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RAMS MOVE BACK TO L.A. The St. Louis Rams are moving back to Los Angeles and the San Diego Chargers will have the option to join them in a compromise approved by NFL owners Tuesday night.

The Oakland Raiders, who also wanted to move to the area, could take the Chargers’ spot if they stay in San Diego, Commissioner Roger Goodell said.

The decision ends the NFL’s 21-year absence from the nation’s second-largest media market.

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The Woody/Shales residence halls in the LaFollette Complex will not be open to students in Fall 2016. The Discover and Early and Elementary Education Living Learning Communities will be housed in Studebaker West instead.

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Woody/Shales residence halls in LaFollette Complex will not be reopening for students in Fall 2016, according to an email the university sent out on Tuesday.

Due to that, the Discover and Early and Elementary Education Living Learning Communities will be moving to Studebaker West in the fall. Discover will move to Painter/Whitcraft and Education to Palmer/Davidson.

The university is allowing any students currently living in Woody/Shales to have a chance to sign up to live in Studebaker West before other students can.

If students would like to stay within those LLCs, they can sign up to live in Studebaker West from 9 a.m. to noon on Jan. 25.

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The break-ins reflected in the data only include calls UPD responds to, and does not include burglaries the Muncie Police Department may have responded to. The off-campus breakins were not all in student houses.

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MILLENNIALS VOLUNTEER IN MUNCIE Young adults defy ‘selfish’ stereotype with service acts

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Rachel Johnson’s life revolves around helping others.

The senior social work major volunteers at least nine hours a week: seven or eight at Cardinal Kitchen, two at a weekly program for Student Voluntary Services and perhaps a few more for her service sorority.

“I’m a huge advocate for volunteering no matter what your age,” she said.

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times receive a bad rap when it comes to philanthropy and service—even if it might be an undeserved one.

A 2014 Reason-Rupe poll of 1,000 adults found that 71 percent of Americans over 30 said that Millennials were selfish.

Millennials didn’t protest—the same percentage of 18-29-yearold respondents agreed.

Johnson doesn’t agree with this idea and some national surveys reflect that.

The 2014 Millennial Impact report—a survey of more than 1,500 Millennials— found that 87 percent donated money to a nonprofit organization in 2013. Nearly half said they volunteered within the past month.

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Rachel Johnson is a senior social work major who volunteers at least nine hours a week at Cardinal Kitchen and Student Voluntary Services. She has built a ramp for Housesaves of Delaware County.

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niversity police saw no shortage of crime during Winter Break, with the numbers of break-ins and thefts rising to 14 incidents — more than the previous three years.

The University Police Department responded to 11 calls for burglaries, an increase from seven calls from break 2014 and zero calls from break 2013.

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Ball State football assistant head coach Justin Lustig has been named head coach at Division-II Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.

Lustig began his coaching career in 2001, and this will be the first time in his 15year career where he will be a head coach.

He has been the Cardinals’ special teams coordinator and running backs coach since 2011 and, before the 2015 season, added assis- JUSTIN LUSTIG astant head coach to his list Former sistant head of titles. He told the Fort coach and Wayne News-Sentinel he special teams was proud to have coached coordinator at Ball State for five years.

“It was the first time in my entire career that I was a part of a student-athlete’s recruiting all the way through his graduation,” he said. “In coaching, that is kind of rare because you’re not at a place four or five years that often.”

Lustig coached special teams and running backs during his time at Ball State. In 2015, Ball State finished 12th in the nation with 25.5 yards per return and 13th in punt return average with 18.0 yards per return. Running back Darian Green also led the Mid-American Conference with 1,497 all-purpose yards.

The Cardinals’ all-time leading rusher, Jahwan Edwards, was also recruited and coached by Lustig.

Edwards holds the school record for most rushing touchdowns scored in a career.

Lustig grew up in Erie, Penn., and said his familiarity with the region enticed him to take over a Fighting Scots program that went 0-11 in 2015 and has endured four consecutive losing seasons.

“We know the recruiting geography of where they are going to get kids,” Lustig said. “But not only where they’re going to get kids, but what kind of kids we’re going to get.”

His wife, Beth, has even more familiarity with the school – she played soccer for the Edinboro.

Keeping with the family affair, Lustig also hired his father, Keith Lustig, to be an assistant on the Fighting Scots staff.

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Throughout Gov. Mike Pence’s annual State of the State address on Tuesday, he repeatedly emphasized how strong the state of Indiana is.

The summer of 2016 marks Indiana’s 200th year as a state, and Pence said it has seen “remarkable growth” since it was founded.

Pence said his priorities for 2016 were jobs, the economy, schools, roads and confronting drug abuse.

Here are some key takeaways from the speech:

1. HOOSIERS WILL KEEP THEIR GUNS

Pence made it clear that allowing law abiding citizens to have guns makes communities safer, not more dangerous.

