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Freshman nursing major Hope Eckland and freshman business major Karie Wissel cross McKinley Avenue on Monday. Eckland and Wissel were going into the bookstore in the Art and Journalism Building to pick up their books for the semester.

Ball State cancels classes for second day, citing low temperatures and road conditions

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snowstorm that dumped a foot of snow on Muncie and left lingering subzero temperatures caused Ball State to cancel classes for a second day.

Temperatures are expected to climb to 4 degrees today, but the wind chill will remain around negative 30 to negative 40, according to the National Weather Service. These types of temperatures can cause frostbite on exposed skin in less than half an hour.

The cold and the remaining snow is what led officials to cancel classes, said Tony Proudfoot, a university spokesperson.

One local man said he may not have lived through Monday night had it not been for the Muncie police and the American Red Cross in conjunction with the city government.

Muncie resident Joseph Fischer, his wife, Velva, and his mother-in-law, Melissa Clark, live in an apartment on University Avenue.

The family does not own a radio or a television with access to televised programming, making information, such as weather updates, hard to get.

“We really didn’t know that the storm was coming until it got right up on us,” he said. “We didn’t have the chance to get to the store.”

Things worsened for the family. The breaker on the boiler blew and caused the temperature in their home to drop 30 degrees in four hours.

At its lowest, the apartment was 38 degrees.

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HOPE ECKLAND, a freshman nursing major

« Pretty much « To keep busy, « Preparing just lounging and enjoying the day off and trying to get ready for classes.

I have to practice for my major. I have to practice my trumpet and try to stay inside when I can.

for the next semester a lot, so getting textbooks and trying to settle back in.

HALEY MCABEE, a freshman pre-law and criminal justice major

JUSTIN SWISHER, a freshman music education major

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Unexpected challenges categorized Fall Semester for the Student Government Association after the former president’s tweets led to his resignation and a restructuring of the executive board.

“Given the different events that happened in the beginning of the school year, I felt like the executive board did

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extremely well carrying on and rolling with the punches,” Alyssa France, SGA vice president, said.

The executive board made steps toward its platform points with events including Countdown 2 Kickoff for campus pride, two executive board spaghetti dinners for intercampus relationships and bridging the gap between the Muncie and Ball State communities with the creation of a Student Ambassadors program in Muncie.

SGA also hosted the first Student Government Coalition Conference, bringing together students from other universities to discuss student government strategies.

France said moving forward, one

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of the executive board’s main priorities during Spring Semester will be the creation of the Blue Light App, a campaign promise made to increase safety on campus.

Other priorities include working with transportation and hosting an event with alumni who were former student leaders, France said.

In addition to election season, which normally dominates the second semester for SGA, this spring will include a new week-long, SGA initiative called Blitz Week. SGA will host a Blitz Week to encourage interaction with constituents that is not framed around SGA elections.

The week will feature a Q-and-A event with the executive board, a

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SGA INITIATIVE BLITZ WEEK

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To encourage interaction with constituents that is not framed around SGA elections.

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• Q-and-A event with the executive board • A traveling white board • Surveys • Promotional items traveling white board, surveys and promotional items.

Jack Hesser, president pro tempore, and Jamison Turner, a student senator, are organizing the week, which FORECAST TODAY Mostly sunny High: 5 Low: -12 3. PARTLY CLOUDY

will take place the week before nomination convention.

Hesser said he hopes the week rallies the student body around the importance of SGA just before election season.

“Slates generally face an uphill battle trying to motivate students to vote in the slate election, and thus half of the election season is spent [explaining SGA],” he said. “Blitz Week will hopefully take some of the slack off of the slates running and allow each slate to, right off the bat, state what makes them unique.”

Blitz Week is not meant as a campaigning opportunity, and Hesser stressed it will not be used for early campaigning.

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5 FACTS ABOUT THE | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — Much of the country grappled Monday with a historic freeze that shuttered schools and businesses at the start of the first full work week of 2014.

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3. GROUND TRAVEL WAS DISRUPTED, TOO Planes weren’t the only form of mass transportation disrupted by the historic freeze. There also were widespread delays and cancellations in ground transportation — including Amtrak, buses and commuter trains.

