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Sept. 24: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the launch of a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. The probe focuses partially on whether Trump, in his conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zalenskiy, abused his presidential powers and sought help to undermine potential presidential candidate Joe Biden to help his own reelection.

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Sept. 28: On a crisp fall night after Monroe Central’s Homecoming football game, the team — and more specifically Sam Feola — had plenty to celebrate.

Feola’s four touchdowns propelled the Golden Bears to a 41-12 victory over Wes-Del Friday. Feola also ran for a team-high 71 yards and was the game’s leading receiver with 97 yards.

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Sept. 26: Indianapolis-based restaurant chain Yats opened in the Village Sept. 18 after months of having a sign outside its doors. Its general manager Dan Tasson also manages the Hamilton Town Center Yats in Noblesville, Indiana, and previously managed a Cincinnati location as well. Tasson said the new Village location saw record-breaking sales on opening night.

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Sept. 29: The Cardinals lost their first Mid-American Conference opener since 2011 with a 1-0 loss to Central Michigan Thursday. Ball State came back Saturday and earned a 3-2 victory against Eastern Michigan behind junior midfielder Nicky Potts’ overtime goal. Ball State heads on a two-game road trip later this week, taking on Akron Friday and Buffalo Sunday.

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SLEEPLESS NIGHTS New study finds 1 in 3 working Americans don’t get enough sleep.

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Mayoral candidates speak at debates There were two opportunities for Muncie’s three mayoral candidates to speak with the community in an open forum — a Q&A Sept. 26 at Muncie Central High School and a televised debate Sept. 28 at Ball State’s Pruis Hall. WIPB-TV, which broadcast the latter debate live, will also broadcast the debate at 8 p.m.

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A study co-authored by a Ball State professor suggests about a third of working adults get less then seven hours of sleep on average. The study found police officers and doctors get the least amount of sleep. JACOB MUSSELMAN, DN ILLUSTRATION Chase Martin Reporter After working late-night shifts as an emergency medical technician in Henry County, Katelin Holaday said she doesn’t always have the energy to finish the homework piling up on her desk. “[Working late] definitely made me grumpy,” said the sophomore biology major, who works two or three days a week. “It just made school harder because it was hard to

focus on everything.”

Sometimes, she said she has had to work 12 hours straight, heading directly to class from work.

“It’s the kind of mindset that like, ‘Well you’re in EMS, so you know you aren’t going to sleep,’” Holaday said.

Holaday isn’t alone when it comes to her problems associated with sleep deprivation. A new study, “Short Sleep Duration in Working American Adults,” reported nearly 36 percent of working American adults get less than

seven hours of sleep each night on average.

“If you look at the job changes, and racial, gender, ethnic changes, overall, Americans are bound to sleep less,” said Jagdish Khubchandani, associate chair and professor of health science at Ball State and co-author of the study.

Those working in health and safety occupations, such as police officers or doctors, get the least amount of sleep each night, the study found.

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At the Muncie Community Schools Board meeting Sept. 24 held in Northside Middle School’s auditorium, Principal Eric Grim discussed the school’s successes — specifically the Project Lead The Way classes and the school’s new soccer program. Grim also spoke about other areas of improvement at the school, including the availability of substitute teachers.

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Alpha Chi Omega and Delta Tau Delta hosted the 47th annual Watermelon Bust Sept. 28, 2019, at LaFollette Field. Money raised goes to A Better Way, a nonproďŹ t that provides shelter and services for victims of domestic violence, and JDRF, a charity that funds type 1 diabetes research.

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SCHOOL ON THE BRAIN Director says there is ‘no way to predict’ increase of students in need of Counseling Center.

Charles Melton Assistant News Editor When William Betts took over as director of Counseling and Health Services in February 2017, he said the Counseling Center designed a system like “a river” to have a “constant flow” of students.

In retrospect, Betts said “what we really needed to design was a system for a river that floods.”

During the fall 2019 semester, Betts said the center has seen an “enormous increase” in the number of people calling to schedule an appointment — a 40 percent increase from the last academic year. He said the center’s normal yearly increase in calls is 6 percent.

While the center increased its capacity to see students by 50 percent, it has also seen a rise in wait times, Betts said, which aren’t usually long for the

majority of the year.

“There was no way to predict this,” Betts said. “We’ve done everything we can to be as fast as we can. There’s just huge numbers of students coming to us.”

Megan Jessup, sophomore sociology major, said she has noticed how long these wait times have become.

After scheduling her initial 60- to 90-minute consultation at the start of the semester, which is used to get a feel for where the patient is and what therapist will suit them best, Jessup said it took about two weeks for them to find and assign her a counselor.

