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CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE Power Five college football conference repeatedly dominates the FBS, forcing mid-major schools to choose between national exposure or being competitive at another subdivision. ROBBY GENERAL SPORTS EDITOR
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n 2008, Ball State football went a perfect 12-0 in the regular season, launching itself into the conversation for a spot in one of the most coveted bowl games in college football: the Bowl Championship Series. At the time, no Mid-American Conference school had ever played in a BCS game, and Ball State was riding high at No. 12 in the country, entering the conference championship game against a 7-5 Buffalo team.
This is a list of the most winningest college football conferences in terms of championship victories. These numbers start when the poll era was introduced in 1936. 1: Southeastern Conference - 23 2: Big 12 - 20 3: Independents - 13 T4: Big Ten - 10 T4: Atlantic Coastal Conference - 10 T4: Pac 12 - 10
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Daily News investigates Fact Book data errors Some departments have had misrepresented enrollment ALAN HOVORKA SOCIAL MEDIA DIRECTOR | afhovorka@bsu.edu The past few years have treated the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences well, whether it’s been the announcement of McKinley Commons (now on hold), partnering with hotels in Downtown Muncie, renovations to facilities in the Applied Technology Building or large increases in online enrollment. But that didn’t show when looking at Ball State’s College of Applied Science and Technology Fact Book. Department headcount — a measure of how many students are in a department — showed the department had a 42 percent decrease in enrollment between 2010-11 and 2014-15, going from 1,612 students to 937 students in just five years. However, there were discrepancies. “We never had 1,600 students. Otherwise, I would have known that by now,” said Sotiris Hji-Avgoustis, chair of family and consumer sciences. That data placed FCS as the third-worst department on campus in terms of headcount, which is just one of many metrics used to decide how much funding and what resources departments get.
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VGR, Let’s Spoon vandalized Student creates GoFundMe page for new picnic table SARA BARKER GENERAL REPORTER | slbarker3@bsu.edu A recent wave of vandalism was the last straw for a Village business owner. Travis Harvey, owner of Village Green Records, couldn’t take a recent act of vandalism lightly. The picnic table in front of the store was overturned and broken, and instead of fixing it himself, Harvey decided to take a different approach. Harvey left the table where it lay and made a sign to set next to it, calling attention to the act of
vandalism. “Instead of just picking up the pieces and just acting like nothing happened, I wanted to really make more of a public statement,” Harvey said. Although this is the first time Harvey has called attention to the destruction of his business, he said the act itself is nothing new. “I’ve been targeted for eight years,” Harvey said. “At one point, I had a little container that was full of CDs that I would make for people, like little mixes, and after about the first three times that that was ripped off or had been kicked or thrown, I kind of stopped doing that.”
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Recent destruction and vandalism have taken place in the Village at Let’s Spoon and Village Green Records. A Ball State student started a GoFundMe page with a goal of $500 to raise money to buy a new table for VGR.
INDIANA’S GOVERNOR RACE ‘TOSS UP’ In 2012, Gregg narrowly lost to Pence. Now, he’s looking to close that gap. KAITLIN LANGE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF In Indiana, no elected Republi| editor@bsudailynews.com can governor has failed to win a Gov. Mike Pence, seeking reelection after a controversial first term, has history on his side; Incumbent governors get reelected 72 percent of the time in America, according to the Center on the American Governor.
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second term. But the governor’s plans could be derailed by a force even more potent than his Democratic foes: a raft of headlines portraying Pence as out of step on social issues and hostile to women. “We’ve got the governor’s race as a toss-up,” said Brian Howey,
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creator of the nonpartisan Howey Politics and a Statehouse media veteran. Former House Speaker John Gregg, who will be on the ballot alongside Pence May 3 as the Democratic governor nominee, narrowly lost to Pence four years ago. This time, he has attracted little public attention until recently, choosing to let the media spotlight stay on his adversary. “When he was running in 2012, there was no record of an incumbent,” said Robin Win-
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