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ROTC reacts to lifted ban

Defense Secretary overturns rule restricting women from combat |

SAM HOYT STAFF REPORTER sthoyt@bsu.edu

Some women have fought in combat situations in Afghanistan and Iraq for several years.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta overturned the ban restricting women from combat positions, and Ball State ROTC members have mixed reactions.

The military will offer all combat positions to females for the first time since 1994, and will have to come up with a plan by May so it can be implemented by January 2016. The ban would open up hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and also elite commando jobs, according to the Associated Press.

Some female Ball State ROTC members, such as Public Affairs Officer Britny Burton, don’t agree with the removal.

“I just don’t think that it’s something that’s going to help the military moving forward,” the senior anthropology and journalism major said.

Burton talked about physical disadvantages women might have and how they might change the dynamic of a group in a combat situation.

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FUN With one of the biggest bands to ever perform at Emens Auditorium, Friday night is bound to be

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hen senior business administration major Ryan Coleman was told by a friend that indie pop band Fun. would be playing at John R. Emens Auditorium, he was in utter disbelief.

He never expected his favorite band and recent recipient of six Grammy nominations to play on campus ­— especially not for a ticket price that he could cover by scrounging up couch cushion change.

At 8 p.m. Friday, Emens will host one of the biggest concerts in the university’s history, featuring opening act Andrew McMahon of Something Corporate and Jack’s Mannequin, as well as headliner Fun. Tickets are still on sale for $5 for students and $10-15 for non-students. With chart-topping singles such as “We Are Young” and “Some Nights,” Fun. is stopping in Muncie before their performance at the Grammy’s on Feb. 10.

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FUN. VS. THE FORMAT Read why a columnist thinks Nate Ruess should have stuck with his former band, The Format. + PAGE 4

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Opening Act: Andrew McMahon Headliner: Fun.

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Jauwan Scaife attempts a shot during the game Wednesday in Worthen Arena. Prior to the game, Scaife was honored for joining the 1000 point club.

Ball State falls to MAC foe Buffalo Late missed free throws sinks Cardinals in conference game CONOR HOCKETT CHIEF REPORTER | @ConorHockett As coach Billy Taylor spoke about his steadfast confidence in Jauwan Scaife to make clutch plays in the postgame press conference, Ball State’s senior guard never looked up.

He sat his with his head nearly touching the stat sheet, shaking it slightly as if reliving his chance at the line.

“Jauwan typically steps up and hits those free throws for us,” Taylor said. “And he is down and disappointed in himself.”

With 44.9 seconds left in the game, Scaife missed both of his double-bonus free throws with Buffalo up one point, 61-60.

A 3-pointer by the Bulls’ Will Regan on the next possession squashed any realistic hope for the Cardinals, as Wednesday’s 66-63 loss pushed their Mid-American Conference losing streak to four games.

After Scaife’s miss, Buffalo ran the shot clock down before Regan spotted up at the top of the key for one of his four 3-pointers.

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Fun. will be performing at Emens Friday night prior to their visit to the Grammy’s. Tickets opened up yesterday for general admission and are still on sale at the Emens box offices.

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HOUSE AVERTS DEBT CRISIS

Legislation permits Treasury to borrow up to $16.4 trillion | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Retreating with a purpose, Republicans sped legislation through the House on Wednesday to avert the imminent threat of a government default but pointing the way to a springtime budget struggle with President Barack Obama over Medicare, farm subsidies and other benefit programs.

The current legislation, which cleared the House on a bipartisan vote of 288-144, would permit Treasury borrowing to exceed the limit of $16.4 trillion through May 18. As it passed, Speaker John Boehner pledged that Republicans would quickly draft a budget that would wipe out deficits in a decade, and he challenged Democrats to do the same.

The Democratic-controlled Senate is expected to approve the debt bill as early as Friday or perhaps next week. The White House welcomed the legislation rather than face the threat of a firstever default at the dawn of the president’s second term in the White House, and spokesman Jay Carney pointedly noted a “fundamental change” in strategy by the GOP. House Republicans cast the bill as a way to force the Senate to draft a budget for the first time in four years, noting that if either house fails to do so, its members’ pay would be withheld. They called the bill “no budget, no pay,’” a slogan if not a statement of fact, since lawmakers would be entitled to collect their entire salaries at the end of the Congress with or without a budget in place.

With polls showing their public support eroding, the Republicans jettisoned, for now at least, an earlier insistence that they would allow no additional borrowing unless Obama and the Democrats agreed to dollar-fordollar federal spending cuts in exchange.

The average American family “can’t buy everything they want every day; they have to make tough choices. It’s time to make Congress make the same choices,” said Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., underscoring the new Republican rallying cry.

Rep. Paul Ryan, the Wisconsin lawmaker who will be responsible for drafting the budget for Republicans, said Congress has “a moral obligation” to prevent a debt crisis that he said will hit hardest at seniors and others who depend on government the most.

