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Faculty diversity concerns increase

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Survey includes more complaints on age, gender, race, retaliation BERG CHIEF REPORTER | KARA knberg2@bsu.edu

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Overall diversity-related complaints from faculty increased 44 percent from the 201213 academic year to the 2013-14 year, ac- FACULTY cording to data from COMPLAINTS the office of univer- Diversity-related grievances sity compliance. from 2013-2014 Increases came in compared to 2012-2013 the categories of age, • Age: 1 (+1 from last year) gender (not in the • Gender (not in the form of form of sexual hasexual harassment): 7 (+4) rassment), national • Sexual harassment: 0 (-1) origin, race and re• Harassment or hostile taliation. The number work environment: 2 (+0) of complaints in ha- • National origin: 2 (+2) rassment or hostile • Race: 5 (+1) work environment • Religion: 1 (+1) stayed the same, at • Retaliation: 7 (+5) two complaints.

All together, com- • Disability: 2 (-1) SOURCE: University Diversity plaints went from 15 Committee Report 2013-2014 to 27 in one year.

In the university diversity committee annual report, they recommended some changes to help reduce complaints.

Money missing from the fraud case will be written off from two sources - the contingency fund and investment earnings.

Each dot represents $20,388.

The contingency fund: A reserve of money used for “unforseen expenses.”

Investment earnings: Money the university has earned from other investments.

SOURCE: Bernard Hannon, associate vice president for Business Affairs and assistant treasurer DN GRAPHIC STEPHANIE REDDING AND MICHAEL BOEHNLEIN

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Author uses devil as main character Visiting creative writer will speak, read excerpts from 2012 novel HAMPSHIRE STAFF REPORTER | KATHRYN kmhampshire@bsu.edu Award-winning author Michael Poore is the devil.

At least he pretends to be in his novel, “Up Jumps the Devil.”

In the novel, Poore takes the persona of the Devil and writes about him in a different way.

“The style of writing you might find in ‘Up Jumps the Devil’—kind of a mix of comedy and fantasy and sadness—came about when I learned to turn off my filter [and] to quit trying to write nicely or professionally, and just wrote down whatever came drag racing through my brain,” Poore said.

From the fact that the cover depicts his character roasting marshmallows to how he drives the limousine in which President John F. Kennedy was shot, the book is full of twists characteristic of persona fiction as the Devil moves non-chronologically through time, causing mischief at every turn.

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tudents and faculty will not see any changes following the loss of millions of dollars in an investment fraud case. To ensure that things like faculty salaries and immersive learning funding aren’t affected, the university is writing off about half of the missing money from an extra account.

$5.8 MILLION

Since the 2011 fraud case, the university is missing about $12.6 million.

A little less than half, $5.8 million, will be replaced using the university’s contingency fund, said Bernard Hannon, associate vice president for Business Affairs and assistant treasurer.

The contingency fund is a reserve of money for the university to use for “unforeseen expenses.” Before the fraud case, it was up to $9.3 million, but is now down to $3.5 million. Hannon said Ball State usually aims to keep that fund around $9 to $10 million, although it varies.

As the reserve is depleted, there is less room for mistakes and emergencies until it is built back up.

The money in the fund is accumulated over many years and comes from year-end balances in accounts that can include the general fund, gifts to the university, indirect cost recovery on research grants, sales and services, interest earnings and other sources.

“Losing these reserves reduces our flexibility in making future decisions,” said Rick Hall, chair of the Board of Trustees.

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DEFENSE PREPARES FOR PASSING ATTACK

« We trust that Darius [Conaway] can come in and be great for us. »

Cardinals’ secondary in flux, after latest injury to cornerback DAVID POLASKI CHIEF REPORTER | @DavidPolaski

Just one week after losing its top corner, the Ball State football team will be asked to respond in a big way on the road against Massachusetts.

Led by quarterback Blake Frohnapfel, who leads the MidAmerican Conference with 23 passing touchdowns, UMass boasts the highest octane passing attack in the league. “[Frohnapfel]’s got a big time arm. He’s a 6’6” kid who stands tall in the pocket,” Ball State head coach Pete Lembo said.

