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Franko House is greeted by his fiancee Morgan Jantzi (not pictured) and their son Carter after every game, whether it is home or away. Morgan Jantzi and Carter attend the games with her mother, Michelle Jantzi. “He’ll be there, cheering me on or sleeping, I don’t really know,” House said. Shown above, House holds Carter after the Dec. 3 game against IUPUI.
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Ball State men's basketball player who went from forward to father
After practice on Thanksgiving Day last year, Ball State men’s basketball head coach James Whitford pulled each player and coach into a huddle. He instructed each one of them to go around and share what they were thankful for. Many of the responses were teamrelated, as the Cardinals were off to one of their hottest starts in recent memory. But then-junior forward Franko House had something else on his mind. He was thinking about his long-time girlfriend Morgan Jantzi, and the news he learned a few weeks before. She was pregnant. See HOUSE, page 4A
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The Counseling Center announced earlier this month that it will no longer take any new patients for the rest of the semester. With a 14 percent increase in requests for services in the last year, all available appointment slots have been filled.
Counseling Center stops taking new patients until January Allie Kirkman Assistant News Editor
Before college, Kora Wilson didn’t question her own mental health. The junior journalism graphics major didn’t stress academically and was “pretty normal.” She was a 4.0 student. She was involved with extracurriculars, played two sports, volunteered and had a big friend group. She kept busy but wasn’t worried. That all changed her freshman year when she came to Ball State. “The transition was not something I expected to be so drastic,” Wilson said. “It shook me.” Wilson began to realize being “emo” in high school — along with how active she was — wasn’t just a stage, but a distraction. There were actual problems she hadn’t really thought about before.
See COUNSELING, page 3A
Percent of requested services increases 14 percent from 2015
LAFOLLETTE
Moving in once is hard, but some students have had to move twice this year. PG 3A
OPINION
Our columnist reflects on his time at Ball State as graduation approaches. PG 2A
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DRESSEMBER
Find out why members of the International Justice Mission are wearing dresses all December.
Robbie Moscato-Goodpaster Daily News Reporter Whether you call Muncie home or not, there is something here for everyone this break. From a holiday light exhibit to help you get into the Christmas spirit to a dance party to help you welcome in the new year, check out just some of what Muncie will be offering this season.
GRESHAM DRIVE-THRU LIGHT EXHIBIT 6:30-9:30 P.M. DEC. 16,17 AND 18.
Squeeze in the car with friends and family and stay warm as you enjoy the magical scene of Christmas lights on the Suzanne Gresham Center campus at 3620 W. White River Blvd.
UGLY CHRISTMAS SWEATER PARTY 9 P.M. DEC. 16-2 A.M. DEC. 17
Head over to Mark III Tap Room at 306 S. Walnut St. with your friends and with your ugly Christmas sweater to compete for the ugliest Christmas sweater award at 11:30 p.m. With a DJ and holiday drink specials, this is a gettogether you won’t want to miss.
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Opinion/Features
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Senior shares farewell sentiments, experiences When I took my first steps on campus at Ball State three-and-ahalf short years ago, I didn’t even want to be there. My heart was set on somewhere else. JAKE FOX Every college kid wants their is a senior freedom, to get away from journalism major home and meet a new crowd and writes somewhere else. That somewhere “What the Fox for me was Butler. I visited the Says” for the campus in Indianapolis when Daily News. I was a senior at AlexandriaHis views do Monroe High School, and I left not necessarily that day knowing I wanted to be agree with a Bulldog. It was an hour away from home those of the (the perfect distance, in my mind), newspaper. seemed to have a good journalism Write to Jake at program and had a prestigious jkfox@bsu.edu. basketball team for me to root for. What else could I have asked for? But for one reason or another, that didn’t work out. In the back of my mind I knew it probably wouldn’t, but I was still bummed. And being the stubborn, immature kid I was, I tried to ignore my parents every time they tried to get me to look at another school. On a whim, I decided to go to Ball State. And it has turned out to be the best decision I’ve ever made. Truth be told, I didn’t really know what to expect. My high school graduating class was 82, so coming to a school with 20,000+ was a little intimidating to say the least. I stayed in my own little bubble first semester. I didn’t make a lot of new friends and went home almost every weekend. I went home for Winter Break knowing something was missing from my life. This is why I didn’t want to come here, I remember thinking to myself. Everything changed when I had to go to the CCIM SuperParty for a class. As I walked back and forth through the halls of the Art and Journalism Building, looking for someone nice enough to interview for a story, I was approached by someone from the Ball State Daily News.
The rest, as they say, is history. I’ve worked with the Daily News for three years now as a sports writer, managing editor and everything in between. I wanted to be a broadcaster coming into college. But I started to believe in myself as a writer working with the Daily News, and my classes reinforced that belief. I’ve been fortunate enough to win some awards for my writing. Getting involved with the journalism department at Ball State has been that missing piece for me. I’ve met some of my very best friends in this major, and have good relationships with a lot of the faculty members. I’ve been provided with more opportunities over the past three years than I could have ever imagined. I got to take a last-second trip over spring break to Los Angeles, and interview Team USA athletes in Beverly Hills. I got to go to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August to cover the Olympic Games. Seriously? Very few professionals get to do that. And those are just a few of many examples. Ball State forced me to step outside of my comfort zone, and I found out who I am and who I want to be in the process. Hard to believe there was a time I didn’t want to go there. Even harder to believe I’m graduating this month. I’m going to miss this place. It’s become my home. I’ve met so many great people at Ball State, and they all mean a lot to me. I couldn’t have accomplished all of this in three-and-a-half years without those people, or my parents who live just 25 minutes down the highway. I don’t know yet where life will take me after graduation, but this time I’m ready, and know what to expect. So for that I thank you, Ball State. As I take my last steps on campus as a student from now until next Saturday, there’s no place I’d rather be.
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Continued from page 1A HOMETOWN FAMILY CHRISTMAS 5:30-7:30 P.M. DEC. 17
Come out to John R. Emens Auditorium and show your support for the America's Hometown Band, which provides the Muncie community with many free concerts throughout the year. Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and free for children. Free parking is available at the Emens and Sursa parking structures nearby.
'DIE HARD' — AN AW YEAH CHRISTMAS PARTY 6-8 P.M. DEC. 17
Join Aw Yeah Comics for a screening of the movie "Die Hard." The party will begin at 6 and the movie will start at 8 p.m. There will be a photo booth and much more.
'JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT' 7-9:30 P.M. DEC. 8-11, 15-18
Come enjoy this beloved musical at the Muncie Civic Theatre. The show is running from Dec. 8 to 11 and 15 to 18. Thursday, Friday and Saturday shows start at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $18 for adults, $15 for groups of 10 or more and $13 for students and children.
OPEN BLUES JAM 8 P.M. DEC. 22
Hosted every Thursday at Valhalla-Downtown, come out for the open blues jam. This free event is for those 21 and older. Sign-up starts at 7 p.m. and the stage opens at 8 p.m. Gain some liquid courage with their $2.50 pints of Two Hearted and their $3 pints of Noble Order Beer.
DANCE INTO THE FUTURE: FICKLE PEACH NYE 17 9 A.M. DEC. 31- 2 A.M. JAN.1
Come out to The Fickle Peach dressed up in your future look and dance away the year with your friends. With great music and lights, this is the place to be on New Year's Eve from Dec. 31 at 9 p.m. to Jan. 1 until 2 a.m.
NEW YEAR’S EVE DRAG SHOW DANCE PARTY 8 P.M. DEC. 31- 3 A.M. JAN. 1
Come out to Be Here Now from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m. and enjoy a Drag Bash you won’t want to miss, hosted by Venus and Diana Thirst. The show starts at 9 p.m., followed by an open dance floor. The show is all ages and the cover charge for 21 and up is $5, and $10 for 20 and under. There will be drink specials and a chance to earn prizes in a raffle contest. Contact Robbie Moscato-Goodpaster with any questions or concerns at rvmoscatogoo@bsu.edu.
