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TALENT Ball State joins the brain gain initiative in an effort to bring alumni back to Indiana.

John Lynch | Reporter

In collaboration with other universities, Ball State has joined a statewide initiative to bring alumni back to Indiana.

The initiative, started by Indianapolis-based company TMap, is focused on encouraging graduates of Indiana secondary schools to return to the state to alleviate “brain drain,” an issue where students who study in a state leave to find work.

Michael Hicks, professor of economics, said in an email that there are many factors that contribute to why graduates stay away from Indiana, but the biggest

reason is their own potential.

“The problem with brain drain is always that people with higher levels of human capital have a higher propensity to relocate,” Hicks said.

According to a U.S. Senate Joint Economic Committee report summarizing brain drain figures from 1940 to 2017, Indiana — like other Rust Belt states including Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Missouri — ranks among states faring the worst at retaining and attracting highly-educated adults.

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Appeals court upholds abortion law injunction 4Aug. 28: In a 2-1 ruling, the 7th U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a lower court decision to block part of a 2017 Indiana law that would make it tougher for underage girls to get an abortion without their parents’ knowledge. The ruling states notifying parents puts an “undue burden” on the minor and runs afoul of Supreme Court precedent.

Texas shooting leaves 7 dead, 22 injured

4Sept. 1: A man with an ARstyle weapon opened fire during a routine traffic stop in West Texas.

He killed seven people and injured 22 others. During the chaos, the suspect hijacked a mail carrier truck and fired at random as he drove in the area between Odessa and Midland, Texas, two cities more than 300 miles west of Dallas.

Women’s volleyball goes 1-1 in tournament

4Aug. 30: The Cardinals began their regular season Friday, hosting UAB and USF in the Ball State Tournament in Worthen Arena. Ball State swept UAB in the first match of the day and followed with a fiveset loss to USF. Freshman outside hitter Natalie Mitchem led the team with 32 kills for the day. Senior setter Amber Seaman had 92 assists.

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4Sept. 3: Walmart said it will discontinue the sale of handgun ammunition and publicly requested that all customers refrain from openly carrying a firearm inside the store, even in states where citizens are allowed to openly carry handguns. This announcement came after a shooting last month in a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.

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4Aug. 31: The Cardinals participated in the Ruoff Mortgage Kickoff Classic against Indiana University Saturday at Lucas Oil Stadium. Ball State never had the lead, but did tie the game once late in the first quarter and again early in the second. The Hoosiers were able to grow their lead to as large as 14, and walked away with a 34-24 win.

University to break ground for new building

4Sept. 3: Ball State will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Foundational Sciences Building 4 p.m. Sept. 6, on the northeast corner of Martin Street and Ashland Avenue. The $87.5 million, fivestory structure will house the chemistry and biology departments.

The project is anticipated to be completed in summer 2021.

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Ball Corporation debuts aluminum cup

Ball Corporation announced the launch of a pilot for infinitely-recyclable aluminum cups. In a press release Aug. 27, it said the cups will debut in September with an additional roll out during the fall at major entertainment and sports venues across the country.

Ball Corporation was founded in 1880 by the Ball brothers, founders of Ball State.

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MCHS principal reviews achievements Muncie Central High School (MCHS) Principal Chris Walker presented the school’s achievements and areas of improvement at the Muncie Community Schools (MCS) board meeting Aug. 28. The MCS board was also presented with the MCHS Varsity “M” — an award signed by students from the school’s class of 2019.

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Village Green Records joins Menstruatin’ With Satan donation campaign.

Hannah Gunnell Reporter Village Green Records (VGR) is one of nine Indiana donation locations participating in The Satanic Temple (TST) Indiana’s campaign, Menstruatin’ With Satan.

“There’s something kind of fun and transgressive about what The Satanic Temple does and about a program like Menstruatin’

With Satan that I think fits our sort of metal mentality,” said Travis Harvey, owner of VGR. “It’s really metal to think about these things, and it’s cool and proactive at the same time.”

Harvey said, for seven weeks, he will offer 25 percent off a used record or 10 percent off a new record to all customers who donate a sealed box of menstrual hygiene products. This includes tampons, pads, pantyliners, menstrual cups and wet wipes.

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Student Government holds first meeting The new Student Government Association (SGA) slate began its semester by approving new at-large and off-campus caucus members.

