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The university is already working on addressing some complaints mentioned in the Beneficence Dialogues. The five challenge teams tasked with implementing one of five themes of the Beneficence Dialogue Report will turn in their action plans Dec. 16. Ro Anne Engle, director of the Multicultural Center, sent out the Beneficence Dialogue Report Oct. 16. The report was created from the dialogue sessions that took place March 30, when more than 100 students participated in group discussions about diversity while Ball State President Paul W. Ferguson and Kay Bales, vice president for student affairs and dean of students, listened to the different groups. Thomas Gibson, associate vice president for student affairs, is one of the co-chairs for the Council on Diversity and Inclusion, which is responsible for responding to diversity issues from the dialogue and for creating an action plan, according to the Ball State website. Gibson said the members of the council are divided into five challenge teams, and each group is assigned one of the five themes from the report — recruitment and retention of a diverse student body, diversity awareness and education initiatives for students, education and training for and support from faculty, university response and student body and administration interactions, and campus climate. They were tasked with creating an action plan by Dec. 16.
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UPD ARRESTS 2 OVER BREAK Ball State University Police Department made two arrests during Thanksgiving Break, both of which involved alcohol. A 21-year-old Muncie resident was arrested just before 3 a.m. on Sunday for public intoxication. UPD officers responded to a fight on W. University Ave., and the man was taken into custody after officers determined he was intoxicated. Also early Sunday, UPD officers arrested a second Muncie resident just after 3 a.m. near the intersection of N. Light Street and W. Ashland Avenue. Thirty-year-old Nicholas Bennett was charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated after he failed a field sobriety test administered by UPD Officer Wendel Jaggers. UPD also received two calls of break-ins near campus. On Wednesday, a home burglary was reported early around W. Gilbert Street. A vehicle burglary was also reported on W. University Ave. around 10 a.m. on Friday. UPD continues to encourage students living off campus to lock doors to their vehicles and homes whenever away, university spokeswoman Joan Todd said. If a break-in or burglary occurs, call UPD at 765-285-1111. – CASEY SMITH
TEAM GIVES BACK FOR THANKSGIVING Dominican Republic offers eye-opening trip for Cardinals
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Ball State baseball players did not go home over Thanksgiving Break. Instead, the team spent five days in the Dominican Republic, where they were able to give back to the local communities. The Cardinals hosted a baseball camp for local children on Sunday, the team’s last day in the Dominican. It was at the camp when junior first baseman Caleb Stayton saw a young boy
without a glove. “He was pretty talented,” Stayton said. “I said, ‘Hey, do you have a glove?’ And he goes, ‘No guante.’ I said, ‘Here, take this [glove],’ and his look was pretty priceless.” Stayton brought some of his old gloves to give away because he no longer used them, but he was not the only Cardinal to do this over the trip. “I noticed that our guys really wanted to give those people a moment,” head coach Rich Maloney said. “Our guys are real active in all of the community service that they do, and they enjoy it.” Players did not only create those moments during the last day. They passed out fried chicken and toiletries —
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1. CHICAGO MAYOR FIRES POLICE CHIEF CHICAGO (AP) — Rahm Emanuel sought for months to keep the public from seeing a video that shows a white police officer shooting a black teenager 16 times. Now, a week after the video’s release, the Chicago mayor has fired the police superintendent, created a new task force for police accountability and expanded the use of body cameras. But Emanuel’s effort to keep the video secret and his long wait to take action at the police department has stirred deep skepticism among those protesting the teen’s death. Many
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activists are especially incensed by the fact that the video first surfaced during a re-election campaign, when the mayor was seeking African-American votes. “In our community, everyone is saying [the video] was not released because of the election,” said Corey Brooks, a prominent black minister. Had it emerged earlier, the video “could have buried” Emanuel’s chances for re-election, Columbia Law School professor Bernard E. Harcourt wrote in a New York Times op-ed piece published Monday.
