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The Daily News 25 years of Worthen Arena Venue hosted NCAA men's volleyball championship in first season Colin Grylls Sports Editor

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Nov. 26, 1994 Jaimie Lehotsky sets Ball State women's basketball's single-game scoring record with 35 points against Chicago State.

Jan. 15, 1992 Men's basketball beats Miami in the first-ever game at Worthen Arena

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1995 In 2000, the name changed from University Arena to John E. Worthen Arena

April 25, 1992 Worthen Arena hosts the NCAA men's volleyball championship match. Pepperdine beat Stanford.

Dec. 31, 2005 Men's basketball sells out Worthen Arena with a home game against Indiana. It was the eighth time the team filled the arena's 11,500 capacity.

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Nov. 29, 1995 Women's volleyball hosts Loyola in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, wins 3-0.

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all State didn’t even play in the biggest game of Worthen Arena’s first season.

On Saturday, the Ball State men’s and women’s basketball teams will play a doubleheader to commemorate the arena’s 25th anniversary, but on April 25, 1992, men’s volleyball was in the spotlight.

The NCAA picked Muncie, Indiana, to host

President James Wells claims new legislation is a personal attack. PG 4

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Geoffrey S. Mearns addresses the crowd for the first time after being named the 17th president of Ball State Tuesday in Sursa Performance Hall. Mearns will continue in his role as president of Northern Kentucky University until July 31.

A look at Geoffrey S. Mearns' unusual work history

Geoffrey S. Mearns doesn’t share the usual background of past university presidents.

“The obvious contrast is that he’s a person that has had a career in two professional fields,” said Bruce Geelhoed, co-author of “Ball State University: An Interpretative History.” “Our presidents up to this point, Ferguson, Gora, Brownell ... They were all pretty much people who were in the education field.”

Ball State released Mearns’ curricula vitae, a document that’s like a long-form résumé, to the public following his announcement and with his permission. The entire document can be found on ballstatedaily.com.

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2016

Feb. 29-March 1, 2008 Men's volleyball sweeps UCLA at home. More than 3,400 people attended each game against the Bruins, who have won 19 national championships in the sport.

the Men’s Volleyball National Championships, and 7,391 people showed up to watch Pepperdine beat Stanford for the title.

“Even though our team wasn’t in the championship, we were still going to have a full house of people here watching that event,” Ball State men’s volleyball coach Joel Walton said. “It was pretty special seeing 6 or 7,000 in here on back-to-back nights.”

See WORTHEN, page 6

SGA

Alan Hovorka Daily News Reporter

Sept. 3, 2016 Men's basketball sets a program record by scoring 115 points against Eastern Michigan.

2008

Feb. 24, 2007 Women's basketball sets a program record with an attendance of 4,711 vs.

Eastern Michigan.

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Ball State's new president strikes contrast with predecessors

Nov. 3, 2007 Worthen hosts the IHSAA girl's volleyball state championships for the first time. The final has been held in the arena every year since.

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Carli Scalf Assistant Copy Director On Feb. 3, Emily Halley, senior marketing major and SGA treasurer, will send off a résumé to a company she has been dreaming of working for since middle school.

While many students may not think to send their résumés off in the form of a cardboard cutout look-alike doll, for Halley, it made perfect sense.

“Knowing that American Girl was my dream job, I wanted to do something a little different,” Halley said. “I didn’t just want to send a résumé without them seeing the true passion behind this idea of working for American Girl.”

The project has been a long time in the making.

Halley fell in love with American Girl at 5 years old when she received her first doll, Kit Kittredge, under the Christmas tree.

A closer look at Geoffrey S. Mearns' first contract.

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Scientists take first steps to growing human organs in pigs The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have grown human cells inside pig embryos, a very early step toward the goal of growing livers and other human organs in animals to transplant into people.

The cells made up just a tiny part of each embryo, and the embryos were grown for only a few weeks, researchers reported Thursday.

Such human-animal research has raised ethical concerns. The U.S. government suspended taxpayer funding of experiments in 2015. The new work, done in California and Spain, was paid for by private foundations.

Any growing of human organs in pigs is “far away,” said Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, an author of the paper in the journal Cell.