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LaFollette Hall closes at year's end Residents of Woody/Shales move out following fall semester Evan Hatfield Daily News Reporter The fifth floor of the Woody/Shales Hall in LaFollette Complex is getting closer and closer to looking like a ghost town. The university made an announcement in January that the two halls would be completely closed this year, but a large freshman class required a partial reopening. Since August, Housing and Residence Life has been making plans to continue the closure of the co-ed floor. Students living on the floor have been moving to other dorms on campus since October, and as of Nov. 17, only five students out of an initial 49 had not yet started the process of moving. Cindy Miller, the assistant director of marketing, communications and technology for Housing and Residence Life, said the moving has been smooth. Students moving have had to meet with a hall director to find a new room and schedule a day and time to move out. “Many of the students who wanted to move have completed the process,” Miller said. Students were mostly able to find new roommates, but there has been at least one surprise in the process. “A roommate pair found an entirely empty room within our residence hall
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She suffered from depression and anxiety. Overwhelmed with the transition and her mental health status, Wilson turned to Ball State's Counseling Center for help. “It was very stiff and almost unfriendly,” Wilson said. “I didn't feel satisfied or helped when going to talk to the counselor." And now, the Counseling Center has announced they will no longer be taking any new patients for the remainder of the semester, until January. “We have filled all of the available new appointment slots for this semester and so we have no openings to take on new clients before the end of the semester,” said Ellen Lucas, associate director of outreach consulting psychology for the Counseling Center in an email. “The freshman class is larger this year and the Counseling Center has seen a 14 percent increase in request for services over last year.” Currently, Ball State has over 21,000 undergraduates enrolled and only seven full-time therapists students can make appointments with. The understaffed center has been an issue for the university as the student population and requests for services continues to grow. “It felt like they were only trying to wind down the hour, instead of helping me find out why I felt the way I did," Wilson said. "And I had stated in the beginning I wasn't a fan of medication, but by the second session they were trying to put me on medicine. It just felt disconnected, not at all personal, and very off-putting.” Although she felt like the university had good intentions, Wilson said she felt like she was just another percentile because of the lack of staff within the Counseling Center. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, one in four students have a diagnosable illness. Fifty percent have been so anxious they struggled in school, and in 2013, 36.4 percent of college students said they experienced some level of depression, according to
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Housing and Residence Life has been planning since the start of the year to close the fifth floor of Woody/Shales Hall in LaFollette Complex. Students living on the floor have been moving to other dorms on campus since October.
“A lot of the girls are ready to move out as soon as possible,” Parker said before moving to Johnson. Moving also meant losing her resident assistant, Hannah. “She went to far lengths to get the girls to join in the hall activities,” Parker said. “She enjoyed her job, and when we found out we had to move, I could tell she was upset to lose us.” But the actual move was not so difficult. Miller said several students got assistance, and Parker added "it wasn’t that bad of a process." The new environment, however, did mean that making friends became slightly more difficult. “In 'Shwoody,' most of the rooms kept their doors open — people could just pop their heads in and say hi or start a conversation,” Parker said. “People [in Johnson] tend to keep their door closed, but if you do knock they are more than welcome to open up.” Not everything was a downside, though. Parker said the rooms in Woody/ Shales seemed like "prisons in a way," but her new room in Johnson feels "more like a home.” “I don’t really like change,” Parker said. “But the move did help me learn to adjust quicker.” The remaining students are expected to move out by the end of the semester..
system,” Miller said. “Overall, the process has gone quite well.” But even so, moving has been bittersweet for students like Alexis Parker, a freshman early childhood and early special education major, who moved out of Woody/Shales into Johnson Complex Oct. 14.
“I wanted to move into Johnson originally,” Parker said. “When I got to know the girls on my floor and make friends, I didn’t want to move … as soon as we moved in we were a good group of girls that got along well.” Many of the girls took well to moving out, Parker said.
a survey conducted by the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors. Depression is also the No. 1 reason students drop out of school. In late fall of 2015, Joan Todd, the university’s spokesperson, told the Daily News the Counseling Center had been operating understaffed, but was in the process of hiring. Just earlier this year, Todd announced that the Counseling Center had filled all of their empty positions. In addition to the seven full-time therapists, the Counseling Center also staffs one staff counselor, three fulltime doctoral interns and 14 part-time graduate students. While positions are filled, the demand for services are too high for the center to accommodate all the students seeking help, with exception to those who may be experiencing suicidal thoughts and may be identified as crisis cases. The announcement of the Counseling Center no longer accepting new patients, has stirred mixed emotions. “It is s–ty because we pay for a few sessions within our tuition,” said Ricky Dunn, a freshman psychology major. “That is one of the few perks we get as students of Ball State and the fact that they want to say that they don't want to take new patients is like the school just backstabbing us. “I paid for those sessions and if I want to come in on some random day of the week because I just need to talk or actually need help, then I want to feel like I can. Not be told that they can't help because they aren't accepting any new patients. If there is a shortage of psychologists and psychiatrists, then they need to hire a few more or actually make a building for them. I mean, we have multiple gyms for athletic people. Why can't there be a few locations for people that need help?” With finals coming up and seasonal depression becoming more prominent, Wilson was disappointed with the news. “As someone who actually could really use the help of the resource of talking to a counselor/psychiatrist, it's frustrating and scary,” Wilson said. “Questioning my own mental health and being told I cannot see someone until January scares me. So after pushing and pushing and you finally as a person
really think about how you are, it sucks when you realize mentally you aren't OK, but don't have the resources you were told you always had. If I'm paying for something, for this resource, I should have better access to it.” With semester break just days away, students like Kaylee Kessling, a sophomore creative writing major, believes it's understandable and said “there's really just not time for them to take patients right now.” “Intake and first appointment are typically done in different weeks, and even though the counseling the center provides is considered to be more short-term, intake and first appointment wouldn't help anything, honestly,” Kessling said. “While students who are patients are still 'kept' after the break, semester kind of provides a reset point.” Kessling said she also believes people underestimate how many people the center serves. “The structure that's used, with intake separate from first appointment, would make accepting new patients this close to the end of the year incredibly difficult, if not impossible,” she said. There are sources off campus, however, including the Center for Psychological Development, located 2205 N. Wheeling Ave. In fact, after the Counseling Center stopped taking in new patients, Sharon Ezop, a licensed psychologist who works for the center, was contacted. “Someone from there had called us and said that they worked there and they were full, [and they] wanted to see if we were accepting new clients,” Ezop said. “I told them yes and gave them some more information They were wanting to have our information so if they couldn’t get somebody in, they could refer them to us.” Even before the call, Ezop said the center, which staffs 10 therapists, serves Ball State students and staff. On average, Ezop said it takes one to two weeks to schedule an appointment with the center. At the Counseling Center, the staff is scheduling a month out for a new appointment and current clients are typically seen every other week, Lucas said. While Ezop said she believes not being able to have the resources at the
university could be added on stress on top of those with mental health disorders, the university is doing well with providing students with some help, even if it's off campus. Even though some may not be happy with the actions of the center, the reality is that universities are not legally bound or required to provide counseling services for students at all, said Jagdish Khubchandani, an associate professor of health science in the Department of Nutrition and Health Science. “A majority of the college counseling centers in the U.S. maintain a right to deny treatment of a student if their mental health needs exceed the center’s treatment resources,” Khubchandani said. “I am not sure about the latest happenings at Ball State, but universities nationwide are reconsidering their role and using strategies to manage caseloads and deal with funding and staffing challenges like using group therapy, limit the number of sessions, limit the time per session, using brief therapy, referring to external sources and utilizing doctoral students as counselors.” Khubchandani said he believes colleges nationwide “need constant support from administration, innovative strategies to address our student needs, and continuous evaluation of the outcome of services provided.” While she won't be getting help from the Counseling Center any time soon — and she doesn’t want to since her first experience — Wilson is “steamrolling forward.” “Luckily I'm the type of person who can keep going and distract themselves from thinking about the darker sides of my mental health, but not everyone is good at that,” Wilson said. “I know there are some students who can't do what I do — essentially distract yourself from the negative. "Some of those students truly sincerely need that help, that voice," she said. "I hope for their sake that the university really looks at this and makes sure every student has the
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Reagan Allen // DN
Contact Evan Hatfield with any questions or concerns at erhatfield@bsu.edu.
ability to talk to someone.”
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After each game, Morgan Jantzi waits for her fiance Franko House to walk out of the locker room. As soon as he walks out, it’s like he’s just come home, immediately picking up Carter and holding him in his arms. On days when Jantzi doesn’t have classes, she spends the day with Carter and Titan, their rescue Siberian Husky, in the home they share just off campus.
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Both Franko House and Morgan Jantzi have tattoos on their left forearm for their son Carter. Each of their tattoos include his name, the day he was born (June 20) and a rose, the birth flower for June. The two have set a date to be married on June 10, 2017, just before their son’s first birthday.
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Franko House and Morgan Jantzi learned they were going to have their first child together around Halloween last year. The first person to know was Jantzi’s mother, Michelle Jantzi. After going to hear the heartbeat for the first time, House called his family to tell them the good news; screams of excitement filled the phone. From there, House told three of his coaches, and eventually his team at a team meeting.
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Breanna Daugherty // DN
Franko House holds Carter as he watches “Paw Patrol,” his favorite show. Morgan Jantzi said they have the same three DVDs they cycle through, but Carter loves it every time. House and Jantzi said they plan to raise their first son Carter to have an active life, like the both of them were raised. They’re open to any sport he’s interested in. “So whatever makes him happy, we’ll go with,” House said.
When Franko House comes home, the fatherly routine of playing, bathing, feeding and putting Carter to bed begins. What is left of the night is spent on doing any homework he and his fiancee Morgan Jantzi, who’s a student at Ivy Tech, may have.
