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SWEET 16: BASKETBALL IS MORE THAN A GAME AT BSU 414 Hamilton Township Annual Hog Roast: The fire department served pulled pork meals. 418

Downtown Muncie hosts Muncie Makers Market: Every Saturday, business owners sell their food and crafts. 420

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Subway accepting Cardinal Cash

Sexual assault reported Cardinals gives Irish a in residence hall run for their money

4Sept. 6: The Subway in the Village is the fifth business to accept Cardinal Cash — an account where Ball State students and faculty can put money into and access using their ID. Students looking to dine at Hot Box, Jimmy John’s, Two Cats Café, Pita Pit and now Subway, can use that account to make food purchases off campus.

MFD responds to fire on 17th and Hoyt

4Sept. 9: Muncie Fire Department and Delaware County EMS responded to a residential fire at 17th Street and Hoyt Avenue, Sunday, around 9 p.m. According to MFD Capt. Paul Sykes, the structure that caught on fire was abandoned and no one was hurt. However, the fire had also taken down power and cable lines.

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4Sept. 8: A campus-wide Public Safety Advisory email was sent Saturday regarding a sexual assault report in an on-campus residence hall. This is the second reported sexual assault this semester. Last year, there were 27 cases of rape and 26 cases of forcible fondling reported, according to the 2017 Annual Campus Security Report.

Soccer draws to Western Illinois in overtime

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4Sept. 12: The Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), which was established September 1978, recently celebrated its anniversary on Ball State’s campus.

The chapter is one of three in the country with an Army National Guard professor of military science and one of 274 recognized chapters currently in the country.

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4Sept. 10: Ball State Soccer wrapped up its non-conference slate against Western Illinois Sunday.

After the Leathernecks took the lead early in the game, senior forward Allison Abbe tied it up late to force the game into overtime. After two periods of extra time, neither team could not find the back of the net and would draw, 1-1.

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4Sept. 8: In their first meeting ever, Ball State football headed north to South Bend, Indiana, to take on No. 8 Notre Dame. ESPN gave the Cardinals a 0.9 percent chance to win. A strong defensive performance resulted in the Cardinals only losing by eight. The Cardinals head to Bloomington Saturday to face Indiana.

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4ON THE COVER: Fog fades away Tuesday, Sep. 11, 2018, at Minnetrista as the sun breaks through the clouds for the first time in nearly a week to shine on 1,000 Flags of Honor. This was sixth year flags have been placed by Exchange Club of Muncie to honor all those who have served. ERIC PRITCHETT, DN

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Cooper Science demolition requested Ball State Board of Trustees met Friday and reviewed a proposed design for the $87.5 million Foundational Sciences Building, which the state agreed to fund after students sent letters expressing their concerns of the 50-year-old Cooper Science Building.

The demolition of Cooper Science will cost $59.9 million.

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Lawsuit leads to revision of fee policy for student organizations Adam Pannel | Reporter

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A policy change that guides what student organizations are eligible to apply to receive in activity fees is one result of a recently-settled lawsuit brought against the university by a pro-life student group.

Ball State’s chapter of Students for Life, an organization whose mission is to “recruit, train, and mobilize the Pro-Life Generation [sic] to abolish abortion,” sued the university in June after it was denied $300 to be used toward educational

resources for pregnant and parenting students.

The group alleged that the university’s previous student activity fee policy upheld a “system that permits viewpoint discriminatory allocation of those funds,” according to court documents, adding that the university would not fund “any organization which engages in activities, advocacy or speech in order to advance a particular political interest, religion, religious faith or ideology.”

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Car catches fire in the Village Ball State alumnus David Pankow’s car caught on fire Friday in the Village. Pankow was on his way to his 11:30 a.m. shift at Pita Pit when he noticed his car was making noise.

When he arrived, he found the car in flames. The Muncie Fire Department responded and no one was hurt.

Student Government

SGA completes 3 out of 16 platform points The Student Government Association (SGA) executive slate Amplify has completed three out of 16 platform points, SGA president Isaac Mitchell said Wednesday at SGA’s senate meeting. Amplify has created parking passes for expectant mothers, reinstated shuttles to football games and continued shuttles from campus to the Farmer’s Market.

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New York Times Magazine photo critic to lecture for Ball State Centennial Sara Barker Reporter

Just as the centennial blends Ball State’s past and future, this event’s speaker knows stories are much more than a timeline.

Teju Cole, a novelist and photography critic for The New York Times Magazine, will host “Breaking Form and Getting Free: A Conversation Around Words and Images” Thursday, Sept. 13.

Having lived in Michigan, Cole is no stranger to the Midwest, but his perspective is that of a perpetual outsider.

Cole was born in the United States, but his family moved to Nigeria when he was four months old.

He’s not like other photo critics and artists.”

- JACINDA RUSSELL, Ball State art photography teacher

He remained there until he graduated high school and went back to the United States for college.

“It was kind of a return home, in that sense,” Cole said.

Though Cole has now lived in the United States for most of his life, he still has what he calls an “outsider-ish energy,” not fitting well here nor in Nigeria.

“It really has shaped the way I see being American,” Cole said.

The photo critic and novelist studied art history and medical research while an undergraduate, his path through life is not one he said he could recommend to college students hoping to write or take photos for a living.

“If you look at your life in retrospect from where you are looking at the past, it’s quite interesting,” Cole said. “It makes sense. All your paths led you to here. But at the time when you’re going through it, it doesn’t make sense.”

Cole, who will be speaking to an audience of college students searching for their life’s path, said he can offer other advice that has led to his success: doing work, generating his best and being intense.

Those elements in combination, Cole said, are likely to bring anyone success.

The title of Cole’s upcoming conversation aligns with some of his most recent work in his book “Blind Spot.” There, he places a lyric poem

on the left page of a spread, a photo of his on the right and creates a dialogue that, through the work, explores the places he has visited and the social spaces created.

Cole said his work also questions how society remembers the past and how that deep memory interprets experiences. In this way, Cole said a photograph transcends its outward beauty and “retrieves the past” in its interpretation.

“It’s supposed to push something nearer to the wall in some way,” Cole said.

This essence of remembrance and a way of analyzing it was something Tim Berg, an honors humanities professor who had the idea to bring Cole to campus, thought was central to the centennial.

Berg isn’t the only professor who has taken note of Cole’s work. Jacinda Russell teaches art photography classes at Ball State and has assigned her students to study “Blind Spot” and his other work as a photo critic.

Russell, who said she has followed Cole for four or five years, sees the critic and novelist as a fresh, contemporary voice in media and to the art scene.

“He’s not like other photo critics and artists,” Russell said.

As an art major concentrating in photography and minoring in creative writing, senior Callie Zimmerman is part of the class reading “Blind Spot,” a work she calls “mysterious.”

“I was really interested in his work because a lot of my work is pairing photographic images with text,” Zimmerman said.

Zimmerman describes Cole’s work as complex,

Teju Cole, award-winning novelist, essayist, photographer and photography critic for The New York Times Magazine, will visit Ball State’s campus Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018 at 8 p.m. in John R. Emens Auditorium. YASMINE OMARI, PHOTO PROVIDED but not because of lofty verbage or academic jargon. Cole’s experiences in travelling and his perspective on America show in his work, and is something Zimmerman said she now knows she could incorporate in her own portfolio.