Additionally, Ted Wolner, professor emeritus of architecture, asked the senate to consider continuing a resolution recommending Ball State pursue a net-zero carbon emission goal on all buildings.

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Overall in 2017, the report states Indiana ranked ninth among the states with the worst gross brain drain — loss of “homegrown” talent — and states with the worst net brain gain — the same loss exceeding the in-migration of out-of-state talent.

Hicks said the problem of brain drain extends beyond the abilities of a university’s efforts alone, as the initiative would need 5,000 people to graduate from college yearly to have a meaningful impact.

Additionally, he said, because of cuts to funding of colleges and universities and the funding of K-12 remaining constant, fewer Indiana residents have been going to college since the Great Recession.

“Indiana just doesn’t do a good job of getting kids into meaningful post-secondary schooling,” Hicks said. “In order to help remedy the brain drain, we’d first want to send more kids to college, probably about 10,000 a year, which is an increase of maybe one out of every seven high school graduates.”

Hicks also listed a lack of attractive communities as a detractor for potential returning college graduates and their families.

Becca Rice, vice president for government relations at Ball State, said the initiative is trying to “cast a broad net” when it comes to the type of alumni being recruited for the initiative.

“We want students to have all the opportunities in the world, but should they find an opportunity here, it really is a win-win for the state and the employers who are hoping for great graduates, especially from Ball State,” Rice said.

She said working with TMap on the initiative allows Ball State to interact with alumni and the prospect of recruiting graduates for a “relatively low investment of time.”

Mike Rutz, co-founder of TMap, said he believes his company’s efforts can lead to benefits for the state and its potential new residents.

“We don’t have mountains, we don’t have oceans, right, but we do have great people,” Rutz said.

Rutz said Indiana has a number of factors that make it attractive as a place to build a career and put down roots, including the low cost of living, more opportunities to buy a house and the state’s potential to develop new industries like software engineering.

He also cited the ability of Indiana’s secondary schools to “manufacture more talent than almost any other state in the country” as a major attractor for educated workers.

People that have connections to Indiana have a “significantly higher probability” of actually living and working in Indiana, Rutz said.

In a Ball State press release, President Geoffrey Mearns said, “with a strong economy,

We don’t have mountains, we don’t have oceans, right, but we do have great people.”

- MIKE RUTZ, Co-founder of TMap many opportunities and Hoosier values, our state is thriving.”

“For Indiana to continue to grow, we need qualified professionals to fill many job openings throughout the state,” Mearns said. “The state of Indiana has invested in Ball State, and now I am asking our alumni to consider investing in Indiana by living and working here.”

Contact John Lynch with comments at jplynch@bsu.edu or on Twitter @WritesLynch.

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North Dakota | 19.9% Highest in the U.S.

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Volunteers from the Ball State and Muncie communities will get together once again to lend a helping hand during United Way’s annual Day of Action event Sept. 6.

Krista Flynn, program coordinator for the Ball State Office of Community Engagement, said this is the third year Ball State has officially partnered with United Way for the event.

In 2017, a total of 335 Ball State participants helped, and in 2018, the number increased almost double to 608, Flynn said.

“For the last three years, we’ve been trying to make a bigger splash and to get more and more people from the university to participate. We’ve also been helping the United Way coming up with projects and doing registrations,” Flynn said.

As of Aug. 28, 188 participants have signed up from Ball State, but that metric is not the final number of participants who are going to show up, Flynn said.

In addition to those from Ball State, Jim Flatford, director of impact at United Way, said more than 900 total people from the Muncie community volunteered for more than 2,400 hours.

This year, some activities for the day listed on Ball State’s Day of Action website include a book drive for people to donate gently used books, a hygiene

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products drive, cleaning up certain parks, roadsides and trails, and assembling “Little Free Libraries” at different locations in Muncie.

Stephanie Johnson, technology support manager at Mutual Bank, said last year she volunteered at A Better Way, a nonprofit organization that helps domestic abuse victims.

“I always participate because it’s great to take a day out and just give and put action behind wanting to care for the community, get out of our own daily schedule, and be about investing in the community and investing in the people in the city that need the most help,” Johnson said.

For the past two years, she said she has helped coordinate the Day of Action and Mutual Bank’s volunteering and giving efforts.

“We all live in a community, and so … investing into your community, and being hands and feet to pour into the good things that are going on here and actually making a difference is a big deal — not just for the people that we’re helping but for us too.”

Evan Weaver contributed to this story.

