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Forward receives honor in first start Calhoun wins player of game after 12 points, 5 rebounds

ON THE RECORD Muncie, Ball State police consider worn body camera options for officers

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In a loss to Kent State Saturday, junior forward Bo Calhoun’s newly found confidence was on display.

Starting his first career game due to senior Matt Kamieniecki sitting out with back spasms, Calhoun finished with 12 points and five re- INDIVIDUAL STATS bounds, as well as BO CALHOUN, JUNIOR FORWARD being voted play- • Games played-started - 17-1 er of the game.

• Minutes per game - 21.9 Calhoun says • Points per game - 6.5 believing in him- • Field goal percentage - .505 self is the key rea- • Free-throw percentage - .800 son for his turn- • Rebounds per game - 4.9 around season • Blocks - 8 • Steals - 6 thus far.

“It was always confidence for me,” said Calhoun. “Last year I just lost confidence, whether it was not playing a lot or my shot wasn’t going in.”

In his first two seasons at Ball State, Calhoun never finished in double-figure scoring, averaging 9.6 minutes per game.

This season he has already scored in doubledigit figures four times, posting his first double against Ohio with 11 points and ten rebounds on Jan. 21.

Calhoun is averaging career-highs in points with 6.5 per game, rebounds with 4.9 per contest and minutes with a 21.9 average.

Calhoun credits himself as a player who brings energy to the game, always uplifting his teammates and taking the open shot. Working the boards is what he prides himself in.

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fter the recent national concern with police accountability, the University Police Department is reviewing their practices and considering adding body cameras to their staff’s equipment.

The move is a part of a new equipment analysis initiative, said UPD Chief James Duckham.

“We’re looking into a top-to-bottom analysis of what’s effective in policing today and what’s not and that’s part of our review,” he said. “Certainly we are evaluating [body cameras] but we haven’t made any firm decision either way.”

Duckham was hired as chief of UPD at the end of second semester, after spending first semester as interim police chief. He said because he has only been chief for about a month, the conversation about new equipment and body cameras is just beginning.

After unrest in Ferguson, Mo., this summer and incidents in New York regarding tension between police officers and their communities, body cameras have emerged as a solution.

Locally, the Muncie and Daleville police departments have already adopted the cameras.

Muncie Police Department Chief Steve Stewart said his staff has received them positively so far. “[Officers] love them. It’s their documentation of what happens on a call for service,” Stewart said.

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Junior forward Bo Calhoun practiced in the summer with teammates to help him with his lateral quickness. Calhoun believes he is a player that brings energy to the game and that helps uplift his teammates.

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BACKGROUND ON POLICE BODY CAMERAS Out of 254 police departments surveyed, more than 75 percent did not use body cameras as of July 2013. The study interviewed the 40 departments that had implemented body cameras and cited the following benefits: Operations more transparent to the public

Help resolve questions that may come from police encounters

Increase officer professionalism

Help agencies evaluate and improve officer performance

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Allow agencies to identify and correct structural problems

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Encounters between officers and public improved

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Netflix release “Z Nation” brainless in first season (This article contains spoilers for episode one of “Z Nation”)

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Driving through the streets of Philadelphia in a flatbed truck with the Liberty Bell strapped down, the driver has to swerve to miss a zombie. The straps break and the bell goes rolling down the street, flattening five or six zombies along the way.

If that sounds dumb, you’re right. But it is just one of countless scenes that cause eye-rolling, shoulder-shrugging and “back to browse” clicking in the Syfy and Netflix show, “Z Nation.”

The first season aired on Syfy last fall and was recently picked up by Netflix.

Netflix has been promoting it pretty hard the last few weeks.

The biggest problem with “Z Nation” is that it can’t decide if it wants to be a B movie-styled show with a dark sense of humor, or a serious post-apocalyptic action/drama. But it falls flat when it’s not funny at all, or interesting enough to make viewers care.