Officials with Chicago’s commuter rail, Metra, said there were multiple accidents, including one in which 14 passengers reported injuries — and six were taken to the hospital with minor injuries — after a train hit a “bumping post” at a

COLD OUTSIDE? YOU’RE NOT ALONE SO IS HALF THE U.S.

Nearly 187 million people, more than half of the nation’s population, were under a wind chill warning or advisory Monday.

The winds made it feel like 55 below zero in International Falls, Minn., and parts of the Midwest accustomed to temperatures that are cold — albeit seldom this cold.

But even the coal fields of Virginia and West Virginia, the wind chill was negative 35.

Every major weather-reporting station in Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin reported temperatures below zero at 11 a.m. Monday, and South Dakota would have joined them if not for the reading of 1 at Rapid City.

downtown station.

Weather-related engine problems forced an Amtrak train carrying 200 passengers to stop for more than 8.5 hours in southwestern Michigan before arriving early Monday morning in Chicago.

And the Southern Illinois men’s basketball team spent the night on a church floor in central Illinois after their bus got stuck in a snowdrift on Interstate 57 following Sunday’s storm.

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THURSDAY Scattered snow showers High: 30 Low: 14 14 - SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS

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2. FLY AWAY FROM THE WEATHER? THINK AGAIN More than 3,700 flights — around one out of every 10 domestic departures — were canceled Monday morning, following a weekend of travel disruption across the country. The bulk of those cancellations were in Chicago, Cleveland, New York and Boston.

“It’s been one weather system after another,” Delta Air Lines spokesman Morgan Durrant said. “It’s been a challenging 72 hours.”

With wind chills as low as 45 below

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zero at some airports, workers could only remain exposed on the ramp for a few minutes. That made loading and unloading luggage a challenge.

JetBlue Airways stopped all scheduled flights to and from New York and Boston. American Airlines said temperatures are so cold at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport that fuel and deicing liquids were actually frozen. United Airlines said its fuel is pumping slower than normal in Chicago.

Widespread power outages were being blamed on the storm, including in Indiana, where crews worked to restore services for more than 40,000 customers. Utility officials cautioned some people could be in the cold and dark until Thursday.

“Due to the extreme conditions, damage is significant,” Indianapolis Power & Light spokeswoman Katie Bunton said.

State officials said sites without power included the residential portion of the governor’s residence

in Indianapolis.

Gov. Mike Pence noted during a news conference Monday that the house has “lots of fireplaces,” but urged others without power to go to a shelter if necessary.

Indianapolis evacuated more than 400 residents without heat or power, said Marc Lotter, a spokesman for Mayor Greg Ballard. Many found temporary comfort at warming centers set up around the city, while those needing long-term shelter were sent to the American Red Cross.

5. WEATHER HEIGHTENED FEAR OF INJURIES In Chicago, hospital emergency rooms treated patients with frostbite, weather-related asthma and head injuries from falls on ice.

“It’s pretty typical of what we see when it’s this cold,” said Dr. Paul Casey, an ER doctor at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.

“Later in the day, the more people

are outside working, we may see more cold-related injuries, such as frostbite and hypothermia.”

Cook County’s health system encouraged patients to reschedule their non-emergency appointments.

Cook County’s Stroger Hospitals treated one homeless man with frostbite.

FRIDAY Rain/snow mix High: 39 Low: 25

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After the alleged gunman scare and falsified stabbing incident, the Student Government Association’s student safety committee hopes to introduce legislation to add security cameras in university parking lots and garages.

Bryan Kubel, a student senator and student safety chairperson, said he was impressed by the university’s safety account, but cameras in parking lots and garages would give students an increased sense of safety.

“Parking lots have lots of spaces where potential criminals can hide out, such as in bushes or between cars,” he said. “Parking garages tend to be poorly lit at night, so having security cameras would create a sense of security when they are being used at night, and throughout the day.”

E-TEXTBOOKS

As Ball State moves into the first semester of formal adoption for an e-texbook program, SGA wants to mediate concerns that students will be forced into buying an e-textbook.

Through the Courseload eContent Readiness Program, professors opt-in to an e-textbook option and their

INQSIT LABS

The academic affairs committee also is considering legislation regarding inQsit lab registration and starting mid-semester course evaluations.

Wells said SGA has received a number of complaints about long lines for inQsit labs and wants to fix the problem by reinstating appointments. “[We propose] the university revert back to having appointments in place with an option of holding a student’s appointment for a few minutes if they do not show up in time.”

