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We are incredibly proud of our son for living his life according to his humanitarian calling. We will work every day to keep his legacy alive as best we can. »

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ED AND PAULA KASSIG, parents of Peter Kassig, said in a statement See KASSIG, page 3

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University notifies campus of burglars

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No arrests made in connection to string of recent electronic thefts CHRISTOPHER STEPHENS CRIME REPORTER | castephens@bsu.edu Burglars entering through unlocked doors and stealing electronics prompted the university to warn students ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.

Police have made no arrests in connection to the crimes, University Police chief Jim Duckham said, and students should be on the lookout for suspicious activity.

The university urged students to lock doors both when they are at home and when they leave.

One student was shot on Nov. 6 when three burglars walked into his unlocked house near campus.

The student refused treatment for his injuries.

The criminals didn’t ask for anything and fled the scene without stealing any items, police said at the time.

No students have been injured in the most recent burglaries, Duckham said.

Students are urged to call UPD or the Muncie police department if they see suspicious activity, and to memorize the UPD phone number – 765-285-1111.

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Algier Williamson cuts hair in a small room inside Village Green Records, and lives in his RV behind the store with his dog, Diesel. Williamson was originally an architecture student at Ball State, but decided the program was not for him, eventually leading to him cutting hair.

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arked behind the quaint moss-colored Village Green Records store sits a beige RV – one Muncie man’s home.

During the day, Algier Williamson cuts hair in a small room inside the store, and at night he retires to his RV with his dog, Diesel.

He prefers the small space over a permanent home.

“A lot of time when you move

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different places you have to pack, unpack, pack, unpack,” Williamson said. “You just never get that settled home feeling. But with this … I always have a place that feels like home no matter where I am at.”

When he first bought the RV about four months ago, the walls were white. Williamson sanded all of the doors and painted the walls teal – his favorite color.

Editor’s Note: This story is the second in The Ball State Daily News profile series, Famous for Muncie.

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BAND USES STUDENT’S THESIS ON ALBUM Alumna works to create free recording services for LGBTQ community ROSE SKELLY CHIEF REPORTER | rmskelly@bsu.edu

A former Ball State student’s thesis is receiving some exposure from Canadian rock band Tegan and Sara.

Bianca Russelburg, who graduated from Ball State in Spring 2014 with a degree in digital audio production, based her thesis on some of her past musical influences.

“I grew up listening to Motown; both my mom and dad would always have it on,” Russelburg said.

“I’ve always thought it would be kind of interesting to really research how people did things before we had digital audio ... I looked into it to see how they real-

ly captured that sound, and the research was just super fascinating.”

Russelburg decided to take modern, Top 40 songs and remix them with a ‘60s feel. Some of the artists she chose to cover were Beyoncé, Outkast and, of course, Tegan and Sara.

“Essentially, since I don’t compose myself, I thought, ‘Let’s just rework modern pop songs,’” Russelburg said.

After completing and turning in her thesis, Russelburg decided to post her songs online as a portfolio piece over the summer. Before she could do that, she had to obtain permission from the owners of the different songs.

“I thought, ‘I should probably not get sued my first time out of college,’” Russelburg said. “When I looked up Tegan and Sara, [I found out that] they own all of their songs.”

See THESIS, page 3

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The Ball State women’s volleyball team clinched the No. 4 seed and a first-round bye in the upcoming Mid-American Conference Tournament with a win over STANDINGS Toledo on Thursday. The MAC WEST Cardinals ended the regular 2014 School Overall season on Saturday with a NIU 14-2 3-1 win over Akron.

BSU 11-5 With the bye, the Cardi- Western Mich. 9-7 nals have an extra day to Eastern Mich. 9-7 prepare, as they won’t play Central Mich. 5-11 until Nov. 22. The first- Toledo 0-16 round of the tournament begins the day before.

But head coach Steve Shondell said the bye makes preparation a little more “interesting.”

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Former Ball State student Bianca Russelburg received some exposure from Canadian rock band Tegan and Sara. Russelburg, who was a digital audio production major, gave Top 40 songs ‘60s-style remixes for her thesis.

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Islamic State video announces beheading Terrorist group kills 5th Western man, Indianapolis native | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — The Islamic State group released a video Sunday of a masked militant standing over a severed head it claimed was Peter Kassig, a former U.S. Army Ranger-turned-aid worker from Indianapolis who was taken hostage while delivering relief supplies to Syrians caught in that country’s brutal civil war.

