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Senior running back Jahwan Edwards broke the Ball State record for the most rushing yards in a career on Saturday. He has rushed for a total of 4,013 yards so far.

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When the Ball State senior running back was going through the recruiting process during his time at Butler High School in North Carolina, he only received one D-I offer.

For a football player who believed he had what it took to make it at a larger program, it was a shot to his ego.

“It was really hard for me because I knew

I could play with everybody, I played with guys who went to bigger schools,” Edwards said. “I thought I was going to be at one of those programs. I didn’t want to let the coaches here down; I wanted them to know they made the right choice.”

Edwards is a four-year starter for the Cardinals and set the record for most rushing yards in a career at Ball State against Central Michigan, accumulating 4,013 yards so far.

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JAHWAN EDWARDS, SENIOR RUNNING BACK • 43 games played • 776 attempts • 4,013 yards rushing • 5.2 average • 46 touchdowns

EDWARDS’ RECORD-BREAKING RUSHING YARDS Jahwan Edwards broke the Ball State record for career rushing yards on Saturday against Central Michigan. In comparison to the previous record holder, Marcus Merriweather, Edwards started off his Ball State career strong with 650 more rushing yards in his first season. He broke the record with 75 less attempts than Merriweather’s total career attempts. Here is how Edwards’ career rushing yards and attempts thus far compare to Merriweather’s.

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FRESHMAN RETENTION RATES INCREASE Increase of standards leads to more students returning for 2nd year KARA BERG CHIEF REPORTER | knberg2@bsu.edu

More students are staying at Ball State to finish their education, the 2013 cohort retention rate shows.

The university’s freshman retention rate is up to 81.7 percent, almost three percentage points higher than in 2012, and five points higher than in 2006, said Kay Bales, vice president for student affairs.

The university planned to meet a first-year retention rate of 80 percent by 2017, according to Ball State’s strategic plan.

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“The number in and of itself isn’t the end that we’re looking for, but I think it’s a measure of how successful our students are at the university,” Bales said.

“Our goal is to help every student succeed, so we look at the retention rate as a measure of that success.”

Indiana University has a 2013 beginner cohort retention rate of 76.7 percent, which is down one percentage point from the previous cohort, according to iu.edu.

Purdue’s rate, however, is continually growing. In 2013, theirs was 92.6 percent, which is up from 91 percent for the 2012 cohort.

Bales said the standards of this year’s freshmen help explain the retention.

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“We also have a number of staff that are dedicated to helping students cross barriers [students] may be experiencing that could stop them from making progress or returning to the institution,” Bales said.

The university has an office of retention and graduation with specialists who work with students to ensure they stay at the university. The office is three years old, and the retention and graduation specialist for first-time freshman position was created in the fall of 2013.

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Since his first internship in Cherry Valley, Calif., in 1988, Robert G. La France has worked with art and museums.

His interest in museums sparked during his year abroad in Italy during his junior year of college, studying its culture and exploring its museums.

On July 1, La France joined the David Owsley Museum of Art as its newest director.

La France worked in museums as a researcher, a curator and as a welfare officer in California, prior to joining the Ball State staff.

Last January, while working for the University of Illinois, La France saw a painting he wanted to buy for the university’s art museum. He was unable to do so due to Illinois’ budget. A few months later, La France met David Owsley and told him about his love of the painting.

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1. NORTH KOREA FREES U.S. MAN, 2 MORE DETAINED

WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea’s reclusive government abruptly freed an American man Tuesday, nearly six months after he was arrested on charges of leaving a Bible in a nightclub, but Pyongyang refused to hand over two other U.S. citizens who are still being held.

There was no immediate explanation for the release of Jeffrey Fowle, who was quickly whisked to the U.S. territory of Guam before heading back to his wife and

three children in Miamisburg, Ohio. Relations between Washington and Pyongyang, never warm, are at a particularly low point, and the U.S. has sought unsuccessfully for months to send a high-level representative to North Korea to negotiate acquittals for all three men.

Fowle’s wife, Tatyana, “screamed when I told her,” said family attorney Timothy Tepe, who received a call from the State Department with word of the release.

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Mike Pence is standing by his decision not to seek a federal preschool grant worth up to $80 million.

Pence issued a statement Tuesday saying his administration is focused on next year’s start of a five-county pre-K pilot program approved by the General Assembly this year. He said federal funding would not guarantee success.

School Superintendent Glenda Ritz and two members of the Indiana State Board of Education called on Pence to reconsider his decision after the U.S. Education Department extended the application deadline to Wednesday. The grant would be worth $20 million over up to four years. Ritz said Indiana is among only 16 states eligible to apply.

