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lthough David Letterman has had two successful late-night shows running over the last 33 years, his first program lasted only a week.

But whether it was with his small start on Ball State radio or his 6,000 episodes of “Late Night” and “Late Show,” Al Rent, Ball State director of relationship marketing and community relations, said the Ball State alumnus “knew no fear.”

There’s the front door with neon beer signs hanging on each side. Up above are oversized light bulb letters spelling out “Cleo’s” and “bourbon.” The Sir Nacho’s sign on the side door is plastered with a cartoon sombrero and mustache.

There’s a disconnect somewhere between the bar’s cool bourbon and hot burritos. Cleo’s Bourbon Bar co-owners Ryan Clements and Chris Ellison are merging with Sir Nacho’s owner Emanuel Escamilla to reopen the Village bar as Three Amigos.

Problem solved.

“People walk in now and it’s confusing,” Clements said. “There are things we’re going to be able to do together that before, just weren’t possible.”

It’s easy to see the inspiration behind the name.

The three entrepreneurs hope to create a new energy with the re-branded margarita night spot.

Clements said they plan to build a DJ booth above the door and a tiki thatch roof over the bar.

“Things were funnier [in the 1960s] because you knew no fear, and the older you get the more hesitant you are to make mistakes,” Rent said. “Well, god love him, Dave never worried about making those mistakes. He just kept persevering, and I fully believe that’s why he is where he is today.”

Letterman’s final show is tonight, and Rent said he has left a “huge mark on the industry.”

“He reinvented what happens in late night talk and in comedy and they’ve become totally synonymous with him,” Rent said.

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Letterman arrived at Ball State in 1965, when Rent was a senior and student program director for the radio station WBST. “Ball State was evolving, the technology was starting to pick up pace and there were a lot of students who got really interested in wanting to become the next DJ or television personality,” Rent said.

Letterman was one of those students.

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The Ball State baseball team made it into the Mid-American Conference Tournament as the No. 5 seed. The team finished the regular season with a 30-23 record.

Team enters tournament as No. 5 seed

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WORTHEN UNDERGOES FLOOR RENOVATION Replacing arena’s floor costs $305,000, set to finish by July 10 JAKE FOX SPORTS EDITOR | @fakejox3 Like its football counterpart, Worthen Arena is undergoing a surface renovation this summer.

The current floor has been in use since the doors to the gym opened in 1991. Ball State is putting in a new maple floor as part of a repair-and-replace system.

“It’s a resilient floor system, which means it deflects when

people jump on it,” Dan Byrnes, Director of Sports Facilities, said.

“Performance-wise, it’s a very friendly floor for athletes in terms of being resilient ... which helps the athletes and their joints; and their performance as well.”

Ball State has been saving money for the replacement since the current floor has been in place. State funds aren’t used for recreation and athletic facility repairs, so the university puts money away knowing the floor has a certain life.

Worthen Arena’s floor replacement project was awarded $305,000.

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Worthen Arena is undergoing a flooring renovation this summer. The current floor has been in use since it opened in 1991.

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For the first time in about 10 weeks, Ball State baseball coach Rich Maloney can say his team is healthy.

The Cardinals got their original lineup back for the last series of the season, and made it into the Mid-American Conference Tournament as the No. 5 seed. Ball State finished the regular season at 30-23 after starting the season ranked No. 31 nationally. “[May 16] was the first day we’ve had all our guys healthy and back in nine or 10 weeks,” Maloney said. “So we’ve got our full compliment of players.

Everybody’s healthy, everybody’s back and those are the things that go unseen that affect you.”

The Cardinals started the season with an even 7-7 record. After ripping off 10 straight wins in March, they were sitting pretty at 17-7.

But then the tides turned.

Scott Baker, Alex Call, Ryan Spaulding, Sean Kennedy, Caleb Stayton and Matt Haro — all key contributors — have missed time due to various injuries.

Maloney said the team is fortunate to be healthy, and there are no excuses heading into the postseason.

“I think it’s good that we’re coming in as a fifth seed,” Maloney said. “Obviously you want to win a league title — Central [Michigan] did a phenomenal job, had a great season much like we did last year — maybe we can reverse the fortune.”

