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Ball State alumnus to talk teaching, lecture series Michelle Kaufman Daily News Reporter

arfield creator and Ball State alumnus Jim Davis will deliver his second lecture of the 2016-17 academic year tonight.

In addition to his lectures, Davis has taught two master classes and will teach two more this semester.

“It was a ball. The subject matter was great fun," Davis said. “We laughed a lot.”

See DAVIS, page 3

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NEW SGA ELECTION SLATES ANNOUNCED

Andrew Smith & Max Lewis Daily News Reporters

The Student Government Association announced the two slates that will be running against each other in the 2017 elections Monday night.

OPTiC and Ignite will be the two student slates campaigning for Ball State students’ votes in the upcoming SGA election.

OPTiC is headed by presidential candidate Greg Carbó, a junior organizational communication major. Its platform points are insight, innovation and inclusion.

Carbó said his slate will focus on improving programs that are already in place.

“Our platform points are really focused on not just trying to come in and give a hundred new stuff that we’ll try to get to Ball State,” Carbó said. “What we’re really going to focus on is using the initiatives that Ball State has put time and money into.”

Ignite is headed by presidential candidate Gabrielle Lloyd, a junior telecommunications major. Ignite’s platform points are inclusion, growth, navigation, investment, transparency and engagement.

See ELECTIONS, page 4

INSIDE

WIPB

Indiana Public Broadcasting is here to stay, changing frequency of station. PG 4

BASEBALL

An in-depth look at the Cardinals' upcoming season, opening game Friday. PG 6

‘SEMINAR’

Cave Theatre’s new show focuses on 4 disenchanted writers. PG 3

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DIVERSITY REPORT

Ball State releases latest annual report on diversity.

LEARNING FROM OBAMA

Instructor learns from Barack and Michelle Obama at University of Chicago.

ESPN anchor John Anderson reschedules visit to campus The award-winning anchor will visit as part of the Letterman lecture series on March 23 Sam Barloga Daily News Reporter ESPN “SportsCenter” anchor John Anderson has rescheduled his visit to Ball State to discuss sports journalism and entertainment, according to the university.

The lecture is titled “SportsCenter Stories: good games, great stories and do I have to wear pants?” and is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. March 23 in John R. Emens Auditorium.

Christopher Taylor, instructor of telecommunications and director of digital sports production, said having Anderson speak at the university helps validate the direction of his program and promotes the university.

“For the Letterman lecture series and for Ball State sports and for what we are doing at SportsLink, having the external validation of someone of his prominence is very, very important,” Taylor said. “He is a consummate professional, has a very heavy writing and journalism background and I think he is one of the most well respected sports media folks out there.”

Anderson's visit is part of the David Letterman Distinguished

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Professional Lecture and Workshop Series. The title for his lecture remains the same as the original date of Oct. 13, 2016. That was before he had to cancel the appearance “due to an emergency,” according to a press release sent out by the university.

Anderson has been with ESPN since June 1999 and started his reporting career as broadcaster at KOMU-TV in Columbia, Missouri. He was also a co-host for ABC’s award-winning summer primetime TV show “Wipeout.”

The anchor is originally from Green Bay, Wisconsin, and graduated from the University of Missouri’s journalism school in 1987, and has since been honored with the Mizzou Faculty-Alumni Award in 2007.

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Flynn, fired once by Obama, now resigns to Trump The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Fired by one American commander in chief for insubordination, Michael Flynn has now delivered his resignation to another.

President Donald Trump had been weighing the fate of his national security adviser, a hard-charging, feather-ruffling retired lieutenant general who just three weeks into the new administration had put himself in the center of a controversy. Flynn resigned late Monday.

At issue was Flynn’s contact with Moscow’s ambassador to the United States.

Flynn and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak appear to have discussed U.S. sanctions late last year, raising questions about whether he was freelancing on foreign policy while President Barack Obama was still in

office and whether he misled Trump officials about the calls.

The center of a storm is a familiar place for Flynn. His military career ended when Obama dismissed him as defense intelligence chief. Flynn claimed he was pushed out for holding tougher views than the Obama administration about Islamic extremism. But a former senior U.S. official who worked with Flynn said the firing was for insubordination, after the Army lieutenant general failed to follow guidance from superiors.

