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Admissions sees record applications for 2015-16 University ups standards to attract high-quality students

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Tighter admission standards and a push for higher-quality incoming classes led to a 3.2 percent drop in Ball State’s freshman enrollment this year.

The drop came despite a record number of applicants in 2015, said President Paul W. Ferguson.

“I think Ball State is really being perceived as an institution on the move and is offering some really opportunistic career-changing opportunities,” Ferguson said.

Although the university always tries to bring the “best and brightest” students, there has been a big push the last few years, said Chris Munchel, director of undergraduate admissions. Ferguson said admissions was able to draw out the best students to admit from that group. The average SAT score, 1,638, is up 62 points since 2012, nine points from 2014 and 53 points since 2012.

While freshman admission decreased, the university saw increases in all other areas.

The total number of students at the university increased by 2.6 percent and the number of new students is up 6.3 percent.

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uncie was ranked the most affordable college town by realtor.com last month, which is more worrisome than complimentary, said a university researcher.

The ranking is based on median home prices.

Muncie’s median price is $77,900, according to realtor.com, about $3,000 cheaper than the next town on the list, Charleston, Ill. Although this may not seem like a bad thing for frugal college students, Michael Hicks, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research, said because home values are closely linked to the quality of the community, the lower the prices in a city are, the lower the quality of the city will be.

“I don’t think [being the most affordable] is a good thing at all,” Hicks said.

“It’s often misinterpreted as a good thing. The fact is, there’s a reason for affordability, and the reason is the quality of the place remains problematic for big portions of the city, and it remains

questionable for the quality of schools.”

Muncie’s affordable housing, Hicks said, could be part of the reason why Muncie’s population hasn’t changed much overall since the 1960s. It’s hovered steady around 70,000, according to the U.S. Census.

“It’s not good for existing homeowners, because many use households for growth in the value of the home as a store in savings … so it’ll be worth a lot more when you retire and sell it,” Hicks said. “This suggests houses won’t run up in value, so it makes it a less attractive place to relocate.”

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FRESHMAN TO APPEAR ON ELLEN AFTER SINKING SHOT

Former Cardinals sign to NFL practice squads Star Keith Wenning signs with Bengals, after time as Raven | STAFF REPORTS Former Ball State football stars Keith Wenning and Eric Patterson have signed to their teams’ practice squads following final roster cuts.

Wenning joined the Bengals’ 10-man squad, while Patterson joined the Colts’ practice group.

Ball State’s all-time leading passer joined the Bengals just before training camp. Wenning finished the preseason 6-13 through the air for 44 yards, no touchdowns and an interception. He joined Cincinnati from Baltimore, where he was taken in the sixth round of the 2014 NFL draft.

Patterson was with the Colts

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through training camp after a short time with the Patriots.

Despite not making the 53man roster, he thought he did a good job in camp. “[Training camp] was great,” Patterson said. “I made the most of my opportunities just being there for a couple weeks.”

He did enough to land a spot on the practice squad as the lone cornerback. During the preseason, Patterson recorded six tackles. He spent camp with fellow Ball State alumni Jonathan Newsome and Kitt O’Brien.

Newsome made the Colts’ roster as expected. Wide receiver Willie Snead made the Saints’ final cut, the only other Cardinal to land on an opening-day roster.

The former Ball State receiver led the Saints in preseason receptions with 11 for a total of 148 yards, one of which being a touchdown.

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Former Ball State football player Eric Patterson has signed to the Colts’ practice squad. Patterson was with the Colts during training camp, and despite not making the roster, he thought he did a good job while at camp.

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The freshman who scored a half-court shot and free tuition is getting another chance to shock an audience — this time in front of Ellen DeGeneres.

Lemuel Turner, who sunk the shot Aug. 20 in Worthen Arena, will appear on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” during its season premier week, which began Tuesday.

The show released a preview of the episode to YouTube that shows Turner taking a shot, al- LEMUEL TURNER though it looks well short Freshman of half-court. The basket- business major ball bounces around the rim for a few seconds before finally dropping through the net.

Moments later, Turner looks across the stage, his eyes light up, jaw drops nearly to the floor and he asks, “Is that mine?”

Viewers will have to wait until the episode airs to see if DeGeneres’s prize beats free tuition.

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FRIDAY Sitting at 4-3, the women’s volleyball team competes in the Washington State University Challenge.