He said the new research is “just a very early step toward the goal.”

Even before that is achieved, he said, putting human cells in animals could pay off for studies of how genetic diseases develop and for screening potential drugs.

Animals with cells from different species are called chimeras (ky-MEER’ehz). Such mixing has been done before with mice and rats. Larger animals like pigs would be needed to make human-sized organs. That could help ease the shortage of human donors for transplants.

The Salk team is working on making humanized pancreases, hearts and livers in pigs. The animals would grow those organs in place of their own, and they’d be euthanized before the organ is removed.

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Most of the organ cells would be human. By injecting pig embryos with stem cells from the person who will get the transplant, the problem of rejection should be minimized, said another Salk researcher, Jun Wu. Daniel Garry of the University of Minnesota, who is working on chimeras but didn’t participate in the new work, called the Cell paper “an exciting initial step for this entire field.”

Here’s what the new paper reports: Scientists used human stem cells, which are capable of producing a wide variety of specialized cells. They injected pig embryos made in the lab with three to 10 of those cells apiece, and implanted the embryos into sows. At three to four weeks of development, 186 embryos were removed and examined.

Less than 1 in every 100,000 embryonic cells was human, which still comes to about a million human cells, Wu said. That contribution is lower than expected, he said, “but we were very happy to see we actually can see the human cells after four weeks of development.”

The cells generated the precursors of muscle, heart, pancreas, liver and spinal cord tissue in the embryos.

The researchers said they plan to test ways to focus human cells on making specific tissues while avoiding any contribution to the brain, sperm or eggs.

That addresses ethical concerns that the approach could accidentally lead to pigs that gain some human qualities in their brains, or make human egg or sperm.

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HALLEY

Continued from page 1 The number of dolls, and Halley’s love for the company, grew from there.

“Emily got her first American Girl from Santa Claus. Her reaction, she was thrilled — smiled ear to ear. It’s something I will never forget. A little girl’s dream,” said Pam Halley, Emily’s mother.

Her passion for marketing also grew from a young age. While Emily originally wanted to be a pediatrician, and often acted out this career with her American Girl dolls, she changed her mind to focus on business after she realized she was afraid of blood.

She credits her father and grandfather for inspiring her to pursue a career in business.

“We have talked a lot about business, politics and life experiences, even at a young age,” said her father, Keith Halley. “I always feel like the very lucky coach who just won the national championship every time she reaches one of those milestones. I consider her to be my best friend.”

As an avid planner, Emily began preparing for her career early. She ran her high school’s store, The Red Zone, after a marketing teacher asked her to help out with it sophomore year. At Ball State, she started the Women in Business organization to support other female business majors on campus.

While she excelled at marketing, Emily’s dream of working for American Girl never faded. As graduation approached, she decided to apply for a job at the company, even though there are no specific beginning marketing positions open.

“This is a way to get my name out there for future positions, as well as to show the love I have for the American Girl company,” Emily said. “I think that if it hadn’t been for American Girl, an idea like this wouldn’t have come to mind, so everything about this campaign is about how AG has taught me to think and be.

It’s a dream job.”

Emily hopes to capture the company’s attention with several creative tactics. Her résumé will come with a cardboard cut-out of a look-alike doll she made with a family friend from home.

The doll, Rowland, comes with Emily’s résumé and a cover letter from the point of view of Rowland about Emily’s accomplishments and love for American Girl.

Under the guidance of her Miller Business Honors Program advisor, Emily also started a travel blog to chart Rowland’s

journey from Muncie, Indiana, to Madison, Wisconsin.

To engage others in the community, Emily has started a social media campaign that asks collegiate women to share their memories about American Girl using #AGTaughtMe. Several of Emily’s sorority sisters have already agreed to share their memories and spread the word on social media.

Freshman English major Marlee Jacocks was eager to get involved with the campaign.

She still remembers bringing her first doll home, and how monumental and exciting it felt at the time.

“My American Girl doll gave me chances to play dress up and experiment with clothing, but also to just enjoy all things girly,” Marlee said.

