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Printing policy receives criticism

Faculty emails reveal confusion of 3-cent per impression charge BERG CHIEF REPORTER | KARA knberg2@bsu.edu

UNDERGROUND

Faculty and staff have been scrutinizing the university’s new centralized printing system, which aims to reduce cost and increase efficiency.

Under the Managed Print Services program, BY THE NUMBERS the university would buy all printers through one company: Ricoh.

Bernie Hannon, associate vice president of The amount of money Ball business affairs, said the State is projected to save switch could save the as a result of the Managed university $800,000 to Print Services program $1 million a year.

This would be helpful, because Ball State pieces of paper printed received about $15 mil- per year at Ball State SOURCES: Bernie Hannon, associate lion less after the state vice president of business affairs, reduced funds to public Print Optimization Group universities in 2010.

Previously, depart- CONTRACT ments bought their DETAILS own printers, paper RICOH WILL PROVIDE: and ink cartridges. One • Copier services by one, each depart- • Printer services ment is having Ricoh • Installation assess their printing • Equipment repair and needs, and then the maintenance university is buying the • Operation supplies and necessary printers. labor This eliminates the small printers scattered across campus, which Hannon said are inefficient and not cost-effective.

Faculty and staff are still not allowed to personally buy printers and keep them in their office. This hasn’t changed from the previous policy.

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$800,000 to $1 million

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University requests $11 million from state to repair existing campus tunnels, add additional sections KARA BERG CHIEF REPORTER | knberg2@bsu.edu

The tunnel underneath the Music Instruction Building is the newest addition to Ball State’s tunnel system. The tunnels are used to store utilities and services, and they are filled with pipes.

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I know it’s reached its point where it has to be cared for.

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FORMER STUDENT DIES IN WAYNE COUNTY CAR ACCIDENT

A former Ball State student and former new member to Sigma Kappa died Monday evening in a car crash.

Audra Ross, 20, Milton, was driving on Indiana 1 when her SUV drifted across the road and crashed into a pickup truck, killing her, the Richmond PalladiumItem reported.

The pickup’s driver, Joel Adams, 55, was taken to the hospital and treated for his wounds.

Family, friends and Sigma Kappa sorority sisters took to Facebook and Twitter to grieve.

“During [Ross’s] new member period prior to transferring to AUDRA ROSS Ivy Tech, she touched many of former Ball our sisters’ lives,” Sigma Kappa State student posted to their Facebook Tuesday. “Although her time with Sigma Kappa was short, she will be remembered as a kind, compassionate and loving young lady who was an amazing friend to the chapter.”

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STUDENTS REACT ON TWITTER @EmileeMegannn Emilee

Prayers go out to the Ross family as they are going through a tough time. It’s sad how the good ones always go to soon. R.I.P Audra Ross

@STWFOpenwheel WFOpenWheel Billy

Thank you Audra Ross for making me a better person in the short time we knew each other. You will be missed.

@CourtneyJPolley Courtney Polleyname

Audra Ross was such a sweet girl! RIP

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LIKE THE FORBIDDEN FOREST IN “HARRY POTTER,” EXPLORING THE TUNNELS IS PROHIBITED.

JIM LOWE, director of engineering, construction and operations

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he walls and floors of the underground tunnel starting under Burkhardt Building were dirty and covered in dust.

The beginning of the tunnel was bigger – tall enough to stand up straight and walk, even though the pathway was narrow and crowded with pipes.

Further into the tunnel, it narrowed and the ceiling with pipes hanging down got lower, until Jim Lowe, director of engineering, construction and operations, had to walk at a 90-degree angle to avoid hitting his head.

To expand these tunnels and to address other concerns, the university has requested $11 million from the state. Lowe said those repairs would also include fixing the parts of existing tunnels that could be a safety concern and adding new tunnels.

These tunnels, built in the 1920s, have been used to store steam, water, high voltage and communication lines. As campus grew and more buildings were added, the tunnels were expanded to connect each building to the central steam plant.

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Ball State unable to secure bowl eligibility after loss Necessary 7 wins unattainable with only 2 games remaining on regular season schedule DAVID POLASKI CHIEF REPORTER | @DavidPolaski For the first time since 2010, the Ball State football team won’t be bowl eligible.

