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Schnatter donates majority of grant Koch Foundation accounts for 1/3 of total donation KARA BERG NEWS EDITOR | news@bsudailynews.com Despite some controversy on campus over a grant from the Charles Koch Foundation and John “Papa John” Schnatter, only onethird of the grant is actually from the Koch family.

Schnatter donated $2.17 million of the grant, and the Charles Koch Foundation donated $1.08 million, according to the grant agreement.

The contract between the university, the Ball State University Foundation and the Charles Koch Foundation shows no signs of the money coming with strings attached.

The very first clause in both the contract with the Charles Koch Foundation and the one

with Schnatter is on promoting academic freedom.

The grant money has raised some concerns on campus. Read about those concerns here.

The Ball State Foundation has to submit an annual report each year detailing the progress of the John H. Schnatter Institute for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise — which is what the grant money will be used to fund. The donor

has to approve the report before they donate the next chunk of money.

While the grant is supposed to last for eight years, the contract only shows contribution dates up until Aug. 1, 2019 for both Schnatter and the Charles Koch Foundation.

The university has to follow a few terms in order to keep getting the money from both parties — but none are too demanding.

• Maintain a qualified di-

rector for the institute • Hire people to fill four professorship positions • University has to allocate $600,000 total for the salaries and benefits of the director and the four professorship positions • Offer office space for the institute • Continue to support the institute Both Schnatter’s and the Charles Koch Foundation’s contracts said their donation

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was contingent on each other’s — so without either one, the grant would not exist.

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Ball State women’s basketball (22-9, 13-5 Mid-American Conference) never trailed Iowa (19-14, 8-10 Big Ten) in its 77-72 victory in the first round of the Women’s National Invitation Tournament.

The Cardinals scored the first points of the game and took a 2-0 lead with 9:27 left in the first quarter.

Iowa tied the game 4-4 with 8:06 left in the first, but Ball State regained the lead after freshman guard Carmen Grande hit a 3-point shot 20 seconds later to give the Cardinals the lead for good.

Senior guard Nathalie Fontaine paced the Cardinals with 24 points and 11 rebounds, her seventh consecutive double-double. She hit 10 of her 24 shots from the floor and converted four of six free-throw attempts.

Grande finished with 16 points, and sophomore forward Moriah Monaco also scored 16 behind a 4-7 performance from beyond the arc.

Ball State’s lead shrunk to 2 points at 72-70 with 56 seconds left in the game, but the Cardinals held on to win.

The Cardinals will take on the University of St. Louis in the second round of the WNIT at 8 p.m. March 21 in St. Louis.

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Carenza Asya is the owner of the troupe and has been performing at Muncie Gras since 2005. Asya said the audience is always fun and willing to come dance with the troupe.

“It’s a great event; there’s always something different. … [It is] one of the most fun places that we like to perform at each year,” Asya said.

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After taking Fall Semester off to recover and rehabilitate from a cardiac arrest, Theta Chi fraternity member Brandon Benesh has been getting back to his normal life this semester.

Benesh collapsed at a restaurant on July 29, 2015, and spent nearly a month in the hospital in a medically-induced coma.

At one point, he was without oxygen for 30 minutes.

“It’s surreal,” Benesh said.

“I just didn’t think I would make it back.”

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Since Benesh spent so much time in bed during his recovery, his muscles diminished and walking became more challenging.

“I lose my breath a lot faster.

Just going up a flight of stairs, I have to stop and catch my breath,” he said.

Benesh said he still does not have full feeling in his legs and is continuing his recovery each day by doing various exercises.

His doctor only allowed him to take 4 credit hours, or two classes, this semester. He sits on the standards board for his fraternity and tries to attend as many meetings and events as he can.

While he was in the hospital on a ventilator, Benesh’s skin had an allergic reaction to a material on the ventilator, which caused large blisters on his face.

“Being back in class was kind of intimidating,” Benesh said. “I felt kind of self-conscious. I felt like I was being stared at for the scars on my face.”

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“Do you know any Italian?”

I was asked this question probably 10 times during my Spring Break trip to Italy. And each time my only response was, “I know some words.” By that, I meant I knew how to say, “cat,” “good morning,” “thank you” and “hi.” Eventually, I also learned the word for “dog.”