2. EBOLA CAUSES SPIKE IN DEMAND FOR GEAR BALTIMORE (AP) — Manufacturers and distributors of impermeable gowns and full-body suits meant to protect medical workers from Ebola are scrambling to keep up with a surge of new orders from U.S. hospitals, with at least one doubling its staff and still facing a week-long backlog.

Many hospitals said they already have the proper equipment in place but are ordering more supplies to prepare for a possible new case of Ebola.

This gear is made of material that does not absorb fluids and is crucial to preventing the spread of the virus, which has infected thousands across West Africa, many of whom caught the disease while

caring for those infected. Ebola is transmitted through direct contact, through cuts or mucous membranes, with bodily fluids such as blood, vomit and feces, and proper protective equipment helps prevent doctors and nurses from accidentally getting any fluids in their eyes, nose or mouth.

Hospitals are paying close attention to the type of protective gear they stock after two nurses contracted Ebola earlier this month while caring for a Liberian man dying of the disease at a Dallas hospital. The nurses were exposed to the disease during what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called a “breach in protocol” at the hospital.

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GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization is pressing the search for an Ebola vaccine and hopes to begin testing two experimental versions as early as January on more than 20,000 front-line health care workers and others in West Africa’s hot zone — a bigger rollout than envisioned just a few months ago.

An effective vaccine would not in itself be enough to stop the outbreak

NEW YORK (AP) — Fun, sunny, romantic. Oscar de la Renta approached fashion and life on those terms, but there was more, so much more, those who loved and admired the designer say.

The “more,” Vogue’s Anna Wintour wrote Tuesday on the magazine’s website, was “democratic.”

By that, she meant de la Renta possessed the sensibility, the ease, to dine with the rich and famous but

— for one thing, there probably won’t be enough doses to go around — but it could give important protection to the medical workers who are central to the effort. More than 200 of them have died of the disease.

The WHO, which has come under fire for bungling its initial reaction to the Ebola crisis, is helping coordinate trials of two of the most promising experimental vaccines.

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De la Renta, at 82, died Monday at home in Kent, Conn., surrounded by family, friends and his beloved dogs after more than four decades in the fashion industry. A handwritten statement signed by his stepdaughter Eliza Reed Bolen and her husband, Alex Bolen, did not specify a cause of death, but de la Renta had spoken in the past of having cancer.

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With two matches remaining on its schedule, the Ball State field hockey team plays at 3 p.m. at Kent State.

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One consistent aspect of the Ball State women’s volleyball team this season has been the play of its setter, Jenna Spadafora.

A junior, Spadafora has helped lead the Cardinals through an overall inconsistent offensive season. However, she recently helped deliver Ball State’s “best offensive match of the year,” said head coach Steve Shondell.

Ball State’s starting setter dished out 44 assists in a 3-0 win over Kent State on Saturday.

Spadafora helped four of her teammates hit .400 or better in the match, en route to a season-high team .358 attack percentage, one day after Ball State hit just .134 against a stout Ohio defense.

The Cardinal offense has been

up and down as the year has progressed, but Spadafora has provided her attackers with consistent opportunities.

She currently has 845 assists on the season, ranking third in the Mid-American Conference.

Her 10.06 per set average is good enough for fifth in the league.

While assists remain her main focus, Spadafora said getting involved in killing the ball helps her teammates as well.

“I think it honestly helps my hitters out,” she said after a win over Toledo on Oct. 9. “If I’m attacking, I count as a third attacker, so again someone has to be in charge of blocking me, then it opens up our slide and our outside.”

Spadafora has attacked this season to the tune of 90 kills, ranking fifth on the team.

She averages just over a kill per set at 1.07, and has been efficient with a .243 attack percentage.

Passing has become an improved aspect of the Ball State offense, opening up more opportunities for Spadafora to take advantage of opposing defenses.

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“Our passers are doing so well that it gives me the opportunity to attack. It just adds all-around to our offense,” she said.

Spadafora gets the offense started as a server during rotation and has 14 service aces on the season.

In addition to contributing offensively, Spadafora has also made an impact on the defensive side, trailing behind only redshirt junior Hayley Benson with 52 blocks.

Spadafora’s impact is clear, as she is only one of three Cardinals to play in all of the team’s 84 sets.

As the regular season concludes, Spadafora will look to continue her efficient offensive DN PHOTO BREANNA DAUGHERTY play, while also contributing to Jenna Spadafora, a junior setter, had 44 assists in a 3-0 win over Kent State on Saturday. Spadafora is only one of three an improved Cardinal defense.