Contact Charles Melton with comments at cwmelton@bsu.edu or on Twitter @Cmelton144.

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2. YMCA Mitchell Early Childhood and Family Center Landscaping at Mitchell Early Childhood and Family Center 3. Little Red Door Making blankets for chemotherapy patients 4. Emens Auditorium Literacy Kit Assembly: Putting together 200 literacy kits – including a free children’s book, craft ideas and supplies, and other resources – to help Muncie BY5 kick-start reading and learning at home Warmth for the Winter: Putting together fleece scarves, hats, and blankets for babies and children Snack Attack Assembly: Assembling 800 snack packs for local elementary schools to distribute to kids who rely on school meals and snacks for basic nutrition 5. Emmerson Dog Park Installations Installing new shade structures, dog activities, and planters created

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Daycare “Pop-Up” Readings Read to children one of two books and donating them to the daycare • United Day Care • Friends Pre-K • Kidz Korner • Appletree YMCA • INSPIRE Pre-K • TRC Head Start • GT Kids • MCS: Grissom • MCS: South View • MCS: Longfellow (developmental) • MCS: Developmental Preschool • MCS: EWA • DCA -- Muncie • DCA -- Yorktown Book Drive Donating gently used books for all ages to help Muncie BY5 stock more than 35 Little Free Libraries in Delaware County • Atrium food court • Ball Gym • Ball State Student Center lobby • Burkhardt Building lobby • College of Architecture and Planning • Cooper Science Building • David Letterman Communication and Media Building • Jo Ann Gora Student Recreation and Wellness Center • Robert Bell Building • Miller College of Business • North Quad Building lobby • Showalter Building • Teachers College • West Quad Building Hygiene Product Drive Donating unused personal hygiene products to share with local shelters and schools • Administration Building, room 326 • Alumni Center • Architecture Building, room 104 • Arts and Communication Building, Room 200 • Arts and Journalism Building, room 300D • Ball Communication Building, room 201N • Ball Honors House, Front Desk • College of Health Building, room 214 • Facilities Planning and Management, by SV &SS time clocks • Housing and Residence Life • Dehority, room 180 • Johnson East, room 066 • Johnson West, room 003 • Noyer, room B6 • Park Hall, room 028 • Woodworth, room 04 • Letterman Building, room 102 & 131 • Pittenger Student Center, Information Desk • Teachers College, room 1005 • West Quad, room 203 • Whitinger Business Building, room 100F • Worthen Arena, room 140

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Continued from Page 3 Muncie Public Library employee Luke Mitchell took advantage of the discount and added to his rock music collection by donating a box of pads.

“I’m 100 percent behind what they’re doing because they’re challenging the status quo, and at the same time, aiding a group of people who need this basic form of health care,” Mitchell said.

All donations will be given to a local Indiana charity that specializes in providing menstrual hygiene products to homeless women. Jennifer

We are trying to create another venue for those women to be able to access them and also show collaboration and how it benefits our community.”

- SARAH PONTO RIVERA, TST member Amudsias, co-head of Indiana’s TST chapter, said the charity did not give TST permission to use its name in media coverage.

“I think that menstrual products are a burden for anybody who is socioeconomically challenged, so we are trying to create another venue for those women to be able to access them and also show collaboration and how it benefits our community,” said Sarah Ponto Rivera, TST member.

Dena Mullins, assistant lecturer of health science, explained that when women have to go without menstrual hygiene products such as

tampons or pads, they often result to using paper towels, tissues, towels and reusable diapers — substitutes that are not as effective.

Mullins also said women unable to purchase these hygiene products will leave tampons in for longer than instructed.

“If women leave them in for too long,” she said, “it can increase the risk of bacterial infections, including toxic shock … which is a potentially fatal sudden illness than can cause flu-like symptoms such as fever, vomiting and drops in blood pressure.”

Mullins said she thinks the Menstruatin’ With Satan campaign is a good idea and has not heard of anyone doing something similar in the past.

The official Indiana campaign began Aug. 5, but other TST chapters began the Menstruatin’ With Satan campaign a little more than a year ago.

Amdusias said chapter officials decided to host this campaign after seeing the positive effects other chapters had on their communities.

“We decided we’d like to host one in Indiana to help benefit shelters and people experiencing homelessness here,” Amdusias said.

All donation locations in Indiana are posted on TST Indiana’s Facebook page. Amdusias said TST chose its locations for the event based off connections TST had already formed.