Teams need a minimum of six wins to be bowl eligible. After Ball State’s loss to Massachusetts, the team sits with just three wins and only two games remaining.

Even six wins doesn’t guarantee a bowl berth. In 2011, Ball State went 6-6, but the bowl selection committee didn’t call the team’s name.

“Nobody is happy when you aren’t getting

the results you want. Nobody is happy when you’re losing a bunch of close games,” Cardinals head coach Pete Lembo said.

Ball State started its 2014 season slow, going 1-5 through six games. Feeling a sense of urgency, redshirt freshman Jack Milas was inserted as the new starting quarterback and the offense was sparked. After losing a shootout to Western Michigan, Ball State reeled off wins against Central Michigan and Akron, before hitting a wall offensively and dropping the previous two games.

Losses against Iowa and Western Michigan were particularly difficult for the team, as they were both by less than one touchdown and could have swung the momentum of the season in a different direction.

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1. PALESTINIANS KILL 4 IN JERUSALEM SYNAGOGUE ATTACK

3. GOP VOWS TO PASS KEYSTONE PIPELINE PLAN WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama doesn’t support a Senate push to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Tuesday, hours before a scheduled vote. Republican leaders promised to take it up again next year if the Senate fails to advance the measure, or if Obama vetoes it.

“It certainly is a piece of legislation that the president doesn’t support, because the president believes that this is something

JERUSALEM (AP) — Two Palestinian cousins armed with meat cleavers and a gun stormed a Jerusalem synagogue during morning prayers Tuesday, killing four people in the city’s bloodiest attack in years. Police killed the attackers in a shootout.

The attack ratcheted up fears of sustained violence in a city already on edge amid soaring tensions over its most contested holy site.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to “respond harshly,” describing the attack as a “cruel murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by despicable murderers.”

He immediately ordered the demolition of the attackers’ homes, as well as homes of Palestinians who carried out several other recent attacks.

Police said the dead worshippers were three Americans and a Briton, and that all held dual Israeli citizenship. The attack occurred in Har Nof, an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood that has a large population of English-speaking immigrants.

that should be determined through the State Department and the regular process that is in place to evaluate projects like this,” Earnest said.

On Capitol Hill, supporters of the measure searched for the last vote needed for approval. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., said on the floor she knew “in her heart” she had the 60 votes for a bill that she hopes will buoy her chances of retaining her Senate seat in a runoff Dec. 6 against Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy.

4. MORGAN RECOVERING FROM BRAIN INJURY

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2. FERGUSON POLICE PROBE TO SPUR CHANGES WASHINGTON (AP) — As local authorities in Missouri near the end of their investigation in the Ferguson shooting, a broader federal civil rights review could hold a greater potential to refashion the police department and bring long-lasting change.

While a St. Louis County grand jury investigates the Aug. 9 shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, the Justice Department is investigating, too. More than two months into its probe of the Ferguson department’s practices, the civil rights inquiry is focus-

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ing on use-of-force, stops and searches and possible patterns of discrimination in the ways that officers in the predominantly white department interact with the majority-black community.

“If the end goal of this is to ensure that no one’s civil rights get violated, that everyone is treated decently and their constitutional rights are protected, the best thing that can come out of this is an overall look at the department,” said David Weinstein, a former federal civil rights prosecutor in Miami.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Tracy Morgan is fighting to recover from a severe brain injury suffered in a highway crash more than five months ago, and it’s unknown if the actor-comedian will be “the Tracy Morgan he once was,” his lawyer said Tuesday.

Benedict Morelli said the former “Saturday Night Live” and “30 Rock” star suffered a traumatic brain injury in the June 7 crash on the New Jersey Turnpike, in addition to a broken leg, nose and ribs.

“He’s fighting to get better, and if there’s

a chance for him to be back to the Tracy Morgan he once was, he’s going to try to do that,” Morelli said. “But we just don’t know because of the severity of the injuries that he sustained and the fact that he had such a severe brain injury.”