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The Ball State women’s volleyball team did not get the results it wanted during the Lipscomb Invitational, losing two of the three matches it played over Labor Day weekend.

Despite the losses, the team’s play is exactly what head coach Steve Shondell has been looking for.

“We played some very tough competitors this weekend, and, being a little banged up like

we have been this year, I knew that winning was going to be tough,” Shondell said. “But I saw a lot of different lineups with some new players, and they really put up a fight in every single game.”

The first match saw three freshmen get time on the court, but a total of six who played in each of the remaining two matches.

Over the course of the weekend, the freshman class recorded 40 total kills. There were five freshmen on the court at one time at certain points during the weekend.

“If I was willing to put all five of them together on the court, that shows that I trust them

to perform,” Shondell said. “They may have lost, but they gained more in experience and were much more confident on the court.”

Shondell is looking to balance his rotation to get older players some rest. Senior Alex Fuelling sat out the team’s last match against Pepperdine, a 3-0 loss. She was still named to the all-tournament team.

“We had to rest her with how much she played in the last two games, and she has been a big offensive producer for our team and one of the leaders on the court,” Shondell said. “When you take someone like her out of the equation, the team could struggle, and

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[it] did struggle some without her.”

Shondell has been adamant about Ball State’s focus being on the postseason, so wins and losses aren’t too concerning this early.

The ultimate goal is to get younger players more experience so they will be ready to help the veterans when the Mid-American Conference Tournament arrives.

“The team is fighting out there and they can win, but we want to be ready and be healthy later in the season,” Shondell said.

With another tournament on the horizon and three new teams to battle, Ball State is optimistic about its chances

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The women’s volleyball team played in the Lipscomb Invitational over Labor Day weekend. Despite the team’s losses, they played exactly how head coach Steve Shondell has been wanting.

this weekend. It feels confident in its ability to bounce back, as it will take on Utah Valley (2-5), Washington State (5-1) and Morehead State (2-5).

“It’s going to be another group of tough

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teams ... playing, but the team’s head seems to be in the right place,” Shondell said.

“I feel we can walk out of this tournament victorious, but we are going to take it one point at a time.”

Scheumann Shuttle LOSS OVER WEEKEND TEAM TO 0-4 to continue running BRINGS Coach stresses SGA to add signage after low turnout

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The Student Government Association is continuing its Scheumann Shuttle program, even though only 98 people took advantage of it for Ball State football’s opening game.

The shuttle was implemented in order to give students who live off campus a mode of transportation to the stadium.

The first time it ran was Friday. The shuttle stopped in neighborhoods around campus, but because the stops were not clearly marked, many students did not realize they could be picked up.

“I had a lot of people come up to me and say, ‘Oh hey, this is cool. We’re totally going to use it,’” SGA Secretary Austin Acel said. “But this is the first time, and you definitely never know what’s going to happen.”

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Shuttle’s debut round started at 5 p.m. and took close to 35 minutes to complete.

Most students got on at on-campus stops that are included on Green and Red Loops as well. No one got on at the neighborhood stops.

The Fairgrounds stop was popular for freshmen accessing their cars.

Freshman Jared Post said the shuttle was convenient because he didn’t have to walk all the way from the Fairgrounds back to campus, but he wished the wait time in between the shuttles were shorter.

“I pulled in and that one just left right in front of [the stop], so I had to wait another 20-25 minutes for the second one,” Post said. “But, logistically, it doesn’t make sense to run any more than what they have right now.”

For weekend games, the shuttle will not stop at the Fairgrounds and will function similar to how the Blue Loop runs in the winter.

It will make stops at Neely Avenue, Linden Street, Wayne

Street and Riverside Avenue, like it did Friday.

Acel said SGA plans to add signs to the neighborhood stops in order to clearly mark the new stops for students. He said the first game was a good test of what could be improved with the Scheumann Shuttle.

In order to make the Scheumann Shuttle possible, SGA budgeted $1,000 and worked with Shawn Sullivan, the assistant athletic director of marketing and fan engagement, and Sue Weller, director of facilities, business, services and transportation.

Sullivan said Ball State athletics wanted to help eliminate excuses for lack of student attendance.

He said he hopes the Scheumann Shuttle provides an easier way for students to get to the game and encourages more students to come.

“I think it’s tenfold,” Sullivan said.

“There’s more student attendance, a louder atmosphere and a terrific homefield advantage for the football team.”

teamwork after string of losses

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Ball State field hockey coach Sally Northcroft has preached the idea of teamwork since she took over.

