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Alumna gives away cuttings from her grandmother’s 50-year-old plants.

Spring Awakening

Sumayyah Muhammad Assistant Lifestyles Editor

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After graduating from Ball State, Ann Heintzelman and her husband were looking for their first home when her grandmother gifted her three 20-year-old tropical plants — a snake plant, a spider plant and a philodendron.

Heintzelman’s plants all have a story, she said, and she considers them as part of her family. In the 1990s, her philodendron survived when her garage accidently caught on fire one Fourth of July. Her snake plant is now 5 feet tall, planted in a pot that weighs nearly 70 pounds.

Currently, Heintzelman’s sunroom in her home is filled with nearly 50 plants, including the ones her grandmother gave her nearly 35 years ago.

Heintzelman shares her plant family with others as she uses cuttings from her now 50-year-old plants to give away new plants each year between August and October. “[A spider plant] looks like giant grass, and every now and then, a chute will come off, and a small baby [plant] will be growing on the end of the chute,” Heintzelman said. “It almost looks like a spider on the end of the stem. Break off that new chute, plant it in some soil, and it’ll start a brand new plant.”

As an art teacher at Daleville Elementary School, Heintzelman has, for the past 10 years, filled up a box with 20 to 25 plants to place in the school’s teacher’s lounge to let her coworkers have first dibs. Then, she brings her “babies” to her classroom for her students to take home.

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BallStateDailyNews.com CNN broadcaster Larry King dies at 87

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Jan. 23: Radio host and broadcast interviewer Larry King died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to his production company, Ora Media.

No cause of death was given, but a spokesperson said King had COVID-19 in January and received supplemental oxygen. King won many honors in his time with CNN, including two Peabody awards.

Jan. 24: Quarterbacks Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady will square off in Super Bowl LV Feb. 7 in Tampa, Florida, leading their respective teams, the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Mahomes will go for his second consecutive title after leading the Chiefs to victory in last year’s Super Bowl while Brady will go for his seventh ring of his career.

Colorado State hires Alex Bailey

House delivers Trump impeachment charge

Jan. 24: After serving as Ball State Football’s wide receivers coach from 2015-20, Alex Bailey confirmed via Twitter he will take on the same position with Colorado State this fall. In a statement, he thanked his colleagues from Ball State Athletics, his players and the Muncie community for their support.

Bailey also spent the last season as Ball State’s recruiting coordinator.

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Twitter launches fact-checking project Twitter is enlisting its users to help combat misinformation on its service by flagging and notating misleading and false tweets. The program, called Birdwatch, launched Jan. 25 and allowed a preselected group of experts and non-experts in the U.S. to sign up through Twitter.

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Muncie Common Market receives national and local funding.

Grace McCormick News Editor Mike Martin was traveling with his band, “Mike Martin and The Beautiful Mess,” in Charlotte, North Carolina, when he walked through the doors of their next gig in October 2015.

“I walked in and thought, ‘Are we playing in a grocery store?’”

Martin said. “The manager came

over and said, ‘We’ll put you in front of the milk tonight. Nobody buys milk at night.’”

The band was playing in the Charlotte Common Market — a convenience store, deli and bar that Martin said “seemed like a punk rock grocery store,” which gave him the idea to start something similar in Muncie.

He said he knew finding a building for the Muncie Common Market would be easy and rent would be affordable. Martin and his father bought a two-story building in 2015 on West 8th Street and lived in the building between his travel gigs. The Common Market opened in 2016 as a general store

These grants let us fast forward with some of the ideas we didn’t think we’d be able to do for a while. Our plan was maybe think about a kitchen in 2022, but getting these grants a few weeks ago makes a huge difference.”

- MIKE MARTIN, Common Market owner

but didn’t have regular operating hours until 2020.

“Before last year, it was like, if I’m home for a month, we’re open, and if I’m gone for two months, we’re closed,” Martin said. “The neighbors have really caught on that we’re here now since we’ve been consistently open.”

In November 2020, the Muncie Downtown Development Partnership contacted Martin about applying for the HartBeat of Main Street Grant Program — sponsored by Main Street America and The Hartford — made to help struggling businesses during the coronavirus pandemic.

