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Ball State cancels teaching program Students have 3 U.S. options rather than going to Germany ALLIE KIRKMAN MULTICULTURAL REPORTER | aekirkman@bsu.edu Only weeks before a group of around 15 students was set to leave for a 16-week student teaching course in Germany, Ball State canceled the program. Lydia Newland, a senior elementary education major who was going on the trip, had already quit her job and found someone to sublease her apartment when she heard the news. Although Newland was able to find a student teaching job through Yorktown Pleasant View Elementary, where she had spent her practicum in a first grade classroom, she said it was tough to figure everything out. “I had lots of feelings when I first read the email,” she said. “I was in shock and went into defense mode. I had given up everything. My lease was ending, and I had to find a new house and job. I felt like I had to scramble to put the pieces back together.” After a $500 deposit and months of preparation and planning, students were told via email on Nov. 24 that the program — which they were set to leave for on Dec. 27 — was canceled.
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ark Waid may be a famous writer, but he doesn’t live in New York City or Hollywood. His home is Muncie, Ind., where he and his partner Christina Blanch own Aw Yeah Comics downtown. Waid has influenced countless people in his 30 years of work, even if they don’t know it. He has written stories for almost every superhero one could think of — from Superman to Daredevil — and received prestigious honors such as Eisner Awards while doing so. He’s starting a new series starring Black Widow, one of the main heroes in “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” Growing up in Alabama, Waid fell in love with comics while reading them as a small child. ”Truthfully, I never really consid-
ered anything else [as a career],” he said. He worked at industry trade publications right out of college, was hired as an editor of DC Comics in 1987 and left in 1989 to strike out as a freelance writer. “I’ve lived a charmed life ever since,” he said. He added that many people still don’t understand that he doesn’t draw the pictures for the comics he writes. There’s a lot of collaboration and teamwork involved in making a comic book, he said. He was working as a freelancer in Los Angeles when he met Blanch in 2010 at C2-E2, a pop culture and comic book convention in Chicago. Blanch and Waid began dating soon after, and Waid eventually moved to Blanch’s town of Muncie. “[Waid] is amazing,” Blanch said.
“He is my partner in business and life and my best friend. He is the smartest person I have ever met. And the nicest.” She said she loves everything about comics. She used them to teach her son to read, and they soon became an important part of her life. Blanch said that science fiction and fantasy like “Star Wars” have inspired her. She writes her own original series called “The Damnation of Charlie Wormwood,” which is published by Dynamite Entertainment. Living in the same house as writers and business partners could be challenging for some couples, but they manage to make it work. Waid and Blanch have their own office spaces for their writing.
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Junior swimmer Tanner Barton is one of approximately 1.25 million people in America who suffer from Type 1 diabetes. Barton also serves on the international council for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Barton acts as advocate for diabetes Swimmer represents athletes, young adults with disease WYMAN MEN’S VOLLEYBALL REPORTER | ELIZABETH @Heavens_2betsey
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UPD WARNS STUDENTS OF BREAK-INS Police have received nearly 70 reports in Fall Semester CASEY SMITH CRIME REPORTER | casmith11@bsu.edu The University Police Department is warning students and other nearby residents about home and vehicle break-ins after UPD and the Muncie Police
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Department received more than a dozen reports in recent weeks. Since August, nearly 70 reports of car and home burglaries on or near campus have been reported to the two police departments combined, although MPD Chief Steve Stewart said that number could still be low. “Unfortunately, there are still many break-ins that aren’t being reported,” he said. In cases where little to no items are stolen, Stewart said CONTACT US
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“I left my backpack in the back seat of my car — which is something I never do — and sometime during the night, my car was broken into and my bag was gone,” Howell said. “I have to be really careful and make sure my car doors are always locked and that nothing of value stays in the car. People will break in for anything, it seems like.”