As chairman of the House Budget Committee, Ryan will take the lead role in crafting a blueprint expected to rely heavily on savings from benefit programs. The budget he wrote last year before being picked as the party’s vice presidential candidate was to take two decades to achieve balance.

Ryan’s 10-year-budget task will be eased in part by higher tax revenues resulting from the Jan. 1 expiration of a two-year payroll tax cut, and in part from an anticipated $600 billion generated by raising rates on upper incomes. But given the sheer size of annual deficits in the $1 trillion range, it will be impossible to meet his goal without taking large savings from benefit programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, farm and student loan subsidies, the federal retirement program and more.

House Democrats made no attempt to defend the Senate’s failure to draft a budget over the past three years, instead saying a mere fourmonth extension in the debt limit would not give business and the financial markets the certainty that is necessary for the economy to grow more quickly.

Students feel oppression at event Participants learn of problems of race, religion, disabilities KATE FITTES CHIEF REPORTER | EMMA emfittes@bsu.edu A simulation of oppression brought a more personal experience to students in hopes of helping them become more accepting of differences.

The L.A. Pittenger Student Center Ballroom contained five stations, each focused on a different topic Wednesday night.

The topics of Unity Week’s event Great Expectations included gender, sexual oppression, religion, mental and physical disabilities and race. “[Students], maybe in different ways, don’t understand what it is to be oppressed,” said Kate Link, the graduate student overseeing the event. “For example, if you are straight, you probably cannot empathize with someone who is [LGBTQ] because you have never experienced that type of oppression.”

Students in groups of about eight participated in an activity for each topic, followed by discussion.

“We want people to be involved, and we don’t want people to be bored because people have been lectured at all day in classes,” said Alec Portinga, a sophomore Japanese and telecommunications major. “At first, they are going to be frustrated about what’s going on but I feel like after the debrief at the end people will be more aware.”

For the gender station, participants were put into groups based on color: one group

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Anthropology major Jessica Walker and apparel design major Bennett Williamson play Simon Says blindfolded. Walker said she was not aware of the privileges she had compared to a person with a disability.

« Everywhere you are going to walk into someone that is different than you, students need to learn to function in a society where everyone is different. » KATE LINK, graduate student

could talk, one group could write and one couldn’t communicate at all. They were then told to build a marshmallow and toothpick tower. The differences in communication represented the differences in interaction and power with males, females and transgendered people.

The sexual oppression activity gave each group member a colored paper flower, and there were different coming out stories for each color that

the members talked through.

For each negative experience, the student with that color folded back a petal.

A small obstacle course was set up for the religion obstacle.

Participants had to answer questions, and weight was added to their backpack for each incorrect answer.

For the awareness of mental and physical disability group, each member was either given a blindfold to represent being blind, earplugs to represent

being deaf, a chair to represent using a wheelchair or had someone talking in their ear to represent having attention deficit disorder. They were then asked to play simon says.

At the race-focused table, the leader started by treating white Americans specially, with them representing the majority. The majority was then decided differently, like based on eye color, and they were treated better. This showed the students how it

felt to be treated differently.

Senior social work major Lea Fortier was in charge of the gender activity, and she said she thought it went well.

“I wanted to keep it simple for people who might be new to multicultural diversity topics.”

Fortier said. “I learn through activities, so I like experiential activities. Some go deeper, some don’t go as deep, it just depends on how much your population already knows.”

Chris Taylor, a sophomore public relations and Black Student Association treasurer, said he enjoyed listening to what others contributed to the discussion after the activity.

“It’s really informative, and it’s an opportunity to understand different perspectives through activities that are a little bit less serious, but you can still get a lot from them.”

Taylor said. “This is obviously more intimate, [because] there are a lot less people here.”

Link said students who are looking to learn more about variances between people can attend meetings of different diversity groups on campus, like those she called the “Big Four”: Asian American Association, Black Student Association, Latino Student Union and Spectrum.

“Everywhere you are going to walk into someone that is different than you, students need to learn to function in a society where everyone is different,” Link said. “Not only do we want to unify but help students learn to look for differences and find beauty in those differences.

Chris Stephens contributed to this story.

MILITARY: Removal raises issues of physical strength, sexual assault

| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “I mean, you don’t want to be down there, fighting for your life and not be able to depend on someone beside you because you know that they can’t carry you,” Burton said. “If something happens and you go down, you want to know that they can carry you by themselves.”

Autumn Tolliver, a graduate student in biology and former battalion leader of Ball State’s ROTC, thinks lifting the ban is an improvement.

“I think it’s a good thing for the females who feel like they are as compatible as the males,” she said. “For the ones who think they are equal, it gives them obviously

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Tolliver said she might go to Ranger School and train to be on the Female Engagement Team, or FET, which works with females in combat zones.

While FET wasn’t restricted by the ban, Tolliver said she might be interested in combat positions.

“Chances are that I would probably try something that I haven’t been able to do just to be able to have that opportunity through Ranger School,” Tolliver said.