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The United Kingdom is expanding a coronavirus vaccination program that has seen more than 6 million people get the first of two doses as the country passed a death toll of 100,000 Jan. 26. The health secretary said three-quarters of the population over 80 years old have received a vaccine shot, and health officials aim to give everyone over 70 their first vaccine shot by Feb. 15.

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COVID-19 travel restrictions reinstated President Joe Biden reinstated COVID-19 travel restrictions on most non-U.S. travelers from 30 countries Jan. 25. He recently added South Africa to the list. All international travelers to the U.S. need to obtain a negative test for COVID-19 within three days of boarding their flight in a new requirement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Mayor creates program to support local businesses.

Mackenzie Rupp Reporter As the coronavirus has spread around the world, the need for masks has spread just as fast as the virus itself, and local businesses have struggled to keep up with the demand.

Muncie Mayor Dan Ridenour created the Masks for Muncie program to provide supplies for businesses in need.

“The mayor had several conversations with organizations and business leaders, and there’s difficulty getting masks,” said Dustin Clark, director of special projects for the City of Muncie.

“That’s a barrier to them opening their doors.”

Ridenour made the decision to use money from last spring’s CARES Act — which was distributed to state and local governments to combat COVID-19 — to purchase 25,000 single-use masks. Since the program began Jan. 6, businesses have collected 19,375 masks.

Distribution of the masks started in waves. The first wave was direct delivery, which took place in mid-January, and the second wave allowed businesses to pick up orders from the Muncie City Parks office beginning Jan. 22.

“I’ve posted several times on social media and will continue to do so until we’re out of supply,” said Chandra Parks, communications and media director for the City of Muncie.

The Masks for Muncie program started with different city departments to ensure all city employees could do their jobs safely. After city employees were given masks, the program moved on to the Chamber of Commerce to contact 1,800 of Muncie’s registered businesses.

“We’ve had some people personally contact us because they heard from others,” Clark said, “but hitting city departments, not-for-profits and businesses has been just about everything.”

In order to receive masks, applicants had to provide the name of their organization, a contact person, an email address and how many boxes of masks they wanted. More than 40 businesses in the Muncie area chose to apply.

“We are very pleased to be able to serve our community in this capacity from the city’s perspective,” Parks said. “A lot of thought and heart went into it.”

In early January, the City of Muncie invited the YWCA of Central Indiana to participate in the program. WaTasha Barnes Griffin, CEO of Central Indiana YWCA, said she knew the extra masks would be beneficial for the emergency shelter program, which houses women and children who need a place to live.

“It’s just really important that we have as many protective barriers in place as possible,” Barnes Griffin said. “We want to be able to ensure that we’re able to give masks not just to our on-site staff, but to the guests that come in to utilize our facility.”

Although the YWCA received 5,000 masks from the state at the beginning of the pandemic,

Barnes Griffin said she quickly realized that was not enough.

Barnes Griffin said everyone who comes into the facility will get a package of items provided

by Masks for Muncie, including masks, sanitizer and disinfectants.

The YWCA also trains members how to properly wear masks and allows them to take extras home if needed. The shelter requires members to only perform essential tasks during the day, such as going to work.

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We don’t want anybody to ever have the struggle of not having a mask.”

- WATASHA BARNES GRIFFIN, CEO of Central Indiana YWCA “There’s very regimented scheduling so that we know where, and when and how they’re moving in our community,” Barnes Griffin said. “They always have to be masked up in our spaces.”

If a visitor arrives at the YWCA without a mask, a front desk worker will provide them with one before they can enter the building.

Employees perform temperature checks on all residents daily.

Barnes Griffin said the Masks for Muncie program will provide the YWCA with as many masks as it needs.

“We don’t want anybody to ever have the struggle of not having a mask,” Barnes Griffin said, “or losing a mask and not [having] replacements.”

Contact Mackenzie Rupp with comments at msrupp@bsu.edu or on Twitter @kenzieer18.

The YWCA of Central Indiana houses women and children who need a place to live in its emergency shelter program Jan. 26, 2021, in Muncie. Each visitor receives a package of face masks and sanitizer provided by the Masks for Muncie program. JADEN WHITEMAN, DN

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Students share their feelings about the spring 2021 semester.

Grace Bentkowski Reporter A beginning is often thought of as something new, but the 2021 spring semester could be just the same as the previous two.

With COVID-19 remaining a factor in the new year, returning students, like junior public relations major Kristen Mirabelli, are prepared for any possibility the pandemic might bring.

