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DEVELOPING THE FUTURE Alumni reflect as LaFollette demolition is nearly complete.

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hen Jack Salzman moved into his dorm room on the third floor of the Brayton/Clevenger wing of LaFollette in 2014, he said, his room looked like a prison cell, but he was still sad after hearing LaFollette would be demolished.

“Living in LaFollette with slightly unfavorable conditions kind of just made your experience all the more better,” Salzman said. “You kind of humbled

yourself in a sense. Like, it’s not great, but it’s my freshman year, so I don’t know what’s better.”

Salzman said one of his favorite memories from LaFollette was shooting a music video with friends on his floor.

“We literally shot a music video in the study lounge and in the hallway of our dorm,” he said.

“This was the tail end of freshman year, so it was the perfect way to close that chapter, literally having

a goofy time with your friends, making a music video with an iPhone.”

Now, what was once the largest residence hall on campus is only operating the Brayton/ Clevenger wing. Jim Lowe, associate vice president for facilities planning and management, said at full capacity, LaFollette had housed about 1,900 students.

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Aug. 29: Wildfires surging through California left more than 200 people to be rescued by airlift and led to the state’s largest utility turning off power to 172,000 customers in an attempt to prevent more fires. Power lines in strong winds and dry-tinder conditions started the wildfire. California has already set a record of 2 million acres burned this year.

Pinter makes Colts’ initial 53-man roster

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Sept. 5: Offensive lineman Danny Pinter, 2020 Ball State graduate, made the Indianapolis Colts’ initial 53-man roster. The Colts selected the South Bend, Indiana, native with the 149th overall pick in the fifth round of the 2020 NFL Draft. He was the first Ball State selection since 2014 and is one of eight offensive linemen on the Colts’ current roster.

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Sept. 4: Muncie Central snapped out of its 16-game losing streak with a 21-20 win over Anderson in its home opener. The win marked the first for head coach Darrick Lee, who is in his second season as coach of the Bearcats, and the first for the program since September 2018. Junior running back Shoka Griffin led the Bearcats’ offense with three touchdowns.

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Village businesses feel financial strain from COVID-19.

WikiLeaks founder fights extradition Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, appeared in a London court Sept. 7 to fight American prosecutors’ attempt to try him in the U.S. on spying charges that carry a minimum sentence of 175 years in prison. Prosecutors have indicted the 49-year-old Australian on 18 espionage and computer misuse charges over publication of secret military documents in 2010.

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Lebanon recovering from explosion

Customers dine outside The Cup Sept. 6, 2020, in The Village. As businesses start to reopen, more and more people are going out in areas that were popular before the pandemic. MARY STEMPKY, DN John Lynch Reporter Though Ball State students and the business they bring to Muncie have returned, businesses in The Village are still feeling the stress of statewide quarantine mandates and the extended summer brought on by the university’s early dismissal last semester.

“It’s gotten to the point that about three weeks ago, I had to fill out the COVID relief paperwork to the state to try to get some grant money because I don’t think I can keep [the business] going without it,” said Village Green Records owner Travis Harvey.

Businesses that rely primarily on face-to-face contact, like Village Green Records, have suffered significantly without a steady stream of customers

coming into the stores.

Harvey said his store shut down all inperson contact with customers March 15 voluntarily as he and his staff “were kind

Every month, I’ve been losing about 55 to 65 percent of my usual sales from the previous months and year, respectively, and it’s been pretty brutal.”

- TRAVIS HARVEY, Village Green Records Owner of anticipating things getting worse.”

“Every month, I’ve been losing about

55 to 65 percent of my usual sales from the previous months and year, respectively, and it’s been pretty brutal,” he said.

To remain afloat during the economic downturn, Harvey said his business has had to be creative with finding new ways to make money.

Using the online fundraising site Patreon, Harvey said he is still trying to provide the in-person record store experience via a subscription model. Customers can buy a monthly subscription to the store from a $5 tip up to a $300 variety package of records and merchandise based on the customer’s music preferences.

The page has garnered 90 monthly subscribers, but Harvey said Patreon alone is not enough to make up for his financial losses.

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Lebanese families are still struggling with rebuilding homes in the wake of the massive explosion centered at Beirut’s port Aug. 4. Many, who are already unable to make ends meet because of the country’s economic meltdown, now can’t bear the costs of making homes livable.

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Rochester mayor promises reform A video of Rochester, New York, police using excessive force while arresting Daniel Prude in March was released Sept. 2. A series of protests occurred for nights after the video release. Mayor Lovely Warren promised some of the police budget would be redirected to the city’s department of youth and recreation services at a Sept. 6 press conference.

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Continued from Page 01 Samantha Smith, a 2015 women’s and gender studies graduate, said she made friends easily in LaFollette with so many residents.

“There was this sense that everyone wanted to make new friendships, and a lot of people just kept their doors open, which I found very welcoming,” Smith said. “I think the building’s age and upkeep mixed with the sense of ‘We’re young, and we can do whatever we want here’ gave Lafollette more personality than most of the other residence halls.”