“I had some issues that were coming up, and I wanted to speak to someone as soon as possible, but it kind of made it difficult because I had that two-week process of waiting,” she said.

When Jessup was finally set up with a counselor, she said

the person she was assigned to wasn’t the best fit for her needs as a patient.

“On paper, we might have seemed like a good fit, but in person, I felt like I wasn’t getting the support that I really needed,” she said. “While I was giving my background of what I’m doing with what I want to focus on, instead of giving me some on-site tips and advice, the counselor was just like, ‘Oh, that sounds very hard.’”

Another issue Jessup said she had was that she felt “pressured” when she called the counseling center, because she didn’t want to take up another person’s spot two weeks out.

“I don’t want students to feel that they can’t go to get help or to speak to someone just because they have to wait two weeks. I think that it’s important to discuss whatever you’re dealing with,” she said.

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The center advises students to also call during emergencies to see if there’s an emergency opening or call a hotline, Jessup said.

In an email, Jessup said she was told in her most recent session that her next meeting would be three to five weeks out, but Betts said only four students have experienced wait times of three weeks or more to be assigned to a therapist.

“Once students have completed their initial appointment, they are assigned to a therapist. This process involves matching students with a therapist based on the student’s needs and matching schedules to make sure the therapist and student are available to meet at the same time. This process can take several days,” he said in an email. “Over the course of this semester, most students were matched to a therapist within a week. Again, due to the large number of students reaching out to the Counseling Center, these times have started to increase.”

Betts said the “river” design was created to help make spots available every hour for consultations and crises alike.

“We had essentially said, ‘Let’s have the opportunity each hour that we’re open to have someone come in and get an intake and assessment to start therapy,’” Betts said.

According to a slideshow Betts presented to the Board of Trustees at Ball State, the average wait time for a student was eight business days in the fall semester and five business days in the 2018-19 school year.

Betts said the record-breaking 4,000-plus new freshman class isn’t what is impacting the higher number of students visiting the Counseling Center, and there is a “separate trend” that is driving people to counseling — a trend not yet known to the center.

There will always be a limit to what the Counseling Center can do, Betts said, but working with the community and organizations such as Indiana University Health Ball Memorial

COUNSELING CENTERS AT BALL STATE There are two counseling centers at Ball State: The Counseling Center and the Counseling Practicum Clinic, a clinic used to help train students getting degrees in mental health.

“The difference between the two centers is [the Counseling Center] takes care of students on campus, and [the practicum clinic is] outward facing, meaning that they take care of the community. So they have people from the community that come in,” Betts said.

Ball State students aren’t typically seen at the practicum clinic, which Betts said is due to the difference in the two clinics’ designs.

According to a powerpoint created by Betts, between weeks four and five are when the Counseling Center sees a spike in calls for an appointment. At the start of the fall semester is when the center sees it’s most calls, over one hundred.

The Counseling Center had received over 1,000 calls for a first appointment during last years fall semester.

Compared to the 2014-15 academic year numbers, Ball State has dropped the amount of crisis calls it received in 2018-19, going from 383 to 228 calls.

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Ball State’s Counseling Center has seen an increase in calls for appointments and wait times. William Betts, director of Counseling and Health Services at Ball State, said the center has implemented a “rive” design in attempt to shorten the time it takes for a student to schedule an appointment with a therapist.

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Hospital can help alleviate some of those problems and help keep at-risk students safe.

Dr. Angela Lykins, a licensed clinical psychologist in Muncie, said she sees Ball State students individually or with a partner or family members.

Lykins said there is no partnership between her clinic and Ball State and that her practice is “purely private.”

She said her clinic helps about 25 Ball State students a year — accounting for a small percent of the clinic’s practice.

“We’re probably physically the farthest [clinic] from the

location of campus,” Lykins said. “If students did not have their own transportation and they just did the bus service, they’re probably not going to come to our facility.”

Overall, Jessup said she doesn’t want to “bash on” the Ball State Counseling Center because of the “great” work it does and the importance of helping students with mental health issues.

John Lynch contributed to this story.

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

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1. Exercise Walking daily can help people sleep because it boosts natural sleep hormones such as melatonin. However, it is best to avoid exercising too close to bedtime because doing so could potentially have the opposite effect.

2. Only Sleep in Bed A bed should be a symbol for sleeping and not working. If a person is sitting in their bed working on homework, they are training their brain to think of their bed as a productive space and not a sleeping space.

3. Create a Comfortable Setting It is often suggested to avoid having a television in a bedroom because it stimulates wakefulness. Quiet, dark and cool are three suggested qualities to think about when designing an optimal sleeping space.

