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Ball State alumni hope for seat on university Board of Trustees | STAFF REPORTS
Two people have applied for the open Board of Trustees positions so far. Kit Crane, Henry County Circuit Court 2 judge, and Muncie firefighter Jason Chafin were the two applicants for the positions, according to the Muncie Star Press. Both are Ball State alumni. Crane has been Circuit Court Judge since June 2012, when he was appointed by then-Gov. Mitch Daniels. He was later elected for a six-year term in 2012. He got his Juris doctoral degree from Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis. He was also in the U.S. Army Reserve. Crane also applied for the open position in the Indiana Supreme Court, but he was not chosen as a semi-finalist, according to the Courier-Times. Chafin has worked at the Muncie Fire Department since December 2007 and previously worked at the Indiana Department of Child Services for a year. He graduated from Ball State in 2003 with undergraduate degrees in business management and political science.
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Two groups of students are campaigning to be the next executive slate for Student Government Association. The Daily News talked to the people each slate said they spoke with to find if their platform points would be feasible to complete within a year. Voting for the elections opens at 8 a.m. today and closes at 5 p.m. Tuesday.
the point with 18, and he said campus could benefit from more public art on campus. “Certainly some of the public art items could happen rather quickly, but this also needs to be a long-term commitment, so we are looking at five-year and 10-year projects and goals,” Falten said. “With a relatively modest budget, the effect could be transformative.”
Before the Student Government Association election season began, our staff planned out our coverage for the two weeks. We had originally planned on endorsing a slate. After we interviewed each one, we realized we couldn’t confidently give an endorsement. Both Summit and 18 had flaws. Both slates had failed to do all of the necessary research to adequately answer our questions. But above all, we were frustrated with the nature of the student government campaign season. The slates spent the two short weeks trying to win over the student body’s approval by putting their names in front of people and trying to convince them of how personable each individual on the slate was. Most of their campaign tactics left out their platform points, which should be the most important part of the election process. It ended up being more about popularity, rather than platform point quality and feasibility. For example, 18 created a music video for themselves, in which they didn’t mention a single one of their platform points. The song, however, was catchy and was stuck in our heads for days. Summit, too, was guilty of pushing irrelevant content on their social media sites. They created a BuzzFeed quiz called, “Which Summit slate member are you most similar to?” Once again, the quiz had nothing to do with their platform points. It instead asked questions like, “What Muncie pizza place are you calling on a Friday night?” Platform points don’t seem to win the elections. Instead, it’s based off of things like who can show the most “cardinal pride.” The slates’ Instagram feeds are filled with pictures of them going to Late Nite, visiting various campus organizations and attending games. They make sure students know they are everywhere on campus. Diversity is another buzz word the slates don’t hesitate to use to their advantage when branding themselves. During the AllSlate Debate, the slates talked about diversity in detail. However, discussion on the actual diversity platform points was limited.
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James Wells, Ana Batres, Emily Halley and Brock Frazer: POINT: Strengthen student relationship with freshman advisers FEASIBLE: Yes WHY: Mark Parkinson, associate director and academic adviser, said
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Junior forward Franko House scored 20 points for the Cardinals in the 115-79 win over Eastern Michigan on Saturday at Worthen Arena. Ball State shot 55.1 percent from the field and had five other players that scored 10 or more points.
Record day leads team to 115-79 win
Ball State keeps 1-game lead in MAC West with 2 games left RYAN FLANERY MEN’S BASKETBALL REPORTER | @Flanery_13 Ball State men’s basketball rewrote the record books in its 115-79 victory over Mid-American Conference rival Eastern Michigan on Saturday. Eighteen 3-point shots fell in for the Cardinals, breaking the record set on Dec. 15, 2001, against Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Ball State’s 39 3-point attempts against Eastern Michigan was also a school record. The Cardinal’s 115-point performance also tied the program record for the most points against a Division I opponent and is tied for the fifth-highest single-game total in school history. Head coach James Whitford said even he was surprised by the scoring outburst. “You know, it is crazy,” Whitford said. “A lot of that had to do with the number of possessions in the game, but I don’t really concern myself with that, though; I concern myself with the efficiency ratio.”
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the traveling office hours would give students more opportunities and confirmed it would be feasible to do. “We discussed the possibility of advisers having ‘traveling office hours’ on occasion in residence halls, the Atrium or other common areas,” Parkinson said. “This would allow students informal opportunities to meet their advisers and ask questions. We agreed to stay in contact to discuss such initiatives.”
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Matt King, Greg Carbo, Lexi Williams and Race Bates: POINT: Increase amount of student art on campus FEASIBLE: Yes WHY: Arne Falten, director of the School of Art, said he did discuss
‘LEAPLING’ CELEBRATES 5TH REAL BIRTHDAY | ABBIE WILLANS GENERAL REPORTER ajwillans@bsu.edu
Thomas Mian, a sophomore public relations and advertising major, has only had four birthdays. Mian is a “leapling” or a “leaper,” meaning he was born on Feb. 29, a day that only occurs every four years. Mian said he has only ever met two other people who share his birthday, and one of them went to high school with him. The chance of being born on Feb. 29 is one in 1,461, with
about 5 million “leaplings” alive today. Mian was born in 1996, so this will be the fifth time he’s gotten to celebrate on the actual day of his birth. He remembers his teachers making an event of it and having parties when he was in elementary school. Mian’s mother, Stephanie, said he was supposed to be born on March 7, “but he had to have things his way.” There were two other babies born that day in the same hospital, and the local newspaper wanted to
take their picture. “We always tease him that he’s going to be five instead of twenty,” she said. The reason February sometimes has an extra day is because it takes slightly more than 365 days for the Earth to make it all the way around the sun – precisely 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds. Leap Day was developed in 45 BC by Julius Caesar’s astronomer, Sosigenes.
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here are about 5 million people born on Feb. 29, T and Thomas Mian, a sophomore public relations and advertising major, is one of those “leaplings.” Shown above is Mian at 4-months-old. There is a See LEAP BABY, page 5 1 in 1,461 chance of being born on Leap Day. THE PULSE OF BALL STATE
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