Once out of government, he disappeared into the murky world of mid-level defense contractors and international influence peddlers. He shocked his former colleagues a little more than a year later by appearing at a Moscow banquet headlined

by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

THEIR VIEW

MARIO HERNANDEZ

“I think ... [Pence] would be hurt.

I think if I’d backed someone up ... and they ended up lying, wouldn’t that hurt my credibility?” the freshman education major said.

RYLEE CLEMMONS

“I think our government tries to do the best for us but I know that they keep things from us,” the junior premed and psychology major said.

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PHIL KLINKER

“I guess the conspiracies that Russia rigged our election may start to resurface after just starting to settle down a little bit,” the sophomore telecommunications major said.

LAUREN STEIGERWALT

“I think they should do better research into the person they’re hiring,” the sophomore predental and biology major said.

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'Seminar' relates to actors' real lives

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Sophomore theatrical studies major Emma Rund and sophomore acting major Will Rupert perform in “Seminar,” a show by Theresa Rebeck, which runs from Feb. 15 to 26. The Cave Theatre production follows four writers as they participate in a writing seminar under the direction of Leonard, an accomplished novelist.

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(From left) Emma Rund, Emily Pazik and Will Rupert perform in Cave Theatre’s next production, Theresa Rebeck’s “Seminar,” which runs from Feb. 15 to 26. The production tells the story of four aspiring fiction writers who are participating in a writing seminar.

Cave Theatre play focuses on 4 writers learning from novelist Alexandra Smith Theater Reporter The next Cave Theatre production is a case of art imitating life for its actors.

“Seminar” tells the story of four aspiring fiction writers who are participating in a writing seminar.

The writers — Izzy, Kate, Martin and Douglas — are under the direction of Leonard, an accomplished novelist.

However, Leonard taints their visions of what it means to be an artist.

Emma Rund, a sophomore theatrical studies major, plays Kate. She said being in the show is challenging as a college student.

“We’re still dreaming big but it’s scary because the show brings to light that we might have to compromise,” Rund said.

“But it’s also nice because it teaches you that if your life gets torn apart and your dreams get flushed down the toilet, you can still come up with something else.”

Will Rupert said the play is relatable to anyone. The sophomore acting major plays Martin.

“It’s relatable if you’re a writer, but also even if you’re not an artist,” he said. “You can come and see people going after their goals, something we all do.”

For Daniel Robinson, the sophomore acting major who plays Leonard, being in the show has taught him about being aware of different opportunities life presents.

“You’ve got to keep your eyes open to new things,” Robinson said. “You don’t have to give up your dreams; there are different ways to achieve your goals. Don’t be blind to what’s going on in the world.”

John Osterhoudt is the student

director of the show. The junior telecommunications and theater major said it’s been good to get back to the theater. Osterhoudt directed the documentary “Unmasked: The Stigma of Meth” in the fall.

“It’s good to be working with and learning from actors again,” he said. “It’s been a good opportunity to get into the depth of collaborative art again.”

Directing is also an opportunity to take on a professional role without the stakes being too high, he said.

“The process of figuring out how to put a play up without someone who has real-life experience has definitely been a learning experience,” Osterhoudt said.

Osterhoudt said he hopes the audience thinks about how they go about getting what they strive for.

“It’s about balancing getting what we want and what we need to do,” he said.

“Yeah, I’d like to be an artist and tell meaningful stories, but at what point do I compromise so I can pay my bills?”

“Seminar” will run in rep with “I and You,” meaning both shows are playing at the same time. For specific dates for both shows, visit the Cave Theatre’s website.

SEMINAR INFORMATION • Cave Studio Theatre (Arts and Communications Building Room 007) • Written by Theresa Rebeck, directed by John Osterhoudt • Feb. 15, 17, 20, 22, 25 at 7:30 p.m.

• Feb. 18, 26 at 2:30 p.m.

• Individual tickets are $6, available at the door or at the University Theatre Box Office

Contact Alex Smith with any questions or concerns at ajsmith9@bsu.edu.

Last semester, the subject of the classes was "Draw Funny."

“It was pretty much a two-hour laugh fest every time we had a class, so that was just nuts,” he said. “That was easy.

That wasn’t teaching, that was just going for a really good time for a couple of hours and I think everybody picked up some nice hints.”

Davis thinks the almost 50 students he taught between the two classes got some hints but also understood more about animation and how to communicate graphically.