The original LaFollette demolition plan, Lowe said, was to have no students living in any wings this semester because the new North Residence Hall could house some students who would otherwise be living in LaFollette.

Because he knew more students would want single rooms during the pandemic, and isolating students would require extra rooms, Lowe said he reevaluated the teardown plan to allow the Brayton/ Clevenger wing to continue housing residents.

“We changed courses a little bit somewhere around May and literally chopped it away from the rest of the building,” he said. “Then, we reattached facade to it and turned systems back on, and now it can be occupied while the rest of the building is being torn down.”

Even though his old hall is still standing, Salzman, a 2018 digital video production graduate, said he was surprised to learn LaFollette would be demolished while he was still a student.

“That was pretty sad because it made me think of all the crazy experiences from freshman year — from the nervous moving in to that music video, which was just a ball of fun,” he said. “It was weird seeing that all come together in one big nostalgia trip.”

The LaFollette demolition process began in 2013 with the renovation of the Johnson residence halls to slowly replace LaFollette’s 1,900-bed capacity.

With the Johnson complexes and the two new residence halls each having between 500 and 600 beds, Lowe said the residence halls on the north side of campus will have a 2,200-bed capacity by fall 2021, when New Residence Hall 2 is expected to open.

To make room for North Residence Hall and North Dining, demolition of LaFollette’s Woody/Shales and Mysch/Hurst wings began in summer 2017.

After the southwest wings were torn down, the second phase of demolition tackled the Shively and Knotts/Edwards halls, which Lowe said he wanted completely demolished before the fall 2020 semester began.

“They started with the wings that protrude out from the building,” he said. “We did that because it’s so close to McKinley, we wanted to get the larger, closest-to-the-street demolition completed before the students came back.”

The demolition of the larger wings left massive piles of rubble behind the fence, most of which will be recycled, Lowe said.

The iron rods that reinforced LaFollette’s concrete foundation will be recycled as scrap metal, and the concrete rubble will be smashed into smaller pieces and used to refill holes in the ground.

The demolition company Renescent has been working on LaFollette since 2017, demolishing

The Brayton/Clevenger wing is currently still standing as it’s housing quarantining students.

Demolition of Shively and Knotts/Edwards wings started during the summer of 2020 and is currently being completed.

Demolition of Woody/ Shales and Mysch/Hurst wings started during the summer of 2017.

Source: Ball State Public Works, Google Maps ELLIOTT DEROSE, DN

the wings floor by floor with mini excavators and hammers. Rick Hall, Renascent senior project manager, said the construction team will use a mobile crushing plant to grind the concrete into a size that can be used as backfill for the LaFollette basements.

“We’ll reuse [the concrete debris] from the demolition as lower backfill for the demolition void of the basements and import about one to four feet of soil to cap crushed concrete with for planting and future development,” he said.

Much of LaFollette’s furniture was also recycled as part of the preparation for demolition, Lowe said. The furniture that was still usable was taken to other dorms on campus where it was needed, while furniture deemed not worth keeping was crushed into chipboard and recycled by Renescent.

“It’s almost original furniture except for the mattresses,” Lowe said. “The process started with taking the furniture, and then it moves into recycling all the concrete, the brick and the rebar that’s in the building.”

John Johnston, who lived in LaFollette from 1988-91, said the furniture looked the same when he moved his daughter into Brayton hall in 2018.

“It was amazing how the furniture was the same, the big block walls and all that,” he said. “Even back then, it was considered one of the older dorms. There were some new ones going up, so it wasn’t the top-of-the-line, preferred dorm, but it was fine.”

Lowe said the demolition, besides Brayton/ Clenvenger hall, will be completed by Thanksgiving.

Brayton/Clenvenger will also be torn down, likely

Left: LaFollette sits partly torn down Sept. 8, 2020. JADEN WHITEMAN, DN Right: Cheerleaders pose in formation in 1976 in front of LaFollette. BALL STATE DIGITAL MEDIA REPOSITORY, PHOTO COURTESY within the next two years, he said.

After the demolition, the construction team will fill in holes from the building footprint and plant grass.

“So, when you come back here next spring, you will see a field that looks like this,” Lowe said, gesturing to the grass in front of Worthen Arena.

He envisions the LaFollette field to be a gathering space for students living in Johnson and North Residence Hall as well as visitors of

North Dining.

“Over time, into next spring and next summer, we’re going to create certain sidewalks and bicycle paths and reestablish some kind of connection to the outdoor plaza for the North Dining,” he said.

“This will become a place where students, faculty and staff can come out, and sit and enjoy the day.”

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Ball State COVID-19 cases compared to other Indiana colleges

Three weeks into the fall 2020 semester, Ball State has reported more than 800 positive COVID-19 cases, according to Ball State’s

Comparing Indiana colleges COVID-19 cases

1,569 Positive Cases University of Iowa 1,321 Positive Cases Illinois State University

1,246

1,151 Positive Cases University of Dayton

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320 cases (1st in Indiana)

Location of Ball State University

Monroe County

230 cases (2nd in Indiana)

Location of Indiana University

923

St. Joesph County

107 cases (16th in Indiana)

Location of Notre Dame University

Tippecanoe County

624

88 cases (28th in Indiana)

Total Positive Cases

Total Positive Cases Indiana

Purdue

There are 92 counties in Indiana, the average number of cases in the last 7 days for Indiana totals 88. All four universitites are at or above Indiana’s total.