“My hope for things to get back to normal is strong, but there’s a part of me that knows it won’t happen fast,” she said.

Ball State University prepared for the spring by requiring students to submit a negative COVID-19 test prior to returning to campus Jan. 19. This requirement differs from last semester, when the university gave on-campus students the option to submit a negative test or prove a 14-day quarantine.

Mirabelli said she appreciated this effort.

“I believe that the university had good intentions requiring a COVID-19 test in order to provide the most safety for their students,” she said.

Freshman psychology major Avery Dobson said she is also glad testing was made a requirement prior to returning this semester.

After Dobson’s first semester on campus was affected by COVID-19, she was surprised to be able to finish her first year in person while living in her dorm.

“When I heard I was able to come back, I was very excited,” she said. “I was ready to come back to school.”

Freshman computer science major Noah Prez said he was also ready to ease into his second semester on campus.

“I definitely don’t feel as stressed or anxious like I was the first semester,” he said.

For Prez, the spring semester is looking just like the fall semester, minus club sports.

“It’s disappointing because I wanted to join club volleyball, but due to COVID-19, there will not be a season,” he said. “Otherwise, it just feels like another school year to me.”

Every day, I check my RA roster, and more and more residents are dropping out simply because this isn’t the Ball State they heard about.”

- KRISTEN MIRABELLI, Junior public relations major For students living on campus, the move-in process was not the easiest, Mirabelli said. As a resident assistant (RA) for Woodworth Complex, she said her residents faced challenges returning to their dorms.

“I had many residents who had trouble moving in because the [Ball State] website [redirected] them or Housing took too long to approve their [COVID-19] test,” she said.

Mirabelli also noticed a decline in the number of residents living in her residence hall this semester due to the pandemic.

“Every day, I check my RA roster, and more and more residents are dropping out simply because this isn’t the Ball State they heard about,” she said.

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Continued from Page 03 Martin applied, not expecting to win any money, but was notified in January 2021 that the Common Market was one of just 31 small businesses across the United States chosen to receive a grant.

WHAT IS A FOOD DESERT? Food desert: an area where residents have limited access to healthy foods due to a lack of grocery stores and transportation access Source: Merriam-Webster

The Common Market was given $15,000, which Martin said will be used to build a kitchen, sell hot food to customers and install touchless checkout counters to make operating in the midst of COVID-19 safer.

The 8twelve Coalition, a local project aiming to

revitalize Muncie’s South Central neighborhood, also awarded the Common Market $14,400 to expand its grocery and hire local residents.

“It feels like we’re on our mission and that it’s working, and people like Main Street America see that,” he said. “We really were amazed at the crazy couple of blessings that came our way.”

The Common Market sits in a food desert, with the nearest Walmart about 3 miles away.

Martin said he thinks the Common Market won grants from Main Street America and the 8twelve Coalition because of the detailed plans for a kitchen that relieves some of the neighborhood’s food desert issues. The kitchen will provide sandwiches, pizza and deli foods, Martin said.

He said he didn’t want to take out loans for these development projects because debt would make it difficult to sustain the Common Market.

“These grants let us fast forward with some of the ideas we didn’t think we’d be able to do for a while,” he said. “Our plan was maybe think about a kitchen in 2022, but getting these grants a few weeks ago makes a huge difference.”

Martin didn’t have any paid staff members before receiving the 8twelve Coalition grant, which allowed him to hire two employees.

Toria Callow, a Ball State graduate student in

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE COMMON MARKET

The Common Market is located on the corner of West 8th Street and South Hoyt Avenue at 900 W. 8th St. Open Monday-Saturday 12-6 p.m.

The Common Market sells groceries, cold press nitro coffee, pet food, vinyl records, donated clothing and more.

After a kitchen is added in March 2021, the market will offer hot food, including sandwiches, pizza and tacos.

Source: Mike Martin, Common Market owner

emerging media design and development, started as a volunteer photographer for the Common Market in November 2020 and was just added to the payroll in mid-January.

“I drove past the building several times as an undergraduate student,” Callow said. “There was some art on the side of the building, and I thought, ‘This is interesting. It looks kind of like a rundown building, but there’s a lot of those in the neighborhood.’”

Callow manages the Common Market’s social media accounts and said she comes into the storefront a few times a week. She said she is excited for the Common Market to expand its services in the South Central neighborhood through its grant projects.