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Sept. 2, 2003, is a day that will forever stick in the mind of Tanner Barton, it was the day he was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Barton is a junior captain on the men’s swimming and diving team, and one of the approximately 1.25 million people in America who suffer from Type 1 diabetes, according to diabetes.org. Barton, a Dublin, Ohio, native, lounges back in his first-class seat as the plane cruises 35,000 feet in the air en route to Copenhagen. Many can only dream of visiting such a destination, but this will be the second time Barton has traveled there in three months. Barton serves on an international council for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) called the Type 1 Diabetes Voices Council. The 17 members who make up the council each represents and speak on behalf of a different population. Barton is the youngest in the council and represents all young adults and athletes living with Type 1 diabetes. “When I was younger, I never saw myself being such an advocate,” Barton said. “I was always in an advocacy position, and I was always a spokesperson for the disease.” THE PULSE OF BALL STATE
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In Wednesday’s edition of the Daily News, we misspelled Emily Busha’s name. Busha is the costume director for Ball State’s costume shop. We also incorrectly reported that she is an alumna of Ball State and that she hated costume design while in college. She disliked fashion design.
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As I sit here in the library the week before finals, reviewing notes from class and cramming as much information into my brain as I can, sometimes I worry that all of my studying will be good for nothing. Any time I take a test, there are several multiple choice questions that provide context as to what is being tested. There is a framework provided, suggesting what knowledge I am supposed to possess. When written well, these questions can determine a student’s ability to eliminate probable answers with this previously ingested information. Also on these tests are true or false questions: To which I say… what is the truth behind their effectiveness? Unlike multiple choice questions, I didn’t find a lot of studies on their efficacy which is, to say the least, unfortunate and puzzling. If I am in school — and paying immensely for the opportunity — and if the goal is to glean the utmost comprehension of the material I am studying, why am I then given questions that give little chance to prove my knowledge and a large chance to overthink and misinterpret the content being tested? I took to the Internet and tried to find some counterargument and I came across a few studies. However, it was hard to find information readily supporting them. First of all, like multiple-choice, true or false questions are required to have good framing and a specific goal in mind. According to the University of Minnesota’s site, Ebel and Frisbie say that true or false questions provide the opPRINT EDITOR Christopher Stephens CREATIVE DIRECTOR Ashley Downing
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portunity for students to prove their knowledge through the following ways: “The essence of educational achievement is the command of useful verbal knowledge. All verbal knowledge can be expressed in propositions. A proposition is any sentence that can be said to be true or false. The extent of students’ command of a particular area of knowledge is indicated by their success in judging the truth or falsity of propositions related to it.” The site also explained that T/F questions have popularized largely because of their efficiency, but this comes at a cost to students when it whittles away our ability to prove our comprehension of the material. Even though it seems like I successfully found a counterargument to my case through Ebel and Frisbie, I still I possess an urge to interject — when are propositions effectively proposed to target one
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facet of content, could they not be written with the chance for wider interpretation? This is where multiple-choice or fillin-the-blank can help us determine what is being asked through the process of elimination. In T/F, I am left circling one or the other and oftentimes, I rethink my answer and end up changing it. University of Minnesota’s Office of Measurement Services even goes on to say that, “True-false items are especially subject to guessing. Half the items would be expected to be correct by chance. In general, individual true-false items are less discriminating than individual multiple-choice items. There is a tendency to write trivial true-false items, which lead students to verbatim memorization. True-false items are not amenable to questions that cannot be formulated as propositions. The key is to write sound test items for either form.” I am not making these stateASST. NEWS EDITOR Rose Skelly FEATURES EDITOR Danielle Grady
