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Decisions were coming. His baby daughter was coming. And Willie Snead was convinced his window for growth at Ball State had slammed shut.

“If I went back, and maybe if my girlfriend wasn’t pregnant at the time, then I might have stayed,” Snead said.

“Maybe I wouldn’t have felt that pressure of trying to support a child. And maybe I could have just went through and finished school. But it didn’t work out that way.”

The fact is that Snead can’t go back. No matter, he’s made it. Snead recently signed

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After posting back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons, Snead declared for the NFL Draft, forgoing his senior season.

Since only about a quarter of Ball State students participate in immersive learning projects, President Paul W. Ferguson wants to make learning outside of the classroom more common.

The university will continue to offer immersive learning projects, but will begin to develop and focus on the broader, more inclusive idea of entrepreneurial learning, while beginning an effort to study the effects immersive learning has

had on students’ lives.

Ferguson’s revised vision is called The Centennial Commitment. The 18-point plan takes the idea of immersive learning and expands the themes of community engagement and research to apply to day-to-day classes.

The university has had 25,148 students participate in 1,541 projects since 2007-2008. Each year, there are about 100 projects centered in Muncie and Delaware County.

Last year, there were 282 projects total. Marilyn Buck, associate provost and dean of university college, said immersive learning projects have taken place in every county except two or three.

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President Paul W. Ferguson wants to broaden immersive learning projects since about a quarter of Ball State students participate in them. Part of Ferguson’s vision with the Centennial Commitment is expanding community engagement.

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cation leader, and Brookshear didn’t plan their color coordination. These two are the founders of the eight-member band, The Indigos, which officially formed last February.

This Friday, The Indigos plan on releasing their first EP, “Good Times in Hard Places.”

The Indigos utilize many instruments including rhythm and acoustic guitars, saxophone, percussion, keyboard and bass.

They based their name off of the term “Indigo Children.”

Nancy Ann Tappe, the creator of the term, described Indigo Children as individuals tasked with uniting mankind by using their ability to accept others for who they are.

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Find their new EP “Good Times in Hard Places” on Friday everywhere music is sold, including Spotify, iTunes and stores.

The Indigos play at Be Here Now on Friday for their CD release show.

Doors open at 8 p.m., and the Indigos perform at 11:15 p.m.

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Matt Mellen starts moving his body side to side with his arms bent in front of his face.

He looks up, smiles and says, “The music we write is the music that gets people to do this -- getting into the groove.”

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I always had intentions of coming back, ’cause that’s what my parents always drilled in me when I was younger. It was a special situation that when that time came I had to think about different things.

a contract with the New Orleans Saints that will keep him on the roster at least until training camp rolls around in the spring. In the meantime, he’s on campus finishing up some of his last Ball State classes.

The 5-foot-11 receiver’s success story is not a common one among Ball State football players. In the program’s 91 years, just 27 of its best athletes have been drafted by an NFL team. Including Snead, there are presently four former Cardinals in the NFL, and three of them left the program in the spring of 2014.

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Former Ball State wide receiver Willie Snead showcased his skills with 48 other receivers and 335 college players at the NFL Combine in 2014.

Snead currently has a contract with the New Orleans Saints, after being cut from the Cleveland Browns and the Carolina Panthers.

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lying serpents, ebony-skinned elves and fantastic vistas teeming with foreign life inhabit the covers of our favorite fantasy novels, but it can be easy to forget the artists serving as the gatekeepers to new worlds. You can’t judge a book by its cover, but you can certainly ponder the journey the artwork and its creator took to get it to you.

Enter Tracy Flynn, fantasy artist and painter. The middle-aged stepfather of one has a knack for bringing imaginative worlds evocative of Dungeons & Dragons to life, turning his passion for the art into a large part of his identity.

“I saw ‘Conan the Usurper’ sitting on somebody’s book back in middle school, and it found its way home with me,” Flynn said.

“I was 12 or 13. I was fascinated with it, and then it just grew into ‘I can draw like that.’ With fantasy art, you can do portraits, landscapes, people, beasts. You can do everything. You encompass all aspects of it.”

Flynn’s work has been published in a number of creative fictions, including David List’s novel “A Sawmill’s Hope” and Blade Runner Press’ “Endless Terror” role-playing game. Flynn’s commission work often affords him a high level of freedom.

“I was sent a copy [of ‘A Sawmill’s Hope’], read it, and the author said, ‘Pull out what you like,’” Flynn said. “One guy describes, ‘OK, this is the premise of the book. I want to see a girl standing over the dead king with his crown at twilight,’ and I take it from there.”

Sometimes the creators Flynn works alongside with, like the de-

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veloper of “Endless Terror,” have even more specific requests.

“He wanted four people at nighttime in a camping setting, and he wants him and his three friends’ portraits as the characters,” Flynn said. “Hey, it’s his game.”

Make no mistake, though, the life of an artist is often more difficult than determining what shade of green to use for troll blood. Flynn, who works a day job in the electronics department of an Indiana Wal-Mart, underwent neck and carpal tunnel surgery, briefly rendering his right hand too weak to paint.