He said Indiana will continue to defend its Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms. He called out President Obama for blaming Chicago’s gun violence on Indiana gun laws, saying, “Hoosiers are not the cause of crime in your hometown — criminals are.”

2. STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT IS UP

After Indiana raised its standards for students, graduation rates went up to the seventh highest in the United States.

Hoosier kids performed better than the national average in every major category on the Nation’s Report Card. There are also 100,000 more students in a school with a B grade or better — Pence attributed this to putting education first on the 2015 budget.

3. THERE ARE MORE EMPLOYED 6. THE WAR ON DRUGS NEEDS TO HOOSIERS THAN EVER BEFORE CONTINUE IN STATE HISTORY Pence said drug abuse and addiction Unemployment is down to 4.4 percent from the 8 percent it was three years ago, with the help of 139,000 new jobs created, and there are 34,000 fewer Hoosiers who are getting unemployment claims. Indiana set a state record in 2015 for private sector employment, as well as ranking in the top 10 states to do business.

4. INDIANA NEEDS TO IMPROVE INFRASTRUCTURE WITHOUT RAISING TAXES

Although the state does need to invest in infrastructure, Pence said, it’s important to do so without it coming out of Hoosier’s pockets. While Indiana road and bridge condition ranks above the national average, Pence wants to make $1 billion available to improve state bridges and roads in the next four years, as well as provide another $400 million for local roads.

5. MORE HOOSIERS NEED TO PURSUE EDUCATION CAREERS

Many of the strides the state made in education are due to the teachers, Pence said, so he wants to find ways to make teaching more attractive to upcoming Hoosiers. He spoke about Speaker Brian Bosma’s Next Generation Scholarship that covers $7,500 of tuition per year for students in the top 20 percent of their class who will commit to teaching in Indiana for at least five years.

is a “growing epidemic” in Indiana, and the state needs to do more to change that by using courage and compassion.

Indiana has been leading the war on drugs, and Pence said they’ll continue to go after drug dealers and anyone else who may sell drugs to Hoosier kids.

He even had a special message to drug dealers: the state is coming after them if they’re selling drugs to Hoosier kids.

He wants stiffer penalties for drug dealers, and to make sure there are more options for those addicted to drugs.

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After the Religious Freedom Restoration Act controversy last March, Pence said he has been researching and meeting with Hoosiers about whether or not to extend full civil rights protections to Hoosiers based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Pence said while Hoosiers are divided on changing civil rights laws, Hoosiers don’t tolerate discrimination and they “cherish faith and freedoms.”

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DIFFERENT Students embrace quirky sides with campus ALEX KINCAID GENERAL REPORTER

Editor’s note: Patrick Murphy is a former employee of The Daily News They ignore the status quo or walk around in costume, not seeming to care that they’re different than those around them. These students who choose not to conform to societal norms say they do it for a variety of reasons — because they feel like it, it garners attention or it boosts their confidence. Here are some of their stories:

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Patrick Murphy dresses in a dark blue wizard gown with star and moon trimming around the sleeves. It matches his pointed wizard’s hat that tilts slightly to the left atop his head. He adds to the look with a chestlength, stringy white beard. The final piece is a plastic wand that is split along the handle and no longer lights up.

Murphy is a member of Ball State’s Ultimate Frisbee team, which is where his wizard dressing began. The team members joked among themselves that they are wizards, and Murphy began dressing like one to entertain his teammates.

Murphy, a news journalism major, has dressed in his wizard attire every Wednesday since September 2015 — a tradition he’s dubbed “Wizard Wednesday.” Murphy has deemed himself The Wizard of Ball State, which has become his personal mascot.

Murphy aspires to be Charlie Cardinal one day; mascots have always fascinated him. He planned to audition to be Charlie this year, but he went on a bike ride before auditions, lost track of time and missed his opportunity. He plans to try again in the future.

For now, Murphy will focus on being the wizard. Dressing up empowers him, he said.

He stands out from the crowd, makes others happy and can practice being a mascot in case future opportunities arise.

“It makes me different and unique in a way nobody else can be,” Murphy said. “It gets kind of boring looking through the same lens every day. Everybody is the same.”

Although Murphy embraces his individuality and loves dressing as the wizard, sometimes the attention he receives can get to him. One day, he intentionally sat alone in a corner to eat lunch, avoiding human interaction and hoping people would not notice the guy in full wizard attire.

To his surprise, someone had snapped a picture of him in that corner and posted it to Yik Yak. His picture received more than 150 upvotes. Ball State seemed to approve of the wizard in an anonymous picture, but that hasn’t always been the case in real life.

On Wizard Wednesdays, Murphy is met with unsure reactions from his classmates.

