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SGA EXECUTIVE SLATES HEAD INTO RUNOFF ELECTION03 Ballin’: Ball State faculty and staff take the ﬂoor as campus’ newest dance group.08

Give tolerance: Love and acceptance can go a long way.13

DEALING THEIR

OWN CARDS From best friends to business partners, two Ball State juniors created their own custom playing card company with Cavendish bananas as their inspiration.

Nicole Thomas Assistant Features Editor “Man, they feel so good out of the box.” For most cardists, like Nate Lex, this is a typical saying, but the feeling doesn’t always last, as performing hundreds of card ﬂourishes and close-up magic tricks breaks down the playing cards’ card stock and ﬁnish. “How do they feel a week later?” Lex said. “Our banana [cards] — the ones that we literally made almost a year ago now — still hold up better than decks that I opened yesterday.” A similar phrase has been said about creating business partnerships with friends — they can be great in the beginning but fall apart by the end. Just like their playing cards, Cameron Toner and Lex’s friendship has remained strong since starting their own custom card business, Organic Playing Cards. “I would say only do business with your best friends because it just shows so much about who you care about,” Lex said. “I’ve grown to see different sides of Cam because of little hitches in the road that we’ve run into businesswise that make our friendship stronger ... I feel like I know him better even because I know how he works from a business perspective.”

Peelers During the spring semester of his freshman year, Toner heard one of his speech team

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members talking about the Cavendish banana going extinct. The junior telecommunications major said he was “instantly inspired” to create a bananathemed design for a deck of playing cards. At the time, he didn’t have any experience with Illustrator or Photoshop, so he used PowerPoint and banana clipart to create the design. Soon after, Toner brought the design to Lex, a junior telecommunications major Toner met through Accelerate, a summer bridge program for incoming freshmen at Ball State. Together at Staples, Toner and Lex created a prototype deck and box for the cards they named Peelers. With inspiration from these, the duo began calling themselves Peelers Playing Cards and

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posting p h o t o s on Instagram to bring awareness to research about the Cavendish banana. RiffleShuffle, a company that prints and sells custom playing cards from various creators, saw their Instagram posts and reached out, offering to print and sell 2,000 decks of Peelers. The agreement meant only 2,000 decks would ever be sold. Seventeen months after Toner’s initial PowerPoint design, Toner and Lex signed with RiffleShuffle, and all 2,000 of the printed decks sold out within a week.

Squeezers During summer 2018, Toner and Lex decided to rebrand Peelers Playing Cards into

Organic Playing Cards to expand to other fruitthemed decks. Along the way, Toner also reached out to Olivia White, a 2018 Ball State alumna and graphic designer, for help with more practical design methods. A few months later, the three partners released their second deck — an orangethemed deck called Squeezers. RifﬂeShufﬂe printed 2,000 decks of these and sold out in 34 minutes. “A lot of different people are trying to sell decks and designs, and I think one of the hardest things to overcome is kind of making [ours] different … and I think that we’ve done that,” Toner said. “We’ve combated that really well with really trying to stay on a very simplistic brand that is true and fun and new and that also really cares about things.”

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Women’s basketball falls in ﬁnal seconds

Biology graduate student wins 3MT

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Feb. 18: A layup by Toledo with seven seconds left in the game handed the Cardinals their eighth straight loss, 63-62. Senior guard Nakeya Penny downed a 3-pointer as time expired, but the buzzer had already sounded before the shot got off. Ball State is currently second-to-last in the Mid-American Conference standings.

Gymnastics records season-high on beam

Feb. 22: After a few meets with low beam scores, the Cardinals stepped up and scored a seasonhigh 48.850 in the event. While sophomore Arden Hudson led the team with a career-high score of 9.875, Ball State took third place behind West Virginia and Pittsburgh with a score of 195.000. The team hosts Central Michigan Friday.

Feb. 21: Kirsten Vacura, biology graduate student, won the ﬁrst Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition Thursday. Students were judged on simpliﬁed versions of their graduate theses. First place received $1,000 and will represent Ball State at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools.

Teams compete in annual Cake War

Feb. 24: Student teams armed with sugar and frosting competed to create the most creative cake at the third annual Cake War event on Saturday in Woodworth Complex. Seven teams of three or four constructed cakes centered on the theme of “Under the Sea.” Ultimately, Team Sparkles won with its octopus cake creation.

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Feb. 25: As the runoff election begins, each slate campaigns goals they believe are best for students. Student Government Association (SGA) has impacted campus in different ways over the past ﬁve years including the Blue Loop extension, gender-inclusive housing, parking passes for expectant mothers and Cardinal Kitchen. VOL. 98 ISSUE: 24

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Feb. 21: Another attack-errorridden game saw the Cardinals drop their ﬁfth consecutive match of the season to Purdue Fort Wayne, 3-0. The ﬁnish was Ball State’s third straight game in which it registered 18 or more attack errors. Junior outside hitter Pelegrin Vargas was a standout for the Mastodons, leading the team with 19 kills.