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Beech Grove Cemetery will host the 143rd Annual Memorial Day Ceremony. The event will honor the memory and service of American military members. At 10:45 a.m., America’s Hometown Band will perform. The service will begin at 11 a.m. in the cemetery’s American Legion Section.

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Alumnus plans future after 33-year career Letterman reflects on career highs, lows before last show | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — You don’t think of David Letterman as a stop-and-smell-the-flowers type, but here he is, at a major turning point yet savoring his chocolate milkshake.

Perched on a stool in a fastfood restaurant beside the Ed Sullivan Theater, where he has hosted “Late Show” for two decades but will do so only a bit longer, Dave unwinds from that day’s taping while, more than once, he comments on his shake’s deliciousness.

He also thinks today’s show was excellent, a surprising appraisal from this famously self-critical star. Cher did a surprise walk-on. Martin Short brought down the house with his musical eulogy to Dave.

Norah Jones sang “Don’t Know Why” and everyone got misty.

“I wish tonight’s show had been the last show,” Letterman said. “Tonight should have been the last show. I don’t know what we’re gonna do for the next two weeks.”

It isn’t hard to detect, or understand, the simmering ambivalence in Dave’s decision to take his leave after 33 years in late night and 22 years hosting CBS’ “Late Show,” on May 20.

But by now he’s done it all.

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Rent gave Letterman a job at the station writing biographies for classical composers to preview them before the station played their songs.

The station primarily played classical music and news at the time.

“As he got his chops and felt more confident, he started writing his own biographies of the composers so he started making up things about their lives,” Rent said. “Then we started getting calls from music faculty saying Mozart was not illegitimate.”

After receiving calls from music professors, Bill Tomlinson, chairman of the radio and TV department, asked Rent what was going on. The conversation ended with Rent becoming the, “first guy to hire [Letterman] and the first guy to fire him.”

Rent moved him to writing news, but Letterman continued to make up stories.

“He would slip in absurd stories about whatever his mind allowed him to,” Rent said.

“It would be like him doing a stand up bit today or a monologue on his show.”

Not long after Rent moved Letterman off writing news, Letterman’s first program, “Make It or Break It,” began.

Letterman told Rent that

Letterman has carved a place in cultural history with his pioneering brand of postmodern silliness that collared “Late Night” fans on his arrival in 1982 and subsequently was absorbed into the Age of Irony he played a major role in charting. This legacy-in-the-making was long ago coined “Lettermanesque.” But don’t talk legacy with Dave. He swiftly raises his deflector shield.

“The real credit goes to the writers,” he said. “It was their show that I was doing, especially early on. And then I got to a point I knew how to do what they were wanting me to do.

“We had guys who had worked at the Harvard Lampoon,” he said, flashing a grin. “I attended university in Muncie, Indiana.”

Now he’s nearing the end of a record-breaking, surely never-to-be-matched run that exceeds even Johnny Carson’s 30 years on “The Tonight Show.”

“God, it’s been 6,000 shows,” he said. “I used to have these conversations with [wife] Regina: ‘How much longer can I do this? How much longer do I want to do this?’

“But it was so much fun tonight, just really fun,” he said again. “I’m really, really torn. I know why I shouldn’t be doing it anymore, but these last few months have been soooo easy.”

No wonder. As the days count down, love for Dave is escalating. “With a simple retirement announcement, every day I’m Salesman of the Month.”

WBST needed to start playing rock and roll. Rent refused at first, but eventually Letterman convinced him — but only after midnight.

So, Rent advertised the show and the two arrived at the station at midnight on a Monday — even though the station signed off at 10 p.m.

“We played rock and roll for an hour,” Rent said. “I don’t know what I was thinking, I don’t know why I wasn’t scared, but he DJed it and then he would play his game called ‘Make It or Break It.’” Each night, Letterman would play a song from the B-side of a record, which Rent described as usually “very average to awful.” Letterman asked the audience to call in and vote to make or break the song. If they voted break it, Letterman would break and crunch the record on the air.

“We got somewhere between 75 and 150 calls on a night, and that’s a lot of calls in a short period of time,” Rent said. “Just, constantly, all the lines were ringing.”

For the first two nights, the audience voted to break the record. But on Wednesday, they voted to make it. So Letterman said he would give the record to the first person to come into the radio station at 8 a.m. the next morning.