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The screams and sheer excitement helped ease some of the early tension, turning the nerves into enthusiasm. But even with support from both sides of the family, House knew there was still one more family to tell — the Ball State men’s basketball team. He first approached Thornton, his position coach, and a man he considers a big brother. After practice one day, House pulled him aside and said, “Hey, we need to talk.” “I’ll never forget it. We sat in the end zone of the gym and he told me that Morgan was pregnant,” Thornton said. “I hugged him and said, ‘Hey man, it’s going to change your life.’”
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As each man on the court spoke, it was soon associate head coach Jason Grunkemeyer’s turn to address the team. He had recently discovered that his wife was pregnant with their third child. “At that point, obviously I knew my wife was pregnant, but we hadn’t said anything to anybody yet and we were at the point where we were going to start telling people,” Grunkemeyer said. “I said, ‘I’m thankful for my family, and we’re getting to ready to have another baby.’” Assistant coach Brian Thornton was in a similar position and chimed in with news of his own wife’s pregnancy. While everyone on the floor cheered, House could only think about his future. No one knew just how much the twoyear starter’s life was going to change. “I was too nervous, I wasn’t going to come out and say it there,” House said. “In the back of my head I’m thinking, ‘Man, I’m about to have a baby too and they don’t know.’”
THE INITIAL SHOCK The only person who knew of Morgan Jantzi’s pregnancy during the first 10 weeks was her mother, Michelle Jantzi. Around Halloween in 2015, Morgan Jantzi began to feel sick in the mornings and eventually decided to go with House to buy a pregnancy test. The test confirmed the couple’s feeling — they were going to have a baby. “We were just so scared and nervous, and I didn’t even know what to do,”
Morgan Jantzi said. “I didn’t know what doctor’s office to contact. I didn’t know anything about it.” It was mid-November when the couple decided they needed to let somebody know. So they set up a dinner with Michelle Jantzi. As they sat down, they were choking on their words, not knowing exactly what to say or how to say it. Eventually the words came out and there were endless questions running through Michelle Jantzi’s mind. She knew all too well how hard the future was going to be for the couple. “When they first told me, I was scared for them,” Michelle Jantzi said. “I kept thinking, ‘How is this going to work? How are they going to be able to finish college? How will Franko’s coaches take it? How will his teammates take it?’ That lasted for just a little bit, maybe a day or two, and then I saw how excited they were, and after that it was really exciting.” For the next couple of weeks, everything remained the same. House continued his season and the couple began planning the next steps with Michelle Jantzi alongside for guidance. At the 10-week mark, both House and Morgan Jantzi went to IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital for their first doctor’s appointment. “That’s when we went in and heard the heartbeat for the first time,” Morgan Jantzi said. “Then we were really excited. So we were like, ‘OK, let’s go tell the rest of our family.’” Being a few hours away from their hometown of Elkhart, the couple informed the rest of their families over the phone.
BECOMING FOCUSED After he broke the news to Thornton, House went to Grunkemeyer’s office, knowing that each of the three men were going through the same thing at the same time. “I think it adds a real extra layer to what a typical coach-player relationship is,” Grunkemeyer said. “His son was born about a month after [Thornton’s and my] kids were born, and so we’re all kind of in the same phase of life. Any time you’re ready to become a father it’s a big deal, and it made us all kind of bond at that time.” Normally, coaches would worry about how a Division-l athlete and full-time student would handle becoming a father, but none of that seemed to be of too much concern for anyone on the coaching staff. “I think a lot of times when you have somebody who’s young like Franko, have a child certainly earlier than planned, you can be overcome with worry as an
adult,” head coach James Whitford said. “In Franko’s case, I didn’t really have that because he’s in a relationship with somebody he deeply, deeply cares about. He’s incredibly responsible as a person, mature well beyond his years. “There wasn’t any part of me that felt like Franko wasn’t ready for it and couldn’t handle both elements of preparing for his career and be a father. I knew he could.” And Whitford was right. House’s coaches described him as someone who is focused, and having a child didn’t inhibit that mindset — it enhanced it. “Honestly, I think it helped me,” House said. “It gave me the best chance to have my best season last year. I feel like I was more focused than I ever have been; I was determined. … I had to figure out what I’m going to do after college, whether it’s play basketball and even after that.” The first step in House’s newfound focus was cutting off social media, a strategy he took from Jimmy Butler of the Chicago Bulls, who went without cable or Internet for an entire summer. Instead of checking his phone for 30 minutes at a time, House would go to the gym and work on his game. It paid off — during the Cardinals’ first 20-win season since 2002, House led the charge with 12.2 points, 5.8 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game. He finished the season first or second on the team in four different statistical categories: points (427), rebounds (202), assists (75) and blocked shots (19). He finished his junior season as an All-Mid-American Conference Second
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After Saturday’s loss to IUPUI (73-62), it was a normal day at the home Franko House and Morgan Jantzi share with their son, Carter. Around 12:30 p.m., House continued his fatherly duties of feeding Carter. Before each bite, House would say, “oh,” “ah” or “Carter” to maintain the child's attention as he ate sweet potatoes and applesauce.
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“There’s no down time for him, and I think he’s had to prioritize his days to make sure that he’s able to check all of the boxes that he needs to. You know, most college kids, even basketball players, have some free time. His free time is now occupied by his responsibilities as a father.”
— Jason Grunkemeyer, Associate head coach
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On their days off together, Franko House and Morgan Jantzi spend their time watching sports or “Paw Patrol,” Carter’s favorite show. Throughout the week, when Jantzi doesn’t have class at Ivy Tech, she spends the day with Carter until House comes home. When they both have class, Carter is dropped off at his aunt’s.
Team selection as well as a MAC AllDefensive Team choice, the only player in the conference last season to receive both accolades. Even with all of that going on, House still made it a point to attend every doctor’s appointment and was there for his fiancee and son. “I had a good support cast because they wanted me to be involved with the ultrasounds, the first heartbeat and all of the little stuff that lot of people who are too busy aren’t able to see,” House said.
NEW ROUTINE At 3:40 p.m. on June 20, 2016, Carter was born. The moment is forever embedded on his parents’ left forearms; both House and Morgan Jantzi got a tattoo following Carter’s birth. An ink clock on House’s arm shows the time his son was born. It’s surrounded by roses —the birth flower for June — a “C” for Carter and a dove signifying endless love. On Morgan Jantzi’s arm, a rose is covered with two ribbons; the top one bears their son’s name and the bottom one reads “VI-XX-XVI” — Carter’s birth date in Roman numerals. Since Carter’s birth, most days are the same for House. He wakes up every morning before classes and helps out in any way he can. That usually includes cleaning bottles, feeding or changing a diaper. After class, he returns to the apartment he and Morgan Jantzi share to see Carter before heading off to practice and workouts, which last until the evening. “There’s no down time for him, and I think he’s had to prioritize his days to make sure that he’s able to check all of the boxes that he needs to,” Grunkemeyer
said. “You know, most college kids, even basketball players, have some free time. His free time is now occupied by his responsibilities as a father.” When House gets back home, he helps feed and bathe Carter, continuing his day as a father. “It’s kind of just like a routine,” Morgan Jantzi said. “As soon as he walks through the door, he picks him up and he’s ready to go and he starts doing everything. … I get Carter all day to myself and once Franko gets back I’m like, ‘Your turn,’ and Franko’s ready to have him again.” After putting Carter to bed, the couple uses what little time they have left to do their schoolwork. Morgan Jantzi, who’s a student at Ivy Tech, sits alongside House each night as they finish their homework together before they go to bed and do it all over again. On game days, the routine is a little different. Ever since House’s high school games at Concord, Morgan Jantzi and her mom have always been in the stands. And at Ball State, the two attend all of the games — even on the road — missing just three in the past two seasons. Now, Carter’s there with them. This season is a little different with Carter traveling with the pair during visits to Worthen, or in the car during road trips. “I enjoy going to the games, but I also enjoy spending times with Morgan and Carter,” Michelle Jantzi said. “So it’s just some mom-and-daughter time and now a grandson too.” It’s an added bonus for House to look into the stands and see his family each game. “I love it,” he said. “I’m glad my son can come and watch me play. … [Morgan] is a great fiancee, and my
son obviously goes to every game with her. He’ll be there, cheering me on or sleeping, I don’t really know.” After every game, the motherdaughter combo stands on the floor, waiting for House to come out of the locker room. Just like when he comes home from practice, he immediately picks up Carter and begins taking care of him. It’s a routine, and Michelle Jantzi is there to watch every moment of it. “The one thing I’m really glad about is to know Franko in two ways: as a basketball player on the court, and when he’s the dad and fiance,” Michelle Jantzi said. “He’s an incredible person, and he’s just taking really good care of his family and it’s very impressive.” MOVING FORWARD Carter has certainly added an extra dimension to House’s life, but as he finishes his last season at Ball State, the goal remains the same — to play professional basketball. “Hopefully I can play overseas, that would be my first goal, just to get a chance to continue playing basketball and doing something that I love,” House said. With the way he’s played up to this point in his career, his coaches said he’s put himself in the right position to continue playing. “I think he’s going to have a chance to play basketball after college, I certainly do,” Whitford said. “He’s doing everything he can to give him the best chance possible, but he’s not one-dimensional in the sense that if that didn’t happen.” This season, House became the 29th
player in Ball State’s history to reach 1,000 career points. In the first seven games of his senior season, he played some of his best collegiate basketball, averaging more points and more rebounds than any other year. Still, professional basketball is one of the hardest industries to get into, which is why House has put his academics and family life first. If playing basketball doesn’t work out, though, coaching is another avenue that interests him. For now, he remains focused on this season. No matter what happens, it’s going to be hard for Ball State to replace someone like House. “I love him. He’s a little brother to me,” Thornton said. “I’m just really proud at how far he’s come and how he’s embraced this responsibility that he has.” While much of House’s future remains uncertain, one thing remains for sure: wherever he goes, Morgan Jantzi and Carter will be there. House and Morgan Jantzi will be married on June 10, 2017, nearly one year after the birth of their first son. This Thanksgiving, House wasn’t with the team — he was with Morgan Jantzi and Carter at home, celebrating the holiday for the first time together as a family in Muncie. Away from the gym, House took time to text Thornton and Grunkemeyer, sharing with them what he was thankful for — to have coaches there for him through it all. Contact Robby General with any questions or concerns at managingeditor@bsudailynews.com.
