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Cornerback asks coaching staff to cover opponent’s best player POLASKI CHIEF REPORTER | DAVID @DavidPolaski

When it comes to stopping an opponent’s offense, Eric Patterson wants a challenge.

The No. 1 corner on the Ball State football team, Patterson made it clear to his coaches and teammates leading up to the game two weeks ago against Central Michigan, that he wanted to cover Titus Davis, Central Michigan’s most dominating receiver.

“Playing against [Davis], that was big. I knew they were going throw the ball to his side a lot,” Patterson said. “I wanted our best player to be on their best player.”

Though Davis finished the game with 10 receptions for 128 yards and two touchdowns, Patterson recorded two intercep- ERIC PATTERSON, tions as Ball State went on to win SENIOR CORNERBACK 32-29. The first of his interceptions came in the third quarter when he jumped in front of the intended receiver and plucked the ball from the air. The second came during the final play of the game, sealing the victory.

When each play begins, Patterson said he backpedals three steps and watches the quarterback to see if he’s looking at the receiver he’s covering.

If the quarterback tries to fire a quick slant to the receiver, Patterson is there to jump the route for an interception, knock the ball away or be in position to make a tackle.

Report ranks city 7th best town for centrist Americans

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uncie is one of the most moderate towns in the U.S., despite the liberal lean of most college towns, a new report shows.

Livability.com named Muncie its seventh best town to live in for people at the center of the political spectrum.

The website looked at political and nonpolitical factors to determine four

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areas that help quantify what makes cities like Muncie best for people in the center.

“We already have the best places to live, but we wanted to talk about the political life and the consumer aspects of some of those places,” said Matt Carmichael, vice president and editor for Livability.com.

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Director says recent travelers should call if symptoms appear MOREFIELD STAFF REPORTER | DOMINIQUE damorefield@bsu.edu

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The Ball State Health Center said it is preparing a plan to handle Ebola if it ever reaches campus.

Deidre Dorman, medical director of the Amelia T. Wood Health Center, said they have been working on the protocol with IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital and Ball State since August.

“Our protocol involves screening incoming international students if coming from West Africa, screening students that walk in, and we have reached out to the study abroad program as well,” Dorman said.

She said students should call to YOU report Ebola symptoms before go- ARE LIKELY TO ing anywhere.

GET EBOLA? “At this time, the most impor- Columnist clarifies tant information will be for stu- misinformation, dents who have traveled to call impact of virus the Health Center if they develop + PAGE 4 any symptoms, so that they can be screened over the phone to determine how to direct their care instead of having them walk in to be seen,” Dorman said. “The response if Ebola came to campus would be based on the risk of exposure, the severity of the case and would be determined by a coordinated effort with BSU, IUH [Indiana University Health], BMH and ISDOH.”

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PANEL DISCUSSES EDUCATIONAL REFORM « I see fourth graders throwing up

Teacher development major enrollment falls 25 percent, students hopeful about future BERG CHIEF REPORTER | KARA knberg2@bsu.edu

because they’re so stressed. As educators, we feel like a hamster on a wheel. »

Despite falling enrollment in Ball State’s education programs, current and former educators discussed the importance of teaching at a panel Tuesday.

Undergraduate teacher development enrollment has dropped about 25 percent at Ball State, said John Jacobson, dean of the Teachers College.

Jacobson was the moderator at a panel discussion about educational reform, where state representative Sue Errington, education students, teachers and members of different charter school associations spoke.

They showed the film “Rise Above the Mark,” which focuses on school reform struggles in Indiana.

ELLY ANDREWS, principal at Charles Elementary K School in Richmond Mike Gustin, the president of Options Charter Schools in Hamilton County, said the statehouse has slowly begun to encroach on education.

“They started pushing testing higher and higher on us,” Gustin said. “It happened so slowly, you kind of waited for the revolt to happen ... and it just never happened.”

Gustin said parents tell children they aren’t smart enough to go into certain career paths, all because of testing scores and how they perform on standardized tests.

The amount of testing students should be subjected to is one highly debated issue within education.

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Sarah Reason, a junior elementary and special education major, talks about her feelings on going into teaching professionally. Reason spoke on a panel Tuesday about the education system in Indiana.

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Sarah Reason, one of the student speakers and the founder and president of Students for Education Reform, works at a third-grade school.

