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Men’s basketball season Arrest over shooting near campus Aug. 24: Ball State announced the finalization of the 202223 men’s basketball season, announcing the Mid-American Conference portion of the schedule Wednesday. There will be an exhibition at Worthen Arena on Oct. 29 against DePauw, a contest at Indiana State Nov. 12. and a contest at Omaha Nov. 16, among other games. Aug. 24: According to Delaware County Prosecutor Eric Hoffman, Malek S. Williams has been formally charged with murder a felony and criminal recklessness after the Aug. 20 murder of Que’Aundre Johnson of Marion, Indiana, near Ball State University’s campus. State student newspaper, publishes during the academic year, except during semester and summer breaks. The is supported in part by an allocation from the General Fund of the university and is available free to students at various campus locations.
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Mick Tidrow announced Voice of the Cardinals Construction worker falls in accident July 19: Mick Tidrow, a twotime graduate of Ball State, is the new Voice of the Cardinals, Ball State Athletics announced July 19. Tidrow will now be calling play-byplay for Ball State football and men’s basketball, among other duties. His first game will be the football game at Tennessee Sept 1. Aug. 23: The Ball State University Police Department (BSUPD) responded to a call of a construction worker falling from the side of the Teachers College building. Jim Duckham, BSUPD chief, said the worker was “alert” immediately following the accident, when he was then transported to IU Health/Ball State Memorial Hospital.
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Accelerate in 2021. Leadership of Accelerate has since changed. Ball State’s campus has come to life as the new academic year has commenced. The nerves and jitters new students have could make them feel restless. Concerns on navigating classes and making connections may be at the forefront of freshmen’s minds. The Office of Student Life’s solution to these feelings and thoughts are Summer Bridge programs.
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National E. Coli outbreak in four states The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that it was investigating an E. Coli outbreak in four states: Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana. The reported number of illnesses is 37, but the CDC does state the number could be higher due to people recovering without medical attention and not testing. There have been 10 hosplizations and zero deaths.
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Campus Ball State President Awards Alumna Ball State University President Geoff Mearns presented Ball State graduate, Annie Burns-Hicks, with the President’s Medal of Distinction at the end of the 2022 fall convocation on Aug 19. The President’s Medal of Distinction is one of the highest awards the university president can give. BurnsHicks graduated from Ball State’s Teachers College in 1958. She became the first black teacher in the Hammond school district in 1960.
Accelerate is another free program held Aug 1418. For the last few days of the program, students helped students not in Accelerate move into their dorms. The previous program days focused on leadership training and learning about campus, according to the program’s website. Liz Hartley, assistant director for student leadership and inclusion, said via email that students can apply through an online application found on the Housing and Residence Life housing portal. KICKSTART, 6
There are seven programs offered: Jump Start, Accelerate, Brown County Adventure, Cardinal Leadership and Service Seminar (CLASS), Early Start, Nantahala Outdoor Center Adventure and Retain, Engage, Aspire, Connect, Help (REACH) MentorTheseProgram.programs allow students to move-in to residence halls early, providing freshmen the opportunity to make connections with others and to learn about Ball State’s campus prior to the start of the academic year. Jump Start is a program that started 2022 for incoming students enrolled in the Teachers College, the College of Communication, Information, and Media and the College of Sciences and Humanities. It is held Aug 10-12 and is free to register, according to the program website. Over 100 students were enrolled in Jump Start, Abby Haworth, director of student life, said via email.
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Although students can see their work from their freshman year at the exhibit, that was not always the case. The exhibit used to be held in the summer months only, Preston said. Now, it is also displayed the first week. “A couple of my goals when I install the show are I want it to have a good impact from the hallway with all the glass,” Preston said. “When you are by the reception desk, I want people to be able to see every piece and not to be covered up. I always say people have seen the exhibit by walking by and through the window, now that is not true, but we try to put on the best representation of things that hopefully excite people.”
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“I enjoy it, they are an open book and a blank slate. A lot of times, and especially in 3D design, students have never worked with any 3D material, especially something like wood … They just do not have that in the curriculum in high school. There is a blank page often, [they are] fearful of the tools or the materials, and our job is to make them comfortable and steer them in the right direction.”
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AMBER PIETZ, DN “Candyland” Bas-relief hangs on the wall at the art exhibit Aug. 18 in the Art and Journalism Building. The work was made by Kendal Roland using carved and painted wood as a part of ADS 102, 3-D Foundations in the Fall 2021 semester.