“I couldn’t just sit and not paint for three months, so I taught myself left-handed,” Flynn said. “It was exhausting. You have to think about it. Righthanded, it’s just unconscious.

Without insurance, I wouldn’t be able to use my right hand.”

Though that difficult time is in the past, Flynn continues to rely on his family for support.

Art became a central component of the family’s life when Flynn married his wife Dana and became a stepfather to her daughter Tia. “Art comes up in a daily basis for us,” Tia said. “It’s not just something he does. It’s not just his job. It’s our lifestyle.

We’ll sit in the living room and he’s got his paintings that he’s working on sitting next to the TV. I always knew I was going to be a teacher, but for years I wanted to be an art teacher.”

Flynn’s wife said that sense of authenticity translates into greater learning experiences and opportunities for

their family.

“My kids have grown up with real art in the house,” Dana said.

“They’ve seen the process, they know how long it takes. They know the difference between Kmart art versus real art that someone actually made. It’s neat to not have to take the kids to a museum to see real art. You don’t draw with a paintbrush. It’s sketched. There’s an underlayer of all the shadows, then color’s applied, more color applied.”

“Then there’s the part where you throw it against the wall and say it sucks,” Tracy said.

That process has taught the Flynn family the value of hard work within the realm of art, including how some people might disregard the true value of a piece.

“We know he’s got 40 hours in that,” Dana said. “Of course, he’s asking for $400. That’s only 10 bucks an hour. He had one guy say, ‘Well, you can’t judge it like that.’ Yes, he can. It’s his work.”

Then Tracy raised the price to $500 for arguing with him.

“I gave him a lesson in economics,” he said. “There’s a demand for this painting, so the price has gone up.”

Thankfully for the Flynn family, the world of art has taken a turn in the creators’ favor. Websites and printing companies like Society6, Kickstarter and Storenvy have put the control of professional works back in the hands of those that make them, eliminating a needless middleman. Many retail stores demand artists supply hundreds of prints before sale in order to bring the price down to the price range of

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Tracy Flynn, fantasy artist and painter, creates artwork for books and games, among other freelance work. He uses websites like Society6 to sell his art.

a regular consumer.

“A gallery is going to mark you up anywhere from 50 to 70 percent, so that’s out of the range of most people,” Tracy said.

Though the fantasy art industry can be a tough place to make a living, Tracy has experienced anything but hardship from other fantasy artists. He takes his greatest inspiration from the man that started it all, Frank Frazetta, artist for “Conan,” “Tarzan,” “King Kong” and a 1995 inductee of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame. Frazetta also created album covers for groups like Nazareth, Yngwie Malmsteen and Wolfmother before his death in 2010.

“The fantasy community is wonderful with sharing information and talking,” Tracy said.

“They’re all open and totally willing to share their knowledge and help you out. Everybody benefits from everybody.”

While attending college, Tracy managed to track down Frazetta through a phone number listing, meeting the artist a few years later at his residence in Pennsylvania. Treated to a tour of Frazetta’s museum and ranch, Tracy went on to spend roughly three hours in the artist’s studio.

“You know how you always dream of meeting your idol, whoever it is, and you always

want it to be better than anything you can imagine?” Tracy said. “It was like that. He was very complimentary about my art. We got to talk about guns and knives and all sorts of things, but it was the way I want to treat somebody when they come up to me.”

Tracy also received unsolicited assistance from Joe Jusko, the artist behind “Savage Sword of Conan,” as well as runs on the Hulk and the Punisher. Jusko had taken a painting of Tarzan that Tracy had created and modified it, later surprising Tracy with a message detailing the changes he made and how he could recreate them in future works.

“It was a really cool thing to do,” Tracy said. “He made it a better image.”

Though he prefers taking a back seat to any limelight fantasy art might attract, Tracy acknowledges a desire to instill the same sense of wonder and community that artists before him did.

“We’re all links in the same chain,” he said. “You can either be a strong link and teach and train and pass on what you know, or you can be a weak link and let it rust.”

If you’d like to check out Tracy Flynn’s work, you can purchase prints at his Society6 page or blog.

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Number of vaccinated children dropping Autism, vaccine link leads to controversy with immunizations BERG CHIEF REPORTER | KARA knberg2@bsu.edu With the recent controversy surrounding vaccinations and whether or not they cause autism, more parents are choosing to not vaccinate their children.

Despite this, Ball State students are required to submit a report of their immunizations to be enrolled at the university, including two doses of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination and tetanus and diphtheria immunity.

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Between 25 and 30 percent of students participate in immersive learning projects, said Jennifer Blackmer, director of immersive learning.

“What I have heard, since I took over as a director of immersive learning, is students want to get involved and don’t know how,” Blackmer said.

The types of difficulties students face when looking for an immersive project are not knowing how to reach out to the faculty involved, how to work collaboratively with students on a semester-long project and working with a community partner, she said.