“He really has great vision down the field.”

Frohnapfel will be trying to

TYREE HOLDER, a redshirt sophomore defensive back

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After breaking an arm during the game against NIU, Eric Patterson will be replaced by senior Darius Conaway in the game tonight against Massachusetts. Both Ball State and Massachusetts have a record of 2-3 in MAC play.

take advantage of a Ball State secondary that’s been in flux since the season started, numerous players going down with injury and being replaced, coming back healthy before more players go down again.

With Eric Patterson now lost for the season with a broken arm, Darius Conaway will be asked to step into his place.

The task won’t come easy.

The Minutemen passing game averages 331.2 passing yards per

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game, the highest in the conference.

But teammate and fellow defensive back Tyree Holder has confidence in him.

“Patterson and Conaway are actually really similar, so if you can play well with one, you’ll do well with the other,” Holder said.

“We trust that Darius can come in and be great for us.”

It’ll take more than just a marquee performance by Conaway for Ball State to come out of Massachusetts with a victory. The Massachusetts offense averages over 30 points a game, Ball State gives up just a hair over 27.

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Daniel Ek defended the service in a blog post, saying he had co-founded the platform to protect artists from piracy and had paid more than $2 billion to music labels and publishers since 2008.

NEW YORK (AP) —Hugging the health workers who cared for him, a doctor who recovered from Ebola said Tuesday he was a living example of effective treatment and urged support for those combating the virus at its West African epicenter.

“Today, I am healthy,” a smiling Dr. Craig Spencer said as he was released after nearly three weeks in Bellevue Hospital, where he had been the last Ebola patient under treatment nationwide, at least for now.

“Please join me in turning our attention back to West Africa,” where the virus has killed thousands of people this year, he added after thanking Bellevue staffers who treated him and getting a hug from the mayor.

Spencer, 33, was diagnosed on Oct. 23, days after returning from treating Ebola patients in Guinea with Doctors Without Borders.

In the blog titled “$2 Billion and Counting,” Ek said that piracy doesn’t pay artists a penny, “nothing, zilch, zero,” while Spotify’s payouts for a top artist like Swift were on track “to exceed $6 million a year.”

Swift pulled her music from Spotify last week; meaning her songs, which were among the most streamed on the service, are no longer available to its 50 million users.

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MEMPHIS, Ind. (AP) — U.S. Marine Jordan L. Spears was in his seat of the V-22 Osprey as the aircraft took off from MCT PHOTO the deck of the USS Makin Island.

At the apartment of Dr. Craig Spencer, on W. 147th St. in Harlem, He and his three fellow crewmen, two USPS carrier Keven Ngo wears a pilots and another crew chief, were on mask and gloves to deliver the mail a mission to retrieve some soldiers from on Oct. 24. Spencer has since been Kuwait and drop them off in Baghdad. cleared of Ebloa.

But moments after takeoff, the Osprey lost power, a Defense Department report said, and with a crash seemingly imcrackdown on pro-democracy protesters in minent, Spears and the other crew chief Hong Kong and are warily watching Beijing jumped out of the craft and into the strengthen ties with Moscow as the West distances itself from Russia.

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Spears continued to struggle, going under water at least three times, before failing to return to the surface.

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Class studies river debris Immersive course studies, creates grant for logjam removal ROSE SKELLY CHIEF REPORTER | rmskelly@bsu.edu A journalism student discovered her scientific side after joining an immersive learning class studying the Mississinewa River.

Alanie Srouse, a junior journalism and criminology student, is part of a class of science and communication students, working to remove debris from the river. Srouse said that her role in the class has prepared her for her future career.

“I’m one of the leaders in the class so I have a lot more responsibility, and it’s just taught me a lot about holding your peers accountable with deadlines, due dates, having certain things done, sticking to a rubric, explaining everything in detail so there’s no way they can make an excuse or slip up,” Srouse said.

The class is made up of nine journalism and five science students. Srouse said while it was hard adjusting to the scientific side of the class, she has gained a lot from the experience.

