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Josh Vandiver and Henry Velandia laugh during an interview in the Quad Sept. 13, 2019. The couple battled laws that would have deported Venezuela-native Velandia even though he was married to Vandiver who is a U.S. native. ERIC PRITCHETT, DN

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n a given day, Henry Velandia could be more than 600 miles from his husband. Velandia’s home with Josh Vandiver, Ball State assistant professor of political science, is in Muncie, but his job as a dance instructor often requires him to travel. While distance is a common source of strain on relationships, the couple said they have a bond that has already been tested and thus strengthened by many obstacles. Velandia and his family came to the United States from Venezuela in 2002. While in the U.S., Velandia said he began pursuing his passion for dance. Then, in 2006, Velandia and Vandiver met in New Jersey. Vandiver chalks it up to fate — he was a graduate student at Princeton University, Velandia knew other graduate students there and things “just worked out.” “[We] immediately hit it off and were almost inseparable from that point on,” Vandiver said.

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He said the best way to describe Velandia is as “phenomenal.” “It’s the ﬁrst word that comes to mind. He has these visions, this indomitable capacity to keep going and overcome hardships — he really is a phenomenon,” Vandiver said. “He’s got his own vision, he pulls communities together, he’s unstoppable. I have to keep up on my game so that I can be a fraction as phenomenal as he is, and I so admire that about him — it’s part of why I love him.” From the beginning of their relationship, Velandia said they were able to connect on a level that allowed them to “grow up together.” Vandiver had come out to his immediate family members, but Velandia felt he was not able to recognize his sexuality until he came to the U.S. “[Venezuela is] a Latin country, so it’s a little tougher to come out just [because of] the culture [and] the religious beliefs,” Velandia said. “A lot of things prevent you from being open and talking about, ‘Oh, you’re exploring.’ It’s not really allowed, but in America, you ﬁnd that opportunity. So, to me,

America was like the American dream for many reasons — and I found my American boy, too.” Velandia and Vandiver decided to take the next step in their relationship in 2007 by taking advantage of Princeton University’s domestic partnership program, which recognized same-sex couples as partners and allowed spouses access to benefits including housing and health insurance even though the federal government had yet to recognize samesex marriages. During this time, the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was still in effect. Signed in 1996 by then-President Bill Clinton, the act specifically denied same-sex couples’ federal benefits including “legal recognition of relationships, access to a partner’s employment benefits, rights of inheritance, joint tax returns and tax exemptions, immigration or residency for noncitizen partners, next-of-kin status, protection from domestic violence, and the right to live together in miliatry or college housing,” according to the Encyclopedia Britanica.

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Oct. 4: Gov. Eric Holcomb directed flags to be flown at half staff for the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service from sunrise to sunset Oct. 6, according to a press release from the governor’s office. Every October, the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation pays tribute to firefighters who died in the line of duty the previous year.

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Oct. 8: Sophomore Joey Ranieri’s 12th-place tie wasn’t enough to lead Ball State to a top-5 finish at the Marquette Intercollegiate in Wisconsin. The Cardinals placed 11th out of 12 teams with a total score of 887. This was Ranieri’s third straight finish under par, shooting a team-low score of 69 in Tuesday’s final round to finish with a total score of 212.

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Football brings Bronze Stalk back to Muncie Oct. 5: Facing a 17-3 deﬁcit at halftime, Ball State entered the locker room after 30 minutes of play not feeling disappointed, but rather motivated. The Cardinals rallied for 24 unanswered points in the second half en route to a 27-20 comeback win over defending Mid-American Conference Champion Northern Illinois. The win was the Cardinals’ ﬁrst over the Huskies since 2008.

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Oct. 9: Hoosier STEM Academy, a grant-funded partnership between Ball State, Purdue University and Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, was awarded $602,000 by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education, according to an August press release from the commission. The academy will use the grant to help STEM educators obtain graduate degrees.

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50 YEARS OF ACTIVISIM Ball State’s Vietnam Moratorium Committee to hold anniversary reunion, conference.

With the banners from Ball State’s Centennial marketing campaign taken down, Kathy Wolf, vice president of marketing and communications, reflected on the various events organized for the campaign. Wolf said the university’s marketing team will now be refocusing on Ball State’s “We Fly” campaign.

Mary Munchel, now Mary Posner, head of the Ball State Vietnam Moratorium Committee, holds up a Vietnam War protest sign Feb. 5, 1970, during then-President Richard Nixon’s visit in Indianapolis. A group of 41 students from Ball State and Burris Laboratory Schools went to Indianapolis to demonstrate against the president outside the City-County building. DIGITAL MEDIA

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Posner poses with a protest sign Jan. 21, 2017, during the women’s march in Louisville, Kentucky. While this was the last time Posner participated in a protest, she hopes to join gun-control- and climate-change-related activism after the Vietnam Moratorium Committee conference. MARY POSNER, PHOTO PROVIDED; Additional images: BILL BRITTON AND MARY POSNER, PHOTOS PROVIDED; EMILY WRIGHT, DN ILLUSTRATION

Rohith Rao News Editor “If one life is spared from the senseless killing in Vietnam, I will consider the Moratorium a success,” said Mary Munchel, now Mary Posner, in an interview for a 1969 Daily News article. Fifty years later, the university’s Vietnam Moratorium Committee (VMC), an extension of the nationwide committee developed to protest against the Vietnam

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War, will host a reunion at the Alumni Center to bring together past and present protesters as well as veterans and community members. Posner first found out about the National Vietnam Moratorium Committee at a July 1969 congress in El Paso, Texas, for people involved in student government across the country. After returning to Ball State in September, she said she failed to find someone willing or experienced to organize the committee, so she decided to do it herself.

