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DN WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2016

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AMANDA BELCHER FEATURES EDITOR

Ball State graduate student celebrates joy of racing at Anderson short track

INDY 500 - IF YOU GO

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When: Sunday

he Indianapolis 500 is the big story this month, but there’s plenty of other racing action away from the historic speedway — including a 500-themed race that features a Ball State graduate student driving one of the cars. Jason Neal, working on his master’s degree in educational administration and supervision, competes Saturday — the night before Indy — at Anderson Speedway’s “Little 500” race. He said the thrill of racing reminded him of his time playing football for Hanover College.

Where: 4790 W. 16th St., Indianapolis, IN 46222 General Admission: $40 Gates open at 6 a.m. Race starts at 12:19 p.m.

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Ball State alumna becomes 1st female announcer for Indy 500

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atie Hargitt grew up racing cars. According to her website, Hargitt raced for 11 years before turning her focus onto reporting. She graduated Ball State with a degree in journalism and telecommunications in 2013. Since then, she has made a career reporting about racing. Hargitt travels with the Verizon Indycar Series, where she is a pit reporter for Indycar and IndyLights for NBC Sports Network.

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Storm chase Petty Road of street class robbed Residents west of campus concerns in Amarillo, voices | Texas, hotel ALLIE KIRKMAN DAILY NEWS REPORTER aekirkman@bsu.edu

Students track down thieves with help from apps, police ALLIE KIRMAN DAILY NEWS REPORTER | aekirkman@bsu.edu They thought it was just going to be a normal day of storm chasing in Texas, but the Ball State storm chase immersive learning class spent the day chasing something else — thieves. Saturday started like every other chase day. The team met in one of their hotel rooms in Amarillo, Texas, around 9 a.m. for a weather briefing. The room next door had some members’ equipment in it, and Hannah Carpenter, a junior meteorology and climatology major who is a part of the field study, recalls going in and out of the room a few times with everything being fine. The meeting broke around 9:45 a.m., and when members went back to their rooms to pack everything up for the day, Ethan Rosuck, a junior meteorology and climatology major, noticed his iPad was gone.

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After the stretch of Petty Road that reaches west of

could widen

the campus attracted the attention of city officials and local residences with worries about traffic — both vehicle and pedestrian — Ball State renters near the area voiced their concerns too. A major complaint from local residents has been narrow roads and pedestrians not having room to safely cross them. Homeowners voiced these

concerns to both Mayor Dennis Tyler and city street superintendent Duke Campbell. Campbell has said in the past there is a possibility of widening the road between the edge of campus and Briar Road. Bri Kirkham, a recent Ball State graduate, lived on Petty Road her last year of school and said she saw some of her own problems in that area as

a resident. “It is super narrow but ... it is super close to campus so, for me, most of the time that I have been on that road I am walking,” Kirkham said. “I think it is really annoying for drivers because you have pedestrians walking on both sides of the road in both directions.”

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COMMUNITY SPEAKS OUT AT 7TH FORUM Attendees address concerns about Koch Foundation

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While the presidential search committee hosted its final forum meeting to gather input from the Ball State and Muncie communities about hopes for the next university president, some attendees spoke out about other concerns. The majority of around 10 student attendees, as well as some faculty and community members, addressed concerns with the $3.25 million

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The Board of Trustees hosted a seventh open forum on Monday at the Ball State University Alumni Center. The purpose of the presidential search forum was for Ball State students, faculty, staff and members of the Muncie community to voice what they would like to see in the next university president.

donation from both alumnus John Schnatter and the Charles Koch Foundation. Ralph Wilson, a speaker from UnKoch My Campus, addressed the search committee and the crowd with his research, stating that he be-

lieved Ball State’s contact with the foundation could result in a loss of academic freedom. “As a result of this recent agreement with the Charles Koch Foundation, that establishes a campus-wide program for entrepreneurship and free

enterprise — essentially, Ball State’s entrepreneurial objectives are now contractually aligned with the objectives of the Charles Koch Foundation,” Wilson said. “These agreements have been found to violate academic freedom and violate faculty governance.” Matt Momper, chair of the search committee, quickly said these claims were not true. “There’s absolutely no financial interest or relationship between the John Schatter family donation or the Charles Koch Foundation in any member of this Board of Trustees,” Momper said. “More specifically, there’s absolutely no conflict of interest between donors and any members of the Board of Trustees.”

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