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ments with the accusation that professors have not considered these facts and further explored the way their tests are created. My argument is that there are so many other ways to understand which students are grasping concepts and which are not that it would be nice to have a way to prove my knowledge without also employing the psychological over-analyzation of second guessing. Multiple-choice questions help students gain context and this is what T/F questions often lack. Many times I have walked away from a testing lab very frustrated because I lost points, and not because I didn’t study the material. The points were lost because I relied on my interpretation of what an educator wanted me to think, rather than synthesize concepts and prove that I’m learning. Because, after all, that is what we’re here for. MULTIMEDIA EDITOR Breanna Daugherty ASST. MULTIMEDIA EDITOR Samantha Brammer
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A cultural mission Ainu student educates others about her Japanese indigenous roots
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Japan is sometimes seen as an ethnically homogeneous nation, but in 2008, the Japanese government recognized a separate group of indigenous people: The Ainu, who live primarily on the northern island of Hokkaido. Haruka Nakamura, a student at Ball State’s Intensive English Institute, is Ainu, and she’s made it her mission to educate others about the group. She was born and raised on Hokkaido, where her family still lives today. Her grandfather is full Ainu, but she is only half. Being Ainu has long been a part of her identity. “When I was in elementary school, my mother told me, ‘You are Ainu,’” Nakamura said. “It is just something I have always known.” The Ainu had their own culture before being colonized by the Japanese in the late nineteenth century. They relied on fishing and hunting for food, they lived in houses called kotans and their religion was earth-based. The Ainu prayed to various nature, animal and plant gods in daily ceremonies, according to the website for the Ainu Museum. “In Ainu culture, everything is [considered] god,” Nakamura said. “Ainu didn’t waste anything, because ev-
erything living was [considNakamura said some people don’t want to say they ered] god.” The Ainu homeland Hok- are Ainu, but she doesn’t kaido was a target for early know why. Her older sister “doesn’t care,” and never Japanese colonization. Policies put in place on studied a lot of Ainu culture. Hokkaido were similar to Her mother has been disthose used in Korea and criminated against because Taiwan, both of which of her ethnic background, would eventually be colo- Nakamura said. As a student in Japan, Nanized by Japan. The Ainu were encouraged to assim- kamura received a scholarilate into Japanese culture. ship for being Ainu. It was at This meant learning a new school where she first began language and adopting studying Ainu culture. She has not met many Japanese Japanese names, students who know said Elizabeth about the Ainu. Lawrence, a pro“It was kind of fessor of East Asia sad for me,” Naat Ball State. kamura said. Today, the Ainu Ai Shikano, a jupopulation is very nior athletic trainsmall compared to ing major at Ball the overall JapaState, is a Japanese nese population— even in Hokkaido. HARUKA NAKAMURA student from Nagoya, a city on JaLawrence said Ainu student pan’s main island. Hokkaido has at Ball State’s more self-identify- Intensive English She is not descendInstitute ed from the Ainu ing Ainu than other people. At Ball Japanese islands. “There are undoubtedly State, she helps internationsome negative stereotypes al and exchange students adheld toward Ainu people by just to life in America. That’s Japanese, partly due to the how she met Nakamura. Shikano was aware of the fact that the Ainu represent a less advantaged social Ainu before she met Nakamura. The Ainu are well known, group,” Lawrence said. More Ainu received wel- she said. She compared them fare benefits than people to the Native Americans. “Everyone is supposed to who were not Ainu, and less than half of Ainu peo- know [at least] about the ple graduated from college, meaning of the word Ainu according to a study done through classes in school,” by the Hokkaido prefectural Shikano said. During high school, Shigovernment in 2006.
kano went on a field trip to Hokkaido. She went to the culture center there, where she listened to lectures on Ainu culture and watched traditional dances. She wouldn’t say this is everyone’s experience, though. “It’s because Hokkaido is not the main island,” she said. “People on the main island don’t usually have the opportunity to meet Ainu people, unless they go to Hokkaido or Ainu people come to the main island.” Shikano said she and other Japanese students had not met many, if any, Ainu people before they met Nakamura. “From the first day, [Nakamura] was saying she was from Hokkaido and Ainu,” said Shikano. “She talks a lot about being Ainu. It’s one of her purposes in the United States—to present the Ainu culture.” Nakamura is a member of Urespa, an organization at Sapporo University, her university in Japan. Urespa consists of both Ainu and Japanese students. They learn about and inform others about the Ainu, she said. “It is important for me to share my culture,” Nakamura said in a previous interview with the Daily News. “A lot of American people don’t know about Ainu, and even not many Japanese know about Ainu. I want everyone to know [about] Ainu.”
