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Food Precinct assists in marketing services, safety TAYLOR WEDDLE STAFF REPORTER | tcweddle@bsu.edu
With a new food delivery service in town, people might not have to leave their couches to get meals from certain local restaurants or fast food chains. Ty Gray first started Food FOOD Precinct in Kokomo, Ind., and has recently brought the PRECINCT delivery business to Muncie. Pricing varies The company partners with depending how local restaurants and offers far the distance. delivery of their food to cus- Between $2.99 and $8.99 delivery tomers’ homes. Currently, only Scotty’s fee. Charges will Brewhouse and Bruner’s be on the website Family Restaurant have be- so customers are gun deals with Food Pre- aware. cinct. But the business has Restaurants that partnerships with 14 differ- have coordinated ent restaurants in Kokomo, with Food Precinct including Burger King, Little will be cheaper. Caesars and Dog N Suds. “We check with the restaurant for the bestselling items and what goes well with certain products,” Gray said. He said he keeps track of each restaurant’s prices and sales, which drives his rates. Delivery prices range from $2.99 to $8.99, depending on the restaurant, according to foodprecinct.com. Food Precinct also provides a number of services, such as in-store promotion, print marketing, graphic design and sales assistance.
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Bike lanes to connect university with Muncie Mayor wants students to have easy access on campus, in city ROSE SKELLY STAFF REPORTER | rmskelly@bsu.edu
Muncie and Ball State are collaborating to make bike lanes connecting the university to the rest of Muncie. The superintendent of Muncie Public Works, Duke Campbell, said bike lanes would run through and around Ball State. A bike lane would run directly through campus on McKinley Avenue, connecting Bethel Avenue to University Avenue and White River Boulevard. There would also be bike lanes connecting McGalliard Road and Oakwood Avenue to Bethel Avenue, and Bethel to Riverside Avenue by way of New York Avenue. Campbell said he was working with Jim Lowe, who is the director of engineering, construction and operations for Ball State. He said he couldn’t say when the project would be finished, citing potential right-of-way and construction issues. The city and Ball State wanted the project completed by the end of the year. Mayor Dennis Tyler said it’s important for students to have accessibility throughout Ball State and the city of Muncie, and the city is working to provide that. “A lot of younger people, … they don’t even want to get in a car during the weekend. They want to be able to bike or walk wherever they go, or get on a bus,” Tyler said. “We’re working very hard to do that. We’re adding bicycle lanes, we’re moving bicycle lanes closer to Ball State.”
Ball State falls to Eastern Michigan with score of 56-41
Ingelhart scholars pair with Kelsey Timmerman, write stories of depression
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ven though E there are more boys playing, getting Division I schools excited or even willing to add men’s volleyball has been extremely difficult.
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JOEL WALTON, men’s volleyball coach
BALL STATE ATHLETICS
Lack of interest, net revenue deficits lead to potential cuts for NCAA men’s volleyball
Only certain sports are “headcount” sports, which means the number of scholarships given out must equal the number of players on scholarship. The rest of the sports are “equivalency” sports, which means the team has a certain amount of scholarships to be given out to as many players as the team sees fit. The following numbers are from the 2014-15 seasons.
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bout 10 years ago, Ball State men’s volleyball coach Joel Walton sat in front of the Ball State administration to discuss keeping the program alive at the school. For the third time in his career, he was forced to discuss why men’s volleyball made sense for the future of the university and why the university shouldn’t drop the team completely. “In the collegiate athletic realm, we’ve spent a lot of time catching up,” Walton said. “Even though there are more boys playing, getting Division I schools excited or even willing to add men’s volleyball has been extremely difficult.” Ball State is not the only university under pressure to drop men’s volleyball. Just last year, the University of Pacific eliminated the sport in accordance to its “Focusing on Our Future” initiative. According to the NCAA Sports Sponsorship and Participation Rates Report 2013-2014, Division I men’s volleyball had 33 teams in the 1981-82 season and experienced a large drop that MEDIAN reached as low as 20 teams VALUES from 1986-88.
NCAA PERMITS / CURRENTLY AWARDED
EQUIVALENCY SPORTS Baseball 11.70/11.70 Field hockey 12.00/11.57 Men’s golf 4.50/4.11 Women’s golf 6.00/6.00 Soccer 14.00/11.68 Softball 12.00/10.57 Men’s swimming 9.90/0.06 Women’s swimming 14.00/10.75 Men’s tennis 4.50/4.47 Track 18.00/17.60 Men’s volleyball 4.50/4.40
During the 2013 fiscal year, the men’s volleyball team generated
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$255,000
in revenue, and spent
$794,000
HEAD-COUNT SCHOLARSHIPS
Numbers from the 2013 fiscal year
Women’s tennis 8.00/7.00 Women’s volleyball 12.00/12.00 Gymnastics 12.00/12.00 Football 85.00/85.00 Women’s basketball 15.00/13.00 Men’s basketball 13.00/12.00 NOTE: Information accurate as of 10/8/2014. SOURCE: Ball State Athletics, cbsnews. com
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