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‘I’M NOT LOOKING BACK. I’M JUST Student creates nonprofit for elderly

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Mark Sandy welcomes changes after 10 years at Eastern Kentucky University

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s a student-athlete at Ferrum Junior College in Virginia, Mark Sandy started in engineering before changing his major to math.

A job as an athletic director didn’t interest him, as aspirations of becoming an all-time great college basketball coach filled his head.

“When I was growing up, I had no knowledge what athletic directors did … ” he said. “I just wanted to be a head basketball coach in the Atlantic Coast Conference. … I wanted to be the next [former North Carolina men’s basketball head coach] Dean Smith or [Duke men’s basketball head coach] Mike Krzyzewski.”

Seeing a woman wearing stained clothes in a nursing home inspired Ashleigh Kramer to start her nonprofit organization called “Keep Me In Mind.”

Kramer, a freshman speech KEEP ME IN MIND pathology major, visited Golden WEBSITE www.keepmeinmindnpo.org L iv i n g C e n t e r s in early JanuFACEBOOK www.facebook.com/ ary with the Nakeepmeinmindnpo tional Student Speech-LanTWITTER @KeepMeinMindNPO guage and Hearing Association INSTAGRAM when she met @keepmeinmindnpo a patient there.

The organization is focused on finding ways to provide activities and interactions for patients in nursing homes. “[She] was amazing, she was just so cute and wonderful, and so nice and just happy, and it was just sad because I noticed that all her clothes were all covered in food stains or vomit stains, [and] her walker had been duct-taped,” Kramer said. “The facilities there, it just didn’t seem like they had a lot of funding for some reason or another.”

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MARK SANDY’S CAREER PATH

MARK SANDY’S CAREER PATH 1977-1978 Men’s basketball assistant coach, University of Evansville

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1979-1982 Men’s basketball assistant coach, Virginia Military Institute

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In the second round of debates tonight, the full slates will square off against one another to convince students 2015-2016 why they should vote for them.

The last time there were three slates running for Student Government Association office was during the 2013 election season.

The debate takes place at 8 p.m. tonight in Pruis Hall.

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1980s 1978-1979 Men’s basketball assistant coach, Wake Forest University

1975-1977 Head high school basketball coach; mathematics and history teacher in West Virginia

1997-2000 Associate athletic director, Miami University in Ohio

1992-1996 Director of enrollment, VMI 1990s 1982-1992 Student services positions at VMI, including admissions office, scholarships office and Office of Minority Summer Programs

2000-2003 Associate athletic director, University of Richmond 2000s

1996-1997 Admission director, Francis Marion University in South Carolina

2015-Present Athletic director, Ball State University 2010s

2003-2005 Senior associate athletic director, University of Richmond

2005-2015 Athletic director, Eastern Kentucky University

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Heading into the 2015 season, sophomore Zach Plesac and senior Scott Baker gave the Ball State baseball team a dynamic 1-2 pitching combination.

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“If you would have told me that we were going to get [seven combined innings] from our two veteran pitchers, who are outstanding, I would have said there’s not even a chance,” head coach Richard Maloney said. “But that’s what happened. In the great game of baseball, you never know.”

With a 35-man roster featuring 25 underclassmen, Maloney said “the journey” is a work in progress.

“My whole motto has been, ‘It’s not where you start; it’s where you finish,’” he said. “That’s how we’ve approached this season from the beginning, and that’s how we’re going to continue.”

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For most of “Fifty Shades of Grey,” reasonable. Dakota Johnson’s the Tangents Team was desper- portrayal of Anastasia so closely ately wishing for Christian Grey to resembled a wooden board, a tree slide one of his blindfolds over our should have been cast to liven eyes and save us from the screen, things up. or even go a little further and put We found ourselves often laughour weary, assaulted eyes to sleep. ing, but not because it was funny; it Throughout this atrocity we fol- was uncomfortable and awkward, low the life of Anastasia Steele, the perfect Valentine’s Day affair/ a graduating college student, date-night movie. If we were a fly who becomes involved with the on the wall in many of this movie’s wealthy businessman Christian repulsive sex scenes, we could Grey after a chance meeting. The only hope some kind human being whole story hinges on this sup- would do us a service and smack posedly interesting (or, rather, us with the swatter. complicated and yawn-inducing) “Fifty Shades of Grey” feels like relationship that feels more like a an unrestrained (or, rather, forcebusiness agreement arranged by fully restrained) “Twilight” knockDonald Trump. off, because it is.