As students return to Ball State’s campus, art is set to be displayed at the Ned and Gloria Griner Art Gallery in the new exhibit, “Beginnings,” showing art from 2021 freshman students in the School of Art. Work from the exhibit is scheduled to be displayed from Aug. 23-26 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., and a reception, with refreshments, is scheduled for 4-6 p.m. Aug. 24. The art was picked from last year’s Drawing Studio (AFA 101), 2D Foundations Studio (ADS 101), 3D Foundations Studio (AFA 102) and 4D Foundations Studio (ADS 103 TimeBased Video-Intermedia Digital Process) classes. Kenneth Preston, the gallery manager, designs the gallery, installs pieces and labels each piece that is on display. Each piece that is highlighted is from a foundational course. A foundational course is from 2D design, 3D design, 4D design and drawing. Each instructor will differ on specific assignments, creating a diverse exhibit. Students are just beginning their collegiate art journey when they arrive at Ball State. Professors are able to work with them while they enter their early college years.
Right now, inclusion in the Ned and Gloria Griner Art Gallery is limited to those in art school, although they are currently trying to include everyone. “When I first came here, I was impressed with the quality of students and that impression has not diminished at all,” Preston said. “If you put your effort in and apply yourself, you will often get good results.”
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“I really like to focus on memories and playfulness, I focus on my inner child so a lot of my pieces are colorful,” sophomore Kendal Roland said. “I have a wooden piece that is completely rainbow that I titled ‘Candyland,’ that is symbolic of it and what I did as a child.”
While most people think of art on canvas or paper, Geiselman works with different materials to create something new. “Chet [Geiselman] is in an actual woodshop, so students who come in there must know how to use table saws, hand saws, sanders, and more,” Preston said. “What [he] does is he gets them used to working with these tools so, in the future, they will be more comfortable making new things.” Ball State offers classes with woodworking and other materials, some of which may be new to “Thefreshmen.biggest challenge is just learning because I have never worked with those mediums before, so it was nice to learn new skills through conceptual thinking through the 4D class and the 3D class,” Roland said. “Through the 3D class I was able to find a big passion for it and I work in the woodshop now. I am focusing on making things sculpturally out of wood and focusing my concepts on that. It has influenced my art.” As students progress through art school, their work can also level up, so when art students go to new classes, it seems the goal is they may be able to apply what they learned in years past, essentially building on the foundational courses taken“Sinceprior.all of this is from the foundation level, we rarely see much painting, so they will take the skills they learn here and apply them in the coming years,” Geiselman said. “So, say when they get to Ken’s printmaking class, they will up the level.”
“I enjoy it, they are an open book and a blank slate,” Chet Geiselman, the 3D studio manager, said. “A lot of times, and especially in 3D design, students have never worked with any 3D material, especially something like wood … they just do not have that in the curriculum in high school. There is a blank page often, [they are] fearful of the tools or the materials and our job is to make them comfortable and steer them in the right direction.” Inspiration can vary from artist to artist, as finding what their style is, can help make an artist unique.
“I am always concerned about safety,” Lee Ann Kwiatkowski, director of public education and CEO of Muncie Community Schools (MCS), said, “but in the last 10 years, we’ve seen shootings in schools and, before Columbine, that really wasn’t the case. So now that we’re seeing more of those, I would say safety and security is on my mind even more so.”
“Some of the best measures to have a secure school is building relationships, so students can share tips or concerns that they may know about in order for MCS to be proactive,” Kwiatkowski said. “We believe our security team will fill that role for us.”MCS has cameras that feed into the 911 system.
If MCS is having an emergency, 911 can see hallways and large gathering places through the cameras. MCS was able to get this equipment from a $500,000 federal grant.
As of August 19, there have been over 591 million cases and over 6 million deaths, reported to the WHO globally. Faculty and staff at Burris Laboratory School shifted away from doing hands-on learning to be safe during the pandemic and now Comber said they are in the process of reacquainting students with a collaborative learning environment while transitioning back.
“The biggest difference we have seen is that now the ranges of students – their abilities, their needs … we just have a larger range now,” she said. “So it’s more just working to find the right ways to meet the student’s needs when now we have [a much] larger range than before.” She said the school has created a new Student Engagement Specialist position to help students feel connected and safe in the building, since Burris Laboratory School struggled with attendance last year.
Abigail Comber, principal of Burris Laboratory School and chairperson of the Teachers College at Ball State, said a single-point entry door was established in collaboration with Ball State a few years ago. The school has swipe access for people who come in the building and a monitor at the frontComberdesk. said Burris Laboratory school is “so fortunate to be on Ball State’s campus,” with the University Police Department “not even a minute away.” Like Kwiatkowski, Comber believes schools always have a responsibility to keep students safe, and the needs of society and students shift.
