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Did you miss it? Catch up on the news from Oct. 10-12

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Ball State Daily News introduced 10 women running for the title of 1959 Homecoming Queen. Each woman was introduced by former Ball State President John Emens. The election invited men on campus to vote on the queen and four members of her court. If you have any Daily News memories, email news@ bsudailynews.com.

Oct. 10: Ball State’s Entrepreneurship Center sponsored a 54-hour business program tasking participants with developing a business idea in a short period of time. Groups of four to six people, many of whom were Ball State students, gave feedback on ideas and worked together to optimize their user validation, technical execution and business model.

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Ranieri ties for 14th, Cardinals finish 12th

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Oct. 10: The Cardinals lost 2-1 to the Toledo Rockets. Senior midfielder/forward Tatiana Mason scored the Cardinals’ lone goal at the 82-minute mark off an assist from redshirt senior midfielder Nicky Potts. However, Toledo then scored both of its goals in the final seven minutes of the match.

Up next for Ball State is a match against Ohio Oct. 14.

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Oct. 12: Ball State Men’s Golf competed in the two-day Purdue Fall Invitational, placing 12th out of 12 teams with a final score of 909 (45-over-par). Senior Joey Ranieri led the team with eight birdies and shot a 72 in each of the three rounds, finishing with a final score of 216. The Cardinals wrap up their fall season at the Dayton Flyer Invitational Oct. 18-19 in Ohio.

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Minnetrista hosts family adventure day Minnetrista invited families to explore its campus and enjoy crafts, games and treats Oct. 13 for its “Family Adventure Day: Fall Festival.” The events, which prioritize safety, are scheduled based on the Muncie Community Schools’ calendar for fall and spring breaks.

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Blood drive honors late Steve Horwitz Ball State and surrounding libraries contribute to documenting life during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A display of Ball State COVID-19 response materials help memorialize the impacts the pandemic had on students Oct. 13 in Bracken Library. The display is part of the “Document Your Story: COVID-19 Pandemic Project Archive.” JOEY SILLS, DN Jaden Hasse and Grace Bentkowski Reporters Memories of the COVID-19 pandemic can be locked away through photos, videos or other forms of media, especially in today’s digital age. Ball State and other collections are using their own repositories as the key.

To preserve what life was like during the COVID-19 pandemic for future generations, the team members of Ball State University Libraries’ Archives and Special Collections have partnered with the Everyday Life in Middletown Project and Muncie Public Library to organize “Document Your Story: COVID-19 Pandemic Project Archive.”

We developed the ‘Document Your Story: COVID-19 Pandemic Project Archive.’ This was a way for our community, both campus and local, to submit their story, to be a part of the narrative and have a voice during this time.”

- SARAH ALLISON, Head of archives user engagement at Bracken Library

“The COVID-19 Pandemic Project, in many ways, is a logical extension of the commitment of the libraries’ archives to document, acquire and preserve the history of our community,” said Matthew Shaw, dean of University Libraries.

The goal of the project is to get donations of items, specifically related to the pandemic, from the Muncie and Ball State communities for residents, students and historians to look back on these unprecedented times, said Sarah Allison, head of archives user engagement. The collection has accepted photos of Ball State’s campus, as well as journals and poems from residents of Muncie and Delaware County. Submissions are not limited to artwork, videos and other media.

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Versiti Blood Center of Indiana visited Ball State’s campus Oct. 7 to collect blood from 16 donors, some of whom donated blood in honor of Steve Horwitz, former distinguished professor of free enterprise in the Department of Economics. Horwitz died in June 2021 from multiple myeloma, a disease that required multiple blood transfusions.

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Ball State PBS receives Ready To Learn grant Ball State announced Oct. 7 the campus PBS station, WIPB, received a $260,000 grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to extend the reach of PBS KIDS’ early learning resources to local communities. The station plans to create a “Learning Neighborhood” to foster a community-wide culture of learning at home.

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Homecoming returns to fall celebrations with in-person events.

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Everything had to be virtual, and we had to rethink almost everything. [It] came with a lot of challenges, but I think it went better than we expected.”

- JOSIE MARCUM, Homecoming Steering Committee general chair

Marcum said, under normal circumstances, the Homecoming Steering Committee begins planning for the following year’s Homecoming in November once the interview and application process is complete, giving committee members almost a year to plan for the event. After the spring 2021 Homecoming, both the 2020 and 2021 committees worked together for a brief period, providing a unique opportunity for new committee members. “[There was] a transitionary period for a few weeks where we were finishing up the spring Homecoming, brainstorming [and] prepping for fall,” Marcum said. “The few weeks of overlap were a great way for the new 2021 committee to learn from the previous 2020 committee.”