REYHANLI, Turkey (AP) — Before a crowd of men on a street in the Syrian city of Palmyra, the masked Islamic State group judge read out the sentence against the two men convicted of homosexuality: they would be thrown to their deaths from the roof of the nearby Wael Hotel. He asked one of the men if he was satisfied with the sentence. Death, the judge told him, would
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WELCH, W.Va. (AP) — The seams of coal in some of Eddie Asbury’s mines in McDowell County are so thin workers can barely squeeze down them. They enter on carts nearly flat on their backs, the roof of the mine coursing by just a few inches in front of their faces. They don’t stand up all day. To keep his business operating with such a paltry amount of coal, Asbury has to do everything himself. He has no use for the shiny, multimillion-dollar mining
Chiefs of Staff, faced skeptical lawmakers who argued that the U.S. needs to be more forceful in countering the threat from the Islamic State group, credited with attacks in Paris and Beirut and the downing of a Russian airliner. Carter told the House Armed Services Committee the special operations force will be able to conduct raids, free hostages, gather intelligence and capture Islamic State group leaders.
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help cleanse him of his sin. “I’d prefer it if you shoot me in the head,” 32-year-old Hawas Mallah replied helplessly. The second man, 21-year-old Mohammed Salameh, pleaded for a chance to repent, promising never to have sex with a man again, according to a witness among the onlookers that sunny July morning who gave The Associated Press a rare firsthand account.
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2. U.S. TO DEPLOY NEW TASK FORCE TO FIGHT I.S. WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military will deploy a new special operations force to Iraq to step up the fight against Islamic State militants unleashing violence in Iraq and Syria and determined to hold territory they have seized across the Middle East, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told Congress on Tuesday. Carter, who testified alongside Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint
emissions from the burning of coal, oil and gas. But it could rile conservatives in Washington. The Obama administration has pledged during the international talks to reduce U.S. emissions by up to 28 percent by 2025. But inscribing the emissions target in the Paris deal would probably require Obama to submit the pact to Congress, where it would be unlikely to win ratification.
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machines on display this fall at the biannual coal show nearby. His equipment is secondhand stuff that he repairs and refurbishes. The coal he and his workers scrape out of the mountain is washed and prepared for sale in a plant Asbury and a colleague built themselves. “It’s how we survive,” said Asbury, 66, a miner since 1971. Even coal is barely surviving in coal country — and coal is about the only thing Central Appalachia has.
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1. POPSICLE SNOWFLAKE WHAT YOU NEED
• Popsicles (Walmart: $3.66) • Holiday paint colors: blue, green, red, white, gold (Walmart: 50 cents each, $2.50 total) • Paint brushes (Walmart: 99 cents for a four-pack of foam brushes) • Hot glue gun and hot glue sticks (Walmart: $5.06) • Newspaper (free) • Optional: glitter glue (Walmart: $4)
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1. Plug in hot glue gun. Place down a newspaper to keep the work surface clean. 2. Arrange popsicles into a snowflake shape. 3. Hot glue Popsicle sticks together. 4. Paint the snowflake a holiday color. 5. Optional: Decorate the snowflake with glitter glue. 6. Let it dry and then hang.
2. 3-D PAPER SNOWFLAKE WHAT YOU NEED
• Six pieces of paper (Walmart: $6.97) • Tape (Walmart: $3.81) • Scissors (Walmart: $1.99, Bracken Library: free) • Stapler with staples (Walmart: $5.10, Bracken Library: free)
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1. Fold each of the six pieces of paper in half diagonally. If the paper does not make a perfect triangle, cut off the rectangular edge that sticks out and make it align perfectly. The result should be a square folded into a triangle. 2. Fold the triangle in half, noting where the folded “bottom” of the triangle is. 3. Cut three lines in the triangle. Position the scissors along the bottom fold and parallel to one of the edges going up to the top. Cut almost all the way up to the double-folded crease, but not quite. Keep about the same distance between each cut. 4. Unfold the triangle again. Turn it so one of the square’s points faces you. 5. Keeping your paper diamond side-up, roll the first
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two innermost paper lines together to form a tube. 6. Tape these two pieces together. Triangle shapes should be visible on each side of the roll. 7. Turn the diamond over to the other side. Take the next two paper lines and pull them together on the opposite side of the tube. Tape together as before. This will produce a more rounded shape wider than the first tube. 8. Keep turning the paper and joining the paper lines together on opposite sides in the same fashion until all paper lines have been joined. 9. Repeat steps three through seven with the remaining five pieces of paper. 10. Join three of the completed rolled pieces together at one end and staple them together using the other hand. Do this to the other three pieces. There should be two pieces consisting of three strands each. 11. S taple the two new pieces together in the middle. 12. Staple where each of the six strands meet. This ensures that the snowflake shape is pulled into place. 13. Hang them or place them on a flat surface.