“From all this play time, AG has taught me what it takes to be a brave, Grace Ramey // DN

Emily Halley, a senior marketing major and SGA treasurer, has dreamed of working for American Girl since middle school. Halley fell in love with American Girl at 5 years old when she received her first doll, Kit Kittredge, for Christmas.

caring and passionate woman. With these traits always in mind, I have become the person I am today.”

Junior fashion merchandising major Kellyn McMullan also jumped at the chance to participate in the campaign. She still remembers taking yearly trips to the store in downtown Chicago with her mom and sister.

“I still have my two American Girl dolls that I got when I was younger, and they always bring back fun memories.

This campaign gave me an excuse to dig through old pictures,” she said. “I feel like American Girl makes girls feel confident and AG motivated me to follow my dreams at such a young age.”

The lasting impact American Girl has on their customers is one of the main reasons Emily is so excited about the possibility of working there today.

Though she realizes she may not get the job right away and has applied for many other opportunities, Emily hopes the campaign and résumé will be enough to get her on the map at her favorite company.

“They always seem to be one step ahead of every other company in terms of encouraging girls to love who they are just the way they are,” Emily said. “It’s hard not to be for a company that does that for young girls.”

Contact Carli Scalf with any questions or concerns at copydesk@bsudailynews.com.

3-D art students share work in guild Metals Guild provides students with opportunity to be creative, learn new skills outside of classroom

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Ball State’s crafting guild had the opportunity to visit East Carolina University’s symposium last week to meet other students from around the country and professional artists in North Carolina. There are three guilds on campus for those interested in 3-Dimensional art — the metals guild, the glass guild and the ceramic guild.

Kirsten Wamsley Lifestyle Reporter For students interested in 3-D art, there are three guilds on campus — the Metals Guild, the Glass Guild and the Ceramic Guild.

The Metals Guild participates in crafting items of various sizes and structures out of metal just for fun, or for a class.

It is a way to bring the art students on campus together to work on projects and even take field trips. Every year, the guild brings in an artist and holds sales to raise money for its department.

A grant provided by Ball State provided a crafting guild on campus the opportunity to visit a symposium and meet professional artists in North Carolina.

“It is a really wonderful experience as a group because you get to meet students just like us, professors and the big guys,” said Noelle Wiegand, vice president of the Metals Guild.

The symposium, which the group traveled to last week, was held at East Carolina University, one of the largest schools of art and design in the Southwest. It provided guild members the opportunity to meet other students from around the country and speak with professionals, such as the individual who wrote one of the textbooks required for the major.

“When I saw that Tim McReight was there I was like, ‘oh my god, that’s my guy. He wrote our book,’” said Taylor Fentz, the group’s president.

Not only were students able to network, but they also attended lectures where they learned new skills and even got to communicate with professionals about their work.

The learning experience continued as the group had the chance to showcase their works and get feedback from other schools. The feedback was mostly positive and even attracted some students to Ball State and its program for metals artists.

“I think we represented Ball State really nicely.

People were asking if we had a graduate program,” Wiegand said.

For Fentz, the experience

of being a metals major means living in the studio — a fact she shares with all new members and those entering the major.

Wiegand believes the metal smithing community is very downto-earth, and more than willing to communicate with other artists about their works.

“It is not something you find with every medium.

Sometimes you go up to an artist and ask them how they did something and it’s like a big secret,” Wiegand said.

Members of the group come and go in the studio, so a set meeting time does not exist. Meetings usually consist of conversations

about the next sale or events the group will be attending.

The group is always finding ways to work together to learn new things and speak with professionals, whether on trips or having a speaker come to Ball State.

The only requirements for joining the Metals Guild is being dedicated to the craft and having taken the introduction to metals course. Being a metals art major is not required.

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

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The Board of Trustees named the current president of Northern Kentucky University, Geoffrey S. Mearns, the 17th president of Ball State Tuesday in Sursa Performance Hall.

Mearns will officially start Aug. 1.

Mearns, the current president of Northern Kentucky University, will become Ball State’s second chief executive who has practiced law, according to Ball State’s website.

Benjamin Burris, serving from 1924 to 1927, worked as a county attorney sometime before becoming president.