Lawyers were in court in New Jersey for a scheduling conference in Morgan’s lawsuit against Wal-Mart. Morgan wasn’t at Tuesday’s proceeding, during which lawyers met with the judge to settle on a schedule.

5. EARLY SNOW PUMMELS MUCH OF COUNTRY BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Several feet of lake-effect snow paralyzed the Buffalo area Tuesday, forcing state troopers to deliver blankets and other supplies to motorists stranded on the New York State Thruway and adding an ominous note to a wintry season that’s already snarling travel and numbing fingers from the Midwest to the Carolinas.

In Buffalo, Brian Krzeminski watched

the snow pile up outside the south Buffalo convenience store where he worked overnight and served free coffee to the motorists and pedestrians.

“There are people that came out to get a few things. We had some people who came in just to get a 30-pack of beer, which is kind of odd,” he said. “We’ve had EMTs whose ambulance got stuck. I’m constantly seeing cars get stuck.”

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SPORTS Lembo’s Language

TODAY The women’s basketball team hosts Evansville for a 7 p.m. tip-off at Worthen Arena.

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FRIDAY The men’s swimming and diving team hosts the Doug Coers Invitational. It is scheduled to take place all day.

ELIGIBILITY:

A breakdown of the football head coach’s weekly press conference

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

David’s Explanation

A: “No ... I don’t make excuses for that kind of stuff ... at the end of the day, nobody really cares. You’ve got to do your best to prepare your team, put your best foot forward.”

Q: With the emergence of [Dedrick] Cromartie as a young defensive playmaker, do you see him maintaining his role this season and into the next?

A: “While [safeties] Martez Hester and Dae’Shaun Hurley are healing up, there’s an opportunity for Dedrick to continue to grow and develop. Even when those guys are back, you want competition, guys who have played before.”

Q: The crowds have been a little smaller, is that something you think about actively?

A: “I concern myself with every aspect of the program ... I don’t think there’s any question that you’re not going to draw the same way as if you were winning nine or 10 games.”

Since Pete Lembo’s first job as a head coach at Lehigh in 2001, he said he’s never coached a team that’s seen so many impactful injuries. Depth at safety has gotten to the point that redshirt freshman Ralph Smith, who was intended to be a wide receiver, has been brought to safety for insurance.

David’s Explanation One positive that’s come from all the defensive injuries is the emergence of Cromartie. He’s fast and aggressive, tallying two interceptions in his limited time. Lembo said he expects Cromartie to benefit from the offseason program, and he expects him to continue to play a role on the team going into next season.

David’s Explanation Attendance has gone down this season, for multiple reasons. The season opener, normally one of the most attended games, took place on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend. Ball State’s struggles this season have also played a factor, as students and fans are less likely to get excited when the team isn’t playing well.

Younger brother outshines sibling Freshman finishes with career-high points, rebounds

Ball State also lost to Indiana State by just seven, but it wouldn’t have mattered overall if it had won.

FBS teams like Ball State are only allowed to count one victory against an FCS team in their overall record, and since the Cardinals already beat FCS Colgate in the season opener, the game against FCS Indiana State wouldn’t have counted if Ball State had won.

The result is both the team staying home for the winter and a noticeable drop in attendance throughout the season.

“I think folks here are pretty realistic, and we’ve had a challenging year,” Lembo said. “We’ve had a lot of new faces in the lineup, and I think an awful lot of people have stayed the course with us.”

Ball State has seen more than a handful of new starters on both offense and defense, but the defense has been hit particularly hard. Michael Ayers, Darnell Smith and Tyree Holder

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*The football team has two games remaining this season.

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Heading into Ball State’s 101-62 win over IU Kokomo on Monday, freshman Jeremie Tyler wasn’t going to go easy against his brother junior Jerome Campbell.

“I expected him to play good,” Campbell said. “I didn’t expect him to hold up against me, because I didn’t plan on holding back playing him.”

Campbell attended Arsenal Technical High School in Indianapolis with Tyler, which was the last time the brothers had played on the same court prior to Monday.

The pair played varsity together in high school, starting alongside one another Tyler’s sophomore year.

“It was just fun playing against him,” Tyler said. “Knowing me and him were playing on the same floor again and us having the chance to play college ball was a good feeling.”

