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Sept. 21: In a game where Ball State had more total yardage and first downs than NC State, it was the Wolfpack that took a 34-23 victory in front of a sold-out crowd in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Cardinals led by one after the first quarter but went into halftime down 13. Ball State is now off until Oct. 5 when it visits defending MAC Champion Northern Illinois.

Sept. 21: Ball State students joined the Global Climate Strike, a series of environmental demonstrations happening worldwide, by organizing a rally at the Scramble Light. Around two dozen students held-up posters and cheered along with Jackie Walburn, senior theater design and technology major, who helped organize the event.

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Sept. 21: Six candidates seeking the Green Party’s presidential nomination for the November 2020 election participated in a forum at the L.A. Pittenger Student Center. The party’s Black Caucus hosted the debate. Candidates spoke on issues relevant to the African-American community like social justice, reparations and police brutality.

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Sept. 21: After sweeping Austin Peay in its first match of the Active Ankle Challenge, Ball State went 1-1 Saturday, dropping a five-set match to Wright State and sweeping Missouri State. Freshman Allison Hamaker led the Cardinals with 42 kills on the weekend. Thursday starts Mid-American Conference play for the Cardinals as they take on Toledo on the road.

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FEEDING THE Ball State’s Allegre restaurant debuts free-dining program to tackle food insecurity.

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Pita Pit’s owner strives for fresh image Muncie’s Pita Pit reopened Aug. 30 in the Village after a nearly two-month hiatus under new management. Dain Peters, the new 23-year-old owner of the restaurant, has also been the owner of another Pita Pit in Dayton, Ohio.

The new location has a fresh coat of paint, new decor and a digital TV menu board.

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Bridge Dinner brings Muncie together The annual Muncie Bridge Dinner was held Sept. 20 on Washington Street Bridge. The event was filled with street food vendors, live music and members of the Muncie community. While the first Bridge Dinner in 2017 had 500 attendees, this year’s event had nearly 1,000 people share on EventBrite that they would be attending.

SGA Cesar Cholula, senior hospitality and food management major, stirs a pan Sept. 17, 2019, at Allegre’s kitchen in preparation for dinner service. This semester Allegre has started a free-meal voucher program to help tackle food insecurity in Muncie. ROHITH RAO, DN Rohith Rao News Editor Over the course of the academic year, Ball State’s student-run restaurant Allegre will help provide approximately 850 free meals to community members with the help of the Efroymson Family Fund Grant Award.

“The goal is to be able to start dealing with issues related to food insecurity for residents in Muncie, but also students at Ball

State,” said Sotiris Hji-Avgoustis, department chair and professor in the Department of Management. “Beginning this semester, we are able to invite groups of community members to come and dine along with our paying customers.”

For Christiana Mann, assistant lecturer of hospitality and food management, the issue of food insecurity is “very personal” because many college students are food insecure. “[Students] don’t have access to adequate

nutritious food all of the time which inhibits a healthy lifestyle,” Mann said. “That’s the definition of being food insecure — not having enough and having an impact on your healthy lifestyle.”

According to Wisconsin Hope Lab’s 2018 survey titled “Still Hungry and Homeless in College,” 36 percent of 43,000 university students at 66 universities were food insecure in the 30 days preceding the survey.

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Senate introduces restroom resolution At its Sept. 18 meeting, the Student Government Association (SGA) approved a new off-campus caucus senator and introduced a resolution requiring all restrooms, regardless of gender, to be equipped with sanitary dispensaries. A bill regarding senate dress code and other codes of conduct was also introduced.

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625 TapHouse is the new name of the former Thr3e Wise Men in downtown Muncie. The restaurant is now partnered with General Hotels Corporation. ERIC PRITCHETT, DN

Community organization rebrands downtown restaurant while maintaining its mission.

Brittany Dobbins Reporter Following the bankruptcy of its partner company and months of uncertainty, Thr3e Wise Men has rebranded itself as 625 TapHouse.

Located in the Courtyard by Marriott hotel, the restaurant first opened in 2015 through a partnership between Scott Wise and The Arc of Indiana, a nonprofit organization for people with disabilities. While The Arc owned the restaurant, Wise managed the operations.

Together, the group hoped to create a destination restaurant in downtown Muncie that also provided people with disabilities a local opportunity for employment, said Kim Dodson, executive director of The Arc. Then, in 2016, Wise sold his restaurant chain — which included Scotty’s Brewhouse and Thr3e

Wise Men — to Due North Holdings, a restaurant brand company. Due North then took over operations of the downtown location.