The next morning, there was no Letterman.

More than 40 students were lined up at the station, and it was up to Rent to figure out what to do.

Tomlinson was there, and he asked Rent what had happened.

Tomlinson did not know about “Make It or Break It,” and Rent didn’t want him to. So Rent “didn’t lie.

I just didn’t

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In 2000, David Letterman mentioned Ball State many times because the football team was on a 21-game losing streak. On Oct. 6, 2000, Letterman asked his guest, Magic Johnson, to give a pep talk.

Letterman’s life was anything but easy in October 2009, when an extortion plot compelled him to acknowledge on the air that he had been sexually involved with women on his staff. He weathered that storm, largely thanks to a candid and contrite accounting to his viewers.

“It was the worst time of my life,” he said. “I remember just thinking, ‘Oh my God, I’ve ruined my family,’ and that became the only concern. And then: ‘Oh, yeah, you could get fired.’”

But on Dave’s crisis meter, the scandal far exceeded his emergency quintuple bypass operation in January 2000.

“The heart surgery was fun,”

he said. “People would come and see me and bring me things.

And the doctors were wonderful. Those people — I mean, who does a job that well?”

Another miracle of medical science: An antidepressant he’s been taking in recent years.

“It saved my life. I used to wonder how other people weren’t always screaming and punching the Sheetrock. And then I started this, and I felt like, ‘Ahhh, I see!’ And now I don’t punch Sheetrock and scream as much.”

But nothing, no drug or elixir, can turn back the years.

“There’s no cure to being 68,” he said. So May 20 is closing night.

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fill in all the facts.” He told Tomlinson that they “conducted a survey. We wanted to know if students liked the music we were playing.”

When Letterman came in that day and said he was ready for Thursday’s “Make It or Break It,” Rent told him they were ending the show.

“We tried a lot of different things, we had no fear in those particular days and Dave had a lot of humor,” Rent said. “That was my time with Dave. And we had good fun together, but then I graduated and he continued on.”

Later on, Letterman started another radio station, WAGO, with some of his friends. It was a carrier-current station, which meant it was only broadcast to campus and was not technically on the air. Because of that, normal radio station regulations did not apply.

“It was bizarre, but it was their station and they could do with it what they wanted to because it wasn’t ‘on the air,’” Rent said. “And that’s how he began sort of honing his craft and having that kind of Letterman freedom that he always needed.”

LETTERMAN’S LEGACY

Since Letterman graduated from Ball State in 1969, he has started an endowed scholarship program at the university, had the David Letterman Communication and Media Building named after him and started a Ball State lecture series.

Former Ball State president Jo Ann Gora

and the Board of Trustees decided to name the media building after him in 2007.

Letterman initially denied the honor, but later accepted and visited campus for the building’s opening.

“He has never forgotten his alma mater,” Gora said in a 2007 interview. “He has always wanted to support the students and he has always had a special place in his heart for students like himself who are aspiring for careers in radio and television.”

But he started giving back to Ball State long before 2007. In 1985, he created an endowed scholarship for telecommunications students at the university. The scholarship provides three awards each year at $10,000, $5,000 and $3,333.

In 1986, he donated money to start the campus’s current radio station: WCRD. The station’s last three call letters stand for “Cardinal Radio Dave.”

Zach Huffman, a senior telecommunications and journalism news major, served as general manager of WCRD in 2014-15. He said “there would not be a student radio opportunity” at the university without people like Letterman.

“It’s been an amazing opportunity to work for WCRD, to have it as a backbone and a staple of CCIM for Ball State, and none of that would be possible if it wasn’t for [Letterman],” Huffman said. “He’s been a pivotal aspect and a pivotal component to

Between “Late Night” and “Late Show,” David Letterman has more than 6,000 episodes worth of experience on the late-night talk show circuit.

This will come to an end with his final episode of “Late Show” Wednesday night.

During his show’s run, the Ball State graduate mentioned his alma mater several times. In 2000, he had segments on the Ball State football team’s 21-game losing streak every week.

Before each game, he gave the team a pep talk. After each game, he showed the highlights. Letterman had contacted Al Rent, Ball State director of relationship marketing and community relations, to ask for the highlights each week. Rent and Letterman were classmates at Ball State in the late 1960s.

