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City will remove parking on Neely
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Muncie to widen part of street, add median to beautify area ROSE SKELLY CHIEF REPORTER | rmskelly@bsu.edu Once the city of Muncie widens Neely Avenue, there will no longer be street parking. The section of Neely Avenue from Ball State’s campus to Minnetrista is being redone in an effort to beautify the area. After the street is widened and a median added, there will no longer be on-street parking allowed in that section, according to Duke Campbell, superintendent of Muncie Street Department. “Neely is a heavily traveled road, for one thing; … a lot of people use [it],” Campbell said. “[It’s] going to look the same going out of Ball State’s campus coming out to Minnetrista with plants and a median, sidewalks, of course the road resurfaced. It should be nice.”
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s students’ schedules open up before Finals Week, campus will crawl out of its end-ofsemester hibernation, heading to bars and house parties to celebrate the nice weather and the end of the year. The Daily News sat down with two University Police Department officers, Chief Jim Duckham and midnight shift supervisor Sergeant Matt Gaither, to ask them about their weekend patrols and get answers to questions students may be asking this time of the year.
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What would you say to students who think that, on the weekends, UPD is the party police?
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it’s very large and is deemed unsafe, we’re going to go out and try to render that situation safe.
What prompts UPD to go to a party?
Chief Duckham: I think that’s a misconception. We don’t do anything different on the weekends as far as our patrol geography. We’re responsive to our community’s complaints. We focus on the quality of life in the neighborhoods as far as noise and traffic, behavior, criminal mischief. Most of our calls on the weekends are about complaints. People will call about a loud party or a disorderly group. Sergeant Gaither: We’re not going out [with the] primary focus to target parties. If it affects quality of life, if
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CD: Obviously if we see 400 people on the roof of a home, ... someone could get hurt, or you have a small frame house with 50 people in the lawn, that would draw your attention. The initial contact is to find the homeowner and say, ‘Hey, can you turn the noise down, could you bring people inside?’ If it’s too loud, ‘Hey, you have to disperse.’ And we find most people are really cooperative. If you’re having a huge party at your house, the next person has a huge paper due. We try and find the balance.
Couple helps mentor 2 kids after breakup TRANSFER SHARES BOND WITH HER COACH
Big Brothers Big Sisters program gives siblings another ‘family’ LATAYSIA WILSON STAFF REPORTER | lswilson2@bsu.edu
Softball player comes to Ball State after year at Western Kentucky
A former Ball State couple aren’t together, but they still go on “dates.” Brock Frazer and Haley Snyder’s relationship started as a romance but shifted into a mentoring partnership with Muncie’s Big Brothers Big Sisters. Frazer, a sophomore professional selling major, joined Big Brothers Big Sisters before his thengirlfriend, Snyder, a junior chemistry major. The program pairs children from the community with volunteer mentors who assist with their new sister’s or brother’s development. The program assigned Frazer to Kyler, 12. Snyder met Kyler and his sibling Kaylee, 11, at Kyler’s football game.
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Ball State sophomore India Steward committed to Western Kentucky to play for coach Tyra Perry. After Perry left the Hilltoppers for the head coaching job at Ball State, Steward decided to leave Western Kentucky and follow her coach to Muncie. “When I got here and started with the team, Coach Perry pushed me really hard and still does, which has really improved
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I caught up.” Steward said she enjoyed playing for her Southern Force travel team because it allowed her to do more in her time in high school. But as her junior year was coming to an end, she had a decision to make. After watching Steward play in a tournament, Perry was interested in Steward’s game. “We started talking after she saw me play, and I felt like we connected pretty quick,” Steward said. “I knew then I wanted her as my coach.” Perry said she scouts travel softball games and tournaments more than high school. It makes it easier to see a variety of differ-
me,” Steward said. “It’s something I knew she could do and I needed.” Steward didn’t play softball in high school like most college players. She decided to play basketball and run track instead. She was also a member of the cheer squad at Rich South High School. She enjoyed softball, but wasn’t sure if she wanted to play in college. Steward joined a travel team to test her love of the game. “I was able to run track and play travel ball at the same time, which let me make a lot of different friends,” Steward said. “Sometimes I would feel behind in softball because the girls on the high school team saw more consistent play, but I would only be behind for a little while before
ent styles and pick from the best players across the country.
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Sophomore India Steward originally committed to play for coach Tyra Perry at Western Kentucky. Steward decided to follow Perry to Ball State for her head coaching job. THE PULSE OF BALL STATE
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