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‘THEY ARE NOT IN THIS ALONE’ Boys & Girls Club of Muncie sets fundraising goal for 85th anniversary.
Pauleina Brunnemer Reporter With the simple buzz of the back door, visitors are welcomed into what has been known as a “safe place” for the children of Muncie for 85 years: the Boys & Girls Clubs of Muncie (BGC). While Jason Newman, CEO of BGC of Muncie, has only been in the position for a year, he said he has witnessed more than 1,000 volunteers come together to support the 250 children BGC of Muncie serves. “We have always been a safe place for kids. The definition of what a safe place for kids is, and what that requires, has changed over the past 85 years,” Newman said. “That has been the one standard throughout every year.” Each child the BGC serves carries a unique story with them — something Newman said he has witnessed during his time at the organization.
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Flooding reported at DeHority Complex
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Jan. 31: A flooding was reported around 5 p.m. Thursday at DeHority Complex. Water seemed to be coming out of an HVAC unit in the doorway of the residence hall’s main entrance. Building staff were pumping the water to a drain outside, some using buckets and brooms to prevent more flooding. No other flooding was reported.
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Feb. 2: Local community leaders got together Saturday at Minnetrista to celebrate Martin Luther King Dream Team’s Black History Month kick-off event. The event featured a proclamation by Mayor Dennis Tyler, a performance by Ball State’s Ethnic Theatre Alliance and awards for community leaders and youth essay writing competition winners.
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Feb. 2: Redshirt junior guard K.J. Walton recorded a career-high 26 points Saturday. Walton made two buzzer-beating shots during the game. He hit a layup as time expired in the first half to bring the Cardinals within two points of the Flashes. He also nailed a game-tying 3-pointer at the end of regulation to send the game into overtime.
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ON THE COVER: The Boys & Girls Club of Muncie has raised more than $56,500 of their $85,000 goal. STEPHANIE AMADOR, DN
Feb. 2: The annual Special Olympics Indiana (SOI) Polar Plunge took place Saturday outside L.A. Pittenger Student Center. 150 plungers and many more virtual plungers raised an estimated $20,000, the largest of all previous Ball State Polar Plunges, said Julie Burkholder, SOI northeast regional manager, in an email.
Vault record leads gymnastics to victory
Feb. 2: The Cardinals dropped their contest at Ohio Saturday, 9462. The victory was Ohio’s seventh straight on the season. Amani Burke recorded a program-record of 11 threes for the Bobcats, finishing the game with 33 points to lead all scorers. Sophomore guard Maliah Howard-Bass led the Cardinals with 15 points and three assists.
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Feb. 3: Ball State Gymnastics defeated Western Michigan by a score of 194.475-193.400. The Cardinals claimed a top spot in three out of four events Sunday. In their first home meet of the season, the Cardinals recorded a programrecord 49.175 on vault. Six athletes contributed to the individual record score of 9.875.
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Tom Bracken running for Muncie Mayor Ball State Board of Trustees member and Ball family descendant Tom Bracken will be running for mayor this upcoming election. Muncie’s Chief Deputy Clerk Isaac Miller said Monday that Bracken is one of four Republican candidates running for mayor, although the deadline for mayoral registration is Friday. Primary elections will be held May 7.
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Graduate school hosts 3MT competition Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is a competition for graduate students to try condense their graduate thesis into a three-minute presentation using one PowerPoint slide. The first-place winner will represent Ball State at the 3MT challenge held at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools, March 20-22, in St. Louis, Missouri.
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A sign that says “We are closed. Thank you for the journey,” is pasted on the window of what used to be Muncie’s Two Cats Cafe. Two Cats closed their doors Dec. 13, 2018, after owner Basam Helwani accepted an offer with Pocket Points. MALLORY HUXFORD, DN
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Student government Association has proposed a resolution to send a letter to Indiana representatives, asking them to create a hate crime law in the state. Indiana is one out of five states in the U.S. that does not have a hate crime law. The resolution will be voted on at the Feb. 13 meeting. Matt Hinkleman, vice president of SGA, said he hopes the law will add more punishment to those who commit hate crimes.
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MECHANICAL HOSPITALITY Ball State survey shows robot workers could become more common. Charles Melton Reporter With the steady advancement of technology, a recent study showed that people have become more comfortable with the integration of robots into their everyday activities. Not all Ball State students, however, feel the same. A 2017 survey conducted by researchers — including Craig Webster, Ball State assistant professor of hospitality and food management, — found people are warming up to the idea of robot workers in the tourism industry, with women reacting more positively to working with robots. The survey asked 393 Iranian participants a series of questions to determine how consumers felt about robot workers and what tasks are and aren’t acceptable for the robots to do. Webster said the survey accounted for many types of robots, many of them being service robots like Roombas and kiosks. Webster said the survey results went against the grain because previous surveys showed women to have a less positive view on the robots than males. “In Russia, we had mostly young people, so that study was mostly about millennials,” Webster said. “With the Iranian study, the thing that comes to
Especially in tourism, we will see robots in the back office, in the kitchen, in cleaning, in housekeeping and in gardening services.” - STANISLAV IVANOV, Vice rector of academic affairs and research at Varnia University in Bulgeria
A survey Craig Webster, Ball State assistant professor of hospitatliy and food managemnt, helped conduct showed robots are becoming more accepted in industries like retail, food and tourism. Participants said they are becoming more comfortable with the idea of interacting with robots in these industries. UNSPLASH, PHOTO COURTESY
mind as a unique finding was that females seem to be more positively predisposed to working with robots than the males.” Stanislav Ivanov, vice rector of academic affairs and research at Varnia University in Bulgaria, said the future will “definitely not be like the Terminator.” “Especially in tourism, we will see robots in the back office,” Ivanov said. “In the kitchen, in cleaning, in housekeeping and in gardening services.” Ivanov also said that while there has always been human and robot interaction, the interaction between the two will become more friendly and natural step by step. “This is like if you have a pet,” Ivanov said. “So it’s like communicating with your dog, but with the robots it will be much more interactive.”
