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Mayor working with council on resolution, human rights update KARA BERG CHIEF REPORTER | knberg2@bsu.edu As the controversy over Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act continues, Muncie Mayor Dennis Tyler is working with the city council to adopt a resolution stating their opposition to the law.

The resolution, which could be adopted as early as Monday, addresses Tyler’s and the city council’s concerns with RFRA. Along with the resolution, Tyler said there would be an update to the human rights statDENNIS TYLER utes in the city ordinance.

Mayor of “We felt like we needed to Muncie move that ordinance up to the front of the line with sexual orientation discrimination and gender discrimination,” Tyler said.

“We needed to get that written into our human rights [statutes] so we don’t have to deal with these issues going forward.”

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ice President for Student Affairs Kay Bales has heard the call for significant changes in the selection of student award winners, including the John R. Emens Outstanding Senior Award.

Bales, who is also dean of students, said the selection process has always been transparent, and there was never an attempt to keep it secret. However, she said she and other administrators are willing to work to improve the process.

Bales said she had assumed the identities of the committee members were common knowledge, except the names of the students involved.

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The committee is composed “We’re very open to share what of administrators from Stuthat process is, and we always This is a student award, and dent Affairs, Academic Affairs have been,” Bales said. and the President’s Office, as The selection process for the perhaps we should have more than well as at least one student. AfJohn R. Emens Outstanding Senior one student making that selection. ter the previous representative Award came under fire after a stufrom University Advancement dent who had once owned a Con- KAY BALES, vice president for Student Affairs retired, Bales invited a second federate flag won the honor. Stustudent to be part of the panel. dent Government Association’s “It was a choice that I made at that point to include an Chief of Staff Chris Taylor wrote a letter to administration additional student on the committee,” Bales said. “My calling for change.

He and SGA President Nick Wilkey wanted the uni- thought process behind that was simply, ‘This is a student versity to look into the award selection process, among award, and perhaps we should have more than one student making that selection.’” other concerns.

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Jahwan Edwards, a former running back, was one of five Ball State football players that participated in Pro Day on Wednesday at Ball State. The former players did a series of weight and agility workouts for scouts from the Packers, Falcons and Colts.

Scouts attend Ball State workouts

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Five former Ball State football players worked out in front of NFL scouts Wednesday for the school’s Pro Day at the Fisher Football Training Complex and Field Sports Building.

Running back Jahwan Edwards, cornerback Eric Patterson, kicker Scott Secor, safety Brian Jones and linebacker Stephan Martin performed a series of weight and agility workouts, as well as football drills, for scouts from the Packers, Falcons and Colts.

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LEGACY OF FORMER PROFESSOR STANDS College waiting until case through courts before making changes RACHEL PODNAR CRIME REPORTER | rmpodnar@bsu.edu The legacy of a former Ball State professor who was arrested in March on child molesting charges will not be tarnished while the case is in courts, the dean of the College of Communication, Information and Media said.

Melvin Sharpe was arrested on March 11 on charges of child molesting and child solicitation. Child

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molesting is a Class A felony.

The affidavit for his arrest said he sexually abused a boy over a period of several years, from about 2006 to 2012.

Sharpe retired from Ball State in 2007 and was recognized with more than 30 awards from Ball State. There is a public relations fund in his name, and he is a part of the Journalism Hall of Fame.

The College of Communication, Information and Media is waiting until the case goes through 1. CLOUDY are the courts before any changes made, Dean Roger Lavery said.

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mission and values.” ery said. “We’ll wait Sharpe’s picture appears for a verdict from the on a plaque on the third court system before we floor of the Art and Journaltake any action, if it is ism Building. deemed necessary.”

The Dr. Mel Sharpe ExJournalism department cellence Fund for Public chairperson Michael Relations, hosted through Holmes issued a statement to department MELVIN SHARPE the Ball State Foundation, is also still in existence, faculty in an email on Former Public Holmes said.