A group of students from my church spent Spring Break meeting people and teaching English classes. This was the second year I went on the trip — and also the second year I couldn’t hold a conversation in Italian.

When I saw the friends I met last year, they asked me if I had learned any more Italian. It made sense that I would have. I knew about this year’s trip even before Winter Break. Yet, I never downloaded a language app or cracked open an Italian dictionary until I was sitting in a café in Italy looking up the words “squad goals.”

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Italy, even in cafés where no one knew English.

As I said goodbye to my Italian friends on my last day, I mentioned it was their turn to come see me in America.

As much as they love Americans, I can guarantee they wouldn’t experience the same hospitality if they visited me. In America, we scoff at people who speak different languages. We criticize those who don’t bother to learn English, even if they have a basic understanding of the language.

Servers would gripe while serving the same people who helped translate the Italian

menus for me over break.

To Americans, if you don’t speak English, you’re wrong.

Part of our unwillingness to learn other languages probably stems from the little emphasis our formal education places on it. I took four years of a foreign language in high school, and I was only required to take three.

In college, my advance placement test got me out of my two required semesters of a language.

Outside of school, few of us try to learn more about languages. We perfectly embody the stereotypical American

characteristics of laziness and entitlement when it comes to building this skill.

I always use the excuse that I’m terrible at learning languages; however, I don’t think I’ve ever really tried.

If we want to disprove some of the stereotypes about Americans, we need to start acknowledging English isn’t the only language that matters.

If my Italian friends can translate strange words like “eggplant” and “raw ham” for me, I should be able to pick up a few more common phrases.

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Ball State Western Equestrian Club will be competing in the Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association National Semi Finals this weekend as the top team in its region. Five members of the team will be competing in reining and horsemanship.

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After finishing as the top team in its region, the Ball State Western Equestrian Club will compete in the Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association (IHSA) National Semi Finals this weekend.

Working with horses sets equestrian apart from other sports, said freshman Corinne Thinnes, who will represent the team in the intermediate division and compete as an individual in the walk-trot (beginner) division.

“It’s a pretty unique sport in the sense that you’re controlling a one-ton animal,” she said.

Coach Tammie Jones said trying to compete with horses can sometimes be a challenge.

“The football or the basketball … doesn’t have a mind of its own,” she said. “It goes directly where you shoot it, but that’s not always the case with horses.”

Five Ball State students – Thinnes, Morgan Koontz, Lexi Williams, Sydnee Kirby and Lauren Hunter – will travel to Murfreesboro, Tenn., to compete.

Kirby, a sophomore, will represent the team in the advanced division and compete as an individual in the novice division, said equestrian is more popular in Indiana than many classmates realize.

“It’s kind of like, ‘Oh, where do they keep the horses?’ and they have no idea,” she said.

“A lot of schools around here — IU, Purdue, Ball State, Notre Dame — a lot of schools

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around here have [equestrian teams].”

The two Western-style events in IHSA competitions are reining and horsemanship, sometimes referred to as rail. In the reining event, riders take their horses through a pattern while executing moves like spins.

In both events, judges score the riders’ ability to subtly command the horse while also retaining proper riding posture.

To train for these events, equestrian club members practice at Stride by Stride Riding Center.

Students do not need experience showing or even riding horses to join the club.

Hunter, a freshman that had no experience prior to joining the team, is representing Ball State in the walk-trot division at Semi Nationals.

Those inexperienced riders, Jones said, are also a necessity. In the team competition, riders are split into different divisions based on experience. After accumulating a certain number of points, riders are moved up to the next division.

“Every team has the experienced riders — those are easy to find,” Jones said.

“Finding the riders who want to ride, who have no experience but want to ride, … those are gems for us. It’s super important for our format to make sure that we have a rider in every division.”

Williams said it can be easier for inexperienced club members to improve.

“That actually might be very beneficial because you don’t have bad habits,” she said.

She said she feels that way because had to eliminate the habits she picked up when she competed in barrel racing.

“From barrel racing, my legs were really, really in front

of me, my shoulders were always [hunched forward],” she said. “But in horsemanship, it’s shoulders back, legs back. … It’d be kind of cool coming in with a clean slate and learning all of this stuff.”