Michael McClure, fourth-grade teacher at Burris Laboratory School, said school safety is constantly being re-evaluated by schools and it is important, as a teacher, to be “genuine” with students about emergency safety. He also said making a safe environment in schools is about balancing physical, academic and emotional safety.
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“Some of the best measures to have a secure school is building relationships, so students can share tips or concerns that they may know about in order for MCS to be proactive… we believe our security team will fill that role for us.”
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“Safety to me means students should be able to express themselves academically and emotionally without ridicule,” he said. “Safety also means that students can walk in my room and know that they will not be hurt physically by anyone in the classroom or an outside force. As a teacher, I will do anything in my power to achieve this goal.”
It was May 24 when an armed gunman entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas and opened fire. Twenty-one people were killed, 19 of which were elementary students. This wasn’t the first time a person entered a school with a gun– other school shootings have come before it, including shootings at Columbine High School in 1999 and Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018.
The World Health Organization (WHO) named the outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States as a pandemic in 2020. States decided to shut down in order to maintain public health, and after that, some schools adopted mask and quarantine policies to prevent contamination.
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When it comes to security and safety at MCS, School Resource Officers (SROs) have more extensive school-related training than in the past, she said. In September, Ball State is set to host an active shooter drill at Northside Middle School and has invited MCS’s SROs to learn and participate.
With August comes a new school year, and schools in Muncie are or will soon be filled with students of all ages, in cafeterias, at bus stops and in school hallways. Families may ask for bus drop-off and pick up times and how the cafeteria works, but they may also ask – ‘will my loved one be safe?’
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School safety officers in the building have undergone training on different types of situations, including active shooter drills, how to build relationships in the community and cultural competence.
For Burris Laboratory School, the word “safety” has meant security, staying healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic and currently means fighting student disengagement due to the pandemic.
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Kwiatkowski said MCS also reached out to the Indiana Department of Education security office and sent them MCS’ security plans for review and feedback.
He said teachers “carry [their] students in [their] hearts forever,” and that teaching is personal, not a business to him. For McClure, he said teachers care about things outside of school as well, like nutrition, physical safety and mental“Peoplehealth.think of safety externally,” Comber said. “And I think that’s a huge part of safety… but I just think that now schools are seeing more [of] what all of these external influences do to students internally.”
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For summer 2022, 157 students were enrolled in Accelerate, Katie Yelaska, graduate coordinator for student leadership, said via email. This was Hartley and Yelaska’s first year in charge of Accelerate.
“They get to hopefully make friends with people earlier [than the start of school],” Pittman said. “So they’re in this workshop with other students, but then they’re part of this summer bridge program as a whole that has hundreds of students involved, and so it’s a way for them to connect with people early.”
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Accelerate takes place at the same time as Early Start, CLASS and REACH. Early Start is an academic program that freshmen can register for $135. Students had the opportunity to register for 13 different workshops in the mornings, and social activities took place in the evenings and afternoons, Laura Pittman, program director, said. Students had the opportunity to tour Christy Woods, play games in the Jo Ann Gora Student Recreation and Wellness Center and visit the Charles W. Brown Planetarium.
“I am starting my first year here at Ball State and in my role as the Coordinator for Student Leadership,” Yelaska said. “Accelerate has been my first big ‘project’ here on campus, and there truly was no better feeling than seeing first year students build lasting connections and gain leadership skills through our program.”
“I feel like I’ve been at school a while, so I think it’s only right to kind of give back and help spread awareness about things that I wish I knew coming in.”
CLASS is about campus leadership, Haworth said, and they learn “the Social Change Leadership Model” and also give the students an opportunity to serve in the Muncie community.”
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facilitating program activities,” Yelaska said. There were 11 ACCs this year.
Like Early Start, CLASS has a registration fee of $135. REACH is run through the Multicultural Center and directed towards students of color and first generation students, Huy Huynh, assistant director of the Multicultural Center, said. The program is not limited to students in those groups and the primary focus of the program is community building. Huynh is in charge of scheduling the program and this was his second year in charge.
“I think students really understood what they were coming into, coming into Ball State, especially for those who have never been to a PWI before,” Huynh said. “There’s definitely some culture shock in there as well, and so just them getting to know things beforehand has been really helpful, and that’s a huge benefit for them, as well.”