Wesley Jones, a junior sociology major who has been in ROTC for three years, served as an airman in Iraq for six years. He worked with female military police officers

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and felt their performance was satisfactory.

“I try to look at people as individuals, so in this case, I’m fine with [lifting the ban] if the standard for being in those roles isn’t diminished or altered to make it easier for certain people,” Jones said. “The Army is an elite fighting force, and we should try to keep our standards.”

Paul Sciutto, a junior chemistry major in his third year with ROTC, agreed that the standards shouldn’t change, but felt women are capable and ready for the job.

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a combat job,” Sciutto said. “As for the men, I feel some are going to be for it, but I think most are going to be against women going into combat.”

Jones agreed that women might be subject to some discrimination at first, but the end result will work out.

“It’s going to be a rough transition, that’s for sure. But like everything else, you get used to it,” he said.

Discrimination isn’t the only problem that females might face.

“I think another bad part with it is sexual assaults in the mili-

tary are pretty rampant,” Jones said. “I don’t know with combat outposts being out in the middle of nowhere if that could be worsened.”

Sciutto agreed that there is a problem, but said the military takes matters, such as sexual assault, seriously and investigates those cases accordingly All problems aside, Jones thinks the ban will promote equality in the military.

“As long as they meet the standards to accomplish the mission,” he said, “who am I to say that they shouldn’t be able to join?”

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Today marks National Beer Can Appreciation Day, which recognizes more than the bloated stomachs of college students everywhere. It identifies and appreciates the canning of beer bottles. Starting in 1935, the United States began selling beer in cans. This revolutionary movement has changed the way college students clinked their way into the dorms.

Beer cans can serve a bigger purpose than just a buzz; they can be reused, reduced and recycled. Craft sites such as Pinterest, CraftGawker, GadgetHer and Etsy offer ideas and tips on how to reuse beer cans. Whether it be light, uncomfortable aluminum furniture or jewelry, just about anything can be formed from beer cans. While some college students are commemorating this day by burping and littering their front lawns, others can be surfing these craft sites for clever ideas on how to make this Thirsty Thursday and Beer Can Appreciation day one to remember.

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NOT AS MUCH FUN. AS THE FORMAT It took one song to make Fun. an overnight phenomenon. Now, they are on their way to Ball State and enthusiasm seems to be growing nearly everywhere I go. Student conversations and social networks are buzzing with anticipation. A concert featuring a mainstream artist on our campus. Is that possible?

Some of these fans have followed the troop of pop rockers for an extended period of time. Others couldn’t get “ton-i-i-i-i-ight” out of their heads when it became popular and topped digital charts in 2012.

But let’s not forget the front man and the history of this instant hit.

Nate Ruess has two albums from his days with The Format. Albums that made me fall in love with a new form of music. Music that wasn’t on the radio. Music that wasn’t about sex and alcohol. Music that made me somewhat of a — dare I say it? Hipster. Music that I can’t stand to see go forgotten.

The band oozed of indie, alternative, punk and folk elements that can’t seem to be matched by the new synthetic tones found in Fun.’s latest album “Some Nights.”

When The Format split ways in 2008 I couldn’t help but wonder why. I continued to have hope. Ruess’ new band would still embody the same instrumental and lyrical talent. Right? This was the man that graced my iTunes favorites list for years.

Granted, “Aim and Ignite” wasn’t bad. Actually, compared to a lot of rock music at the time, it was rather good. But it wasn’t great.

It wasn’t the same.

A few decent tracks made me think Ruess was going to be OK. He was going to remain true to the style that so strongly caught my attention. It was just going to take time.

With repetitive listening, Fun. started to grow on me, but The Format was missed.

I was psyched to hear that “Some Nights” was going to be released. This was going to be the album that returned to The Format’s original feel.

Only it didn’t.

It felt more like pop music than ever before. From radio hits to commercials and movie trailers, Fun. was everywhere. It was exactly the kind of music that gets stuck in your head. My head. But it wasn’t the music I wanted there.

There is no doubt I can appreciate Fun. for what it is. A great talent gone pop. Compared to most radio hits, the few tracks from “Some Nights” are at the top of the list.

I guess. Anthems about being young and persevering can be great. I just hope Ruess’ instant fame doesn’t prevent him from showcasing what he can really do: sing.

I declare a challenge to the rest of you Format fans out there. Let us “Wait Wait Wait” ticket in hand to give this band the credit it deserves. I believe Ruess gave “The Compromise” of a lifetime leaving his former band behind.

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FUN: Village venue to host post-concert after party | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 As a Fun. fan for more than a year and a half and a member of their street team, Coleman bought his ticket the day they went on sale. Friday’s concert will be the first concert Coleman has ever attended, one he said he’s sure won’t disappoint. Coleman said he hopes to meet the band members after the show, even if it means crossing legal limits.

“I’ll get arrested, I don’t care,” said Coleman. “I’m kidding — but seriously. Just to shake their hands or something would be wild.”

