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After a season without fans and tailgates, Ball State Football seeks to defend its title as MAC champions with fans in the stands once again. 08 Cardinals’ outside linebackers Brock Burns (44), Brandon Berger (51) and Jack Beebe (42) take a break on the sideline during practice at Scheumann Stadium Aug. 28. Ball State is preparing for its season opener Sept. 2.

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More than 40 years ago, The Daily News highlighted the 1981 Ball State Bike-a-thon. The 31st annual event hosted 33 different bicycle teams that raced 40 miles at the Delaware County Fairgrounds.

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Women’s volleyball wins invitational

Aug. 28: Ball State is off to a 4-0 start after winning the Green Bay Invitational. The Cardinals earned victories over Green Bay, St. Thomas and Northern Iowa before meeting up with North Dakota State in the title match.

After splitting their first two sets, the Cardinals recorded two consecutive wins, 25-20 and 25-23, respectively, defeating the Bison.

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Men’s basketball releases schedule

Aug. 27: After an exhibition game against Michigan Tech Nov. 3 in Muncie, Ball State will travel to Georgia Southern for its season opener Nov. 9 before its home opener against Omaha Nov. 13.

The Cardinals are slated for 11 nonconference games. Ball State will begin its 20-game Mid-American Conference slate on the road against Northern Illinois Dec. 28.

U.S. pulls all troops out of Afghanistan

Aug. 30: The United States completed its withdrawal of all troops from Afghanistan, officially ending America’s longest war.

The last U.S. planes took off from the Kabul airport at 3:29 p.m.

Washington time. Gen. Frank McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, said some American citizens were left behind, but he believes they can still leave.

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Foundational Sciences Building is open Ball State opened its new Foundational Sciences Building, the new home for the chemistry and biology departments, Aug. 25.

The Departments of Geography, Physics and Astronomy will remain in the Cooper Physical Science Building. Cooper Nursing and Life Sciences wings are now closed for construction through 2022.

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RESILIENCE Ball State master’s student reflects on living with cystic fibrosis during the COVID-19 pandemic. 06 Maya Wilkins Associate News Editor

Gov. Eric Holcomb signed an executive order Aug. 30 extending the public health emergency to Sept.

30 due to rising COVID-19 cases in Indiana. Holcomb also signed an executive order allowing healthcare stakeholders to evaluate information to support hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Community

$2 tour of the Village returned for 2021 The $2 tour of the Village returned Aug. 28 after being canceled in 2020 due to COVID-19 concerns.

The event featured the Code Red Dance Team, Ball State Drumline and a dunk tank where participants could dunk Mayor Dan Ridenour and other city officials for charity. Village businesses also featured $2 deals for products throughout the evening.

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The University Program Board welcomed students back to campus with games, treats and a petting zoo at Quad Bash Friday, Aug. 27.

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Ball State’s Applied Anthropology Laboratories share progress on digitization project.

Grace McCormick News Editor For senior anthropology major Kiera McWhinney, figuring out what profession she wanted to work in took almost four years of college, a new job within her minor and finding the right mix of anthropology and design.

McWhinney entered Ball State as a graphic design major, but she didn’t realize until the COVID-19 pandemic began that she didn’t want to spend so much of her time on a computer.

“We moved to online [classes], and I started doing a lot of projects exclusively on a computer,” McWhinney said. “When you’re at school, it doesn’t feel like that because you’re in class all the time and you’re talking with people.”

McWhinney hadn’t considered further study of anthropology before, but, after applying for a job as a crew member in the Applied Anthropology Laboratories (AAL), she realized she wanted to spend time outdoors helping with archeological digs and compiling research for different projects.

“I also make 3D models of things in the lab sometimes, so that incorporates the design that I like,” she said. “That’s when I decided, ‘I’m switching to anthropology.’ I did the lab fieldwork training and knew I wanted to do this.”

McWhinney and other AAL staff and students are currently working on a digitization project of more than 4,000 artifacts including research papers, images and 3D digital scans.

Christine Thompson, co-principle investigator on the digitization project and AAL assistant director, said staff have completed 3D scans of about 2,000 artifacts so far and uploaded more than 700 scans to the 3D viewing site Sketchfab. Thompson said she appreciates the project is digitizing more than just the “eye-catching” artifacts.