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College Democrats recognized at meeting The Student Government Association passed a senate order Oct. 2 which recognized the Ball State College Democrats’ efforts in registering new voters. The order states College Democrats helped register more than 350 new voters at Ball State. Senator Lauren Kamykowski was also recognized for enlisting fellow senators to participate in the registration.

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Continued from Page 3 Some of the committee’s activities, Posner said, included marches, a vigil on the Arts Terrace where the names of American servicemen killed in the war were read and planting 80 white crosses outside the chapel of the Newman Center, a church near the university. “There was a lot of spontaneous [and] creative ideas from the people in the committee,” Posner said. “That’s how it happened — a lot of grassroots from the students and some guidance from the national committee.” As part of the ﬁrst National Vietnam Moratorium Day, the ﬁrst protest at Ball State was held Oct. 15, 1969. Posner said this was followed by monthly protests lasting from November 1969 to April 1970.

Mary Posner wore this armband and button for the Nov. 15, 1969, Moratorium March on Washington protests. According to the National Archives, more than 500,000 people joined the protest in the nation’s capital that day. MARY POSNER, PHOTO PROVIDED

Bill Britton, another student studying at Ball State at the time who still resides in Muncie, also took part in the protests. Britton said he decided to join the protests after participating in a debate on the Vietnam War at a local church. “After doing that at the church, it sort of lodged in the back of my mind that we shouldn’t

be there,” he said. “It was not particularly a moral war. What the heck are we doing?”

Moratorium March on Washington While Britton was unable to go, Posner took part in a national protest in Washington, D.C. Nov. 15, 1969.

Events during the Vietnam War

Nov. 11, 1955: Truman established the Military Assistance Advisory Group Vietnam marking the U.S. government’s ofﬁcial start date in the Vietnam War.

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Dec. 19, 1946: France went into war to recolonize Vietnam starting the First Indochina War in North Vietnam. In 1950, President Harry Truman authorized $15 million in military aid to France. France was eventually defeated in 1954.

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Sept. 2, 1945: Following its defeat in World War II, Japan surrendered. Ho Chi Minh, the Vietnamese communist leader, proclaimed the independence of Vietnam from Japanese occupation and the formation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

“It was incredible seeing such a massive crowd,” Posner said. “I don’t really think we got close enough to see much, but it was just good to be there with people with the same kind of sentiments as us and the same signs. I still have my armband and my button from that day.” While Posner said she went to Washington with the chaplain

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July 20-21, 1954: After the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu, the 1954 Geneva Accords called for a temporary partition of Vietnam at the 17th Parallel, creating a Communist state in the North and a Frenchbacked non-Communist state in the South. The agreement called for an election to reunify the two zones in 1956.

of the Newman Center, Charlie Heitkamp, another Ball State VMC member, remembers getting to the protests in a U-Haul-like box truck. During the protests, Heitkamp was one of many arrested. He said he was walking down the street with protestors when he crossed paths with a man in his 60s or 70s who was headed to work. “We’re talking back and forth, and the police just came in from behind and swept us up, threw us in a paddy wagon. I ended up in a jail cell with him and 10 other people,” he said. “I spent most of the day there … cost me $10.”

Activism today David Harris, former Stanford University student body president who founded the draft-resistance movement and organized civil disobedience against military conscription which he served two years in

jail for, said the Vietnam war protests “offer a precedent for young people today.” “Democracy functions best when individual citizens take responsibility for that democracy in their own actions,” said Harris, who will be the keynote speaker at Friday’s conference. “If ever there was a time that needed an uprising like the one we organized, it’s now.” He said protests back then were more targeted, and since people weren’t as used to large-scale protests, they were “immediately impactful” and focused the national attention on the war “in ways nobody has quite mastered yet.” While there were other issues protested toward the end of the ’60s and the beginning of the ’70s, Posner too said an advantage the VMC had back then was that the Vietnam War was “the issue.”

Aug. 7, 1964: Following reports of two U.S. destroyers ﬁred upon by the North Vietnamese forces in the Gulf of Tonkin and President Lyndon Johnson requesting permission from the U.S. Congress to increase military presence in Indochina, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which became the legal basis for the Johnson and Nixon Administrations’ prosecution of the Vietnam War.

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1965

Nov. 1, 1963: U.S.backed Ngo Dinh Diem, the leader of South Vietnam, is overthrown in a military coup, and he and his brother are assassinated the next day.

March 2, 1965: After southern Communist forces attacked a U.S. air base, the administration had a pretext to launch Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against the north. The ﬁrst American ground combat troops arrived soon after the bombing began, and hundreds of thousands more U.S. troops would follow.