It’s not all differences, Geelhoed, a history professor, said. A number of past Ball State presidents, like Paul W. Ferguson and Jo Ann Gora, had served as president or in an executive position prior to coming to the university.

“To the board’s credit ... we have thirty years of experience of hiring people who have already served as president,” he said.

Mearns, 57, worked as an attorney for 17 years before entering academia full time in 2005 at Cleveland State University. He served as provost and vice president for academic affairs for the university near the end of his time at Cleveland. He became president at NKU in 2012. His contract at NKU ends July 31 and he will take office at Ball State no later than Aug. 1.

Strategic planning has been core to his work at both NKU and Cleveland State, something that Mearns said in his first speech to the university would be a primary focus once he comes to Ball State. He’s previously led successful efforts to raise funds for new buildings and renovations, as well as efforts to improve retention and graduation rates, according to his CV. “My sense of this is that you have an individual who is very comfortable in a leadership role,” Geelhoed said.

“He’s been in a leadership position both in higher education and, I assume, the legal field.”

The incoming Ball State president previously taught law for about five years at Cleveland State before becoming provost there. However, his first teaching job, after graduating from Yale in 1981, was as an English teacher at The Delbarton School, an all-male Roman Catholic collegepreparatory school, in Morristown, New Jersey.

Mearns taught law as an adjunct professor at New York Law School from 1994 to 1995 and Case Western Reserve University Law School from 1998 to 2005 while working as an attorney.

A couple of high-profile cases stand out from his time practicing law. The new president prosecuted Carlo Gambino’s son, of the Gambino crime family, in Brooklyn, as well as a juror who sold his vote to acquit a mob boss in a racketeering case while working as an assistant U.S. attorney in New York City and Long Island from 1989 to 1995.

From 1995 to 1997, Mearns worked as first assistant U.S. attorney in North Carolina, where he handled political corruption cases.

He also served as a federal prosecutor in the Oklahoma City bombing case from 1997 to 1998, where he helped the U.S. Attorney General prosecute Terry Nichols, an accomplice to the bombing.

Afterward, he worked at two Cleveland law firms, which involved white-collar defense.

The CV indicates that Mearns has been published in journals six times since 1999. The document contains numerous citations for selected presentations, covering topics like the Oklahoma City Bombing, professionalism and ethics and forensic science.

Contact Alan Hovorka with any questions or concerns afhovorka@bsu.edu.

SGA President James Wells issued a statement about a Senate amendment Wednesday in the Unified Media Lab. Wells said he believes the amendment aims to take away some of his power.

James Wells believes new legislation is aimed at him Max Lewis SGA Reporter Student Government Association President James Wells issued a striking statement about a Student Senate amendment that he believes is aimed at stripping him of power.

The senate introduced legislation Wednesday that would remove Wells out of the Student Senate completely.

The president can’t exercise any power over the legislative branch. However, Wells said he is obligated to inform the Senate about any of the decisions that he is making.

This means Wells’ ex-officio status is in jeopardy. Wells said nine other schools in the Mid-American Conference have provisions in place for student body presidents to have this status, which Senator Alex DeLong refutes.

“They don’t,” DeLong said. “No other school in the MAC conference has a separation of power clause, we’re the only school that has that.”

Wells specifically mentioned DeLong and said the legislation “seems like a personal attack.”

“I honestly just felt like it might come eventually,” DeLong said. “I wasn’t truthfully mad, just I saw that there was a good amount of misinformation that he put out.”

DeLong authored the bill, Wells said, and other similar efforts have also been made to undermine the executive board.

“This doesn’t solve issues that they

want resolved,” Wells said. “This is a distraction taken to a level unseen before in our student government.”

During a press conference, Wells took aim at Senate leadership, which he said has constantly tried to undermine his power as president and called the legislation a “distraction.”

“There is no need to waste time,” Wells said. “This is a blatant attack on me and the office I hold.”

DeLong said that statement was “not true at all.”

“We took into account what other schools roughly had,” DeLong said.

“What our constitution said and bylaws said and what we believed to be appropriate.”

Wells said problems first began halfway through the fall semester and has escalated since, now in the form of legislation.