The overarching storyline of the first season is that a man named Murphy (played

by Keith Allen) is immune to the zombie virus, and the rest of the survivors have to get him across the country to a lab on the West Coast (“The Last of Us,” anyone?).

In the pilot, the group of survivors finds a baby, unbitten and alive. Later in the episode it turns into a zombie. So yes, a zombie baby. You’d think a zombie baby would be treated with some level of reverence. But nope. While somebody searches a building for it to give it mercy, as it’s called on “Z Nation,” he actually says, “Come to papa.”

There are many moments like that, as well as dumb plot holes in the show.

People can tell when their vehicles are running out of gas. It shouldn’t be a surprise. But it is when the writers need the characters to stop moving.

Also, that baby? Never gets bitten. It just happens to turn into a zombie when it would fit the plot. And it doesn’t immediately try to get the humans, like a zombie would. Or like every other zombie does in the show. It hides and stalks the character looking for him.

“Z Nation” just makes things up as it goes along, like a middle schooler’s English project.

There are some positives to “Z Nation” — hints of what could have been. The action sequences, especially in episode one, are tremendous. As one character defends the baby from a small horde, the blood spatter and slow motion effects are top notch (which is a sentence I never thought I would write).

There are also some storylines that have potential to be interesting. The most obvious one is that Murphy, the man who is immune, is an awful person. It could have been used as an opportunity to explore the dilemmas the survivors have with being forced to be around and protect somebody who they all hate. But it’s never really explored.

DJ Qualls plays Citizen Z, an NSA operative holed up and using satellites to watch over the survivors. The show hints at him starting to go crazy from the loneliness.

But instead of exploring that further, he stumbles onto a stray dog and everything is OK again.

SyFy announced it renewed “Z Nation”

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Humility brings player success | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 His effort on the glass has him ranked 18th in the MidAmerican Conference in rebounding as a bench player.

Calhoun is constantly credited by teammates and coaches for his work ethic, which is evident in his improved 12-to-15 foot jump shot.

All summer, Calhoun played one-on-one games with guards Zavier Turner and Francis Kiapway. Though he plays the power forward position, he says playing against them helped with his lateral quickness, making it easier to switch on guards during games.

Calhoun’s overall improvement has not changed his humble nature, a quality Whitford praises him for.

“Bo’s greatest strength is his humility,” said Whitford.

“That’s his greatest quality, I really value that both with him on the court and off the court.”

Being a passionate vocal leader is one aspect of the team game Calhoun wants to continue improving. Growing up, he said he looked up to NBA star Kevin Garnett because of how much he communicated on the court.

Communication and leadership will be key if the Cardinals want to snap their current four-game losing streak.

With 12 games remaining in the season, Calhoun still has time to continue improving and help Ball State make some noise in the MAC.

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Junior forward Bo Calhoun says that believing in himself has caused his turnaround season so far. He has a career-high of 6.5 points and 4.9 rebounds per game, and averages 21.9 minutes.

Freshman hopes to bounce back All-arounder’s injury leaves 4 open spots in team’s routine

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Four days before the Ball State gymnastic team’s first MidAmerican Conference meet, head coach Joanna Saleem discovered that Jordyn Penny, who is currently second in the all-around in the league, would have to miss the meet.

Instead of having to find one person to fill in for freshman Penny, who was diagnosed with a stress fracture in her back, Saleem added four routines to the line-up to fill in for her four events.

Despite the team’s loss to Central Michigan, Saleem is confident the team can hold its own without Penny.

“I think that because we have such a large team, we have that ability to fill those spots,” she said. “I don’t know if we can fill them quite to the level that Jordyn was competing, but my hope is that the girls from the team will be able to step up and show them, while we might be down a little bit, we’re definitely not out.”

Although Penny competed the weekend prior to her doctor’s visit and score well, the pain in

her back kept building.