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Relations The fund was started in “We are saddened by professor 2012 with funds in excess the accusations and have deep concern for the young of $29,000 and is used for ac5. SUNNY MOSTLY SUNNY 2. MOSTLY CLOUDY 3. PARTLY CLOUDYsaid4. in tivities that bring distinction and man involved,” Holmes the email. “While this case remains recognition to the public relato be heard in the courts, any oc- tions program. currence of abuse is unacceptable See SHARPE, page 5 and goes against the university’s THE PULSE OF BALL STATE

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to honor a student’s “outstanding service and contributions to the university.” However, no | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 rubric or further explanation Other than the student and is provided to those nominatUniversity Senate member, the ing students or the committee same people have served on choosing them.

Moore said the vague critethis committee for five ria for the award make years, including Bales. it difficult to select a “Like many universtudent to nominate. If sity committees, they she were a member of become labors of love,” the committee, Moore Bales said. “You’re willsaid she would prefer ing to become engaged more details. in different parts of “What is service to the the university and to university?” Moore said. provide that service to KAY BALES “If you have a paid role the institution.” in student government, The Emens Award vice president does that count as serselection process mir- for Student Affairs vice? If you’re on a fullrors other awards on ride scholarship on an campus including service awards, as well as Provost athletic team—because I know awards and scholarships, Bales student-athletes have won it besaid. The review of the selection fore—is that weighed the same process by the university will as someone who participates in affect more than just the Out- a sport for four years but didn’t receive any scholarship money? standing Senior Award.

Bales said anywhere from 20 Does that weigh into the decito 25 students are nominated for sion of the university? Is that the Emens Award in a given year. service if you aren’t paid? Is it Others on campus have ex- service, even if you are paid?”

Bales said every year, the pressed concern about the secommittee reviews the nomilection process, including Mary Moore, an instructor of com- nation process, looking for munication studies and director improvements. As part of her of individual events, who nomi- joint statement with President nated a student for the award Paul W. Ferguson in a campuswide email, Bales is looking at this year.

“I thought the nomination pro- making greater changes to the cess required the proper amount committee selection and the of rigor,” Moore said. “You have awards process.

“Part of our review process will to have a letter of nomination.

You can have letters of support, be looking at the composition of and then the candidates them- all of our student award comselves also have to craft applica- mittees and what that represention materials. I think all of that tation should look like and what is what would be necessary to it should be,” Bales said. “We’re very open to reviewing all those earn such a prestigious award.”

However, the main criticism aspects of the process. … I think Moore had was echoed by other that as we go through that, we students on campus: there aren’t certainly will welcome all ideas, and then at the end, develop a specific criteria for the award.

The nomination materials process that makes the most state the purpose of the award is sense for whatever the award is

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| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 In the resolution, it says Muncie is “committed to protect the rights of all citizens, regardless of sexual orientation, race, gender identification, ethnicity, religion or creed,” The Star Press reported.

Tyler said taking a stand on RFRA is important because the law presents the opposite message that Muncie is looking to promote.

“We’ve got one of the best universities in the Midwest, we’ve got one of the top hospital networks in Muncie, we’ve got high-tech industries here, we’ve got a great manufacturing business industry and

that we’re going to present.”

Students like D’Marcus Pulce, a senior telecommunications major, were impressed by the university’s openness to change.

Pulce said he would like to see more student involvement in the selection process, either by students volunteering to be part of the panel or by students voting for the Emens Award.

“I want them to walk away from this being aware that changing the criteria now may work for the next five to 10 years, but if a new senior class comes and there is an issue, they should be flexible to represent the senior class that is there,” Pulce said. “If it’s not representative of them in the future, I hope they’re able to change it again.”

Nathaniel Thomas, a junior theatre major and president of Ethnic Theatre Alliance, hopes the university will consider the multiple meanings of diversity.