However, immersive projects are selective by nature. The faculty chooses who becomes a member of their class.

This is where the expansion of entrepreneurial learning comes in. An entrepreneurial experience isn’t about training every student at a largely liberal arts college to think about the bottom line and profit, Blackmer said.

“What Paul [Ferguson] is getting at is not [the idea of] starting a business, but that spirit of starting something new. To go out and make things happen,” she said.

Entrepreneurial learning is an expansion of immersive learning to the core curriculum of Ball State, Blackmer said, echoing the president’s Feb. 6 address.

Even the president’s emphasis on the entrepreneurial student echoes efforts from the last presidential administration. He said the new vision focuses on building off the university’s strengths.

Former President Jo Ann Gora began rebranding the university in 2006 with the idea of immersive learning, which began at the Virginia B. Ball Center in 1999.

“Immersive learning has been marketed as the cornerstone of a Ball State education,” Blackmer said. “That’s our challenge: to keep immersive learning as distinctive and signature as it is and yet scale some of these opportunities through the curriculum.”

The characteristics the university is looking to scale into classrooms are making class work group-focused, enabling them to work with community partners, work on semesterlong projects and move some classes away from the tradi-

concern about having an outbreak on campus is that it could spread quickly,” said Deirdre Dorman, director of the Amelia T. Wood Health Center.

At Ball State, the last outbreak of measles was in 1989, Dorman said.

In 2013, 1.1 percent of Ball State students were not compliant with the state requirements for MMR, Dorman said.

That percentage of students ended up leaving the university. That same year, 0.4 percent of students had a religious or medical exemption.

“The plan, should a measles outbreak come to campus, is to contact these groups of people and advise them to leave to avoid getting the disease,” Dorman said. “Based on these numbers, only a small portion

tional lecture format.

Blackmer said the alternative to a lecture is for all class learning to take place outside the classroom and for class time to focus on discussion.

Gora created two strategic plans during her stay at Ball State, the more recent of which is now being replaced by President Ferguson’s 2015-2018 strategic plan. A strategic plan defines the university’s goals and vision for a specific timeframe. They typically comprise goals that have individual objectives that the university can measure to show progress.

Gora’s metrics still exist under Ferguson, especially the ones that deal with immersive learning. However, Ferguson’s Centennial Commitment, which runs from 2015 to 2018, is divided into 18 points. Centennial takes the 107 metrics that comprised Gora’s Education Redefined 2.0 and prioritizes them into 18 goals the president has set forth for the university.

“The fundamental pieces of [Gora’s strategic plan] have not changed drastically. It’s just a reorganization and maybe a way to simplify it for people,” William Knight, assistant provost of institutional effectiveness, said.

“When you say 107 metrics, eyes kind of roll. So it’s a way to put it in a way people can understand.”

The university has seven metrics for measuring the effectiveness of immersive learning.

Three of them provide direct insight toward the quantity of students involved and the degree of participation of immersive learning. The university measures these items on an academic year basis. These metrics will fall under the first category of being student-centered and apply to the third point of the

of our student body would need to leave, and classes could likely continue for the remainder of students.”

Every state requires children entering kindergarten to be vaccinated unless they have medical, religious or a personal preference reasons to not be, which depends by state.

In Indiana, parents can choose not to vaccinate only for medical or religious reasons, according to the Center for Disease Control.

“Indiana law requires all children be protected from vaccine-preventable diseases like the measles by getting vaccinated,” Indiana Governor Mike Pence said in a statement Feb. 3. “Vaccines protect all our children from illnesses, and our administration strongly

new point.

In the metrics for Gora’s strategic plan 2012-2017, one provision is to publish papers for conferences that report on immersive learning. As of 20132014, 87 such papers were published. The benchmark for that year was four papers. The number of published papers for conferences by 2016-2017 needs to be at least 10.

The strategic plan also includes a provision to maintain a minimum enrollment in immersive learning projects. The university should maintain yearly enrollment of 4,200 students, according to its self-defined metrics. When the university began the 2012-2017 plan, it was 4,177. In subsequent years, that enrollment has been 4,414 and 4,318 for 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 respectively.

The last notable metric from the 2012-2017 strategic plan is how each department will offer at least one immersive learning opportunity in each department. This metric started at 37 for the university in 2011-2012.

In 2012-2013 and 20132014, the benchmark for the number of departments that offer at least one immersive learning project was 39 and 40 respectively.

What the university had for those two years was 39 and 35 departments with at least one immersive learning project.

The university aims to have 45 departments offering at least one immersive learning project by 2016-2017.

The university will continue to gather these metrics for the revised plan and extend them to 2018.

However, any data regarding the quality of immersive

urges Hoosier families to have their children vaccinated.”

In 2006, 92.3 percent of American kids from 19-35 months had gotten their MMR vaccine, according to the CDC. In 2013, 91.9 percent had gotten their MMR vaccine.