VGR was no exception since Harvey knew the person who founded TST nationally before he offered his store as a location for the drive.

“When we learned some people were excited about creating a chapter here in Indiana, my partner and I did everything we could to help them and cater to helping them organize themselves and create different events and programs,” Harvey said.

VGR will continue to accept donations until Oct. 20, when the Indiana campaign ends.

“It’s essentially great to see us helping out our sisters,” Harvey said.

Contact Hannah Gunnell with comments hrgunnell@bsu.edu or on Twitter @hagunnellNEWS.

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Jack Williams Sports Editor Heads hung low as members of Ball State Football walked off the field after a 34-24 loss to Indiana at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. There was a sense of disappointment after the loss, but not everything felt by the team was negative.

“I really believe in this football team,” head coach Mike Neu said. “I believe we’ll respond the right way. When I hugged everyone in the locker room after the game, and I looked in their faces, the look of determination and disappointment shows that they still believe in each other.”

In his fourth season at the helm of the program, Neu’s Cardinals suffered their third straight loss to Indiana. However, different from past seasons, Ball State was in striking distance for the majority of the game.

The Cardinal defense picked off Indiana quarterback Michael Penix twice. Ball State’s running game also rushed for only 27 fewer yards than the Hoosiers.

However, the Cardinals couldn’t make that extra push throughout the game and were consistently chasing a lead. Neu said once the defense would get the ball back to the offense, it struggled to get anything going.

While Indiana amounted a lead as big as 14 in the fourth quarter, Neu said the Cardinals didn’t let big plays get them down.

“When we gave up that 75-yard touchdown early in the game, I thought our guys did a great job of just letting it go,” Neu said. “It happened. It’s over. Let’s just play the next play. Any time there was something that happened that went against us, I thought our guys handled it the right way on the sideline.”

Even in the early season, redshirt junior quarterback Drew Plitt said the ability to stay unbothered when down has been a major change for the team from last season.

“Coming out of this locker room now, it’s definitely different from last year,” Plitt said.

“Going down the list, last year, if things didn’t go our way, we would just shut down. You saw us out there fighting to the last second. I think this is just going to continue and not stop.”

As the clock resets heading into week two, the team believes there is a different mentality from past seasons. Even after a loss to an instate rival, the sense of belief is still strong up and down the roster.

“I believe with all my heart that this team is right from a character and chemistry standpoint,” Neu said. “If you want to play good football and have a chance to put yourself in a good position, it’s all about the locker room and making sure every man is on board.”

Contact Jack Williams with any comments at jgwilliams@bsu.edu or on Twitter @ jackgwilliams.

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Cardinals defeated by Rutgers, top Davidson It took Ball State nine games to get its first win in 2018. This year, the Cardinals are .500 after their first two games. After falling 4-1 Saturday against No. 19 Rutgers, Ball State came back Sunday to defeat Davidson, 1-0. Redshirt senior Michelle Shampton and redshirt junior Sierra Jefferson scored the two Cardinal goals this season.

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Schedule released for 2019-20 season The calendar is set for Cardinal basketball as the men’s schedule was announced Wednesday. Ball State finished last season with a 16-17 record. The Cardinals’ nonconference slate is highlighted by a game at Bankers Life Fieldhouse and a trip to Hawaii for the Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic.

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Ball State beats Illinois State, improves to 3-0 The Cardinals are unbeaten in 2019, and they have graduate student goalkeeper Tristin Stuteville to thank for it. Through three games, Stuteville has yet to surrender a goal.

Her play has been especially crucial the last two games where Ball State has only scored one goal offensively.

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Top 5 highest-paid NFL players in 2019 Matthew Stafford QB Detroit Lions $29,500,000 (year)

Kirk Cousins QB Minnesota Vikings $29,000,000 (year)

Aaron Rodgers QB Green Bay Packers $26,500,000 (year)

Russell Wilson QB Seattle Seahawks $26,286,668 (year)

Ben Roethlisberger QB Pittsburgh Steelers $26,200,000 (year)

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NFL players deserve bigger paydays because of contract uncertainty and job hazards.

Daric Clemens Columnist Daric Clemens is a senior journalism news major and is a columnist for The Daily News. His views do not necessarily agree with those of the newspaper. Write to Daric at diclemens@bsu.edu.