“It’s a lot for a journalism student to get used to, but we’re really getting involved in the science part of it,” Srouse said. “I would say the journalism side had a lot more to learn rather than the science side of [the class]” Their objective was to write a

DIVERSITY:

| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 One of those recommendations was to make it clear to new employees at orientation where they could file complaints, and also to educate existing faculty on it as well.

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Students in an Immersive learning class are working to improve the Mississinewa River by requesting grant money and removing debris. The students include both science and journalism majors, like Alanie Srouse.

grant proposing the removal of logjams from the Mississinewa River. Logjams are buildups of debris that start with a tree or log that has gotten stuck in a river. The flow of the river brings more debris and trash downstream, which get stuck behind the log. Eventually, the logjams grow in size and begin to affect the river and the areas surrounding it. “[When a logjam occurs, it] then causes changes to the river both upstream and downstream of that logjam, both in terms of physical characteristics but also its chemical characteristics,” Lee Florea, assistant professor of geological sciences and one of the professors of the class, said. “The farmer who owns the land adjacent to that logjam, [he] may only notice the physical changes: increased flooding, diversion of water around the logjam. They may not see or understand the chemical changes that occur with that.”

The class collected research ber of the university diversity committee who is on the task force dealing with the complaints, said she thought it was important to inform faculty and staff of what resources exist.

“If they do have any concerns, they should go to the office of compliance to file any grievances they may have,” Alexander said.

Another recommendation the report stressed was since retalia-

during the past two months.

The students’ deadline to complete the grant is Dec. 3, when the grant will be turned over to FlatLand Resources, one of the class’s community partners.

FlatLand Resources will submit the grant in January 2015.

Adam Kuban, assistant professor of journalism, teaches the class with Florea. He said one of his students experienced the effects of a logjam first-hand while on a surveying visit.

“One of my students fell in at one of the logjam sites, and after I knew he was okay and that he was not hurt in any way, I asked him, ‘Well, you fell in… what did the water feel like?

Explain the sensory detail to me.’ And his response was that at the location where he fell in, there was so much stagnation and debris that the water felt like pudding with rocks,” Kuban said. “River water is not meant to feel like pudding.”

The grant will be presented to a program called the Lake and tion was tied with gender for the highest number of complaints, retaliation for making complaints would not be tolerated.

All of these findings support the results from the 2012 workplace environment survey, according to the university diversity committee’s report.

In the past three years, 26 percent of Ball State faculty members and 18 percent of staff

River Enhancement program, or LARE. LARE provides funding for cleanup of various lakes and rivers in the State of Indiana, and has money allocated for the removal of logjams. The goal is to get some of the largest logjams in the Mississinewa River put on the list for removal.

Srouse said that her class has been encouraged to reach out to different media, community partners and farmers to spread the word about their grant.

“We’re just trying to get as much public attention as we can,” Srouse said. “Public attention is what’s going to get the grant passed.”

Florea believes that it is important to focus on the Mississenewa River because the effects that the nearby farms have had on the river have not been focused on before.

“Water quality in East Central Indiana has been a long-term concern,” Florea said. “The Mississenewa… is less impacted by the more very visible contaminants--discharge from factories,--and more affected by the more invisible type of contaminants, which is run off of farmlands. ” Florea said the class serves as an avenue to teach the public the importance of maintaining the quality of water.

“We all use it, we all abuse it in some way or another, and very few of us really understand it and how we need to manage it as a resource,” Florea said. “So we hope that students in these classes that we’re teaching will then be able to share that to the wider public.” members reported hostile or intimidating behavior that affected their work, according to the workplace environment survey.

Because of the institutional climate for diversity, 12 percent of faculty and 9 percent of staff members said they had seriously considered leaving Ball State, according to the workplace environment survey. Most responders said they considered

FRAUD:

In September 2011, Ball State was notified by the U.S. Attorneys’ Office that the university might have been a victim of fraud. The university lost $13.165 million in two fraud cases from 2008 and 2010.

Ball State conducted an in-

ternal investigation and discovered Gale Prizevoits, the former director of cash and investments, had made investments that were in violation of the university’s policy. She had attempted to conceal the transactions from the university by altering records. She was fired on Oct. 24, 2011.