While the national drop might not seem that high, fewer than 90 percent of children ages 1935 months had received their MMR vaccine in 17 states.

The debate over the relationship between vaccines and autism started in 1998, when Andrew Wakefield published a study in The Lancet, a medical journal, on the relationship, saying the MMR vaccine caused autism.

However, The Lancet retracted the study in 2010 because of ethical misconduct from Wakelearning projects, rather than the quantity, is missing. This is something the university began to rectify in December 2014.

“Basically, nobody has ever had any sort of evaluative information of whether or not students who have had this experience are, say, more likely to graduate,” Knight said.

The information on how immersive learning affects a graduate’s post-college life and his or her job placement has not been collected and studied before because it attracts between 25 to 30 percent of students. Now that the projects have been going for several years, the university has enough graduates to study the long-term effects of immersive learning.

“What we want to do now that we are amassing a history of good projects – some not so good, but mostly good – ... [is] to know what the outcomes from those projects are for students,” Blackmer said.

Blackmer said the outcomes they want to know is how effective immersive learning has been beyond a successful project and how successful it

field, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Out of the 13 authors of the study, 10 have retracted the findings.

Even so, some parents are still choosing to not vaccinate their children.

After the recent measles outbreak at Disneyland in California in December 2014, the CDC issued an emergency health advisory. There were 51 confirmed cases of measles linked to that outbreak, and out of those, 55 percent were unvaccinated and 31 percent had an unknown vaccination status.

“In general, it is recommended that persons obtain the MMR vaccine because it can often prevent the disease and can also prevent more serious outcomes, such as meningitis or encephalitis,” Dorman said. makes students.

“We know it’s been successful,

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now we are looking for data to back it up,” she said.

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FRIDAY Gymnastics hosts Western Michigan for the Think Pink & Alumni Meet. It is set to begin at 7 p.m.

Favorites in MAC West ranked No. 31 in nation Starting pitchers look to carry team through season

dinals 58-14. Fifty of Kentucky’s runs came in the series’s final two games, after Ball State won the opener 10-8 in extra innings.

The one-game series is part of the Buffalo Wild Wings Battle at ANTHONY LOMBARDI the Beach at Wilmington, N.C. ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR In addition to its season opener @Lombardi_Edits Feb. 13 at noon against Kentucky, After finishing 22-4 in con- Ball State faces host-school UNCference play last season, the Wilmington and Richmond Ball State baseball team enters while in North Carolina.

As inclement weather re2015 as the preseason favorite in the Mid-American Confer- mains a factor in many areas of the country, Ball State doesn’t ence West Division.

Head coach Rich Maloney play at home until March 10, knows, however, repeating as against Miami (Ohio). When the division champions, winning Cardinals return home, howthe MAC tournament and quali- ever, a renovated park awaits, fying for the NCAA Tournament as Ball Diamond is one of six facilities to receive renovations won’t be easy.

“We’re not going to come up following the university’s $20 and surprise anybody now,” Ma- million Cardinal Commitment loney said. “We’re going to get fundraising campaign.

After posting a record of 70-42 the best of whatever team [we’re playing] has. … That can do one over the previous two seasons, Maloney considers the of two things: either upgrades well-deserved. make you better, or put PROJECTED “[The new ballpark] is you back down.”

LINEUP just a wonderful thing Ball State opens the For a visual for Ball State,” he said. season ranked No. 31 in representation the nation, according to of the Ball State “Wonderful thing for our kids and our program.” the Collegiate Baseball lineup, go to The improvements preseason rankings, and ballstatedaily. com to Ball Diamond not faces a team in Kentucky only give Ball State a that, last season, handed home field more on Maloney “the two most embarrassing losses” of his 19-year par with programs around the country, but also an adhead coaching career.

“They crushed us,” Maloney, vantage in scheduling.

After not hosting a single opsaid. “We haven’t forgotten that.”

In three games in Lexington, Ky., ponent from a power conferthe Wildcats outscored the Car- ence last year, the Cardinals

SNEAD:

| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Snead’s former teammates, Travis Freeman and Joshua Howard, both above-average players while at Ball State, tried to go against the odds and play in the NFL as well. While neither made it professionally, they helped set the stage for Snead to pursue his dreams.

Balancing Act

In the fall of 2011, Howard moved to Virginia to train.

Then a senior, the Ball State safety would push his body to the limits, trying to get as fast and strong as possible before his Pro Day. Howard played 44 games and recorded 105 tackles at Ball State, but that wasn’t enough to get him an invite to the NFL Combine.

Visions of downtime in between workouts and training sessions encouraged Howard to sign up for online courses so he could finish school all the while. The real challenge came when Howard pushed his mind, not his 20-year-old body, to the limits.

Howard failed all of his 18 credit hours that semester. He still hasn’t finished his degree.

“I honestly went through a very deep, saddened depression stage,” he said.

Howard was a 4.0 student in high school, but he couldn’t balance school and the pursuit of professional football. On top of his academic struggles, Howard underwent emergency surgery for a ruptured appendix shortly after his pro day workout. Doctors told him then that he wouldn’t be able to perform any physical activities for about two months following the operation.

