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In about four months, Muncie police officers will add body cameras to their arsenal.

Taser International, based in Arizona, will supply 90 body cameras to outfit the Muncie Police Department at a total cost of $385,392.96. The Muncie Redevelopment Commission is paying for this contract and Muncie police will seek grants to offset some of the cost.

The redevelopment commission awarded the bid to supply Muncie’s body cameras to Taser International in early March over Digital Ally of Kansas.

Their contract with Taser will last for five years at $77,040 a year.

“We don’t have the personnel to manage 90 videos every day. We have to have a way to do that and make it user-friendly. That’s what Taser does,” Steve Stewart, Muncie police chief, said.

Stewart said the department is getting body cameras to protect officers from lawsuits and to hold officers and citizens accountable in following the law.

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oey Lynch experienced the intensity of Ball State’s rivalry with Indiana on the gridiron on Sept. 9, 2006, in Muncie.

His father was an assistant coach for the Hoosiers, adding an extra layer of motivation in the Lynch household.

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Ferguson to speak at SGA meeting open forum

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HISTORY OF RIVALRY To see a timeline of previous Ball State and Indiana matchups, visit BALLSTATEDAILY.COM

Students can meet, interact with president during event

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President Paul W. Ferguson is set to speak at an open forum during the Student Government Association meeting on Wednesday.

The president will speak about his Centennial Commitment and will take any questions or comments from students, according to an email sent out by SGA. Secretary Rahissa Engle said she is looking forward to seeing the president interact with students.

“We can give students an outlet to speak to the president, and we can relate information we learn from students to the president,” she said.

She said it is important to have the president’s support for SGA. “The fact that he was more than happy to come into a senate meeting so we can hold a forum for students is a pretty big deal,” she said.

Following the open forum, there will be a reception where students can meet and interact with the president. Free food and other refreshments will be available to attendees.

The forum and reception will fulfill a platform point of the current slate in office. Originally there was supposed to be a presidential mixer in the fall, but due to scheduling issues it had to be moved to the Spring Semester, Engle said.

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DINING EMPLOYEE FINDS HOME IN ATRIUM ‘Lunch lady’ receives support system, builds community through job KANYINSOLA AJAYI STAFF REPORTER | kiajayi@bsu.edu Vanessa Trosper can’t even eat lunch without students stopping to say hello, but that’s the way she likes it. Vanessa, a fourth-generation “lunch lady,” currently tends to the cash register in the Atrium. She is known for her outgoing personality, positive attitude and jokes.

One of the students who stopped by, Sidney Staples, a senior telecommunications major, said, “I love you; I have talked about you three times in the past two days.”

Vanessa was born and raised in

Muncie and has been working at Ball State for 19 years. She has worked at different dining locations but she found her home in the Atrium.

“I like that all these people come to me everyday,” Vanessa said.

She especially enjoys the diversity in ways like getting to know international students.

“I like the contact. I get that here more than in the dorms,” she said.

Before Vanessa came to work at Ball State, she was a dry cleaner.

“I guess I wasn’t very ambitious,” she said with a laugh. “I really always wanted to be a housewife and a mother.”

In 1983, Vanessa did became a mother. She gave birth to her son, Tommy.

“He was awesome,” she said.

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Vanessa Trosper has been working at Ball State for almost two decades. Trosper enjoys the variety of people that she meets while she is tending the cash register in the Atrium.

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3. U.S. SLOWS WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTAN WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama announced Tuesday that the U.S. will slow its military withdrawal from Afghanistan, maintaining 9,800 troops in the country through the end of 2015 instead of cutting the number by about half as originally planned.

“Afghanistan remains a very dangerous place,” Obama said in explaining his decision at a press conference after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s first visit to the White House since his election six months ago. Obama added that the size of the U.S. troop pres-

SEYNE-LES-ALPES, France (AP) — A Germanwings jet carrying 150 people from Barcelona to Duesseldorf slammed into a remote section of the French Alps on Tuesday. All aboard were assumed killed.

The pilots sent out no distress call and had lost radio contact with their control center, France’s aviation authority said, deepening the mystery over the A320’s mid-flight crash after a surprise 8-minute descent.