As a fan of lead singer Nate Ruess’ former band The Format, Coleman said the frontman’s thoughtful lyrics are what has always had him hooked.

“You can tell that the lead singer, Nate, likes what he does and puts forth the effort to speak out to everyone,” Coleman said. “[He doesn’t] just write songs that don’t make any sense and hope to make them famous.”

Associate Director for Student Center Programs Maureen Warter helped arrange Fun.’s appearance by consulting student leaders on campus and music or entertainment magazines.

“We wanted what would be best for students,” Warter said. “[We were looking] for an upcoming group that would work for our students.”

As a part of deciding what would fit students best, Warter sought out a group that would be flexible with low student prices to attract a crowd.

“We had sent out a couple of bids, and we were lucky

to win the bid for Fun. [to come],” Warter said. “We hit our timing with Fun. performing at the Grammys in a couple weeks and [being] up for six nominations,” she said.

Warter said she hopes to sell out of the limited number of tickets left for sale.

After the concert, the hype will continue in the Village at Be Here Now’s Fun. after party. Cool Dad and 1,2,3 from Muncie and Pittsburgh respectively will perform around 11 p.m. or midnight, Be Here Now owner Whitney Lewis said. Lewis said he’s thankful for having the concert precede the after party. “[I’m] looking forward to some help getting people out to see Cool Dad and 1,2,3 this Friday,” he said. “[We] thought it’d be a good way to get one of our favorite bands some new fans.”

The after party costs $4 for those over 21 and $6 for those under 21. If students bring their tickets from the concert or one of the flyers Be Here Now has made, they will get half off entry.

Lewis said the timing of the event will boost the recognition of 1,2,3 and Cool Dad. “We felt like the Fun. crowd would really enjoy their music and so [we] invited them back to piggyback off the Emens show and hopefully get a big crowd out,” Lewis said. “ [1,2,3] have been working on a new album for the last year and plan on playing several tracks that have not been performed in public yet. Muncie makes for a good test market.”

Michelle Johnson contributed to this article.

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SOHO founder to speak of journey Organization helps heal, feed, nurture child-headed homes KATE FITTES CHIEF REPORTER | EMMA emfittes@bsu.edu

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Cynthina Prime, Founder of Saving Orphans through Healthcare and Outreach (SOHO) speaks last year. Prime is returning to Ball State today at 6:45 p.m. to discuss the non-profit organization as a part of Unity Week.

Concert to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Student, university, community groups to perform at event RACHEL PODNAR CHIEF REPORTER | rmpodnar@bsu.edu

The legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights movement will continue to be commemorated as a part of Unity Week with a musical recital featuring student, university and community groups.

Twelve groups and performers will showcase their talents around the theme of King’s message and African-American contributions to music tonight at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Recital in Sursa Hall. .

George Wolfe, a professor of

music and outreach coordinator for Center of Peace and Conflict Studies, said the idea of the event is to bring campus and the community together around a common theme. “[The concert fits in with] the whole emphasis of Unity Week,” Wolfe said. “It speaks to that theme of bringing people together.”

Many of the performers featured this year are AfricanAmerican spirituals, Wolfe said.

Some of the groups performing include Hazelwood Christian Church Adult Choir, Ball State Chamber Choir and student group Voices of Triumph.

A request for submissions to perform at the event was sent out and the groups to perform were selected.

Although it is centered on King and his message, the event was not planned for

Monday so it wouldn’t conflict with service activities or other Martin Luther King Jr. Daytributes and to continue the message throughout the week.

Wolfe, who will speak about non-violent resistance before the event, said music is a fitting way to honor the legacy of King because of the role it has played in social advocacy efforts such as boycotts and sit-ins.

“The arts have always played a dynamic role in social activism,” Wolfe said. “There are many pieces of music that were written as protest.

Awareness can be raised within society to bring about reform. During marches, the people would sing, it helped them endure the stress of the activist effort.”

This event will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Sursa Hall and is free and open to the public.

SCIENTIFIC STUDY SUGGESTS DNA CAN HOLD DIGITAL FILES Method to be useful for large information retrieved seldomly | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — It can store the information from a million CDs in a space no bigger than your little finger, and could keep it safe for centuries.

Is this some new electronic gadget? Nope. It’s DNA. The genetic material has long held all the information needed to make plants and animals, and now some scientists are saying it could help handle the growing storage needs of today’s information society.

Researchers reported Wednesday that they had

stored all 154 Shakespeare sonnets, a photo, a scientific paper and a 26-second sound clip from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

That all fit in a barely visible bit of DNA in a test tube.

The process involved converting the ones and zeroes of digital information into the four-letter alphabet of DNA code. That code was used to create strands of synthetic DNA. Then machines “read” the DNA molecules and recovered the encoded information.

That reading process took two weeks, but technological advances are driving that time down, said Ewan Birney of the European Bioinformatics Institute in Hinxton, England. He’s an author of a report published online by the journal Nature.