“I think it’s really interesting that we’re scanning the things that maybe are a little less exciting, but they tell a story when you look at them in aggregate — you know where and when they were found, and you can compare the differences,” Thompson said.

“That’s a story that we don’t always tell because we don’t always have them all together.”

Thompson said digitizing artifacts this past year has required physical reorganization of the lab, as students and other people involved in the project sometimes need to rename older artifacts or match materials to their proper years of discovery.

“For a while, I had two big racks in my office and would pull out groups of things for other people to work with,” she said. “We’ve had to

be very nimble [and] flexible in how we use our space, our time and our resources.”

AAL started the digitization project in summer 2020 with the goal of digitizing all of their reports of investigation to make their archives accessible for archeologists all over the world, said Caroline Heston, education and outreach coordinator for AAL. She said most of AAL’s work is concentrated in Indiana and surrounding states.

“It’s very hard work — physically digging holes into the ground and hiking through literal wilderness and crawling through thorns — it’s difficult hard work, but it’s also really fun, and there’s just so much camaraderie when you have that crew that you’ve been with for weeks,” Heston said. “Even when it gets really difficult, you have each other.”

Kevin Nolan, co-principle investigator on the digitization project and AAL director, said digitization is different from most of AAL’s fieldwork because those involved aren’t making

I also make 3D models of things in the lab sometimes, so that incorporates the design that I like. That’s when I decided, ‘I’m switching to anthropology.’ I did the lab fieldwork training and knew I wanted to do this.”

- KIERA MCWHINNEY, Senior anthropology major new discoveries, but they are making existing research more accessible.

“On most of the projects, we’re exploring something new or making discoveries to get a more

Scanning stations complete 3D scans of artifacts Aug. 30 in the Applied Anthropology Lab. Once staff are done editing 3D scans, the scans are uploaded online with information on where the artifact was found, which aims to offer people more information on their local anthropology. GRACE MCCORMICK, DN accurate picture of something,” he said. “Here, we’re just compiling and making accessible all of this other research. There’s no one theme or concept that’s going to really come out of this, other than open access to the raw data and making all of these efforts that have gone on here sustainable.”

The digitization project will last through next year, Nolan said, and he hopes it will come close to digitizing all projects AAL has completed since the 1960s.

“We wanted to build archival digital records that are going to be preserved regardless of what happens to the lab, our computers and physical storage, but we also want to make it more accessible and more useful,” Nolan said. “This is going to be thousands of objects that anybody anywhere can study and do what they want with. That’s a pretty much unparalleled public archeological resource, as far as I know.”

Nolan also said he hopes the digital archives can be used not just by researchers and scholars, but in classrooms, too.

“Most of the time, you limit the amount of real and valuable artifacts that you pass around to 30 undergraduates because a broken artifact is broken forever,” he said. “With this, we can print off multiple copies of the same thing using a 3D printer.”

AAL currently has three 3D scanning devices for artifacts, and Thompson said they are receiving three more soon. She said once student workers understand the scanners, they can move through artifacts efficiently, though there are sometimes problems to solve.

“This project is so dependent on having good student lab assistants and graduate students,” Thompson said. “We have a really good team here, and I really appreciate the effort that students on this team put forth, because some of these tasks really take some thought, and you

have to pay attention.”

Now that McWhinney has assisted with seven different AAL projects, she said she is grateful for the professional experience she’s received.

“There’s not a lot of schools around here that offer experience in this field before you’re graduated,” she said. “That’s something really special that Ball State does. Especially with COVID, I didn’t think I’d be able to make friends in my department at all, but, with fieldwork, I was actually able to make friends because I worked here, which is something I wouldn’t have been able to do otherwise, and that’s invaluable.”

Contact Grace McCormick with comments at grmccormick@bsu.edu or on Twitter @graceMc564.

GET INVOLVED WITH APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY LABORATORIES Most students involved in Applied Anthropology Laboratories (AAL) fieldwork are studying anthropology, preservation, history or a related subject; however, any student, regardless of what they study, can apply for AAL jobs.

Students interested in AAL should have some foundational knowledge of anthropology, and AAL asks that students complete at least one anthropology course before starting fieldwork. AAL will provide training on artifacts and fieldwork for new students joining the crew.

Visit AAL in Burkhardt Building room 314, or call 765-285-5328. Operating hours are 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday–Friday.