“David asked the show to call me — so part of that was I was thrilled that he even remembered where I was — to call me and see if they could have highlights of the games,” Rent said.

“So we took the highlights, and ... we sent them every Saturday after the game.”

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the success of Ball State.”

Then, after the Letterman Building was named after him in 2007, he started the David Letterman Distinguished Professional Lecture and Workshop Series. A few times a year, the series brings in professionals and industry leaders to speak to students.

Letterman himself visited campus to talk with three of those speakers: Biz Stone, cofounder of Twitter, in 2010; Rachel Maddow, host of “The Rachel Maddow Show,” in 2011; and media proprietor Oprah Winfrey in 2012.

As Letterman continues to thank Ball State with his donations, Ball State returns the favor.

“From my standpoint, and really I speak for the institution too, we couldn’t be more proud,” Rent said. “Not only of his success but the fact that he has gone on to talk about the opportunities and the education that he had here in such a positive way ... We are so appreciative about what he’s done.”

Beyond direct contributions to campus, Letterman has also mentioned Ball State numerous times on his shows.

“If you look at the other celebrities, how many of them do you know where they went to school? He could have just sort of forgotten and never brought it up,” Rent said. “But he has constantly showed his pride in the university ... He is so prideful of his education and his opportunities and his time here. He keeps talking about it.”

In 2000, Letterman included numerous “Late Show” segments on Ball State football during team’s

game against Miami of Ohio on Oct. 7, 2000, Letterman asked his guest and basketball hall of fame inductee, Magic Johnson, to give that week’s pep talk.

“First of all, you got to think like a winner,” Johnson said on the show. “Forget what happened in the past, ‘cause nothing matters but tomorrow. You gotta go out there, you gotta fight. ... You gotta get down there and say, ‘You know what, we’re gonna win this game tomorrow. We’re gonna win this game.’”

The next day, the football team won 15-10 and broke its losing streak.

After the win, Rent, Charlie Cardinal and Hudson Akin, vice president for university advancement, flew to the New York show to give Letterman the game ball as a thanks.

“We went in the stage door [of ‘Late Show’], and this entire production meets us and says, ‘We cannot believe you’re here ... We are including the game ball presentation on the show.

And Dave says you two went to school together ... he would like you to come on the show and present it to him.’ I went, ‘Oh, yes. Thank you, dear lord.

This is incredible,’” Rent said.

On the show that day, Letterman said about the win, “I’d like to think I had more than a little something to do with this.” He continued his Ball State football segments for the rest of that season.

21-game losing streak.

“If I had to spend money to market the university on national television on a show like Letterman, at least during the football time,” Rent said. “... we calculated how much time he gave us on the air and how much it would be worth at national ad rates, and it was over $12 million for that time.

We don’t have $12 million to spend on advertising on a national level.”

Letterman has raised the university’s profile, Rent said, because he constantly talks about the university on his show.

“For Dave and us, in my mind, it was always I don’t care what he says about us, just say something about us,” he said. “And it becomes a marriage. So if you like Dave, you like Ball State. If you like Ball State, you may like Dave.”

Rent expects Letterman’s contribution to continue after his retirement. He said he thinks Letterman will come back to Ball State, whether it is for his lecture series or for something else.

“Dave has allowed our profile to gain significant height, just by being associated with him and him with us ... We would love to have more winning athletic teams, and we will, that comes cyclically,” Rent said.

“But Dave is a constant.”

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Through all the ups and downs, the Ball State softball team made history in 2015.

The Cardinals earned the first NCAA Regional victory in school history with a win over No. 16 Notre Dame in the South Bend Regional. Ball State got there with its first Mid-American Conference Tournament title since 2010, capping a 2923 regular season.

“It was incredible to see the amount that these girls worked all year, and to be there with them when it all came together,” Jenny Gilbert, volunteer assistant coach and former All-American, said. “It was just really inspiring for me and I’m so proud of each and every one of them.”

Ball State began the season with one of the toughest nonconference schedules in the MAC. The team played in five different tournaments, taking on some of the top teams in the nation.

After a 10-13 finish, the Cardinals had their sights set on a fourth straight MAC regular season title.