After another winless weekend, the Cardinals are 0-4 on the season. Ball State lost to Villanova on Friday and dropped a onegoal contest to LaSalle on Sunday For Northcroft, teamwork is more important now than ever.

“The game against Villanova was very much an individual game,” Northcroft said. “There were

some individual displays of really good hockey, but unfortunately none of us really overcame anything because the team was focused on their own individual skills.”

The loss to Villanova prompted Northcroft to “debrief” with her team to see where the players were in terms of teamwork and how they can better their chances of winning.

The dynamic got better during the loss to LaSalle, but it’s “still a work in progress.”

Northcroft said she looks to seniors Cameron Daniels and Bethany Han to motivate and inspire the team.

As captains, the firstyear coach relies on them to maintain organization on and off the field.

Han had an assist on

Ball State’s only goal of the weekend against Villanova, displaying her selflessness.

Northcroft took a new approach in naming captains this season.

“I really feel like [Daniels and Han] can really lead this team,” she said. “Certainly not just by their play, but by their leadership.”

Ball State’s seniors look to take on more leadership as the Cardinals move through non-conference matches.

The schedule does not get any easier for Ball State, as it takes on two Big Ten opponents in its next three matches.

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Caroline Hand, the new associate director of bands, has taken over the marching and symphony bands. The band had been without an associate director since the Spring Semester of 2014 when Shawn Vondran left.

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tudents clutching a variety of instruments including piccolos, drums and trombones can be seen practicing on LaFollette Field every Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoon.

Caroline Hand, the new associate director of bands, towers above the rehearsing musicians, conducting them from a ladder.

“Welcome to band class,” she says.

As the associate director of bands, Hand manages Ball State’s marching band, the Pride of Mid-America.

She also directs symphony band and teaches music education courses.

The band has been without an associate director since the Spring Semester of 2014 when Shawn Vondran left. Thomas Keck served as interim director last year.

Hand joined Ball State this summer after completing her doctorate at the University of Minnesota, where she was the music director of the Maroon Campus Band.

Hand’s goals for her first year aren’t too specific yet.

“We are going to sound good, we are going to look good and we are going to be entertaining to the athletic crowd and whoever needs to be entertained,” she said.

She would like to discover how students feel and in what direction they want the organization to go and then make decisions based on that, she said.

Ball State’s marching band contains over 200 members, according to its website, and Hand has been doing prep work with the musicians since July.

“I feel honored that they’ve let me be part of the organization,” she said.

Grace Havlin, a senior elementary education major, has been involved with the marching band since she was a freshman.

When she heard there would be a new director this year, she was a little nervous because band is important to her.

“It’s kind of where I’ve found my community,” she said.

Other members, like Terry Miller, share a similar connection with marching band. This will be Miller’s fifth year in the band. He was involved all four years of undergrad and decided to come back this year as a graduate student.

“I think the bond and the relationship you make is why people keep coming back to marching band,” he said.

Despite initial reservations, Havlin thinks Hand is doing a phenomenal job.

“She is very positive, very upbeat, knows what she is doing and communicates very well,” she said.

On Thursday, the band played its first home football game under Hand’s direction.

She mostly stood back as she saw her band’s hard work come to fruition. During the pre-game show, however, Hand proudly guided the band through the alma mater song.

New Ball State app promotes student organizations Benny Link keeps students aware of campus events

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An online tool that the Office of Student Life recently adopted is changing the way student organizations operate.

Benny Link, which Ball State implemented in April, contains every registered student organization. Students can use the program to view brief descriptions of organizations and access the dates and times of their events.

Benny Link is Ball State’s version of a product designed

by Campus Labs called CollegiateLink. Students can access Benny Link via an app called Corq or by visiting bsu. collegiatelink.net.

Benny Link contributed to the success of the Black Student Association’s first event of the semester, said Robert Miles, a senior natural resources and environmental management major and vice president of the organization.

Students told Miles that they discovered the event, a bowling night at Cardinal Lanes, by checking Instagram and downloading Benny Link through the Corq app.

It also helped BSA track how many people attended the event.

“I love Benny Link,” Miles said. “We finalized the updates such as the bowling event time and date, and by the end of the event period, we admitted 261 people into Cardinal Lanes.”

Before Benny Link, Miles said he and his organization usually promoted upcoming events through Instagram or by word of mouth.