05 “I think nowadays, it’s hard to know what to protest against because there’s so many things going on,” she said. “There’s so many issues to choose from,. It might be more difficult to mobilize a large group behind one issue.” However, Posner said, an advantage activists have today is the ability to communicate instantaneously, primarily through social media. She described communication back then as “a lot more cumbersome” — using phones with telephone cords, having to physically mail things and the inability to make quick copies of documents. Offering advice to young activists today, Harris said “movements succeed as long as they are open-ended.” “Don’t approach this by drawing a line in the sand and saying you’re with us or against us,” he said. “Approach this as

everybody has an opportunity to join you. Don’t pick fights with the police. Don’t yell at people who don’t need to be yelled at.” He added that means and ends are “the most fundamental

Whatever it is you believe in, talk about it in a civil way.” - MARY POSNER, Head of Ball State’s Vietnam Moratorium Committee question” and “you don’t get good ends by adopting evil means.” Posner said many Vietnam veterans didn’t like what the VMC was doing because they might have been physically or mentally injured during the war, but the VMC made “a

December 1967: By the end of 1967, a year marked by Martin Luther King, Jr. denouncing the Vietnam War, the boxer Muhammad Ali refusing military service and escalating protests against the war, U.S. troop numbers in Vietnam reached 485,600.

huge effort” to “reach out to Vietnam veterans and tell them we weren’t against them — we were against an unjust war.” “Whatever it is you believe in, talk about it in a civil way,” she advised activists today. “Even though we were protesting, we were never mean; we were never violent. We tried to listen to whatever people had to say.” The VMC protesters at Ball State had a banner with the word “Peace” written on it posted across the sidewalk near the then library at North Quad, Posner said. “When I look at that flag, it brings up the memory of that first day, Oct. 15, our first protest. We had a march, and we walked under that banner,” she said. “When I see that picture, just the memory of marching on that day would be my fondest memory.” Contact Rohith Rao with comments at rprao@bsu.edu or on Twitter @RaoReports.

Oct. 15, 1969: After the first National Moratorium to End the War was held, more than 500,000 joined the Moratorium March on Washington the following month. 1970

Feb. 27, 1968: Anchorman Walter Cronkite concluded the United States “is mired in a stalemate.”

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Bill Britton and Charlie Heitkamp, two former members of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee (VMC) at Ball State, meet Oct. 4, 2019, a week before the VMC’s 50th anniversary conference. Years after the 1969 protests, Britton and Heitkamp have helped serve veterans and continue to be involved in their local communities. ERIC PRITCHETT, DN ILLUSTRATION

January 1969: President Richard Nixon was inaugurated after promising during his presidential campaign of having a “secret plan to end the war.” After sabotaging Johnson’s peace talks to prevent an agreement from threatening his election, as president, Nixon escalated bombings and expanded the war in Cambodia and Laos. By April, the number of American military personnel in Vietnam peaks at 543,000, and the war would continue for four more years.

Jan. 31, 1968: South Vietnamese people looking forward to Tet, a celebration of the Lunar New Year, were caught off guard when 70,000 Communist troops struck more than 100 towns and cities. This, along with two more waves of attacks, is what came to be known as the Tet Offensive.

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April 30, 1970: Nixon televised his decision to initiate the Cambodian campaign, but the public was unaware that Nixon had been secretly bombing Cambodia since 1969 — an escalation of a covert bombing campaign started by Johnson in 1965. May 4, 1970: Four students at Kent State University in Ohio were killed during an anti-war protest when shot at by the Ohio National Guard.

Jan. 27, 1973: The Paris Peace Accords was signed, officially ending the war in Vietnam. In February, Operation Homecoming brings home 591 American prisoners of war, and the last American troops left Vietnam in March. In August, the U.S. bombing of Cambodia ends, marking the last U.S. combat activity in Southeast Asia. Following the Watergate scandal, Nixon would resign as president the following year. 1975

April 1975: After the North Vietnamese Army forces attacked major cities in the highlands, in March, the South Vietnamese Army crumbled. In April, a frenzied, last-minute evacuation of American civilians and South Vietnamese citizens at risk of retaliation by the Communists ended just hours before a North Vietnamese Army tank crashed the Imperial Palace gates. In the years that followed, a total of 1.6 million Vietnamese refugees fled the Communist regime.

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University’s Diversity Ball State wins award; Spectrum president: university is ‘fairly behind.’