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ON THE COVER: Junior telecommunications major Nate Lex performs cardistry with the Peelers deck of Organic Playing Cards Feb. 26, 2019. Lex became interested in cardistry in 2013 as a way to focus his energy. TIER MORROW, DN; ELLIOTT DEROSE, DN ILLUSTRATION

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Runoff election announced for two SGA slates

HEAD TO HEAD Andrew Harp | Interim News Editor Charles Melton | Reporter Rohith Rao | Reporter Editor’s Note: The Daily News requested to attend all SGA slates’ watch parties, but was not invited to attend Empower’s. The information gathered regarding Empower was provided by NewsLink Indiana. When voting came to an end and Ball State’s 2019 Student Government Association (SGA) election results were announced, no slate was able to gather a majority of the votes. The two slates with the most votes — Elevate and Empower — will now go head-to-head in a runoff election that will last until March 19. A runoff election is a second round of elections declared when no one slate manages to secure a majority, or 51 percent of the votes. The additional All-Slate Debate and voting for the runoff election will only commence after classes resume following spring break. According to an interview with NewsLink Indiana at the slate’s launch party, Connor Sanburn, campaign manager of Empower, said the slate wasn’t entirely happy with the results, but is looking forward to the rest of the election. “Frankly, I’m a little disappointed, but also very hopeful because that means we’re still in the game,” Sanburn said. “We’re excited for these next weeks to campaign again.” Julian Simmerman, presidential candidate of Empower, and Sanburn told The Daily News the slates’ watch party was “private” and “invite-only,” and that they wanted to share the news with Ball State as a team.

See RUNOFF, 05 From left: Aiden Medellin, Elevate presidential candidate; Julian Simmerman, Empower presidential candidate. REBECCA SLEZAK, DN; EMILY WRIGHT, DN ILLUSTRATION

Construction

Road closures coming to Ball State Jill Belser, facilities information coordinator for Facilities Planning and Management, sent two campuswide emails Feb. 20 regarding road closures on McKinley, University and Tillotson avenues during the coming months. These closings will facilitate work on underground electric cables. Many of these start and ﬁnish at different times, some ending as late as August.

Campus

Two instances of sexual misconduct reported An email sent to campus at around 8:45 p.m. Tuesday said two different instances of sexual misconduct were reported that day. According to the email, the victims and suspects are different in both instances and the suspects are known to both victims as well. This is the second Public Safety Advisory email sent to campus and the second and third instances of sexual misconduct reported this semester.

Student Government

SGA amends monthly report legislation The Student Government Association (SGA) passed an amendment to legislation which would give the senate the power to ask cabinet members to give monthly reports. The amendment added on a clause calling for the cabinet members to submit their reports themselves to the senate or be submitted to the chief of staff, who will distribute the report to the senate.

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The impact of paternal leave Survey finds paternity leave improves parental relationships

Chase Martin Reporter

rustration with a lack of paid paternal leave drove one professor to conduct a study about the subject. Richard Petts, associate professor of sociology, alongside Chris Knoester at Ohio State University, conducted “Paternity Leave and Parental Relationships: Variations by Gender and Mothers’ Work Statuses,” a survey of 4,700 couples from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Program, a study that examines families.

After completing the year-long study, Petts said he found parental relationships are often improved when fathers take paternity leave during a mother’s pregnancy. The study found parental relationships are often improved when fathers take paternity leave during the mother’s pregnancy. “By being more involved and helping out at home, not only does that beneﬁt the child, it also strengthens the parental relationship as well,” Petts said. While 41 countries have enacted federal paid parental leave — varying from Estonia with 87 weeks of paid leave to Australia with 10 weeks — the United States gives its employees zero weeks of paid parental leave due to the lack of current federal laws, according to a Pew Research Center study from 2016. In the United States, Petts said the “access and ability to take paternity leave” depends on a person’s occupation. This, along with the fact that

SURVEY RESULTS • Taking paternity leave is positively associated with parents’ relationship satisfaction. • Length of paternity leave is only positively associated with mothers’ relationship satisfaction. • In families where mothers worked before their child’s birth, taking paternity leave — particularly for a long period of time — can lead to reduced relationship conﬂict. • In families where mothers did not work for pay before their child’s birth, taking paternity leave leads to a rise in mothers’ reports of relationship conﬂict. Source: Paternity Leave and Parental Relationships: Variations by Gender and Mothers’ Work Statuses

Ball State did not have a paid parental leave policy until 2017, according to a previous Daily News report, is what sparked Petts’ research of the topic. Petts has conducted five total studies regarding parental leave and its effects on family life. “I got frustrated with the lack of formal options,” Petts said. During the policy’s first year of implementation, which was in the 2017 fiscal year, Ball State’s ADA and Leave Administration Programs Coordinator Shandy Filipowski said 53 cases of paid parental leave were granted. “It is a wonderful benefit for our employees,” Filipowski said. While Petts said he does not claim to be responsible for the changes that have taken place at Ball State, he has been a voice for paid parental leave and continues to pursue the topic. Contact Chase Martin with comments at cgmartin@bsu.edu.

PARENTAL LEAVE ACROSS THE WORLD Among 41 countries studied by the Pew Research Center, the United States was the only one on the list that had zero weeks of paid parental leave mandated by the government.