“I want the board to be created [from] the absolute most diverse selection,” Thomas said.

“From the race of the individuals of those participating, the colleges they come from, the departments they are in charge of, the positions they hold, from grassroots workers to administration heads.”

Both Thomas and Moore wanted more weight to be given to students who were active in the campus community and achieved high standards of academic excellence.

Bales said the committee’s decision this year was not a statement on the university’s commitment to diversity, but defended its choice.

“I think if you look at the criteria and the purpose of the award and what we reviewed as a committee, then the committee stands by that decision,” Bales said.

we have a huge population of a lot of people of a lot of different gender identifications, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations and race,” Tyler said. “I just want them all to know that they’re welcome in Muncie and that they’re an important part of our community and that we want them to be an important part of our community.”

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The Ball State baseball team looks to extend its MAC lead with a home game against Akron. First pitch is at 3 p.m.

SATURDAY Men’s volleyball travels to Fort Wayne to try to avenge an earlier defeat against IPFW at 7 p.m.

STRESS FRACTURES AND ATHLETES

TYSON BIRD GRAPHICS REPORTER | tabird@bsu.edu

During the winter, Ball State senior tailback Horactio Banks suffered a stress fracture in his lower body. Stress fractures are caused by repetitive motions that lead to bone fatigue and eventual fracture. These fractures are especially common among athletes. The diagram below illustrates common stress fractures associated with certain types of athletic activity.

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Athletic activity predisposing to specific stress fracture, according to Murray, et al., 2010 Distance running, jumping sports, ballet Racquet sports, throwing, lifting

Sprinting, jumping

Golf, rowing

Gymnastics

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Senior running back Horactio Banks had a steel rod inserted in his leg after finding out he has a stress fracture in his lower leg. It will take around 6-8 months to recover, which will keep Banks out of the 2015-16 season.

Pars interarticularis (part of spine)

Humerus

Ribs

Ulna

Sacrum Femur Patella

Tibia

Banks’ injury: lower left leg

Toe sesamoids

Talus

(tiny bones on bottom of foot)

Navicular

Metatarsals SOURCES: “Trauma” (Sage Publications), stanford.edu, sesamoiditis.net, britannica.com

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| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Players from nearby schools, such as Butler, also attended the workout.

The first series of events included the bench press, vertical jump and broad jump at the football complex. Players, scouts and family members then proceeded to the indoor turf field for football workouts.

Edwards said he was content with his times in the 40-yard

dash and shuttle run. He ran a 4.80 40-yard dash at the NFL Combine in February 2015.

“I felt good about my performance,” Edwards said.

“The thing I wanted to do was increase my times from the [combine].”

Workouts concluded with a number of routes run. The routes and balls thrown varied depending on the particular player’s position.

Patterson said he thinks his chances in the upcoming draft improved after his workout.

Banks looks to help team despite stress fracture

Surgery, recovery keeps running back sidelined for season ROBBY GENERAL STAFF REPORTER | @The_Generex6

Ball State running back Horactio Banks started feeling a pain in his lower leg in February 2015.

After a series of trainer diagnoses, X-rays and MRIs, it was confirmed that Banks suffered a stress fracture in his lower leg, an injury that would require surgery.

The insertion of a steel rod in his leg and about 6-8 months of recovery will keep the Cardinals’ most experienced running back out for the 2015-16 season.

Banks’ collegiate career will end as a medical disqualification.

“At that point, knowing all of that information, we determined that it would be in [Banks’] best interest to be medically disqualified,” head coach Pete Lembo said. “That was a decision of our team of doctors, trainers and [Banks].”

Banks also missed three games during his redshirt sophomore season with a knee injury in his other leg.

After redshirting in 2011, he spent the next three seasons as part of a two-headed rushing attack with Ball State’s all-time leading rusher Jahwan Edwards. Banks’

“I feel like my stock went up,” Patterson said. “I feel like I have a way better chance of getting drafted now, just by coming out and showing them what I can do.”

