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A member of snow removal crews clears a path outside the Art and Journalism Building on Tuesday. A winter storm blanketed campus in snow, causing Ball State to cancel classes until 11 this morning.

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Another round of winter weather means longer days for workers KARA BERG STAFF REPORTER

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ith the arrival of another snowstorm, Ball State facility staff members are working overtime to get streets and sidewalks cleared.

The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning from 1 p.m. Tuesday until today at 1 p.m.

The snow has led Ball State to cancel classes until 11 o’clock this morning.

Jean Wheat, a landscape worker, said this winter, extreme snow and ice isn’t anything new.

“We’ve been working a lot of hours, and we’re seeing more of our fellow workers than our family members,” she said. “So it’s been really tough.”

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Ball State students report on Olympics Threats of terrorism don’t stop Cardinals from going to Sochi |

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Before heading to Russia on Tuesday to cover the 2014 Winter Olympics, an adviser warned 24 Ball State students not to act like Americans. They were told to keep to themselves.

Although recent suspicions of terrorist attacks in Sochi have dominated Olympic coverage, some of the students traveling to Sochi for BSU at

the Games said they aren’t scared to go.

Drew Bogs, a senior telecommunications major, said he was more concerned about the 27-hour journey there than a terrorist attack.

“I’m not scared at all,” he said.

Bogs said many of his family members told him they are worried. He told them: “You saw what happened at Purdue. Anything could happen any day to any person, that’s the world we live in now.”

Matthew Olsen, director of the National Counterterror-

ism Center, told The Associated Press that the U.S. and Russia are watching several terrorist threats with “varying degrees” of credibility.

The greatest danger comes from the Caucasus Emirate, a terrorist group that has threatened attacks on or around the Olympic area in Sochi, according to the AP. Junior journalism magazine major Dominique Stewart said she doesn’t let the terrorist threats bother her.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Team travels to New York for matchup against Bulls Rematch follows Ball State victory, Buffalo 9-1 at home K. JONES CHIEF REPORTER | DAVID @dkjones_BSU Members of the Ball State men’s basketball program walked off Worthen Arena’s hardwood floor with their fists clenched in the air and their heads high Jan. 23.

Ball State had just secured the fourth win of the season as the team knocked off visiting Buffalo 71-68.

Tonight, the Cardinals get the chance to walk into New York and defeat the 11-7 Bulls and 1. CLOUDY

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earn its second Mid-American Conference win of the season.

That’s easier said than done, as the Bulls are 9-1 at home.

“They pressured us [on defense] a little bit here,” head coach James Whitford said.

“That’s always easier to do at home.”

Statistically, Ball State played its best basketball against Buffalo. The Cardinals committed 14 turnovers, which is almost three less than its season average. Ball State’s bench outscored Buffalo’s bench 26-6 as the Cardinals held the Bulls to 8 points off turnovers.

The Cardinals’ primary concern was containing Javon McCrea and Will Regan. McCrea paced the Bulls with 28 points

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and grabbed 11 rebounds and Regan finished with 8 points and seven rebounds. “[McCrea] really hurt us on offensive rebounds,” Whitford said. “When he gets an offensive rebound, it’s like locking up 2 points cause he’s so strong around the rim.”

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WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT THE FARM BILL WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has given its final approval to a sweeping five-year farm bill that provides food for people in need and subsidies for farmers.

Ending years of political battles, the Senate on Tuesday sent the measure to President Barack Obama, who is expected to sign it. The Senate passed the bill 68-32.

House Republicans had hoped to trim the bill’s costs, pointing to a booming agriculture sector in recent years and saying the now $80 billion-a-year food stamp program has spiraled out of control.

Here is a breakdown of how the new bill will affect both farmers and the millions of Americans that depend on food subsidies:

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Farmers will continue to receive generous federal subsidies that help them stay in business in an unpredictable environment, but through revamped programs. The bill eliminates a fixed $4.5 billiona-year subsidy called direct payments, which are paid to farmers whether they farm or not. New subsidies would require farmers to incur losses before they could collect from the federal government.

