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Place the Rolo next to the
Decking out in green
Nicole Thomas Features Editor
From wearing green to visiting a bar for drinks with friends, there are several ways people can celebrate the upcoming St. Patrick’s Day. Instead of stopping by your local grocery store for prepackaged cookies or cakes to bring to your St. Patrick’s Day party, consider making these three festive desserts for some salty, sweet and sour treats.
NICOLE THOMAS, DN
Over the Rainbow Cupcakes
What you need:
• Cake mix of your choice • Mixing bowl • Cupcake baking tin • Cupcake liners • Green frosting • Frosting tip • Mini marshmallows • Food-safe scissors • AirHeads Xtremes • Rolos • Gold sprinkles
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with these festive treats.
Directions: 1. In a mixing bowl, prepare your cupcake batter according to the package’s directions. 2. Line your cupcake baking tin with festive St. Patrick’s Day cupcake liners. 3. Follow the mix’s baking directions. Let cupcakes cool after baking. 4. Using the frosting tip, hollow out the center of each cupcake. 5. Fill the holes you’ve made in each cupcake with gold sprinkles. 6. Pipe green frosting on top of each cupcake. 7. Using food-safe scissors, cut each AirHeads Extreme candy in half, and place them on top of each cupcake, making an arch. This creates the cupcake’s rainbow. 8. Place two mini marshmallows on each end of the cupcake’s rainbow. 9. Pipe a small amount of leftover frosting onto the wide end of a Rolo. 10. Press gold sprinkles onto the frosted Rolo until all the frosting is covered. 11. Place the Rolo next to the mini marshmallows on one side of your cupcake’s rainbow. This creates the pot of gold at the end of the cupcake’s rainbow. 12. Enjoy your Over the Rainbow cupcakes.
Contact Nicole Thomas with comments nrthomas3@bsu.edu.
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Freshman journalism major becomes fi rst Ball State student to compete on “Wheel of Fortune.”
Hannah Gunnel Reporter
Editor’s Note: Christian Dixie is a reporter at Byte Magazine, a Unifi ed Media partner of The Daily News. When Christian Dixie, freshman journalism major, was 9 months old, he fell in love with the game show “Wheel of Fortune.”
“My grandma and [I] sat in front of the TV, and she got me on ‘Wheel of Fortune,’” he said. “That was our thing. We would watch it together.” Dixie’s grandma died in 2005 when he was 4 years old, he said, but he has continued to watch “Wheel of Fortune” every night since then. Dixie’s dream to compete on the show came true, as he traveled to Sony Studios in Culver City, California, in February to fi lm
an episode, which will air March 17.
Dixie participated in the game show’s College Week where he played against students from the University of Iowa and Berkeley College. “To also be the fi rst person to ever represent Ball State on a College Week on ‘Wheel of Fortune’ … it’s such a mindblowing moment,” Dixie said. During the taping, Dixie was able to meet the show’s hosts, Pat Sajak and Vanna White.
“They are so down-to-earth, and they are just so amazing,” he said. “They made me really at ease during the show … Vanna surprised all of us in the makeup room/greenroom area. She had no makeup on, and she was wearing sweats and a ponytail. It was just a really genuine moment. To see Vanna clapping for me — that made my entire life. She is truly an icon.”
Dixie’s journey to competing on the show began in May 2019 when he sent an online application with his audition video on “Wheel of Fortune’s” website. Ten days after he submitted his application, he received an email inviting him to audition in Detroit June 4, 2019. It wasn’t until January 2020 the producers at “Wheel of Fortune” called him and invited him to play as part of the show’s College Week. “I was in the [Art and Journalism] Building, [and] I was upstairs in my Journalism 103 class,” Dixie said. “I’ll never forget seeing the call. [My phone] said Culver City, California, and I was like, ‘That’s weird. Culver City?’ I was thinking, ‘“Wheel of Fortune?” Why are they calling me?’ I thought I would never hear from them because I had to literally wait seven months after my audition to hear back from them.
“But, I called them back. I had to walk out of class … They were like, ‘Are you a college student now?’ because at the time that I auditioned, I just ended my senior year [of high school], and I was three days away from graduating.” Ball State’s College of Communication, Information and Media (CCIM) is planning to host a watch party, as of March 11, of Dixie’s “Wheel of Fortune” episode at 7 p.m. March 17 in the Unifi ed Media Lab. Any Ung, CCIM’s program manager for community and digital engagement, organized the event.
“We wanted to celebrate him and his accomplishment,” Ung said. “This is the very fi rst time that we have a Ball State student being represented at ‘Wheel of Fortune,’ and we were very excited about that.” Ung said the event will
“My grandma and [I] sat in front of the TV, and she got me on ‘Wheel of Fortune,’” he said. “That was our thing. We would watch it together.” - CHRISTIAN DIXIE, Journalism major
be open to the entire Ball State community and will be broadcast on CCIM’s Facebook page.
“Initially, we started talking about it for alumni and people who ... are not physically present in Muncie,” she said. “I know we have a lot of them on the West Coast. [Dixie’s] family is in Fort Wayne, and I know that he is very close to his family, so we wanted to have that component where people can still be with us.” Dixie said he is unable to discuss his winnings or how well the other students competed prior to the episode’s air date. Ung said she asked Dixie if he wanted a small party or a large party, which would let her know if he performed well on the show. “If he bombed it, I don’t think he would’ve wanted a bigger group,” Ung said. “He said, ‘A big group is good,’ so I think he did well.”
Contact Hannah Gunnell with comments at hrgunnell@ bsu.edu or on Twitter @ hagunnellNEWS.
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