After workouts, scouts had an opportunity to talk with players they were interested in.

Edwards was approached about his hamstring injury and asked how we was handling it, but assured scouts that “everything’s all good.”

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first two seasons in a Cardinal uniform produced 208 carries for 1,181 yards.

Banks picked up 353 yards on 75 carries last season while dealing with the injury that will keep him out this year.

While his career carrying the ball in a Ball State uniform may have come to an end, Banks remains a vital part of the team.

He has continued to help mentor the remaining running backs as a student assistant and mentor. Banks will also be assisting off the field, as he’ll be part of the summer bridge program at Ball State.

The tailbacks competing for the starting job look up to Banks’ experience.

“It’s unfortunate that [Banks] is a guy that I looked up to, and he’s out,” junior Teddy Williamson said. “But it’s time to step up.”

Williamson, along with the

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Senior running back Horactio Banks has missed games in the past due to injuries. During his redshirt sophomore year, Banks missed three games because of a knee injury.

other three running backs, have three seasons of combined experience.

Moving forward, Banks will make it a priority to attend practices and help his teammates in any way, all while finishing school and maintaining

his scholarship.

“He’s been out here every day, staying very much engaged with what’s going on,” Lembo said.

“Our job now, along with him, is to find meaningful ways for him to contribute, even if he’s not running the ball for us.”

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Ruling lets university hold transcripts Supreme Court says Ball State can deny graduates’ transcripts TAYLOR WEDDLE STAFF REPORTER | tcweddle@bsu.edu The Indiana Supreme Court ruled last week that the university is allowed to hold graduates’ transcripts due to outstanding fees not paid while at Ball State.

Ball State’s policy is to hold transcripts for students who owe $9,000 or more to the university.

In the recent court case, Jordan Irons had enrolled at Ball State in 2011, but withdrew in the midst of Spring Semester. She planned to attend Indiana University Northwest

and requested a transcript from Ball State.

Ball State held her transcript due to her debt exceeding $9,000. Irons could not enroll at IUN. The Indiana Supreme Court ruled in favor of Ball State’s policy to withhold official college transcripts until owed money is paid in full.

Ball State Attorney Representative Jim Williams said they have a “common lien,” the legal right to hold one’s property to ensure a satisfied debt or charge payment.

“Our view is the university has a common-law lien on a transcript for services provided,” Williams said. “The analogy is, if you took your car in to get it fixed, the mechanic has a lien on the car until the bill is paid. Tech-

nically, the mechanic can withhold the car until the bill is paid.”

In an email from Joan Todd, interim associate vice president for Marketing and Communications, and Bernie Hannon, vice president for Business Affairs and treasurer, said the total amount of unpaid student tuition and fees for the fiscal 2013-14 year was a little more than $10.7 million. The amount written off by Ball State in uncollectible tuition and fees from accounts receivable was $811,568 for the same year.

Hannon said unpaid tuition and fees totaled $9.5 million for the fiscal 2012-13 year. Hannon also said the university wrote off nearly $780,000 in tuition and fees the same year.

Hannon said the university tries to collect unpaid

UNPAID TUITION AND FEES

amounts for five years before writing any off.

The university carries the unpaid tuition and fees on financial records for several years while it tries to work with students until it “becomes appropriate” to write off the debt on the university’s statements.

In an email from Lisa RenzeRhodes, senior media relations manager, Hannon said the university always budgets assuming that some tuition and fees will be uncollected.

He also said in an email tuition would have been deposited into the school’s general fund, which affords the core operating expenses of the university, such as salaries and benefits, student scholarships, supplies and utilities.

He also said about 1.5 to 2 per-

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Ball State holds transcripts for up to five years from students who have unpaid tuition and fees. After the five-year period, the university will write off the amount of remaining unpaid fees. This graphic shows the amount of unpaid fees and how many write-offs Ball State had in the past two fiscal years.