MID-SEMESTER EVALUATIONS

The committee is considering mid-semester course evaluations, as well, and ways to encourage students to take the already available end of term evaluations.

Wells said course evaluations are important for the university in determining how courses are presented.

“If we can get more students to take their course evaluations, that will provide the university with a well-rounded perspective from students,” he said.

SGA: Problems of last year could provoke changes in rules of future election

| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “SGA cares about the student body, and we believe that the various organizations around campus should not only see its executive board or the senators during the election season,” he said.

In response to complaints during the past election season, changes will likely be made to the SGA elections code this semester.

Last year’s SGA election met some controversy. Concerns were voiced about the need for standard fines for campaign violations and limiting campaign tactics, like carrying around iPads and asking students to vote with them. A former president pro tempore of SGA said he was behind a Twitter account posting offensive tweets regarding the election.

Chloe Anagnos, SGA president, said she has worked with the Rules and Constitutions

Committee along with adviser Jennifer Jones-Hall on revisions, which will be introduced to the senate in the next month or two. “[Proposed changes] will focus on making the rules more concrete and easier to understand for all parties involved in the elections process,” Anagnos said.

The senate must approve changes to the code, and changes must be in place before nomination convention in the spring.

Anagnos said the upcoming changes will follow in the footsteps of changes that were made to the code during the last school year.

“Normally, there are one or two small changes along with grammar fixes and format adjustments,” she said. “However, last year, it was completely overhauled, and we are reviewing the changes that were made last year under the last executive board.”

COMMITTEE PLANS TO OPEN FORUMS FOR IDEAS ON NEW PRESIDENT SEARCH

The presidential search committee will host open forums for students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members to discuss what attributes the next university leader should have.

R. Wayne Estopinal, a member of Ball State’s Board of Trustees and head of the committee, said in an email sent to students that the ideas put forward at these discussions will be vitally important.

“Our goal at the forum is to listen and gather your insights,” he said in the email.

The student forum will be at 2 p.m. Jan. 15 in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center Cardinal Hall A. Dates and locations for the other forums were not included in the email. Anyone who is not able to attend is encouraged to submit thoughts to prezsearch@bsu.edu.

The previous presidential search that brought President Jo Ann Gora to Ball State was criticized for not being transparent and not working with the campus community during its process.

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In the blistering cold, one group of students returned from Winter Break to their house with a broken furnace.

Anna Pasquali, a junior public relations major, said she and her housemates returned Sunday to Muncie to find the temperature inside at about 45°F degrees.

Their landlord had set up space heaters to keep the water pipes inside the house from freezing.

The roommates pulled their mattresses into one room to keep warm. They played games and watched movies to pass the time.

“Right now, we are playing ‘Just Dance’ to generate our own heat,” she said.

On campus, Ball State hall directors and residence assistants organized impromptu activities to help entertain students as they stayed inside.

DeHority Complex resident assistants set up board games between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Monday and showed the BCS National Championship Game in their lobby, said Cory Diemler, a front desk employee.

In Elliot Hall, students offered ideas to RAs for activities their floors could participate in.

“If someone has an idea, they ask the hall director, then we do it,” said Katie Miller, a front desk employee. “Kind of just whatever they want to do.”

Jim Lowe, director of Facilities Planning and Management, said essential functions at the university operated as expected Monday and should continue to work normally today.

Lowe said it may be several days, though, before campus walkways are completely clear of snow.

Things are not going so smoothly elsewhere in the state.

Gov. Mike Pence declared a state of disaster emergency for 29 Indiana counties Monday including Delaware County and said, “the state stands ready to help Hoosiers as needed.”

Across Indiana, nearly 25,000 homes and businesses remained without power Monday. The storm caused railways to cease service and forced toll roads to ban trucks temporarily.

Emergency officials in the northern two-thirds of the state warned people to stay off the roads, many of which were rendered impassable because of heavy snow and winds that drifted over some roadways.

Additionally, many of those counties issued warnings asking everyone except emergency workers to avoid travel. At least one person had died from a crash on snow-covered roads.

The heaviest snowfall was 15 inches reported in Tipton, in the north-central area, according to the weather service.

Meanwhile in the south, where much of the precipitation fell as rain, Bloomington reported less than one inch of new snow.

