester will join the Colts after playing 39 games for the Cardinals racking up 234 tackles and three interceptions in his collegiate career.

Franko House

Out of the 2017 undrafted free agents list, House was the only collegiate basketball player to sign with an NFL team.

While House didn’t play a snap of collegiate football, he isn’t new to the sport. The 6-foot-6, 248-pound power forward was a two-way starter at Concord High School and even had offers to play collegiate football.

House, who recently transitioned back onto the football field, spent his senior year raising his child Carter.

He was released by the Chicago Bears on May 31.

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Kevin Marnon signs with Minnesota Robby General Summer Editor Kevin Marnon has moved around quite a bit throughout his baseball career, but the latest move is the biggest of his career.

The former Ball State baseball player prepared to take the field for pregame work during the Birmingham-Bloomfield Beavers game on July 27 when his coach told him to call the player development coordinator for the USPBL. As he walked out of the stadium to make the call, his manager stopped him and told him that he was picked up by the Minnesota Twins organization.

“It was sort of surreal,” Marnon said. “I just sort of thought about what he told me and everything started so fast. I just thought about all of the work I put in for the game and how far I had come that I’d reached one of my goals that I had set out for a while now.”

That goal first took fruition four years ago, when Marnon began his collegiate baseball career at East Tennessee State. He then transferred to Akron,

Junior pitcher Kevin Marnon attempts to pitch the baseball on Friday, March 18, 2016 at First Merchants Ballpark Complex. DN FILE PHOTO taking a redshirt season in 2015.

But Marnon would never play for the Zips, as the university’s athletic department decided to shut down the baseball program.

That’s when Ball State head coach Rich Maloney found Marnon, who would end up being one of the Cardinals rotation guys for the rest of

his collegiate career. In two seasons, Marnon led the Cardinals in games started (28), innings pitched (143) and strike outs (109).

Marnon became the third player signed out of the United Shore Professional Baseball League this season, behind former teammate Alex Maloney, who signed with the Chicago

White Sox on May 24.

“I was there before [Maloney] was, but as soon as he got there he said ‘Listen, me and you, we’re going to do well in this league and we’re going to get picked up by the end of the summer,’” Marnon said. “That’s fortunately happened for both of us, we did well and were signed to teams.”

Alex Maloney was right. During Marnon’s 16 appearances in the USPBL, he never lost a game, boasting a 1.72 ERA and 1.53 WHIP. And he’s trying to pick up with the GCL Twins right where he left off with Birmingham-Bloomfield.

“I’m coming in with the mentality that I’m going to dominate and continue the success that I’ve had playing in the USPBL,” Marnon said. “I’m trying to keep my confidence up and keep rolling.”

Marnon officially joined the rookie league affiliate for the Twins on July 30, making his first appearance on Aug. 2.

After replacing Blayne Enlow in the bottom of the eighth, Marnon threw the final two innings of the game, striking out one batter and giving up one hit.

Brockhouse faces tough career decision Why signing a pro contract wasn’t an easy choice Colin Grylls Daily News Reporter Ball State junior Colin Brockhouse was just a flick of the wrist away from being a professional baseball player after he was selected by the Toronto Blue Jays in the Major League Baseball Amateur Draft June 14.

The question was whether or not he will sign.

Brockhouse slipped to the 24th round after being sidelined for most of March and April with tendinitis in the same arm that required Tommy John surgery his junior year at Northrop High School in Fort Wayne.

“I mean that screwed me in the draft a little bit,” Brockhouse said. “I was projected to go [rounds] 4 through 10 — that’s what I was hearing — but it didn’t happen because teams were questioning the tendinitis issue a little bit and stuff like that, which kind of sucks, but I guess it is what it is.”

There are pros and cons to both staying at Ball State and signing with Toronto, but either way it’ll come down to the numbers on the contract.

“I would say one of the factors is the monetary

value I receive [from the Blue Jays],” Brockhouse said. “You know, things didn’t pan out how they were supposed to be in this draft, and I’m kind of frustrated about that. But then again, I’m still fortunate and still very thankful I Colin get the opportunity again.”

Brockhouse After being drafted, Brockhouse called his friend and former teamBall State senior, pitcher mate Zach Plesac for advice. for Cardinals Plesac was expected to go early in last year’s draft, but his stock slid after undergoing Tommy John surgery in April 2016. The Cleveland Indians selected him in the 12th round, and he decided to sign the contract and go pro. He spent the last year rehabbing and was recently cleared to play short-season ball with the Mahoning Valley Scrappers.

“He understands my situation last year when I took a loss because of my injury,” Plesac said. “I dropped 10 rounds, I lost some money, but it is what it is.”

The choice Brockhouse faces is unique to baseball. In the NFL and NBA, players forfeit their amateur status if they don’t pull out before the beginning of the draft, but baseball players maintain their college eligibility as long as they don’t sign a contract.

In fact, that’s just what Brockhouse did last year

when he was picked by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 37th round. He returned to Ball State and posted a 3.98 ERA while striking out 40 batters in 40.2 innings, enough to move up 13 rounds in the draft even after the injury.

According to wane.com, Brockhouse is returning to Ball State for his senior season.

The deal he signed with the Blue Jays fell through “when the team raised injury concerns after an MRI during a physical,” according to the website.

Brockhouse will look to rehab this arm as he enters his final season with the Cardinals.

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Alex Maloney signs free agent deal with Sox

It didn’t take long into his career in the United Shore Professional Baseball League for former Ball State infielder Alex Maloney to receive a phone call from a Major League Organization.

During the middle of just his fourth game with the Birmingham-Bloomfield Beavers on June 24, Maloney was pulled to begin his transition to Arizona, where he joined Chicago’s rookie team.

With the freeagent signing, Maloney became the 14th player in the organizations Such an incredible 13-month hismoment for my tory and the first player this year family and myself. to sign a profesThank you all of sional contract. may teammates at Maloney went to Twitter later that Ball State and with evening to thank the Beavers.” both Ball State, Birmingham- ALEX MALONEY, Bloomfield and the Former BSU infielder Chicago White Sox organizations.

“Such an incredible moment for my family and myself. Thank you all of my teammates at Ball State and with the Beavers,” Maloney said on Twitter.

“Thank you to the @uspbl and all of my coaches throughout my career,” he continued. “And thank you to the @whitesox for the opportunity!”

His father and coach at Ball State Rich Maloney also took to Twitter with an image of the video board showing Alex Maloney’s reaction when he received the call.

“Congratulations to Alex Maloney on getting signed by the Chicago White Sox,” Rich Maloney said. “Special moment for a father and a son not to mention a coach!”

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Judge’s athletes sweep at World Para Championships Robby General Summer Editor

Larry Judge and his athletes went into the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships with one goal – to sweep the competition.

And there was never any doubt.

In the men’s discus throw F44, meaning the athlete has a lower limb deficiency, David Blair started the competition with what would be a silver medal throw of 62.47m while Campbell landed his gold winning throw of 63.66m in his sixth and final attempt.

The rest of the competition fell 5 meters of both of them.

“It’s just one of those days that you don’t get very often as a coach, but when you do get it, you really appreciate it,” said Judge, Ball State kinesiology professor.

Traveling to London was reminiscent for Judge.

Maybe it was returning to the place where he first coached in the Paralympic Games in 2012, or maybe it was the fact that Campbell and Blair repeated their performances from the 2015 IPC World Championships in Doha, Qatar.

Each athletes winning throws were season bests and the third consecutive world championship victor for Campbell, whose victory earned Judge a medal as well.

Two medals were almost three, but Judge’s third athlete, Joshua Cinnamo, came just short in the men’s shot put F46 final.

“Josh ended up fourth, just missing the medal by

It’s just one of those days that you don’t get very often as a coach, but when you do get it, you really appreciate it.”

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FROM LEFT: Jeremy Campbell, Larry Judge and David Blair. Ball State kinesiology professor led Campbell and Blair to their second consecutive sweep in the F44 discuss throw at the World Para Athletics Championships. LARRY JUDGE, PHOTO PROVIDED about 20cm,” Judge said. “It was a very good performance from Josh, just this close to getting a medal.”

Back in the United States, Judge and his athletes have time preparing for what Judge said is a “down year,” meaning there are no major world championships in 2018.

While it may be a down year in terms of major competitions, it won’t be for Campbell and Blair who have discussed interest competing in the ablebodied U.S. National competition.

“It’s interesting because one of the goals that Jeremy and David both talked about is being able to

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Szews makes U.S. National Team Ball State sophomore one of 12 selected to play in World Competition Robby General Summer Editor Matt Szews travelled to the Czech Republic on June 23 to compete for the International Federation of Volleyball (FIVB) U21 World Championship.

USA Volleyball announced the final 12-man roster on June 19, cutting down from the original 20 that competed in Lake Placid, New York, that travelled to compete against 15 other countries for the World Championship.

classification.”

“Now he’s the guy that the coaches of that group feel should be out on the court representing the best that the The freshman United States has to offer played opposite and is at that age level,” Walthe only player MidMORE ton said. “Matt is mature western Intercollegiate INSIDE beyond his years. ... He Volleyball Association didn’t go through a lot of player to make the Men’s up an down cycles and as roster.

Volleyball a freshman, was able to Before the final Season earn our coaching staff’s roster was selected, Preview. 34 respect and his teammates Ball State head coach respect in a very quick Joel Walton said that while “it is a very select honor,” fashion.”

Szews, an All-American Honto make the preliminary 20-man roster, being picked to travel, orable Mention, joined three “puts him into even more elite All-American men’s volleyball

players as well as a number of allconference players.

Josh Tuaniga (Long Beach State) and Micah Ma’a (UCLA) are a pair of All-American setters along with opposite Kyle Ensign (Long Beach State).

This year, the United States entered the World Championship as the No. 9 seed. The U.S. has yet to earn a medal in the biannual tournament, finishing in 11th place each of the previous two installments.

Seeded in Pool B along with Russia, Cuba and Turkey, the United States finished 0-3 in pool play, and 14th overall in the tournament.

compete in the able-bodied nationals,” Judge said.

“The idea is more inclusion and main-streaming and if those guys can compete as Paralympic athletes in able-bodied events, it just gives that much more recognition and exposure to Paralympics in the U.S.” Judge will be helping his athletes prepare for the national championships, but right now he’s focused on taking his most recent coaching experiences and using them in the classroom.

He said everything went right during the trip, the competition, the travel schedule and even the number of warmups taken by his athletes.

These real-world lessons are what Judge has been, and will continue to, teach students going through the Athletic Coaching Education program at Ball State.

“It was just a nice bit of reflection now that we can be done,” Judge said. “When our students enroll in the fall, certainly we can have some discussion about this competition and what went right and just use it to kind of frame competition planning, which is an important part of being a good coach.”

Outside attacker Matt Szews digs the ball during the Cardinals’ match against McKendree on Feb. 4 in Worthen Arena. Ball State won 3-0.

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Former field hockey star inducted into MAC Hall of Fame Robby General Summer Editor

In her four years playing field hockey at Ball State University, Jen Brown-Mascari never lost to a MidAmerican Conference opponent.

She helped lead Ball State to a 45-0 Mid-American Conference record between 1994-1997, accumulating a 70-19-2 overall record in that span.

Her achievements on the field earned her 1996 MAC Player of the Year, three All-MAC First Team honors, MAC Freshman of the Year, several Academic All-America First Team honors and 12 MAC Player of the Week honors by the end of her career.

Since graduation, Brown-Mascari was inducted into the Ball State athletics Hall of Fame (2006) and became one of six former student-athletes inducted into the 2017 MAC Hall of Fame earlier this month.

While her teammates and coaches said it was “just going to be a matter of time,” Brown-Mascari was amazed when she heard the news.

“I was pretty shocked,” she said. “It was one of those things when the phone call was made and I was kind of like ‘Wow, you’re kidding.’ … I’m just very humbled and honored to be a part of it.”

The other five inductees in this year’s class included Dwight Gardner (Ohio, wrestling), Antonio Gates (Kent State, men’s basketball), Betsy Kuhle (Western Michigan, women’s tennis), Dan Majerle (Central Michigan, men’s basketball) and Ron Oestrike (Eastern Michigan, baseball).

MAC Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher said, “the Mid-American Conference Hall of Fame is a testament to the achievements of those that have competed and served in this great conference.”

But, Brown-Mascari didn’t just compete in the MAC – she dominated it.

Brown-Mascari came into the Ball State field hockey program at a time when it was already one of the best teams in the Midwest, if not the country.

Before she joined the squad as a freshman in 1994, the Cardinals had successfully won 10 out of the 11 previous MAC Championships, which included six tournament championships and the team’s first-ever NCAA Tournament Appearance in 1992.

From the moment she stepped into the program there was a certain expectation of excellence to uphold and she ran with it.

While starting each of the 91 games during her collegiate career, Brown-Mascari’s 80 goals scored and 193 career points set both school and conference records.

Specific memories from her career are vague, but there’s one thing that she, along with everyone she meets remembers most – the flaw-

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To this day people ask her, “Well how on earth did you accomplish that?”

“We went into every game like it wasn’t even an option to lost,” she said. “We were confident and we kind of just took that attitude that we were not going to let a MAC team beat us.”

She remembers times where the Cardinals “almost lost a few,” coming close to losing, but pulling away with an early overtime victory.

It helped to have three other All-Americans play during her four-year span including Ashleigh Schoultz (1991-1994), Sally Northcroft (1996-1999) and Kerri Schoultz (19961999) as well as Ball State’s all-time winning field hockey coach Karen Fitzpatrick (285-13011 overall) leading the charge.

Together, the group led one of the best field hockey teams in the country to four straight MAC Championships and an appearance into three NCAA Tournaments – two of which were finaleight appearances.

“We all took a lot of pride in the program. …

Many of us came from hard-working families and a lot of us came from the east coast,” Brown-Mascari said. “We ended up just playing great together.”

But she wasn’t the only player who had a spotless career conference record. In fact, she wasn’t even the only Ball State player to achieve it.

As a team, Ball State didn’t lose a conference game from 1993 to 1998. For six years, the Cardinals went a perfect 57-0 in the MAC winning all but one conference championship during that period.

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Head coach Joel Walton encourages his players during a time out in the second set against Ohio State on March 23, 2014 at Worthen Arena. He was selected by the U.S. Youth National Volleyball team to serve as the head of delegation. In that role, he will travel to Bahrain with the team, focusing on the day-to-day tasks for the team. BREANNA DAUGHERTY, DN FILE

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Even when Joel Walton isn’t in the gym with the Ball State men’s volleyball team, he can be found on a volleyball court.

The head men’s volleyball coach was selected to serve as the head of delegation for the United States Youth National Team, which puts together the country’s best volleyball players, ages 19 and under, to compete in the World Championships this month.

It’s a role that peaked Walton’s interest a year ago, while he was in Fort Lauderdale, Florida coaching a USA High Performance Championships.

It was there that Walton was approached by Jonah Carson, mentor coach during the High Performance Championships. Carson worked with coaches by observing, giving feedback and ensuring engagement between players and coaches.

“Jonah came up to me one day and said, ‘Coach Walton, I think you would be a great person to be head of delegation for one of our national team programs,’” Walton said. “I took that as a great compliment.”

After expressing his interest, Walton soon realized what came with, rather, what didn’t come with

the role. Like a stipend that the coaches will earn.

“The reality is that most of the USA Volleyball coaching opportunities, you’re not going to get rich doing those things,” Walton said. “There’s a little bit of pay, they’re typically going to cover your expenses and pay you a stipend.”

Still, after meddling the role over, finding out the dates and asking his wife’s opinion, Walton decided it was an opportunity he wanted to pursue.

As the head of delegation, Walton will travel to Bahrain and have the chance to meet potential Ball State recruits from across the world.

In his role, Walton will focus on the day-to-day tasks of organizing travel and managing money as well as smaller roles, like ensuring the team has its laundry done.

“I’m supposed to be the liaison between the coaches and the people who are running the tournament,” Walton said. “If I do my job well, everything will go smooth and our coaches and players will be able to concentrate on competing at their highest level.”

While Walton won’t be coaching at the World Championships, he will be able to provide his advice to coaches Sam Schweisky and Brad Keller, NCAA coaches at Princeton and UCLA, respectively.

While the 24 invitees will be all together in Lake

Placid, New York from August 13-23, 15 of them agreed to play on the national team during the USA Volleyball High Performance Championships from July 18-22 in Fort Lauderdale.

The competition will host several regional teams from the United States as well as several international teams. Walton will be in attendance as a coach in that tournament before traveling to Lake Placid to join the national team on August 12.

Having a chance for the players to get some preliminary experience together is something that Walton said usually hasn’t happened in the past.

“Typically, what happens is our youth teams that are put together have a two-week tryout camp and some training and then they go to a major international competition to compete,” Walton said. “They have very little time together as a team and very little experience together and now they’re trying to play with the best players from around the world.”

The early time together should give the United State a better chance to compete with international teams who have spent more time playing together in various championships.

With the final 12-man roster selected, the United States joins the 19 other national teams in Bahrain for the World Championships from August 18-27.

Ball State athletics recently signed a five-year contract with Nike, making the apparel company the exclusive equipment and clothing provider of the Cardinals 19 varsity athletic teams.

The new contract, which term runs from Sept. 1, 2017 through Aug. 31, 2022, comes in as the renewal of the parties original college team sales/supply contract – which began on June 1, 2014 – was nearing its end on May 31, 2017.

Unlike previous contracts, this multi-year agreement is department-wide, the first of its kind for Ball State athletics. Other programs who have had existing contracts with Nike include the football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball teams. Both the football and women’s basketball programs contracts were set to expire this summer.

“We are delighted to continue and expand our relationship with Nike,” Ball State Director of Athletics Mark Sandy said in a press release. “The Nike brand is the proven leader in athletic apparel and will serve our coach well as we recruit and retain outstanding student-athletes.”

With this contract, each Ball State team will be required to wear/use Nike products every team activity.

So, what do Ball State athletic teams get out of this deal? Quite a bit.

Every year, according to the college team product supply and sales contract between Ball State University and Nike, Ball State athletics receives an “Annual Product Allotment,” for its athletic programs.

This means each contract year Ball State will receive the following from Nike: A $50,000 allowance for the athletic director, several additional bonuses for the football and its coaches depending on success and bonuses for the men’s basketball and women’s basketball.

We are delighted to continue and expand our relationship with Nike.

The Nike brand is the proven leader in athletic apparel and will serve our coach well as we recruit and retain outstanding student-ahtletes.”

- MARK SANDY, Director of Athletics

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Lewis, Stewart seasons end at NCAA East prelims Incoming juniors return to an already talented lineup in 2017 Robby General Summer Editor Ball State sophomores Regan Lewis and Peyton Stewart ended their 2017 campaign’s at the NCAA East Preliminary Track & Field Championships last week.

Lewis cleared a 1.74m high jump on her third attempt to place 21st among the 48 top high jumpers form the east region on Friday.

She entered the meet tied for seventh in the in the field after clearing a career-best height of 1.82m at the 2017 Mid-American Conference Championships, but she did not finish in the top 12 to qualify for nationals.

Stewart finished her season with a time of 11.85 in the 100m dash Thursday, placing her 36th in the field of 48 runners – six spots higher than her original seeding of 42nd for the regional following her time of 11.55 at the MAC Championships. Still, the final time was

not enough to place her among the top-24 in the region who qualified for the semifinals in the event, the top 12 of which moved onto national competition.

Before the meet, head Ball State track & field coach Brian Etelman said he didn’t know what to expect going into the regional.

Lewis and Stewart were, after all, among four of the only Ball State athletes to qualify for the preliminary round since its format changed in 2009 and the first under his twoyear reign as head coach.

After seeing this type of success early in the sophomores career’s however, Etelman has a different idea of the expectations for the future.

“Moving forward, it’s definitely going to be the standard that we’re going to need them to keep winning,” Etelman said in a previous interview with the Daily News.

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Lewis, who is a three-time MAC Championship high jump medalist – 2017 outdoor gold, 2017 indoor silver and 2016 outdoor bronze – already had nationals as a goal in her mind before the event, while Stewart says this success early in her collegiate career means that “the sky’s the limit.”

“Just seeing where I can go and dropping as much as I did this season, with seasons to come, it’s really exciting and I’m really looking forward to it,” Stewart said.

Next year, the Cardinals lose seven seniors, including distance runner Danielle Dahl who finished 10th in the 800m run at the MAC Championships this season.

Returning, however, will be a pair of MAC Championship finals qualifiers Brooke Talhelm (8th, 1500m run) and Bryeana Birdsong (7th, 100m dash) – both freshman.

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iley Neal didn’t participate in spring practice due to a surgery on his non-throwing shoulder, but he was still putting in work.

Standing behind the quarterbacks, the junior quarterback tested a different part of his game –­ the mental aspect. He went through the motions, going through the reads as if he were in the drill.

“Whenever the quarterbacks were together I would stand behind them and mimic a drop and show where I would go with the ball if I was going,” Neal said.

“Just a lot of mental stuff, but I got a lot more time to do that than physical.”

It was different viewpoint for the guy who started 20 games in his first two seasons at Ball State, but it was the one that helped him regain his focus and motivate him going into preseason camp.

With just over three weeks separating Ball State and its first game against the University of Illinois, Neal’s back on the field, looking to help improve on the Cardinals 4-8 finish just a season ago.

And as the Cardinals enter the 2017 season, he’s had one focus.