They give him puzzled glances and don’t interact with him as much.

All that matters to Murphy is that he does

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what makes him happy. For now, that is being a mascot of his own creation.

THE SUPERHERO: HE DOES IT BECAUSE HE FEELS LIKE IT

Austin Zimmerman decided he would do it. He would wear the cape to class. He draped the long, black, stretchy fabric over his shoulders. A special strap looped around his arms and tied behind his back, securing the cape in place.

He put his backpack on over the cape and left his dorm room. The walk from Noyer to Robert Bell was short, but still long enough for people to notice. He debated taking it off at least a dozen times, tucking it away in his backpack as if he never had it on in the first place. But he pressed on, despite the stares from those he passed on McKinley Avenue.

Finally, he made it to the classroom door. He held his breath and walked inside. The classroom was arranged so the students already in their seats had their backs to those walking in the door. He slipped in and sat down nearly unnoticed, as if nothing were out of the ordinary. A few of his classmates caught a glimpse of him and shot him a quizzical look. But this was to be expected with wearing a superhero cape to class.

“I was nervous as hell,” he said.

Zimmerman is a sophomore theater design and technology major, but to some, he is a superhero.

Zimmerman wears a knee-length cape nearly all the time. The only times he doesn’t is if it is too hot out for cape-wearing or if he doesn’t think it works with his outfit that day — which is based on his mood on a day-to-day basis.

He makes each cape himself out of stretchy, polyester fabric from a craft store. His capes take only a few minutes to create, as he simply cuts them to the right length and then attaches his special strap — or sometimes a button — to fasten behind his back or around his neck.

His color choices are red, blue, black, gray, purple and white — because even superheroes need options.

Wearing a cape around campus gets him a lot of attention, but despite the stares and confused expressions, the attention is mostly positive.

Zimmerman said he wears a cape because he feels like it, and because to him, it is a symbol of overcoming obstacles. Zimmerman was bullied throughout middle and high school — a social outcast, as he puts it.

Today, he chooses not to trouble himself with the concerns of others, especially when it comes to wearing his capes.

“I am my own person,” he said. “I can’t be controlled by everyone else.”

It can be tiring to see downcast, averted eyes when he enters a room. Or worse, when intoxicated college students pass by him and yell at him to take his cape off. But, the positive reactions outweigh the bad, especially when others confront him and tell him they admire him

for being himself. Some say he inspires them to do the same. “[Zimmerman] is his own superhero, if you ask me,” his friend Riley Gray said.

THE ARTIST WITH ANTENNAE: HE SPREADS HAPPINESS

Colby Golden, a graduate student studying art and animation, wears pipe cleaner antennae. They are twisted together and wrapped around his glasses. They protrude from the sides of his head like antlers — and attract the attention of those he passes in the hallways.

Golden has worn his antennae for around seven years now. It all started when he worked at a daycare center. His glasses broke, and the only way to hold them together was to wrap them in pipe cleaners.

It was a few months before he could get new glasses, so he wore his antennae every day.

When he finally got new ones, a few of the kids were startled by his ordinary appearance.

“You’re not [Golden],” he recalled one kid saying.

Thinking quick on his feet, Golden dashed into a supply closet to his side and grabbed pipe cleaners. He wrapped them around his glasses and then sprang out of the closet.

The kids were content now that Golden had his antennae back.

Golden continued to wear his antennae every day, changing them up from time to time, despite the pleas from his mother to stop. He once attached googly eyes to each one. Right now, they are a spiral of pink, blue and yellow.

Golden refuses to take off his antennae because after contemplation, he realized they were a part of him — and always had been.

He was an odd kid, he said. He never fit in throughout school and always seemed a bit out of place. Metaphorically, he’s always had antennae that made him different.

Although his antennae are a subtle twist on conformity, he yields a variety of reactions. Some people laugh, some smile, some make fun of him. The occasional person is freaked out. Once, two kids made cow noises at him as he walked by, assuming the antennae were bullhorns.

Golden said the antennae make him feel like a celebrity. People will stop and stare as he walks by like they would with a movie star.

“I like knowing I make other people’s day a little bit brighter,” Golden said. “Whether they’re laughing with me or at me, I was still the reason they laughed that day.”

Golden said he feels worthwhile when he creates a work of art and when others notice his antennae. Antennae are used in our society to transmit signals and send out information. Golden’s antennae function in pretty much the same way — they allow him to transmit happiness.

Whether people approve of them or not, Golden can bring joy to those who notice his antennae, which he said makes him feel good in return.

Four restaurants to help you stay warm this winter From coffee to grilled cheese, Muncie businesses offer variety of hot foods, drinks

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Millennials—particularly the ones Johnson surrounds herself with—are also an important part of Delaware County’s volunteer base.