With Early Start, students are able to gain college credit through the workshops, some of which were about stage and screen violence, Adobe Creative Cloud and criminal justice. Early Start caps their number of students at 200. The Office of Student Life, though it oversees all of the summer bridge programs, is most prominently involved with CLASS, Haworth said.
Tichenor was asked to be a part of a panel for REACH the previous year in summer 2021. Accelerate and CLASS also offer opportunities for upperclassmen to act as mentors. In Accelerate, there are two ways upperclassmen can be involved. They can be Accelerate Connection Coordinators (ACCs) or an Accelerate
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Both of these Summer Bridge programs start on Ball State’s campus, and take students off campus.
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“All of my programs that I created, all the activities that we had, were centered on making sure that students know that they had a community here so that they can feel like they belong,” Huynh said. One activity that helped give a sense of community was a race and ethnicity support group called “Voices,” which the Multicultural Center holds year-round. In this activity, students could come and talk to counselors of color and other students about race and ethnicity. The topic of “Voices” during REACH was what it was like to attend a predominately white institute (PWI), Huynh said.
The APD helps plan out activities Accelerate does, trains the ACCs and monitors the program while it’s in action. to expand the programs. Contact Hannah Amos with comments at hannah.amos@bsu.edu or on Twitter @Hannah_ Amos_394.
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“I feel like I’ve been at school a while,” Tichenor said. “So, I think it’s only right to kind of give back and help spread awareness about things that I wish I knew coming in.”
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Brown County Adventure and Nantahala Outdoor Center Adventure are a part of outdoor pursuits. Nantahala Outdoor Center Adventure has a $500 registration fee and was held July 10-14, according to the program website. Brown County Adventure has a $180 registration fee, and was held July 18-21, according to the program website.
Students have the opportunity to stay a night in a residence hall and learn about the resources in the Recreation Center, such as the climbing wall. Brown County Adventure takes students to Nashiville, Indiana, and they stay at Brown County State Park, according to the program website. Nantahala takes students to Bryson City, N.C., and they spend three nights in the Smoky Mountains.Upperclassmen can be involved in some of these programs as mentors, like Jarron Tichenor, a fifth year architecture major, who was a mentor in the REACH program.
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In the case of the University of Tennessee Sept. 1, the Cardinals will receive $1.5 million for playing the Volunteers – a financial figure Goetz said is the going rate during this era of college football “They generate revenue in lots of ways: television, ticket sales. They’re not selling more tickets because they’re playing us. It’s not a direct correlation,” Goetz said. “They’re looking at their overall revenue in a given year, and then they’re using some of that revenue to pay for a team to come in and play that allows them to prepare for the rest of their season.”
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Darian Owens-White, graduate transfer from Wayne State, was added to the 2022 recruiting class. Head coach Michael Lewis and the men’s basketball team announced August 8. In 84 games for WSU, 49 were “double-digit scoring.”
Women’s Volleyball Ball State chosen to repeat as West Division Champions Ball State Women’s Volleyball was chosen to repeat as the West Division Champions in the annual preseason poll, Ball State Athletics said Aug. 24. The team received 72 points and all 12 first-place votes to win the division. Baseball Alumni Weekend set for October 8-9 Ball State Baseball announced on Aug. 23 the date of Alumni and Friends weekend. The event will take place Oct. 8-9 and will feature a scrimmage game with Butler Oct. 8 at noon. There will also be a golf outing the Oct. 9 at The Players Club at Woodland Trails.
“Basically it’s an enticement to come and play the game,” Beth Goetz, Ball State director of athletics, said. “It’s not a direct payment for expenses…They call them buy games for a reason. They are trying to buy a win against a lesser team, so it’s really marketing value.”
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The term “buy game” is a familiar phrase in college football. A buy game occurs when a larger program, most notably a power five program, pays a smaller program to play them during preconference play with the smaller team traveling to the larger team. Ball State Football is no stranger to buy games, especially when it comes to nationally-recognized teams. According to past game contracts, the Cardinals’ matchup against Notre Dame in 2018 netted $1.1 million, Indiana University in 2018 netted $700,000 and most recently Penn State in 2021 earned $1.4 million.
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The National Football League wasn’t called the NFL when Muncie, Indiana, had a professional football team. In 1920, what would become the NFL was the tiny upstart American Professional Football Association (AFPA), starting its first season.
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The Pro Football Hall of Fame said the league, headed by American sports hero Jim Thorpe, was concentrated in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and New York. Only two teams who joined the NFL in its inaugural season would see its centennial celebrations in 2019; the Chicago Cardinals, who have moved their nest to Arizona, and the Decatur Staleys, the forefathers of the Chicago Bears, the NFL website said.