Hours later, the White House confirmed Kassig’s death after a review of the video, which also showed the mass beheadings of a dozen Syrian soldiers.

The 26-year-old Kassig, who returned to the Middle East to help wounded and displaced Syrians, “was taken from us in an act of pure evil by a terrorist group that the world rightly associates with inhumanity,” President Barack Obama said in a statement.

He denounced the extremist group, which he said “revels in the slaughter of innocents, including Muslims, and is bent only on sowing death and destruction.”

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With Kassig’s death, the Islamic State group has killed five Westerners it was holding. American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff were beheaded, as were British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning.

Unlike previous videos of slain Western hostages, the footage released Sunday did not show the decapitation of Kassig or the moments leading up to his death.

“This is Peter Edward Kassig, a U.S. citizen ... who fought against the Muslims in Iraq,” said the black-clad militant, who spoke with a British accent that was distorted in the video, apparently to disguise his identity. Previous videos featured a militant with a British accent that the FBI said it has identified, though it hasn’t named him publicly.

The slain hostage’s parents, Ed and Paula Kassig, said they were “heartbroken” by their son’s killing, but “incredibly proud” of his humanitarian work. Kassig “lost his life as a result of his love for the Syrian people and his desire to ease their suffering,” the parents said in a statement from Indianapolis.

The footage released Sunday identifies the militants’ location as Dabiq, a town in northern Syria that the Islamic State group uses as the title of its

English-language propaganda magazine and where they believe an apocalyptic battle between Muslims and their enemies will occur.

The high-definition video also showed the beheadings of about a dozen men identified as Syrian military officers and pilots, all dressed in blue jumpsuits. The black-clad militant warns that U.S. soldiers will meet a similar fate.

“We say to you, Obama: You claim to have withdrawn from Iraq four years ago,” the militant said. “Here you are: You have not withdrawn. Rather, you hid some of your forces behind your proxies.”

A U.S.-led coalition is targeting the Islamic State group in airstrikes, supporting Western-backed Syrian rebels, Kurdish fighters and the Iraqi military.

Kassig, who served in the U.S. Army’s 75th Ranger Regiment, a special operations unit, deployed to Iraq in 2007. After being medically discharged, he returned to the Middle East in 2012 and formed an aid organization, Special Emergency Response and Assistance, to aid Syrian refugees.

A certified EMT, Kassig had delivered food and medical supplies and provided trauma

care to wounded Syrians before being captured on Oct. 1, 2013, in eastern Syria. Friends said he converted to Islam in captivity and took the first name Abdul-Rahman.

In a statement issued as he flew back to Washington after a trip to the Asia-Pacific region, Obama said Kassig “was a humanitarian who worked to save the lives of Syrians injured and dispossessed” by war. The president offered prayers and condolences to Kassig’s family.

“We cannot begin to imagine their anguish at this painful time,” he said.

Earlier, Kassig’s family said it preferred “our son is written about and remembered for his important work and the love he shared with friends and family, not in the manner the hostage takers would use to manipulate Americans and further their cause.”

Burhan Agha, a Syrian who worked with Kassig in Lebanon, wept when recounting his friend’s humanitarian work.

“If I could apologize to each American, one by one, I would, because Peter died in Syria, while he was helping the Syrian people,” Agha told The Associated Press by telephone from Switzerland, where he is seeking asylum.

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| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Russelburg found a way to contact their company, which asked her to send in her song for approval. The album from which she had pulled the Tegan and Sara song was about to celebrate its 10-year anniversary.

“It turns out a week later I find out that I had been talking to their manager, and [when] he called me, I was actually just hanging out in a friend’s backyard off campus,” Russelburg said. “I get this call from this manager saying, ‘Hey, we all really liked the song, you’re totally welcome to put it online ... but we’re coming on the 10-year anniversary of [So Jealous], so we thought it would be cool if we could potentially use that for this project we’re putting together.’”

The project, which is called So Jealous X, is a commemorative coffee table book filed with pictures and the artists’ memories from the past 10 years. In the back, there will be three discs.