Canada ~30 weeks of paid parental leave

Weeks of paid parental leave

United States 0 weeks of paid parental leave

Estonia 87 weeks of paid parental leave

Japan ~60 weeks of paid parental leave

Over 80 weeks 61-80 weeks 41-60 weeks

Australia ~10 weeks of paid parental leave

21-40 weeks 1-20 weeks 0 weeks Country not included in study Source: 2016 Pew Research Center study. Data includes maternal leave, paternal leave and parental leave entitlements as of April 2015. EMILY WRIGHT, DN; FREE VECTOR MAPS, COURTESY

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“We wanted to try and keep our election party as private as possible,” Sanburn said to NewsLink Indiana at the slate’s launch party. “Honestly, we are homey people, we are very personal, we just wanted to keep this to ourselves.” Now, Sanburn said Empower wants to get more people to vote in the runoff election, visit organizations it was unable to visit and increase its presence on social media. He said the slate will be working with all student media during the rest of the election. “We’re happy to still be here. It’s much better to hear that than a [loss],” Simmerman said. “I’ve enjoyed campaigning. It’s been cool getting perspectives from every student.” Simmerman said they’re going to relax for now but will “ramp it up” once spring break is over. He said his slate was glad to hear more people voted this year than last. Nate Woods, treasurer candidate of Empower, said the slate was expecting a win, but that the election “deserves” to be a runoff. “I think that a lot of the concern was that we didn’t have the SGA experience and I think it makes a statement that we’re still one of the two left,” Woods said. “I think we’re feeling pretty confident.” Aiden Medellin, presidential candidate of Elevate, said the small advantage Elevate holds in this election says a lot. He told The Daily News the slate can count on a lot of the votes that were for United to come back to his slate. “I’ve been very confident in my slate and I think that’s why the percentage shows that we won the general election,” Medellin said. Medellin said aside from “the one small misstep” of being fined $100 for using Ball State’s logo without

permission, Elevate has run “a clean campaign” and “the winning campaign.” Medellin added that their confidence will continue into the runoff election. Cameron DeBlasio, vice presidential candidate of Elevate, said he wasn’t surprised with the results. He said while they would have loved to win the election outright, it’s a good feeling that they are one of the two slates and get to continue campaigning and spreading the message. “I think our biggest strength was shown in the fact that we did get the most votes today,” DeBlasio said. “Our ability to have the kind of outreach that we did across campus — beginning 40 minutes after the Nomination Convention adjourned, being over in Bracken Library getting our message out the night of — I think we’re going to have the same mentality going forward.” “Empower has a good base. They have a lot of people who I know are willing to vote for them because of their affiliation with Greek life,” DeBlasio said. “They did a good job of having outreach on social media … that’s why I think it was as close as it was today.” DeBlasio said Elevate has already called Jake Biller, presidential candidate of United, about potentially working with the slate. “I think Elevate and United have very similar views in how we think SGA should be run,” DeBlasio said. “And so we look forward to having that discussion with them.” Biller thanked his campaign team, the Ball State community and everyone who voted for them and made their voices heard. “When we started, as a person of faith, I felt that … God was really calling me into this and I said from the beginning that if I win we’ll praise him, and if we lose we’ll still praise him,” Biller said. “So, I just want to thank God for this opportunity.”

Rohith Rao Reporter

Votes cast in Tuesday’s first round of Ball State’s Student Government Association (SGA) election were relatively low compared to Ball State’s student population of nearly 22,000 students. While voter turnout this year was more than twice as high as in 2018’s election when only one slate ran, this year’s turnout is 198 students less than 2017’s election when two slates ran. Samantha Jazayeri, junior criminal justice and psychology major, said she didn’t vote in the election. In fact, she said she didn’t even hear about it. “Just not enough time I guess,” Jazayeri said when asked why she didn’t vote. “I don’t really know how [to vote]. I didn’t really know a lot about it.” Chad Kinsella, assistant professor of political science, said runoff elections usually result in some voter fatigue, leading to a decline in voter turnout.

“The interest kind of falls off,” Kinsella said. “You have to generate that interest again.” Voter turnout depends on how interested people are, how the parties excite voters and how close people perceive the vote to be, he said. “The key question would be, ‘Are they going to get everybody to vote like they did before?’ because generally, that’s not something that people in Indiana are used to — or really in the United States,” he said. Kinsella said runoff elections mean slates have to appeal to people who didn’t win in the first round and get enough of them to vote for the slate to help it win above 50 percent of the votes. This means slates will have to reach out to other people, which — in a democracy — is a good thing, he said. “Our American system has always been first past the post, single-member districts and most Americans — we still feel like that’s the way things should be done,” Kinsella said.

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2019 SGA RUNOFF ELECTION SCHEDULE Feb. 26: Runoff campaigns commence: Slates can start campaigning as soon as the runoff election is announced at 5:20 p.m. March 4-8: Spring break: The five-day spring break starts for Ball State students. University administrative offices will remain open during this period. March 11: All-Slate Debate: The second All-Slate Debate and fourth debate of this SGA election will be held 6 p.m. in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center Ballroom.

March 18-19: Voting for runoff election: Voting for the runoff election will be available online starting at 8 a.m. Monday and ending at 5 p.m. Tuesday. March 19: Winner announced: The winning slate of Ball State’s 2019 SGA runoff election will be announced 5:20 p.m. Tuesday after voting concludes and results are tallied. The winning slate will be inaugurated 3:15 p.m. April 18 in Cardinal Hall B at the L.A. Pittenger Student Center.