“People get too caught up in the fact they were founding fathers of the NFL compared to the idea that there were teams all across the city,” Flook said.
The Flyers’ showing on this day was better than their mauling to Rock Island the year before, but it still wasn’t enough; as they lost to Evansville 140, the Pro Football Archives said. After a home loss to the Cincinnati Celts the next weekend by a score of 14-0, the Flyers did not play any more games against APFA teams and withdrew from the league at the season’s conclusion. After leaving the APFA, the Flyers continued on as a traveling independent team until 1925, when the Flyers moved to Jonesboro, alongside the Mississinewa River, according to Flook via his blog. After one season in Jonesboro, the Flyers officially ceased operations. The Flyers’ stay in what would become the National Football League was fleeting; their three league games played make them the third shortest lived team in NFL history. Contact Grayson Joslin with comments at Grayson. joslin@bsu.edu or on Twitter @GraysonMJoslin.
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After their admission into the league, the Flyers dropped the Cognerville identifier and became the MuncieProfessionalFlyers.football was not held with the same prestige and status as it is today. From the inception of football in 1869 until the 1950s, professional football was overshadowed by college football. Therefore, the formation of the regional league flew under the radar. How would the Flyers fare in their new league? That question would be answered on October 3, 1920, when the Flyers played in the second game in APFA history as they faced the Rock Island Independents at Douglas Park in Rock Island, Flook said via his blog. Muncie’s inaugural game in the newfangled league was the opposite of a success. The Independents beat the Flyers 45-0, a result so bad that the Decatur Staleys canceled their game against the Flyers the next week, Roy Sye in an edition of the “Coffin Corner” football magazine, covering the Flyers’ 1920 season, said. That was the only APFA contest the Flyers would play in 1920, as the rest of the games they would play that year were against local independent teams from Gas City and Muncie, in November and December.
The Flyers would come back for APFA play in 1921, as the number of teams in the league ballooned from 14 in their inaugural season to 21 in their next season, Flook said via his blog. Play began for the Flyers on October 2, as they won against a team from Elwood’s American Legion by a score of 74-0. The Pro Football Archives said that their first APFA contest of the year would be the next weekend, as they took on the Evansville Crimson Giants at Bosse Field in Evansville.
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The newborn league had teams in major cities, such as Buffalo, Cleveland and Detroit. The AFPA also gained membership of teams from small cities across the Midwest, such as Rock Island, Illinois with a population of about 35,000 and Hammond, Indiana, with a population of around 36,000, according to the 1920 US Census. One of the numerous small city teams from the early age of the NFL came from the city which would become known as “Middletown.” In 1920, Muncie, Indiana, with a population of 36,000, became the home of a charter franchise of the future NFL.
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He believes “the better story” is that neighborhoods, churches, etc had intra-city leagues, with “an active sports culture in Muncie in the 20th century.” For whatever reason, he said, the Cognerville team ended up being “the best team.” In 1916, the two Cognerville teams merged together and became the unified Cognerville Flyers, a team that would capture the Muncie city championship in 1919. The next year, when the APFA formed, Earl Ball, the Flyers’ owner, attended the meeting in Canton, Ohio that kicked off the league, the Pro Football Hall of Fame said. This meant that the Congerville Flyers were one of the first ten teams in the inaugural season of the AFPA.
The tale of Muncie’s professional football squad began in 1905, when the Cognerville Athletic Club was conceived on the southside of Muncie. Cognerville was a neighborhood that existed west of Madison Street and south of Memorial Drive, Chris Flook, Ball State senior media lecturer and newsletter editor for the Delaware County Historical Society, said via his blog. The area soon had two football teams, the aforementioned Athletic Club and the Flyers.
In the infancy of the soon-to-be NFL, Muncie was home to a charter franchise.
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Do you like drag, dancing and drinks? The Mark III Tap Room invites you to a weekend of drag shows. A total of 12 queens are set to perform between Friday and Saturday. The first show, “How’z The Aura,” takes place on Friday, August 26 at 10:30 p.m. Barber Shop rallies their clientele and community behind local law enforcement
The Muncie Civic Theatre presents Disney’s Beauty and the Beast! The show is rated G for all audiences. It will last until September 4. Thursday, Friday and Saturday shows begin at 7:30 p.m.