4. Establish a Sleeping Schedule Trying to start a sleeping schedule and routine can often lead to better sleep because the mind and body remember patterns. It is also good to use the bedtime option on cell phones because attempting to go to bed at the same time every night can also help lead to better sleep.

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Continued from Page 03 While those in these fields may understand they will get less sleep, Khubchandani said he was concerned about employers’ roles in maintaining the health and safety of their employees, adding that it is the job of the employer to make administrative changes when necessary.

“The employers have to be mindful too,” he said.

“If they don’t want to be mindful, then they have to be prepared to pay for all the health care costs associated.”

Suggested Solutions Khubchandani said people with sleep problems need to assess their lifestyles before making any health-related decisions. For example, he said overthe-counter medication, while helpful, should be avoided until absolutely necessary.

To find the right balance between school and work, Holaday said she uses a dry erase calendar and writes in an agenda to keep track of her dayto-day tasks.

“I have to make sure everything’s written out for me to see,” Holaday said. “So that way I can stick with everything.”

The study’s other co-author James Price, professor emeritus of health education and public health at the University of Toledo, said a common misconception people have is that they can “catch up” on their missed hours of sleep by sleeping

HOMECOMING

It has been said that eating a big meal within two to three hours of bedtime can have negative effects on sleeping, but it can be beneficial to have a small healthy snack like fruit or crackers and cheese to satisfy hunger.

Most people use caffeine in the morning to wake them up, so it is not a surprise that it should be avoided before bedtime. But alcohol can have a similar effect, even though some have said it makes them feel sleepy.

throughout the day.

Instead, a Harvard Medical School study found that attempting to compensate for lack of sleep by “sleeping in” has adverse effects on a person’s attention and focus and can make one feel more fatigued.

Price recommended individuals start creating a set “bedtime” they want to aim for each night.

“People should set a time within a half hour to 45 minutes of when you’re going to sleep every night at the same time,” Price said. “This gets you into the habit of knowing that you’re going to get tired at a certain time. Sleep is such a critical element of life, and people shouldn’t ever be getting less than seven hours of sleep at night.”

This year, Holaday said she received more scholarships which allow her to work less and possibly sleep more.

“I couldn’t go to study sessions, tutoring, or SI or anything like that,” Holaday said. “But now I can because I don’t work as much, and my grades and my sleep schedule have greatly improved.”

Contact Chase Martin with comments at cgmartin@bsu.edu.

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Like brother, like sister Drew and Marie Plitt have helped each other grow at Ball State, just like in their childhood.

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Fall exhibition sees Ball State beat Butler The Cardinals played a 12-inning exhibition game with the Bulldogs Saturday and came away with an 11-3 win. The day was designed to get as many players in the game as possible. Ball State finished the game with 14 hits — 10 from returners. On the mound, eight Cardinal pitchers combined to allow just six hits and three runs.

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continue their dedication to sports by coaching varsity at Loveland High School in Ohio.

“Sports are just what we’re good at,” Julie said. “We loved the way it bonded us as a family. Of course, there’s other things we love to do together, but going and attending sporting events together, playing sports together — it’s always been our thing.”

Whether it was in the backyard, on the court or wherever they could find a ball, the Plitt siblings were there, working to get better and bonding as brothers and sister.

A three-year letter winner and 2013 state champion for Loveland High School, Drew joined the Cardinals in 2016.

After redshirting his freshman year, he continued to move up the depth chart and inherited the Cardinals’ starting quarterback position following the departure of Riley Neal.

“Marie grew up wanting to be just like her big brothers: a successful athlete.”

For Ball State Football redshirt junior quarterback Drew Plitt and Ball State Women’s Volleyball freshman middle blocker Marie Plitt, their sibling relationship has been everything but a rivalry. Their parents, Julie and Steve Plitt, remember Drew and older brother Bryce in constant friendly competition while Marie strived to become like the two of them.

The Plitts’ love and dedication to sports didn’t start with Drew and Marie. Their parents are alumni from Xavier’s baseball and volleyball programs respectively, and they

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Fireworks continuously filled the sky in celebration of the scoring show Delta put on in its homecoming win, but things weren’t so bright for New Castle. The Eagles reached the end zone six times throughout the contest en route to a 42-0 victory. Delta quarterback Brady Hunt controlled the game from start to finish, racking up five touchdown passes.

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Cardinals fall to Zips after gaining 2-0 lead Ball State split its two-game Ohio road trip as it fell to Akron Saturday.

The Cardinals started the game up two sets to none, but the Zips stormed back to sweep the remaining three. The Cardinals return home to host Northern Illinois and Western Michigan next weekend, still hunting for their first conference win.