said. He now realizes how many other books are out there vying for the read| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 er’s attention. “You can never have an “I tend to write when she’s at the store, and she off month; you’ve always tends to write in the eve- got [to] be bringing your nings,” Waid said. “Hon- A game,” he said. Waid launched an onestly, we don’t bounce comic website, ideas around much. We line probably should and have Thrillbent, in 2012. He a good time when we do, received some criticism but there’s also some- for his move, he said. thing to be said about Critics were worried that letting together time be digital comics would kill off the print innon-work-relatdustry, but Waid ed.” predicted the Waid said he’s opposite. not great at So far, he has budgeting and been right — at day-to-day comleast from what ic shop duties. he sees. Blanch and the Blanch and store’s co-manWaid said digital ager, Kyle RobYou can comics encourerts, are the ones age people to who do most of never have come into shops, the “heavy lifting” and run the an off month; like Aw Yeah where shop every day, you’ve always Comics, they can ask for Waid said. suggestions and He’s glad to got [to] be relationhave people bringing your build ships with the working at the owners and othstore that can do A game. er readers. what he can’t. He They also bring wanted Muncie MARK WAID, in other comic to have a store writer, Eisner award winner writers and artthat he liked. ists to sign their Waid and and co-owner of Blanch stay in Aw Yeah Comics work for fans at the store. This Muncie partly in downtown helps the creator because Blanch Muncie promote their is working on work and gives her doctorate and has a teenage daugh- customers an opportunity to meet them, they said. ter finishing high school. Many years later, and Beyond that, Blanch and Waid appreciate the Waid is still influenced by the childhood comics community. “We have no plans to that got him hooked. “Superman’s always surrender the store even after [Blanch] gets her been my key inspiration, degree. Retailing’s in our first and foremost. I’ve always been elevated by blood now,” Waid said. Waid said living in Mun- the message he preachcie has helped him with es — that putting others story ideas, especially first is its own reward,” with his Archie comics Waid said. Blanch said Waid teared — another one of his creup once while speaking ative ventures. “There’s not a whole to a crowd about a Sulot of difference between perman story that really Riverdale and Muncie, as touched him. “What’d I’d like for readI see it,” he said. Owning a store has ers to get from my stories taught Waid a lot about is a sense of hope and opbeing a comic creator, he timism,” Waid said.
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| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Howell, who lives closer to the downtown area of Muncie, said she’s also had three bikes stolen from her property. Although she isn’t sure who is responsible for the breakins, after reporting the incident, Howell said MPD told her break-ins are becoming more prevalent. “It’s my own fault that I left stuff in the car, and I guess it’s really easy to pick a car door,” Howell said. “But I shouldn’t have to worry about people stealing my things. It’s frustrating.” To add to the growing numbers of break-ins and burglaries, senior communications major Sasha Bonar said her car has been broken into four times since September. Although nothing too valuable was taken from her car, Bonar said she still filed a report with MPD. “I came out to my car and found the window glass shattered and the things in my car
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In the past, elementary and secondary education majors have taught in Germany through the United States Department of Defense schools. They were placed on an Air Force base in Ramstein, Germany where they taught American children whose military families were stationed there. Jonathan Dee, director of the Office of Teacher Education Services, was the one to deliver the news. “We received word that student teaching placements in Germany had yet to be officially confirmed,” Dee said. “Because of this delay, and the fact that there were only three weeks left in the public school calendar, we made the decision to not place any student teachers in Germany next semester.” Dee said that while they were disappointed, they made the decision considering the student’s best interests and academic success. He said after the news was released, he immediately reached out to his clinical practice network to get new student teaching placements for the students. “We have a great team who were able to quickly confirm a few placements within the week following the decision,” Dee said. “All of our students have either received a new placement already, or are being considered by a school.” Senior elementary education major Joanna Ziarko had a similar experience to Newland after the news broke. “I was so bummed when I opened the email,” Ziarko said. “I was banking on going to Europe and then when I got the news that we weren’t going, I kept thinking ‘Oh my God, I’m not going … this is crazy, what am I going to do now?’” Because the email was sent the week of Thanksgiving break, the students had no way to get in contact with anyone to get more information, which freaked Ziarko out. After break, the college held a meeting with the students. Ziarko said they were given three options: go to Texas and join a student teaching program there, take spring semester off and go to Germany in the fall, or stay and get a student teaching placement. “We only had one day to get back to them,” Ziarko said. “It was so stressful.” Like Newland, Ziarko was able to find a placement at Yorktown Pleasant View Elementary, which was also where she spent her practicum teaching in a kindergarten classroom. 2014 alumna Haley Richter, who teaches
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Call MPD if you have information on the dozen daytime break-ins over the last couple weeks, or call Muncie Crime Stoppers at 765-747-4806 and you could qualify for a reward.