“The site is a picture of horror. The grief of the families and friends is immeasurable. We must now stand together. We are united in our great grief,” German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in a statement after being flown over the crash scene and briefed by French authorities.

The crash left officials and families across Europe reeling in shock. Sobbing, grieving relatives at both airports were led away by airport workers and crisis counselors.

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Ghani had asked Obama to slow the withdrawal because Afghan security forces are bracing for a tough spring fighting season and are also contending with Islamic State fighters looking to recruit on their soil.

The original plan was to cut the U.S. force to 5,500 by the end of this year.

Obama said he still intends to complete the drawdown by the end of 2016 and that the U.S. transition out of a combat role has not changed.

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TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) — The U.S.-led coalition battling the Islamic State group has begun surveillance flights over the northern Iraqi town of Tikrit, a senior coalition official said Tuesday, marking the first time the alliance has taken part in a major offensive there that is being spearheaded

by Iranian-backed Shiite militias.

The official said the flights and intelligence sharing began Saturday and were requested by the Iraqi government. He

declined to comment on whether the coalition was carrying out airstrikes, saying he cannot discuss current or future operations. He was not authorized to speak to journalists.

Up to now the offensive to take back Tikrit, Saddam Hussein’s hometown, has largely been waged by Iraqi troops and Shiite militias advised by Gen. Qassem Soleimani, commander of the elite Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

2. UTAH’S FIRING SQUAD: HOW DOES IT ALL WORK? 5. GOV. PENCE SIGNS ‘RIGHT TO TRY’ TRIAL BILL SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has given his stamp of approval on a law that brings back the firing squad in the only state that has used it in the past 40 years.

Under the measure approved Monday, firing squads will serve as a backup method if lethal injection drugs aren’t available.

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Shooters aim for the chest rather than the head because it’s a bigger target and usually allows for a faster death, said Utah Rep. Paul Ray, who sponsored the proposal.

Five shooters set up about 25 feet (8 meters) from the chair, with their .30-caliber Winchester rifles pointing through slots in a wall. Assuming they hit their target, the heart ruptures and the prisoner dies quickly.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Terminally ill patients in Indiana will be able to use experimental drugs that are not yet on pharmacy shelves under a new law that takes effect immediately.

Gov. Mike Pence signed the measure Tuesday that gives patients access to treatments after they’ve cleared the first phase of the FDA’s approval process. The full approval process can take 10 to 15 years to complete.

Pence said the law will help provide hope for those who have no other treatment options.

The measure, which is more commonly known as the “right-to-try” law, unanimously cleared both the Indiana House and Senate.

Indiana joins eight other states that have either adopted or approved such laws.

About two dozen other states are considering similar legislation.

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CAMERAS: | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “The prosecutor has shared with me that juries are asking for video and we don’t have any,” Stewart said.

The wide use of recording police interactions through body cameras could encourage accountability, said Bryan Byers, a professor of criminal justice and criminology.

“Accountability is a big plus on the police side and protection for the police and citizens as well. If it is on camera, it is going to be [more] accurate… [than] what you would get in memory and recollection,” Byers said.

“There are a lot of positives associated with them.”

In a December 2014 Pew Research study, 87 percent of Americans said “more police officers wearing body cameras to record interactions would be a good thing.”

That statistic changes based on ethnicity and party affiliation. Among the white demographic, the number is 85 percent versus 90 percent and 89 percent among the black and Latino demographics.

Among Republicans, 79 percent say it would be a good idea, versus Democrats and Independents at 90 percent

SGA:

| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “He was really happy to work with us on helping us get that accomplished,” Engle said.

President Pro Tempore Aric Hopper said the president speaking at the meeting shows is student-centered.

“I think it’s excellent that President Ferguson is will-

« Apolice ccountability is a big plus on the side and protection for the

police and citizens as well. If it is on camera, it is going to be [more] accurate… [than] what you would get in memory and recollection.

BRYAN BYERS, professor of criminal justice and criminology and 88 percent.

