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Ball State police officer Anthony Hurst leads fellow officers into the Field Sports Building for the emergency crisis drill Saturday. Police officers secured the building before fire rescue and medical services crews entered to help volunteer victims.

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Brenden Bow, a volunteer, lies on the ground before the start of the emergency crisis drill Saturday at the Field Sports Building. Volunteers had cards to explain what kind of condition they were in.

Many medics, injured “victims” and ambulances came to campus Saturday for an emergency drill, but one element wasn’t on hand — preparation for the type of “active shooter” events that have devastated college campuses.

Volunteers with fake wounds were lying in the Field Sports Building, waiting for help.

In the scenario, a bomb had gone off, seriously wounding 28 and killing six.

The training began with one call over the radio: “1027 West Neely on explosion.”

Two minutes later, Ball State police officers rushed into the dark, smoky volleyball and track building with their guns drawn, walking around victims to ensure there was no

continuing threat.

Minutes later, fire trucks, ambulances and buses arrived. But that was when the semblance of a real emergency, at least for one on campus, ended.

Emergency medical service responders walked into the building. Several, instead of asking the victims what their injuries were, simply read the card hanging around their necks for an injury report.

The mood was less rush and more drudgery, as emergency workers walked with the pretend dead or dying victims, joking with many of them, instead of carrying them. One emergency worker asked a person to “hop up here” on a stretcher, even though the volunteer victim’s injuries were severed legs.

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2014 MLB Draft grabs 3 Cardinals FERGUSON FACES FALLING FUNDING Pro dreams come true

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For the first time since 2011, the Ball State baseball team had a player selected in the MLB FirstYear Player Draft.

In fact, the program saw three former athletes get the chance to continue their baseball careers — the San Diego Padres took T.J. Weir, the Atlanta Braves chose Sean Godfrey and Nestor Bautista went to the Miami Marlins.

“It’s a dream for each of those boys,” Ball State head coach Rich Maloney said. “To see their names put on the board, and get an opportunity to play professional baseball, is a dream come true for them.”

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Weir was only one of the three former Cardinals who did not workout for a team before the draft, but he was the first to be chosen. The Padres selected him in the 17th round with the 507th pick.

“It’s unbelievable,” he said.

“I’m so excited, I’m so happy.

I am just blessed that this

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worked out and I’m just excited I get to keep continuing to play as a professional.”

Weir, who was playing “Scrabble” with family and friends when he received the news, said a scout from the Padres’ organization had called him Friday night and told him the team was interested in taking him as early as the 17th round.

True to word, San Diego made the 6-foot right-hander one of the team’s 40 picks and one of the 25 pitchers it drafted.

In his senior season at Ball State, teammates picked him to serve as a team captain, and Maloney said he knows the Padres are getting more than just a hard thrower.

“He’s a leader,” Maloney said.

“He’s a gritty pitcher, and he proved it time and time again. ...

I couldn’t be more happy for T.J.” Today, Weir will head to Arizona where he will partake in a three-day mini-camp. He will then stay in Arizona or fly to Eugene, Ore., and join the Eugene Emeralds, the Padres’ Class A Short Season affiliate.

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Ball State’s next president will inherit a university that has lost more than $15 million in yearly research funding since 2009, according to the Ball State Fact Book.

Paul Ferguson, who will take office as president Aug. 1, said in his acceptance address that a major focus for his administration will be increasing Ball State’s work as a research institution and increasing the university’s research funding to $40 million over the next several years.

The goal comes from the university’s recent strategic plan and is more than double the entirety of Ball State’s external grants for 2012-13 from the government, businesses and personal donors.

The amount of funding given strictly for research is 6.5 percent of the goal — $2,596,016, according to the

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Former Ball State pitcher T.J. Weir watches a pitch go by in the game against Western Michigan on April 18 at Ball Diamond. Weir was picked up in the 17th round by the San Diego Padres.

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reason, it wasn’t until the 22nd round when the Mid-American Conference Player of the Year was selected by the Braves.