We barely cared about The Tangents Team is fulthe characters, and when a ly aware this film’s source glimmer of intrigue reared NEED MORE material is less than sterREVIEWS? its head near the end of the ling; however, this does For Tangents’ film, the writers decided review on not mean we condone Holto leave it limply hanging, “Kingsman,” lywood’s decision to bring begging for a money-trap go to it to the big screen. While sequel filled with more ballstatedaily. it’s questionable if this spectacularly boring sex. com content has a home anyIn short, this movie has where, it’s certainly not in an abundance of climaxes, the theater house. but none of them are remotely The amount of sex was memoexciting or even interesting. The rable, the sex itself was definitecreators should be bound, flogged ly not. We’re already preparing and whipped. our poor eyes for the sequel, The color scheme of the film is which is bound to be erected fitting (grey), and the cinema- in honor of the $81.7 million tography is sufficiently pleasing, opening weekend “Fifty Shades” though nothing amazing. Acting enjoyed. We can fall asleep easfalls by the wayside, though the ily enough in our own homes, performance by Jamie Dornan, thank you very much. who played Christian Grey, was Rating: 2/10

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Sandy served as a University chair for United Way campaign, and was a board member for the Richmond Habitat for Humanity chapter and Lexington Country Club.

A desire for community involvement aligns perfectly with a department many look up to.

Sandy said athletics is a fortunate position because student-athletes can serve as “role models” for kids in the area, helping with reading programs and fitness. The relationship with the community is part of what makes for a successful and unique experience.

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After beginning a career in teaching and coaching that included a stop at Wake Forest, an ACC school, Sandy got his start in athletics at Miami (Ohio) in 1997. He later took the same position at Richmond before earning his first athletic director job at Eastern Kentucky, where he spent 10 years.

Ball State hired Sandy on Jan. 9 to oversee its athletic department following his time at Eastern Kentucky. His tenure, which began on Feb. 1, ended a fourmonth search that came after the departure of former Ball State athletic director Bill Scholl, who took over the athletic director position at Marquette in October.

Sandy said the opportunity to join a school in the Mid-American Conference played a key role in his decision.

“I think when you have an opportunity to come to an FBS school ... that really does have that nice balance between student and athlete, I think it’s very attractive,” he said. “Talking with [President Paul Ferguson], … it was exciting to think about the change.”

Change is nothing new in Sandy’s career — one that was “absolutely not” centered around the idea of becoming an athletic director.

THE JOURNEY

Despite a small stature growing up, Sandy was a captain of his high school basketball team and went on to play at the collegiate level.

He was a member of a Ferrum program that went to the Junior College National Championships two years in a row.

The second time, losing to an undefeated Vincennes team from Indiana in the title game.

Despite not starting a game in two years, Sandy received the program’s Student-Athlete Academic and Leadership Award.

“Getting the award was kind of a shock to me, and I think

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Ball State hired Mark Sandy on Jan. 9 to be the new athletic director to replace Bill Scholl, who took a job at Marquette. One of the reasons why Sandy applied at Ball State was the chance to join a school in the Mid-American Conference.

it surprised a few people,” Sandy said.

A role in leadership positions didn’t end there, as Sandy continued his education while beginning his professional career in various student services positions at Virginia Military Institute in 1982.

Sandy’s overall career path included many stops, each one teaching him more and more along the way.

Sandy said the enthusiasm was there for every new stop, but there was also concern about doing a job for the first time.

“A lot of times in leadership and growth, you learn what not to do as well as what to do,” he said. “There’s a lot of information coming and you can’t handle all that at one time. You say, ‘Oh, I’ve done that before. I’ll put that over here on the side, that’s not as vital as these three things in the first three months or six months on the job.’”