Charles Melton Assistant News Editor While Ball State was recently awarded for its commitment to diversity and inclusion, some students feel the university still has room for improvement. Ball State was one of more than 90 schools across the country awarded the Higher Education in Excellence and Diversity (HEED) award by Insight Into Diversity, a magazine which focuses on diversity in higher education, including Indiana University Bloomington and Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis. According to the magazine’s website, the award, which Ball State has won for the fourth year in a row, “recognizes colleges and universities that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion.” Marsha McGriff, associate vice president for Inclusive Excellence, said receiving this award was a “big deal.” “It is a very rigorous process for selection,” McGriff said. “It’s very detailed, and they even do a follow-up email to kind of tease out some of your responses from the application just to get a better and clearer understanding of what it is you’re doing.” The application asked questions regarding university percentages of student enrollment

Total students by ethnicity in 2019 Undergraduate and graduate students

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based on ethnicity and students identifying as LGBTQ, ﬁrstgeneration, transfer, having a disability and veterans, according to the magazine’s website. In addition, the application also looked into percentages of staff, faculty and administration in terms of ethnicity and gender as well as university programs regarding promoting diversity and inclusion. Ball State’s strategic plan was one of the highlights in the application process, McGriff said. She added she has never been a part of a university that puts inclusive excellence as one of its priorities. “These are questions that we’re asking ourselves, and they have corresponding objectives, initiatives, indicators and a toolkit to help us be a part of that process,” McGriff said. “I think it just is a much deeper dive than just saying diversity and counting numbers.” Brooklyn Arizmendi, president of Spectrum, a student organization at Ball State, said while the university is “taking steps forward toward doing better” for minority groups on campus, it is still “fairly behind.” For example, Arizmendi said, Ball State is building the new Multicultural Center, which will have its ofﬁcial groundbreaking ceremony Saturday. But, she added, a lot of buildings on campus don’t have inclusive bathrooms for the transgender community. “As someone who constantly

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advocates for the LGBTQ community, it is disappointing to see other universities with better resources,” Arizmendi said. She questioned whether Ball State and the officials approving new policies and spending money on behalf of the university are truly representative of its diversity. According to an email from the office of President Geoffrey Mearns, 23 percent of the 4,034 first-year students at Ball State self-identify as people of color. The students of Ball State, Arizmendi said, do more to offer “additional resources” to other students than the university as a whole does. “I think more important than diversity is inclusion,” Arizmendi said. “We put people of color and varying identities on our ads, but in actuality, we’re a predominantly white university.” Contact Charles Melton with comments at cwmelton@bsu.edu or on Twitter @cwmelton.

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Elvbo lifts Cardinals to double-overtime win After assisting sophomore midfielder/forward Tatiana Mason’s game-winning goal in Friday’s 1-0 victory at Akron, senior midfielder/ forward Julia Elvbo drove Ball State over Buffalo in double overtime Sunday, securing a 3-2 win for the Cardinals. With the win, Ball State swept its two-game Mid-American Conference road trip and is now on a three-game win streak.

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Ball State Football runs out of the tunnel before a game against Florida Atlantic at Scheumann Stadium Sept. 14, 2019. Ball State lost to FAU, 41-31. JACOB MUSSELMAN, DN

Ball State Football isn’t letting a slow start influence the rest of the season. Zach Piatt Assistant Sports Editor Five weeks into the 2019 football season, Ball State was back to square one. The schedule showed nothing left but MidAmerican Conference opponents, and the record was 0-0. “It’s time to get it started now,” head coach Mike Neu said prior to the Cardinals’ game against Northern Illinois. “Whatever’s happened in the non-conference schedule has

no bearing on what’s about to take place here over the next eight games … Our focus is trying to get to 1-0 at the end of this week.” After 60 minutes of play against the Huskies Saturday, the Cardinals got to 1-0, scoring 24 unanswered points in the second half to walk away with a 27-20 victory. Not only did the team win their second consecutive conference opener, but they also brought the Bronze Stalk Trophy back to Muncie for the first time since 2008. “I’ve been through a lot of growing pains here,” Neu told The Daily News after the game. “Things have been tough, but we’ve worked extremely hard to develop young men on and off the field over the last few years. To look at some of those guys who I came in here with and to see the tears running down their face was certainly special.” Ball State only won one of its four non-

conference contests, dropping games to Indiana, Florida Atlantic and NC State. However, none of those losses were by more than 11 points. The difference, Neu said, was just a handful of plays here and there. The Cardinals turned the ball over 12 times in the first four games — four times through the air, four times on the ground and four times on downs. “For us, we got to make those handful of plays,” Neu said. “When you’re playing in a tight game, those are necessary in order to have the scoreboard end up in your favor.” The Cardinals have had no problem putting up points, scoring an average of 32.4 per game. They have a quarterback in redshirt junior Drew Plitt who, prior to the bye week, ranked third in Division I with 1,373 passing yards.

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Three weeks after its meet in East Lansing, Michigan, Ball State returned to compete in the Louisville Classic where it finished 14th out of 39 teams. The top finisher for the Cardinals was senior Maritza Rodriguez who placed 16th overall in a race including more than 300 athletes. Rodriguez set a new personal record in the 5k with a time of 17:33. Her previous best was 18:12, which she ran in the same event last year.

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Kim leads Cardinals to top-3 finish in Ohio Despite battling narrow fairways and fast greens, Ball State seized a topthree finish at the Fall MAC Preview in Ohio. Coming off of a two-week break, the Cardinals were refreshed and ready to take on Mid-American Conference rivals Monday. For the first time this season, junior Liz Kim earned the top spot of all the Cardinals who participated. Kim tied for ninth place in a field of 64 golfers.