“We’ve talked about finishing a lot,” Neal said.

“Finishing drives, finishing games, finishing plays. It’s kind of that more than anything.”

That focal point makes sense coming off a year where Ball State lost half of its games by 10 points or less, three of which the Cardinals were leading at halftime.

For Neu, what’s the biggest focal point for the 6-foot-6, 225 pound quarterback moving forward?

Situational football.

In the offseason, Neu said that Neal studied tape, focusing on what he feels comfortable with in the pocket.

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Quarterback Riley Neal looks to pass the ball during the Cardinals’ game against Northern Illinois on Oct. 1, 2016 in Scheumann Stadium. Ball State lost 31 to 24.

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ith the additions of summer transfers K.J. Walton from Missouri and Brachen Hazen from Arkansas, Ball State’s roster has eight former Indiana All-Stars.

That’s the most one team has had since Purdue had eight during the 1998-99 season. And it means eight out of the nine Hoosiers on the Cardinals roster were at one point, considered one of the best high school basketball players in Indiana.

Taylor Persons, Sean Sellers, Jeremie Tyler, Tahjai Teague, Kyle Mallers and Zach Gunn round up the list of All-Stars on the Cardinals roster.

While Walton and Hazen will sit out one year due to transfer rules, Ball State head coach James Whitford said that the increased competition put the Cardinals in position to return to the dominance it showed in the late ‘80s, early ‘90s.

“There was an era when Ball State basketball commanded respect in the state and in the Mid-Major scene,” Whitford said. “I wouldn’t put us there yet, but I do think we’re knocking on that door. In the next couple of years, hopefully when people think of really good Mid-Major programs, we’re one of the programs they think of.”

From 1986-1995, when Ball State men’s basketball won five Mid-American Conference tournaments, leading them to five NCAA Tournament appearances, including its only Sweet Sixteen appearance in 1990.

Chandler Thompson, Muncie Central boy’s basketball coach and a sophomore on the 1990 men’s basketball roster, also thinks that the Cardinals have the right pieces to make a bigger impact within the NCAA this year.

“I think so, they [Ball State] got a couple of new guys coming in and they have some good veterans to help out the younger guys,” Thompson said. “That’s the way it was for us, especially me, when I played. … That’s what they have

Head coach James Whitford directs the players during the game against Eastern Michigan University on Feb. 21, 2016 at Worthen Arena. Ball State won the game 79-72. EMMA ROGERS, DN right now, they have a team.”

Thompson started 29 out of the Cardinals 33 games in the 1990 season and helped Ball State men’s basketball make its longest run in the NCAA Tournament.

The former Indiana All-Star was surrounded by other All-Stars like Rodney Haynes, Billy Butts and Greg Miller, all seniors, who helped mold him in his first season. Thompson knows just what Hoosier talent can do for a team, drawing similarities from this years roster to his playing days.

“I think this team, they have a lot of Indiana talent that’s on the team,” Thompson said. “During my time, we had a few players that came from Indiana. We had really good basketball and a lot of fans still like to see local or home-grown talent being played.”

Half of Ball State’s roster normally consists of Hoosiers, a pattern that has continued throughout the years.

But recruiting the best in-state players isn’t easy.

“We’re in such a basketball rich area, every kid here grows up playing basketball from an early age,” head coach James Whitford said. “If you’re one of the best players from Indiana, you’re a really good player. We’re not the only ones who know that.”

In-state programs like Butler, Indiana and Purdue all have former All-Stars on their rosters, but Power Five conference programs from the Atlantic Coastal Conference, Big Ten, Pac-12 and Southeastern Conference have also landed recruits in the past two classes.

The number of Indiana All-Stars on Ball State’s roster is no small accomplishment, and Whitford said that continuing to recruit instate athletes is “critical for longterm success.”

While in-state recruitment is the foremost focus for Ball State coaches, Whitford said balance between Indiana athletes and players from other parts of the country are vital to what they’re trying to accomplish.

“I think what you see now is a roster that just has a lot more depth to it, there’s a lot more competition,” Whitford said. “I think that’s certainly a good thing and hopefully we can take advantage of that, capitalize and take bigger steps forward in the next couple of years.”

While it’s still too early to know how Ball State is going to perform in its upcoming season, there are a couple of things to keep in mind as the Cardinals finish summer workouts

and enter the fall semester.

Ball State is coming off of back-toback 20-plus win seasons, including one of the best turnarounds from 2014-15 into 2015-16. This included splitting the MAC West regular season title two years in a row and missing this years MAC tournament championship by 4 points.

Whitford is entering his fourth season as head coach, making this team, really his team. In the past few years, he had players that were recruited by former head coach Billy Taylor and staff. If the past two seasons are any implication of what Whitford can do on the recruiting side of things, it should make this an interesting season.

Hazen and Walton will still have an impact from the bench. Much like Taylor Persons and Ryan Weber had two and three years ago. This years two Power Five Conference transfers will be no different, allowing Ball State to play against top-notch competition all season long.

The Cardinals really haven’t lost a lot in terms of talent. While Franko House and Ryan Weber graduated, the Cardinals retain seven out of their nine men in their rotation, while adding talent.

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A big piece of that supporting cast is going to be junior running back James Gilbert.

Gilbert, who is on both the 2017 Maxwell Award and Doak Walker Award watch lists, is coming off of a 12 touchdown, 1,322 rushing yard season – the fourth most single season yards by a Ball State player.

That along with an offensive line that returns three starters in seniors Vinnie Palezeti and Pat Maloney along with redshirt junior Alex Joss, the biggest question is going to be on the young receiving core that has only seen a combined 21 career starts from seniors Jordan Hogue (10) and Corey Lacanaria (9) and redshirt junior Devin Reece (2).

This year, Neal won’t have the receiving core consisting of record-breaker KeVonn Mabon or last year’s touchdown reception leader Damon Hazeltion Jr., who transferred to Virginia Tech this offseason. But Ball State head coach Mike Neu isn’t holding back his expectations for the Yorktown native saying that he’s expecting Neal “to take a big step this year.”

After winning one game, excluding his win against Eastern Michigan where he replaced senior Jack Milas, as a starter his freshman year and adapting to a new system under then-first year head coach Neu in 2016, this is the first time Neal enters a season truly established in the Cardinals offense.

Not only is Neal more settled in with the offense, but he’s more comfortable with Neu, a former Ball State quarterback himself.

“I think once he learned that when I do get on him, I’m the type of guy that lets it go fast,” Neu said. “I think he knows that now.

He’s mentally tough, and you know he can take that and I think we’ve come a long way and he’s not afraid to bark back at me a little bit now, which I like.”

Ball State opens its against Illinois on Sept. 2 in Champaign, Illinois.

“You know he learned from some situations that he was in the first time in college. I think just making good decisions and knowing that [Neal] doesn’t have to make something special happen on every play, just use the supporting cast.”

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all State football was picked to finish last in the Mid-American Conference preseason media poll coming into this season.

After finishing 4-8 last season and 1-7 in the MAC, the Cardinals earned 30 preseason points, 14 less than last year.

But, the Cardinals are returning talent at several offensive positions. Junior quarterback Riley Neal, who head coach Mike Neu expressed his confidence in during MAC Media Day this year, saying that Neal is set up for a “big year,” is the first of those names.

Neal has started 20 games in his first two seasons at Ball State, averaging 280.1 total yards of offense per game last season, good for third best in the MAC. After losing record breaking receiver KeVonn Mabon, who accounted for 2,862 career receiving yards.

Neal’s main targets this year include seniors Jordan Hogue and Corey Lacanaria as well as redshirt junior Devin Reece and redshirt freshman tight end Nolan Given who have all seen first team action this summer.

In the backfield, Ball State returns junior James Gilbert who is on both the 2017 Maxwell Award and Doak Walker Award watch lists.

Last season, Gilbert played in all 12 games at running back, picking up 1,332 rushing yards and 12 rushing touchdowns. On top of being the team MVP, Gilbert earned 2016 All-Mid-American Conference first team honors.

On the offensive line, redshirt senior center Vinnie Palazeti will lead the charge. Palazeti is a captain and on the 2017 Wuerffel Trophy Award watch list.

Palazeti helped the Cardinals average 220 rushing yards per game, the highest average since 1978, after transferring from guard to center due to injuries.

Last year, the offensive line also held the opposition to one sack or less in eight games.

According to Neal, the Cardinals have been focusing on finishing, coming off of a year where they lost six games by 10 points or less.

The biggest question mark entering this season is the Cardinals pass defense, particularly in the young secondary that ranked 126th in passing yards allowed last season – out of 128 Football Bowl Subdivision teams.

A strong defensive line led by senior defensive tackles Kevin Willis and John Swisher along with redshirt senior defensive end Anthony Winbush, who finished on the All-Mid-American Conference third team, should help defend against the run.

Ball State starts its season on Sept. 2 at Illinois, a team who finished 3-9 in the Big Ten last season and lost to MAC Champion Western Illinois.

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With returning talent, the Cardinals have a strong offensive line and backfield, but the pass defense continues to raise questions

2017 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE 4 Sat., Sept. 2: at Illinois 4 Sat., Sept. 9: vs UAB 4 Sat., Sept. 16 vs Tennessee Tech 4 Sat., Sept. 23 at Western Kentucky (MAC) 4 Sat., Sept. 30 at Western Michigan (MAC) 4 Sat., Oct. 7 at Akron (MAC) 4 Sat., Oct. 21 vs Central Michigan

(MAC) 4 Thurs., Oct. 26 vs Toledo (MAC) 4 Thurs., Nov. 2 at Eastern Michigan (MAC) 4 Thurs. , Nov. 9 at Northern Illinois (MAC) 4 Thurs., Nov. 16 vs Buffalo (MAC) 4 Tues., Nov. 21 vs Miami (MAC)

TOP: Freshman running back James Gilbert runs down the field during the game against University of Massachusetts on Oct. 31, 2016 at Scheumann Stadium. SAMANTHA BRAMMER, DN LEFT: The Ball State Cardinals run onto the field during their game against Eastern Kentucky on Sept.

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Men’s basketball adds offseason talent while women’s basketball looks to fill roles left by graduating seniors

Women’s basketball head coach Brady Sallee shows signs of frustration after a referee called a foul against the Ball State Cardinals in the game against Central Michigan on Feb. 10, 2017 in Worthen Arena. GRACE RAMEY, DN

Guard, Taylor Persons, recovers from a stumble while heading down the court against Bradley guard Dec. 6, 2016 at Worthen Arena.

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Men’s Basketball

Unlike the men’s basketball team, women’s Grande who are the only two players who startbasketball will be losing a little bit more talent ed every game for the Cardinals last season.

Monaco averaged 16.1 points per game last as they enter the 2017-18 season. season, second best on the team, Renee Bennett, Jill Morrison and Calyn Hosea all PREVIOUS RECORDS en route to her 1,000 point career while Grande led the team in played their final game after steals with 58 on the year.

Ball State’s Women’s National 42016-17: 21-11 (14-4 MAC) The Cardinals are coming off Invitation Tournament loss two 20-plus win seasons and in March. Both Bennett and 42015-16: 22-10 (13-5 MAC) should compete strong in the MAC Morrison finished with 1,000- 42014-15: 17-14 (13-5 MAC) once again this year after finishing plus career points and Hosea 14-4 in the conference last season. was named to the Mid-Ameri- 42013-14: 18-17 (9-9 MAC) Head coach Brady Sallee enters can Conference All-Defensive 42012-13: 17-16 (12-4 MAC) his sixth season as the women’s team last season. basketball coach, looking to keep Even with the loss of three seniors, the 2017 WNIT marked the fifth con- his perfect postseason streak with the Cardinals secutive season Ball State played in a postsea- alive this year. Since coming to Ball State, Sallee is 61-27 against conference opponents. son tournament.

Returning leaders for the Cardinals include — Staff Reports senior Moriah Monaco and junior Carmen

According to men’s basketball head coach James Whitford, the Cardinals are “knocking on the door” of the dominance Ball State showed in the late 80s early 90s.

It’s a bold, but believable statement based on what Ball State has achieved in the past two years alone.

The Cardinals are coming off back-to-back 21-win seasons, which included one of the best turnaround seasons from 2014-15 into 2015-16.

During those two years, Ball State split the MidAmerican Conference West Division regular season title and missed the MAC tournament championship game after losing by just 4 points to Akron.

Not only that, but the Cardinals aren’t losing a lot of talent moving into the 2017-18 season.

While noteable players like Franko House and Ryan Weber are gone, the Cardinals will retain seven out of the nine men in their rotation.

Seniors Jeremie Tyler and Sean Sellers return

along with returning juniors Trey Moses and Tayler Persons.

During the offseason, Ball State also added to former Indiana All-Star transfers in Brachen Hazen (Arkansas) and K.J. Walton (Missouri), bringing their total number of former All-Stars up to eight. While the two won’t be able to play this season due to transfer eligibility rules, they will help from the sideline and practice court much like Tayler Persons did when he transferred from Northern Kentucky.

Whitford, who’s entering his fourth season as head coach, said that the summer went well and the Cardinals finished the offseason strong.

While the official schedule has yet to be released, it should be an exciting season for the Cardinals who have confirmed games against Dayton, Oklahoma and Notre Dame, all potential NCAA Tournament teams.

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The women’s team returns a nearly identical lineup, while the men face an increasingly hard division every year

Junior outside hitter Sabrina Mangapora celebrates after a score at the game against IUPUI on Aug. 31, 2016 at John E. Worthen Arena. KYLE CRAWFORD, DN

Freshman middle attacker Matt Walsh hits the ball during the game against Penn State on Jan. 16, 2015 at Worthen Arena.

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2017 HOME SCHEDULE

Ball State returns with almost the same exact lineup that finished second in the Mid-American 4Friday, Sept. 1 vs. Navy Conference West Division last season. And enter4Friday, Sept. 1 vs. Bradley ing 2017, head coach Kelli Miller set the expecta4Saturday, Sept. 2 vs. Fort Wayne tion bar high.

4Thursday, Sept. 14 vs. Evansville “Last year, we started the season with a lot of new pieces,” Miller said in a press release.

4Friday, Sept. 15 vs. Duquesne “This year, while we are absolutely staying 4Saturday, Sept. 30 vs. Buffalo (MAC) with the process, we have expectations to win a 4Friday, Oct. 6 vs. Western Michigan (MAC) MAC Championship. We want to build off the 4Saturday, Oct. 7 vs. Northern Illinois - (MAC) tradition of success Ball State volleyball has en4Friday, Oct. 20 vs. Bowling Green - (MAC) joyed over the years. ...

“It’s our time to go out there and see what we 4Saturday, Oct. 21 vs. Miami - (MAC) are made of.”

4Friday, Oct. 27 vs. Central Michigan (MAC) Outside hitter Mackenzie Kitchel was the only 4Saturday, Oct. 28 vs. Eastern Michigan (MAC) player to graduate from last year’s young lineup.

4Thursday, Nov. 2 vs. Toledo (MAC) This years lineup returns a lot of experience in senior Sabrina Mangapora and juniors Ellie Dunn, Emily Holland and Brooklyn Goodsel, who led the Cardinals attack last season.

Goodsel competed for spots on the U.S. Women’s Outside of that, Ball State has talented young National Team Program back in March. players including sophomore talent in defensive Ball State enters the year the season with high specialist Kate Avila, setter Amber Seaman and hopes, opening conference play on Sept. 22. middle Sydnee VanBeek. Avila, Seaman and — Staff Reports

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The task of winning a conference championship in the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association seems to get harder and harder every year.

The MIVA has not only won the past four NCAA men’s volleyball championships, but the conference had five teams rank in the top 15 at the end of last season.

Ball State finished last season in the semifinal round of the MIVA Tournament to eventual national champion Ohio State 3-2. This came after the Cardinals were swept twice by the Buckeyes earlier that season.

Ball State undoubtedly has a tough task entering the 2018 season. Seven seniors, Connor Gross, Brendan Surane, Edgardo Cartagena, Alex Pia, Mike Scannell, Spencer Smith and Nate Wolf graduated, leaving head coach Joel Walton saying that the Cardinals have “some big shoes to try and fill.”

But, there’s still plenty of talent left on this young Cardinals roster.

It’s started with the outside attackers in sophomores Blake Reardon and Matt Szews, who was one of 12 on the U.S. U21 World Championship roster this summer. Szews led the team with 357

kills and 39 service aces last season while Reardon compiled 72 kills in just 34 sets.

Another big name is 6-foot-11 senior Matt Walsh.

The middle attacker finished with the nation’s best hitting percentage of .449. Walsh has started since his freshman year and will be one of three seniors on the team, accompanied by Anthony Lebryk and Mitch Weiler.

With the loss of several seniors, it will also cause a battle between the different positions on the court.

With Gross graduating, sophomore Jake Romano, sophomore Courtland Scharenbord and incoming freshman Quinn Isaacson will all be competing for a spot as the starting setter.

The same goes for liberos, with sophomore Nick Lavanchy and junior Adam Wessel, who almost split the time perfectly on the court last season. Lavanchy played in 68 sets while Wessell played in 69.

New faces to the Cardinals this year include Isaacson, Ben Chinnici, Ryan Dorgan. Colin Ensalaco, Will Hippe and Zach Nielsen. It’s going to be a young team this season, but Ball State will once again be led by Joel Walton, who enters his 20th season as head coach.

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First baseman Sean Kennedy bats for Ball State in first inning during the Cardinals’ game against Kent State on March 24, 2017 at Ball Diamond. PAIGE GRIDER, DN

Pinch hitter Amanda Arnett crosses home plate after hitting a walk-off home run against Northern Illinois on April 4, 2017. EMMA ROGERS, DN

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hile the Cardinals are losing several seniors this year, graduate Kevin Marnon said that there’s always a “next man up mentality.”

There will certainly be holes to fill this offseason as the Cardinals say goodbye to BJ Butler and Marnon who accounted for a combined 22 starts last season. Ball State will also be missing Caleb Stayton, Alex Maloney, Matt Eppers and Sean Kennedy, all season-long starters last season, from their lineup as well. Stayton, Kennedy and Eppers also accounted for the highest three overall batting averages on the team last season.

On the mound, the Cardinals bring back sophomore John Baker, junior Evan Marquardt and senior Colin Brockhouse while starters Jeff Riedel, Seth Freed and Roman Baisa all return in the field.

Brockhouse, who was selected by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 24th round of last year’s MLB draft, will be returning as one of the Cardinals aces next seasons after holding opponents to a .203 batting average all season.

After entering the Mid-American Conference Tournament as the No. 4 seed, Ball State was eliminated from the tournament after losses to No. 5 Ohio and No. 8 Toledo. While it wasn’t the way Ball State would’ve wanted to go out, head coach Rich Maloney has a track record of having successful seasons at Ball State.

Maloney enters his 13th season as Ball State’s head coach in the spring, previously coaching at Western Michigan (1992-95) and Michigan (2003-12). He comes in as the winningest baseball coach in Ball State history with a 421-265-1 overall record in his 12 seasons with the Cardinals.

The Cardinals have won 30-plus games each of the past 5 seasons.

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fter entering as the No. 5 seed in the Mid-American Conference Tournament, Ball State was eliminated on the second day of competition after losses to No. 4 Kent State (4-1) and No. 1 Central Michigan (3-0).

Moving forward, however, the Cardinals softball lineup will look nearly identical to last years team with seniors Rachel Houck and Amanda Arnett being the only two graduates.

While Houck’s bat will surely be missed – she finished leading in nearly every hitting statistic – there are plenty of other players ready to take on her role.

Ball State will return a very familiar lineup including most of its starting lineup and pitching staff. Certainly head coach Megan Ciolli Bartlett will be expecting more of the same success from the Cardinals as they enter the fall preparing for the 2018 season.

Last year, entering the MAC Tournament, Ciolli Bartlett said that having young players is a good thing in a tournament setting.

“That’s kind of the beauty of young players, sometimes they don’t even understand how difficult the proposition is,” she said.

But now, most of her lineup has already been in a conference tournament setting, so they know what’s expected.

Finishing fifth in the conference standings, 30-28 (14-10 MAC), isn’t exactly the way she wanted to enter the tournament, but Ball State will be looking to continue it’s success, particularly at home, where the Cardinals were 10-2 last year, heading into 2018.

Ball State probably won’t release its 2018 schedule until the season gets closer, but the Cardinals usually play a couple of fall games while the weather is still compliant.

The first month of games in the spring includes a lot of traveling.

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he story line has been the same for the Cardinals the past two seasons. Each year they finish the regular season No. 1 in the Mid-American Conference, and each year they’ve been eliminated on penalty kicks in the first round of the conference tournament.

Last season, Ball State racked up several awards, hoping, but eventually missing an NCAA Tournament Bid. Lorina White won the MAC Defensive Player of the Year award, Alyssa Heintschel, Leah Mattingly and White made First Team All-MAC and Chay McNitt made Second Team All-MAC. While the only one returning from the list above is Heinstchel, the Cardinals are returning quite a bit of young talent as well.

Midfielder Julia Elvbo, forward Sam Kambol and defender Yela Ziswiler were all named to the MAC All-Freshman Team and will be in a Cardinals uniform once again this fall.

While it’s early to tell just how well the Cardinals will do this fall, one things for sure, they’re a team to be reckoned with.

Ball State finished last season ranked 51st in the RPI rankings and are led once again by head coach Craig Roberts who enters his 8th season as head coach in 2017.

