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“Cancer does not equal death.

Only God knows my plan, and I won’t let a doctor put fear in me.”

All the major campus roads, including McKinley Avenue, Neely Avenue, Riverside Avenue, University Avenue and Talley Avenue now have a speed limit of 20 miles per hour, a change from their previous 30 miles per hour speed limit.

Although Muncie and Ball State officials made the decision for a speed limit reduction for roads around campus in January, potholes and poor weather pushed back the change until this week.

Duke Campbell, the superintendent for the Muncie Department of Public Works, said that the Muncie street department has been overwhelmed for the past few months.

“In the spring time, at the street department, what people don’t understand is we have 15 people here,” Campbell said. “We have three mechanics, two signal technicians who are busy all the time, we have two sign technicians, … but when we have any kind of weather event, we have to use everybody on the roads.”

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Student, boyfriend raise money for cancer treatment in Mexico

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n Tuesday, Ball State senior Katie Ake boarded a plane with her boyfriend, Evan Layman. They headed to Tijuana, Mexico, in search of answers to Layman’s aggressive cancer — answers they feel the United States can’t give.

At age 20, Layman was diagnosed with stage IV Pleomorphic Liposarcoma, a rare and aggressive

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Ball State International Justice Mission chapter members are standing for 24 hours at the Scramble Light for freedom.

The group is bringing awareness to human trafficking from noon on Tuesday to noon today.

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Members of Ball State’s International Justice Mission chapter are taking a 24-hour stand for freedom.

Since noon Tuesday until noon today, members are standing at the Scramble Light to bring awareness to human trafficking.

IJM is an international organization that aids victims of violence, concentrating on the developing world, according to their website. They work with legislation globally to combat violence, including that caused by human trafficking.

Lauren Baney, a senior health science major and president of the IJM chapter at Ball State, said human trafficking is essentially modernday slavery.

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form of cancer. At the time of diagnosis, he had a primary tumor on his chest, with lesions found in his liver and spine.

A little over a year ago, neither had any idea of the immense challenges right around the corner; but through it all, their young but strong relationship and their unshakable positivity would get them through unimaginable difficulties.

See KATIE & EVAN, page 4

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HAZELBAKER OFF TO HOT START IN MLB Alumnus goes 4-4 in home opener for St. Louis Cardinals

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In the last week, St. Louis Cardinals rookie outfielder Jeremy Hazelbaker has made his first Major League start, hit his first career home run and stole his first career base.

The Muncie native and Wapahani High School graduate is

10-19 at the plate so far this year with five runs scored, five RBIs, two doubles, a triple, two home runs and two stolen bases. He was originally placed on the Opening Day Roster after a pair of injuries to other players, but has started four of St. Louis’ seven games.

Ball State head coach Rich Maloney said Hazelbaker’s accomplishment was “a big moment” for the program.

“It’s pretty special,” he said.

“He’s worked really hard for it; he stayed the course; and, he’s getting this opportunity, so I’m really, really happy for him.”

In 2009, Hazelbaker tied the single-season Ball State record with eight triples and broke the records for runs scored, walks and on-base percentage.

He was then drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the fourth round of the MLB draft.

Hazelbaker’s start comes on the heels of hitting .313 with 13 home runs and 24 stolen bases across AA and AAA last season. He also hit .321 with Caribes of the Venezuelan Winter League with three home runs and 11 stolen bases in 45 games.

MLB STATISTICS JEREMY HAZELBAKER, ST. LOUIS OUTFIELDER • .526 batting average (10-19) • .522 OBP • 1.053 slugging percentage • 5 runs • 5 RBI • 2 doubles • 1 triple • 2 home runs • 2 stolen bases

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Paul Ryan, left, speaks with colleagues prior to being elected Speaker of the House Oct. 29, 2015.

Ryan ruled out a bid for president, saying the party’s choice should come from the GOP nomination.

1. PAUL RYAN RULES OUT PRESIDENTIAL BID WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Paul Ryan definitively ruled out a bid for president this year, insisting that the party’s choice should emerge from the group of candidates who pursued the GOP nomination.

“We have too much work to do in the House to allow this speculation to swirl or have my motivations questioned,” said Ryan, who was the 2012 vice presidential nominee. “Let me be clear: I do not want, nor will I

accept, the Republican nomination.”

