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Ball State students camp out between the McKinley garage and Sursa Performance Hall for Air Jam tickets. Students started camping at 7 a.m. Wednesday, and tickets went on sale at 8 a.m. Thursday.
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Groups, individuals wait more than 24 hours for tickets to show Brooke Kemp Daily News Reporter The grass that runs along the sidewalk between the McKinley parking garage and Sursa Performance Hall housed a cluster of students for more than 24 hours. Starting at 7 a.m. Wednesday, students pitched tents, spread blankets and brought food in preparation for the long night ahead of them. They camped out so they can secure Air Jam tickets, which went on sale at 8 a.m. Thursday. This is the last chance for some students, like senior child development major Hannah Sauer, to attend the show. “Especially because it’s my senior year, I really want to get a good spot in Air Jam because it’s one of the biggest things for Homecoming,” Sauer said. “We just wanted to make sure we were up close and we could see everything and, like, have all that excitement.” Sauer arrived at 7:30 a.m. and camped out for 20 hours with her sorority sisters, who will be supporting Alpha Gamma Delta with their Air Jam partner Lambda Chi Alpha. Due to construction at John R. Emens Auditorium, Air Jam will have a limited amount of seats and is being split into two shows, one starting at We just 7 p.m. and the other at 9 p.m. wanted to Because of the make sure we popularity of the were up close event and the limited space, and we could groups are no see everything longer allowed to purchase tickets and, like, in bulk like they were in the past. have all that Instead, each person in line excitement,” — Hannah Sauer, senior had the ability to purchase a child development major maximum of 10 tickets, sparking the unprecedented campout. Competing groups sent anywhere from two to five people to wait for tickets to go on sale and purchase as many tickets as they can. DeHority Complex sent a group of five students this year to purchase 50 tickets. A group of 16 students who live in the residence hall will be competing this year and are encouraging other students who live in DeHority to come support them. Sydney Brundige, a sophomore art major with a focus in drawing, began waiting at 7 a.m. with the DeHority group. She isn’t going to let limited seating get in the way of her second Air Jam. “It’s a lot of fun. There’s a great energy,” Brundige said. “Last year, we were able to sit in the balcony and just feeling the energy of the crowd and like everybody cheering and getting really excited when their team came up. It was a lot of fun, and it will be just as fun this year, even with a low amount of seating.”
Ball State alumnus files lawsuit due to head injury
Former Ball State fullback Geoff Donner filed a class-action lawsuit against the Mid-American Conference and National Collegiate Athletic Association earlier this week. Donner played for the Cardinals from 1993-95 and said that he allegedly tried to sit out a practice to recover from a concussion, only to be threatened with having his scholarship pulled if he didn’t participate. The suit alleges that neither the MAC nor NCAA adopted “internationally accepted guidelines.” “Instead, and in complete disregard of the vast body of known scientific evidence and the resources and authority possessed by Defendants, up until 2010, Defendants orchestrated an approach to football practices and games that: • ignored the medical risks to Plaintiff and other Ball State football players; • aggravated and enhanced the medical risks to Plaintiff and other Ball State football players; • failed to educate Plaintiff and other Ball State football players of the link between TBIs in amateur football and chronic neurological damage, illnesses, and decline; • failed to implement or enforce any system that would reasonably have mitigated, prevented, or addressed TBIs suffered by Plaintiff and other Ball State football players; and • failed to timely implement “return to play” guidelines for studentathletes who sustain concussions..” The lawsuit also references Kevin Guskiewicz of the University of North Carolina’s Sports Concussion Research Program to describe the severity of concussions.