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Earning the Ray Louthen Award in 2018 for most improved player, Drew has proven himself worthy on this Cardinal roster. After Ball State’s first four games, he was ranked third in the nation with 1,373 passing yards.

“Our parents were our primary coaches growing up,” Drew said. “They would take us to the gym or the field and work with us on whatever we needed. It was something we did together pretty often as a family.”

Even while Drew was in Muncie and Marie was still in high school at Loveland, their bond remained strong.

“Drew made it a point to drive back home to as many of her games as he could while she was still in high school,” Julie said. “They enjoy each other’s successes and when there are failures, they pick each other up.”

As for Marie, competition was her first love.

Whether it was learning from her older brothers or competing on the court, she said she has always loved the way sports challenged her.

When the opportunity arose for her to play volleyball and join her brother at Ball State, it couldn’t have been a more perfect fit.

“Drew being here was a big part of what piqued my interest in Ball State,” Marie said.

“Then the volleyball program was interested in me. I checked out the campus and I absolutely loved the program.”

Marie committed to Ball State entering her junior year at Loveland High School, during which she was coached by her mother. She was named team MVP her sophomore, junior and senior seasons and led the Tigers to a 22-2 record in her final year.

While there was friendly competition in the household growing up, Marie said Drew played a big role in helping her grow as an athlete.

“Him and our older brother Bryce really pushed me when I was a kid,” Marie said.

“We’d always play games together, and the competition was fun. Sports always helped us relate to each other.”

With both football and volleyball in full swing, fall is a hectic time for the Plitt family. Even amidst two chaotic athletic schedules, the two manage to meet up frequently to catch up.

“We try to meet up at least once or twice a week,” Drew said. “A lot of times, we’ll get coffee to see how things are going, see how volleyball is going and all that.”

The support system between the siblings is unmatched, attending as many of each other’s games as they can and making sure they are exchanging encouraging words. Not only does it help to have sibling bonding time while going to the same school, but it gives their parents peace of mind knowing they are not alone.

“It eases my mind knowing that Marie has Drew there with her,” Julie said. “And of course, it’s cool when they both have Saturday games, and we’re able to watch him in the afternoon and her in the evening. It’s a lot of fun.”

Contact Gabi Glass with any comments at grglass@bsu.edu or on Twitter @gabiglassbsu.

Schmidt won’t quit

Graduate assistant Robert Schmidt doesn’t let his job description limit what he does to help the football team.

Zach Piatt Assistant Sports Editor After 18 months, the consensus is he’s the hardest worker in the Ball State Football program. But he doesn’t touch the field on game day. In fact, he doesn’t have much of a role during practices either. He’s a behind-the-scenes guy, and he likes it that way.

“I don’t want to be in front of a camera. The last thing I want to do is actually [be interviewed], to be honest,” he said.

His name is Robert Schmidt, or as players and coaches call him, “Schmidty.”

So, who is Schmidt? It’s a question Director of Strength and Conditioning Ben Armer said is “loaded.”

For starters, Schmidt is a graduate assistant on the football team’s strength and conditioning staff from Brooklyn, New York. As for what he does, it depends on the day.

On a daily basis, he weighs in the players, sets up and cleans down the weight room, helps players during lifting sessions and organizes data. He is also what head coach Mike Neu describes as the team’s spark plug. Armer calls him the Energizer bunny.

“It doesn’t matter if it’s 9 o’clock at night, it doesn’t

matter if it’s 6 o’clock in the morning,” Armer said. “You’re going to get the same effort, you’re going to get the same attitude, you’re going to get the same everything every day.

I think that’s why there’s respect across the board for him because there is no off button.”

Schmidt said that’s just who he is, and he goes above and beyond his everyday duties to help improve and develop the players.

“I’m here for any of the athletes’ needs. They’re first, no ego or anything like that,” Schmidt said. “Anything anybody needs, I’m willing to do. There’s no job beneath me.”

During fall camp, Schmidt was asked to throw a yellow flag in the air after Neu’s whistle on every play. It was designed to make sure players kept running two seconds after the flag was thrown.

“Nobody loves their job more than Robert Schmidt does,” Neu said. “He loved that role. He embraced it.

He’s running up and down the field going crazy. He took a couple falls because of it, but he loved every second of it.”

When the practice film was reviewed in each team meeting, every player and coach appreciated Schmidt’s role on the team.

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Director of Pride of Mid-America leads students on and off the field as Ball State’s first female band director.

Demi Lawrence Reporter Three days a week, the sound of trumpets honking, drums clashing and color flags whipping through the air echoes through campus from the lawn outside Worthen Arena as Ball State’s Pride of Mid-America Marching Band practices.

At the head of it all is Caroline Hand.