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DAVID POLASKI DAVID POLASKI IS THE CHIEF FOOTBALL REPORTER FOR THE DAILY NEWS. HE FOLLOWS THE TEAM ON A CONSISTENT BASIS, TRAVELING TO ROAD GAMES AND ATTENDING PRACTICE REGULARLY.

Q: Jahwan Edwards has had to grind things out the past two weeks ... how do you make sure he doesn’t get too overworked?

A: “Jahwan has had to earn every yard he’s gotten ... it’s going to be three yards here, four yards there. If we can get five or six, that’s even better.”

Q: How would you rate Jack Milas’ performance in the last two games?

A: “I would rate his first two weeks as good and encouraging. I like how he’s taken advantage of the opportunity.”

Q: With Akron’s defensive prowess this season, is there any extra emphasis during practice this week on playing smart when you’re on offense?

A: “I like to think we emphasize that every week ... it’s more about doing what we do and staying the course.”

David’s Explanation Edwards finished the Central Michigan game with 32 rushes and two receptions, and took a pretty substantial beating in the process. To make things more difficult, change of pace back Horactio Banks is out with a hamstring injury, meaning the workload won’t decrease for Edwards. However, Edwards is a power back and has the size to carry the load on offense. If necessary, Ball State can also go to Teddy Williamson to spell Edwards for a couple of plays.

David’s Explanation Milas has come out in his first two games and sparked the Ball State offense. He’s thrown five touchdowns and no interceptions, moving the ball down the field consistently and impressing the coaching staff. Lembo praised his ability to think on the run, citing a play against Central Michigan when he fumbled a snap, then picked it up and found KeVonn Mabon for a touchdown.

David’s Explanation Akron has given up just 18.1 points per game this season, by far the best in the Mid-American Conference. The team is also No. 2 in rushing yards given up per game and passing yards allowed per game in the MAC. It’ll be one of the hardest tests Ball State’s offense faces all season, and it can’t afford to turn the ball over or commit penalties that back the offense up and make life easier for the Akron defense.

DEFENSIVE BACK, KICKER WIN AWARDS Ball State defensive back Eric Patterson and kicker Scott Secor received awards following their performances against Central Michigan.

Secor was awarded MidAmerican Conference West Special Teams Player of the Week, while Patterson received MAC West Defensive Player of the Week.

Patterson finished the game with 10 tackles, a forced fumble and two interceptions, the final one quelling Central Michigan’s final drive.

Secor went 4-4 on field goals during the game, including a career-long 55-yard field goal with 17 seconds left, giving Ball State a 32-29 win.

Ball State will host Akron at 2 p.m. on Saturday.

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XAVIER FINISHES IN 1ST AT INVITATIONAL The Dayton Fall Invitational concluded Tuesday, but Ball State did not compete as a team.

Junior Tyler Ostrom had the strongest performance out of four Ball State individuals, with a two-day score of 154, tying for 38th place.

Redshirt junior Derek Kundenreich tied for 65th place with a final score of 158, with Albert Jennings finishing at 165 and sophomore Quentyn Carpenter at 168.

Xavier finished first as a team at 587 (+19), while Dayton’s George Rohde III won the individual ladder by one stroke at 141 (-1).

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EDWARDS: Running back improves academic standing throughout college career | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Not bad for a player that had 127 D-I teams pass him by.

It wasn’t as if he didn’t show talent. He scored 33 touchdowns as a senior in high school and was named the most valuable player during his team’s state champion games his junior and senior years.

But his work inside the classroom scared some teams away.

Edwards said he was a 2.0 student before he came to Ball State, but didn’t want to reach the point where he was more worried about his grades than helping his team win.

“He was a modest student in high school and certainly a guy that we knew would have to mature in that capacity when he got here,” head coach Pete Lembo said.

Edwards said he wishes he had been more vocal and talked to more people when first joining the team. He described himself as an introvert who doesn’t

have a best friend on the team, but instead views the entire roster as a family who supports and comforts him, being so far away from his blood relatives.

Edwards became Ball State’s starting running back for the final seven games his freshman season. Since then, he’s been a constant source of reliability on an offense that’s had variables changing every season.

He’s the only player on offense to start all four seasons. When he lines up in the backfield and looks around, there isn’t a single other player on the field who he lined up with as a freshman.

But four years ago, he didn’t know what to expect.

“I was really lost, I didn’t know what my role was going to be,” Edwards said. “I didn’t want to redshirt or sit out a year. I wanted to play football and keep my mind off of missing home.”