A local resident touches the LCD screen at McDonalds Feb. 3, 2019. Robots are predicted to be implemented more often in the service industry. STEPHANIE AMADOR, DN The survey said respondents as a whole would find being served by robots to be “memorable,” “exciting” and “pleasurable,” but they “had clear preferences” toward more human employees in hotels than robots. It said many would find being served by a robot a positive experience due to prior experiences with robots and the understood advantage of robot workers. Derin Murphy, a senior hospitality and food management major, said she would be saddened to see the hospitality industry move to automated workers. “Most of my favorite memories involve other people,” Murphy said. “Because they do silly things, or they make something so amazing that I can’t forget it.” She said she felt people are becoming more antisocial, and the hospitality industry helps people overcome it. With technologies like voice recognition and selfdriving cars, robots have already started replacing certain human tasks. But the survey said it pales in comparison to what could happen in the near future. “The next generation of technologies that are just around the corner should offer fantastic leaps in terms of technical progress and economic efficiency. Although it is unclear what the economic externalities will be and what the social and market consequences of the incorporation of such technologies into the economy will be,” the survey said. According to the survey, “A balance between human and robotic labour is necessary in order for the accommodation establishments to be able to serve both customer groups.” Contact Charles Melton with comments at cwmelton@bsu.edu or on Twitter @Cmelton144.
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Continued from Page 01 In one case, when a teenager missed a week of programming, BGC of Muncie saw an opportunity to serve. What Newman assumed was just an “everyday kind of kid” being sick one week was more than what appeared on the surface. “He said, ‘No. I was feeling fine. You know I have two outfits, and I hand-wash them. I put them on our radiator to dry, and the heat got cut off. So that’s how long it took my clothes to defrost so I could go back to school,’” Newman said. After hearing the teen’s story, BGC saw a need to provide a laundry room to its members, so they did. Not only does BGC of Muncie provide resources such as a laundry room, but it provides care and education in multiple areas and attention. For freshman interpersonal communications major Abbie VanMeter, what started as an interest at a volunteer fair has led to a weekly commitment. On Tuesdays, VanMeter gets on the bus, goes to Scheumann Stadium to get her car and drives to BGC of Muncie. “You know, for a couple hours that’s a lot of my day. But in the end, you know, it’s so far away, and I have so much to do,” VanMeter said. “It can be exhausting working with these kids. They have a lot of energy, but in the end it’s worth it. I always think I made the right choice when I come here. It’s rewarding.” VanMeter said the children of BGC are “goofy little kids.” Throughout her time, she has been able to work on homework and talk to them. “I think there’s a lot of need in different areas in Muncie, so I would just encourage others to
It can be exhausting working with these kids. They have a lot of energy, but in the end it’s worth it. I always think I made the right choice when I come here. It’s rewarding.” - ABBIE VANMETER, Freshman interpersonal communications major find something they are excited about and turn that into volunteering,” VanMeter said. “It’s just a beautiful combination.” VanMeter isn’t the only one giving her time at BGC of Muncie. The BGC’s executive assistant, Amy Gibson or “Miss Amy,” takes a half hour break from work to help a young man named Tony. Newman has seen this time as the “highlight of both of their days.” Tony, who has had trouble in school and at the club in the past, received a positive referral. The positive referral is now hanging on Gibson’s filing cabinet, similar to a report card on a guardian’s refrigerator.
Volunteers from Muncie Crossfit reconstruct the gym room at the Boys and Girls Club, Jan. 17, 2019, with new equiptment and new matting. STEPHANIE AMADOR, DN “Unfortunately, he didn’t have that at home, so that was just heartbreaking to me seeing the smile on his face,” Newman said. “It’s amazing the difference we can make with just the simple things that we can do.” In honor of 85 years serving the children of Muncie, BGC set a goal to raise $85,000. This was the first time in the last 10 to 15 years that a fundraising goal has been set for BGC of Muncie. As of Jan. 28, BGC of Muncie has raised $56,556.45, thanks to fundraising events, including the Great Futures Breakfast for Dinner Jan. 24. “The reason that we [set a goal] is [because that’s] what we talk to kids about. The first thing in life is to set a goal and figuring out how to obtain that goal. So that’s what we’ve done here,” Newman said. Families are currently charged $15 a child per year, but the actual cost per child annually is $4,000. The $15 can be out of some families’ price ranges, so the fundraised money goes to cover the gap between scholarships and fees. Newman said he believes the volunteers who work daily at the BGC of Muncie are there because they want to help children and their families. He also said he has the ability to distinguish which daily volunteers are here for which children. “I think the biggest message that we try to send our kids is that they are not in this alone,” Newman said. “Because being a child can feel lonely, and especially when you’re surrounded by other people, it still feels lonely.” Contact Pauleina Brunnemer with comments at pdbrunnemer@bsu.edu or on Twitter @pauleina15.