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SGA election voter turnout remains low

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(From Left) Nate Woods, treasurer candidate for Empower; Erin Byrne, secretarial candidate for Empower; Julian Simmerman, presidential candidate for Empower; Joel Johnson, vice presidential candidate for Empower. SCOTT FLEENER, DN

Members of Elevate stand outside their watch party Feb. 26, 2019. The slate found out they received enough votes to be in the runoff election. REBECCA SLEZAK,DN

VOTER TURNOUT FOR SGA ELECTIONS 2019 Elections: 2,438 total votes Elevate 970 votes Empower 892 votes United 543 votes No confidence: 33 votes 2018 Elections: 1,172 total votes Amplify 899 votes No confidence: 273 votes 2017 Elections: 2,636 total votes OPTiC 1352 votes Ignite 1284 votes

Voter turnout approximations 2019 11.14%

of student enrollment

2018 5.21%

of student enrollment

2017 11.98% of student enrollment

Enrollment totals for voter turnout approximations were calculated using the Fall semester on and off campus, full-time and part-time numbers of the previous year. EMILY WRIGHT, DN

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BREAKING DOWN THE STIGMA Hannah Gunnell Reporter

As someone who has personally felt the impact of mental illness, junior psychology major Chassica Price wants to make sure those in similar situations are supported. In order to do this, Price decided to implement a Ball State chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). “I have bipolar disorder type one, and way back when I tried to commit suicide, I got a huge bill from the doctor,” she said. “I thought it kind of sucked that I had to pay for it.” NAMI is the nation’s largest nonprofit, volunteer-only mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness, according to its website. The organization exists on national, state and local levels to provide a support group where people can share their experiences. In 2017, NAMI Indiana named the Delaware County branch –– which Price sits on the board of –– Affiliate of the Year. NAMI chapter meetings will look like a support group, where everyone can share their experiences. Price established a support group at the beginning of the semester. The group –– NAMI Connection –– meets at 7 p.m. every Tuesday in Teachers College room 229. “I got so much from [support groups] and I want other people to benefit from it too,” Price said. “It is completely free, and there’s just so many people that can’t afford treatment.”

MENTAL HEALTH CARE

IN INDIANA According to Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, a serious mental illness (SMI) is deﬁned by someone over 18 having (within the past year) a diagnosable mental, behavioral or emotional disorder that causes serious functional impairment that substantially interferes with or limits one or more major life activities. AMI refers to any mental illness.

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Biller said he wasn’t sure about his slate endorsing Empower or Elevate for the runoff election, but a statement will be released after consulting the rest of the team if the slate chooses to do so. Biller said he was disappointed since SGA was something he loved and was “very passionate about.” “I would have loved the opportunity, obviously, to serve the student body as president, but it’s not in the cards,” Biller said. “So, I just take it on the chin and run with it.” Mary Eber from NewsLink Indiana contributed to this story. Contact Andrew Harp with comments at adharp@bsu.edu or on Twitter @adharp24. Contact Charles Melton with comments at cwmelton@bsu.edu or on Twitter @Cmelton144. Contact Rohith Rao with comments at rprao@bsu.edu or on Twitter @RaoReports.

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George Gaither, assistant professor of psychological science, will be the advisor for the NAMI student organization. The Ball State chapter will be similar to how the organization is run across the nation. “It’s a group of people that have common interests, that are dealing with mental health conditions, that come together to basically just talk about what they’re dealing with and get support from one another –– provide support to one another,” Gaither said. Before the chapter is started, however, Price must first fill out an application and paperwork including appointed roles, such as vice president, and fundraising officers. Once she has submitted the paperwork, she must get approval from the Delaware County Board of Directors. Price is waiting on a NAMI representative to send her the required paperwork. Finally, Price must go through the Office of Student Life to establish the NAMI chapter as a student organization. The Office of Student Life requires students forming new organizations to attend workshops explaining the process of becoming a recognized student organization; complete an Intent to Organize form and upload a constitution on Benny Link; and attend a Student Activities Committee to discuss the organization’s purpose. Gaither said students tried to organize NAMI groups before, once in the 1990s and once in 2013, but both failed to stay active because the former faculty advisor left Ball State and the students graduated without successors.

Student to implement National Alliance on Mental Illness chapter.

Because of this, Price is trying to recruit more freshmen and sophomores, she said. Gaither, also a member of the Delaware County NAMI Board of Directors, hopes that students interested in joining NAMI will take their experiences from support groups to other places. “What I would like to see is students who get involved here at the student organization, when they leave Ball State and go wherever they establish their life, that they’ll get involved with the local NAMI chapter wherever it is they go,” Gaither said. Price hopes that by establishing NAMI she can help destigmatize mental illnesses and make it easier for people to receive help. “Like when there’s an active shooter at a high school or something, everyone is like ‘Ope, they’re bipolar,’ or ‘They’re schizophrenic,’ or ‘They’re a psycho –– they have psychosis,’ when literally being angry has nothing to do with your mental diagnosis,” Price said. Price said she can help destigmatize mental illnesses by sharing her own experiences. “I just want to go out there and be like yeah I have a pretty severe mental health condition, but here’s how I control it,” Price said. “By educating people, and sharing my experiences, I am helping break down the stigma that is attached to mental health.” While Price said she hopes to establish the organization by the end of the semester at the latest, Gaither said he predicts it will only take a little more than a month to ﬁnalize. Contact Hannah Gunnell with comments hrgunnell@bsu.edu or on Twitter @hagunnellNEWS.

