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FOOTBALL

Offense struggles in MAC defeat

Cardinals eliminated from bowl contention with 2 games left DAVID POLASKI CHIEF REPORTER | @DavidPolaski Slow starts have doomed the Ball State football team all season, and the trend continued against Massachusetts.

The Cardinals fell behind 7-0 just 1:02 into the game and never recovered, falling 24-10 to the Minutemen on the road.

Even more brutal for the team, the loss eliminates it from bowl contention. The loss drops Ball State to 3-7, and teams need a minimum of six wins to be bowl eligible.

Ball State’s offense struggled to put together drives throughout the game, ending with 68 total plays to Massachusetts’ 84.

“One of the goals coming in was to try and stay balanced,” Ball State head coach Pete Lembo said. “Try to stay on the field as much as possible to help out the defense.”

Massachusetts quarterback Blake Frohnapfel started the game off with a 61-yard pass to Tajae Sharpe, moving the ball to the Ball State three-yard line.

Despite money on line, Ball State still focuses STEM push on education ALAN HOVORKA CHIEF REPORTER | afhovorka@bsu.edu

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o meet the demands for stronger science, technology, engineering and math programs – and to increase eligibility for state funding – Ball State is relying upon one of its traditional strengths: teaching.

“What Ball State is really good at is preparing STEM educators for K through 12,” said Terry King, provost and vice president for academic affairs. ”In fact, one of the first years I was here, our physics department graduated more physics majors who were focused on physics teaching than any other school in the country.”

Since demand for STEM skills has increased globally, states, including

Indiana, have tied additional funding opportunities to graduation rates in related STEM fields, which has been a challenge for traditionallyliberal arts institutions like Ball state.

However, the lack of STEM graduates nationwide is not entirely the fault of universities, but rather a product of not enough attention to STEM earlier in life, King said.

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Campaign takes aim at student debt

Organization pushes repayment options, lower loan interest rates KARA BERG CHIEF REPORTER | knberg2@bsu.edu

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BY THE NUMBERS Recommended funding from the Indiana Commission for Higher Education for 2015

$2,172,409 $9,908,138 $18,775,687 Indiana University Bloomington

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At Ball State, 72 percent of students in the class of 2012 graduated with debt, according to projectonstudentdebt.org.

In response to rising student debt, the National Education Association, a union for educators, has made this week their week of action surrounding their Degrees Not Debt campaign, which aims to support decreases in student loan interest rates and connect students with repayment resources.

As a part of the program, Bianka Teeters, president of the Indiana Student Education Association, hosted a Degrees Not Debt event Wednesday in the lobby of Teachers College.

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ROSTER FULL OF YOUTH, INEXPERIENCE Young players to see increased playing time due to injury

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If the Ball State men’s basketball team is going to compete in the Mid-American Conference in 2014-15, it will do so with a roster littered with youth and inexperience.

Part of what experience the Cardinals had was lost for eight to 10 weeks when Cincinnati transfer and projected starter

Jeremiah Davis injured his foot during a practice in late October.

With Davis anticipated to be sidelined until sometime in late December or early January, several of the team’s younger players will have to contribute more than originally expected to start the season.

Despite the void left by Davis’ absence, second-year head coach James Whitford said his team will be better for it down the road.

“The young guys have an incredible opportunity early with Jeremiah going down,” Whitford said. “When Jeremiah gets back, we should be even stronger.”

Two players likely to see an

increase in minutes are sophomore forward Franko House and freshman guard Jeremie Tyler.

House played in all 30 of Ball State’s games as a freshman, starting 21 of them while averaging six points per game. He also finished the year leading all first-year MAC players in rebounds per game, pulling down just more than five boards a night. With the Cardinals losing 46.4 points a game due to roster turnover, House will need to position his 6-foot-6, 238 pound frame in the post early and often.

The Cardinals’ regular season opener Friday at Utah, however, will be the first time Tyler plays in a collegiate

game. With Davis out, Tyler will move into the starting lineup, a spot his teammates think he can capably fill.