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Semester Recap PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
TRUMP WINS PRESIDENCY
Kara Berg Crime Reporter
In a twist that many are calling unexpected, Donald Trump has won the presidency. To the evident majority, this means a welcome change for the country. “I think he’s the best guy for the job, for sure,” said Kyle Ballew, a freshman journalism major. “I feel like he just runs so much on emotion … and people would always trash on him for that, but I think that’s good because you can tell at the debates and during his speeches that he means what he says.” Ballew said people want something new, something different for their president. And Trump fits that mold. “Based off him being a billionaire businessman, I feel like he would be good for the economic factor of our country,” Ballew said. “People always want to say, ‘But he’s been bankrupt six times’ … If he’s been bankrupt six times, then he’s pulled himself out of bankruptcy seven times.” He compared Trump to former president Ronald Reagan — an actor turned politician — who people loved. Trump wasn’t Ballew’s first choice, but once he started doing more research and watching the debates, he ended up favoring Trump instead of just not liking Clinton. “I think all the stuff people don’t like about him, I kind of liked,” he said. AN UNEXPECTED TWIST Sean Hildebrand, a political science professor, had given Hillary Clinton a 90 percent chance of winning. He never gave much thought to Trump winning. “It just seemed like the statistics and polls and everything — even with all her trouble with the emails and that kind of stuff, it was still looking like she would be solid,” Hildebrand said. Even the predictions prior to polls closing showed a Clinton victory, but as the night went on, Trump’s lead just kept growing. Trump won the most electoral votes — 276 to Clinton’s 228 — but Clinton won the popular vote by almost 200,000 votes. But Trump prevailed in the end. “Trump is not a bad person,” said Jason Towe, a sophomore finance major. “I’m inspired by his ability to rally people.... People say Trump’s a bad ambassador, but if he was a bad ambassador for his company, he wouldn’t be as successful as he is.” A CRUSHING DISAPPOINTMENT To many, Trump’s victory means they lose their chance to see the first woman president take office. “My eyes are bloodshot, my mind is racing and my body is numb,” Kam Bontrager, a sophomore family and consumer science education major, tweeted as the results poured in. And in another tweet: “I’m sorry people supported racism over equality … [and] sexism over women’s rights.”
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Nothing could wipe the smile off of 6-year-old Max Calhoun’s face. He was ecstatic as he watched grown men and women slam each other into the ring 50 times during Olde Wrestling’s “A Bonanza of Bodyslams,” but every now and then, Max would jump out of his seat and sprint out the door. He had to make sure his 4-yearold sister Reese knew what was going on. “Guys, he just did a bodyslam!” Max would say before sprinting back to his ringside seat. Reese’s little ears couldn’t quite handle the loud banging when bodies hit the floor of the ring or when the crowd erupted into old-fashioned chants of “hogwash” or “huzzah,” so their parents, Rob and Ashley, took turns watching with her from the much quieter hallway of Cornerstone Center for the Arts.
“The system is I give my husband the evil eye, and he comes and switches me out,” Ashley said. Justin Nottke put the show together, and when he saw Reese crying, he grabbed a pennant and gave it to her — all while staying in character as Marion Fontaine, a charismatic bare-knuckle boxer with a thick, furry mustache. “I try to blend professional wrestling with live theater as much as possible,” Nottke said. “Like telling a story in the wrestling ring so it’s not just the athletic aspect of it, but you feel like you’re in a three-act play.” The setting of “A Bonanza of Bodyslams” was the 1920s, featuring characters like The Lobbying Legislators of Anti-Saloon Land, mobsters and moonshiners — though there was an awkward moment when the “drunk” moonshiners came on stage, and Max asked his parents what they were drinking.
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Wrestling character Dr. Jacob Omen takes on Old Timer Jeff King during Olde Wrestling’s Indiana debut event, "A Bonanza of Bodyslams," at Cornerstone Center for the Arts Nov. 19.
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FOUR PEOPLE ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY Within 6 months, multiple men associated with Ball State were arrested for same crime Kara Berg Crime Reporter In just six months, police have arrested four Ball State-affiliated people on charges that they downloaded child pornography — a string that one defense lawyer said was not surprising. Employees Brian Siebenaler, Randal Ray Schmidt and Robert Yadon were all caught with child porn on their campus computers, according to university press releases. Club fencing coach Brian Koby, who is not technically a Ball State employee, was caught at home, according to the probable cause affidavit. However, police have found all cases to be unrelated, said Joan Todd, university spokesperson. To have four cases in this short amount of time and have none them be related is quite unusual, said Robert Perez, a Washington criminal defense attorney who specializes in sex crimes. But it isn’t
surprising to him, either. “There are a lot of people out there looking at these images,” Perez said. “It’s very prevalent, much more than people realize … There’s a tremendous amount of curiosity out there about these visions, these images.” Perez has defended college professors, lawyers and even police officers on charges of child pornography possession. In many cases, they get caught because they don’t realize how exposed they are on their computers, he said. “I think most people believe that when they’re in their private residence looking at their computer, they think no one else can see them,” Perez said. “They don’t think they’re going to get caught, but why they do it on work computers has always baffled me.” Whenever someone downloads or searches for child porn, Internet Service Providers flag and track the IP address, which they report to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. NCMEC then reports it to local police — Indiana State Police, in the case of these four incidents.
For all three individuals caught on campus, University Police Department Chief Jim Duckham said in a press release the investigations began when “a routine review of information security alerted administration that a campus computer was accessing a site with suspicious content.” On campus, because of added security measures, chances of getting caught are even higher, said Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar, a computer and information technology professor at Purdue University. “It could be an impulsivity thing, the need to look at [the porn] in that moment,” Seigfried-Spellar said. “It doesn’t matter where they are … It doesn’t matter that they’re at work, because they don’t think they’re going to get caught.” The distribution of child pornography is increasing, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. But Seigfried-Spellar said it’s hard to tell if that’s actually true because of the spread of the internet. “Think about everyone who has access to the internet, whether someone has
it at home, the library, a friend’s house or at work,” she said. “Anyone who has access to the internet has access to pornography.” There’s also more funding now to catch those who use child pornography, so government task forces and law enforcement are cracking down on the acts. But even though child pornography possession has harsh criminal penalties — anywhere from six months to two and a half years in prison — both Seigfried-Spellar and Perez said possessing child pornography doesn’t automatically mean someone is a pedophile or will molest children. It can be they are just curious, or collect porn and wanted to round out their collection. “It’s like when there is a beheading from terrorists and someone posts a video of it online and millions of people go look at it,” Perez said. “Why? Why would you want to see that? It’s just morbid curiosity.” Contact Kara Berg with any questions or concerns at knberg2@bsu.edu.