In 2014, Hand was hired as Ball State’s first female director of the Pride of MidAmerica Marching Band, putting Ball State among the 5 percent of colleges that

have female band directors, according to a study by Elizabeth S. Gould and University of Toronto.

Hand said she began her musical career in fifth grade when she attended a showcase hosted by the high school band for younger students. Hand also said the flute was the first instrument she learned to play, and it’s still the one she knows the best. “[Students at the showcase] said, ‘You could be part of this,’ so, of course, I was all about it.” Hand said. “I wanted to join as soon as I heard all those sounds together.”

After participating in band throughout her

middle and high school years, Hand said she decided to take a more traditional route in college. Enrolling at Oklahoma State, Hand chose to major in pre-med.

“I thought, ‘I’m smart, and I want to make money, so I think I’ll go to med school,’” Hand said. “I took a few science classes, and I did fine in them, but compared to my music classes, I just had zero interest.”

After dropping her pre-med major her sophomore year, Hand rejoined the music crowd in the fall. Through her classes, Hand said she discovered her true passion for teaching music.

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Discovering his destiny, Discovering Broadway

From Carmel, Indiana, to New York City, Joel Kirk brings his passion for theater and directing back home.

Kamryn Tomlinson Assistant Features Editor “I was seven years old when I wanted to be a director, and I’ve never changed that course.”

For years, 2015 Ball State alumnus Joel Kirk said he would make short films with his camcorder in the comfort of his backyard. He would act, direct, edit and write his own scripts to transform pre-existing ideas into his own.

“The first short movie I made was called ‘Planet Wars,’” Kirk said. “You can probably guess what that was an imitation of.”

Since then, Kirk said he has pursued his love for storytelling, theater and Broadway.

“Broadway exists because of people who do not live in New York,” Kirk said. “Broadway begins when 5-year-old Joel Kirk falls in love with a show called ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’ and watched the VHS version again and again.”

From Indiana to New York Because theater consumed a large portion of Kirk’s childhood, he knew theater production was the field he wanted to continue exploring in college.

Considering Ball State University, Kirk said he started by meeting with Karen Kessler, his advisor at the time, about what Ball State had to offer. Kirk said he and Kessler began sharing their favorite storylines and what kind of stories they respond to.

During my visit [to Indianapolis], I was taking a walk, and I noticed all of these beautiful venues, and I noticed that they were empty.”

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Discovering Broadway was created earlier this year by Ball State alumnus, Joel Kirk. Kirk said he hopes bringing Broadway veterans and stars to the Midwest’s backyard will send energy through an already wonderful community enhancing the experience of living in central Indiana. JOEL KIRK, PHOTO PROVIDED

“I think we talked for 30 minutes about why the ‘Lord of the Rings’ is the greatest trilogy of all time and why everything about it was so cohesive, [including] the score [and] dialogue,” Kirk said. “To piece apart analytically why a piece of storytelling works or not is what I realized I was going to get at Ball State, [and] I loved it.”

Kirk’s theater experience at Ball State led him to his first internship in the heart of midtown

Manhattan at New Dramatists, a nonprofit organization. The nonprofit helps playwrights with their new plays by assisting in finding a cast, a director and building a schedule to rehearse and produce their pieces.

During his time as an intern, Kirk said he saw “legendary directors and the regular TV actors coming in and out of there every single day.” One month into his internship at New Dramatists, Kirk received his first job offer but said the offer was administrative rather than creative.

“I turned it down to be at New Dramatists for seven more months where I knew I could not make a living, but I knew I would be next to the thing that gave me life,” Kirk said. “I knew being around those creative people and being around all of those artists was going to teach me something that four walls, a desk and computer chair couldn’t, and I’m so glad I did it.”

Because he chose to stay at New Dramatists, Kirk said he was able to leave with a wealth of professional relationships and caffeine.

Sometimes, he said, he found himself asking professionals in his field to get coffee frequently in order to create meaningful relationships and network with his community.

“I did my research beforehand and [would sit] down with them to try to make one thing that they remembered from that meeting, meaningful,” Kirk said. “Then, I just kept them in my community and in my life.”

Discovering Broadway Working as a director and producer in fastpaced New York City, Kirk said he saw actors, directors and cast members begin to panic as theater life died down in the summertime.

Producers, playwrights and investors were slowly leaving the city for their own endeavors and vacations.

“So, I’m asking myself, ‘Why am I sitting around?’” Kirk said.

Kirk decided to travel back to Indianapolis to pursue under-the-radar workshops of two new plays at a local theater, but he noticed the same drought in central Indiana that he left behind in New York City.

“During my visit [to Indianapolis], I was taking a walk, and I noticed all of these beautiful venues, and I noticed that they were empty,” Kirk said.