The bill also would overhaul dairy and cotton subsidies and transition them into similar insurance-style programs. The legislation would spend about $570 million more a year on crop insurance, which on top of subsidies, protects farmers in the event of major losses.

ANIMAL RIGHTS LEGISLATION The No. 1 farm bill priority for animal rights groups was to defeat a House provision that would have blocked an upcoming California law requiring all eggs sold in the state to come from hens that live in larger cages. Livestock groups have fought the state law, which will be a major burden for egg producers in other states who use smaller cages and still want to sell eggs to the lucrative California market.

The animal rights groups won, and the provision blocking the California law didn’t make it into the final bill. The animal rights groups also won language that will make it a federal crime to attend an animal fighting event or bring a child to one.

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The bill would allow farmers to grow hemp, marijuana’s nonintoxicating cousin, in 10 states as research projects. Those states already allow the growing of hemp, though federal drug law has blocked actual cultivation in most. Hemp is often used in rope but has also been used to make clothing, mulch, foods, creams, soaps and lotions.

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The Agriculture Department has been aggressively tackling food stamp fraud in recent years and the final farm bill will add to that. It would step up efforts to reduce fraud by retailers who sell food stamps, track SNAP trafficking and ensure that people who have died do not receive benefits. The bill also would prohibit lottery winners and convicted murderers and sex offenders from receiving food stamps.

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Although it is commonly called the farm bill, more than half of the money in the Agricultural Act of 2014 goes to nutrition assistance. Here’s a breakdown of the estimated spending for this year.

“It’s mind-boggling, the sum of money that’s spent on farm subsidies, duplicative nutrition and development assistance programs and special interest pet projects.

How are we supposed to restore the confidence of the American people with this monstrosity?”

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said.

“This bill will result in less food on the table for children, seniors and veterans who deserve better from this Congress, while corporations continue to receive guaranteed federal handouts. I cannot vote for it,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., said.

Other Crop Insurance Conservation $5,430 $1,441 $6,382

Commodities $6,382

Nutrition: $79,937 SOURCE: cbo.gov

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Trial of Rwandan official marks first for France Paris court continues review of 27 cases linked to genocide | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — With a hoist from two bailiffs, Rwanda’s former intelligence chief was placed in a courtroom wheelchair Tuesday — and France opened its first trial over the African country’s genocide.

The trial of Pascal Simbikangwa, 54, may not reveal much new about the systematic killing of ethnic Tutsis and Hutu moderates by radical Hutus in 1994. Books on the genocide have been written, rivers of tears shed and documentary films made. A U.N. war crimes tribunal and other courts have already sent dozens to prison — some for life.

But the Simbikangwa case redeems years of efforts in France by activist groups and other critics who say French officials turned a blind eye to the slaughter, helped some perpetrators to flee Rwanda and let untold numbers of Rwandans with ties to the genocide live in France for years unpunished.

Few critics have missed the fact that France, a country generally proud of its human rights record, is opening the first genocide trial it has ever had, just as the U.N. tribunal is preparing to end its work.

More than two dozen cases linked to the Rwandan geno-

cide are still being investigated Several human rights groups in France. as well as the Collective of Civil On Tuesday, Simbikangwa, Parties for Rwanda, which has who is in a wheelchair from worked for 13 years to bring an auto accident in 1986, was such a case to French courts, wheeled into a glassed-in area are among several civil parties: in the courtroom, identifying independent plaintiffs who are himself as “Pascal Safari” — an supporting the state’s case. apparent combination of his “I am especially dedicating real name and his alias, Se- this [trial] to the anonymous nyamuhara Safari, according to victims of Pascal Simbikangwa, court documents. those without a name, a grave.