TREATMENT OF ADULTS FOR AMI

TREATMENT OF ADULTS FOR SMI

FROM 2010 - 2014

2013 - 2014 AVERAGES

4.8% 43.6% Received treatment or counseling

56.4%

National Average

4.6% Indiana Average

Did not receive treatment or counseling Source: SAMHSA EMILY WRIGHT, DN

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He said adopting other voting systems depends on what the need is and there’s no “one best way.” Regarding Ball State’s SGA election, Kinsella said he believes disinterest among students was the main reason for the low voter turnout. Lauren Atkinson, freshman psychology and criminology major, said she didn’t vote in the SGA election because she really didn’t know about it. Atkinson said she doesn’t really have an idea about what SGA does other than hosting events, and would like to know more about what it does. She said sending out emails was the best possible way for SGA to reach out to her. Other than lack of knowledge about SGA and the elections, Kinsella said, because students are here for only a few years, there’s not a lot of permanency to the elections. “Aside from the faculty and staff, it’s a totally transient population,” he said. Kinsella said most students would have no clue what SGA does and might assume it to be “just a popularity contest.” Cameron Ulrey, freshman pre-law major, said he did vote in the

SGA election for the slate that came to his fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsilon, and talked about their platform points. “I want to say, email everybody — but I know people don’t read their emails a lot, or at least a lot of people don’t,” Ulrey said when asked how SGA should reach out to students. Ulrey also suggested going to big events like the Dance Marathon and Late Nite as another means of reaching out to students. Contact Rohith Rao with comments at rprao@bsu.edu or on Twitter @RaoReports.

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NEXT WOMAN UP

Men’s Basketball

From a role player to the No. 1 option, Oshlynn Brown has taken a step forward in her sophomore season.

Cardinals collapse against Chippewas Central Michigan went on a 15-2 run in the final minutes of the game to steal a win over Ball State Men’s Basketball, 64-57. The Cardinals were outrebounded, 45-33.

High School Basketball

Burris Owls blown out by Delta Eagles An early run by Delta gave Burris boy’s basketball a regular-seasonending loss, 83-38. In the win, Delta became the only undefeated team in the state of Indiana this season.

Athletics Ball State sophomore forward Oshlynn Brown defends the ball during a game against Toledo Feb. 23, 2019, in John E. Worthen Arena. The Cardinals fell to the Rockets, 63-62, on “Hoosieroons and Hoops” day. SCOTT FLEENER, DN Daric Clemens Reporter It’s been a bumpy road for Ball State Women’s Basketball this season, but the future looks bright for the Cardinals as sophomore forward Oshlynn Brown has taken her talents to the next level. The Cardinals came into the new season with six true freshmen joining their roster after the departure of four former starters from last season. The team was in search of someone they could rely on, and Brown filled that position from the start.

“In the summer, I was getting in the gym knowing that this is going to be a young team,” Brown said. “ I just knew what I had to do. I have to lead for the team.” Brown’s performance last season is nothing to look past as she solidified herself in a key role coming off the bench. She was awarded the Mid-American Conference Sixth Player of the Year and was listed on the MAC All-Freshman Team, finishing the season averaging 8.4 points and 7.6 rebounds per game in just 18.5 minutes per contest.

This season, Brown has been able to up her play and has become a go-to scorer for the Cardinals. “I know when it is time for me to score,” Brown said. “I like to pass the ball to my open teammates a lot too, so I’m not selfish with the ball, but I know when I have to put up numbers and score.” Brown is leading the Cardinals in scoring and rebounding this year as she averages 13.5 points and 9.2 rebounds a game. Her numbers on the glass place her third in the MAC.

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Ball State Daily News sports weekend recap Softball head coach Megan Ciolli Bartlett picked up her 100th win at Ball State, gymnastics won the Battle of the Red Crane over Illinois State and Southeast Missouri and much more.4BallStateDailyNews.com

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Evan Weaver Reporter

After seeing grandparents on the granny dance teams at professional sporting events, Marketing and Fan Engagement Assistant Derrick Endres got the idea to create a staff-and-faculty-based dance team called The Ballers. “I thought it would be kind of funny to see if we could do it with faculty and staff members,” Endres said. “It came to me one night and I texted [Shawn Sullivan, associate athletics director of Marketing and Fan Engagement] at 4:30 a.m., and he wanted to talk about it more.” Olivia McGarvey, head coach for both the Code Red Dance Team and The Ballers, said coaching this new group was an easy decision. “I mean why not? They’re The Ballers. They’re the best team,” McGarvey said. “This is a fun way to meet people and share my passion, which is dance, so it’s the best of both worlds.” Initially, Endres said they weren’t expecting too many people to be interested. After reaching out, however, he said he was surprised by the number of faculty and staff who expressed interest. “We’ve already had a few people reach out to us who want to be a part of the team for next year, so I’m excited to see where this goes,” Endres said. Among those who responded was Mike Gillilan, director of Student Rights and Community Standards. Gillilan said he was inspired by a friend who does something similar in New Orleans. “My friend is a part of the 610 Stompers, and it’s an all-men’s group that usually performs at Saints games and the Macy’s Day Parade,” Gillilan said. “I know that he has a great time with it, and I thought it’d be kind of fun to be part of a group that got something like this started.” Candace Olszak, Worthen Arena equipment manager, was also interested. Olszak said she saw