In order to combat this drought and bring Broadway to central Indiana, Kirk decided to start Discovering Broadway.

The program gives Indiana natives a chance to look at Broadway-bound plays and musicals in development. Discovering Broadway also gives producers and directors a chance to expand their ideas on a particular show in central Indiana.

“I wrote to the mayor of Carmel, the mayor of Fishers and the mayor of Indianapolis,” Kirk said. “I got meetings. I presented [the idea of Discovering Broadway] to the president of the

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chambers of commerce, Michael Huber, [and] they loved it.”

Joanna Taft, member of Discovering Broadway’s advisory board, said she knew of Kirk and his family, but she didn’t first meet Kirk until a year ago when she invited him to one of her porch parties. “[Joel] comes over, and there’s usually 10 to 12 people there [at the porch party,]” Taft said.

“He’s been fleshing out his idea [for Discovering Broadway], working on it and asking for advice, and we push him back on things, and he comes back and fine tunes [his idea.]”

Taft said Kirk used his networking connections and presented his ideas to big funders, which pushed open many doors for him. “[Joel] has taken many no’s as the first step for getting a yes,” Taft said. “My favorite thing about Joel is that he does not give up. Those [types of] people have crazy [and] great ideas, and they don’t give up. It is hard, really hard, actually, to be successful, and Joel is successful.”

In less than 100 days, Kirk built a board of 15 members, an advisory board of six members and an executive board of three members. Shortly after, Discovering Broadway was put in motion.

How ‘Discovering Broadway’ works Discovering Broadway’s program consists of a two-week long workshop that brings together the actors, directors, composers and lyricists for a play or musical.

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To start, Kirk contacts producers who are developing high-profile shows, and he puts them in contact with directors, composers, lyricists and playwrights.

Actor auditions are then held, usually in New York City, and from there, the team of producers and directors will determine what two consecutive weeks they have available. Over the course of the two weeks and through the creative process, those involved in the play or musical will explore the artistic potential of the show and bring the story to life.

When the first Discovering Broadway show debuts February 2020, Kirk said Indiana natives will have the chance to see what it feels like to watch something creatively engaging so close to home.

“The reason [Discovering Broadway] matters

[is because Hoosiers are] the last people to see a show five years after it opens with an entirely different cast, and there’s no reason for them to,” Kirk said. “The reality is you don’t need to create a show in an outdated rehearsal room in midtown Manhattan. You can do it in one of the best places to live [where] a beer is three bucks.”

Taft said having Broadway in Indiana will create a great cultural fabric in the Midwest and give the population excellent and quality performances to enjoy and experience.

“Joel’s heart is here [in Indiana,]” Taft said.

“He was born and raised here, [and] he loves Broadway. So, this was a pairing of the two things he loves. What this means for us is that more and more people will hear our story.”

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Continued from Page 09 “I loved learning everything about music,” Hand said. “What I discovered too when I was in undergrad is that I love teaching a lot.

I was a music education major and graduated and went and got a public school teaching job in Arkansas.”

Before coming to Ball State in 2014, Hand returned to school and completed her doctorate in conducting at the University of Minnesota.

After her audition into the program at the University of Minnesota, Hand’s mentor, Craig Kirchhoff, said he was convinced he would never see her again — that she would pick a different university to study her doctorate — but to his surprise, she chose to stay.

“She is an amazing musician and an amazing person,” Kirchhoff said. “She is a very humble person and not someone that takes herself too seriously.”

Aside from Kirchhoff, Hand said Kathy Romey, director of choral activities at the University of Minnesota, was another one of her mentors. “[Romey] helped me a lot with things that a male just couldn’t really communicate in the same way,” Hand said. “That was a really kind of eyeopening moment to see that representation matters.”

Similarly to Hand, Natalie Raffelock, junior nursing major who plays baritone in the Pride of Mid-America Marching Band, said she connected with Hand more than she was able to connect with any of her past male band directors.

“When you see a female who is so good at what they do, and so passionate about what they do, it makes the rest of us feel, ‘I’m just as good. I’m just as worthy as everybody else here,’” Raffelock said. “Dr. Hand is just one of those people that can make everybody smile, no matter what she’s doing. She’s just got this really contagious attitude.”

While Hand said she takes pride in being the first female band director, it took her some time to accept the label for herself. She said she feels like her work should speak for itself, but knowing how male-dominated the industry is, Hand knows she must show young women they have just as much of a shot at success as their male counterparts, just like she did for Raffelock.

“I think whether or not I’m a woman doesn’t matter,” Hand said. “I think it is important that I am here, as the leader of the Pride, [so] female students see me doing this, and they then can imagine themselves in a leadership role. So, now I do place far greater importance on representation.”