Dodson said Due North supported The Arc’s mission for Thr3e Wise Men but felt it was “not as committed to the mission as they needed to be.”

In December 2018, Due North filed for bankruptcy and many of its restaurants closed.

Because the Muncie location of Thr3e Wise Men was owned by The Arc, however, Scott Craddock, manager of the now-named 625 TapHouse, said the restaurant was able to rebrand and remain open.

While the restaurant never closed, Dodson said it eventually shifted to its new brand, 625 TapHouse, as well as a new operator, General Hotels Corporation, which also operates the Courtyard by Marriott hotel.

“We are staying open and operating normal business hours,” read a tweet posted by the

restaurant’s account in July 2019. “Come on in and see us!”

Along with its new name, the restaurant also has a revised menu which includes more lunch options such as soups and sandwiches, as well as pizza and beer.

“Instead of viewing everything that has happened as a negative, it really is a wonderful opportunity for us at The Arc,” Dodson said. “It allows us to really go in and build a menu based on what our customers are saying they want to see, which was harder to do with another company.”

Despite the changes, however, Dodson said the mission of The Arc of Indiana has remained the same.

Through the Erskine Green Training Institute, a postsecondary vocational training program founded by The Arc, the restaurant has a curriculum participants can follow while they intern at the restaurant.

If not for the students at the institute, Dodson

said The Arc would not be able to maintain the restaurant the way it has.

“We are not in the restaurant business to make money and to run a restaurant,” Dodson said.

“We want it as that learning opportunity for our students first.”

Moving forward, Dodson said there are still things about the business that are unclear — such as if it will keep the name 625 TapHouse — but it remains committed to its core purpose.

As for the possibility of Wise’s renewed involvement with the restaurant, he said “I’m the kind of guy that never says never.”

“I think it’s just important we’re all friends and colleagues and I wish them all the best,” Wise said.

“I want them to find something that’s successful.”

Rohith Rao contributed to this story.

Contact Brittany Dobbins with comments at bdobbins@bsu.edu.

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Continued from Page 03 Following an externship she did with the Muncie Soup Kitchen, Mann decided to incorporate community service as part of her class curriculum.

She also wanted to minimize food waste and make Allegre’s kitchen a “zero-waste” establishment.

During the restaurant’s meal planning, the staff takes special precautions to make sure they don’t waste materials, products and produce they have, she said. If they do have extras, the staff makes sure it is handled safely and securely to be donated to either an individual or an organization who can “reconstitute it into something else.”

People identified by Allegre’s free-meal program will be given vouchers with specific dates and times to come to the restaurant in order to avoid conflicts with regular customer bookings, Mann said.

“It’s very important to us that they have an experience just like anyone else coming into the restaurant would have,” she said. “We’re trying hard to make sure that folks are not singled out, that they don’t have a different experience [and] they are not treated any differently than a regular customer.”

Hji-Avgoustis added that the program helps start a

conversation with the community about other available resources. “[These guests] are able to walk away with some information about preparing food on a budget [and] preparing nutritious food,” Hji-Avgoustis said. “It’s an opportunity for us to make them feel like part of the community, but at the same time start giving them a little more information and resources to help them find better ways to deal with any issues related to food insecurity.”

The goal is to be able to start dealing with issues related to food insecurity for residents in Muncie, but also students at Ball State.”

- SOTIRIS HJIAVGOUSTIS, Department chair and professor in the Department of Management Since the beginning of the semester, Mann said she and her team of students have reached out to 20 community organizations including AmeriCorps, Second Harvest Food Bank, Muncie Mission, Soup Kitchen of Muncie,

Motivate Our Minds, Inside Out Muncie, Cardinal Kitchen, the Boys & Girls Club and Cardinal Zumba for names and suggestions about who to invite with a voucher.

Dorica Watson, community engagement manager at Second Harvest Food Bank, said food insecurity is “a huge barrier” for families in the eight counties it serves.

“The beautiful thing about this partnership is that a number of families who are food insecure may not have the opportunity to attend a restaurant like Allegre and to have some of the meals that were provided in the table service that was offered,” Watson said. “Having that opportunity, our families who have gone already have just been blown away — so excited to be able to have a nice meal and to be appreciated while they were attending.”

She said Second Harvest Food Bank alone has been provided with vouchers for around 145 meals at Allegre.