DNA could be useful for keeping huge amounts of information that must be kept for a long time but not retrieved very often, the researchers said. Storing the DNA would be relatively simple, they said: Just put it in a cold, dry and dark place and leave it alone.

The technology might work in the near term for large archives that have to be kept safe for centuries, like national historical records or huge library holdings, said study co-author Nick Goldman of the institute. Maybe in a decade it could become feasible for consumers to store information they want to have around in 50 years, like wedding photos or videos for future grandchildren, Goldman said in an email.

The founder and CEO of Saving Orphans through Healthcare and Outreach will speak on campus today after flying in from Swaziland, Africa on Wednesday night.

SOHO Founder Cynthia Prime will discuss her journey, mission and accomplishments with the non-profit organization at 6:45 p.m. in the Art and Journalism Building room 175.

Sara McInerney, Cardinal Communications account manager, said Prime is a great speaker because she is inspiring and entertaining.

“She really pulls at your heartstrings, so she’s really a great person to watch,” the junior organizational communications studies major said.

A child becomes an orphan every 14 seconds as a direct result of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, and there are over 15,000,000 orphans living there, according to the SOHO website.

The result is a growing number of children around ages 8 to 10 left responsible to raise their younger siblings, McInerney said.

McInerney said SOHO’s primary focus is to educate, heal, feed and nurture child-headed households over in Africa, mainly sub-Saharan Africa in a country called Swaziland.

Rachel Phillips, communications and academic liaison for SOHO, said the Indianapolisbased non-profit organization has had a close tie with Cardinal Communications since they began working together a few years ago.

“It’s really nice being able to work with students because they bring an entirely new energy and perspective,” Phillips said. “A lot of student

contribution is related to a creative and innovative aspect.”

This year, Phillips said the group of six Cardinal Communications students, including McInerney, focused on expanding their social media and collegiate outreach. They also will provide free food from Puerto Vallarta.

She said the students she works with are passionate to serve both overseas and in their own community. To Phillips, this is an important attitude to have in order to help the orphans of Swaziland. “[The orphaned children] are kind of an unknown population, and some say, for what little research has been done, they are kind of the new face of HIV/AIDS,” Phillips said.

“And the population is growing and their needs are enormous. I believe that it’s a very significant cause because it reaches an entire population of kids.”

For more information, go to savingorphans.com.

Clinton addresses Benghazi handling GOP suggests administration mislead country

| THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered fiery rejoinders Wednesday to Republican critics of the Obama administration’s handling of the deadly attack on a U.S. mission in Benghazi, facing off with lawmakers who included potential 2016 presidential rivals.

At times emotional and frequently combative, Clinton rejected GOP suggestions in two congressional hearings that the administration tried to mislead the country about the Sept. 11 attack that killed Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, and three other Americans. She insisted the State Department is moving swiftly and aggressively to strengthen security at diplomatic posts worldwide.

In her last formal testimony before Congress as America’s top diplomat — but perhaps not her last time on the political stage — Clinton once again took responsibility for the department’s missteps and failures leading up to the assault. But she also said that requests for more security at the diplomatic mission in Benghazi didn’t reach her desk, and reminded lawmakers that they have a responsibility to fund security-related budget requests.

Three weeks after her release from a New York hospital — admitted for complications after a concussion — Clinton was at times defiant, complimentary and willing to chastise lawmakers. She tangled with some who could

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be rivals in 2016 if she decides to seek the presidency again.

Her voice cracking at one point, Clinton said the attack and the aftermath were highly personal tragedies for the families of the victims who died — Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty — as well as herself.

“I stood next to President Obama as the Marines carried those flag-draped caskets off the plane at Andrews. I put my arms around the mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, sons and daughters and the wives left alone to raise their children,” she told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at a packed hearing.

Clearly annoyed with Republican complaints about the initial explanation for the attack, she rose to the defense of U.N.

Ambassador Susan Rice, who was vilified for widely debunked claims five days after the attack that protests precipitated the raid rather than terrorism.

“People were trying in real time to get to the best information,” Clinton said. And she said her own focus was on looking ahead on how to improve security rather than revisiting the talking points and Rice’s comments.

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., pressed her on why “we were misled that there were supposedly protests and something sprang out of that, an assault sprang out of that.”

“With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans,” she said, her voice rising and quivering with anger.

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SATURDAY After beating IUPUI and Chicago State, women’s tennis plays against Milwaukee at 11 a.m. at home.

After Friday’s match against Mount Olive, Ball State men’s volleyball faces Barton in Wilson, N.C., at noon.

Ball State men’s tennis tries to get its elusive first win as it takes on Detroit Mercy at the Muncie YMCA at 6 p.m.

Woody’s big game propels Cards to win Junior point guard has career night, sits just one minute MATT McKINNEY ASST. SPORTS EDITOR | @Matt_D_McKinney

Going into Wednesday’s game against Buffalo, Brandy Woody’s career high in points was 18. Her career high in rebounds was nine. Her career high in minutes played was 38.

By the time the final buzzer sounded, she had set new marks for all of those catagories.