Write-Offs

Unpaid Tuition/Fees

In millions $12

$10.7 $9.5

10 8 6 4

SOURCE: Joan Todd, interim associate vice president for Marketing and Communications, and Bernie Hannon, vice president for Business Affairs and treasurer

2

$780,000 Thousand

$811,568 Thousand

FY 2012-2013

FY 2013-2014

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cent of tuition and fees are unpaid each year on average.

If all students paid their bills, it would likely mean lower tuition for all students, Hannon said.

The university has programs to help students who enroll to successfully graduate from the

university, such as PACE and the Learning Center, he said.

“The university does try to be as flexible and helpful with students as possible, offering payment plans for students who cannot always make payments on time,” he said.

Store owner Jeff Burke said many college students buy guns and ammunition at his store, so he wanted to support the group and encourage responsible gun ownership.

“If you are going to carry a gun on your possession, it has to be somehow fixed to your body. If it’s tucked down in your pocket and you go to pull that gun out, it could go off,” Burke said. “You need to wear it in a manner that is not only comfortable, but safe.”

A sophomore physical education major, Kyle Tobeck is participating in the empty holster protest for the first time. He is a Marine Corp veteran and did five years of active duty.

Tobeck said he feels naked when he does not carry his firearm, like leaving his wallet at home.

He considers himself an advocate for firearm safety and just wants to raise awareness this week.

“I am constantly telling my friends, if they want to learn how to use a firearm, they are always free to come talk to me

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Students for Concealed Carry wear empty holsters Group hopes to spark discussion about guns on campus RACHEL PODNAR CHIEF REPORTER | rmpodnar@bsu.edu

chapter, junior David Vest said a few of his professors asked about his empty holster, and they got some attention on the app Yik Yak on Monday.

“A lot of people just give you the weird look and walk farther away from you,” he said. “Some [of the group members] wantA group of students are bring- ed to put flyers in our holsters ing their holsters to but nothing goes in it. campus this week — We don’t want someA lot of but not their guns. one to think there This week is the an- people just is anything possibly nual Empty Holster in there.”

Protest Week for Stu- give you the The group had to dents for Concealed weird look warn University Police Carry, a national orDepartment in case of ganization dedicated and walk any confusion. to allowing students Students for Confarther away cealed to use their concealed Carry is still carry permits on col- from you. waiting on approval lege campuses. from the Office of Ball State’s chapter of DAVE VEST, Student Life so they the group is participat- president of Ball can pass out flyers ing; a few students are State chapter and have meetings, Students for wearing their holsters of so the group is relyConcealed Carry with nothing in them ing on word of mouth to demonstrate how and social media they are not allowed to carry posts to get the word out about their firearms on campus. the protest this week and the President of the Ball State group in general.

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This week is annual Empty Holster Protest week for the national organization Students for Concealed Carry. The organization is committed to allowing students to use their concealed carry permits on college campuses.

Vest said he hopes the empty holsters will spark discussion about their issue on campus, whether students are for it or against it.

“It’s worse if people don’t have an opinion, because nothing gets talked about, nothing gets improved,” he said. “Part of the

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reason we have laws we don’t like, [such as] RFRA, [is because] people say they don’t have an opinion [at the voting booth], and that’s what led to this.”

Local gun store McGalliard Guns and More donated holsters so anyone who doesn’t have a holster can participate as well.

Concealed carry is legal on college campuses in Indiana; it is up to the school to decide. No college or university in Indiana allows for concealed carry.

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about it,” Tobeck said. “A lot of people ... are more ignorant on firearms, and they just think they are scary because they don’t know anything about them. I just want to let people know firearms aren’t scary. It’s a tool that can do a lot of damage, but it’s only a tool.”

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The future treasurer of the Student Government Association not only loves the “Harry Potter” series, she sees herself in the characters.