Notre Dame

Indiana University:

IU Health testing results:

Mitigation testing results:

STUDENTS: 298 Positive Cases 558 Tested EMPLOYEES: 5 Positive Cases

Location of Purdue University

319

166 Positive Cases University of California, Berkley

Ball State University:

39 Tested

Self-reported testing results: 607 Positive Student Cases 13 Positive Employee Cases

The totals displayed on Ball State’s COVID-19 dashboard come from two different sets of tests: those done through IU Health and those done through other sources, such as self-reports and testing done at John E. Worthen Arena, as well as other partnerships.

Kathy Wolf, vice president of marketing and communications at Ball State, said students, staff and faculty use IU Health’s symptom checker to see if a screening is necessary. If so, they will be directed to IU Health’s virtual screening app where they will be evaluated by a registered nurse.

The nurse will order a COVID-19 test if deemed necessary and give directions to the testing site, Wolf said.

COVID-19 dashboard. The numbers shown are a breakdown of how Ball State compares to Indiana University (IU) Bloomington, Notre Dame and Purdue. These numbers were recorded Sept. 9 at 9 p.m. from each university’s respective dashboard.

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Total Positive Cases

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Total Positive Cases

956 Positive Cases Texas A&M University

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905 Positive Cases 16,448 Tested

Symptomatic testing results: 341 Positive Cases

884 Tested

The totals from Indiana University’s COVID-19 dashboard come from mitigation testing and symptomatic testing.

Chuck Carney, director of media relations at IU, said the university uses mitigation testing, which takes data gathered from testing to find students, staff and faculty who are possibly COVID-19 positive. Those suspected to have positive cases are emailed and tested at one of two mitigation testing sites on IU’s campus.

For symptomatic testing, which is a test done for people who are showing symptoms of COVID-19, IU students, faculty and staff connect with a physician, generally outside of IU, to see if a test is needed, Carney said. The results come back to the university because they are affiliated with someone at IU.

Source: New York Times FREEVECTORMAPS, GRAPHIC COURTESY; ELLIOTT DEROSE, DN

Purdue University:

Notre Dame University:

The totals from Purdue University come from both ongoing testing on campus for students with or without symptoms and surveillance testing.

According to Purdue’s website, the surveillance testing plan consists of: • Required random testing throughout the semester of all undergraduate, graduate and professional program students • Required random testing throughout the semester of all other employees who are working 100 percent of their time on campus • Continued open testing for faculty, staff and students with or without symptoms at no cost • Utilization of contact tracers and a proximity monitoring system to identify potential outbreaks and hot spots to guide additional testing on an as-needed basis The Daily News reached out to Tim Doty, director of public information and issues management at Purdue University, and asked for someone to speak on the COVID-19 dashboard numbers and policies. He said there wasn’t time for an interview and directed The Daily News to Purdue University’s website.

Notre Dame’s totals come from Notre Dameadministered diagnostic tests, done by its Wellness Center and University Health Services, and athletic team surveillance testing, according to Notre Dame’s website.

The diagnostic tests operate on a pass system, with red, yellow and green passes being given based on the symptoms the students, staff and faculty are exhibiting, according to Notre Dame’s website.

Surveillance testing is used to identify asymptomatic and presymptomatic individuals on Notre Dame’s campus by random selection.

The Daily News reached out to Notre Dame to speak with someone to get clarification on numbers presented in Notre Dame’s COVID-19 dashboard but has not received a response.

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“Even with the Patreon, it’s still only equal to about two really good Saturday sales, and that covers a whole month,” Harvey said. “So, if you’re thinking like two good Saturdays from this whole program [can make up for the losses], there’s still 28 more days in the month.”

Village restaurant Hoku Poke is experiencing a similar financial situation. Server and Ball State senior psychology major Sailor Canfield said Hoku Poke may not be able to survive another lockdown without business.

The restaurant, Canfield said, was closed for three months, extending the already-slow summer, a time during which Village businesses lose the support of Ball State students.

“I feel like in the Village, if you don’t own a smoke shop or you don’t sell alcohol, you’re not going to thrive, exactly, so you can just make the bare minimum here,” Canfield said.

Canfield added that the number of employees was reduced to two, and prices were raised for two of the months during the lockdown.

Another local business, the Art Mart,

is facing a similar problem. Owner Karen Fisher said her business was closed from mid-March to mid-June. “[Students coming] back to school is going to make a big difference for us,” Fisher said. “It’s probably going to be the determiner of whether we’ll be able to continue in business or not.”

Unlike Village Green Records, the Art Mart has continued in-person business after it was allowed to re-open. The way the store operates, Fisher said, has been modified to reflect current social distancing and hygienic procedures.

“We never wore masks in the store before,” she said. “We never cleaned between every customer. We never had anyone sitting at the door counting the people that came into the store to make sure that we weren’t over our capacity.”