Ball State’s first official game is against in-state rival Fort Wayne on Aug. 18. The Cardinals schedule remains tough for most of the year as they face off against teams like Notre Dame, TCU and Baylor all in the first month of the season.

It will be interesting to see how Ball State will perform with a lot of its matches being played on the road until a stint in September and October where they play five out of six home matches in row.

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TOP: Senior Jessica Extine checks the scoreboard after swimming the 50m freestyle during the senior meet against Notre Dame on Feb. 4 in Lewellen Pool. Extine was one of 12 Ball State student-athletes to make the Mid-American Conference’s list of Distinguished Scholar Athletes. RIGHT: Kayla Adamson tied for 66th competing as an individual on the opening day of the Cardinal Classic at the Player’s Club on Sept. 19. GRACE RAMEY, DN FILE

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Ball State finished second at the Mid-American Conference Championships last season shooting 1174 (+22), losing only to Kent State who finished as the 12th-ranked team in the nation.

Johnny Watts, who was the 2015 individual MAC champion finished in third at the championships, shooting 72 holes at 4 under par and earning a spot on the MAC All-Tournament team.

Ball State will return all of its golfers from last years championship including Timothy Wiseman, Michael VanDeventer, Michael Makris and Colin Proctor.

Last season, Ball State had six top-five finishes and start this year at the Wolf Run Invitational on Sept. 8 in Zionsville, Indiana.

Noteable tournaments this year for the Cardinals include the Ka’anapali Collegiate Classic in Hawaii, the Early Yestingsmeier Match Play in Florida and the MAC Championships taking place at the Sycamore Hills Golf Club in Fort Wayne.

After two first place finishes over the course of 10 days, the Ball State women’s golf team finished tied for seventh at the Mid-American Conference Championship.

It will be interesting to see what the Cardinals can do this season losing two-time Ball State Golfer of the year Allison Lindley and last year’s team MVP Kelsey Sear. This year’s roster includes senior Morgan Nadaline, junior Sydney Anderson, sophomore Manon Tounalom and freshman Holly Anderson, Liz Kim, Emily Knouff and Reece Malapit.

The Cardinals will once again be led by two-time MAC Coach of the Year (2010, 2013) Katherine Mowat, who enters her 14th season as head coach this season. While the entire Cardinals schedule is not yet released, they open up their season during the Redbird Invitational on Sept. 10 and return to Yorktown for the Cardinal Classic on Sept. 18.

Ball State finished sixth during the Mid-American Conference swimming and diving championships in March, beating only the University of Evansville by 1 point.

While the overall result may not have been what the Cardinals wanted, several swimmers finished with seasons best times during the final day of the competition. On top of that, 12 Ball State swimmers finished as Academic All-MAC selections.

The Cardinals said goodbye to several seniors during the offseason, the most prolific of which was Tanner Barton, who continued to make news headlines in the summer. Barton was selected to attend the 2017 NCAA Career in Sports Forum and earned himself an NCAA postgraduate scholarship for excelling both academically and athletically.

Ball State doesn’t officially begin its season until Tiffin

comes to Muncie on Nov. 11, but the Cardinals will host a pair of red/white scrimmages on Oct. 14 and 27.

Women’s Swimming While Ball State finished last at the Mid-American Conference Championships last season, the Cardinals did walk away with a a pair of freshman div-

ers who competed in the NCAA Zone C Diving Championships.

The two competed against divers from Power Five schools and other MAC schools. Bertram finished 34th in the 1m dive and 32nd in the 3m event, while Smallwood finished 36th in the 1m and 24th in the 3m. The two will be a vital part of the Cardinals lineup this season who begins

competition on Oct. 21 at the Indiana Intercollegiate after its annual red/white scrimmage on Oct. 7.

Conference play begins on Oct. 28 for the Cardinals against Ohio and competition will continue until lateFebruary at the Mid-American Conference Championships in Cleveland, Ohio.

— Staff Reports

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FIELD HOCKEY, TRACK & FIELD, CROSS COUNTRY & TENNIS Field Hockey After making the Mid-American Conference Tournament as the No.4 seed, Ball State was elimated after a 2-1 loss to No. 1 Kent State, who went on to win the tournament.

Ball State finished its season 8-11 (3-3 MAC) under first year head coach Christy Longacre.

That was the first time Ball State finished with eight wins in a single season since 2006, when the Cardinals went 8-12 (6-4 MAC). Coming into this season, the Cardinals lose seniors Bryce Barnes, Lexi Kavanaugh, Morgan Nash, Mikayla Mooney and Jordan Dues.

The Cardinals open up the season in Bloomington, Indiana against Indiana University on Aug. 19 before returning home for matches against Saint Louis University and Ohio.

Track & Field / Cross Country Ball State’s track and cross country teams are one in the same, with the same athletes competing on both squads.

This fall, cross country starts its two-month long season at Butler University on Sept. 1.

LEFT: Sophomore Peyton Gollhofer reacts after winning a point during her singles match against Wright State on Feb. 5, 2017. EMMA ROGERS, DN

2017 FIELD HOCKEY HOME SCHEDULE 4Fri., Aug. 25 vs. St. Louis Univ.

4Sun., Aug. 27 vs. Ohio 4Fri., Oct. 6, vs. Kent St.* 4Sun., Oct. 8, vs. Northwest.

4Sat., Oct. 21, vs. Appal. St. 4Fri., Oct. 27, vs. Cen. Mich.*

BELOW: Ball State players prepare for a corner by La Salle on Oct. 16, 2016 at Briner Sports Complex.

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* MAC

The Cardinals will not have a home match all season, but will be running in West Lafayette, Indiana at the Indiana Intercollegiate meet on Sept. 15.

While indoor meets for track & field do not start until the winter, there is plenty to look forward to with this young team. Juniors Regan Lewis and Peyton Stewart each made appearances at the NCAA East Preliminary Track & Field Championships in May after their domination at the MAC Championships.

The two did not qualify for the National Championships, but they did make a name for Ball State in the process. With both of them returning for the next two seasons, the Cardi-

nals have a chance to do something special paired with MAC Championships finals qualifiers Brooke Talhelm and Bryeana Birdsong, both of whom are entering their sophomore years.

return a strong lineup nonetheless. Audrey Berger, Isabelle Dohanics, Peyton Gollhofer, Rebecca Herrington and Julia Sbircea.

Men’s tennis The Cardinals season came to an end in the semifinals of the Mid-American Conference

Tournament after the No. 3 Cardinals dropped a 4-2 match against No. 2 Western Michigan.

On the season, Ball State went 13-13 (2-3 MAC) with a dominant 10-2 performance at home. The Cardinals earned some postseason accolades as well, with senior Lucas Anderson once again being MAC Player of the year and an AllMAC First Team selection.

Fellow senior Andrew Stutz earned the Jack Vredevelt Sportsmanship Award while sophomore Marko Guzina earned MAC All-Tournament Team honors. While the Cardinals will lose Anderson this season, juniors Conner Andersen, Marko Guzina and Nemanja Guzina along with senior Collin Rigney will lead Ball State in the 2017-18 season.

— Staff Reports

Women’s tennis The expectations for Ball State is going to be higher then ever going into this season. For the second straight season in 2017, the Cardinals won the Mid-American Conference regular seasons title after coming back to defeat Akron 4-3.

Ball State was eliminated in the MAC Tournament semifinals, however, with a loss to No. 4 Miami. Before that loss, the Cardinals were 8-0 in the conference and boasted a perfect 20-2 overall mark.

The Cardinals lost seniors but

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Ball State projects record enrollment numbers More than 22,100 students are projected for this year Allie Kirkman Managing Editor With classes starting, Ball State is preparing for the possibility of breaking multiple records for fall enrollment.

At the last Board of Trustees meeting, Kay Bales, vice president for student affairs and enrollment services, projected this year’s total enrollment to reach 22,170 students, compared to 21,998 last year, the thirdlargest student body in 20 years.

“If we can surpass 22,147, then we will have established a record enrollment for the institution,” Bales said. “We are working diligently to close and place that deal.”

Bales said the university is estimating 16,945 students will be taking one or more courses on the main campus, while 5,224 will be enrolled off campus, primarily online this fall. These numbers include part time, full time, undergraduate and graduate students.

The number of confirmed freshman is 4,368, as of July 14, which is close to the largest freshman class in 19 years, breaking another institutional record. Last year the university welcomed 4,314 freshmen, the

third-largest class of freshmen in history.

“I think that even if we don’t break last year’s record number, we will certainly be very close,” Bales said.

Within the past three years, the university has seen a steady increase in total numbers of applications. As of July 14, Ball State received 24,054 applications for enrollment, compared to 24,143 in 2016. In 2015, 21,945 applications were received compared to 17,903 the year before.

The total increase in numbers can be attributed to the variety of departments and programs offered at Ball State, Bales said, one of which being Teachers College’s undergraduate major in applied behavior analysis with an emphasis in autism, which was approved by the board in February.

With the projected increase in overall enrollment, at the last meeting trustee Matt Momper questioned if there were enough beds on campus for all the students.

“It looks like maybe 25 women will be in overflow space in Studebaker East,” Bales said. “The reason for the overflow, truthfully, for women is that we just did not have enough women space … We are out of balance in terms of gender here.”

Sections of the LaFollette Complex will be open to freshmen, even after this summer’s demolition of the Mysch/Hurst and Woody/ Shales halls.

Bales said the new Johnson B Complex will also be open to incoming students as the two-year long project wrapped up this summer. The residence hall houses over 500 beds (most are doubles) and is home to the Design and Theatre/Dance LivingLearning Community.

Soon campus will see even more housing options open to incoming students as the board recently approved the first phase of the North Residential Neighborhood, outlined in the Campus Master Plan. This includes one new five-story residence hall, expected to be done by 2020. This will accommodate about 500 students, primarily freshmen, and serve as the home of the STEM Living-Learning Community.

Though the university will not have final enrollment figures until early September, Bales said current success numbers can be attributed to collaboration between multiple departments, programs offered to students as well as the leadership across campus.

ABOUT THE INCOMING FRESHMAN CLASS

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incoming freshmen are out-of-state residents.

The largest number come from Illinois, Ohio and Michigan.

1,610 23 is their average SAT score.

is the average ACT score of the incoming class.

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is the average high school GPA of the class of 2021.

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of incoming freshmen earned an academic honors diploma from high school.

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Recent Ball State Alumna CEO of her own company Kyleigh Mazer wants to take idea she thought of in school, and present on ABC’s television show ‘Shark Tank’ Michelle Kaufman Daily News Reporter When Kyleigh Mazer graduated in May, not only did she have a full-time job lined up –she was the CEO of her own company, Bend N’ Bright.

In high school, Mazer aspired to be in theatre, but when she came to Ball State, her dreams shifted. She decided that she wanted to be a CEO and run a company, a dream that she thought would be achieved when she was 30 years old, not right out of college.

But a junior year class helped lead her down a “bright” path.

A professor challenged her class to go home over Thanksgiving break and think of something that they did every day that could be simplified. Mazer thought of brushing teeth, and different ideas began to bounce around her head. She continued brainstorming in class and did research on the oral care industry then she re-visited the idea her senior year.

“For pretty much the entire year, I really just kind of thought this is the idea that’s going to get me through the program,” Mazer said. “It’s just going to be a business plan idea, it’s just going to be something on Kyleigh paper.”

During her final presentation Mazer on April 12, however, two CEO, Bend men approached her curious N’ Bright about her future plans with the company. She didn’t have one, but continued talking to them, realizing that her idea could become a business.

“It was a shocking moment to really sit back and be like okay, I have this plan for my life, and now I’m going to add something just as big to it,” Mazer said. “I had just accepted a full time job with another startup in Indy, so that was my plan. … Now I’m adding a startup for

myself in there, too.”

Bend ‘N’ Bright focuses on creating toothbrush’s designed for ages 2-11. The toothbrush itself folds in half to prevent germs and dispenses the right amount of toothpaste by pushing a button.

Each toothbrush comes with three cartridges, and each cartridge lasts for one month.

Mazer recently appeared on Inside Indiana Business and went to a pitch competition to continue to get feedback on her idea. She is still researching and figuring out the cost for her product, as well as testing it and finding test markets for her prototypes.

Her future goals are to get her idea patented and appear on ABC’s “Shark Tank,” a television show that gives entrepreneurs the chance to bring their business ideas to fruition.

While her current product targets kids, she would like to develop a similar toothbrush for adults and have a buy one, give one model for her business. Meaning that for every toothbrush bought another one would go to homeless or

adoption centers, natural disaster relief and placed in military care packages.

“Having the opportunity in a business or as an entrepreneur, I think it’s so important to give back any way you can,” Mazer said. “I guess that’s the biggest piece I would ever push with Bend ‘N’ Bright.”

Krystal Geyer, assistant director of the entrepreneurship center, came to Ball State in December and was welcomed by Mazer.

Throughout the spring, they continued to interact.

Geyer also serves as the academic advisor for entrepreneurship majors.

Geyer said getting offers from investors is the hope for students, but it is not common.

“To see someone work so hard at something for so long, and then see them get that kind of success, it’s awesome,” Geyer said. “Everything about her. Her energy, how willing to help she is with everything, how hard she works … she’s the kind of person who people want to be around.”

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Muncie group remodels rooms to help community members with disabilities

Brooke Kemp Features Editor

Peggy Fisher was watching the news when she was inspired to do something new for a part of the community.

The assistant professor in communication studies at Ball State University is involved in outreach programs with her church and the Muncie community. She recently stepped off the board of directors for an organization called Feed My Sheep.

“I knew I was going to step off of that because I had done what I could and it was time for new people to step in,” Fisher said. “I was just, you know, wondering and praying about where do I go? What do I do next?”

After she heard about an organization called Cecelia’s Closet, she got thinking about starting her own organization in Muncie.

Considering her own interests along with the needs of the community, Fisher came up with the idea to start Dream Nest. Her husband Mathew was just as excited after Peggy Fisher discussed the idea with him. Next, the two decided to see if any of their friends would be willing to help.

Dina Byrnes, event manager at Emens Auditorium, had just finished a project with her church and was also looking for a new way to help the community, so Peggy Fisher’s email came at the right time, convincing her to join the organization.

They decided that community members with disabilities and their families needed their help.

Fisher’s and Byrnes’ love for DIY projects led them to doing room make overs.

They wanted the children to have a space to accommodate any special sensory needs they had.

“These kids don’t ask for it, these families don’t ask for it, it just is and so you know they get caught up, the families, and from what we learned, painting ‘Susie’s’ bedroom is the last thing on their mind,” Fisher said.

As the group continued planning, Fisher presented Dream Nest to her nonverbal communications class.

At the end of that class, recent Ball State graduate Olivia Mishler, who was in need of an internship, approached Fisher and asked if she could help with the creation of Dream Nest.

It was in a meeting with LeAnne Cole, vice president of therapy services at Hillcroft, where they talked about sustainability to ensure the group was on their way to making a real difference.

Byrnes said so many people helped Dream Nest that listing names wouldn’t give everyone the recognition they deserve.

THE FIRST ROOM Joey Stover is a 12-year-old with a passion for performing and has been a recipient of Hillcroft services for several years. After one of his visits to Hillcroft, his mother Janet Easterly, was asked if she would be willing to be the first served by Hillcroft’s new program, Dream Nest.

“I said sure, not knowing what to expect, so it was kind of a big leap of faith, but it helped get me moving,” Easterly said.

Easterly was nervous to let people come in and make changes, with her husband working full time, various family illnesses and having to keep up with her two boys she hasn’t had time to do the home improvement projects she knows are needed.

When she met with the Dream Nest team, she was put at ease by their kindness and excitement to help.

“We thought we would be overwhelming to him, but not to Joey,” Byrnes said. “He loved the crowd, he was performing for us.”

Easterly took all but a dresser out of his room, and the team began work. Dream Nest’s goal is to finish each project in one weekend. Once they had their supplies they began working immediately.

“It really didn’t hit us until we showed up on Friday,” Mishler said. “Once the pieces started falling into place and we were there working on stuff it was like ‘Wow, this is it, we’re doing this.’”

Working on Joey’s room gave Easterly more pride in her own home and inspired her to continue work throughout the house after Dream Nest had finished Joey’s room.

It was hard to keep Joey out of his room due to his excitement, but he kept the crew entertained by serenading and making them smile while working.

Throughout the time at the house, they met Joey’s brother, Sam, who was excited for Joey.

“We were kind of feeling him out and asking him what it was like to have this done for Joey and he said ‘this is great because Joey never asks for anything,’” Fisher said. “Gosh it made you tear up.”

The Dream Nest team created a stage in Joey’s room for him to perform on, complete with a microphone stand and a guitar, which Sam is teaching him how to play. They gave Joey his own television so that he could watch his favorite show “Steven Universe” and a white board to keep him

Joey Stover, recipient of the first room remodeled by Dream Nest, smiles with his family after seeing his remodeled bedroom. PEGGY FISHER, PHOTO PROVIDED

from writing on the walls.

When Joey was allowed to see his finished room, he was thrilled at all of the changes. Easterly was impressed by the little details put into it.

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After the student-created landmark was chopped down, students flooded social media to voice their disapproval. A parody Twitter account was started while others attempted to start a new gum tree, or gum pole, near the newly paved location. SAMANTHA BRAMMER. DN

Students say goodbye to ‘gum tree’

Ball State students take to social media, expressing opinions on removing student-created landmark Brooke Kemp Features Editor

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student-created landmark was chopped down in early May at Ball State. All that was left of the famous “Gum Tree” is its stump, gum intact.

That was then, now, the road between Pruis Hall and the parking garage is paved over, with no remnants of the “Gum Tree” remaining.

When students found out, posts of disapproval started surfacing all over social media, especially

Twitter. As word spread, more and more students demanded answers.

“Ball State chopped down the gum tree!?!?!?!,” Stephanie Kailey said on Twitter.

“I honestly believe that it was an iconic part of Ball State, like Frog Baby, or Benny,” Jimmy Ray, junior sports administration major said. “I’m kind of upset and confused.”

Ray is familiar with the tree and would often add to it whenever he passed by, however even students who haven’t personally put a piece of gum on the tree feel it was a special part of campus.

“I was sad when I found out it’d been cut down,” Katelyn Mooney, junior fashion merchandising major said. “It was kind of gross but it was a landmark and was on my Ball State bucket list to put gum on it.”

The tree, located near the parking garage behind Bracken Library and Pruis Hall, was so popular that there is a Twitter account dedicated to it.

“Just like Groot, I’ll grow back,” the @BSUGumTree account said on Twitter.

IndyStar reported that former university spokesperson Joan Todd said the tree was removed

to make way for a new “walking mall,” which according to the campus master plan, will be used as a new pedestrian and bicycle path between the east side of campus and the Jo Ann Gora Student Recreation and Wellness Center.

Several students have expressed wanting to start a new gum tree somewhere on campus, but Mooney admits that the new tree still “won’t be the same.” “@BallState take a bulldozer to frog baby while you’re at it!!!” Julianna Shamel said on Twitter.

“This is just sad, you have killed a tradition!!!!!”

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Muncie landmark Burkie’s Drive In reopens New owner moves from Michigan to Indiana to reopen staple in Muncie Community Michelle Kaufman Daily News Reporter After being closed for nearly eight months, a Muncie landmark, Burkie’s Drive In, reopened early in June.

The store originally closed in September 2016, a few weeks earlier than normal, due to the building looking for a new owner.

Burkie’s new owner, Teege Krown, moved to Muncie from Michigan specifically to re-open the drive-in along with his business partner Jonah Sizemore. He found the restaurant randomly on the Internet and had never previously been to Muncie, but after visiting the drive-in twice and learning about the history of Burkie’s, he decided to buy and fix up the Muncie landmark.

“We did a complete remodel inside and out brand new equipment, paint, cleaning,” Krown said. “I pretty much kept the same menu with just a few tweaks.”

Krown has been “completely amazed” by the amount of customers that have visited Burkie’s since it re-opened in May. In just the short amount of time he has worked there, Krown has learned the scope of Burkie’s impact and history in the community.

“It was quite amazing once we got into it, once we got hearing the stories and realizing exactly what we had bought … how it was known for its tenderloins and its fresh food,” Krown said. “I feel like we saved [Burkie’s].”

All of Burkie’s burgers are fresh, and all of the tenderloins are breaded in-house. Krown learned about the history of Burkie’s and how to do the tenderloins from Todd Morton, whose great grandfather, Charles Burke, built and opened the original Burkie’s in 1954. Several of his other family members have ran or worked in the restaurant, and Morton still has the original menu.

“Everything was cooked fresh, there was nothing really cooked frozen and that’s been their tradition since the beginning … I lived [in Muncie] until I was 12, so I was basically in and out of that place all through my childhood,” Morton said. “My favorite thing there was the cherry Coke.”

Morton is happy with the new management,

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but especially with the way the fixed up the main Burkie’s sign. The last owner removed the light bulbs from the arrow pointing to the drive in and painted over it when he couldn’t get it to work, but Krown and Sizemore have restored it. “[The last owner] didn’t really care about the tradition, but now the sign’s working, all the neon is correctly done and it’s awesome to see it shine again,” Morton said. “My whole family is just ecstatic [that it’s open again].”

Morton said originally, the name of the drive-in was going to be changed, but the community spoke up and said they wanted the Burkie’s that they know.

Morton wasn’t happy with the last owner, but said Krown is doing things the right way.