Ryan’s comments come as a contested convention looks likelier by the day. Ryan and his aides have continually denied the speaker has presidential ambitions this year, but their statements have not put the issue to rest. That’s partly because Ryan also denied he wanted to be speaker last fall after then-Speaker John Boehner announced his resignation, but he ended up with the job anyway.

After that first ballot, most delegates are no longer bound to support the winner of their state’s party primary or caucuses — they’re free agents who can support the candidate of their choosing.

Most of the actual delegates are elected at state and congressional district conventions run by party insiders, members of the Republican establishment that Trump has run against from the outset of his campaign.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas attorney general has been indicted for allegedly duping investors in a tech startup, and the agriculture commissioner reportedly used tax dollars to travel to obtain a so-called “Jesus shot” supposedly offering long-term relief from pain.

So far, fellow Republicans are all but ignoring the troubles.

Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has been charged with two felonies, and Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, who last year unapologetically

shared a Facebook post that suggested using a nuclear bomb on the Muslim population, coasted to election in 2014 as part of a new slate of GOP leaders. Other Republicans who won that year included Gov. Greg Abbott and Land Commissioner George P. Bush, son of Jeb Bush.

Democrats, who have called on Paxton to resign, lament what they call the pitfall of a politically one-sided state. Republicans seem content to stay quiet.

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5. SYRIA TALKS TO RESUME AMID VIOLENCE

2. TWO CHARGED IN BRUSSELS ATTACKS BRUSSELS (AP) — Two men have been charged with offenses related to the Brussels bombings, and three others have been detained in Brussels in connection to the Paris attacks, Belgian authorities said Tuesday.

The Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office said the two who have been charged, identified only as Smail F. and Ibrahim F., were involved in renting an apartment in the Etterbeek

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Already behind the curve in organizing for the Republican convention, Donald Trumph’s missed crucial deadlines in a number of states to lock up delegates who would stay loyal beyond the first ballot.

Trump’s shortcomings in this behind-the-scenes campaign could doom his presidential candidacy if he is unable to win the nomination in the initial voting at this summer’s national convention in Cleveland.

area of Brussels that served as a hideout for the bomber who attacked the Brussels subway on March 22 as well as a suspected accomplice.

It said the detention of the three related to the Paris attacks followed a morning search in Uccle, an upscale district of the Belgian capital. A judge will decide Wednesday whether the three people should remain in custody, it said.

BEIRUT (AP) — Indirect peace talks between Syria’s warring parties are scheduled to resume in Geneva on Wednesday, the third round this year. There are two main groups at the negotiations in Switzerland.

The main players are the Syrian government, which is backed

by Iran, Russia and Lebanon’s Hezbollah group, and the main opposition faction, the High Negotiations Committee or HNC,

which includes groups that are backed by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

The U.N. envoy for Syria says the talks this time are to focus on a political transition in the wartorn country, but chances for a breakthrough are slim.

The talks this week resume amid clashes between government forces and militants, near the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.

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SPORTS

Ball State’s best offense faces IU’s pitching staff No. 118 Cardinals take on No. 167 Hoosiers today

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The Ball State softball team is preparing for its game today against Northern Illinois. Head coach Megan Ciolli Bartlett decided to have an extra practice after six errors lead to seven unearned runs in the team’s games against Buffalo.

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Ball State baseball (2112, 7-2 MAC) will take its Mid-American Conference-best offense to Bloomington today when it takes on Indiana University (1713, 4-2 Big Ten), which has the Big Ten’s second-best pitching staff.

The Cardinals are ranked 118th in the National Collegiate Athletic Association RPI, 49 spots ahead of the No. 167 Hoosiers, but junior right-handed pitcher and left fielder Zach Plesac said Indiana’s affiliation with the Big Ten affects fans’ perceptions of the matchup.

“Definitely the Big Ten [teams are] looked at as better programs, bigger schools, more students – just better individual schools compared to the MAC,” he said. “That’s not necessarily true because I think the way we’ve been playing and the way we handle ourselves is just as good as anybody in the country.”

Cardinal batters are hitting a combined .307 on the year, the best rate in the Mid-American Conference and 30th in the NCAA. Defending MAC West Division Player of the Week Caleb Stayton is second in

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As a non-roster invitee to St. Louis’ spring training camp, he led the Cardinals with three home runs, was second on the roster with four steals and hit .304 with a .373 OBP and a .543

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The Ball State baseball team will face Indiana University in Bloomington today. Ball State is ranked 118th in the National Collegiate Athletic Association RPI, while the Hoosiers are ranked No. 167.

the MAC with a .400 batting average. The junior first baseman is also third in the NCAA with 48 RBIs. Junior right fielder Alex Call is the only player in the MAC with a better average than Stayton, hitting .417 on the year. Call is also second in the NCAA with 43 runs scored.