Taking over in Muncie will be different than Richmond, Ky. But Sandy’s lengthy experience as the head of an athletic program will help him make decisions based on where Ball State

is headed.

His analysis of the job came up front, citing the need to make those decisions before the hiring process takes place.

He said the end of the process yields thinking further about friends, as well as student-athletes and coaches that he established connections with.

The 62-year-old is ready to take on his new challenge with Ball State.

“I’m not looking back,” Sandy said. “I’m just looking forward.”

MAKING CONNECTIONS

His first two weeks in Muncie, and for some time hereafter, Sandy and his wife will be living in a hotel while going through the process of closing on a house close to campus — a predicament that would likely be much more difficult if their children weren’t grown and living on their own.

“My wife is currently vitally important, because it’s just the two of us. … When [the children] were younger, obviously, where we went, what jobs I took, what we did — those decisions were more closely related to their age.”

Sandy said his wife is even more vital in coming to a new place and job where building relationships is important.

“She’s the entertainer — she likes to have people over, she comes to all the games, she’s a vital part of how we integrate ourselves into the community. … Things we can do as a family that I can’t do by myself — she’s right there as co-No. 1,” he said.

Sandy also said he’s waiting for the cold weather to break to meet some people and attend events associated with the community.

Community service has been a big part of Sandy’s career, dating back to the ideals instilled in him at a young age by his parents.

Those same ideals are what Sandy taught to his own children.

“We certainly think community involvement personally is vital,” he said. “I don’t think people will see you as a new member of the community if you only work at the university and aren’t seen and don’t volunteer and help downtown. I think that’s important; plus, it’s what I like to do.”

Sandy’s campaign as athletic director is centered around the student-athlete experience, building attendance and creating a winning culture.

Although his plans are unique, he may not be all that different than his predecessor. “[Sandy and Scholl] both really want to develop the people that report to them,” said Brian Hardin, deputy athletics director and former interim athletic director. “You’ll hear them both talk about servant leadership. … It fits in perfectly with President Ferguson’s vision for the future and how he likes to lead.”

Hardin was a member of the 12-person committee tasked with presenting Ferguson with the final candidates.

He said Sandy was a breath of fresh air in the interviewing process thanks to his résumé and experience outside of athletics.

And with Ferguson’s outlook for the future of the university, Sandy’s case to head the athletic department looked even stronger.

“President Ferguson wants a very collaborative conversation where everyone is kind of talking across the table to each other,” Hardin said. “I think that Mark would be able to step into that room and provide more to the conversation than anyone we had in our pool.”

Ferguson addressed the importance of winning and athletics at his introductory con-

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•Wife Kathryn “Kitty,” Spanish professor/teacher •Two children: son Kraig (31) and daughter Madison (29) EDUCATION

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•Member of the NCAA Football Championship Committee and the NCAA Football Issues Committee, 2007 to 2012 •Member of two NCAA Peer Review Certification Teams

ference. While Sandy wants to improve the overall athletic experience and graduation rates for student-athletes, winning is the driving force at the end of the day.

With the state of the NCAA and the changes coming forth, Hardin said it’s important to have someone to lead through the choppy waters.

“You’ve got to get the right resources, scholarships, recruiting dollars and facilities for your coaches to be successful,” Sandy said. “You can’t expect them to win if what they have compared to other people in the conference isn’t as good.”

Sandy’s time as a studentathlete helped shape his emphasis on their well-being to an athletic program.

Through several coaches, he learned the attitudes it would take for a student-athlete to be successful and help lead a program. “[Sandy] will be the biggest advocate for our coaches and our student-athletes on this campus,” Hardin said. “That will, in time, pay off and we’ll have great success. He did it at Eastern Kentucky, and I have no doubt he’ll do it at Ball State.”

TWO-TIME ALL-AMERICAN, NCAA TOP VIII ALUMNA NAMED FIELD HOCKEY COACH

Former Ball State field hockey player Sally Northcroft has been named the program’s next head coach, announced Monday by Athletic Director Mark Sandy.