There went his shot at making a team that season. And he wasn’t going to be able to provide for his 1-year-old child or help his family financially.

And no sooner than his dreams were temporarily stripped away, Howard lost his grandmother. In one semester’s time, his life took a 180-degree turn.

Howard doesn’t blame anyone but himself for the mistakes he made. He knows he lost sight of academics because he so badly wanted to make it.

The more he wanted to reach his goals of professional football, the worse things became.

“When you’re 20 years old and you have the opportunity to chase your dream, you’re not thinking rationally,” Howard said. “You’re

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While Howard was going through his trying experience, a young, bright-eyed Willie Snead only saw inspiration in his teammate’s journey. Snead, a freshman in 2011, didn’t even know it was possible to leave school and come back to complete a degree.

Little did he know, the same path would take shape for him a few years later.

In 2014 Snead had to consider his child when making the decision to set out for the NFL. Unlike Howard though, Snead was invited to the NFL Combine at the end of his junior year with Ball State.

The sure-handed receiver wasn’t positive an NFL team would give him a chance. If he failed to make a roster he could be stuck without a job.

That wasn’t an option with a baby girl due to be born in August.

Ultimately, Snead decided to forgo his senior year because he didn’t think he could put up a third consecutive 1,000-yard season. A handful of his best teammates, including recordsetting quarterback Keith Wenning, were leaving. In Snead’s mind, chances of improving were slim.

“I had to make a grownman decision,” he said. “I rolled the dice.”

Against The Odds

Snead went to the NFL Combine where he showcased his skills along with 48 other receivers and 335 college players in all. His mediocre performance was highlighted by a sluggish 4.62-second time in the 40-yard dash.

Again, Snead wasn’t sure that his performance would be good enough to secure a spot in the NFL. Just 1.6 percent of senior college football players are drafted, according to a 2013 report from the NCAA. Those odds weren’t great for Snead who, after all, was only a junior at the time.

More players like Snead have declared early for the NFL Draft in recent years. According to the Wall Street Journal, 98 underclassmen were available in last year’s draft – a 34 percent increase from 2013.

In many regards, Snead was just a number.

And like one might expect for a guy who’s just a number, he didn’t get picked up.

“It’s been a long three days,” Snead said after the NFL Draft.

“When it didn’t happen, I was

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SATURDAY The basketball teams will host a doubleheader.

The women’s game is at 2 p.m., and the men’s game follows.

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The Ball State baseball team is entering 2015 as the preseason favorite in the MidAmerican Conference West Division. The team’s first home game is March 10 at 3 p.m. at Ball Diamond against Miami University.

host three teams from the Big Ten – Rutgers, Purdue and Indiana – this season.

Maloney said starting pitchers sophomore Zach Plesac and senior Scott Baker need to perform at a consistent rate throughout the entire year if Ball State is going to succeed against an increase in competition.

Plesac earned the 2014 Collegiate Baseball National Freshman Pitcher of the Year in his first year with the program, and he projects as the Cardinals’ ace with the departure of T.J. Weir.

As a freshman, Plesac went 12-2, posting a 2.11 earned run average, while striking out 67 hitters in 85.1 innings pitched.

The Cardinals return six starters from last season’s rossitting there looking at the TV just puzzled.”

Snead didn’t have long to sit around. The Cleveland Browns signed him the next day and gave him a shot in training camp.

Snead pulled in three catches for 75 yards in the Browns’ last of four preseason games.

But again, he got cut. Snead was just a number.

About a month of unemployment passed before the Carolina Panthers picked Snead up and put him through a similar job cycle. He was let go after one month with Carolina’s practice squad. There was no classroom, but Snead sure was learning.

“It’s a business,” Snead said. “I felt that twice.”

Lessons Learned

After that final game with Cleveland Snead was able to chat with Travis Freeman, his old Ball State teammate. It was a valuable conversation for both of them.

“Willie’s a brother to me,” Freeman said. “I roomed with him before he ever played a down at Ball State. It’s somebody that I’m always encouraging.”

Freeman encouraged Snead to keep grinding and stay focused on his goals. But that advice wasn’t limited only to his football goals. Much like Howard, Freeman knows just how hard it is to make an NFL team.

When he finished his senior season with Ball State, Free-

ter, despite the loss of outfielder Sean Godfrey, who earned a spot on the 2014 Louisville Slugger Collegiate Baseball All-America Third Team before being drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the 22nd round of the MLB Draft.

Maloney feels there isn’t one specific player he’s looking at to reproduce Godfrey’s 2014 campaign, but said the lineup as a whole needs to take the next step if the Cardinals are going to reach their objectives.

“If you want to be the best, you got to play against the best,” he said. “You got to prove you can beat them. It’s one thing to talk about it, … but the reality is you got to win. If you win, you get recognized.” man led the NCAA in career tackles with 465. He was a legit linebacker in the Mid-American Conference, and much like Snead, he was a bit undersized.