“The draft is a funny thing,” said Maloney, who was drafted by the Braves in the 13th round of the 1986 draft. “Why guys get selected where they get selected is really a mystery. It’s kind of like this big puzzle these teams are putting together and who knows what they are thinking.”

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RESEARCH FUNDING Ball State external research funding over the past five years: 2008-09: $17,158,674 2009-10: $8,483,032 2010-11: $5,049,901 2011-12: $4,245,749 2012-13: $2,596,016

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Michael Hicks, director for the Center of Business and Economic Research, said the loss of funding isn’t because Ball State isn’t good at research. Instead, federal and state focuses have shifted.

What the university does well, he said, is education and health sciences. This is at odds with the federal government’s focus on engineering and medical dollars.

“We certainly are not getting worse at research,” he said.

Another problem faced by Ball State is the relatively young nature of the research title. The university recently became a Carnegie Foundation-recognized research institution under President Jo Ann Gora.

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DONATIONS SWELL FOR VICTIMS, HERO IN SEATTLE SHOOTING

TODAY CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s former military chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, winner by a landslide in last month’s presidential election, was sworn into office Sunday nearly a year after he ousted the nation’s first freely elected leader.

The retired field marshal called for unity and hard work, while vowing that there would be no reconciliation with those who took up arms against the government and Egyptians. That was a thinly veiled reference to support-

ers of Mohammed Morsi, the Islamist president el-Sissi removed last July, and Islamic militants waging attacks against the government.

His rise coincides with detention of thousands and the killing of hundreds of Morsi supporters.

El-Sissi also vowed to fight corruption and appeared to make an overture to pro-democracy and secular youth activists, many of whom boycotted last month’s presidential election.

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A shooter killed one male student and injured others on Seattle Pacific University’s campus.

PARIS (AP) — U.S. Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has told people treating him at an American military medical facility in Germany that he was tortured, beaten and held in a cage by his Taliban captors in Afghanistan after he tried to escape, a senior U.S. official said Sunday.

The official said it was difficult to verify the accounts Bergdahl has given since his release a week ago.

Bergdahl, now 28, was captured in June 2009 after he disappeared

from his infantry unit. He was held for nearly five years by Taliban militants.

Taliban spokesmen could not be immediately reached for comment Sunday. On Friday, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told The Associated Press by telephone that Bergdahl was held under “good conditions.” The claim could not be independently verified.

It’s unclear when he may get to go home.

2. 2 OFFICERS, 3 OTHERS DEAD IN LAS VEGAS

5. PURDUE SHOOTER SEEKS INSANITY DEFENSE

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two suspects shot and killed two police officers in an ambush at a Las Vegas restaurant Sunday before fatally shooting a third person and killing themselves inside a nearby Walmart, authorities said.

A man and woman walked into CiCi’s Pizza and shot at point-blank range officers Alyn Beck, 42, and Igor Soldo, 32, who were eating lunch, Las Vegas police officials said. One of the officers was able to fire back before he died, but it’s un-

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana man’s decision to seek the insanity defense in the fatal shooting and stabbing of a Purdue University teaching assistant could create a challenging task for his attorney.

Cody Cousins is charged with murder in the Jan. 21 death of 21-year-old Andrew Boldt inside a Purdue classroom.

Cousins told Tippecanoe Superior Court Judge Thomas Busch last month that he was taking medication

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clear if he hit the suspects, Sheriff Doug Gillespie of the Las Vegas Metro Police Department said.

One of the suspects yelled, “This is a revolution,” but the motive for the shooting remains under investigation.

After shooting the officers, the suspects fled to the Walmart across the street, where they fatally shot a person inside the front door and exchanged gunfire with police before killing themselves in an apparent suicide pact, police said.

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SEATTLE (AP) — More than $60,000 has been donated online for the victims and hero of the shooting that left one dead and two injured at a small Seattle university.