“Freshman guards are going to have to step up,” sophomore guard Zavier Turner said. “[Tyler] is going to play a big role for us.”

Turner knows the challenges Tyler faces better than most, having led Ball State in minutes played in his freshman season.

After averaging 12.1 points, 3.6 assists and 1.5 boards a game last year, Turner was named the MAC Freshman of the Year and was selected to the MAC All-Freshman team.

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The Ball State men’s basketball team is going into the season with young, new players. Sophomore guard Zavier Turner said the freshman guards will have to step up to fill the roles.

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During the annual Amazing Taste, people can experience food and other customs from more than 20 countries from 5-8 p.m. in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center. There will be music, dancing, exotic animals and a fashion show. Food costs $8.20, or a meal swipe for students with a meal plan. It costs $8.95 for students without a meal plan.

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Violin players Wilner “Wil B” Baptiste and Kevin “Kev Marcus” Sylvester will perform at 7:30 p.m. in Pruis Hall. The pair, known as Black Violin, blends classical, hip-hop, rock, R&B and bluegrass music.

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Tyler Anderson and Jackline Kingori eat their food at The Amazing Taste at the L.A. Pittenger Student Center. Students and the Muncie Community were invited to try food from around the world.

The Strother Studio Theatre will host the musical “Baby” at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 for students and $12 for the general public.

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Shelley Rodrigo, assistant professor of rhetoric and (new) media at Old Dominion University, will speak at 11 a.m. in Bracken Library Room 104. Rodrigo will speak about the use of website and apps when teaching. The discussion is part of the English department’s writing program speaker series.

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Brittany Hendricks, a trumpet player; James Helton, a pianist; and Craig Priebe, a baritone player, will perform at 7:30 p.m. in Sursa Performance Hall.

The event, which is part of the Faculty Artist Series, is free and open to the public.

Indiana high school choirs will perform from 9 a.m. until noon and 1:30-3:30 p.m. at Sursa Performance Hall. The high schoolers will both perform and work with conductors from the university afterwards. The event is free and open to the public.

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Cellist Horacio Contreras will perform at 7:30 p.m. in Sursa Performance Hall. Contreras graduated from the Perpignan Conservatory in France and went to the University of Michigan for his master’s degree. He has also performed with the Simon Bolivar Symphony. Admission is free.

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NEWS

Campus food bank to open next year Student government to finalize procedure for Cardinal Kitchen GARCIA CHIEF REPORTER | RAYMOND ragarcia@bsu.edu The goal to start an on-campus food pantry will soon become a reality for the Student Government Association.

When the executive slate of SGA, Cardinal Connection, ran last semester, one of their platform points was to organize a food pantry with Sec-

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ond Harvest Food Bank.

At the SGA meeting last month, President Nick Wilkey appointed senior and former SGA senator Jes Wade secretary of service.

One of Wade’s responsibilities is to oversee the start of the food bank, which has been named “Cardinal Kitchen” and will open Jan. 7.

“My passion for Ball State came into play when naming the pantry,” Wade said.

She wanted to have the name closely related to Ball State; however, she said this is not a university-sponsored

program.

Instead of partnering with Second Harvest, Wade said the kitchen will operate independently, and she hopes the kitchen will get donations and sponsorships.

SGA president Nick Wilkey said it would have cost too much for SGA to partner with Second Harvest.

“It was a long process, and it was just not the direction we wanted to go for,” Wilkey said.

There is $2,500 allocated for the establishment of the food pantry, according to the

« It’s amazing

to see our students backing this project.»

JES WADE, SGA senator SGA budget.

Wade said the budget will be used for necessary items that do not get donated.

She hopes that Cardinal Kitchen will become a nonprofit organization and give businesses an incentive to buy into the

DEBT:

student-run pantry.

Wade and her team have been in contact with 18 Ball State organizations and said many of them are holding item drives to help stock the shelves.

“It’s amazing to see our students backing this project,” she said.

The Cardinal Kitchen will be on the second floor of the Multicultural Center, which is located at 325 N. McKinley Ave. Wade and her team are in the process of determining how the kitchen will run.