Head coach Rich Maloney said the team’s strong junior class – six juniors have started all 33 games so far this season – is the backbone of the lineup.

“We’ve always felt that was the strength of our team,” he said. “Back when those kids were freshman, there were about five of them starting in the lineup when we won that 2014

slugging percentage.

Maloney said successful alumni like Hazelbaker and program’s seven firstround draft picks are a “big selling point” with recruits.

“That’s one of the goals when we recruit kids,” he said. “We wanna recruit kids who have that chance if they develop to take their

Mid-American Conference [regular season] title. We thought when they became juniors, they’d become a potent hitting team.”

Ball State also leads the MAC with 236 runs scored in 33 games, which ranks 27th in the NCAA. The Hoosier pitching staff, however, is second in the Big Ten and 12th in the NCAA with a 2.85 ERA. On the mound, Ball State pitchers have a 3.80 ERA, good for second best in the MAC. The pitching staff will face off against an Indiana lineup that has hit .264 this year.

Both Ball State and Indiana are carrying winning streaks into the game — the Cardinals have won six

game to another level. Certainly [Hazelbaker], with that accomplishment, sits really well for Ball State baseball.”

Junior right-handed pitcher and left fielder Zach Plesac said Hazelbaker has helped prove that reaching the MLB is an achievable goal for some Ball State

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straight games and nine of their last 10 while the Hoosiers have won five in a row.

Maloney said the Hoosiers, who have reached the NCAA Regionals in three consecutive seasons including a run to the College World Series in 2013, are “a really good team, period.”

“They’re relentless,” he said. “They’re going to bring in pitcher after pitcher that’s gonna be really solid and have prospect arms, and then they’re gonna have hitters in the lineup that can hurt you and are used to winning. But our kids are now, too. We’re used to winning now.”

First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m. today at Bart Kaufman Field in Bloomington.

athletes.

“It’s always great when somebody that has previously played in your program has made it to the big leagues and made it to the dream where I want to be at,” he said. “It almost gives me hope in the sense to where I know it can happen [for me].”

Ball State softball (18-22, 4-7 MAC) had an extra practice this week to prepare for its game today against Northern Illinois (26-11, 7-3 MAC).

Head coach Megan Ciolli Bartlett said she wants to see improvements after six errors led to seven unearned runs in last weekend’s series against Buffalo.

“At this point in the season, [the errors] are unacceptable, and it’s not what we expect from Ball State softball players,” Ciolli Bartlett said.

In their last two meetings during a doubleheader on April 5, the Huskies beat the Cardinals 10-0 and 5-4. Ciolli Bartlett said the team will be looking for revenge.

“Northern Illinois is a really good team,” she said. “The girls should definitely come into the game with a chip on their shoulder.”

The Huskies lead the MAC with a .305 team batting average, 43 home runs and 233 runs scored in 37 games. They are led by senior catcher Emily Naegele, who is first in the MAC with 16 home runs, 47 RBI and a .427 batting average (min. 50 AB). She is also second in the conference with 35 runs scored.

For the Cardinals, senior pitcher Nicole Steinbach is fifth in the MAC with 104 strikeouts and leads the team with a 3.29 ERA. She said Ball State players need to give it their all.

“We need to make sure we hold our chests up high and try to dominate them,” Steinbach said.

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KATIE & EVAN:

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The two had been friends for six or seven years, but had been dating for about a year at the time of diagnosis.

Tuesday, they hoped to finally begin to get the answers they have been searching so long for.

Ake vividly remembers the day Layman was diagnosed.

He was visiting her at Ball State from their hometown of LaPorte, Ind., in April 2015.

Though Layman had been feeling sick for about three months, no doctor had been able to diagnose him correctly, so he had continued going about his normal life.

She had attended class that day, but when she came back, something was very wrong.

“He was laying in my bed and he said, ‘Katie, I can’t breathe, I don’t know what’s going on, but I am not good, we need to go to the ER,’” she recalled.

After rushing him to the ER, they did several scans on Layman before delivering the devastating news bluntly.

“The nurse comes back and says, ‘You have cancer.’ Not even a doctor told us, no one politely told us, they just said it,” she said.

Ake recalls Layman breaking down at the news, while she tried to pull it together and become strong for him. However, this was only the beginning of a long, difficult month.