As of Sunday afternoon, a fundraising page for Jon Meis, a student who pepper-sprayed and tackled the gunman Thursday at Seattle Pacific University, had grossed more than $44,000. A fundraising page to cover the costs of Paul Lee’s funeral and Sarah Williams’ medical care is nearing $13,000. Another page started by Williams’ family had raised nearly $5,000.

A lone gunman armed with a shotgun opened fire in a university building, killing 19-year-old Lee and wounding 19-year-old Williams, who remains hospitalized. The other injured student has left the hospital.

The 26-year-old suspect, Aaron Ybarra, is being held without bail. Police said Ybarra, who has no known connection to the university, was planning to kill as many people as he could before dying by suicide.

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for treatment of schizophrenia. His attorney has filed formal notice that he’ll use the defense of mental disease or defect.

Prosecutors and psychologists told the Journal & Courier that such defenses seldom succeed in Indiana.

If a jury decides that Cousins was insane at the time of Boldt’s death, Cousins could be found either not guilty due to mental illness or guilty but mentally ill.

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EPISODE ONE: “THIRSTY BIRD” Season two of “Orange is the New Black” picks up a month after the finale’s end, where Piper beats down Pennsatucky with such barbaric force that it’s hard to breathe — much like the start of this season.

Piper’s in solitary, serving time for the fight.

There, she’s typical Piper, telling the guards she hates cooked yolks and ASHLEY’S chose not to eat them. Instead, creates art on the wall in the FAVORITE she form of yellow birds. I suppose QUOTES yolk art is one way to survive Snazzy told solitary.

The guards ignore her deme a story once mands to know her destinaand force her into a van, about a girl she tion then a bus, then a plane, then used to dance another bus and finally, she her stop is at a Chiwith named sees cago penitentiary.

Piper. Said she All the while, Piper’s wide ask for answers she won’t could blow out eyes receive. Just like Piper, I wanted candles with to know and felt anxiety rise as she was pushed around. her coochie.

Her journey also shows how the system will treat inCHICAGO INMATE AT THE PHONE mates as inhuman. Ignoring her quotes, she listens to the guards talk over her about how “poochie” is now the way to say “bitches” because the latter is too degrading. On the bus, she just wants to pee but is again ignored, though there’s an uncomfortable scene where another inmate describes stacking maxi pads for a makeshift diaper — one she uses as she talks to Piper.

During the flight, Piper listens to a male inmate verbally harass her. The U.S. marshals don’t care.

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Taylor Schilling portrays Piper strongly; perhaps her best moment in the episode comes when she describes to her plane seatmate how she believes she killed Pennsatucky back at Litchfield.

Concerns over whether Piper was a killer weren’t so much about the irreversible costs of that action. All I could think about was Litchfield. While learning and listening from Piper is valuable in the show, and she can be seen as the main character as her story often drives the plot forward, my heart was set on hearing from the other women of Litchfield.

Where were they?

I knew it was foolish to fear they wouldn’t show up, after all, I knew they would. They just weren’t in the season premiere.

Piper adjusts to Chicago as smoothly as you would imagine, that is, not so much.

She’s in trouble as soon as she steps in her new bunk room, literally, as she crushes a cockroach. Her new mission, other than finding out why she was there, would be to find a new cockroach to avoid dying at the hands of her bunkmates. Two of them train cockroaches to deliver cigarettes, and Piper managed to kill the best one yet: Yoda.

It’s not easy for Piper. And I get the seriousness of the situation, but the comedy isn’t missed. The cockroach trainers have the best names for their tiny athletes, including Fred Savage III. Finally, with a breath of fresh air, Piper sees a familiar face in the courtyard. Part of me was nervous Alex was just a mirage, but no. The reason Piper is in Chicago is for a trial — they’re both set to testify against Alex’s old drug boss, Kubra.

And there comes in the reason for the

Piper flashbacks: to lie under oath or to tell the truth. You know, to not break another federal law.

As flashbacks go, they’re muddled. We see how Piper’s morals are formed when she’s younger. Is it better to tell the truth always?

A young Piper soon learns that her family operates on pushing down the truth and forcing a smile.