Highway officials Monday afternoon reopened two major highways in the northwest — Interstate 65 between Lafayette and Merrillville and I-80/94 from the Illinois state line to Michigan City, but later closed I-65 again because of deteriorating conditions. Numerous state and local roads remained closed.

Indiana Department of Homeland spokesman John Erickson said National Guard crews were contributing highway and roadside assistance

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students are automatically charged for an e-textbook, which is available via Blackboard as long as a student is registered.

James Wells, SGA academic affairs committee chairperson, said many students are accustomed to having hard copy textbooks and should have the choice instead of being forced into an e-text.

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EFFECTS OF WINTER, NEAR AND FAR CAMPUS FUNCTIONS

Dining: Operate as normal Busing: Run from 7:15 a.m. to 11 p.m. with the exception of the blue loop Offices: Most campus offices will be closed AROUND THE STATE

Government offices: Set to open at 10 a.m.

Transportation: Crews continue to plow roads, most transportation bans have been lifted and helping emergency medical services reach patients.

Erickson said even some emergency vehicles were having trouble in the snow.

Muncie Mayor Dennis Tyler opened the City County Building as a shelter for those who

COUNTIES UNDER STATE OF DISASTER EMERGENCY

Clinton, Delaware, Elkhart, Fulton, Grant, Howard, Jasper, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Lake, LaPorte, Madison, Marshall, Montgomery, Newton, Noble, Porter, Pulaski, Rush, St. Joseph, Starke, Steuben, Sullivan, Tipton, Vermillion, Vigo, Wabash, White and Whitley

Source: The Associated Press, bsu.edu

need protection from the subzero temperatures expected to continue through today.

The city’s government buildings are scheduled to reopen at 10 a.m., and many university buildings will open at 11 a.m.

SHELTER: City, community efforts make safety a priority

| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 This drop became a lifethreatening temperature. He suffers from several health issues ranging from diabetes to fibromyalgia.

“I’ve had heart attacks, I’ve had strokes,” Fischer said.

“I still have trouble walking.

When I go downstairs, I get really shakey and I get weak, and then I just fall.”

That’s when the family realized they couldn’t make it through the night and called for help. “[The police] shoveled a path for us to get out, they were very nice,” Fischer said. “This is the first time I’ve ever had to do something like this.”

The family was taken to American Red Cross, one of several shelters for those in need.

Fire Chief Eddie Bell has transported four people to different destinations during the storm and had three or four trucks picking people up off the streets and helping them get to their destinations.

“There is a gentlemen who usually walks to dialysis,” Bell said. “I’ll be picking him up tomorrow at 5:45 and making sure he gets there and that [he] gets back home at nine.”

Providing as much information as possible has been key to the smoothness of the emergency services and the lack of injuries, Mayor Dennis Tyler and Bell said.

“If you notify people, odds are they are going to listen and react the way you want them to,” Bell said.

Marilyn Kay Walker, a center township trustee who mainly deals with poverty relief in the area, also has been heavily involved in coordinating relief.

She has worked in conjunction with Christian Ministries of Delaware County, the American Red Cross, the YWCA and the Muncie Mission to provide shelter for displaced residents, including Fischer and his family.

The American Red Cross houses, feeds, helps provide medical attention and if necessary, finds people a place to stay.

Lee Ann Mengelt, American Red Cross’ service center manager, said it isn’t the snow that poses the greatest threat to displaced residents, but the temperature.

While the shelters had many beds available, most were filled as a result of their daily operations.

“In total, there is an estimated 45 to 60 beds that

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Joseph Fischer shows an alert that came up on his phone at the American Red Cross shelter Monday. Fisher arrived at the shelter late Monday after his heat had shut off. Fisher, his wife and his mother-in-law did not know the storm was coming until it was already here.

were made available for residents who needed a place,” Walker said. “Christian Ministries added between 12 and 14 beds before the storm for women and children. YWCA takes in women and children, but often the boys have to be under the age of five.”

Walker said these shelters are sometimes gender-specific, making it difficult for some families.

“Last night, we had a family of three that came in, and I called her and she told me she only had two beds available,” she said. “The son that they had was really 17 and needed a full bed.”

The family was able to stay together after a couch was found for the son to use.