Despite both players starting in guard positions, Tyler and Campbell were not matched up on one another for much of the game. Tyler said he wished he could’ve guarded his brother on more possessions, but that it was head coach James Whitford’s decision.

are the only players on defense who have started every game. Overall, Ball State has had 22 different players start on defense.

Free safety Dedrick Cromartie has been one of the players that injuries impacted the most. A true freshman, he was thrust into the starting role initially against Central Michigan and will start his fourth game of the season against Eastern Michigan. During the offseason, Lembo considered redshirting him, but Cromartie ended up contributing on special teams initially until injuries made him a starter.

In his nine appearances, he has 26 tackles and two interceptions.

“With the situation we’re in, we needed guys to step up,” Cromartie said. “I’ve been locked in and focused on doing my job. It’s been a hard season but we’re trying to make the best of it.”

The Cardinals can finish with a maximum of five wins. The last time they finished with less than six was 2010, when Ball State finished 4-8.

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DAVID POLASKI

Q: Coach, have you been a part of a more banged up team in your tenure?

SATURDAY After its firstround bye, the women’s volleyball team plays in the MAC tournament quarterfinals.

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Brothers Jerome Campbell, a junior guard for IU Kokomo, and Jeremie Tyler, a freshman guard, faced each other on Monday at Worthen Arena. This was the first time the brothers have played on the same court since high school.

Tyler started off strong and aggressive, with 16 points in the first half. He went 7-of-12 from the field and 2-of-5 from long range before half time.

Campbell was also efficient to start the game, finishing the first half with six points on 3-of-4 shooting.

Only one player would carry his success into the second half, however, as Tyler added seven more points to finish with a game and career-high 23.

“He came out and had a good game,” Campbell said. “It feels good that he came in and transitioned to college and stepped up as a freshman.”

Tyler went 10-of-16 from the field, making three three-pointers. He also kept the crowd in the game with three fast-break dunks, the only slams of the game.

Campbell finished with six points, going 3-of-8 from the field.

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

TEAM ADDS 3 PLAYERS TO 2015 ROSTER The Ball State women’s volleyball team announced the signing of three players to National Letters of Intent.

Ellie Dunn, Emily Holland and Brooklyn Goodsel will each join Ball State in 2015.

Dunn finished her playing career at Kaneland High School in Sugar Grove, Ill., as a three-time All-Northern Big 12 Conference choice. She led her team in kills all three seasons she played.

Holland played four years at Madison Consolidated High School in Madison, Ind., and was a three-time First Team All-Hoosier Hills Conference selection. She posted 400 kills her senior season, and her class finished as the most successful in program history.

Goodsel’s father coached her as she played four years at Corry Area High School in Corry, Pa. She was an Under Armour First Team All-American as a senior. Goodsel is the program’s all-time leader in kills with 1,505.

Ball State continues its 2014 season on Saturday as the No. 4 seed in the Mid-American Conference Tournament.

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“That was all our family wanted to see,” Tyler said.

“Being able to play in college and having the chance to play against each other.”

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Music & Memory revamps show Group seeks funds to grow programs for Alzheimer’s patients

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On Sunday afternoons, Lindsey LaFleche, treasurer of Muncie’s Music & Memory, spends her time volunteering at Muncie nursing homes.

Music & Memory works with nursing home residents who have Alzheimer’s and dementia in hopes to help them remember who they are through means of music. The organization will host its second annual A Night to Remember variety show to raise money for the music therapy. Last year the money went to The Woodlands, a Muncie nursing home.

LaFleche often spends time with one resident named Ruth Pierce, who enjoys listening to Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and big band music.

“When we listen to music, we hold hands, tap our toes, swing our arms and sing along,” LaFleche said. “Ruth’s eyes light

up every time we see her and always looks forward to listening to music with us.”

Their relationship is more than a volunteer experience.

LaFleche and Pierce greet each other with hugs, kisses and exchanges of “I love you.”

Pierce’s children, who spoke with LaFleche at the nursing home, expressed their gratitude for the work Music & Memory has invested into the nursing home.

“They said they can tell we bring Ruth a lot of joy, and they are grateful we show Ruth so much love and compassion,” LaFleche said.