Johnson is the president of Student Voluntary Services or SVS. More than 2,000 Ball State students work for SVS—a university student organization that connects students with different types of volunteer opportunities.

SVS volunteers can participate in a largescale, one-time volunteer event like leaf raking; an independent program at a local, nonprofit agency; or a two-hour weekly, coordinated program at another agency.

Muncie Mission Ministries is one of those agencies. The nonprofit has many moving parts.

There’s its weekday lunch program that serves about 72 community members, its warehouse, where community donations are sorted through, and its thrift stores that raise money for the Mission and provide clothing and home items at a discounted price to people in poverty.

At the heart of it all is Jessie Dudley, the volunteer coordinator for the Mission. She makes sure that each charitable task has a person doing it, but she can’t solely rely on the Mission’s paid employees.

“We probably wouldn’t be able to function if we didn’t have volunteers,” she said.

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ing a variety of coffee drinks like espresso, macchiato and lattés. For non-coffee drinkers, there is also the option of chai (served as a tea latté) or a slew of green, black and herbal teas such as Earl gray and pomegranate raspberry, said barista Brandon Shawver. Peppermint or toasted marshmallow syrup can be added to traditional hot chocolate. The Cup also serves hot sandwiches, like their turkey-pesto panini, made with turkey, pesto, red pepper and Swiss cheese.

winter season are the salted caramel mocha and the gingerbread mocha. A new drink called the Steve Albini is made with grade-A maple syrup and cinnamon. For peanut butter lovers, there is the Fluffer Nutter, made with peanut butter and toasted marshmallows. Owner Frank Reber said everything on the menu is “solid” — there is no one drink he would recommend. “Every [employee] tries the new drinks, and if it doesn’t pass everyone’s palette, it doesn’t go on the menu,” Reber said.

Ball State students, she said. Some of them come as part of an SVS coordinated program.

One student in particular, she said, comes in to help whenever Dudley needs her. These are the types of people she’s in awe of.

“I’ve been surprised and blessed with the amount of people who just want to give their time,” she said. “It’s kind of eye opening.”

Laura Montoye, the assistant director of student life and the faculty contact for SVS, said she thinks Millennials are sometimes misrepresented as selfish.

“As a professor who works with Millennials, I think that they’re wonderful. They have so much optimism and have so much motivation to do instead of just following,” she said.

But not all Millennials are like Montoye’s SVS volunteers.

Volunteer rates were the lowest among people 20 to 24-years old in 2014, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Teenagers and people aged 35 to 44 were more likely to volunteer.

There is evidence that Millennials may be helping out in other ways. The Millennial Impact Report said Millennials are more likely to see tweeting about a cause as a way to contribute.

There are dueling accounts of the efficacy of this strategy, sometimes referred to as “slacktivism.”

Johnson said she thinks Millennials contribute to society in different ways, too.

Some examples she used were dropping

some change in a donation bucket or picking up litter with friends.

She also said that students don’t often join SVS because they love volunteering.

They might want to build their resume or rack up some service hours for their sorority or fraternity.

“There’s nothing wrong with that,” she said.

They’re still helping and making sure organizations like the Muncie Mission can function.

Johnson will never stop volunteering, she said. She’s grateful for what SVS has given her.

“I love being involved in my community, and I think volunteering is the best away to be able to do that- the best way to get to know people,” she said.

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My Voice campaign ideas in review Application aims to identify problem areas on campus

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After receiving more than 1,200 ideas and 1,400 students logging on to vote on ideas, the My Voice campaign is working on choosing which ideas to pursue.

A group of five Digital Corps students are currently working with Digital Corps director Brandon Smith and Stuart Sipahigil, the senior strategist for enterprise user engagement, to form Charters for Change, which will identify the problems.

“These charters are there to define the problem and not solve it,” Sipahigil said.

“We may make some recommendations based on the information we get. The idea is to do enough research and find out enough information for the departments’ administration that are involved or anyone else to make a good, informed decision about how to solve the problem.”

Originally, one to three charters were to be worked on, but there could be a maximum of five, depending on the complexity of the problem and how long the problem will need to be researched, Sipahigil said.

They’re currently making a list of ideas for President Paul W. Ferguson and his

cabinet to review in their Jan. 19 meeting. Once the ideas have been reviewed and the cabinet gives recommendations, a final decision will be made on which charters to start researching.

Smith said he and Sipahigil went into the My Voice campaign with “no preconceived notions” and was unsure what problems would be submitted. The long-term timeline is currently unknown because research will be done on the charters, and some may take more time than others.

“We’re going to take whatever time is necessary to do the research and make an informed charter,” Smith said. “We don’t know the answers yet. Everybody thinks they know how to fix these things, but we want to be really informed about it.

We’re gonna take our time and do it right and not make any assumptions.”