MPD arrests 2 students following fatal shooting
Police investigate a homicide that occurred near campus. The victim was found at the Bethel Avenue Apartments complex Kara Berg & Casey Smith Daily News Reporters A Ball State student fatally shot an armed robber at her apartment early Oct. 8 — and was then arrested herself after police said they discovered 30 grams of marijuana and $10,000 in cash. The incident began with a theft of keys at a Friday night video game tournament and ended with a shootout between the student and two robbers breaking into her home at the Bethel Apartments around 6:30 a.m. the next day. Authorities gave this account of the incident, which left two Ball State students facing charges, one man dead and another wounded and charged in the armed robbery: The gaming tournament was held at the apartment of Darjae Houston, a 23-year-old student. Houston noticed her keys were missing after the party, and she woke up a few hours later, at 4:30 a.m. on Saturday, when a masked intruder unlocked the front door to her apartment and began to come in. When she yelled, the intruder ran away. She asked a male friend to come to the apartment for safety, and then was Facetiming with her friend Alicia Tarver when two masked men with handguns came to the door and tried to break in. Houston’s male friend was trying to keep them out when one of the gunmen shot him in the wrist. Authorities, who did not name Houston’s friend, said he was not seriously injured. Police say Houston told them she then grabbed her 9-mm handgun from a couch and began firing at the men in her doorway. One of them — identified as 21-year-old Trayon L. Turner — was shot in the head and leg, and fell to the floor while the other man fled. Turner died at the scene. The other intruder — later identified as his cousin, 21-year-old Delon Martez Owens of Indianapolis — was shot three times. Authorities said Owens fled to the home of his girlfriend — Alicia Tarver, the woman Houston had been talking to via Facetime when the gunmen attacked her home. Tarver lives on Marleon Drive about two miles away, and police say she drove Owens to IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital, where he underwent surgery and was not critically injured. Owens later tried to persuade officers that he was shot by three men trying to
steal his cell phone. Tarver, meanwhile, told police she had been in Indianapolis. Investigators say she provided false information about her whereabouts at the time of the shootings, saying, “[Owens] wouldn’t tell her what happened, and she had no clue what happened.” Investigators found a bloody .38-caliber revolver in a dumpster at Tarver’s apartment complex and a car at the apartment complex — registered to the dead man’s mother — with blood stains inside. Turner’s wallet and ID were also found in Tarver’s apartment. Back at Houston’s apartment, police discovered the marijuana, cash and digital scales, and arrested Houston on preliminary charges of possession of marijuana and maintaining a common nuisance. Tarver was also arrested on charges of obstruction of justice, false informing and assisting a criminal. Both students were released from jail on Saturday after posting bond. Police believe Houston had told Tarver that there were large amounts of money in her apartment, and that Owens and Turner broke in to take the cash. Owens was released from Ball Memorial on Monday night and was being held in the Delaware County Jail under a $60,000 bond. Records show Owens already faces criminal charges in Indianapolis. He was one of three men arrested for allegedly firing gunshots that wounded four people in a downtown Indianapolis parking garage May 29. Trial on four charges of attempted murder is set for December, and he could face up to 40 years in prison if convicted. Owens also received a suspended sentence for a misdemeanor battery conviction in Marion County in July. Muncie Police said because the male intruders fired shots first, Houston was justified in defending herself. “When two suspects attempt to break in to someone’s residence, it’s always dangerous, and you have a right to defend yourself,” MPD Detective Brian Campbell said. Campbell said more charges could be coming in the case, but it will be up to the prosecutor’s office to make that decision. Contact Casey Smtih with any questions or concerns at news@bsudailynews.com.
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As an openly gay man, Bontrager said in a previous interview that he voted for Hillary Clinton for protection of LGBT marriage equality and his civil rights. On Nov. 8, Bontrager said he was too emotional about the results to speak. “My heart is breaking for LGBT, Muslims, Mexicans, Women and climate change,” Bontrager tweeted. “I’m beyond scared.” But, above all the drama and controversies, Trump pulled out a win, shattering what almost every poll had predicted — a Clinton victory. For Carol Street, an archivist for architectural records at Bracken Library, a Clinton presidency would have meant a change in how women are treated in the U.S. “As women, we still tend to accommodate
and deal with instances of gender discrimination,” Street said. “It’s more subtle than it used to be, but still there." It’s taken the U.S. so long to have a female on the ballot, and the country passed up what would have been a “watershed moment for this country,” Street said.
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A report came through at 8:27 p.m. Sept. 1 that a gunman was spotted near DeHority and Woodworth complexes, according to an emergency notification from Ball State. Students were alerted via text, email and Twitter. Shortly after 10 p.m., students received notification that the campus-wide lockdown had been lifted.
LOCKDOWN Gunman on campus causes fear, panic in some students Kara Berg & Casey Smith Daily News Reporters It was a long hour and a half. A single report of a man with a gun turned campus upside down Sept. 1 as Ball State police, Muncie police and Indiana State Police searched buildings and ordered students to find shelter while they raced to track down two men said to be carrying a gun. “I was really terrified,” said freshman nursing major Deona Webster. “The police didn’t come into my room, but I heard them all around us. I was really scared because I felt like they didn’t check on us. I cried twice, peed myself twice and had two panic attacks.” In the end, police scanner traffic said security video showed the two men leaving Woodworth Complex without incident, but police would not confirm that. An otherwise normal Thursday night was ruined by all the uproar; however, no shots were fired, and no one was injured. In a second-floor room in the Art and Journalism Building where several dozen students were sheltering in place, one female student said she was leaving but would be back: “I’m headed to the bathroom if anyone wants to go and you’re nervous.” REPORT OF TWO MEN WITH A GUN The incident began with a report at 8:27 p.m. of a gunman spotted near DeHority and Woodworth complexes. A second announcement over the university’s emergency alert system about half an hour later said two suspects were being pursued. Authorities said the suspect thought to be carrying a gun was “a white male with dark, short hair, age 18-22, wearing a black long-sleeved shirt with the sleeves partly rolled up, brown cargo shorts, black socks and black shoes.” The second man was said to be around the same age wearing a pink-and-gray striped shirt. Police radio traffic said a review of video from Woodworth Complex showed the two men left the building around 8:15 p.m. Officers began searching nearby buildings, barricading Riverside Avenue between New York and McKinley avenues. State troopers arrived around 9:20 p.m. Emergency notifications from the university offered few details: “Gun in small of back. Last seen in area of
Woodworth. Shelter in place until all clear given,” a text alert said shortly after 9 p.m. RESIDENT ASSISTANTS ORDER STUDENTS TO THEIR ROOMS Resident assistants had talked about emergencies like this in training but had not practiced for them, said RA Levi McCarter of DeHority. The emergency triggered sirens in both DeHority and Woodworth, blaring a warning about an “armed assailant in or near the building.” RAs were told to have students get into their rooms and lock their doors. “My adrenaline is pumping,” McCarter said as he led students into DeHority. “This isn’t really something you can prepare for … It’s not like a fire alarm where you can practice it.” At Woodworth, residence hall staff worked with their own students, along with others who were not from the hall but needed shelter. They told Woodworth residents to go to their rooms, and everyone else was led to a room near the dining hall. Police later moved those students to DeHority, checking IDs and making a list of students’ names. Leah Heim, a sophomore English and French major, was one of the students waiting in line to be let into DeHority. “I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t scared,” Heim said. “We were all in a position to keep a level head. We’ve grown up [hearing about situations like this], we know how it goes.” HIDING UNDER HER BED Webster, the freshman nursing major, said she was terrified throughout the entire lockdown. She and the three others in her room hid under their beds the whole time, even though they had to pee. “We were freaking out and had no idea what to do,” Webster said. “It was like a high school lockdown, but 10 times worse because we didn’t have a teacher telling us what to do.” Her mom told her she should transfer because of the threat, but Webster said she didn’t want to. She knew her mom was just worried for her safety. Even after the all-clear was issued Thursday night, Webster said she was still scared. “I can’t sleep in Woodworth tonight,” Webster said, “I probably won’t sleep at all tonight.” Contact Casey Smith with any questions or concerns at news@bsudailynews.com.