Rebecca Simpson, a junior psychology major and president of the Ball State Quidditch League, is still figuring out how to integrate Benny Link into her organization’s recruiting strategy, but said she’s looking forward to promoting her club further by using the app.

Quidditch is “a real-life adaption” of the magical sport from the Harry Potter novels and movies.

“People are unaware of the sport, but we have our Facebook page and posted different stuff on there,” Simpson said. “But if you didn’t follow us, [there] probably wasn’t a very good chance to know about Quidditch.”

Lauren Berger, assistant director of the Office of Student Life, said she’s happy with the reactions she’s seen towards Benny Link so far.

Benny Link can also be used to create a student organization. Previously,

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Interior design program looks to move into CAP Program director hoping to move buildings by 2016

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The interior design program is aiming to move from its current home in the Family and Consumer Science department into the College of Architecture and Planning.

Reza Ahmadi, the program director of interior design, said the two programs are connected very closely, so it would make

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Ferguson attributed part of the total enrollment increase to the quality of the university’s academic programs. He said as long as the university continues to build onto its academics, the number of students who apply will grow. “[Enrollment is] an important part of our growth and development as an institution,” he said. “It helps our revenue and diversity.”

Along with total admission, graduate, undergraduate transfers and online enrollment have all increased this year.

“I think with that growth in online and graduate transfers, you’re building a diverse, broad-based university,” Ferguson said.

Ball State’s online program has been highly ranked by the U.S. News & World Report, the Online Learning Consortium and the Higher Learning Commission, which draws more students to the program, Ferguson said.

“We’re in a very good place now … with getting more of this wonderful, talented stu-

sense to bring the two together.

“If there’s any major connected to interior design, it would be architecture,” Ahmadi said. “Architects design the building, and interior designers design inside of the building.

These two professions work together and often collaborate.”

Both architects and interior designers ordinarily design buildings simultaneously, and Ahmadi said when the two are done separately, the outcome isn’t as satisfactory. Currently, architecture and interior design students do not collaborate, but do share re-

dent base,” he said. “We have to figure out how to get more of this kind of student base.”

Ferguson takes pride in the Hoosier-bred niche Ball State has created with its students. This year, 84 percent of students were from Indiana, Munchel said, up 6 percent from last year. That rate is higher than at both Indiana University and Purdue University.

“I think Ball State has created a wonderful niche, and we provide hands-on experiences with the resources of a larger institution, but still have that small school atmosphere in terms of personalization students can get on campus,” Munchel said.

To focus solely on enrollment, retention and graduation techniques, the university has split up the division of enrollment services from the division of strategic communications, said Julie Hopwood, interim vice president for strategic communications and senior adviser to the president.

“The idea is that, as we go through the reorganizations, we can really closely examine how we improve the institution as a whole,” Hop-

sources and software.

When the interior design major was first created, it focused more on home economics and included elements such as home decor and fashion. Over the years, it has grown and now involves elements such as building walls and analyzing whether or not a room has enough light, said Samantha Hooyer, a senior interior design major.

“People think interior design, you’re just picking colors, furniture and making it pretty; whereas, we actually do real science as well,” she said.

If the program moved to CAP, Hooyer said interior

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design could be looked at more seriously and they would actually be thought of as “a certified person.”

Brittany Lipscomb, a fellow senior interior design major, agreed with Hooyer. She said the Family and Consumer Science department isn’t the right place for them.

“I think if we were moved to the CAP college, it would help make everybody see us in a different light, because we always get confused with decorators and things like that,” Lipscomb said.

Senior interior design major Stacy Myers said, in the future, they will most

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likely be working with architects, so it makes sense to start now.

“We can collaborate and learn from each other,” Myers said.

CAP is working to form a design department and when it’s created, they will invite other departments to join them, Ahmadi said.

Interior design will become part of it, and so will furniture and product design.

Last semester, a committee was formed to look into the feasibility of forming the department.

The first-year curriculum would change for students if the move happens, but Ahmadi said it wouldn’t

be a difficult transition. He hopes the move will happen by the fall of 2016, but if not, it should happen in 2017.

Senior Alisa McDaniel said there are other ways to improve Ball State’s interior design program other than just switching colleges. At other universities, the program was called interior architecture instead of interior design.

“I feel like that alone would give us more credibility, because a lot of people do think of decorating when they think about design,” McDaniel said. “I feel like we would be better suited in CAP.”

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2015: 21,196 2014: 20,655 2013: 20,503 2012: 21,053 wood said.