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STEM:

tarium, and it would be really interesting to pair that with a whole major in astronomy,” said Bill Knight, assistant pro| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 vost of institutional effective“The limiting factor is how ness. “To do that, we would many students coming out of have to talk about more faculhigh school that are capable ty and more facilities, and it’s of starting off in these math- not clear where the money ematics heavy, science heavy would come from.”

Some of the money for such disciplines,” he said.

In 2000, the National Com- an expansion could come from mission on Mathematics and the state.

The current biennial budScience Teaching for the 21st century evaluated the future get request to Indiana’s legof STEM in the U.S. This report, islature has $62.5 million for called the Glenn Commission the creation of the College of Report, points out the prob- Health Sciences and Profeslem with STEM in America is sions building and Cooper Sciprimary education, not neces- ence’s renovations.

“One would think that would sarily secondary. be related to inThe report found short- BY THE NUMBERS creasing majors in those areas, ages in qualified Projected increases in in STEM teachers STEM-related jobs between graduates those areas and in the majority of 2010 and 2020 potentially inmiddle and high creasing the facschools; this numulty in those arber was around in mathematics eas,” Knight said.

80 percent and However, Mar90 percent for ilyn Buck, dean urban schools. in computer system of university It said shortages analysts college, said the are likely to grow main purpose of with the retirethe college is to ment of the Baby consolidate the Boomer genera- in systems software developers different health tion. majors, and “It’s about havmake them coing competent elordinate more ementary school in medical engineers efficiently. teachers, who In the past deare teaching the cade, enrollment fundamentals in in chemistry promath and science in biomedical engineers.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of grams has grown and exciting stuEducation by 21 percent, dents, and then biology by 9 pergetting middle school students about math cent and nursing by 47 perand sciences is where the limit- cent, according to the university’s 2015-17 budget request. ing factors are,” King said.

In combination with the Even with Ball State’s plan for findings of the report and Ball STEM growth, Knight said state State’s tradition as a teaching support hinges on what is coninstitution, a remedy for Ball sidered important at the time State is promotion of STEM and how the state chooses to evaluate the university. education majors, King said.

“Well, just cause it’s in our Ball State initially opened as a school to train teachers plan, doesn’t mean there is money for it,” Knight said. in 1918.

Students at Ball State who “The problem is if you gear are pursing a career in edu- and hire faculty and build cation in STEM-related fields buildings and all of a sudden are considered STEM, because if we no longer get the funding their awarded degree is in in that area, we’ve made quite an investment on our end that that field.

Outside of educating the next may not pay off.”

A segment of state funding generation of STEM teachers, projects such as the new for Ball State is determined Charles W. Brown Planetarium by the Indiana Commission could further increase the uni- for Higher Education’s formula for performance-based versity’s STEM footprint.

“We just got a new plane- funding, which takes into

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account factors like on-time graduations and high-impact degree completion. High-impact is an umbrella term used by the state to describe what fields it considers STEM. There is no nationally defined term for what STEM is, and it is often determined by each different governmental agency as necessary.

Indiana’s definition, in the area of education, does not include health-related fields like nursing.

Ball State still considers certain programs STEM that the state does not.

However, the list of what the state considers high impact is subject to change. At the request of the university, ICHE has agreed to include natural resources and environmental management, animation, digital production emerging media, digital production audio, digital production video options within the telecommunications major and a master’s degree in computer software engineering.

The university is also pursuing more unnamed programs for its academic master plan.

Some of proposed degrees will be presented today at the next meeting of ICHE at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

King said it’s important to still focus on the university’s other strengths, and not just STEM. “It’s unfortunate people talk about STEM in a big way,” he said. “I mean it is [big], but it’s only a small part of what the university does.”

Ten years from now, there won’t be a noticeable difference in Ball State even if it did increase STEM degree and program offerings by 10 percent, King said. Science can’t exist without philosophy — the humanities.