“I put everyone to work right away,” he said. “I set a lot of examples about some of the tricks we use to make the characters really look funny with exaggeration and squashing and stretching the characters and things like that.”

Due to the internet, pictures and visual representation are rising, and Davis’ classes are all about drawing.

Davis was amazed at the skilled illustrations he saw last semester. He had never taught in a formal setting before his two classes at Ball State, but three of his grandkids come over for a one-hour drawing lesson every week.

The subject of this semester’s master classes will be storytelling, or linear narrative, which involves putting pictures together to tell a story.

“When I was an art major, we dressed in dark clothes, we sat under the coat racks and ate our little lunches and stuff and pretty much kept to ourselves,” Davis said. “I think today, the art majors are more social and by in large, more well-rounded in their interests.”

For his past and next lectures, Davis consulted the School of Art to decide what topic to lecture about and what topics would help the students. He said it has been fun preparing for his next lecture, which will include old

videos, images and lots of stories.

Tonight, Davis will speak about "The Business of Garfield."

“We talk about the art … but really nobody addresses the business of doing the art and making a living, so I said cool, I’ll do that,” Davis said.

The talk will go over things like copyright, trademarks and why these things are so important to working artists.

“Kids these days will create wonderful stories, characters, music, all kinds of things and pretty much turn them loose on the internet for everybody to use, meaning they don’t get to earn a living at their craft,” Davis said. “I think the arts are going to take a more important role in commerce even in the years to come because of the internet.”

He will also go through the history of the business that he has been in for 37 years and reflect on what right and wrong decisions were made, as well as the philosophies of doing business that the company still uses.

Davis also has a perspective on the unique opportunity of doing business in the Midwest. “[Last semester] I could tell that people were really following along because I was talking about stories and cartooning and stuff I love. I sensed that people enjoyed it,” Davis said. “People know what athletes do for a living, you see what other people do and how they do it on TV but few people know how cartoonists work and what motivates them, so it was fun to get to show that,” Davis said.

During his lectures, Davis likes to have fun with the audience and show them what it’s really like to be a cartoonist. His lecture today will be open to the public and will begin at 7 p.m. in Sursa Performance Hall.

Contact Michelle Kaufman with any questions or concerns at mekaufman@bsu.edu.

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St. Joseph's College set to close

Andrew Harp Daily News Reporter

Students at St. Joseph’s College in Rensselaer will have to find another to continue their studies for the 2017-18 academic year.

The college announced Feb. 3 that it would suspend almost all campus operations at the end of the spring semester due to “financial challenges.”

St. Joseph’s President Robert Pastoor released a letter Jan. 25 to students, faculty and staff at the college describing the financial woes of the school as “dire.” Pastoor said the school needed a total cash influx of $100 million, with at least $20 million in commitments by June 1, to keep the school afloat — a goal the college said it’s not sure it can achieve.

This will affect 904 students and about 200 employees at the college, according to the school’s website.

“I think it’s pretty unsatisfying, especially for us freshmen,” said Darian Love, a freshman studying business management at St. Joseph’s. “Thinking that we’ll be done filling out college applications, and now we have to go back and fill out more college applications to find a new school to go to.”

Love also plays for the college’s football team as a running back. Despite the closing, he has prospects at both Ball State and Indiana University and has

been talking to coaches at both schools.

According to St. Joseph’s, athletics at the school will continue through the end of the season, however.

Jared Smith, a junior at St. Joseph’s studying philosophy and religion, said he’s also upset with the closing. Smith is the Student Associate President at St. Joseph’s College, and he said the school’s closing is still surprising to most of the students on the campus.

“It’s crazy,” Smith said. “Everyone thought that we had at least another year, maybe year-and-a-half, if we were going to close. From everyone’s understanding, it’s almost unheard of to close a college like this, or even temporarily closing a college.”

The college has provided a list of “Teach-Out” schools, which are universities that are teaming up with St. Joseph’s to help make sure the transition to another school is as smooth as possible.

Only about 13 schools are currently on the list. Ball State is not one of them.

Smith said the “Teach-Out” program has been handled “extremely well” thus far and is helping students find alternative routes to continue their education.