Cole’s lecture will begin at 8 p.m. in

Emens Auditorium.

Contact Sara Barker at slbarker3@bsu.edu or @sarabarker326.

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NIGERIA Centennial speaker Teju Cole was born in the United States but emigrated to Nigeria when he was four months old. He returned to his birth country to attend college. ELLIOTT DEROSE, DN

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STD cases on the rise

Fourth consecutive year for sharp increases in STD cases, according to CDC Rohith Rao Reporter

Ball State recently settled with pro-life student group Students for Life. The group said the policy regarding student organization activity fees was not applied on the same basis to all student organizations. REBECCA SLEZAK, DN

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The group believed the university violated its own guidelines and complained the old policy was not publicly accessible online. The new policy still cannot be accessed on any publicly accessible website or in the 2018-19 Student Organization Handbook. The deadline to change the policy was Sept. 7, according to court documents.

The Student Activity Fee Committee, the group responsible for deciding when an organization needs funding under these guidelines, granted money for organizational activities to groups

We are looking forward to sharing our message of hope with pregnant and parenting students.”

- JULIA WEIS, Students for Life president including Feminists for Action, which promotes Planned Parenthood and Spectrum, whose mission is to “educate the Ball State and Muncie communities on lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgendered issues, cultures and history.”

As a result of the federal lawsuit, the university has not only agreed to pay the student group $300, plus the group’s attorney fees totaling $12,000, but it has also agreed to revise the student activity fees guidelines.

“We’re pleased that Ball State has agreed to treat pro-life student groups equally with other student groups,” Julia Weis, Students for Life president, said in an email. “We are looking forward to sharing our message of hope with pregnant and parenting students.”

The settlement states that Ball State is not “admitting liability or recognizing the validity of the plaintiff’s claims,” and the plaintiffs “are neither recognizing the validity of any defense defendants may have asserted.”

“Ball State University worked collaboratively with the students to promptly and amicable resolve the matter,” Marc Ransford, senior media strategist, said in an email. “Student organizations are a vibrant part of campus life.

The university looks forward to working with all student organizations as the updated policy is put into place.”

Going forward, the policy changes under the agreement include public recording of all funding committee meetings, a written reason for denying funds to any student group and the implementation of a new appeals process, all of which were not mandated prior to the lawsuit.

Caleb Dalton, an attorney with Alliance Defending Freedom, a pro-Christian rights advocacy organization that defended Students for Life, said he hopes the new policies will help promote an exchange of ideas on campus.

“It’s fundamental to public education, and really the furtherance of any university, that they uphold the free marketplace of ideas and allow students to be exposed to different viewpoints, and not discriminate against minority viewpoints,” Dalton said. “This new policy goes a long way to treating all viewpoints equally.”

Allie Kirkman contributed to this story.

Contact Adam Pannel with comments at arpannel@bsu.edu.

With bacterial sexually transmitted diseases on the rise, public health experts are recommending young people to exercise caution and undergo regular screening more frequently.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in a recent press release, reported nearly 2.3 million cases of bacterial STDs — including gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia — were diagnosed in 2017.

This is an increase of 200,000 from the previous year, marking the fourth consecutive year of sharp increases in the number of cases diagnosed.

“We know that younger populations are having less sex,” said Elizabeth Peeler, the health educator at Ball State’s Office of Health, Alcohol and Drug Education. “But they tend to have sex using less condoms.”

The CDC estimates youth from ages 15 to 24 make up just over one-quarter of the sexually active population but account for nearly half of new STD cases that occur in the U.S. every year.

According to the report, since 2013, gonorrhea diagnoses have seen a 67 percent overall increase.

Moreover, there is an increasing concern about gonorrhea becoming resistant to nearly every class of antibiotics used to treat it.

The report states primary and secondary syphilis diagnoses increased 76 percent with gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM) making up almost 70 percent of the cases.

“I think a lot of it is due to stigma and a lack of knowledge,” Peeler said. “I hear a lot from students who said they didn’t receive any medically accurate sex education.”

The CDC also said chlamydia remains the most common condition reported to the CDC with 1.7 million cases diagnosed last year alone.

Furthermore, females between the ages of 15 to 24 make up 45 percent of those cases.

In a recording from the 2018 STD Prevention Conference included in a press release from the CDC, David Harvey, the executive director of the National Coalition of STD Directors, said federal STD funding has seen a 40 percent decrease since 2003.

“That means that state and local health departments, most of which depend primarily on federal funding to support their STD programs, are working with budgets that are effectively of what they were 15 years ago,” he said.

Rebecca Sanders, the Infectious Disease Coordinator at the Madison County STD Clinic in Anderson, said the clinic has not been affected as it still receives funding from the Indiana State Department of Health.

The CDC also mentions socioeconomic factors like poverty, discrimination and drug use as possible reasons for the steep rise in STDs. Peeler said all these reasons together create the perfect storm for a steep increase in STIs. In order to prevent this, Ball State’s Health Center provides free HIV testing.

“Last year we got to do free STI testing as well;.

We’re working on that for this year,” Peeler said. “STI testing at the health center costs upwards of $25.”

Students can also meet with Peeler one-on-one to ask “more personal questions,” she said.

Peeler’s department also provides free barrier methods to help prevent STDs and unplanned pregnancy including male condoms, female condoms, dental dams, finger cots and lubrication, along with sexual health education information.

This can be accessed at The Condom Shoppe and The Express Condom Shoppe located on campus.

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

Increases of STD cases over the past 5 years Total cases have seen a

31% increase

over the past 5 years

1.8

2.3 MILLION CASES

Syphilis has seen a 76% increase over the past 5 years 333,004 cases in 2013 555,608 cases in 2017

MILLION CASES

Gonorrhea has seen a 67% increase over the past 5 years 17,375 cases in 2013 30,644 cases in 2017

2013

2017

Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). EMILY WRIGHT, DN

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UPD Chief shares his experiences working Charles Melton Reporter

When Chief Jim Duckham speaks, there is no mistaking his origins. Growing up in Long Island, New York, there wouldn’t be any way to hide his accent.

In the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, Duckham cheered relentlessly for his beloved Yankees, and he can drive you to a place in Queens where the pizza is typically New York-style: thin and hot.

Life as a patrol sergeant in Greenburgh, New York, was pretty much what Duckham expected it would be.

Until 17 years ago — Sept. 11, 2001 — Duckham, Ball State’s chief of police and director of public safety, like many other officers working in New York at the time, went to work on a day that would turn out to be one many Americans will never be able to forget.

The United States was attacked on its own soil, as two jets crashed into the World Trade Center and one jet flew into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. A fourth plane that was intended for the Washington, D.C., area was instead deliberately crashed into a field in Pennsylvania, after that plane’s passengers overpowered hijackers who had taken control of the flight.

“I remember it was a beautiful day,” Duckham said. “Just the weather, I don’t know if you’ve seen any of the footage ... just crystal clear.”

Duckham, who was 37 years old at the time, was one of 115 officers in the Greenburgh department. After reporting to work in the town with a population of more than 80,000, Duckham

fell into his normal routine. He completed roll call, gave assignments, assigned vehicles and sent the officers on their way.

“So it was kind of funny, I remember I was driving by town hall, it was just a beautiful day and I was listening to WPLJ. We didn’t have satellite radio in our police cars. That particular radio station was a current music type of thing,” Duckham said.