One of these new committee members was Marissa Perkowski, senior public relations major and social media chair of the 2021 Homecoming Steering Committee. Perkowski said she wanted to join the committee for the leadership opportunities that come with planning a university-wide celebration.

Perkowski said her role as social media chair for the committee means she works closely with all committee members to advertise events ahead of

Homecoming. Though the experience of planning for Homecoming has been unusual due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Perkowski said she believes committee members have risen to the challenge.

“It [was] a lot of stress,” Perkowski said, “but I also think it showed the committee very quickly what we needed to get done, and everyone has been working extraordinarily hard to just get stuff done by the deadline.”

Although she was nervous after being elected social media chair, Perkowski said being part of the committee was a rewarding experience and gave her a new perspective on the event she has enjoyed since she was a freshman.

“This is the first fall Homecoming since 2019, [and] I do expect the Ball State community to show out,” Perkowski said. “As a freshman in 2018,

Source: Ball State University

Beginning Oct. 18, Ball State will celebrate its Homecoming in a traditional fall format once again. The Bed Races will return to West Riverside Avenue, Air Jam participants will be allowed to unmask and other events will welcome audiences and spectators back in person.

Due to COVID-19 concerns, the fall 2020 Homecoming was postponed to last spring.

Multiple events, such as the Homecoming Kickoff and alumni engagement receptions, were completely virtual. Others included restrictions for social distancing, including Air Jam, the Talent Search and Bed Races.

Michelle Johnson, director of alumni engagement, student, young alumni and athletics programs, is the Homecoming Steering Committee adviser on campus. Johnson’s role as adviser, which she has held for 16 years, includes constantly engaging and working with alumni for the Ball State Foundation.

“This fall, we will be hosting our traditional Homecoming events in person while keeping some virtual elements,” Johnson said. “We are looking forward to holding our events that the Ball State community has grown to love in a more traditional way through in-person opportunities while keeping safety at the top of our priorities.”

Johnson said safety was a priority when planning events for students, alumni and faculty during Homecoming. Even with all of these factors in play, Johnson said she believes alumni will have an increased presence on campus during Homecoming compared to last spring’s events.

“Homecoming provides many opportunities for alumni to come back to campus, reminisce with former classmates and friends and celebrate their alma mater,” Johnson said. “Our goal is to provide a wide variety of engaging events and activities for all of our constituent groups to enjoy.”

Josie Marcum, senior organizational communication studies major and 2021 Homecoming Steering Committee general chair, said last spring’s events were a success despite the circumstances. Marcum, who has been the Steering Committee chair since fall 2020, previously served as the parade chair for the fall 2020 committee.

“Everything had to be virtual, and we had to rethink almost everything,” Marcum said. “[It] came with a lot of challenges, but I think it went better than we expected.”

Homecoming was the first time I really realized all that Ball State could be for me — as a community with so many individuals showing up to share their love and appreciation for the university.”

Marcum said the use of face masks was a common discussion point during the planning of events. She also said the university had worked closely with committee members to find a balance that was safe for students while also providing a sense of normalcy for indoor events.

For outdoor events where social distancing can’t be maintained, Marcum said masks are encouraged but not mandated. At Air Jam, audience members will have to wear masks, but they won’t be required for performers.

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Because indoor activities are still sometimes limited, the entire digital collection can be viewed online through each archive’s respective repositories. Details for analog submission are listed on each site’s submission page.

The idea for the collaborative project materialized in March 2020 after Allison saw photos posted on social media of Ball State’s studentless campus after students and staff began online classes March 16, 2020. She then reached out to Sara McKinley, manager of local history and the genealogy department at Muncie Public Library; Patrick Collier, director of the Everyday Life in Middletown Project; and James Connolly, director of the Center for Middletown Studies, to gauge each of their interests in cataloging these once-in-a-lifetime experiences.

“We developed the ‘Document Your Story: COVID-19 Pandemic Project Archive,’” Allison said. “This was a way for our community, both campus and local, to submit their story to be a part of the narrative and have a voice during this time.”

Together, the group of leaders came up with the proposal for the project. It was quickly deemed a threeway archive giving each collection its own unique perspective, McKinley said.