“The concept is that with science and technology today we can do fabulous things. We can heal people, you can do things nobody ever imagined, but you can kill, pollute and destroy,” King said. “It is the context from society that is built around the humanities, the arts and the social sciences, that give liveliness in the science and technologies that allow us to do things in the right way.”

Editor’s note: This is part of a series on the state of STEM efforts at Ball State.

prepared and so excited for my chosen career path that all of my doubt disappears.”

The average student debt in Indiana is $27,886, according to projectonstudentdebt.org.

Sixty-four percent of students in Indiana have debt, which puts the state at 13th in the U.S. for amount of students with debt.

Although some students are going into fields that make more money, they are still concerned about their student debt.

Jeff Newton, a junior finance major, said he has $15,750 in student debt.

“I think I’ll make enough money to pay it off, but I don’t like that it’s there,” Newton said.

The National Association of Colleges and Employers ranked finance as one of the top-paying majors for new college graduates, making $57,300 for an average starting salary, according to Forbes.

Other students, like senior pre-dental major Benjamin Pearson, don’t have any undergraduate debt, but will collect a lot when they go to graduate school.

He said his loans for dental school will add up to about $250,000 by the time he graduates.

“It’s just so much money,” Pearson said.

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Following his reading, author Michael Poore answered questions and signed books on Wednesday in Letterman Building Room 125. He read from his first novel, “Up Jumps the Devil,” as a part of the English department’s visiting writers series. The novel is a biography of the devil, telling his story from his beginnings in heaven to his life on earth in the modern day. While answering questions, Poore said he wrote the book quickly, and that the editing process consisted mostly of shortening the novel.

One possibility is having a desk at the front door, where students can fill out a form saying what they need, and someone will be upstairs bagging those items.

Another idea is to have students fill out an online form and pick up their items, she said. A last option is to have students go upstairs to the pantry.

“We want the pantry to be accessible to all students,” Wade said.

Students can get involved by contacting bsucardinalkitchen@gmail.com

“My main goal is to get awareness out of the different options for loan repayments and to make sure that students know,” Teeters said.

“Some students aren’t entering any field – not just education – because of high interest rates and such high loans you have to take out to pay for college.”

Teeters said since education majors don’t make a lot of money, many times they have more in loans than they’ll make their first year teaching.

“Obviously, teachers don’t go into it for the money, but it’s hard when you have that much in loans, and you’re making so little,” she said.

Myranda Tetzlaff is a sophomore English education major. She said she currently has $10,000 in debt, and that number won’t be getting any higher because of scholarships she has received.

Even with her debt, Tetzlaff said she isn’t worried about paying it off.

“I know it’s a lot of money, but if I live cheap the first couple of years out of college, then I shouldn’t be too worried,” she said. “I personally

• Increase need-based federal aid, like Pell Grants.

• Allow borrowers to refinance their loan interest rates in the same way that homeowners can refinance their mortgages.

• Expand loan forgiveness programs, especially for people working in public service careers like education.

• Institutional aid must be increased.

SOURCE: nea.org

think that paying off debt is possible because of financial planning, regardless of career path.”

She said even though firstyear teachers have a low salary – the average starting salary for a teacher in Indiana in 2012-2013 was $34,696, according to the National Education Association – she isn’t that concerned.

“It’s definitely worth it,” Tetzlaff said. “Sometimes I question if I’m doing the right thing. Sometimes I wonder, ‘Should I have been in journalism? What about music management?’ But then every time I walk into an education class at Ball State, I feel more

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BROTHERS VS. SCOTTY’S I’ve been eating burgers and drinking beer at Scotty’s Brewhouse for years now, so when another high-caliber restaurant opened in The Village, I felt a bit territorial. Sure, I’m wellversed in Brothers Bar and Grill after spending

my fair share of nights in Broad Ripple, but I was hesitant how it would stack up to a place Muncie has known for so long.

So here it is: my head-to-head burger showdown between the fair weathered Shewman

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The Shewman Special

$10.99 The menu describes the burger as “stuffed with bacon and covered with honey BBQ sauce, cheddar cheese and tumbleweed onions,” and “served with fresh spring mix and tomato on a toasted bun.” My first thought: What the hell is an onion tumbleweed?