“When I was there [last] Saturday, everybody was happy,” Morton said. “They were busy, I think Friday they sold like 1,200 breaded tenderloins. I would have never thought they’d do half of that, and that’s amazing.

“They’re destined for a lot of business.”

Another piece of Burkie’s history still lives in Florida, through the marriage of Jeff and Lee Maxwell, who just celebrated their 31st anniversary.

Lee Maxwell lived right next door to Burkie’s during her time at Ball State. Her parents wanted After being closed for nearly eight months with an uncertain future, Burkie’s drive-in reopened this summer under new to come and get her every weekend, and she later ownership. The Muncie landmark originally opened in 1954 and remains similar to this day. PAIGE GRIDER, DN realized the real reason for their frequent visits was because they wanted to get a Burkie’s tenderloin and vanilla Coke every Sunday.

Jeff and Lee both attended Ball State and went to Burkie’s for lunch two or three times per week.

One day, Jeff asked Lee something special in the parking lot after being friends for about a year.

“When we first started dating, she said ‘I think I’d just like to be friends.’ … We were standing in the parking lot; I would always park my car at Burkie’s to go over to her apartment … I basically just said ‘would you like to get married sometime?’”Jeff said. “She kind of laughed and she says ‘Well, you know I thought we’d just be friends for awhile,’ and I said ‘I know, but we’ve been friends long enough, would you like to get married when we graduate?’”

“I said yes, but I laughed. I didn’t think he was serious,” Lee said. “When he left that evening, he had this car horn that actually played tunes, played songs and when he left, he played the wedding song. It was like oh my gosh, he was serious. 31 years later, I’m really, really happy that I said yes.”

Jeff’s parents also used to go to Burkie’s when they were dating in high school during the late 50s, and then Jeff and Lee went in the 80s. When they return to Muncie, they still get a tenderloin and a vanilla Coke, with extra vanilla.

When the Maxwells heard Burkie’s was closed, it felt like a part of their life was gone.

“We thought well, this can’t happen, it’s goning to have to reopen at some point … we were happy to see that it’s open,” Jeff said.

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LaFollette Complex demolition

PORTIONS OF THE 50-YEAR-OLD COMPLEX BEGAN COMING DOWN ON JUNE 7

Brick project raises $15,000 Sales go towards scholarship fund Allie Kirkman Managing Editor Mysch/Hurst and Woody/ Shales halls have come tumbling down this summer as part of the $3.4 million demolition project of the LaFollette Complex.

Even though demolition of some sections of the residence hall are coming to an end as classes begin, the LaFollette Brick Project is still going strong.

The project was started in early June to celebrate the legacy of LaFollette, giving Ball State students, faculty, staff and alumni the chance to keep a brick from the largest residence hall complex on campus. Bricks are sold for $75.

So far, the Office of Housing and Residence Life have sold roughly 175 bricks and raised $15,000 for the Thelma Miller Scholarship fund. Some people have donated more to the fund than the $75, said Ball State spokesperson Marc Ransford.

For now, the university will continue to sell the bricks to raise money for the scholarship fund.

“We do not have a set end date,” Ransford said. “Depending on the interest, we will adjust accordingly.”

If interested, bricks can be purchased online and will be shipped and received via USPS within 3-4 weeks.

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More than just a job

Custodian reflects on 18 years spent working in Woody/Shales building of LaFollette

Brooke Kemp Features Editor After 50 years, the Woody/ Shales building of the LaFollette Complex is being retired, but 59 year old custodian Jerry Coates, who has worked in the complex since 1999, is still four or five years away from retiring himself.

Coates began as an aspiring chef, but soon moved into custodial services. For him, losing Woody/Shales is more than just another change.

“I love progress, because even for what this building is there’s no air conditioning, there is no amenities and you have to have that for these kids.” Coates said.

“So I accept the changes but it’s just the idea that with that tower it’s a piece of history.”

Because Woody/Shales is being torn down, a “bump” is happening in the custodial staff.

Typically, when a job opens up it is bid on by custodians wishing to relocate. When a custodian fills the job, it is called a “jump.”

During a bump, however, jobs that would normally be bid on are held open for the custodians of the shutdown building.

“What we’re doing is actually asking people to do a little bit more to leave these open so when the bump occurs everyone has a job when it’s over with, no one gets laid off,” George Edwards, associate director of facilities, said.

When Coates was asked where he would like to be bumped, he chose Knotts/Edwards, another section of the LaFollette complex.

“Most of the people that were bumped in this building stayed in this building,” Edwards said.

“You know I always say, ‘Would you rather go to an air conditioning building versus a non-air conditioning building,’ but that really doesn’t make any difference to them.”

Coates is more than content staying in LaFollette, in fact he doesn’t think he will ever leave the building. He enjoys the rou-

No matter what happens here there is always somebody with a hug or a smile or a positive word or something to help you get through.”

- JERRY COATES, LaFollette Custodian

tine that comes with working in the complex.

Coates found that being a custodian in LaFollette was more than a job, guided and mentored by employee Greg Hobson.

“He taught me a lot as a human being,” Coates said. “Forget the job, he taught me humility and he taught me how to be patient.”

Hobson wasn’t given a special job title, but he was still regarded as a leader.

“He never pressed anybody,” Coates said. “He would come to you, ‘I’m not your boss now, I’m not trying to be your boss but listen if you do this this way, it might be a little easier on you,’ and of course it always was.”

He taught the staff to be there to listen to students, make them as comfortable and be personable.

Coates would always leave on Friday evenings saying “see you Monday” with Hobson, so what happened over one weekend didn’t seem real until he returned to work the next week. On a snowy Sunday, Hobson overexerted himself shoveling the driveways of his elderly neighbors and was killed unexpectedly by a brain aneurysm.

The Monday after Hobson had passed, Coates went to his locker and began to cry. Almost immediately, however, he was approached by two coworkers who extended their arms for comfort.

Coates has always compared the custodial staff to a family, so when they lost a member he was touched to see them take care of him just like family would.

“The way we picked up together as a family let you know that no matter what happens here there is always somebody with a hug or a smile or a positive word or something to help you get through.” Coates said.

As work continued after Hobson’s death, Tammy Rhoades, supervisor of custodial services, noticed that people began regarding Coates similarly to the way Hobson was regarded. Now other custodians tend to turn to Coates

and ask them for his opinion on how to do certain jobs.

“I think they do for what I got from Greg, especially in the summertime,” Coates said.

“They come to me and they say, ‘Jerry what do you think?’ ‘Well let me tell you how Greg did it,’ and that’s what they get and that’s what they’re going to get ‘till the day I leave, ‘This is how Greg did it.’”

Coates regards his friends as his “absolute favorite part” of his job, but he also enjoys watching the students around him grow and change, both personally and as a group.

It takes time for students to feel comfortable being on your own and Coates realizes that how he treats the students has an impact.

Because of his relationships with students, Coates is able to look back with fond memories of students from each year that he has worked in LaFollette.

He says the students have impacted him and hopes that his impact will stay with them as well.

“We like to think that from that point in time on that 6th floor, from those goofy kids coming in and singing and dancing, that there are going to be kids that are going to be famous and they are going to remember us,” Coates said.

Though the building has changed due to renovations and social changes, Coates has always wanted to continue working in LaFollette.

But, through the changes Coates has seen in the past 18 years, he has not once wanted to leave.

Even though Woody/Shales will be gone come next school year, Coates feels that it is more than just a pleasant memory.

“They can tear the building down but the ghosts are still there,” Coates said.

LaFollette is still under deconstruction, but Coates will continue to work within the buildings walls for as long as he can.

Woody/Shales will remain special to Coates as well as others who lived and worked there.

Custodian Jerry Coates with his wife Gail Coates. Coates has worked in the LaFollette complex since 1999.

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Board of Trustees approves phase one of North Residential Neighborhood, new departments

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pletely remove LaFollette,” Lowe said.

Bernie Hannon, treasurer and vice president for business affairs said this project is “part of an ongoThe Ball State Board of Trustees approved phase one ing strategy to offer high quality housing and dinof the new North Residential Neighborhood, which is ing options to students.”

According to the Campus Master Plan, the North set to replace the space of the LaFollette Complex.

Residential Neighborhood will also The first phase of the North Resifeature new academic buildings and dential Neighborhood, outlined in the open spaces including large open Campus Master Plan, includes three lawns and courtyard quadrangles different projects. Under this phase among McKinley Avenue. one new five-story residence hall, a By 2021, we University officials will seek state apstand-alone dining facility and road have the ability proval to proceed with the project. reconstruction will be built, totaling The board also approved the creto $90 million. to go in and ation of the Department of ConstrucUnder phase one, the new resicompletely tion Management and Interior Design dence hall will accommodate about remove as well as the Department of Family, 500 students, primarily freshmen, Consumer and Technology Education. and serve as the home of the STEM LaFollette.”

Both departments will work as part of Living-Learning Community.

JIM LOWE, phasing out the College of Applied “These changes will complement Planning and Sciences and Technology (CAST), the new health professions and sciManagement which was dissolved by the University ence buildings on the campus’ eastern Senate in April. edge,” President Geoffrey S. Mearns said in a press release. “Our STEM students will have first-rate spaces to live and learn.”

Other points from the meeting: McKinley Avenue will be realigned to better • Junior English literature major Marlee Jacocks define the north entrance to campus, which will was appointed as the new student trustee. Jaenhance pedestrian and vehicular safety by elimicocks will be serving a two-year term. nating some of the sight and speed issues at the • Vice President Kay Bales projects this year’s current curve, according to a press release. The retotal enrollment to reach 22,170 students, comconstruction will feature a roundabout, medians, a pared to 21,998 last year. The freshman class is bus pullout and a bus stop. projected at 4,368, which is close to the largest Jim Lowe, associate vice president for facilifreshman class in 19 years, breaking an instituties planning and management, said the university tional record. will break ground on the realignment of McKinley • Interim Provost Marilyn Buck said 10 faculty Avenue next summer, with construction lasting 90 members will be retiring this year with a total days. At the same time, the university will start of over 200 years of service to Ball State. construction on the new residence hall and dining • The board approved the 2017-18 budgets for facility. These two facilities will be ready by 2020. various areas of the university, including the Phase two includes a second residence hall to be general fund, auxiliary funds and the Indiana built in the area, projected to be built by 2021.

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The newly renovated Schmidt/Wilson halls, which are part of the Johnson B Complex, are open to students for the 2017-18 academic year. The residence hall is home to the Theatre and Dance and Design Living Learning Communities.

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Johnson B Complex finishes final renovations in time for fall residents

New building has unique features for Theatre, Design and Dance Living Learning Communities Robby General Summer Editor Construction is done and the furniture is moved in as the first residents of the Schmidt Wilson halls in the Johnson West Complex finish moving in.

The complex is the new home for the Theatre, Design and Dance Living Learning Communities and features a main stage in the lobby, a dance studio, sound-proof studios, design studios, a blackbox theatre and more.

“With the theatre and dance students being in here, they need to have dedicated facilities because they actually need the space to do some of those things,” Assistance Director of Communications and Technology for Housing and Residence Life, Chris Wilkey said. “If students need those facilities, they can be right where they’re going to be living in.”

While the renovation of the building took over two years, Wilkey hopes people notice the amount

of small details put into the complex.

From the revolving doors made to save energy in the front to the hardwood floors in the dorms to make it feel more like home.

“The stuff that went into this one began about five years ago when they originally started planning the renovations,” Wilkey said. “It may seem like it got torn down and went up really quick, but the planning and thought process behind it took years.”

Wilkey gives a lot of the credit to Alan Hargrave, the director for Housing and Residence Life, who is already looking at the future projects on the north end of campus.

These projects include the complete demolition of LaFollette Complex and the addition of two more residence halls along with a new dining facility and office spaces where LaFollette and both Johnson Complex’s currently stand.

With the completion of Johnson B and the continued demolition of the Mysch/Hurst

Emens Auditorium front gets update to go along with building’s expansion project After beginning the $5 million expansion of John R. Emens Auditorium last summer, the project is nearing its end as a $1.6 million makeover of the front lawn has begun.

The Star Press reported that new lawn is going to be repaired after the destruction of the expansion project. The lawn will include a new drop-off/pick up area for elderly and disabled patrons that will connect to pedestrian and bicycle paths leading up to the upcoming East Mall.

“Ball State wanted a more attractive and inviting

appearance from Riverside,” Former University Spokesperson Joan Todd told The Star Press.

Emens’ main lobby and front entrance closed June 7, 2016 for the expansion project. The project adds about 12,000 square feet to the front of the building, allowing for a larger lobby, a hospitality space, a conference room, office space, more restrooms and the relocation of the box office to an interior area.

Emens reopens this fall after lawn work is finished.

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Emens South Lawn underwent a $1.6 million renovation which is set to be completed by the fall. MICHELLE KAUFMAN, DN

and Woody/Shales halls of the LaFollette, the university one step closer to its goals outlined in the “Enhance North Residential” portion of the Campus Master Plan.

The goal of the various renovations is to “facilitate a close-knit community,” according to the Campus Master Plan, or as Wilkey puts it, the creation of “a northern Village at Ball State.”

“With this building [Johnson B] here, it gives us the bed space to put in new students and allows us to start working on the demolition of LaFollette,” Wilkey said. “Over the next 3-5 years, they’re going to be building a dedicated dining facility.”

That dining facility is meant to be built along with a new residence hall where LaFollette currently stands.

Within that building, there are plans to put offices and other spaces, but it’s not to be mistaken for a student center, according to Wilkey, it’s just made to serve as a “vocal point of the northern side of campus.”

The newly renovated Schmidt/Wilson halls, which are part of the Johnson B Complex, is ready for students for the 201718 academic year. REAGAN ALLEN, DN

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What’s next for the Letterman Collection?

Planning committee figures out future of items donated to university by David Letterman Robby General Summer Editor It’s been almost two years since David Letterman announced that he was donating his collection of memorabilia and awards to Ball State University.

While there were plenty of institutions that wanted the collection, according to Phil Repp, dean of the college of architecture and committee chairman of the collection, there was never any doubt where his material was going to go.

“As I understand the history, there was a number of people vying for this and what I heard under President Ferguson’s leadership, [Letterman] said ‘Nope, it’s going to Ball State,’” Repp said.

Following the announcement of the donated items during Letterman’s appearance with Bennett Miller and Spike Jonze in 2015, a committee, was formed.

The committee, consisting of figure heads from across campus, were selected to discuss and approach the collection, figuring out how to preserve and show off the materials to the public.

There were conversations the first year the committee was formed, Repp says that no one knew what to do with it because there was nothing in hand.

So what’s next after all of the information is archived? Repp says a series of three conversations will happen between everyone on the committee, which includes figure heads from all over campus.

According to Repp, these conversations are going to focus on ensuring everything’s archived, the best way to display the information and how certain pieces of the collection can be digitized for the public to view.

Repp said that the committee plans on getting back together later this month or early in September to figure out exactly how they’re going to display the collection. It’s easier said than done when it comes to certain items in the collection –like the “Late Show” marquee, which measures almost 20 feet across.

Some of these conversations have begun, but nothing has been determined by the committee up to this point.

Other members of the committee include Michael Szajewski, head of Ball State’s archives and special collections and deans from several colleges around campus, museum faculty, people from facilities and others.

As the project keeps progressing forward, Repp remembers August 2016, when the first shipment containing awards, parts of the late show set, photographs and more arrived at the university’s library. Since then, more than 1,000 pieces were shipped over the course of the year, with the most recent pieces coming last spring.

“We weren’t supposed to talk about it because we didn’t know what was coming in, but it was kind of exciting time because everything was wrapped up in boxes and things,” Repp said.

Michael Szajewski, head of Ball State’s archives and special collections, sifts through a number of David Letterman’s Emmy Awards. The late-night talk show host donated more than 1,000 items to Ball State University. ROBBY GENERAL, DN

There was a number of people vying for this and what I heard under President Ferguson’s leadership, [Letterman] said ‘Nope, it’s going to Ball State,’” - PHIL REPP, Dean of CAP, committee chairman

“Michael did an excellent job in his calm way, going through, listing the materials and fun stuff like that.”

As different pieces of the collection came in, Szajewski worked with his staff in archives and special collections to inventory, organize and arrange the pieces of the collection.

It’s a process that archives are still working, on a year later.

“We’re pretty solidly moving along with that process, we’re researching some historical information on the items so that we can get the proper context,” Szajewski said. “Once we finish with all of that, we will create what we call a finding aid, which is basically an inventory of collection materials, we’ll make that available to the public and then the collection’s available.”

Some of the more important parts of the collection have already been released to the general public and Ball State’s library’s archives and special collections office recently released a Top Ten list of things in the collection.

Archiving all of the information should be done in the coming year, Szajewski said, but he doesn’t have a specific timeline. While Szajewski understands the eagerness among both the students and general public to see what’s in the collection, he says that the committee wants to “make sure that we’re thorough with our planning.”

Thorough planning is something that Repp preached as well.

“The collection is really cultural history,” Repp said. “How he moved from a small Indiana community to Ball State to Los Angeles, and ultimately New York City. I think those are thing that we ultimately want to trumpet.

Trumpet in a sense to our students that this is one of you.

“I think all of that is what’s important to communicate and preserve, so I think that’s where we want to push that conversation.”

TOP 10 THINGS IN COLLECTION 14Emmy Awards: Fifteen Emmy Awards won by Letterman from “The David Letterman Show,” “Late Night” and “The Late Show.”

24 Kennedy Center Medal: Letterman’s Kennedy Center Honor medal from 2012. Other honorees that year included actor Dustin Hoffman and Led Zeppelin’s lead singer Robert Plant 34Obama Photographs: Signed photographs from President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama of their guest appearances on the “Late Show.”

44Letter to Gary Owens: A letter from Letterman to radio announcer Gary Owens (Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In) seeking career advice, 1969.

54Jimmy Carson photographs: Photographs of Letterman with mentor Johnny Carson.

64Audio, video and film recordings: More than 50 audio, video

and film recordings mostly documenting Letterman’s early career, including his work at Ball State’s WBST radio station and as a broadcaster and weather reporter at Indianapolis television station WLWI (now WTHR).

74“Late Show” set: Host desk, guest chairs, stage platform, etc.,from the set of “Late Show” at the Sullivan theater.

84“Late Show” marquee: A blue and gold “Late Show” marquee from the Ed Sullivan Theater measuring almost 20 feet across.

94Early-career photographers: Sixteen early-career photographs of Letterman as a stand-up comic and newscaster in the 1970s.

104Letterman jackets: Twenty-seven commemorative “Late Night with David Letterman” and “Late Show with David Letterman” jackets, a limited number of which were handed out every year as Christmas gifts to staff and close friends.

Source: Ball State University library, archives and special collections office.

Three of the fifteen Primetime Emmy Awards that David Letterman donated to Ball State University. Ball State is still inventorying and appraising the more than 1,000 items that the late-night celebrity donated.

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Ball State studies to know

1. Immigrants are growing Indiana’s population

According to data from the American Community Survey, for the last decade-and-a-half, immigrants have made up more than a quarter of Indiana’s population growth, accounting for about one in every 20 Hoosiers.

Emily Wornell, a research assistant professor, conducted analysis with Ball State’s Indiana Communities Institute. Data found that immigrants are keeping about 20 percent of Indiana counties from losing population.

“The reality is that immigration is increasing in Indiana, and it’s increasing in some areas that have been experiencing population decline for a while,” Wornell said. “Population growth is often tied to economic development through a broader tax base and job creation.”

Wornell found that roughly 85,000 secondgeneration Americans living in Indiana are the largest single economic contributor.

If these trends continue, Wornell said immigration may prove to be the best chance for population growth or stabilization that many of Indiana’s counties will see in the future.

“Understanding how the demographic characteristics of a community/county are changing is an important consideration in planning for the future, particularly if places want to retain the second generation,” she said.

2. Technology could replace America’s low-skilled jobs Automation is potentially more of a threat to the American job market than offshoring, according to a study from Ball State’s Center for Business and Economic Research.

Research found that about half of the jobs in the U.S. are at risk as automation could replace lowwage, low-skilled positions. The most effected will likely be those who make less than $38,000 a year.

These jobs, for example, could include data entry keyers, telemarketers and mathematical technicians.

“Everyone has been worrying about trade loss, but maybe trade loss isn’t really the dynamic that should concern us,” said Michael Hicks, the director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State. “Manufacturing automation has played an outsized role in the past and it certainly will in the future for low-wage job losses.”

Hicks said communities and households with a large number of low-skilled workers could face economic difficulties.

“The worry that we have that generates a

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significant amount of concerns is whether or not we are going to have disruption among places that have these jobs and among households that are very dependent and have less ability to respond,” Hicks said. “Job loss is already hitting a bunch of areas that have low-income and low-skilled works and problems will be a lot worse.”

3. Sex doesn’t actually sell

New research suggests that sex makes ads more memorable, but unlike popular belief, it doesn’t sell.

Researchers from the University of Illinois, Ball State and University of California-Davis examined 78 peer-reviewed advertising studies from 1969 to 2017. They looked at the ways participants reported on their memory, attitudes and intentions to buy products.

They found that participants were more likely to remember ads that made sexual appeals than the ones that didn’t, but they were not more likely to remember the brands featured in the ads.

Participants were more likely to have a negative attitude towards the brands that used sex in their ads.

Men, on average, liked the ads with sexual appeals and women did not.