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Jett McGowan dives into third base for a triple March 27, 2019, at Kankakee Community College. McGowan had two hits in the Cavaliers’ victory over Highland Community College. JETT MCGOWAN, PHOTO PROVIDED

Junior Jett McGowan wants to choose when his baseball career is over, not have an injury decide for him. Ian Hansen Reporter For most athletes, giving up might be one of the ﬁrst things that comes to mind when a severe injury takes place. But for junior Jett McGowan, “the grind” is something he embraces dearly as he continues to battle with a broken elbow. Last season, McGowen played baseball at Kankakee Community College in Illinois before transferring to Ball State. He was playing catcher, and what he thought was a normal throw turned into something he would remember forever. “It was literally our last game of the season, and the runner stole second base,” McGowan said. “It was a normal throw, but I heard my elbow pop, and it was like a gun going off in my arm. That’s when I knew I was done.” Even knowing his elbow was broken, McGowan decided to ﬁnish the game because he

wasn’t going to step off the field with an injury as his last memory. “I went into the dugout and had to get my batting gloves,” he said. “I was emotional knowing that this was potentially my final baseball game of my career. I had to give it my all.” His last collegiate at-bat, as of today, was a base hit. McGowan hit a line drive up the middle despite the discomfort of a snapped elbow. He had to cut down his swing and do anything he could just to make contact. He felt he could still hit, so he did. “My coaches weren’t going to sub me out right away,” McGowan said. “I had no force to swing my right arm through the baseball, so I had to keep my hands inside and focus on just making contact. I just had to simplify things and try to put my best swing on the ball.” Fast forward to this fall — McGowan said he is excited to finally start physical therapy and get back into his workout mode.

While doing something as simple as a push up can be difﬁcult at times, he is optimistic about his work ahead. “I love physical therapy,” McGowan said. “I mean, being hurt, you just wish you could be playing, but with physical therapy, it is just like the grind back to playing. You just have to be patient.” McGowan still reminisces the time of his injury, and he said there is still some passion lingering from that day. He wants choice. He wants baseball. Both of those were taken away from him. “I am angry because I was in a position to transfer with two years of eligibility left, and the choice of whether or not I get to play again was taken away from me,” McGowan said. “This is why I am just taking it a day at a time and not trying to get too worked up about things I can’t control. I am at the right school

for my education and, God willing, maybe even baseball.” McGowan’s desire is ending his baseball career on his own terms. It is the game he has grown up with and still loves. He wants to be the one who says when he can no longer step up to the plate. “I do not quit,” McGowan said. “Anything I am actually passionate about, I never quit. Having that choice taken away from me, such as simply playing into future seasons or deciding where I want to play when I transfer, sucks because I had offers to play at some Division I schools.” At this stage of his process, McGowan said he just wants to be able to throw again. “My main goal with this surgery is to be able to throw a softball or baseball with my kids if they end up playing sports,” McGowan said. The only way he will ever play at a competitive level again,

McGowan said, is if he can do so to the best of his ability. “I will not pick up a baseball again to play competitively if I can’t at my highest level,” McGowan said. If the surgery goes well, McGowan may end up talking with Ball State Baseball head coach Rich Maloney about walking on for his senior year, but his health is the number one priority. He said the biggest thing he can hold close to him is that he is always an athlete. “I am an athlete,” McGowan said. “My uncle works for the Colts and told me that even though he is retired, he is still an athlete. I was telling him how weird it was going to be going into my junior year not being an athlete, and he immediately cut me off.” “You are always an athlete,” his uncle said. Contact Ian Hansen with comments at imhansen@bsu. edu or on Twitter @ianh_2.

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Continued from Page 01 The DOMA also “mandated that states banning same-sex marriage were not required to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states and … for the purposes of federal law, marriage could occur only between a man and a woman.” Vandiver and Velandia further saw the limitations the DOMA placed on their relationship when Velandia ran into trouble renewing his employment visa. “We had an attorney trying to help [Velandia] with his employment visa, [and this was] not a good attorney, it turns out,” Vandiver said. “[Velandia] ended up being in deportation proceedings in 2009.” The couple felt they had two options: flea the country and go into exile to be together, or fight for Velandia’s right to stay in the United States. They decided to become activists.

“We wanted to proceed with our life as if we expected the kind of rights that any American citizen who was part of an opposite-sex couple would have,” Vandiver said. “If I had married a woman, she would have gotten immigration benefits through a process that everyone goes through when applying for a green card based on marriage, but even though we were married [in 2010], we couldn’t take that route. “We couldn’t achieve any kind of permanent status formula because of the [DOMA].” As Velandia and Vandiver began speaking out about their situation, Vandiver said, they met other couples in similar situations and began learning how to be activists. One of the most important parts of activism, the pair found, was knowing how to explain what was going on in concrete legal and political terms while simultaneously conveying that they were afraid of the possibility that they would be separated.