When it comes to sports, there has never been a more accurate saying than money rules the world. Take the NFL for example. It’s common for the most talented players in their prime to rightfully feel entitled to their money and do whatever it takes to get it.

“Holdout culture” throughout the league has grown recently because players are beginning to take a stand for what they deserve.

While the argument could be made that NFL players are overpaid, a majority of their paycheck goes to team owners. Paired with the fact that players’ contracts are not guaranteed makes it so

players are not able to get their full due.

This isn’t logical because the athletes are the ones producing results on the field throughout the years and taking on the physical toll the sport demands.

“Considering football’s level of brute, immanent physicality, high turnover as well as the short life cycle of its participants, it would seem to me that the NFL players are in the most need of a fully guaranteed contracts,” left tackle for the Los Angeles Chargers Russell Okung said in a thread on Twitter.

The lack of guaranteed money is the main cause in a player’s decision to distance themself from team activities.

Their holdout strategy consists of stepping away from the organization, missing training camp or practice and, if it comes down to it, games. During the holdout, the player’s agent is in constant communication with the team negotiating for a better deal.

This approach has been used by many of the NFL’s best. In 2018, Aaron

Donald, Earl Thomas, Khalil Mack and Le’Veon Bell were among those in the headlines for sitting out during their team’s training camp. Bell, Donald and Mack were able to get what they wanted with a new contract.

Thomas, however, ended his holdout before receiving a new deal, and it cost him as he suffered a season-ending injury in week four. While he was carted off the field, he showed his frustration by flipping his middle finger toward his now-former team, the Seattle Seahawks.

As seen with Thomas, injury is a fear many players have because it can ruin their chances of getting a new contract the next season. Because contracts aren’t a full promise, players can lose out on money during the season if they are injured.

That’s why the demand of a new contract is urgent to top-tier players, and more are realizing it’s not worth being on the field if they haven’t secured the agreement they want.

The new year brought on more holdouts as current Dallas Cowboy running back Ezekiel Elliott sits out, hoping to get a big pay day from the Cowboys. Chargers running back Melvin Gordon also refrains from play hoping to be moved to another team so he can find a new deal.

The concept is leading to more control for players throughout the league. The owners still have to cut the check for these players to get paid, but the athletes have most of the leverage because the owners need the best guys to play if they want the team to be successful.

Professional athletes need to continue to take a stand and demand the guaranteed money they deserve because as an athlete, it is never known when a season can be over, so it is important for them to get paid to control their future.

Contact Daric Clemens with any comments a diclemens@bsu.edu or on Twitter @DaricClemens.

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Dressing up for a cause MCHS students suit up to bring awareness to human trafficking.

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All female cast to perform ‘The Wolves’ Students involved in the play “The Wolves” through the Department of Theatre and Dance have been practicing both their lines and their soccer drills. Debuting Sept. 6 in Strother Theatre, “The Wolves” features characters who are teenage soccer players exploring the struggles teenage girls face as they grow up and discover who they are as individuals.

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Muncie Central High School (MCHS) students participate in the 2018 Dressember event with Khalid Reichard (center), MCHS early college coordinator. Junior Sam Voss (second from left) said Reichard supported the implementation of the movement at MCHS. SAM VOSS, PHOTO PROVIDED Rohith Rao Reporter

HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN INDIANA

After his middle-school science teacher in Los Angeles hosted survivors of human trafficking in class, Muncie Central High School (MCHS) junior Sam Voss said he was motivated to help those who have been through such “horrific, awful crimes” and were “treated as nothing.”

“It kind of just broke my heart,” Voss said.

When Voss and his family moved to Muncie in July 2017, he decided to continue showing his support. Voss implemented a social movement he was introduced to while in Los Angels called Dressember to draw attention to the issue of human trafficking and help its survivors.

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According to the National Human Trafficking Hotline’s website, it has received 2,245 contacts — phone calls, texts, online chats, emails, and webforms — that reference Indiana since 2007.

765 victims were involved in cases with “high-level” indicators of human trafficking, and 825 victims were in “moderate-level” cases.

Source: National Human Trafficking Hotline

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Sabaton, a Swedish power metal band, incorporates historical events such as battles and acts of heroism into the lyrics of its songs. With the release of its ninth studio album this summer, Sabaton’s songs continue to reference war stories such as World War I and the Battle of Verdun.