“We found literally zero effect on participants intention to buy products in ads with a sexual appeal,” John Wirtz, the report’s lead author told the University of Illinois. “This assumption that sex sells — well, no, according to our study, it doesn’t.”

Johnny Sparks, chairperson of the Department of Journalism, was a co-author on the research.

4. Job insecurity negatively impacts health

Job-related stress is causing the American workforce to suffer from physical and mental illness, according to The Association of Job Insecurity with Health Risk Factors and Poorer Health report.

“A large proportion of working adults in the U.S. report experiences of job insecurity,” said Jagdish Khubchandani, an associate professor of health science and the study’s lead author. “This would mean that they are in constant stress regarding continuity of their job or they are constantly worried about losing their job.”

Khubchandani found that stress can become chronic and result in anxiety or depression as well as physical health effects such as ulcers, high blood pressure, diabetes and increasing sickness absences.

This is also harmful for employers, who have to pay for increasing healthcare.

The study found that 33 percent of workers experience job insecurity, which Khubchandani said he found alarming, especially when comparing males and females.

“Females who were job insecure reported high

rates of asthma, diabetes, work-life imbalance, worsening general health in the past year and pain disorders, including migraine and neck pain,” he said. “Men who were job insecure were more likely to miss more than two weeks of work in the past year, and suffer from severe chest pain, ulcers and hypertension.”

Khubchandani recommends that employees should maintain a good work-life balance.

“A healthy and competent worker will always be productive and find employment,” he said.

5. Indiana manufacturing continues to grow

Even though manufacturing jobs may experience a decrease because of automation, a new study by Ball State’s Center for Business and Economic Research and Conexus Indiana shows that overall manufacturing productivity is actually increasing.

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“Manufacturing and Logistics: A Generation of Volatility & Growth” found that manufacturing production in the U.S. has grown by 11 percent since 2000 and by 41 percent in Indiana over the same period.

“I was surprised by the magnitude of the production growth,” Hicks said. “It’s essentially argued that we have a fairly large state of manufactured items. We are making a lot more stuff, at least in the value of stuff, but don’t have nearly as many people working in that area.”

While the industry is doing well, Hicks said the numbers of employment in manufacturing will continue to shrink due to automation.

“Productivity has been increasing,” he said. “We can make more with the same or fewer number of workers.”

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10 Ball State students compete in

MISS AMERICA PAGEANTS

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Through her platform, she furthered her knowledge on cancer and hopes to continue to educate others.

“I’ve always been very involved with the American Cancer Society and Relay for Life because I’ve lost a lot of family to cancer,” Johnson said. “I wanted to do something a little extra to make the disease more relatable and less scary.”

When it came to competing, Johnson kept the mind set that each girl was there for the “job” of Miss America and that if she didn’t win, it was simply because she wasn’t currently the right person for that job.

Johnson did not make Top 11 this year, but she feels it is rewarding to be able to compete in the Miss Indiana pageant and supported her sorority sister Abby Foster as she won Miss Illinois.

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en Ball State Students competed in the second stage of being crowned Miss America.

To compete in the Miss America pageant, women from ages 17 to 24 must start in at the local level - In Indiana, there are 34 local pageants held.

The pageants are either open to any girl who meets the guidelines or are specific for those who live, work or go to school in the counties within the pageant’s region. Winning a local pageant title earns you a spot in state level pageants.

At the beginning of the week, contestants arrive to begin preparations for the competition. Before competing, the women visited pageant sponsors and places like Riley Children’s Hospital and the Boys and Girls Club.

Each contestant also formed a personal platform, an issue or organization to promote, bring awareness to and raise funds for during her title-holding year.

Throughout the week leading up to the pageant, there are a variety of different scholarships and awards that girls can win.

The crown that Miss America wears has four points, standing for scholarship, success, style and service, and scholarships and awards are based on these points.

The competition itself has five phases: private interviews, talent, evening gown, on stage question and swimsuit or lifestyle and fitness. The private interviews last 10 minutes and are worth 25 percent of the contestants score. In the talent section, which makes up 30 percent of the score, contestants are given a maximum of 90 seconds to showcase a talent that they have.

The evening gown portion makes up 15 percent of the contestant’s score and is simply a modeling of a dress that represents each girl individually and makes them feel confident. One of the more controversial aspects of the pageant is the swimsuit or lifestyle and fitness section, which makes up only 10 percent of the score.

“The judges aren’t necessarily looking for the skinniest or most fit girl,” Lauren Butler, Ball State graduate, said. “They look for the girl who exudes the most confidence and looks like she’s having fun.”

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The junior elementary education major has been competing in pageants since she was 15

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Kayla Bruner graduated Ball State with a degree in legal studies. For the 2017 Miss Indiana Pageant, Bruner chose 4-H Youth Today, Leaders Tomorrow as her platform.

She received the title of Miss Central Indiana, allowing her to compete in the Miss Indiana pageant.

Nine Ball State students competed in the Miss Indiana Pageant on June 17. Abby Foster was crowned Miss Illinois.

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years old, but she still faced nerves when it came to the week-long pageant.

Comforted by the volunteers and her fellow contestants, Foster competed in the interview, evening gown, on stage question and talent and lifestyle, or swimwear, sections of the pageant and at the end of the week, was crowned Miss Illinois.

“I was shocked, I couldn’t believe it,” Foster said. “I knew at that moment my life was really about to change.”

With her new title, Foster will be continuing to promote her platform, Youth Mentoring - The Building Blocks for Success, along with other activities and events.

“I get to spend the year serving others and that alone is worth it,” Foster said.

will give me a bigger voice and help me make the difference I want to make.”

Smith has advanced to the Miss Indiana pageant three times. This year she was crowned Miss Duneland and her platform is The Chase - Be a Dream Builder, which is aimed at encouraging children to achieve their dreams and to make healthy choices.

“While I love competing for Miss Indiana, the competition is not my favorite part,” Smith said. “It is the opportunities, the school visits, appearances and the ability to make an impact that is my favorite part.”

Smith was in the Top 11 of the Miss Indiana contestants and was the recipient of the People’s Choice award.

Chelsea Smith

Ball State graduate Demie Johnson has been competing in pageants since she was six years old.

The current Miss Great Lakes’ platform is Cancer Awareness: Educate to Eliminate due to those in her family who have lost their lives to various forms of cancer.

As Chelsea Smith began her pageant career, she was simply looking forward to participating in the organization, but the recent Ball State graduate’s focus changed as she continued to compete.

“After competing for five years, my reason is different,” Smith said. “I know that Miss Indiana

Demie Johnson

Kristen Davenport

“Up syndrome” – something Ball State graduate Kristen Davenport’s family says her sister, Kia, because Down Syndrome can’t keep Kia “down.”

Davenport has dedicated her platform and talent portion to raise awareness for Down Syndrome.

For the talent portion of the pageant, Davenport performed an original monologue that represents her day-to-day life with Kia. While she won Miss Banks of the Wabash this year, Davenport has been competing in pageants since she was six months old.

“People have this perception that pageant girls are rude and catty and we aren’t,” Davenport said.

“When I made top 11 and my best friend didn’t, she was cheering me on from the sidelines and helping me zip my dresses and fix my hair. That’s the picture you don’t see, we help each other, not bring each other down.”

Laura Merida

Laura Merida promoted her platform, #PostThePositive, when she competed for Miss Indiana.

She graduated Ball State with a degree in fashion design and was crowned Miss Capital City this year.

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Frog Baby for Alexa guides students Interactive voice assistant aims to help assist incoming students navigate through campus Allie Kirkman Managing Editor There’s no need for the brochures and bulky maps. Now, incoming freshman, or anyone for that matter, can just ask Frog Baby for Alexa for help with navigating campus life.

Ball State’s Information Technology (IT) services has created Frog Baby for Alexa, an interactive voice assistant designed to help assist thousands of incoming freshman and other new students.

“Incoming students have so much on their plate, and if we can help them navigate the complexities of the university and the services offered, while making it fun and light-hearted, that will help facilitate the transition,” said Kyle Parker, senior software engineer for developing technologies.

Parker and his team of developers, designers and students wanted to come up with something new that was both an innovative and creative technology that students would typically use in their daily lives.

“With the release of Google Home and the Amazon Echo, we saw an interesting opportunity to take a device geared toward home and personal use and make it applicable to a larger audience in public spaces, especially in higher education,” Parker said.

“Frog Baby for Alexa embraces the emerging world of voice assistants to interact with and help them explore the university in a new and exciting way.”

The new device doesn’t just feature voice output. It also

a video monitor, offering oncampus visitors the ability to connect to a TV in order to display any relevant information across the screen. So if someone ask about the best place to eat on campus, Frog Baby for Alexa will show a map, marking locations with contact information and hours.

“We wanted to provide an engaging interaction between

would make life more enjoyable, organized or convenient.

Frog Baby for Alexa won the competition.

“In the past, we have participated in other challenges hosted by DevPost.com and similar sites and have been really successful,” Parker said.

“So far, we’ve done seven challenges and have won something in all but one –

Incoming students have so much on their plate, and if we can help them navigate the complexities of the university and the services offered, while making it fun and lighthearted, that will help facilitate the transition.”

- KYLE PARKER, Senior software engineer for developing technologies

visitors and the ‘digital concierge,’ while creating something that could be used in a number of different situations and environments,” Parker said. “The possibilities are endless really.”

The process of developing and creating Frog Baby for Alexa goes back to the end of last year when Google Home was launched and Alexa started gaining nationwide popularity.

A couple months into the project, Amazon launched a contest called Amazon Alexa Skills Challenge on DevPost.com, a popular website designed for developers to showcase software projects. The challenge required inventors to come up with a new voice-activated Alexa skill that

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money, devices and recognition.

All have been related to studentfocused projects and again, have provided an opportunity to showcase the experiences and offerings available at Ball State.”

Some of IT’s other apps include bConnected and The Traveler.

At this time Frog Baby for Alexa is still considered a prototype because “it is something new and different,” Parker said. The team is continuing to examine how people react to the device, content and the overall experience.

So far, the responses have mainly been positive from the students and parents who have stopped in Woodworth Complex to see the new device.

“Those that have stopped are curious about the technology and how it works on campus, and they have enjoyed exploring the conversation Alexa offers,” Parker said. “From a technology standpoint, it has been great for us as we’ve been able to observe areas of improvement – speech patterns and phrases people use, expectations and length of the responses from the devices, the type of information that would be useful for students unfamiliar with all of the services and options available on campus.”

Currently, Frog Baby for Alexa does not have a deployment date, but Parker doesn’t want that to discourage people interested in technology and practical applications from being involved in the conversation.

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Former Ball State student deported after arrest at Muncie Goodwill store

Andrew Smith & Max Lewis Daily News Reporters

Muncie Police Department officer Chase Winkle selfies with Jeannine Lee Lake, editor and publisher of The Good News, during his first community ride along. PHOTO COURTESY, MUNCIE POLICE DEPARTMENT

MPD officer builds community relationships behind the wheel

Muncie leaders come along for ride with MPD Andrew Smith Daily News Reporter

like Pastor Andre Mitchell of the Deliverance Temple, have joined in responding to multiple emergency situations.

“We had a range of calls,” Mitchell said. “We One Muncie Police Department officer has dedicated his Wednesday afternoons to bringing had mental health, domestic violence calls. ... calls about another officer in a foot pursuit, a couple of community leaders out on the road with him.

After having multiple conversations with his handgun calls. The one that stood out the most was father, Chief Joe Winkle, about how the department about a dog mauling an individual.”

In that situation, Mitchell could “boost the image” and get their witnessed an individual call 911 and “name out there,” Chase Winkle ask for the officers not to shoot the decided to get the community dog. When arriving to the scene, involved by hosting ride-alongs officers were able to avoid shooting during his shifts.

My hope is that the animal, but Mitchell said “it was Even though the MPD is “busy by the time we a bloody situation.” and understaffed,” Chase said some “They are seeing some of the officers engage with the community get done riding community’s needs directly,” by playing basketball with kids or they would feel Chase said. “Whether it’s how handing out popsicles. But that isn’t comfortable to many mental health calls we deal really his “style.” pick up the phone with or how many addiction calls “I thought I could invite people from the community to get into the and call me if they we deal with a day,. I think most of these people know it’s there but passenger seat and tag along with had an issue or now they are seeing how prevalent me,” he said. something to deal of an issue it is.”

The officer has now hosted During the ride along, Chase said six ride-alongs with people from with.” he uses the time to discuss ways to multiple churches and organizations - CHASE WINKLE, make a change and solve issues in around Muncie.

Muncie Police the community.

For Chase, the end goal is to Department Officer “Most of the conversations we’ve have community members feel had with riders is ways for them to comfortable when talking to the get people involved with the police department department.

“I think it gives them the personnel to reach out or get people involved in the community to make to,” Chase said. “My hope is that by the time we some change,” he said. “I have walked away from get done riding, they would feel comfortable to these ride-alongs more inspired than I expected to.”

If members of the community are interested in pick up the phone and call me if they had an issue riding along with an officer, contact the Muncie or something to deal with.”

While riding with Chase, community leaders Police Chief’s Office at 765-747-4822.

A former Ball State student who allegedly choked a store clerk at a Muncie Goodwill and tried to forcibly convert people to Islam has had the charges against him dropped.

Khalid Sulaiman Bilal, 24, was charged with five counts of battery resulting in bodily injury to a police officer, three counts each of resisting law enforcement and battery resulting in bodily injury and single counts of attempted strangulation, intimidation, criminal trespass and battery in March.

Ball State student’s apartment searched by FBI, Homeland Security following Goodwill incident.

In June, Delaware County Prosecutor Eric Hoffman filed a motion to drop all charges after Bilal was deported back to his home country of Saudi Arabia.

Bilal was taken into custody by federal authorities in April. Court documents filed by the Department of Homeland Security said Bilal “showed signs of radicalization” after yelling “Allahu Akbar” when he was arrested

by Muncie police.

Bilal was a student at Ball State but had his student status revoked following the incident.

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A former Ball State student has been deemed “a danger to the community” after choking and threatening to kill a store clerk and injuring a police officer at a Muncie Goodwill, according to federal police.

Investigators said 24-year-old Khalid Sulaiman Bilal, a Saudi Arabian national, threatened to kill those who did not convert to Islam and was taken into custody at the northside Goodwill on March 25.

The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security executed a search warrant on the afternoon of March 29 at an apartment complex maintained by Ball State. The warrant stated that it is possible that there will be evidence suggesting

that Bilal’s actions were “premeditated.”

Bilal occupied the apartment as a Ball State student at the time of his arrest, but a university spokesperson said his student status has since been “revoked.”

According to documents obtained by The Star Press, a MacBook, Dell laptop, camera and travel documents were seized during the search.

On March 27, Bilal was charged with five counts of battery resulting in bodily injury to a police officer, three counts each of resisting law enforcement and battery resulting in bodily injury and single counts of attempted strangulation, intimidation, criminal trespass and battery.

According to court documents, Bilal confronted the store clerk at the Goodwill and attempted to “forcefully convert her to Islam.”

He continued to tell the clerk he would kill her if she did not convert. He then became angry and began choking her.

When a Muncie police officer arrived on the scene, Bilal “assumed a fighting stance.” The officer then attempted to restrain Bilal and tased him, according to a police report.

A second officer then arrived on the scene and attempted to restrain Bilal. Bilal then attempted to fight with the officers and broke one officer’s hand, according to the affidavit.

The officer then tased Bilal again and was able to handcuff his ankles and wrists, according to the report. During the struggle, Bilal told the officers they were going to go to hell and repeatedly yelled “Allahu Akbar,” meaning “God is greater.”

Bilal also claimed he was Muhammad, the prophet of Islam.

Bilal was then taken to IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital. While at the hospital, he escaped his restraints before attacking hospital staff and punching an officer in the face three times.

The officer then attempted to strike a pressure point but ended up punching Bilal in his mouth, according to the affidavit. Bilal was eventually subdued and restrained.

Bilal’s bail was set at $100,000.

Khalid Sulaiman Bilal was originally arrested on March 25 after an incident at a Muncie Goodwill. MICHELLE KAUFMAN, DN

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EMAIL SAFE? PAGEANTS Continued from Page 52

Lauren Butler

Senior Visual Communication and Advertising major Lauren Butler had found a way to include something that she has a passion for and get something out of each pageant she has been in.

Her first time competing in a pageant was her senior year of high school.

“I had literally just given a speech at my high school commencement and left right afterwards to compete,” Butler said.

“I was the youngest contestant that year, and I had absolutely no clue what I was doing.”

This year, she won the title of Miss Limberlost and was able to have a much more calm experience compared to her first pageant.

“The energy was really positive all week,” Butler said. “We had a really great group of girls that were all very encouraging

and it really molded the experience to be a great one.”

The senior’s platform was a nonprofit organization that she founded herself called Art Cart.

With Art Cart, Butler hopes to provide art supplies to children in children’s hospitals throughout Indiana.

Madeline May

Miss Hoosier Heartland 2017 is Madeline May, Ball State telecommunications major.

May’s platform is Preventing College Costs Through Dual Credit.

Samantha Johnson

Senior Telecommunications and Journalism major Samantha Johnson represented Ball State University at the Miss Indiana Pageant as Miss Ball State.

“Being Miss Ball State is the best job on campus, in my opinion,” Johnson said. “I get

to spend the year promoting the place I call home and school. ...

This campus has given so much to me over the past four years and now it was time for me to return the favor in the most fun way possible.”

After winning the title of Miss Ball State, Johnson was excited to move on to Miss Indiana and further represent her university Although and platform. she did not win the title of Miss Indiana, Johnson said that each woman that competed deserved recognition for their hard work and would have made a great Miss Indiana.

Samantha Robbins

Samantha Robbins, sophomore Visual Communications major, moved into her dorm at Ball State the same day she won the title of Miss White River.

While that was a busy day, she remains dedicated to her ultimate goal which is becoming Miss America.

Robbins has been competing in the Miss America Organization for five years and she says

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Ball State warns students about fraudulent emails Allie Kirkman Managing Editor Even though campus isn’t as busy during the summer, a large number of fraudulent emails were sent to Ball State faculty, staff and students, according to the Office of Information Security Services.

The fraudulent emails are often forged to appear as if they are coming from university officials, urging the recipient to open an attached PDF file or click on a link, which then directs the user to enter their password.

Some of these fraudulent emails have a subject line similar to “Dear BSU.edu E-mail User.” Here is an example: “Dear Bsu.edu E-mail User, This message is from Ball State University: Bsu. edu Technology HelpDesk, We are currently upgrading our bsu.edu database and e-mail account center i.e homepage view, enhance security installations of new 2017 antispam and anti-virus software, large mailbox space.

Kindly verify your e-mail within 24 hours or your e-mail will be temporarily suspended. Click

the titles she won doesn’t compare to the experiences that she has had.

“It has made a complete difference in my confidence and speaking skills,” Robbins says.

“I owe so much of my ability to succeed and adapt to the situations and challenges I have come across while competing.”

Her platform for this year is Substance Abuse Prevention and after seeing the impact she has made in her freshman year she is looking forward to continue in her journey of promoting a healthy lifestyle.

“My favorite part of the Miss Indiana pageant isn’t what everyone sees on stage,” Robbins said. “It’s the hours of rehearsals, touch ups, catered meal eating, crying, music blasting and laughing that I spend with my Miss Indiana sisters backstage.”

Because she still has five years of pageant eligibility ahead of her, Robbins is looking forward to what she has in the future of both her academic and pageant careers.

here to verify your e-mail.

Thanks for you co-operation, Bsu.edu IT Helpdesk, BSU Technology HelpDesk Copyright 2017 Ball State University” Any email with a link to a web form requesting your username and password is fraudulent, according to the Office of Information Security Services. The university will not send emails containing a link to web page or attachment requesting for username and password. Instead, legitimate emails from Ball State provide instructions for how to change a password, which do not direct a user to click on attachments or links within the email message.

QUESTIONS? If a user believes they have been a victim to one of the recent scams, it is advised to change the email password. For questions or to report an issue contact the Technology HelpDesk at www. bsu.edu/helpdesk or by calling 765-285-1517.

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Friday

10 P.M. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Class it up this week. Yorktown Center for the Arts is playing free movies in Morrow’s Meadow Park. This showing of Beauty in the Beast will open with a special performance from The Muncie Symphony Orchestra. MSO will also be bringing their “Instrument Petting Zoo,” which allows people to try out different instruments and learn about them.

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All Day NAPPY’S WATER BOWL BASH

This 2-day event features camping, swimming, volleyball, zip lines, live performances and more. Dusty Leigh performs Friday night and Shotgun Shane starts Saturday night at 9 p.m. and Nappy Roots at 10 p.m. Tickets are $20 per day for adults and $10 for kids. Camping is $5. Located at the Water Bowl, 6811 N SR 3, Muncie.

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Saturday

9 A.M. FARMERS MARKET

You can find fresh fruits and vegetables, flowers, plants, and other local goods at Minnetrista’s farmers markets.

If you’re living on campus, there’s a shuttle that will take you. While you’re there, you can also visit The Orchard Shop, which is filled with local art, more food, and other handmade goods.

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Be Here Now hosts their annual Afroman show. The grammynominated artist is best known for his singles, “Because I Got High,” and “Colt 45.” Others include Saint John and Farmer Jesse, Ugly Tribe and more. Tickets: $10 for 21+. Under 21 is $20. Specials include $2 PBR, $3 Sun King Pints.