3. CHRISTMAS TREE CANVAS WHAT YOU NEED
• Paint: green, red, gold, brown (Walmart: 50 cents each, $2 total) • Canvas (Walmart: 5x7 for $2.77) • Paint brushes (Walmart: 30-pack for 97 cents)
1. Find a Christmas-themed quote. It can be a movie or book quote, Bible verse, song chorus or anything else. 2. Using a pencil, lightly trace a large triangle shape onto the canvas. Then, trace a star on the top of the triangle and a rectangle on the bottom. This is the tree shape. 3. P aint the star gold. 4. Using a paintbrush, write the quote inside the tree in horizontal lines alternating colors of red and green. In brown paint, write the source or artist of the quote as the rectangular trunk of the tree. For example, write “Mariah Carey” or “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” 5. L et the paint dry and then erase the pencil markings. 6. F inally, hang the painting in a dorm or apartment.
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Vocal performance students will be handling a different type of musical style at the Ball State Opera Theatre’s events this semester “Dido and Aeneas” and “Orfeo ed Euridice.” The shows will be at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 3 at 7 at Pruis Hall.
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Vocal performance students are tackling a different sort of musical style at this semester’s Ball State Opera Theatre event. The students are presenting what director Jon Truitt called “two of operas earliest masterpieces”: “Dido and Aeneas” and “Orfeo ed Euridice.” In “Dido and Aeneas,” Queen Dido of Carthage takes a risk and falls in love with the Trojan King Aeneas — producing dire consequences. Although hesitant, Dido is guided by her best friend Belinda, played by junior vocal performance major Rachel Weinfeld. Belinda attempts to reach her friend and convince her that falling in love with Aeneas is a good thing. “Belinda ultimately does get through to Dido, which makes the ending that much more tragic for Belinda because she feels like Dido’s heartbreak is all her fault,” she said. The actors grappled with connecting to the artistic material because Baroque style music and an ancient story “can seem so dated and distant,” Weinfeld said. “In terms of the story, I had to break it down,” Weinfeld said. “Instead of seeing it as
this distant, mythical tale, I broke it down to see every character as a real person facing a real problem. Every basic feeling these characters are experiencing is something that we still experience today — there’s just also some witchery and divine intervention.” The show’s ending and final message is a little different from most stories about love and far from fairytale-like. “I would love to say that the show’s message is love conquers all or something nice and uplifting like that, but at the end of the day, evil wins in this show,” Weinfeld said. “Evil gets anything and everything it wanted, and everyone else is left to suffer the consequences.” In “Orfeo ed Euridice,” the second performance of the evening, Orfeo, the husband of Euridice, is devoted and determined, said senior voice performance major Jeffrey Hunnicutt, who is playing the title character in this production. It’s his first leading role with Ball State Opera Theatre. Devotion and determination are especially important since the show opens with Euridice’s funeral, where Orfeo is “completely distraught.” He travels through the underworld in order to find and rescue his beloved. It’s a “pretty tough ordeal,” Hunnicutt said. Despite this otherworldly quest, Hunnicutt said his character is “very relatable” because everyone can relate
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General admission, $15; Students, $5 in advance, $8 at door to love and loss. “I think the way [composer Christoph Willibald] Gluck uses these powerful archetypes makes the show really special and personal,” he said. Overall, Hunnicutt described this show as one of hope. “Orfeo and Euridice’s experience shows that, even in our darkest times, there is still hope to help us keep going,” he said. The performers said they believe most students have not attended an operatic performance before, and they encourage them to take this production as an opportunity. “Opera isn’t exactly something most college students are jumping out of their seats to come see, but I would love to encourage every student to attend if only to experience something they probably never have before,” Weinfeld said. “This timeless music and story have lasted so long, and it’s worth coming to see why.”