Wearing a tan leather jacket, This is for them today,” said baggy pants and Dafroza Gauthsneakers, he variier, who with RWANDAN ously slouched her husband in his wheelchair, GENOCIDE Alain set up scribbled notes or the collective whispered to his in 2001. She people assumed killed in defense lawyers. said she lost at Simbikangwa, the genocide least 80 family who was arrested members in the in 2008 on the genocide.

French island of people participated in France had Mayotte in the the killing close ties to the Indian Ocean, is government of accused of comRwandan Presiplicity in genocide days passed before the dent Juvenal and complicity genocide stopped Habyarimana, in war crimes in an ethnic Hutu 1994 — but not of personally who was killed when his plane killing anyone. was shot down in 1994. His Presiding Judge Olivier Leur- death set off a torrent of reent went over the history of the prisal slayings that left at least genocide and claims against 500,000 people dead in just Simbikangwa, such as that he over 100 days — what has was involved in torture, had been called the 20th century’s armed and trained soldiers and fastest genocide. encouraged them to kill.

Civil parties said SimbikangSimbikangwa denies the wa, who came from the same charges, and his lawyers are town as Habyarimana and was seeking an acquittal. They have allegedly a relative, was in the expressed concern that the president’s inner circle. From at trial, set to last until March 28, least one roadway checkpoint will be lopsided — in part be- in Kigali, he is alleged to have cause of the difficulty in finding incited the army to identify and witnesses who will speak out slaughter Tutsis. in his defense.

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be an important moment in the global fight against impunity,” said Leslie Haskell, international justice counsel for Human Rights Watch.

In 2004, the European Court of Human Rights condemned France for acting too slowly to prosecute one case related to the Rwanda genocide case.

A French trait for “ill-founded self-certainties” that engulfed “the administration, the army and the diplomatic corps” was to blame, said French former Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, who traveled to Rwanda several times during the genocide as a humanitarian aid activist.

Rwanda broke off political relations with France after a French magistrate filed charges against allies of President Paul Kagame, whose Tutsi-led forces took power after the genocide ended in July 1994.

A political thaw starting in 2009 — when Kouchner was foreign minister — paved the way for French investigators to visit Rwanda and start building cases.

In 2012, the Paris court opened a war-crimes division that has regularly sent investigators to Rwanda. The Simbikangwa trial is just the start.

The division is investigating 27 other cases — one focusing on Habyarimana’s widow.

“France now has the tools it needs to ensure [that] perpetrators of the world’s most serious crimes don’t escape justice or find a safe haven in the country,” Human Rights Watch’s Haskell said in a statement.

SOCHI: Student won’t let fear keep her from opportunity | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “With all the campus shootings, you’re not safe anywhere, honestly,” Stewart said. “I’d rather die in Russia than die in Muncie, in my opinion. If that means you die when you’re traveling, well at least you have that experience of dying outside of what you’re used to.”

Graduate student Kayla Eiler said she is taking her safety seriously, but she thinks the attention the media is giving the threats is intentional.

“All of the hype about terrorism and all the hype about the

Olympics in general is going to get people to watch and pay attention and keep watching the news and keep watching updates,” she said. “Fear is a really good way to get people to do things.”

Eiler said although she will be cautious, she won’t let it keep her from what she considers a great opportunity.

“There’s always going to be stuff like that,” she said. “If I’m going to be a storyteller, that’s what stories are going to be.

They’re going to be dangerous, and that’s the thing worth telling stories about.”

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Students gather at the Indianapolis International Airport before boarding a plane Tuesday to travel to Sochi, Russia. The students left a day early because of the weather.

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Ryan Sparrow, a journalism instructor and faculty adviser for at the Games, poses at the BSU at the Games photo booth Dec. 12, 2013, in the Atrium.

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Students get on a university shuttle bus on McKinley Avenue at the beginning of the snowstorm Tuesday. The National Weather Service projected snowfall of 7 to 10 inches.