Sipahigil’s role is to lead the user experience team and teach them different processes and types of research that can be done for the charters. Smith’s role is to oversee the process and facilitate roles for other people both within and outside the Digital Corps.

“I really want to see a student-driven initiative,” Smith said. “That’s the heart of what we’ve done so far with the submissions and voting and it really needs to be the heart of what we do from here on out. Students

will play an active role in this whole thing and we’re just kind of here to make sure they’re pointed in the right direction.”

A group that will “absolutely” be involved in the upcoming processes will be the students who submitted the original ideas, Sipahigil said. They’ll plan meetings to help gain an understanding of what a student was thinking when he or she submitted the idea.

If multiple people submitted the same idea, the Corps wants to get them together so they can be involved in the process. For example, if 10 students submitted an idea about better Wi-Fi coverage, those students could go different places on campus and tell the Corps where coverage was good or bad.

Other groups on campus, like the Student Government Association, will also be involved in helping define the problems and looking for solutions, as well as possibly taking on entire charters.

The current plan is to do the My Voice campaign at least once a year for the next three years.

Smith said he wants the entire process to be “as transparent as possible with all the stakeholders involved — students, administrators and everything.”

A blog has been set up at studentchange.bsu.edu where updates will be posted on the progress of the charters.

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HotBox Pizza opened Jan. 4 in the Village. This is the chain’s first location in Muncie and is owned by Suzanne Flynn and her husband, Bryan Flynn.

After going home to Chicago for break, senior theater major Dante Payne received a call about suspicious activity at his house on Rex Street.

“I got a call from my friend...that lights were on and the piano was playing when she went by the house to check on our cat,” Payne said. “No one was supposed to be in the house, so she got really freaked out and called the police.”

Officers searched the house and didn’t find any suspects, but Payne said he received a call the next morning on Dec. 23 from police notifying him that

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The My Voice campaign is working on which ideas to pursue after receiving more than 1,200 ideas. Then 1,400 students logged in to vote for the campaign created by students in the Digital Corps.

the house was broken into later in the night.

“It was extremely frustrating,” Payne said. “And I live in Chicago, so it felt like there wasn’t a lot I could do.”

While Payne said the house looked like it had been ransacked, only a few video games and cigars appeared to be stolen from the home. Laptops, computers and a sound system remained. Police recovered a glove at the scene, but no fingerprint matches were found, Payne said.

“It seems really pointless to come into the house and just take a coupe of things, which is why I’m actually wondering if we’re going to have someone try to breakin,” Payne said.

They locked the doors and

windows before the breakin occurred, but now Payne said he and his roommates are taking even more precautions by buying security equipment for the home.

Devan Sadler, a senior history major and Payne’s roommate, said the breakin was just “childish.”

“Who comes into someone’s house and just breaks windows and steals literally nothing?” he said. “I was 1,000 miles away in Georgia, so for two weeks I had to think about what could have been stolen from the house.”

While some homes were burglarized over the break, others were also vandalized or had attempted break-ins.

On the 1000 block of Neely Avenue, one home had its windows broken and a rear

metal door was kicked in during what UPD officers believe was an attempted break-in, according to police reports. Another home on Gilbert Street also had broken windows.

In addition to increase in break-ins during the break, UPD officers also made five arrests, one of which was a Ball State student.

Traffic stops also resulted in four arrests over the break, three of which involved operating while intoxicated.

Officers also received calls and responded to two reports of assault on Jan. 1 and Jan. 3.

UPD logs indicate officers received calls for more than 100 incidents and requests to assist MPD over the break.

HOTBOX PIZZA University behind schedule on OPENS IN VILLAGE McKinley Commons construction Restaurant hopes to be involved with campus groups

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HotBox Pizza, an Indiana chain restaurant, opened its first Muncie location in the Village on Jan. 4.

Suzanne Flynn, along with her husband Bryan Flynn, co-own the restaurant. They decided to manage the Muncie location because of its proximity to their home in Fishers and their desire to open a second store.

“We knew a lot of Ball State grads as well as current students, and we have a lot of students working [at the Muncie location] and are still hiring more students,” Suzanne said.

For the store’s VIP night, Suzanne invited the presidents of every fraternity and sorority on campus to help them get involved with the brand. Suzanne hopes to help them fundraise as well as get involved with other campus groups “however they can.”

“The more we can [get involved], the better,” Suzanne said. “We’d really like to be a part of the Ball State experience.”

Being customer-focused is another goal for the Flynns.

Both Bryan and Suzanne plan to work in the store frequently to avoid the store being “faceless,” compared to larger chains.

Suzanne’s phone number is printed on the business cards in both of her stores and she

responds to every email. She

said she plans to call customers a week after they order to make sure everything went well because “maintaining things is not enough.”