Fisher said she was conflicted about Ball State’s decision to return in person for the fall semester. “[Students returning was] such a mixed bag for me,” she said. “On one hand, of course, as a business owner, I wanted the students back here. The students are vital to our community — not just The Village but to the entire community of Muncie. On the other hand, as an aging community member and a person who has some other

medical conditions, I really didn’t want them to come back. And if they came

back, they need to behave themselves.”

Contact John Lynch with

comments at jplynch@bsu.edu or on Twitter @WritesLynch.

A sign placed outside Village Green Records Sept. 3, 2020, describes the operating hours of the store under COVID-19. Store owner Travis Harvey offers curbside pickups, outdoor street sales and a Patreon page as a substitute for the in-person record store experience in order to maintain social distancing guidelines. JOHN LYNCH, DN

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‘A blessing in disguise’

Ball State has 2 games against Chippewas Central Michigan recently released its men’s basketball schedule, and the Cardinals are slated to take on the Chippewas Feb. 9 and Feb. 27.

Last season, Central Michigan and Ball State split the season series. Ball State lost the first meeting 71-66 and won the second 85-68.

High School Football

Delta defeats Shelbyville at home Delta (2-0) defeated Shelbyville (0-3) with a 68-0 win. The Eagles’ win was highlighted by a 34-point first quarter. Delta was led by sophomore running back Abram Stitt, who ran for 144 yards and two touchdowns on five carries. Defensively, the Eagles were led by senior Logan Drown, who recorded 10 tackles.

International Then-redshirt junior defensive end James Jennette III (right) and then-redshirt sophomore linebacker Jordan Williams (left) sit on the sideline after a turnover against Miami (Ohio) Nov. 29, 2019, at Scheumann Stadium. Jennette III had one tackle against the RedHawks. JACOB MUSSELMAN, DN

Three Ball State Football players credit their redshirt season for where they are now.

Charleston Bowles Reporter As several college athletic conferences, including the MidAmerican Conference, have come to a standstill due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many athletes have been forced to redshirt this year.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association defines a “redshirt

season” as “a year in which a studentathlete does not compete at all against outside competition.” According to the NCAA, while the athlete cannot compete with their team, they can practice and participate in other noncompetitive activities.

In a normal athletic year, players might redshirt because of transfer rules, which require a player to sit out their first year upon arrival. In other

instances, athletes might suffer an injury early in the season, granting them an extra year of eligibility.

This past August, the NCAA Division I Council announced it will grant all fall athletes an extra year of eligibility, whether they participate in the 2020-21 season or not. The NCAA made this decision amid the cancellation of many fall sports.

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2021 Tokyo Olympics will still take place International Olympic Committee Vice President John Coates confirmed the 2021 Tokyo Olympics will be held with or without COVID-19. However, this could be an issue depending on whether Japan’s travel restrictions remain.

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Redshirt senior defensive end James Jennette III redshirted as a freshman.

“It was a coaching decision for me to redshirt,” Jennette III said. “I was just too small and did not know the technique very well. I was late to some meetings and was not mature enough to handle my responsibilities at the time.”

In football, the most common redshirt candidates are incoming freshmen. This gives the player an entire year to adjust to college life, academic rigor and new responsibilities, such as learning the coach’s scheme and playbook.

Redshirting can be difficult for some athletes, especially for high-caliber players who are new to the college level and are not used to sitting out during competition. Like Jennette, junior linebacker Jordan Williams also spent his freshman year as a redshirt. When Williams learned he’d be redshirting, he said he faced an initial roadblock.

“My first thoughts were slightly disappointing,” Williams said. “You never play on a team just to practice — you always want to touch the field on game day to help your team as much as possible.”

However, as the year progressed, Williams became more comfortable with the idea of redshirting. He said he started to understand the concept’s meaning while witnessing the good that

Then-redshirt sophomore linebacker Jordan Williams reacts after a referee calls a penalty Sept. 14, 2020, at Scheumann Stadium. The Cardinals lost to Florida Atlantic 41-31. JACOB MUSSELMAN, DN

had come out of it for his older teammates.

“I asked other players who had been redshirted in the past about the process, and they told me how great of a decision it was,” Williams said.

“Those players that have redshirted are honestly some of the best players that have walked through this program.”

During the week, Jennette III and Williams had similar routines to their peers. They would complete their early morning lift and proceed to practice. If they were not chosen to dress on game day, they would either watch the game in the stands or on TV, depending on whether it was a home or road game.

Jennette III credits Ball State’s coaching staff for assisting him with his redshirt season.

“They encouraged me to keep my head down and work,” he said. “They let me know my time would come and when I got the opportunity to make the most of it.”

Williams, who earned the “Scout Team Player of the Year” award during his redshirt campaign, mentioned his family as his biggest support system. His father, Anthony — who played football at the University of Illinois — was happy for him to get an opportunity to become stronger and faster. Football was important to Williams, but his mother, Demmie, also understood the academic aspects.

“My mom expressed that she was happy for the sake of my grades and that I was able to redshirt and get an understanding with school at this level,” Williams said.