Layman was still having trouble breathing and the KATIE AKE, doctors did not yet know a Ball State senior what kind of cancer he had. He stayed in Ball Memorial Hospital to undergo testing and his condition deteriorated rapidly.

“It got to the point where he got moved up to the ICU because he was breathing on one fourth of his lungs and the doctor didn’t know how much longer he had,” Ake said.

Ake was prepared for the worst. She says that while Layman doesn’t remember much from the hospital stay because of the heavy medication he was on, doctors warned her he probably wouldn’t get better.

She took on the role of caretaker while also trying to gather the passwords to his accounts and get everything in order.

Then, what Ake calls a miracle happened.

Layman had a moment of clarity in between his drug-induced fogginess and insisted that he needed to cough something up.

After he coughed, the doctor took a new scan in which Layman was breathing on three fourths of his lung capacity, instead of one fourth. Everyone was in shock.

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“The doctor said, ‘This does not happen. And I thought, ‘Wow,’ and the doctor is literally jumping up and down, and he said, ‘This is amazing, this is a miracle.’ So that was the first miracle that happened to [Layman], and it was one of the best feelings ever because he had been near death,” Ake said.

After Layman pulled through his dark hour, the reality of living with cancer began to settle in.

Layman began intense chemotherapy that caused him to get sick often. Over the course of this first bout of treatment, he lost 60 pounds.

The chemotherapy lasted all summer until August 2015, when he decided to take a much-needed month off. The couple had been doing a lot of research on treatment options, and the issues of chemotherapy treatment rose to the surface.

After countless hours of research, they felt certain that chemotherapy and radiation were only weakening his body.

“We were looking into chemotherapy and what it does, how bad it is for you, and I said, ‘I don’t think you should do this anymore. If you want to live a strong, quality life, chemotherapy is just going to destroy it more,’” Ake said.

Layman expanded on his thoughts on chemotherapy through posts on his GoFundMe page.

“Many people do not truly understand the truth about cancer. Conventional treatment might prolong someone’s life, but most of the time cancer patients die from the effects of the treatment rather than the cancer itself,” he wrote. “Don’t get me wrong some people are cured through conventional treatments, but it’s not going to help me.”

Layman and Ake felt that conventional treatments in the American system were failing them and began searching for alternative options outside of the country.

In November 2015, Ake came across the Hope4Cancer center located in Tijuana, Mexico.

The center specializes in “safe, effective, and non-toxic treatment options,” according to their website.

After applying for the program, Ake and Layman were accepted, and felt sure this was the answer they were searching for.

The only problem, however, was finding the means to get there.

Because the center is outside of the United States, it doesn’t take American health insurance; the couple was facing a $45,000 price tag on Layman’s health.

Addit ionally, Ake’s family had reservations about her traveling abroad.

Despite all of these obstacles, the couple decided to push forward.

“There’s a lot of hope in Mexico. I asked if they have dealt with [Layman]’s type of cancer and they said, ‘We have, we’ve actually had some pretty good success rates.’ I said, ‘That’s amazing,’” she said.

The couple has managed to raise $30,000 of the $45,000 needed to cover Layman’s treatments. The rest will be covered short-term by a loan from Ake’s parents that she hopes will be paid off through continued fundraising efforts.

Additionally, they hope to raise money to cover the home treatments, physical therapists, and additional expected recovery costs.

Though their journey has been difficult, Layman and Ake find they are stronger than ever and have been learning to cherish the small moments they share together.

“This is one of the most amazing relationships I’ve ever been in because it’s solely based off strength and teamwork. One day during an argument he said, ‘Katie, I don’t want to spend my days like this. I don’t know how much longer I have and I’d rather be so happy with you than upset,’ and I said, ‘You’re really right.’

It’s changed my whole perspective on relaKATIE AKE tionships with people because I try to make the best of everything now. He is my hero,” she said.

Layman’s positivity for the future shines through on his GoFundMe page.

Despite recent downturns in health, including a warning from his American doctor that his liver could fail within three months, he remains optimistic and hopeful for the journey ahead.

In a post made on April 5, he wrote, “Cancer does not equal death. Only God knows my plan and I won’t let a doctor put fear into me. I’ve had several miracles and have faith that God has amazing plans for me.”

Kim Weber, Ake’s friend and sorority sister in Alpha Gamma Delta, has been a source of support for the couple and has observed the growth they have both made over the past year.