Looking forward at the rest of the marching band season, Hand said her favorite part about Pride of Mid-America is simply its members and all the work they do.

“They’re here over Labor Day, they’re supporting our team at IU [and] they’re here before school starts,” Hand said. “They so enjoy what they’re doing. Just come hang out with them for a little bit on game day, and it’s infectious.

You can’t help but have a good time.”

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The mental health crisis Mental health affordability and awareness are issues we need to address.

Katie Catterall is a freshman journalism major and writes “In Between the Lines” for The Daily News.

Her views do not necessarily agree with those of the newspaper.

Write to Katie at khcatterall@ Katie bsu.edu.

Catterall Editor’s Columnist, Note: The In Between following the Lines story mentions struggles with mental health and attempted suicide. If you or someone you know struggles with thoughts of suicide or mental illness, call 1-800-273-8255 or visit suicidepreventionlifeline. org. For further information regarding these topics, please visit nimh.nih.gov.

“Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it isn’t there.”

These words became more than just words for me my senior year of high school. They became my life.

The stigma that people face for having a mental illness can be daunting. It’s not easy to ask for help to begin with, and it becomes especially hard when mental health care is not easily accessible or affordable.

Unlike physical illness, mental illness is not easily visible.

But, for me, it was visible in the scratches on my arm, in the way I lost interest in the hobbies I once loved, in the way sleep became an escape, in the risky choices I made in the hopes of getting an adrenaline rush, in the way I planned my own death.

You might be thinking, why

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did I let it get to that point?

Why didn’t I get help?

After six months of struggling, I was closer than ever to taking my own life, so my parents got me into therapy. I’m one of the lucky Americans who have decent health insurance, but 42 percent of Americans see high costs and poor insurance as a barrier to accessing mental health care.

Before insurance, my oncea-week therapy appointments were $165. The psych evaluation I went through in order to get medication was $275, and my most recent mental health checkup was $190.

For someone with insurance that does not cover mental health services or no insurance at all, getting help for mental illnesses can be nearly impossible. They may suffer in silence due to the lack of affordability and accessibility of these services.

It’s not just money, though; it’s also a lack of general awareness.

Schools put a large emphasis on stopping bullying but fail to address mental health issues.

In fact, rates of anxiety and depression have increased in children aged 6-17 since 2003.

Many children are not getting help for these issues, either.

I didn’t get help because I

was afraid of being branded as “crazy.” I had no clue what was wrong with me, and I didn’t know who to talk to or even how to talk about it.

I realize now there is absolutely nothing to be ashamed of when seeking help.

There is nothing to be ashamed of for going to counseling or taking medication. By taking a step toward recovery, those suffering are actually being extremely brave.

Once I started therapy regularly, I realized how brave I was, too, for taking charge and refusing to let my anxiety and depression kill me. I took

another step forward and started on medication. Since then, I have been on a steady path to recovery. I still have bad days, but for the most part I am genuinely happy.

A combination of stigmatization, affordability of resources and awareness overall are creating a toxic environment for those with mental health issues.

We have to do better for our generation and future generations because lives are literally at risk. Every 12 minutes in the United States, someone dies by suicide.

Getting help saved my life.

Just getting the diagnosis confirming that yes, I do suffer from generalized anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder helped me see that what I was feeling was very real, and that I wasn’t alone in suffering from these disorders.

I was lucky, but others before me have not been and others in the future will not be if we as a society do not do something.

People will continue to turn to suicide as a solution if we as a society do not stand up and find ways to make mental health care accessible and affordable and destroy the stigma surrounding it.

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Those with mental illnesses are not weak or fragile.

Sophie Nulph is a sophomore journalism major and writes “Open-Minded” for The Daily News. Her views do not necessarily agree with those of the newspaper.

Write to Sophie at smnulph@ Sophie bsu.edu.

Nulph Sitting in Columnist, Open-Minded class, I stare down at my dedicated “todo” notebook. I write all of my lists in the same color pen at least once a week. When a due date changes, I have to completely rewrite the list on a new page.

As I stare down at all my homework assignments, obligations and responsibilities, my mind grows fuzzy. My deafening thoughts drown out the professor’s lecture, and my leg involuntarily begins to shake as I think of the lack of time I have to get each assignment done.

Subconsciously, I begin biting my nails as I worry about failing an upcoming exam, even though I know I understand the content well.

As I look down at my bleeding cuticles, my professor’s voice floats back in my head.

The clock strikes 10 ‘til, and my anxiety increases as I realize I have been too worried about the rest of my obligations to focus on the lecture right in front of me.