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People in attendance at the music festival listen to Hyryder in the rain Aug. 20 at the Lazy Summer Home festival at Spring Valley Campground in Middletown. Ind. AMBER PIETZ, DN
Members of the Middletown community listen to Hyryder as they perform four sets during Lazy Summer Home music festival Aug. 20. The band performs multiple sets a night without repeating any material. AMBER PIETZ, DN
A member of the Middletown community dances to music played by Hyryder at the Lazy Summer Home music festival Aug. 20 at Spring Valley Campground in Middletown, Ind. AMBER PIETZ, DN
Members of Hyryder perform at Lazy Summer Home music festival Aug. 20 at Spring Valley Campground in Middletown, Ind. Hyryder is a Grateful Dead tribute band that formed in 2008 in Indianapolis. AMBER PIETZ, DN
Spring Valley Campground hosts Hyryder’s annual music festival in Middletown, Ind.
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- BRIAN RICHARDS, Owner of Maxwell’s Barber Shop
“A year after I quit and went to barber school, the Bell Packaging factory in Marion where I worked shut down,” Richards said. “God had his hand on the whole entire situation, and I feel he (God) led me where I needed to be.”
Robert Kibbey, owner of the Main Street Barber Shop in Fairmount and Richards’s childhood barber, took note of the volatile job market in the factories where Richards worked. Kibbey offered him a steadier job in his Fairmount shop, which Richards accepted.
Brian Richards (left) discussing a wound on the back of a child’s head with his mother August 18, 2022. Richards is careful to cut around the wound so it can heal properly .MIGUEL NARANJO, DN 14
In that shop, patrons would often go to Kibbey instead of Richards for haircuts. Fairmount had a population of 3,200 when Richards lived there, which was too small to need two barbers, he said.
Miguel Naranjo Associate Lifestyles Editor Upon entering Maxwell’s Barber Shop, the barbers’ razors ring in harmony.
By chance, Richards’s grandfather was visiting his brother in Muncie in December 2000. They both decided to get their hair cut at Maxwell’s Barber Shop, where his brother usually went.
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Richards holds high standards for his barbers, asking not just that they can cut hair well, but also that they respect their customers and treat them like family. “We go to the funeral home to give [final] haircuts, we go to the hospitals for our customers’ when their wives call us, we go to nursing homes to take care of them,” Richards said. “The way we look at it is that they’ve taken care of us for years. We can’t neglect them when they need us the most.”
“I’ve worked there ever since,” Richards said. Bob was the owner at the time, and Marion was parents passed in 2009, Bob sold the barber shop to Richards and retired a year later. Many barbers have worked at Maxwell’s, but currently there are three barbers and there will be another one joining them once he receives his barber certification, which will be in about one week.
According to the Beauty School Director,, requirements vary from state to state but usually require a 1,500-hour-long program involving classwork, apprenticeship and a final written exam.
“Hey, Corbin, come on in,” Brian Richards, owner of Maxwell’s Barber Shop at 2800 E Memorial Dr., says. Almost as soon as he spots a guest, he can call out their name. Metal signs with wisecracks layer the walls above the barbers’ heads, including a board that states their prices, which reads “Free Harassment.”
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And as promised, the barbers and customers alike take full advantage and sling jokes at each other’s expense, bellowing laughter all the while.
Maxwell’s Barber Shop has many long-term clients who come in regularly for their haircuts, like Joe King, who has been coming to Maxwell’s for 35 years and is one of its longest-running clients. “I love the camaraderie,” King said. “You go in there, you talk to the guys, see how they’re doing –you get a great haircut for the money – I guess it’s just a sense of loyalty that keeps me coming back.”
Maxwell’s Barber Shop gives back to the community that has taken care of them for 62 years.
Maxwell’s Barber Shop has been in business for 62 years with three different owners in its history. All three of them run the shop with the same ethos: the customer comes first. Richards, current owner of Maxwell’s Barber Shop, began cutting hair in Fairmount, a small town about 40 minutes northwest of Muncie.
“When you already have a barber that has already been there… 52 years,” Richards said, “it’s hard to go in there and make a good living because most of the people go to him.”
On August 3, Richards annou nced on Facebook that law enforcement officers from any department and agency can receive free haircuts at Maxwell’s throughout August. It was a “kneejerk reaction,” he said, to the wave of violence the previous month and the killing of Noah Shahnavaz in the line of duty on July 31.
There are no hard feelings, however – these patrons have come to Maxwell’s for years, and the barbers have become more like brothers than businessmen.
A large… percentage of people are out there trying to black the eye of law enforcement, and I just wanted them to know and understand that not everyone felt that way.”
When Richards’s grandfather told Bob Maxwell and Marion Lee Maxwell (the owner and his father, respectively) that his grandson was also a barber, they asked if Richards was looking for a job.