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Band adds 15th album to its discography The Australian rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard recently released “Infest the Rats’ Nest,” which is the band’s second album this year and 15th overall. This comes after the band released five albums in 2017. In 34 minutes, the album tells stories about Earth burning and humans colonizing space. 4ByteBSU.com

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Ball State senior contributes to diabetic research at Grace McCormick Reporter Editor’s note: Intern Spotlight is a Ball State Daily News series profiling Ball State students and their summer internships. If you have any suggestions as to who we should feature next, send an email to features@bsudailynews.com.

When Alex Quillin came to Ball State as a freshman, she thought her passion was dentistry.

“I wanted to be an orthodontist for the longest time,” Quillin said. “Then, I job shadowed my freshman year, and I passed out.”

After changing her courses to biology and chemistry, Quillin was finally able to confirm her decision through her summer internship at Roche Diagnostics, a pharmaceutical company.

“I definitely feel like I contributed to the overall knowledge that [Roche Diagnostics] can take to a further pursuit of creating new products to help patients,” Quillin said. “I also feel like, with test

DIABETES IN THE U.S. 30.3 MILLION

Americans have diabetes, which is 9.4% of the U.S. population.

23.1 MILLION

Americans have been diagnosed while 7.2 million people are undiagnosed.

23.1 M As a chemist ... we are continuously taking what we already have, and we are trying to improve it. I want to apply that strategy to myself as a person. I want to continue to better myself, learn more [and] understand more, so I can help people more.”

- ALEX QUILLIN, Senior chemistry major strips right now, I helped to improve them to give better readings so that way diabetics have a more reliable, more accurate glucose level reading, and therefore, they can manage their diabetes better.”

Ball State Before joining the research team at Roche Diagnostics, Quillin was already familiar with a lab setting because she researched mitoNEET — a protein that diabetes prescription drugs target — at Ball State with her mentor Mary Konkle, assistant professor of chemistry. “[Quillin is] pretty dogged, which is great because [with] science [and] research, you just assume a lot of things will fail,” Konkle said.

“You can be very smart and have a very good idea and have it just not be right. That doesn’t mean you’re a bad scientist — it just isn’t the way nature works. So, she doesn’t let roadblocks concern her.”

In addition to Konkle, Quillin said other Ball State professors were supporting her and her goals before she began her internship.

Earlier this year, she was one of 5,000 applicants for the Goldwater Scholarship, a scholarship for undergraduate students planning

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to pursue research-focused careers in natural sciences, mathematics and engineering.

To draft her application essay, Quillin worked with Barb Stedman, director of national and international scholarships at Ball State.

“Alex has the kind of drive and determination that the Goldwater Foundation is looking for,” Stedman said. “She has overcome a number of personal challenges to attend college and has set her sights high for future PhD studies and a career in diabetes research. I have no doubt she’ll succeed in meeting those goals.”

In April, Quillin found out she was one of 496

Senior Alex Quillin researches the mitoNEET protein in one of Ball State’s labs in spring 2018. The mitoNEET protein regulates energy metabolism. BARB STEDMAN, PHOTO PROVIDED. students who won the Goldwater Scholarship.

Quillin was accepted for the 10-week “It was me [and] all the professors that have internship, and every day she commuted from seen me throughout the years in the chemistry Greenfield, Indiana, to Indianapolis. department, and we scrolled down on the website, Quillin said focusing on diabetes care was and we saw my name,” Quillin said. “They started what drew her to apply for an internship at Roche screaming, [and] I started screaming. Then I Diagnostics because her father has Type 1 Diabetes. realized I got it, and then I started crying.”

“Roche Diagnostics had a special place in my heart because of that,” Quillin said.

Roche Diagnostics During her time at Roche Diagnostics, Quillin said she designed experiments and conducted research After applying for the internship and on test strips used to check blood glucose levels. She completing an interview, Quillin learned in early also said she was able to use more advanced research November 2018 she was chosen as a summer material than she did at Ball State. intern for Roche Diagnostics.

“For example, we use pipettes in my lab [at Ball “[Roche Diagnostics looks for] somebody that State] all the time, and to see [Roche Diagnostics’] has a good foundation in chemistry,” said Matt pipettes — the more expensive ones, the more Gnezda, principal scientist at Roche Diagnostics. “[We look for] somebody that you know can do the precise ones — was a treat to use,” Quillin said.

During her internship, Quillin also said she had work, who is not afraid of making mistakes, [and] the opportunity to engross herself in the somebody who is confident in what they can do.”