A 2014 study from The Journal of Quantitative Criminology details the 12-month trial in Rialto, Calif., where body cameras were found to reduce police use of force by about 50 percent. Also, complaints against police dropped by about 90 percent during the study period compared to the previous year. The body cameras used in this study were from Taser International.

Last December, President Barack Obama proposed an investment of $263 million for training and resources for police. Seventy-five million dollars would be used for body cameras.

Muncie’s cameras come free with the city’s contract with Taser. The city will spend the $385,000 to implement the infrastructure and support to use the body cameras, and in return ing to reach out to students in organizations and find the time,” Hopper said.

Grace Ferguson, the first lady, and Kay Bales, vice president for students affairs, are expected to speak at the forum as well, according to the Facebook event page.

The meeting begins at 3:15 p.m. in Cardinal Hall A and B followed by a reception in the Music Lounge at the L.A. Pittenger Student Center.

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Vanessa Trosper is a fourth-generation “lunch lady.” This past October, Trosper created the Facebook page Ask the Lunch Lady - BSU in order to interact with students when she isn’t working in the Atrium.

DINING:

| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 She said he loved karaoke and played soccer in high school.

At 21, Tommy was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, an inflammatory disease that affects the nervous system.

Every year, the Multiple Sclerosis Society holds a 5K run and walk called the Jeff Clevenger 5K. Vanessa and her son usually attended the walk, even when Tommy’s condition worsened.

“He always walked the first concourse, then I would push him around in a wheelchair for the rest of the walk.” she said.

Last year, it was hosted on a Saturday.

The Wednesday after the 5K, Vanessa’s family came looking for her at her workplace. They couldn’t find her. Vanessa was called into the office and told over the phone that her son had died. Vanessa collapsed.

“I felt devastated. I don’t wish that on anybody,” she said.

Vanessa’s co-workers came to her aid. Courtney Anthony, who also works at the Atrium, followed Vanessa home to make sure she was all right.

Another co-worker, Aly Austin, a senior psychology major, has worked with Vanessa the past three years. Austin decided to make a GoFundMe page on Vanessa’s behalf.

“We were all just hurting so badly because she is so positive and uplifting and funny, and to know such a good person had to go through something so terrible ... a lot of us at the Atrium were trying to find ways to do what we can to make her feel better,” Austin said.

The page, created on April 2, has currently raised more

than $800 dollars for Vanessa.

Another co-worker, Shannon Rhinehart, went to Vanessa’s apartment to help her with household chores. Vanessa said she was a godsend.

Austin described Vanessa as a very strong person.

“She had such an overwhelming support system, so many friends and family members. Having that support really helped her bounce back,” Austin said.

Now, as Vanessa sits in the Atrium eating her lunch, students continue to stop to talk to her. Vanessa takes the time to talk to each of them; she said she feels like a mother figure sometimes.

“That’s the one thing about my son being gone that hurts [a lot]: ... knowing that I will never have any grandchildren. I guess I’ll have to adopt all these guys,” Vanessa said.

In October 2014, Vanessa created the Facebook page Ask the Lunch Lady – BSU to keep in contact with students after hours.

“I think part of the reason I started this Facebook page was to fill that void a little bit,” Vanessa said.

Vanessa said the page isn’t as interactive as she hoped, but she still gets likes. Right now the page has 229.

Vanessa loves her job and all the people she meets, saying she felt like she had “established” herself here.

Even so, she’s still thought about leaving since her son passed away.

This April, Vanessa will be participating in the same 5K she used to walk with her son. She won’t be alone, though: a team of friends will accompany her. They’ll be wearing matching T-shirts in honor of Tommy.

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will receive the body cameras.

The cameras themselves range from $400 to $600 each.

The set-up of the camera system will take about four months. The 90 cameras will require 15 six-bay docking stations to charge the cameras and upload their video.

“It’s not the cameras that are expensive,” Stewart said. “It’s the infrastructure. It’s the storage of all that video. It’s the licenses to use a web-based, encrypted service to store that video and retrieve it. That’s where the expensive part comes in.”

The videos are managed

by Taser’s cloud service Evidence.com and their contract allows for maintenance and warranty. The cameras will be replaced at the two and a halfand five-year marks to ensure the department has the most up-to-date gear, said Vince Valentine, regional sales man-

ager for Taser International.