“This is all we do, we don’t have other jobs,” she said. “I think that’s nice because it gives us an opportunity to really be involved in the communities that we serve because we live and work there.”

Alec Macchione, a junior accounting and finance major, worked at the Flynns’ Noblesville location and is now the marketing coordinator for the Muncie location. By seeing how the inside of a business works from a marketing perspective, Macchione said he hopes to gain experiences that he couldn’t get in a traditional classroom, such as dealing with different people around the community.

“Right now, it’s all about getting my team together and deciding what we plan on doing for the rest of the semester and for the time after that,” Macchione said.

“It’s pretty much getting everyone together and coming up with new ways towards Ball State and Muncie.”

Suzanne said it’s “important to nurture” her employees and work with them to get experience and build their resumes.

Jordon Felder, a senior communications major, has eaten HotBox in Broad Ripple and visited the Village location on Tuesday.

“It’s really nice in here, and it looks like a fresh new hangout spot,” Felder said. “I can see a lot of people coming in. I’ll be here pretty often.”

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Construction for a $25.9 million immersive living/ learning laboratory was supposed to start in 2015, but its spot on the edge of campus remains empty.

McKinley Commons, a four-story residence hall, hotel, conference center and restaurant space located at the intersection of University Avenue and McKinley Avenue, was proposed in 2012 to benefit students in the hospitality program.

University spokesperson Joan Todd said the project “remains on hold,” but did not say why.

Bernie Hannon, vice president for business affairs, said he is “committed to reviewing the financial viability of the facility under the current market conditions. That review is ongoing, and we will not commit to funding the project until our deliberations are complete [and] we are comfortable with the analysis.”

Hiatt Printing used to be located where McKinley Commons is to be built.

Ball State bought the property for $450,000 in May 2014 after exercising eminent domain. Ball State originally started negotiating with Chris Hi-

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The site where McKinley Commons was proposed, at the intersection of University and McKinley Avenues, is still undeveloped after construction was suppose to start in 2015. The $25.9 million project is planned to be a fourstory residence hall, hotel, conference center and restaurant.

att, owner of Hiatt Printing, for the property in 2012 and tried using eminent domain in court to seize the property in September 2012, but the case was dropped in June 2013 after a dispute over the court’s appraisal value of the property.

Hiatt Printing was there for 30 years and had a core product line with Ball State, but Hiatt said now the only tie that remains is Hiatt’s line of supplementary course materials that faculty come to him for.

Hiatt said he is “very blessed, humbled and grateful” that he is still able to provide a service for the faculty, but is disappointed the area

hasn’t started to develop yet since he gave up his “prime” location on campus.

“It wasn’t an easy thing to do, obviously,” Hiatt said. “I fought tooth and nail for years against Ball State and, for the reason of restoration, ultimately agreed on to give them the property.”

Hiatt speculated that a potential reason the project has been placed on hold is because the idea came when a different administration was in place.

He said the fact that construction hasn’t started yet is “certainly a 180-degree turn around” from when Ball State ac-

quired the property. He has never been updated on the status of the project or property besides what the university publicly disclosed.

“Back in the day when they were trying to acquire the property, they couldn’t get ahold of it fast enough to start that process,” Hiatt said. “Every inclination and testimonial relative to the project was that they were on a fast track. ... I’d like to see it developed, obviously, because that’s the only reason I gave it up. As it sits right now, I still could have sustained a presence there. I don’t lose a lot of sleep over it; those days are behind me now.”

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JACKPOT CLIMBS TO $1.5 BILLION, LARGEST EVER

Q: Have you purchased a Powerball lottery ticket?

A: “Yes, I have, and I regularly do. Even though I haven’t ever won, it’s just a fun gamble.”

W

ith no winner yet of the largest Powerball lottery in world history, the jackpot has gone up to $1.5 billion with a cash value of $930 million, according to Powerball’s website.

The winner will be announced today, but the odds are not in your favor to win this drawing. For the grand prize of $1.5 billion, the odds of winning are 1 in 292,201,338.

In layman’s terms, the chances of picking the right numbers are the same as flipping a coin and getting heads 28 times in a row, Jeffrey Miecznikowski, an associate professor of biostatistics at the University at Buffalo in New York, told USA Today.

We asked students and staff what they would do if they won.

Janet Schafer

Mitch Greene junior elementary education major

Cierra Davis junior psychology major

A: “It could be worth it, but I just don’t buy lottery tickets.”

Q: What would you do with the money if you won with the cash value around Grant Thomp$900 million? son

A: “If I win I know my mom would want to sophomore split the winnings in half. With my half, I biology major would pay off my student loans, quit school and spend my time traveling everywhere.”

Q: Have you purchased a Powerball lottery ticket?

A: “I don’t buy lottery tickets because I don’t have the money to waste, and I also have terrible luck.”