Preventative measures helped coordinate the different emergency organizations, Tyler said. “[Walker, Bell and I] wanted to be prepared,” he said. “If we need it, it’s there. If we don’t need it, so what? It’ll be there the next time. Practice helps you to not make mistakes when that emergency does hit you.”

The leaders kept in contact with texting, even late into the night.

“Even through all of this [Tyler] and I will text one another, we’ll call and ask, ‘Is everything okay?’” Walker said. “That’s the life of a public servant. You do it because you believe in it. Helping one another, helping people, and it’s a good feeling.”

Community businesses

CITY OFFICIALS REMEMBER SNOWSTORMS This is not the first times Muncie and some of its residents have dealt with major winter storms. Mayor Dennis Tyler was present for two such storms in 1978 and 2007, and reflected Monday about working through them.

1978

Muncie Mayor Dennis Tyler: “We had a lot of hypothermia.

People [were] stuck in their vehicles, completely stranded in the middle of the street.

First responders, like the fire department, had to get snowmobiles or four-wheel drive vehicles to get to people that were elderly or on medications. … We had a snow loader run over a couple of vehicles so that we could get through.”

In 1978, Daily News reported: “We’ve had only one case where a store was actually looted, but we’ve had 25 to 30 burglaries,” Shane McClellan, a Muncie detective, said in 1978. He said although there was a decrease in burglaries — compared to a similar pitched in to assist emergency services by feeding plow workers, volunteers, and displaced residents.

McDonald’s provided 50 hamburgers and 100 gallons of orange drink to relief shelters. “[McDonald’s] took the time for these McDoubles,” Walker said. “They fixed a variety.

It wasn’t, ‘Hey, here’s a Mc-

time period under normal conditions — police could not handle them.

Classes were canceled for three days in the 1978 blizzard.

2007

Muncie Mayor Dennis Tyler: “Our fear was, as what happened with the ice storm when that came through, was that if they can’t get that heat restored and it is 25, 35, 40 below zero with the wind chill factor, it’s not going to take very long for people’s lives to be in danger with those type of cold conditions.

In particular, if people start panicking and start going outside and try to find a place [to stay].”

In 2007, Daily News reported: A state of emergency was declared for unincorporated Delaware County, but not Muncie, according to Delaware County Emergency Management reports.

Classes for 2007 snowstorm were canceled for one and a half days.

Double’ — they gave them an option of what they could have. And then they gave a big container that we could make 100 gallons of orange drink, if need be.”

Greek’s Pizzeria also contacted Tyler to donate 18 pizzas to the crew at the sanitary district, which was helping clear the roads Monday night.

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Sweet success PHOTO COURTESY OF AUDREY HALL

The Cottage is a fudge shop in Albany, Ind., that Audrey Hall, a junior exercise science major, runs. The shop opened last October. Hall works closely with other local shops because she said supporting them and their crafts is important.

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ne student has found her shot at sweet success: opening a candy store.

This last October, junior exercise science major Audrey Hall opened The Cottage in Albany, Ind., a homemade fudge shop filled with creations she dreamed up. “[The decision to make] fudge mostly stemmed from the fact [that] it wasn’t a common item in the town of Albany,” Hall said. “There was a dime store that sold other candies, and we didn’t want to take away from them. We found something to set us apart.”

When she started, Hall’s only experience with fudge was making it a couple times at home. To make a name for herself, she not only needed to perfect the recipes, but produce them on a larger scale.

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Audrey Hall, a junior exercise science major, poses in The Cottage, her fudge shop in Albany, Ind.

PHOTO COURTESY OF AUDREY HALL

A ribbon cutting ceremony takes place at Audrey Hall’s The Cottage, a fudge shop in Albany, Ind. Hall said the bestselling fudge is a traditional peanut butter fudge.

The small stone building resembles something straight out of a fairy tale.

In past years, it has housed everything from a gas station to a hair salon. Hall’s parents, Dru and Selena, liked the building, and before they knew it, The Cottage celebrated its grand opening Oct. 23.

“We have a few frequent shoppers, but there has been quite a variety of people who have come in,” Hall said. “The ones I really enjoy are the visitors who are just swinging through.”

Making fudge is something she has learned as she goes. When customers stop in and share stories or talk about their favorite flavors, Hall gets new ideas.

“It keeps things fresh,” she said.

Though the bestseller is the traditional peanut butter fudge, Hall considers Butterfinger and orange cream to be her favorites.