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Ball State master’s student shares how her life with cystic fibrosis has changed during COVID-19.

Maya Wilkins Associate News Editor When Maddy Hamp, Ball State exercise science graduate student, first heard about COVID-19, she said, even walking outside during the early days of the pandemic scared her.

“I did not know what to expect and how quickly it would spread, so, definitely, throughout the summer, I stayed indoors, listened to the CDC and wore my mask everywhere,” Hamp said. “I was just trying to be as proactive as possible.”

Now, with COVID-19 cases rising again,

It’s kind of stressful — it’s hard seeing a lot of people not wear their masks or follow the rules, but I’m hopeful for the future of the vaccine.”

- MADDY HAMP, Ball State exercise science graduate student Hamp is still nervous about what’s to come and how it will affect her.

“I’m going back to stay at home, only go out for class and important things I need to leave the house for,” she said. “It’s kind of stressful — it’s hard seeing a lot of people not wear their masks or follow the rules, but I’m hopeful for the future of the vaccine.”

When Hamp was about 5 months old, she was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis.

“It’s a lung disease, and it spreads through my body,” Hamp said. “It’s just a buildup of mucus, so it started in my lungs with heavy breathing, and then, it goes to my pancreas. Because of that, I take a lot of medications.”

Because of her condition, Hamp has to do a therapy called High-Frequency Chest Wall Oscillation, in which she wears an inflatable vest that helps get rid of additional mucus in her body.

According to the Cystic Fibrosis Care Center, vest treatment is recommended for most patients twice a day. Hamp also does two breathing treatments along with the vest to help her break up the mucus

in her system.

The week before Gov. Eric Holcomb signed the statewide stay-at-home order in March 2020, Hamp said she had an appointment where she asked her doctor what she should be worried about or change within her daily routine. Her doctor told her she was already used to washing her hands frequently, taking extra precautions and wearing a mask if necessary.

People with cystic fibrosis are told to wear masks on planes and during flu season when they are in busy public places, but Hamp said it was still difficult to wear a mask all the time because “it was a different feeling.” Hamp eventually received the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in March.

“The one big thing that did change was having to clean off everything because we didn’t know how it was transferred,” Hamp said. “I would get groceries delivered, and then, I’d have them outside, and I would sit outside with Clorox wipes and wipe them down.”

Kelsey Friis, 2021 Ball State psychology graduate, said she has known Hamp since their freshman year and found out about her diagnosis when she went with Hamp to the emergency room for something unrelated to cystic fibrosis.

“I knew a few people in middle and high school that had cystic fibrosis, and all I knew was that it was a respiratory illness,” Friis said. “Throughout our years of being friends, [Hamp] has been much more open about sharing the ups and downs of having cystic fibrosis.”

Friis said the severity of Hamp’s symptoms has improved with certain medications, and her routine to take medication takes nearly an hour to complete. In March through May 2020 — the time of the COVID-19 lockdown in Indiana — Friis and Hamp were roommates and knew any contact with the virus could have been serious for her.

Friis also said Hamp participates in medical studies whenever possible, and she goes to the doctor for cystic fibrosis treatment a couple times a month.

“I’m glad she’s much more open about her diagnosis because she’s so much stronger for it,” Friis said.

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, Hamp

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had to be open about her diagnosis with professors or athletes she worked with if she felt she could be exposed to germs or someone else with cystic fibrosis. Still, she never let that get in the way of her dreams of becoming an athletic trainer.

Hamp said she grew up around sports because her mom loved to run, her dad coached lacrosse and her sister swam. Hamp also said she played tennis growing up but tried every sport she could because she loved to exercise.

Cystic fibrosis never affected what sports Hamp could play, she said, and the worst that would happen was she would just be out of breath while she exercised, which she said she “just had to get used to.”

“In high school, I started working with my high school athletic trainer, and he really made me love what he did and really showed me the ways of athletic training,” Hamp said. “That’s when I fell in love with this. This is what I want to do — I want to be part of sports.”

Hamp said she wants to be an athletic trainer for a professional baseball team like the Cleveland

Indians or a football team like the Cleveland Browns because she’s from Ohio, but she’s open to any opportunities that come her way.

Now, Hamp is finishing school and preparing to graduate in 2023, and is doing her clinical rotations, which she thinks will help her get out of her “Ball State bubble.”