As a result of the program’s success so far, the organization’s next goal is to reach out to more residents at another nursing home in Muncie.

The funds raised from A Night to Remember will go toward equipment, such as computers, iPods and headphones. Using suggestions from family members and the residents themselves, the organization makes a playlist of familiar songs for each resident that the organization works with.

The president of Music &

Memory in Muncie, Tyler Sparkman, estimates the total costs for the equipment will be between $1,000 and $2,000.

For Wednesday’s event, 13 different student acts, including Ball State alumnus and comedian Mikey Mason, will perform.

“Last year we had about 300 attend, and we raised a little over $1,600. This year we are pushing $2,000,” Sparkman said. “Throughout the show, we are going to try and tell people where we are at with money to encourage people to keep donating.”

This year Music & Memory in Muncie earned $1,800 by reaching out to businesses to sponsor the event, and will give out raffle prizes, including a pair of Dr. Dre Beats headphones, tickets to see the David Letterman Show, a David Letterman jacket and various restaurant gift cards.

“This year is a lot different; we are revamping the show,” Sparkman said. “We didn’t have any of this last year. We didn’t have any of this free stuff. We had raffle prizes but not to this extent.”

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Music & Memory in Muncie works with nursing home residents who have Alzheimer’s and dementia to help them remember who they are through means of music. Ruth Pierce, one of the beneficiaries of the program, enjoys listening to Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and big band music.

Abby Urbik, vice president of the group, is excited for the whole show.

“It’s going to be a fabulous show, and I’m really pumped to see every act perform,” Urbik said. “And there might even be a little surprise at

PRINTING:

potential to win a prize.

“We would love to be as big one day as Ball State’s Dance Marathon,” Sparkman said.

“We’re doing two completely different causes; however, we would still love to be as big as them one day.”

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“Of course we don’t “This hasn’t been buy printers in want to give it up, discussed, various the future. but at some point, solutions haven’t they’re going to been worked out.”

BERNIE HANNON, come in and replace The Business Af- associate vice it,” he said. “So you fairs office was president of business can understand, I’m one of the first to affairs sitting here going, I switch.

Hannon don’t want to pay six said so far about 30 percent of cents for two sides a page when it the departments have imple- doesn’t cost me that now.” mented the new policy.

He said in theory, not having One main source of confu- to pay $12,000 for a new printer sion was a three-cent charge and just getting charged per page per impression. Some faculty sounds good. were not warned before it was “But I’m looking at, I’ve got a implemented and therefore did copier that could go six or sevnot know when or why they en years without any charges,” were being charged.

Lavery said.

The charge was set to refund Lavery said the CCIM budget the university money that is hasn’t been changed in 14 years. used to buy the new printers.

“Right now, we’re stretched on The idea was that instead of our account pool money, so for paying for the machine, the de- each department the thought of partment is only responsible having to come up with six or for that three-cent charge. eight or ten thousand dollars is Tony Proudfoot, a university really difficult,” he said. spokesperson, said an email Despite the complaints, Lavwas sent to the entire cam- ery is optimistic that the unipus to help them understand versity will fix the problems that the situation is being ad- with the policy. He said he dressed. He said there is no end wasn’t opposed to the notion time set for the transition. of networking.

After all the confusion, the uni“Right now, I credit our presiversity paused the per-print and dent, who has pulled back and service charges at the end of Oc- said, ‘You know what, let’s look tober, Hannon said. at this, let’s see what’s going “We need a little more time to on and then we’ll go forward,’” figure out the best way and the Lavery said. “So I’m optimistic most equitable way to pay for now that there will be a little these machines and refund the more flexibility and more room central fund and make sure we to negotiate and maneuver.” can continue to buy printers in Hannon said as they install the future,” Hannon said. more printers, they start to In one email from Michael understand more of what is Holmes, chairperson of the happening. journalism department, in July, “That’s why we needed this he said, “Ricoh may become print management policy, beless popular than Parking Ser- cause we didn’t know what vices and UMC.” we printed,” he said. “… So In another email from Holmes we hope that people will dated July 17, he said it was the now have the ability to say first time he had seen the policy. you know what, last year we Douglas Naffziger, an associate printed half a million pieces professor of management in the of paper, this year we’re going Miller College of Business, said in to try to print less than that.”