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• Lock all doors and windows, even if you will be gone only a few minutes • Leave lights on when you are not home • Do not leave valuables in plain sight • Keep an inventory of your valuables • Don’t post comings and goings on social media had all been thrown around,” Bonar said. “It’s obnoxious.” But that isn’t all that Bonar said she’s had a problem with at her Neely Avenue home. Just days before Thanksgiving, Bonar said she was alone at home when someone attempted to break in. “Someone was knocking over and over and holding down the doorbell,” Bonar
Although she didn’t call MPD likely be away from Munto report the incident, Bonar cie over the Winter Break,” said she’s taking even more Duckham said. “And we precautions before going wanted to take this opporhome for Winter tunity to provide Break. our community “It was extreme, I came out members with but in this area, tips and informathe break-ins to my car and tion that can help seem really, really found the them stay safe.” common,” Bonar UPD officers have said. “Before I go window glass been talking to reshome this time, I’m shattered idents and offermaking sure eving magnets with erything is locked and the reminders, and really well and things in my Duckham said it’s anything of value an initiative that’s car had all is out of sight.” beneficial for both University police been thrown officers and the are recommending community. that all off-campus around. “It’s just one students do the more piece of a same. Since the be- KATELYN larger pilot proginning of Decem- HOWELL, a senior gram we’ve inifamily and child ber, public safety studies major tiated with two director Jim Ducknearby neighborham said officers hoods that allows have been going door-to-door our officers to engage with to remind individuals how to our students in the commuprevent break-ins, especially nity and provide valuable before leaving their hous- crime-prevention informaes for several weeks during tion,” Duckham said. “It’s rebreak. ally just another example of “Many of our students UPD’s community policing who live off campus will approach to what we do.”
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The Ball State University Police Department is warning students and residents near campus about home and vehicle break-ins. There have been nearly 70 reports of car and home burglaries on or near campus since August.
said. “Whoever it was, they covered up the hole in the door so I couldn’t see who it was, and they kept trying to open the door.”
wellness at Fall Creek JuRichter said even after nior High in Fishers, par- a year, her experience in ticipated in the Germany Germany has continued to student teaching program impact her career. last year. “When I get interviewed, “When I heard the pro- the first thing that they gram had been ask about is my canceled, it was teaching expehea rtb rea kin g,” rience,” Richter My lease said. “It’s really Richter said. “It was a complete- was ending an impressive ly life-changing thing to have on experience that and I had to your resume and not many student find a new it shows that teachers get to you are willing have in their lives.” house and to put yourself Richter spent job. I felt out there. I’m exfour months in tremely thankful Germany and like I had to for that.” said her overall scramble While the stuperspective on dents were dislife changed after to put the appointed when working with the pieces back their program was American chilcanceled, Ziarko dren while being together. found a positive to able to travel. focus on. “Haley Richter LYDIA “The school has going in and Ha- NEWLAND, a honestly been elementary ley Richter com- senior working so hard education major ing out were two to make sure we completely diffind jobs and ferent people,” she said. graduate on time,” Ziarko “I got to spend time doing said. “I know that Gerwhat I love in a part of the many would have been world that we sometimes huge, but I don’t know if I overlook. I had never left would have ever had this the U.S. before, so living opportunity to stay at the in a different culture and school [Yorktown Pleasworking with teachers ant View Elementary] who were German natives that I love teaching if this taught me a lot.” hadn’t happened to me.”