“We’re all working in tandem with each other but on our own projects [while] promoting it all together,” McKinley said.

The submission portals opened April 1, 2020, and all three archives moved promptly amid an unprecedented time. Students’ writing assignments for classes then became part of a digital time capsule in the early weeks of the pandemic.

Along with submissions from students, diarists from the Everyday Life in Middletown Project began shifting their daily writing to documenting history.

“We’re living through a moment of crisis, and one part of that crisis is public discussion,” Collier said.

SUBMITTING TO BALL STATE REPOSITORY 1. Visit https://bsu.libwizard. com/f/c19ppa.

2. Fill out email, name and affiliation with the university.

3. Enter info about your location.

4. Answer questions about your submission.

5. Upload up to four of your submissions at once. File uploads are limited to 100 MB. 6. Click “Submit.”

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We’re living through a moment of crisis, and one part of that crisis is public discussion.”

- PATRICK COLLIER, Director of the Everyday Life in Middletown Project The Everyday Life in Middletown Project was created for people to discuss everyday life in 2016 because it tends to be the mundane events of Muncie that are recorded the least, Collier said. When the pandemic initially affected the Ball State campus community, Connolly knew a project like Everyday Life in Middletown would play an intricate role in recording something as unpredictable as the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Since we had already been doing this documenting of everyday experiences, we thought that we would shift our focus to everyday life in the pandemic and connect our efforts,” Connolly said. “[Through the project], we would provide a different dimension of how the pandemic has affected everyday life.”

Everyday Life in Middletown’s diarists have written entries about their day-to-day life, answered a variety of questions about the pandemic and submitted their personal experiences of the time.

There are three different methods of engagement for those willing, each offered by one of the three organizations contributing to the project. As all three entities continue to collect bits and pieces of history, McKinley said she wants those interested in submitting work to know it is never too late to submit their memories.

“Everyone is still very much in the thick of the pandemic right now, and we’re very much responding to our everyday life struggles right now,” McKinley said. “We’ve encouraged people to document their thoughts and everyday experiences, like what they are seeing when they’re traveling, what they see in their home and workplace.”

Contact Jaden Hasse with comments at jdhasse@ bsu.edu or on Twitter @HasseJaden. Contact Grace Bentkowski with comments at gmbentkowski@bsu. edu or on Twitter @GBentkowski.

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Ball State has seen a decline in freshmen enrollment for the 2021-22 school year.

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted both the 2019-20 and the 2020-21 academic years, and now, the effects of it are seen well into the current school year. Outside of the ongoing indoor mask mandate on Ball State’s campus and increasing pressure to get vaccinated, Ball State has also seen an 8 percent decrease in freshmen enrollment. At the Oct. 1 Board of Trustees meeting, Paula Luff, vice president for enrollment, planning and management, said prospective students weren’t able to visit campus due to the pandemic, and she considered that to be one of the reasons for declining enrollment in the fall 2021 semester.

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Incoming students who are HOOSIERS

80

3,601 Hoosiers

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2021

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2,925 Hoosiers

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74.9% are white students

GENDER DIVERSITY

are males

90 percent are Hoosiers

RACIAL DIVERSITY

62.2% are females

25.1% 2021

Sources: Ball State Board of Trustees Oct. 1 meeting, Indiana Comission for Higher Education, Daily News Archives

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Students are seeking short-term certifications The percentage of Hoosier students seeking shorter-term certifications — less than a two-year or four-year degree — more than doubled in 2019 from 2018.

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Cosby, Plitt receive MAC honors Ball State redshirt fifth-year quarterback Drew Plitt and redshirt fifth-year safety Bryce Cosby were named the Mid-American Conference West Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week, respectively, Oct 11. In the Cardinals’ 45-20 win against Western Michigan Oct. 9, Plitt recorded a seasonhigh 310 passing yards and four touchdowns. Cosby totaled a gamehigh 10 tackles, one sack and one forced fumble.

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Mamie Keith Garard Setter

Kills: 0 Sets played: 2 Hitting %: .000 Blocks: 0

Hayvn Gates Defensive Specialist

Kills: 3 Sets played: 63 Hitting %: .286 Blocks: 0

Ball State finished ninth out of 10 teams with a final score of 959 (95-over-par) at the Rocket Classic Oct. 11-12. Graduate student Liz Kim tied for fifth after scoring a 227 (11-over-par) over three rounds.

Her best performance came in the final round, where she shot a 78 (6-over-par). Ball State returns to the course Oct. 18-20 at the Ozarks National Invitational.