He was enjoying it, he said, though that wouldn’t

The TV was packed with people [crowded around] and everyone had started watching. I drove down [through] the south end of our town. We had three paid fire departments ... and by the time I got there, all the fire engines were gone.”

- JIM DUCKHAM, UPD Chief

be the case for long.

The program abruptly stopped and informed its audience that a plane had hit the World Trade

One wall inside the National September 11 Memorial & Museum boasts a quote from Virgil’s “The Aeneid.” Though scholars have debated its use, the quote is commonly interpreted to remind visitors of the nearly 3,000 people who were killed as a result of the terrorist attacks on America, on Sept. 11, 2001. LISA RENZE-RHODES, PHOTO PROVIDED

Center. Duckham assumed it was a smaller plane, not a jet and tuned in, hoping for more information.

“I thought, ‘Well that’s odd, how do you crash a plane into the World Trade Center?’” Duckham said.

By the time Duckham got back to the police station, the chief of police and captains had already arrived.

“The TV was packed with people [crowded around] and everyone had started watching,” Duckham said. “I drove down [through] the south end of our town. We had three paid fire departments ... and by the time I got there, all the fire engines were gone.

“I sat down for a minute and watched the coverage. It was pretty chaotic, really nobody knew at the time what was happening.”

As he watched the towers collapse, he wondered how anyone could survive.

Duckham, like many workers in the emergency service agencies, went into “save mode,” but at that moment, nobody knew what that would entail. He said a lot of the emergency responders who went to help weren’t actually called in, but self-dispatched to the scene.

“I don’t think anybody really understood the significance of that,” he said. “In policing and firefighting you’re like, ‘Oh, we’re going to go save people.’ That was our mentality.”

But Duckham and others who have first-hand memories of that day said the chaos of the situation made that self-dispatching more unintentionally problematic than helpful. That was driven in part by the sheer magnitude and unexpected horror of this type of emergency. In short, literally nothing like this had ever happened on American soil.

Greg Hess, a former member of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Indiana Task Force 1, was sent in with the group 16 hours after the second plane hit the second tower.

Task Forces in FEMA are specialized rescue units that are scattered across the country in case of a large disaster or emergency.

“You have so many people that are trying to help and want to help,” Hess said, “But you have to be able to document who they are and where they are in the event that, God forbid, they get hurt or worse.”

This, Hess said, made the initial response effort look like “a bunch of ants running around.”

Thousands of first responders were either dispatched, or self-responded, to attempt to secure the area, search for civilians and make rescue attempts.

Duckham’s unit was halted a few miles back from the site, awaiting commands from superiors who had never dealt with this type of situation.

“Nobody really knew what to do with everybody,” Duckham said.

Before Duckham left to drive toward Manhattan, he broke his usual routine by making a call to his wife.

“I remember telling her, ‘Hey, we are going down there [Manhattan]’ and typical things, and ‘Hey be careful.’ Silly stuff like that,” Duckham said.

Duckham’s unit traveled down a 5-mile stretch of highway to get to the site, though he passed no

Chief Jim Duckham pictured during his time with the Greenburgh Police in New York City. Duckham was working as a patrol sergeant for the department when the World Trade Center was attacked by terrorists Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. JIM DUCKHAM, PHOTO PROVIDED civilian cars on the way.

“All you could see were police agencies coming out of Westchester,” Duckham said. “It was the most eerie thing I can remember, because I had grown up in Long Island, and I had never seen no traffic.”

Upon arrival, Duckham and the other Greenburgh officers weren’t given any instructions except to wait. It was then that he experienced a moment that still sticks with him today.

Duckham, along with his fellow officers, had been stationary for a few hours. They sent the rookies out in search for food, not realizing how bad Ground Zero had become. It was then that a rescue van full of firefighters came out of the site.

“This truck goes by … there were guys that were sitting on it. One guy was sitting on the step and he was covered in the soot. And these guys didn’t say anything, and you could just see the devastation in their face,” Duckham said.

Suddenly, the officers that were in search of food while waiting for orders fell silent.

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in New York City during terrorist attack that moment,” Duckham said.

Hess, who was at Ground Zero, said the scene was almost indescribable.

“Absolutely overwhelming,” he said. “The debris pile was seven stories tall, spread out over 16 acres and we had seen the smoke from the pile, and we were about 30 miles out from New York City.”

Yuval Neria, a professor at Columbia University, studied the correlation between working at Ground Zero and post-traumatic stress disorder.

He concluded that even being close to the site of the attacks would result in experiencing PTSD. “Indirect exposure to [the] 9/11 attacks was found to have detrimental long-term consequences.

Not for all but for many. In particular among those who lost family members, friends and colleagues.

The impact can be resulted in long term PTSD and complicated grief,” Neria said in an email.

While Duckham’s unit wasn’t at Ground Zero, it still felt its effects. Later in the evening, it moved under a bridge to guide traffic, while they wore respirator masks, they could taste the seemingly endless soot.

“I’m not a scientist, and I’m not saying I had foreshadowed that guys would get cancer, but I knew enough through being around emergency management that breathing this stuff in can’t be good,” Duckham said.

Hess’ unit saw similar issues. He said there were 63 members on his task force and out of those,

26 have gotten sick and six have died from the Ground Zero exposure. In 2007, Hess himself was diagnosed with Stage 3A colon cancer, though he has been in remission since 2008.

One of the main reasons cancer is so common is the over exposure to soot, a byproduct created when something isn’t completely burned.

According to the National Cancer Institute, the powder inside soot has carcinogens, such as arsenic, cadmium and chromium.

“We went from being rescuers [to] six years later, I became a victim,” Hess said. “When you see all these people that are dying and getting sick, it’s just, you know, it’s unfortunate that the death toll for 9/11 is going to continue to grow, and grow and grow.”

Duckham said he still wonders if he had stayed on as a New York City cop if he would have worked Ground Zero after that day.

“I would never want to give the impression that I did anything other than basically traffic,” Duckham said.

“I’m certainly grateful that I didn’t lose my life, and that I hadn’t been working [Ground Zero] that day, in the sense of being a police officer that was there,” Duckham said. “Think about it, 300 plus firefighters, 50 some cops, who really just went to work that day.”

Contact Charles Melton with comments at cwmelton@bsu.edu.

Thirteen years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the new One World Trade Center building opened to the public.

Considered to be the tallest building in the Northern Hemisphere, the tower is conversationally known as Freedom Tower. LISA

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A young girl runs through the Flags of Honor, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018, at Minnetrista. Each flag held a ribbon for service personnel, family and veterans. GRACE HOLLARS,DN

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When the summer ends:

What to do this upcoming fall season

Taylor Smith Reporter

Homecoming

Homecoming falls on the week of Oct. 14 this year. The Homecoming Food Truck Festival is scheduled for Monday, Oct. 15, 6-8 p.m. in the Village and will offer a variety of food and music for students to enjoy.

Air Jam, a traditional event of homecoming week, is on Thursday, Oct. 18 at 7:30 p.m. in Emens Auditorium. Entertainment includes student organizations dancing and competing in the annual lip-sync battle.

The week will close with the homecoming football game on Saturday, Oct. 20 at Scheumann Stadium. The time of the game is still to be announced. The Cardinals will face the Eastern Michigan University Eagles.