Bonar said the attempted intruder continued for more than five minutes, but by the time a friend came to help, the individual had run away.
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Junior captain of the men’s swimming and diving team Tanner Barton was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes on Sept. 2, 2003. Barton became a youth ambassador for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and was elected to the program’s Children’s Congress at 14.
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| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Barton was one of four members on the council invited to represent the United States on Nov. 14 for World Diabetes Day at a national convention held right outside of Copenhagen, Denmark. His council aimed to bridge the gap between patients who use the insulin products and the scientists who create them. Being an advocate was not always an interest to Barton, as he was once an angry, sick 8-year-old who had his world flipped upside down.
THE ‘DIAVERSARY’
“It’s such a profound event in your life that it becomes engraved in your memory,” Barton said. Sept. 2, 2003, is Barton’s “diaversary”: the anniversary of his diagnosis. It was the first week of school during his third grade year. The gymnastics gym was closed for cleaning and so were the outdoor pools, and indoor swim season had not began. “So I go from being so active during my practices, to going back to school and sitting down for seven to eight hours a day,” Barton said. That’s when the symptoms arose. Barton became unusually thirsty, fatigued, irritable and lost weight. The alerting symptom was the bed wetting, a habit abnormal for third graders. “It was a normal afternoon,”
Tanner’s mother Andrea Barton said. “Tanner was going to the doctor; his dad was taking him. … We weren’t expecting it.” After arriving at the hospital, the doctor instructed Tanner and his family to drive to Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. The third grader grabbed a stuffed animal and left, not knowing that his world was about to change forever. After arrival, his body was in diabetic ketoacidosis, a state that raised his blood sugar levels, and in Tanner’s case, attacked his muscles. Average blood sugar levels range from 80-100. His was at 600. Tanner’s hiatus in activity allowed the symptoms to show. Exercise acts as a hidden insulin, converting sugar into energy. “Everything was being masked,” Tanner said.
WHY ME?
Six days and five nights were spent at the hospital between him and his family. During this time, they went through extensive training sessions learning about living with Type 1 diabetes. “At that point in time, never did it occur to me that this would be something that I would live with 24/7,” Tanner said. During one of his “how to count carbs” sessions, he became sweaty, irritable and angry. The nurses explained that he was experiencing his first low blood sugar episode. “That was an eye-opener for [my parents]. They said, ‘Wow,
he really does have this disease, and look, this insulin is working,’” Tanner said. “I felt very lifeless in that moment, because I couldn’t control my swing from high to low, but it was also a time for me to understand ... I need to be cognizant of it from here on, now.” Once he was released from the hospital, he was ready to move on, except for a single question that loomed in his mind. “‘Why me?’ That’s the initial emotion I felt,” Tanner said. He grew up as the only diabetic in his elementary and middle school, and one of three diabetics in his high school. When his mother goes to his swim meets, there’s something more on her mind than just his performance. “I’m the only mom sitting up there watching [him] swim, worrying about [his] blood sugar… who has to write down everything that’s in [his] lunch and all of the carbs in there,” Andrea said. “It’s not ‘why [Tanner],’ it’s why all of us.” Tanner’s parents noticed his new bouts of anger and had him speak to their priest, Monsignor Hendricks. “Why me?” Tanner asked. “God is supposed to look out for you and take care of you, and here I am thinking I am being punished.” The response was that God only deals the cards that he could handle, and Tanner asked for new cards to be dealt. Hendricks tried a new approach.
“The way you need to look at this is like, ‘Why not me?’” Hendricks said. “God gave you this disease for some reason, the reason we do not know, but why not you? He gave it to you for a purpose, and there’s something you can do now that you’re a Type 1 diabetic.” It was because of those words that Tanner changed his attitude, bringing the positive out of a negative situation.