Williams will represent Ball State in the novice division and compete as an individual in the intermediate division.

On top of competing as a barrel racer, she also had experience riding in the English style of riding.

Thinnes said she also grew up riding English before developing a “self-taught” version of western riding when she started working at a western barn. She said she had to refine her technique when she joined the equestrian club.

“I did have quite a few bad habits that I had to break,” Thinnes said. “Riding English, your legs are a lot more bent because you need to be able to go into a two-point position to jump. You need to be able to lift yourself out of the saddle. For Western, you really want your legs to be extended and in a proper position.”

An added challenge in collegiate equestrian competitions is the host school provides all of the horses used in IHSA events, which are then assigned to participants in a random drawing before the competition. Thinnes said switching the horses keeps the focus on the rider’s ability to control an unfamiliar horse.

“It levels the playing field, so not one person can know every horse’s nitpicky tweaks that you need to do to ride that specific horse every week,” she said. “It really lets the judges know how well you can communicate with your horse.”

Kirby, however, said it can be frustrating working with different horses every week

— especially because she was used to riding her own horse growing up.

“Considering I probably have the worst horse-drawing luck on the team, it’s not easy. I grew up with really well-trained, really high-caliber horses. … It’s two completely different worlds.”

Drawing random horses, Thinnes said, can also help build camaraderie among club members. Similar to a veteran baseball player telling the on-deck batter the tendencies of an opposing team’s pitcher, Thinnes said equestrian teammates will give each other tips on the horses they’ve drawn in the past.

“Some horses, they’ll flip their head or something if you’re holding the reins too tight,” she said. “Or if you’re cueing them to move in one direction, but you’re cueing them incorrectly, they might be a little jittery because they’re not sure what you’re asking.”

Kirby said another adjustment for longtime horseback riders is the switch to a team mentality.

“At first, it was just really different because I’m so used to doing everything on my own,” she said. “It kind of took me a while to get used to; there are people here to support me.”

Koontz will represent the Cardinals in the open reining and open rail events. She has already qualified to compete at the IHSA National Championships as an individual, and Jones said she hopes the rest of the team can perform well enough to join her.

“It’s like every girl’s dream,” Jones said. “You get to ride your horse into the finals.

They’ve just worked so hard, and I’m glad to see their success pay off.”

Worthen Arena will play host to the women’s gymnastics Mid-American Conference championships on Saturday. Ball State will compete against six other teams for the title.

The other schools competing include Bowling Green, Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Kent State, Northern Illinois and Western Michigan.

While Ball State is 1-5 on the season against MAC opponents, the Cardinals have had several individuals finish among the top of the conference in their respective categories.

Senior Denasiha Christian holds the team’s highest three scores on vault this season as well as the highest in the MAC with a 9.975.

Junior Sarah Ebeyer does not stand far behind in the MAC rankings with an 9.875, good enough for fourth place.

On the uneven bars, sophomore Jordyn Penny finished in a 7-way tie for third place with a score of 9.9.

Both Eastern Illinois and Northern Illinois finished among the top five in both the uneven bars and vault. Kent State also made an appearance on the uneven bar individual rankings with the top individual score.

Some of Ball State’s highest scores this season have come against MAC opponents. A season high of 195.250 was posted against Bowling Green on Feb. 28. That score marks the 13th-highest score by a MAC team this season.

Kent State is the reigning MAC champion and sits atop the league standings with a 6-0 record. The Golden Flashes scored 196.375 in last year’s meet, while Ball state finished in sixth with 193.200 points.

The meet will start at 2 p.m. Saturday at Worthen Arena.

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After playing the first 17 games of the season on the road, Ball State baseball (89) will play its first home game at 3 p.m. today against the Dayton Flyers (3-11).

Cardinal head coach Rich Maloney said his team is ready to finally play at home before starting Mid-American Conference play next weekend.

“This is our last prep, Dayton and then Purdue on Tuesday, before our conference starts,” he said. “You better be to be ready to go, because there isn’t tomorrows when you start playing in the conference season.”

The Cardinals just returned from a Spring Break road trip that included a 7-1 victory at

seventh-ranked Louisiana State University on March 11. Maloney said it was a signature win for the program.

“It’s one thing to be in the hunt, and it’s another thing to be over the top,” he said.