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CAMPUS FALLS UNDER BOIL ADVISORY Casey Smith News Editor
UPDATE: As of around 8 p.m., the boil water advisory for Muncie has been lifted. Feel free to drink city water safely now. A water sample was taken from around the area, according to an Indiana American Water press release, and did not find any contamination present. EARLIER: The entire City of Muncie – including the Ball State University campus – has been placed under a water boil advisory for Nov. 15 due to valve malfunction at the Indiana American Water Company water plant that released bacteria into the water supply, according to an email from Indiana American Water spokesperson Joe Loughmiller. Until test results show the water is safe to drink, consumers have been advised not to drink the water without boiling it first. The results of regular monitoring by Indiana American Water, according to Loughmiller, showed the drinking water
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Physical comedy abounded, though, like when the moonshiners would accidentally dodge punches by stumbling. Max and Reese’s dad described it as being similar to the shows he watched as a kid. “Definitely ‘Bugs Bunny,’ ‘Three Stooges’ — old-school fun,” Rob said. His son, however, doesn’t watch many cartoons or comedy sketches. Max is a budding history buff who loves watching World War II documentaries, so the art deco look of the Heritage Room — complete with arches, balconies and circular chandeliers with exposed bulbs — made the show feel more realistic. “I like this room because they didn’t make it look like it’s old,” Max said. “It actually really is old-fashioned, so that’s why I like being in this room.” Nottke would be happy to hear that, because the building is one of the reasons why he takes his traveling show through Delaware County. “We really stopped in Muncie on a chance,” Nottke said. “We saw this really cool building and this is perfect for our time period. Old buildings now are either demolished or updated, so finding this is
did not meet the EPA’s health standards on Nov. 14, citing cloudiness in the water, also referred to as “turbidity.” The treatment issue leading to the turbidity violation occurred during routine maintenance after valves opened beyond their normal range, resulting in an increased turbidity level beyond the permitted limit for less than one hour, Loughmiller said. Turbidity has no health effects, however, it can interfere with disinfection and provide a medium for bacterial growth that can cause symptoms such as nausea, cramps, diarrhea and headaches. “As our customers, you have a right to know what happened, what you should do and what we are doing to correct this situation,” Loughmiller said in a press release. “The problem has already been corrected and Indiana American Water is in the process of collecting and analyzing samples to ensure the safety of your drinking water.” Although the Delaware County
like a diamond in the rough.” The small room also amplified the crowd noise, which was great for the wrestlers, if not Reese. Many fans dressed up in suits, dresses and fedoras to match the ‘20s motif, and Justin said the wrestlers embrace the intimate setting. For example, Gavin Quinn, as he’s known in the wrestling world, switched up his stage name to Gavin Q. Volstead for the themed event. “We feed off [the crowd] and they feed off us,” Gavin said. “So if I come out there with a real negative energy, then they’re going to feed off that and feel my energy and give me a negative response, which is what I want, and vice versa with the positive. So when they’re in on it, and they’re reacting the way we have been trained to teach them how to react, that’s what makes this show the best.” But Quinn’s energy wasn’t all negative. As he delivered a 10-bodyslam punishment to a “criminal” on stage, he saw Max raising a finger with each slam. So Quinn turned and started counting with Max. “Give me a seven!” Gavin, rather, Volstead, shouted. “Give me an eight!” Justin said that interaction and randomness is one of the strengths of telling a story through wrestling as opposed to an
Emergency Management Agency initially connected the boil advisory to “a water main break on Burlington,” Loughmiller confirmed that there was no water main break and said the company’s water plant — which is located on Burlington Drive — was where the valve “opened too far.” The boil alert has been issued until 10 p.m. Nov. 15. Any additional information regarding this boil advisory will be shared with residents through local media outlets, the company’s Facebook page and through the company’s CodeRed phone notification service. According to the company, consumers should bring their tap water to a rolling boil for one minute and allow to cool before using for consumption purposes – such as drinking, making ice cubes, washing vegetables and fruit and for brushing teeth.
RECOMMENDED STEPS:
• Throw away uncooked food or beverages or ice cubes if made with tap water during the day of the advisory. • Keep boiled water in the refrigerator for drinking. • Rinse hand-washed dishes for a minute in diluted bleach (one tablespoon of household bleach per gallon of tap water) or clean dishes in a dishwasher using the hot wash cycle and dry cycle. • Showering or bathing are safe, as long as water is not swallowed. • Provide pets with boiled water after cooling. • Do not use home filtering devices (e.g. Brita filters or other store-bought filters) in place of boiling or using bottled water; most home water filters will not provide adequate protection from microorganisms. • Use only boiled water to treat minor injuries.
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Wrestling character Old Timer Jeff King takes on Dr. Jacob Omen during Olde Wrestling's Indiana debut event, A Bonanza of Bodyslams, at Cornerstone Center for the Arts Nov. 19.
outright play. “So you just have to learn to adapt in that quick moment to capture that interactivity, and I think a lot of other forms of entertainment can’t really do that,” Justin said. “So a lot of the times, when we’re working on the fly, that gives the best result sometimes.” By the end of the show, Reese had seen enough to be hooked, too. For the final bout, she was sitting ringside with the rest of the Calhoun family — Max, Rob and her mother Ashley, who was covering Reese’s ears. “[Reese] was still a little far back, but she realized nothing bad was going to happen to her,” Ashley said. “Plus we
bribed her with some M&Ms and then she was really into it. She actually said, ‘Can I come back again?’” Ashley wasn’t even afraid of Max’s newfound enthusiasm for wrestling. She’s confident he won’t try to use his sister as a tool for practicing his own body slams. “I’m more worried that my husband will try it on him,” Ashley said with a laugh. Still, when that last body slam fell and the champion was announced, Max’s smile flickered. “I wanted the guy who won to win,” Max said. “I was just getting sad that it was ready to end.” Contact Colin Grylls with any questions or concerns at sports@bsudailynews.com.
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IMMERSIVE LEARNING CLASS FUNCTIONS AS BOOK BINDERY, WILL EXTEND PAST SEMESTER'S END Carli Scalf Daily News Reporter
The Book Arts Collaborative is like no other immersive learning class at Ball State. Walking into the project’s space, located in the Madjax building in downtown Muncie, feels like walking into another world. Printing presses between 70 and 140 years old line one wall; a tidy row of aprons and a shelf of finished work lines another. In the middle work area, one will undoubtedly find a few students or the project director, Rai Peterson, hard at work. “Here, everything is a very big adventure,” Peterson said. The collaborative began as a labor of love for Peterson, who had been teaching book binding in her English classes for several years, but became interested in expanding into printing and creating new curriculum to teach the skill. The idea for Book Arts was born, and the summer was spent preparing the space downtown not just for class, but for business. Peterson said the six-credit hour class functions as its own business with three main avenues of sale: original handprinted pieces, such as coasters, cards and journals, workshops on printing for the community and rental of time with the printing equipment. “Students get experience running a business and selling to retailers,” Peterson said. “At the beginning, we had to decide: did we want to make popular and commercial art, or did we want to be a high-end bindery?” Students ultimately decided to be a high-end bindery that also made affordable work for the Muncie community. Deciding
on defining characteristics of the business like this allowed students to get experience starting a company from the ground up. Senior finance and marketing major Brandon Gilstrap is the product marketing and finance manager for the project. He finds the hands-on experience he’s received to be invaluable. “I just knew the opportunity to be at the start of a business is something I probably wouldn’t have had,” Gilstrap said. “I do all the pricing, I keep track of all the materials, and then me and my team go to all of the retailers.” Gilstrap said while many think the class is geared toward art or English majors, it has been a great project for business, and the mix of majors within the class makes the business run smoothly. Paige Baker, a junior graphic arts management major, agrees. “This isn’t just an experience for people interested in art. This is something that any major can reap the benefits from,” Baker said. Students work in the space for 10 hours a week on their own schedule. They work on projects, with more time put in for other responsibilities to keep the business running. The collaborative has products in several Muncie locations, including Art Mart and Gordy Fine Art & Framing. Gilstrap said he was able to successfully pitch their products to some companies in Indianapolis, and expanding outside of the Muncie area has been exciting. Book Arts' products are also sold during First Thursday Artswalks by Tribune Showprint, which shares the Madjax space with Book Arts. Peterson said the relationship with Rob
and Kim Miller, the owners of Tribune Showprint, has been crucial because of the equipment and expertise they share. Peterson is also assisted by the project’s artist-in-residence, Sarojini Jha Johnson. Peterson’s favorite thing about Book Arts is the service it provides to both the students and the community. “We put fine art into people’s hands for a low price. We want people to feel lucky to live in Muncie,” Peterson said. “They can buy a handmade journal for the same price as a machine-made one from another store.” The handmade quality of the work also appeals to the students. “I love that this is a class that brings the past into the future and makes it valuable,” Baker said. “Many people think that these methods are obsolete, but here we make them an art and give it meaning.” Beyond workshops, community members can also get involved by submitting an original work to the group’s artist’s submission project. The collaborative will pick one winner and create between 50 and 100 handmade copies of the winning book. They are taking submissions from single or group authors at $20 a book. Submissions can be mailed to Peterson in the Robert Bell Building, or can be dropped off at the Madjax building on Mondays, Wednesdays or Fridays between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. by today. All submissions should have either contact information or a return address affixed. Beyond all of the other qualities that make Book Arts unique is Peterson’s outlook for its future. While most immersive learning classes
Paige Baker // DN FILE
The Book Arts Collaborative is an ongoing immersive learning class that teaches students how to bind books and how to letterpress. The class accepted book submissions for its press, which will publish 50-100 copies of the winning book.
have a defined end date, she hopes to keep the collaborative running as a functional business for as long as possible. “We will be here next year — this is near and dear and important to me,” she said. “We hope to be here forever.” Contact Carli Scalf with any questions or concerns at crscalf@bsu.edu.
