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Students can vote on plans for project designed by architecture majors TYLER WALKER GENERAL REPORTER Ne
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rchitecture students are helping the university redesign a part of campus, and all students can vote on what features they want to see. The East Mall is a student-designed architecture project to improve the area from the Jo Ann Gora Student Recreation and Wellness Center to Ashland Avenue near the Village, in the area around Noyer and Woodworth Complex. The goal is to make a path for both
pedestrians and cyclists. About 30 undergraduate students spent a week working with professional design firms to come up with blueprints for the area. During this week, professionals came in to work with the students. Spencer Harvey, a senior landscape architecture major who is working on the project, said a lot of their classes let them go work, since their work time went from 8 a.m. until dinner time.
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• Separating pedestrians and bicyclists throughout the East Mall • Creating an elevated bicycle track with a bridge over Riverside Avenue • Reinforcing a connection to the Village area • Establishing a central plaza in the center of the space
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• Using a bio-retention area south of Noyer as a primary landmark • Incorporating a music theme in the design of the lawn area of Emens (rhythm movement) • Creating lounge spaces throughout East Mall • CAP and College of Business (greenhouses)
• Creating a more informal design compared with the more formal streetscape along McKinley • Utilizing natural systems to create a functional stormwater system • Creating a strong water feature near Emens Auditorium • Incorporating health and wellness into the overall design of the spaces • Establishing an outdoor events staging area near Pruis Hall
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Beneficence Dialogue report to be released Council shares progress on students’ diversity concerns RAYMOND GARCIA ACADEMIC/EDUCATION REPORTER | ragarcia@bsu.edu
The Council on Diversity and Inclusion will release a progress report detailing its latest achievements in accomplishing the solutions proposed in the Beneficence Dialogue Report almost a year ago. The report was created from the dialogue sessions that took place March 2015, when more than 100 students participated in group discussions about diversity while then Ball State President Paul W. Ferguson and Kay Bales, vice president for student affairs and dean of students, listened to the different groups. The solutions were grouped into five themes, and members of the council were placed into teams to address each one.
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•C reating a life-size chess board between Bracken Library and Pruis Hall •E stablishing an wooded bosque area in the location of the current Emens parking garage •U tilizing new water features as a unifying theme throughout the East Mall • I ncorporating health and wellness into the overall design of the spaces •C reating direct pedestrian connections that respond to desire lines
Gymnasts prepare for regionals Five Cardinals qualify after record-setting MAC performance
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The Ball State gymnastics season is not yet over, after a school record-setting 195.650 performance at the Mid-American Conference championship, the Cardinals will be sending five gymnasts onto regional competition. Senior Denasiha Christian,
juniors Sarah Ebeyer and Kayla Beckler, and sophomores Baylee Bell and Jordyn Penny all qualified for the 2016 NCAA Iowa City Regional on April 2. Beckler talked about the feeling she and her teammates shared following the second-place overall finish. “It felt amazing. We hadn’t been watching the scores, we had just been out there doing our thing,” Beckler said. Both Christian and Ebeyer both qualified to compete in floor and vault in Iowa after strong individual season performances.
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Senior Denasiha Christian has qualified to compete in floor and vault on April 2 at the 2016 NCAA Iowa City Regional. Christian was named champion of floor (9.950) and vault (9.900) at the Mid-Western Conference championship.
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EMAIL HACKER TARGETS COLLEGE WOMEN Former State Dept. employee sentenced to 5 years in prison
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A former U.S. State Department employee was sentenced on Monday to nearly five years in federal prison for hacking into college wom-
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en’s email accounts from his computer at the American Embassy in London and threatening to expose their sexually explicit photos. Michael C. Ford, 36, sent “phishing” emails to women — including some at Ball State — specifically targeting members of sororities and aspiring models. Ford hacked into at least 200 victims’ accounts and forwarded at least 1,300 stolen emails containing sexu-
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ally explicit photographs to himself, according to court documents. U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross sentenced Ford to four years and nine months in prison, followed by three years on supervised release. However, Ross granted a request to delay the start of his prison term until after Aug. 1 so he can be present when his wife is due to give birth to their second child in late July. In total, Ford’s charges
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could have carried a maximum of 100 years in prison. Prosecutors had asked for a sentence of eight years, but defense attorneys suggested less than four years. Ford told the judge he was feeling small and looked down upon in his personal and professional lives, so he resorted to an online world where the people he was interacting with didn’t seem real.
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