Still, the repetitive flashbacks on the morals of Piper don’t bring too much new information — after all, we know her weird navigation of them. The episode’s flashbacks fell flat.

Before the trial, Larry’s father insists Piper tells the truth. At the last minute, she decides not to, heartbreakingly smiling as she talks about how much she loved Alex and how she had focused He’s a on her during that time, so she doesn’t remember meeting Ku- hitman? Oh, bra. The show’s decision to get rid of Larry’s father as her lawyer I thought after this was a good move — it’s he was a clear he doesn’t care about her.

While Piper lies for her, Alex rapist. I’m so doesn’t return the favor. Piper’s relieved. screams at the betrayal cut deep, Schilling’s pipes really shine, just PIPER in time for a cockroach with a cigarette on its back to crawl by.

Overall, I’ve felt like the show has seen better episodes, but it was a strong opener to parallel with season one’s pilot. While it got stagnant telling just Piper’s story, Schilling’s performance was her best.

The show continued to beautifully toe the line between a dark comedy and just drama, providing some of my favorite Piper lines.

RATING: HHHII

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EPISODE TWO: “LOOKS BLUE, TASTES RED” Episode two really breaks open the season for me, centering around one of my favorite Litchfield inmates: Taystee, played by Danielle Brooks.

The episode makes a strong case about how the system works, and it hurts. The flashbacks show a young Taystee, determined to not fall into the margins, and how such a smart girl eventually did as she finds her nickname and a home with dealer Vee, played by Lorraine Toussaint.

Present-day Taystee is competing in the Mock Job Fair at Litchfield. After hearing the previous year’s winner was offered a real job, she puts her math and memorization skills forward and pushes hard to win. And a sinking feeling took hold of my gut as I saw the hope in her eyes.

My feelings were unfortunately right.

Despite wearing the same outfit as the winner last year, she loses the dress portion, being told her curves are too much to be successful in the outfit.

While her shirt might have been too sheer for a professional interview, the Dress for Success woman was playing into the idiotic mantra of curvy girls need to wear burlap sacks.

Then Taystee succeeds greatly in the interview, impressing the Philip Morris representative not with sexual advances like Flaca but instead, her brain. While Taystee has always been insightful, her calm and intelligent demeanor showcase just how much potential she has.

And winning the competition, she’s happy because she’s finally valued for what she Like, knows she can be.

But just like her flashback at I didn’t the Black Adoption Festival, reeven know ality slaps Taystee in the face.

The moment Taystee chases you had Figueroa, administrator eyelashes down of the prison, to ask for when the real job offer would be, I acuntil tually reached toward the TV to today. try to stop her.

Of course, Figueroa treats her ANGIE like a child. There’s no real reward, “You do your best because it’s what you’re supposed to do.”

As if the Mock Job Fair is any good for the women. It’s more of a mockery.

The episode really branches out from Taystee, unlike the premiere with Piper, to talk about the prison system.

Does this help at all in rehabilitation and preparing people to leave? It’s obvious; it doesn’t.

The Dress for Success woman forces Leanne to wear a hideous peach suit and then calls her out for it on stage, saying it’s unflattering in terms of color and fit.

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The woman also criticizes Black Cindy for wearing “a large burlap muumuu,” even though it was her only option. Instead of dressing for success, the woman set them up for failure in her petty contest.

Are you at The aptitude test is a joke, too. It tells Janae to all aware that be an athlete and Sister Ingalls to be in the fash- you just told ion industry. Nicky jokes an inmate in about how ridiculous it is she received “cor- prison that rectional officer” on her she should test. How is any of this become a helping them?

I also enjoyed the epicorrectional sode more as it’s a nice mixture of the charac- officer? ters’ stories. We see Red really struggle without NICKY her kitchen power and the fact that she may have to be stuck with the older inmates, shunned from her previous prison family. Daya’s constipated and there’s a humorous struggle between Gloria and Aleida, Daya’s mother, to be the one who cures the pregnant inmate’s bathroom troubles. And I really, really wish we hadn’t been told why Big Boo no longer has her dog. “It got weird” was too much for me.