“I’ll be at a high school, I’ll be at a clinic, I’ll hopefully be at a hospital at some point, so I’m just really excited to get to know Muncie more,” Hamp said.

Friis said she has seen the ways being in Muncie has changed Hamp for the better, as Hamp has been able to grow and mature more while at Ball State.

“I’ve seen her leadership skills, confidence and empathy skyrocket during her time at Ball State,” Friis said. “She’s always been a very focused and intelligent person, so I only see her working more to make that happen in the long run.”

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Adams earns prestigious award On Aug. 26, Chris Adams became the first men’s tennis player in MidAmerican Conference history to win the Bob James Memorial Award.

The award goes to one male and one female athlete from a MAC school who have achieved a minimum grade-point average of 3.50 and have displayed good character, leadership and citizenship.

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Ball State Soccer’s new assistant coach reflects on adjusting to new role.

Charleston Bowles Associate Sports Editor Soccer is not just a game for Ball State Soccer’s first-year assistant coach, Hannah Sullivan. It’s a way of life.

“It’s something that I’ve always loved,” Sullivan said. “I thought, why not make it a career?”

Ever since she trotted onto the field at her local YMCA as a 3-year-old, Sullivan has made soccer a big part of her identity.

At the age of 9, Sullivan chose to be goalkeeper because she hated running and was out of shape. When her Indy Premier Soccer Club coach asked her teammates who wanted to play goalkeeper, Sullivan swiftly raised her hand.

“I just genuinely did not like running very much,” Sullivan said. “But I loved the game, and so that’s kind of how I became a goalkeeper.”

While her peers switched clubs and went back and forth between different teams, Sullivan stayed with Indy Premier for 13 years after joining in kindergarten.

Sullivan rotated coaches every one to two years as she grew older, so she had roughly 12 coaches during her time on the team. As she looks back, Sullivan said, she believes her drive to become a coach started with her experience

at Premier.

“I had to learn from all different sorts of coaching styles,” Sullivan said. “I took advantage of that, because I knew I wanted to be a coach and involved in sports. I used to think, ‘I really like that coach’s energy,’ or ‘I don’t like the way he talks to his players.’ I was evaluating my own coaches to understand how I wanted to be a coach when I grew up.”

I just think having that underdog, grind-it-out mentality that this team has is the kind of team that I want to be a part of, and it’s awesome.”

- HANNAH SULLIVAN, Ball State Soccer assistant coach Before Sullivan, nobody in her family had ever played soccer. In fact, Sullivan and her parents had no idea how to manage the recruiting process when it began in high school. She reached out to multiple schools but received generic replies with

camp invitations.

While playing for the girls’ soccer team at Fishers High School, Sullivan won the state championship in 2014. Her senior class had nine college commitments, Sullivan included. That year, she committed to Indiana State before graduating high school in 2016.

“I really never could identify where I was in comparison to everyone else,” Sullivan said. “I genuinely wasn’t exactly sure what I was doing — it was kind of learning by trial and error. I found [Indiana State], and I stuck with it and enjoyed my experience.”

During her time at Indiana State, Sullivan finished with 177 career saves, fifth in program history. After seeing no action as a freshman, she started 39 matches over the course of the next three years. As a senior, Sullivan recorded a career-high nine saves against Saint Louis.

She graduated in 2020.

“There were some hidden problems throughout my time there, in which, I think, as a team, we all had to work through,” Sullivan said. “I had individual battles as well. There’s not a really good player out there who hasn’t gone through something.

I didn’t want adversity to kind of diminish what I could do on the field and what I was able to accomplish.”

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Ball State falls on the road against Knights In its first road contest this season, Ball State (0-2, 0-0 MAC) lost 2-1 to Bellarmine Aug. 29. Freshman midfielder Maya Guinn scored her first career goal in the third period for the Cardinals’ lone score, and freshman forward Agostina Giudice was credited with the assist.

Sophomore forward Paloma Gomez Rengifo led the Cardinals with four shots. Ball State continues its road trip Sept. 3 against Lock Haven.

Women’s Basketball

Cardinals unveil 2021-22 schedule Ball State begins its season with two home games against Milwaukee Nov. 9 and Purdue Fort Wayne Nov. 12. The Cardinals’ first road game will take place at Hinkle Fieldhouse against Butler Nov. 16, where Ball State has not won since the 2016-17 season. The Cardinals will play a total of 10 non-conference games before starting Mid-American Conference play against Western Michigan at Worthen Arena Dec. 29.