In Ball State’s 69-55 win, the junior point guard scored 29 points and grabbed 11 rebounds in 39 minutes of play.

She also hit a season-high four 3-pointers in the contest.

“She had that look in her eye,” Ball State coach Brady Sallee said. “She was hitting the 3-ball. We were setting a lot of high ball screens for her. She could get to the rim. But she was playing off her defense.

That defense turned to offense.

Honestly her game didn’t look a whole lot different, she just shot the ball that well tonight.”

Woody also tied her career high in steals with seven.

She went 9-of-10 from the free-throw line. As a team, Ball State shot 31-of-39 from the foul line.

Although the box score said Woody played 40 minutes, Sallee said he took her out for about a minute.

At 5-foot-4, she was tied for the shortest player on the floor with Buffalo’s Karin Moss.

One factor that could’ve impacted Woody’s performance was the lack of freshman Nathalie Fontaine in the game Wednesday.

Fontaine, who was leading Ball State in scoring and rebounding coming into the game with 12.7 and 6.1, respectively, missed the game after tweaking her back in a practice this week.

Sallee said she’s day-to-day, but he hopes she’ll play on Saturday against Ohio.

“It just locked up on her,” Sallee said. “It’s loosened up quite a bit, so hopefully it keeps loosening up and keeps reacting the right way.“ Not only did Fontaine miss the game, but her fellow forward, Katie Murphy also played limited minutes due to foul trouble. She played just 12 minutes and had four rebounds.

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Junior guard Brandy Woody drives toward the paint to attempt a layup against Kent State on Saturday. Woody was the lead scorer in the game against Buffalo.

“We needed somebody to step up,” Sallee said.

Two of the players who did step up for Ball State were senior forward Shanee’ Jackson and sophomore guard Shelbie Justice.

Jackson, who is 5-foot-8, scored 15 points and grabbed nine rebounds in 38 minutes of play, mostly playing at the center spot.

Justice played 36 minutes and scored 11 points.

Sallee said the injury and Murphy’s foul trouble made him alter his lineup throughout the game.

“We almost had to play five guards. Literally. We had to put Shanee’ down low, and we had

Shelbie, a guard, at the four spot. We just kind of winged it,” Sallee said.

Sallee said that Woody’s defense helped everybody else, as she was a part of a team that forced 30 Buffalo turnovers.

“She’s understanding how she has to play, how she can impact the game just by guarding that ball,” he said. “She was just special tonight. It was one of those nights as a coach, you just really enjoy sitting back and watching somebody play.”

Woody’s 29 points was the most scored by a Ball State player since Ty’Ronda Benning scored 33 two seasons ago on Jan. 11.

“My goodness,” Sallee said after reciting the stat line of Woody’s performance. “She was an absolute beast tonight.”

Ball State looking for revenge against rival Evansville

Weber had success when facing Aces during last two years MELEAH FISHBURN STAFF REPORTER | mcfishburn@bsu.edu As the Cardinals work their way through their schedule,

consistency remains the common goal for the team.

Ball State will host the fierce competition that comes along with the University of Evansville on Friday.

“They smoked us last year.” coach Bob Thomas said.

Evansville dominated the Cardinals last time the teams faced each other, though Ball

State was victorious in the 2011 season.

“I haven’t figured out the outcome yet on paper, but it will be close, very close,” Thomas said.

“I would give them the edge at this time.”

Evansville poses a challenge for the Cardinals and beating them is a main goal the team looks to reach this season.

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“They are going to give us all we can handle, that’s for sure,” Thomas said.

Along with being one of the most challenging meets of the season, Friday is also senior night for the Cardinals. As the team’s four seniors, Michael Weber, Nicholas Stevens, David Wood and Ethan Hall will swim their last meet in their

home pool.

Weber took home a victory in the 100-yard backstroke the last two years Ball State faced Evansville. He was also apart of the first place 200-yard medley relay team his sophomore year along with solo victory in the 200-yard individual medley.

Consistency will be key this time around for the Cardinals.

The senior swimmers will have the opportunity to be recognized individually and celebrate their accomplishments from the past four years.

The team has accomplished many tasks throughout the season with the help of the seniors on the team, Thomas said.

The meet will begin at 4 p.m. in the Lewellen Aquatic Center.

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Too often in sports journalism, I feel like the brash, hard-hitting, expletive-filled head coaches get the mass amounts of coverage and media exposure.

I’m looking at you, Rex Ryan.

Meanwhile, the soft-spoken, lead-by-example coaches are tagged as boring.

Fortunately, in Indiana, we appreciate the coaches that let the wins do the talking. Think of Tony Dungy or Brad Stevens, who are the masters of patrolling the sidelines without saying a word, yet still managing to be in complete control of their teams.

But I say there needs to be another coach added to that group of respected low-key coaches: Steve Shondell.

Even after Shondell signed a three-year extension two days ago to remain the Ball State women’s volleyball head coach, it’s easy to forget just how lucky the school is to have him.

