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Success of online program unclear
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Sexual assault education effectiveness hard to measure KARA BERG CHIEF REPORTER | knberg2@bsu.edu
Starting in August 2014, Ball State implemented an online education program for all incoming freshmen and transfer students called Think About It. Of the incoming freshmen in 2014, 86.7 percent completed the program, which Tom Gibson, associate vice president for AWARENESS student affairs, said was a good completion rate. Editor’s Note: This is In order to encourage the fourth story in a students to finish the four-part series on course, students receive campus sexual assault weekly emails reminding for Ball State’s sexual them to take it. assault awareness The program was impleweek. mented because a new legislation that updates the Clery Act, the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act, requires public universities to provide education and programming to students and employees about domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking. After the first year, Gibson said he thought the program had been a positive experience overall, according to student feedback.
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Telecommunications professor formerly worked as professional sound effects artist EMILY CUNNINGHAM STAFF REPORTER
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t’s not every day that a college proEndowed Chair Lecture series in the fessor can include iconic television Art and Journalism Building Room shows and working with directors 175, on April 9 at 7 p.m. such as Tim Burton on her résumé. Foley is the name for the sounds But Vanessa Ament can. She’s even created behind the scenes and in worked on “Die Hard” and Disney’s a studio for movies and television. VANESSA AMENT “Beauty and the Beast.” The sounds are created to give a Edmund F. and Ament joined Ball State’s Virginia B. Ball more realistic audio representation Endowed Chair on camera, as the actual objects’ telecommunications department in August 2014. She serves as the sounds can sometimes seem unreal Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Endowed or off-putting. Chair and teaches telecommunications. Ament said the things Foley artists actually Ament will be presenting some of her use to make sounds that are acceptable for past work as a Foley artist as part of the film can be surprising to people.
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Kappa Delta, Greek Life support sister
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Panhellenic Council organizes ‘Sailing for Sarah’ after diagnosis KARA BERG CHIEF REPORTER | knberg2@bsu.edu After a member of Greek Life was diagnosed with breast cancer, Ball State’s Panhellenic Council decided to step up and do what it could to help. The council decided to organize a Greek Life Ball for Sarah Stockton, a senior political science and public communication major and member of Kappa Delta. The ball, which is on Sunday and is open to anyone, is a fundraising event to help Stockton with medical THE GREEK LIFE BALL bills. The council has raised “Sailing for Sarah” $6,275 for Stockton, surpass- 6-9 p.m. Sunday ing its goal of $4,200. Stockton said she was “overwhelmed with how kind they all are” when she found out what PHC was doing for her. When she was first diagnosed this past year, Stockton said her sorority gave her a strong support system. “I give so much credit to the greek community as a whole and then especially to those women [in Kappa Deltas],” Stockton said. “When I was first diagnosed, of course I was struggling with, ‘How do I tell them?’”
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CHANGE IN SPORT LEADS TO BALL STATE
Disinterest in baseball led Cardinal to explore new sport in high school ROBBY GENERAL STAFF REPORTER | @The_Generex6
JULIAN WELSH-WHITE JERSEY NUMBER
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Middle attacker HEIGHT
6-foot-7
As a freshman at Collingswood High School in New Jersey, Julian Welsh-White was committed to a career in baseball. He had never thought about playing volleyball until the coach approached him and asked him to play. But after some tension between him and the varsity baseball coach, Welsh-White decided to give volleyball a try. “I wasn’t that good at first, but I stuck with it,” Welsh-White said. “My coach saw my perseverance, and I fell in love with the sport. He is the one that really drove me to pursue volleyball as a collegiate sport.”
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Welsh-White was a multi-sport athlete in high school in volleyball and basketball. In his senior year, he led the volleyball team to a 20-3 record and conference championship while earning all-state honors. 11. SNOW FLURRIES
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Senior middle attacker Julian Welsh-White still has one more year of collegiate volleyball eligibility remaining after this season. Welsh-White has made the decision to leave Ball State to continue his career because his academic scholarship runs out 12. SCATTERED FLURRIES 13. SNOW SHOWERS after this semester and he would be forced to pay full out-of-state tuition if he were See WELSH-WHITE, page 8 to stay at Ball State.
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The active weather pattern continues today, and so does the chance for severe weather. Damaging winds and hail would be the main threat. Stay tuned to WCRD for updates. WCRD chief weather forecaster 20. THUNDERSTORMS -Cody Bailey, 21. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS
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