According to St. Joseph’s, the school is committed to providing personalized transfer support to all students who need assistance in identifying an institution that works for them if a

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St. Joseph’s College announced on Feb. 3 that it will suspend almost all campus operations at the end of the 2016-17 academic year due to “financial challenges.” The closure will affect 904 students and approximately 200 employees.

student isn’t interested in any of the “Teach-Out” schools on the list.

Because St. Joseph’s College is an accredited institution, any student coming from St. Joseph’s will be able to apply and be considered for transfer to Ball State, university spokesperson Joan Todd said in an email.

According to a Moody Investor Service report, the stress of revenue increase among smaller colleges could result in as many as 15 closings per year through 2017, with a majority of these closings connected to financial troubles.

Contact Andrew Harp with any questions or concerns at adharp@bsu.edu.

BALL STATE KEEPING WIPB ON AIR

ELECTIONS

Staff Reports

Ignite is headed by presidential candidate Gabrielle Lloyd, a junior telecommunications major. Ignite’s platform points are inclusion, growth, navigation, investment, transparency and engagement.

“We wanted to ignite the student body’s voice and inspire them to be their best selves,” said campaign manager Kam Bontrager. “We strive to connect students to their resources, promote an inclusive campus and create a voice that students are confident to stand behind.

Your voice matters.”

This year the election process will include, for the first time, a presidential town hall-style debate.

“The town hall debate will just be more beneficial to people because you’ll be face to face with candidates,” Carrie Ann Staggs, elections board commissioner, said in a press release.

Students will be selected before the debate and if students are wishing to submit questions, they can email them to bsusgaelections@gmail.com.

The slates will participate in three debates total, where they will “prove to their peers that they have the best platform.

SGA will hold the president and vice president debates at 9 p.m. Thursday in Teachers College Room 120.

Ball State will not sell its public broadcasting station WIPB, university officials announced Monday.

The university put WIPB into a Federal Communications Commission voluntary spectrum auction in September 2015 with the potential of making hundreds of millions of dollars by selling their rights to the station.

Phil Bremen, associate professor of telecommunications, is glad to see WIPB stay.

“I’m gratified that the university has seen fit to hold onto WIPB. Over the years we’ve seen other universities sell off broadcast properties,” Bremen said. “In my opinion, the resulting gain has been only short-term but at a lasting cost. I’m glad Ball State is taking a longer view.”

The action was authorized by the university’s Board of Trustees to determine whether Ball State could fulfill its commitment to "quality public broadcasting” and fully achieve its academic mission, should the auction be completed.

“We have said all along that participation in the auction is only on the condition that it advance Ball State’s mission,” Phil Repp, a university vice president and chief information officer, said in a press release. “We determined that selling the spectrum at this time would not be in the best interest of the university.”

WIPB is in the 500-600 MHz frequency range, which was under consideration for the auctions.

Although the auctions are ongoing, Ball State has officially concluded its participation.

Now, WIPB will continue to operate as it has in the past, but will change its broadcast frequency, Repp said. This is the second time the FCC will move WIPB from one frequency to another, with the last switch occurring in 2007 when WIPB moved from standard definition to high definition.

The station has up to 20 months to change its frequency, and Repp said this should not result in any notable changes in the station’s reach.

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Ball State officials announced Monday that the university will not sell its public broadcasting station, WIPB. The station will continue to operate as it has in the past but will change its broadcast frequency.

The cost of the change is yet to be determined, but the FCC had set aside some money for stations that would be required to change frequencies, Repp added.

“I want to thank our loyal viewers and supporters who have stuck with us through this process and shared their thoughts, time and energy on

our behalf,” Repp said. “As a public broadcasting station, we depend on, and remain eternally grateful to, our ongoing supporters.”

Currently, WIPB serves 664,000 households in a 22-county region and is hosted in the Ball Communication Building.

• President — Gabrielle Lloyd, telecommunications major • Vice president — Zoe Taylor, telecommunications and history major • Secretary — Caleb Conley, public relations major • Treasurer — Theodore Hoffman, international business, Japanese and Chinese major

OPTIC • President — Greg Carbó, organizational communication major • Vice president — Katy Volikas, international relations and political science major • Secretary — Lizzie Ford, psychology major • Treasurer — Kaia Thompson, communication studies major

Contact Andrew Smith & Max Lewis with any questions or concerns at news@bsudailynews.com.