Junior Meagan Mullen said people often compare her to Hermione Granger or Ginny Weasley from the series.

Mullen has felt connected to the books since she first heard the audiotapes at 8 years old.

“I feel like [being an author gets] overlooked as a profession, but [authors] are really ingenious,” she said. “I’m obsessed with children’s books and young adult books, so it’d be fun to write one of those.”

Not only has the series encouraged her to write her own novel someday, but it also inspired her in taking on the traits of the novel’s characters.

Although she considers herself similar to Granger, only nicer, and Weasley, except louder, she hopes to have an impact in people’s lives like Professor McGonagall.

“I would strive to be her and be that impressionistic person in someone’s life and be able to make a difference,” she said. “If I could find my little Harry Potter that I can take under my wing,

SHARPE:

| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Holmes said it was last used in August 2014 to support student participation at national meetings of the Public Relations Society of America.

When he retired from Ball State in 2007, a feature on the front page of the Department of Journalism Phoenix publication

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Meagan Mullen, a junior interpersonal communication major, said Frog Baby is one of her favorite places on campus, as well as the University Green. Mullen is the future treasurer for the Student Government Association.

that would be fantastic.”

Mullen tries to have that impact through her activities at the university. Although she will take over as SGA treasurer this month, Mullen’s first interests were in the Residence Hall Association and National Residence Hall Honorary.

Her fondest memory from freshman year was participating in box city, one of RHA’s events, as one of the donation directors with Jack Hesser, SGA president elect.

She enjoys interacting with students.

“I am not any more special than anyone else. I want freshmen to come up and talk to me,” she said. “When I help other people reach their goal, that’s me accomplishing a goal.”

Marie Prevost, a junior history major, has known Mullen since

freshman year and works alongside her in RHA. “The best thing about [Mullen] is that she is willing to help with anything she can,” Prevost said.

She said Mullen knows when it’s time to be professional and get work done, but knows how to have fun at the same time.

“She can make the dullest project a really fun time, and that is a trait people can’t manage to get,” Prevost said.

Mullen can see herself someday working in student affairs — possibly at Ball State.

She even considered taking on a role like President Paul W. Ferguson’s.

“I could be president,” she said.

“I’m totally kidding; I don’t think I could be president of a university, but you never know. I think it’d be fun to be the face of Ball State or any other university.”

said the impact of his work at Ball State built the public relations graduate and undergraduate program into one of the premier programs in the nation.

Sharpe also holds two individual national awards from PRSA, the most recent from 2006.

Hoosier PRSA’s president Courtney Kasinger said Hoosier PRSA is aware of the allegations. Its chapter has a graduate scholarship named in his honor.

She said they have not made any decisions at this point, but will continue to award the scholarship.

“The board will await the outcome of the investigation and make decisions as needed,” she said. “But we are committed to continuing our scholarship fund.”

Sharpe’s initial hearing is set for 9 a.m. on April 23 with Delaware County Circuit Court No. 2.

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FORUM LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

FOCUS ON BEING ‘VOICE FOR OTHERS’ I wouldn’t say I’m an activist, but I’m opposed to people being silent on this issue because it’s easier — especially at an educational institution. The whole university suffers from a lack of honest, public dialogue.

Last week’s anger is the reflection of the pain afflicted by microaggressions that continuously get swept under the rug. As stated several times before, no one hates Chloe Anagnos, but we hate how the flag makes us feel like we are not a part of this campus.

It’s sad that people are trying to make it about her again because it becomes a repeating course of sympathy for the white privilege she has and minorities’ voices fading into the background. While it is unfortunate that Chloe got the

brunt of it all, it is a part of being a public figure that gets to enjoy the benefits of the recognition from our peers.

Public figures have to deal with people assuming bad things about their character all the time. Like all good leaders do when they make a mistake: say it and WORK toward public forgiveness. Many pointed out how Chloe’s official statement to the DN excluded an apology and showed her becoming proactive about empowering the minority community that she offended.