The first is the original CD, the second a DVD, and the third a collection of bonus audio, such as remixes, demos and covers. Russelburg’s song will be on the third CD. The book will be released on Dec. 23.

So Jealous X isn’t all that has come out of Russelburg’s thesis. During the process of recording the songs for the thesis, Russelburg had a realization that she wanted to take her ideas a step further.

“There was one night in the studio, we had done a session and I was walking

out that night. The session had gone really well, but I felt really unfulfilled and I had one of those classic college existential crises,” Russelburg said. “I just thought, ‘This is my dream project, and it’s going well, why am I not feeling 100 percent awesome right now?’”

She then came up with the idea for Resonate, a campaign to provide free recording services to musicians in the LGBT community. Her aim is to provide a platform for these artists, as well as give those in the LGBT community more musicians to relate to.

“I did grow up in a very small town. To me, I didn’t have a lot of people to look up to at all,” Russelburg said. “No one should feel alone, everyone should have the opportunity to see themselves reflected in the media, whether it’s TV, movies, music. Music is what I feel I can do.”

Russelburg launched a Kickstarter campaign on Nov. 11.

She said, since then, her friends have been spreading the word on social media. She has emailed different media providers in the hopes of getting more press.

The campaign has a 30-day period in which people can donate. If adequate funds are not raised in time, the people who had donated will receive their money back.

Russelburg said she chose Kickstarter to host her campaign because of its popularity.

“I like the fact that it’s the most well known of them all,” Russelburg said. “I think [30 days] works really well because you can do a big press push, but there’s also a sort of timeframe [for people to donate].”

On Kickstarter, innovators can post their ideas into 15 different categories. They can then campaign for donations. The process is called crowdfunding. Kickstarter was founded in 2009, and according to its website, as of March 2014, it

had raised more than $1 billion in pledges.

Russelburg said she hopes her project helps others who are in the position she was before.

“Growing up in a small town, you just feel really secluded being in the LGBT community ... I found out that there were these people that have these great musical voices that are representing the way I feel via music,” she said. “Now that I’ve grown up, I want to help continue making that happen for people.”

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Niche.com ranked the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics and Humanities No. 1 in Indiana. The high school is located on Ball State’s campus, and so is the Academy House, shown above.

Indiana Academy receives top spot in state ranking Niche recognizes unit of Teachers College for academics, diversity, health, safety KARA BERG CHIEF REPORTER NICHE RANKING CRITERIA | knberg2@bsu.edu School and neighborhood ranking site A high school located on Ball State’s campus was ranked No. 1 in Indiana, recognition that some say is overdue.

The Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics and Humanities was rated by Niche, a research gathering site dedicated to giving information on K-12 school, neighborhoods and universities.

“We were finally recognized for what we are,” said Vickie Barton, executive director of the Academy. “We’ve known for along time that we were the number one high school in Indiana. We’re just glad that other people are finally hearing it.”

The Academy is a unit of Ball State’s Teachers College, and is located on the edge of campus just off of University Avenue.

It’s a two-year residential high school for gifted students.

Barton said since they are a two-year high school, the Academy didn’t have many of the statistics and criteria used on other rankings, so they weren’t as accurate.

Niche drew on student, alumni and parent surveys to determine rankings of the high schools.

Jeff Smith, the director of academic affairs, said this survey was more satisfying than others have been.

“It was nice to see that they finally looked at all the right things and we came out on top,” Smith said.

One of the categories Niche looked at was diversity, which counted toward 10 percent of each school’s “grade.”

Since the Academy’s district is all of Indiana, Barton said the school has a lot of diversity. With only about 300 students, Smith said it has 55 to 60 counties represented each year.

“We have any religion that you could imagine,” Barton said. “I don’t know how many different nationalities, but a lot.”

She said looking at economics, they have everywhere from people who would be considered quite wealthy to those on food stamps.

“This school was created 25 years ago to allow everyone same opportunity no matter their background,” she said.

“Other college prep schools are expensive. If you’re poor, you can still come to this school. If you’re smart, you get

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the same opportunities as everyone else here.”

John Marsh, the marketing specialist, said this ranking should help the Academy get their name out.

“We’re the best kept secret in Indiana. We don’t want to be that way,” Marsh said.

“We should be one of the best known [high schools].”

Blake Alexander graduated from the Academy in 2011, and is a senior English education major at Ball State.