Unlike Jennette III and Williams, freshman cornerback Derin McCulley battled an injury during his redshirt season. McCulley said once he suffered his injury and was informed about the redshirt, he wanted to keep a positive mindset.

“Once I accepted it, I just tried to get better every day,” McCulley said. “Whether that was working

REDSHIRT a college athlete who is kept out of varsity competition for a year in order to extend eligibility Source: Merriam-Webster

on the bike, watching practice or studying film, I wanted to get better.”

Now that he is healthy again, McCulley said he is thankful when reflecting on the 2019 season.

“It was a blessing in disguise,” McCulley said.

Meanwhile, Jennette III and Williams have since become starters for the Cardinals’ defense. Both experienced breakout seasons in 2019, and each look back to their redshirt season as an important role in where they are today.

“I would not have had a strong foundation to build from without that season,” Jennette III said.

“Not only that, but it also gave me such a boost in confidence when I was able to handle myself when I first saw game action.”

Although some athletes might look down on the label “redshirt,” Jennette III, McCulley and Williams said they learned from the process, ultimately becoming better athletes on the field and better students in the classroom.

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

‘A catalyst for change’ Players and coaches believe conversation will spark change against racial injustice.

Ian Hansen Sports Editor Sports have been a single form of normalcy for many in the United States. In the times of a pandemic and social unrest, many people turn to sports as an escape — until they can’t.

Teams and players in the NBA boycotted their playoff games to voice their displeasure of the racial injustice striking America after the shooting of Jacob Blake and the killing of George Floyd.

Ball State graduate student infielder Janae Hogg said she believes this is a step in the right direction, but it would have been more productive if the NBA players would have actually had conversations with the public instead of doing it privately.

“I love it,” Hogg said. “I think it is amazing what these players are doing. I do wish I could have seen more of them using their platform even more. I wish they would have done a sit-in for the boycott. Bring all of these players together, and have them interact.”

While Ball State sports are put on hold, senior men’s basketball guard Ishmael El-Amin said if an opportunity to boycott would present itself, it would start with gaining the coach’s support.

“It is different for each sport and each player,

especially in college,” El-Amin said. “A lot of it has to do with knowing your coach has your back, and I think that is the first thing. That is the head of the snake, and they are who make the program run.”

True leadership is not telling everybody what to do but having a pulse to what your team is feeling, what they want and providing that no matter the cost.”

- COLIN JOHNSON, Ball State Football offensive line coach El-Amin said this does not mean it is the end-all be-all for athletes not playing the sport they love.

They wouldn’t be doing it for the coach. They would be doing it to spark change and prove they don’t need their sport to let their voices be heard.

Then-senior infielder Janae Hogg stands in the batter’s box. Hogg was granted an extra year of eligibility due to COVID-19 shortening the spring 2020 season. BALL STATE ATHLETICS, PHOTO PROVIDED As a basketball player, El-Amin said, he has a platform that he can use off the court to be defiant if someone were to not support a hypothetical decision to not play.

“We have a voice as a basketball player,” ElAmin said. “Even if you do not have your coach’s blessing, you are able to go out and be defiant, and if they aren’t supporting us, we know we aren’t doing this for them. An example would be not working out until we get change. It’s a great thing because we can stop hooping because we know what we need in the world.”

Ball State Football offensive line coach Colin Johnson said he agrees with El-Amin that supporting the players and building relationships is important for finding change.

“I think that’s the mark of a true leader,” Johnson said. “True leadership is not telling everybody what to do but having a pulse to what your team is feeling, what they want and providing that no matter the cost. There’s always going to be a fallout because there’s going to be others who don’t agree with your message.”

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Cone-In-One Dave and Kyla Bartle revamp their mini golf course and ice cream shop to make the business their own.

Kamryn Tomlinson Reporter “If you would have asked us six months before we bought the place if we would ever want to own a miniature golf course, we would have said you were crazy,” said Kyla Bartle, co-owner of The Frozen Boulder and Boulder Falls Mini Golf and BatZone.

Having been married just shy of 20 years, Dave and Kyla Bartle said they have always envisioned themselves as being small business owners. The couple said they wanted to own a business that was unique to them — something they could be creative with and make their own.

“The opportunity fell in our lap two years ago to buy this place, and it was a mess,” Kyla said. “It was overgrown, and the water features were disgusting. It was just really bad, and I thought, ‘What in the world have we gotten ourselves into?’”

When deciding to purchase the miniature golf course, they realized the old Muncie Frozen Custard was a part of the package.

To start out, Dave and Kyla focused primarily on the miniature golf course and completely revitalized the property so they could make a safe, fun, family-

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friendly atmosphere for the community, Kyla said.

Because the miniature golf course was almost 21 years old, Dave said, it was a complete wreck and smelled awful. During the first weekend of renovations, Dave and Kyla spent nearly 10 hours scooping sludge out of the ponds.

“When we pulled up here, it was just mud and weeds, and people thought it was closed,” Dave said. “It’s been here for 21 years, and when people drove by, it just looked like a mess. The pond smelled awful.”