I suffer from anxiety, and I have developed obsessivecompulsive tendencies to help cope with it. I have suffered from this for years, and I have always been afraid to tell people because I viewed it as a weakness.

But it is not a weakness, it is a quality that makes me stronger, and I am not afraid anymore.

My anxiety is not a vulnerability to me, but, instead, a way for me to educate others about mental

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illnesses and show they are nothing to be ashamed of.

The stigma surrounding mental illnesses is so negative that people feel like they must apologize to someone if they find out they have one. People don’t apologize to those with diabetes, or heart disease, so why do people apologize to those with anxiety, depression or other mental illnesses?

It’s because people see us as fragile and weak. Mental illnesses are associated with instability, making those without them feel like they must step on glass. Due to this treatment, the negative stigma never goes away.

Mental illnesses have had a negative viewpoint since B.C.; when people in ancient Egypt believed those with illnesses were possessed and viewed them as a “religious punishment.”

As humanity developed, our views of mental illnesses sadly did not. We began institutionalizing people with illnesses, and it wasn’t

until 1979 when the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) was formed to help advocate and educate people about mental health.

Despite this, NAMI has not prevented people from treating me like their wedding china when they find out that I am not “normal.” I used to feel vulnerable telling someone that I have anxiety because I still saw it as a weakness. Now, I do not.

We know more about mental illnesses and chemical imbalances than we ever have before, but this does not stop society from teaching people from a young age that speaking about illnesses is not okay simply because of its history.

People have told me to stop, as if my anxiety has an on and off switch I can simply flip on and off when I decide I no longer want to deal with it. People tell me I can choose to be stressed or not by the actions I take and the situations I put myself in.

What they don’t know is

anxiety doesn’t let me decide, it decides for me.

I have always seen my mental illness as another entity entirely.

It is not a part of me; it is a big, green jelly monster that controls the way my mind works. It is always beside me; sometimes sleeping, sometimes smiling its devilish grin.

Anxiety is not something you can just ignore, and it will go away; it is not a bully. It is a monster that grows stronger when you feed into it and falls dormant when you don’t, but it never truly disappears.

I don’t expect people to know what’s going on in my mind, but I wish more people would show more empathy toward the situations I am going through.

When I am going through these anxiety-inducing situations, I don’t need to be asked if I’m okay. I don’t need to be treated like I am a ticking time bomb ready to burst into a mental breakdown any second. I want to be treated like anyone else that is having a bad day simply because I am like everyone else. If I had not told you that I suffer from a mental illness, chances are you would have never known. I act normal, I look normal, I speak normally.

Most of the time, society is unaware that someone has a mental illness unless that person decides to make it public.

Mental illnesses do not deserve an apology, they deserve applause.

They do not deserve judgment but recognition.

The only way to stop the stigma is to speak up, loud, and be proud. There is no reason to hide a disease so common.

Mental illnesses are something to celebrate, because I have been ashamed for who I am for long enough, and it’s about time that I am proud of each and every part of me.

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“Coach Neu is showing clips of him just going crazy throwing his flags and the enthusiasm he had about it,” Armer said. “He’s got the entire team meeting room going nuts. The players are all clapping and having a great time watching how hard he’s working at something people don’t think is very significant. But that’s his role, and he’s taken complete ownership of it.”

Schmidt doesn’t view what he’s doing as anything special. To him, it’s his responsibility to help the team any way he can.

“I pride myself on not being outworked,” Schmidt said. “A person I respect and look up to told me, ‘Your athletes don’t really care what you know or how much you know until they know how much you actually care about them.’”

It’s that team-first attitude that earned him the respect of the players from day one on the job in April 2018.

“He has such a contagious personality. Guys loved him immediately,” Armer said. “His personality is off the charts. For a room like ours where guys spend more time with the strength staff than with anybody else, when you have somebody like that on your staff, that only makes everybody grow a little bit closer together.”

Schmidt was hired at Ball State by happenstance.

He met Armer at a coaching clinic in New York about two and a half years ago. They met up again when Schmidt accompanied his head coach at Defiance College on a trip to Ball State for a meeting. It just so happened that Armer’s assistant at the time got an internship with the Indianapolis Colts that same day.

“It’s great to be a part of a family,” Schmidt said.

“To me, it doesn’t really matter if I’m at the Division I level or the highest level. I want to feel like I’m part Strength and conditioning graduate assistant Robert Schmidt prepares the field for practice Oct. 2, of a family, and I really do feel that here.”

Contact Zach Piatt with any comments at 2019, at Scheumann Stadium. Schmidt previously interned with South Carolina and Alabama as a strength and conditioning coach. JACOB MUSSELMAN, DN zapiatt@bsu.edu or on Twitter @zachpiatt13.

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