David Owsley returns to museum for hall dedication Michelle Kaufman & Samantha Kupiainen Daily News Reporters David Owsley returned to campus Nov. 3 to name the recital hall inside the David Owsley Museum of Art, which is now named after his grandparents, Frank C. and Elizabeth B. Ball. Before the dedication, the hall had no official name. The hall previously held art classes and is now used for theater and dance classes. Owsley, an art historian, collector and curator, has donated several pieces of his collected art to the museum and returns to campus about once a year. He currently lives in New York and would like to return to campus more often. “It’s nice to be home again in Muncie,” Owsley said. “[Art] has been my life interest for the past 50 years. I gave the first piece here … 50 years ago. Muncie was always my home, even though I grew up in Europe, where my father was a diplomat.” The art museum showcases only a fraction of what the Ball Brothers and their family have done for the university. It is Owsley’s hope that
the museum allows people to appreciate the hard work the Ball family has done for Ball State. “I’ve always loved art, just as my grandmother and grandfather did,” Owsley said. “They collected and gave it here for the enjoyment of other people. That’s my legacy.” When Owsley sees the “David Owsley Museum of Art” sign on Riverside Avenue, he said he is humbled and a little embarrassed because he wants the art promoted instead of himself. Art is in Owsley’s blood. His grandmother was a collector herself — some of her keepsakes from over the years are on display at the museum. “I just love it. I can’t explain why. To me, it’s the highest achievement that man has ever made. His
law and his art — man’s two highest achievements,” Owsley said. “That’s the wonderful thing about art museums. It combines history with beauty.” Previously, only a plaque of Frank and Elizabeth Ball was in the museum. “That really doesn’t speak of their championing of this building here to house their art and other people’s art for not only the students but the community and eastern Indiana,” Owsley said. “I hope that they would be gratified that people realize their contribution. They were very modest, especially my grandmother.” Museum director Bob La France said the museum was dedicated 80 years ago as a temple to music,
theater and studio art. “Over the decades, these subjects moved to other buildings on campus and the museum expanded. Through the guidance of several university presidents, deans and museum directors …
the collection grew to encompass more than 11,000 works of art,” La France said. “What began as a distinguished group of American impressionism and old master paintings … transformed into a cultural repository [of]
works of art that represent more than 5,000 years of human civilization from around the world.” Contact Michelle Kaufman & Samantha Kupiainen with any questions or concerns at features@bsudailynews.com.
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The White House Christmas decorations are seen in the North Portico during a press preview Nov. 29 in Washington, D.C. Ball State senior environmental design major Cody Sprunger joined 91 other volunteers to decorate the halls of the White House.
A White House Christmas Ball State senior decorates national landmark for holidays, meets Michelle Obama
Michelle Kaufman Daily News Reporter Ninety-two people from around the country traveled to Washington D.C. to deck the halls at the White House this year. Cody Sprunger, a senior environmental design major, was one of them. Sprunger frequently watched the HGTV White House Christmas special, so he did some research and filled out the application to be a decorator back in June. He received confirmation in October that he was chosen and flew to D.C. on Thanksgiving. Friday and Saturday were spent in an offsite warehouse owned by the National Parks Service, where all the decorations from past years are kept. “We were doing all of the prep work: attaching wire to ornaments and gluing and cutting and glittering," Sprunger said. "Basically any craft thing you can ever imagine.” Sprunger was assigned to the State Dining Room with eight other volunteers and decorated Sunday and Monday. “This year, the theme was the gift of the holidays, [so] the State Dining Room was the gift of family,” Sprunger said. “It just focused on the different gifts of the holidays that are often taken for granted.” The White House wanted the State Dining Room to be whimsical, so it features a lot of candy, LEGOs and cookie-themed ornaments. Every year, the White House pastry chef makes a model of the White House out of gingerbread for the State Dining Room. This year's gingerbread house was made 150 pounds of gingerbread, 100 pounds of bread dough, 20 pounds of gum paste, 20 pounds of icing and 20 pounds of sculpted sugar pieces, according to the White House website. On Nov. 28, Sprunger attended a volunteer reception, where he met and shook hands with Michelle Obama. The volunteers came from 33 states, D.C. and Puerto Rico, and Sprunger only met one other person from Indiana. He said
meeting the other volunteers was one of his favorite parts of the experience. “It was a lot of fun … meeting all of the really fantastic people cause they’re kinda in the same position as you — a lot of them who had never even been to the White House before and were just so excited to be there,” Sprunger said. “I didn’t meet an unfriendly person, everyone was so nice.” One volunteer, a woman named Margaret Ritchie from Iowa, became a grandma figure to Sprunger and another collegeaged student from Texas during their time in D.C. Ritchie loved being the grandma of the group and was right at home in the role having seven grandchildren of her own. "It was a joy to work with such goaloriented, forward-looking young adults, Ritchie said. "They give someone my age the reassurance that our future is secure with these young people becoming our next generation of leaders. They all had such a positive attitude and great plans for their future. They really helped each day fly by." Though Ritchie had to part with her unofficial grandchildren, she doesn't plan on losing touch with them any time soon. “At the end, Margaret said 'I wanna stay in touch with you guys, I wanna know when you guys graduate and everything,'” Sprunger said. When he first got to the White House, Sprunger was expecting a guided tour, but it ended up being a do-it-yourself tour where he was allowed to walk around freely on the ground and first floors. After all of the decorating, he was able to see all of the different rooms, newly adorned with holiday decorations. “Seeing the whole transformation from where it started and then where it ended, I don’t know how we were all able to do it in two days, but we did,” Sprunger said. This was Sprunger’s first visit to the White House. With a minor in historic preservation, Sprunger said the White House is “the building” and he is kind of obsessed with it.
Through this experience, he was able to see a lot of things that people on a regular tour don’t get to. “[It was memorable] just being in the house, because it’s the symbol of not only Washington, D.C., but [also] the American government and the president’s family and everything ... [It was amazing] just having the opportunity to work one-on-one with the White House staff and with all these different people just to kind of transform that space that means so much to people," Sprunger said. LEGO designed and built 56 houses to represent the 50 states and six territories for the State Dining Room, which is where state dinners and cocktail parties are held. The houses were included on shelves that were built into the Christmas trees, and
each house has architectural details and symbols that represented that state. Indiana’s has a race car to represent the Indianapolis 500. “The people from LEGO were like, if you see your state and it’s not in a place that you want it, tell us and we’ll move it. So I had them move [Indiana’s house] a little closer to the center,” Sprunger said. The official White House Holiday Tour book can be found on the White House website. The book includes history, recipes and a look at what's included in each room. HGTV was also there, filming interviews and other footage for the annual Christmas special that will air Sunday. Contact Michelle Kaufman with any questions or concerns at mekaufman@bsu.edu.
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TAKING A STANCE
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Ball State students sit down as the band plays the national anthem before the game against Eastern Kentucky Sept.17. Although members of several campus organizations were present, the students said it wasn’t organized by a specific group. They also plan on sitting at every home game.
Group of students sit, raise hands during national anthem Colin Grylls Sports Editor For the most part, Ball State’s Family Weekend game against Eastern Kentucky went exactly as expected. The Cardinals beat their FCS opponent 41-14 in a packed Scheumann Stadium. But before the game, in the stands behind the south end zone, a group of students with red squares pinned on their black shirts sat down and raised their fists when the band started playing “The StarSpangled Banner.” L.J. Herbert, a junior creative writing major, said the students were inspired by recent events near campus, including a controversial sorority photo and reports of a racist note near campus. “We were sitting during the national anthem here, showing solidarity just for
the different racial incidents that have been happening near the campus and also nationwide tension,” he said. Kenneth Cohen, a junior telecommunications major and president of Men of Color, said they were partially inspired by Colin Kaepernick, a San Francisco 49ers quarterback who has been kneeling during the anthem at NFL games. “The movement, or us coming together and deciding to sit during the national anthem and hold our fists up, is not a protest,” Cohen said. “It is not done to disrespect any veteran, any part of the military, not to disrespect the country. As Colin Kaepernick said, it was just to show our stance, and we’re not going to forget about things that are going on right now.” Cohen said they plan on sitting at every home game, though a single organization is not in charge. Herbert, for example, is a member of Impact, a Christian group on campus.
The Progressive Student Alliance also had members present. “I’m not entirely sure who originated the idea,” Herbert said. “But I know there’s been coordination within the different black student organizations, so I heard about it through them.” Maggie West, a junior telecommunications major, said they banded together because “people of color aren’t getting the justice that they deserve.” “This is just us voicing our opinion that this is something that’s bothering us,” she said. “We just want them to listen.” Aside from a few glances from fans standing nearby, the group was left alone. Senior dietetics major Travis Muller said it’s because there’s no law or policy requiring fans to stand, even if it is frowned upon. “Our main purpose is to show that people have different interpretations of what the flag means,” Muller said. “And just because we want to show that — the
best part of our society is that we get to not stand up for the flag.” The group slowly broke apart and trickled out of the stadium at about the same rate as the student section in general — after all, it was a 41-14 blowout — but they stayed for the game. Cohen said they stayed because they want to fix Ball State, not leave it. “This isn’t a situation where we want to break away from Ball State,” he said. “This isn’t a secession or anything like that. We still come out; we still support the football players.” Hopefully, Muller said, the campus will pull together. “We love Ball State,” he said. “We want the best for it, and sometimes the best things are not the easiest conversations to have.” Contact Colin Grylls with any questions or concerns at @dn_sports.