Pennsatucky’s back, to the dismay of probably everyone. I was surprised when Leanne, who seemed to be Pennsatucky’s sheep, talked about how it was peaceful when Pennsatucky was gone. Another inmate agrees, and just maybe, Pennsatucky’s circle will stop listening to her.

Healy continues to be a scumbag, forcing Pennsatucky to not reveal the truth of the fight. He offers an operation to get her shiny new teeth, which Pennsatucky severely needs more so after Piper smashed in her set.

And there’s no time to calm down for the episode’s end. After the Mock Job Fair, Vee enters in her bright orange. Despite how much prison is about forgetting anything on the outside just to survive, the past catches up a lot.

Unlike the premiere, this episode develops more hope that the series will explore narratives of the other inmates. I’m looking forward to hearing about the past of the other characters I love so much and how it shaped them, even though hearing how they landed in Litchfield will most likely frustrate me even more.

“Orange Is the New Black” isn’t a romp, and it’s almost masochistic to love it. The show is realistic, and its critique of the prison system is needed.

RATING: HHHHI

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Muncie Fire Department’s Austin Rich marks a volunteer victim during the crisis drill Saturday at the Field Sports Building. Emergency medical services, firefighters and Ball State police officers used the drill to learn how to handle an emergency situation.

Braderick Morrison, a junior public relations major, volunteered his Saturday by pretending to be a passerby who was struck in the head with flying debris. He had previously been a part of a similar emergency training exercise in high school and said that event had been taken much more seriously. “[This event] is more going through the motions and less ‘lets’s make it real,’” he said. “If you want to get experience, they should make it more real.”

The training, based on the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, took place after an academic year that saw a false report of a gunman on Ball State’s campus. That night, an Eaton police officer accidentally fired his assault rifle into the ground as he stood

near students. The weapon hit the street under his feet on Neely Avenue.

In January, the nation saw more than 11 school shootings — including one at Purdue University where a graduate student was killed in a classroom.

However, Saturday’s training that brought Ball State police together with several other local and state emergency response teams wasn’t based on an event happening on a college campus, said Alan Hargrave, crisis management team chair at Ball State.

The location was picked because they have an agreement to work together in the case of an emergency — the training is just part of getting the agencies together.

“It makes all of us stronger,” Hargrave said. “If you have a large event, none of us have the resources to deal with

that event.”

And while the training took place in the same complex where the gunman was reported to be in last fall, he said that was not the reason for training there.

Hargrave said the university conducts several exercises each year where security and emergency response workers role-play an emergency response without actually involving police and aid workers.

David Bell, University Police Department training coordinator, said Saturday’s training allowed police to practice working with different departments and to share information, something the department learned it didn’t do well during the November false gunman report.

“We found out that was a challenging response for us,” Bell said.

Incidents around the country often involve an “active shooter” where a gunman walks on campus, hunting victims through classrooms and other buildings, but Saturday’s training did not prepare for this. The only police members on scene were from Ball State UPD and the practice was more focused on dealing with injured people.

Muncie Fire Department’s Lt. Chris Spencer said training allows crews to “slow it down” and check for the little things that could be overlooked in an emergency.

Although the event was supposed to be realistic, MFD Sgt. Tim Smalley said he couldn’t treat training like a real emergency because there is no substitute for the real thing.

“When you pull someone out dead, it is a whole lot different instead of just saying, ‘These are the tags,’” he said.

Annual awards recognize best in performance ‘A Raisin in the Sun,’ ‘Hedwig,’ ‘Aladdin’ receive honors in 68th Tony Awards Hosted by actor Hugh Jackman and showcasing performances by the companies of “Aladdin” and “Rocky,” Idina Menzel and musician Sting, Sunday’s Tony Awards favored “A Raisin in the Sun” and “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.”

Check out a list of other winners.