Source: Ball State Athletics

Daniel Kehn Reporter Ball State Women’s Volleyball graduate student outside hitter Jaclyn Bulmahn spent four years playing volleyball at Valparaiso University. There, Bulmahn and her teammates wouldn’t normally tuck in their jerseys when they played. However, at Ball State, tucking in jerseys on the court is a normal occurrence Bulmahn has adjusted to this season since transferring.

“One example would just be to always tuck in my shirt,” Bulmahn said. “I never, never used to do that.”

While tucking in a shirt may not seem like a significant change, it’s the little things that usually stand out the most to the outside hitter and other transfer volleyball players.

Kim ties for 5th, Cardinals place 9th

They were asking me tough questions from the beginning and really trying to get to know me.”

- JACLYN BULMAHN, Ball State Women’s Volleyball graduate student outside hitter

Bulmahn, graduate student outside hitter Emily Hollowell, junior defensive specialist Havyn Gates and graduate student setter Mamie Keith Garard are all new to Ball State Women’s Volleyball — but not volleyball at the collegiate level. They transferred to Ball State after spending portions of their collegiate careers elsewhere.

Hollowell spent four years at the University of Illinois, Gates played two years for the Wildcats at Indiana Wesleyan University and Garard played her last three years in California for San José State University.

Bulmahn entered the NCAA transfer portal in fall 2020. She was nearing the end of her time at Valparaiso and was looking for an interior design program for her master’s degree.

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Ball State uses 5th set to defeat Buffalo 3-2 After trailing 14-12 in the final set, the Cardinals scored four consecutive points to win 16-14 and defeat the Bulls 3-2 Oct. 9. Junior middle blocker Marie Plitt led the Cardinals with 18 kills, four blocks and two aces. Ball State has won seven of its last eight matches. The Cardinals host Northern Illinois for a two-match series Oct. 15-16.

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REFUSE TO LOSE

Senior wide receiver Yo’Heinz Tyler points to the sky after a completion against Army Oct. 2 at Scheumann Stadium. The Cardinals defeated Army 28-16. JACOB MUSSELMAN, DN

The Cardinals look to put their 1-3 start in the past.

Ian Hansen Sports Editor When Ball State Football started the 2021 season 1-3, head coach Mike Neu said they still refused to lose. He compared it to playing a pick-up basketball game with the mindset of, “You aren’t going to score on me.”

After dropping three consecutive games, the Cardinals ended Army’s undefeated season with a 28-16 win Oct. 2. Ball State followed that up with a trip to Western Michigan, where prior to its 4520 win Oct. 9, they hadn’t defeated the Broncos on their home turf since 2013. Now, the Cardinals are back to an even 3-3 record, and there is no looking back.

“We have all been challenged that way where we have to dig deep,” Neu said. “The credit goes to the players — they were ready to go. They took it personally. We have great leadership from a player standpoint. It was good to hear from those players before the game and at halftime.”

Fifth-year senior safety Bryce Cosby said the Cardinals’ “refuse-to-lose” mindset has resonated with him and his teammates, as they have been in this situation before. After losing its season opener against Miami (Ohio) last season, Ball State won seven straight games, including the Mid-American Conference Championship and the Arizona Bowl. “[Neu] brought that up last week before the Army game,” Cosby said. “I thought it made sense to everybody on the team. I think everybody can resonate with what he was referring to — it applies to every aspect of life: ‘I’m not failing this test. I am not getting beat on this rep.’ Everyone has been there, and everyone has felt that moment.”

After Ball State’s win against Army, redshirt fifth-year quarterback Drew Plitt said he believes his team can win every game the rest of the season.

Over Plitt’s first three seasons, Ball State won just 10 games, so Plitt said he knows this team can

respond with their backs against the wall.

“That is just the team we are,” Plitt said. “When it is the underdog mentality or just being against the wall, the only thing that we were able to do is to fight. You talk about fight-or-flight, we are the fighters. We are going to come out every day, and we are going to fight for that win.”

Following the Cardinals’ third straight loss against Toledo Sept. 25, Plitt said he and his teammates had a players’ meeting, came together and established where they were. He said they knew the only direction was up.

“It is a mindset,” Plitt said. “You can do anything you put your mind to — that is what this team believes right now. We go out every day and believe we are going to win that day or win that game. For us, it is just a no-lose situation.”

Neu said Ball State’s 1-3 start tested who they were as a team. He said they answered and responded the right way.