“She has become such a stronger individual and has made more personal goals with school and other things to be able to do well with everything going on,” she said of Ake. “A huge thing both her and I have learned is to never take anyone or anything for granted.”

Ake’s other sorority sisters have also shown support by donating money toward their cause at weekly chapter meetings.

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BULKING UP Students prepare to show off bodies in competition

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Thirty minutes of cardio, 200 pushups, 100 sit-ups and pull-ups all before 10 a.m.; and that’s a day off for bodybuilder Christopher Stevens.

“A day off is just a lighter day in the gym,” said Stevens, a junior business administration major, who normally works out at least two hours per day.

Stevens is no stranger to exercise or competition. In high school, he played tennis, ran cross-country, and was even a cheerleader, but this is his first bodybuilding competition.

Many of the 13 male and seven female competitors are also participating for the first time in the Mr. & Mrs. Ball State bodybuilding competition at 7 p.m. Thursday.

The Mr. Ball State Bodybuilding competition began having shows in the late 1960s in Irving Gymnasium, said David Pearson, who has coordinated and promoted the competition for

more than 30 years.

“Doing the contest is one of the best character building events at Ball State,” said Pearson. “Whether you win or lose you’re really a winner just by trying to compete.”

Pearson said women joined the competition in the early 1980s after he was contacted by a few cheerleaders and gymnast who wanted to also show their muscular strength.

One of the female competitors, Moriah Vance is in the Army National Guard, has a part-job as a computer lab assistant, is a full time student who takes 18 credit hours per semester, and exercises twice most days — once with the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps and another in her spare time.

“When I have kids, I want them to look up to me and do things that they don’t think is possible,” Vance said.

“For me, it was never about competing. The whole point of this was to change my lifestyle of eating.”

Vance entered the show because she saw a flier on Instagram from co-promoter, Grant Elliott, who is a junior pre-chiropractic and exercise major, and reigning Mr. Ball State.

“Bodybuilding is extremely underrated, and it really needs to be encouraged and supported about how hard individuals are willing to work,” Elliott said.

Most of the 20 competitors have prepared for at least four months to show their ripped, spray-tanned muscles under the bright lights of John R. Emens Auditorium for less than five minutes.

Preparation is more than just exhausting your body in the gym. It’s also about eating the right amount of foods and carefully count-

proteins and fat.

Competitor Cory Nelson counts his macro intake every day.

Nelson is allowed 250 grams of carbs, 200 grams of protein and 60 grams of fat.

These tentative numbers tell Nelson how much food he can have, what types of food that he can have, and what foods he needs to avoid, but this can change throughout the competition as his body begins to adapt to changes.

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“I wake up to about six egg whites, a half cup of oatmeal, then I’ll make a smoothie with banana and powdered peanut butter that has no fat in it,” Stevens said.

It is not just a matter of eating more fruits and vegetables but counting macronutrients.

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start counting his macros.

“I’m a lot more health conscious when it comes to my foods. I can look at something and say ‘I’m not going to eat that because it has too much fat,’” said Nelson. “Now when I look at food, I can’t look at like it and say, ‘Oh that’s gonna be a great meal,’ but I’m looking at the numbers.”

Dietetics major and fellow competitor Carly Gemmecke has chosen a low glycemic diet. On this diet, Gemmecke avoids eating strawberries, grapes and most other fruits

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John Mellencamp performed his Plain Spoken Tour on Tuesday for a sold-out crowd at John R. Emens Auditorium. Mellencamp, an Indiana-born artist, is famous for hits like “Jack and Diane,” “Hurts so Good” and “R.O.C.K. in the USA.” Carlene Carter opened for Mellencamp. Carter is the daughter of June Carter, who was once married to Johnny Cash.

because they have too much sugar.

Despite this, she believes that it is OK to indulge every now and then.

“I don’t believe in c o m p l e t e ly cutting out s o m e t h i n g ,” Gemmecke said.

“If I have a craving for chocolate, I’ll go get some Dove.”

Gemmecke, who is training her body for four other competitions, may eat a few miniature Dove dark chocolate candies to satisfy intense cravings, but limits herself to just that.

Many players want to appease their appetite for food, but the motivation to keep going is stronger.

“At times, it’s just about therapy; not getting big, not seeing how much weight I can lift, it’s just something to take my mind off of the world and get away,” said Tyler Wilson, a second year competitor. “Once I’m in the gym, I’m the only one there. I don’t see the other people and their results. I see the hard work that I’m putting in.”