The cameras will be phased into the department in waves of about 20, Stewart said. Phasing the cameras in allows for the department to acclimate to an altered work flow.

This summer deployment means most Ball State students won’t see the cameras until next academic year.

Muncie isn’t the only department in Indiana using Taser cameras. According to a list of 203 departments from Taser International, the Kokomo Police Department uses 70 Taser body cameras.

Taser has sold services and more than 30,000 cameras to 2,500 agencies. Steve Tuttle, Taser International’s vice president for strategic communications, said they are located in 16 of the 34 major cities in the United States. A major city has a population more than 500,000, he said.

Byers encourages skepticism when dealing with body cameras because the technology is new. The effects of body cameras are not completely understood.

“Until we measure the effectiveness of the technology we won’t know what problems they will solve in the criminal justice system, and any potential harms,” Byers said. “There needs to be other studies to replicate ... findings.”

HOW A BODY CAMERA WORKS The Muncie Police Department recently signed a contract for 90 body cameras from Taser International for about $385,000. Muncie officers had a choice between AXON Body and AXON Flex cameras, but most chose the AXON Body. The camera constantly records 30 seconds of footage in standby mode, and once an officer pushes the record button, those previous 30 seconds are added on to the recording. It is then uploaded to Taser’s encrypted cloud service. The graphic below diagrams the cameras’ specifications.

AXON BODY Price: $400

Can record about four hours of video, 8 GB of internal memory

AXON FLEX Price: $600

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Camera • 130 degree field of vision • 640 x 480 video resolution Camera • 75 degree field of vision • 640 x 480 video resolution Controller

Record Button •Starts recording after double pressed • Ends recording when held for three seconds SOURCE: taser.com

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BEARDS Furry little creatures are sweeping Ball State’s campus.

No, not squirrels — beards.

With events such as “no shave November” and Pinterest posts of scruffy models, beards have become a trend amongst men. While some people associate beards with lumberjacks and cast members of the show “Duck Dynasty,” the unclean face trend has made its way to city men.

Fashionable, city men with beards even have their own online community called Urban Beardsman Magazine. The “brainchild” of the website, Eric Bandholz said on his website that he created the term “urban beardsman” after attending the West Coast Beard & Mustache Championships and identifying a new sort of

Facial hair trend finds its way into fashion, onto campus MILLER KERN STAFF REPORTER

beard-wearer inbetween the woodsman and biker types.

One of the beards around campus belongs to the face of Jonah Weber, a freshman psychology major. He identifies with the lumberjack beard group.

“I liked facial hair and I thought beards looked cool,” Weber said.

“I’m really an outdoorsy person.

Looking like a lumberjack in the woods is just fun.”

Though Weber grows his beard to look like an outdoorsman, he recognizes some men grow beards to fit into fashionable culture.

“It’d be interesting if people just started growing beards for fashion rather than just because they wanted one,” Weber said. “I think it’s

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cool that it’s a growing trend.”

Pete Davis, associate professor of English, is a veteran beardsporter. He has had his off and on for about five years. Davis grows his beard “for fun” rather than to fit a certain look.

“I’ve always been a big facial hair experimenter,” Davis said.

Davis does not limit his facial hair strictly to beards. He has sported a mustache, goatee and sideburns. A few years ago, Davis decided he was not going to shave his face for a full year. Ever since then, he has had a beard.

When it comes to women, Weber sees a “50/50 mix” of women who like beards and those who don’t.

“A lot of girls don’t like facial hair,” Weber said. “But when you

do find a girl that likes facial hair, they just want to touch it.”

Morgan Stinson, a freshman actuarial science major, prefers short and scruffy facial hair in most cases.

“It really depends on what guy is wearing the beard,” Stinson said.

Along with looking like a lumberjack, Weber also grows his beard to look older. ”If you shave after having a beard, everyone’s like ‘you look like you’re 17’ when usually people are like ‘you look like you’re 22,’” Weber said.

Davis has also experienced that he is mistaken for the wrong age when he does sport his beard.