Lembo described Edwards as “a pudgy guy who was pushing 235,” when he arrived as a freshman. Through the help of

INDIVIDUAL STATS JAHWAN EDWARDS, SENIOR RUNNING BACK • Position: Running back • Height: 5-foot-10 • Weight: 219 pounds • Year: Senior • 92 yards passing vs. Bowling Green • Hometown: Matthews, N.C. (Butler) • Major: Sports Administration strength and conditioning coordinator David Feeley, Edwards is down to 219 pounds and has added significantly more muscle.

“There are days when I push myself to limits I never knew I had,” Edwards said. “I’ve pushed myself until I threw up, until I went home and had to sleep the whole day. Adversity makes a person.”

When running backs coach and special teams coordinator

Justin Lustig met him, Lustig was surprised after only seeing him on videos.

“You watch him on film, he looked like a little scat back, he was quick and made people miss,” Lustig said. “My first impression when I met him was, ‘Wow, this guy is a lot bigger than he looks on film.’”

That size has helped lead Edwards into the record books.

Despite being the top rusher in Ball State history, both in yards and in touchdowns, he wants to impact the team in as many ways as possible. He plays special teams and often volunteers to take other units on the team.

He doesn’t care what kind of stats he produces if Ball State doesn’t win.

“He could rush for 200 yards and we lose, and he’s got a sad face,” Lustig said. “I’ll show him game film after a loss and compliment him on something. He’ll get pissed off and say something like ‘How can you compliment me if we

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Jahwan Edwards is the only player on offense to start as a running back for all four seasons. Edwards has been a consistent source of reliability for the offense each season.

didn’t win the game.’”

The Cardinals steadily increased their win total throughout his first three seasons at Ball State, and the same can be said about Edwards’

dedication as a student.

And there’s one thing he’s particularly proud of that has nothing to do with football.

“I got up to a 3.2 grade point average,” he said, with a smile.

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Art Director of the David Owsley Museum of Art Robert La France originally wanted to purchase the piece “Fête Champêtre”

by Jean-Baptiste Pater from Owsley. However, Owsley informed him it was already at Ball State, leading to La France taking the art director position.

Owsley told La France he had bought the painting and sent it to Ball State’s museum one week prior.

“I decided it was my destiny to follow the [painting], which landed me here,” La France said.

Now, La France oversees the museum, operating it on its size and scale. The David Owsley Museum contains about 10,500 objects.

“We’re a really good size,” La France said. “Much of the collection was chosen by David Owsley. He was a curator and chose high-quality stuff.”

One of La France’s goals for the museum is to try to partner with other museums, especially those of other major colleges.

La France’s main idea is to

get every Ball State student to walk through the museum at least once during their college career. Every student can be involved with the museum from the first day of freshman year to their last day as a senior or graduate school, La France said.

He has even begun targeting students before they step foot on campus as freshmen.

“It would be great to get students in here during orientation,” La France said.

To help draw students in, La France and his team have set up different events for the museum.

One of his favorites is Final Friday, featuring Pecha Kucha presentations this month, an event that happens on the last Friday of every month. For Final Fridays, the museum finds an interactive

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Since most lectures do not appeal to the millennials generation, the programs are made up of five or six talks that spotlight the ideas of people of this generation.

Tania Said Schuler, the museum’s director of education, said Final Fridays were made possible because of La France’s arrival and partnerships.

Both said they hope to connect with Ball State community members. They plan to add art from every culture to the museum to attract a broader group of people. The goal of the museum is to not just tell people about the exhibits, but find their own place in it.

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NEWS

FRAUD:

Trustees yet to decide legal action | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The Board of Trustees has not decided on legal action or next steps in recovering investments the university lost from fraud, according to a recent investigation.

President Paul Ferguson and Board of Trustees Chair Rick Hall shared their report to the State Budget Committee on Friday.

In a June interview with the Daily News, Randy Howard, the former vice president of business and treasurer, said the contingency reserves would keep short term effects of the loss in money at bay and that the university would “have a lot of time to recoup them.”

By reflecting the losses the university is essentially “closing the book,” said Tom Taylor, vice president for enrollment, marketing and communications.

“With this challenging period behind us, Ball State is moving forward with a stronger financial system and a collaborative leadership team,” Taylor said.

Crowe Horwath also added recommendations for Ball State in the internal control evaluation, including: • Reviewing the investment account every month as opposed to every three months • Allowing internal reporting to go directly to the President and Board of Trustees instead of the Vice President of Business Affairs and

Treasurer first • Task the Board of Trustees with strategizing and reviewing investment procedures • Establishing of a whistleblower hotline that provides privacy to those reporting inappropriate behavior “Internal controls are only effective when fully followed. Individuals charged with that responsibility failed us,” Hall said in a press release. “That said, as with all areas of the university, the board expects our internal controls to reflect current best practices, and the review recommended several improvements.”