Ball State won nine of its first 11 conference games to propel toward the top of the league standings, but it had to settle for second, as it finished 14-5 in league play only behind Kent State.

The Cardinals swept through the MAC Tournament as the No. 2 seed. They won four straight games — outscoring their opponents 32-12 on their way to a title.

“In all of my four years, I’ve never experienced something like that before,” senior Loren

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Graduation is July 18, so it’s critical that the floor is done by then.

The crew is about halfway done laying the maple down on the floor.

After the floor is laid, the branding takes place. The new surface will look similar to the previous one in terms of the Cardinal head in the middle and the MidAmerican Conference logos in the lanes.

Each NCAA school is required to have certain markings on the floor that fit in with the game. These markings include the 3-point line and those in the lane.

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| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Ball State won the MAC regular season title last year. But this team has its mind on another goal.

“This is the first time in my 20 years that we’ve actually set winning the tournament as our No. 1 goal,” Maloney said. “Normally we’ve always — when I was both at Ball State and Michigan — set our goal to win the regular season title.”

To win the tournament, Maloney said it starts with the pitching staff.

The team will need a good performance from sophomore Zach Plesac in the first game against Toledo and Cameron Palmer. The Cardinals’ lone win against the Rockets this season came in a 4-3 win over Palmer.

Game two or three would likely feature Baker, who said he feels pretty good coming back.

“I always expect a lot out of myself … I haven’t been starting in a while, but I started

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The Ball State softball team earned their first NCAA Regional victory in school history with their win over No. 16 Notre Dame.

Senior outfielder Loren Cihlar was able to experience the competition for the first time in her four years on the team.

Cihlar said. “We’ve always won conference and we’ve never been able to make it through the tournament and win it and go to regionals. It is a completely different feeling, and it just all pays off to finally show your talent to your team and compete with different teams.”

Cihlar, along with fellow seniors Hanne Stuedemann and Jessica Craft, set the standard and served as leaders for this season’s team.

She said the success of the program has trickled down through her class and to the others below. “[The seniors] really did the work to lead the team in the right direction, and to lead us to our success,” head coach Tyra Perry said.

That success culminated in a 6-3 win over the Fighting Irish in the first round of regional play.

Ball State couldn’t keep the scheduled when Ball State athletic director Mark Sandy arrived at the school in February.

He said the new floor will serve as a great benefit to the athletic programs that use it.

“When you improve your facilities, you bring not only the new quality to the floor, but how it will look — sort of an updated branding scheme on the floor. It helps the fans see improvement and it helps with recruiting,” Sandy said.

Ball State is looking to reap the benefits of its new gym floor when it is completed this summer.

“We got 25 years out of this floor,” Byrnes said. “We hope to get even more years out of this new floor for the future ... some floors last 40 to 50 years. It all depends on how well you take care of it, and we do a good job of it I think.” this weekend and it felt good,” Baker said. “My arm feels better than it has in a long time.”

Both on the mound and at the plate, the little parts of the game will shine the brightest in the postseason.

Maloney said all the games are magnified.

Taking it one game at a time is cliche, but it’s what Ball State is doing to improve on a season that they expected more out of in the beginning.

“If we do [the little things], I think we’ll be able to go on a big streak and we will be able to win the tournament easily,” Baker said. “I know we have the team to do that, it just comes down to those little things.”

Winning the MAC Tournament is one thing this year’s senior class hasn’t accomplished.

But after taking two of three in its last series, Ball State appears to have regained the momentum it needs to make some noise and earn an NCAA Tournament berth.

“I don’t think anybody really wants to face Ball State,” Maloney said.

momentum going, however, and fell to Kentucky in the second game before losing an elimination game in a rematch with host Notre Dame.

Perry said it meant everything to be able to make it that far with this group.

The Cardinals will look to build on their success in the 2016 season, as they return several key contributors. And it all starts on the mound.

Nicole Steinbach and Kelsey Schifferdecker — who missed much of this season due to a head injury — will be seniors and look to be a dangerous 1-2 punch in the circle.

“It doesn’t matter who you are or how you look at it, those two complement each other,” Perry said. “We especially saw the impact that those two have on our program when Kelsey was out and once she returned, it definitely elevated our level.”