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Ball State’s tunnels were built in the 1920s and have been used to store steam, water, high voltage and communication lines. Most of the tunnels on campus are not meant for people to be in, but there are two tunnels that people do use. One of the tunnels connects Elliott Hall to Wagoner Complex, which is used mainly for moving the Indiana Academy students back and forth. The other tunnel connects John R. Emens Auditorium to Pruis Hall, and it is used primarily for moving instruments to the elevator and lifting them up to the green room.

| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “At that time, the Ball brothers came in and established these tunnels in 1918 in the quad area,” Lowe said. “So the tunnel structure was installed so we could hang steam lines and at that time, probably some water lines.”

Because the tunnels are so old, there are problems with the structure that need to be fixed. Lowe said while the problems aren’t a safety concern at the moment, they are thinking forward about it.

“I know it’s reached its point where it has to be cared for,” Lowe said. “We have to plan out and forecast these kinds of needs.”

Lowe said their thought was to relocate some of the older services that need repairs and take out some of them to free up space and make it easier to work on other systems.

“These tunnels are 6 feet wide, 7 feet tall,” Lowe said.

“So when you walk through it, if you’re a person of any height, you’re ducking through it. So imagine if you put pipes in there, that are 20 inches in diameter and you have two of those. It really narrows down the walk path, which is a foot and a half to two feet at most.”

While most of the tunnels on campus are not meant for people to be in, nor have they ever been used for that, there are two tunnels that people do use.

One connects Elliott Hall to Wagoner Complex, and is used primarily to get the Indiana Academy students back and forth.

The other tunnel connects John R. Emens Auditorium to Pruis Hall. Lowe said it is used mainly to move instruments to the elevator and lift them up to the green room.

Chase Norman*, an Indiana Academy alumni, used to go down to the tunnels with his friends.

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area know about it,” Norman said. “We heard it through the grapevine. Some of my friends had been told about it from their friends.”

Norman said he and his friends entered the tunnels by North Quad, and ended up by the David Letterman Communication and Media Building.

“They span really far and they’re connected to entrances to buildings all over campus,” he said. “It’s sort of a crapshoot whether the doors to the buildings from the tunnels are unlocked or not, but there were a number that were.”

He went down two or three times, he said, because it was a fun way to distract themselves from work.

“It was just kind of a cool thing to do,” Norman said.

“We tried to find some maps of the tunnels, but we couldn’t find it and we were trying to make our own maps of the tunnels, trying to find where each section led.”

Norman said he had never been caught in the tunnels, but came close before.

“One time when we walked out of the door from the tunnels, we walked into a room full of people,” he said. “It was a little nervewracking, but we sort of

just kept walking and no one ever questioned it.” *Editor’s Note: Chase Norman is a pseudonym to protect the identity of the person in this story.

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“Assassin’s Creed Unity” is a lot like a cool car with a janked up engine. From the outside, it looks great and leaves you wanting more, but after a short drive you won’t want to be behind the wheel much longer.

Traversing through an old-world city has never been more beautiful than in “Unity,” and a number of new gameplay mechanics stand out in a strong way. Unfortunately, some overwhelming issues ruin what could have been the best new-gen experience to date.

“Unity” drops the player into the boots of Arno Dorian in 18th century France, as the drums of revolution roar. Chaotic mobs of poor French citizens are well-realized, and the echoes of cannon fire and musket shots establish a tone of revolt. Despite how alive France feels, Dorian’s role is contrived and rushed, with little to no motivation guiding his actions and choices.

The crucial events of Dorian’s story as a character were weak and hurt the story’s authenticity. Several relationships could have been fleshed out, but were glossed over instead. Many significant plot points were underde-

veloped as a result. It even ends in an overly simple and quick boss fight.

The detailed world dwarfs Dorian’s story. Sprinting around France is exhilarating, and the thousands of NPCs on screen demonstrate spectacular reenactments of the revolution.