“We are so appreciative of the opportunity,” Watson said. “A lot of our families may not have had an opportunity to have a fine dining experience and thanks to Allegre, not only was that made possible, but our families have that memory, that story, and again it increases … the possibility of doing something like that in their own homes.”

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SMOKE & MIRRORS Dangers of e-cigarette use not turning users away

Charles Melton and Bailey Cline | Assistant News Editor and Reporter It comes with flavors like bubble gum, apple and mint. It can be picked up at any gas station, as well as specialized stores.

And it may kill you.

Vaping or e-cigarettes are suspected to be the cause of more than 530 reported cases of lung injuries across 38 states and one territory, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) website. Of those 530 cases, seven individuals have died as of Sept. 19. It has yet to be seen if these risks will deter users.

E-cigarette use is on the rise with middle and high school students throughout the country. From 2017 to 2018, the amount of users rose by 78 percent in high school students and 48 percent in middle school students, according to the FDA’s website.

In Indiana, the state department of health also reported an increase in usage for high schoolers from 10.5 percent in 2016 to 18.5 percent in 2018.

For Autumn Larkins, Ball State sophomore landscape architecture major, her use of e-cigarettes was an outlet for her to break her smoking habit, which she said had caused her problems in the past, including bad smelling clothes.

“I started smoking cigarettes when I was 14, and that’s not good,” Larkins said. “It tastes bad, [and] they make you smell terrible, [but] cigarettes were always

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And vaping, it seems like a person could die within one day, which doesn’t happen with tobacco smoke, like you just don’t die in one day.”

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- JAGDISH KHUBCHANDANI, Professor of health science around in my life. So, it was just kind of inevitable that I was going to do it because my entire family smokes.”

She said she switched to vaping, not only for the lack of smell, but because it gave her almost the same “buzz” as a cigarette.

“It’s interesting because [with] the articles that are coming out … I stopped buying those [types of] pods and stuff — I got rid of all my vape stuff,” Larkins said. “I’ll still smoke disposables, which they just came out with — those are very new — and I try to only smoke them if I really feel like I need that nicotine.”

Boyd Lacey, store manager at The Smoke Shop, a vape store in The Village, said he used vape products to help break a habit that made him not feel good, made his lungs hurt and was “disgusting”: cigarettes.

“Vaping was slightly better — it always made me feel a lot better. Mentally, physically, a lot

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In 2018, e-cigarettes became the most common tobacco product among Indiana students. ERIC PRITCHETT, DN ILLUSTRATION better. My lungs cleared up a lot; I can breathe a lot better. Not struggling, don’t feel addicted to something,” he said.

Lacey said the recent cases with vaping illnesses and deaths are due to the use of unreliable devices or liquids. He added that distributors may cut the product with things that are dangerous to ingest.

He said he believes vaping is safe and preferable.

To stay safe, Lacy advised to only buy vape products from reputable stores. If it is a cheap online product, there’s probably a reason, he said.

Another safety measure Lacey offered was keeping vape devices away from water as they have batteries which may short-circuit or explode.

The basic models of vaping are e-cigarettes, vape pens and vape pods. E-cigarettes are the most similar to cigarettes, designed for regular smokers to give the same experience as their former habit, he said.

Lacey explained how vape pens were the earliest style of vaping because they came in pocket sizes. Smaller devices, like vape pods, can handle salt nicotine, which is a powdery and pure substance that gives a better head rush and cigarette sensation, he said. At The Smoke Shop, Lacey said salt nicotine sells best.

Juul pods are a type of disposable vape pod that tend to be more expensive than purchasing reusable vape pod devices, Lacey said. Juice without nicotine is not sold at The Smoke Shop because Lacey said it doesn’t sell enough.

Mods, a larger, heavy-duty vaping option, are a bulkier product and often include touch screens that allow users to modify temperatures and produce more power in order to ingest more nicotine at once, he said.

In the long run, vaping as opposed to smoking cigarettes saves the user money, Lacey said.

A mild smoking habit, averaging 2 to 3 packs of cigarettes a week, costs a user about $21 a week.

That’s over $80 a month, Lacey said. While vaping may cost about $80 for startup in the first month, the juice and pods are significantly cheaper than buying cigarette packs overtime, he said.

Within the state of Indiana, some restrictions include only being able to sell vaping products to

customers 18 years and older, requiring business owners to have a special permit to sell vape products and the prohibition of “self service sales” for e-liquids, according to Public Health and Law Center at Mitchell Hamline Law School.

