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Legislators propose 1st fund boost for Ball State since 2008 Draft moves to the Senate, would increase state funding ARIC CHOKEY NEWS EDITOR | news@bsudailynews.com Ball State would get its first increase in state funding in six years if a proposed budget goes through Indiana’s legislature. The Indiana House of Representatives recently passed a draft of the state budget, which includes a $7 million, or nearly half of one percent, increase of new money to Ball State. Since the state does its biennial budget every two years, it has been tasked with figuring out state allocations this year. “This would be the first operating increase that we’ve had since 2009,” said Bernard Hannon, Ball State treasurer. “And that’s all good news.” The general operating budget funds areas such as academic programs and faculty salaries and benefits. The state also provides money for the university to keep up maintenance on its facilities. Before the 2014-15 academic year, the state had reduced support to Ball State’s operating budget every year since the 2008 recession, according to the university Fact Book.

See BUDGET, page 3

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MEN’S BASKETBALL 2015 MAC POSTSEASON TOURNAMENT BRACKET SEE PAGE 5

STUDENT ATHLETES COULD RECEIVE MORE MONEY FOR PERSONAL TRAVEL, LIVING EXPENSES Potential stipend would cover full cost of attendance DAKOTA CRAWFORD IDESK EDITOR | dmcrawford@bsu.edu

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eer pressure is going to drive a lot of athletic spending at Ball State. Northern Illinois University announced last month that it would adopt a full cost of attendance structure within its athletic department. Beginning next academic year, every scholarship athlete will receive a stipend in addition to room and board, tuition and book costs. Athletic director Mark Sandy said getting cost of attendance figured out at Ball State is near the

top of his to-do list. In many ways, the decision to implement this stipend to help athletes with incidental costs was made for him. “If your peers do it and you don’t, then you’re in trouble,” Sandy said. “You have to compete.” If Ball State chooses not to provide the cost of attendance stipend, it’d lose recruits to other MidAmerican Conference schools. Top high school players will be more inclined to play for college teams that offer them some pocket cash. See STIPEND , page 4

WHAT THE COST OF ATTENDANCE STIPEND COULD LOOK LIKE AT BALL STATE BALL STATE ATHLETICS 2013-14 GRANT-IN-AID BUDGET EXPENDITURES

POSSIBLE STIPEND OPTION: ONLY FOOTBALL AND BASKETBALL PROGRAMS

Grant-in-aid is the full and partial scholarships awarded to student athletes. Scholarships currently cover room and board, tuition and books. Cost of attendance is an estimation of incidental costs, inlcuding travel and personal, from the Office of Financial Aid. The chart below shows how much the athletic department budgets for grant-in-aid and how much they could add for the additional cost of attendance expenses. Grant-in-aid budget

Possible cost of attendance addition

TOTAL SCHOLARSHIP ATHLETES

110

Total budget expenditures

ESTIMATED COST OF ATTENDANCE

$6,924,914

$335,500

$15,833,985

« The public eye is focused on the top 25 programs and primarily football and basketball.

$800,000 (estimated from Northern Illinois’ cost of attendance) TOTAL AWARDED SCHOLARSHIPS

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Four different businesses make up The Common Market including a Mexican restaurant, a coffee shop, a vinyl record shop and The Acoustic Room. Scott Gates and Mike Martin are the co-owners of The Acoustic Room. Gates said that he wants to represent every genre of music by providing a variety of music each night.

LOCAL MAN TO OPEN NEW MUSIC VENUE Proposed community project to feature coffee shop, vinyl store ROSE SKELLY STAFF REPORTER | rmskelly@bsu.edu

A local Muncie man will open a new music venue this month on the city’s west side. The Acoustic Room, located at 1501 W. Kilgore Ave., will diversify the Muncie music scene, according to co-owner Scott Gates. Gates said he wants to provide different types of music each night, so that every genre is THE ACOUSTIC represented. ROOM “I’ve lived in this town my whole OPENING DATE life and what’s out March 27 there right there FUNDRAISER CONCERT music-wise, I just April 10 and 11, 5 p.m. don’t think there’s to 3 a.m. a lot of choices,” Gates said. “I want you to walk in here one night and it just be straight-up country guy in there, and then the next night you come in it might be a three piece jazz set, or just straight up blues or hard rock.”

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ESTIMATED COST OF ATTENDANCE

PETE LEMBO, Ball State Head Football Coach

$710,650

BALL STATE FULL AND PARTIAL ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIPS BY SPORT, 2014-15 ACADEMIC YEAR The cost of attendance stipend could cover all current scholarship athletes, or selected athletes for sports such as football and basketball. The chart below shows how many Ball State athletes receive full or partial athletic scholarships by sport. Current Ball State athletic scholarships

NCAA scholarships allowed 85

Football Track

17.6

Women’s basketball

13

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11.68

Soccer Women’s swimming

18

14

« Every dollar coming in, from the NCAA or corporate

10.75 14

Men’s basketball

12

Field hockey

11.57

Gymnastics

sponsors or otherwise, has to be analyzed to see where we’re going to spend it... And in this case, how we’re going to cover the cost of attendance.

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12

12

Softball

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10.57

Women’s volleyball

12

Baseball

11.7

Men’s swimming

WHAT A FULL ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIP COVERS NOW: TUITION AND FEES

$8,206

9.90 .06

Women’s tennis

7

Women’s golf

ROOM AND BOARD

$9,246

TRANSPORTATION

4.11

4.5

Men’s tennis

4.47

4.5

Men’s volleyball

4.4

4.5

$1,008

WHAT THE COST OF ATTENDANCE STIPEND WOULD COVER:

8

6

Men’s golf

BOOKS/SUPPLIES

$1,200

PERSONAL COSTS

$1,850

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