SNOW: Muncie ready to plow following huge snowfall, Ball State still out of salt | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 She said Tuesday that she planned to work until 11 p.m. and come back at 5 o’clock this morning.

“So we’re working 16 hours [Tuesday] and only getting about four or five hours off and coming back in here,” Wheat said. “We just do what we can do with the help we’ve got and the equipment we’ve got.”

Muncie Mayor Dennis Tyler said with so much snow coming so quickly, it’s a challenge to keep streets clear.

“We did a pretty good job when that huge storm came through earlier this year, and we will do the same getting roads open as soon as we can [today],” Tyler said.

Kevin Kenyon, associate vice president of facilities, said the staff is ready and the sidewalks should be cleared off for students today, but he couldn’t make that a guarantee.

“It all depends on how this storm unfolds and how much snow actually falls,” he said.

“We can’t make people work for 24 hours.”

Ball State sent an email Monday afternoon warning that a lack of salt may leave some areas of campus icy and difficult to navigate.

Wheat, who usually relies on salt to help keep walkways clear, said they are going to have to prioritize where they put it.

“Right now, it won’t [be a problem],” Wheat said Tuesday. “It’s continually snowing now, but when the snow has stopped, and we’ve got everything cleared, then we’ve got a problem.”

Although Ball State is running low on salt, Muncie still has plenty.

“We sent trucks to Michigan and the rest we have coming to us,” Tyler said. “We have all of that in, all of the trucks are up and ready to go.”

But Kenyon said Monday that Ball State wouldn’t be able to receive help from the city.

Wheat and Kenyon both said the most beneficial thing students can do is stay out of the way of snow plows.

“Just if they can respect what we’re doing,” Wheat said. “After we’ve been here for a while, it just gets a little monotonous.”

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Social media makes English language more ‘vibrant,’ ‘diverse,’ professors say DERREK TIPTON STAFF REPORTER | dmtipton@bsu.edu

Text message-spawned acronyms and doge memes proclaiming “such wow” could lead to the assumption that today’s technology is crushing language and condensing it into “LOLZ” and “OMG.” However, some professors say otherwise.

Professors agreed users are adding their own personality and color to the English language through social media, and Ball State is seeing better writers because of it.

Eva Grouling Snider, an English instructor, said students write regularly outside of the classroom, which is “not something [she] could have said 15 years ago.”

“They write on Facebook, they text, they send emails to

their parents,” Grouling Snider said. “They write all the time.”

Facebook had 1.23 billion daily active users around the world as of December 2013, according to its fourth-quarter report. Twitter had 52.7 million monthly active users as of September 2013, according to nasdaq.com.

Paul Ranieri, an English associate professor, said he is “marveling” at what social media is doing with characters, images, syntax and punctuation.

“I wonder both how these small screens will integrate eventually with other forms of communication and what technology will come along next and build on top of what we have now,” Ranieri said.

The social media age has

produced words like “attwaction,” which is attraction between two Twitter users, “<3” and “dweet,” which is a drunk tweet.

In the case of Twitter, users are limited to a 140 characters, which forces the user to narrow the focus. Grouling Snider said it has produced a better crop of shorthand writers.

“Twitter has a pretty profound effect on how we think about language,” she said. “It encourages brevity, wit and a certain punch to your writing.”

Nicholas C. Kawa, assistant professor of cultural anthropology, said this is the most interesting time to study the English language.

“English is probably more vibrant and more diverse than

it ever has been,” Kawa said.

“The flow of ideas and information though social media and the Internet is enabling certain forms of pop culture to take hold. It’s always evolving.”

And it’s not just an exciting time for the younger generations, but for the older ones, too. Between 2012 and 2013, the presence of users 55 to 64 years old increased on Twitter by 79 percent, according to a Global Web Index study.

Ranieri said the English language will always find ways to diversity itself, no matter how it is being used.