In Indiana, THC vapes are also illegal. Any CBD oil sold in the state must have no more than 0.3 percent THC, Lacey said, as per federal regulation.

CBD products often have barcodes under the product for anyone to look up the lab results.

“It’s surprising how we allowed so much to happen across the nation, like people were selling it on the street and in the store. The big, clear danger would be [vaping because in] smoking, you still traditionally [have] some time to quit, and rehab and get back to normal life,” said Jagdish Khubchandani, professor of health science at Ball State. “And vaping, it seems like a person could die within one day, which doesn’t happen with tobacco smoke, like you just don’t die in one day.”

Khubchandani said those who vape in high school have a tendency to go into college continuing their addiction, rather than pursue a healthier lifestyle.

“Clearly, you will continue with those behaviors, especially with alcohol [and] drugs. You see high school students [and] college students, it’s almost like a pathway to increased prevalence,” he said. “But it’s unfortunate, you know, because some are clearly struggling with addiction, and they think [vaping] is the best way to get off addiction and it’s not.”

Banning the flavored e-cigarette juices would help “slow down” the epidemic, Khubchandani said, but not fully solve the issue.

“So, it has to be some chemical, which could be the flavor. And still, I think they need to continue investigation,” he said. “I don’t know what was happening. They just allow people to sell whatever, and it was too lax. And within 10 years, look at how popular it has become worldwide.”

Contact Charles Melton with comments at cwmelton@bsu.edu or on Twitter @Cmelton444.

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Back-and-forth contest ends in Blackford loss Heads hung low as Blackford football players circled up in the corner of the end zone after a 40-35 loss to Alexandria-Monroe Friday. Only four drives didn’t end in a touchdown, much like last season’s matchup between the two which saw the Bruins outlast the Tigers, 70-52, at Scheumann Stadium.

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Soccer Jack Williams Sports Editor The familiar sound of sneakers squeaking across a freshly waxed wooden floor returned to the Dr. Don Shondell Practice Center as Ball State Men’s Basketball held its first official practice of the season.

While it may be the first week of practice on campus, this season’s team has been practicing and competing with each other since early August. The Cardinals traveled to Central America and defeated the Costa Rica Select team and the University of Ottawa twice, going 3-0 in their time there.

“Playing in Costa Rica really gave us two things,” head coach James Whitford said. “It gives you time together as a team off the court.

It helps with the closeness, and it just gives you more practice time.

Even though we only played the Canadian team twice, it was good competition, and I thought it helped us in that way too.”

This is the second time in the past five seasons the Cardinals have gone abroad to kick off the season. In 2015, the team traveled to the Bahamas, enjoying the sights of the tropical island and playing various teams. In a letter Whitford wrote Sept. 23, he said the trip was valuable in helping the team pick up a Mid-American Conference West Division Co-Title last year.

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Ball State bounces back with win Friday Coming off a 1-2 road trip which saw Ball State Soccer get shut out twice, the Cardinals showed signs of improvement Friday. The Cardinals defeated Purdue Fort Wayne, 4-0, thanks to an improved offense and a shutout from sophomore goalkeeper Alex Deruvo in her first career start.

Field Hockey Junior guard Ishmael El-Amin lines up a shot during practice Sept. 24, 2019, in the Dr. Don Shondell Practice Center. This is going to be El-Amin’s third year for Ball State Men’s Basketball.

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Cardinals fall to RedHawks, Spartans In Ball State’s Mid-American Conference opener Friday, Miami (Ohio) handed the Cardinals their fourth consecutive loss in a 1-0 game that went into overtime. The team went on to lose its fifth in a row Sunday in a 3-1 loss to No. 23 Michigan State.

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Continued from Page 07 That early season connection and experience has led to a familiarity amongst the team in style of play in competition. Junior guard Ishmael El-Amin said being put against another team and not each other really helped the team find a way to “gel” together.

“It definitely gave us a different perspective after playing against each other all summer,” El-Amin said.

“Going to Costa Rica allowed us to play with each other and not against each other for the first time. It put us in some situations that will help us down the road, and it’s definitely an experience we can use when things get tough later on.”

In addition to the gel on the court, El-Amin said he feels the team is closer and more experienced this year than in past seasons. The Cardinals lost three seniors in the offseason but will be returning eight from last season’s roster — three off the bench and three freshmen.

“Everybody is really chill with each other,” El-Amin

said. “During my freshman and sophomore year, it wasn’t like that. Having that experience now is better for us, and it’s going to help us down the line.”