Immigration ban 'most un-American thing to take place in my lifetime' Imagine this: One morning you woke up as usual, with your usual routine and such. You were going to fly to another country. You had already been approved, and they let you on the plane. You make the long trip. It was a nice ride and you even DOMINIC BORDENARO became friends with the person seated next to you.

Once you land, a sense of dread falls upon you as is a freshman political science you are immediately detained.

You are not allowed to enter the country. major and writes That is how hundreds of innocent people felt “Dominic’s as they, many with green cards, were detained in Politics” for the international airports across the country over the Daily News. His last few days after Trump signed executive orders views do not prohibiting refugees and immigrants from certain necessarily agree Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. with those of

the newspaper.

Write to Dominic at dabordenaro@ bsu.edu.

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

That poem is inscribed on our Statue of Liberty, a symbol of great American pride. The pride of inclusion, helpfulness and love.

Trump signed an order making the meaning of that statue pointless and irrelevant.

This order was the most un-American thing to take place in my lifetime.

What we have said is we are no longer the land of opportunity, the land for a fresh-start, a land of equality and love and kindness. We are a land of hate. A land willing to discriminate against an entire religion based off of false fears.

The facts are clear, though the Trump administration would have you think otherwise.

Zero refugees from the countries listed in Trump’s executive orders have committed a terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Zero. Toddlers kill more people than that.

Just looking at images of the situation these refugees are trying to escape, especially from Syria, is sickening. The least we could do is take in some of these people that just want to live .We are taking away lives. So much for “pro-life.”

Fifteen thousand Somalis are stuck in the world’s largest refugee program, waking up one day to discover they are no longer going to be allowed into the United States, even though they are trying to escape a war-torn and failing country.

This is wrong. This is immoral. This is disgusting.

We have so much privilege in this country, every one of us. We should be helping those that need us the most.

These people, the beautiful, peaceful people we have blocked, need us the most. They need us now.

In times of crisis, we tend to point fingers at others and accuse many. Hatred is smart, and right now it is outsmarting us. It is dividing us.

These refugees just want to live a happy life like the rest of us. We cannot accept hate.

We need to stop being un-American and let them in.

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Paid parental leave policy approved

Board of Trustees approves new benefit that will allow mothers, fathers time off work after child birth, adoption Brynn Mechem Daily News Reporter The Ball State Board of Trustees approved a new policy that allows paid parental leave for university employees Feb. 3.

The new policy will provide up to six weeks of paid leave for parents, following the birth or adoption of a child.

“This family-friendly addition to our benefits package offers a great boost to our hardworking employees,” Interim President Terry King said in a press release. “We want our working parents to be able to focus on their families during those important first weeks a child is at home. This is the right thing for all of Ball State.”

Jennifer Erickson, an anthropology professor who had to save up to six weeks of sick leave in order to have time off with her baby in 2012, is in support of the new policy.

“It took me a long time to organize my classes for the six-weeks leave that I took to have a baby,” Erickson said.

“That time would have otherwise been spent publishing my research, which is another important component of our life as professors at Ball State, and factors into how quickly a professor earns tenure and promotion.”

While Erickson said it took a lot of work to get six weeks off, it was very crucial to help build a relationship with her child.

“Mothers need time to physically recover from birth and new parents need time to sleep and emotionally bond with their children,” Erickson said. “Getting

time off to have a child is not a vacation.

Giving birth and raising children are hard work.”

In addition to mothers getting paid time off, the new policy also allows for fathers to take time off to spend with their family.

Nora Hopf, the president of Ball State Students for Life, said it is especially important for families to spend the time after birth together as a unit.

“There is a requested two-to-four week period in which the parents aren’t supposed to leave the house without the child,” Hopf said. “So the mother is kind of cooped up by herself in the house with a new baby, which isn’t good for her health, especially when she also has to take care of her own health needs.”

Erickson said the new policy could also help students cope with their teacher being gone.

“In my opinion, the students in my classes suffered when I was on leave because they had a different person in their classes every other day for six weeks,” Erickson said. “Naturally, they emailed me with questions so I never really got a leave, which is unfair.”

While Ball State administration and the university’s Gender Equity Task Force have been working toward this new policy for some time, paid parental leave is not mandated in the U.S. “I think they don’t because they think it will cost too much money, but that is a narrow understanding that overlooks the long-term implications of work-life balance,” Erickson said. “If parents return

to work after having a baby but they’re too exhausted, or mad or distracted to do the job, then the employer loses out.”