“The Academy had enough influence on me that I want to go into teaching myself because I realize the value of great education and want to share that with other people,” Alexander said.

He said at his hometown high school, he felt bored, his grades were slipping and he didn’t fit in with the other students.

“I was pretty shy and not confident in myself, but the Academy and being surrounded by like-minded people was better,” Alexander said. “I felt challenged, the work wasn’t busy work and it was actually stimulating and challenging.”

Because the school was for gifted students, he said it also ensured that the teachers would pay attention to them, because at his old high school, he felt like they only paid attention to the underperforming students.

“We do lots of work that wouldn’t have been available at the standard high school,” he said. “And we go into college careers already with quite a bit of experience. Regardless of what field we go into and what we study, we are well equipped to make the most of our experience.”

The women of Alpha Gamma Delta would like to congratulate the newest members of their chapter for becoming initiated for the fall of 2014.

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ANATOMY A game-changing play in Ball State’s 24-10 loss against Massachusetts DAVID POLASKI CHIEF REPORTER | @DavidPolaski

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Trailing Massachusetts 17-10 late in the fourth quarter, the Ball State football team’s defense was backed up in its red zone. Massachusetts lined up in the wildcat formation, and wide receiver Elgin Long took the shotgun snap and scored a touchdown, further extending the lead.

Massachusetts entered the red zone seven times and scored just four times, but Ball State’s offense was unproductive in a 24-10 loss.

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There’s 5:47 left in the fourth quarter. Massachusetts is lined up in the wildcat formation on the left hash of Ball State’s seven-yard line. Long is lined up a few yards behind the center, and Lorenzo Woodley is a few yards behind Long. Running back Matt Tuleja is to the right of Long.

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Ball State is lined up in its typical 4-3 defense. There are four defensive linemen, three linebackers and four defensive backs. Because of injuries, many of Ball State’s normal starting defenders are not on the field.

At the snap, Long fakes a handoff to Woodley, and Woodley takes off to the right pretending to have the ball. Briefly, multiple defenders follow Woodley.

Long starts running around the left side where there’s open running room. Tuleja kicks out to the same side, cutblocking Ball State safety Gilbert Stlouis to give Long all the room he needs to run untouched into the end zone.

Run game stifled as bowl chances vanish Lack of rushing threat leads to lowest point output of season

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Halfway through the second quarter against Massachusetts, Ball State third string running back Teddy Williamson lined up in the backfield. First stringer Jahwan Edwards and second stringer Horactio Banks stood next to each other on the sideline.

It was that kind of day for the Ball State rushing attack.

The Cardinals finished its 2410 loss to the Minutemen with just 69 yards rushing on 30 attempts, a paltry 2.3 yards per carry. Whether it was left, right or up the middle, Ball State was unable to move the ball on the ground.

The lack of rushing success brought the offense to a grinding halt, going 4-17 on third down and scoring 10 points, the lowest total of the season. The loss also eliminates Ball State from

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bowl contention. Teams need six wins to be bowl eligible; Ball State has three wins and just two games remaining.

Ball State head coach Pete Lembo said one of the goals going into the game was to stay balanced between the run and the pass. His team threw the ball 37 times compared to the 30 rushes, maintaining that balance, but it was ineffective overall.

When Ball State was able to push the ball downfield, rushes for little or no gain often stalled drives that looked promising. Without a credible rushing threat, the Cardinals were backed up into third and long situations which they couldn’t convert, leaving valuable points unscored.

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“We still got enough stops defensively, and we’ve got to put more points on the board,” Lembo said.

Edwards finished the game with 16 carries for 36 yards, while Banks had four for 11.

They, and the team, were not available for comment after the game.

There was a period in the second half when quarterback Jack Milas would fake handoffs to Edwards or Banks, then keep the ball himself.

The designed deception plays were some of the most effective rushes of the game, and they came from the quarterback position.

Lembo said the lack of production hindered the offense, slowing it down enough to be

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Ball State fell to 24-10 to the University of Massachusetts on Wednesday at Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium. The loss caused Ball State to drop to 3-7 and lose its bowl eligibility.

unproductive.

“It set it back quite a bit. That was one of our goals coming in, to be able to try and stay balanced,” Lembo said.