She said The Cottage has virtually endless possibilities of flavor combinations.

One of the “weirdest” creations Hall said is raspberry crumb cake with the tang of the fruit and the warmth of the cinnamon. Another concoction is The Cottage’s original wildcat fudge — mixed vanilla and chocolate fudge with pieces of Heath bars, Reese’s cups and caramel layered throughout.

The store celebrated the holidays with

eggnog and candy cane fudges.

In addition to fudge, The Cottage works closely with Concannon’s, Debbie’s Handmade Soaps, Nana’s Candles and purchases eclectic jewelry from various suppliers. Hall said supporting local people and their crafts is important.

Balancing her course load at Ball State along with running her own business leaves little time for outside activities.

“Business is a tough arena, but we think that Audrey will have goals and aspirations that will be successful for a long time,” her father said. “We are glad to see our daughter become an educated young woman who has a great opportunity to add to her personal legacy and also support the goal of being a successful business woman.”

Hall plans to work in chiropractics and one day operate her own office, but for now, she is focused on finding time to add creativity to the store and its products.

“I want people to see something neat, unique, crafty and of course, tasty,” she said.

With her parents, friends and classmates supporting her every step of the way, Hall is sure The Cottage will be around long after her time at Ball State.

“Audrey is a star in our eyes,” her father said. “We do not mind sharing her with the world.”

‘Frozen’ tops box office, weather makes business suffer ‘The Marked Ones’ debuts in second, earns $18.2 million | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — Finally a box office topper we can really relate to. Disney’s “Frozen” retook the box-office top spot with $20.7 million, freezing out the horror spinoff “Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones.”

The snow and icy temperatures battering the Midwest and Northeast likely tempered the weekend’s box-office business.

“Everyone probably suffered a little bit from the weather,” said Don Harris, head of domestic distribution for Para-

mount. “It looked like no matter what movie it was, it was half a million to a $1 million less on Friday and Saturday than you would have been expecting, just based on what the norms were.”

Paramount’s “The Marked Ones” debuted in second place with $18.2 million, a total that includes Thursday night screenings, according to studio estimates Sunday. The film is a stand-alone story spun off from the lucrative, low-budget horror franchise “Paranormal Activity,” the fifth of which will be released in October.

But it wasn’t able to overcome Disney’s animated “Frozen,” which has been a hit for family audiences for the last seven weeks. It has now surpassed $600 million world-

wide, making it the second highest grossing Disney Animation release, behind “The Lion King.” It will soon pass that film’s $312 million domestic haul, too.

It’s extremely rare for a film to lead the box office in its seventh weekend, a feat accomplished by the likes of “Avatar” and, to go further back, “Legends of the Fall.”

It’s rarer still for a film to retake the box-office lead so late in its theatrical run. The last movie to do so was Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” in 2004, according to box-office tracker Rentrak.

Another hold-over, Warner Bros.’ “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” came in third with $16.3 million in its fourth week of release

after narrowly topping the busy Christmas weekend box office. Like “Frozen,” Peter Jackson’s second installment of his “Hobbit” trilogy has benefited from the lengthy holiday moviegoing season.

Its domestic cumulative total is $229.6 million.

“The Marked Ones,” made for just $5 million and starring a largely Hispanic cast, was the lone new wide release in the marketplace, as the large batch of late December releases looked to separate themselves from the pack.

Successes include Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street” ($63.3 million in two weeks for Paramount), David O. Russell’s acclaimed “American Hustle” ($88.7 million in four weeks for Sony) and the

Will Ferrell sequel “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues,” (well past $100 million domestically in three weeks for Paramount).

Having a harder time finding audiences are “47 Ronin” starring Keanu Reeves (a $175 million bomb for Universal earning $32.6 million in two weeks), the Robert De Niro-Sylvester Stallone boxing comedy “Grudge Match” ($24.9 million in two weeks for Warner Bros.) and Ben Stiller’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” ($45.7 million in two weeks for 20th Century Fox).

“It’s like traffic on the freeway,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Rentrak. “At this level of competition, there are always going to be casualties.”