All of the rocks and boulders atop Boulder Falls were put in by the Bartles and their team of workers, and

the stumps placed sporadically throughout the course were pulled out of a neighboring yard. Amongst the decor are wood-carved sculptures, which were sculpted from two 30-foot redwood trees on the property by a chainsaw sculptor.

With Boulder Falls Mini Golf and BatZone now completely renovated, Dave said the primary goal is to keep improving the property. There are greens on the golf course that need replacing, and the batting cages need a new machine, but Dave said these two additions are very costly, so they are taking their remodels one piece at a time.

After getting Boulder Falls Mini Golf and BatZone up and running, the couple decided they wanted to work on the space where the Frozen Boulder now sits. At the time, Kyla was still working full time, so she didn’t have the time to tackle the other portion of their property.

Kyla and Dave Bartle kiss in front of the sign for The Frozen Boulder Aug. 26, 2020. The Bartles have been married for “just shy of 20 years.”

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Happy and healthy, holistically The back wall of Roo’s Holistic Pet Supplies is lined with different cans of colorful dog and cat food Aug. 20, 2020. Roo’s wants to be able to help pet owners treat their animals’ illnesses without the use of medicines that can be harmful to the pet. JACOB MUSSELMAN, DN

Amber Corduan and Hailey Perkins opened Roo’s Holistic Pet Supplies to help Muncie’s pets with natural treats, chews and other products.

Jacob Musselman Reporter When Amber Corduan’s 7-year-old whippet, Mischa the Roo, was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, Corduan went to her vet to talk about taking a different treatment approach than chemotherapy. Her vet told her holistic treatment would be a waste of her time and that it would kill Mischa.

Nevertheless, Corduan used a holistic treatment with Mischa, looking at her dog’s body, mind and emotional state to get to the root of Mischa’s illness and cure it “for good.” One year later, Mischa was in remission and lived until he was 14 years old.

“If a dog has a tumor, traditionally, the tumor is cut out,” Corduan said.

“Holistically, we ask, ‘What caused the tumor? Why was it there in the first place? If we cut it out, will it come back again and why?’

“Then, we attempt to find the cause of the tumor and try to solve the problem so that the tumor will not return.

Depending on what kind of tumor it is, we might even be able to boost the immune system of the dog so that the dog’s own body can destroy the tumor and there is no need to cut it out.”

Corduan and her wife, Hailey Perkins, a 2013 Ball State graduate, opened Roo’s Holistic Pet Supplies in 2018 after their experience with Mischa. It was the first time Corduan had thought about what she was feeding her dogs and how it affected their health.

Even something as simple as the kind of food a pet eats can cause a multitude of problems, Perkins said. She said switching a pet’s food can help them be less hyperactive, not stink and be happier in general.

The store has taken off, and we are very excited to watch it grow so we can help as many pets and their owners as possible.”

- AMBER CORDUAN, Owner of Roo’s Holistic Pet Supplies Now, Corduan and Perkins offer family-owned food brands with natural, holistic ingredients at their store.

“We want to make pets happier and healthier members of your family,” Perkins said.

“What’s the point of having a dog if you don’t want to pet your animal, you don’t want to look at your animal and you don’t want to smell your animal?”

Corduan said she found her love of animals when she grew up on her family farm where there were always dogs and cats around. After graduating from Taylor University in 2002, she started working for PineAcre Kennels, a pet boarding service in Muncie.

At PineAcre Kennels, The front wall of Roo’s Holistic Pet Supplies is lined with different dog toys Aug. 20, 2020. In addition to selling toys for pets, Corduan said, she became Roo’s also sells face masks made by Muncie local Susan Danner. JACOB MUSSELMAN, DN friends with the owners, Phil and Jane Gray. When they retired, she bought the kennel from them. Later, Perkins met Corduan when she began working part-time at PineAcre Kennels.

“We became friends and enjoyed learning how to holistically care for animals together,” Corduan said.

“While we love caring for animals, our passion developed more into how to help pets and their owners.”

Corduan and Perkins enjoyed helping customers at their kennel, but they realized they needed more space to carry more food and other products.

Perkins said she picked a name for their store, found a location at an old Chase Bank and signed Cleo, Roo’s shop cat, walks on the desk of Hailey Perkins, owner of Roo’s Holistic Pet Supplies, Aug. 20, 2020. Cleo is a foster the lease. See PET, 14 cat from a local animal shelter. JACOB MUSSELMAN, DN

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THE FROZEN BOULDER’S POPULAR ICE CREAM FLAVORS Indiana Pothole is chocolate ice cream with fudge and dark chocolate fudge chunks.

Sea Turtle is Frozen Boulder’s original caramel ice cream.

“We had tried to lease the space at one point to get someone to open something, and it ended up not working out at all,” Kyla said.

“Sometimes, I think things happen for a reason because it just kind of gave me that kick in the boot, so to speak, just to do it ourselves.”