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Coming off of last year’s shortened season, Ball State Football begins its quest to repeat as champions.

Ian Hansen Sports Editor As fans trickle into Scheumann Stadium for Ball State Football’s season opener against Western Illinois Sept. 2, there will be a different energy in comparison to last season. There won’t be capacity limitations due to COVID-19 concerns, and the Cardinals will be the defending Mid-American Conference Champions.

Last season, Ball State only allowed 500 student fans into Scheumann Stadium, which has a 22,500-person capacity. The MAC Championship and Arizona Bowl didn’t have a single fan in attendance when the Cardinals made history, and, with 20 returning starters, they said they want to win a championship in front of people this time.

“It’s a big motivation factor,” fifth-year outside linebacker Christian Albright said. “Two of the biggest games of the season — the MAC Championship and the bowl game — we had no fans there. So, being able to have our parents and our loyal fans, that’s going to mean a lot. We want to repeat that so they can be a part of it this time.”

Sophomore elementary education major Erin

Muller is a fan of the Cardinals and said she is excited to finally see Ball State play in person. She didn’t get to attend a game in 2020 due to the pandemic and a shortened season.

“Well, it really stinks we couldn’t have a regular season with tailgates and games, especially with our football team doing such a great job,” Muller said.

“This year, I am so excited for things to be mostly back to normal. My family is already planning on coming up to tailgate and go to games.”

The 2020 season was full of uncertainty and adjustments, and senior public relations major Jett McGowan is excited to watch the Cardinals play without the worry of games getting canceled or missing out on the fan experience.

“After the year we had at Ball State last year with all the changes and adjustments to daily life, it’ll be nice for everyone to have something to look forward to,” McGowan said. “It was a special season for [Ball State Football] last season, and it was so tragic that circumstances couldn’t allow us to support them the way we would’ve liked, but now we can.”

Playing in front of a full house, head coach Mike Neu said he is excited for the atmosphere to feel

The fans and the community are excited about the buzz generated from last year. It’s really just that — it’s last year.

Nothing would mean more to our players than to come out here on Thursday night for game No. 1 and have a full stadium.”

- MIKE NEU, Ball State Football head coach

The Ball State offensive line and defensive line face off during a drill Aug. 28 at Scheumann Stadium. Ball State returns all five offensive linemen to the team. KYLE ATKISSON, DN

normal again, and he especially wants the players who have been around for a while to have the proper college game day experience in their final season.

“The fans and the community are excited about the buzz generated from last year,” Neu said. “It’s really just that — it’s last year. Nothing would mean more to our players than to come out here on Thursday night for game No. 1 and have a full stadium.”

With the excitement comes the work and practice to keep the fans excited and pull out a victory Thursday night. Neu said he expects the same intensity going into this season that they had last season.

“We got a lot of work between now and Thursday night to make sure we’re playing our best brand of football,” Neu said. “That’s really all I’m concerned about. It’s totally a one-game season every single week, so our approach for this game better be the same approach that we had for the MAC Championship game.”

From a personnel standpoint, redshirt fifthyear quarterback Drew Plitt said he believes the Cardinals are on the right track to perform even better than last season, which he thinks has the potential to make them a “scary” competitor.

Plitt said he has confidence in this season because of the number of players returning, the leadership on the team and increased maturity levels, which he hopes will prove to fans that the Cardinals’ success is not a one-time thing.

“We know how bad it was years ago,” Plitt said, “and we know what it took to get to where we were last year. We want to prove this is not a fluke.

So, I mean, I think the maturity level of that is on another level.”

Neu said winning a championship only makes the next season more difficult and that his team can’t get complacent and feel as if they have done enough work. However, the experience his team has gained in previous seasons has helped them “have a database in the back of their heads on what they have seen,” which can help them prepare for any new adjustments thrown their way while also recognizing their weaknesses.

“You have to have a new identity,” Neu said.

“You have to work on your weaknesses. We’ve tried to do that day in and day out. We tried to just keep constantly preaching to get one percent better

and just be a better version of ourselves every day, and that’s the challenge.”

Albright said he believes Ball State will be the team everyone is after this season, and he recognizes the challenge that presents.