Heading into the season, skill up and down the roster has stood out to Whitford. In the team’s annual Chicago Test Day, a handful of players put up NBA-comparable numbers. In ¾ court sprints, redshirt senior guard KJ Walton clocked in with a 3.2 second time. In lane agility, redshirt senior guard Josh Thompson finished with a time of 10.2 seconds. Finally, in max vertical, freshman guard Lucas Kroft recorded a 42-inch jump.

“We’re more skilled this season, especially in shooting,” Whitford said. “The shooting is a really important piece for us, but we have more guys that can shoot the ball. That’s one thing that stands out for sure.”

One player Whitford said has improved a lot in the offseason is El-Amin. In Costa Rica, he averaged 14 points over three games, recording 15 points against Ottawa and the Costa Rica Selects.

“Ish had a really great summer, and that was crystal clear to me,” Whitford said. “He’s in the best shape he’s been in his entire life, and that stood out to me.”

Along with maintaining his body transformation from the summer, El-Amin wants to improve on every aspect of his game and prove himself as a dominant player in the MAC. Last season, he sat out 14 games due to the injury.

“I want to maintain my body and just be better at every part of my game,” El-Amin said. “Personally, I want to be player of the MAC. I feel like I’m overlooked, and I feel like I didn’t have two great years, but I played behind a great player in Tayler Persons. It was humbling for me, but the MAC will see, and everyone will see. I’m coming my own way.”

With tipoff a little over a month away, the team is looking to get back into the flow of things in this first week before jumping into anything major. Whitford said establishing a strong practice culture is key.

“One of the things you’re always locked in on is you’re trying to get your culture right, and you’re practicing the right way,” Whitford said. “We want to practice with the right intensity, attitude and mindset. To me, that’s always where it starts.”

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

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School of Art invites painter to campus As part of its Visiting Artists series, the School of Art brought painter Maria Tomasula to speak about her photo-realistic paintings. Tomsula’s art focuses on subjects like religion, life and death and the beauty of nature.4BallStateDailyNews.com

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KILN Minnetrista offers workshops for the Muncie community to make their own glass creations.

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The subtle art of the producer tag From song writing to financial management, music producers like Mike Will, Young Metro and Pierre Bourne play a role in the world of hip-hop. Each producer puts their own signature phrase within a song, letting listeners know they produced a song. 4ByteBSU.com

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Revisiting Kid Cudi’s ‘Man on the Moon’ Ten years ago, Kid Cudi released his album, “Man on the Moon.” where he discusses topics such as depression in his song, “Soundtrack 2 My Life,” and his experience with mental illness in the song, “Rise of the Night Terrors.” Since “Man on the Moon” has been released, Cudi continues to be a voice in the hiphop community regarding mental illness. 4ByteBSU.com

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ways to decorate your living space this fall Cork pumpkin What you need: • 25 corks • Orange acrylic paint • Paint brush • Hot glue gun • Knife • Fake leaves (optional) Directions: 1. Lay four corks in a row on their sides horizontally.

2. Glue the four corks together along their sides, making sure they are even and dry before continuing to glue.

3. Beginning on top of and in the center of the four corks you have already glued, glue together a row of five more corks. Begin gluing between the second and third corks of your first row of four corks and continue outward,

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gluing the next five corks together on their sides.

Again, begin on top of and in the center of your second row of five corks and glue together a row of six corks.

Begin in the center and work your way outward, making sure the new row is centered.

Once your row of six corks is completed, glue another row of five corks above the row of six corks.

Glue another row of four corks on top of the row of five corks.

You should now have a row of four corks on the top and bottom, a row of five corks beneath and above those, and a row of six corks in the middle of your cork pumpkin.

Once the glue has dried, paint the front and back of

Taylor Smith | Reporter Autumn is finally here, and alongside the crisp air and colorful leaves, fall decorations are beginning to pop up in stores and on porches around Muncie. As the fall holidays quickly approach, it is time to prepare yourself and your home for the fun that lies ahead with these three do-it-yourself room decorations for the new season.

the pumpkin with orange acrylic paint. It may be necessary to paint two coats on both sides of the cork pumpkin to make the orange brighter and more vibrant.