With the early reappearance of Pumpkin Spice Lattes at Starbucks, pumpkin lovers all around have been enjoying them in the remaining summer months as they anticipate the season’s end and a season’s beginning.

“I’ve pulled my sweaters out. I’ve got my Halloween decorations ready to go. I’m super pumped,” said freshman sociology major Levi Bontrager. “I love Halloween. I love the weather.

I love the leaves. It’s my favorite time of year. I’ve been waiting for this since summer started.”

Isaac Magsam, freshman zoology major, said he is content with the seasons changing as well.

“I’m pretty excited for [fall]. I’m happy that it’s finally cooling down. I haven’t really prepared yet.

Everything is still packed in a box in the closet, so I have to dig that out,” Magsam said.

Besides fall break on Oct. 8 and 9, there are events for fall-loving students to look forward to on and off campus as the season approaches.

Orchard

Halloween Students with a love for Halloween similar to Bontrager can attend the Charles W. Brown Planetarium presentation of “Halloween Celestial Origins” Oct. 5, 19 and 26 at 6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.

This planetarium show will discuss Halloween as an astronomical holiday with regards to the Sun’s positioning and the time that Halloween falls.

For more theatrical pursuits, productions like Veronica’s Room and the Rocky Horror Picture Show are open for students to attend. Veronica’s Room, a murder mystery of madness, has several showing times beginning on Tuesday, Oct. 16 at 7:30 p.m. at Cave Studio Theatre. All tickets are $6

Fall events including orchards, a Halloween-themed planetarium show and Air Jam are just a few of the list of many other events to attend as summer winds. KYLE CRAWFORD,DN and available through the Emens Box Office.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is performed and produced by students on campus. Auditions occurred in April, which is when most characters were casted, but more students were welcomed to

audition at the beginning of this month for open positions. The annual performance will be held at Emens Auditorium on Wednesday, Oct. 31 at midnight.

Ball State is not the only place getting ready for autumn. Off campus, Jacobs’ Family Orchard has been preparing for the rush of pumpkin patchgoers and their festivities.

Stephanie Jacobs, whose family owns the orchard, said what the orchard has to offer this fall season.

“We have our play area. We do hayrides. We have pumpkins. We have apple cinnamon donuts.

We make cider. We just do all the things we do every year,” Jacobs said.

This year, the orchard also has new additions to offer.

“We put up a new shelter by our play area this year. We’re doing some birthday parties and things with it. We’re planning on having farm-to-table dinner in the shelter in the beginning of October,” Jacobs said.

Contact Taylor Smith with comments at tnsmith6@bsu.edu.

Ball State continues cutting cable access in dorms

Bailey Shelton Reporter

Ball State is cutting the cord on cable services in more residence halls this year.

The university has decided to phase out wired television service from its residence halls and reinvest in higher bandwidth.

According to the Ball State Office of Housing and Residence Life, survey data from the past five years indicates more than 90 percent of students in the halls do not use cable.

Instead, students watch shows and movies through streaming services like Netflix or Hulu on their personal devices.

Ball State first made the move away from cable when it built residence hall Johnson B. Dorms like DeHority Complex and Park Hall cut the cable to students in Fall 2018. Some buildings still have the service in place including Woodworth and Noyer Complex.

But according to Chris Wilkey, Head of Communications in the Ball State Office of Housing and Residence Life, if less than 10 percent of students use cable in the future, the service could be completely removed.

“If the students still feel like they want cable television in the dorms, then we’ll work to accommodate that, but that doesn’t seem to be the case so far,” Wilkey said.

Students may be losing their cable, but the Residence Hall Association (RHA) and other student organizations are gaining access to Swank, an academic streaming service. Swank will give residence halls and student organizations access to more than 200 movies each month.

“It wasn’t picked as a replacement to the cable.

It was an added bonus to something we were already looking to have for student organizations,” Wilkey said.

The streaming service will only be available to students in common areas, like media rooms and lounges. RHA President Kathy Berryhill said the switch will make event planning easier than in previous years.

“Two years ago, because it was Halloween, we showed ‘The Purge,’ which felt fitting, but to get that movie we had to use one of our spots, and there’s not a whole lot of other programming other organizations can do around ‘The Purge,’ Berryhill said. “With the database, it’s probably also going to allow us to just have more movie nights and reach a wider audience within the halls.”

The streaming service is on track to be available Spring 2019. Cable service will stay in the remaining dorms for now.

Contact Bailey Shelton with comments at bashelton@bsu.edu or on Twitter @baileyshelton97.

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Cardinals prepare for MAC-heavy schedule Finishing off its non-conference slate, soccer will be heading into conference play in hopes to win another MAC title. The Cardinals will face Toledo and NIU this weekend.

Cross Country

Team headed to Michigan invitational Taking third place at last weekend’s IWU Twilight Invitational, cross country hopes to keep running strong as it heads to East Lansing, Michigan, for the Spartan Invitational.

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Adopted from the military, soccer creates a bond that can never be broken.

Olivia Adams Reporter Having success in the world of sports is not solely based on a team’s performance on the field. Many teams have a close-knit connection off the field that provides them with a mentality exclusive to their teams.

Ball State Soccer has proven to be one of the

most successful squads in the Mid-American Conference (MAC), winning back-to-back regular season titles and collecting five straight 10-win seasons. Off the field, the team has become a part of a sisterhood as close as a military bond.

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Confidence is key heading to Indiana Ball State Football prepares for Indiana University matchup after impressive display at Notre Dame.

Zach Piatt Assistant Sports Editor Having proven it has what it takes to play with the big boys after a 24-16 loss to No. 8 Notre Dame, Ball State Football (1-1, 0-0 MAC) will head to Bloomington with all the confidence in the world.

Taking on the Irish is a task in itself, but throwing in over 77,000 screaming fans cheering against a Mid-American Conference team could be considered brutal. Ball State head coach Mike Neu’s team was cool, calm and collected in its first contest with Notre Dame in school history.

“We can accomplish anything we want to, but it takes every guy on the team making sure they know his best effort is required day in and day

We can accomplish anything we want to, but it takes every guy on the team making sure they know his best effort is required day in and day out.”

- MIKE NEU, Ball State head coach out,” Neu said. “It reinforced our belief and our mindset that we’re capable of anything we want to accomplish, but it takes every guy working that way in practice.”

The Cardinals managed to win the time of possession battle and picked up four more first downs and 52 more rushing yards than the Irish.

The defense, however, is what really shined.

Three Cardinals ended up with nine tackles, and pressure was constantly on Notre Dame quarterback Brandon Wimbush as he took four sacks and threw three interceptions.

“Coming in, we knew nobody gave us a shot, but we really didn’t care,” said redshirt senior defensive back Josh Miller. “Going out and playing like we did just proved to ourselves we can play with anybody in the country.”

Even after nearly pulling off the upset of a lifetime, Neu said the team isn’t satisfied with any loss. He stressed that it’s a new week, and it’s time to get back to the drawing board.

“I’ve got no question about the effort. I’ve got no question about were they prepared to play,” Neu said. “That’s the challenge every week. You got to make sure that you’re able to go out and play with confidence so you can go on the field and compete toe-to-toe and leave everything you got out there.”

Ball State football team stretch together at the beginning of practice Monday, Aug. 27, 2018 at the Scheumann Stadium. Players on offense wore red jerseys. REBECCA SLEZAK,DN Indiana (2-0, 0-0 Big Ten) is coming off a close win over ACC opponent Virginia, 20-16. The Hoosiers haven’t been shy about running the ball, racking up over 200 yards on the ground in each of their first two games.