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3. HOUSE REPUBLICANS ROLL OUT ATTACK ADS WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans rolled out late-campaign attack ads tying Democrats to an unpopular President Barack Obama on Tuesday as the chief executive embarked on a round of travel to boost gubernatorial candidates in a half-dozen states.

One week before election day, the television ad wars neared a crescendo in the battle for Senate control.

In the area around Louisville, Ky., campaign officials said target voters could expect to see an average of 97 commer-

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s commander in the fight against Ebola was expected to operate below the public radar. But did that mean invisible?

Ron Klain has barely been seen, and a week before midterm elections, Obama is pressing to dispel criticism that the government can’t manage the Ebola crisis.

States like New York and New Jersey are taking public steps that are far firmer than federal guidelines. That’s creating the appearance of a crazy quilt of Ebola measures.

cials related to the contest in the final week. The region is ground zero in the race between Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes.

Republican hopes of capturing the Senate received a boost in Kansas, where the Tea Party Patriots Citizen Fund announced support for embattled Sen. Pat Roberts in his race with independent Greg Orman — after opposing the 78-year-old incumbent in the GOP primary.

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2. UNMANNED ROCKET EXPLODES AFTER LIFTOFF CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An unmanned commercial supply ship bound for the International Space Station exploded moments after liftoff Tuesday evening, with debris falling in flames over the launch site.

No injuries were reported following the first catastrophic launch in NASA’s commercial spaceflight effort.

Orbital Sciences Corp.’s Antares rocket blew up over the launch complex at Wallops Island, Va., just six seconds after liftoff. The company said everyone at the launch site had been accounted for, and the damage

appeared to be limited to the facilities.

Flames could be seen shooting into the sky as the sun set.

“Maintain your consoles,” Orbital Sciences’ Mission Control informed the roomful of engineers and technicians. All data were being collected to use in the ensuing investigation.

The Cygnus cargo ship was loaded with 5,000 pounds of experiments and equipment for the six people living on the space station. It was the fourth Cygnus bound for the orbiting lab; the first flew just more than a year ago.

PAHOA, Hawaii (AP) — A river of asphalt-black lava that has slowly snaked through unoccupied land for months has burned down a shed on residential property on Hawaii’s Big Island.

Lava burned the empty wooden shed Tuesday and came within 200 yards of two homes in Pahoa Village, the commercial center of the island’s agricultural Puna district.

Dozens of residents in the rural

community have been told they might have to evacuate because of the slowmoving flow.

Meanwhile, officials said an elementary school in the molten stream’s projected path will be closed starting Wednesday.

Depending on which side of the flow students live on, they’ll either go to a newly built temporary facility or other area schools starting Nov. 7 and 10.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — More than a thousand evangelical pastors and others — gathered for a threeday conference to steel the resolve of Christians who preach that gay relationships are sinful — were asked how many live in a state that recognizes same-sex marriage.

“This moral revolution is happening at warp speed,” said the Rev. Albert Mohler,

president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. “This is a real challenge to us on biblical authority.”

Speakers at the event said they understood they were on the losing end of the culture war on marriage.

But they were prepared to be the voice of a moral minority because gay marriage is a “rejection of God’s law,” said Mohler.

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LIVABILITY: | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The point of the list is to give potential future residents an idea of the kind of community they will be joining based on shopping and political habits, he added.

The four areas the website evaluated to determine its most moderate cities were ideology of the representation, voting of the residents, political leanings of the residents and how shopping habits of the residents relate to political affiliations.

“If we were a political site, we would do a straight up most liberal or conservative cities,” Carmichael said. “Since we are a best place to live site, we want to get at some of the lifestyle choices as well.”

Gene Frankland, a professor of political science, said a conventional political analysis of the locations of moderates would mainly involve polling or looking at where the swing states are, not the consumer habits of an area, which Livability did.

The website examined buying habits by asking Experian Marketing Services to create a list of goods to determine which sides of the political aisle prefer what products and services.

They took this standard of measure and looked at the highest concentration of these goods – periodicals, cars and TV shows – in cities.

For instance, because liberals were found to prefer Subaru cars, Livability determined which areas had a large number of Subaru owners.

Muncie’s placement comes as a surprise to Erica Walsh, a senior economics and logistics and supply chain management major and president of the College Democrats of Indiana.

The College Republicans were unavailable for comment.

“I can’t believe we got called a centrist, because campus is fairly liberal and the city is mostly poor people when you look at the median income,” Walsh said. “Typically, poor people vote democrat.”

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ty, in terms of affordability, puts the placement in perspective, she said.