Northcroft was a two-time All-American for the Cardinals. She has over 14 years of coaching and administration, including a stint at Ball SALLY NORTHCROFT’S State as an assistant coach.

CAREER “How good is it to return to your alma mater to coach; there are SALLY NORTHCROFT not a lot of people who have that BALL STATE FIELD HOCKEY opportunity,” Northcroft said in a • All-America First Team (1998statement. “It is such a huge honor 99) and such a huge responsibility. • MAC Player of the Year (1998Having [former coach] Karen Fitz- 99) patrick as a mentor puts the stan- • All-Midwest/West Regional First dard really high, and I’m happy to Team (1998-99) • First Team All-MAC (1996-99) strive for that level.”

Northcroft finished her play- • GTE Fall/Winter All-District ing career as the Mid-American (1998) • NCAA Today’s Top VIII Award Conference leader in career (1999-2000) goals (126) and career points. • Honda Award (top collegiate She led Ball State to a 64-21 student-athlete in her sport) (1999record over four years and four 2000) MAC championships.

A Ball State Athletics and MAC Hall of Fame member, she most recently served as athletic director and field hockey coach at Brisbane Girls Grammar School in Australia over the last four years.

“We are pleased to announce the hiring of Sally Northcroft as our head field hockey coach,” Pat Quinn, deputy athletics director and search committee leader, said in a statement. “[Northcroft] knows and understands our program and is an integral part of our rich field hockey tradition. She will provide excellent leadership and will serve as a solid role model and example for our student athletes.”

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BASEBALL Head coach Rich Maloney has a team of 35 men with 25 underclassmen. The Ball State baseball team will compete in the Country Inn and Suites Elon Invitational from Feb. 20 to Feb. 22 in Elon, N.C.

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| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 While winning as many games as possible remains the ultimate team goal, Maloney will use the early portion of the schedule to groom his young pitching staff and gain valuable experience for first-year players.

In the Cardinals’ season opener against the Wildcats, four freshmen pitchers — Trevor Henderson, Colin

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Brockhouse, Trevor Simon and Brendan Burns — combined for four strikeouts, three walks and two earned runs in 4.2 innings pitched.

After falling behind 9-0, Ball State fought back, cutting the deficit to 10-7 with five runs in the bottom of the eighth.

The comeback fell short, but

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Maloney said while there is never vindication in losing, it was encouraging to see the fight in his team.

“We battled back and made a real run at [Kentucky],” he said. “It was legit.”

Against UNC Wilmington, Ball State only needed two pitchers. Baker lasted 3.2

innings, and sophomore B.J. Butler struck out six and didn’t allow a hit in 4.1 innings. “[Butler] was outstanding,” Maloney said. “He showed everything you need to see; … it was a stellar performance.

Now the question is, can he develop a consistency?”

As Ball State prepares to compete in the Country Inn and Suites Elon Invitational from Feb. 20 to Feb. 22 in Elon, N.C., inclement weather remains a factor, according to weather.gov.

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Former Ball State field hockey player Sally Northcroft will be the head coach for field hockey next semester. She has more than 14 years of coaching and administration in experience.

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Security software threatens to hurt players’ interaction with video games KEARNEY BYTE REPORTER | AIDAN amkearney@bsu.edu

enuvo is the latest in anti-tampering digital rights management software.

It has prevented the cracking of multiple games released in 2014, including FIFA 15, Lords of the Fallen, and Dragon Age: Inquisition. No longer will pirates blight PC gaming and cause “millions of dollars” to be lost in profit revenue. Additionally, famed torrenting website “The Pirate Bay” was temporarily taken down in December of 2014 after police raided a server room located in Stockholm, Sweden.

At last, the gaming industry has been saved.

But how much are pirates really harming developers? Or are developers and publishers hurting consumers?

As mentioned, Denuvo is proving to be frustrating to hackers. The process itself is attached to the executable file of the game, checking if the game is connected to the company’s servers. Denuvo also prevents any reverse engineering of any other digital rights management software, such as EA Origins.