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Study finds that Hoosier women make 76 cents to every dollar men earn
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recent report shows Indiana has one of the higher pay wage gaps in the country. A study published in September by the American Association of University Women found that Indiana is ranked 40 out of the 50 states and Washington D.C. for wage gaps, with women earning 76 cents to every dollar a man earns. This is a 24 percent wage gap compared to New York, ranked No. 1, which has just an 11 percent gap. The study used data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau and found that the United States averaged a 20 percent wage gap. See PAY GAP, page 4
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departments and minority communities. A Justice Department report last year on the police department in Ferguson, Missouri, raised concerns that the police force was overwhelmingly white even though the city was majority black. The Obama administration’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing, meanwhile, recommended that agencies promote diversity in race, gender and cultural background as a path toward better relationships with their communities. “One of the issues that can have a big impact on (trust) is whether law enforcement agencies reflect the communities they serve, whether they look like the communities they serve,” Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates said in the report’s release.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A lack of trust in law enforcement and burdensome hiring criteria are among the barriers to creating more diverse police agencies, according to a federal report Wednesday. The report, from the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, examines the challenges to diversity in law enforcement and singles out individual agencies it says have taken innovative steps to encourage the recruitment of minority officers. The lack of diversity among law enforcement agencies has become an urgent concern in recent years amid signs of strained relations between police
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Starting at 7 a.m. Wednesday, Ball State students set up for a long night of camping out for Air Jam tickets, which went on sale 8 a.m. Thursday. Air Jam will have two shows this year on Oct. 20 at 7 and 9 p.m. due to construction in John R. Emens Auditorium.
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Continued from page 1 Each group took their own approach in determining who will wait for tickets and how long. Reigning Greek Champions Pi Kappa Phi and their partnering fraternity Delta Sigma Pi rotated members who signed up to camp for a specific hours at a time, said Hunter Schubert, a senior legal studies major and member of Pi Kappa Phi. As the day went on, the groups started to meld together, walking from place to place to talk to each other, listen to music and share food.
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4 P.M. After nine hours of waiting in line, the students waiting to purchase Air Jam tickets have started making themselves at home by bringing corn hole, radios, inflatable furniture, hammocks and canopies to their makeshift campsite at Sursa Performance Hall. The DeHority group has secured their spot as second in line for tickets and Isaac Spillman, a sophomore telecommunications and audio production major, is on his second shift. “I’ve been doing a lot of homework. The weather is really nice,” Spillman said. “We have a hammock out here, so it’s been nice to sit in the hammock and just chill here.” Behind his campsite, students are coping without Wi-Fi by setting up cornhole, playing Uno and tossing a football around. The line has grown steadily throughout the day, taking up even more space in the grass. Even groups toward the back of the line are staying positive. Ball State Dance Marathon’s group showed up at 8 this morning, but because they wanted to purchase 60 tickets and did not have six people to wait in line, they couldn’t secure their spot until 2 p.m. “I think that the changes they made might have upset some people, but I think it’s worth it,” said Morgan Polizzi, a junior public relations major. “We’re really happy that they at least made the changes they did to include as many organizations as possible, and we’re just happy to be able to watch our organization perform.”
9:30 P.M. A short rain shower didn’t stop students from bringing technology to keep them occupied. Once the groups discovered a Wi-Fi source other than the one provided by Ball State, they used it to keep themselves occupied. “We have the little pop tent, and I don’t even know how they figured out how to power it, but we do have an Xbox and a TV in addition to ample seating, so this is actually nicer than my apartment,” said senior Dustin Meeks, a political science and public communications major. In order to accommodate for their lavish setup, Meeks’ Phi Kappa Psi fraternity brothers decided to use water bottles to keep their place in line and move their camp to the other side of the sidewalk. “We have a colony over there. That is America, this is England — let’s put it that way,” Meeks said. In other parts of the line, students can be seen sprawled out on inflatable mattresses or sleeping bags on their phones. In the middle of the line is a canopy with several different fraternities and sororities listening to music, playing video games, and using social media. Tricia Roberson, a junior marketing major, confessed, much to her friends’ embarrassment, “I Tindered for a little bit. I’m being honest! I swiped left on a lot of them.” At the front of the line, Pi Beta Phi is enjoying a simpler set up, sitting outside their single person tent looking at the stars, sharing stories and trying to keep their phones from dying. “I’ve been here since 9 p.m., and I will be here until 3 a.m.,” said Audrey Clark, a
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junior legal studies major. “I don’t have a charger, and I’m at 77 percent, and I’m probably going to be on my phone the entire time, so once it dies down, I’m going to be really sad.” While some are still trying to keep themselves awake, anxiously awaiting the next shift to come and let them go home, things are starting to calm down for those who will be staying the night.