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Well, I am going to break it to you right now — we exist, and we are suffering in a society that does not even acknowledge or include us. We have been treated as eternal children, and that image is detrimental to our mental health. People on the autism spectrum are four times more likely to have depression in their lifetimes compared to neurotypical people. Adults with autism face an uphill struggle in life because, even though they may be advanced in some areas compared to their peers, they have to combat a society that places them at a severe disadvantage. Society has used inappropriate language to describe autism; using demeaning and belittling language to then build up a narrative of someone “heroically” overcoming their disability. This is one of the reasons why I despise shows like “America’s Got Talent” so much for how they depict people with autism. We are just trying to do the same things that neurotypical people do; our path to doing it is just different.
The best way to learn about autism is by listening to the people who have it.”
Despite society attempting to “embrace” people with autism, they are not accepting us.
There is one simple goal in order to help people with autism feel wanted — educate yourself and become more accepting. Dedicate your time and resources to organizations which are run by people with autism, such as the Autism Self-Advocacy Network. Watch some lectures about autism by people with autism on YouTube.
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The best way to learn about autism is by listening to the people who have it. We often judge people with autism because they are “weird” based on neurotypical people’s standards. However, our brains just work differently. I have gotten to know people on the autism spectrum in the past few years, and they are the most selfless and caring people that I know. We are not people to be feared; we are people to be loved.
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Grayson Joslin Opinion Editor Grayson Joslin is a sophomore journalism and political science major and writes “Soapbox” for The Daily News. His views do not necessarily reflect those of the newspaper. There was never an exact moment where I was told that I was autistic. It was one of those bits of information I subconsciously knew, like how grass is green and how you shouldn’t talk to strangers. I never questioned it. I accepted it and moved on. I had to go to occupational therapy every week during the school year for nine years, and I knew it was because I had something other students didn’t have. I did not speak until I was three years old. The initial lockdown caused by the pandemic gave me an abundance of time to read and learn new things. One day, I did a deep dive on autism. Finally, after seventeen years on this earth, I began to understand who I am. Growing up, I believed I was inferior to other people because I had autism; no matter how hard I tried, I still wouldn’t be like the “normal” people in my school. In some classes, especially middle school, my fellow students would be talking so loud that it would overwhelm my body and cause a sensory overload. I usually got mad and had a temper tantrum; after these episodes, I felt ashamed people had to see me at my worst. I am one of 5.5 million Americans who have autism. It has taken me a long time to say this publicly, but I say this with a full chest and a happy heart. I am proud that I am a person with autism. Now I have something to ask of you: reshape your views about people with autism. For far too long, society’s views on people with autism have been discriminatory and damaging. The only way that people with autism can be respected in society is if people can open their minds and discard the stereotypes that have been imprinted in ourMyculture.experiences are different from others with autism; autism, after all, is a spectrum. Some people with autism are nonverbal, while others are verbal and are social butterflies. We get overwhelmed by different things. For some people it could be textures, for others it could be lights. On campus, I can still get overwhelmed by a crammed lunch hour in the Atrium. As a kid, my experiences were different from lots of other autistic people. I was outgoing and always enjoyed talking to people and engaging in conversation. Despite my sociability, I still had a long way to go to fully understand neurotypical communication. This was most evident when I started middle school. Middle school was the least enjoyable experience in my life. As I began 7th grade, I moved into a new building, away from the elementary school that had housed me since kindergarten. My 12-year-old self was eager and willing to talk to anyone — however, I was naive and didn’t understand social concepts. The people who I went to middle school with saw that, and they took advantage of me. They would tease me and it was like they were treating me like an infant, like I wasn’t capable of advanced thought. The worst was in seventh grade, going to my first middle school basketball game. The cheerleaders were performing a cheer called the Trojan Rumble, which involved cheerleaders shaking their butts in front of middle school boys. Some of the boys got me to film it and post it on Instagram, while I didn’t realize the true consequences of my actions. I didn’t understand how society worked. The next day, I got called down to the assistant principal’s office because of the video and I became a laughing stock around the school. I felt betrayed and embarrassed. I felt that no one could understand how my mind worked. I felt Despitealone.the typical cruelness of teenagers and later apologies for the behavior, this shows how people with autism are treated. Many have seen the negative stereotypes — we’re emotionless, have a special interest with trains and have strict routines. We are savants with total recall ability, like in the movie “Rain Man,” which both dispelled and created new stereotypes about autism. The blunt and unpleasant truth is that people are not informed on the autism spectrum and therefore fall back on harmful stereotypes that demonize people with autism. Society has tried to accept people with autism, but they are doing it all wrong. Society is tolerating us but not including us. Something that infuriates me with society’s lack of progress with autistic inclusion is the infantilizing of people with autism — most people picture autism in a child and not an adult. However, the fact of the matter is that the children with autism will grow up to be adults with autism. Organizations such as Autism Speaks have manufactured pity for children with autism and, as a result, refused to acknowledge adults with autism.