Penny competed all-around at her first two meets and was second in the all-around for the MAC. She also placed third on uneven bars for the conference and was Ball State’s secondhighest scorer on vault.

Saleem was happy with the performance of the athletes who filled in for Penny, and said most of the team’s problems were on the beam.

“Gymnastics is such a dynamic sport that injuries are just part of it,” Saleem said. “We have to be prepared to be able to compensate and have other team members step in.”

Losing Penny is a difficult blow for a team at 0-4, because she can compete in four different events, which she was recruited to do.

Saleem said if the healing process goes well, Penny could return toward the end of the season.

Despite initially taking the news of her injury hard, Penny said she was happy she found out about the injury now instead of later on in her gymnastics career.

After all, she still has three more years of college eligibility.

“I cried about [the injury] at first, but now I’m playing a different role,” Penny said. “I’m being a cheerleader for the team. It’s not something I can’t come back from.”

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COACH NAMES LEADERSHIP COUNCIL Ball State head football coach Pete Lembo has announced the Leadership Council for the 2015 season. It was put in place in order to maximize players’ input into day-to-day football operations.

Members include redshirt freshman David Morrison; sophomores Dedrick Cromartie, Darian Green, Jordan Hogue, Corey Lacanaria, Jack Milas, Vinnie Palazeti and Kevin Willis; juniors Dae’Shaun Hurley, Aaron Taylor and Teddy Williamson; and seniors Dylan Curry, Ben Ingle, Jacob Richard, Chris Shillings, Darnell Smith and Nick Traub.

The entire Ball State football team participates in leadership development sessions during the spring and preseason. Each player votes for three representatives from their class.

The council will meet typically once per week during the season and during the spring semester as well. One of the major end results of the overall council is the development of communication and leadership among players.

Some annual projects for the group include academic progress, workout scheduling and team discipline issues.

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Freshman Jordyn Penny was diagnosed with a stress fracture in her back four days before the gymnastic’s team first Mid-American Conference meet. Penny is an all-around gymnast, and is second in the MAC.

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silent alarm goes off, and Jessica Adkisson is up and out of bed without disturbing her boyfriend’s sleep.

Adkisson, a graduate student studying sport administration, loves the silent, vibrating alarm clock feature on her Fitbit Charge.

Since 2011, the Fitbit has been tracking fitness habits in and out of the gym. Newer models like the Charge and the Flex have changed some student’s daily routines.

The Fitbit records sleep patterns, noting when the user is restless, awake or in deep sleep. It also counts calorie intake, how many steps the user takes in a day, how EVERYDAY USER many stairs they’ve climbed and how many calories ZIP - $59.95 they’ve burned while working out.

Tracks steps, distance and calories burned. Clips onto an The user interface is easy to use, said Fitbit wearer and article of clothing. sophomore physical education major, Miranda Kuehl.

ONE - $99.95 Kuehl wears the Flex. As a middle-range model, the All of Zip’s features but it also tracks stairs climbed and flex counts steps, calories and distance, tracks sleep, tracks sleep patterns. Also has the silent alarm and can track workouts. has an alarm clock. Clipped onto an article of clothing.

Middle and high range models of the Fitbit track sleep FLEX - $99.95 patterns.

The device detects movement and tracks Same features as One, but is worn like a watch. whether the user is in deep, restful sleep or if they are CHARGE - $129.95 awake and moving around.

Same features as Flex, but Kuehl believes that this feature is one of the this watch also has caller ID and a clock. device’s best.

“When I first got [my Fitbit] I was like ‘Oh, every night will be pretty similar or show similar things,’” she said. “But since I’ve had it, every night has been different.”

The Fitbit records user’s sleep patterns each night, and stores the information on a graph.

“You can wake up in the morning and feel like you didn’t get very good sleep and then you can look and see,” Kuehl said. “‘Oh, I was awake like 11 times’ or ‘I was restless for 30 minutes in my sleep last night.’”