The university was able to recover just $542,295.

The university employed Deborah Daniels of Krieg DeVault in July to look into concerns with internal controls. Daniels selected the accounting firm Crowe Horwath to help with the investigation.

Ball State has worked with the State Board of Accounts to record the losses with funds from contingency reserves and interest earnings to ensure the losses are accurately recorded in financial statements.

This loss comes on top of a loss in state funding this year.

This year, Ball State received 1 percent less in funding than last year, but increased the operating budget by 2.9 percent.

Neither the contingency plan or interest earnings directly affect the operating budget, as state funding does.

The temporary reduction of the contingency funds and interest earnings does not worry the university, Hannon said.

“We will begin to build that balance back up again to our target amount,” Hannon said.

Still, Hall maintains that the loss from the fraud case is a negative.

“The use of $13.1 million on any aspect of the Ball State experience would obviously be helpful to students,” Hall said.

“Our goal is to build these reserves; the loss of the funds still sickens us.”

leaving during 2011-2012.

Of those responders, 22 percent said the behavior was because of their sex, and 7.2 percent said it was because of their gender identity.

The report will go to President Paul Ferguson and the board of trustees once it has been approved, and Alexander said they will look at the university diversity committee’s recommenda-

tions and then decide what to do.

“We look at [the data] the best we can and think about what would be good resolutions,” Alexander said. “In some cases, what we’re asking for really could be our way of helping to advocate for faculty who may have concerns. We’re sort of helping them learn about all of the various resources available to them on campus.”

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$6.8 MILLION

The rest of the missing money, $6.8 million, was written into university interest earnings. That is the money the university has earned from other investments.

In the past six years, Ball State’s interest earnings have averaged about $4.2 million each year, Hannon said. It varies depending on how much money is invested, interest rates in the market and the current investment portfolio.

The university’s focus seems to be on reallocating money from the budget rather than finding a plan to get that money back.

There is still no plan for how the loss will be recouped. Hannon said the options are still being reviewed.

Using this money to cover the loss will not affect the university’s operating budget.

Interest earnings can be used to help cover operating expenses with the university’s general fund or transfer to reserve accounts.

However, the interest earnings used to write down the loss were not budgeted for operating expenses.

“The uncertainty of the timeline and outcome of that process make it impossible at this time to be more specific,” he said.

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Following its exhibition win, the women’s basketball team opens the regular season. hosting Purdue at 7 p.m.

Postseason play proves difficult Cardinals 1-4 under Steve Shondell in MAC Tournament FOX ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR | JAKE @fakejox3 Another year, another winning season in the Mid-American Conference for the Ball State women’s volleyball team.

The Cardinals hold a 9-5 record in conference play, and are currently playing for a top seed in the MAC Tournament.

The conference tournament, however, has proven to be the Achilles’ heel for Ball State in recent years. The Cardinals have been unable to reach the finals of the tournament since 2005 and have not won it since 2002.

“I think the level of play always elevates a little bit because of the significance of those matches,” head coach Steve Shondell said. “Once you get into conference tournament play, it’s one loss and you’re out. You put everything on the line, a little more adrenaline flowing, maybe a little more intensity.”

The desperate nature of the tournament play has not been on Ball State’s side over the past decade and into the Shon-

FOOTBALL:

| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Part of the Cardinals’ defensive struggles come from injury issues other than Patterson. Linebacker Ben Ingle has missed the last few games with an ankle injury and is listed as questionable.

If he can’t play, it’s another area for Massachusetts’ offense to attack.

Sean Wiggins started in place of Ingle last week against Northern Illinois, finished with the second most tackles on the team with eight.

“They do a great job with playaction deep throws,” Lembo said. “Really, really tough offense with a lot of history and a coaching staff that knows how to use their personnel.”

Although the Ball State defense has plenty of film from previous games Massachusetts has played this season, the actual experience isn’t there. The two teams haven’t matched up in the past, making familiarity only attainable through previous experiences the coaches have had.

Ball State’s game against Massachusetts kicks off at 8 p.m. on Wednesday night.