“We have a target [on] our back this year,” Albright said, “so our approach had to change. We know everybody is gunning for us. We’ve never been in that position before, so we know we had to just keep working hard or really work harder than we ever have to repeat because it’s going to be harder to stay at the top for sure.”

Contact Ian Hansen with comments at imhansen@bsu.edu or on Twitter @ianh_2.

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“BUTTER” Ball State alumna hosts fine arts fair for Black artists.

Sumayyah Muhammad Lifestyles Editor After a racially discriminative job listing for a new creative director for gallery exhibition “DRIP: Indy’s #BlackLivesMatter Street Mural” was posted last February, Mali Simone Jeffers and Alan Bacon decided to pull out of being guest curators for the exhibit.

It wasn’t until then that the two co-curators of GANGGANG, a cultural development firm aiming to showcase Black talent, decided they needed to take highlighting Black artists into their own hands.

“That’s when we made the public

If we want to improve this narrative and take control of paying the culture back, we’re going to have to do it ourselves.”

- MALI SIMONE JEFFERS, Ball State alumna and curator for “BUTTER”

announcement that [GANGGANG] has to produce our own show featuring Black artists,” Jeffers, 2004 Ball State graduate, said. “It wasn’t fair to the 18 artists we were bringing into the institution, into that context of everything that was going on there.”

Art is a way for Black artists to express themselves and their culture through mediums like painting, sculpture and ceramics. But, when critics describe the art as “trauma porn” or “only displaying pain,” Jeffers said, it shows how the audience doesn’t consider the context in which the art is being presented.

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Chinese Evergreen Chinese Evergreens are one of the better suited plants for beginners or those who are too busy to keep their houseplants alive. Most Chinese Evergreens have a pattern of rich green and silver leaves with calla-lily-like blooms in spots where the plant gets the most sunlight. According to Costa Farms, a Florida-based horticulture company, a Chinese Evergreen is a slow-growing plant that students can enjoy watching grow from their desk, tabletop or as shelf decor.

Growing instructions for Chinese Evergreen plants include watering once every few weeks and low-to-medium fluorescent lighting. Fertilizer is not needed, but evergreen plants grow best if fertilized once or twice a year in the spring or summer with a general houseplant fertilizer.

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Jeffers said it was important for GANGGANG to show the public the proper context of Black art at her upcoming art show, “BUTTER.”

While displaying her work as an art and soul visual artist at the Indianapolis Artsgarden — owned by the Arts Council of Indianapolis — Crowe Storm’s quilts were only allowed to be shown to the public for an hour.

“From that day forward, [Jeffers] had this desire to find a different venue to showcase the quilts and the way that we wanted to,” Crowe Storm said.

“Sometimes, you just have to go make your own shit.”

[Mali] develops something in her mind, and you can just see when it’s happening, and she sees the end before it’s there.”

-TERRY WHITT BAILEY, Former Ball State chief of staff and friend of Jeffers ELLEN NEIERS, PHOTO PROVIDED

“If we want to improve this narrative and take control of paying the culture back, we’re going to have to do it ourselves,” Jeffers said.

As curators of the multi-day fine arts fair, Jeffers and Bacon were able to work with expert curators Samuel Levi Jones, Sarah Hoover, A’Lelia Bundles and Braydee Euliss to put together the couple’s first major art fair.

“BUTTER” will feature work from 38 Black visual artists from Indianapolis and around the country at Stutz Business Center in downtown Indianapolis. The list of artists being represented includes FINGERCREATIONS, Israel Solomon and LaShanda Crowe Storm. Artists will receive 100 percent of the profits from works sold.

Before the art fair opens to the general public Sept. 3, a new 90-by-36-foot mural was unveiled as a dedication to the partnership between GANGGANG and the Indianapolis Recorder Sept.

1 at Stutz Business Center.

Crowe Storm first met Jeffers when she was working at the Arts Council of Indianapolis in 2010. Storm was showcasing her series, “The Lynch Quilt Projects,” a community-based initiative exploring the history and ramifications of racial violence in the United States, through quilting, embroidery and dyed textiles.

Upon seeing how Black artists and their art were being treated by the public, Jeffers decided something needed to be done to give the artists the attention and care their art deserved. “‘BUTTER’ is about how we do the art justice,” Jeffers said. “The event is a way for people to experience art in a new way and to elevate the narrative around art made

by Black people.”