And don’t bother bringing up the team’s 14-17 record in 2012 if you disagree. When a team is one injury away from putting mascara and eyeliner on a men’s volleyball player and trying to sneak them onto the roster, its record won’t look pretty.

Shondell’s AVCA Hall of Fame resume — 1,070 wins as head coach of Muncie Burris Laboratory School in Muncie, 18 Indiana State Volleyball Championships and four national championships — speaks for itself, but that’s not his best quality as a head coach.

It’s his personable, friendly nature, along with his masterful scheming, that defines him as a volleyball legend.

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While others coaches may blow up at a ref over a bad call, Shondell stays calm and collected (most of the time), letting his team give a response on the court.

It’s not that it’s hard to find a coach in any sport who’s nicer and more personable than Shondell. It’s that it’s hard to find a person who’s nicer and more personable than Shondell.

And that’s why Ball State needs him, at least until he’s ready to retire. After years of instability with the program, Shondell has rebuilt it in only a few seasons.

But even though he is strapped in to coach at Ball State through 2016, the rebuilding process is far from over.

Shondell’s first order of business is to get a great recruiting class next season. Injuries, redshirt years and inconsistent play have made his first two recruiting classes look underwhelming.

He can’t afford that to happen this year.

Two of Ball State’s best two players from 2012 in Kara Bates and Lisa Scott are gone, which removes much of the team’s offensive production. If the juniors and sophomores from Shondell’s first two classes don’t improve or he doesn’t get immediate production from his freshman class, next season could be rough.

The team’s injury problems don’t help. Several players are recovering from season-ending injuries, which could hurt the team’s depth even more come August.

But don’t worry yourself too much over it. For the next three years, Shondell will provide solutions to those problems.

And he’ll do it his way. The boring way.

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After posting a season-high score of 194.5 against No. 16 Central Michigan last week, Ball State will look to carry momentum into its meet Friday against Northern Illinois on Friday at Irving Gymnasium.

The task currently at hand for head coach Nadalie Walsh could be an unfamiliar one – keeping her team hungry. “We just want to keep our feet planted on the ground, and stay focused,� Walsh said.

With a win over the Huskies, the Cardinals would move to 2-0 in conference play.

Ball State has been the underdog in every meet this season. This time, the tables are turned. Northern Illinois, despite a 2-0 record, has posted team scores of just 192.175 and 192.775. Significantly lower than the average score of Ball State’s previous opponents - 194.906.

Walsh is careful not to overlook their next opponent. Instead, she maintains the same mentality the team has had all year. “I’m not going into this meet underestimating Northern Illinois at all,�

Walsh said. “I really think it could be anybody’s meet.�

In their last two meets the Cardinals have scored 193.125 and 194.5 as a team, and they don’t plan on slowing down. “I feel like we’re going to improve each week, still,� Walsh said. “We’re focusing on sticking more landings, and finishing things really sharp and crisp.�

The team suffered one fall in their most recent match. Senior Emily Wehrle slipped on her beam routine. The fall was not enough to derail the team’s winning effort, but it was enough to keep the team determined to improve as they move forward.

Moving forward seems to be theme for the team at this point. “We’re excited that we beat Central,� Walsh said. “But it was just one meet, and we have a whole bunch more.� – DAKOTA CRAWFORD

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SPORTS

BASKETBALL: Bulls’ McCrea scores 24 on Cardinals | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

Junior Graham McIlvaine, left, sets the ball up for junior Matt Leske against St. Francis on Jan. 12. Ball State will play Mount Olive on Friday.

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Cards risk undefeated record during road slate Leske leads MIVA in defensive stats after three games

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After getting off to a 3-0 start for the first time since 2006, the Cardinals will put their undefeated record on the line more than 650 miles away from home. Ball State will first travel to Mt. Olive, N.C., to take on the Mt. Olive Trojans on Friday and then to Wilson, N.C., to take on the Barton Bulldogs.

In its 2006 season, Ball State started off on an 11game winning streak. This weekend should see the Cardinals continue on their pace to match that mark. The Cardinals’ schedule also allots them an opportunity to be the last remaining undefeated team in DI-II men’s volleyball.

So far the Cardinals have achieved much of their success in large part because of defense. The Cardinals lead the MIVA in opponent hitting percentage (.102), blocks (3.68 blocks per set) and digs (12.55 digs per set).

Junior middle attacker Matt Leske, the Cardinals only all-

MIVA selection from a year ago, heads the defense. Leske was preseason all MIVA, and won the MIVA Defensive Player of the Week for his efforts against NJIT and Sacred Heart last weekend.

His two matches propelled his numbers to 1.91 blocks per set, good enough to lead the MIVA. But for how well the defense has played, the offense has struggled, especially in transition. Going from blocking, to passing, to attacking is something coach Joel Walton wanted to address this week in practice.

“We’ve looked to slow down our transition attack tempo,” Walton said. “I think we’ve made some really good strides.”