The Fitbit can connect with the user’s phone or the Fitbit website, where it stores its data and allows the user to set fitness goals.

The app and website also allow users to connect and watch each other’s fitness goals and progress.

Adkission received her Fitbit as a gift and said it has made her more fit-conscious.

“It’s not motivating me to do so much more,” Adkission said. “I’ve been

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sick this last weekend I haven’t got off of the couch and I’ve been perfectly fine with that, but it’s making me think more about the foods that I put in my mouth.”

Adkission said because she is more aware ACTIVE USER of her eating habits, she has even saved CHARGE HR - $149.95 money from eating out less.

Has all of the same The Fitbit’s calorie tracker capability lets abilities as the Charge, but can also monitor the users count the amount of calories they users heart rate. take in. It scans bar codes on certain foods PERFORMANCE and tracks the amount of calories in them.

SURGE- $249.95 Calorie goals can be adjusted based on The Surge has all of the features that the Charge wearer’s weight goals.

HR has, but also offers The app also allows users to track their GPS tracking, music control and notifications. water intake.

While Kuehl said she hardly uses this feature, Adkisson said this component helps her have fewer migraines.

“I haven’t had a headache all of this year and I was getting migraines where I would have to turn the lights off and wear sunglasses,” Adkisson said. “I don’t know yet if I can attribute that to the Fitbit, but it’s definitely made a difference.”

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Ten people were killed in an attack on the magazine’s offices, including two police officers on Jan. 7. Brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, suspected gunmen in the attack, were later killed outside of a printworks. An anonymous person erected the artwork on the Letterman staircase.

This is Kobe. He was weaving in and out of humans at tailgating. I think it was to make sure that they all saw him and pet him because he loved the attention he received.

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Ball State should move forward with body cameras for university police

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One dollar. That’s all it would cost each student at Ball State to cut their chance of a university police officer physically harming them by around half.

That is what two studies of the effects of police-worn body cameras say about the device — cops are less likely to use force and criminals are less likely to escalate situations if they know they are being filmed.

A Cambridge University study, partnering with the police department of Rialto, Calif., found that police useof-force incidents went down 60 percent and citizen complaints against officers fell 88 percent in the first year. The next year they were further down 46 and 83 percent.

Another study by the Mesa Police Department in Arizona found when 50 officers wore cameras, complaints dropped by about a third and specifically use-of-force complaints

dropped by 75 percent.

That is astounding: and the cost per student to do all of this at Ball State, to film every time police come in contact with students and lessen the number of times police use force to subdue suspects: a little less than a buck. Taser, the same company that invented electronic stun guns, offers police body cameras for $400 with batteries that last 12 hours and automatically upload video to their servers after each officer’s shift for $15 a month. Total start-up cost for Ball State’s 33 officers: $13,200 for the cameras and another $5,940 a year for video storage.

The deal is so appealing that President Barack Obama announced last month that the government will buy cameras for 50,000 officers across the country. The Los Angeles Police Department, the third largest force in the nation, just pledged to put a camera on every single one

of its officers over the next couple years.

More than that, Muncie’s local police department has recently outfitted their officers with body cameras.

It’s absurd that the University Police Department has yet to take this easy and cheap step that could protect students from overzealous police officers and stop a drunken college kid from yelling at or hitting an officer if he knows the incident could be shown at his eventual trial.

University Police Chief James Duckham said the department is “looking into a top-to-bottom analysis of what’s effective in policing today...,” but he has yet to make any concrete plans.

Body cameras offer an easy and cheap way to implement new technology with few downsides.

Sure, body cameras aren’t magic bullets, or more aptly, magic stun guns, that stop

officers and criminals from hurting each other. But the chance of stopping one officer or student from getting hurt is certainly worth the money and hassle of remembering to turn them on.