“We have a pretty solid mix here,” she said. “Since we have such a variety, that shows it a little bit.”

From a political science standpoint, the website’s methodology is a little strange, Frankland said.

“We probably wouldn’t look at buying habits – probably swing states and polling,” Frankland said. “It sounds like an unusual approach, but that doesn’t mean it’s bad, just different.”

To determine an area’s ideology, Livability looked at city, county and congressional districts and how they sit on the political spectrum by examining GovTrack’s analysis of members of the House of Representatives.

For figuring out what people believe on a personal level, the website looked at selfreported political leanings from Esri and country voting records from the 2012 presidential election, specifically the Mitt Romney and Barack Obama split.

Muncie’s split in 2012 was 50 percent for Obama and 47 percent for Romney.

“There was one paid person here in Indiana [campaigning for Obama], and there were so many more in 2008,” Walsh said. “So I think that would have been a better measure.”

The top 10 liberal towns include a number of college towns like Berkeley, but the conservative towns are mostly located in the rural south, according to other lists by Livability.

However, none of the top 10 moderate cities have any causal trend between them, Carmichael said.

“You start seeing no commonalities. It’s kind of spreading the geographic maps in many ways,” Carmichael said. “There wasn’t a lot in common between and Muncie or Boise. There were no commonalities or a trend.

“As people are moving and relocating, politics isn’t the first thing they are thinking of, but since political and consumer choices have become so closely correlated, they tend to move to like-minded folks.”

CONSUMER HABITS OF THE MOST MODERATE TOWNS IN THE U.S. 10. WILDHOOD, MO.

• Drive a Subaru • Eat at Qdoba • Shop at Sam’s Club • Watch “Two and a Half Men” • Read Time & Good Housekeeping 9. OREGON, OHIO

• Drive a Cadillac or Buick • Eat at Chick-fil-A • Shop at American Eagle Outfitters • Watch “Two and a Half Men” • Read Good Housekeeping 8. SPARKS, NEV.

• Drive a Cadillac • Eat at Qdoba • Shop at REI • Watch “The Newsroom” & “The Bachelorette” • Read Time magazine 7. MUNCIE

• Drive a Buick • Shop at American Eagle Outfitters • Watch “The Bachelorette” • Read Good Housekeeping 6. BOISE, IDAHO

• Drive a Subaru • Eat at Qdoba • Shop at REI • Watch “The Newsroom” • Read Good Housekeeping 5. ALBANY, GA.

• Drive a Cadillac • Eat at Chick-fil-A • Shop at Sam’s Club • Watch “The Newsroom” 4. GAINESVILLE, FLA.

• Drive a Cadillac • Eat at Hardee’s • Shop at Sam’s Club • Watch “The Bachelorette” • Read Good Housekeeping 3. INDIO, CALIF.

• Drive a Cadillac • Eat at Chick-fil-A • Shop at Sam’s Club • Watch “The Newsroom” • Read Time magazine 2. BEND, ORE.

• Drive a Subaru • Shop at REI • Watch “The Bachelorette” • Read Good Housekeeping 1. SPOKANE VALLEY, WASH.

• Drive a Subaru • Eat at Qdoba • Shop at REI • Watch “The Newsroom” • Read Good Housekeeping SOURCE: livability.com

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Current and former educators and students spoke on a panel Tuesday to teaching majors about issues in Indiana’s education system. The panel also discussed the importance of teaching, despite decreasing enrollment in Ball State’s education programs.

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She said one of her third graders walked up to her the other day and asked when she was going to be a real adult. Reason said the student told her she wanted to be a teacher, but her mom told her she wouldn’t make any money as a teacher. So the girl changed her mind and decided she wanted to be a brain surgeon.

“I want to be a teacher, so she has the potential to do whatever she wants to do,” Reason said. “It gives me an amazing amount of fire for

EBOLA:

| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 She said the protocol set up for Ball State students is what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends, but would not comment on specific steps taken.

Neil Gifford, Ball Memorial manager of public relations and marketing, said the hospital is prepared, but also would not give specific details.

“I would just emphasize that in the East Central Region of Indiana, IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital has experienced medical teams that are specially trained to

what I’m going to go into.

There are so many people who want a change, and the first way to do that is by being a teacher.”

Kelly Andrews is a principal at Charles Elementary School in Richmond and a doctoral student at Ball State in educational leadership.

She said she has heard a lot of discussion on reform, and she lives it daily.