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BEST MUSICAL “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder”

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BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL Jessie Mueller in “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical”

BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”

BEST LEADING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL Neil Patrick Harris in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”

BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY “A Raisin in the Sun”

BEST PLAY “All The Way”

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A PLAY Bryan Cranston in “All The Way”

BEST LEADING ACTRESS IN A PLAY Audra McDonald in “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill”

BEST ACTRESS IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A PLAY Sophie Okonedo “A Raisin in the Sun”

BEST FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL James Monroe Iglehart in “Aladdin”

BEST DIRECTOR OF A PLAY Kenny Leon in “A Raisin in the Sun”

BEST DIRECTOR OF MUSICAL Darko Tresnjak in “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder”

BEST DESIGN OF A PLAY Steve Canyon Kennedy in “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill”

SOUND DESIGN OF A MUSICAL Brian Ronan in “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical”

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A FEATURED MUSICAL Lena Hall in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A PLAY Mark Rylance in “Twelfth Night”

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Mayor Dennis Tyler and President Jo Ann Gora pose for a photo after Tyler gave her the Spirit of Chief Munsee Award on Friday at the mayor’s office. Gora received the highest award a mayor can give a citizen for her work over the last decade.

Muncie mayor gives Gora highest resident award University president receives city honor for decade of work MATT McKINNEY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF | @Matt_D_McKinney For her decade of service, Muncie Mayor Dennis Tyler honored President Jo Ann Gora with the Spirit of Chief Munsee Award.

“I can’t think of anybody more deserving,” Tyler said.

The outgoing Ball State president received a plaque for the highest award the mayor can give a citizen in a small ceremony Friday morning in City Hall.

Gora was honored for “her caring of the citizens of Muncie

... her wisdom and council and her unselfish leadership to her community,” according to the inscription on the plaque.

Tyler said the plans to give Gora the award began not too long ago.

“I just started thinking about it a [few] weeks ago,” Tyler said. “We did a proclamation honoring Dr. Gora.”

Gora then sat up and interrupted: “I have the keys to the city.”

The award was supposed to be a surprise to her, as Gora was told she was coming to Tyler’s office for a meeting.

Gora said it was a “half-surprise” to receive the award.

“I knew I was coming to the mayor’s office to receive an award,” she said. “I just didn’t

know what it was.”

After the announcement, Gora and Tyler reminisced about the relationship Ball State has had with Muncie over her decade as president.

One major part of her tenure has been the geothermal project, which has brought people to the city as they learned about Ball State’s project.

“People from universities as far east as Dartmouth and as far west as Stanford have come to Muncie to hear about this project,” she said. “We’ve had visitors from Turkey, Germany, Japan — all these countries that have heard about this project and want to talk about it.”

She said Ball State’s leadership position can put the

city on the map, not just the university.

She became president of Ball State in 2004. As the university’s 14th president, she was the first female president of a public university in the state.

In October 2013, she announced she will retire June 30, 2014. The Ball State Board of Trustees selected Paul Ferguson to be her successor.

Gora discussed her plan to start a small business in Virginia after she retires.

“I guess you can’t work at Ball State for a decade and not become an entrepreneur,” she said.

Past honorees of the Spirit of Chief Munsee Award have been Charles V. Sursa, Edmond Ball and Thomas J. Kinghorn.

RESEARCH: University pulls young professors for future | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 This designation drew young research professionals to work at Ball State. However, many of them don’t have the experience more established faculty at competing institutions possess, but that is only a shortterm worry.

“Their best years are ahead of them and that should speak well to us,” Hicks said. “The new professors that we have hired because we [are now a research facility] are going to pay dividends for decades to come.”

One way to bridge the money gap, Ferguson said at his announcement, is to balance research programs.

“I certainly think I bring a

certain skill set of building academic programs and research programs and research funding that has the right fit and balance for the institution,” he said. “Ball State is a public research university, so we want to make sure that what we do with research is fully commiserate with that.”

Ferguson’s experience most recently comes from the University of Maine, a school ranked nationally in the top 100 research schools by the National Science Foundation.

In 2010, the university had more than $100 million in external research expenditures, much of which was federally funded.