After months of rigorous exercise and strict diet routines, the bodybuilders will perform their posing routine for 60 seconds to a song of their choice.

The competition consists of posing, where each competitor stands on stage and the judges meticulously observe everything from their chests, backs, thighs

and calf muscles.

The bodybuilders will be separated into three categories for their poses.

The first category will be for the seven women.

The next two categories will divide the young men by their height between medium and tall classes. “Medium” is considered 5’9” and under, whereas “tall” is larger than 5’10”.

Kelly Moorhous has practiced her poses for months, but the most important thing for her in this competition is having confidence in her body.

“I’m freaking out,” Moorhous said. “But in my mind I’m like, ‘You’re not giving up.’”

The Mr. & Mrs. Ball State bodybuilding competition has been a challenge for many competitors, but each person has a different reason to wake up every morning and push their bodies to their limits.

However, one thing seems to be unanimous among all of the competitors.

“As soon as the competition is over you better believe I’m going to get a box of donuts; I’m going to order a whole pizza; and I’ll probably eat some cake,” Nelson said. “I already have in my mind what I’m going to eat, but I can’t think about it right now because it is going to make me weak.”

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haring a name with a father who was sent to prison for robbing a bank is not the legacy James Wells aspires to have.

Instead, the future Student Government Association president said he has vowed to make sure his name means something more.

Wells said he was just a toddler when his father was sent to prison, so he only has vague memories of him. His mother went on to marry her high school sweetheart when Wells was about 6, and he said he considers him his father.

“When I was young, he was just a worker at U-Haul,” Wells said.” [He] didn’t go to college, but he worked his way up and now he’s the marketing president for U-Haul on the south side and southwest side of Chicago,” he said. “He has been my role model when it comes to working hard for what you really want.”

Along with his family role models, Wells’ life has circulated around one unpredictable city: his hometown of Gary, Ind. Gary has a rich history. It was a strong industrial city in the 20th century with the development of the U.S. Steel Corp, but as time progressed, things took a turn for the worse.

Even so, the future SGA president said there was still a sense of community where he grew up, and the environment helped him develop character.

“It allowed for [kids] to get creative and use our imagination to be who we are now,” he said.

Wells’ grandmother came to Gary in the 1950s with his great-grandmother shortly after his great-grandfather began work in the steel industry. His grandmother has also had a major influence on his life, he said.

He said his grandmother watched him and his brothers a lot growing up because his mother worked during the day as a nurse and his father at U-Haul. She taught him to take responsibility from a young age.

“Being with her, you were expected to go to church on Sundays, expected to get involved, you were expected to take responsibility for yourself,” he said.

“She was a tough cookie.”

His childhood in Gary is what partially motivated Wells to create his own major.

In school, he was a part of an orchestra and noticed the building the group practiced in was full of mold.

Even as young as he was, he said he knew something needed to be done because of what his grandmother taught him growing up. She taught him to stand up for what is right, so he wrote a letter to the mayor at the time about the building.

“I never knew where to start but I knew, ‘Oh, we have a mayor, why not write a letter to the mayor?’”

Wells said. “From there, it began this whole civic pride in me to see what could be done.”

Wells knew he wanted to return to Gary after college to help better the city, but didn’t quite know how. After changing majors between urban planning, communication and political science, he decided to create his own major that would combine all of them: urban statesmanship.

“I wanted to make sure I had the ability of being a leader effectively while also staying true to urban planning,” Wells said.

He said the process of creating the major took about a year to finish, but it’s something he wanted to do and will hold him accountable for his future.

“I can really say I took the time, put in the work and created something I want to do,” he said. “Knowing that I was able to take my creativity, my imagination, and create something tangible with it — I would say that’s the best part.”

One of Wells’ dream jobs is to be president of the United States, but his biggest dream is to be mayor of his hometown.

“It’s a great canvas to build upon and build something amazing,” Wells said.

He said SGA is a stepping stone to that dream, because it will teach him a variety of different skills he will need to one day rebuild his hometown to the glory it once knew.

“Now I’m at the point where I have to really learn how to work with a vast array of different people … [and] manage a vast array of an organization and know what’s going on in each section of that,” he said. “I think that is probably the best thing I can learn from Ball State because going back and building a city — developing a city — won’t be an easy task. It is probably going to be the hardest challenge I ever undertake in my life.”

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exciting or terrifying, depending on how prepared a student is.