HIGHEST GROSSING WEEKEND FILMS 1. “Frozen,” $20.7 million 2. “Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones,” $18.2 million 3. “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” $16.3 million 4. “The Wolf of Wall Street,” $13.4 million 5. “American Hustle,” $13.2 million 6. “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues,” $11.1 million 7. “Saving Mr. Banks,” $9.1 million 8. “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” $8.2 million 9. “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” $7.4 million 10. “Grudge Match,” $5.4 million

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As head coach Pete Lembo talked to the press after the 20-23 loss to Arkansas State in the GoDaddy Bowl, senior quarterback Keith Wenning was seated behind him, looking at the floor.

Lembo looked down to his quarterback asked, “You ready, bud?�

Wenning looked up at his coach, and without a moment’s hesitation said, “Yeah.� He stood up and began his turn at facing the postgame media.

Wenning completed just 23-of-44 passes for just 215 yards. He also threw his seventh interception of the season on an ugly play where Wenning didn’t see an opposing linebacker.

It shows how great of a season Wenning had for Ball State when it feels strange to think of Wenning throwing an interception this season. The last interception he threw was against Northern Illinois in November, and even that was in the waning moments of the game, with Wenning making desperation passes.

It was clear from the beginning of the bowl game, Wenning was off. He missed throws he’s made all season. Four of his first five passes landed incomplete.

It is without question that it was terrible timing for Wenning to have an off game.

However, no matter the result of the game or Wenning’s performance in the loss, it shouldn’t mitigate what he’s done for the Ball State football program.

He is still the only player in Ball State history to pass for 4,000 yards in a single season, a threshold he crossed Sunday night.

Wenning has certainly left his impact on Ball State, leaving it a better place on the field and off, too.

They should remember the good times with Wenning, such as his night against Indiana University in 2011 at Lucas Oil Stadium. He also had a masterful performance in the offense’s career day in a blowout against Army on Family Weekend the same season. More recently, he dissected an ACC defense in a statement win at Virginia.

He still is in the conversation, at the very least, of being the best player in Ball State history.

After all, he was always ready to do what was necessary, without a moment’s hesitation.

Coach plans to test team to determine his starting lineup

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Just days into the start of the men’s volleyball season, there’s nothing definite about starting lineups.

Joel Walton is no stranger to that. As head coach of the team, one of his jobs is to tinker with the starting lineup until he’s satisfied.

It becomes easier as the season wears on when players show their full potential and settle into roles but for now, he’s left to watch in practice. “There are guys that are earning their way into starting roles or support roles because of their play daily,� Walton said. “They’re getting the respect of the coaching staff and of their teammates.�

He and his coaching staff aren’t just watching how well plays are run during practice.

They’re critiquing each player, watching to see where improvements need to be made.

Whichever players have the best weeks of practice are more liable to crack the starting lineup when game time arrives.

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practice, coaches watch to see how well the pair is passing the ball along with whether they’re receiving the ball well off serves as well as digging.

Both Walton and senior middle attacker Kevin Owens said they thought Ball State’s serve receive and passing were poor in the loss to UC Irvine, and it would be addressed this week in practice.

Those skills aren’t just subjected to liberos. Walton said his left side attackers also have to be able to serve receive and pass in addition to serving, blocking and attacking.

Middle attackers are subject to blocking and attacking while the right side attackers are forced into less glamorous positions. “Those guys are usually the garbage collectors,� Walton said. “If there’s a bad pass, he has to be brave enough to go up and swing with two and three blockers and still be successful.�

He also wants his right side attackers to be able to dig and serve well, possibly asking more of them than any other position on the roster.

There have been some players in practice that have stood out early on. Junior Matt Sutherland along with junior Shane Witmer and sophomore Marcin Niemczewski have performed well, Walton said. All three players received game time against UC Irvine.

It isn’t just practice that Walton uses to critique players.

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The Ball State cheerleaders lead off some of Ball State’s participants in a Mardi Gras-style parade Saturday in downtown Mobile, Ala. Hundreds of Ball State fans, Arkansas State fans and Mobile citizens packed the streets of downtown to watch the parade.

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Members of the Ball State football team look down from the upper decks of the USS Alabama on Saturday.

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Head coach Pete Lembo comes out of the gate with the team before kickoff at the GoDaddy Bowl on Sunday in Mobile, Ala. Ball State was tied with Arkansas State moving into the half with a score of 10-10.

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A parade member taunts an attendee with beads. A parade went through downtown Mobile, Ala., the night before the GoDaddy Bowl.