The game consists of four categories of cards: movie genre, hero descriptor, hero and plot. One player is the producer and the others are screenwriters. The screenwriters will pick one card from each stack and come up with a movie pitch based on the four cards. For example, the lineup may look like this: Genre: science fiction Hero descriptor: socially awkward Hero: former president Plot: helping Santa save Christmas The “screenwriters” pitch their movie plots to the producer. The producer has $20 million to spend on his or her favorites. The player with the most money at the end wins. “I guess I’m just a pretty big movie fan,” Day said of his inspiration for the game. “One day, we were playing a party game and I had the idea.” It didn’t take long for Day to get others involved. Tommy Day and his wife, Riley Day, who will be graduating from Ball State in De-
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cember, sat down and wrote about 20 index cards to test out their idea. They took the prototype to the house of their friends, Chad and Michelle Yadon. The Yadons liked the game and helped think of ways to improve it. The group came up with ideas for new cards. “It’s sort of a team thing,” Chad, also a former Ball State student, said. The best friends call themselves Literally Wizards. Tommy came up with the company name. “I just thought it was funny, and then I had an illustrator come up with a cool logo and it kind of stuck,” he said. Literally Wizards continued to develop and improve Buy the Rights, and it was selected as a showcase game for the 2015 Boston Festival of Indie Games in September. In Boston, the group showed the game to more than 100 people of different age groups. They received good feedback, Tommy said. Next came a “Buy the Rights Live” event on Nov. 6 at the Harrison Center in Indianapolis, where local comedians played the game live onstage. This event was part of Indianapolis’ First Friday series.
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Helping Santa save Christmas Now, Literally Wizards has a Kickstarter campaign for the full version of Buy the Rights, which they hope to distribute in 2016. The funding will go toward manufacturing and shipping costs of the game for those who have pledged their support. The campaign has reached more than half of the goal of $15,000 and will end Dec. 11. If the campaign fails, Literally Wizards will try another in early 2016, Tommy said. But he’s confident it will get funded. Riley likes looking back on Buy the Rights’ journey. “It’s been exciting to see [the game] evolve from a game we played with our friends on index cards to the fleshed out prototypes we currently take to conventions and events,” Riley said.
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Muncie locals open vintage store in home Living room shop sells antique art, collectible items
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The owner of a new Muncie store hopes to provide customers with the perfect antique for them — right from the comfort of his own home. Vintage Thrift Art & Antiques opened early November. The new store will offer not only vintage clothes, but artwork and collectibles from different time periods to the Muncie community, store owner Michael DuQuette said. DuQuette and his wife, Kara Clark DuQuette, opened their store right in the living room of their home on West Jackson Street. With a location near The Village, Michael said they can market directly to Ball State students. Michael said he sells his art and antiques not just to make a sale, but to help his customers find just the right antique for them. “It’s kinda nice to see their faces when something goes to the right person,” Michael said.
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10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 1 p.m. - 6 p.m. Sunday So far, they report having about 30 customers per day, many of them Ball State professors and students. Michael used to sell his antiques at a booth at Off-Broadway Antique Mall, until realizing he could create his own business out of his home. He has been accumulating antiques and different collectibles since he was a teenager. “I like the different, the bizarre,” Michael said. “I’m into all different religions.” These interests are shown in the items the DuQuettes have for sale, he said. Most items come from places he and his wife visit. Vintage Thrift Art & Antiques also advertises selling vinyl records, comic books, many Beatles and Elvis items, windows, glassware and jewelry. Michael doesn’t just consider himself a collector, but an artist too. Different art pieces that he has created, as well as art from local artists, are for sale
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The Vintage Thrift Art & Antiques had its grand opening three weeks ago in the owners’ living room of their home. The shop includes vintage clothes, artwork and collectibles from different time periods.