“There were many times that … it’s like you couldn’t breathe because at any moment, something could happen … but we stuck to it,” Velandia said. “We just put our best positive energy and our work to it.” Eventually, the couple found themselves representing others in their situation through interviews with The New York Times, CNN and MSNBC. Vandiver said his background in political science was helpful when he was trying to convey his message. While balancing the emotional toll of their situation and properly conveying a message was difficult at times, he said he felt privileged to be in a position that they were able to get media attention. In 2011, Vandiver said they reached a turning point in the fight against Velandia’s deportation. “The Obama administration and its justice department started making some decisions that, while they couldn’t grant someone … married

Josh Vandiver and Henry Velandia smile in the quad during an interview with the Daily News Sept. 13, 2019. Because their marriage was not accepted by the federal government, Velandia faced a threat of deportation that same sex couples would not have experienced. ERIC PRITCHETT, DN limited, they had to prioritize who’s going to get the court resources, the legal resources from the government to put on their case to affect a deportation.

to someone of the same sex permanent residency, [the government] could decline to pursue the deportation process,” Vandiver said. “Because resources are

Henry Velandia and Josh Vandiver’s timeline alongside important dates in LGBTQ Marriage Rights

2007: Velandia and Vandiver decide to take advantage of Princeton University’s domestic partnership program.

Henry Velandia and Josh Vandiver

Source: American Civil Liberties Union, Josh Vandiver, Henry Velandia. BROOKE KEMP, ELLIOTT DEROSE, DN

LGBTQ Marriage Rights

1971

2006: Velandia and Josh Vandiver meet through mutual acquaintances at Princeton University.

2002: Henry Velandia comes to the United States with his family. 1996

1971: The Minnesota Supreme court rules in Baker v. Nelson that prohibiting samesex marriage did not violate the constitution.

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1996: The U.S. Supreme Court decides in the case of Romer v. Evans to strike down a constitutional amendment that would have prevented members of the LGBTQ community from being protected by civil rights laws.

“They started saying, ‘Well, these are our lowest priority cases … so we are going to close somebody like Henry’s case.” Vandiver said Velandia’s deportation was the first of its

2009: After failing to obtain an employmentrelated visa, Velandia finds himself in deportation proceedings.

2010: Velandia and Vandiver marry in Connecticut.

2005

2003: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decides in Goodrich v. Department of Public Health that same-sex couples should be allowed to be married in the state. 2003: After two men were arrested in Texas for violating the state’s sodomy law, the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the conviction and abolished all state sodomy laws.

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2006: Supreme Court of Arkansas overturns a state regulation banning same-sex couples or anyone with a gay person living in their home from serving as foster parents in the case of Howard v. Child Welfare Agency Review Board.

11 10.10.19 kind to be “administratively closed,” and while it did not mean Velandia was safe from deportation, it gave the couple some breathing room. It wasn’t until two years later that the Supreme Court ruled the DOMA was unconstitutional after hearing the case of The United States v. Windsor. When Edith Windsor’s wife, Thea Spyer, died, she inherited Spyer’s estate. Because the couple’s marriage was not federally recognized under the DOMA, however, Windsor was faced with $363,000 of taxes and was not eligible for a marital exemption to the tax that would have been allowed had her spouse been a man. The 5-4 Supreme Court ruling applied to each aspect of the DOMA, which meant Velandia’s case could ofﬁcially be terminated. Dec. 7, 2018, is Velandia’s “American birthday,” the day he ofﬁcially became a U.S. citizen. Today, the couple said

they are able to focus on the future of their careers as well as their relationship. Vandiver received a tenuretrack position at Ball State three years ago. Velandia has continued to explore his passion for dance and often travels to New York to teach and perform. They both said they have noticed their experience with deportation and consequential activism inﬂuenced their professional lives — Vandiver teaches a minority group politics class at Ball State, for example. “[Vandiver] inspires many people while he’s teaching,” Velandia said. “It’s his way of helping people think outside the box and just be open to learning.” Vandiver added that the experience taught him each person has to be their own activist. While the couple hopes to remain a supportive resource for future activists, they want to step back so “other faces can come forward,

new communities can be engaged and new experiences and expertise ... could be developed in those who chose to be activists.” “I don’t want to be prescriptive,” Vandiver said. “It’s up to everyone to make their voice heard in the way they want it to be heard and express the change they would like to see.” With a smile and a shrug of his shoulders, Velandia said brush deportation, the reason why he and Vandiver had to become activists, was frustrating. In retrospect, it was a “bittersweet symphony.” “When we were in the process of ﬁghting for our marriage, that was a really intense time for us, but it brought us together,” Velandia said. “We sometimes think about it, reminisce about that moment, and we are really thankful for what happened.” Contact Brooke Kemp with comments at bmkemp@bsu.edu or on Twitter @brookemkemp.

We wanted to proceed with our life as if we expected the kind of rights that any American citizen who was part of an opposite-sex couple would have ... We couldn’t achieve any kind of permanent status formula because of the [DOMA].” - JOSH VANDIVER, Ball State assistant professor of political science

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October brings many fall activities, such as apple picking, trick-or-treating and carving jack-o’-lanterns for Halloween. Instead of throwing away the pumpkin seeds while carving out your pumpkin this year, try making these three pumpkin seeds ﬂavorings for a sweet, spicy or savory festive treat.