“The language will take care of itself and will evolve as people develop new ways to communicate that build on the old,” he said.

SOCIAL MEDIA • Facebook had 1.23 billion daily active users around the world as of December 2013, according to its fourth-quarter report.

• Twitter had 52.7 million monthly active users as of September 2013, according to nasdaq.com.

• Between 2012 and 2013, the presence of users 55 to 64 years old increased on Twitter by 79 percent, according to a Global Web Index study.

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Attwaction: attraction between Twitter users Dweet: a drunk tweet Subtweet: tweeting behind someone else’s back

Wizards duel in ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Card game creates camaraderie, hobby among dedicated TIPTON STAFF REPORTER | DERREK dmtipton@bsu.edu No formal invitation, long beard or wand are needed to be a wizard. One deck of cards is all it takes.

On a cold Monday evening, 14 people sat at four tables in Alter Ego Comics, preparing for a game of “Magic: The Gathering.”

Riley Spelman, a junior applied cultural anthropology major, was one of the players who traveled through subzero temperatures to play.

Sporting khakis and an argyle sweater layered with a zip-up hoodie, he made small talk with his opponent as the Cold War Kids played in the background.

“I’m here every Monday,” Spelman said. “Just to hang out, get out of the house and have fun.”

“Magic” is the world’s first trading card game, according to Hasbro, with 12 million players globally by 2011.

A game typically consists of two dueling players. They control what are called Planeswalkers, a type of wizard. The Planeswalkers possess a variety of weapons, spells and creatures that are represented by cards, which they use in battle.

Periodically, new sets of cards are released with new characters and weapons. The newest deck, “Born of the Gods,” will come out Friday.

There will be 165 cards in the deck, according to wizards. com.

Each player has a minimum of 60 cards they must use to defeat their opponents.

The players start with 20 life points each and battle until a player has no points left.

The camaraderie is as important as the game itself.

“Inside and outside the game, there’s just this huge community of friends,” Spelman said.

“All of my best friends I’ve met

through ‘Magic.’”

“Magic” falls into what he calls the classic nerd culture, not the popular nerd culture. “[Popular nerds] are the people who wear movie theater glasses with the eyes poked out and the ‘I heart nerds’ Tshirt in 8-bit,” Spelman said.

“They think they are [nerds].”

His peers got him hooked on the game six years ago. Since then, he developed a strong affinity for the game, and he said it’s been an important part of his identity.

Spelman plays “Magic” every Monday at Alter Ego Comics and every Friday at the Wizards Keep. He also travels to tournaments in other cities one weekend each month and is a level 1 judge, which means that he is certified to judge local tournaments.

“But I don’t go up to people and say, ‘I’m Riley [and] I play ‘Magic,’ ” he said. “I’m just a normal guy. But instead of Facebook or watching TV, I’m doing this.”

For him, the game is a personal challenge because of

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Riley Spelman, a junior applied cultural anthropology major, plays “Magic: The Gathering” on Jan. 27 at Alter Ego Comics in downtown Muncie. Spelman has been playing for six years and is certified level 1 judge. As a level 1 judge, he can judge local tournaments.

the complexity involved, much like a Rubik’s Cube. Players have to apply problem-solving skills to achieve their goals, which can be tough because the possibilities are infinite in terms of what players can do within the game, he said.

And once the game picks up steam, the competition can get tense.

Rivalries are even formed, much in the same way as in sports.

Spelman has gained a few of his own rivalries. Michael Mc-

Corkle, a junior general studies major, said Spelman is a competitive player.

Despite the rivalries, Spelman said he and the other local “Magic” players aren’t as powerful players as the professionals.

“Any of these players could be the best in the store, but they would get stomped by the professionals,” he said.

“It’s like the Ball State football team. They could be the best team in college, but they would still get stomped by the [Indianapolis] Colts.”