as well. Lindsey Stamper, a sophomore vocal education major, frequently shops at Muncie thrift stores. Though she hasn’t visited Vintage Thrift Art & Antiques yet, she said she plans to soon. A love of fashion and Marilyn Monroe caused Stamper to become interested in vintage clothing several years ago. Her love doesn’t stop at just clothing, however; she said she thinks anything vintage is “really cool.” Stamper said vintage things are becoming more popular again with the col-
lege-aged crowd. “It’s coming back,” Stamper said. Even with several existing vintage and thrift stores in Muncie, including Vintage Shoppe Thrift & Gift, Off-Broadway Antique Mall, Caldwell Antique Mall & Flea Market, Old Sixty-Seven Antique Mall, Frankie D’s Flea Market, Crazy Eddie’s Flea Market and two Goodwill stores, Michael doesn’t view these as competition to his business. “We need even more places like this,” he said. “I’m excited when new ones come up.”
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COOK AND BELLE’S ANNUAL CHRISTMAS SHOW
The show will center around helping the community, and country singers will perform. For more information, visit the Muncie Calendar website. WHERE: Cornerstone Center for the Arts, 520 E. Main St. WHEN: 7 p.m. Saturday PRICE: $10 general, $15 for VIP seating, in addition to a non-perishable food item.
‘MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET’ The classical holiday movie is brought to life in a musical from the writer of “The Music Man.” Some of the featured songs include “Pinecones and Hollyberries” and “It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas.” Visit munciecivic.org for more information. WHERE: Muncie Civic Theatre, 216 E. Main St. WHEN: Dec. 4-19, various show times PRICE: Students and children, $11; Adults, $16
BENNY: | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “Some of the ideas or themes that were advanced in the report were things that were already in place or some things that the university is already working on or underway,” Gibson said. For example, undergraduate admissions has already undertaken building relationships with high schools with predominately underrepresented minority student populations and creating a pathway to Ball State, according to the report. Students also recommended the creation of an advisory council of students from multicultural organizations
RINARD ORCHID GREENHOUSE HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE The Rinard Orchid Greenhouse will feature orchids and plants for the holiday season. Guests can enjoy coffee, hot chocolate, refreshments and a silent auction. The BSU student glass guild will also have a glass-blowing demonstration in the Marilyn K. Glick Center for Glass. There will even be a trolley taking guests to the Enchanted Luminaria Walk at Minnetrista. For more information, visit the Muncie Calendar website. WHERE: The Rinard Orchid Greenhouse WHEN: 6-9 p.m. Sunday PRICE: Free
The Charles W. Brown Planetarium will have multiple showings of “The Christmas Star,” which will look at various explanations of the Star of Bethlehem — whether it is an exploding star, a comet or another natural occurrence in the sky. WHERE: Charles W. Brown Planetarium in the Cooper Physical Science Building WHEN: Friday and Saturday, Dec. 11-12, various show times PRICE: Free and open to the public
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Get in the Christmas spirit with this year’s production of America’s Hometown Band, a community group including Ball State and East Central Indiana performers. The Ball State website advertises this year’s program featuring a jazz band and special guest David Robbins, Wizard of the Xylophone. Tickets are free for BSU students at the John R. Emens Auditorium Box Office. For more information go to bsu.edu/emens. WHERE: Emens Auditorium WHEN: 6:30 p.m. Sunday
Downtown Muncie is organizing Light Up DWNTWN to kick off the holiday season with many events through the evening. The Community Tree Lighting Ceremony will take place at Canan Commons. This will also be the location of the inaugural “Holiday Yart” featuring 50 artists selling their creations in a heated tent, as stated on the Muncie Downtown website. There will be ice carving, ice skating, fire pits, concessions and much more. For more details, visit downtownmuncie.org. WHERE: Various locations in Downtown Muncie WHEN: 5-8 p.m. Thursday
to serve as a sounding board to administrators. Gibson said a multicultural advisory board has been created, which Engle leads. He said they use the feedback from the board to prioritize the recommended solutions. “Certainly the recommendations that appear to be more feasible, we certainly seize the opportunity to implement those as well as to accelerate those recommendations that were already in place or underway,” Gibson said. Those objectives that are more challenging and could take longer to implement include curricular changes and the relocation of the multicultural center, Gibson said. By Dec. 16, Gibson said he and Beth Messner, as-
sociate professor for communication studies will understand each of the teams’ plans, what they need to accomplish for each objective and possible opportunities and challenges they may face. “Our timeline encourages the implementation of more feasible recommendations as soon as possible and certainly by the end of the Spring 2016 semester,” Gibson said. As previously reported, students proposed the solutions in the report. There are also four students who serve on the Council for Diversity and Inclusion. Leslie Thomas, a junior communication studies major and a member of the council, said he is pleased with the progress that is being made.