“Anytime I’ve exercised any power that is in the bylaws, in the constitution — it has ticked off conversations with our rules and constitution committee,” Wells said. “Of saying that I’m abusing my power, I have continued the same actions that presidents before me have done so.”

Wells also specifically mentioned the Rules and Constitution Committee, which he said has abused its powers to change the governing documents.

On Thursday night, Wells filed two challenges in the Student Judicial Court concerning changes made to the governing document and the constitutionality of members in the Rules and Constitution committee.

Members appointed to committees

must be approved by the Senate, and Wells said there is no record of that happening.

“There is a vote that should take place on nominees to various positions,” Wells said in a filing obtained by the Daily News. “This then causes into question the action of this committee.”

Wells also said he has the power to veto or sign off on the changes. Because he was not allowed the chance, Wells said he is now calling into question the legislation’s validity.

“I am asking the court to declare the actions of Student Senate unconstitutional,” Wells said. “And to order a reversal of changes that did not prescribe to the rules.”

DeLong said most of the Senate is in agreement with the recent legislation — however, Wells said the process is being “hijacked by only a few.”

DeLong said the only senators who seemed opposed to the new legislation are Senators Kam Bontrager, Trevor Holland and Alexus Torrence.

DeLong feels that Wells’ public statement was a personal attack against him. Wells approached DeLong at the beginning of the year to join SGA but the relationship fell apart, he said.

“He did reach out to me and got me involved in Senate,” DeLong said. “As the semester went on, it felt like the connection that we might have initially had separated.”

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

Plan to reduce teen suicide

Indiana lawmakers work on new legislation

Gabbi Mitchell Daily News Reporter With suicide as the second-leading cause of death for people ages 15-23, Indiana lawmakers are working on legislation for the new year that would be aimed at reducing the suicide rate among Hoosier children, teens and young adults.

According to the most recent data available by the Northwest Indiana Times, 119 Indiana teenagers and young adults and nine children between the ages of five and 14 committed suicide in 2014.

Because of these statistics, Logansport Republican Sen. Randall Head proposed a plan to develop legislative plans that would call for incentives to attract more behavioral health professionals to Indiana and to create a state suicide prevention coordinator to ensure local and regional anti-suicide programs, according to the Times.

The Senate Bill 506 proposal is set to be filed at the Statehouse this month.

Head told the Times he feels this proposal will enhance the role of teachers and all school employees in suicide prevention. He envisions that all educators will be required to participate in suicide prevention training at least once every five years.

The last piece of the bill includes requiring post-secondary institutions to adopt a policy focused on suicide information, something that William Whitehair, a Ball State alumni and teacher, said should already be happening.

“Teachers are supposed to be aware of students' behavior,” Whitehair said. “It’s a part of our job to be better teachers.”

Many people do not recognize the signs of suicidal teens and adults, however, which include: • Anger • Talking about wanting to die or suicide • Increased alcohol or drug use • Reckless behavior

• Changes in sleep • Feeling hopeless, desperate, trapped • No sense of purpose • Withdrawal • Sudden mood changes • Anxiety • Giving away possessions • Putting affairs in order Jagdish Khubchandani, an associate professor of health science, is in support of the proposed bill.

“What I am impressed about in the bill is the multi-factional approach to preventing and reducing youth suicide,” Khubchandani said. “If you look at the language of the proposed bill, it would appear that the recommendations would attack the problem of youth suicide at various levels, like for students at risk, for students considering suicide, for individuals who plan to attempt suicide and those who have attempted suicide.”

Khubchandani believes that if the bill were to be implemented, it could bring great change to Indiana, which he said ranks poorly on various youth mental and behavioral health standards compared to other states.

“As a nation, we have one of the highest rates of youth suicide across most developed and industrialized countries,” Khubchandani said. “The bill is, therefore, a much required initiative.”

However, Khubchandani does have concerns on whether or not the bill goes through the process smoothly.

“There are issues of sustainability even if we see some initial action after the bill passes,” he said. “Suicide prevention in youth of Indiana will require sustained action at multiple levels and can be a demanding risk. I hope that there are no obstacles in passing the bill — a lot of good proposals fail due to shortage of funds and resources.”