Hopf said the U.S. should move toward having paid parental leave because many young employees seek employment at companies that do.

“That is one of the number one things that I personally look for in starting a family,” Hopf said. “When I’m looking at internships and jobs, I’m looking for a company that will let me take time off when the time comes for me to start my family.”

Erickson said. “Any employer that acknowledges and supports this love for both is a better employer, in my opinion.”

Contact Brynn Mechem with any questions or concerns at bamechem@bsu.edu.

Erickson said she is happy to work at a school that allows for her to have professional care and a personal life.

“I love my job. And I love my family,”

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Ball State graduate finds passion in music Brynn Mechem Daily News Reporter

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Sometimes hobbies turn into a lifelong passion, and no one knows that better than recent Ball State graduate Paul Whitacre.

Although he graduated in December 2015 with a degree in advertising and marketing, Whitacre just released his first EP Tuesday — something he said he’s wanted to do for awhile.

The EP, titled “Catch and Release,” features six songs that Whitacre said fall into the indie folk genre of music, but are heavily influenced by his faith.

“I think before I got serious about my faith in college, my music had no meaning,” Whitacre said. “There was really no reason for me to be playing except for self-gratification. But after pursuing my faith, the focus was no longer on how these songs could get me attention, it was on how these songs could help other people.”

Whitacre said no matter what faith people follow, he hopes the songs will connect to listeners in an individual way, bringing them hope.

Although Whitacre is gearing up to release a full album, “Coming of Age,” later this year, it wasn’t until his junior

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Recent Ball State graduate Paul Whitacre released his first EP, titled “Catch and Release,” on Tuesday.

The advertising and marketing graduate said the album, which is heavily influenced by his faith, falls into the indie folk genre of music.

year of college that he really started following his musical passion.

“Before that I was really just kind of messing around,” Whitacre said. “But then I wrote a couple songs where people really started saying they like it and wanted to hear more.”

It was also in college when Whitacre said he met Clay Langebartels, who Whitacre said pushed his career to the next level with his own musical talent, and Antwaine Robinson, who creates music videos for Whitacre’s songs.

Whitacre’s recent video for his song “Beth” was filmed in Indianapolis, and he said he got the inspiration for the song while dating a girl at Ball State.

“When I was in high school, I decided my mom’s name sounded good with my last name and so I wanted to date a girl with the same name, Beth,” Whitacre said. “After I started dating Beth, she told me that she’d always wanted to marry someone with the last name Whitacre.”

While things didn’t work out with Beth, Whitacre said his fans really enjoy hearing about his experiences.

But his musical talent isn’t the only experience Whitacre said he uses to help his career. With his marketing and advertising background, he’s able to promote his music to an even wider audience.

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“It has helped me take a more business-sided approach than most musicians have,” Whitacre said.

“I have a better understanding of marketing strategies and how venue owners operate.”

Now based in Colorado, Whitacre said he misses playing at Muncie venues, including The Cup and Be Here Now. But pretty soon, Whitacre said he hopes to return to his alma mater to play songs off his new album.

“It feels awesome just to look back and see the music I was releasing in the last couple years and the progression to now,” Whitacre said. “Getting to partner with my Indiana friends has given me a keepsake and memory for myself. It gives me hope and excitement for the future.”

Contact Brynn Mechem with any questions or concerns at bamechem@bsu.edu.

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FOR THE RECORD

JUDGE MARIANNE VORHEES REMEMBERS BALL STATE SOFTBALL DAYS PRE-TITLE IX ERA Elizabeth Wyman Assistant Sports Editor

Editor’s note: “For the Record” is a weekly series featuring former stand-out Ball State athletes and their lives after college.

Hanging on the wall of Honorable Judge Marianne Vorhees' office is a large, white "B" plastered onto thick, red paper.

Under the "B," it reads, "Ball State University's Department of Intercollegiate Athletics proudly presents Marianne Vorhees this Varsity 'B' letter for softball on February 19, 2006."

It's a reminder of when she played softball at Ball State, before Title IX was in full effect.

"We weren’t there because we were getting a scholarship," Vorhees said.

"We were there because we loved to play the sport."

When Vorhees enrolled at Ball State in 1976 there were no athletic scholarships, and women's sports received just 2 percent of athletics budgets.

