DN THURSDAY, NOV. 20, 2014
DN FILE PHOTO BREANNA DAUGHERTY Senior Nick Miles will be playing at Scheumann Stadium for the last time this Saturday against Eastern Michigan.
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Senior players reflect on evolution with team, developing camaraderie POLASKI CHIEF REPORTER | DAVID @DavidPolaski
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hen Nick Miles entered the Ball State football program as a freshman, he said it looked different than it does now. Sticking out in particular is how much closer the players are to one another. “I’ve seen us go from a team that didn’t have much camaraderie to a group of guys I know will go out and battle for each other,” Miles said. “We genuinely care about each other, and even after football, we’ll still communicate with each other.” Miles and the rest of the Ball State football seniors will be running out of the tunnel onto Scheumann Stadium for the final time on Saturday when Ball State takes on Eastern Michigan. It’s Senior Day, the final home game of the season. See FOOTBALL, page 4
GENERAL STAFF REPORTER | ROBBY rjgeneral@bsu.edu
The Ball State football team has struggled in the fourth quarter all season. The Cardinals have not only struggled to score, but they have also been unable to keep their opponents out of the end zone. In their seven losses, the Cardinals have managed just 28 fourth-quarter points, compared to 69 for their opponents. Head coach Pete Lembo doesn’t just see this as a one-quarter problem, however. “I don’t think we’ve scored enough points in any quarter this year,” Lembo said. Of the 246 points the Ball State offense has scored this year, only 50 have come in the fourth. While Ball State’s fourth-quarter inefficiencies have not been the only issue this season, it has been one of the most repetitive.
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See 4TH QUARTER, page 4
Check out stats from redshirt senior kicker Scott Secor in this week’s player poster SEE PAGE 3
ONLINE To see stats about Ball State’s chances of winning Saturday’s game, look for ‘Interpreting The Cards’ online at ballstatedaily.com
Ball State hosts 40 students from Mexico Scholarship winners experience snow, American food, football BERG CHIEF REPORTER | KARA knberg2@bsu.edu When a few visiting students from Mexico went to their first Ball State football team practice Sunday, they saw something they had never seen before – snow. When it started snowing enough to stick, they built their first snowmen and had their first snowball fight. “It’s something amazing because we’ve never seen it before,” José Sanchez, a student from Universidad Politécnica de Tlaxcala, said. “We looked like kids, but we didn’t care.” Forty students from Universidad Politécnica de Tlaxcala, Instituto Tecnológico de Apizaco and Universidad Tecnológica de Tlaxcala are visiting Ball State to work on their English and plan to come back to study at the university in the future. The students won a scholarship from the Mexican government to come for about three weeks, as a part of Proyecta 100,000. This project is an attempt to get 100,000 Mexican students to study in the U.S. and 50,000 U.S. students to study in Mexico by 2018, according to the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies. at University of California, San Diego.
See SCHOLARSHIP, page 6
SGA WAITING FOR APPROVAL FOR 24-HOUR LIBRARY PLAN With three weeks left until finals, the Student Government Association has yet to get approval to open Bracken Library for 24 hours during finals week. The executive board’s platform point during their campaign was to keep Bracken Library open and provide food, snacks and the availability of Charlie’s Charter transportation services in a project named Campus Camp Out. At the SGA’s most recent meeting, president Nick Wilkey said he is still waiting for approval from the dean of university libraries. Wilkey said he expects to receive a final answer by Thursday at the latest. “I am hoping that they are getting their ducks in a row, but I am a little nervous about it,” Wilkey said. Wilkey and vice president Bryan Kubel met with associate deans from the library a few weeks ago. When they presented their idea, Wilkey said one of the points he brought up was that he wanted Ball State to be comparable to Mid-American Conference schools that also have 24-hour library services during finals week. They also want the library to be available to students who may not have access to computers or printers. “If it helps out 50, 60 or 100 students, I am perfectly fine with testing it out,” Wilkey said. “This is something we want to show the university that students use.” There is $3,000 in the budget for the Campus Camp Out, according to the SGA Drive. Wilkey said the funds would be used to pay workers for the extra hours and to keep Charlie’s Charter running. THE PULSE OF BALL STATE
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Carlos Flores and Ada Cortes play in the snow and hit one another with snowballs while playing outside with their classmates. Cortes and Flores are two of 40 students who are visiting the university from southern Mexico.
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