Special of Scotty’s and the new kid on the block Stuffed Smokehouse Burger of Brothers.

Burgers were chosen based on a combination of server recommendation of popularity and menu “specialty” recommendations.

$10.99 The menu describes it as “awardwinning” with “peanut butter, jalapeños, cheddar cheese and bacon.” No, that isn’t a typo, it’s just a strange combination.

BROTHERS

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THE COMPONENTS BUNS

The two buns are fluffy but pretty greasy. There are charred parts that add some crunch.

HONEY BARBECUE SAUCE

The tangy sauce isn’t overpowering or messy like most burgers smothered in sauce. If you’ve ever seen me eat barbecue, you know 80 percent of it ends up on my hands and face. But the only time I taste the barbecue flavor on this burger is when I lick my lips after a bite.

SPRING MIX AND TOMATO

The vegetables are by far my favorite part of the burger, which is never the case for me.

Usually lettuce and tomato

SCOTTY’S

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THE COMPONENTS are afterthoughts, but using spring mix instead of romaine or iceberg lettuce allows the greens to absorb the sauce. It acts like a small dressed salad below the burger.

chewy bacon folded up in the middle, with a slightly smoky flavor. It tastes like a baconwrapped appetizer you’d get at a fancy restaurant.

BUNS

ONION TUMBLEWEEDS

PEANUT BUTTER

The fat, round patty is cooked with a light brown center with some spots of pink, but I am never asked how I’d like my burger cooked.

The crispy shoelace onions take up a large portion of the burger’s size, and a few fall off here and there. They aren’t too overpowering in flavor but add a nice crunch.

PATTY

BACON STUFFING

It takes me five big bites to actually find the bacon stuffing.

To an outsider, I must look like a crazy person digging through the burger trying to find the bacon. But once I do, it pretty much rocks my world. There’s

MY RATINGS PRICE: 6 FLAVOR: 7 CONVENIENCE: 9 TOTAL AVERAGE: 7.3

The buns are slightly smaller than the wide burger, so it’s a little hard to hold. The bread is toasted to a light brown around the edges, and there’s barely any grease.

My first bite tastes almost exclusively like peanut butter.

It’s overpowering. For a brief moment, I feel like a dog lapping up peanut butter from the roof of my mouth, which I’m sure was fun for anyone watching.

Because it’s on the bottom of the hot sandwich, it melts as the burger sits. Still, I can’t think of any other flavor strong enough to compete with the spice of the jalapeños. Peanut butter pretty much covers my hands during

the entire meal, which is a nice alternative to grease.

PATTY

I order a patty cooked medium, but the center of the burger is brown.

The patty itself is pretty wide, making it hard to get a good bite with all the toppings included. But it’s a good, meaty burger. I’ll never complain about that.

JALAPEÑOS

The little green pepper slices are on top of the patty, blanketed by melted cheese. I down an entire glass of water while I eat them, but I’m glad Scotty’s isn’t stingy with the peppers. If you claim you have spice on your burger, you better deliver. This burger delivers.

BACON

Two slices of surprisingly thick,

crispy bacon are on top of the cheese, but the jalapeños and peanut butter totally mask any bacon-tastic flavor.

LETTUCE, ONION, TOMATO

In comparison to the patty and amount of jalapeños, the other vegetables are almost entirely masked. The lettuce adds a nice crunch, but I don’t taste the tomato or onions unless I get a bite without the peanut butter or spicy peppers.

MY RATINGS PRICE: 6 FLAVOR: 6 CONVENIENCE: 7 TOTAL AVERAGE: 6.3

THE WINNER

The Stuffed Smokehouse wins my vote. It’s three meals on one burger: a salad on the bottom, mounds of meat in the middle and an onion ring side on top. While these two burgers are completely different in toppings and flavors, they have the same price and nearly the same size. If I’m going to pay $10.99 for a burger, I’d like one that has depth of flavor and leaves me wanting more. While I’ll always have fond memories of Scotty’s burgers, the overpowering flavors of spice and peanut made me feel bad for everything else forgotten between the buns.