They also wouldn’t offer an end-all be-all solution to determining guilt in instances where it is one person’s word against another’s but having unedited and unbiased documentation of what happened, at least from the officer’s perspective, would go a long way to helping judges and juries decide.

The possibility of an invasion of privacy is also there, but that is why every camera has an off button. If an officer is speaking to a victim of sexual assault or a witness that is afraid of retaliation , all they have to do is reach to their chest pocket and flip a switch.

Or, after each officer’s shift they simply make a note for their superior to mark the

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part of the tape that should not be released in any place outside of a trial against a formally accused criminal.

Cameras do much more than just make everyone think before they do something stupid.

Almost everyone has at least wondered what would have happened in Ferguson, Mo., if the event would have been caught on tape. Would there have been the riots and violence if we could have seen video of what happened instead of relying on often-conflicting witness testimony?

Ball State has the money to purchase cameras for its officers; after all, it isn’t like its free to attend Ball State.

But, if there isn’t any wiggle room in the budget for it, I for one would be okay with a $1 raise in tuition. One dollar would be worth it if it means even a minuscule chance of avoiding injury on anyone’s part when dealing with police.

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“The power to make this kind of impact on small minds especially within our community and to be free is amazing,” Jen said. “[Aidan] even got his brother excited about coming here. It was all he talked about after he went here with his class.”

One of the two shows on Saturday revolved around the winter night sky, exploring the constellations of Gemini and Orion and general stars people see every night if they look up. It went so far as to go inside the nebulae — space clouds — that house the stars of Orion’s belt. And every show brings something different.

“This is like my eighth or ninth show and no show is the same,” Emily Keifer, a fifth grade teacher at Cowan elementary school, said. “I brought my class here and they loved it, they didn’t know the old one even existed.”

The show eventually showed night skies unseen by northern hemisphere.

The dome’s projection transitioned to show stars such as Alpha Centauri and the Milky Way’s neighboring galaxy, Andromeda.

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| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 A few months ago, MPD field-tested ASER International AXON body cameras after spending a year deciding whether or not to go forward with them. When the test was over, the cameras had to be returned but Stewart said they will buy them when the funds are available.

Stewart said in today’s landscape of technology, juries ask ‘Where’s the video?’ and so police officers want to wear the cameras.

“They are [already being] recorded by the general public,” Stewart said. “Obviously, video won’t lie.”

MPD is finalizing its policy to

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Ball State’s planetarium has been open for two and a half months and has made an impact on Ball State. The planetarium cost $5.2 million when it opened last October.

The vivid detail of the millions of stars on the dome wasn’t possible in the old planetarium. It could show about a thousand, Kaitchuck said.

“When I was a student at Ball State, I never went to the old planetarium,” Keifer

go along with the cameras.

Daleville added body cameras to its equipment in July, according to the Star Press. The Daleville Police Department was unavailable for comment.

At least one UPD officer, John Foster, recently wore his own personal body camera but a new UPD policy requires officers to only wear and use department-authorized clothing and gear.

Duckham said the new policy is best practiced in law enforcement and the department needs to be consistent in its equipment use.

Foster declined to be interviewed for the story.

Duckham said UPD’s analysis will look at other police agencies and studies by the federal government to evaluate the ef-

said. “I went for the first time last year and I was blown away. Then they said they were breaking ground on a new one and to stay tuned...

It shows an advancement at Ball State and a hint at what’s to come.”

fectiveness of body cameras to help them decide.

If the department decides body cameras are a good idea, they will have to make decisions about what type of camera to use, and write policy for how the footage will be used.

“There’s a lot that goes into it.

You’re [not just] putting a camera on an officer without doing some thorough evaluation of policy,” Duckham said.

He has never worn a body camera for law enforcement and he said it is too early to give his personal opinion on using body cameras for policing.

“I can’t make a statement about what would be good and what would be bad until I really get an in-depth analysis,” Duckham said. “I don’t want to just haphazardly do it.”

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