“It’s a really cool meeting place. We have some tables throughout the store where people can just hang out,” she said. “We want to have things that really draw the community to the Common Market and make it a hub that people really want to hang out in.”

Martin said he hopes to bring in local musicians to perform in the Common Market’s music studio after being approved for a food permit. “Mike Martin and The Beautiful Mess” plans to return to South Carolina in March, so he wants the kitchen to be completed before he leaves. Staff will continue to manage the Common Market while Martin is gone.

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A second room inside the Common Market sits behind curtains Jan. 26, 2021, in Muncie. The Common Market sells an arrangement of items, including food, clothing, records, instruments, artwork, bikes, antique items and more. JADEN WHITEMAN, DN

The Common Market’s first employee, Grace Longfellow, sits behind the counter with their dog, Vigo, Jan. 26, 2021, in Muncie. Owner Mike Martin hired two staff members in January 2021 using grant money from the local 8twelve Coalition. JADEN WHITEMAN, DN

A store hours sign hangs on the door of the Common Market Jan. 26, 2021, in Muncie. The sign was created on recycled paper by employee Grace Longfellow. JADEN WHITEMAN, DN

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Women’s Volleyball

Vinson: West Division Setter of the Week Freshman defensive specialist Kate Vinson had a combined 74 assists in the Cardinals’ first two games of the season, with 36 in the first match and 38 in the second. These numbers granted her Mid-American Conference West Division Setter of the Week honors. She helped lead Ball State to its first two victories of the season against Akron.

Men’s Basketball

COVID-19 issues sideline Cardinals Then-freshman goalkeeper Wietske Overdijkink’s first experience in the United States was coming to Ball State. Ball State Field Hockey head coach Stephanie Bernthal said Overdijkink has added an element of experience to the team. BALL STATE ATHLETICS, PHOTO COURTESY

Lending a helping hand Wietske Overdijkink took advantage of her situation despite uncertainty about the upcoming season.

Drew Pierce Reporter Despite lockdowns, canceled flights and travel bans, Wietske Overdijkink still found time to get up and go to work.

Not only did she stay in shape by practicing field hockey with her family, but Ball State’s sophomore goalkeeper also worked in a struggling bakery amid a global pandemic, wondering if her Ball State career would continue beyond 2020.

“I got a job at the bakery to pass the time and make some money,” Overdijkink said.

“Before the store even opened, I helped them deliver some of the bread and the cakes with

my parents’ car.”

Overdijkink has spent her entire life playing field hockey with her family in the Netherlands. Ever since she could remember, Overdijkink said, she has been involved in the sport. Having parents who played at the club level and a grandfather who played on the men’s national team, field hockey is in her blood.

Just days after the Mid-American Conference announced it would cancel all spring sports due to COVID-19 concerns, Overdijkink took a flight back home to Baambrugge, the Netherlands, a town less than 11 miles from Amsterdam.

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She comes from a long lineage of hockey in her family, and her competitive background from arguably the best hockey nation in the world is a huge asset to our team.”

- STEPHANIE BERNTHAL, Ball State Field Hockey head coach

Ball State looked to bounce back from a 85-77 loss to Ohio Jan. 23 against Kent State, but COVID-19 issues within the Cardinals’ program forced the game’s postponement.

Ball State has already had three games postponed this season, with two due to the coronavirus. The Cardinals currently have a 6-7 record and will return to action Jan. 30 for a 2 p.m. tipoff against Akron.

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Cory Connolly named recruiting coordinator The Cardinals’ outside linebackers coach will also have the role of recruiting coordinator in 2021.

Connolly just completed his sixth season with Ball State and his third as the outside linebackers coach. He helped lead the 2020 Cardinals to their first Mid-American Conference Championship since 1996 and their first-ever bowl game victory.

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“Right when the university said, ‘OK, we are going online’… About a week later, I had my flight booked to go home,” Overdijkink said. “None of my flights got canceled or anything, so that went pretty well. I was more disappointed that our semester was canceled and we weren’t going to be able to play our spring games. I actually wasn’t worried about getting home. That was more of my family’s worry.”

Following a smooth trip home, it was days after returning to the Netherlands that worry started to settle in with the uncertainty of if she would have a fall season.