“Now mind you, when they were freshmen — the junior class here — they beat Kentucky, … and each year they’ve been beating somebody who’s been ranked. But never at this magnitude in that place, where LSU wins 85 percent of their home games.”

Redshirt junior lefty Kevin Marnon earned the win at LSU by allowing just one earned run in 5.2 innings pitched. Junior right-handed pitcher Zach Plesac, who was scheduled to start [March 19], earned the save after pitching the final 3.1 innings.

Maloney said “it’s quite

possible” that he uses the same strategy — using the next day’s starter in relief — throughout the season.

The Cardinals were “really on all cylinders” against LSU, Maloney said, hitting four homeruns in their victory.

On the season, Ball State hits a combined .268 batting average, and while the pitching staff has a 4.66 ERA, Dayton has only hit .216 with a .289 on-base percentage.

Maloney also said returning to Ball Diamond at First Merchants Ballpark Complex brings an additional benefit — the artificial turf field.

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Stackhouse is a rock ’n’ roll band that will be performing on the Be Here Now stage at 12:20 a.m. This will be the band’s second performance in Muncie since it formed two years ago and its first performance at Muncie Gras.

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“You can expect to sing along to every song, even though you’ve probably never heard ’em,” he said. “We’re fun to watch. That’s one of our biggest things, is putting on something that’ll actually entertain people. … Our songs are kinda those songs where you can sing the chorus by the time the second chorus comes around, you know how it goes.”

The Indigos will be playing at Muncie Gras for the first time and will be releasing a new single and music video called “So Fly” on the day of the event. They will be on the Acoustic Room Stage at 9:45 p.m. Matt Mellen, singer and guitar player, is looking forward to interacting with the crowd and to maybe partaking in some crowdsurfing, he said.

“The crowd is everything — without them our performance is only practice,” Mellen said.

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Muncie Gras is Muncie’s biggest fundraiser for the Muncie Downtown Development Partnership. The 14th annual event will be taking place from 7 p.m. Saturday to 2 a.m. Sunday in Downtown Muncie.

MITS will provide a free trolley service approximately every 20 minutes and continue for one hour after the event.

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Chris Blake, drummer of the band Jim Jones, Jr., said this will be the biggest show the band has played so far in the almost two years it has been together.

“My favorite part about performing with the band is getting to see the expressions on the audience’s face. ... You really put all you can into your passion,” Blake said. “You don’t just strive to do it because it’s fun, ... you strive to do it because you live to do it.”

The members of Awkward Sports have previously played in Muncie and will be performing at 8:25 p.m. Scott Atkins, vocalist and guitarist, said playing in Muncie is cool because they’ll be playing for people who still really care about music and the music scene.

“I really like feeding off the energy of both the other members in the band and off the crowd. I just enjoy myself more when I see that, you know, everyone else is also enjoying it,” Peyton Cox, drummer and vocalist, said.

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The new Board of Trustees members should have academic experience and focus on transparency, members of Ball State’s faculty said.

As previously reported, two Ball State alumni have applied for the open positions. They are Muncie firefighter Jason Chafin and Kit Crane, Henry County Circuit Court 2 judge.

The spots opened up after two Board of Trustees members, Marianne Glick and Frank Hancock, sent in resignation letters on December 17, 2015.

Glick said she wanted to serve on the Ivy Tech Community College board in her resignation letter, while Hancock wrote fresh faces are

sor of urban planning

needed on the board.

Read three faculty members’ thoughts on what qualities the ideal new Board of Trustees members should have.

Timothy Berg, assistant professor of Honors humanities

Berg said potential candidates should have an interest in transparency, as the board has been closed about its decision-making process.

“They need to be transparent; they need to be responsive to the needs of the students, faculty and staff,” Berg said. “There is a standoffish quality in the trustees that they are separate from the university, and I think that has to change.”

Berg said he thinks they should have some experience in academic life, and they should be engaged in university affairs beyond their role as a trustee.

“My concern is the university has been run too much like a business, and there needs

to be a better understanding of how the academic world works,” Berg said.

Berg said the recent controversy over former president Paul W. Ferguson’s resignation has created distrust between faculty and the board.