“There’s a big concern in high stakes testing,” she said.

“I see fourth graders throwing up because they’re so stressed. As educators, we feel like a hamster on a wheel.”

When Andrews was talking to a student teacher in her building, the student said the main

handle and treat a wide variety of medical conditions — from the most common to the most complex,” Gifford said in an email. “We have robust plans in place for managing the Ebola virus, and are in regular contact with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The Indiana State Department of Health and our healthcare colleagues nationwide to ensure we are following the latest recommendations and protocols to protect our patients, visitors and team members.”

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reason she was going into education was because she wanted to make a difference.

“They are the next generation,” Andrews said. “They are the ones who will be making a difference.”

Kaitlyn Perry, a senior elementary education major who attended the panel, said she thought it was a good sign already that the panelists were agreeing.

“Even school teachers and the state representative were voicing similar ideas,” Perry said. “We have one heck of a job in front of us, but it’s nice to see that people are willing to get the ball rolling. We just need to keep it going.”

questions about symptoms, screening and diagnosis of Ebola, according to the Associated Press.

“There are a lot of questions about Ebola right now, and unfortunately quite a bit of misinformation going around,” said State Health Commissioner Dr. William VanNess. “The call center will provide people with a way to easily speak directly to a state health representative to get the information they need.”

Notices are in place to refrain from traveling to Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea unless absolutely necessary, according to the CDC website.

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EBOLA IS SCARY, BUT YOU’RE PROBABLY NOT GOING TO DIE LAUREN CHAPMAN MISS KNOWIT-ALL LAUREN CHAPMAN IS A SENIOR JOURNALISM NEWS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS MAJOR AND WRITES ‘MISS KNOWIT-ALL’ FOR THE DAILY NEWS. HER VIEWS DO NOT NECESSARILY AGREE WITH THOSE OF THE NEWSPAPER. WRITE TO LAUREN AT LECHAPMAN @BSU.EDU.

Ebola is scary. Your eyes and gums can start bleeding, and you poop to death. I’m pretty sure if the mortality rate for Ebola wasn’t so high, it would be a villain in the “Captain Underpants” series.

Within the past month, three people have been infected in the United States. Two nurses caught Ebola from a Liberian man who died from the virus in Texas.

With an Ebola czar appointed

by President Barack Obama and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approaching the infected like it’s a zombie outbreak, there is a lot of misinformation about an otherwise straightforward disease.

Since the first diagnosis of Ebola in the United States, people have been on high alert. A woman in Washington, D.C., threw up in a Pentagon parking lot and was descended on by a swarm of Marines in hazmat suits.

Even the Transportation Security Administration agent who dealt with Amber Vinson, the second Dallas nurse to contract

Ebola, has been put on leave as a precaution, despite wearing gloves while patting down a symptom-less Vinson.

Not every person throwing up in the street has Ebola. So, let’s put down the hazmat suits and realize that Ebola probably isn’t going to kill you.

Mass media has cultivated a culture of fear over Ebola, despite only have nine confirmed cases in the United States – all of them connected directly to missionary work or Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the U.S. to be diagnosed with Ebola.

EBOLA IS NOT MYSTERIOUS

Ebola has been around since Gerald Ford was president of the U.S., 40 years ago. In fact, the virus is named after the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it was first documented in 1976. That initial outbreak killed 88 percent of the infected, with 280 people dead.

The simultaneous outbreak in Sudan killed 151 people.

The World Health Organization said the average Ebola fatality rate is around 50 percent, but ranges from 25 to 90 percent, depending on the outbreak. We know a lot about how Ebola is transmitted and what it does to people. The problem is not that Ebola is mysterious, but because in the past it only affected African countries.

Every outbreak of Ebola has occurred in a West African country since it first appeared in 1976.

Pharmaceutical companies can’t make a lot of money off of a vaccine, which is why we don’t have an established treatment or vaccine for Ebola.

Ebola is a virus. If you treat the symptoms, you can normally treat the patient. Vomiting and diarrhea dehydrate the body.

Internal and external bleeding, impaired kidney and liver function are the reasons you die. The symptoms kill you, not the virus.

YOU’RE PROBABLY NOT GOING TO GET EBOLA Unlike the common cold, currently, Ebola can only be spread

through contact with human waste or fluid, as opposed to through the air. The World Health Organization said this outbreak of Ebola has been the result of human to human transmission.

In the first outbreak, 40 years ago, the transmission was blamed on African fruit bats.