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Despite having a winning tradition, Ball State hasn’t made it to the finals in the MAC Tournament since 2005, and last took home the title in 2002. First Round play of the MAC Tournament starts on Nov. 21 at Athens, Ohio.

dell era, which began in 2010.

Under Shondell, the Cardinals have finished 45-19 in regular season MAC play prior to this season. The program has also won two regular season conference championships in his tenure.

Despite the regular season

INTERPRETING THE CARDS Ball State will play the University of Massachusetts on Wednesday at Massachusetts. Here is a closer look at the Cardinals’ chances of winning.

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BASKETBALL ANNOUNCES TV SCHEDULE

The Ball State men’s basketball 2014-15 television schedule was announced on Wednesday, and fans can expect at least 10 games to air on television or online networks.

As part of the Mid-American Conference’s agreement with ESPN, Ball State will have a pair of MAC games aired on ESPN3.

The Ball State Sports Network has also selected four games to air for its package. WIPB will televise those games locally.

Ball State’s season opener against Utah at 10 p.m. on Friday will be televised by Pac-12 Networks, while its matchup with San Diego State on Dec. 20 will be aired on the Mountain West Network.

The potential exists for other games to be selected later in the season.

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success, the Cardinals have won just one conference tournament match over the past four seasons. Ball State defeated No. 5 seed Eastern Michigan in 2011.

The MAC regular season schedule often pits teams against each other multiple

times per season, which Shondell said makes the tournament even more competitive.

“You’ve still got the same players, and you’re playing the same teams,” Shondell said. “Often times you’re playing them for the third time that season.”

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Toledo Eastern Michigan Northern Illinois Ohio Western Michigan

Playing the same team for the second, sometimes third time in a season can become even more difficult because everyone is fighting for the same thing – a conference title, said outside hitter Alex Fuelling.

Fuelling, a redshirt junior, played in her first MAC Tournament last season.

She said the failed success of some of the regular season’s top seeds is due to the difficulty of beating a team more than once.

“They’re scouting, they’re switching up things, and they’re switching the lineup and switching how they run things,” Fuelling said. “[In the MAC Tournament] I think you just can’t overlook anybody. Everybody is a great competition.”

A postseason conference tournament title also means a birth in the NCAA Tournament. While a championship has eluded the Cardinals, Shondell led Ball State to an at-large birth in the NCAA

Match results 0-3 (L) 3-1 (W) 1-3 (L) 0-3 (L) 1-3 (L)

Tournament in 2011.

This season’s Cardinals are looking to capture some of that success and end the regular season on a high note, with only two regular season matches remaining.

Ball State currently sits in second place in the MAC West Division, trailing Northern Illinois (13-1). The Cardinals have the fourth best overall record in the conference, as Ohio (14-0) and Miami (113) are atop the East Division.

Ball State is focusing on capturing the highest seed possible and carrying momentum over to the postseason where, as the past indicates, anything can happen.

“It’s just something that you have to fight for all the time,” Fuelling said. “Everyone is kind of fighting for their life to get a better seed and have a tournament setup … anything can happen, it’s a tournament. Everybody’s coming out to play.”

New starter on campus Early injury forces freshman guard into starting lineup

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It was expected that redshirt junior transfer Jeremiah Davis would be the starting shooting guard for the men’s basketball team to begin the 2014-15 season.

That plan quickly changed however, when Davis suffered a right foot injury, sidelining him eight to 10 weeks.

With the void left behind

by Davis’ injury, no player’s role will increase more than freshman Jeremie Tyler. “[Tyler’s a guy] who can score points for himself plus his teammates around him,” head coach James Whitford said. “I think he’s ready to DN PHOTO BREANNA DAUGHERTY have a great year.”

Freshman guard Jeremie Tyler was not originally going to to start this season for the men’s basketball team. During high As a senior at Arsenal school, Tyler averaged 16.2 points while shooting 59 percent from the field.