Ball State will be built around

six seniors next season. The younger players that will return, paired with the newcomers, will look to contribute to the team’s success.

Perry said she wants the team to work on its emotional stability — the ability to be able to stay focused on the team’s goals through adversity.

And if all goes as planned for Perry and her staff, Ball State will take the next step into the Super Regionals and the Women’s College World Series.

“I think it will be in their heads every day to know that they were that close to going to super [regionals],” Gilbert said. “I think it will push them to go even farther and get to the World Series ... As their coach, I will say to them ‘You were this close to winning and going to super [regionals], but it didn’t happen.

So what are you going to do about it this year?’”

DEPUTY ATHLETICS DIRECTOR LEAVES FOR MARQUETTE

Brian Hardin has been named the new Deputy Athletics Director at Marquette University, announced by Vice President and Athletic Director Bill Scholl.

Hardin spent two years at Ball State as the Deputy Athletics Director for External Affairs.

He graduated from Marquette in 2002, and joined Scholl’s staff at Ball State from Notre Dame in 2013.

“I have obviously had the opportunity to get to know Brian both personally and professionally and believe he will be a great addition to our staff and am extremely happy to be able to offer the opportunity at his alma mater,” Scholl said in a statement.

“I was fortunate to inherit a tremendous executive staff when I arrived on campus and am excited to add Brian to the talented group that makes Marquette a special place.”

Hardin will oversee the athletic department’s marketing and ticketing units at Marquette. He will also serve as the primary contact for the M Club, made up of Marquette’s former student-athletes.

He also oversaw marketing and ticketing at Ball State, as well as media relations. Ball State experience increased attendance in several sports during his tenure.

After Scholl’s departure for Marquette, Hardin served as Ball State’s interim athletic director for five months prior to when Mark Sandy’s tenure began in February.

Hardin also helped conclude the Cardinal Commitment campaign.

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After two years as Ball State’s Deputy Athletics Director of External Affairs, Brian Hardin has been named the new Deputy Athletics Director at Marquette University. Hardin will supervise the athletic department’s marketing and ticketing units at the university.

“He’s very talented, and he did a great job helping me,” Sandy said. “No issues at all, and we worked well together.

I just think the opportunity to work with Bill [Scholl] again and go to a school where he attended were a big draw.”

Hardin will take over at Marquette in June.

“On a personal level, the memories and friendships created in my four years as an undergraduate at Marquette are some of the best in my life,” Hardin said in a statement. “I would not be where I am today, both professionally and personally, if not for my time at Marquette. I understand and embrace the truly unique opportunity presented to me to give back to a place that has given me so much. I look forward to rejoining the Milwaukee community and introducing my wife and sons to our incredible Marquette family.”

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Former prison program helped ‘rehabilitate people,’ professor says Education helps lower repeat crime, university study says

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The first time Daniel Messel, the man accused of murdering an Indiana University student, was in prison, he received a Ball State degree through the university’s former prison program.

Although Messel may be headed back to prison, research shows that receiving an education while in prison reduces the likelihood of an individual returning to lock up.

Messel received an associate’s degree in general arts from Ball State while serving an eight-year sentence after pleading guilty to a charge of battery with a deadly weapon.

Ball State used to offer instruction to prisoners at the Pendleton Correctional Facility, near Muncie. The program went back at least as far as 1990, said Michael Burchick, a Ball State instructor of physics and astronomy who taught classes to prisoners for 20 years.

Indiana’s program used to be one of the largest in the country, according to indianapublicmedia.org.

Burchick said he first started teaching for the program because no one else wanted to have to work off campus.

After he started working with prisoners though, he realized the position was more than just a teaching gig. It was a ministry – a way to teach people how to live their lives.

“There’s not that many programs the prison system has that rehabilitate people, but the college program really seems to contribute to that,” he said. “… as far as the prison

program goes we had a ministry there; we were doing it not just as a career, but we were helping make a better society.”

The students seemed to appreciate the lessons, both in physics and in life. “[When we] went into the prison we didn’t have guards in the classroom. We had almost zero conflict with students, because if they began to act up, the other students made sure that didn’t happen, because they wanted the program,” Burchick said.