Khubchandani is carefully keeping track of nationwide and Indiana initiatives and hopes that Senate Bill 506 passes.

Contact Gabbi Mitchell with any questions or concerns at gnmitchell@bsu.edu.

TEEN SUICIDE RATES IN INDIANA

1 in 8 Hoosier teens planned suicide in 2015, while 1 in 6 considered attempting suicide.

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leading cause of death for state residents ages 15-23.

teenagers and young adults took their lives in 2014. In addition, 9 children ages 5-14 committed suicide that year.

SOURCE: Indiana Department of Public Health, NWItimes.

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Cardinals see 'team win' after 4 sets George Mason starts strong but unable to match offense

STAT LEADERS

• Kills — Brendan Surane (21) • Assists — Connor Gross (46) • Digs —Adam Wessell (12) • Blocks —Brendan Surane, Matt Walsh, Alex Pia (5) • Service Aces — Matt Szews (2)

Hendrix Magley Men's Volleyball Reporter No. 13 Ball State won three sets in a row after dropping the first to cruise to a 3-1 (30-32, 25-15, 25-16, 25-19) victory over No. 12 George Mason to improve to 7-1 on the season.

Senior outside attacker Brendan Surane led Ball State with 21 kills and 10 digs, which are both season highs.

Surane also added five blocks and an ace to help the Cardinals increase their winning streak to five games.

“That’s the kind of player we want Surane to be,” head coach Joel Walton said. “Connor [Gross] did a nice job of getting in a rhythm tonight and helped put Surane in some good spots.”

Ball State led 24-23 late in the first set, but George Mason forced a few Ball State errors and made some key blocks to take the first set in Worthen Arena, 32-30.

“I think the first set was just us getting used to them a little bit,” Walton said.

Walton said George Mason senior outside attacker Jack Wilson is “one of the East Coast’s elite attackers,” and Wilson recorded eight of his 10 kills in the first two sets. Ball State was able to slow him down, which led to more opportunities for the Cardinals.

“We know he’s a good player and we

Senior Carmen Blanco

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Senior outside attacker Brendan Surane hits the ball against George Mason Thursday in Worthen Arena.

Ball State won the match 3-1, improving their record to 7-1.

wanted to be able to minimize what he was going to do against us,” Walton said. “We were making it difficult for him to put the ball away.”

The Cardinals only trailed for a total of two points in sets two and three.

Senior setter Connor Gross said their ability to pass well helped Ball State to take control of the match.

“Our guys are just great passers and great attackers all around,” Gross said.

“When guys are passing that well, our offense just runs really smoothly and we were really focused tonight.”

George Mason led 6-3 early in the fourth set, but Ball State went on a 3-0 run to tie the score and the Cardinals would only trail once (7-6) for the rest

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CARDINALS LOOK FOR STRONG HOME OPENER

After a Mid-American Conference championship-winning 2016, the Ball State women’s tennis team gets their 2017 home campaign underway Sunday against Dayton.

Carmen Blanco was the only one in the team to have lost her singles match (6-2 6-2) in the tie against UNC-Greensboro. But head coach Max Norris decided to take the positives out of Blanco’s loss. He attributed it to her just having “a bad day mentally.”

“I’d rather someone be like that,” Norris said. “Where they can’t get out of their own way, thinking too much and thinking about themselves. It also means in other situations maybe they’re having a good day and their teammates are having a bad day. It’s not going to affect them.”

Looking ahead, Norris believes that this year's Dayton team is “the best they’ve ever had,” having seen them play in a hidden duel at the University of Cincinnati last fall.

- Adam Chowhurdy

of the match. Surane had six of his 21 kills in the fourth set.

“He’s our biggest arm,” Gross said.

“For me, it gives me a lot of confidence going to [Surane] knowing that he’s probably going to get a kill — he’s a guy I like to go to when we need something.”

Ball State was also led by junior outside attacker Mitch Weiler, who finished with 14 kills and three digs, freshman outside attacker Matt Szews, who finished with nine kills and five digs, and junior middle attacker Matt Walsh, who finished with eight kills and five blocks.

“You look at the stats and it was a really good team win,” Surane said. “If we can keep playing this well as a team, we’re going to be really tough to beat.”