This means that it prevents pirates from extracting certain files that allow the game to run independently from other clients such as Origins.

These files commonly end in a “.dll” format and are found in programs that launch on both Origins and Steam.

According to Denuvo’s website, their anti-tamper measure product has no affect on consumers’ hardware and game performance. A Russian gaming website, however, begs to differ. GameMag claims that Lords of the Fallen writes and rewrites onto the hard drive 150,000 times during the course of 40 minutes. While only measured in kilobytes, each copy operation record is written onto the same memory block, which can grow enormously in size. A commenter on the site viewed that within one hour, approximately 30 gigabytes of information was written to the hard drive.

What this means for consumers is that if anyone is using a solid state hard drive that has a limited amount of read/write processes, this can drastically lower the lifespan of the hard drive.

Even if this data provided by GameMag isn’t investigated by other sources stateside, the company behind Denuvo has had a less than stellar history with consumer rights and DRM. Sony Digital Audio Disk Corporation developed the SecuROM protection product and it was attached to the video game Spore, released in 2008. SecuROM installed a small program at the same time as Spore that checked for legitimate disc copies were installed on the computer once the software ran. Consumers first ran into issues when they realized that upon uninstallation of Spore, SecuROM stayed installed to the computer, preventing full removal of its DRM. Class-action lawsuits were filed involving the use of this software as

consumers claimed that SecuROM damaged their computer and could not be removed without a full reboot.

The issue was not resolved until EA released a special program solely to remove the software from systems.

Despite this anti-piracy software, Spore was still the most-pirated game in 2008, with more 1.7 million downloads recorded from BitTorrent.

EA isn’t the only publisher guilty of this. Other companies such as Activision-Blizzard have implemented DRM software that hinder customers experiences. Blizzard’s most anticipated game in more than 10 years, Diablo III, has a particularly egregious form of always-online DRM. Diablo III uses the same form of DRM as Blizzard’s flagship game: World of Warcraft. Diablo III demands that players sign on with their Battle.net account, requiring an Internet connection, even if you play alone.

Now for a game that’s multiplayer by default like World of Warcraft, this is no issue. But what about Diablo III? What if by some catastrophe Blizzard closes down or shuts off their servers? Plenty of studios have closed down but their games can still be played.

What about games that are always online? If their servers closed, players can never access those games again.

Attempting to sign in will only be met with an error code. Consumers found problems of their own in Diablo III by claiming they had been wrongfully banned from the game.

Tracey Lien described in a Polygon article how Linux OS users were banned from the game and were accused of cheating by Blizzard’s community manager Barishok. Blizzard had permanently banned Linux users, providing them only with an

email claiming that they had used said. Refenes argues that the money unauthorized, third-party software. spent researching for more effective The software in question? WINE, a DRM can be more effectively quanprogram on Linux that allows users tified into a loss from sales as it is a to run Windows programs on the physical process that a game budget operating system. Interviewed Linux has to be deferred to. users were appropriately insulted In 2011, site representative of and infuriated with Blizzard’s quick GoodOldGames, Guillaume Ramdismissal and labeling as cheaters. bourg, spoke against DRM at the In a way, this DRM London Games Conis a way for developference. Rambourg ers to tell consumers stated that DRM acts that they can only DRM against loyal conplay the game when Digital Rights Management sumers, breaking is the way in which game and how the develdown trust between publishers attempt to control oper wants them to. the copyrights of their content the developer and This has happened and combat piracy. consumer. Without outside of a hypothis essence of trust thetical scenario TORRENTING between the two with Darkspore, a The sharing of partial parties, Rambourg computer files through servers. says that “consummore action-orientA common practice among ed sequel to Spore. pirating sites. ers are free to buy The game is availa game one day and able on EA’s Origin THE PIRATE BAY then the next day go although their serv- The most popular illegal file to the competition.” ers are no longer sharing website in the world.