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Looking for a way to relax before classes start?

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Tuition increase approved Trustees agree upon Ball State’s lowest increase in 41 years Robby General Summer Editor Ball State’s Board of Trustees approved a tuition and student fee increase – the lowest percentage increase in 41 years.

The increase implements a 1.24 percent and 1.25 percent increase for full-time in-state tuition over the next two years.

In a press release from the university, board Chairman Rick Hall said that the lower increase is a result of “university-wide, cooperative strategic planning efforts that reflect a strong commitment to high academic quality and a pledge to keep education affordable.”

So what can students expect to see with the tuition increase?

For in-state students, tuition will be raised from $9,654 to $9,774 in the 2017-18 fiscal year, then to $9,896 in 2018-19. This keeps Ball State below both Indiana and Purdue University, and ranks as the third-lowest in-state tuition among Mid-American Conference schools.

But the percentage increases range depending on the student. For example, both in-state and out-ofstate graduate and out-of-state undergraduate students will see different percentage increases in their tuition bill.

For out-of-state students tuition will be raised by more than $1,000 over the next two years. The $25,428 tuition total this past academic year increases to $25,942 in 2017-18 and $26,468 in 201819, or 2.02 and 2.03 percent, respectively.

The trustees approved a 1.86 percent increase for in-state graduate students and a 2.22 percent increase for out-of-state graduate students as well.

The increases bring in-state graduate tuition to $9,216 and out-of-state tuition to $21,834 for the 2017-18 year.

One fee will remain the same for all full-time students, however – mandatory fees (recreation, health center and technology fees) will remain at $662 a year across the board.

While the face-value of tuition increases, so will the university’s financial aid budget.

Next year, as a result of increases in four-year completion and retention rate among students, the trustees approved a 12.18 percent increase for the University scholarship programs. This gives Ball State $4.2 million to use for financial aid in the upcoming year.

BALL STATE VS. OTHER INDIANA UNIVERSITIES This graphic compares total cost of tuition, housing, fees and expenses per academic year at different public universities in Indiana.

This information was provided the universities 2017 tuition and fees, and assumes on-campus residency and “full-time student” status, which is generally enrollment in 12 or more credit hours.

In addition to having one of the lowest total costs in Indiana, the

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How to save on groceries Kristen Wamsley Daily News Reporter

1. Apps, Apps, Apps

The running joke, “there’s app for that” isn’t really a job. There is an app for almost anything on any app store, including many money saving ones for shopping. There are rebate apps, coupons and lists for sale items. Check out apps like Wal-Mart Savings, Cartwheel for Target, Coupons.com and Retailmenot.

2. Coupons

Coupons are everywhere – online, in the newspaper, in ads and on apps. The industry is trying to help save their customers money, so take advantage.

Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables – that’s the only health mantra that remains constant. FOTOLIO/TNS, PHOTO COURTESY

Meal swipes: Best Practices Learn the best ways to eat healthy while spend wisely in dining halls Robby General Summer Editor No matter where you decide to eat on campus, the amount of money you can spend per meal is the same – $8.50.

Here are some tips to not only save money, but get more food when you grab a bite to eat on campus.

Skip the soft drink

The freshman 15 is a real thing, and while your total meal may leave you with $1.80 to spare, a large soft drink is not the solution.

Save some money and calories by choosing to grab two 12 oz. cups of water instead. Not only is this a free alternative to your regular soft drink option, but it will save you some unwanted weight around your hips and provide you with extra money to spend on chips, candy, gum or a piece of fruit.

Use all $8.50

If you don’t use your entire meal plan, then you’re just cheating yourself and giving the university free money in a sense.

Even if you’re not super hungry in the moment, use whatever leftover money you have to buy a drink or a snack that can be eaten later, so you don’t have to use dining plus when you need a quick snack.

Don’t buy full meals with dining plus We’ve all been there, hungry on a Saturday night without a meal plan left, but you have $50 in dining plus leftover.

Your dining plus should be used in emergency cases only. Don’t waste a fifth of you plus on a single meal, when you can use 10, 20 or 30 cents at a time when you go over the $8.50 meal. This will save you money over time and allow you to keep maximizing your meal plan all semester long.

craving, it will go a long way in getting you more food.

Also, Starbuck’s coffee is great, but there are several other locations on campus where you can get your caffeine buzz for half the price.

Dining plus roles over

These two items in your backpack will go a long way to ensuring that you are hydrated on campus and awake enough to finish that homework assignment at Bracken.

Anywhere on campus that you can refill coffee at will allow you to use your own mug at the cost of 90 cents for a 16 oz. cup of coffee.

In terms of the water bottle, it’s free to refill at any location on campus. On those hot summer days, this comes in handy to keep you going throughout the day.

If it’s the end of the fall semester and you realize you haven’t used as much dining plus as is on your card, don’t fret.

The remainder will be added to your dining plus for the spring semester.

If it’s the spring semester though, and you have money left over, definitely use it.

Again this is something you already paid for and you don’t want to waste it.

Don’t buy that expensive item

Yes, that Chick-fil-A chicken salad looks like a healthy alternative, but is it worth the $7.85 that you’re going to spend on it?

Answer: probably not.

Certain foods on campus are a delicacy and should be had once or twice, but not all the time. Some foods cost so much money that it leaves you with barely anything left to spend on drinks. It’s best to go with a cheaper option in order to save money.

Find cheap alternatives

One of the best ways to save money on campus is to figure out food prices at each one of the locations on campus.

Some items are cheaper in certain locations than they are in other food places on campus. If you know where the cheaper options are when you have a

3. Do-it-yourself

Sure it is a convenience to have already sliced pineapples, or premade meals. It is actually cheaper to get the item whole, and cut it, or make it, yourself. In some cases, fresh may be more expensive.

Pick the best deal and run with it to save yourself a couple of dollars.

4. Cardinal Kitchen

Take advantage of this. Cardinal Kitchen is a student run food pantry that students and faculty can use. Students can receive food and toiletries for free. Go to the Multicultural center the last three Tuesday’s of every month and keep an eye on your Ball State email or the Ball State website for more information.

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Actually use them

Don’t forget to use your plan regardless of what you eat throughout the week.

Even if it’s just buying a few bag of chips of some drinks that you will have later, it’s better than not using your meal plan at all.

Find on-sale items

Believe it or not, certain foods like fruit and vegetables do have a shelf life. Often times in order to get rid of them, Dining Services will mark these items as 50 percent off if their shelf life is coming to and end.

So if you’re looking for a light snack that you will eat right away, be sure to check those fridges for items on sale.

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The best (and worst) of Ball State dining The Daily News editorial staff took the time to rank each dining hall and offer comments so you can stick to the good stuff. Of course, as the semester goes on, time and convenience may become king. Note: we did not rank standalone, chain locations like Starbucks or Quiznos.

BEST

Woodworth Commons, located inside Woodworth Complex, is the place to go for homecooked meals.

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Woodworth Commons

Why? “Woodworth offers a variety of different foods, plus most of the food there is fairly cheap. Plus -- STIR FRY!” “Woodworth has the most variety of marketplace items and healthier options.”

The Tally (Student Center)

Why? “Taco Bell and Chef Jason. Enough said.”

Bookmark Café

Why? “They always have breakfast items and their coffee is the best!”

Noyer Centre The Daily News is reinventing itself this year! Instead of the big, clunky broadsheet we published three times a week, we are switching to a once a week tabloid format that will be published every Thursday. This switch allows for a higher quality publication with content made for you.

Why? “Noyer always has a lot of options, and the dining staff is very friendly. I never regret what I buy when I go there!”

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We’re excited for our new publication and want to celebrate with you!

In exchange for picking up our tab, we want to pick up yours. Each week through December 7th, we will be giving away two gift certificates for free pizza from HotBox. On December 8th we will be drawing a winner for our Grand Prize – we will pick up one student’s tab at the Ball State Bookstore for Spring semester textbooks (up to $500).

The Atrium

Why? “Going to The Atrium is like eating at a real chain off-campus, but the options are unfulfilling. Not many vegetables!”

Elliot Dining

Why? “Elliott has the best selection and you’ll never have to dip into your dining plus. It’s just so far from the rest of campus!”

Tom John Food Shop

Why? “The location is great but the variety is pretty lacking. Plus, it’s not a big room so it gets crowded easily.”

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LaFollette Square

Why? “Not many fresh options and the food that the kitchen offers is unhealthy and greasy. The ‘freshman 15’ is because of LaFollette.”

WORST

Micro Café (Studebaker)

Why? “Every other dining location has something to set it apart. The Micro Cafe can only boast that it is the most like a gas station.”

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How to land a job on campus Looking for a job on campus can be somewhat difficult and time consuming, luckily, Ball State makes it as easy as possible for students looking to either pay off college, or just to have a part-time job to supplement some of the other activities you participate in.

1. Figure out what you want

This is an important first step.

Ball State offers a number of jobs related to peoples career fields, but those are often filled by older students who are preparing to enter the job market.

Are you just looking to make some extra cash on campus and don’t care what you do?

Or are you trying to work your way up in an organization that pays on campus. Sometimes, it’s best not to take a job at all if you are looking to build your skills for a greater opportunity down the road.

2. Go to Cardinal Career Link

After you have an idea of what you want to do on campus, start looking at the different options presented to you. Cardinal Career Link is an easy to use website to find listings of available jobs and internships.

The website, available through the Career Center on Ball State’s website, allows you to save different jobs that you may be interested and acquire the requisition number for said job in or der for you to apply and get on the list for a potential interview with your employer.

3. Head to the Career Center

Whether you’ve made you dream list of jobs, or are lost on the Cardinal Career Link website, the Career Center is here to help.

The staff can help guide you to jobs that may interest you and will also provide with your golden ticket to return to the

employer of your choice. All jobs on campus must be done through the Career Center located on the second floor of Lucina Hall.

4. Start applying

After you received your yellow sheet of paper from an employee at the Career Center stating that your are qualified to apply for a certain job, you must take them to that employer.

Follow the instructions on the sheet and if it ask you for more information, like a resume, CV or cover letter, make sure you have all of that information available before you turn in the sheet.

5. Make a resume and cover letter

Some jobs on campus don’t Paige Riley, Hunter Radke and Taylor Rademacher discuss their experiences during the Cardinal Job Fair on Feb. 11, 2015 at Worthen Arena. JESSICA LYLE, DN require this step, so feel free to skip it, but other jobs will ask FINDING CAMPUS EMPLOYMENT for this information. If the job that you’re applying for does require one of the above pieces The process of applying to jobs and internships of information, be sure to have can be overwhelming. Take advantage of these them prepared. resources to get a head start on gaining career If you don’t know where to experience. start creating these documents, it might be worth scheduling an The Career Center Complete lunch & dinner menu available appointment with your career Helps place you in on-campus jobs, as well as off-campus coach. Every Ball State student opportunities and internships, in addition to going over has one, you just have to set up your resume with you. an appointment.

They will not only help Your Department you create your materials, but Ask a professor. Chances are a lot of the ones in they will also review them to your department come from the industry they teach. ensure they are clean before Professors and academic advisors usually have plenty of you turn them into an employer. contacts that can maybe hook you up with an internship.

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6. Nail the interview

If you’ve done everything properly before this step, the last thing you need to do before acquiring a job is nailing the interview. If you’ve never had a job interview before, go back to your Career Coach (they can help with just about anything you need relating to jobs).

Your Career Coach can run you through a mock interview, ask popular questions and even show you where to grab some dress clothes if you don’t have any.

— Staff Reports

Online Resources

Websites like internships.com and looksharp.com have posting you can sort through and usually apply for right on their websites. Be sure to give the company a phone call to not only ensure they received you materials, but to let them know you’re interested.

Other tools

You can find free templates for resumes and cover letters online. You just have to pop your information in and make sure it looks finished and professional. There are also design classes and Lynda.com tutorials to help you create you own. If that’s not your style, there are also people on campus who love to help people design documents.

— Staff Reports

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Fun activities for students of all ages Ball State Bucket List

Ball State held its 14th annual Late Nite Carnival on April 21. The carnival featured 18 thrill rides, free games and prizes, live music and entertainers. GRACE RAMEY, DN

Although it’s nice to get off campus from time to time, there are several events happening on campus.

On Campus LATE NITE

Late Nite is hosted in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center. Each event has a different theme to it, from “Late Nite Original Series” to “There’s No Place Like Late Nite.” The theme determines what kinds of activities students can do, but there’s always free food. The event is from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. every Saturday. Admission is free for students; guests can join the fun for $5.

LATE NITE CARNIVAL

Late Nite Carnival is one theme that’s always repeated. The annual event is a great way to end the semester with rides, games and carnival food. The carnival takes place during one of the last weekends in the school year, and is hosted in the commuter parking lot by Bethel Avenue.

FRIDAY NIGHT FILMWORKS

Hosted by the University Program Board, Friday Night Filmworks is a weekly movie showing in Pruis Hall. Students vote on the movies shown, and the movies are normally ones that have been recently released.

Off Campus FIRST THURSDAYS

On the first Thursday of every month, downtown Muncie hosts an event that includes several local businesses and artists, including live shows, art galleries and hands-on activities.

EAST SIDE BASH

This end-of-year celebration takes place on the Noyer Lawn.

Each student receives a specialty dinner and free T-shirt.

There are games, live entertainment and inflatables.

GROCERY BINGO

Students receive a Bingo card when they enter, and winners can pick out groceries. There are also mini-games throughout, where students can win bigger prizes.

HOMECOMING

Homecoming week has several activities students can participate in addition to the football game.

• The Annual Talent Search is a way to see what talents Ball State students have to offer. Admission is free.

• Air Jam is one of the most popular events during Homecoming. Various student organizations participate in the lip-syncing competition. Tickets for Air Jam cost $15.

• The Bed Races are exactly what they sound like: Teams of five people race down the street with a bed on wheels. Four people push the bed, and one person rides on it.

• There’s also the Homecoming 5K Run/ Walk and a traditional parade with floats, cars and even horses to celebrate the weekend.

TASTE OF MUNCIE

Every spring, several Muncie restaurants and catering companies gather for Taste of Muncie. The event is a fundraiser for Cornerstone Center for the Arts and showcases local dishes and flavors. Attendees are also able to vote for their favorite dishes and businesses.

— Amanda Belcher, Daily News Reporter

1. Go to Air Jam 2. Watch or participate in the tradition of Bed Race during homecoming week 3. See a performance at John R. Emens Auditorium 4. Tailgate at Homecoming and then actually go to the football game.

5. Get on the dean’s list 6. Regret taking a class at 8 a.m.

7. Walk the cow path 8. Get trapped in an elevator 9. Rub Frog Baby’s nose during finals week 10. K iss under Beneficence 11. Meet at the Naked Lady lose down Club Bracken 12. C 13. Get lost in North Quad et a ride from Charlie’s Charter 14. G 15. M ake a new Gum tree 16. Relax in a hammock in the Quad ake a photo on the 10th floor of Teachers College 17. T 18. S it under Shafer tower et free condoms at the Health Center 19. G 20. P lay volleyball by Studebaker West Complex 21. G et a photo with Happy Friday Guy, Charlie Cardinal and the University President 22. A ttend Dance Marathon owl at the L.A. Pittenger Student Center 23. B ttend Late Nite Carnival 24. A 25. S ee a movie at Friday Night Filmworks 26. Go see the Buddha at the DOMA at at every dining hall 27. E o to midnight breakfast during finals week 28. G 29. U se a meal swipe for just soda. You know o a Dining Plus spree after finals 30. D 31. H ave your parent’s visit for family weekend ee fireworks at Minnetrista 32. S 33. D onate plasma and blood 34. L ive off campus in a house or apartment 35. L ive in Muncie during the summer 36. Go to Village Green Records and talk to Travis Harvey at a Carter’s hot dog when he’s in the village 37. E 38. Eat at Greek’s Pizzaria 39. O rder Insomnia Cookies et half-priced apps at Scotty’s Brewhouse 40. G 41. V isit Dave’s Alley downtown 42. G et Sunshine Cafe

And when you’re 21+ 43. G o to Savage’s Ale house 44. A ttend Muncie Gras 45. Do Muncie bar crawl

— Staff Reports

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Migrating Midwest Find your name among the flock of incoming Cardinals 1

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WHERE YA’LL FROM? The class of 2021 is migrating to Muncie from 32 states. Those states cover 56 percent of the United States. A large amount of the freshman class are Hoosiers, at 3,177. Illinois is in second place, with 391 cardinals coming from the prairie state.

- MAUREEN LANGLEY, Creative Director

Source: Curtis Westfall Executive Director of Systems Technology in the Division of Enrollment Services

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Elwood Hannah Amick Sierra Andrews Madyson Arbuckle Taylor Barton Danielle Buckmaster Madelyn Easter Mason Ebbert Robert Rogers Zara Sanders Aaliyah Scheuermann Chloe Smith Emilee Sutherland Amelia Taylor Morghan Ziegler Etna Green Hannah Woodard Evansville Alli Abbott Josie Ault Levi Babb Alexis Barnard Justin Bartholome Jacob Brown Emily Burke Sonya Clark Andie Cox Hannah Eades Jenna Effinger Danielle Hoover Nikki Jennings Michael Mcatee Jeryn Melloy Hannah Nichols Addison Paul Hope Peterlin Conner Pierce Olivia PollardDurbin Alexander Price Mya Reeder Roya Saboohi Siara Sandwith

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Kara Schapker Cheyenne Seyferth Hannah Smith Noah Smith Tara Wargel Zoie White Ciara Whitlock Arley Will Faith Williams Hope Williams Daniel Wilmes Alexandra Wiseman Fairland Sarah Ramsey Fairmount Jacob Ford Evan Haase Farmersburg Alexander Cholewinski Nathan Maxwell Alex Turner Farmland Josie Clevenger Samantha King Sarah McDonald Trystan Pettigrew Bethany Sloniker Ferdinand Donald Mehling Amy Troesch Fillmore Allison Bunton Fishers Elizabeth Adams Vidal Alvarez Alexandra Bankovich Kennedi Barnett Brenna Barrett Jaela Baskin Kayle Bender Taylor Bradley Michael Brewer Samuel Brimbury Tobias Broadnax Nathan Brunnemer Austin Buckley Olivia Burke

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Brock Burns Samantha Byer Meghan Callahan Paris Carver Nicholas Chapin Faleece Childress Garrett Chorpenning John Clevenger William Cobb Brianna Collins Emma Cook Emma Cooley Madeline Cromlich Jonathon D'Amico Samuel Darling Kaitlyn Day Samantha Deese Evan Dewael Brooke Diamond Maria Diebolt Tailynn Downing Hannah Eadie Kate Ewing Nicholas Foley Raymond Fox Alexis Gall Alexander Gleason Madison Good Benjamin Gordon Taylor Guenther Zachary Gunn Madeleine Haigh Shelby Hamilton Avery Hancock DaShaun Hardy Alec Harris Sydney Harris Adam Hochstedler Anthony Hoffman Sydney Hoffman Samuel Holder Madeleine Hollinger Amanda Huynh Sarah Jensen Larry Jones Jacob Justice Michael Keen Allison Kimmell Andrew Kirkland Jessica Kloss Mackenzie Lantz Demi Lawrence Brandon Leamer Abigail Leath Madison Lingle

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John Lockrem Maria Majestic Nevile Makau Austin Martin Kendall Mccord Macy Mcgrath Jacob Michael Makiah Miles Annie Miller Ryan Miller Sean Mullen Brooke Newman Jacob Norris Matthew Olry Madeline Penn Vi Phan Jackson Pietri Makenzie Pinkerton Jakob Poore Alex Pope Anika Powelson Robinpreet Rai Kaeli Razo Madison Relue Miah Rhoads Devin Rizzotte Melia Rizzotte Sean Roche Jackson Rogers Kourtney Rose Emma Russell Megan Santin Alexandria Scheele Dorothy Schmok Nia Simmons Kaylan Simpson Tamera Sims Kiley Smith Trent Snyder Andrew Stawick Stephanie Stein Reid Stephens Emma Stickney Augden Stolz Olivia Supancik Rachel Sweeney Payton Tavernier Rachel Thibodeau Peyton Thompson Alison Vielee Abigail Wade Brooke Wade William Warner Chase Watkins Georgia White Stephanie Wicker Abigail Wilkinson

Robert Workman Flat Rock Skylar Goode Austin Wilson Flora Christian Bagwell Gabrielle Fewell Brittanie Keihn Molly McGill Floyds Knobs Natalie Combs Jenna Elsby Noah Fonda Brooklyn Ivey Oscar Stumler Marlena Torres Sydney Wooten Fort Wayne Kelly Asiala Gwenyth Baer Savannah Bassett Miranda Bearman Tucker Bennett Jacob Bodenstein Christian Booth Amanda Bowers Candice Bowles Madelyn Bowman Mariah Bowman Aleana Branigan Alexander Brenneke Gareth Brouwer Brayden Bucher Allyson Buchs Ashley Burns Alixandria Busche Brandt Bush Jennifer Butler Morgan Byrd Jessica Carroll Destiny Chaney Maxwell Charron Mason Coffee George Croteau Alyssa Crumley Kennedy Davis Lauren Didier Caitlin Dixon Gillian Dudra Brittany Eastom Alexandria Ellert Tyler Else Tyler Engelhaupt Ashley Falkenstern

Grant Farley Erin Fosnaugh Ethan Fowler Damon GerhardOrr Nathan Gidley Bailey Gilham Taylor Gleave Brendan Gleeson Ashlee Goelz MaKayla Grayson Rachel Gripp Jaclyn Grutsch Raina Gulachek Bryson Haft Danisha Haywood Ashton Heidenreich Princess Henry Madeleine Hershberger Hannah Hewson Aspen Hill Grace Hines Lucas Hook Sarah Humphrey Joseph Hutson Hannah Hyde Andrew Jackson Christine Joseph Makenzie Krebs Ross Kroterfield Logan Krueger Emily Lahey Jessica Landsaw Alexa Lauer Kate Laughlin Eleysha Lee Julia Lehman Grace Lehmann Elizabeth Lester Hunter Line Sloan Luebbert Laura Magner Dzheyn Makevit Megan Markarian Jared Marsh Caelan McAbee Brady McBride Chance McKibben Bailie McNeil Roberto Medina Caitlyn Miller Sydney Miller Jenna Mix Conor Moore Gracie Mulholland Paqxtonne .