“When I got back home and finally understood the whole situation, I immediately thought this was going to be a lot of trouble to get fall sports back up and playing,” Overdijkink said. “I [couldn’t] really see us having a season.

Obviously, it didn’t happen.”

The worry escalated when traveling back to the United States became a greater task than anticipated. “[We] were planning to get back [to Muncie] in the middle of July, but then all of our flights got canceled,” Overdijkink said. “There was still the rule that the American government wouldn’t allow anyone from the European Union to fly to America.”

Ball State Field Hockey has four other international studentathletes, so this issue wasn’t exclusive to Overdijkink. Head coach Stephanie Bernthal had several instances of coaches and athletes not being able to travel over in time. She said some of them remain ongoing.

“As a coaching staff, we understood that this year was going to bring unique challenges, including potentially not having our team together or practicing with the same continuity we are accustomed to,” Bernthal said.

However, before finally getting back into Indiana, Overdijkink made the best of her situation in the Netherlands.

Her home country didn’t quite have the same lockdown that

was enforced in many states.

There was a period where some public spaces were closed, but many people still went to work and lived their lives.

“Everything was still kind of normal, and then about

After coming to Ball State in 2019, Overdijkink played in nine games and earned her first win against Davidson.

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When I got back home and finally understood the whole situation, I immediately thought this was going to be a lot of trouble to get fall sports back up and playing.”

- WIETSKE OVERDIJKINK, Sophomore goalkeeper

three weeks later, we went into an intelligent lockdown,” Overdijkink said. “All of the public spaces closed, but we still weren’t in a full lockdown.”

Thanks to her field hockey

turf in her backyard, though, Overdijkink was able to stay in shape and prepare for her upcoming season.

“I did a lot of practicing on [the turf],” Overdijkink said.

“My whole family plays field hockey, so we just played with each other.”

Overdijkink spent her first few weeks back in the Netherlands training with her family and completing schoolwork to round out the spring 2020 semester. Right when the soft lockdown started, Overdijkink said, she put it upon herself to get a job and help in any way she could.

She would wake up at the crack of dawn and run bread deliveries all over town before the bakery even opened.

She was then hired for more consistent work.

Overdijkink’s willingness to lead by example translates into her role for the Cardinals.

As a freshman last season, Overdijkink led all MAC goalkeepers with a .814 save percentage. Her first season set the groundwork for the next three to come, Bernthal said, as she continues growing into a leader for her team.

“Weets has a great competitive spirit,” Bernthal said. “She comes from a long lineage of hockey in her family, and her competitive background from arguably the best hockey nation in the world is a huge asset to our team.”

As a sophomore, Overdijkink will lead eight incoming freshmen heading into a shortened 14-game 2021 season. Bernthal said she has a positive outlook on how Overdijkink will fair considering the circumstances.

“She is a part of our very talented goalkeeper group, and goalkeeping is foundational to the success of the team,” Bernthal said. “She is confident in her abilities but also fits well into our culture of family and servant leadership.”

Now that she is back in Muncie, Overdijkink can put the time and energy she spent helping others during the pandemic inward as she decompresses, takes time for herself and mentally prepares for an unprecedented season.

Contact Drew Pierce with comments at dlpierce2@bsu. edu or on Twitter @dpierce3cc.

Gymnastics won the wait

It had been 320 days since Ball State Gymnastics competed. In the Cardinals’ first meet of the season, they vaulted, flipped and balanced their way to securing their first home victory Jan. 24, 2021, at John E. Worthen Arena. The Cardinals will host Illinois State Jan. 31 for their second meet of the new year. JACOB MUSSELMAN, DN

Sophomore Megan Phillips poses at the end of her floor routine. Phillips competed in exhibition events throughout the meet.

Junior Marissa Nychyk kneels during her balance beam routine. Nychyk finished sixth individually with scores of 9.775 on vault, 9.725 on uneven bars and 9.150 on the balance beam.

Freshman Victoria Henry performs her uneven bars routine.

In her first meet as a Cardinal, Henry placed third overall with scores of 9.775 on the vault and uneven bars and 9.725 for her floor routine.

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The record keeps spinning around In March 2020, Travis Harvey, owner of Village Green Records (VGR), was forced to come up with a unique way to sell his thousands of record tapes, CDs and vinyls to his customers during the pandemic. Sarah Ponto Rivers, Harvey’s partner, suggested VGR use Patreon, a website where users can subscribe at different levels and receive incentives.