Redshirt junior linebacker Jacob White said the team is optimistic after competing with the Irish, and fans should expect no less intensity against the Hoosiers.

“We can’t take the foot off the gas pedal,” White said. “We’ve got to keep doing what we’ve been doing and do it to the best of our ability. It doesn’t matter the opponent. Whoever it is, we’re going to go out and execute and perform.”

Indiana won its last meeting with the Cardinals, but Ball State was victorious the previous three times they faced off. Miller said players can’t afford to get overconfident, or they will be in store for a rude awakening.

“People have been telling us how great we played and all that, but we’re not trying to get caught up in that because we’ve got another game this week,” Miller said. “If we come out and practice like we’re so good, then we’re going to lose on Saturday.”

Indiana leads the all-time series 5-3. Ball State will have a chance to improve its record noon Saturday at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington.

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

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“Before coming to Ball State, one of my stops along the way was at Virginia Military Institute,” said head coach Craig Roberts. “It is obviously very military based in regards to taking care of each other, helping your brother and so forth. It is on the same connotation with looking after your sister, and so we initially wanted to have that implemented at Ball State.”

Alongside the feeling of “military closeness,” the team has also adapted a type of sorority feel in pairing new players up with veterans as “sisters.”

“It is just a case of who has common interests or similar personalities,” Roberts said. “Sometimes we may dabble in between loud and quiet and bring out the lesser of the two from a person. It is all about promoting the person that they are and bringing their true character out of them.”

One of these special bonds includes senior Allison Abbe and freshman Chelcy Ralph. Abbe was a transfer student after she spent two years at the University of Cincinnati. While she never had an older sister, she said she loves this program and how much it brings the team together.

“I think it is bigger than a present team,” Abbe said. “It’s a whole organization in staying connected and feeling a sense of belongingness to our school and our program.”

Another pairing is sophomore Shelby Kean with freshman Tatiana Mason. Mason said she enjoys the sisterhood thoroughly in the connections they make.

“I think it is great, especially coming in as a freshman,” Mason said. “You’re so nervous, and you don’t know what is going on and practices are scary.

You have someone to help you move in and they are giving you rides to practice, and, I don’t know, being a big sister essentially, and I think that is great.”

This sisterhood brings the team together and makes sure no teammate gets left behind. They make sure every incoming freshman has a big sister to look up to and follow.

With being a big sister comes a lot of responsibilities. From avoiding eating before games to getting to practice on time, the big sister is accountable for keeping their little sister in line.

Being a big sister is a lot of work, but proves to be rewarding in the end because of how quickly friendships can be made.

“We just have an ongoing start of the season,” Roberts said. “When it begins, we are OK to laugh at ourselves and also create relationships for the future. They will be endless, they will never go away. It is a really true friendship that we create right off the bat.”

On the surface, it just seems like a way to make sure the team chemistry is good enough to play well together on the field, but this program is more than that. It is about creating lifelong friendships, building a community and making sure new teammates feel a sense of belonging.

“I am still connected to girls that were here even before I was here,” Abbe said. “I think it goes on even after you’re graduated. I know when the alumni come for the games, we pretty much know all of the girls coming in even if they are way past our present team.”

Contact Olivia Adams with any comments at omadams@bsu.edu or on Twitter @olivia_adams5.

It’s a whole organization in staying connected and feeling a sense of belongingness to our school and our program.”

- ALLISON ABBE, Senior soccer player

Top: Junior midfielder Alessandra Fistrovich attempts a shot during the game against Appalachian State at the Briner Sports Complex on Aug. 27. The Cardinals tied the game 1-1. KYLE CRAWFORD, DN Bottom: The Ball State Soccer team practiced Wednesday, Sept.. 5, 2018, at Briner Sports Complex. ERIC PRITCHETT, DN

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Ball State Football went into South Bend as a 35-point underdog. The Cardinals took Notre Dame down to the wire and gave fans a thriller.

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8, 2018, at Notre Dame Stadium in Notre Dame, IN. The Cardinals lost 16-24. Left: The Cardinals set up for the next play of the game Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018, at Notre Dame Stadium in Notre Dame, IN. Below: Redshirt junior wide receiver Riley Miller runs the ball down the field Saturday, Sept.

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Ball State’s 1989-90 men’s basketball team was more than the greatest in school history.

Zach Piatt Assistant Sports Editor Up two, 13 seconds left. The pass goes inside to center Felton Spencer. Louisville tries to tie the game up by giving the ball to its 7-foot leading scorer.

Ball State’s Curtis Kidd contests the shot with arms extended high. The ball bounces high off the glass and hits the rim before it’s snatched out of the air by soaring center Chandler Thompson.

Louisville is forced to foul with seven ticks remaining.

Thompson steps up to the line after a timeout.

He misses off the back of the iron. The rebound goes to Spencer.

Six. Spencer hands the ball off to guard Keith Williams.

Five. Williams accelerates toward midcourt.

Four. He crosses the timeline and cuts to the right wing.

Three. He passes to guard Everick Sullivan in the right corner.

Two. Sullivan lets a three-pointer fly for the win.

Paris McCurdy jumps up to grab a rebound in a 1990 game.

McCurdy led the Cardinals in scoring his senior year. This photo was printed in the Jan. 24, 1990 Daily News edition.

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One. The ball hangs in the air as the crowd lets out a gasp.

Zero. It clangs off the rim, and the 12 seeded Ball State Cardinals celebrate a 62-60 win to put them in the Sweet 16 for the first time in school history.

The Cardinals went on to drop their following round matchup 69-67 to eventual National Champion UNLV. To this day, the 1989-90 Ball State Men’s Basketball team stands alone as the only one in Cardinal history to make it past the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament.

More than basketball Thompson, a sophomore during the 1989-90 season, described the team as a brotherhood. Even now, 29 years later, he said the bond between every player is still as strong as it was when they played together.

“We are brothers,” Thompson said. “We could call each other right now and shoot the breeze with each other and just have a ball.”

The team consisted of eight men from Indiana, seven from surrounding states and one from Wisconsin. Of the nine seniors on the roster, five hailed from the Hoosier state.

Then-senior Greg Miller said everything the team did was geared toward the betterment of the group. Nobody was more important than the team.

He added that Ball State Basketball was a family, and even those who came from out of state were welcomed with open arms.

“The neatest thing about that group was the guys from other places became a part of us and a part of our group,” Miller said. “That probably helped our team be as strong as it was and be as successful as it was because nobody had to look over their shoulder. We would walk, and think, and play and run all in the same direction.”

With this tight knit group, then-senior and team leader Paris McCurdy said nobody realized the same team wasn’t coming back the next year until after the excitement in Muncie died down.

“We were having such a great time that season,” McCurdy said. “The time flew by so fast that I don’t believe any of us actually thought about it being the last go of it.”

The seniors didn’t just leave teammates behind after graduation; they left brothers.

“I know that I personally wished that I could have played with the group we had all four years of my eligibility,” said McCurdy.