9. Once the paint has dried, use the hot glue gun to glue fake leaves to the top of your cork pumpkin. Let dry.

10. Finally, use a knife to cut a cork in half to create the stem of your cork pumpkin.

11. Use hot glue to glue the stem in place on top of the fake leaves.

12. Enjoy your cork pumpkin and use it to decorate your desk for the fall.

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Ball jar leaf candle What you need: • One Ball jar • Fake leaves • Hot glue gun • Candle (real or fake) • Twine (optional)

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Directions: 1. Remove any price stickers on the Ball jar and wash it inside and out.

2. Remove the lid of the Ball jar and set it aside.

3. Using a hot glue gun, put glue on the top and bottom of a fake leaf, leaving most of the leaf without glue.

4. Place this leaf toward the bottom of the outside of the Ball jar and wait for the glue

to dry.

5. Continue to glue leaves up the sides of the Ball jar until the Ball jar’s glass is no longer visible. Be careful not to overlap the leaves too much.

6. Once the glue has dried, take twine and tie it in a bow around the neck of the Ball jar, wrapping it around multiple times for a thicker appearance.

7. Pick either a fake or real candle and place it in your Ball jar.

8. Turn on or light said candle.

9. Enjoy your fall candle light on your nightstand or desk.

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Continued from Page 09 Alyssa Cooper Reporter Since her childhood, Ball State alumna Karen Cooksey said she has always had a peculiar attraction to glass.

“A friend of ours, when I was a child, was one of the owners of the St. Clair Glass Family, so we went up to Elwood, [Indiana,] a lot to see him at the glass factory,” Cooksey said.

“I have several of his pieces. I have this fascination with glass and what you can do with it because it’s so moldable.”

For her birthday this year, Cooksey and her daughter decided to attend one of Minnetrista’s glass workshops, where together, they made about 15 of their own fused glass pendants and earrings.

“A couple of these will probably be pendants, and a couple, I may end up doing wind chime mobile with them too,” Cooksey said.

Cooksey said she had seen glass workshops before, but she had never attended one for herself before Minnetrista’s glass workshop.

“I did stained glass for a couple years, but it’s a very expensive hobby that I just wasn’t prepared to go into full time,” Cooksey said. “This [workshop] came up, and I was like, ‘This would be cool to do…’ I just went ahead and registered.”

During the workshop, Cooksey was able to use tools such as waffle boards, grover pliers, breaker pliers and glass scorers to create designs in pieces of glass that were later melted together to create a smooth, cohesive design.

Karen Nickel, Minnetrista’s learning engagement coordinator, has taught Minnetrista’s glass workshop for seven years and led the workshop Cooksey attended.

Before working at Minnetrista, Nickel said she had no prior experience with glass, but Minnetrista sent her to different workshops, such as Brazee Street Studios in Cincinnati, to learn different techniques and glass-making styles.

“It’s a perk of working here,” Nickel said. “[Minnetrista] sent

Jackie Davis (left) and Becky Clemens (right) work during the jewelry glass workshop Sept. 12, 2019, at Minnetrista. ALYSSA COOPER, DN

UPCOMING MINNETRISTIA GLASS WORKSHOPS: Bead Making:

When: 1-4 p.m.

Times: Oct. 5.

Cost: $55 per person

Copper Enameling Ornaments: When: 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Times: Nov. 14.

Cost: $35 per person

Source: Minnetrista.net

Guests had almost every color of the rainbow to choose from to create their mosaic pendents. ALYSSA COOPER, DN us around to get a lot of training and also just to see how glass can be done in a classroom setting because it is very easy to do class when you have a big glass studio. What we try

to do [at Minnetrista] is for the hobbyist and how you can do small glass projects at home.”

Minnetrista’s workshops are different from other glass workshops because the required

tools and supplies for each different technique must be put out and picked up each night, whereas professional glass workshops may have permanent work spaces and separate rooms

for different types of glass.

“We do hot workshops and cold workshops,” said Ashley Mann, Minnetrista’s discover and engagement manager. “Hot workshops would be fusing glass, which is when you melt it together. Cold workshops would be for things like stained glass for mosaics.

“We also offer torchwork workshops, so you can make

pendants or beads. We also, on top of that, offer copper enameling classes, which is where you put powdered glass, and you melt it on top of copper pieces.”

While the cold workshops, like the fused glass pendants and earrings, are hosted at Minnetrista, Mann said, the hot workshops are held at the Marilyn K. Glick Center for Glass because the center has larger kilns and glory holes — furnaces that keep glass melted so it can be blown or molded.

Nickel said she teaches copper enameling workshops and most of Minnetrista’s stained glass ones as well.