Freeman never secured a contract with an NFL team, and returned in the fall of 2013 to finish his degree in Organizational Communication. Now he works as a mentor in Cleveland Municipal Schools, but he maintains how hard it is to make that choice.

“It was a tough decision,” Freeman said. “To have the opportunity to play at the next level and to have a chance to be a part of an NFL team. Just to have a chance to play at that level; it makes it difficult.”

After suffering two home losses last week, the Ball State men’s volleyball team will play its toughest challenge of the season in facing the nation’s top two teams.

Ball State will take on No. 2 Lewis on Thursday, and then the No. 1 Loyola Ramblers on the road Saturday.

In order for the Cardinals to pull an upset, head coach Joel Walton is focusing on the team’s ability to finish.

“Well, some of the finishing is a learned skill, and some of that is difficult right now because we’re working with a young group,” Walton said.

In last weekend’s losses, Ball State struggled to hold the match lead against IPFW in a 3-2 loss. Against George Mason, Ball State held the lead at different times but fell 3-0.

The Cardinals will look to return to the level that led them to a 7-1 start to the season.

A family rivalry will highlight Ball State’s match against Lewis, as freshman Matt Walsh will be facing off against his brother, Bobby Walsh.

Defense will be a key factor, as said he is excited for the former receiver to be playing professional football. Initially, Snead didn’t have the same support from those closest to him. But he saw Howard and Freeman return to school after pursuing the NFL, so he felt confident he could do the same.

“I always had intentions of coming back,” Snead said, “’cause that’s what my parents always drilled in me when I was younger. It was a special situation that when

that time came I had to think about different things.”

There is less job security for guys like Snead who go undrafted. Plain and simple. But for Snead, he’s already considered an internship with the Saints’ front office in the case that his on-field relationship with the team ends. Plus, he’s finishing up that all-important degree at the same time.

He certainly can’t go back and change things, and maybe that’s for the best.

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Snead locked down a contract with New Orleans in the closing weeks of the NFL season and now he’s back on campus taking classes until Organized Team Activities begin.

And thanks to some help from Pat Quinn, deputy athletics director for compliance and operations, Snead maintained his scholarship status. Quinn has helped several players through similar situations.

“It’s a scholarship we have within our department that we have provided for him,” Quinn said. “It’s to help him complete his degree.”

The athletic department welcomed Snead back, and Quinn

both dominate blocking statistics in the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association.

Matt Walsh leads the MIVA in total blocks with 59 and blocks per set with 1.79, while Bobby Walsh is second in blocks with 49 and third in blocks per set at 1.44.

“I’m sure he’s getting a lot of stuff from my family and friends,” Matt said. “I sent out a picture on Snapchat of our stats and all of his friends screenshot it and sent it to him, so its fun.”

Lewis and Loyola both thrive on offense as well as defense, ranking No. 1 and No. 2 in the MIVA in kills per set and attack percentage.

Matt and company will look to slow down Cody Caldwell and Thomas Jaeschke, who lead the Ramblers with 4.04 and 3.81 kills per set averages, respectively.

Loyola was the top-ranked team coming into the season and has proved its worth so far.

The Ramblers have only played one conference match, but are 8-0 with only four set losses combined.

Looking forward, momentum will be important for the Cardinals as they dive further into league play.

“We need to work on getting past the play and work on our serving more; I think that’s what kills our momentum,” Matt said.

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VALENTINE’S DAY LILY Humble devotion

ROSE Love in various forms

‘They

love me, they love me not’

PURPLE Love at first sight YELLOW Friendship, joy PINK

Appreciation and passionate

WHITE Patience, sympathy

Cheerful

ORANGE

Passion

BLUE

Unattainable

RED Love

WHITE

PINK

Sympathy

DAISY Innocence and purity or friendship WHITE Purity PINK

Admiration

RED

In love

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YELLOW

ORANGE Excitement and desire

ORANGE Positivity

Prosperity

TULIP Grace and elegance WHITE

Forgiveness

YELLOW

Cheerfulness

PINK Caring

VIOLET Faithfulness RED Perfect love PURPLE

The meaning behind the color of flowers dates back to the Victorian era. In that time period, different colored flowers symbolized affection and responses to affection. Today, the meaning of flowers varies from source to source, said Lisa Pritchett, owner of Dandelions Flowers and Gift in downtown Muncie.

Walking through a local grocery store, some of the best-selling flowers include roses, lilies, tulips and daisies. These flowers can add a symbolic meaning to the classic Valentine’s Day gift. So decode that rose with this illustration of the meaning behind the four flowers and their colors.

Royalty

YELLOW Cheerful thoughts

SOURCE: teleflora.com, aboutflowers.com, gardens.si.edu, gardenguides.com and Lisa Pritchett, owner of Dandelions Flowers and Gifts

THE PRICE OF

LOVE

Cost is examined as students envision an ideal Valentine’s Day

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ove permeates the air on Valentine’s Day, but for some Ball State students, that love can be pricey.