Q: What would you do with the money if you won with the cash value around $900 million?

A: “I would plan to travel, build my own recording studio and buy out Madison Square Kristine Herr Garden.” senior

telecommunications major

Q: What would you do with the money if you won with the cash value around Zach Decker $900 million?

A: “I would pay off student loans — not just mine, but I would have to end up paying off my parents’ and my brother’s loans too. After that, I would probably try to find a factory job.”

A: “First, I would freak out because that’s a ton of money. Then, I would probably buy nice things for my family and myself, but I would want to put the majority of it in savings. That’s just so much money, I wouldn’t know what all to do with it.”

Q: Have you purchased a Powerball lottery ticket?

A: “I purchased one for the drawing on Saturday, but I am going to make sure I get one for tomorrow. There is no reason not to with how much you could win.”

A: “At this point, no. But I want to try it. The money would totally be worth it.”

sophomore vocal performance major

A: “I would help others. I would help veterans, especially those who come home injured, to make sure they have homes and are healthy. I’d probably also buy each one of my granddaughters their own small home. With the rest of the money I have left, I would help the students who can’t afford an education to go to school. I’m happy with where I am now, so I’d focus on trying to help and make others happy.”

Q: What would you do with the money if you won with the cash value around $900 million?

Q: Have you purchased a Powerball lottery ticket?

Q: Have you purchased a Powerball lottery ticket?

Ireisy Tavarez

A: “I have in the past but haven’t got one for Wednesday’s drawing. Every time I have played, I never win anything too big anyway.”

Q: What would you do with the money if you won with the cash value around $900 million?

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senior elementary education major

Q: What would you do with the money if you won with the cash value around $900 million?

A: “I would honestly buy my own island, but invest the majority of the money. Most people who win would go broke in less than five years, so I’d play smart.”

Q: Have you purchased a Powerball lottery ticket?

A: “Yes, just because you can’t win if you don’t play. Granted, I don’t go crazy and buy a lot, but I do take the chance.”

Q: What would you do with the money if you won with the cash value around $900 million?

A: “I would donate the money to people who need it, like different charity organizations.

For me, it would be better and more meaningful for me to help change people’s lives instead of my own. Don’t get me wrong, I would buy a couple play toys, but I don’t want the to change who I am.”

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SPORTS

TODAY Women’s basketball plays host to Buffalo at Worthen Arena.

Tipoff starts at 7 p.m.

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THURSDAY Men’s volleyball starts its twomatch home-stand against Sacred Heart at 7:30 p.m.

Women’s basketball ranks 4th in MAC ‘Interior play’ to lead team in conference play, coach says

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The Ball State women’s basketball team is currently 10-4 in the regular season and 2-1 in the Mid-American Conference. Junior guard Calyn Hosea has 16 assists and 18 points so far this season.

“I’m a defensive guy,” he said. “I like my teams to really defend. Now it’s nice when you can score 75 a night, but boy when you can defend every single night, you’re gonna have a chance to win every single night.”

Sallee’s emphasis on defense and playing in the paint shows – the Cardinals have the largest rebounding margin in the MAC (+6.5 rebounds per game) and their 9.7 point per game scoring margin is the second largest in the league.

Ball State’s strong non-conference schedule, said Sallee, will help continue these trends as MAC play continues.

“You gain confidence playing a good schedule and winning,” he said. “And at the end of the day, we’ve lost four games to four good teams, I think every team we’ve lost to is in the top 70 in the RPI. We don’t have a bad loss so we’ve done well in the tough schedule we play, and we have confidence.”

Sallee was nearly correct.

Three of those four teams – No. 19 Purdue (13-2, 4-0 Big Ten), No. 21 Florida (14-2, 2-1 SEC) and No. 47 Ohio (11-3, 3-0 MAC) are ranked inside the top 50 in the RPI rankings. The other team, no. 78 Charlotte (95, 2-1 Conference USA), is barely outside the top 70.

All four were road losses, and the Cardinals’ lone victory against a team inside the top 70 came on Nov. 19 against Western Kentucky (11-2 MAC, 3-0 Conference USA) in Worthen Arena.

Still, the MAC features some tough opponents, including Ohio and Eastern Michigan (11-3, 2-1 MAC).

Ohio, the defending conference champion, was picked as the runaway favorite with 10 first-place votes and Jan. 6, they defeated the Cardinals in Athens, Ohio, 70-43. The Cardinals will look for revenge Jan. 30 when the Bobcats travel to Worthen Arena.

Eastern Michigan knocked

the Cardinals out of the MAC Tournament in the semi-finals last season and this season was picked to win the MAC West despite receiving fewer first-place votes (4) in the MAC Coaches’ Poll than Ball State (8).