Despite Burchick and the prisoner’s positive experiences, Ball State and several other colleges stopped offering inmates the chance to earn a degree after the state passed House Enrolled Act 1001 in 2011, which prohibited people in prison from receiving state-funded scholarships, said C. Ted Ward II, Director of Student and Program Services with the division of Online and Distance Education.

Inmates at Pendleton Correctional Facility can still earn a college degree, although currently the only degree offered is one in interdisciplinary studies from Grace College & Theological Seminary in Indiana, said Evelyn Hicks, Education Director-Grace Community Education at Pendleton Facilities.

Pendleton also offers apprenticeship programs through the U.S. Department of Labor. These programs offer prisoners the chance to receive training and certification in programs that “meet the skilled workforce needs of Indiana’s businesses by training qualified individuals for lifelong careers,” according to the USDOL. Programs are offered in skills including construction, manufacturing, information technology and telecommunications.

Prisoners receive a certificate upon completion of the

INMATE RECIDIVISM STATUS AND EDUCATION

Recidivism is a person’s relapse into criminal behavior after going to prison.The charts below show education level and recidivism status, based on data from The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice.

Non-recidivist KEY: Recidivist VIOLENT OFFENDERS NON-VIOLENT OFFENDERS By percentage

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program, which takes anywhere from 2,000 to 6,000 hours. Finishing a program also cuts six months off of a prisoner’s sentence.

The apprenticeship program offers an opportunity to not only learn work-related skills but also offers character education to people who would otherwise have a hard time making it after they get out, Hicks said.

“Recidivism rate is really low for men who have completed college or who have learned a vocation or trade because they are able to get a job,” Hicks said. “It’s the men that haven’t been very successful in school and find that they aren’t capable to get or keep a job, and that is where the problem lies.”

Research backs up Hicks’ ob-

servations.

A study co-authored by Ball State professor Taiping Ho shows education is one of the largest factors in determining whether offenders would return to police custody after their initial release. The study published by the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice states that 22.4 percent of violent offenders who had an education level below high school were reincarcerated within one year, but the number for college educated violent offenders was just 9.9 percent.

Another linked factor to whether a released criminal would return to custody that was noted in the study was an inmate’s ability to attain and keep employment, which the study directly connected to an offender’s education.

Three Amigos will open on June 10 as a margarita night spot in the Village. Three Amigos is a collaboration with Cleo’s Bourbon Bar co-owners Ryan Clements and Chris Ellison along with Sir Nacho’s owner Emanuel Escamilla.

AMIGOS: | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The plan, for now, is to close Cleo’s on June 1 for the minor construction and to reopen Three Amigos no later than June 10. There will be kinks to work out, Clements said, but much of the transition will be pretty painless.

Kitchens are nothing new to Escamilla. At age 12, he started washing dishes for his father, who owns and helps operate Muncie’s popular Mexican joint Puerta Vallarta. Escamilla learned a thing or two while working for the chain.

“You’ll see 15 girls walk in [at Puerta Vallarta] and start drinking margaritas, but you can’t go talk to them,” Escamilla said with a laugh.

It’s not all about flirting over margaritas; Escamilla really wants people to have a good time at Three Amigos. Between the 20 different margarita flavors slated to be stocked at the new bar, and the food already offered at Sir Nacho’s, he said it will be the best of both worlds.

Three Amigos will not be

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open to all ages like Cleo’s is now, Clements said. There will, however, be waiters that carry menus and food out to tables. The booth that currently spans the full length of the building will be replaced by a series of booths placed back-to-back along the wall.

Margaritas-to-go are another hopeful addition. Clements said they still have to work with Indiana excise police and figure out some of the logistics before the mobile margarita is set in stone.

For now, the plan is to sell them in a sealed Ball jar that customers can take home.

“By the time school starts, we want everything to be tweaked out,” Clements said.

“We’re talking black lights everywhere — it’s going to be a cool, sexy margarita bar.”

Ellison and Clements are moving Cleo’s downtown, where they hope to appeal to the older crowd away from campus. It’s all about rebranding, Clements said.

“We aren’t going anywhere,” he said. “These big rumors that we’re going out of business, no — we’re changing and evolving. We’re freshening up the concept.”

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Handle insurance, banking and investments. Include funding ideas for your latest plans.

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