Just as the citizens feel alive, so do the enemies. Rather than wait for Dorian to dispatch them one by one, they openly attack at any chance. The insta-kill counter is gone, making each fight feel more like a strategic fencing match, forcing you to constantly adapt to enemies’ tactics. Taking on crowds of enemies is more challenging, as more than five can quickly overwhelm you, making every victory satisfying.

But glitches plague these satisfying experiences. Characters clip in and out of each other, the frame rate drops regularly and twice I had to restart the game because it froze. On numerous occasions, I died unnecessarily either by falling through the ground into an abyss, or because Dorian wouldn’t respond to my commands. These issues were so prevalent that I was never able to properly enjoy the game.

Despite those issues, the parkour gameplay is more refined in “Unity” than it’s ever been. There are less instances of accidentally falling to death, and the animations are more fluid.

Even so, there were still instances where I’d get caught on knee-high objects or would be unable to leap to a ledge that was obviously within reach.

Largely in thanks to the crouch ability, there’s more emphasis on stealth.

I’m not sure why it took eight games in a series about assassins to implement a crouch button, but sneaking through rooms while kneeling behind furniture makes an assassin’s life easier.

The highlight of “Unity” is its cooperative multiplayer where four players complete missions together. Running along rooftops and taking on enemies with teammates is an absolute blast, but connection issues often made it take up to five minutes to find a match.

Character customization lets you alter stats and weapons, but I often opted for the gear that looked cool rather than the ones that boosted my stats.

The core dilemma is that “Unity” doesn’t feel finished. There are so

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Ubisoft released “Assassin’s Creed Unity” on Nov. 11. The game is set in 18th century France.

many impressive aspects, but other issues bog it down. You’ll spend so much time aggravated by technical issues and its muddled storyline that you won’t be able to justify completing it. Like an assassin leaping out to a ledge and missing, “Unity” falls hard while striving for something great.

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Five months after my tweet’ and I had a bunch of vorited Vine’s launch in Januthings like that,” Galary 2013, Mathew Gal- people saying ‘Oh lagher said. “I was like, lagher, a freshman my gosh, Mathew ‘Wow, people actually criminal justice maare starting to really jor, joined in the six- Gallagher favorited catch on.’” second video craze as my tweet and With fame comes OfficialMathewG. fans. Gallagher has Flash-forward to pres- things like that. gone to 12 meet-andent day and Gallagher greets across the Unithas 120,000 followers MATHEW GALLAGHER, ed States. He has even on Vine. Gallagher said OfficialMathewG hosted a few meet-ups the turning point for of his own. With more him on Vine came when he posted than 5,000 fans in attendance, the a video about twerking. After the biggest meet-and-greet Gallagher video, Gallagher gained more than attended occurred in New York.

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promotions and things like that.

We’re all really close.”

Of the viner “community,” Gallagher has a couple close friends, including Grayson Dolan and Lance210.

Gallagher’s hobby of creating vines is paying off. Companies have approached him to promote their apps for money. On Vine, promoters are paid by their number of followers.

Along with Vine, Gallagher makes YouTube videos. He shares an account with his boyfriend, Zak Sheldon, who is a senior telecommunications major.

Their YouTube channel (YouTube. com/MatandZak) consists of challenges, travel vlogs and inspirational videos.

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Gallagher calls it “an all-around channel.”

While Sheldon creates YouTube videos, he is not as avid of a viner. “[Mat’s] vines take a lot of creativity, because he has to fit it into six seconds,” Sheldon said. “Whereas a YouTube video takes more of a production effort.”

The pair puts more planning and editing into YouTube videos.

“With Vine, I don’t edit my videos,” Gallagher said. “I just hold my thumb down on it. With YouTube, it could take us months depending on which video we’re doing.”

Gallagher and Sheldon recently signed with Omnia Media, a company that helps the two manage their

YouTube channel. The partnership will help improve the MatandZak brand.

With Omnia Media, Gallagher and Sheldon will create a logo for their channel. The two already sell bracelets with their brand name on them.

They hope to expand to T-shirts and other merchandise.

At the end of their videos, Gallagher and Sheldon put a peace sign over their eyes.

Sheldon said they have “taken over the fierce sign.”

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