Ball State will finish up the week at 7:30 p.m. today against New Jersey Institute of Technology (3-2).

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Freshman Noah Bullard

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MEN TO FACE OFF WITH UNDEFEATED HOOSIERS

Ball State men’s tennis continues its season with a road trip to take on Indiana today.

The Hoosiers are undefeated at 2-0, while the Cardinals come in at 1-2 after a 7-0 sweep of Eastern Illinois.

“They’re always a good team,” Ball State head coach Bill Richards said. “They’re a young team, only returning two of their top six players. It’s always going to be a challenge when facing a Big Ten opponent, even if they are only returning two of their top six players.”

Lucas Andersen, a senior from Greenwood, is a Cardinal to watch. Andersen won the MAC Flight 1 Singles Championship in the fall and opened the spring season by taking No. 27 Josh Hagar from Notre Dame to three sets, losing in the third (10-3). Andersen also beat Gergely Madarasz from Purdue, who is 49th in the nation.

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SWIMMERS MEET RIVAL EVANSVILLE AT HOME

Ball State men’s swim and dive return to Lewellen Aquatic Center Saturday to face Mid-American Conference rival Evansville.

Head swimming coach Bob Thomas said both squads are evenly matched with Evansville each year.

“They got some really top swimmers, and we have an opportunity to compete with them,” Thomas said. “Evansville tends to bring out the best in us.”

The series between the Cardinals and Purple Aces is tied at 3-3. Thomas said he hopes that his team is up for the challenge.

“The more competitive they get, the more competitive we get, and vice-versa,” Thomas said. “That is what makes it a rivalry.”

In practices this week, freshman Logan Ackley has been focusing on endurance for the 200-yard backstroke.

“I’m trying to keep a consistent time for my 200s,” Ackley said.

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Walton was an assistant coach back in 1992, and he played for Ball State from 1985 to 1988 under former head coach Don Shondell. At the time, the combined attendance of 13,102 between the semifinals and finals was the second-most in men’s volleyball history, behind only the 1973 championship, when San Diego State won in its own arena.

The Cardinals hosted men’s volleyball championships before but the old arena, Irving Gymnasium, had less than half the capacity (4,200) of Worthen (11,500).

IRVING GYMNASIUM

Until the end of basketball season, there wasn’t enough room on the court to practice in Irving Gymnasium, so they would set up a court on the narrow balconies, with the wall on one side and a curtain on the other.

“Sometimes coach would just have us play the ball off the wall because it continued rallies and we could play more volleyball that way,” Walton said. “But there was also a little bit of a fear factor with the curtains because it was basically a curtain and a railing, and then you’re falling off, down 20 to 30 feet into the main floor area.”

Sports Ramon Avila, a professor of marketing, enlisted students to help sell tickets, radio and cable TV ads for the 1992 finals, but he’s also a former Cardinal. He played volleyball in Irving from 1975-77.

“It was, uh, spartan, is probably the best word I could use,” Avila said.

“When basketball season was over and we could move onto the main court, we thought we were in heaven!”

Once the team climbed down from the balconies after practice, it was time to shower and change. Next to what’s now the equipment check-out room on the first floor of the Jo Ann Gora Student Recreation and Wellness Center are a set of general-use locker rooms, but before Worthen was built it housed the men’s volleyball team — and everyone else on campus.

“We had kind of a corner in it,” Walton said. “So we would go there after practice, and we would have all of our lockers lined up in that space, but Professor Smith, Professor Jones, Professor Whoever could walk into the exact same locker room area.”

Walton was ready to leave the cramped quarters of Irving Gym when he graduated in 1988. He remembers walking with Walton at one point that season, talking about the new arena. He had no idea he’d join Shondell’s coaching

staff just two short years later.

“Coach told me how excited he was that they were going to be building this new facility that would house men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s volleyball,” Walton said. “I remember looking at coach going, ‘Coach, I’m graduating this year. What do I care?’”

Avila didn’t have to ask why he cared.

The Muncie Northside graduate thought of his old friend, Marc Groves. The two played football together at Northside, and in 1972 the Indianapolis Star said Groves was Northside’s “No. 1 tackler.”