“I love what we are made of,” Neu said.

“Obviously, we have been through a lot together as a team and as a program. I love the makeup of our football team. When our backs are against the wall, you find out a lot about the character of the team.

You find out a lot about the mental toughness of the football team.”

Cosby echoed Neu, and he said the experience of the Cardinals and what they have been through in the past has gone a long way in getting them back on the right track.

“The resilience of this team, the things we have been through — those things do not go unnoticed,” Cosby said. “We have a lot of experience on this team. We have a lot of guys who have played a lot of football. Moments like these — where we are the underdog — nobody blinked. We stayed true to our process. I think it speaks to the resilience, toughness and experience of the guys on this team.”

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

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DOUGHNUT Continued from Page 09 Miguel Naranjo Reporter Carlie Boggs, Ball State junior computer information systems major, came across an advertisement on Facebook in January for a new doughnut shop opening in Yorktown, Indiana. When Boggs visited the shop to try its doughnuts, she said she was mesmerized by the treats she had just bought.

Boggs told Brad Daughtery, her boss at Hoola Managed IT — where she interns — about the doughnuts, and he asked her to bring some in for him to try. “[He said], ‘This is the best doughnut I’ve ever had in my life,’” Boggs said. “[I said], ‘You know what would be so cool, is if we got a doughnut made for Hoola.’”

The local doughnut shop obliged to Bogg’s request and baked a doughnut topped with orange icing and blue sprinkles, Hoola Managed IT’s company colors, as well as a shell-shaped candy.

Hoola Managed IT would use this doughnut in marketing campaigns to spread the word not just about its company, but also about a small doughnut shop named Purdylicious Sweet Shoppe.

Owners Jeff and Kerri Purdy opened Purdylicious Sweet Shoppe in January. When Purdylicious first opened, Kerri Purdy said they were flooded with

Meeting the other vendors, hearing their stories [and] learning based on other people’s experiences ... you make lifelong friends.”

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positive reception from the community.

“We had quite a few people that we had to turn away because there was not enough room for them to get in the building,” Kerri Purdy said.

Five years before opening their doughnut shop, Jeff and Kerri Purdy sold kettle corn as a way for Jeff to revive an old tradition from his childhood.

Every Labor Day, Jeff Purdy and his family would make kettle corn in a large cast-iron cauldron for family reunions on their 80-acre farm in Huntington, Indiana.

After a 20-year hiatus, Jeff Purdy and his wife gathered their friends to share the kettle corn he had made.

“A buddy said, ‘Hey, this is fantastic. You should start a business doing this,’” Jeff Purdy said. “Next thing you know, we’re doing festivals.”

The Purdys sold their kettle corn at festivals all over Indiana from their Purdylicious food trucks. Along with popcorn, the Purdys sold their homemade lemon shake-ups, shaved ice and elephant ears.

Because festivals would often be oversaturated with one food item, the Purdys said they were not able to sell their elephant ears at every event they worked, as was the case at the 2021 Farmers Pike Festival in New Castle, Indiana.

“You go to an event [where] everybody’s selling the same thing — which one do you choose? We couldn’t sell our elephant ears, so we decided to sell the doughnuts,” Jeff Purdy said. “We probably convinced 60 percent of the people that asked for an elephant ear to buy cinnamon and sugar doughnuts.”

Although the Purdys typically didn’t have to rely on their backup plan of selling doughnuts when they were out of elephant ears while on the road, Jeff Purdy said, the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to get creative.

“We did not really do anything when the pandemic first started because everything was shut down,” Kerri Purdy said. “With no group gatherings, there’s no mobile [operation], so there’s no business. Without an income, you have to make one.”

Because most of their scheduled events were canceled at the start of the pandemic, the Purdys decided it was time to give the brick-and-mortar model a try.

“When we were planning on what to do, we decided, ‘OK, we’ve kind of built a reputation for elephant ears the last few years — what can we do [on a] day-to-day basis that resembles an elephant ear?’” Jeff Purdy said. “[We] decided to come up with the doughnuts.”

Customers at Purdylicious Sweet Shoppe can choose between five different glazes and 12 different toppings to put on their doughnuts, allowing for a wide range of flavors to be combined. Along with doughnuts, Purdylicious also sells treats like ice cream, slushies and smoothies. The drink menu at Purdylicious Sweet Shoppe has coffee, lattes, boba tea and lemonade in a variety of flavors.