The expectations The Cardinals went 29-3 in the 1988-89 season, the year prior to their historic run. They were rewarded with a No. 9 seed in the NCAA Tournament and defeated Pittsburgh for their first

Greg Miller puts up a shot as Roman Muller fights for rebounding position in a 1989 game. Miller and Muller were two of nine seniors on the 1990 team that went to the Sweet 16. This photo was printed in the March 21, 1989 Daily News edition.

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tournament victory in school history. That team also won the Mid-American Conference regular season as well as the MAC Tournament.

Thompson said the Cardinals snuck up on the nation that year and finally showcased what they could do. Glancing at the roster, Ball State nearly had the same team coming back. However, the coaching staff looked a bit different, as Dick Hunsaker was promoted to head coach after Rick Majerus departed for Utah. Still, with 11 players returning the following year, the expectations were high.

“I think it’s safe to say that everyone was hoping for a repeat,” McCurdy said. “After we got through the preseason adjustment with the new head coach, we knew we had a special group. We had a lot of unity and love for one another, and with that combination, we wanted to work hard for each other, and we did.”

If everyone wanted to repeat, it showed in their performance. The Cardinals went 26-7, won backto-back MAC regular seasons and tournaments and made another trip to the big dance.

“Our senior-led group—they were ready to make that run again and have a better season,” Thompson said. “They all went out with a purpose.

They were competitive. They competed every day in practice.”

The 1989-90 Cardinals became the first MAC team to ever win consecutive conference championships and tournament titles. Even with all the records and recognition, Miller said the best

part of it all came after the season ended.

“Knowing what we were about to encounter in Muncie was more eye-opening and fun for us,” Miller said. “I think being able to do what we did and be able to celebrate with Ball State University and our community was probably the most enjoyable thing.”

Leaving a legacy In the end, the 1989-90 team became the greatest team in Ball State Men’s Basketball history, and it still is today. The players, however, have never thought of it that way. To them, it was all been about being a unit.

“All I can say is it’s been an honor to have been part of a family,” McCurdy said. “I haven’t really looked beyond the fact that Ball State athletics, period, is a brotherhood and sisterhood that goes on forever.”

Miller echoed McCurdy’s statement and said being the best was never on anyone’s agenda.

“I don’t think that’s the end all thought for us as a group,” Miller said. “That’s the only thing you would really expect for any other team that comes through Ball State. At the end of the day, when you walk away from that program, you just want to be as best as you can be. I think we did that to every extent.”

The 1989-90 men’s basketball team was inducted into the Ball State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2012.

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

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For Mac, thank you Blake Williamson is a junior journalism major who writes “Blake’s Beats” for The Daily News. His views do not necessarily agree with those of the newspaper. Write to Blake at bdwilliamson@bsu.edu.

I was in Target when I got the news. I felt my phone vibrate, and I saw a text that contained a sentence I won’t soon forget: “Mac Miller is dead.”

BLAKE I thought it was a joke, one of those WILLIAMSON celebrity death hoaxes that pop up every so often. I went to Twitter hoping to find a Columnist, Blake’s Beats funny tweet from Mac that all of this was

a joke, and that he was alive and well. I opened up the app, and my worst fear was confirmed. I saw tweet after tweet, an online memorial from friends and fans, all describing the ways that the kid from Pittsburgh impacted their lives.

I was one of those kids. A pimple faced, snot nosed 7th grader who found a reason to smile while listening to Mac’s music. I remember the first time I heard “Knock Knock”; it wasn’t just a song, it was an anthem. A song that deserves to be blasted out of speakers at only the highest of volumes.

You could feel the joy that he exuded, you could tell he genuinely loved crafting his music. Through the rest of his career, his music grew but he never lost that joy, the curiosity to challenge himself and the listener.

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Continued from Page 15 There have been times while writing this piece that I have had to walk away from the screen, my brain unable to find the right combination of words to eloquently express the mixed bag of emotions that I am currently feeling. It becomes apparent in those moments that Mac had his problems.

According to Associated Press, police found Mac unresponsive in his home in Los Angeles on Friday, Sept. 7, and declared him dead shortly after. While his cause of death has not yet been confirmed, many of his songs wrestled with issues involving drug use and depression. I don’t think connecting those struggles with his premature death is an unfair thing to do.

When I pressed play on his music, I found solace and all of the stress washed away. His music was a lifeline, it was deeply personal and I felt connected to every note and hung on every syllable. It almost makes me shed a tear on the keyboard — the thought of not having that music to take into the

next phases of my life, to not have that friend to check in on.

We don’t want to look too much into the everpresent issues when the music is so great. It’s just, “Yeah he is troubled, but did you hear track number four? It bumps!’’ We don’t take into account the epidemic that is facing the world of music that we so claim to love.

Mac is just the latest example of a scary trend that has faced music and the entertainment industry as a whole for years. The glorification of drugs has reached an all-time high. Seeing how far one can push the limits with substance, yet still live to tell the tale, has become normalized. According to a Bonn University Clinic study published by the National Institutes of Health, 220 celebrities who died a drug-related death between 1970 and 2015 were identified and studied. The rate in drug-related deaths increased in the 21st century compared to the 20th century, according to the study, with most celebrities dying between the ages of 25 and 40.

We saw it last year with Lil Peep, who died from an alleged overdose of Xanax at 21, though he had a medley of other drugs in his system at the time of his death. We saw it with Amy Winehouse as well,

who died in 2011 from alcohol poisoning.

The key is to not put these performers who we admire on such high pedestals, giving them somewhat of an invincibility complex. We have to treat them as we would a close friend, somebody who could just use a helping hand. It’s about simply reaching out to anybody and everybody you think might be going through something and sending some kind words. Something as small as that could really make all the difference There were records where Mac was blatantly crying out for help, and we just listened. We did nothing. He talked endlessly about his constant battle with substances, a battle that he fought regularly and would eventually lose.

We as a community tend to forget that these entertainers are people, and more than just a name in a playlist. You start to ask yourself questions, how could we have helped them? Could they still be here right now?

The truth is we’ll never be able to answer these questions. All we can do is remember Mac, and every other artist who has died from any substance or mental illness and keep their music and spirit alive — which we are already doing.

According to XXLMag, Mac’s streams are up 970 percent since his death.

In the eulogies that have come out since Mac’s passing, nearly every friend, every collaborator and every fan that got to meet him all spoke on one thing: just how genuine of a person he was. That says more than any song could ever begin to say.

We’ll cherish his music and the memories he gave us, but what we’ll remember is his beautiful soul.

The kid from Pittsburgh made it.

Thanks for everything Easy Mac with the Cheesy Raps. We love you.

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‘Kin’ suffers from an identity crisis Daniel O’Connell Byte Reporter Disclaimer: This review contains spoilers for the movie “Kin.” August through September is an interesting time of year when it comes to movies. It falls between the big summer blockbusters and the time where studios release their contenders for the Oscars. It is often used as a dumping ground for the movies studios don’t know what to do with.

“Kin” is definitely one of those movies.

Directed by Johnathan and Josh Baker, and based on their short film “Bag Man,” the film had the potential to be interesting.

The result, however, is a film with wasted potential and serious tonal inconsistencies.

for killing his brother Dutch. Two mysterious, armored soldiers are also in pursuit of the weapon.

One of the main strengths of the film is its performances. For a first-time actor, Myles Truitt gives a good performance as Eli, making him come across as a believable teenager.