Enrollment used to be only undergraduate, but now with the reorganization, Hopwood said they are working with reps from graduate school, online, distance education and with college deans. She said this will help to centralize enrollment and make their strategies for attracting the best students even better.

Once they have the high-quality students, the next big challenge will be keeping them at the university, which Ferguson said will ideally be done with the university’s academic programs and extra curricular activities.

“We need to make sure the broad experience is very visible and continue to enjoy the attraction of academically high-achieving students,” Ferguson said.

Bringing in new faculty to teach at Ball State can be especially difficult for that reason, Hicks said, even though the university is one of the largest employers in the area.

“It’s very difficult to recruit faculty who almost exclusively come from larger universities,” Hicks said. “We’re trying to move DN PHOTO TAYLOR IRBY them to a small town that Realtor.com ranked Muncie as the most affordable college town in the is underinvested in quality country. The ranking is based on median home prices. Muncie’s median of place. … It turns off a lot home price is $77,900. of people.”

For college students com- range, where in Mun- with the affordability ranking to the area, it isn’t as cie, they’re more priced ing; we should wonder much of a problem because around the $200-$300 what we can do to make they don’t expect or can’t range, according to apart- Muncie a place where afford higher-quality liv- mentguide.com. In West people are scrambling to,” ing areas. They stay main- Lafayette, where Purdue Hicks said. “We know we’ve ly within the campus area, is, the apartments range been successful … when we finally drop off these afaway from the communi- from $400-$500.

While Muncie has made fordability rankings.” ties and schools that are improvements over the Muncie also got the top the problem, Hicks said.

The cheaper rent pric- past few years to its spot for affordability in es than other top Indiana schools and community, 2000 from the Nationschools aren’t a turnoff for Hicks said it will take a al Association of Home while longer — maybe up Builders, in 2007 from the them — they welcome it.

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Smokers feel trapped in new space New smoking area sparks controversy among students

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The new fenced-off smoking section near Petty Road at the edge of campus has some students feeling caged and imprisoned.

“I feel like an animal in here; I can’t even see outside of it,” said McKenzie Peterson, a communications and criminology major.

Steven Eastes, a freshman architecture major, said he feels a sense of imprisonment when he uses the new smoking area. He said it feels like he’s being punished.

“It makes it seem like it is almost a crime to smoke,” Eastes said, “especially when you

make an area like this.”

Austin Danielson, a sophomore advertising major, said the smoking area even has a nickname: “The Box.” He said now that he’s gotten used to the size, it really isn’t as much of an issue as the lack of seating is.

“They could put some benches or something. It’d be nice, but I get it,” Danielson said. “It’s still moderately inconvenient. When you come back from class you just want to sit down and have a smoke.”

Joan Todd, Ball State spokesperson, said the area in the far corner of campus is equal to three parking spaces and is enough to keep people safe and neighbors happy.

She said it balances student health and keeps options available for everyone.

“It’s a sensible solution that maintains our commitment to a healthy campus while

granting an option for people who haven’t managed to kick the habit just yet,” Todd said.

In a previous story, Talia Bannon, a resident of Petty Road and a senior fashion merchandising major, said she is happy the university has designated a smoking section. Bannon said many students have used her property as a place to smoke in the three years she has lived there.

“My roommate can’t keep her windows open at all,” Bannon said. “If she cracks them open, our whole house smells like smoke.”

Peterson said she doesn’t see the point in Ball State making a smoking section.

Even though she is a smoker, she thinks the new area is unnecessary, she said.

“This is honestly useless, especially since this is a smokefree campus,” Peterson said.

But even though she isn’t

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After the 2013 campus tobacco ban, a small smoking area was added to the edge of campus this August. Many students feel caged inside of the new smoking section.

a fan of the area and it’s small, she still feels a sense of community in the section, she said.

“I make tons of friends being around here; it’s kind of cool,” she said.

Danielson said the smoking section is necessary because of the large student body at Ball State. The addition of the

area is like an agreement between the university and the students, that now that smokers have a designated section they will stay in it, he said.

“I feel like it’s necessary. You can’t have that many students of all demographics, especially students from different countries where smoking is the norm, and expect them

not to smoke,” Danielson said.

“I don’t feel like it contradicts [the smoke-free campus policy], because this is a smoking area off in the corner.”

Before the smoking section was added, Danielson would smoke as far away from campus as possible, standing on the road and on75004 top of the parking garages.

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