Rachel Regan, a senior visual communication major who worked on the app, said they decided the app’s features based on what she and the other seniors in the group would want to see in the app.

“We kept it pretty simple and very user-friendly.

You’re thinking about how the user will use it on their phone,” Regan said. “I think my parents will probably use it cause they are still a little unfamiliar with the campus, … but I’ll probably use it to figure out where I need to be after the main ceremony.”

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The recent snowy weather only delayed the street department further.

Campbell said that conditions were poor enough on Saturday to send out people to plow and salt the roads.

Campbell said that the department has to choose their priorities, and fixing potholes is their No. 1.

“We have to put something in the potholes, even if it’s temporary,” he said.

“We get a lot more done when the weather gets dry. Then we don’t have to keep going back to the same old potholes. It’s just the way it is.”

Jim Lowe, Ball State’s associate vice president for Facilities Planning and Management, originally brought the idea for reducing the speed limits to the city of Muncie, along with his team.

While he originally thought the process of putting up new street signs would take only two

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to three weeks, he said he wasn’t surprised by the street department’s delay.

“I know that the street superintendent has been busy. It’s just a case of being patient,” Lowe said.

“There are a lot of locations on campus that don’t even have [speed limit] signs yet. They might still have to make those.”

Campbell said that with only 15 people working with him, it’s hard to get things done in a timely matter.

“The expectations from [Lowe] might have been a little high, but I don’t want to fault him for that.

It was just a matter of man power here and trying to get it done,” Campbell said. “It’s just tough. And when people take days off it’s tough. Every person is valuable.”

Even though the speed limits are lower now, the changes may not be permanent. There will be a 90day trial period before the Muncie City Council makes its final decision on whether the new regulations are permanent or not.

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“It looks a little different here in the United States than you would probably think in other countries, where it’s like child prostitution and you see a lot in under 18 age girls,” Baney said.

Members of IJM are selling T-shirts emblazoned with “Justice BSU” and a Batman-like design. They sell for $10, with the profits going to the IJM campus chapter fund to pay for outside speakers and spaces to hold events.

It was one of these events that inspired Baney to work with IJM. She was invited to

to employ means of force, fraud or coercion for the purpose of sex trafficking and labor trafficking, according to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center.

There are around 35.8 million people who are enslaved in the world today, with more than 60,000 in the U.S., according to the 2014 Global Slavery Index.

Kurt Green, a junior architecture major and vice president of the IJM chapter, said being a part of IJM has taught him the effect of his actions on others.

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hear a speaker her freshman year, and she knew she wanted to do something about it.

But she stayed with it because of her passion for her work.

“I am a summer camp counselor and I work with girls who are teenagers, which is a very common age that people would find themselves in human trafficking in the United States,“ she said. “I think a lot of times the children aspect of it — of the kids who don’t have a childhood because of this — are the things that push me to keep going.”

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the app is that students will download it as soon as they begin their senior year,” she said. “I want to continue to develop it and add important topics, like career prep and job fair information, financial aid action steps and, of course, every detail they’ll need to get ready for and to enjoy their graduation and ensure they receive their diploma, even if they don’t plan to attend the ceremony.”

Cravens said her goal is for the app to provide a full senior experience by working with departments like the Career Center to provide a comprehensive senior checklist to make sure students apply to graduate and know about things like the completion scholarship and senior celebration.

“Having one place to see this list and get more information would be helpful for them,” she said. “We want their final year experience to be as rewarding as their freshman year.”

Specific lineup information and locations for each college ceremony will be added before the end of April.

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The Digital Corps has created an app to answer questions and provide information about commencement, such as the schedule, a student checklist and parking information.

Commencement coordinator Angie Cravens came up with the idea for the app because it was clear to her that students didn’t have a good understanding of how to get through both the graduation process and the ceremonies.

Her office kept receiving emails and phone calls with the same types of questions, and although a commencement web page existed and emails were sent out, it wasn’t helping much and the email information was not being relayed to parents.

“In a conversation with Brandon Smith from Academic Project Support, I mentioned the challenge of getting information to students in a way that works for them, and that I’d love an app they could go to that would count down to their graduation date and provide the details they and their families needed,” Cravens said. “I knew students were

banking and ordering pizza and getting their news from apps, and [I] hoped they would use an app for this important time of their life.”

Smith, who is also the director of the Digital Corps, contacted Cravens during the Fall 2015 Semester and said he found app development software he’d like the Corps to test by developing a commencement app.