After high school, Avila came to Ball State and Groves joined the armed services. Avila said Groves was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in the late ‘80s and returned to Muncie, where the two would spend time together. One of Groves’ favorite topics, Avila said, was Worthen Arena.

“He would take his wheelchair and go to the end of the road, just to watch them build the arena,” Avila said. “He and I would do things together, and I’ll never forget him saying to me, ‘I never thought Ball State would get an arena like that.”

25TH ANNIVERSARY

Worthen Arena, which was called University Arena until 2000, still looks pretty new. In recent years, Ball State has added video boards, corner scoreboards

and updated the floor and the lights.

“If we tell people it’s a 25-year-old space, they’re shocked,” Walton said.

“And that’s a real credit to the facilities people here on campus as well as just the overall staff and what they do to maintain all of the facilities on Ball State’s campus.”

It’s now used as a recruiting tool as well.

“The parents, and the recruits, their eyes always get really big,” Walton said.

“The comments that follow are always that of what impression it makes on them and how impressive the facility really is.”

The arena is still hosting championships, too — the Indiana High School Athletic Association girls’ volleyball championships have been played in Worthen every year since 2007.

Avila’s daughter, Kate, even played in the 2015 Indiana Class 3A championship with Yorktown.

Kate now plays for Ball State women’s volleyball, and Ramon watches her in the same arena that hosted the national championship game his students sold tickets for.

“Unbelievable,” Ramon said. “Here we are 25 years later, so I’ve been able to see quite a bit of it. And I still think I’m young.”

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Worthen Arena will celebrate its 25th anniversary Saturday. In its first year, Ball State hosted the NCAA Men’s Volleyball National Championship.

Gymnastics team looks to continue successful record at home meet Jack Williams Gymnastics Reporter Ball State gymnastics returns home to take on No. 6 Kentucky Wildcats one week after beating No. 25 North Carolina State.

The Cardinals have faced the Wildcats six times in the last six seasons.

“Kentucky is always going to bring a very competitive team whenever they show up. They have great sportsmanship and they interact very well,” head coach Joanna Saleem said.

“However, when it comes to us being out on the competition floor, we know we have to be focused on our routines and on being a little better than we were last week.”

Last meet, the team found most of their success off on the vault, tying for first and a tie for third. On Sunday, the Cardinals host a Wildcat team that averages a score of 9.86 on the vault event.

“As a vault team, we really work well together,” senior Sarah Ebeyer said. “There’s a type of chemistry amongst all the girls who participate in the event and we all know how to feed off of each other. We just hope to stay consistent and keep everything the same. When you step out on that vault runway, it goes back to the basics of what you think about when you are in the gym, practicing it every day.

The team has followed the mindset of “what can I do better than last meet?” this season. Saleem said that mindset has started to show in the team’s performance as individuals and overall.

“When we have a common goal and everyone is focused on making sure that they are committed to that goal, that helps us to build throughout the season to make us better when we end than when we started,” Saleem said.

“We want to cross the line, not give up before we are there and give that little bit of extra push in each routine.

As the season continues on, that line is beginning to move and we are raising that bar a bit higher each week.”

While the high national ranking of Kentucky may seem intimidating, the team is not worried about who their opposition is but rather their own individual and team success. They look to treat this meet like any other.

Our mission is simple:

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To make you feel at home

Senior Kayla Beckler performs her routine on the balance beam during a meet against Northern Illinois University Jan. 15 in John E. Worthen Arena.

“Our mindset is on ourselves,” Ebeyer said. “As a team we look at our own individual goals and team goals and that is what we go into this meet thinking of. We try to keep this meet the exact same as any other and keep chugging forward to make strides forward as a team.”

As the team comes home for the first time since defeating Northern Illinois on Jan. 15, they feel more excitement than pressure overall.

“Performing at home is an experience the girls love,” Saleem said.

“We’re hoping to have another good crowd and it’s always fun to perform in front of friends and family. Outside of performing, they get to sleep in their own beds and get to wake up a little bit later. We tend to better at home because we’re relaxed and it’s a little bit more fun.”

The team will take the floor at 1 p.m.

Sunday.

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