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Turnover “common” in the Village Liz Rieth Reporter
The original Scotty’s Brewhouse served Muncie for 20 years — it was the starting place of the restaurant chain. But, this winter, the original Scotty’s Brewhouse closed. Cleo’s, Dill Street Bar and Grill, The Locker Room, Two Cats Cafe, Let’s Spoon Frozen Yogurt and Grandma Betty’s have also closed in the Village — making for at least seven closed businesses in the last five years. In that time, Bevi Bistro, HotBox Pizza, ScreenBroidery, Small Town Vapes, Body Language Tattoo and Chava’s Mexican Grill have opened — at least six new businesses. That seems to be the norm, said Derek Edwards, owner of White Rabbit Used Books in the Village. Businesses often pop up or leave the Village, he said. “I’ve been here 30 years now and I’ve seen a lot of businesses come and go,” Edwards said. “It seems to be the natural progression of the Village.” Despite this, Edwards said he doesn’t see turnover as a problem. Turnover is “extremely common,” especially in college towns, said Michael Hicks, director of
A for lease sign is pasted on the window of what used to be Muncie’s Two Cats Cafe. Two Cats closed their doors on Dec. 13, 2018 after owner Basam Helwani accepted an offer with Pocket Points. MALLORY HUXFORD, DN
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the Ball State Center for Business and Economic Research. While some businesses appear for a short time, he said others become landmarks. “Most business don’t survive very long,” Hicks said. “In a college town, you should expect bars and restaurants and clothing stores and the like to have a fairly high turnover rate.” It takes the right combination of services, prices and product to make businesses like The Chug a consistent figure in a college town, he said. Students as the main source of business means the local community is constantly being changed, Hicks added. Businesses have to keep up with shifting consumer wants. Edwards said in his experience, businesses typically close if businesses overlap in services or are mismanaged. When the internet became the norm, Edwards said he had to learn to adjust to the shifting environment in a college town. Books became easily available online, so Edwards learned to keep a varied selection of books with low prices. Businesses need to be flexible and have a good product to survive in a college town, said John Melns, manager at The Cup. The Cup, which has been in the Village for eight years, sees the most students in the fall. While college students don’t swarm shops year round, he said they provide a huge income in the fall and late spring. Melns attributes The Cup’s long-running success to its service, environment and coffee. If businesses provide “a consistent and good product,” he said college students can be great for profit. Contact Liz Rieth with comments at ejrieth@bsu. edu or on Twitter @liz_rieth.
Polar Plunge raises money for Special Olympics Indiana Volunteers jumped into a pool of cold water at the annual Special Olympics Indiana Polar Plunge Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019, at the L.A. Pittenger Student Center. This year’s plunge raised an estimated $20,000, more than any other previous plunge at Ball State. JACOB MUSSELMAN, DN
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Team defeats Harvard and Sacred Heart Ball State won two matches on the east coast last weekend. The Cardinals took down Harvard in five sets and followed that with a 3-1 victory over Sacred Heart. The team is now on a four-match win streak.
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Ball State gymnastics club salutes to the crowd after being introduced at the inaugural Cardinal Cup Feb. 2, 2018, at Anderson Gymnastics and Cheer. The team practices in Anderson and Muncie three times a week. JACK WILLIAMS, DN
8-member gymnastics club creates, competes in first Cardinal Cup. Jack Williams Sports Editor If you’re going the speed limit down Broadway Avenue, you’re going to miss the turn. If you make the turn on School Street but stop at the dead end sign, you haven’t gone far enough. However, if you make the turn around the bend into the parking lot, you’ll arrive at Anderson Gymnastics and Cheer. While the 30-year-old studio is set to close, it served as a new beginning for Ball State Club Gymnastics Saturday as it hosted eight different teams around the midwest in the inaugural Cardinal Cup. “Setting this has been pretty hectic, to be
honest,” club president and senior architecture major Jeremy Taylor said. “Trying to get teams to come, reaching out to people, sending out emails, getting all the awards and setting up the gym were a big task. However, it was worth it. We had fun and pulled it off.” Members of the eight-member club — made up of Taylor, freshman Anne Schneider, sophomores Sara Kennelly and Hannah Gunnell, juniors Mia Marerro and Haley Wiley, and graduate students Nick Ferguson and Lexi Starost – said it hasn’t been easy when it comes to practicing either. The team carpools three times a week to practice at either Cole Academy of Dance Gymnastics and Cheerleading in Muncie or Anderson Gymnastics and Cheer.
