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Cardinals to host NCAA champions No. 1 Ohio State undefeated since losing to Ball State in 2016 Hendrix Magley Men’s Volleyball Reporter The top-ranked men’s volleyball team in the country is coming to Muncie. No. 12 Ball State (8-1) begins Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association play against current No. 1 Ohio State (9-0) at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Ohio State is the defending national champion and has only lost three sets all season. Ball State head coach Joel Walton said the key to winning is to build a sense of fear inside the Buckeyes. “To beat Ohio State right now, it’s a little bit like overcoming a bully mentality,” Walton said. “They’re going to come into your building and make you uncomfortable and you have to be able to get over that feeling of discomfort and try and make them feel uncomfortable in return.” Ohio State has won 31 consecutive games, dating back to last season, including a 3-1 win in Worthen Arena March 25, 2016. The Buckeyes haven’t lost since Feb. 6, 2016 — and the Cardinals were the last team to beat them. “What Ohio State did last year and what they’re doing this year to win matches is that they have servers that put incredible amounts of service pressure on every opponent that they play,” Walton said. “You have to be able to serve them tough and keep them out of their system and be successful with your defense to beat them. It’s a challenge.” Ohio State is led by a group of experienced players, including senior setter Christy Blough, senior opposite hitter Miles Johnson, who leads the team with 126 kills, and junior outside hitter Nicolas Szerszen, who is the defending AVCA National Player of the Year. “Their coach, Pete Hanson, who’s a Ball State graduate, has won two NCAA championships with two completely different groups of players,” Walton said. “He knows how to identify talented volleyball players and how to train talented volleyball players and make them into strong teams.”
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'PERSONAL' Twelve international students could be affected by ban; university offers response
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ollowing President Donald Trump’s recent executive order banning immigration, the university is hosting open forum events at the L.A. Pittenger Student Center. The first forum was at 3 p.m. Tuesday. Faculty from the Rinker Center explained the details of the executive order to those in attendance and answered questions. Interim President Terry King spoke briefly, mentioning that immigration to and from the seven countries under the ban is “a very personal thing” because of the frequent
international travel of his colleagues from his engineering background. When asked if Ball State can continue its international partnerships with the countries affected by the ban, King could not confirm nor deny their futures. “I just don’t know,” he said. “It’s the most bizarre situation I’ve seen in [the] nearly 40 years I’ve been doing this kind of work. Actually, the only thing it compares to is ... the late ‘70s in the Iranian Revolution. Before that time, Iran sent the most number of international students to this country.” See IMMIGRATION, page 4
STUDENTS TO PERFORM FRENCH PLAY Comedy performance 'Boeing Boeing' opens Friday at University Theatre Alexandra Smith Theater Reporter In a close call, Ball State beats Toledo 81-80, moves to No. 1 in MAC West.
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One man, three fiancées and Paris are all ingredients to University Theatre's next show, “Boeing Boeing.” Originally written in French, “Boeing Boeing” is a classic farce. The show is set in the 1960s and follows Bernard, an architect who is engaged to three stewardesses at the same time. He uses their flight schedules to determine which woman he sees when— and to keep them all secret from each other. However, things go awry when the airlines start using the
newer, faster Boeing jet, bringing all three women to Paris at the same time. Not only that, but Bernard’s friend Robert comes for a visit, adding to the chaos. Frank Zabilka, a junior musical theater major, plays Bernard. He said he prepared for the role by studying conmen and womanizers of the 1960s. “One of the most relevant people in history to compare Bernard to would be Frank Abagnale, Jr., the protagonist of Steven Spielberg’s ‘Catch Me If You Can,’” Zabilka said. “Abagnale was a real person, so there are multiple written and audible sources from him and [about] how he conned everyone into believing him — and more importantly for ‘Boeing Boeing,’ — how he conned the airline stewardesses.”
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