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Brown has been able to dominate in games in the post, using her strength to convert on contested shots. Brown had one of her best performances of the season Dec. 16 in a win over Western Kentucky where she posted a season-high 25 points and grabbed 10 rebounds. This was one of her five games this year scoring at least 20 points. “It has been a really good step for [Brown] in year two,” head coach Brady Sallee said. “Last year as a sixth man, she could see the way the game was going and feel it out a little bit, and there wasn’t a real pressure for her to be a go-to scorer. Her role has switched, and now she is the go-to scorer, and she gets the ball in the crunch time and when we need buckets.” As Brown has become the Cardinals’ main scorer,

The Ballers become the nation’s first collegiate faculty and staff dance team.

this as an opportunity to meet other people across campus and have fun. “I always like to dance, and at the games I see myself bouncing to the music and stuff like that,” Olszak said. “I thought it would be something fun to do.” After the team’s debut performance during halftime of the men’s basketball game Feb. 9, some of the members said they felt like local celebrities on campus. “I posted a video on my Facebook page, and in my 12 years of being on the site, it was the most viewed and liked thing I’ve ever posted,” Gillilan said. “I had lots of people at the university email me or call me and congratulate me for going out there and telling me how much they’ve enjoyed [watching] it.” While the team is done performing for the year, it hopes to continue balling for many years ahead. “The best part of being on this team has been getting to know people in other parts of the university that I would normally never meet otherwise, and also pushing myself a little bit,” Gillilan said. Contact Evan Weaver with any comments at erweaver@bsu.edu or on Twitter @evan_weaver7.

FIRST YEAR PERFORMANCES In their first year, The Ballers performed at: • A gymnastics meet • A men’s basketball game • Dance Marathon Next season, Endres said the team hopes to expand to other sports including football and volleyball.

The Ballers dance team stands in John E. Worthen Arena, Feb. 9, 2019. Members of the team include: Mike Gillilan, Jessica Allardt, Michelle Jones, Candace Olszak, Larissa Wright , Blake Beemer, Stormie Kirby and Renee Haack. OLIVIA MCGARVEY, PHOTO PROVIDED

opposing teams have started to key in on her and try to keep her from getting comfortable on offense. She has responded well to the adversity and managed to record 10 double-doubles on the season so far. “The pressure of having to deliver when getting game planned for is different, and she has handled it very well,” Sallee said. “It’s always good to see that kind of progression from a freshman to a sophomore … and it makes me excited for the future.” As Brown continues progressing, Sallee said her role as a leader could grow as well. “You really see her lead during games. You see the way she talks on the defensive end and that part of it has been really good,” Sallee said. “Her next step as a player is going to be leading in practice, and I think she understands that and is getting better at it.” While Brown has played well this season, she said she knows there are areas in her game she needs to improve on to become even more of a threat to opposing teams.

I just knew what I had to do. I have to lead for the team.” - OSHLYNN BROWN, Cardinal forward “I need to work on playing outside of the post because I want to be able to play off the post and in the post, especially when I have a mismatch guarding me,” Brown said. “Also, the post too because everybody is flopping on me now because I’ve been playing more physical, so I have to learn how to not be so physical.” Contact Daric Clemens with any comments at diclemens@bsu.edu or on Twitter @DaricClemens.

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FAITH. HOPE. LOVE. Rapper LJ discusses his own experiences with mental illness through Sauna’s benefit concert.

Mary Eber Reporter The bass from the music inside the two-car garage on North Calvert Street penetrates the walls and shakes the structure — a typical weekend night for the venue. While it may seem like a standard college party, the student-run space known as The Sauna is used for musical performances from a range of artists. The most recent performance on Feb. 21, however, doubled as a benefit show to raise money for suicide prevention. Focused on unity and spreading awareness, six artists — LJ, Chris Mack, Mexican Casper, Jay D’Andre, Boogie and Eric Heinzman — kept the audience on their toes and raised $500 for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention by the end of the night. As the fourth performer of The Sauna’s benefit concert and its first hip-hop night, rapper LJ premiered his music video for his song “FHL”. Faith, Hope, Love. Faith, Hope, Love. Faith, Hope, Love. Encouraged by LJ, the crowd chanted the lyrics in unison. Even though the song was released last year, many were not already familiar with it. “It felt really fresh and releasing,” LJ said. LJ said he didn’t quite know what to expect from the audience since this was his first performance at The Sauna, but that he was pleasantly surprised by the reactions. “The audience definitely received [my performance] in an incredible way, and [I] was able to have several moments ... where they just connected really well with it,” LJ said. “It felt like they had been rocking with me for awhile.”

Rapper LJ performs at a cookout for Impact and Crew at Ball State in fall 2018. LJ premiered his music video for his song, “FHL,” for 100 guests Feb. 21, 2019, at The Sauna. PAUL NOVOSEL, PHOTO PROVIDED

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The video was filmed by Ball State junior telecommunications major Connor Rush. It features people from different backgrounds, races and ages in Muncie, Indiana; Atlanta, Georgia and New York City as they lip sync the lyrics “faith, hope, love” — each word representing a way those suffering from mental illness manage to pull themselves or others out of dark places.