“Old men think that I’m more of an old man when I have a

beard,” Davis said.

When his beard reaches a certain length, Davis notices it becomes an object of conversation.

He has had people come up to him and ask how long he has been growing his beard. Davis receives many compliments on his facial hair; however, he said “half the compliments are ironic.”

Weber said having a longer beard requires grooming. In the mornings he has to comb down his “bed beard.” He also washes and trims his facial hair. Both Weber and Davis shampoo their beards when they become longer.

As for the future of facial hair, Davis said he hopes to get back to the ways of the 19th century and have a president with “giant sideburns.”

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A story of perseverance and hope across borderlines

arla Fernandez remembers the house she lived in as a 3-year-old. It was comprised of dirt floors and a simple roof. Her parents left her with her grandparents every day to go to work and make enough money to buy food.

Fernandez, now a Ball State freshman studying business management, discusses why she and her family left Vera Cruz, Mexico.

“We left because it was just

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really bad circumstances,” she said. “At the time [my parents] weren’t able to finish high school, because they focused on being able to have food on the table.”

Fernandez’s father was the first to go to America. After six months, he raised enough money to bring Fernandez and her mother to Indiana.

“Any document that my parents didn’t understand I had to translate,” Fernandez said.

“I was the only one going to school for English and my parents were working.”

Fernandez started translat-

ing for her parents by the time she was four.

Despite her hardships, Fernandez’s biggest goal is to pursue the “American dream.”

“Those are the big [goals]: being able to have everything on your own, having a career and an opportunity to go to college and better yourself,” Fernandez said. “I feel like some people forget because you just keep doing [it] and it’s just kind of like a routine – but it really isn’t.

It’s working hard to achieve what you want.” story: samantha bohannon

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SPORTS

TODAY Riding an 8-game winning streak, the baseball team hosts Purdue at 3:30 p.m.

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THURSDAY The men’s volleyball team travels to Romeoville, Ill., for a match with Lewis at 7 p.m.

FRIDAY Softball plays a doubleheader at Ypsilanti, Mich., against Eastern Michigan.

Team earns best record in coach’s tenure Women’s basketball ends season with 17-14 overall record ZACH CAINS STAFF REPORTER | @ZPC1329 In its third season under head coach Brady Sallee, the Ball State women’s basketball game finished with a 1714 overall record and 13-5 mark in Mid-American Conference play, both bests during his tenure.

The Cardinals won the MAC West Division and finished with the second best record in the league. After losing in the semifinals, the team earned its third straight Women’s National Invitation Tournament birth.

“We are setting a bar for ourselves and almost making it expected that we get this far,” Sallee said.

Ball State lost to Middle Tennessee in the first round of the WNIT. It was the second time in the last three

years the Cardinals fell in the first round.

But Sallee said learning from failure and disappointment can help his team mature and improve for the future.

“I think big picture,” Sallee said. “A loss isn’t that important — it’s what we do after that loss and how we react to take ourselves from the loss to where we can win and get to where we want to be at the end of the season that’s important.”

The Cardinals will have an entire offseason to build from the loss and get ready for next season with a very similar roster.

Shelbie Justice is the only senior from this season’s team.

Justice averaged 31 minutes per game this season, while averaging 10 points per game and shooting 41 percent from the field and 38 percent from behind the arc.

She also surpassed 1,000 points this season, joining 23 other players to do so.

“Not only do we lose her for her offensive threat, but we lose a lot of basketball IQ from her,” Sallee said. “She has been

2015-16 BALL STATE RETURNING PLAYERS CENTER

• Renee Bennett GUARD

• Nathalie Fontaine • Frannie Frazier • Calyn Hosea • Jill Morrison • Brionna Simond • Candyce Ussery FORWARD

• Shelby Merder • Moriah Monaco

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The Ball State women’s basketball team ended its season with a 17-14 overall record after falling in the first round of the WNIT to Middle Tennessee State. The Cardinals will only be losing senior guard Shelbie Justice after this season and look to rebuild in the offseason.

a staple of the program here, and it’s going to take awhile for me to find a way to fill what she brought with her.”

Despite the loss of its senior leader, Sallee said Ball State’s future is still bright.