Fox Business reported that Americans spent $17.3 billion on Valentine’s Day last year with an average of $133.91 being spent per love-struck individual.

In 2012, Americans aged 18-24 spent even more at $148.05 per person.

People tend to derive unrealistic expectations of romance from movies or other forms of pop culture, said Devon Powers, an associate professor of communication at Drexel University, in an interview with the university’s website. She said these visions can be hard to discard, even after recognizing their invalidity.

Ball State students share what they envision as the ideal Valentine’s Day, and we figure out the cost.

THE NIGHT IN: $34

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Senior elementary education major Taylor Whipkey said he would enjoy a peaceful night in with his girlfriend complete with a homemade Italian-themed dinner, a romantic comedy and s’mores by the fire.

• Spaghetti: $20 • “Crazy Stupid Love” DVD: $4 • S’mores supplies: $10

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Freshman Mallory Thatch said the perfect Valentine’s Day would include flowers and a night out at various Muncie venues. Her evening would ideally end with a movie in her dorm room.

• Orchids: $50 • A show at the planetarium: free • Dinner for two at Barn Brasserie: $64 • Bowling at Munsee Lanes: $10 • Movie from Wal-Mart: $23

THE GRAND GESTURE: $4,324

Freshman actuarial science major Joshua Funderwhite would prefer a romantic and upscale Valentine’s Day. He would fly to Hawaii with his girlfriend, book a resort on the water and end the date with a fancy dinner and a proposal at the beach.

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VALENTINE’S DAY

Married faculty reveal love stories Three staff couples discuss meeting, dating, marriage MILLER KERN AND SAIGE DRIVER | features@bsudailynews.com In 2013, the Daily News looked into the lives of married faculty. Today, the Ball State employees who handle our food and dole out grades still dream, love and say incredibly gooey things about each other.

THE ROBERTS

Branden and Whitney Roberts live and breathe Ball State.

“We are about as Ball State as they come,” Branden said. “We both attended Ball State for our undergrad. I attended for graduate school as well.”

Branden works in Dining Services as the general manager of the Atrium, and Whitney is a food service supervisor for Woodworth Commons.

The two met while attending a luncheon for work in 2009, and they spent their first date showing their Cardinal love at a Ball State football game.

Beneficence watched over their proposal when Branden popped the question next to the statue.

They broke with tradition for their marriage at the Minnetrista Rose Garden in 2011, but they plan to continue their “Ball State love story” by raising their two sons to be future Cardinals.

STEFFEN AND HER SPARROW

Journalism instructors Colleen Steffen and Ryan Sparrow’s romance had never been expected.

Steffen walked onto Franklin College’s campus at 17 years old ready to embark on a great dating journey.

Instead, she sat down in-between two cute boys in an orientation circle, one of whom she would later marry.

“I was on campus for 10 minutes,” Steffen said.

They didn’t date their first semester at Franklin, though they did say they hit it off right away.

For Steffen, it was the hair that attracted her.

“He had the cute artsy boy floppy hair cut – it’s funny now because he’s bald,” she said.

RYAN AND COLLEEN

BRANDEN AND WHITNEY

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Sparrow said he just tried to come across as something other than an 18-year-old male.

They’ve been married to each other for close to 20 years and have worked together at three different jobs despite their differences.

Steffen has a label maker and Sparrow’s a stack-maker.

“I love the fact that she’s extremely weird so that, in a way, she continues to mystify and challenge me day in and day out, which is a good thing because it makes every day not boring,” Sparrow said.

Steffen said she loves that Sparrow’s great with their daughter, Tommy.

“He [has] a gushy center,

ANDREA AND JOHN

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he’s really warm and accepting of people and their feelings,” Steffen said.

THE SADLERS

The Sadlers have always used their talents to their advantage when it comes to

wooing the other.

At their wedding in 2003, Andrea and John chose to reflect their background in design technology in the decorations and entertainment.

“I wanted to design the space

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The two draped the ceiling with fabric and positioned lights to diffuse through the draping.

Andrea’s dress had light-colored flowers on it, and multicolored topiaries sat on tables.

“There was nothing plain about it,” Andrea said. “It was very reflective of fun.”

John’s groomsmen, most of whom came from theater and performance backgrounds, wrote the couple a song for their wedding called “John and Andy” that recapped the pair’s relationship.

Now, John and Andrea both work in the Ball State Department of Theatre and Dance; Andrea is a recruitment coordinator and special projects assistant, and John is a scene shop supervisor and prop shop manager. They have two children: a daughter, Josie, born in 2006, and a son, Parker, born in 2012.

They don’t place too much importance on couple holidays or anniversaries, but one Valentine’s Day, Andrea texted John saying she felt thirsty.

John showed up at Andrea’s office with a big fountain pop from Woodworth on which he had hot-glued roses to the lid.