“We meet once in Anderson then twice a week at Cole Academy,” Kennelly said. “Usually practices are about two hours long, and we just kind of float around.” According to Kennelly, there isn’t a lot of direction in practices. It’s mostly selfmotivated. The biggest difference between the club and other sports at Ball State is that they don’t have a coach. Instead, the club uses a self-coaching and peer-coaching method where members help themselves and each other in preparation for competition. Kennelly said this was a weird adjustment she had to make when she first became a part of the club.
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Cardinals lose to Flashes in overtime In a back-and-forth battle in Worthen Arena, Kent State came away with an 83-80 road win over Ball State. The Cardinals never had the lead in the second half, but they tied it up at the buzzer on redshirt junior guard K.J. Walton’s first 3-pointer of the year.
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“Coming from competing and having a coach, it was a little difficult,” Kennelly said. “The selfcoaching allows us to work on what we want to work on. If you want to be really good on floor, you can work on floor for the entire two hours.” While the team is open to everyone, each member of the club brings their own background and experience. Taylor and Wiley are listed as the team’s “coaches” with experience in the area under their belt. “Haley and myself are gymnastics coaches for lower-level children, and I’m gymnastics certified,” Taylor said. “In the process, we all kind of tag team it. It’s easier for college kids to understand things phonetically more than children. It can be complicated, but it’s much easier than coaching children.” After months of preparation, the meet was set as teams from Xavier, Dayton, Notre Dame, Indiana, Michigan, Grand Valley State, Washington, Ohio State and alumni of the National Association of Intercollegiate Gymnastics Clubs took to the competition floor. “I was a little stressed, but I was really excited to see all the people come in,” Taylor said. “I was
hoping to see everyone, get to know them and have a good meet.” Alongside competing, many of the members made sure the meet ran smoothly by running and announcing scores as well as handing out awards. “It wasn’t too bad for me since I’m injured at the moment, so I only competed in one event, but it was just making sure everything was taken care of,” Taylor said. There were a few kinks including the national anthem being replaced by the Pledge of Allegiance and the entire Dayton team leaving in the middle of awards, but in the end, the Cardinal Cup ran smoothly. “It went a lot smoother than I thought it was going to,” Kennelly said. “Honestly, I thought this was going to be a little bit of a disaster with teams canceling on us and a few teams not going to our meet for another one. I’m glad that people came to the meet and gave it a shot.” The future of the Cardinal Cup isn’t set in stone as the club is looking for other facilities. The team is motivated to keep going after the success of its inaugural meet. “If there’s another opportunity to host a meet, we will take it on,” Taylor said. “It’s really rewarding to put all this effort into it and see everyone have a good time.” Contact Jack Williams with any comments at jgwilliams@bsu.edu or on Twitter @jackgwilliams.
The road to redemption After season ending loss to Northern Illinois, Ball State Softball is hungry for more. Jack Williams Sports Editor The team was one win away. One win away from a title opportunity. One win away from going head-to-head with the best team in the conference. One win away from redemption. After being upset by Northern Illinois in the winners bracket of the 2018 Mid-American Conference tournament, Ball State Softball won three straight games and advanced to the final game of the losers bracket, giving it a chance to play for the MAC title. However, the Cardinals fell to the Huskies once again, ending their season. “Third place was definitely not our goal last year and is definitely not our goal this year,” senior pitcher Aeshia Miles said. “It stung us for a while, especially for that senior class. We wanted to win for them, but that’s been our motivation for this year. Third place isn’t good enough.” Since that loss, the team hasn’t taken less than a week off in order to get right back to where it was. For nine months, players have kept that memory in their heads and used the loss to drive them into the 2019 season. “The vast majority of our returners didn’t take any time off,” head coach Megan Ciolli Bartlett said. “I made them take a week off at the end of the season, but a lot of them stayed for the first week of summer school and got right back to work ... It gave us a lot of confirmation that what we’re doing
Olivia Huffman catches the ball during the first game of the 2018 season against Central Michigan University on April 21 at the softball field at First Merchant’s Ballpark Complex. Ball State won the game 2-1. BRIANA HALE, DN FILE here is special, it’s working and when it comes to fruition, the final product will be a championship.” One point of concern for the team last season was in the circle. While pitching was strong, there were only three pitchers in the rotation. At one point, then-senior Carolyn Wilmes was injured, leaving only Miles and junior Alyssa Rothwell to hold it down inside the circle. Coming into this season, it’s an entirely different story.
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Do-it-yourself winter crafts Instead of braving the cold to have fun in the winter snow, students can enjoy the season with these do-ityourself winter crafts. By making glitter playdough or fake snow, students can entertain themselves without having to leave the warmth of their homes. Because both crafts only include two ingredients each, these crafts are budget-friendly for college students. 412
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BSA hosts Black History Month events Michaela Moles, an employee at Debbie’s Handmade Soap, cuts soap bars, Nov. 13, 2018. All soap is personally cut by an employee as needed. PAULEINA BRUNNEMER, DN
To help her daughter who had eczema, Debbie Acree created her own handmade soap.