Ball State works to increase attendance at football games Hendrix Magley Daily News Reporter Media reports from Mid-American Conference schools Eastern Michigan University and Kent State University show that universities are experimenting with a new marketing strategy: selling beer at stadiums. Will Ball State see beer at Scheumann Stadium anytime soon? Shawn Sullivan, Ball State’s assistant athletic director for marketing and fan engagement, said there have been discussions but nothing anywhere close to final decisions. “I think it’s always a discussion point, and we’ve certainly had internal discussions about it,” Sullivan said. “But there are several discussion points that may increase revenue and attendance and that’s just one of many options that we talk about.” While there are no plans to sell alcohol in the immediate future, one thing is clear — attendance at Cardinals football games was one of the lowest in the country in 2015.
HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE? The Battle for the Bronze Stalk between Ball State and Northern Illinois might not be one of the most well-known matchups in college football, but rivalry games usually bring in a decent amount of spectators. However, it’s not likely that anyone is considering a crowd of 7,249 a decent amount given Scheumann Stadium’s capacity of 22,500 people. Low attendance figures aren’t out of the ordinary for Ball State. In 2015, the Cardinals were second-to-last in the Football Bowl Subdivision, the NCAA’s highest classification, with an average attendance of 7,974. To put that number in perspective, 45 teams in the Football Championship Series, one rung below FBS programs, and four Division II schools had higher averages than Ball State. Even Quebec’s Université Laval, a Canadian Interuniversity Sport member, had more fans in the stands (13,109 fans per game). It’s also more than 7,000 short of the NCAA’s average attendance goal. NCAA bylaw 20.9.7.3 states, “once every two years, the institution shall average at least 15,000 in paid or actual attendance for all home football games.” If schools don’t meet that threshold, they’re required to go under a certified audit of attendance figures.
“We have to play by the rules that every other school plays by,” Sullivan said.
FILLING THE STANDS Sullivan said Ball State is trying to increase attendance by using student reward programs, freshman orientation and the student section, “The Nest.” “We try to use some of our on-campus partners to try and notify students that we’ve got fun entertainment right here on campus,” Sullivan said. “We’d like them to join us whenever possible.” So far this year, four MAC schools have seen a higher single-game attendance number than they did last season. Eugene Canal, director of athletics communications at Kent State, said his school’s marketing strategies — particularly the “Golden Flashes Run,” where students were allowed to run onto the field before the home opener — have worked. Along with the “Golden Flashes Run” and beer sales, Kent State and its student government sponsor student tailgates that feature a large pizza for every spot reserved, games and a DJ. Of course, those are all off-the-field solutions. There’s another tried and true method to fill the stands. To quote the late Al Davis, former owner of the NFL’s Oakland Raiders: “JUST WIN, BABY” In 2008, Ball State finished the regular season with a 12-0 record, earning a spot in the Associated Press Top 25 poll. The Cardinals finished that season with an average attendance of 19,200 and, in their 12th game, set the Scheumann Stadium record with 23,861 in attendance against Western Michigan. In 2015, the top four average attendance figures in the MAC were from schools that finished the season with winning records. The bottom four averages were from teams with losing records, including a 3-9 Ball State team. “Certainly the product on the field hasn’t been great the last couple of years, and I think that plays a factor,” Sullivan said. “We also haven’t had the best weather the past couple of years, but those are no excuses. We can’t use them as crutches.” Five of the 10 lowest average attendances last season were from MAC schools, partly because the averages
are skewed by poorly-attended mid-week games. Ball State has two Tuesday night home games on its schedule this year. “Those games haven proven to be difficult,” Sullivan said. “Those games aren’t friendly for families and they typically haven’t been friendly from a weather standpoint.” But mid-week MAC games are also broadcast nationally, which Sullivan says brings exposure — both with fans and recruits — and makes them worth playing. After all, Saturday games are usually buried online while fans at home tune in to see big-name programs, like Notre Dame. James Johnson, associate professor and graduate coordinator for sport administration at Ball State University, said mid-major schools such as Ball State just don’t have the stature compared to
other FBS institutions that have a national footprint and sell out stadiums. “Notre Dame, for example, will likely sell out every game this year no matter the circumstance,” Johnson said. “Ball State doesn’t have that luxury.” And when it comes to alcohol sales, Johnson is skeptical of its long-term success. “It may show a small spike in attendance initially due to the novelty,” Johnson said. “But I doubt it would be the deciding factor for most people to attend a game.” But alcohol sales are probably a few years down the road, if they ever come at all. For now, Ball State is just trying to fill seats for Oct. 22's 3 p.m. Homecoming game against Akron. Contact Hendrix Magley with any questions or concerns at @TweetsOfHendrix.
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Surprised by mother on Senior Day Parent flies to Muncie to see daughter play in soccer match Jacob Lee Soccer Reporter After practice Sept. 15, Ball State soccer senior defender Lorina White was sitting on the floor of the locker room, listening as coach Craig Roberts stalled for time. Finally, a knock on the door. As Roberts spoke at the front of the room to announce a special guest, White's mother, Laura Jackson, snuck in through the back door. She had flown in from Poughkeepsie, New York, to surprise her daughter before Senior Day. "Hi baby," Jackson said as White's eyes welled up with tears. "I love you." White was under the impression that her mother would not be able to come to the game — but she understood why. “My mom hasn’t been able to see any of my games, like, ever, because she’s always been working or busy watching my sisters,” White said. But Tristin Stuteville, White's roommate, knew how much White wanted her
mother to come out to a game. So Stuteville reached out to Jackson. “[White] gives our team so much energy, so much life," Stuteville said. "We knew Senior Night that everyone’s parents were going to be there, and we thought it was important for someone who has such a big role on our team, such a big leader, to have her family here as well.” Jackson was nervous — she had never flown before — but she said it was all worth it to see her daughter play. “Ever since she was six she wanted to play soccer. She used to play with just boys and she did a hell of a job," Jackson said. "She’s always been good, she’s a good team role model, and she’s been good with all the girls, wherever she goes she’s good." White was good at Monroe College in New York, where she was named the NSCAA/Continental Tire All-American Player of the Year in 2014 and led Monroe its first ever NJCAA Division I National Championship before transferring to Ball State. Last season, she was named the
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Lorina White, senior defensive for women’s soccer, is surprised by her mother, Laura Jackson, from New York on Thursday. Today’s game against Morehead State will be the first game Jackson has seen her daughter play in since high school.
MAC Defensive Player of the Year. But Jackson didn't see any of those games. She did, however, see the Sept. 16 win against Morehead State (3-3-1). “I haven’t seen it since she was in
high school, so this means a lot to me,” Jackson said. Contact Jacob Lee with any questions or concerns at @JPLeeBSU.
Third-generation BSU student looking forward to Family Weekend Members of Hill family have attended university since 1944 Megan Melton Daily News Reporter
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Sept. 16 marked the beginning of Family Weekend at Ball State, where students and their families can enjoy activities hosted by the university and spend time with each other. Jancyn Hill, a junior at Ball State, has been celebrating family weekend with her family ever since freshman year. Three generations of her immediate family went to Ball State, and many of her extended family members attend and teach here. “My grandpa, Paul D. Hill, graduated in 1948 with a degree in English,” she said, “My dad, David Hill, graduated in 1985 with a double degree in political science and business, and I am scheduled to graduate in 2018 with a degree in special education.” Hill’s grandfather’s sister married into the Clevenger family, which is the namesake of Brayton/Clevenger hall located in LaFollette Complex. Ever since Hill was little, her dad talked about Ball State, and pushed her to consider his school. She wasn’t interested in attending Ball State at first but decided
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to send in her deposit fee on a whim, and she’s been here for three years now. “My dad and I are big football fans, so we always tailgate together with my sorority on family weekend,” she said. “It is probably his favorite thing about me attending here. I think it gives him a sense of nostalgia.” David loves to make memories on family weekend with his daughter, and he loves that they both have had similar experiences. “It’s fun to go back to your alma mater,” he said. “I lived in Shales Hall. In Jancyn’s first year, she lived in Woody, and she lived one floor directly above [where I lived], and I walked in and said, ‘You know what? This place hasn’t changed.’” David said he and the rest of the Hill family look forward to Family Weekend every year. “You make new friends, and you see old friends, and it’s a very enjoyable time,” he said. Family Weekend activities started Sept. 16 and ended Sept. 18. Many activities are free for all families on campus. Contact Megan Melton with any questions or concerns at memelton@bsu.edu.
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Jancyn Hill, a junior at Ball State, has celebrated family weekend with her family since her freshman year. Three generations of her immediate family went to Ball State, and many of her extended family members attend and teach here.
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Newer 2/3 bdrm hse, 2 full ba Many xtr's, 3176401627 David Nice 3 bdr. Close to BSU. 2 ba. Avail. Aug '17. A/C, stove, fridge, 2 W/D, D/W. $300/ea, 765-348-6413 jahrentals.com TJ Lennon properties offer 3-6 bedroom houses. Find out more on BallStateDaily.com on the Roost Housing Guide. Walk to campus 1,2, and 3 bd house layouts. Off-st. pkg. Pets negotiable. Virtual tour at bsucampusproperties.com. (765) 729-2111 or 288-4080.
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