“Everything was just open tryout," Vorhees said. "Everyone just showed up who wanted to play softball and you tried out.”

Title IX was passed in 1972, requiring every educational program receiving federal funding to give equal opportunity to males and females, but it didn't apply to intercollegiate athletics at first. It wasn't until a 1979 Department of Health, Education and Welfare policy interpretation

regarding a 1975 bill signed by Gerald Ford that it truly applied to sports.

By the time Vorhees graduated in 1980, she was a four-year starter with a pair of state championships and experience on both sides of Title IX. Before her senior season, the coach approached the players and said they were getting athletic scholarships.

“I always tell people I remember Title IX from the very beginning, when it came into effect,” Vorhees said.

Originally, she came to Ball State to become a teacher. She said she would have loved to be a college coach some day, but back then women who coached were really full-time professors with a hobby.

“I really liked coaching, but there's no way I really wanted to be a college teacher and carry a course load and coach," she said. "That’s another real benefit from Title IX, it's made careers for women in athletics that weren’t there before.”

Ball State's uniforms and equipment were in pretty bad shape before the legislation was passed, she said. The only thing worse than the equipment was transportation — the whole team and coach would pile into a van and station wagon for road games. One season, the Cardinals were stranded on the side of the road for hours after the van broke down on the way to Wisconsin.

Vorhees had enough.

She wrote a letter to Ball State on behalf of the softball team.

“I told them that we were not happy, if

it was your daughter in those vehicles you would not send your own daughter out in those kind of vehicles that were unsafe,” Vorhees said.

That's when she knew she wanted to become a lawyer.

After graduating from Ball State, Vorhees earned her juris doctor degree from Notre Dame in 1983. From 1993 to 2002, she was the master commissioner for the Delaware Circuit Court. Now, she's a 14-year veteran on the bench entering her final six-year term.

Today, she stays active by playing in a tennis league. Some of her friends are a few years older, and Vorhees said they feel like they really missed out on sports in school.

"All they could do is be a cheerleader or in the pep club," Vorhees said. "They were never included."

Even though she didn't have a scholarship until her senior season, Vorhees said she was lucky to come of age in the infancy of Title IX. Not only did she get to play in college, but the Indiana High School Athletic Association first recognized girls' sports when she was a freshman at Muncie Northside High School.

“We really were playing just because we loved to play," Vorhees said.

She remembers that every time she looks up at the large, white "B" hanging on her office wall.

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Baseball setting sights on MAC Championship Colin Grylls Sports Editor

Ball State baseball’s senior class is ready to wipe the taste of the last few seasons out of its mouth.

In the last three seasons, the Cardinals have gotten close to a berth in the NCAA Regionals, but not close enough.

Last year, they won the Mid-American Conference West Division and earned the No. 2 seed, but were knocked out after two games.

Senior shortstop Alex Maloney said the hardships have bonded the team.

“I really think that this team has a chemistry unlike any other that we’ve

had here since my freshman year,” Maloney said.

Ball State’s pitching staff finished second in the MAC with a 4.31 ERA last season, but head coach Rich Maloney said the pitching staff could be the deepest he’s had at Ball State.

Senior right-hander BJ Butler will be the staff’s ace to begin the season. He was credited with the loss against Western Michigan in the first round, but allowed just two earned runs across eight innings — and recorded nine strikeouts.

Senior centerfielder Matt Eppers said the Cardinals, who were at or near

the top of the MAC in most offensive categories last season, have gotten a firsthand look at the rotation.

“Seeing these guys in the cages, it’s pretty difficult to hit off our own teammates — and we know how they throw,” Eppers said. “We know their tendencies, we know them better than anybody.”

Ball State lost a pair of first-team AllMAC players in right fielder Alex Call and catcher Jarret Rindfleisch. Call was drafted in the third round of the MLB draft by the Chicago White Sox. Rindfleisch went to the Miami Marlins in the ninth after hitting .307 with seven home runs.

But senior first baseman Caleb Stayton, also first-team All-MAC, comes back after leading the MAC with a .377 batting average and 71 RBIs. “He could be that void, power-wise, that we’re kind of missing with [Call and Rindfleisch],” Eppers said. “I’m really excited to see how he does, but ... I think all of us will step it up this year and it’ll be a collaborative effort.”

The Cardinals open their season Friday in Clearwater, Florida, against No. 22 Maryland.

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