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Junior guard Candyce Ussery has started the last seven games after waiting for a season before she could play because of transfer regulations. Ussery has scored 98 points so far this season, passing her season-best of 92 while at Indiana University.
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University spends approximately $140,000 installing call boxes throughout campus RACHEL PODNAR CHIEF REPORTER
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he university is spending approximately $140,000 on emergency call boxes on campus, a technology that neither Indiana University nor Purdue University are using. The boxes, which will call the University Police Department when the button is pushed, are being installed throughout campus, around 340 units total, according to Vice President of Information Technology Loren Malm. Each box costs $409. Alan Hargrave said the Crisis Management Team considered the boxes for a few years before making the decision. They decided this was a cost appropriate way to provide communication in an emergency, which he said is a key part of crisis situations.
Transfer guard benefits after long journey to Ball State basketball ZACH CAINS CHIEF REPORTER | @ZPC1329 This season is marking the end of a long two-year journey for Indiana University women’s basketball transfer Candyce Ussery. After many roadblocks through BALL STATE transferring and questions about VS. MIAMI playing again because of an injury, Read about Ussery stepped back onto a col- the Cardinals’ legiate court and played her first 2nd season win over Miami game in nearly two years. “It was one of the greatest feelings + PAGE 3 I’ve ever had in my life,” Ussery said. Before the start of her sophomore season for the Hoosiers, a change in coaches was made. The coach who brought her into the program, Felisha Legette-Jack, left and Curt Miller was put in charge. Ussery had averaged about 15 minutes per game under Legette-Jack, but under Miller her playtime was cut drastically and her enthusiasm for the sport began to fade.
“If a professor is having a particular said. “It would just be more redundanproblem, whether it be a health emer- cy, and not even a good redundancy.” gency or a disruption,” he said, “they IU is testing a safety app, Rave could hit the button and immediately Guardian, which has a panic button to have contact with University Police.” connect with police, allows police to About half of the boxes send updates and even have been installed alupdates the user’s “safeready, and the goal is to ty network” to concerns. have all boxes installed Minger called the techby the end of the semesnology on old phones Emergency boxes ter, Malm said. Any box “obsolete,” but acknowlare being installed in already installed is curedged it is hard to keep approximately rently functional. up with technology. IU and Purdue are both “It’s like trying to hit a testing other types of moving target,” he said. around campus. new safety initiatives. “Things are changing Each box costs IU Superintendent so fast in tech, it’s hard of Public Safety Jerry to settle on which one Minger said they do not would be best and that bringing the see a need for one-way would withstand the overall price of phones or any kind of longevity.” the project to phone in the classroom. Purdue is piloting a He said it would be program this academic easier for a student who year called the Alertus needs help to just pull Alert Beacon. Thirty out their cellphone in an emergency. boxes were installed in large class“There are so many cellphones with rooms with more than 100 seats, our student body that if we added an- and when the university sends an other phone into the classroom, we emergency text, it is sent to the box don’t feel like we would be adding a as well. solution to the environment,” Minger See BOXES, page 5
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Cardinal Kitchen surpasses original $2,000 allowance GARCIA STAFF REPORTER | RAYMOND ragarcia@bsu.edu
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The Student Government Association’s executive slate presented an update on its more than $100,000 SGA BUDGET budget and platform at the Senate meeting Wednesday. FOR 2014-2015 The update listed the FALL 2014 $3,900 spent on Cardinal $48,640.72 Kitchen, Ball State’s cam- SPRING 2015 pus food pantry. There was $48,640.72 a $2,000 budget set for it at ROLLOVER FROM 2013-2014 the beginning of the year. SGA Treasurer Sidney $4,933.71 Staples said the extra money came from the allocations for 24-hour library services, which did not happen during Finals Week last semester.
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When pressed, a direct line is created, allowing users to immediately communicate their problem to University Police. Box also relays exactly where on campus the call is coming from, allowing officers to act quickly in the event of an emergency situation. 11. SNOW FLURRIES
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