The same goes for Jack Reynor as Jimmy, who brings a natural likability to the character, and makes him come across as someone who’s trying to reconnect with his brother while

Great performances and presentation “Kin” is the story of Elijah Solinski, played

by Myles Truitt, a teenager in Detroit, Michigan, who lives with his adoptive father Hal, played by Dennis Quaid, and with Jimmy, played by Jack Reynor, his ex-con brother who has been recently paroled.

Eli spends his time looking around abandoned factories and yards for copper wire to sell. During one of his salvages, he discovers the aftermath of a battle between mysterious armored soldiers, and finds a mysterious, high tech weapon.

He takes the weapon back home, only to find out that Jimmy owes money to local gangster Taylor Balik, played by James Franco.

After a scuffle that leaves Hal dead, Eli and Jimmy find themselves on the run with $60,000 and a mysterious weapon in tow. The two are pursued by Taylor, who wants to kill Jimmy

Jack Reynor as Jimmy, left, and Myles Truitt as Eli, right, in the 2008 Kin. ALAN MARKFIELD, TNS PHOTO

protecting him.

Reynor and Truitt have good chemistry with one another and can convincingly play a pair of adoptive brothers.

Despite his short amount of screen time, Dennis Quaid does a good job as Hal, who is tough on his adopted son, but only because he cares for him and doesn’t want him to end up like Jimmy.

However, the standout performance comes from James Franco, who plays Balik with a casual calmness. This calmness gives way to a deadly seriousness when he hunts down Eli and Jimmy for revenge.

A stand out scene occurs when he gives a eulogy for his dead brother, reminiscing about a time where Dutch beat up a neighborhood bully so he could get back Balik’s Walkman.

Another highlight of the film is its visual aesthetic and score.

The musical score was done by the Scottish rock band Mogwai. Rather than a traditional orchestral score, the film uses an electronic/synth score. It fits with the feel and visual aesthetic of the film.

The design of the weapon and the two soldiers in pursuit of it are also unique and interesting.

The weapon Eli finds stands out, coming off as a cross between a phaser and a rail gun with a holographic interface. It has an ability to take on a compact form and comes with different modes of firing.

The two soldiers also have a striking, threatening look to them—coming across as a mix between Judge Dredd and Daft Punk. Their scenes in the movie are some of the film’s highlights as they show off technology like a drone that can recreate events in holographic form.

Trouble with tone

The biggest problem with “Kin” that drags it down is its uneven tone.

There are two different narratives fighting for attention. One is a science fiction adventure about a mysterious weapon. The other is a drama about two brothers reconnecting and bonding with each other while on the run.

This makes the film’s tone seem unbalanced and even jarring at times.

Another problem is the pacing of the movie.

There are several scenes that feel like they should have been left on the cutting room floor.

This includes a scene where Jimmy and Eli rob a criminal’s poker game and a bizarre scene where Balik urinates in front of a gas station clerk after being told that the restrooms are for employees only.

These should have been cut out of the final product.

The same can go for a character named Milly, played by Zoë Kravitz, a stripper that Eli and Jimmy and take along with during their journey.

Her character honestly contributes nothing to the overall plot, and only serves as someone else for Eli and Jimmy to talk to.

Another major problem with the film comes with the ending, particularly a revelation regarding Eli, the two mysterious soldiers and the weapon. It opens up a whole new realm of ideas and concepts that could be explored.

However, the problem with this is that the movie saves this for the very end. Any potential exploration that could be done with this is thrown by the wayside.

Contact Daniel O’Connell with comments at dcoconell@bsu.edu.

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Colleagues create historic photo book As a part of Arcadia Publishing’s Campus History Series, co-authors Bruce Geelhoed, Michael Szajewski and Brandon Pieczko narrowed down 500,000 photographs in Ball State’s Archives and Special Collections to 240 to create a celebratory centennial photo book.

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Big portions, bigger smiles Ice Cream By Accident brings unique flavors to Muncie Pauleina Brunnemer Reporter For some, mixing and freezing heavy cream into dessert may seem daunting, but for Terry Budaj, her process of creating ice cream is “kind of magic[al].”

“It starts with a vanilla base. Then it’s kind of adding in flavoring whipped up and whipped

around. Then [it’s] tested,” Budaj said.

Budaj hopes to expand her 47 flavors of soft serve into 75 options to go along with her 18 flavors of hand-dipped ice cream and sundaes made to order at Ice Cream By Accident.

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WIPB-TV held its fourth annual Be My Neighbor Day Saturday at the downtown Muncie YMCA. Daniel Tiger from the PBS TV show “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood” visited the event as Muncie community members enjoyed activities and entertainment from the Muncie Civic Theatre.

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Alumni act in ‘A Comedy of Tenors’ Until Sept. 30, Jacob Barnes and Nic Eastlund will perform in the Actors Theatre of Indiana’s (ATI) “A Comedy of Tenors” at the Studio Theatre in Carmel, Indiana. The show will mark Barnes’ debut with ATI and Eastlund’s second play with the theater company.

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HAMILTON TOWNSHIP HOG ROAST Right: A fresh smoked hog lays on a cutting table at the 45th annual Hamilton Township Annual Hog Roast, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018, in Muncie, IN. Thirty hogs were smoked, cut and served to the Muncie community. Far right: A volunteer reaches into the fridge at the 45th annual Hamilton Township Annual Hog Roast, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018, in Muncie, IN. The Hog Roast raised more than $20,000 for the fire department. Below: A volunteer firefighter moves hot coals while smoking a hog at the 45th annual Hamilton Township Annual Hog Roast, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018, in Muncie, IN. Volunteer firefighters started cooking at 5 a.m. Friday in preparations for the Saturday hog roast.

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“I was in a terrible accident and hit a telephone pole,” Budaj said. “When I finally settled three years later, I wanted to buy my own ice cream shop. My husband [and I] were like, ‘I don’t know what to name it,’ you know going back and forth. Finally, [we said] that’s it: ‘Ice Cream By Accident.’ So I had my truck, but I couldn’t hit a telephone pole, so I choose an ice cream cone.”

A year later, we came back, and the building was still for sale. So I said, ‘Honey, it’s on Walnut Street. The address is our anniversary 1231. It’s like destiny.’ Now, I work on Walnut [Street], and I live on Walnut [Street].”

- TERRY BUDAJ, Owner of Ice Cream By Accident Before the accident, Budaj owned an ice cream truck that she worked as a side job on weeknights and weekends. Her full time job was a healthcare position in Indianapolis, which was a five hour commute for her from Hartford City, Indiana.

After hitting the telephone pole, Budaj decided she wanted to open an ice cream storefront for her side business.

Budaj and her husband found the space they now occupy on Walnut Street, but they continued looking because the price was too high.

“We had come to look at this shop, and I noticed that it was on Walnut Street,” Budaj said. “[While we were looking,] I was praying, saying, ‘Lord, I don’t know if I can keep commuting to Indianapolis everyday.’ That five hour commute was about to kill me.

“A year later, we came back, and the building was still for sale. So I said, ‘Honey, it’s on Walnut Street. The address is our anniversary 1231. It’s like destiny.’ Now, I work on Walnut [Street], and I live on Walnut [Street].”

Budaj and her husband, officially bought Ice Cream By Accident in March 2018 and opened the doors in May. In her store, Budaj said she still gets the same reactions from customers that she used to get when she drove her ice cream truck to different nursing homes.