Tech High School in Indianapolis, Ind., Tyler aver“He’s very offensive mind- ing experience in high school Knowing college guards aged 16.2 points per game, ed, and he’s a guy who brings will help him now that he has are faster and stronger, Tyler while shooting real offensive been thrust into a starting has adjusted by improving 59 percent from power to the role. Tyler is confident that his physique, adding muscle the field and 42 PLAYER BIO team, whether he has the skillset to perform and increasing his weight to percent from JEREMIE TYLER it’s starting or off well for the Cardinals.

160 pounds.

3-point range. • Position: Guard the bench,” WhitPreseason practice has Whitford said he exHe ended his • Height: 6-feet-2 ford said. helped Tyler improve his pects Tyler to be ready for high school ca- • Weight: 160 Tyler was an In- ball handling and shooting, the season opener against reer with over • Year: Freshman diana All-Star and two vital skills needed at the Utah on Friday, and for the 1,000 points • Hometown: Indianapolis, a second-team guard position. Although the young guard to make an and the school Ind. All-State selection position remains the same, immediate impact. record for most • High School: Arsenal as a senior. He the jump from high school Tyler just wants to play Tech 3-pointers in a helped lead Arse- to college basketball can be his game. career. nal Tech to a 27-2 tough for some players.

“I want to be very aggresWhitford said Tyler has an record and the school’s first “It’s a little bit of pressure sive and let everything come ability to score the ball that 4A state championship and a because the speed is differ- to me,” Tyler said. “Don’t he expects to translate well top-10 national ranking. ent in college then it is in force anything and try to to the college game.

He said he feels his start- high school,” Tyler said. handle the pressure.”

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After a successful season that led to the MAC Tournament title game in 2013-14, the women’s basketball team are looking to continue its success this season. Coach Brady Sallee will be looking to all of his players in this new season, especially junior Nathalie Fontaine who was named to the All-MAC West Division Preseason Team.

The Ball State women’s basketball team made its second consecutive visit to the National Invitational Tournament last season after finishing with an 18-17 record.

The Cardinals made it all the way to the MAC Tournament title game before losing to No. 3 seed Akron.

Despite last season’s success, third-year head coach Brady Sallee isn’t letting his team get complacent as the 2014-15 season gets underway.

“We are trying to distance ourselves from last years squad and trying to be our own team,” Sallee said. “The girls come into this program because of the success of previous years and know that we have certain goals and standards we are trying to meet.”

Sallee’s message seems to be getting through to his players, at least early in the year, as Ball State dominated Oakland 116-29 in its exhibition game on Nov. 4.

Four players registered double-doubles, led by sophomore center Renee Bennett’s 23 points and 13 rebounds.

Sophomore Calyn Hosea, freshman Moriah Monaco, and sophomore Shelby Merder also recorded double-doubles for Ball State.

Despite the Cardinals’ per-

formance, Sallee didn’t want to look too deep into the numbers.

“I don’t take much away from the score,” he said. “I’m just glad to have the girls back on the court and doing what we practiced.”

One player who has been a leader in practice is junior guard Nathalie Fontaine.

Fontaine was named to the All-MAC West Division Preseason Team. She said that it’s an honor, but doesn’t see herself as a special individual on the team for it.

“When we are on the court it’s a team effort,” Fontaine said. “Everyone has to step up for us to win, it won’t be one person.”

Team effort will be key for the Cardinals this season, as the team looks to incorporate several new players into the

game plan.

Shelbie Justice, Ball State’s lone senior, has also been doing her part to help the incoming players adjust to the college game.

“I’ve been telling them to just focus on each individual game and only try to do what we work on in practice during the games,” Justice said.

When Ball State hosts instate rival Purdue at 7 p.m. on Friday, the Cardinals will be a different team than last year and one that will look to play to its new personal.

“We prepared differently this season than we did last season, because we have different girls with different skills,” Sallee said. “But we have to still go out there and do what we worked on. Then we will be successful.”

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As a part of the Creative Writing guest author series, Poore will be reading from his book, signing and also hosting a question-and-answer session tonight in the David Letterman Building.

Poore graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Ohio University and has a green belt in Kung Fu from Sherwood Martial Arts Academy.