The Indiana Soap Co. sells a variety of soap like the honey + oats scent soap bar. According to its website, “this bar features locally-sourced PaPaw’s Sweet Bees-Ness honey and ground oatmeal.” JERI REICHANADTER, PHOTO PROVIDED
Ball state alumna Jeri Reichanadter makes and sells homemade soap.
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Welcoming customers into a room full of warming scents from lavender to vanilla, Debbie’s Handmade Soap in downtown Muncie offers its customers a new way of lathering their skin with the shop’s handmade soap. Debbie Acree, the owner, was first introduced to handmade soap in 1999, when she attended a retreat for her daughter who had eczema. After meeting a soap maker at the retreat, Acree asked for her handmade soap recipe. “[The recipe] was nothing like I was wanting, so after about three years of working and studying, I found what I was really wanting,” Acree said. “My end goal was having a bar that would help eczema and skin problems and would lather. So about three years after, I finally [had] a soap I wanted, and it worked.”
Lather, rinse and repeat. This simple three-step process has become a business model for Ball State alumna Jeri Reichanadter. Late last summer, Reichanadter opened her “side hustle business,” the Indiana Soap Co., where she makes and sells handmade natural soaps. Since then, she has also expanded her product list to beard oils, body butter and soap for dogs. “She really latched on to it,” said Perry Reichanadter, Jeri’s husband. “[She] had a passion for it.” After college, Jeri Reichanadter worked at newspapers for several years before entering the healthcare field as a videographer for Indiana University Health, which she has done for the past eight years.
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Each year, the Black Student Alliance (BSA) chooses a theme for the organization’s Black History Month events. Throughout February, BSA will host events that coincide with this year’s theme, “For the Love of the Culture.” Some of the events include an escape room, an African dance workshop and a dodgeball tournament. 4BallStateDailyNews.com
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Cave Studio Theatre to show Sunday, Sunday Directed by Laura Aldaba, the Department of Theatre and Dance will put on “Sunday, Sunday,” a play focussed on challenging the normalities of mental illnesses. The one-act play will be the first performed in the Cave Studio Theatre this semester. “Sunday, Sunday’s” opening night will be 7:30 p.m. Feb. 12. 4BallStateDailyNews.com
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Once Acree created her own handmade soap recipe, using 50 percent olive oil so the soap would lather, she began selling her soap out of her home and at craft shows. “I started having so many people stop by my house,” Acree said. “Then, I realized I needed to have somewhere that was commercial so I could have regular hours for people to shop.” In 2016, Acree said her daughter noticed an empty building on South Walnut Street. Although the front of the building was torn up at the time, Acree said it didn’t stop her from seeing the potential it had. During the moving process from her home to her new storefront, Acree said most everything in the shop had to be dollied in from almost a block away because of the street’s rough condition in front of the store. “One of the biggest things that stuck out about us moving in here was my bathtub,” Acree said. “So when we were moving in here, we had it on wheels and wheeled it on the street. We had people passing us. Some people had just gotten lunch at Vera Mae’s, and they said, ‘This is the craziest thing we have seen in Muncie — a bathtub coming down the sidewalk.’” After she moved the bathtub — a decoration piece to hold bath bombs — and the rest of her supplies, Acree was able to open her shop during the First Thursday event in October 2016. Instead of the expected 10 customers Acree thought she would see on opening day, she said there was little room left to squeeze into the packed store. Since opening her shop, Acree has expanded to more than 64 different fragrances that she said she has shipped to every state in the U.S. To keep up with her large market, Acree said she created wooden soap molds, which make 1,000 bars of soap at a time.
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Bathbombs sit in the bathtub inside Debbie’s Handmade Soap, Nov. 13, 2018. The bathbombs are not handmade in the store. PAULEINA BRUNNEMER, DN Michaela Moles, an employee, helps Acree run the store and cut soap. “My favorite thing [about working at Debbie’s Handmade Soap] is probably getting to meet all the people,” Moles said. “Just getting to hear how many customers love her soap, and hearing how it’s helped their skin — it’s been neat to see her client base, and just working with soap it’s a nice atmosphere. It’s relaxing to do.” Moles said she has seen Acree’s soap work in the lives of others because it helped clear her sister’s eczema and the tea tree oil soap helped clear her acne. “It’s really cool to see how the soap works,” Moles said. “You know, you hear all about these types of soap that would work best on your face, but this is actually all natural. It’s really cool to witness that.” Contact Pauleina Brunnemer with comments at pdbrunnemer@bsu.edu or on Twitter @pauleina15.