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The team’s point guard, Turner knows it’s his responsibility to involve his teammates on offense and help ease the growing pains of the younger players.

“Last year, a lot was on my shoulders [as a freshman starter],” Turner said. “Nothing really changed. That point guard position is going to be on my shoulders again this year.”

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sustained success, which could prove vital come the start of conference play in early January.

In the eyes of others, Ball State is not expected to fight for a conference championship, being projected to finish in last place in its division in the MAC preseason poll.

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As for all that inexperience on Ball State’s roster, Turner will do his best to impart what he learned his first season to his teammates.

“It’s going to come down to focus,” he said. “Coming in, day in and day out, working as hard as you possibly can and focusing ... so when you get to the game, you’ll be ready.”

Massachusetts running back Shadrach Abrokwah then took the handoff to the left and scored.

Ball State quickly responded, capping off its drive with a 33yard touchdown pass down the left sideline to Jordan Williams, who streaked into the end zone to tie the game.

The Minutemen later tacked on a touchdown off a one-yard run from Lorenzo Woodley, before Mabon fumbled the ball away and was carted to the locker room with an injury.

Massachusetts added a field goal heading into halftime, leading 17-7.

Sharpe started the second half off with a 40-yard reception, setting the record for most receiving yards in a MidAmerican Conference game this season. He finished with 239 yards, while Frohnapfel had 424 yards passing.

Taking over after a punt, Edwards and Milas picked up consecutive first downs on fourth and short situations.

Scott Secor added a field goal to cut the lead to 17-10.

Milas finished the game with 210 yards and one touchdown.

Early in the fourth quarter,

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Massachusetts began pushing the ball downfield, culminating with a missed field goal, maintaining a one-score game.

With Ball State starting to drive, Milas was picked off

by Trey Seals, another of Ball State’s costly mistakes on the night. Elgin Long took a snap and scored, extending the Massachusetts lead to 24-10.

“I thought our defense played extremely hard, got us some stops,” Lembo said.

“We were pretty good on third down. But we can’t afford to move the ball and turn it over down in the red zone.”

Ball State falls to 2-4 in MAC play.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Senior faces new challenge Coach will look to Justice to help show team ‘Cardinal way’ CHASE AKINS STAFF REPORTER | acakins@bsu.edu As the lone senior on the women’s basketball team, Shelbie Justice will be asked to step outside her comfort zone and become a more assertive leader. “[Justice] says the right stuff. She’s just not an extroverted kid,” head coach Brady Sallee said. “She’s not one to really step up and scream and yell and get in somebody’s face ... There’s a time and a place where she’s got to put her foot down as the senior, as the leader, as somebody they all respect, and say, ‘Listen, this isn’t good enough.’”

Despite her quiet demeanor, Sallee thinks Justice is willing to become the leader that Ball State needs, but knows she will need help showing her teammates the “Cardinal way.”

“For the most part, she is exactly what we want our kids to be,” Sallee said. “She’s hardworking and she’s focused ... now doing it as a leader I think is the next step she has to take as a senior.”

Last season, Justice started all 33 games for Ball State, averaging 7.9 points per game, fourth on the team.

She finished third on the team with 67 total assists.

Justice acknowledged the pressure of being the only senior on a team where eight of the 11 players are underclassmen, but she said having All-Mid-American Conference West Division preseason team member Natalie Fon-

taine with her helps.

“Even though I don’t have somebody my age, [Fontaine] is there with me,” Justice said. “She has a ton of experience. She knows what Brady expects, and I know what Brady expects.

Having her there with me, it helps a lot.”

While Justice may feel tentative at first of her additional responsibilities, her teammates are already seeking her advice.

“I definitely look to [Justice] a lot for guidance, even though she’s not in my position,” sophomore center Renee Bennett said. “She’s out here every day doing what she needs to do. It’s definitely an inspiration for me ... I want to be just like [Justice].”

An extrovert or not, as the only senior on this season’s squad, Justice will be asked to become a more vocal leader.

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