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Angel Tree gives people chance to donate presents
Put on your ugly Christmas sweater and run or walk this year’s Ugly Sweater 5k. There will be a costume contest and refreshments. Participants receive a shirt and finisher medal. For registration information, visit americamultisport.com/ uglysweater5k. WHERE: Muncie High School, 801 N. Walnut St. WHEN: 9 a.m. Dec. 19 PRICE: $25
Students who wanted to give back to the community this holiday season had the opportunity to buy gifts for underprivileged children in the area. For the 23rd time, Student Voluntary Services put up an Angel Tree. Students “adopted” an angel with a child’s name on it from the tree, learned about their situation and were tasked with buying presents for the child. SVS worked with the Department of Child Services to find children for the tree, and most recipients are foster children. SVS President Rachel Johnson, a senior social work major, said this event helps children who may not receive presents otherwise. Volunteers are asked to spend a minimum of $25 on the gift. “This can greatly impact the amount of things they get,” Johnson said. “We know this year someone is bringing in a bike, ... so some people really go all out, which is really, really cool.” Johnson said there are more than 213 gifts this year for the Angel Tree. Although there are no more angels to adopt, SVS is still looking for students to donate gift cards, clothes, books, toys or wrapping paper for the Angel Tree. “We’re always looking for books for kids; it’s always nice to give them more than one,” Johnson said. Junior Rayvon Williams, a child life specialist and Spanish major, was one of many students who partici-
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Student Voluntary Services put up an Angel Tree for the 23rd time this year. Students “adopted” an angel with a child’s name on it from the tree and bought gifts the children.
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L.A. Pittenger Student Center pated in the Angel Tree service. She is passionate about giving to those in need and uses some of her free time to work with children. “It really warms my heart to see that ... simple visits, words and gifts make a huge difference in a child’s life,” Williams said. Williams said the project will impact the foster children especially. Because the children will not know who bought their gifts, this “will make them feel loved.” “These children do not have a family. It is crucial that we do everything in our power to make them special and loved, especially around the holidays, as I feel this could be the hardest time for them,” Williams said.
‘RUDOLF THE REDNOSED REINDEER’ The tale of Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer comes to the stage in a spectaclefilled musical, as seen on the Ball State website. Tickets are free in advance for Ball State students or $12 at the door. For more information, go to bsu.edu/emens. WHERE: Emens Auditorium WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 10 PRICE: Adults, $25 - $35; Students, free in advance or $12 at the door
BALL STATE’S HOLIDAY CHORAL CONCERTS Enjoy holiday music from the Chamber Choir, Concert Choir, University Singers, Statesmen, Women’s Chorus and University Choral Union. WHERE: Sursa Hall WHEN: 3 p.m. Dec. 13 PRICE: $5; free for students in advance at the Emens Box Office. “I’m learning a lot from watching the faculty work with other faculty to come up with fresh ideas on how they can promote diversity and inclusion on campus,” Thomas said. “I think if faculty members continue to show this drive around the Ball State community and strive for unity, these initiatives can be really effective.” Thomas was nominated for the council in September. He said he enjoys representing the student body when it comes to important issues. “From a student perspective, just having the opportunity to have a say on certain issues is great, because most students just want the administration to hear their voices,” Thomas said.
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David Letterman donated his career memorabilia to Ball State. The “David Letterman Experience” will be displayed in the David Letterman Communication and Media Building on campus.