Throughout the song, I’m touching on where my faith comes from, having that Christian background, where I found hope in hopeless situations wrestling with suicidal thoughts and sensations.” - LJ, Rapper “It was really important for us to connect that line through all those people and understand that suicide and mental illness is a deeply-seated sickness that involves a lot of people and comes up for many different reasons and all of those people are sharing and representing their struggle and how they overcame,” Rush said. During the music video, LJ writes his thoughts down in his journal, while drugs, alcohol and suicide itself — in the form of a noose hanging from the ceiling — surround him. “[LJ’s] kind of in this confined space, and he’s breaking his way out of it to represent a sort of culmination of all of these experiences, all of these people,” Rush said. “Bringing those two elements together was the foundation.” A few years back, LJ said he started the same

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Continued from Page 01 White said there are different aspects of design she had to keep in mind when designing Squeezers compared to her other projects. “You have to think about the way that the cards will look when they’re spread out and when you’re doing different card tricks,” White said. “We have to make [the cards] look really recognizable, so we can’t go crazy with court cards because if we do that, then people who do cardistry and magic, their tricks won’t go as well.” Because retailers can also buy Organic Playing Cards’ decks in large quantities to sell through their own sites, Toner said people from across the world — including Taiwan, China, Russia, Germany, Italy and Spain — have Peelers and Squeezers, which has created a worldwide community. Toner and Lex also hope to continue widening their audience to those who are interested in magic

kind of journaling shown in the video after his mentor taught him to choose different Bible verses and write about them. The song “FHL” was inspired by 1 Corinthians 13:13, which says, “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” After the showing of his video, LJ began talking about his own struggle with suicide and mental illness, causing the packed garage to fall silent. LJ encouraged anyone struggling to seek help. LJ said he always shares the backstories behind his songs when he performs to take the audience on a journey with him and expose them to things they might not have given much thought to. “Throughout the song, I’m touching on where my faith comes from, having that Christian background, where I found hope in hopeless situations, wrestling with suicidal thoughts and sensations,” LJ said. “And then love too … either situations where I feel like I lacked love, whether that be with my family or situations where I think love is found in.” LJ and Rush said they have plans to submit the video in film festivals including New York LiftOff, Toronto Lift-Off and Sidewalk Film Festival in Birmingham, Alabama. At The Sauna that night, nearly 100 guests came to support these independent, self-created artists. All six performers came with a scheduled set prepared, but rapper Mexican Casper also called all the artists to the stage for an impromptu freestyle, surprising the audience and the other rappers. The energy from the crowd brought heat to the cold garage that night as the artists kept the audience dancing, jumping and singing along. “LJ, Chris Mack, Mexican Casper, Jay D’Andre, Boogie, Eric. Those are all people who have the ability to really get an audience involved in the music,” Rush said. “It was freezing cold that night, but everybody came out anyway; everybody came out with a really good attitude ready to hear some good music, ready to have a good time ... we had some really fantastic energy.” Contact Mary Eber with comments at mmeber@bsu.edu.

or cardistry, but may be afraid to try. “A kind of a big thing in the [magic] industry right now is magic has always been a super secretive, lucrative type thing,” Toner said. “I want to open the doors wide open … to different people. We’ve even had people on campus that we’ve talked to about our playing cards, and we’ve given them a deck, and they’ll start getting into cardistry. They’ve found a new passion that they really are enjoying and having fun with.”

Peelers Version Two This year, Toner and Lex said they have plans to release a Peelers Version Two, which will have a different color combination than the first deck. They also have plans to partner with Alex’s Lemonade Stand, a pediatric cancer charity, where a portion of their sales will be donated to the charity. Lex said being able to share their custom playing cards with people around the world is “100 percent honest in [his] heart” the best part of Organic Playing Cards.

Rapper LJ performs near the Shafer Bell Tower in fall 2018. LJ premiered the music video for his song “FHL” at The Sauna Feb. 21, 2019. PAUL NOVOSEL, PHOTO PROVIDED Because he wasn’t chasing after the money and recognition that comes with selling the cards, Lex said creating and selling the playing cards was more fulfilling to him. “I’ve noticed that every single time I try to really chase after something [and] I’m making that fill me up instead of just like the fun of it, it’s so not,” Lex said. “I’m like, ‘Just go do it for fun and then let those blessings of the conversations you get to have with people and that money it brings you [to] pay off bills be blessings later.’” Toner and Lex said they hope to produce four other decks this year beyond the second Peelers deck to continue spreading their ideas and passion for their arts. “We both are shoot-for-the-stars kind of people,” Toner said. “We’ll never have an idea and be like, ‘Nah, that’s too much.’ We never say no to an idea. I think that that’s part of what has gotten us this far.” Contact Nicole Thomas with comments nrthomas3@bsu.edu or on Twitter @nicolerthomas22.

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REMEMBERING the past and ILLUMINATING the future To celebrate Black History Month, Daily News photographers set out to find leaders in the Muncie community who have impacted and changed people’s lives for the better.