1:30 A.M. The growth of the line has all but stopped as students are calming down for the night. Some are able to sleep in the comfort of their own tents while others are forced to share with other groups or lay outside all night. The majority of the students do not seem to plan on sleeping; however, there seems to be an unspoken agreement to be respectful of those who are. Students have taken to quieter activities such as Netflix, video games or homework. In fact, Brandon Phelps, a freshman telecommunications major, signed up for a shift purely to finish homework and hang out with other members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Phelps arrived around 1 a.m. and will be holding a spot in line until 4 a.m. In most groups, there is at least one student who has been in line for the majority of the day, and they can attest to the fact that it has been a long 17 hours. “I’m about to pass out, but we’re laughing and having fun, so it’s making it easier,” sophomore Morgan Corle said. Corle is waiting with the Ball State Dance Marathon group and is among those who have spent the most time waiting in line. After arriving at 2 p.m., a short break for a meeting at 7 p.m., and then returning at 10:30 p.m., Corle has still not lost her spirit. Although exhausted, she is still able to make the best out of the night with her friends. At 6:30 a.m. she and many others in line will pick up their camps and prepare to purchase their Air Jam tickets at 8 a.m. 8 A.M. THURSDAY Campsites have been abandoned after the 20-hour wait has ended. Students have left their once lively site, now barren with full trash cans, halfway broken down tents and folding chairs, as the students have moved on to their final line. At 7:30 this morning, the students were allowed to enter the box office and begin purchasing tickets. The line stretched the wall of Sursa Performance Hall, and those standing in it looked a lot different than those leaving it. Connor Morton, a freshman sports administration major, had spent almost the entire 20 hours waiting outside with his fraternity, Phi Delta Theta. At 8:05 a.m., box office workers speculated that the line was halfway through, at which time Morton had finally made it to the middle of the line. Even though he is longing to get more than 2 hours of sleep and has to take a midterm exam today, Morton does not regret camping out all night. “It was totally worth it. I got to bond with my brothers, and it was a good time,” Morton said. “I made a late night Walmart run for some food, had some good times, told some good jokes and got a little bit of sleep.” Walking out of the line, tickets in hand, elementary education major Emily Stevens was happy to be heading home after the long night. Her group was purchasing 30 tickets and, because they were toward the front of the line, had no problem getting them. At the very back of the line, however, a group of four roommates who were caught off guard by the line weren’t feeling too confident about being able to purchase tickets. “We didn’t think it would be this packed. There are way more people here than I thought would be,” said junior Allie Wendeo, a speech pathology major. By 9 a.m., however, all of the groups in line had gotten their tickets and still left some for other students wanting to attend. After waiting in line for nearly a full day, the groups must now wait until Oct. 20 for this Homecoming event. Contact Brooke Kemp with any questions or concerns at bmkemp@bsu.edu.
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We have the little pop tent, and I don’t even know how they figured out how to power it, but we do have an Xbox and a TV in addition to ample seating, so this is actually nicer than my apartment.” — Dustin Meeks, senior political science and public communications major
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Columbus Day facing national criticism Many believe holiday should celebrate Native Americans
Brynn Mechem Daily News Reporter Instead of celebrating Christopher Columbus, some cities across the U.S. are beginning to celebrate the people he encountered, instead. Every year on the second Monday of October, millions of Americans celebrate the man who discovered America some 500 years ago on Columbus Day. However, in recent years, lawmakers have seen a huge push to rename the holiday to Indigenous People’s Day, which aims to celebrate those who already inhabited the land before European settlers came along. Many cities are currently seeing a push to make Indigenous People’s Day official, and so far, the renamed day is already celebrated in many U.S. cities, including Cincinnati, Denver, Phoenix, Minneapolis and Seattle. Columbus Day is currently not celebrated in the states of Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon or South Dakota, with the latter officially celebrating Native American Day instead. Daniel Ingram, a Ball State history professor, said the holiday was created in the early 20th century during a time when people had “very different ideas” about race relations, human progress and American nationalism. “Holidays of this sort are made to celebrate historical people and events, but are also the products of their own times,” Ingram said. “One hundred years ago, a holiday honoring the European ‘discovery’ of America made sense to a wider cross-section of Americans, who found it easier to ignore the complaints of their own indigenous population.” The Indiana American Indian Council, a non-profit organization dedicated to keeping native ways alive, said in a press release that Columbus was lost, and his “discovery of the Americas” is not a valid
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Many Americans are pushing to rename the Columbus Day holiday to Indigenous People’s Day. The holiday aims to celebrate those who were native to the land before European settlers came along.