Walton said that he wants to work on the entire offensive efficiency as well, and raise the team’s hitting percentage from .194 to approximately .300 to match the top-tier teams in the country.

The team’s low hitting percentage can be partly attributed to trying to replace cornerstone outside attacker Larry Wrather, who is out for the season with a shoulder injury.

And while the Cardinals are experiencing these offensive woes, Walton said he does not have any wrinkles or tricks in the playbook for this weekend.

“It’s more about execution with or offense,” Walton said.

“I feel like the things we are trying to perform are sound.

“We’re just failing to pass consistently and failing to choose the right shots in the right moments.”

The Trojans tout an undefeated record as well, at 4-0, with wins over Quincy, Ball State’s first MIVA foe, and Barton, Ball State’s opponent on Saturday.

The Cardinals took on Mt. Olive last year, and won in a 3-0 sweep. This year Trojans look to be improved, and have a key piece to their roster back. Outside hitter Angel Dache is back in the Trojans’ lineup after missing last year, and was an integral part of a team that won the Conference Carolinas two years ago.

The Trojans also have a plethora of players that have changed positions and foreign players. And with not a lot of tape and exposure Walton said it is important to prepare for what the team can control.

“A lot of our focus is on our side of the net, and worrying about what we do,” Walton said.

Barton is generating just eight kills a set, compared to Ball State’s 13. The Bulldogs are still searching for its first win as a program, and hold

a nation-leading 19 match winless streak.

Walton knows that any real chance the Cardinals have at losing this game comes from themselves.

“We need to limit our errors,” Walton said. “We don’t want to be serving the ball out of bounds and giving them easy points, we want to make them earn their points with that [poor] offense.”

Being that this match is being played about 14 hours after another, it wouldn’t be a surprise to see fatigue plague the Cardinals.

“With it being our second weekend [in a row] on the road we might have some players starting to get worn down,” Walton said. “I think this match creates an opportunity to put some fresh legs on the court.”

These fresh legs will most likely be fresh faces as well, so the goal is to get some other guys experience before heading into conference play.

Walton’s goals for the weekend are basic, but if met bode for another weekend sweep for the Cardinals.

“We want to see offensive improvement, a serving strategy that allows us to put points on the board with our defense,” Walton said.

Ball State’s Majok Majok closed out on the sophomore forward, but he buried the shot for three of his 17 points.

“With it being a one point game, [Javon] McCrea is their guy, the one they’re looking to,” Taylor said. “We forced a contested shot and a ball that bounces straight up in the air, hits the top of the backboard and bounces straight down.

I’ve never seen a bounce like that before.

I thought we did everything right on that one.”

For Buffalo (7-12, 2-3 MAC), enough things went right to squeeze out a three-point win over Ball State (7-10, 1-4 MAC).

Junior forward Majok Majok got in foul trouble early and managed 13 points in only 19 minutes of action.

Foul trouble from the Cardinals other junior forward, Matt Kamieniecki, opened up acres of space for the Bulls’ junior forward McCrea to work.

The MAC East Division Player of the Week had 24 points — 12 in each half — on 10-of-12 shooting, while adding seven rebounds for the game.

“Obviously he’s a great player,” Kamieniecki said.

“We talked before the game about keying on him and trying to make it difficult.

[McCrea’s eight turnovers], we did well in that aspect.

But we’ve just got to play him a little tougher.”

Despite Ball State’s 3129 lead at the half, Buffalo continued to find ways to get McCrea the ball and wear down the defense.

When the Bulls’ ball screen roll-and-replace action wasn’t getting the Newark, New York native isolated near the basket, the McCrea used his team’s constant motion on offense to get position for offensiverebound putbacks.

TEAM COMPARISON Ball State 63 Points 13 Offensive Rebs 20 Defensive Rebs 15 Turnovers 41.2 Field Goal % 31.3 3-Point % 72.7 Free Throw %

Buffalo 66 10 20 20 45.8 41.2 71.4

“You can practice that [positioning] and get good at it so you know when the shot is going to be taken and where they’re going to be taken from,” coach Reggie Witherspoon said. “If the court is spread, you can get some one-on-one chances to get to the glass.”

McCrea had five offensive rebounds, but Ball State finished with a 33-30 rebounding advantage.

That was bolstered by Kamieniecki’s eight rebounds — five offensive — to go along with nine points.

His energy and Scaife’s timely shooting kept the game close in the second half.

Over the final 7:03, the lead changed four times.

One of those was on a Scaife 3-pointer to give Ball State a 58-57 lead with 3:52 remaining. Taylor pumped both his fists after the basket, but it would be the last time.

Scaife’s misses at the line in the final minute capped an 18-point performance on a night where he was honored for surpassing 1,000 points for his career before the game.

Regardless of any accomplishments or near-win scenarios, Ball State players aren’t taking any moral victories at this point.

“We’ve just got to find a way to finish games out,” Kamieniecki said. “We’ve been in every game so far in MAC play. We just have to find a way to pull games out.”

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