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“I do it because there’s a lot of injustice in the world, and it causes a lot of pain and a lot of hurt,” Voss said. “Just the knowledge that there are people who are going through horrible, horrible things in Muncie and Indiana and a lot of people don’t know about it … that was kind of my drive.”

His motivation

Senior Alex Quillin and intern Bill Becker paint yellow posts outside Volunteers of America in Indianapolis during IndyFluence July 18, 2019. Quillin knew Becker from Ball State, and they had the opportunity to meet again as interns. ALEX QUILLIN, PHOTO PROVIDED Indianapolis community as a member of Roche Diagnostics’ social and volunteer team. She said she and more than 400 other Indianapolis interns participated in IndyFluence, a program in which students volunteer at food banks, paint murals and clean parks. “[IndyFluence] was one of my favorite experiences,” Quillin said. “We worked on 10 different service projects. It was awesome. We spent the whole day volunteering.”

Looking Ahead As Quillin continues to develop her chemistry research and improve her experiments, she said she hopes to work toward improving herself as well.

“As a chemist, that’s what we are doing — we are continuously taking what we already have, and we are trying to improve it,” Quillin said. “I want to apply that strategy to myself as a person. I want to continue to better myself, learn more [and] understand more, so I can help people more.”

Having completed her internship and now looking toward graduate school, Quillin said she will not only cherish the professional experience she has gained at Ball State and Roche Diagnostics but also the people she has met.

“I found people [at Ball State] that they take you in, they want to see you grow, and I found the same experience at Roche,” Quillin said. “They were so willing to help. They were interested in who I was as a growing chemist, and they were willing to invest in me. I met people that have left an impact on me, and I will remember that forever.”

Contact Grace McCormick with comments at grmccormick@bsu.edu.

At Los Angeles Christian School, Voss and his classmates would take part in “lighthouse projects,” where they were required to choose an event to help raise awareness for a cause in the community.

Voss’ group chose to raise awareness about human trafficking through Dressember. Voss said they chose this movement because the group’s leader went to church with the founder of Dressember, Blythe Hill.

Voss and three other sixth grade boys wanted to participate in Dressember as well, so they decided to wear ties or bow ties for the month, calling their contribution “Bowcember.”

According to Dressember’s website, thousands of advocates globally wear a dress or tie to serve

Just the knowledge that there are people who are going through horrible, horrible things in Muncie and Indiana and a lot of people don’t know about it … that was kind of my drive.”

- SAM VOSS, MCHS student and Dressember organizer as “the conversation starter to educate [the] community about modern slavery.”

With help from Khalid Reichard, early college coordinator at MCHS, and several student volunteers, Voss said he was able to organize his first Dressember event at MCHS in 2018.

The fall 2018 Dressember event raised $1,903, according to Voss’ post-event report. 480 students from Muncie Central Schools (MCS) also dressed up on “Freedom Friday,” which was another fundraiser to bring attention to the cause.

The money raised helped fund TRU Harbor, a program operated by the Youth Opportunity Center (YOC), which provides shelter for commercially sexually exploited children and sex trafficking survivors.

Human trafficking today in Muncie Another person who helped Voss during his 2018 campaign was WaTasha Barnes Griffin, MCS Board member and CEO of YWCA Central Indiana.

Barnes Griffin and Reichard delivered presentations to MCHS students about human trafficking.

“We tried to make it true to life — like how it could affect you here locally and things to be aware of,” Barnes Griffin said.

Above: (From left to right) Khalid Reichard, Sam Voss, and MCHS juniors Charlee Sours and Teddi Bishop, dress up for Dressember in 2018. They were among the 480 MCHS students and faculty who participated in the event, which Voss introduced. Right: (From left to right) Max Sisson, then-senior at MCHS, and Sam Voss show off their outfits for Dressember in 2018. Voss said Sisson supported the Dressember event by dressing up almost every day and encouraging Voss throughout the process.

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Barnes Griffin also said the YWCA works with many community members and leaders to advocate for women’s rights and freedoms. The YWCA offers an emergency shelter program, and it also partners with Delaware County Circuit Judge Kimberly Dowling as part of a multidisciplinary collaborative committee on human trafficking.