When coming up with a title for her art show, Jeffers said she wanted something that felt fresh and relevant but would also have different meanings for different people. Because butter is an essential ingredient when it comes to cooking, Jeffers said the characteristics of butter made her think of what her show was trying to say about Black artists.

“Everyone has a relationship with butter,” Jeffers said. “Everybody can talk about butter in some way. It felt like, instantly, everybody was drawn to it and wondered what butter meant.”

Terry Whitt Bailey, former Ball State chief of staff and professor, met Jeffers in 2010 when Bailey hired her as the director of marketing at the Madam Walker Legacy Center in Indianapolis.

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Mali Simone Jeffers said it was important for her and co-founder Alan Bacon to create GANGGANG as a way to put structure around their support for people of color. “GANGGANG not only directly supports artists, but we advocate for increased funding and infrastructure for the creative economy more broadly,” Jeffers said. ELLEN NEIERS, PHOTO PROVIDED

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Associate Opinion Editor, “Abstraction” Elissa Maudlin is a junior journalism news major and writes “Abstraction” for The Daily News. Her views do not necessarily reflect those of the newspaper.

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Even if you put us on a pedestal, we still feel leaps and bounds away from normalcy. t all started with Billie Eilish.

One day this past summer, I casually mentioned that I found her attractive and unknowingly set my loved ones’ worlds on fire in a burst of happy, bisexual flames. For the first time, I had mentioned liking a girl, and their allyship erupted from their well-intentioned hearts through recurring remarks about it the following weeks.

To them, it was exciting. This was the turning of a leaf in my identity journey, and saying phrases all culminating around Billie Eilish being “my girl” seemed to promote acceptance and encouragement.

In theory, this is the way we are supposed to treat people with different sexualities. Many people are taught in diversity classes to honor, admire and uplift those who are seen as different. The people around me were doing everything right. However, if this is the correct way to treat people who are considered different from the norm, why did I still feel self-conscious about simply liking a girl?

The answer is I didn’t want to be treated differently.

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Maybe it comes from systematic judgment or my own paranoid shame, but, after all this time, I still struggle with my sexual identity. I’m still slightly uncomfortable discussing my attraction and worry that writing about this vulnerable part of me will be too inappropriate for readers. Believe it or not, I’ve broken down many walls to get to this place.

The peculiar thing is that I grew up in an accepting home and was never taught being LGBTQ was wrong. Still, the shame lingers, and I’ve always wondered where it comes from.

There have been major changes legally in recent years when it comes to gay rights. In October 2009, the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Law was signed, and, in December 2010, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” was repealed, a law that prohibited LGBTQ people from fighting in the military and forced them to hide their identity. But, 2015 marked the biggest win for queer rights when gay marriage was finally legalized in all 50 states with Obergefell v. Hodges.

I believe we’ve come a long way when it comes to how we treat others with different identities. On the flipside, though, I wonder if we’ve shot too far in the opposite direction: shoving people with different identities into the limelight and placing them on pedestals so high up that their every move feels broadcast.

The big problem with this is we haven’t gotten away from one of the core beliefs we started with: those who have different identities are innately different.

It sounds strange, especially with the word “different” being used to describe the same groups I believe we should treat the same. To make someone feel different is a double-edged sword — it can leave a person feeling special and unique, but it can also isolate and single them out.

We are seen as special, unique, brave, edgy, but all those adjectives give off the same impression: we’re still different. We’re still an ‘other.’”

Perhaps allies are doing this because they are trying to repent for how queer people have historically been treated, like the tragic murder of Matthew Shepard, the murder of the first openly gay governor Harvey Milk and the police invasion of The Stonewall Inn. Maybe gay allies are subconsciously trying to make up for these incidents by giving our identity more attention and more praise.

However, doesn’t this just reiterate the fact that society still considers queer people different from the norm?

Doesn’t this make it harder for queer people to acclimate in society as just another romantic relationship or personal identity?

In my own journey, all I’ve ever wanted is to feel normal. My own insecurities with my bisexuality already make me feel slightly weird, and, when any unnecessary attention is added to that, it makes all those feelings worse. I find myself measuring every facial movement, every look of the eye and every word to see if others are uncomfortable when I talk about my identity.

The difficult part of this is the people uplifting me want me to feel accepted, loved and cherished. They go out of their way to make me understand they admire this part of me. It can feel odd criticizing this because they try so hard to be good allies.