Tied at seven in the second quarter, Ball State’s Avery Bai-

ley intercepted Massachusetts quarterback Blake Frohnapfel and returned it to the Massachusetts 46-yard line, ideal field position for Ball State to march downfield and take the lead.

Instead, Ball State was

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The Ball State women’s basketball team faced Purdue Friday at Worthen Arena. Sophomore Calyn Hosea played for 31 minutes in the game and had four rebounds. Ball State shot 43.8 percent from the field, but had 18 turnovers. Although Ball State fell to Purdue 66-60, there were 4,012 fans in attendance, the third largest crowd in program history. Ball State will host Evansville at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Worthen Arena.

“We’re not going to know who we’re going to play until next Friday night,” he said. “We can kind of think about a couple teams, but really knowing who we’re going to play, we won’t know until Friday night.”

The tournament setup will pit Ball State against the winner of No. 5 seed Western Michigan and No. 8 seed Buffalo.

The Cardinals were 3-0 combined against the two teams during the regular season, beating the Broncos twice and the Bulls once.

Prior to the release of the tournament bracket, Shondell said whichever team Ball State draws will be a highly intense match of volleyball.

“We have a feeling we are going to be playing Western [Michigan] or Eastern [Michigan],” Shondell said. “One of those teams is going to be the No. 5 seed. With that said, you know the matches we’ve had with both of those teams. All five-game matches, incredible matches.”

Ball State opened its conference schedule with a 3-2 win over Western Michigan on Sept.

forced to punt after two runs for a combined five yards and an incomplete pass.

Massachusetts promptly walked downfield in five plays, scoring a touchdown to retake a lead it would never surrender.

26 and used the victory as a starting point on its way to an 11-5 overall MAC record.

The Cardinals also defeated the Broncos on Nov. 1.

In the two matches against Western Michigan, redshirt freshman outside hitter Sabrina Mangapora torched the Broncos to the tune of 34 kills and a .401 attack percentage.

Mangapora said close matches like the team has had against Western Michigan will benefit them in the upcoming tournament.

“The last half of the season we played some really close games, and I think that has helped make us tougher,” Mangapora said. “Mentally, physically, we’ve been forced to play longer sets.”

If Ball State is going to win its seventh MAC Tournament title, it will have to rely on its tough attitude to win three matches in as many days.

The Cardinals will put their postseason aspirations on the line when they open play at 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 22 in Athens, Ohio.

“It’s to that point in the season where we’ve had experience, and I think that’s what will really help us come MAC Tournament,” Mangapora said.

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Jennifer Lawrence talks loss of privacy Actress discusses anxiety associated with photo hacking | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Jennifer Lawrence said she knew being a movie star would bring with it a certain loss of privacy. What she didn’t know, she said, was the deep emotional and even

physical toll it would take.

“I knew the paparazzi were going to be a reality in my life,” the 24-year-old Oscar winner said in an interview Saturday.

“But I didn’t know that I would feel anxiety every time I open my front door, or that being chased by 10 men you don’t know, or being surrounded, feels invasive and makes me feel scared and gets my adrenaline going every day.”

Lawrence was recently in the

news when private nude photos of her and other celebrities were hacked, then posted online. She took the forceful position then that the hacking was not a scandal but “a sex crime.”

The actress spoke to the AP Saturday while promoting “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay: Part 1,” the third installment of the blockbuster franchise that catapulted her to stardom.

“You can say, ‘This [invasion of privacy] is part of my job

« Nobody wants to help us because it seems like, you know, ‘Shut up, millionaires.’ » JENNIFER LAWRENCE, actress and this is going to be a reality of my life,’” Lawrence said, “but what you don’t expect is how your body and how your emotions are going to react to it.”

And yet, she added with her typical candor, the general public isn’t very sympathetic to

such celebrity complaints: “Nobody wants to help us because it seems like, you know, ‘Shut up, millionaires.’”

Sitting alongside her costars Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth, Lawrence told the AP that although she

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ALGIER:

| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Above his sink, hang rusty, teal pressed tin squares that he cut out of sheets. Although he kept the original daybed in the RV, he ripped out the kitchen table and placed his “childhood couch” in his home.

“I could not let it go because the cushions are still in good condition,” Williamson said.

“And it’s orange so it’s definitely retro, like for real retro ... Diesel likes it. Don’t you, Diesel?”