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Jealousy: the green monster Robert Sternberg, a human development professor at Cornell University, said feeling jealous is most common among teens and college students because adolescence and young adulthood can be an uncertain time. Jennifer Bevan, a professor of communication at Chapman University, said the best way to deal with jealous tendencies is to communicate in a calm manner with no shouting or fighting.

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The buzz about endangered bees The rusty patched bumblebee has been endangered since 2017, and the potential extinction of this species could change the balance of our ecosystem. Once found in 28 states, the rusty patched bumblebee can now only be found in 13 states, including Indiana.

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“If a kid seems interested, I’ll say, ‘Well, if your parents let you have a plant, I can give you one of those,’ and oh my goodness, their eyes light up.

It’s like they’ve got a new friend,” Heintzelman said. “I love giving [plants] to young people because maybe they’ve never had a plant before, and maybe this will start a whole new [interest] with them, too.”

Heintzelman first discovered she could start new plants with cuttings after cutting a leaf off of an African Violet, which one of her childhood classmates gave to her before moving away to Oklahoma. Heintzelman placed the leaf in soil, watered it regularly and watched it develop new roots, stems and leaves. Eventually, she had nearly 15 African Violets in her bedroom.

“It’s one of those miracles of nature that I grew in love with as a kid and never got tired of it,” Heintzelman said.

While Heintzelman has always been an artsy person, she said, science is her second love.

My dad carved out a little circular area in the backyard and said, ‘Now, this is your patch, Ann. What would you like to plant here?’”

Top: Heintzelman received a philodendron from her grandmother 35 years ago. Heintzelman recommends watering your indoor plants once a week.

Bottom: Heintzelman also received a spider plant from her grandmother 35 years ago. Heintzelman keeps her plants in her sunroom with a humidifier in the winter, and during the summer months, she incorporates her plants into her outdoor garden where they truly thrive. ANN HEINTZELMAN,

- ANN HEINTZELMAN, Ball State alumna Heintzelman’s parents would take her and her siblings to art galleries and do at-home science experiments, like planting seeds.

“I was allowed to have my own garden at a young age,” Heintzelman said. “There was a big family garden, and then my dad carved out a little circular area in the backyard and said, ‘Now, this is your patch, Ann. What would you like to plant here?’ He really instilled a love for gardening and growing things.”

When Heintzelman posted photos of her plants in September 2020 to give away on the “Indiana Backyard Gardeners” Facebook group, Ashley Nixon, a stay-at-home mom and co-founder of The Salem Pie Company in Daleville, Indiana, reached out to Heintzelman and expressed an interest in her snake plants.

After receiving her snake plant from Heintzelman, Nixon named it Sylvia. Earlier in January 2021, Nixon sent photos of Sylvia to Heintzelman, saying how much of a great addition her new snake plant was to her family.

“I think it brings a little zen into our very weird lives right now,” Nixon said. “I’m very happy that becoming a plant mom came from quarantine.”

Keely Harra-Shepard also saw Heintzelman’s post about her houseplants in the Facebook group.

Shepard said she picked out a spider plant, a snake

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Ann Heintzelman, a Ball State alumna, keeps nearly 50 plants in her sunroom. One of her plants is an Angel Wing Begonia that she takes cuttings from to give away to her art students. Recently, a grandmother of one of her former students came to get another one of her Angel Wing Begonias, and Heintzelman said it’s cool that people know her as the plant person. ANN

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plant and three Tradescantias.

Shepard said Heintzelman helped feed her “lifelong plant obsession.” Now, Shepard has a fulltime gardening and houseplant business, Sunhouse Horticultural and Home, where she sells seeds, heirloom vegetables and flowers from her garden.

“When I look at my plants, I feel happy — I love to see all the different colors and forms, how much some have grown for me over decades of care,” Shepard said. “When my health was suffering a few years ago, it was my kids and my plants that got me going. I saw my plants starting

to die, and it scared me. I hope my love of plants helps my children love plants and the earth, too.”

Because Heintzelman spent a lot of time with her grandmother when she was younger, Heintzelman said she now feels a connection to her grandmother through her plants. For nearly six years of her childhood, her grandmother was in her house nearly every day. When Heintzelman was in fourth grade, her mother went back to work as a newspaper advertiser. Because Heintzelman’s grandmother lived on the same block, she would look after Heintzelman and her siblings when they

got home from school until dinnertime.