historical event to be celebrated, nor are his contributions to the “genocide of indigenous peoples.” The council instead believes that recognizing native peoples, their cultures and their history is a more respectful and appropriate approach to celebrating the past. Although Indiana will commemorate Columbus Day Monday, some students find the holiday to be inappropriate. “I know I won’t be celebrating that so-called holiday,” freshman history major Tom Wheeler said. “I know the
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Hurricane Matthew approaches Lauderdale by the Sea Beach on Thursday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The hurricane, with winds of 140 mph, has left more than 100 people dead throughout the Caribbean and has pushed approximately 2 million people inland.
Hurricane Matthew is estimated to cause $269 billion in damages – the most expensive hurricane in U.S. history – said professor of business and economic research Michael Hicks. “This [hurricane] will cause significant damage, and holds the potential to be the mostly costly Hurricane in U.S. history,” Hicks said in a press release. “It is almost certain that property damages to the coast of Florida will exceed that of Hurricane Katrina, which we estimated in 2005 to be roughly $156 billion, which is roughly $190 billion in 2016 dollars.” Hicks said the affected coastal counties alone are home to 6.5 million persons, compared to the 4.5 million impacted by Katrina. Hicks also said there are a million more housing units and roughly 50,000 more businesses in the coastal areas predicted to be impacted
by Hurricane Matthew than were affected by Hurricane Katrina. Indiana Governor Mike Pence announced Thursday that two teams based in Indiana are being deployed to Florida to support activities in response to Hurricane Matthew. The Indiana Department of Homeland Security is deploying a six-person emergency operations center team to Tallahassee, and Indiana Task Force 1, a federal resource comprised of central Indiana emergency responders, will also be sending seven members to Marietta, Georgia and the National Response Coordination Center in Washington, D.C. The National Weather Service reports Hurricane Matthew is a Category 4 storm with the potential to advance to a Category 5 and is expected to hit the coast through Friday morning. - Staff Reports
Halloween's history found in stars Campus planetarium explains astronomical origin of holiday Alexandra Smith Greek Life Reporter Halloween isn’t just about costumes and candy. The Charles W. Brown Planetarium will be teaching the holiday’s astronomical roots in their show series, “Halloween: Celestial Origins.” The show will teach audience members about the history of the holiday and its importance. One of the topics will be its roots as a cross-quarter day. A cross-quarter day is the midpoint between an equinox and a solstice, said Dayna Thompson, assistant planetarium director and cowriter of the show. “This cross-quarter day was important to the ancient Celts,” Thompson said. “It was the day they celebrated their holiday Samhain, which would eventually become Halloween.” Celebrations also took place when there was a full moon, Thompson said.
The moon’s cycle helped keep track of how much time had passed when there weren’t calendars. “They also knew when to celebrate due to the appearance of pleiades, or star clusters,” Thompson said. “When they saw different astronomical objects in the sky, they knew what time of year it was.” In addition to the history of Halloween, the show will touch on astronomical objects invisible to the naked eye that can be associated with the holiday, specifically nebulas. “There’s a nebula shaped like a witch’s head, one like a black widow and one like a ghost rising out of a cloud of dust,” Thompson said. The show was put together by the Department of Physics and Astronomy, the IDIA lab and the Department of Anthropology. “We wanted to talk about the roots of Halloween and teach the real astronomy behind them,” Thompson said. Contact Alexandra Smith with any questions or concerns at ajsmith9@bsu.edu.