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With all of these efforts to combat How much have developers lispiracy, developers have spoken up. tened to their consumers over these SuperMeatBoy developer, Tommy events? For years, players have exRefenes, argued on his Tumblr that pressed disdain with anti-piracy sales lost due to piracy is unquanti- measures and slowly certain defiable. Hypothesizing sales based on velopers have come to understand the intentions of a customer can’t their plight. Some developers unbe used to calculate revenue com- derstand that a consumer would pared to the purchase of a physical rather pirate a game first as a demo, item, which is how retailers quan- rather than pay full price on release tify profit loss. and return it in less than a week “In the digital world, you don’t have after an unsatisfactory experience. a set inventory. Your game is infinitely Time can only tell to what extent dereplicable at a negligible or zero cost. velopers and publishers will go for Digital inventory has no value,” he the sake of protecting copyrights.

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Anthem responds to recent hack University still unclear whether information was compromised

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Ball State is still unsure whether employee information has been misused after the university’s health insurer announced some patients’ information had been tampered with in an attack Friday.

Anthem Inc., the United States’ second-largest health care employer, was the victim of a Jan. 29 cyber attack when hackers accessed the Blue Cross Blue Shield insurer’s health insurance database, which contains the personal information for as many as 80 million people. It is unknown who committed the attacks and how many people were involved.

In a press release from the university on Feb. 6, Bernard

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Hannon, vice president for business affairs and treasurer, said Anthem informed the university that the health insurer’s member information was accessed and that Ball State employees could be included.

Ball State also sent out an email on Feb. 9 notifying faculty and staff that any email regarding their Anthem accounts is not from Anthem. These emails have been accessing for personal information, such as credit card or banking information, or asking employees to sign up for free credit monitoring. Anthem will send out all information regarding credit monitoring and details for dealing with the cyberattack through postal mail. Currently, no evidence indicates the senders of the scam emails are connected with the hackers.

“We are working closely with Anthem to better understand the impact on our employees and their dependents,” Hannon said.

The hackers gained access to

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Anthem created a website for members to access frequently asked question regarding the attack.

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Current members will be automatically enrolled in identity repair services. Impacted members will also be given information on how to enroll in free credit monitoring.

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Current and former members can call 1-877-263-7995 for more information. names, birth dates, email addresses, employment details, Social Security numbers, incomes and street addresses of current and former customers.

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Hannon said Anthem’s information security has “worked to eliminate any further vulnerability and continues to secure all of its data.”

Jan. 1, 2015, marked the beginning of Ball State’s first full year with Anthem. The decision to move over to the health care provider was reviewed in July of 2014 and approved Oct. 10, 2014, by the Ball State board of trustees. It was part of a larger revision to the university’s healthcare plan.

Those October changes signified bringing the university in line with the best practices in the health care industry, Hannon told the Daily News in November.

The CEO of Anthem, Joseph Swedish, apologized to custom-

ers for the breach, according to anthemfacts.com. The website was created to provide information following the breach and explain the issue.

“We will continue to do everything in our power to make our systems and security processes better and more secure, and hope that we can earn back your trust and confidence in Anthem,” Swedish said.

The university will continue to provide information regarding the incident to employees, Hannon said. Members of Anthem will receive access to free identity repair services, and impacted members will be informed on how to sign up for free credit monitoring.

Cardinal Direction was named after the compass directions, with the four candidates representing each of the directions and what they can do for Ball State, presidential candidate Jacob Cash said.

The slate wanted to show its school pride by including Cardinal in the name, he said.

Cardinal Direction wants to connect to students through its social media campaign, #BSUCan. “We want people to get behind the idea that students can and BSU can. We wanted to push that more than our name,” Cash said.

Vice President Wesley Crouch said the most challenging point for Cardinal Direction is the athletics tradition because it involves determining a tradition that would please most of the student body. The slate is letting students submit ideas for this platform point on their website.

Atlas chose its name because an Atlas represents the different possibilities and directions, presidential candidate Jack Hesser said.

“We explore all possible avenues; we worked with administrators and different people to make sure these are things students care about,” Hesser said.