LINES, SHAPES, ANGLES

Williamson always loved creating things.

Growing up in Indianapolis, he used to pay his younger brother to let him cut his hair, just so he would have somebody to practice on.

After high school, Williamson came to Ball State for architecture. He studied in the program for two and a half years before deciding it wasn’t for him. He knew he would constantly bring his work home if he continued with the career.

For the next three years, Williamson tried carpentry, a more hands-on option.

After discovering he still didn’t have the freedom he wanted, he chose barber school.

He worked at three different barber shops, before coming to Muncie to open his own.

“It’s sweet because all the time I spent at Ball State as a student, all those architecture classes still came in handy,” Williamson said.

“Even just cutting hair, it’s a form of architecture. As I’m cutting her hair right now, there is different lines and shapes and angles that apply in the same manner as constructing a building.”

He still also loves to make a place his own. Pictures and posters cover the walls of his room-sized barbershop.

He enjoys a good garage sale, and he prefers metal and wood over plastic.

“There’s something about how something had a life before it got to me, and to be able to take that and just reuse it and make it new,” Williamson said. “Everything in here had a life before I had it.”

places,” and doesn’t worry about fuel economy or long distance.

“Oh man, that bike man.

Something about it,” he said.

Although he dreams about moving west, Williamson is content. He enjoys living in a college town where students are excited and have goals.

“I’ve found what makes me happy, and it doesn’t involve having the biggest bank account,” Williamson said.

BEHIND THE CLIPPERS

Williamson doesn’t advertise his service, relying solely

« It’s what I wake up thinking about ... It’s

nice knowing I have something to be excited about – living life and knowing that when I leave from this place, I know that I’ve found what makes me happy. » ALGIER WILLIAMSON, barber on word of mouth. Yet the missing piece doesn’t seem to affect his business.

Sibley Barlow, a senior painting major, has gone to Williamson for a haircut more than 10 times.

“I’m kind of particular about my hair, and he’s never done anything wrong,” Barlow said.

She also said she feels less rushed.

Williamson dedicates

an hour to each customer, something he said is unusual for barber shops. He said his friend who works at Walmart has to style hair in around 20 minutes.

“I’ll comb through your hair for 20 minutes trying to figure out what we’re gonna do,” Williamson said. “I’d be on probation or fired somewhere like that quick.”

He talks to those who want to talk but has no problem cutting hair in silence. He likes to “travel” in his brain.

Harvey has known Williamson for about eight

years. He said he sees a different side of Williamson, even though he is good at talking with his customers.

“There is a side of him that is very much aware of his public persona, but there is also a side of Algier that is significantly more withheld,” Harvey said. “It’s not to say that he is not fun, or he is not boisterous, but there is a side of him that is very introspective and thought out and patient and quiet.”

At the end of the haircut, Williamson takes Barlow’s money and hugs her goodbye.

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When Williamson first came to Muncie to start cutting hair, he opened a shop behind TIS Bookstore, and then later in the store across from Scotty’s Brewhouse.

After traveling west with friends and falling in love with the lifestyle, he decided to downsize.

He moved out of his shop and months later came back to Muncie with a truck.

Travis Harvey, owner of Village Green Records, said Williamson came to him in the middle of the night, asking if he could be a part of the store.

“I didn’t quite know about the truck thing, but I wasn’t surprised because it’s Algier and he is quite an unorthodox character,” Harvey said.

Williamson cut hair outside in the truck until finally deciding to utilize a room in the store. The truck was lacking necessary amenities.

Now, his focus is on his RV. He hopes to one day take his mobile home out west to cut hair there, and live in his “playground.” Specifically, he wants to cut hair at the University of California, Santa Barbara, right next to the beach.

“It’s what I wake up thinking about … It’s nice knowing I have something to be excited about – living life and knowing that when I leave from this place, I know that I’ve found what makes me happy,” Williamson said.

Even though Muncie isn’t his final destination, he tries to make everything his playground.

Until he bought his RV, Williamson had built a structure on top of his truck so he could sleep under the stars at night.

Now he’ll take his RV to the river and just read a book.

“Something about an RV, it’s like a treehouse, clubhouse on wheels,” Williamson said. “There’s something about an RV. I don’t care how old you get, it will make you a little kid.”

He chooses vehicles that enable him to “hang out

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