LETTERMAN DONATES MEMORABILIA A new chapter in the David Letterman legacy at Ball State will open soon when the school receives memorabilia from the talk show host’s storied career. President Paul W. Ferguson announced the “David Letterman Experience” during the Dave at Ball State event Monday at John R. Emens Auditorium. It will be displayed in the David Letterman Communication and Media Building on campus. The new Letterman Experience will feature his Emmy Awards and will include props and pieces from the sets of “Late Night” and “Late Show.” “In his return home tonight, we all celebrate his national legacy as well as a new chapter of this storied relationship between Ball State University and David Letterman,” Ferguson said in a press release. Letterman’s appearance was his first at Ball State since retiring from television. His guests for the evening were film directors Spike Jonze and Bennett Miller. Since his time as a student at Ball State, Letterman has been a big part of the university. He has created a scholarship for students, helped fund the creation of the campus radio station and created a lecture series in his name, among other contributions. “I’m so lucky to have been invited back. I want to thank everybody here, everybody on campus and the people who run this university,” Letterman said of the gift. “It’s an honor to maintain this association, so thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.” Letterman coming hit home for Libby Hesslar, a telecommunications audio major. Hesslar works for Ball State’s student radio station, WCRD, and said Letterman inspired her to get into radio. She said she appreciates Ball State’s emphasis on student media and getting field experience before graduating. Hesslar said she feels Letterman’s legacy is still prominent at Ball State—making her time here a real Letterman experience. “I have so many of my classes just in the David Letterman Building, and just walking around upstairs and knowing that building is there because of him—it really makes me proud to know that he was here and how much he’s helped,” she said. – STAFF REPORTS
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For the Ball State football team, the season is over. However, senior wide receiver Jordan Williams will be playing in the National Football League Players Association Collegiate Bowl. The game gives NFL prospects an opportunity to showcase their skills to NFL scouts. Last season, there were nearly 200 NFL scouts, player personal staff, general managers and head coaches who attended practices and games while conducting interviews during the week of events. The NFLPA is the primary resource for the business side of football. The Collegiate Bowl serves as an introduction to professional football. For an entire week, participants will experience how to succeed in the NFL and in their post-football careers. Former Cardinal and current New Orleans Saints wide receiver Willie Snead is confident in Williams’ ability to move to the next level. “He’s a big guy, he’s fast, he’s athletic. He’s one of the top receivers coming out this season,” Snead said. “He’s basically setting himself up for success, being a draft pick and maybe making somebody’s roster and contributing to somebody’s teams.” Williams accepted his invitation to play after closing out his fourth and final season as
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Senior wide receiver Jordan Williams will be playing in the National Football League Players Association Collegiate Bowl.
a Ball State Cardinal, after the team finished 3-9 this season. He finished his career ranked fourth career alltime among Cardinals with 200 receptions and 2,723 receiving yards. He also finished third in touchdown catches with 24, just two behind Snead’s record. “Ever since he’s stepped up at Ball State he has always wanted to be that guy, like he is now,” Snead said. During his senior season, Williams accumulated 920 receiving yards with 72 receptions and eight touchdowns. During week four, Ball State took on the thenranked No. 17 Northwestern Wildcats, where Williams caught eight passes for 133 yards and two touchdowns. This game was the first of three consecutive weeks where he caught for more than 100 yards per game. Coverage of the fifth annual NFLPA Collegiate Bowl from California State University Dominguez Hills will be on ESPN2 on Jan. 23, with kickoff set for 6 p.m.