Vice president candidate Richu Aby said the four slate members are all passionate about Ball State.

Hesser said each candidate has had a diverse background and have held similar leadership positions before.

“We know exactly what it takes to be in these positions, and we have been, in some way, in SGA,” he said.

Atlas’ most difficult platform point to accomplish is international student relations, Hesser said, because it relies on student participation and student interest may change year to year.

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Ashleigh Kramer is a freshman speech pathology major who started a nonprofit organization called “Keep Me In Mind.” The organization focuses on finding ways to provide activities and interactions for elderly patients in nursing homes. Kramer started a hand-made scarf drive for nursing home patients because she noticed a patient with stained clothes. She also worked with making organizational groups to have regular volunteers and events for area nursing homes each month.

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The Momentum slate came up with its name as a way to represent its drive to keep moving forward and making change, said Patrick Jennings, secretary candidate.

“The points that we have brought forward are things we cannot continue to ignore,” said Quintin Thompson, presidential candidate for Momentum.

Dayna Arnett, the treasurer candidate, said the slate has a group of people that can represent different parts of the student body.

“Our collection of people is such a true representation of students on campus,” she said.

“We can give them what they want or, better yet, what they deserve in an executive board.”

Out of Momentum’s nine platform points, Thompson said the most challenging point will be Text UPD because they have to work with the Board of Trustees and promote its use if it gets brought to Ball State.

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Kramer said she decided to run a scarf drive because of her experience with the patient, and that one day while sitting in church she realized she wanted to take her plan further.

“I work with activities directors in nursing homes and we come up with activities [the patients] can participate in,” Kramer said.

“We have little drives where we fundraise to give them something. … This winter, we did a scarf drive, so we got people to donate to pay for homemade scarves.”

Besides organizing drives, Kramer is also working to make groups of people to regularly volunteer each month.

She already has a group of about eight people who go with her when she visits her hometown of Greensburg, Ind., every other weekend and is trying to get the word out to Ball State students about forming groups for local nursing homes.

Kramer has worked with Westminster and Golden Living in Muncie and three nursing homes in and around Greensburg. She is planning on working with more nursing homes in the area in the future, and is currently planning events for later dates.

“Eventually, I want to have this really big event where all members of the community come up, maybe a 5K walk or something. I’m still working that out,” Kramer said.

Kramer said there was a lot of paperwork involved in setting up her organization, but her cousin, who has a master’s degree in business, helped her with the forms.

She said she’s filling out all the forms to assure people that her business is legitimate, and so the people who donate can receive tax deductions.

Kramer said her favorite thing she’s experienced as a result of her organization is the interactions with the patients.

She said she makes a special effort to visit the patients in the Alzheimer’s wings.

“I love the conversation with the people when I’m going around visiting them,” Kramer said. “[The Alzheimer’s patients] were just a joy, they were just so ecstatic. … To see them in such high spirits, just to have some company, and be smiling, like, you feed off of it. So I really, really love that.”

According to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, more than 1.4 million people lived in nursing homes in 2012. This accounted for 2.8 percent of the 65 and older population, and 10.2 percent of the 85 and older population.

The inspiration for the organization’s name came from a realization Kramer had about how people in nursing homes are regarded by their communities.

“A lot of people may not even see them as members of the community anymore, they’re just kind of tossed aside,” Kramer said. “I really want people to be aware that they are wonderful people and that they still have a lot to offer everybody, just to remember them and keep them in mind.”

type of information includes insurance claims and test results.

The company said it is still conducting a forensic IT investigation to determine the exact number of impacted customers.

Anthem has notified federal law enforcement officials and shared information on the attack with U.S. health care industry cyber security agency HITRUST C3 in response to the attack.

HITRUST is a health care security firm that provides its subscribers with daily reports on the state of cyber security in the health care industry, awareness and alerts for its members.

All of Anthem’s product lines were affected in the attack, including Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia, Empire Blue Cross, and Blue Shield Amerigroup.

Federal investigators are particularly interested in whether the personal information of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries was exposed.

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