I don’t personally touch a lot of human waste or fluid. Unless you’re a medical professional or one of the 8.5 nurses per 1,000 people in the U.S., you’re not likely to get Ebola.

Moreover, you can only get Ebola if you touch human waste or fluid of someone displaying symptoms of Ebola. People with “vomiting, diarrhea, rash, symptoms of impaired kidney and liver function” are not normally people you bear hug on the street.

The 75 staff members that came in contact with Duncan have been urged to sign a legal agreement to avoid public transportation and large crowds while they are in the 21-day in-

cubation period of Ebola.

Duncan’s family members were under quarantine (and armed guard) since the end of September. After Oct. 19, they were out of the incubation period and released from quarantine. And so far, none of them showed symptoms of the disease.

Even with Vinson, one of two nurses who contracted Ebola, traveling in an airplane to Ohio, the CDC is fairly confident that the passengers are okay. Confident enough, in fact, said a CDC spokesperson, the organization gave her the okay to fly back to Texas after reporting a low-grade fever.

There have been nine confirmed cases of Ebola treated in the United States. Duncan, who traveled from Liberia, was the first death. He died on Oct. 8.

That being said, in the highly unlikely event the spread of Ebola gets any worse in the United States, be safe. This is the worst Ebola outbreak yet. Since December 2013, more than 4,500 people have died from the virus.

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He said his quick instincts come from watching film and years of reading the body language of quarterbacks.

“I feel like I have a great knowledge for the game,” Patterson said. “I’m physical, I like to come up and make tackles.”

Statistically, Patterson is one of the Cardinals’ best tacklers.

He currently ranks third on the team with 48 total tackles, just one behind defensive lineman Michael Ayers. In solo tackles, he’s first with 37.

During passing plays, he will be in either man or zone coverage depending on what play defensive coordinator Kevin Kelly calls. For him, it’s an easy call as to which he’d rather be in.

“I like man coverage. The throws are a lot tighter as compared to zone where there’s a lot more open space,” he said.

Against Akron on Saturday,

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Patterson made his name heard again when he intercepted Akron quarterback Tommy Woodson late in the fourth quarter to seal Ball State’s second consecutive victory. The ball sailed beyond its intended target and Patterson, who had given a cushion to the receiver, came down with the ball.

Kelly said he felt Woodson was rattled, and Patterson put himself in position to take advantage.

“He’s got great instincts for the ball, and the game slows down for him. He’s played all four years, and he’s one of the best athletes out there,” Kelly said.

“When you pair all those things together, you’re going to get a guy who forces turnovers.”

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Senior cornerback Eric Patterson said he backpedals three steps and watches the quarterback each play. His instincts come from watching film and reading the quarterback’s body language.

The Ball State men’s golf team concluded play at the Old Corkscrew Golf Club on Tuesday, finishing in ninth place with a 54-hole score of 920. The No. 1 ranked Florida State Seminoles won the tournament, finishing 13 strokes better than second place.

Ball State’s McCormick Clouser finished tied for fourth, scoring a 1-under par round of 71 on Tuesday.

Clouser was under par for two consecutive rounds, giving him his third top-five finish of the fall.

The Old Corkscrew was Ball State’s last performance until the start of the spring session on Feb. 9, at the Mid-American Match Play in Dade City, Fla. – STAFF REPORTS

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Cotton Candy Frappuccino If you’re looking for a non-caffeinated way to satiate your sweet tooth, the Cotton Candy Frappuccino is right up your alley. While I don’t necessarily think that it tastes like the fairground favorite, it’s still quite sweet, fruity and refreshing with a fun pink color.

Recipe: Order a Vanilla Bean Frappuccino and add raspberry syrup: tall, one pump; grande, one and a half pumps; or venti, two pumps. Add more syrup for a stronger fruity flavor (Some Starbucks fans have reported that more syrup increases the taste’s likeness to cotton candy.).

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Recipe: Add equal parts toffee nut and vanilla syrups to your beverage of choice.

Zebra Mocha Mochas are my go-to espresso beverage, so I’m always looking for ways to change things up. The Zebra Mocha (aka Penguin Mocha, Marble Mocha, etc.) is a super simple way to jazz up your caffeine boost. While it might not be as strong as its traditional counterpart, its light blend of flavors really allows the coffee taste to come through. If you’re a fan of either mochas or white chocolate mochas, I would definitely recommend trying this easy recipe on your next Starbucks run.

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