I have sacrificed my own social status on this campus in order for an honest, public dialogue to happen. I have had many students and faculty thank me for starting the discussion on microaggres-

sions at BSU — and that’s what it should be about, being the voice for others, not just myself.

I encourage for her to use her unique experience to become a voice for the minority community and fight for something other than herself and what’s mislabelled as “bullying.” It’s not too late for her to use her privilege to change the oppressive views of so many people.

I challenge everyone to take the focus off of Chloe and myself to be productive. The same way that we praise the most amazing deeds on campus is the same way that we should shed the light on what is taking away from our campus culture.

DJ Pulce djpulce@bsu.edu

DIRECTOR MAKES IMPACT ON STUDENT The past several weeks have been trying for all of us in the university community. Monday’s announcement that Jennifer JonesHall was resigning to “pursue other opportunities” came as a complete shock to me. Anyone who has spent five minutes in a room with Jones-Hall realizes this is unbecoming of her character and I’m confident was not unwarranted.

I feel like it’s my responsibility to speak up on her behalf, especially when she has spoken up for me so many times before. I’m a leader because she helped make me a leader. I have the strength to write an open letter like this because she’s helped put my first-year student organization, Active Minds, on the map. In our most trying moments as a new student organization, Jennifer stood by, felt for me, listened to me and gave me the strength and courage to press on.

I’m releasing an open letter now because, although President Ferguson was referred to as having an “open door policy” at last night’s beneficence discussion, I have found all attempts to communicate with him to not reflect that.

I was baffled to hear Joan Todd’s statement that she took immediate action like this to

“pursue other opportunities.”

From my interactions with her, I recognized the fact that she was willing to go the extra mile to ensure her students enjoy this university and reach their full potential. She is always flexible, hardworking and most knowledgeable of the Office of Student Life.

She maintains a consistent environment where graduate assistants and this university’s emerging leaders stay focused on reaching their full leadership potential. Her interaction with students is especially positive.

I have worked with Jennifer in many capacities; she was actively involved in the development of Ball State’s Active Minds chapter, my involvement with Greek Life, the Student Government Association and Excellence in Leadership. As a result of my involvement, I have had the pleasure of meeting with her on a regular basis. She helped me realize that excellence is a journey, not a destination.

I’ve found Jennifer Jones-Hall, to be professional in every sense of the word. She works well with OSL staff, graduate assistants and students. She is always very pleasant, cheerful and full of energy.

The bottom line is: Jennifer

Jones-Hall is a very positive force in this university. I consider myself fortunate to have gained from her professional dedication. She has touched countless lives and made me and other student leaders look forward to our interactions with the Office of Student Life.

I urge university administrators to do what it takes to remedy any issues/concerns that have led to her sudden resignation. If they do not take immediate action, they will be doing this university and student body a huge disservice.

It seems to me that when the university’s top administrators failed to adequately address questions about the Outstanding Senior Award in a timely manner, Jones-Hall did, and it resulted in her immediate resignation. It saddens me to see her displayed in such a negative light for feedback that she shouldn’t even have had to give in the first place. I believe this university’s administrators should stop and take note of how shameful it is that our students have more sense to do the right thing (address controversy and safety issues) than they do.

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STATE SHOULD PLACE SEXUAL ORIENTATION PROTECTION UNDER CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Back in elementary school, one of the first lessons taught to you was the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have done unto you. It’s not complex, or even difficult to understand, but that rule has been lost in recent years as the religious right has fought against all efforts to bring equality to Americans who just want to be treated as any other citizen.

On Thursday, March 26, 2015, in a private ceremony, Gov. Mike

Pence signed Senate Bill 101, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. This bill does not do unto Mike Pence what Mike Pence is trying to do unto the LGBT community. This law could allow for a business owner to deny service to an individual based on religious grounds.