He also has worked as dean

of graduate studies and research at the University of Louisiana at Monroe and as dean of the graduate college at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Along with experience, Ferguson will have another force working in his favor — a strong research infrastructure, said Robert Morris, associate provost for research at Ball State.

Morris said the faculty and students who work on research are far more important than just a lump sum of money. “[Research] success isn’t what the number is,” he said.

What really helps strengthen a research institution, Mor-

RESEARCH FUNDING Federal funding for research and education projects: 2008-09: $8,121,812 2009-10: $10,101,683 2010-11: $9,391,107 2011-12: $7,897,960 2012-13: $5,339,237 Source: Ball State Fact Book

ris said, is opening up funding for as many professors and students as possible, instead of focusing millions of dollars at one or two fields.

“Having a productive faculty across all of campus and all seven [academic] colleges is how you strengthen things for one year, three years and 10 years out,” he said.

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Unless someone previously knew Zach Plesac, they probably wouldn’t guess he had just finished his freshman season on the Ball State baseball team.

The 6-foot-3-inch, 200-pound righthander is good, and he knows it.

“Confidence is key in everything,” Plesac said. “Whoever is batting, whoever it is, I am trying to win the at-bat.

I got to try to stay confident no matter what, but definitely stay humble.”

In his first season of college baseball, Plesac demonstrated that confidence by having one of the best seasons of any pitcher in the country, let alone his class.

He finished the year tied for fourth in the nation with 12 pitching victories, while boasting a 2.11 earnedrun average and striking out 67 batters in 85.1 innings.

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For his efforts, Plesac was named the Mid-American Conference Freshman Pitcher of the Year and the 2014 Louisville Slugger National Freshman Pitcher of the Year, as well as being placed on the publication’s All-America Third Team, the Freshmen All-America Team and First Team All-MAC. “It made me feel great,” Plesac said. “All the hard work paid off toward the end with these accomplishments and awards.”

Plesac said the National Freshman Pitcher of the Year award meant the most to him because only one freshman in the country can win it, but he also is proud of being named to the Freshmen AllAmerica Team along with Alex Call and Jarett Rindfleisch.

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Zach Plesac pitches the ball in the game against Bowling Green on March 22 at Ball Diamond.

Plesac was named the National Freshman Pitcher of the Year by the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper.

“With me and [Call and Rindfleisch] getting Freshmen All-Americans, we are trying to get Ball State on the

map,” Plesac said. “I feel like were doing that. ... It shows that Ball State can play some baseball.”

HEAT TOP SPURS LATE IN GAME 2 OF FINALS LeBron carries Miami to series-tying victory Sunday in San Antonio

| THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN ANTONIO — No cramps, no problems for LeBron James.

And with the team’s superstar

making it to the finish this time, the Miami Heat won Game 2, just as it always does when the team drops an opener.

James had 35 points and 10 rebounds in a powerful bounce back from cramps that knocked him out of the key part of Game 1, as the Heat tied the NBA Finals with a 98-96 victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday night.

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James played 36 minutes, making 14 of 22 shots. He was only one for 4 with three turnovers in a shaky first quarter, then made 11 of his next 13.

After two days of enduring criticism for not finishing and getting suggestions on how to avoid cramps, James changed the subject.

“Got to play hard,” James said. “I believe the man above will protect me. I just try to put myself and my

teammates in position to succeed.”

He also had a key strip of Tony Parker down the stretch, playing a dominant game on both ends as if he had something to prove.

Whenever the haters come out, James always quickly can silence them.

He had 11 points in the second quarter, helping Miami erase an 11-point deficit early in the period.

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As the last of the three Cardinals to be picked, Bautista anxiously waited until the 32nd round before the Marlins took him with the 947th pick of the draft.

“I was getting really nervous once the 30th round came,” Bautista said. “But my mom said to have faith, so I had a lot of faith and just waited and waited, and it happened. There are no words to describe how I feel.”