“I was so excited that we were going to build an app, but also that it was being developed by Ball State students — the actual audience that would be using it,” Cravens said. “Digital Corps asked for additional functionalities from the developer, all in an effort to get important details to graduating students in the most efficient way.”

The app was soft launched for the December 2015 commencement. Not a lot of students found it, but faculty members and the students who did gave positive feedback.

Cravens said spring commencement is more complicated because there are multiple ceremonies, so graduates and families need even more information.

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Colby Golden started his own collection of art, “Colby’s Zoo of Legendary Creatures,” after his passion for art animation started at a young age. The gallery, which features sculptures and twodimensional animations of various creatures, is on the first floor of the Art and Journalism Building.

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Colby Golden’s passion for art animation started at a young age.

The graduate student grew up watching “Wallace and Gromit” short films and became infatuated with stop motion animation and the idea of being able to act through a puppet.

This love only grew. When he came to college, Golden discovered the artistic, independent side of animation and being able to produce this art in a physical form.

After years of coming up with the right concepts and developing his ideas, Golden has now created an exhibition to showcase his love of animation and cryptozoology — a pseudoscience about the search for creatures whose existence hasn’t been proven.

“Colby’s Zoo of Legendary Creatures,” located on the first floor of the Art and Journalism Building, is Golden’s first real gallery. He features sculptures and two-dimen-

sional tactile animations of creatures like sasquatches, werewolves, Mothman and a dragon.

Using cryptozoology as the primary subject matter, Golden’s aim is to bring to life a supernatural zoo of mysterious creatures — known as cryptids — to his viewers.

The whole story behind the gallery is that Golden is the curator of the zoo.

“The werewolves in the gallery bit me, so now I am a werewolf as well and run this zoo of supernatural creatures,” Golden said.

Golden said the idea of bringing the supernatural to life was a crazy one that took years to perfect.

“This gallery goes all the way back to my first year here when we were starting to think of ideas. I saw animated flip books, and I wanted to do that. I then came up with this way of animating with acrylic,” Golden said. “I thought I was going to do a story like one of those ‘Choose your own path’ stories in the gallery, but I had a hard time pitching it to my classmates.”

Golden said he struggled at first and felt a pressure to make the exhibit more story-based, which was the typical graduation path in

animation.

But his classmates introduced the idea of it being more abstract, and it spiraled from there.

“I went home that night and came back with the idea of doing a zoo, and what better subject matter to use than cryptic,” Golden said. “I have been interested in cryptozoology since I was a little kid — it started with Bigfoot, graduated into Loch Ness Monster and now I am all the way up to Mothman and actually doing research and reading eye witness statements to try to find out what is real and fake.”

After coming up with the idea, Golden chose which cryptids he liked most that would work best in a physical animated space.

He’s now able to showcase his work independently after years of going through the graduate program.

“Our first two years in the art graduate program, we do a group exhibition of what we have done in school but this is my first big, independent show where I made stuff specifically for this,” Golden said. “I was fortunate enough to be the only graduating grad student who needed the gallery space so I could have it all to myself.”

His gallery features a variety of different media for his creations, such as copper electro-forming, clay, glass, acrylic and steel, in order to help convey the idea of each creature to the viewer, according to muncieevents.com.

After years of trial and error, pitching different stories and tweaking ideas, Golden said creating his gallery was an overall great experience.

But the most memorable moment he had was with creating his dragon or what he calls his “baby.”

“I love my werewolves and playing with the idea that they bit me, and I’m a werewolf now, but spending time building my dragon over the summer and seeing it now is the best feeling,” Golden said. “When his body finally came together with his wings and all, and he was just there and alive — he was my baby and that was a very proud moment. I enjoyed the pain and torture and every aspect of what I went through with him.”

Golden said his goal now is to expand his gallery and get it shown in other galleries, museums and spaces around the country, like the International Museum of Cryptozoology “There is so much more stuff that I want to do with

the show that I just didn’t have the time to do,” he said.

“If I can get people to agree to let me show it in other places, I would love to expand and show off my work.”

“Colby’s Zoo of Legendary Creatures” is open now and will be until Friday.

There will be an opening reception on Thursday from 4-6 p.m. where Golden is expected to dress up in his full werewolf form.

“It will be like a performance piece, so I encourage everyone to come have a good time, ask me questions and give me some feedback,” he said. “This is a time to just celebrate the show, and it would mean to world to me to have people come explore all I have done.”

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