Kerri Purdy said she intended Purdylicious Sweet Shoppe’s environment to feel welcoming and comfortable to bring in customers. The shop features repurposed and re-upholstered chairs and a couch that came from her husband’s uncle’s house. “[The couch] goes with our color scheme, so I thought it’d be perfect,” Kerri Purdy said. “I want it to feel comfortable … I don’t want it to be a stuffy, uncomfortable place to sit and hang out.”

Amber Lindstrom, an employee at Purdylicious

The inside of Purdylicious Sweet Shoppe is decorated with fun and festive neon signs and sprinkle lanterns Sept. 29. The shop features crochet projects from Kerri Purdy’s mother as decorations. MIGUEL NARANJO, DN

Amber Lindstrom, a Purdylicious Sweet Shoppe employee, makes an iced coffee Sept. 29. Purdylicious Sweet Shoppe has a wide range of coffees on its menu that can be viewed at purdylicious.square.site. MIGUEL NARANJO, DN Sweet Shoppe, met the Purdys when they sold their food at flea markets she managed. She worked parttime with Jeff and Kerri Purdy before becoming a full-time employee.

“I know a lot of places make doughnuts fresh every day, but you don’t get to choose the combination of things that you want on it,” Lindstrom said. “All times of the day, people buy doughnuts — it’s not just a morning thing.”

When COVID-19 restrictions began to be lifted and large gatherings were permitted again, the Purdys returned to their food trucks and went back to attending festivals — just as they did before the start of the pandemic.

Running a shop and a mobile operation has been difficult, Jeff Purdy said, as there are times

A donut flag waves outside Purdylicious Sweet Shoppe on 9208 W. Smith St. in Yorktown, Indiana, Sept. 29. Although the store is not in Muncie, it is only a 15-minute drive from Ball State. MIGUEL NARANJO, DN when there are not enough employees, so the Purdys have to close the shop and go mobile.

However, what keeps Jeff and Kerri Purdy going is knowing how important it is for them to sell their food at festivals.

“I wouldn’t trade it for the world, though — it’s just amazing,” Jeff Purdy said. “Meeting the other vendors, hearing their stories [and] learning based on other people’s experiences ... you make lifelong friends.”

Contact Miguel Naranjo with comments at miguel.naranjo@bsu.edu.

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GRADUATION PARACHUTE Universities need to give students instruction on how to survive without a job after graduation.

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.

If everything goes well, I am going to be a college graduate Elissa in 2023.

Maudlin I will walk past my peers, Associate family and other community Opinion Editor, members holding a diploma ‘Abstraction’ I’ve worked to obtain for four years. All those nights of getting homework done before an 11:59 p.m. deadline and the stress piled up on my shoulders will have been worth it. I’ll get a sustainable job, create a life for myself and everything will go according to the plan that’s been placed in my subconscious memory since I was in middle school: college graduates get the job and get to have the life they want.

However, what people fail to mention regularly is that college graduates leap out of the cozy plane they spent the last four years in without a parachute. The graduate jumps out of the plane and might land right on the cushion hundreds of feet down, perfectly safe in a comfortable job with a livable wage.

Or the graduate might be slightly off and miss the cushion when jumping out of the plane, or the cushion already protected too many other leaping graduates, refusing to give any grace to the falling graduate in question.

This graduate will fall smack dab onto the earth because no one really told them they needed a parachute.

As a junior, I don’t have the luxury of not thinking about what happens after I leave

university and about that leap I’ll take in a little more than a year. For people in my grade and major, this is the time of feverishly typing out cover letter after cover letter, fixing the format on a resume for the 15th time and sending internship applications like our lives depend on them — because to some degree, they do.

The employment rate was 87 percent in 2019 for 25-34 year olds with a bachelor’s degree, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Even though this statistic seems promising on the outside, that’s still 892,060 college graduates unemployed. Any of us could become one of them.

Some degrees hold more weight in this department than others. When it comes to 25-29 year olds with a bachelor’s degree in 2018, majors like computer and information sciences and English language and literature had higher than average unemployment rates for recent graduates, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce and Census Bureau. The average was 2.9 and their averages were 5.6 and 4.4, respectively.

So, is there any hope for fixing this situation of graduates not getting the job out of college?

I think the answer to this situation is educating ourselves and tackling the big question of, “what if I don’t have a job after graduation?” head on, instead of hiding it in the darkest corners of our mind and pushing it away with wishful thinking.