Even though Spelman hates to lose, the wins and losses are inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. As long as the camaraderie continues and the cards are on the table, he said he will always come back for more.

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The Cardinals womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball team plays a game against Central Michigan at 7 p.m. in Worthen Arena.

BASKETBALL: Turner held scoreless in previous game | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Whitford emphasized the importance of locating McCrea and defending him in transition. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have to make sure heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not getting early catches in transition,â&#x20AC;? Whitford said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Special players require special rules. And heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a special player, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no question about that.â&#x20AC;?

All-MAC center Majok Majok scored 12 points and pulled down five rebounds against McCrea. Majok was key late in the second half of that game as he scored 4 points within the final four minutes.

Majok also was effective as he helped limit the Bulls from scoring a basket in the last minute of the game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To Majokâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s credit, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s extremely unselfish,â&#x20AC;? Whitford said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great kid, honestly.

I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say enough good things about him.â&#x20AC;?

Freshman guard Zavier Turner was held scoreless for the first time in his collegiate career against Buffalo. He also committed zero turnovers for the first time, as he bested his previous season low in turnovers with two.

He appeared comfortable as

SATURDAY Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball takes on Toledo for a conference battle at 2 p.m. at Worthen Arena.

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Whitford discusses Kamienieckiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s status, late-game scenarios with Chris Bond MATT McKINNEY CHIEF REPORTER | @Matt_D_McKinney

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Senior center Majok Majok attempts to shoot a layup in the game against Buffalo on Jan. 23 at Worthen Arena. The Cardinals will face the Bulls again tonight at Alumni Arena in New York.

he broke any traps employed by the Bulls. He ran the offense well as he was a catalyst toward the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 17 assists.

Senior forward Chris Bond also had a big game as he paced

the Cardinals with 16 points and 13 rebounds.

Since its last encounter with Buffalo, Ball State has gone 0-3, dropping two of its three games to MAC West teams in Western

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Michigan and Northern Illinois. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a long college basketball season,â&#x20AC;? Whitford said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not what happens to you, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how you handle what happens thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important.â&#x20AC;?

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BALL STATE WENT TO CHRIS BOND LATE IN GAME

At the end of regulation and overtime against Northern Illinois, senior forward Chris Bond was the player for Ball State with a chance to score. Neither shot by Bond went in, and Ball State lost 65-67 in overtime.

WHITFORDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TAKE: â&#x20AC;&#x153;[In regulation, Northern Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;] defense was a little confused. But in a funny way, it worked for them.â&#x20AC;?

MATT KAMIENIECKI IS ON PACE WITH RECOVERY

In November, Ball State announced senior forward Matt Kamieniecki would miss the entire 2013-14 season after undergoing a second surgery on his right wrist.

WHITFORDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TAKE: â&#x20AC;&#x153;If the season started two months from now I would say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Yeah, I have a lot of worries.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; But fortunately, by next fall, [heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be ready.]â&#x20AC;?

BALL STATE WILL WORK ON THE LITTLE THINGS

After installing a new system, Ball State hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t had time to focus on the smaller things, such as defending and performing inbound plays from near or under the basket.

WHITFORDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TAKE: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not good at the big stuff yet. When we get good at the big stuff, then we can work on that.â&#x20AC;?

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Campus gets covered Tuesday as the snowstorm starts. The National Weather Service projected snowfall of 7 to 10 inches today.

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Another round of winter woes

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A student walks down a path Tuesday from the Art and Journalism Building as the snowstorm starts in Muncie.

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A cyclist rides down Neely Avenue in the snow Tuesday. The winter storm warning for the area remains in effect until 1 p.m. today.

A snow plow works to remove snow from McKinley Avenue on Tuesday. The snow started around 3 p.m.

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Sarah Rocchio, a junior pre-nursing major, walks in the wind and the snow with her umbrella Tuesday while crossing McKinley Avenue. The university canceled classes until 11 oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock this morning.

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