Michaela Moles, an employee at Debbie’s Handmade Soap, uses Debbie Acree’s custom-made wooden mold Nov. 13, 2018. The soap is made bi-weekly. PAULEINA BRUNNEMER, DN
Jeri Reichanadter cuts a loaf of Rub-A-Dub-Dog, a shampoo bar formulated for dogs Jan. 26, 2019. Along with dog soap, Reichanadter makes regular bar soap, beard oils and body butter. JERI REICHANADTER, PHOTO
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Last year, Reichanadter and her husband went to San Diego, California for a vacation, and they bought locally made soap as a souvenir. After using the soap, the couple said they realized how superior the soap was compared to store bought soap. “There really wasn’t any comparison,” Perry Reichanadter said. “I told [Jeri] that I don’t think I’ll go back to store bought soap.” They both did their best to find local Indiana handmade soaps that were just as good as the ones from San Diego, but the Reichanadters said they weren’t able to find any. “Somebody recently said, ‘Hey, do you want to learn how to make soap?,’ and it had never occurred to me to make soap before,” Jeri Reichanadter said. After learning how to make soap, Reichanadter realized how much she enjoyed designing and choosing the fragrances of the soap. She also noticed each batch of soap made 10 bars, which was more than enough for her and her husband. “That led to so much more that I didn’t anticipate,” Perry Reichanadter said. The over abundance of soap led Jeri Reichanadter to create the Indiana Soap Co., a business, that has been “surprisingly successful,” according to Reichanadter. Soon, Reichanadter was able to perfect her own method, starting by combining oils, liquid and lye — “a strong alkaline liquor rich in potassium carbonate leached from wood ashes and used especially in making soap and for washing,” according to Merriam-Webster dictionary. Depending on the kind of soap Reichanadter is making, she said she uses a variety of different oils, such as olive oil, coconut oil or palm oil.
For liquid, she usually uses water, but she also uses coffee from a local coffee supplier or coffee grounds from the liquid in other bars of soap. Some of Reichanadter’s bars use local honey and different spices like turmeric, paprika, cinnamon and cocoa powder. To achieve the various colors that appear in some of her bars of soap, Reichanadter uses michas, which are minerals that stain the soap. Charcoal is another element she puts in the soap, which can also change the color and is beneficial for the skin. From there, Reichanadter said “science happens,” and in four to six weeks, soap is created. She said this long waiting time led her to seek and create products with more “instant gratification,” such as her beard oils and body scrubs, which take significantly less time to make. Reichanadter said the reception to her soap has been “warm” and “well-received.” She said she thought that business would die down when the holidays ended, but it has still been consistent. She said she attributes the success to word-ofmouth and social media. “I’m having a hard time keeping some of our soaps in stock,” Reichanadter said. According to a report from TechSci Research, a research based management consulting firm, the global organic soap market is projected to hit $206 million by the end of 2022. The report said factors including the concern for harmful chemicals within non-organic soap have contributed to this growth. Jeri Reichanadter said one of the biggest challenges with operating a business is the work-life balance and worrying about finding those first clients.
WHERE TO PURCHASE SOAPS FROM THE INDIANA SOAP CO. Soaps from the Indiana Soap Co. can be purchased online, but they are also sold at two retailers, including Salon 46140 in Greenfield, Indiana, and Queen Anne’s Farmhouse & Flower Shoppe in Greenwood, Indiana. Jeri said she is not actively looking for other retailers but is still interested in expanding.
Perry Reichanadter said his wife has been able to operate the business effectively because she already had experience with writing, marketing, photography and design from her journalism career. While Reichanadter said he is not as passionate for the business as his wife, he does help by taking photos of the products and packaging orders for shipping. “If your wife or your husband wants to explore something like this, you’re going to be involved at a certain level, no matter what,” Reichanadter said. For those who are looking to start their own businesses, Jeri Reichanadter said they should remember that success won’t come immediately, just as long as they stick to it and remain passionate. “Put your best foot forward every day,” Jeri said. “You can’t produce a poor product and expect to get your customers to come back.” Contact Andrew Harp with comments at adharp@bsu.edu.
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Making it ‘snow’ with these snow-fakes
These two-ingredient homemade creations can help you enjoy the snow without getting frostbite. Tier Morrow Features Editor For those who love the sight of snow but hate the chilly temperatures that come with it, there are easy solutions to fulfill your longing for the frozen water. While snow angels may be a little out of reach unless you have a 10-gallon bucket to mix the fake snow and an open room you can lay down in,
Snow Dough: What you need: • 2 cups cornstarch • 1-2 cups scented or unscented hair conditioner • Glitter of your choice Directions: 1. Measure out the two cups of cornstarch and put them in a bowl. 2. Measure out one cup of hair conditioner and add it to the cornstarch. 3. Mix until hair conditioner is completely dissolved. 4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until the desired
you can still craft snowman and snowballs from the silky material. These quick creations can also help relieve stress by functioning as a makeshift stress ball, and they also allow you to express yourself. Here are the two-ingredient recipes to help you bring the beauty of the outside indoors. Contact Tier Morrow with comments at tkmorrow@bsu.edu or on Twitter @tiermorrow. dough texture is achieved. (This may take a few tries. It is best to add a little bit of conditioner at a time. You may also have to add more cornstarch if the mixture becomes too liquidy.) 5. Once the desired texture is reached, sprinkle in the glitter of your choice. (To make snow dough, it is recommended that you use blue, but you can use any color or even mix multiple colors.) 6. Completely mix in the glitter. 7. Remove your dough from the bowl and begin making all the creations that come to mind. 8. Tip: The best way to store the dough is to seal it in a Ziplock bag or put it in a tupperware bowl.