I do think there is hope, but I think it’s in the very institutions we’ve spent the last four years in.

There’s a reason why colleges paint the narrative that your career is a guarantee — they are selling you a product, and that product is your education.

Anyone who even understands what the word “marketing” means will have a clue that telling

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students there’s a slim chance you may not be able to give them the dream career they’ve always wanted is not the best marketing strategy.

Does that mean universities are really the bad guys? I don’t necessarily think so, but I do think they need to do a better job of preparing students for potentially facing months of unemployment, because for possibly 892,060 students in the United States, that could be our reality.

How does a person truly sustain themselves without work, or at least without the career they prepared for? Within specific fields of study, is there a way to do things on your own to make a little cash and be seen by potential employers?

How does a student get to where they want to go?

These are the questions I think students truly care about. I don’t care about the luxuries a university has or the things it has done within the public’s gaze. I don’t even really care about Ball State’s 95 percent post-graduate employment rate calculated in 2018.

I care about the chance that statistic could fail me. I care about the backup plan — the parachute that can support me when the higher education system pushes me out of the moving plane and gives me the chance to fly or fall hundreds of feet in the air.

Ball State costs $21, 086 for Indiana residents per year, including room and board, tuition and other fees associated with living on campus. For out-of-state residents, that figure becomes $38,320. Both figures do not include estimation for books, as this can differ from person to person. According to Education Data.org, 43.2 million people are in debt at an average of $39,351 due to student loans.

If 892,060 of those students have that debt in their name, it isn’t really an option not to know what to do if that job they are counting on and went into debt for doesn’t come right after graduation.

There is evidence that alternate career plans and courses designed to promote that increase the likelihood of having a job after college, according to a study done on undergraduate biology majors from the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine. There was a 37 percent increase in students who wanted to achieve their original career plan, a 48 percent increase in students who had plans for an alternate route and a 16 percent increase in the number of students who indicated they had a job after they graduated.

Universities, like Cornell University, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (with specifically the The Grainger College of Engineering) and Rice University (written by someone from Martel College) have pages on their website discussing the need for a back-up plan for after graduation.

Ball State does have a page on its website talking about a Parallel Plan, but it only refers to a backup plan for one’s major in school in case that student can’t pass the classes to get into a major or a major has too many people.

To me, that’s not really good enough. I don’t want to be sheltered from the cruel reality that I

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might have trouble getting a job after college, and I respect older adults who don’t shove that under the rug. It doesn’t mean a school is “bad” if they tell you statistically that getting a job is hard out of college — it’s simply realistic.

Give us financial classes on saving up money throughout our college careers to sustain us if we don’t get that livable wage right away. Give us classes on how to utilize our majors in a way that is self-employed, such as freelance opportunities for the more creative majors. Give us classes on networking on your own because the brief mention of it being important is not enough to teach students how it actually works in the real world.

As students, we need to be aware of the possibility the picture-perfect portraits of our futures can fall apart, and we need to ask for the right instruction from our universities to combat that possibility. No one can promise we won’t be in that 13 percent, but what universities can promise us — and what we can promise ourselves — is the education to know what to do if our future plan falls through.

We need a parachute.

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

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Marcum also said masks will not be required for participants in the Talent Search event, which invites students to showcase their talents in front of an audience in Pruis Hall and compete for a scholarship prize. She added that seeing everyone come together on campus has become one of her favorite things about Homecoming.

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Bulmahn initially was looking to be a graduate assistant for a volleyball team but only started looking for player positions after she was granted an extra year of eligibility due to the NCAA rules during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I sent out some emails about being a graduate assistant at places and they responded, ‘We don’t have any available because of COVID,’” Bulmahn said. “Then, I would send another email three months later: ‘Hi — I know you heard about me asking about a graduate assistant position, but now, with my COVID year, do you have any [player] openings?’”

Hollowell found the Cardinals while looking toward her future career. She looked into playing another year for the Fighting Illini

Fifth-year outside hitter Emily Hollowell (left), junior middle blocker Marie Plitt (right) and freshman setter Megan Wielonski celebrate a block by Wielonski. Ball State will take on Northern Ilinois in Worthen Arena Oct. 15. JACY BRADLEY, DN while beginning to study philanthropy and nonprofit business work.

However, she said she felt destined to go somewhere else. “[Ball State] reached out to me,” Hollowell said. “I was talking to a few schools at the time, but Ball State was super diligent about talking to me, and you could tell that they really wanted me. That really stood out compared to everyone else I was talking to at the time.”