Gale Prizevoits, the former director of cash and investments for Ball State during the time of the fraudulent investments, was fired on Oct. 24, 2011.

As far as legal action, Taylor said Daniel’s findings from her examination of the fraud case are being sent to state and federal officials for review.

If sufficient evidence exists to prompt prosecution, government agencies will be the ones to make the decisions.

The two men convicted of defrauding the university at different times, Seth Beoku Betts and George Montolio, have both been sentenced to prison and ordered to sell items to make up for the money taken from Ball State.

Montolio was sentenced in March of 2013 and Betts was sentenced in June of this year.

FRAUD TIMELINE CONTINUED

JAN. 22, 2009 Seth Beoku Betts buys a 4,662-square-foot house in Boynton Beach, Fla., putting $1,545,000 of the university’s money away to do so. He goes on to use $455,000 on himself.

OCT. 24, 2011 Prizevoits is terminated following the internal investigation that found she made a series of investments that broke university policy.

APRIL 27, 2010 Gale Prizevoits signs a contract for $5 million with Blackhawk Wealth Solutions Inc. President Peter R. Sollenne to buy unrestricted U.S. government Treasury STRIPS, with the university getting 25 percent of the net profits.

NOV. 7, 2011 To repay those he defrauded, including the university, Montolio consents to the forfeiture of items he purchased with that money — four separate Morris Avenue properties in Bronx, N.Y., a 2010 Chevrolet Camaro, an authentic baseball jersey signed by Mickey Mantle and an authentic pair of boxing gloves signed by Mike Tyson.

JUNE 29, 2010 Blackhawk sends a letter to Prizevoits, saying it had sent $3 million to George Montolio’s company in May, but that it was working to secure a return of that money.

MARCH 7, 2013 A Southern District of New York judge sentences Montolio to three years in prison.

AUG. 25 TO OCT. 29, 2010 Criminal investigator Scott F. Romonowski reviews records of this time period of Sheridan Capitals’ bank account, controlled by Montolio. He finds that account balance to be zero, though the time period once held $3 million of university’s money.

SEPTEMBER 2010 Prizevoits contacts Montolio by phone, receiving the number from Blackhawk, and asks his company to confirm it held the university’s $3 million. Montolio agrees, sending a confirmation form by fax Sept. 22, 2010.

SEPTEMBER 2011 The U.S. Attorneys’ Office tells Ball State that it might be a victim of fraud, prompting an internal investigation that uncovers two potential cases. The university hands over that information to the office.

SEPT. 23, 2011 Montolio is arrested on a charge of wire fraud.

JUNE 20, 2013 Betts is arrested on a charge of wire fraud for operating a scheme to defraud the university.

DEC. 11, 2013 Betts’ Boynton Beach, Fla., house sells for $1,050,000 as part of restitution to the university.

JUNE 5, 2014 A U.S. District judge sentences Betts to four years and three months in prison for defrauding Ball State.

JULY 10, 2014 Rick Hall, chair of the Board of Trustees, announces he will hire Deborah Daniels — a former U.S. attorney, U.S. assistant attorney general and former Gov. Mitch Daniels’ sister — to look at the fraud cases and suggest changes to internal controls.

– ASHLEY DYE SOURCE: University documents provided to the Daily News and through public records requests, the FBI and federal complaints from the Southern District of New York

RETENTION: Living-learning communities increase retention rates, university says

| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Mitch Isaacs is the first-time freshman specialist, and works with struggling students to create an action plan to make sure they are successful.

“Our job is to identify students who are struggling,” Isaacs said.

“We figure out who those students are and reach out to them, talk with them and find out what their issues and challenges are, and ... connect them to the university resources they need.”

Isaacs stressed it wasn’t just the office of retention and graduation that made a difference in the retention rate, but a joint effort through many people and programs at the university.

“There really is a collaborative effort, retention is everyone’s job,” Isaacs said. “It really takes that mentality from the whole university.”

The university also promotes higher retention rates through the 21st Century Scholars Pro-

gram, the commuter ambassadors program and living and learning communities. Bales said all of them are positively associated with retention.

The university has 13 livinglearning communities, and Joel Bynum, assistant director for coordination of living and learning communities, said they help students because they can live with and have class with the same people, so they can get to know each other easier.

The living and learning communities relate to majors and interest areas and help connect students to each other, Bynum said.

“The whole point behind it is to help them get connected more quickly and easily sooner, because the more connected you are to the university, the more likely it is you’ll stay and enjoy your experience at Ball State and be successful in your learning,” Bynum said.

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