“I kind of get a kick out of the visitors’ enthusiasm when they [attend workshops,]” Nickel said. “They have never worked with glass before, and they can leave with the piece that they’re proud of that they can wear and say, ‘Oh yeah, I did make this.”

Contact Alyssa Cooper with comments at acooper6@bsu.edu.

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Abstraction

CHOOSING A PATH:

Undecided students need support

Currently, there are 325 firsttime, first-semester freshmen at Ball State that are undecided on their major.*

* This figure does not include transfer students or any undeclared students that are not first-semester freshmen.

JACOB MUSSELMAN, DN ILLUSTRATION

ON BALLSTATEDAILYNEWS.COM: KENNEDI’S KALEIDOSCOPE: THE BALANCING ACT

Undecided students do not need the opinions of those around them.

Elissa Maudlin is a freshman undecided major and writes “Abstraction” for The Daily News. Her views do not necessarily agree with those of the newspaper.

Write to Elissa at ejmaudlin@ Elissa bsu.edu.

As an Maudlin undecided Columnist.

“Abstraction” student, heading face first into my first year of college, I’ve realized one thing: I care about what people around me think — that goes for the adults who’ve encouraged me, the peers who know me, the strangers who may eventually know me and everyone in between.

For most of my life, I was the girl everyone knew as the “music kid” or “theatre kid.” I was a girl who some believed was talented enough to go against the odds, becoming a big name and living the theatre dream life in a big city.

However, there came a point when I became unsure if that identity fully suited me, causing a level of confusion to become my new reality.

High school rehearsals began to feel more like an obligation than a fun extracurricular. I felt like I was required to be part of every show and every activity related to theatre or music.

09.26.19 I didn’t know if I wanted to leave the world of music and theatre behind, but at the same time, I felt as if I had no real, true passion for anything, and it left me feeling hopeless.

My confusion was only perpetrated by the teachers and adults in my life who, thinking they had my best interest at

where they fit into the world?

What if we took more caution when voicing our thoughts and tried to understand the turmoil a student is going through with being undecided?

Teachers and other mentors can be people who uplift exploration process to find a major and career by simply

of ACT-tested graduates from 2018 said they were undecided on their college major.

Source: College Board

heart, continuously pushed for the music and theatre lifestyle I had always been accustomed to. I was always told to go into theatre, that I could “make it,” and I felt a sort of pressure to use that gift from the people around me and even myself.

There were other interests I had that weren’t brought to light through music and theatre, different aspirations and potential that were left in the shadows. To the people who encouraged me, there seemed to be only one right answer for my life, when in reality, the answer was more complicated than they could see from the outside.

My story is one similar to many undecided students who work through a mess of confusion, doubt and sadness trying to pick a major. Through my eyes, part of this problem may be the result of how some people view undecided students.

I see a society that pushes for this ideal image of college students having their lives together and knowing exactly what they want to do. The truth is people change their majors all the time, people change career paths all the time and some adults don’t even know what they want to do when they ‘grow up.’

Most importantly, though, this idea that students who choose a major never falter from it is a lie.

But what if we, as a society, dealt with the career and major selection process in a different way — one that didn’t hinder the students who aren’t sure

letting students research all of their options. When students are allowed and encouraged to be adventurous in figuring out what they want, this can empower them to have a handle on their future.

Perhaps undecided students, like myself, won’t feel like they are being put in a box because they won’t be held back by the hopes and aspirations of everyone around them.

I believe all the adults in my life have good intentions for me and want what is best for me.

But now that I have decided to go into college undecided, I hope they have realized that letting me go to actually let me live my struggle is what is best for me.

As much as I want to say my feelings of dispassion and loss have gone away two months into college, they haven’t. I’m still that same person who feels stuck and confused. One of my biggest fears is that I’ll feel stuck for the rest of my life, never experiencing the passion I so deeply want.

But I don’t want to lose hope.

I want to believe it’s possible to find what I’m looking for, as I have seen so many others find for themselves. My career path is still a mystery, and I am working everyday to be okay with that. I have begun the journey of figuring out who I am, what I want out of life and how to get there.

All I know for sure right now is this: I want adventure, I want happiness and I want

Here’s what an undecided freshman’s first semester schedule might look like: Monday 8:00 a.m.

8:15 a.m.

8:50 a.m.

9:00 a.m.

9:15 a.m.

9:50 a.m.

10:00 a.m.

10:15 a.m.