Ball State head coach Kelli Miller Phillips explained each program is different when it comes to the transfer portal. The 2021 season is the first season any player on the Cardinals’ current roster has experienced transfer players entering the program.

“Since COVID happened, [the transfer portal] really just completely changed a lot of things,” Phillips said. “It also just really depends on your current roster. We had had some openings, scholarship-wise, due to other things happening. Therefore, we had positions open to pursue and look [at] other people. It’s really a year-to-year specific and very team-specific based on your current roster of that year.”

When considering transfer options, Phillips said she believes the

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experience and confidence of a player who has played at the Division I level before is crucial for the Cardinals. Since transferring to Ball State, Bulmahn has totaled 196 kills and 18 blocks in 69 sets while Hollowell has recorded 111 kills and 15 blocks in 46 sets.

“Jaclyn, she brings a very experienced arm to the left side,” Phillips said. “I mean, she was a four-year starter [at] Valpo. She hits the ball hard — she hits the ball with control. I just feel confident every time she’s going up there that she’s going to hit a smart, effective shot. Emily brings a very big physical presence. Obviously her size, but as well as playing in the Big Ten [Conference], she’s just used to competing versus big, physical players. I think she brings that physicality and net presence from [a] blocking and hitting standpoint to our front row.”

Hollowell said she initially expected to fill the position of a veteran leader for the Cardinals, but she quickly learned a player’s leadership quality is not based on age at Ball State. When Hollowell and her teammates are on the court, she said, their age is not a defining factor of their game.

“It’s just kind of whoever fits that position best,” Hollowell said. “For me, at least, I think that I kind of just fit in with what they kind of have going already and just try to be kind of an accountability leader on the court — trying to push myself as hard as they try to push themselves.”

Bulmahn said her nickname around the locker room sometimes is “Grandma” because of her age, and her moniker doesn’t hold her back.

“I don’t sit back and not say anything,” Bulmahn said. “When it comes to games or practice, [I] try to take a little bit more of [a] leadership role — not so much in chaotic leadership. One thing I always say is, ‘Control what we can control,’ which is our energy and our effort. Then, from there, good things will happen. I try to bring a little bit of a calming leadership presence.”

Sophomore middle blocker Lauren Gilliland said the Cardinals’ transfer players have been “a perfect fit” so far.

“I think we saw that right away — it’s just their work ethic fit right into ours,” Gilliland said. “They had the same standards as us, and I think they came in with the same goal and mindset that really matched our team.”

Gilliland said the Cardinals work to create an inviting environment for anyone new to the organization.

“I would say we’re welcoming [of] anyone, and we love the new insight and all the different personalities that come to the team,” Gilliland said. “We cherish every single one of them and everyone’s different, but we all have a role on this team.”

Bulmahn and Hollowell echoed Gilliland’s sentiments and said they immediately felt at home during their first days in the program.

“I think that the welcoming presence made me feel like I was a Cardinal and really made me sign up even quicker with wearing red and white and black,” Hollowell said.

Because the Cardinals were able to establish their comfort level with her so quickly, it made Bulmahn feel like her teammates immediately wanted to connect with her, she said.

“They were asking me tough questions from the beginning and really trying to get to know me,” Bulmahn said. “I think one of the first days I met one of the girls, they were like, ‘Why did you transfer?’ Tougher questions that some teams may not have felt comfortable asking.”

Phillips said no matter their contributions to the Cardinals on the court, every player who has transferred to Ball State has made a huge impact on the program.

“All four of our transfers have been huge additions to the team — I can’t emphasize that enough,” Phillips said. “Each one of them

toward current students and faculty, but others — including the Charlie Town tailgate, Chase Charlie 5K and the Homecoming Parade — invite the entire Ball State community to enjoy each other’s company.

Now that people can gather together for events, Marcum said she is happy to host the Ball State community in Homecoming festivities.

“I know it sounds cheesy, but everyone comes together with their families and celebrates Ball State,” Marcum said. “You can just see the bond among everyone at all the events.”

Contact Eli Houser with comments at ejhouser@bsu.edu. plays a very important, specific role in our team, and we would not be where we’re at without each and every one of them. I know some of them have had bigger court roles than others, but they all play a critical role ... Our practice gym is just elevated because of those four, which then makes our on-court game experience that much better.”

Contact Daniel Kehn with comments at daniel.kehn@bsu.edu or on Twitter @kehn_daniel.

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