“I give really big portions,” Budaj said. “They go, ‘Oh my gosh I wasn’t expecting that.’ It’s just different for a child. We have the old dip tops where you dip [the ice cream] down in chocolate and hand it to them. It’s just watching the faces of the individuals.”

In order to keep pleasing customers, one goal Budaj has for herself is to create an experience

Terry Budaj and Amber White stand in front of their ice cream shop Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018, at 1231 South Walnut St. Munice, IN. Terry and Amber recently opened the business. ALEX

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for everyone. She offers vegan, lactose intolerant and sugar free options among her variations of ice cream.

Additionally, Budaj challenges herself to learn new recipes for customers who have personal requests. She researches the flavor, buys the ingredients she needs and works on perfecting the taste for the next time they come in.

Beyond working with the community, Budaj and her husband Richard hope to make Ice Cream

By Accident a family business. Richard added that their 5-year-old grandson already said he wants to work at the shop one day.

On the side of the building at Ice Cream By Accident, there are handprints accompanied by the words, “Hand in hand, we will grow this community.” Terry said she continues to live by this motto and constantly applies it to the ice cream shop so everyone feels welcome.

“I can’t give you money, but I can feed you,” Richard said. “We have little kids that come by, and they don’t have the money. You know we’ll feed them; we aren’t going to turn them away, but don’t go telling all your friends that.”

Contact Pauleina Brunnemer with comments at pdbrunnemer@bsu.edu or on Twitter @pauleina15.

Terry Budaj makes a hot fudge lava cake on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018, at her recently opened restaurant, Ice Cream By Accident. Budaj refers to this dessert as “death by chocolate.” TIER MORROW,DN

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Muncie Makers Market shares local creativity

Patrons ascend upon the Muncie Makers Market. The market is in its third year and runs through the last Saturday in October. TREVOR WELDY, DN

Vendors offer food and crafts every Saturday Trevor Weldy Reporter At 3:48 p.m. the parking lot of White River Plaza was fairly empty except for a few pop-up tents. Vendors bustled about, working to set up their stands in time for the evening festivities at the Muncie Makers Market to begin on Saturday, Sept. 1.

By 4:06 p.m., people started to flock the vendor lots. A little girl, who attended the market, headed

Everything you see here was made within the last 24 hours.”

- SHANE HEATH, Owner of The Bearded Baker

straight for a blue tent full of doll’s clothes, while an older woman worked her way to a bread stand under a black tent.

“Everything you see here was made within the last 24 hours,” said Shane Heath, the owner of The Bearded Baker, to the woman.

It’s Heath’s second year at the Muncie Makers Market, but it’s his sixth year working as a farmers’ market vendor.

“I go to multiple markets a week,” Heath said.

“Wednesday and Thursday are prep days to prepare the sourdough and cookies. Then, Friday I spend all day baking.”

Like Heath, more than 150 other vendors form the Muncie Makers Market which runs from 4 to 7 p.m. every Saturday in downtown Muncie said Moth Danner, the state appointed “Market Master” of the market.

Danner also said that the market annually opens for the season on the first Saturday of May and runs through the last Saturday of October.

During the six months, the market helps small or upcoming businesses get a foothold in the community until they establish some notoriety.

JJ Muellenberg is one vendor who has utilized this opportunity to publicize the many business ventures he’s had including his most recent, Linkage Beard Company, which creates oils for facial hair.

“A lot of it is just advertising at first,” Muellenberg said. “Before I get my own place, I wanted to get my name out there.”

Along with helping new businesses get started, the market also tries to bring better food options to locals.

“It’s our goal to help with the food deserts.

People don’t have access to high quality, local food,” Danner said.

One vendor helping provide the Muncie community with good food is Danner’s mother, Susan Danner.

Susan joined the Makers Market for fun in 2016, the first year of operation. Originally, Susan

Shane Heath shows his bread displays to customers. Heath, known as the Bearded Baker, bakes his goods within 24 hours to ensure freshness. TREVOR WELDY, DN started at the market in Hartford City, before making the move to Muncie to be closer to home.

After taking personal orders from her friends, Susan gained the nickname “The Pie Lady” and now shares her talents with a broader audience.

“I haven’t always marketed it,” Susan said. “If someone wanted a pie I made, I’d make it for them.”

Although many of the vendors are business

owners, Moth said that anyone is welcome, just like her mother. She also said she encourages student participation from those who have created anything from jewelry to baked goods.

“There is so much creativity in this community,” Moth said.

Contact Trevor Weldy with comments at tjweldy@bsu.edu.

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“I wanted to share this photo of my father and siblings. My parents graduated from [the United States Military Academy at] West Point and served the nation until I was 2 [years old]. After 9/11, my father reenlisted to serve his country in a time of war. He left his young children for two years to fight for freedom. I love this photo and hope that it can display what soldiers leave behind when they are called to serve.”

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CROSSWORD EDITED BY RICH NORRIS AND JOYCE LEWIS; SUDOKU BY MICHAEL MEPHAM ACROSS 1 Seething 6 Jaguar weapons 11 Half a dance 14 Stinger ingredient 15 Superman player Cavill 16 “The Last Jedi” villain Kylo 17 Alpine airs 18 Broken out, in a way 19 Days gone by, in days gone by 20 Capital on the Volga 21 Suppress, as a story 22 Punching tools 23 Suffix with fruct24 Hall of Fame manager Stengel 25 Sal of “Exodus” 26 Waters down 28 Taiwanese PC brand 29 Rita awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom 30 Hankering 32 Depilatory cream 34 Historic span: Abbr.

35 Impediment to creativity ... and each set of puzzle circles 38 Big letters in family-owned supermarkets 40 Troubadour’s strings 41 Uncle __ 42 Codes of conduct 44 Christian with style

46 Venerated one 50 Adorkable types 51 Lets off steam 52 JFK posting 53 “Psych” finale?

54 Is after 55 Field mice 57 Area 51 craft 58 Singer with Lawrence 59 Accept, with “for” 60 Greek org.

61 Lyft passenger 62 Difficult tasks 63 Hosp. parts 64 Mideast bigwigs 65 Will Rogers prop DOWN 1 Work up 2 Risky proposition 3 Turow biographical title 4 Not working 5 Fleur-de-__: Quebec flag image 6 Poolside chair 7 Debate equipment 8 Get under one’s skin 9 Small songbird 10 Letters on a Qantas baggage tag 11 Like many tees 12 Greek

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13 “... et cetera” 14 How some tickets may be sorted 21 Scented pouch 22 Put on 24 Plant in many Road Runner cartoons 25 Dunderhead 27 What Marcie calls Peppermint Patty 29 Distance runners 31 Cultivates 33 Monastic figures 35 Golden State team 36 Christ the __: Rio landmark 37 Crime show with several spinoffs 38 “You obviously can’t depend on me” 39 Fetches 43 Most junk mail 45 Comic book personnel 47 Change symbols, in math 48 Opera with Desdemona 49 Alters with a light touch?

51 48-Down composer 54 “__ told”: “That’s the rumor” 55 Designer Wang 56 Name in boxy cars?

58 Higher ed. test 59 Cardinal’s letters

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This is a significant change from when Hurricane Florence was projected to make a landfall in the United States Thursday. It is still expected to impact the coast as a major hurricane (Category 3 to Category 5 status), meaning that sustained winds will be at a minimum 111 mph.

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