The committee discusses ways to bring awareness and eliminate sex trafficking in local communities and includes representatives from organizations including shelter providers, the Department of Child Services, the juvenile court system, sexual assault nurse examiners from IU Health and TRU Harbor. “[Human trafficking] is more common than you see,” Barnes Griffin said. “If we have the need to build a service center for young women [TRU Harbor] … then that is a clear indication that trafficking is actually happening here in Delaware County.”

Barnes Griffin said trafficking in Muncie and Delaware County is a “dark underworld” that is “very secretive.”

“We see individuals who come to us — young women 18 to 22, even women with children under 18,” she said. “They come with nothing. They don’t have any dollars — they need money, so they find themselves doing things to get those resources … Some would see that as some kind of prostitution, when the reality is, ‘I’m doing what I need to do to survive, not necessarily that I want to do this.’”

Barnes Griffin said some women come to the YWCA from different states, but the facility can recognize some indicators that the women are being trafficked.

“Pimps often send spotters into shelters to look for vulnerable folks they can pull into that traffic world,” Barnes Griffin said.

Other ways traffickers spot vulnerable young women include bus stops and malls – where traffickers use young teenage boys to entice young women into relationships, only to be trafficked by an adult later — and through online channels like social media apps and websites used by traffickers to chat with teenagers.

“People say that doesn’t happen in Muncie, but it does,” she said. “These kids are getting involved in things that they think are innocent, and they are not.”

The future Voss said the Ball State and Muncie community can also help raise awareness about human trafficking with its own Dressember campaign or “Freedom Friday” event.

“A lot of times, we get caught up in our own lives that we fail to see things in our world that really affect other people’s lives,” Voss said. “The biggest goal of Dressember is also just catching people’s eyes up to see the world is kind of a bigger place, and it’s also a place that a lot of good happens, but also, there’s a lot of bad things that can happen.

“That’s why we need people to step up and help …[and] make a difference in these problems that are prevalent throughout our community, throughout our society and throughout our world.”

Contact Rohith Rao with comments at rprao@bsu.edu or on Twitter @RaoReports.

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Beginning at a young age, I was often called a hippie because I hated shoes and imagined my wedding in a forest — barefoot.

I also believed, and still do, that war is not a necessity, and peace treaties are easier to come by these days than violent alternatives.

More importantly, I have always been terrified of the effects of burning fossil fuels has on our atmosphere.

Though I held this belief, I lived my life on the sidelines, not really advocating for these issues. I was always afraid to educate myself on the environmental tragedies happening around me because I did not want to face the reality that our planet is dying and that humans are the primary cause.

But now, I am forced to face the music as

the lungs of Earth burn in Brazil.

The Amazon is on fire, as most people know by now. However, most people are completely unaware that these fires have been happening all year — in fact, there have already been 70,000 individual fires, according to National Geographic and Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research.

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While the impact on the atmosphere is frightening, the threat for the millions of species and 30 million people, including 350 indigenous tribes who depend on the rainforest, is more severe. If the president succeeds in turning it into a cattle farm, the Amazon will no longer be a sanctuary for endangered animals to heal and repopulate.

The fires in Brazil have inspired me to not only educate myself, but also make a difference in any way I can. I have been slowly trying to reduce my carbon footprint, use less plastic, use metal straws and walk more than I drive.

Much like a bad habit, I was unable to quit cold turkey. Multiple times, I became unmotivated and stopped my efforts.

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I was unable to wrap my head around the fact that I don’t need to be a superhero to make a difference until recently.

You don’t need to become fully vegetarian or vegan, and you shouldn’t beat yourself up about forgetting a reusable straw, cup or bag.

You are still doing your part to reduce the damage done to the world even if you just recycle your Starbucks cup and straw.

The hole in our ozone layer is the smallest it has been in 30 years according to NASA. Society doesn’t have to stop eating cows and quit using plastic entirely. The phrase is not “Quit. Reuse. Recycle.” The term “reduce” is there for a reason.

Eat beef once or twice a week instead of every night. Get your coffee in a plastic cup if you forgot your reusable one, but remember it next time. You can cut the little things out of your life, but don’t beat yourself up if you forget. You are still reducing your carbon footprint, and someday, you will get better at remembering your non-plastic straw.

Some of us have more means and ways to reduce our carbon footprint than others.

Reusable cups are expensive, and single-use products are more accessible.

But, something we all can do to help our environment is vote for officials who prioritize environmental issues.

The journey to help our Earth is a long one, and I am not perfect. But I am working on reducing my footprint, and I encourage everyone to go on this journey with me.

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