One of the ways the board can improve trust is by having open round tables and events on campus to engage more people, Berg said. Ferguson held president’s round tables,

where he would listen and discuss issues.

“I went to one of those [round tables], and Ferguson listened and asked relevant, pertinent questions and seemed to really care about what we were saying,” Berg said. “He was actively listening, and I think [the board] could replicate that.”

referrals on Ball Stateowned property increased 89 percent from where they were in 2013.

Alcohol arrests at Ball State also jumped 70 percent last year, as the annual security report showed 150 liquor law arrests on campus last year, compared with 88 in 2013 and 87 in 2012.

Michael Gillilan, director of student rights and community standards, said alcohol policy violation sanctions rarely reach suspension and expulsion levels.

“We did a review two years ago; the vast majority of violators violate our alcohol policy only once,” he said.

Ball State students found in violation of drug or alcohol policies on the campus could have to take AlcoholEDU, a self-paced computer-based alcohol education offered through the university.

The Office of Health, Alcohol and Drug Education also offers BASICS (Brief Alcohol Screenings and Intervention for College Students) where students meet one-on-one with a health educator to discuss responsible use of alcohol. It also provides marijuana education programs for students found in violation of Ball State’s drug policy.

“We care about our students and the entire Ball State community and want them to make good choices and live healthy lives,” said Lisa Renze-Rhodes, director of media strategy. “We offer prevention and education programs, strong enforcement and support services to reduce the potential for harm to everyone in our community.”

Hannah Miller, a former Ball State student, was required to complete the online alco-

hol education program after her resident assistant discovered she had been drinking in her dorm room with friends. All three were under 21 and got in trouble.

“It’s college — kids are going to drink,” Miller said.

“We all had to complete the online program, which seemed like a big waste of time, really. It’s supposed to show you the dangers and bad outcomes that come from drinking too much or drinking when you’re underage, but to be honest, it didn’t do anything to stop me from drinking again.”

Miller said not even two months went by before she went to the emergency room with alcohol poisoning.

“I don’t think anyone is proud about drinking alcohol or getting their stomach pumped or basically disre-

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Faculty members believe the new Board of Trustees members should have a focus on transparency and academic experience. Firefighter Jason Chafin and Henry County Circuit Court 2 Judge Kit Crane, both Ball State alumni, applied for the position.

Bruce Frankel, University Senate senator and profes-

Frankel drafted a resolution earlier this semester to revise the methods in which the members of the board are appointed after transparency concerns were brought up after Ferguson’s resignation.

“I believe how they are appointed and who they are determines the quality of the board’s governance,” Frankel said.

He said they should have diversity in terms of gender, age and race.

Paul Tuke, instructor of English as a second language

PROPOSED SELECTION METHODS • Three members representing taxpayers, and/or the Ball family, as appointed by the governor • Three members representing alumni and as appointed by the Alumni Association • One student representing the student body as appointed by the Student Government Association • One person representing the external community as appointed by the city government of Muncie • One emeritus faculty [retired] representing the University’s learning, research, and service missions as appointed by the University Senate.

Tuke said the board should have more members with experience in academia and less in business.

“None of the voting members of the board have a Ph.D, and, to me, I think that that can really diminish the concerns of academic integrity,” Tuke said.

Tuke said having more local representation on the board would be beneficial, as the

majority of the current trustees do not live in Muncie.

garding all of the things people say to try and push us away from drinking,” Miller said. “But honestly, the online program did nothing for me, and even if I would have sat down with a counselor or whoever, it probably would have made me want to rebel even more.”

Haveson seconded Miller’s thoughts. He said online programs are not cutting it.

“Interactions with other students, interactions with professionals and an immersive understanding of the effects and the outcomes of drinking too often too much or in the incorrect ways is what is needed,” he said.

However, Tony Beyer, a junior telecommunications student, said the university’s online drug policy is effective.

He completed the program during his freshman year,

and since doing so, he said he feels more informed about the dangers of drinking too much or irresponsibly.

“I was dumb — I think a lot of freshmen are,” Beyer said. “It’s one of those things where you have to look at yourself and think about whether or not what you’re doing is right, or if you need to reevaluate yourself.”

After completing the program, Beyer said he still drank, but it was in smaller amounts, and he no longer used marijuana.

“It’s scary,” Beyer said.