THE PURPOSE
Barton became an advocate for finding a cure for juvenile diabetes not long after his diagnosis, becoming a youth ambassador for JDRF. At 14, he was elected to the program’s Children’s Congress. He spoke with legislators about life with Type 1 diabetes and funding efforts. In sixth grade, he was asked to speak about his life with Type 1 diabetes at a political rally to increase National Institute of Health (NIH) funding. He was among elite company, sitting next to actor Michael J. Fox, who spoke for Parkinson’s disease. During Fox’s presentation, he mentioned how much of an inspiration Tanner was. “Hearing this from Michael J. Fox was surreal,” Tanner said. Two years later, he was featured in Fox’s autobiography. In “Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incredible Optimist,” Fox wrote, “It’s obvious that he’s a tough kid, but it’s also easy to discern the uncertainty beneath his boyish bravado.”
FOLLOWING HIS DREAM
Despite the diagnosis, swimming at the collegiate level was a dream Tanner would not let go of. At Ball State, Tanner swims butterfly, free and individual medley. His 200 fly time of 1:50.86, set at the 2014 MAC Championships, ranks second in program history. Men’s swimming and diving head coach Rob Thomas had never coached a diabetic before, so Tanner explained to his team about the condition. “I wanted them to understand that this is a chronic condition, but I can still be competitive and be the best. I won’t let diabetes hold me back, and my coach and teammates see this drive and determination,” he said. Tanner is studying health sciences, hoping to become a certified diabetes educator, meeting with newly diagnosed patients in the hospital just like he once was. “I live with diabetes 24/7, and I never thought that I would want to be doing something focused on diabetes as a career because it’s already with me 24/7,” Tanner said. Tanner continues to advocate for finding a cure for Type 1 diabetes and mentoring younger kids who have the disease as well. “Now, from where I stand as a junior at Ball State and an international advocate for diabetes, I can see, honestly, why I was diagnosed,” Tanner said. “In a sense that I am a spokesperson not for myself, but for so many people.”
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Today’s Birthday (12/11/15). Personal growth and expansion reaches new heights, with Saturn in your sign. Prepare your home this spring for a social year (especially after Jupiter enters Libra on 9/9). Autumn eclipses bring a rise in professional status and domestic changes that require adaptation. Tend your garden with love.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) Today is a 7. Go to the source. Begin a new phase in your education, travels and exploration with this New Moon. Your wanderlust especially tempts today and tomorrow. Do the homework before committing funds. A romantic destination calls. Gemini (May 21-June 20) Today is an 8. A turning point arises regarding family finances with this New Moon. Together you’re more powerful. Carefully file papers. Close (or open) an account. Focus on money management today and tomorrow. Determine priorities and strategies. Collaborate. Cancer (June 21-July 22) Today is a 9. Begin a new phase in your partnership or relationship under this New Moon. Realign your collaboration to new priorities. Support each other. Negotiate to refine the plan. Don’t be afraid if you don’t know how.
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Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Today is a 9. A new financial phase dawns with the New Moon. Let go of an old habit. A breakthrough allows for a new level of prosperity. Put your back into your work, taking care around sharp tools. Seize a lucrative opportunity.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is a 7. Begin a family, fun and passion phase. Complete one game and begin anew with this New Moon. A romantic relationship transforms. You have emotional support. Things fall together for you today and tomorrow. It’s all for love.
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Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Today is a 7. One domestic phase closes as another begins under this New Moon. Complete the past and invent new possibilities for your family. Adapt household infrastructure to suit. The next two days are good for making changes at home.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Today is a 6. Get into thoughtful planning mode, especially over the next two days. Transitions mark a new phase in your private plans under the New Moon. Complete previous projects as you prepare for what’s next. Make the changes you’ve been wanting.