The Frozen Boulder is the only establishment in Muncie that serves both Dippin’ Dots and Hawaiian Shaved Ice, which attracts a lot of customers, Dave said. The Frozen Boulder also sells 24 flavors of Ashby’s ice cream, a brand only sold out of Michigan. While the brand can be pricey, Kyla said, it’s offered at The Frozen Boulder because the ice cream has a high cream fat, which bolsters the flavor. “‘Indiana Pothole’ is a chocolate ice cream, and it has what [Ashby’s] calls ‘car fudge’ throughout it,” Kyla said. “It also has chunks of dark fudge, which they call ‘asphalt,’ so it is really just loaded with chocolate, and people love it. I can hardly keep it in the freezer.”

Because The Frozen Boulder is doing so well, Kyla and Dave said, they are striving to expand their kitchen area so they can

offer more menu items, such as coffee and hot concession foods, to stay open all year.

Although there are always challenges when starting a small business, Kyla said, her biggest fear was the unknown. Some of the questions she said she had running through her mind were “Will we do everything right?” and “What if we don’t make the right decisions?” However, because of the connections and relationships they built with other small Muncie businesses, Dave said, they have well surpassed their own initial expectations for The Frozen Boulder and Boulder Falls Mini Golf and BatZone.

“I’m so pleased and happy with how things have been, but I totally give credit to the community on that,” Kyla said. “We put a lot of work into it, and hard work always pays off, but … [the Muncie community is] spreading the word, and it is really, really helping us.”

Contact Kamryn Tomlinson with comments at kptomlinson@bsu.edu on Twitter @peachykam.

Ultimate Peanut Butter Brownie is peanut butter ice cream with ribbons of peanut butter and chunks of chocolate brownie.

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Dave Bartle, co-owner of Boulder Falls, sets up the batting cages behind the mini golf course Aug. 26, 2020. Bartle said he repaired the awning above the pitching machines last year. JACOB MUSSELMAN, DN

A garden statue of Bigfoot with a makeshift face mask on stands in the rocks next to the batting cages Aug. 26, 2020. Dave Bartle, co-owner of Boulder Falls, said they bring their statues in at night because people keep stealing them. JACOB MUSSELMAN, DN

Kayla and Dave Bartle pose with frozen treats from their ice cream shop, The Frozen Boulder, Aug. 26, 2020. They thought of the name for their shop from the mini golf course they own across the parking lot named Boulder Falls. JACOB MUSSELMAN, DN ILLUSTRATION

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LOOK UP BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE

We are too busy to look up and see the precious moments happening before our eyes.

Molly Ellenberger is a junior mass communications journalism major and writes “Indiana Scones” for The Daily News. Her views do not necessarily reflect those of the Molly Ellenberger newspaper.

My phone Columnist, addiction “Indiana Scones” is real, and I’m not the only one who has this problem.

Right now, technology seems like the easiest way to pass time without putting yourself at risk.

However, scrolling isn’t the only thing we can do while staying safe. While we are socially distancing, we can make the most of our time instead of wasting it on social media.

There are many times when I check my screen time for the day and realize I have spent hours looking at my phone.

Instantly, I feel regret because I missed out on life for hours that day. In those four or five

hours, I could have taken a day road trip with my husband, watched two movies, went home to see my family for an hour and drove back or even just read an inspiring book.

There are so many precious moments in life we will miss if we don’t put down our phones.

The quiet morning coffee dates with Mom, the long chats with Grandma on Sundays, the late night giggles with your best friend — these are moments people may cherish forever, but when they’re happening, sometimes we fail to realize how special they are.

I am a junior this year, and over the past three years, I have learned to cherish every moment I have back home. I soak in the sight of corn fields and the old buildings uptown. I spend a little too much money at local coffee shops, but I don’t mind because that is something I also take in — the atmosphere of a small town. I live for the moments with my family because I know way too soon, I will be heading back to college without them.

If you think about it, even three hours a day on your

PHONE USAGE FAST FACTS In North America, people spend an average of 2 hours and 6 minutes a day on social media.

Based on the prediction for 2020, a person will spend an average of 6 years and 8 months on social media.

phone adds up to 21 hours a week spent staring at a screen.

That is almost an entire day every week you miss out on your life. Think about what you could have done with that extra day.

Maybe 21 hours a week doesn’t concern you, but how about 84 hours a month or 1,008 hours a year? That is 42 days a year spent scrolling on your phone. That scares me because in our four years of college, if we spent just three hours a day on our phones, we would miss out on 168 days.

That’s 168 days you could’ve spent staying up late, going on food runs at midnight or simply making memories at Ball State.

Does that make you rethink your phone usage?

Life is way too short to be staring at our phones.

Moments and opportunities are passing us by, and most of the time, we don’t realize it. If I am sitting on my phone while waiting for class to start, I could get to know the person sitting beside me instead. Who knows, that person could end up being my best friend for the rest of my life.

I promise that when we grow old, no one will remember what you liked and shared in 2020. No one will remember how many Instagram followers they had.

Not even five minutes later do you care. Scrolling through social media is a mindless act that doesn’t benefit anyone. Of course, it’s fun to see what old friends from high school are doing or what your favorite celebrity is up to. I also enjoy that, so I am not saying stop being on social media. Next time, maybe just think before you do it. Maybe the best time to catch up with the world is at night when you’re relaxing on the couch or down time while you’re alone.