While the law does not explicitly state such possibilities, its vagueness does open the door for such actions due to the fact that sexual orientation

is not a protected class under Indiana’s Civil Rights law or at the Federal level.

Many on the right have continued to bring up the fact that President Bill Clinton signed a similar bill while he was in the White House. This bill was also supported by the thenstate senator Obama of Illinois.

Though on the surface these bills are similar, their outcomes are very different. Unlike its federal cousin, SB 101 not only

applies to those who have been burdened, but are likely to be burdened. This means that even if someone (people are defined as individuals, organizations and companies in Indiana) hasn’t been burdened but thinks they could be, they would be able to invoke this law.

Religion is ultimately a choice, and that choice is protected under our First Amendment. Being homosexual isn’t either a choice or a protected class. To allow the

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choices of others to dictate the lives some were given and the opportunities available to them goes against the very foundation that the United States was built upon.

This state has been greatly damaged over the past couple of days and the two options to heal are to either repeal SB 101 in its entirety or place sexual orientation under protection of Indiana’s Civil Rights law. This bill and the reaction the GOP

has taken to the public outcry shows that the fight for equality is far from over. If the bigots in the statehouse think that young people aren’t going to start taking action, they are going to be in for a surprise. We understand our right to vote and will be evoking that right in the mayoral races this year, as well as in 2016 when almost the entire legislature is up for re-election.

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Busted Space Theatre Company is a student-run organization that is producing its first full-length show. The show, “Mr. Burns: a post-electric play,” takes place with people sitting around a campfire during the apocalypse trying to remember an episode of “The Simpsons.”

Students play out life after apocalyptic nuclear meltdown Survivors reminisce, reenact old episode of ‘The Simpsons’

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Ball State’s student-run Busted Space Theatre Company will be producing its first full-length show, “Mr. Burns: a post-electric play.”

The play delves into the ways “the human race tells stories and how we keep out humanity in a crisis” by following a group of survivors after a nuclear melt-down, said senior theatre management major Bob Prescott.

Prescott is the director for the show and managing director of Busted Space. In the play, a small band of people find themselves sitting around a campfire during the apocalypse, trying to remember a particular episode of “The Simpsons.”

“Right after a disaster, the focus is on how to survive, but later, it’s on how [to] rebuild and make a new normal,” said Ru Weller-Passman, a senior playwriting major and dra-

maturge for the show. “How do we make a new culture again and get back those things that aren’t necessary for survival but are necessary for being human?”

Both Weller-Passman and Prescott have been members of Busted Space since their freshman year at Ball State. It is the first time the organization has put on a full-length production, and there have been adjustments for everyone involved.

Prescott said the process of putting this production together has been very different than what they are used to.

“A lot of what we usually do as an organization is produce our own work, but with the full production of ‘Mr. Burns,’ this is new territory,” he said.

Their first foray into this “new territory” includes creative directing decisions on the part of Prescott.

Seven years after the disaster, that same group of survivors is performing “The Simpsons” episode across the country for entertainment. Prescott decided to interpret the survivor’s act of traveling around the country as a desperate search for their friends and family who might have survived.

Seventy-five years after the group became an acting troupe, the same script the characters started working on that night around the campfire has been transformed into a huge musical theater number, complete with references to contemporary songs, including Beyonce’s “Single Ladies,” the “ScoobyDoo” theme song and Eminem’s “Lose Yourself.”

“We are experiencing their reality through the perspective of the episode,” Prescott said. “The show is about experiencing our humanity through our media and how that reflects back on us as a culture.”

Act Three takes place long after the events in Act One, and the results are interesting, said Kelley Johnson, a junior theatrical studies major who plays Quincy and Bart Simpson in the production.

“Act Three is a warped recreation of one of the episodes of ‘The Simpsons’ that the other characters were trying to remember in Act One,” Johnson said. “It’s 80-ish years after Act One, so interpretations and visuals and characters ... are twisted.”

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