I can understand why organizations may try to market children with autism since people may have a stronger emotional connection to children. However, the representation of adults with autism has been slim to nonexistent and this has led many so-called “advocates” to question if adults with autism even exist.
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Cardinal Athletics is currently planning the 2028 season with the University of Miami (FL), the University of Iowa and the University of Kentucky on the docket for upcoming years.
“I was brought up [to] take care of my… local businesses,” Brown said. “Those are the ones in your community that are going to take care of you.”
“People talk about doing this or doing that… but [Maxwell’s] put their money where their mouth was,” Brown said. As of August 22, Maxwell’s has raised $1,100 for the local law enforcement community, which will be broken up into $20 gift cards and distributed to Muncie Police Department and Delaware County Sheriff’s Office, among other local police departments. Though police officers try to express their gratitude, Brian Richards and Nick Richards are dead-set on giving back to their community’s police force.
Junior running back Malik Dunner runs through Notre Dame players Sept. 8, 2018 at Notre Dame Stadium. Ball State lost to Notre Dame 16-24. SAMANTHA BLANKENSHIP, BALL STATE UNIVERSITY, PHOTO PROVIDED
New students start to spread their wings, as they arrive on campus. Ball State freshman walk to their freshman convocation at Emens Auditorium Aug. 21. AMBER PIETZ, DN (Top) Two Ball State students pose for a photo as they walk to the freshman convocation Aug. 21 at Auditorium.Emens(Left) Ball State students unload their cars Aug. 19 as they arrive to their dorm to officially move in on campus. Move in started on Aug. 17.
While most sports schedule one or two years in advance, Goetz said football is “a different beast.”
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“We [police officers] will try to pay for their services and Brian and Nick won’t take it,” Brown said. “If we try to leave a hefty tip, they say ‘Okay, but it’ll find its way into the donation box.’” Contact Miguel Naranjo with comments at miguel.naranjo@bsu.edu. Continued from Page 11
Former Ball State quarterback Drew Plitt was on the sidelines against Notre Dame and Indiana while starting the games against Penn State and NC State, highlighting the atmosphere those types of games give the players.
“There are other strategies around who you chose and a lot of it has to do with who’s available on a given weekend,” Goetz said. “You know, we like to play people that are regionally close to us, and sometimes that works out, sometimes there’s just not somebody available.”
“It was cool, just having the experience of being there,” Plitt said. “I had the big games [at Ball State], I wish I would’ve won one, I mean we were close on a couple. I am hoping to get down there forIn[Tennesee].thesame way that Power Five schools host mid-major schools, the Cardinals host a smaller caliber team each season – in 2022, it will be Murray State. Goetz said Ball State generally looks for a team in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), but most of the plan comes down to scheduling.
“Most people think you’re crazy when you take a job and lose as much money as you make to do it,” Brown said, “but you only live once, and my goal is to get out there, live life, try things and give back to my community.” Like Joe King, Brown has gone to Maxwell’s for his haircuts ever since he was a kid (in his case, five years old). He feels a sense of loyalty to the small, old-fashioned barbershop, he says.
Goetz added that the Cardinals will be playing on the radar of the South Eastern Conference (SEC) to kick off the season, arguably one of the best conferences in college football with five of the last eight national championships.
Brown is grateful for the attention that Maxwell’s Barber Shop has received on account of Richards’ initiative with law enforcement, but more grateful for the impact it had with the law enforcement community, he said.
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“I think it’s something really good that… the whole crew is doing down there [at Maxwell’s],”
“Our student athletes, they certainly want the opportunity to compete against those at the highest level,” Goetz said. “They look forward to those games, to be able to showcase their talent and to do it on a bigger stage than we have generally on our campus or in the MAC.”
David Brown, a Lieutenant of the Delaware County Sheriff’s department, said He used to work as a tool and die maker but felt a calling to public service, he said. Brown began part-time as a reserve officer, but his work with the police gradually drew him away from his trade job, working his way up to supervisor and later lieutenant at the Delaware County Sheriff’s department.
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