After overcoming a torn labrum his junior year, Bautista improved his draft stock by pitching to a 3.55 earned-run average and holding opposing hitters to a .233 batting average in his final collegiate season.

The 6-foot-3-inch left-hander will report to Jupiter, Fla., where he will be evaluated before being placed on one of the Marlins’ seven minor league affiliates.

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In addition to being named the MAC Player of the Year, Godfrey also was recognized for his senior campaign by being named to the Louisville Slugger All-America Third Team, chosen by the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper.

Despite national recognition, the 6-foot-2inch outfielder had to wait until the 673rd pick in the draft to hear his name called. He said being overlooked is something he has gotten used to.

“It’s almost like the same situation coming out of high school,” Godfrey said. “Not being highly recruited, not getting any looks ... it’s motivation. It keeps me humble, and I am going to go out and do the best I can and just go from there. No pressure, nothing to lose.”

After signing his minor league deal, Godfrey will head to Orlando, Fla., for a weeklong mini-camp before being assigned to one of the Braves’ minor league affiliates.

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Get connected with campus Today’s Birthday (06/09/14).

Grow a dream this year. You’re especially tuned in to emotional energy with Neptune retrograde (6/9-11/16).

Take action for beauty, freedom and justice. Organize and de-clutter for elegance. Maintain regular health routines. Money flows easily through 7/16, when communications take the spotlight. Connect creatively with your community, and launch after October eclipses. Love blossoms.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. (c) 2007, Tribune Media Services Inc. Distributed by McClatchyTribune Information Services.

Aries (March 21-April 19) Today is a 9. Attend to finances today and tomorrow, with the Moon in Scorpio.

Study the relation between a passion and money.

Achieve an old dream over the next five months with Neptune retrograde. Old friendships strengthen.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is a 6. Focus on home and family today and tomorrow. A gentle approach works best. For the next five months with Neptune retrograde, you’re most comfortable with old friends. Nostalgia, introspection, and spirituality soothe you.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Today is a 7. Concentrate on cleanup today and tomorrow. Review and practice what you’ve learned over the next five months, with Neptune retrograde. Check travel options... the road seems clear. A sibling’s crazy idea could work.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Today is a 9. Get your message out today and tomorrow. Partnership spreads it faster. Outside demands and pressures seem to stabilize over the next five months (Neptune retrograde). Stick to a tradition. Use tried-and-tested recipes.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is an 8. With extra keen focus, studies come easier today and tomorrow. You can learn whatever you put yourself to. Review old accounts and issue invoices over the next five months with Neptune retrograde. Everything’s getting clear.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Today is a 7. There’s more work coming soon (it could get intense today and tomorrow). Get the facts for a new assignment. Reaffirm old bonds with Neptune retrograde for the next five months. Enjoy dreamy nostalgia.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Today is an 8. That money could show up any time now. Compute a budget that handles priorities. While Neptune’s retrograde, rejuvenate old bonds and dreams naturally over the next five months. The impossible seems accessible.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Today is a 7. Associates share the news. Schedule meetings and collect data.

What was hidden gets revealed, now that Neptune’s retrograde (for five months). You’re extra sensitive in negotiations, with compromise and diplomacy. Leave nothing to chance.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) Today is a 7. You’re entering a two-day cuddly phase. Solve a puzzle. Enjoy the game without expensive risks. Selling provides profit over the next five months, with Neptune retrograde. Revise to plug financial leaks. Conserve resources.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Today is a 7. No more procrastination... it’s action time. Use your power responsibly. Fix up your place over the next five months, with Neptune retrograde. Clean house and give away stuff you’re no longer using. Handle plumbing repairs.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Today is an 8. You may be tested over the next few days. Travel certainly looks adventuresome. With Neptune retrograde for five months, you’re especially insightful and sensitive.

Contemplate mysteries great and small. Design your dream trip.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Today is an 8. Today and tomorrow get adventurous. Conditions for travel improve. New opportunities present themselves.

Resolve old issues with Neptune retrograde (five-month duration). Let go of baggage that no longer serves. Your dream home approaches reality.

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