Some of his more well-known works include “Up Jumps the Devil,” “The Street of the House of the Sun” and “Blood Dauber,” winner of a Readers Choice Award and finalist for the Sturgeon Award.

He got his first taste of writ-

ing fame in sixth grade when he wrote a story about Thanksgiving from the turkey’s point of view, and a local newspaper published it.

“The thing was, sixth grade teachers at elementary schools all over town made their students write essays about it,” Poore said. “And when I got to the consolidated junior high the next fall, I almost got my ass kicked for that.”

Director of Creative Writing and associate professor of English Sean Lovelace said he enjoys several aspects of this novel: “It’s extremely well-written on a sentence level, it’s funny and fast-paced, and it’s really imaginative and inventive,” he said. “It’s conflict driven even from the third page on!”

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Poore said five pages into the novel, “the devil is having sex with a herd of cows. You have to learn to edit well, and learn balance, if you’re going to paint images like that.”

Lovelace, along with the other professors English depart-

ment, chose to invite Poore as a part of the visiting author series, which has most recently included a screenwriter, a poet and a performance poet.

“With around 150 creative writing majors, we have a very vibrant community who don’t all enjoy it in the same way,” he said. “[Poore] is so different, and we really wanted the next author to be different than the previous speakers.”

Poore said he is as excited to visit Ball State as it is to have him, especially since he has a history with Ball State. He met his first wife here at a high school journalism workshop.

“It will be fun to see the campus again,” he said. “I mostly can’t wait to meet the writing faculty and students. I know

their work, and some of us have emailed, but I look forward to striking up new friendships.”

Junior creative writing major Jeff Owens is a fan of Poore and will be introducing him at this event.

“I think one of the best compliments I can give Michael Poore’s work is that he makes me wish I could hang out with the Devil,” Owens said. “It’s a major accomplishment when you can make a protagonist out of the world’s oldest antagonist.”

Lovelace said the various guest authors’ visits always serve to energize the students within the major especially.

“Around this time in the semester, we really get into the doldrums of routine, and

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“I hope we have an impressive turnout for this week’s visiting author, like the one we had for Joyelle McSweeney,” Owens said. “I always love seeing how many people at BSU have a passion for the arts.”

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For the first time in five years, Seattle-based coffee giant Starbucks will release a new drink.

The Chestnut Praline Latte hits coffee shops today, but if that’s not your thing, here are a few takes on the classic Pumpkin Spice Latte.

Caramel Pumpkin Macchiato

Fall-in-a-Cup Latte

Chocolate Pumpkin

Here’s another way to take advantage of this seasonal flavoring, but instead of starting with the classic PSL,

begin with a caramel macchiato. Try this one hot or iced.

For fans of the pumpkin spice and Chai lattes, why not try them together? This recipe combines several fall favorites into the same beverage for a flavorful, sweet drink.

Getting tired of the usual Pumpkin Spice Latte?

Just add chocolate for the taste of pumpkin chocolate chip bread. This recipe works well in frappuccino form.

Recipe: Order a cara-

mel macchiato, but substitute pumpkin spice sauce for vanilla syrup (tall, two pumps; grande, three pumps; or venti, four pumps).

Top it off with pumpkin spice topping.

Recipe: Start off with

a PSL, then add caramel and Chai syrups (tall, one pump each; grande, one and a half pumps each; or venti, two pumps each). Top with whipped cream, pumpkin powder and caramel drizzle.

Pumpkin Spice Choco-Chai

Pumpkin Patch Latte

Here’s another pumpkin recipe that has the kick of Chai, but instead of caramel, this one has a chocolatey flavor added to it.

For all of the tea lovers out there, this one is for you. This simple variation on the PSL only requires one added ingredient and adds the kick of green matcha to this seasonal favorite.

Recipe: Order a Chai Tea

Latte. Add pumpkin spice and mocha syrups (tall, one pump each; grande, one and a half pumps each; or venti, two pumps each). For a stronger Chai flavor, add another pump of Chai syrup. Top with whipped cream and pumpkin powder.

Recipe:

Order a pumpkin spice latte and add chocolate syrup (tall, one pump; grande, one and a half pumps; or venti, two pumps).

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