true atrocities Columbus committed, and I hope others can respect the decision not to celebrate or honor the day in the [traditional] way.” Wheeler, who said he has family living on the Osage Reservation in Oklahoma, has been passionately against Columbus Day for some years. Although there isn’t as big of a push for Indigenous People’s Day in Indiana, Wheeler said he thinks a general push for more education about native people before Columbus’ arrival would be beneficial. “Columbus didn’t discover anyone –
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Continued from page 1 Michael Hicks, a professor of business and economic research cautions people “about paying too much attention to that UW study.” Hicks explains that the gender pay gap is more complex and not a labor market problem like AAUW portrays. “What the media has done a poor job in is portraying this as primarily a labor market problem instead of a cultural issue about occupation and choice,” Hicks said. “If you were to do an individual study, the right kind of study, then you would find that the size in unexplained variation of wages, the amount of wage differences explained by gender, drops down to single digit numbers. “The explainable difference between genders are based on other things. They are based on things like women can give birth more often than men, so one result of that is women chose careers that offer for flexibility for child birth.” Hicks said that choice of occupation, along with the level of education, are huge factors that play into pay gaps among men and women, which is something he said AAUW did not properly account for. “All of those things help determine the salary regardless of whether or not you are a man,” Hicks said. “So if you don’t account for those in your analysis, then you are telling a grand lie to everyone who thinks there is a huge gender inequality problem at the labor market issue. A closer examination of this study makes it seem like companies are hiring women and screwing them over by paying them less — that’s just utter nonsense.” Hicks believes that women are choosing occupations from their educational achievements that give them more flexibility and sometimes “that flexibility comes at a cost” in terms of salary. “People [are] entirely being given the wrong impression that this is about discrimination, and [it’s] rather more often about educational and career choices,” he said. “I internally reject the sort of Marxian notion that there’s a man club that wants women to not make that much money and a women club that is fighting back — that Marxian interpretation doesn’t stour when it comes down to the actual human being decisions.” Adrianna Nagle, a freshman public relations major, also thinks the pay gap stems from choices. “[Gender pay gaps] exists but not in the way people think,” Nagle said. “It’s a product of the choices that women make, not based on discrimination. Applying the slightest bit of economic or business reasoning to it, and it falls flat, as well as the laws we have to ensure equal pay and discourage discrimination.” Nagle said she believes people will
all of those people were already here, they knew they were here,” Wheeler said. “But we aren’t really taught about the true Columbus in school. It would be hard to change the narrative we give to such a prominent historical figure, but if we could at least give one day a year to the people who’s ancestors were here to the true history of the Americas, that would be a step in the right direction.” Contact Brynn Mechem with any questions or concerns at bamechem@bsu.edu.
just “blindly look at the statics and believe it instead of looking into it further,” which spurs misconceptions. “When you really think about it, the gap can’t be just sexism because if a business could get away with paying a woman a fraction of what they could pay a man, there would never be any men hired. Businesses want to maximize profit and paying workers more is going to take a chunk out of that profit, not to mention the Equal Pay Act which made discriminatory pay illegal,” Nagle said. “The gap is there, but it isn’t a product of institutional sexism or something to that effect.” Emma Engler, Feminists for Action president, was not surprised by AAUW’s report and actually believes that discrimination and wage inequality are an issue within gender pay gaps. “I do believe that both [wage inequality and wage discrimination] are happening both in Indiana and the nation,” Engler said. “It’s a nondisputable fact that the pay gap exists. There are studies and evidence to back it, but wage discrimination is an issue here as well. As a white person, I have never really experienced wage discrimination, only wage inequality. ” Ian Gonzales, a sophomore secondary social studies education and history major, said that gender pay gap is a “huge, multifaceted issue.” “When looking day to day at total averages, 76 cents is more or less correct,” Gonzales said. “If we do withhold for the role of women in traditional society and job options, women still make 10-15 cents less than men merely because of their gender.” Hicks thinks in order to see change among the gender pay gap, it’s important “to make all occupations more flexible for both men and women.” Hicks also noted the possibility of the pay gap shrinking within the next 10 to 20 years as more women are pursuing a college degree. “More women have [begun attending college] from the time when I went to college in the fall of 1980 to the fall of 2000. That was a 20-year period so those gender dynamics have flipped,” Hicks said. “And it continues to shift so as long as women pursue careers that pay better — the pay gaps will shrink.” Cheri Ellefson, a women’s and gender studies program instructor, believes spreading awareness and taking action is important in terms of change. “Writing to legislators on this issue is critical,” Ellefson said. “I think it’s also helpful for women to understand the value and skill of negotiating a fair salary. We teach students how to polish a resume and strong interview strategies, but demonstrating to women that they have the power to negotiate their salary — and understand their worth — is also valuable.” Contact Allie Kirkman with any questions or concerns at news@bsudailynews.com.