Terry Bailey, the director for Community Development in Muncie, Indiana, sits in Muncie City Hall Feb. 18, 2019. The primary function of Community Development is to administer entitlement grants to the City of Muncie from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. ERIC PRITCHETT, DN

Black leadership doesn’t make children great; greatness is already in them, but in many cases that greatness remains dormant and/or suppressed because children don’t see people like themselves highlighted.” Yvonne Thompson sits in her office in Muncie City Hall Feb. 15, 2019. “Leadership should always reflect from a specific community,” Thompson said. “No one group should be the default leaders. And yet, that’s what America has. Each culture has it’s own capable and intelligent leaders.” Thompson is the director of the Muncie Human Rights Commission. STEPHANIE AMADOR, DN

Watasha Griffin, Muncie chapter president of Indiana Black Expo, sits in her home Feb. 18, 2019. “I believe that effective leadership, particularly African Americans in leadership , is crucial in the movement,” Griffin said. Griffin is in her second term as chapter president. SCOTT FLEENER, DN

- WILISHA SCAFIE, Muncie P3 director of Family Engagement Wilisha Scafie sits in a pew at the Union Baptist Missionary Church Feb. 18, 2019. Scafie is the Muncie P3 director of Family Engagement. SCOTT FLEENER, DN

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THANKS TO TOLERANCE Jordan Rhodes is a senior English major who writes “Shepard’s Corner” for the The Daily News. His views do not necessarily agree with those of the newspaper. Write to Jordan at jbrhodes@bsu.edu. I sat down to write this piece to talk about what it was like being a bisexual liberal man growing up Jordan around Republicans, selfRhodes described conservatives Columnist, and current Trump Shepard’s supporters. The result, Corner while not altogether jarring and certainly not too surprising, was something that really hit home for me. It got me thinking about tolerance, and how we as a society seem to have lost value for it. My family and friends didn’t need to show me the tolerance they did, but I’m a better person now because of it. I grew up a “good Catholic boy” with good Catholic friends in conservative Evansville, Indiana. My parents were Reagan voters and quite Christian. I grew up around those ideals and learned to accept them as gospel — forgive the pun. My whole family is very conservative. Fiscally more so than socially, but still very staunch Republicans. I remember one time, when I was in middle school, I was driving in the car with my father, fully aware of the truth about my sexuality. During one of our common, middle-schoollevel political conversations, I told him, “I am OK letting gay people be gay, but don’t let them get married.” I said that because I figured that was the correct, Republican answer. To my surprise, my father shot me down, telling me not to say that. He told me that mindset was what led to bigotry, which he did everything in his power to keep me from being since I was a small child. He told me he worked with LGBT people and that they were fantastic people. This moment was simple, and he likely doesn’t remember it, but it made me so much more comfortable in my own skin. It’s that memory that helped me be comfortable

Andrew Rowland is a junior visual communications major and does illustrations for The Ball State Daily News. His views do not necessarily agree with those of the newspaper. Write to Andrew at arowland@bsu.edu.

coming out five years later. Once I got to high school I came to accept that I was bisexual. I had been subconsciously avoiding realizing it for the sake of both social status and Christian morality. Around this time is also when I started skewing left politically. My debates became less like the echo chambers they were in middle school and more like heated duels — one man versus entire armies of conservative soldiers. But at no time during high school did I

feel attacked or like the outlier I clearly was, even as I started to see myself as one from the outside looking in. I still keep in touch with all of my friends, and we don’t shy away from politics. As viscerally as we disagree and argue politics, they are my friends. We had a sort of cult-like bond in high school looking back, honestly. When junior year rolled around, they didn’t bat an eye when I told them I was bi. One of my friends and another one of my roommates even said they’d always known.

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Upon arriving at Ball State, I began to realize how all of my differences really didn’t matter. Turns out I’m just like everyone else: straight, gay or otherwise. I’m even rooming with guys from my old high school. Ultimately, nothing has changed at all since I was a rigid, conservative, middle-school boy. Just because my family knows I’m bisexual and quite liberal doesn’t mean that they are going to treat me any differently or love me any less. I realize I am not as fortunate as others, though. I know there are people, some of whom I am very close to, who aren’t always surrounded by the most compassionate friends or family. I certainly don’t have all the answers, but reacting to hate will only ferment more hate. Show them tolerance and find those who will show it back to you. Tolerance saved me from living a life of insincerity to myself. Maybe that’s the testament of what good Christians are supposed to be. Maybe that’s what reflects the nature of libertarianism and moralism: acceptance and tolerance. I know my previous posts, both with The Ball State Daily and on social media, can come across as liberally biased or blind to the right wing and other different ways of thinking, but I’ve lived my life neck-high in red waters. I know how most conservatives think and feel and what most evangelicals know and believe. I grew up on it all. I am still a part of it, even if I disagree with the whole lot of them. With all the social media and the mass communication we have today, everyone has a voice. As a result, we form these tribes against “the enemy.” It’s that tribalism that is the true catalyst to the lack of tolerance and acceptance in our world. For me that’s what’s truly wrong with the world today. I may be on the opposite side of every issue from you, but that doesn’t mean I don’t love or care about you. Those are the values instilled in me since youth. I don’t just assume all Republicans or anyone who is different than me are evil or that all conservatives are stupid. That’s grossly naïve thinking and reveals a vast lack of knowledge about how the real world works.

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the people in my life who have made me feel welcome despite my differences and making me realize they don’t deﬁne me for who I am, and nor should they for you. Be proud of who you are, where you are and don’t forget where you came from. It all helped make you who you are. And, so long as they’re not hurting anybody, let others be proud of who they are. A little tolerance goes a long way, and we need some sort of “kumbaya” if we are to function as a society.

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