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State funding formula evaluates performance, graduation rates | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s seven public universities are taking steps to boost their graduation rates and increase the number of degrees in key areas like science and technology as part of a state push to tie aid for higher education to performance. The Indiana Commission for Higher Education has developed a performance-based funding formula in an effort to increase the number of college graduates in the state. The funding formula began in 2003 with incentives for universities that do research, the InSTATE AID dianapolis Business WHAT Journal reported. It Indiana’s public universities expanded in 2007 are trying to graduate more with rewards for students and increase the number of degrees in areas gains in degrees, like science and technology on-time graduation as part of a state push to tie rates and successful aid for higher education to transfer students. performance. It now rewards SO WHAT schools for growth State lawmakers are looking in number of overto raise the performanceall degrees, on-time based calculation from 5 graduation rates, percent of each school’s state funding to 6 percent student retention, in 2014, and 7 percent in number of degrees 2015. If Ball State doesn’t in science, technolbegin to focus more on ogy, engineering STEM degrees, it likely and math and those won’t see an increase granted to students in funding in the next two years. receiving federal PELL grants. Remediation rates and a productivity metric defined by each school also factor into the calculations. Though public universities continue to receive funding based on enrollment, performance-based funding is growing in importance. The state budget lawmakers are writing this year calls for raising the performance-based calculation from 5 percent of each school’s state funding to 6 percent in 2014 and 7 percent in 2015. “You are seeing strategies within colleges and universities to respond to these metrics because these metrics are responding to student needs,” said Teresa Lubbers, a former state senator who now leads the Commission of Higher Education. Ball State has a lot riding on performance funding. The school would see no increase in funding over the next two years under the budget state lawmakers are crafting. Only Indiana State University in Terre Haute, which would see a 1.1-percent loss in funding, has fared worse under the performance-based funding formula.
PRANK STAR Students share their most crafty tricks for April Fools’ Day
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n fifth grade while vacationing in Arizona, Kaleb Barajas threw a Snickers bar into the pool, causing everyone to evacuate, fearing the snack was floating waste. “I’m just a goofy guy,” the sophomore business and management sales major said. The prankster began tricking people in the second grade. Barajas said his best amateur pranks of all time were in elementary and middle school. One creative deception involved Barajas and a friend pouring red Kool-Aid onto the snow and placing a chainsaw near the legs that they had taken off store manikins, making a mock crime scene. Once college began, Barajas put his pranking skills to work on campus. During his freshman year at Ball State, Barajas said he became known as the prankster on his floor in LaFollette Complex. “Go all out, do it big so everybody knows the prank,” Barajas said. Barajas’ pranks have had their fair share of casualties. In one instance, he placed a package of Gatorade on the top ledge of a door. Once Barajas’ friends opened it, a bottle fell down hitting him directly in the groin. Others have pranked Barajas too, such as a girlfriend in high school who “broke up” with him through a text message. He fell for it and wondered why she did it over the phone.
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“I’ve always wanted a girl that I could prank and she would prank me back,” Barajas said. Here are some accounts of Barajas’ most genius antics:
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Barajas took others’ mattresses and hid them. A football player who had just come back from practice was tired, but came back to his room to find only his blankets and pillow stacked up on the floor where his bed usually sat. That was the only prank he said had gone too far. His hallmate was pretty upset.
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Barajas and his friends duct taped the door frame to his resident assistant’s room while he was inside. It took them 20 minutes, and the RA had to end up cutting himself out of his room with scissors.
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A brother in his fraternity had a broken laptop, and a group of them decided to prank a new guy by throwing the laptop at him without saying “catch this” until the last second. The computer shattered and so did the confidence of the new guy.
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Barajas is not the only prankster on the block, he and others from his fresh-
THE FOOLER’S GUIDE TO MISCHIEF Make this year memorable with these five, step-by-step pranks to pull just in time to claim your crown as prank genius.
+ PAGE 6 man hall shared with us in anonymity. One April Fools’ day, a resident took a couple of white sheets of paper and a permanent marker from her room to make signs. She wrote: “Water contamination, do not use restroom until further notice.” – Maintenance. Many of her fellow floor members were tardy to class that day. Another prank pulled on a male floor was just a routine happenstance, no holiday needed. Guys from a floor in Clevenger Hall accumulated all of the styrofoam beans from a beanbag and emptied them into a plastic tub. Someone distracted the student whose room was about to be invaded while the others dumped the beans all over the room. Every square inch of the room was occupied by a blizzard of the little white spheres.
‘Festival of Color’ takes over Pruis Hall Indian spring celebration offers traditional foods, Bollywood love musical EMMA KATE FITTES CHIEF REPORTER | emfittes@bsu.edu The Indian Student Association brought Holi, the Festival of Colors, to Pruis Hall with a Bollywood style musical, other performances and Indian food Sunday. “Staying away from home during these kind of festivals, its really hard for us,” Aparna Satheesan, president of ISA, said. “We are trying to do as much as we can so that the others will [know] about our culture and we will be having fun all together.” The masters student in computer science said Holi is traditionally an annual event that celebrates the beginning of spring. “[Holi is a] time when family and friends gather together and share sweets and play with colors,” Satheesan said. Although colored powder is usually thrown around, Satheesan said
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Traditional Indian dancers perform during the Indian Student Association’s Rang De Basanti festival Sunday. The show featured a Bollywood performance, singers, belly dancers and Chinese fan dancers. DN PHOTO BOBBY ELLIS
Pruis did not allow that. Instead, the colors were painted on foreheads and cheeks, and the main event was a Bollywood musical. Satheesan said for the past four or five months the club has been preparing for the event, including the 30-minute musical, “A Bollywood Love Musical,” which followed a traditional Bollywood love story.
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In eight dance numbers, members of the club followed a couple from when a boy first meets a girl to when they get married, and all of the fighting in between. “We wanted to perform something which [represents] our country, and Bollywood dancing is one of the most famous things to come out India,” said Harsha Boppana, a gradu-
ate student in computer science and ISA Web master. “We wanted to show Americans.” Other performances included a traditional Indian dance, a Chinese fan dance, Indian singing and belly dancing by the Ball State Belly Dancing Club.
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IND. HEALTH OFFICIALS CONFIRM MEASLES CASE AT IU BLOOMINGTON State health officials have confirmed at least one case of the measles last week in an Indiana University Bloomington student, causing the university to take action. The affected student does not live on IU’s campus and did not attend classes during his illness, according to a press release from the Indiana State Department of Health. The individual visited the IU Health Bloomington Hospital emergency room and a CVS pharmacy while infected. The student also visited the IU Student Health Center. More than 95 percent of people who receive the measles, mumps and rubella vaccines develop an immunity to the virus after one application, and 99 percent become immune after the second dose, according to the release. The Indiana State Department of Health, the Monroe County Health Department and IU are working together to identify additional cases of the disease. – EVIE LICHTENWALTER
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