10:50 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

11:15 a.m.

11:50 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

12:15 p.m.

12:50 p.m.

1:00 p.m.

1:15 p.m.

1:50 p.m.

2:00 p.m.

2:15 p.m.

2:50 p.m.

3:00 p.m.

3:15 p.m.

3:50 p.m.

4:00 p.m.

4:15 p.m.

4:50 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

5:15 p.m.

5:50 p.m.

6:00 p.m.

6:15 p.m.

6:50 p.m.

7:00 p.m.

7:15 p.m.

7:50 p.m.

8:00 p.m.

8:15 p.m.

8:50 p.m.

9:00 p.m.

Monday

Tuesday

SOC 100

Wednesday

Thursday

SOC 100

COMM 210

SOC 100

ID 100

BIO 100 LAB

For more information on the events listed here, visit BallStateDaily.com/ Events

Farmers Market at Minnetrista

• Every Saturday from May to October 8 a.m. to noon.

• 1200 N. Minnetrista Pkwy

• Monday, September 30, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

• Pruis Hall Front Sidewalk

Ball State Field Hockey vs. Central Michigan

ID 100 ENG 103

ENG 103

Events

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COMM 210

BIO 100

BIO 100

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• Saturday, September 28 at 1 p.m. in Briner Sports Complex

$2 Street Taco Thursdays

• Street Tacos are $2 every Thursday from 4pm-10pm!

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MUHIS 100

Cirque Mechanics 42 Feet

MUHIS 100

• Friday, October 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Emens Auditorium

The above schedule was created using five courses from the university core curriculum and one elective course (ID 101 is a one-credit hour course that lets students explore available majors). Source: Ball State University to have passion for whatever direction life takes me. One of the beautiful things about being an undecided major is that I’ve learned life is never set in stone and that a person always has the ability to change.

That goes for all of my fellow undecided students out there, the students who have majors and the adults that are hoping and praying their college

student goes into the major they want them to: life is all about change, and it isn’t about having the cleanest path. Students may finish their degree in major they have right now, or they won’t.

They might change their minds a hundred times. They might graduate and hate their major.

It happens, that’s what life is about.

However, your response

as a mentor to a student’s questioning means everything.

Lead them in the right direction of exploration, not to fit what you want for them.

Let them live. Let them learn.

Let them find their passions.

Through a little understanding and a little encouragement, undecided students will find their own way, no matter how long it takes.

Texas Tenors • Thursday, October 4 at 7:30 p.m. in Emens Auditorium

Ball State Daily Events are paid advertising and are sponsored by Emens Auditorium.

Go to BallStateDaily.

Com/Events to purchase a listing and see more upcoming activities.

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Continued from Page 10 What you need: • One large Ball jar • White, orange and yellow acrylic paint • Black marker • Paint brushes or sponge brushes • Hot glue gun • Burlap • Fake straw or hay • Twine Directions: 1. Remove any price stickers on the Ball jar and wash it inside and out.

2. Remove the lid of the Ball jar and set it aside.

3. Using a large paint brush or sponge brush, apply one coat of white paint to the outside of the jar.

4. Once the first coat of paint is dry, apply a second coat.

5. Continue applying coats of white paint until it is thick enough that the glass is no longer see-through.

6. While the white paint dries, cut four triangles (each 4 inches long and 3 inches tall) out of the burlap. These triangles will serve as the hat for your scarecrow.

7. Take four to five pieces of hay or straw and weave them evenly throughout the holes in the burlap triangle.

Do this for each of the cutout triangles.

8. Take the outer band of the Ball jar lid and add a small dot of hot glue to one spot on the outside.

9. Press the center of the bottom of one burlap triangle to the glue and hold it until it is dry.

10. About ½ an inch over from that hot glue spot, add another dot of hot glue to glue down one side of the

burlap hat. The other side will remain loose.

11. Continue this process around the rim of the lid until all four burlap triangles are glued on.

12. While the glue on the hat dries, draw the eyes and mouth of the scarecrow with marker directly onto the white paint, being careful not to press too hard so the paint doesn’t rub off.

13. Add the scarecrow’s nose, mouth and other features with orange, yellow and white paint.

14. Once the hat is dry, take about 8-10 inches of twine and weave it through random holes at the top of the burlap triangles. Tie the triangles together to secure.

15. Enjoy your Ball jar scarecrow.

Contact Taylor Smith with comments at tnsmith6@bsu.edu or on Twitter @taynsmithh.

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