DIY fake snow can be the second-best option when staying outside for long periods is not a good idea. Like this snow dough snowman, you can still enjoy the snow indoors. TIER MORROW, DN
Fake Snow: What you need: • Baking soda • Spray shaving cream • Essential oil or scent (optional) Directions: 1. Depending on how much snow you want to make, measure out your baking soda. The suggested amount is two cups. 2. Put the baking soda into a large mixing bowl. 3. Spray a small amount of shaving cream into the bowl with the baking soda.
4. Mix the shaving cream into the baking soda. 5. Repeat steps 3 and 4, until you get a powdery, flaky texture. 6. The “snow” should fall out of your hand like snow falls from the sky. 7. Once you get your desired texture, add the optional scent and mix it in with the shaving cream and baking powder mixture. (Reminder: If you add a scent and you play with your snow, it will make your hands smell the same way.) 8. Enjoy your snow by making wintry creations.
For those who love the snow but hate the cold, there are many simple do-it-yourself projects to create a winter wonderland inside. With just two ingredients, anyone can make their own snowball. TIER MORROW, DN
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THE TWO SIDES OF BODY SHAMING Sophie Nulph is a freshman journalism major and writes “Open-Minded” for The Daily News. Her views do not necessarily agree with those of the newspaper. Write to Sophie at smnulph@bsu.edu. I have experienced both fat and skinny shaming, and both are equally damaging. Whether it has to do with fat shaming or skinny shaming, I know I am not alone. According to Sophie bullyingstatistics.org, 94 percent Nulph of teenage girls have experienced Columnist, some form of body shaming. OpenWhen I think of body shaming, Minded my mind automatically goes to fat shaming. The lesser known fact, though, is how real skinny shaming is in our “thick is sexy” society. Growing up, my body mass index (BMI) always classified me as an overweight child when, truthfully, I was really just muscular. The flaw with BMI readings is that it divides your weight by your height. A BMI between 18.5 and 24.99 is considered “normal weight” by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI). Nowhere in that formula does it calculate muscle mass into the equation. You can be perfectly healthy and still be considered “overweight” on the BMI scale. According to a study done by the International Journal of Obesity in 2016, almost half of the individuals studied who were considered overweight by their BMI were actually “metabolically healthy.” I was one of those people. I was made fun of for how I couldn’t fit into my friend’s clothes and how I looked like a rock. I used to be called “bulldozer” by my soccer team. The bus was my worst enemy. I would do everything I could to be invisible, but people would still find me and tease me. Nothing was worse than the people I saw every day laughing at the way I looked, prank calling me on the bus or asking me why I was so big. Some people would discriminate against me without even knowing. Friends and teachers at school would call me “chunky” or say that I “still had some baby fat.” I would always nod along, laughing as they did. They didn’t know I was insecure, that I would cry in the dressing rooms of stores because I couldn’t fit into “regular” clothes. I was treated differently by adults too. They were never as nice to me as they were to my sister. She was always referred to as “the model” and “Barbie”
because she is 5-foot-10 and skinnier than a stick. I wanted nothing more than to look as beautiful and thin as her. All of this sent me into a depression so intense it lasted years, leaving many insecurities I still deal with to this day. The summer going into my sophomore year of high school, I was fed up with feeling bad about myself. I thought the only way I could look pretty was to be skinny. That was the only way I could make friends or meet boys. So, I lost 60 pounds in about four months. I decided the quickest way to lose weight was to not eat. I would eat one meal a day or sometimes not eat at all. I would go on daily runs around the neighborhood to burn the calories I did eat. I was obsessed with seeing my progress. I was gaining confidence fast. I couldn’t help but beam when my pants would not fit me anymore or when I felt comfortable enough to wear crop tops in public. It was like I became visible for the first time in my life. People would compliment me, my outfits and my body. I remember one girl a grade under me came up to me and complimented my cheek bones. She loved how high they were and the way they curved into my face, making it look chiseled. I thanked her and moved on, but all I could think was “you have no idea what it took to make them look this way.” The weight loss process felt so bad, yet so good. Boys were paying attention to me for the first time ever. I went boy crazy. Looking back, I had no idea how to deal with all the attention. These feelings did not last though. The weight loss took a toll on not only my physical health, but my mental health as well. I was constantly tired and too weak to lift even simple objects like a wet mop at work. I would come home from school, take a two-hour nap, go to work, come home and go to bed by 10 p.m., asking myself why I couldn’t move. My mental health was deteriorating just as quickly as my body fat and muscle. I could not go a day without crying and constantly comparing myself to the people I wanted to look like. I would often get comments asking me why I was so thin. That I looked unhealthy. That I need to eat more. That I looked gross. I just didn’t understand. People told me to stop eating for so long, and when I did, they still told me I looked gross. They found new things to make fun of, like the bags under my eyes, my swollen eyes from constant crying, my hip bones or my hair.