Then, I see how this plays out on the broader spectrum. When I looked up “gay Disney character,” I counted at least seven articles that specifically talked about sexuality, as if it was something edgy. From my experience, movies like “Brokeback Mountain” seem more exciting and taboo to watch than movies with straight relationships, even with equally sexual content.

Queer people often feel obligated to announce who they are and are met with applause, tears and words of affirmation while straight people just bring home their opposite gendered partner, and no one really cares.

There is still this looming idea that LGBTQ people are different.

We are seen as special, unique, brave, edgy, but all those adjectives give off the same impression: we’re still different.

We’re still an “other.”

We’re still not normal, and, for someone still coming to grips with living in their identity with confidence, that’s all we really want to be.

For some of us, we just want to be seen as normal.

Contact Elissa Maudlin with comments at ejmaudlin@bsu.edu or on Twitter @ejmaudlin.

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Ball State Soccer assistant coach Hannah Sullivan prepares to kick the ball while playing for Indiana State. Sullivan has known she wanted to coach soccer since she was a child. HANNAH SULLIVAN, PHOTO PROVIDED

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Bailey said she was not surprised when she heard about Jeffers’ upcoming art show because it was something she had expected from her. “[Mali] develops something in her mind, and you can just see when it’s happening, and she sees the end before it’s there,” Bailey said. “She was able to bring people together and bring audiences to places to see artists that they may never have thought they would have liked. She’s been doing that, and now it’s on a bigger scale.”

As a curator and a dancer, respectively, both Jeffers and Bailey have learned not to tolerate any negative comments on Black art.

Because harsh comments usually come from people who don’t understand those who express themselves artistically, Bailey said,

During the 2020-21 season, Sullivan landed her first coaching gig at Marian University, where she worked under current Ball State assistant coach Gary Yohe. Sullivan then followed Yohe to Ball State after seeing his intensity and how much he got out of his players.

Before her stint at Marian, Ball State head coach Josh Rife had been in contact with Sullivan. More than a year ago, Sullivan reached out to Rife interested in a graduate assistant coach position.

At the time, the Cardinals’ staff was full, but Rife kept Sullivan in mind for future opportunities. A year later, Sullivan stands beside Rife on the sideline.

“She’s been very involved in training goalkeepers and running sessions, so her comfort level in that environment is massive,” Rife said. “It’s something we haven’t had since I’ve been here, so I couldn’t be more excited to have her here.”

Since becoming a coach, Sullivan has noticed her approach to the game change in several ways. She said she focuses on the small details and is able to identify moments of importance and express those to players, like hitting the ball earlier or making a save. Sullivan has learned to embrace the role of being an underdog, which she experienced as a player herself.

“There’s nothing more I love than being an underdog,” Sullivan said. “That’s pretty much who I was, and I love it. I like being able to kind of share my experiences of being in that same position and being successful sometimes, and sometimes not, and that’s OK. I

just think having that underdog, grind-it-out mentality that this team has is the kind of team that I want to be a part of, and it’s awesome.”

After losing the MAC Championship last season, Ball State is replacing goalkeeper Maitane Bravo — who started all 10 games last season and graduated — with senior Alex DeRuvo, sophomore Bethany Moser and freshman Abby Jenkins. Rife said he is positive that Sullivan’s experience in net can pay dividends and instill confidence within the three goalkeepers “She’s connected, first and foremost, with the goalkeepers,” Rife said. “I think to have a young lady who could be a great role model, and someone who’s been where the players have been and can be very relatable to them, you can’t really put a price on how valuable that is to have on your staff.”

Contact Charleston Bowles with comments at clbowles@bsu.edu or on Twitter @cbowles01.

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people should focus on the way the artist is showing how they feel. “[The art] may not mean the same thing to you, but it’s very important to have a respect for the creative process and the person who was creating it,” Bailey said.

Although Jeffers said she is excited and anxious about her first art show, she wants to make sure the artists presenting their work at “BUTTER” are proud of how GANGGANG has taken care of them and their art. Jeffers said she hopes the audience is “pleasantly surprised” by how they are experiencing the art and to question themselves on the true meaning of Black art.

“I would love to have my fellow Cardinals here, so if people are looking for something to do Labor Day weekend, come to ‘BUTTER,’” Jeffers said.

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

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