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Alex Neher Chase Neiswonger Emily Noye Taylor O Reilly Andrew Orzechowicz Savannah Ostermeyer Jake Ostrowski Elizabeth Pancake Dylan Patterson Kelsey Paugh Seth Pendergrass Hannah Petrie Zachary Piatt Cordell Pressler Emma Pynchon Kassandra Ramirez Nicholas Ramsey Alyssa Rankin Jenna Raudenbush Alana Rencher My'airra Rice Griffin Robinson Blake Rodenbeck Saviannah Royal Natasha Rudolf William Sanzone Jessica Sarrazin Alaina Schenkel Jared Scheurich Lauren Schiebel Thomas Schilb Austin Schorey Mckade Schuldt Jordan Shoemaker Olivia Simkins Grace Slone Caitlyn Smith Joseph Smith Matthew Stickler Michaela Stineburg Lily Stuerzenberger Raven Stump De'Vion Swain Nicholas Sweet Connor Tapp Mia Tell Kaylie Till Joseph Trentadue Jacqueline Turner Austin Villagomes Brenden Warnick Melissa Watson

immi Westbrook Hannah Wezensky Demri White Zachary White Lorianne Wiegner Shaye Williams Fortville Gabriel Cochard Rebekah Cochard Kylie Colwell Caleb Dowless Quentin Gilliatte Nicholas Hanson Clayton Jenkins Mariah Moore Maxwell Nugent Heather Powell Elijah Wenger Henry Werking

Michael Kummer Rylie Mayo Isaac McCullough Jesus Ramirez Elizabeth Rouzer Krystal Scott Alexis Shepperd Luke Vanderveen Morgan Zellars Frankton Audrey French Trevaughn King Connor Love Kayla Osburn Aaron Seleyman Ryann Shively Kennedy Woodward

Fountain City Trey Smith

Freedom Sarah Breeden Dylan Crites

Fowler Audrey Hasser Joel Johnson Madison Spangler

Fremont Mckenna Arble Philip Belpasso Nicholas LaRose

Francesville Braylin SchlatterBalough

French Lick Mary Grace Harrison

Frankfort Megan Humrickhouse Mckenzie Hurless Kyler Mosson Courtney Roberts Jace Roberts Casey Robertson Mary Scott Sienna Toler Jerry Urrutia Kiara Wood

Galveston Jared Ehase Madeline Karmel Dalton Key

Franklin Makenna Bertsch Heather Brockman Allison Brown Cami Cochrane Tyler Craft Jackson Cross Jacob Eanes Alex Gaddy Abigail Gibson Rutherford Hendley Jordan Kasuboski

Garrett Rebecca Nichols Elizabeth Parker Milena Smythe Tyler Taylor Evan Weaver Gary Areona Bailey Sarah Cade Jalecia Cheatham Gregory Clark Rianne Henderson Chene Hightower Daphney Leloup Bianca Pettigrew Lauren Shelby Ogunde Snelling Toreona Walls Kyle Walton

Gas City Fred Dungan Bradley Pavey Jordan Swanner Gaston Devin Bookout Calvin Carmin Parker Harris Jaclyn Love Santiago Morena Chloe Reoch Geneva Ashley Rhoades Georgetown Maxwell Baumann Annie Hunchman David Kuo Daniel Silliman Juan Jose Wong Gomez Goshen Katarina Antal Jacob Biller Jonathon Garcia Robert Good Lindsey Halcomb Jacob Honey Madeline Hoover Cheyenne Kalb Mckenna Maes Alexandria Mast Tyler McClendon Adison McLain Henry Miller Melanie Miller Kaitlyn Neely Jordan Nemeth Emanuel Olvera Elizabeth Rieth Matthew Schrag Ian Shreiner Barger Braydon Stutzman Kyle Taft Derek Varner Mallory Weaver Gosport Gabrielle Collard Grandview Rachel Fitzgerald

71 Granger Michelle Allen Katherine Barker William Bartus Alyssa Boardley Joseph Bursley Avery Campbell Joseph Carter Morgan Corban Clare Frederick Stephen Hall Autum Holcomb Brendan Keough Abigail Leigh Jack Maalouf Jacob McQueen Tyler Miller Natalie Raffelock Phillip Rinehart Robert Sanders Tessa Schmitt Emily Schulz Brett Shepard Ashley Talcott Andrew Waitkins Greencastle Kain Dinkel David Maginity Jonah Sanders Carter Solivan John Wood Greendale Brogan Blondell Tyler Schwarz Greenfield Meghan Batka Alexander Branigin Cory Charbeneau Claudia Daugherty Kassidy Dulworth Dillon Finnigan Alexis Grose Kourtney Hancock Mackenzie Hardin Karoline Helgason Katie Helgason Katelyn Hughes Reagan Hunt Drey Jameson Kaylee Rumfelt Jordan Russ Kevin Schafer Megan Schilling Katelyn Stapp Shaina Taylor

Shelbi Webb Alexandria Whitehouse Alexis Young Greens Fork Benjamin Lair Regan McKee Greens burg Gavin Amburgey Justin Bates Cody Bauer Morgan Burkart Ellison Burkhart Kristen Chambers Conner Deaton Grayson Dwenger Emily Eberhardt Claire Fleetwood Emily Greiwe Michael McQueary Riley Mccreary Travis Nobbe Emily Poznanski Avery Thomas Vanessa Veerkamp Greentown Elizabeth Ailes Noah Connolly Hayley Higginbottom Lucas VanMatre Green wood Luke Baumgartner Daniel Beaver Cole Bettner Madelyn Bitterling Logan Booker Dylan Bramlett Amanda Brauer William Brink Riquel Cantleberry Lerlynn Carroll Briahna Carter Joshua Danzeisen Taylor Dishman Alexander Dixon Kriscina Duong Ian Elliott Elena Floyd Madison Foster Samantha Fulford Daisy Garcia Alexis Gasper Lauren Gay

Kristin Gessling Holly Hayes Ryan Heckman Kaleb Hennessy Trevor Hohlt Jonathan Hummel Samuel Johnson Larissa Lafoe Matthew Lekse Hayleigh Loyal Sophia Marino Zachary Marot Brant McCracken Geoffrey Mcadams Lilian Meyers Makayla Mills Andrew Och Lindsey Overstreet Nathan Pence Payton Perry Andrew Rattin Logan Ray Aaron Reingardt Brendan Ruff Jacob Sanders Hunter Shaffer Tyler Smith Emily Struewing Mason Stunick Logan Trigg Emily Turner Amanda Vaughn Morgan Weaver Emily Weidman Brooke Wellington Cheyenne White Richard Whitney Zoe Wick Bradley Yocum Griffith Luke Broelmann Sylvie Dowd Andrew Masters Ly-Lyse McGee Jacob Mulderink Lilyana Salazar Trevor Sheffield Guilford Jared Busemeyer Bryssa Helton Caitlin Smith Hagerstown Kory Beeson Bryan Hall Aimee

Hoodlebrink Forrest Hoover Chase Mcintosh Isaiah Neal Jevon Osborne Victoria Pierson Hamilton Evan Johnson Kaitlin Kerr Gunnar Psurny Hammond Rebecca Cruz Alyssa Fowle Aric Fulton Noah Jones Ahmad Morocco Julie Ogaldez Cody Payne Flor Pimentel Alia Shatat Araceli Tirado

Hanna Nathan Biegel Harlan Tabitha Edgeman Hartford City Mckayla Alspach Shana Beckley Brittany Brown Alexander Burch Jenna Coffman Dyson Coldiron Chloe Coons Emily Coons Robert Gardner Alyssa King Taylor McCaffery Taylor Mink Chynia Parsons Kyli Penrod Brody Shoffner Cathy Skinner Scott Thompson Jamie Twibell Hartsville Jared Pleak Haubstadt Abby Kiesel Mallory Reynolds Hebron Barbara Blank Ashley Gaskey

Charlotte Hunt Emily Martinez Heltonville Nathan Scott Henryville Noah Allen Highland Abigail Brosseau Adriana Castillo Isabella Osgood Nicole Russell Victoria Shamel Sophie Whiting Sarah Williams Hoagland Evan Knapke Hobart Cecilia Castillo Rachael Gayton Scott Kelsey Megan Mays Marissa Mech Paige Podlesak Kourtnie Weatherbee Cameron Wenzel Madeline Weiler Annamarie Ashbrook Huntertown Matthew Crandall Kailei Diss Madelynn Jones Taylor Relue Jasper Schroeder Scott Smith Alexander Thomas Ryan Waggoner Huntingburg Caleb Hasenour Daniel Pund Audrey Stutsman Huntington Samuel Daugherty Huntington Jordan Gray Olivia Henderson Alyssa Hewson Paige Hoeppner Colton Jagger Tabitha Jaggers

Alix Latta Sierra Lehman Jarin Matheny Abbey Pace Emily Pence Maggie Reed Nickolas Reyes Granville Shultz Mikayla Skinner Miranda Smart Matthew Warner Morgan Wolfe Indiana polis Cierra Adams Essence Adams Rosalie Adams Jake Alberti Jasmine Allen Ethan Altmark Noah Amberger Charles Anderson Deysha Anderson Gabrielle Anderson Ifeoluwa AyoolaLadapo Benjamin Babb Ki'ara Bailey Ariel Baker-Alfeld Darrian Ballard Tamara Baltimore Tiarra Baltimore LaRon Banks Shampaigne Barton Kristina Beers Tyler Bell Riley Benedict Drake Bernauer Addison Berry Bailey Bickel Samra Bolden Alex Bowman Zachary Boyd Emma Boyd-Ryan Isabella Bradbury Gage Bradley Amanda Bradtmiller Logan Brandenburg Lindsey Brashear Amari Brooks Katelyn Brooks Antonio Brown Brandon Brown Ravyn Brown Jazmine Brownlow

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Tylor Brummett Chester Bryant Justin Bryant Molly Buckel Chava Bunes Logan Burgess Mary Burns Mariah Campbell Mia Campbell Elizabeth Candelario Myra Carleton Parker Carlson Zoleanny Carmona Brandon Carson Astrid Carter Princess Carter Kelsie Clayton Trinity Cline-Smith Kaylee Coffing Olivia Collins Bryan Colvin Alexis Conjelko Dylan Connell Dakota Cook Samantha Coomler Kameron Cooper Nicole Cooper Jaina Cox Bailey Crist Diana CuetoArreola Jessica Cumings Noelle Dalman Issariah Daniels Abraham Dant Emma Davidson Lorenz Davis Michael Deal Savannah Dean Leanna Dewitt Kandy Diaz Cassandra Dillon Jamea Ditto Daman vir Dosanjh Celeste Drake Dorian Ducre Calenia Dumas Devon Duncan Hannah Dunco Torey Dunn Zakara Durgans Grace Dziennik Rinique Earls Breanna Edwards Legend Edwards Kennedy Eineman

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Lauren Eisenhut Erin Elberfeld Hailey Ellis William English Alexandria Epperly Lucas Eslinger David Estrada Riley Eubanks Javon Evans Aubrey EveretteKoehler Andrea Farias Andrew Faust Erik Fedje Abigail Ferrer Bailey Fields Travis Finchum Dylan Finke Bria Flood Alijah Forbes Samuel Franklin Kevin Frayser Kaija Freeman Daniel Funez Pineda Mason Furnish Maxwell Garrett Jazmyn Gatson Komail Gaznawi Jacob Goelz Damon Gold Gabrielle Gonzalez Christine Gordon John Gould Samuel Green Holleigh Grisby Nickolas Guess Hannah Gunnell Chris Hall Sierra Hamm Jillian Haner Marquel Harper Ashton Harris Autumn Harris Caleb Harris Gabriel Harris Lucas Hatcher Zechariah Hawkins Brittany Hays Thaxter Haywood Bryce Healey Jalen Heard Olivia Heifner Caleb Henry Tanis Henry Kaylie Henson Delmy Hernandez

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Keith Herring Tiffany Herrington Katherine Hile Jewel Hillard Eric Hinojosa Rebekah Hoffer Molly Hollcraft Mason Holmes Lindsey Holtgrave Corbin Hooker Kaylor Hoover Antoine Howard Cameron Howard Katelyn Howard Leonna Huddleston Jd Hunt Daniel Hutson Lillian Irmer Desmonaye Irons Capri Jackson Denise Jacquez Natalie Jaggers Dejah Johnson Destiny Johnson Joseph Johnson Trinitee Johnson Adam Jones Brittany Jones Drew Jones Lexis Jones Nyjah Jones Alexander Karlander Alan Kassel Michaela Kelley Kendal Kendrick Nicole Kessler Meredith Kimmell Taylor Kincaid Catrianna King Precious Kioni Klay Kirby Kathryn Knight Sally Knoop James Kohlmeyer Frances Kontor Will Krebs Adam Kron Mackenzie Kruger Adam L'Huillier Rachel Landis Brandon Laskowski Grace Lavier Jacob Lawrence Autumn Lawson Erika Leak Shelbi

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Ledgerwood Eternity Lee Airika Lewis Jordan Lockett Zachary Long Austin Love Makayla Love Christopher Lowery Isaac MacedonioVelazq Ashlyn Marcum Shalecia Martin Sydney Martin Donald Mason Cassidy Mattingly Caitlin May Briana McCoy Desiree McCoy Nicholas McCue Christian McKinley Kyle Mccann Emma Mccarty Isaiah Mccoy Liam Mcguire Elise Mcqueen Michael Mead Sydney Meadors Keller Mellowitz Luke Mercuri Arianna Method Olivia Mikkelson Evan Miller Lily Miller Brandon Milton Breytn Minor Rilan Mirasol Jewel Mitchell Moira Monson Jhasmeen Montel Ayesha Naderi Cameron Neal Jordon New Lauren Newbern Alexis Nicolazzi Dana Northam Giavanni Nowlin Madison Odendahl Hannah Ogden Emily Olguin Jaren Orr Brianna Page Karissa Palmer Julia Paramore Zachary Patterson Lauren Pease Toni Pennington Anthony Perea-

Midence Austin Perkins Brittney Pinkston Jala Powell Harley Price Nadia Price Luis Pulido Zachary Ramsey Shelby Ray Cooper Reed Gerricka Reese Sian Rhodes Emily Rinear Deanda Rivera Jade Roberson Tia Robinson Jela Roche Damian Roldan Eric Rosado Ebone Rowe Taoscha Rowie Nicholas Rowland Kayleigh Rozzi Bailey Ruble Eliot Rudie Lucas Rumer Alexis Russell Hailey Russell Jordan Russell Audreona Sarellano Jaryn Satterfield Jackson Schaefer Taylor Scharbrough Emma Schiller Evan Schoettle Sarah Schoettmer Jarren Scott Bryanna Seneriz Jordan Shaw Hannah Sherfick Elliott Shide Zachary Siddiq Emily Simcox Aerial Simmons Morgan Sims Dolores Slagle Arlen Smit Chad Smith Dionne Smith Jacob Smith Kayla Smith Tiyriaun Smith Tyleesha Snorden Cheyenne Snyder Jessica Sommers Meghan Sommers Chantae Soper

Tiara Spells Olivia Staniszewski Jessica Stewart Nicholas Strada Harrison Suesz Cole Suiter Emma Svendsen Noah Swanson Anissa Talbot Delaney Tansy Kaleigh Tansy Morgan Tedrow Sarah Tewes Genevieve Thibault Eli Thomas Erin Thomas Nicole Thomas Victoria Thomas Parker Thomason Cameron Thompson Mckinzie Thurman Christian Todd Miracle Townsel Kaelyn Townsend Sydney Trappier Jeremy Tromiczak Ronold Tusing Brooklynn Underwood Mackenzie Vandagrifft Mikayla Vaughn Shelby Vaughn Cory Vervynckt Hannah Vitali Emma Wadsworth Althea Walker Mccauleigh Whalen Christopher White Giovonni White Alesha Whittlesey Sara Wichlinski Olivia Willem Bria Williamson Halie Wills Tyler Wilska Maia Wilson Janelle Woodall Zachary Worden Alyssa Wright Megan Zagaros Jerome Zirnheld Ingalls Jessica Wilson

Jasper Adam Betz Trey Matheis Tanner Scott Jeffersonville Carley Calabro Hayleigh Caldwell Christian Denning Kila Egly Kelsey Luce Evan Rogers Amber Schlosser Jonesboro Cassidy Eck Jada Johnson Lane Smith Kempton Charli Dwigans Kendallville Brittany Arnold Megan Butler Hana Castle Saturnina Dominguez Emilea Herkel Abigail Vanderkaay Brennen Walton Kingsford Heights Autumn Easley Knightstown Dalton Moss Chelsea Smith Abbie True Knox Katlin Fletcher Kayla Gagnon Summer Skibbe Kokomo Shaylee Beall Caleb Bewley Deanna Bishop Bailey Brooks Evan Catron Linda Coe Shelby Comfort Hallie Davis Noah Dowden Alexandra Guangco

Peyton Hawk Camden Hochgesang Kaitlyn Husband Emily Jones Madilyn Keene Tristan Keller Courtney Mckoon Hannah Morrow Allison Norman Demitra Novinger Abigail Olsen Mary Payne Madison Pratt Kaitlyn Russell Teresa Rutherford Connor Sanburn Asa Sewell Kaitlyn Smith Zachary Zentz La Fontaine Hannah King Ruth Schultz Jared Smith La Porte Bianca Batten Hayley Benner Daniel Council Bethany Eyrick Caroline Francis Ryan Freese Alexandria Galaviz-Pliske Thalia Garcia Alexander Gushrowski Amelia Murphy Justin Rozinski Celeste Segura Abigail Sightes Marissa Sullivan Loucas Vasilarakos Amanda Wolfe Rachel Wolfe LaGrange Gunnar Eagleson Alexander Hill Ladoga Race Olinger Lafayette Nikoli Balser Jackson Barnes Justin Beimfohr

Emma Bowman Haley Burns Madisen Campbell Cecily Cavanaugh Lily Clark Samantha Coffing Brianna Coombs Zachary Criswell Sydney Davidson Courtney Davis Rachel East Rory Evans Jaila Ezell Gabrielle Fisher Sean Fleeger Justice Haas Lauren Haywood Makenzie Jacot Brieanna Johnson Alex Kalinowski Janelle Lee Nathan Matson Lauren Meyer Morgan Mobley Angiemar Naranjo Sean O'Brien Katlyn Pigg Sophie Post Madeline Ritchie Katherine Rosebraugh Bria Schley Hannah Scott Jonathan Sorgenfrei Jordan Swingle Riley Vedder Alise Weeks Brendan Williams Keely Young Lake Station Ashley Bellamy Brian Walker Anke Rudloff Lapel Taylor Anderson Cameron Bowen Hannah Chinn Jacob Gehring Richard Graham Braxton Kemerly Alexis Taylor Kaylee Vibbert Lexis Wattler Kennedy Young

Laporte Caitlyn Demlein Gabrielle Gresham Kylie Harmon Emmanuel Renteria John Roebuck Larwill Audrey Cain Laurel Rebecca Lecher Lawrenceburg Allyson Bamberger Jeffrey Curtis Josie Denton Sidney Fox Elijah Gannaway Valerie Green Thomas May Erin Powell Mckenna Telsrow Audrey Williams Lebanon Luke Betts Baylee Burcham Jayda Cleaveland Katlyn Coddington Carter Dial Marie Dickison Brady Krueger Michaela Marshall Samuel Mendez Caitlin Osburn Kyleigh Robbins Andrew Thomas Carlos Trincado Madison Turley Cameron Wilson Leesburg Rylan Kuhn Emma Tomasik Leo Conner Call Amanda Hopkins Jade Lambert Abigail Lambright Kelli Loraine Gracie Noel Marcus Jennings

73 Lewisville Deven Jones

Macy Hannah Grismore

Lexington Madeline Boldery Angel Gee

Madison Daniel Anderson Amelia Bowling Montana Hosmer Blake Kiefer Emma Staicer Casey Williams

Liberty Gabriella Bartos Kylie Coffman Tristan Migoski James Persinger Reed Singer Ligonier Erin Mawhorter Lizton Ethan Altman Klaudia Cox Peyton Jeter Todd Watts Logansport Alexa Abbott Brittany Bandy Josie Burgess Haley Carlson Lena Dickerson Drake Hall Jarod Heuer Isabelle Kraud Madison Looker Anastasia Scott Brandilyn Sholty Alexis Spencer Loogootee Sara Bailey Shania Swigler Losantville Colt Meranda Lowell Joseph Cardenas Ellie Chandos Lucas Finger Katie Hult MacKenzie Torphy Lynn Cassandra Fritts Laynee Laxton Dane Manning Gavin Richards Lyons Rylee Ellett

