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Committee endorses gun bill for schools State lawmakers to leave choice to individual districts if passed | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS INDIANAPOLIS — Local school boards would have to decide every year whether they wanted to have gun-carrying employees at their schools under a proposal approved Tuesday by an Indiana House committee. The House Ways and GUN LAW Means Committee endorsed the bill on a 16-7 WHAT The Indiana vote after changing a House and Means previous version that Committee endorsed would have required a firearms bill all of Indiana’s about Tuesday that would 1,900 public and char- allow employees to ter schools to arm an carry guns at public employee with a load- schools. ed gun during school SO WHAT hours. That proposed The new version mandate, approved by of the bill allows another House com- individual school mittee last week, drew districts to choose, criticism from Repub- via school board lican Gov. Mike Pence, vote, whether or not numerous other state they will allow armed officials and education- employees. related organizations. The new version of the bill would still authorize the armed employees but would require local school boards to decide each year whether to seek a waiver from a new state school safety board. That decision would be made in a closed school board meeting. Waiver requests would be confidential, so which schools have authorized armed employees wouldn’t be public. How to keep students safe has become the focus of national debate since the December massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Some Indiana lawmakers questioned Tuesday whether it was appropriate to have employees such as teachers, principals or others carrying guns in school. Rep. Terry Goodin, D-Austin, called the move a “knee-jerk reaction” that could end up making schools less safe and wondered when pushes would be made to put more armed employees on school buses and elsewhere. “Where does this end?” said Goodin, superintendent of the 550-student Crothersville school district in southern Indiana. Indiana law currently allows school districts to authorize people other than police officers to have guns on school property, although several officials have said they don’t know of any district
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HUMBLE TALENT Delta High School product quietly learning, adjusting to being a quarterback at Ball State
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etting to know Ozzie Mann is almost like getting to know two different people. On the field, the Ball State redshirt freshman quarterback is one of the more vocal players when taking his snaps. Off the field however, he’s a quiet and softspoken 19-year-old. Those close to him would say Mann’s almost too quiet when he doesn’t have his jersey on. “He’s kind of quiet,” offensive coordinator Rich Skrosky said. “I don’t know if introvert is the right word, but he’s well-mannered.” Keeping to himself doesn’t mean people don’t know him. Mann comes from Delta High School — a 20 minute drive north of Scheumann Stadium. To the Ball State coaches, he’s known as the guy that’s loyal to his family and his school. Mann’s also preparing himself to compete for the starting job once senior Keith Wenning graduates after the 2013 season. And he’s perfectly OK with that right now.
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Mann was introduced to football at a young age. His father, Reece, played college football at Franklin College and hoped his son would also develop an interest in the sport. He’d take his son to Ball State football games throughout his youth, hoping the interest would spur. “You don’t want to be the dad that forces something down his throat,” he said. “You want to make sure it’s something he enjoyed instead of me forcing it upon him.” The interest in football did catch on and grew when Mann watched the Nate Davisled Ball State team during the 2008 season.
| THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CYPRESS, Texas — A student went on a building-to-building stabbing attack at a Texas community college Tuesday, wounding at least 14 people before being subdued and arrested, authorities said. The attack at about 11:20 a.m. on the Lone Star Community College System campus sent at least 12 people to area hospitals, including four people taken by helicopter, according to volunteer fire department spokesman Robert Rasa. He said several
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people refused treatment at the scene and all the wounds were consistent with stabbing. Sheriff Adrian Garcia said officers responded to the campus after receiving a call about a male “on the loose” stabbing people. He said it was not immediately clear what type of weapon was used. “Some of the details in the call slip did indicate that students or faculty were actively responding to work to subdue this individual,” Garcia said, describing the man as being about 21 years old and enrolled at the college. “So we’re proud of those folks, but we’re glad no one else is injured any more severely than they are.” Lone Star officials initially urged people on campus, about 25 miles northwest of
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victims in critical condition downtown Houston, to take shelter and be on alert for a second suspect. But the sheriff’s department said a short time later that authorities believed just one person was responsible.
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OZZIE MANN, REDSHIRT FRESHMAN QUARTERBACK • Height: 6’1” • Weight: 230 • Hometown: Hartford City, Ind. • High School: Delta • Major: Elementary Education • Parents: Reece and Stacey Mann
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OZZIE MANN, redshirt freshman quarterback
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Police arrest Texas college student for attacking, stabbing 14 people Classmates, faculty subdue assailant; 2 refuse treatment
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Ball State quarterbacks Keith Wenning, left, and Ozzie Mann prepare to pass during practice on Friday. Mann attended Delta High School in Muncie.
“It was the same suspect going from building to building,” department spokesman Thomas Gilliland said. Garcia said buildings still were being searched Tuesday afternoon. Student Michael Chalfan said he was walking to class when he saw a group of police officers running after the suspect. He said one of the officers used a stun gun to help subdue the man, who Chalfan said he recognized from a drama class last year. Chalfan described the man as “eccentric,” saying he often wore gloves and was known to carry stuffed animals. He said although the man was teased by fellow students, he remained friendly.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS CORRESPONDENT TO VISIT CAMPUS FOR SECOND TIME For the second time in three years, a West African bureau chief with The Associated Press will visit Ball State tonight to speak to students after winning the university’s 2013 Eugene S. Pulliam National Journalism Writing Award. Rukmini Callimachi, who also won the Pulliam in 2011, will discuss her Sept. 16, 2012, article “Niger Hunger Brides” at 7:30 p.m. in Cardinal Hall in the RUKMINI L.A. Pittenger Student Center. The presentation will focus on the devastating CALLIMACHI drought in poverty-stricken villages in Niger, which 2013 Eugene S. Award has led to parents marrying off their young daugh- Pulliam recipient ters for money. “Rukmini also won the award two years ago on her story on the Haitian earthquake,” said Mark Massé, professor of journalism and coordinator of the Pulliam National Journalism Writing Award competition. The award originated in the 1960s and has a distinguished history and legacy. “The former winners have gone on to win Pulitzer Prizes,” Massé said. “When we talk to previous winners, they hold this award in very high regards.” The Pulliam family, who sponsor the award, will continue to sponsor it until 2018. The event is free and open to the general public. – ASHLEY REED
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