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Coaches set to reunite Saturday Ball State looking for 1st MAC win against Central Michigan Jake Fox Football Reporter When Mike Neu and John Bonamego shake hands before the game Saturday, it won’t be the first meeting between the two. It’ll be more like a reunion. Neu was the head coach of the New Orleans VooDoo in 2006-07 when Bonamego was the special teams coordinator for the Saints, and the two know each other well. It’s one of the many storylines surrounding Ball State’s game against Central Michigan at Kelly/Shorts Stadium in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. “When we got together for head coach meetings out in Arizona, it was the first time we saw each other since I was hired here at Ball State,” Neu said. “We spent a lot of time talking during those two to three days we were together, just reliving some old memories. But [I have] a great relationship with him.” Neu and Bonamego also have another thing in common. Bonamego played college ball at Central Michigan and is now coaching for his alma mater, just like Neu at Ball State. Since Bonamego took over in 2015, the Chippewas are 10-8 with an appearance in the Quick Lane Bowl last season. Neu said Bonamego’s tough coaching style comes from his background in special teams. “When you coach special teams, you’re always looking for those tough, hardnosed guys that can run down the field and set the tone for the game,” Neu said. “That’s carried over to the offensive and defensive side of the ball. Very wellcoached, very good discipline. ... Last week’s game was very uncharacteristic for them.” Central Michigan started Mid-American Conference play last week the same way as Ball State — with a home loss. The team was handed a 49-10 loss by No. 25 Western Michigan, their second loss in a row after starting the season 3-0. Western Michigan got to the quarterback eight times in the win, raising Central Michigan’s total sacks allowed to 18 this season. Ball State defensive end Josh Posley
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"If you drove your car into a wall at 25 miles per hour and you weren’t wearing your seat belt, the force of your head hitting the windshield would be around 100[g’]s: in effect, the player [who sustained two hits above 80g’s,] had two car accidents that morning.” The lawsuit is one of several class-action concussion lawsuits filed against the NCAA and its member schools and conferences in recent weeks. NCAA Chief Legal Officer Donald Remy issued a statement
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said getting in the backfield will be key in taking pressure off the secondary. “We make stopping the run our top priority,” he said. “Because once we stop the run, they have to pass, and we can pin our ears back and go rush the quarterback.” The Cardinals will likely have to get some pressure if they want to slow down quarterback Cooper Rush, who is the FBS active leader in career passing yards. The fifth-year senior is completing 61.9 percent of his passes this season with a MAC-leading 1,537 yards and 14 touchdowns. Ball State is 2-1 against Central Michigan in Rush’s career, but is not taking his experience lightly heading into this weekend.
“Throughout the season, he’s probably the best [quarterback] that we’ll play,” senior safety Corey Hall said. The Cardinals lead the all-time series 24-23-1, and have won six of the last seven dating back to 2010. Central Michigan’s lone victory during that time was a 23-21 win at Scheumann Stadium last year in Bonamego’s first season. If Bonamego wants another win against Ball State, he’ll have to do it against an old friend this time. “He knows I’m pulling for him every game except for one,” Neu said. “We’re gonna shake hands before the game, give a big hug, we’re gonna get after
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each other, then a handshake when it’s all said and done.” Ball State and Central Michigan kick off at 3:30 p.m. Contact Jake Fox with any questions or concerns at @FoxJake_
on the lawsuits: “These lawsuits are mere copycats — using the exact same language — of the approximately 30 cases this lawyer has filed in a matter of months. Failing to achieve a bodily injury component to the Arrington case settlement, it appears that counsel is attempting to extract a bodily injury settlement through the filing of these new questionable class actions. This strategy will not work. The NCAA does not believe that these complaints present legitimate legal arguments and expects that they can be disposed of early by the court.”
Ball State wide receiver Jordan Williams prepares for a tackle during the homecoming game against the University of Toledo on Oct. 3, 2015, at Scheumann Stadium. Williams did not suffer from a concussion during this game, but concussions are common in high-contact sports. Former Ball State fullback Geoff Donner, who played from 1993 to 1995, has filed a lawsuit against the Mid-American Conference and the National Collegiate Athletic Association for being threatened to lose his scholarship if he didn’t play during practice with a concussion. Grace Ramey // DN File
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