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TO SURVIVE FINALS WEEK New apps try to assist HOW Juniors, seniors give advice on getting through exams students in saying ‘no’ RAYMOND GARCIA ACADEMIC/EDUCATION REPORTER | ragarcia@bsu.edu
Verbal consent can be recorded with We-Consent suite
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The creators of a new smartphone app are hoping it might help students open lines of communication about consent, reduce the number of sexual assaults and encourage those who have been violated to report the crime. The parent app is called We-Consent and is meant for people wishing to engage in sexual behaviors with one another. They can record themselves giving verbal consent to the action. The app is part of an app suite, consisting of four apps. Each has a specific function, including saying “no” and reporting an assault. Michael Lissack is the executive director for the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence, which designed the apps. The goal of the apps is to make college students understand they need to talk about sex before engaging in it, Lissack said. “The app is a prop, really,” he said. “It doesn’t matter [to me] if the app is used or not; if it prompts discussion, then it has done its job. Discussion is what’s important.” ISCE started with only the We-Consent and What-About-No apps, released just after Labor Day. After receiving feedback from schools participating in beta testing, the I’ve-Been-Violated app was created. The goal was to help the 85 percent of victims
who did not report their assault to do so in a way that didn’t immediately involve a third party, according to the app’s briefing packet. Users record a statement of what happened to them, which can be accessed at a later date if they choose. It was added to the app suite three weeks ago. Another app currently in the works is the Party-Pass app. The app will involve the use of QR codes and discussion prompts about sexual behaviors. Jacki Clamme, a victim advocate for the Muncie Police Department, said she isn’t sure if the app is “the tool” to solve the problem of talking about consent and sexual assault. “A lot can happen, especially when there’s alcohol involved,” Clamme said. “Are you really going to take the time and stop to pull out your phone and use the app?” Even though it seems like the app might not be very beneficial, Lissack said people shouldn’t discount it right away as a valuable tool. “It is very easy to hear the name of the app and draw conclusions about it, but just like anything else, you need to read all the information that goes with it first,” he said. Another problem Clamme has with the app is the limited knowledge of the program. Although the app’s website, has all of the information, not many people are using it in the Midwest — and Lissack said he is aware of this. “The problem is we are only doing pilot programs right now, and most of those are on the east and west coasts,” Lissack said. “[California and New York] are the only
Know how the final will Get together with your Finals Week is affect your grade classmates approaching, and if “Review your syllabus and “It helps to work with oththis is your first time, be aware of how much your ers because collective minds don’t panic. Here are final is actually worth. Don’t gather ideas one could not yourself out about fipossibly conjure up by onesome tips from juniors stress nals that have little impact self,” said Tahjia Salmon, a and seniors who have on your final grade,” said junior pre-medicine major. Jazzy Benson, a senior orgabeen through it a nizational communication couple times. major.
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One of We-Consent’s apps is What-About-No, which can record a person saying no at any point during the sexual contact. The apps are meant to open the lines of communication during sex.
two states which have affirmative consent laws, meaning there must be proof of consent when a complaint is made against someone for sexual misconduct or assault.” Kendra Storz, a sophomore animation major, said she thinks the app is a “good idea,” but isn’t sure if it’s practical. “I feel like there’s just so much that could go wrong,” she said. “And if there’s alcohol involved, that could lead to more problems.” Lissack said the real issue is consent and getting people to understand “no one is entitled to touch someone else.” He said the lesson is not just for students, but for everyone. “Consent is like a license — you don’t drive without a driver’s license, you don’t touch someone else without a license from them, their consent,” Lissack said.
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“I always try to have a set time in which I’m going to try to go to bed the week of finals,” said Bailey Goduto, a junior hospitality and food management major. “If I’m not done studying or preparing for an exam, then I still go to bed at a decent time and just wake up a little earlier to have a refresher.”
“The biggest thing that I do to keep me focused and on-task when studying for finals week is writing everything down,” said Robin Daywalt, a senior hospitality and food management major. “I feel that by being realistic with myself and writing everything I have to do down, keeps me on task.”
“Staying away from Netflix is a big one,” said Courtney Workman, a junior nursing major. “You can never watch just one episode no matter how many times you try to convince yourself you can.”