Directions: 1. After carving out your pumpkin, separate the pumpkin seeds from the pumpkin’s pulp. 2. Place the seeds in a strainer, and rinse them in cold water, making sure there is no more pulp covering the seeds. 3. Place a hand towel over a plate. Then, pour the rinsed pumpkin seeds onto the plate and pat the seeds dry with the towel. 4. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Faharenheit. 5. In three separate bowls, mix the ingredients together with a spoon for each flavoring. 6. Divide your batch of dried pumpkin seeds evenly between the three bowls of flavorings. Mix the seeds in each flavoring, coating the seeds evenly. 7. Take three rectangle sheets of aluminum foil, and place them onto the large cookie sheet, creating three separate areas on the cookie sheet. This will help you divide the cookie sheet evenly for each pumpkin seed flavoring. 8. Once your oven has preheated, bake your pumpkin seeds for 25 minutes. Stir your seeds every 10 minutes so they bake evenly. 9. Once the seeds are done baking, transfer them into bowls of your choosing. 10. Enjoy your flavored pumpkin seeds.

What you need: • 1 tablespoon • 1 teaspoon • ¼ teaspoon • One strainer • One hand towel • One plate • Three bowls • Three spoons • One large cookie sheet • Aluminum foil

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2018: Velandia becomes a U.S. citizen. 2015

2013: Originally signed in 1996 by then-President Bill Clinton, U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Defense of Marriage Act, which prevented samesex couples from federal beneﬁts that married couples received, was unconstitutional.

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2013: Velandia’s deportation case is able to be ofﬁcially terminated due to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in The United States v. Windsor.

2015: The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the case Obergefell v. Hodges that all 50 states are required to allow same-sex couples to marry.

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2018: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that a business owner has the right to their legitimate religious beliefs, but that same-sex couples also have the right to not be discriminated against in the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission.

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Taylor Smith helps her aunt release butterflies in her backyard. Smith’s aunt released a butterfly onto Smith’s hair where it sat like a hairpin for a moment before flying away. TAYLOR SMITH, PHOTO PROVIDED

Taylor Smith is a sophomore news and magazine major and writes “Bold Type” for The Daily News. Her views do not necessarily agree with those of the newspaper. Write to Taylor at tnsmith6@ Taylor bsu.edu. Smith “Write about Columnist, saving the “Bold Type” monarchs,” Auntie Mar says every time I ask her for a story idea. This time, I decided to listen to her. The monarch butterflies are dying. They are dying quickly, and we are the reason why. We are destroying their habitats — their homes — through deforestation. We are producing so much carbon dioxide it makes milkweed, a monarch butterfly’s only source of food, dangerous for them to eat, and when they do eat it, the milkweed fills them with toxins that cause them to starve and makes it nearly impossible for them to lay their eggs and reproduce. We are causing drastic temperature changes, moving butterfly breeding areas farther north and their migration pattern farther south, thus making the monarch migration path longer and more difficult, so each year, the population of migrating monarch butterflies drops by close to 80 percent. And monarch butterflies don’t just add beauty to the planet with their colorful wings – they

pollinate flowers, they indicate healthy ecosystems, they serve as natural pest control and because of their migration patterns, they share an interest in the natural world across North America. I used to be afraid of butterflies. I thought their wings were pretty, but their wormy, fuzzy bodies always scared me. They looked beautiful and harmless until you got close, and then they turned into little demon monsters. There is a zoo near my house with a type of butterfly sanctuary tucked away in one of the corners. When I was younger, my mom always wanted to go inside, sit and stare at the hundred or so butterflies flapping their stained glass window wings, sucking on tulips and milkweed. But every time we went in there, I was terrified. I would cry and beg my mom to let me wait outside of the exhibit until she was done, and pretty soon, we stopped going to the butterfly sanctuary. But as I got older, butterflies started to become important to me. They reminded me of my mom, her butterfly tattoo, her backyard butterfly decorations and the photos she took of butterflies that landed on the black-eyed susans she planted in our backyard in the spring. “Tay, run inside and grab my camera!” she would say, and when I brought it outside to her, she snapped pictures until they flew away. Butterflies turned into little reminders my mom sent me while I was on the playground

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during recess. A monarch would fly over my head, and I knew that no matter how many kids bullied me that day, I would be able to go home to my mom and not have to worry about a thing. Butterflies began to remind me of other members of my family too. The stained glass window my Papa made has a variety of purple, red and blue flowers which form its perimeter, and in one of the corners, a stained glass butterfly is stuck in its place, its wings trapped flapping forever, flying over my Mimi every time she stands at the kitchen sink. When my cousin Sophia was a year old, Auntie Dee dressed her up as a pink, green and white butterfly for Halloween. She wore a giant, fuzzy onesielooking costume with pink and green polka dots and butterfly wings that attached in the back. There was a little hood on it too, and when she put it on, her antennas flopped on her head with each stumbling step she took down the sidewalk, holding onto her trick-or-treat basket with her little hands and asking for candy in an uninterpretable way. Her third birthday party was a few days ago, and my mom and aunts painted butterflies on their faces. They were rainbow butterflies — one of them had a unicorn horn (Sophia couldn’t decide what she wanted her mommy to have, so she got both). Sophia loved them. Sophia has turned into a butterfly princess — she holds butterflies in her hands, lets them crawl up her dresses and