Ball State men’s basketball won its fifth consecutive game, topping Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis in a 61-58 home victory that came down to the wire. The Cardinals had a 3-point lead after sophomore guard Francis Kiapway sank a pair of free throws with 2.3 seconds left on the clock. Muncie Central alumnus Nick Osborne, an IUPUI junior, caught the inbound pass just past half-court and quickly passed to senior guard Mason Archie at the center of the court. Archie’s shot beat the buzzer but hit the lower left corner of the
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“When you see that for the first time, it definitely changes your whole personality — going and physically seeing poverty instead of just talking about it or seeing it on TV,” he said. Visiting the sugarcane village allowed the team to sit back and reflect on the opportunities they have in the United States. “I think seeing how joyful they are in their circumstances kind of makes you think, ‘Man, look at what I’ve got,’” Stayton said. “Sometimes, I’m not as thankful as I should be.” The eye-opening experiences continued as Ball State competed against professional baseball affiliate teams in the Dominican. Ball State played splitsquad games against the
backboard to seal the Ball State victory. Senior forward Bo Calhoun credited the victory, along with Saturday’s 3-point win against Valparaiso, to offseason training. “Last year, a lot of our games came down to the last minute — we couldn’t finish,” Calhoun said. “We took that into the summertime, focused on that, and it’s showing now.” Throughout the night, the Cardinals limited the Jaguars to 38.7 percent from the floor, in large part because of 10 team blocks. Freshman forward Trey Moses totaled four blocks while junior forward Franko House, redshirt senior guard Jeremiah Davis and 7-foot-1 redshirt senior center Nate Wells recorded two each. Junior guard Ryan Weber, who led the Cardinals with 12 points, credited the interior presence of the team,
Mets’ academy team on Thanksgiving Day. Team A beat the Mets’ affiliate 2-0 and Team B tied 2-2 before being treated to turkey in the academy’s cafeteria. Before the games, Ozzie Virgil, Sr. — the first Dominican to play Major League Baseball — spoke to the team about the academy’s intense schedule. This inspired the Cardinals on the field. “In the end, we’re all competing for the same thing — to play professional baseball,” Stayton said. “They’re 100 percent dedicated to professional baseball, and you’re like, ‘Man, I don’t work half as hard as they do. I probably should.’” After the games and the meal, the Cardinals visited an orphanage, Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (Our Little Brothers and Sisters). “They were just born in the wrong place — that’s all
which allowed Ball State to defend on the perimeter. “It’s not like we’re letting guys go right past us, but we kinda know if they get a step on us. … We’ve got guys like [Moses] and [Wells] and our big guys that can step over and make plays on the ball,” Weber said. “It definitely is a confidence boost on the defense and gives our team the freedom to get out and pressure a little bit more.” With 6:32 remaining in the second half, Davis came flying in from behind IUPUI freshman T.J. Henderson and slammed the ball off the glass. Sophomore guard Jeremie Tyler recovered the block and promptly scored 3 points with 6:23 on the clock to extend lead to 50-40. It was Tyler, not junior guard Naiel Smith, that saw more minutes late in the game, a decision head coach James Whitford made based
it is, that’s the only difference,” Stayton said. “It’s not because they’re not smarter or talented or anything … It makes you just want to love on ‘em because that’s all you can really do.” On Saturday, Ball State took on a pair of Dominican teams, defeating the Escogido Reserve Squad 9-0 and dropping a tight game to the Dominican Republic Naval Academy team 5-4. Stayton said the military squad’s upbeat demeanor was contagious. Maloney boasted on the atmosphere during the games. “When we went to the game, the crowd was electric like no other,” he said. “I’ve been to World Series games, I’ve been to American League championship games, and there’s electricity at those games, but this is like a different kind of excitement. This is like patriotism.”
on the circumstance. “We have a lead and we’re going to try to use a little clock at that point and we’re going to be in a position where we need someone to make a play late, and that [Tyler] does really well,” Whitford said. “That’s why we went with [Tyler] down the stretch despite going with [Smith] for the majority of the game, because we thought [Smith] played better, but [Tyler] fit the need better at that time.” Ball State was outrebounded by IUPUI 42-35, and despite the win, Whitford said his team could play even better. “I was proud of our team for not playing our best and still managing to eke it out by defending at a really high level and competing down the stretch,” Whitford said. Ball State’s next game is at 2 p.m. Saturday as it hosts New Orleans University.
On the final day of the trip, the Cardinals hosted the camp before heading back to Muncie. “I think at the end of the day when you look at your collegiate experience, of all the games that we play and all the great teams we play and the championship that we already won with this group that’s juniors now ... I can promise you that one of the things they’ll be talking about 20 years from now will be that experience of the Dominican trip,” Maloney said. After the bags were packed and the team headed back to the airport, Stayton recounted the young boy’s excitement when receiving his new glove, he couldn’t help but smile. “We were driving away to the airport and we looked out to the field,” he said. “He was out there playing with his new glove.”
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