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Aries (March 21-April 19) Today is an 8. Travel conditions look excellent today and tomorrow. An adventure calls. Postpone a social engagement. An opportunity arises that can’t be missed. Take advantage of a whirlwind of productivity, and take notes for later.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is an 8. Play a part in someone else’s game. Offer time and talents. Go for fun today and tomorrow. Take advantage of creative enthusiasm and a fiery collaborative spark. Keep communications channels open. Call if you’ll be late.

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Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Today is a 9. Your enthusiasm carries far and wide. It’s easier to concentrate for the next few days, which is lucky. There’s plenty of buzz around your project, requiring focus and action. Get feedback from family and friends first.

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Director speaks at roundtable discussion Holland looks to gain continued funding for Afghan projects BERG CHIEF REPORTER | KARA knberg2@bsu.edu Ball State was one of four universities asked to speak at a discussion Wednesday in Washington, D.C., about governmental money spent in Afghanistan.

Kenneth Holland, executive director of the center for international development, explained

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to staff members from Holland said. “SIGAR Special Inspector Genthinks [we] are the eral for Afghanistan most important four Reconstruction (SIGAR) universities to talk that the effort the U.S. about this subject.” government has put Ball State is one into Afghanistan hasn’t of the major universibeen wasted, and that it ties working in Afghaniwas money well spent. stan, and Holland said The other three pro- Kenneth Holland the university has been fessors were from Executive direc- heavily involved in imUniversity of Virginia, tor of the center proving the court sysUniversity of Wash- for international tem there. ington and University development “Ball State is very of South Carolina. highly regarded by “Four universities were many different agencies in the singled out for attention,” U.S. government, and so we

| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “Indigo Children manifest in a physical reality of what they truly enjoy, dream and inspire to do,” Mellen said. “We are Indigo Children because we are doing what we love.”

Mellen and Brookshear describe their sound and genre as “Indiegroove,” a collaboration of Indie pop and rock.

They said it includes ’70s dance music, ’80s rock, modern pop and indie music all collaborated into one sound.

Their upcoming EP consists of six songs written by Mellen and created with the intention of capturing the interest of others.

Mellen said “Good Times in Hard Places” has a wide array of genre influences, and that anyone, if not everyone, can identify with at least one song on the EP. “It’s very genuine,” Mellen said. “I didn’t write any of those songs because somebody told me I had to. The meaning behind them are still very genuine and rings very true to a lot of people, not just myself.”

The Indigos produced and recorded the entire album at Ball State. Their goal is to break into the Top 40 market and compete with national and international artists.

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A local band, The Indigos, will be releasing its EP on Friday at Be Here Now. The band will be performing at 11:15 p.m. Its music will be sold in stores, on Spotify and on iTunes.

Mellen said he does not plan to make much money from the EP. Mellen just wants people to listen to The Indigos’ music and say, “Damn, that was good.”

Brookshear’s favorite song is “The Groove.” Mellen and Brookshear said they think it will be the most popular song on the EP. The Indigos started producing “Good Times in Hard Places” in September. Mellen had formed the skeletons of the songs and the band came together

and wrote most of the instrumentation. The guitars were written during their time in

have a strong reputation as a major university that’s helping developing counties,” Holland said.

SIGAR has to report quarterly to Congress whether the money spent by the U.S. government in Afghanistan is being spent appropriately.

The quarterly report looks at SIGAR’s audits and investigative activities and gives an overview of the reconstruction activities going on in Afghanistan, according to sigar.mil. They also try to catch and prevent waste, fraud and abuse of outgoing money.

Ball State received a grant from NATO to study trial courts in 100 districts in Afghanistan.

“Our study is one of the bestregarded studies of its kind, and it’s one of the reasons we were singled out to be invited to Washington,” Holland said.

The U.S. had a high military presence in the past, and they worked on developing rule of law in Afghanistan, Holland said.

“There’s additional work that still needs to be done there,” Holland said. “My hope is that the U.S. government will continue to fund development projects in

Afghanistan. The danger here is that Congress and the American people will lose their interest in the country.”

the recording studio.

Mellen said it took the band three months for tracking and another three months of 12hour, late night and early morning post-production sessions.

Brookshear enjoyed the experience of the recording and the creative process.

“Creating things is what people are meant to do,” Brookshear said. “Music is what we like to do so it’s just an awesome process for us even though it can be strenuous and stressful sometimes.”

Mellen’s journey with the EP ended in a visit to the hospital after too little sleep and too many energy drinks.

Mellen said he only slept a couple of hours a day while making the EP. He obsessed over the recording process and the desire to make the EP exactly how he envisioned it. On top of that, he juggled classes during the production process.

“It was physically straining on me, but it was worth it,” he said.

As for future endeavors, Mellen and Brookshear plan to pursue music. Brookshear intends to sustain himself with music until he can start a small business.

Mellen hopes music will

bring him a solid source of income after May. He plans to take his music to the national level at festivals like Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza, and then proceed to the television and radio sectors.

To listen to The Indigos, check out their Facebook page.

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