10.10.19 in her hair. She reminds me of a little magical fairy. Auntie Mar started with a little butterfly tattoo on her wrist, and pretty soon, there was a butterfly on her back. As time passed, she added more butterflies along with leaves, flowers, ladybugs, dragonflies and little caterpillars that would one day be butterflies. Her back became a scene straight out of the butterfly sanctuary, and it was beautiful. Along with her intricate tattoos, Auntie Mar also started her own project of saving the monarchs two years ago, just before the summer of 2018. It started off small. We were driving home from St. Paul, Minnesota, when she stopped in a parking lot. She found a stem of milkweed with a nearly full-grown caterpillar crawling around, eating and making the leaves look like green pieces of swiss cheese. She cut the milkweed and shoved it into a water bottle before placing it in the cupholder of her Jeep. We drove four hours home with a caterpillar in the backseat of her car, and I turned around every few minutes to make sure the chunky yellow and black worm wasn’t crawling up my back. A few days later, it formed a chrysalis in the little butterfly cage my Papa made for her. It emerged as a monarch later, and I started to understand why she loved butterflies so much. My aunt saved upwards of 300 butterflies this summer. She had more butterfly cages built and encouraged my Aunt Renee to start saving monarchs with her. It takes a lot of work to save the butterflies — collecting and cleaning milkweed for them to eat and lay their eggs on, keeping caterpillars of different sizes in different areas to make sure they all stay safe, moving them around whenever they are ready, building cages with wiring suitable for caterpillars to use to form their cocoons and when it’s time, finally releasing hatched butterflies nearly every day. But to my aunts and me, it’s worth it. This summer, we also celebrated with a butterfly release party. Auntie Mar put a monarch in my hair, and it

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Ball State Homecoming Football Game vs. Toledo Left: Taylor and her mom Suzanne Smith after a trip to the zoo. Taylor’s mom often used face paint to draw butterflies on Taylor and her younger sister. Above: Taylor’s cousin Sophia admires a monarch butterfly on her dress. Sophia is what Taylor considers a “butterfly magnet.” Butterflies love her, and she loves them. TAYLOR SMITH, PHOTOS PROVIDED

Monarch population decline Overall, monarchs have declined by more than 80% over the past two decades.

Grass area = 1.12 hectacres

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sat there for a few minutes, its wings wide open just above the

right side of my forehead. It looked like a barrette, its wings

shining in the golden hour of sunlight. My mom took photos like she always does — photos of my butterfly kisses. I learned to love butterflies this summer. I learned to love their beauty, their delicacy. I learned to love their fragility, their need for protection and my aunt’s desire to give it to them. I learned to love how they brought my family together, how they left smiles on the faces of everyone no matter their age, from 3-year-old Sophia to 82-year-old Mimi. We need to save the monarchs. We need to protect them because they can’t protect themselves. Plant more milkweed. Build a butterfly sanctuary. Search for monarch eggs on milkweed in your neighborhood and take them home to make sure they survive. We need to save the monarchs because they’re one of the brightest reminders of happiness in my life, and the world deserves to see what I see in them. I learned to love butterflies this summer, and I want to be able to love them forever.

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Against the Huskies, however, Plitt struggled to get anything going in the heavy rain. He completed just four passes for 34 yards. The Cardinals leaned on junior running back Caleb Huntley to carry the load, and he came through with 157 yards and a pair of touchdowns. Plitt said he’s thankful to have the offensive group he does, and it has exercised the next-man-up mentality when it has needed to. “The only people that can stop us is ourselves. If you look at our offense, nobody’s been able to stop us,” Plitt said. “We have a bunch of playmakers that are able to do a lot of things with the ball. My job’s easy when I can get the ball to them in space and let them go make a play.” Plitt isn’t the only Cardinal getting nationally recognized this season. With 47 tackles through the first four games, redshirt senior linebacker Jacob White was second among Division I players. White stays after practice most days to work on his craft. While he said it’s cool to see his name near the top of a national leaderboard, he’s only worried about how he can improve every day. “I’m competing with myself each day and against the teams we play,” White said. “Those statistics and how I rank in the nation are just an absolute by product of how we prepare and how we get ready for each game.” The preparation of not just White, but the team as a whole, is why the players say this year is different. The team has shown its versatility within the conference with an offense ranking third in yards per game and a defense allowing the fourth fewest yards per game. After defeating the defending MAC Champion on their turf, Plitt said confidence is soaring. “We know we’re good enough to beat any team on our schedule, whether it’s the first four or the last eight,” Plitt said. “We know we’re good enough, and we’re going to carry that confidence into MAC play.” If you ask White, the outcome of Saturday’s game was a foregone conclusion before it started. “Just turn the film on — We’re a different team,” White said. “The film doesn’t lie at the end of the day. How we are in the locker room and the closeness we have is going to make us fight for each other that much more. The combination of those two things is why we’re going to get that trophy, for sure.” Ball State will try to get to 2-0 in the MAC Saturday, Oct. 12 when it travels to Ypsilanti, Michigan, to take on Eastern Michigan. Contact Zach Piatt with comments at zapiatt@bsu.edu or on Twitter @zachpiatt13.

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