“Many of us learn to cook from our grandparents or parents, and I’m so glad that she taught me not just how to cook, but to make pie crust and jelly,” Heintzelman said. “[These memories] seem like small gestures or experiences, and [you realize] how important those are later in your life, especially after they’ve left this world. [My grandmother] was born in 1901, and she lived to be 99. By giving those [plant cuttings] away, I’m sharing who she was and who I am with others.”

For anyone interested in becoming plant parents, Heintzelman said, jump in and give it a go.

“Don’t be afraid to try — Grandma told me that philodendron is hard to kill,” Heintzelman said.

“Buy a plant that looks interesting to you, or, if you’re lucky enough, get one free from somebody.

For most of us, plants bring a room to life. If it’s possible, try to have at least one plant someplace in your home because it adds life to your home and vibrancy.”

Contact Sumayyah Muhammad with comments at smuhammad3@bsu.edu or on Twitter @sumayyah0114.

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Looking out their windows this winter, students can only see bare tree branches, brown grass and frosted fall leaves. To bring warmth into their homes again, some students may want to buy indoor houseplants for their dorm, apartment or house. Consider the tips below to help you take care of your new plant babies to ensure they stay green and cheery all semester long.

Research how much water your plant needs Spider plants have thick roots that fill up all available space in their pots, which makes it difficult for the plant to receive efficient water. It’s better for the plant to soak in water in the sink. Source: How Stuff Works

A common mistake of raising plants is overwatering them. According to The Sill, a plant care information website, you should only water your plants when the soil is dry — not just on the surface, but 2 inches deep — so your plants receive a good balance of water and oxygen.

Plants also absorb water through their roots, not their leaves. So, if your plant’s soil is left wet for too long, your plant’s roots can rot.

Soil will dry out faster in small pots than larger pots. The season and amount of sunlight your plant receives also affect how quickly the soil will dry out. Give your plants enough water so their soil is moist, and only rewater when the soil becomes dry again, which can be a week or month later.

Consider how much sunlight enters your home

Because the snake plant, or Sansevieria, converts a lot of carbon dioxide into oxygen at night, six to eight plants per person would be needed to survive in a room with no air flow. Source: Rolling Nature

Different types of plants require different types of sunlight as well, so it’s important to be aware of how much sunlight fills your dorm, apartment or home before purchasing an indoor houseplant.

According to an article by Costa Farms — one of the largest horticultural growers in the world — if you don’t get a lot of sunlight streaming through your window, purchase plants such as lucky bamboo, a ZZ plant, a snake plant or a pothos plant that thrive in lowlight. If your home does get a lot of sunlight, fill your windowsill with plants such as a ponytail palm, money tree, aloe vera, peace lily or ferns that need bright light to survive.

Choose an indoor plant that fits your college lifestyle

Some philodendrons are known to produce a sugary liquid that attracts ants. In the wild, the colonies of ants protect against pest insects.

Source: Ferns N Petals

Not all plants require the same amount of maintenance to keep their leaves and flowers healthy. Consider how much maintenance you’re able to do to upkeep your plants. If your schedule is packed this semester, it may not be best to purchase a plant that needs frequent watering because you may forget to do so.

For college students, desert-native plants like succulents and cacti may be a good option because they like to stay dry and benefit from less watering, according to The Sill.

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The death penalty has more negative aspects than positive.

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I was raised with the belief that once you are brought into this world, you have a purpose and are deserving of life. The morals that have been instilled in me since birth tell me laws like the death penalty should cease to exist, but morality can’t necessarily be backed up by fact.

I wasn’t taught “an eye for an eye.” Rather, I was taught that human beings are deserving

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of love and kindness, not the twisted form of revenge that is the death penalty. Life is so fragile already, but imagine the fragility that comes with granting an institutional body the power to decide whether someone lives or dies based on the severity of their crime.

It is immoral to take someone’s life through capital punishment — regardless of what they have done. Human beings do not

13 have the right to decide when it is time for someone to die.

Former Washington State Supreme Court Justice Robert Utter was an avid opponent of the death penalty. He made it clear how he felt about the law allowing human beings to decide when someone lives or dies, stating in his resignation letter that “no human is wise enough” to make such a decision. It places too much power in the hands of government officials while leaving minor criminals under control of fear.