“The university isn’t messing around, and neither are the police. It’s one thing to drink, but drinking too much or abusing the substance isn’t going to get you anywhere in life. Maybe everyone should have to take the program — it did a lot for me.”

University Senate Resolution draft provided by Bruce Frankel

ONLINE ALCOHOL, DRUG PROGRAMS MAY BE INEFFECTIVE |

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Randy Haveson, also the author of “Party with a Plan,” said many college rehab programs, despite their best intentions, just don’t work well. Students should be informed about alcohol and drugs early, and be informed correctly from the start, he said.

“Studies are showing that the earlier someone begins to drink or do other drugs, the higher chance they have of developing a problem,” Haveson said. “It’s great to see so many programs that are becoming available to students, but getting college students especially to pay attention and respond the way we hope is not an easy task.”

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One-third of the grant from the Charles Koch Foundation and John Schnatter is from the Koch family. Schnatter, a Ball State alumnus, donated $2.17 million out of the grant, the Charles Koch Foundation donated $1.08 million.

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Terry King, acting president for the university, said there were no stipulations with the grant.

Hiring and curriculum will still be managed in the same way the university usually does.

However, if the university breaches the contract or fails to advance the mission of the institute, then both donors have cause for a possible termination.

The grant was signed

by King and Cheri O’Neill, president of the University Foundation, on March 2, and there are no signs of former President Paul W. Ferguson’s involvement in the grant.

But King said Ferguson was the one leading the grant conversations for the university, which started

in earnest early during the Fall 2015 semester.

About a year ago, when Schnatter spoke at Spring Commencement, King said they told him about the university’s plans with entrepreneurship, and Schnatter got excited about it.

Schnatter came back with his people, and also brought colleagues from the Charles Koch Foundation with him.

The Koch Brothers have caused some controversy on campuses due to their resistance against sustainability. A few people at the Board of Trustees meeting spoke up, and some have been posting on social media about it.

Americans for Prosperity, a conservative group backed by the Koch brothers, persuaded many Congress members to sign a pledge to vote against climate change legislation unless its accompanied by an equivalent amount of tax cuts.

And because climate

The marks on his face have been healing the last few months and will eventually become unnoticeable.

He said when he first returned to class, many people were friendly and nice.

“It was kind of like being the new kid at school and everyone was interested in who you were,” he said.

Many of his fraternity brothers visited him while he was in the hospital and continue to support him today.

“My family was overwhelmed by how much support and love we got,” Benesh said.

James Kellogg, a junior and member of Theta Chi, said in an email he visited Benesh in the hospital and saw him the day he returned to Ball State.

“Seeing the transformation and progress that he has made makes me incredibly proud but not the least bit

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Brandon Benesh spent a month in the hospital where many of Theta Chi brothers came to visit him. This semester, his doctor is allowing him to take 4 credit hours. Above, Benesh poses for a photo with his family.

surprised,” Kellogg said. “He is the strongest guy I know.”

David Ibarra, a sophomore and member of Theta Chi, said his brothers are supportive, and he could tell Benesh is excited to be back.

“It has been absolutely miraculous to have him back; it’s been truly a blessing,” Ibarra said.

Ibarra, who is a musical theatre major, was recently in a play and said Benesh came to see his performance and went to dinner with him after.

“He is the kind of person that will go to great lengths to bring smiles on people’s faces,” Ibarra said. “He is the kind of guy that is genuinely interested in the people around him.”

Kellogg described Benesh as a caring and compassionate person.

“He is very easy to talk to, and he gives great advice,” Kellogg said. “I am extremely proud of how far he has come and what I know he will accomplish in the future.”

change problems tend to have costly fixes, the pledge essentially acts as a road block to any action.

Mike Pence, governor of Indiana, is one of the legislators who have signed the pledge. Pence is also in charge of appointing Ball State trustees.

Although there is fuss on campus about the university accepting this grant, this isn’t the first time the university has accepted money from the Koch brothers. Since 2009, the university has received $38,600 from the Charles Koch Charitable Foundation, according to polluterwatch.org.

And out of the 12 founding signatories of The American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment — of which Ball State was one of when former president Jo Ann Gora was in office — only three have accepted donations from the Koch brothers.

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