Marion Nathan Blem Caleb Davis Alexandra Durbin Kristofer Fairbanks Sophia Hoffert Shaylee Riggs Matthew Schmidt Meredith Sharlow Ianne Lloyd Sierra Zachery Tarr Austin Wass Brooke Zoda

McCordsville Donovan Bigelow Alexander Griego Caylee Guy Aaron Henriott Anna Himes Erin Lyday Garrett Mauk Sheala Porter Michael Rodriguez Emily Wickline Medaryville Breanna Fairchild Maddison Schultz Mentone Paeton Waymire

Markle Ryan Bertsch Jarrett Braden Taylor Byerly

Merrillville Alina Garcia Simone Lara Carlos Mejia Jaia Montgomery Jordan Otero Infinity Patton Terry Sabbath Allison Vanderbilt Joshua Williams

Markleville Megan Reeves

Mexico Jacob Blackford

Martinsville Jianni Adams Kaci Alvarez Hannah Beaton Bryer Clephane Katlyn Collins Zander Cunningham Bethany Elmore Makayla Hughes Emma Malwitz Joseph Markitan Riley May Hayley Parnell Tessa Perryman John Richards Olivia Rito Alex Russell Faith Sample Elijah Thacker Savanah Trimble

Michigan City Kory Blacksten Christian Cruz Emily Dirks Andrew Gray Karmen Halfacre Destiny Harvel Markice Hurt Andrew Jackson Tyler Johnston Rachel Krentz Amara Lewis Mckenzie Moore Christopher Taves

Matthews Joshlyn Crouch

Middlebury Hannah Bemiller Eryn Calfee Brody Long Xavier Miller Zackari Welker Danielle Wier Middletown Sara Conner Dax Dunigan

Zoe Dwiggins Emilee Garman Chloe Harman Molly Hensley Savanna Keller Clayton Mercer Lauren Stewart Alyssa Tarantino Madison Wilson Austin Zimmer

Ruth Murcia Guardado

Milan Jacob Bonar Ashley Bowling Loganne Meyer

Monroeville Ryan Sprague

Milford Zebulon Glon Olivia Heim Milroy Kelly Brown Mishawaka Sean Bird Christopher Bucker Rebecca Byers Brian Campbell Victoria Canarecci Janessa Chesnic Eva Daniels Alexandria Forte Raegan Freitag Nina Hernandez Brittney Hosler Briana Howe Joseph Howe Jay Jeffcoat Zoe Labonte Peter Lehmann Gabriella Livingston Joseph McIntire Kayla Molnar Shelby Ping Zoe Will Cailin Wood Mitchell Kelsey Enlow Martha Morris Modoc Taylor Hayre Monon Alexander Cobb Cramer Coonrod

Monroe Blake Bauman Juliana Bluhm Jessah Klug Monroe City Morgan Engstrom

Monrovia Trinity Jackson Montgomery Emma Steiner Monticello Dorien Scheets Jenna Tribbett Kassandra Wade Montpelier Blake Dollier Braxton Gerber Joel Neff Tommy Simmons Mooreland Jamie Bennett Moores Hill Georgia Hummel Mooresville Jayden Alvarado Luke Farb Carli Grass Jarrett Hufferd Cassidy Lawrence Anna Logan Cora Murray Allison Ulrey Abigail Zerfass Morristown Jason Redd Mount Ayr Steven Long Mount Summit Allison Pinon Muncie Alexis Adams

Nikita Adams Carter Anderson Jayco Applegate Dylan Ayers Abigail Bartels Sydney Baule Brendan Beaty Jacob Bell Darrell Bennett Kianna Blevins Mckenzie Blue Rebekah Boutwell Kailey Boyatt Kiersten Brannon Parker Bright Devin Briles Raigan Brooks Lauren Brown Joel Buckler Dacia Case Isabella Centofanti Andrew Chambers Alivia Chriswell Michelle Clark Olivia Clark Karli Conwell Sarah Creviston Chase Curry Conner Davis Christopher Dillon Richard Eber Taylor Ergle Hannah Erlewein Brittany Evans Kathryn Flick Cami Foreman Brandon Foster Jesse Fredericksen Lauren Fullington Corey Garrett Shelby Good Aaron Green Serena Green Carlee Griffith Nicole Guirovich Bailey Hansard Malcom Harris Emma Hawkins Adam Haynes Hannah Hayth Griffin Hill Gentry Hoyt Audrey Hunt Samuel Huston Kiefer Jacobs Mariah Jacox Dakota Jefferis Wonhyung Jo

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Haley Johnson Mekayla Johnson Emma Keppler Jacob Kern April King Samuel Kinghorn Cory Kirby Jadelyn Knight Chloe Krejsa Kayli Lacy Wyatt Lawrence Mary Ann Lindburgh Rogan Long Caleb Losh Kaci Mangus Chase Marlow Kassidy McDonald Isaac McGarvey Makenzie Meeks Alyssa Merkel Luke Miller Trenton Miller Katrina Mitchell Joshua Moore Levi Morrison Shelby Murphy Sophia Murray Audrey Musal Seleste Musick Cheyenne Myers Hanna Myers Shelbi Oakley Emma Pease Jocelyn Peckham Tazmyn Pegues Elisha Privett Whitney Quirk Melissa Rahe Loren Rector Micaya Richardson Melody Riegle Taylor Robinson Kelsee Roe Alyssa Romack Korrigan Runyon Mallory Salmon Zachary Schultz Jonathan Serf James Shallcross Jeanne Shaner Kylie Sheffer Michael Shields Abigail Shirey Cassie Short Allison Simmons Dylan Small Audree Speicher Aspen Stanley

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Erin Strahle Emma Taylor Conner Tighe Chloe Townsend Chandler Tucker Rebecka Vannatta Calandra Weaver Cierra West Robin Whitesel Jaycee Whitesell Barbara Willey Hannah Williams Kristen Zimmers

Munster Ani Arzumanian Olivia Bednarowski Joshua Brann Jenna Cappo Abigail Kiesling Brittney Lee Tatyana Magana Sidney Milne Vincent RamosNiaves Breann Ward Chloe Wineinger Nappanee Sara Bowling Cameron Dodson Kerstin Doerr Natalie Eby Saben Nusbaum Hannah Simon Crystal Zimmer New Albany Martha Angeles Jason Berryman Kristen Bradley Taylor Castleberry Matthew Fitzsimmons Megan Grimm Catherine Hertog Abigail Huff Olivia Jansen Sophia Lyons Lindsey Miller Bradley Powell Jillian Renner Luis Romines Alexis Sage Taylor Souder Asher Wheat

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New Carlisle Alexis Eggleston Madelynn Goldenstern Kelsey Moore Tess Trent New Castle Stephanie Baker Madison Cross Baleigh Davis Serena De'Tar Taylor Floyd Sidny Grow Klarysa Hawrot Gabriel Hua Serinna Hughes Kirsten Inabnitt Jakob Lamb Mason Luellen Alayna Messang Jessica Mixell Kamryn Owens Olivia Porter Ryan Reese Jessica Sloan Wayde Stiers Kerrigan Thalls Olivia Turner Cassandra Underwood Derek Ward Mikayla West Alexis Whitted New Haven Noah Aumick Desirae Bledsoe Christian ChaconCanales Holly Hamman Clifton Harris Dane Herschberger Kelsey Jones Evan Lane Gabriella Miller Erin Simons Jenna Sovine New Market Alexander Burner New Palestine Melissa Anness David Apple Leah Bare Emily Bastian Katelin Berebitsky Allison Bullard

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Colbi Dewitt Samantha Eldridge Samuel Ellis Samantha Felling Christopher Golab Jordan Harrison Gunnar Large Dillon McBee Alexis Miller Noe Mobley Ana Ostendorf Michael Parker Cameron Shanahan Noah Smock Lauren Williams New Paris Hannah Jarvis Paul Mendoza Claudia Method Zachary Wagler New Ross Madeline Fennell Madison Mosbaugh New Salisbury Kallie Hunchman New Washington Hanna Collins Newburgh Jacob Bambenek Morgan Beck Haley Crumb Austin Fest Barbara Gray Michael Harvey Bryn Ingram Kelsey Kroeger Allison Long Ryan May Harley Miles Alissa Mintner Noah Nurrenbern Emma Regan Jarod Rudisill Matthew Schulte Hannah Siebold Matleah Stewart Nick Warren Nineveh Alivia Hicks

Noblesville Madeline Backs Kaylyn Bansbach Hailey Barnes Chandler Baumgardner Austin Beard Adam Beaupre Alexander Board Drew Bollenbacher Jordan Brantley Katelynn Burdine Eric Camper Hailey Carlson Elliot Charlebois Carolyn Chinni Sarah Collins Isabella Cook Andrea Cooper Nicholas Copenhaver Tyler Crandall Corbin Curnutt James DeRose Samuel Ditslear Tara Douglas Lily Dutchess Sydney Encinias Shauna Fenderson John Field Madison Gregory Jordyn Guenin Emmanuel Guerra Nicholas Halbert Anna Harp Jadelynn Hudson Ethan Hutchinson Dylan Johnson Julianne Kaess Artyom Kazantsev Brooke Keel Bradley Killion Nicholas Kincaid Robert Klueber Alice Kussow Ilda LemuzDominguez Lucy Lorton Maggie Markwood Joselyne Martinez Leslie Mazariegos Bradley McClure Marissa McDonald Corby Mertens Laurin Michael Brandon Miller Joel Minett James Minor Abigail Morehead

Zachary Mullins Amanda Naaman Grace Newman Emily Olsen Sarah Orr Megan Parsley Hannah Perry Alec Piggott Sarah Rafferty Sarah Ranker Skylar Rawlings Emma Renner Reagan Rose Trevor Stiver Aaron Tharp Nicholas Totty Garrett Ulshafer John Vastag Giles Ward Molly Whitesell Nicole Whitman Jamie Wiederholt Clay Wiese Morgan Williams Rebecca Wood Grant Yoder

Oldenburg Alana Pinckley Osceola Aislinn Cazallis Dakota Dempler Tyler Ganser Melanie Isenbarger Kyle O'Konski Hannah Simnick Riley Smith Robert Thornsen Thomas Wiseman Ossian Kate Mahnensmith Samantha Pittman Melody Smith Otterbein Jarod Philhower Oxford Jenna Gobel

Norman Mackenzie Persinger

Palmyra Madison Trowbridge

North Judson Caroline Hileman

Paoli Angelena Pierce

North Liberty Sailor Canfield Louis Delinski Seth Kasznia Emily Pecsi Emily Toth Christopher Valentiny

Paris Crossing Carissa Kinney

North Manchester Hunter Boughman Erin Metzger Alexander Newell North Vernon Kayla Gross Ashton Koons Celeste Noel Kayla Ramsey Kathryn Reitman Denza Simpson North Webster Rhett Coblentz Carter Jones

Parker City Elizabeth Beatrice Dalton Cooper Cory Huffman Nathan Mccord Jake Merkel Jacob Wilson Joshua Wilson Isabelle Wright Pendleton Julia Avey Hunter Beeson Nathan Case Bailey Castillion Grant Denney Dawson Farrer Jordan Fox Savannah Hamel Brandon Helpling Iris Hines Talin Ivey Autumn Johnson

John Kane Delaney Long Damon Mabrey Joseph Mattick MaKenzie McGuire Morgan Milner Meghan Pleiman Bryce Riggs Kellie Ring Riley Robertson Bailey Teague Cully Upperman Katelin Wittkamper Pennville Kyndal Miller Peru Katherine Chandler Mackenna Dawalt Brett Miller Alexandra Pruett Christa Skinner Hannah Swick Morgan Williams Jadelin Wolfe Gavin Wouster Pittsboro Brendan Connelly Devin Courtney Ethan Gick Grace Marshall Reid Replogle Casey Stamm Plainfield Alexander Angle Alexander Boehme-Mason Elizabeth Bowman Devin Bridget Kaitlynn Cragen Brooke Davis Daniel Davis Daylon Flick Garrett Gagliola Sophia Muncie Travis Johnson Emma Legg Tyler Marks Cooper Nichols Meghan Owens Mason Smith Carissa Southwood Robert Sterrett

Victoria Treash Savannah Urban Bradley Whicker Plymouth Ashley Crosby Jessica Drury Emma Frantz Emily Hoffer Tanner Kinney Katie McCormick Nathanael Nixon Justin Russell Kennedy Snyder Madison Stevens Zoelle Zellers Poland Stacy Payton Poneto Delaney Smith Portage Kylie Edwards Natalie Fultz Tyler Goodman Madison McCulloch Nancy Michko Ashley Music Shavonte Shine Ashley Taylor Ethan Warne Christian Zepeda Porter Jacob Dibble Alexander Janke Grace Polka Alexus Reyes

Quincy Jozie Walls Ramsey Blake Phelps Redkey Dakota Grove Megan Johnson Allison Louck Maddison Louck Isabelle Minnich Reelsville Sabrina Phillips Remington Rebecca Christopher Rensselaer Christina Clendenin Kelsy Spurgeon Richmond Parth Brahmbhatt Hannah Davis Michael Grayson Daniel Grinspan Taylor Jackson Marie Lindahl Jakob Rosenberger Christopher Sanchez Alyssa Steffen Seth Stegall Kurtis Stuckey Alonzo Villafuerte Gabriel Wyatt

Portland Chelsea Faulkner Lee Habegger Alec Hutchison Erika Kunkler Trent Miller Emily Muhlenkamp Bryan Stancliffe Katelyn Theurer Luke Weaver Carlie Wickey

Ridgeville Brianna Biser Brodie Campbell Michael Georgi Victoria Outcalt

Princeton Bradly Martin Eli Sokeland

Roann Ellie Milam

Rising Sun Cecilia Lambertson Roachdale Christopher Hites

Roanoke Kathryn Ausban

75 Olivia Barfell Collin Good Rachel Myer Erick Sands Alicia Speer Rochester Kallie Adams Brandon Havron Ashley Nault Rosalie Navarro Tricia Timmons Rockport Rianna Schwartz Rockville Olivia Morgan Cailon Nicoson Bailey Vukovits Rolling Prairie Braxton Bolka Chloe Brewer Ryan Dessart Rome City Erica Adams Caden Lavigne Rosedale Logan Blubaugh Rossville Elizabeth MichaelButler Emma Remaly Rushville Madison Owen Frances Percell Madison Sutter Lily Wilson

Randa Ruder Hannah Souronis Cailee Wilkinson Jessica Wojton Saint Leon Erin Wilhelm Salem Cameron Wininger Santa Claus Noah Loper Saratoga Grace Retter Schererville Emily Badger Allison Book Matthew Brady Samantha Brosseau Jenna Buntin Jillian Cloghessy Anna Crnkovich Sara Haney Maxwell King Trevor O'Donnell Breanna Patrick Patrick Reardon Jaicie Reed Ayanna Robertson Maja Vidovic Tyler Winiecki Scipio Ashley Porter Scottsburg Parker Barrett Megan Thomas

Russiaville Brice Peters

Sedalia Madison Houser

Saint John Bianca Alessia Steven Barach Ian Buckner Isabella Gomez Madison Hardy Debra Hayes Thomas Hayes Abigail Hines Alexis Kelly Brandon Monzel Kellie Repasi Bailey Rice

Sellersburg Katelyn Broussard Kassidy Grangier Victoria Hopkins Emily Reed Adam Rivera Isabel Salcedo Kathryn Santos Noah Scott Selma Nathan Beaty Nathan Brosio

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Ball State students walk across the street on a rather foggy day on Ball State’s campus. KELLEN HAZELIP, DN

Passing it on

Use these tips to make your first year go a little smoother Sometimes it’s a good thing to stand out from the crowd, but maybe you don’t want to look like that stereotypical freshman.

You’ll fit in with the older Cardinals if you follow these tips:

LANYARDS

Be careful with the free lanyard your RA gave you on move-in day.

Most often they have dorm names on them, so anyone you meet will instantly know where you live. This could be harmful while you’re off campus. You can get a generic lanyard at the bookstore in the Arts and Journalism building, or at TIS.

CAMPUS MAPS

You can avoid walking into the wrong building and classroom by downloading the Ball State University Map app. You can be low-key and look like you are just texting or listening to music like every other student, when in actuality, you’re lost and have no idea where you are. It helps to memorize your schedule too.

BE YOURSELF

College is the time to be the person you wanted to be, not something you’re not so when you are at your first party, or social interaction, do

you and don’t worry about everyone else. Often times, people appreciate the person who is just themselves over someone who’s fake.

GRIND ON

Do your homework the night before, get a full nights rest, and show up alert for class in the morning. College professors also aren’t lenient, so make it your priority to get good grades because no one else will do it for you.

CHIRP CHIRP

You didn’t choose to go anywhere else and neither did any of your friends, who are listening to you tell the story about where all you got in.

Avoid those conversations about the school you “could’ve gone to,” because you didn’t. Most times, you will only remember those schools for a limited time and by the time sophomore year hits, you’ll struggle to recollect where else you got in.

Update social media:

Most likely your profile picture is still from your senior prom, graduation or better yet your senior pictures. Yeah, it is time to change it.

Take a picture with your new college roommate, find a selfie on campus or do nearly anything to update your profile.

This will go a long way in people seeing

you as an actual grown up now.

Also, be careful what you choose to post on social media/clean yours up. Potential employers aren’t too impressed with and underage person drinking or doing drugs on their social media. Be smart.

STAY HEALTHY

Your freshman year will be hard. Stay healthy in body and spirit by taking advantage of what Ball State has to offer. Enjoy the free use of the recreation center, health center, learning center, and our outdoor spaces on campus.

Take advantage of NetNutrition from Ball State Dining because you might find it hard to stay healthy if you don’t know what is really in the food choices you’re making. This services points out gluten free, vegetarian and vegan options and gives you a head’s up on dining menus.

HAVE FAITH

All of these tips can help you fit in during college, but the biggest one?

Confidence.

Believe and have faith in yourself, and nothing can stop you. If you act scared to get involved or take leadership roles, you’re not doing what college is made for.

Take advantage and have fun.

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Ball State has its own words and abbreviations, which can be confusing to new students. Here is a list of the most commonly used terms: Buildings

Transportation

• AJ: The Art and Journalism Building is commonly referred to as AJ or The Atrium.

The Atrium is the food court located in AJ and has popular restaurants such as Papa John’s and Chick-fi l-A. • BC: Ball Communications is the building between Letterman and AJ and houses the Telecommunications office, University MediaServices, green screen studios and classrooms.

• RB: Robert Bell is the academic building located on the corner of McKinley and Neely English, math and computer science classes are held in RB as well as a testing lab.

• CAP: The building that students in the College of Architecture and Planning (CAP) have classes in.

• Red Loop: The Red Loop travels through campus, to stadium overflow and back.

• Green Loop: Travels through campus to the Alumni Center, Scheumann and University Apartments.

• MITS: The Muncie Indiana Transit System (MITS) is free for students to ride with their ID. The MITS bus goes to various locations throughout Muncie, including Walmart and Mall.

• Charlie’s Charter: A free shuttle bus service that will pick students up and drop them off at night on university: owned property. It runs SunThurs from 6 p.m. to 3 a.m. and Fridays from 4-7 p.m. during the school year and 4 p.m.: 3 a.m.

Sun: Thurs during the summer.

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Ball State’s Frog Baby fountain as seen between trees in the middle of the spring on campus. BRE DAUGHTERY, DN

Campus Landmarks • Naked Lady: Forest Idyll, more commonly known as the Naked Lady, is located in Bracken Library. The statue serves as a common meeting place for classes or projects.

• Benny: Beneficence is the logo that frequently appears in Ball State’s marketing. She is located near Lucina Hall on the south end of campus.

Benny represents the generosity of the five Ball Brothers who founded the university.

• Frog Baby: Sits in a fountain near Whittenger and Bracken Library. Legend has it that you can rub Frog Baby’s nose for good luck. Students frequently dress her up for holidays, events and in the winter to keep her warm.

• Cow Path: A sidewalk that starts behind LaFollette and ends at Riverside Avenue by the Fine Arts Building.

• Duck Pond: Located behind the Johnson Complex is a common place for students to relax.

• University Green: Events are frequently held here, it’s the grassy area between CAP and Bracken.

• Scramble Light: Located at the intersection of McKinley and Riverside, the Scramble Light will chirp occasionally and allow students to cross in any direction.

• Blue Emergency Lights: Emergency callboxes are around campus and are indicated with a blue light. When the red button is pushed, UPD is dispatched.

• Shafer Tower: More commonly known as the Bell Tower, Shafer Tower will ring every 15 minutes.

• The Quad: The grass area near North Quad, the AD Building and Burkhardt.

Other • Dining Plus: Every student with a meal plan has an allotted amount of dining plus. If they go over their $8.50 meal swipe, the remaining balance can be deducted from their dining plus.

• Bed Race: During Homecoming Week, part of Riverside Ave is closed for Bed Races.

Different student organizations take turns in teams of five racing a bed down the street.

• Happy Friday Guy: Every Friday, a guy in a blue morph suit will ride around campus on a scooter, giving high fives and saying “Happy Friday!”

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