It’s worth noting, however, that Sallee said the poll was “about as useful as wet toilet paper,” when it was originally released. The two teams will look to settle the controversy Jan. 20 at Worthen Arena and then once again Feb. 27 in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

The Cardinals’ next home game will be against Buffalo (10-4, 2-1 MAC) at Worthen Arena on today at 7 p.m.

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One day after the ball dropped to ring in the New Year, Ball State women’s basketball (10-4, 2-1 MAC) celebrated by kicking off the Mid-American Conference season.

At 58th in the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s RPI rankings, the Cardinals are the second-highest ranked team in the MAC behind only 47th-ranked Ohio University (11-3, 3-0 MAC).

Head coach Brady Sallee said interior play will be one of the team’s biggest advantages in conference play.

“It’s what I want us to look like,” he said. “I want us to be that team and make teams worry so much about what they have to do in the paint to keep us from dominating, that now, all of the sudden, my shooters are just out there playing horse.”

After the Cardinals outscored Miami University (7-7, 1-2 MAC) 34-16 in the paint in Saturday’s 66-41 victory at Worthen Arena, Sallee couldn’t resist one of his trademark wisecracks, this one aimed at 6-foot-two-inch senior guard Nathalie Fontaine.

“I’ve built the team to be bigger and, with the exception of [Fontaine], stronger,” he joked, as Fontaine unsuccessfully tried to hide her laugh. “She wasn’t ready for that one was she?”

Opponents, however, are more likely to cry than

laugh – Fontaine is 10th in the nation and first in the MAC with 22.3 points per game and her 9.8 rebounds per game put her second in the MAC and 37th overall.

Fontaine is also Ball State’s third all-time leading scorer with 1,818 career points, set a new single-game record with 43 points scored in a 73-53 win at the University of Evansville on Dec. 21 and has the sixth most career rebounds in Cardinal history.

Miami held Fontaine to just 16 points and five rebounds, but the Stockholm, Sweden, native said the Cardinals have enough depth that she does not need to carry them.

“All of us can play basketball,” she said. “You can’t just not guard someone, and I think they were trying to focus on some people more in the beginning and then you see [junior center Renee Bennett] stepping up. You know, it takes the load off of other people’s shoulders that we have so many players that can actually score and do what we need to do to win games.”

Listed at 6-foot-5 – the tallest player in the MAC – Bennett scored 16 points against Miami and was a perfect 8-for-8 from the field. She averages 8.3 points per game and 61.3 percent shooting. Sallee said she would create mismatches for the Cardinals.

As a whole, Ball State is fourth in the MAC with 71.4 points per game but boasts the league’s best field-goal (43.6 percent) and free-throw (76.4 percent) percentages.

Sallee, however, said he focuses more on the other end of the floor.

Make memories here.

On Jan. 29, Unified Media will choose 2 winners to receive a pair of tickets to An Evening with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis at Emens Auditorium on Feb. 3 at 7:30 p.m.

Make friendships and memories that will last a lifetime at University Apartments. Experience the most affordable apartment living with the added convenience of being on campus!

To enter, play the free Unified Media Scavenger Hunt. Starting Jan. 13 and running through Jan. 27, a clue about a campus landmark or item will be posted on our Twitter page, @BallStateUM. The contest is open to current Ball State University students, employees, faculty, and staff only.

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Two clues will be posted a week. Each solved clue is an entry into the drawing.

There are a total of six clues throughout the course of the contest, meaning you can have up to six entries in the drawing. All clues will be posted at 9 a.m. on the following dates:

• Clue 1: Jan. 13 • Clue 2: Jan. 15 • Clue 3: Jan. 20

• Clue 4: Jan. 22 • Clue 5: Jan. 25 • Clue 6: Jan. 27

All you have to do is find the landmark or item the clue is referencing, take a SELFIE with the landmark or object, and tweet the picture to @BallStateUM by 10 p.m. on the date the clue is posted. It’s that simple.

Only one entry per person per clue.

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Contest is open to current Ball State University students, employees, faculty and staff only. Two (2) winners will win two (2) tickets each, valued at a maximum of $45.00 per ticket,, to see Macklemore and Ryan Lewis at Ball State University Emens Auditorium on February 3, 2016. Students may only win once. Winners will be announced on January 29, 2016. The odds of winning depend on the total entries submitted. Contest is sponsored by Unified Media, College of Communication, Information, and Media, Ball State University, 2000 W. University Avenue, Muncie, Indiana 47306.

Apply online today at bsu.edu/apartments

Don’t have a Twitter account, access to social media or cannot complete the scavenger hunt for other reasons? That’s fine. Just bring a copy of the Daily News to AJ 285 by 4 p.m. on each of the dates above that the clues are listed above, answer one question about an advertisement in that day’s paper and you’ll be entered into the contest!

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