The United States uses the death penalty as a means of punishment and remains an outlier to the developed nations that have already abolished the death penalty.

It is imperative that the United States join the 70 percent of the world that has already abolished the death penalty.

160 countries have

ABOLISHED capital punishment Source: Amnesty International

The issue of morality is brought up a lot in society, but what about in relation to the law?

Laws have a responsibility to try to reflect a nation’s morality, especially in a country like the United States that is supposed to stand for the ideal of freedom. People subjected to the death penalty don’t have a choice when getting condemned — innocent or not.

It is not moral to take someone’s life and, therefore, their decisions from them. How are you any better than the criminal if you also have blood on your hands?

The Eighth Amendment states, “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” The death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment because you are deciding it is a prisoner’s time to die.

Politicians peddle the idea that the death penalty prevents crime and reduces homicide rates by striking fear in criminals.

This isn’t true — violence breeds violence.

A study by the Stanford Law Review compared the amount of violence in states with capital punishment versus those without and found no deterrent effect. They found that states with the death penalty actually have higher murder rates than states without the death penalty.

Innocent people have fallen victim to

1 in 10 defendants are killed for crimes they did not commit

Source: Death Penalty Information Center

capital punishment. For example, Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in Texas in 2004 for the murder of his three daughters in a house fire. It wasn’t until after his execution that officials admitted there was no evidence of arson. Willingham joins countless others who have had their lives stolen at the hands of capital punishment.

Even as the death penalty declines, racial disparities persist. The Death Penalty Information Center also reports that, since 1977, 308 Black defendants have been victims of capital punishment for murders involving at least one white victim. In comparison, 34 white defendants were executed for murders involving at least one Black victim. We can’t continue to support a system that targets people of color with execution for the same crimes white people are committing with lesser punishment.

Racial Disparity 308

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Black White defendants defendants Since 1977, 308 Black defendants were executed involving white victims, and 34 white defendants were executed involving Black victims.

Source: Death Penalty Information Center

No crime should be worthy of a death penalty.

It’s time we, as a nation, abolish this outdated and cruel method of punishment that is the death penalty. We must join the majority of the world in abolishing capital punishment — if not for the simple

immortality of this system, then for the taxpayer money it takes to put someone on the journey of death row. Death penalty cases also divert resources from other areas, such as crime prevention, drug treatment resources and mental health treatment because of how much it costs for appeals, trials and convictions of those on death row. We are spending taxpayer dollars to end people’s lives when we could be investing this money in services that benefit our citizens.

Death penalty cases cost

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The evidence outlines a very dark reality — the death penalty doesn’t deter crime.

The death penalty costs more money than life in prison for a criminal, and it diverts resources from important social programs.

The death penalty has ended the lives of innocent people and still runs the risk of doing so today. The death penalty is racially biased and contributes to systemic racism.

This is the case against capital punishment.

This is why it is morally wrong — at the core of the issue, it is morally wrong to decide when someone lives or dies. We can’t fight crime by committing crime ourselves. Real change comes when we realize the “eye-foran-eye” method truly does end up making the whole world blind.

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The return to campus did not impose any pressing new COVID-19 guidelines — all rules for students and faculty have remained the same or fairly similar. In Dobson’s eyes, the only difference is her course load.

“The pandemic is still going on,” she said. “The rules, for the most part, are the same, but my friends and I have more in-

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person classes.”

Ball State University’s website advertises that the safety of students and faculty is its top priority.

“We continue to focus our efforts on the safety of our campus community,” the website states.

Dobson said she values the precautions Ball State is taking to ensure the well-being of all who are on campus.

“I’m not upset about the guidelines,” she said. “I think they’re there for a reason, and they should be.”

Mirabelli has also adjusted to the guidelines, but she said she misses what campus life was like prior to COVID-19.

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“I am so used to seeing everyone out and being so involved in campus activities,” she said. “It’s so weird to walk across the Scramble Light and not be handed a flyer or have an organization hand you a gift while rushing to class.”

As Ball State’s campus is not as busy as usual, Mirabelli said she thinks the campus community can still be safe.

She said, “I just hope that everyone wears their mask and practices social distancing so we can finally put this virus behind us.”

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