Sophie Nulph has struggled with body shaming throughout her life — both because she was viewed as overweight or too thin. While she still struggles today, she has learned not to listen to other’s criticisms. REBECCA SLEZAK, DN PHOTO ILLUSTRATION difficult way that people are going to try to tear you I later learned that my older sister, the “model” down no matter how you look. I learned this lesson and “Barbie,” was made fun of too. through an eating disorder paired with crippling Because of her beauty and blond hair, she was depression and a need for attention. presumed to be dumb by everyone around her. To tell someone who can’t gain weight to eat a People asked if she was sick or had a condition cheeseburger is parallel to telling someone who because of the way her fast metabolism would struggles with losing weight to stop eating. make her look. She couldn’t walk into a room After all of these struggles and lessons, I still of new people without someone telling her to have a hard time looking in the mirror and seeing eat a cheeseburger. something beautiful. The girl I looked up to my entire life, who I wanted To anyone else that has ever been shamed, to be exactly like, had insecurities just like me. here is some advice: You have to stop listening Hearing her story, as I struggled with my own weight problem years later, showed me just how much people to others’ opinions of you and stop comparing yourself to others. I am still learning how to love want what they can’t have. There will always be my body after all this time, and it is still an issue I someone craving the parts of your body you despise. struggle with daily. Reflecting now, the fact that I had to stop eating After all, body image is not how people see you. to gain confidence in my body image is one of It is how you see yourself. the scariest thoughts to me. I learned in the most
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1 Correspondence sign-off 5 Musical series set at McKinley High 9 “Wealth of Nations” author Smith 13 Pot for paella 14 Speaks up? 15 Bit of folklore 16 Mature gentle treatment? 18 B’way hit signs 19 News letters 20 “Have some” 21 Decides not to dele 22 Bodega miss 25 Roe-producing fish 26 Mature sprightly piano classic? 30 Canaanite deity 32 Half a cocktail 33 Handler of “Sex and the City” 34 Costa del __ 35 Mature young infatuation? 39 Taking a sick day, presumably 40 Trivial, as talk 42 Versailles ruler 43 Mouselike animal 45 Mature news newbie? 49 Salty margarita glass spots 50 Low-alcohol beverage 54 Dries gently
56 French menu word 57 Singer Grande’s perfume brand 58 “__ move” 59 Mature “Agnus Dei” translation? 63 Air 64 Word with offering or officer 65 “Who __ knows?” 66 Scandinavian literary work 67 Lie next to 68 Wedding couple?
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23 Andean tuber 24 Pit-digging insect 25 Handmade blade 27 Eastern “way” 28 Second-oldest Ivy 29 NBC show since 1975 30 Portend 31 Versatile 34 Bro or sis 36 Rich rocks 37 Political initials since 1884 38 Exceedingly 41 Asmara’s nation 44 Poetic sphere 46 Rental ad abbr. 47 Veto 48 Brownish gray 51 Birdie topper 52 Jagged, as a leaf’s edge 53 Carnival attractions 54 Data unit 55 Musician’s forte? 59 Place for a chemical peel 60 Lang. of the Torah 61 __ minérale: French spring supply 62 Gratified
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Along with bringing back Miles and Rothwell, the Cardinals will see the return of redshirt sophomore pitcher Darcie Huber after she sat out last season due to a hip injury. Huber started 18 of 23 appearances her freshman season before her injury. Ball State will also welcome two freshman pitchers: Sarah Venker and Tieghan Morio. “This will be Darcie’s second season, so she’s in the fold and knows how it goes,” Miles said. “Darcie is a competitor and Sarah and Tieghan
are as well. When it’s their time, they’re going to take advantage of the innings they receive. Last season we had 55 plus games, so they will get in the mix a lot for sure.” At the plate, the Cardinals are working off the loss of Maddy Labrador. Labrador led the team with 49 RBIs and 40 runs. She also held the second-most home runs with 12 and was one of three players to be named All-MAC first team last season. However, the Cardinals aren’t letting the subtraction of Labrador phase them. Bartlett said the team is looking to sophomore Stacy Payton to fill Labrador’s void at second base and a young core to step up on offense.
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“We’re going to do our best,” Bartlett said. “The most amazing thing about this program is how much better those who stay, buy in and grind have gotten every single year. It’s going to be tough to replace her. She’s a great kid and a tremendous hitter, but the show must go on.” Heading veteran leadership is junior outfielder Haley Dominique. She was named to the All-MAC first team in 2018, leading the Cardinals in hits with 68 and runs with 43. Dominique also holds a .474 on-base percentage, which ranks, 80th in the NCAA. “I’m trying to work on my power numbers this season — working on hitting doubles and home runs,” Dominique said. “I want to drive more people in. It definitely sounds like right now that I’m going to be leading off, so I’m just trying to get on base for my team at this point and if I do have the opportunity to hit people in, I’m going to do that.” Like most college teams, the Cardinals will fly south for the first month of the season and will see some of the top teams in the nation in Penn State, Iowa and No. 9 South Carolina. While it is a long season, the team has high hopes that this year is different. They are confident that they are equipped for success in 2019. “We are going to play hard, and we’re going to play big,” Bartlett said. “It’s going to be exciting, dynamic and powerful softball to watch. We’re going to be tough on the mound, so not only do we have kids that aren’t only going to be gritty and grind, but they’re going to be dynamic. In a word, it’s going to be dynamic and exciting.” Contact Jack Williams with any comments at jgwilliams@bsu.edu or on Twitter @jackgwilliams.
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