Seven of the 10 players on

this year’s team are underclassmen. Juniors Nathalie Fontaine and Candyce Ussery will be the lone seniors for the 2015-16 season.

Fontaine was a First Team All-MAC selection this season, leading the Ball State offense

with 16.4 points per game.

She shot .493 for the season and averaged 7.1 rebounds.

For Fontaine, along with other players and Sallee, the ultimate goal is making the NCAA Tournament.

The last time the Cardinals

appeared in the NCAA Tournament was 2009 when the team went 25-8 and made it to the second round. Sallee said the team’s absence serves as motivation to get back.

“The program stepped into the limelight and made a name for themselves [in 2009] and then disappeared,” Sallee said.

“My goal is to get us back there and change us from a program that wins 16-17 games a season and makes the WNIT, to a team that wins 21 or more games a season and changes those four letters to NCAA.”

FOOTBALL

CARDINALS NAME BAILEY NEW WIDE RECEIVERS COACH

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The last time that Cardinals and Hoosiers faced off was in 2012 in Bloomington at Memorial Stadium.

Ball State topped Indiana by one field goal, winning 41-39. The two teams will meet again in September 2016 in Bloomington and have recently announced a new three-game football series from beginning in 2018 with Ball State playing away at Indiana.

Ball State is working to host Indiana at Lucas Oil Stadium in 2019.

RIVALRY:

| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 For the first 30 minutes, son got the better of pops, and with Lynch at quarterback, the Cardinals took a 23-7 lead into the half. As was the case in the previous three matchups between the schools. However, Indiana prevailed, scoring 17 unanswered points in the second half for a 24-23 win.

Lynch finished 15-of-24 for 246 passing yards, three touchdowns and an interception, but Ball State had come up just short against its instate rivals once again.

About nine years later, Lynch is Ball State’s offensive coordinator, and when the announcement came on March 2 that Ball State and Indiana had agreed to continue the rivalry through

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2008, the Cardinals defeated 2020, he was excited.

“I think it’s great for the the Hoosiers in 2011 and state,” Lynch said. “When you again in 2012.

As a former player, Lynch have two Division I college sports [teams] playing each knows what the in-state riother, it’s something that valry means for the players on his team. everyone looks forward to.”

“It’s no different from when The Cardinals and Hoosiers I played. A lot of won’t play in 2015, our guys have a rebut the two teams are lationship with the scheduled to meet I think guys over at IU,” on Sept. 16, 2016, in it’s huge for Lynch said.

Bloomington.

From a player’s Indiana holds a Indiana to perspective, there’s 4-3 advantage in a different feeling the series, win- rekindle that playing a team from ning the first four rivalry.

Indiana rather than games beginning in just another school 1997. The Cardinals TEDDY from the Mid-Amerearned their first WILLIAMSON, ican Conference. win of the series in Running back Running back 2008 during their Teddy Williamson undefeated regular season, and ended Indiana’s won’t be around when the 20-game winning streak Cardinals face off against the against Mid-American Con- Hoosiers, but said he wishes he could be there to rekindle ference schools.

After winning 42-20 in old memories.

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“I think it’s huge for Indiana to rekindle that rivalry,” Williamson said. “We’ve beaten them in the past. I know they’re a good, Big Ten school ... the atmosphere is going to be great.”

Ball State football head coach Pete Lembo announced on Tuesday that Alex Bailey has been named the Cardinals’ wide receivers coach.

Bailey spent last season at Wayne State, serving as the wide receivers coach for the Division II program in Detroit.

A 2007 graduate of Yo u n g s t o w n State, Bailey played football ALEX BAILEY for the Penguins Wide receivers from 2001-03. coach “We are very pleased to welcome Alex to the coaching staff and the Ball State football family,” Lembo said in a statement. “We have gotten to know Alex over the last few years through summer camps and during off-campus recruiting travels ... Alex has spent his entire coaching career in the Midwest and we expect a smooth transition. Our receiving corp will enjoy and benefit from his sincerity, integrity and detailed approach.”

Ball State wide receivers combined for 19 receiving touchdowns last season.

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