My husband and I are currently converting a Ram Promaster van ourselves to travel to 49 U.S. states plus Hawaii but via airplane. In the 42 days we would normally waste on our phones next year, we will instead be seeing the world and making the best memories of our lives.

Contact Molly Ellenberger with comments at mmellenberge@bsu.edu.

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Every second, 11 people start social media for the first time.

Time spent in your life on social media per platform: • Twitter: 18 days

• Youtube: 1 year 10 months

• Facebook: 1 year 7 months

• Snapchat: 1 year 2 months • Instagram: 8 months

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the world.

“Oftentimes, people don’t learn the true history,” Johnson said. “Certainly, when you grow up Black in America, you hear a lot of the true history from your grandparents, your great grandparents and your aunts, uncles and those that actually live through it.”

In the end, he believes for people to learn and become knowledgeable, questions

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This doesn’t just have to do with the relationship between a player and a coach but also with older generations trying to set an example for the youth.

With his players, Johnson said, he also knows it goes beyond the game, and showing love to these young men is supporting them and their decisions.

“If we’re not fighting for the generation behind us, there’s no point in building that relationship and building that trust with young men that we recruit,” Johnson said. “I think it is important that if you truly love these men, you have to fight for them too.”

The athletes and coaches believe this is only a step in finding change, and there is still much more that needs to happen.

After the killing of George Floyd, El-Amin led a march around Muncie with the goal of showing that the community was not going to remain silent.

He said he wanted to impact people and bring them together.

“Muncie was able to see that the community is not going to sit back and be quiet,” El-Amin said. “To be able to put the protest together and impact a lot of people makes me grateful to be able to have such a supporting cast around me.”

He said he knows this change is not going to happen at the flip of a switch and believes knowledge and conversation will be the catalyst to real change.

“Nothing is going to happen overnight,” El-Amin said. “It starts with ourselves, and it starts

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Continued from Page 10 “It all happened very quickly,” Perkins said. “I’m a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants kind of person.”

When beginning their new business, Perkins said, their only challenge was getting the funds in order to make the move and start Roo’s Pet Supplies because they already had experience working with pets and their owners at PineAcre Kennels.

need to be answered and conversations need to be had.

“But for a lot, especially myself growing up, I went to a private school,” Johnson said.

“So, I grew up in a school that was predominantly white, and a lot of those students had questions, and other students didn’t understand Black culture.”

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

The Marketplace Offensive line coach Colin Johnson runs the offensive linemen through drills before Ball State’s game against Fordham on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019 at Scheumann Stadium. Ball State won 57-29. PAIGE GRIDER, DN FILE with knowledge and being able to know the injustices for people of color — being able to have those uncomfortable conversations so you are able to educate.”

These conversations have included Hogg talking to her softball teammates who may not understand what she has dealt with, the severity of the issue or who may be privileged.

She said she believes playing softball has allowed her to have these conversations with people who have different perspectives.

“I think it’s just very important to speak out about it because it’s allowing us to kind of touch on what we’ve felt as kids growing up and even what we’re experiencing now,” Hogg said.

“It is tough growing up Black in America, and it kind of gives us leeway to speak out because most people don’t understand what we go through.”

Another way Hogg believes change will happen, she said, is through conversations when people are younger and schools doing a better job educating children on the history and issues prominent in America.

“We need to learn about this when we are younger,” Hogg said. “I am a firm believer that racism is taught within families.

I think it is important to teach these kids when they are younger and having these conversations in the schools because I didn’t learn about these things until I got older.”

Johnson said he believes it starts in the household and that the older generations need to do a better job of setting a good example for their children.

“I think it starts at home,” Johnson said. “I think, as parents, we have to be the example for our children. Obviously, kids are going to grow up emulating their parents, and if a young man sees their mother or father act a specific way to someone who looks different from them, then you better believe that child is going to grow up the same way.”

Having more than just conversations is important, Johnson said, but understanding the culture of African Americans is a way for other people to understand their perspective of

“The most challenging part of owning a business, especially a pet-related business, is dealing with the customers,” Corduan said.

“Pet owners are very picky about how their pets are cared for. It takes a lot of work to earn their trust, but the most rewarding part is successfully taking care of the pets and helping to educate their owners on how to better care for them at home.”

At Roo’s Holistic Pet Supplies, Corduan and Perkins also offer nutritional consultations where they talk

with their customers about their pets’ nutritional, skin, behavioral, health and other issues to see how their store’s supplies can help.

“We opened Roo’s to be able to serve a bigger market of pet owners,” Corduan said.

“The store has taken off, and we are very excited to watch it grow so we can help as many pets and their owners as possible.”

In the future, Perkins said, she wants to build trusting relationships with veterinarians in the Muncie area. She wants veterinarians to know

Perkins and Corduan’s supply store isn’t there to steal their business. Instead, she wants to work with them and fix pets’ problems together.

“We’re going to stay here,” Perkins said. “When our customers walk in, we know them by name, and we know what they get, and they like that. We may get bigger or busier, but we don’t plan on changing the interaction with our customers.”

Contact Jacob Musselman with comments at jhmusselman@bsu.edu or on Twitter @jhmusselman.

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