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THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 2015
Team breaks tie in 8th inning, improves home record to 2-0
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Concert to blend video, music, games at Thursday event
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Anti-meth proposal could cost millions Ball State study tests feasibility of legislative plan for certain drugs |
KARA BERG CHIEF REPORTER knberg2@bsu.edu
The attempt of Indiana legislators to make ephedrine and pseudoephedrine available only by prescription could cost Indiana millions of dollars on health care, according to a new Ball State study. Pseudoephedrine is a common ingredient in common cold and allergy medicines and in methamphetamine. As of September 2014, Indiana was leading the country in the number of meth incidents in 2014 with 1,121 incidents, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Tennessee was the second-highest with 813 incidents. In 2014, Delaware County had the highest number of incidents in Indiana with 148, according to in.gov. Kosciusko was the second highest with 58. Michael Hicks, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research, and Srikant Devaraj, a senior research associate and project manager, and two of the authors of the study, estimated the impact of making pseudoephedrine a prescription-only drug. “Typically for any policy analysis, it’s always feasible to look into what the costs and benefits are. That applies to any legislation or public policy,” Devaraj said. “Our goal was to look at what the cost was for this.” Senate Bill 445 would require drugs that contain ephedrine and pseudoephedrine to be available only by prescription if it is passed, according to the Indiana General Assembly.
Ball State sociology professor encourages ‘active approaches’ to greek diversity awareness DANIELLE GRADY FEATURES EDITOR
fter a video was released of a racist chant by members of a University of Oklahoma fraternity, Ball State Sociology Department Chairperson Melinda Messineo said there are several factors that contribute to the culture behind the members’ actions. She use words like “cultural lag,” “unawareness” and “privilege,” but also has a few suggestions for how organizations like Sigma Alpha Epsilon, the fraternity to which that the members featured in the video belonged, could combat the scrutiny stemming from the controversy.
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Cardinals prepare for 1st round of tournament
Knowing opponent in advance allows team to feel ‘less stressed’
ZACH CAINS CHIEF REPORTER | @ZPC1329
The Ball State women’s basketball team is preparing for a first-round game with Middle Tennessee in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament, its third straight appearance. Unlike the Mid-American Conference Tournament where the Cardinals found out their opponent a day before, they have been focused on this matchup since Monday night. “We feel a lot less stressed since we knew we would be playing in the tournament and not having to sit and wait,” head coach Brady Sallee said. “It felt good knowing we got in on the hard work we did for the season and showed how much that paid off.”
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One would be to publicly announce that the values presented in the video don’t apply to the actual values of the organization, she said. Her other recommendation is more extensive, but “powerful.” She looks for actual efforts, programs and initiatives that the organization enacts “that are clearly counter to the values that are being expressed in [the SAE] incident.” The national SAE chapter has denounced the behavior of the SAE members in the video, saying on its website that the actions featured in the video don’t mesh with SAE’s creed, “The True Gentleman.”
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ALUMNA OPENS CHICAGO RESTAURANT
Muncie work experience inspires owner to leave current job, start bistro CALEB CONLEY STAFF REPORTER | cmconley2@bsu.edu
Despite a job at a “great” digital media agency in Chicago, alumna Alicia Bird missed the rush and chaos of the restaurant industry. On a cross-country road trip with her boyfriend Scott Golas, Bird decided to quit her job and buy a space in the east of Chicago. She was going to start a restaurant. Almost two years after she made her decision, Bird and Golas have opened Spoke & Bird, a bistro within Chicago’s Women’s Park and Garden Fieldhouse.
When Bird began thinking about starting a restaurant, Golas and Bird were discussing past jobs and what made them happy. Golas mentioned her work at The Locker Room, Texas Roadhouse and other restaurants. “[I] always enjoyed the work, the customers and the restaurant atmosphere,” Bird said. She graduated in Spring 2005 with a Bachelor of Science in family and consumer science. “I always preferred to go to work rather than class, and sometimes I skipped class for work, which should have been a sign that my passion was in the food service industry — but it took me 10 years to figure that out,” she said.
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