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Much like other universities, Ball State lacks an equal representation of women at the highest level of professors

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University officers earn about $8,000 more each year CASEY SMITH CRIME REPORTER | casmith11@bsu.edu

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Editor’s note: This is the second part in a two-part series on pay and training differences with Muncie and university police. University police officers are often paid more than their city counterparts, despite having a smaller area of jurisdiction. Ball State University Police Department officers are no exception, averaging higher salaries than those working for the Muncie Police Department, in addition to the extra training they receive. Between Muncie and Ball State police departments, pay wages vary among positions and levels of leadership. While Lt. David Bell said there are many new recruits coming into UPD, other officers have been with the force for more than two decades. Ball State University police officers make a base pay of $18 per hour, but the average annual salary for current full-time UPD officers is approximately $50,000, according to the Board of Trustees annual salary report. As of 2015, a full-time officer with MPD receives a base pay of $42,810 per year, with a patrol officer making an average of $42,930 in a calendar year, according to City of Muncie annual salary records. As for the chiefs of police, city records indicate MPD Chief Steve Stewart’s salary is just over $60,000 per year, while UPD’s Director of Public Safety James Duckham made more than $111,000 during the 2014-15 school year, Ball State Trustee reports said

27.7% of full professors

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of instructors

46.5% of associate professors

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These charts illustrate the gender percentage of Ball State full-time instructional faculty based on faculty rank

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lthough Ball State faculty is split fairly evenly along gender lines, there is one level where women are vastly underrepresented — full professorship. Women currently make up just 27.7 percent of professors at the full professorship level, which is a tenured professor who usually serves at leadership positions within departments. That number has maintained relatively steady over the past five years.

Costumes ‘tell story,’ alumna says Emily Bursha combines 2 passions as shop director MEGAN MELTON GENERAL REPORTER | memelton@bsu.edu

It’s not just female professor leadership that is lacking at Ball State — currently, there are no women at the university in the top 10 salary earners, and there are only four in the top 20, according to salary data from the university. However, more than half of the president’s committee is female. In order to become a full professor, a person needs to pass a review conducted by renowned professors and colleagues from across the nation that assesses three academic areas: research, course load and leadership in the form of seats on academic councils or boards. The process usually takes a minimum of 14 years to complete but comes with a hefty boost in pay and reputation. Full professors, on average, make more than double that of entry-level professors and a little more than $20,000 more than associate professors, the level below full professors. Ball State is an equal opportunity employer and always looks to hire the best person for the job, Joan Todd, a university spokesper-

Some of the most important people in theater are the ones you don’t see, like behindthe-scenes costume designer Emily Bursha. Bursha is in charge of making costumes, designs and any other accessories a show needs. She’s also the director of Ball State’s costume shop, where she manages the shop’s staff, teaches costuming to students and creates costume ideas for each show. Visual aspects of a production allow the audience to perceive how a character will act or how they will present themselves before the character is fully integrated into a show, she said. “You can establish [personality] through clothing, and that really helps tell the story and establish the characters,” she said. Bursha, who is an alumna of Ball State, is heavily involved in many Ball State productions because of her role as director of the costume shop.

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son, said in an email statement. She pointed to the university’s Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action policy that says, in part, “the University is committed to the pursuit of excellence by prohibiting discrimination and being inclusive of individuals without regard to race, religion, color, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, disability, genetic information, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, age, or protected veteran status.”

RESEARCH COMMITMENT

While female professors usually teach the same number of courses and serve on the same number of boards as their male counterparts, they often struggle to conduct enough research to fulfill the strict requirements, either because they are often expected to do more work with their family or simply because they were outright dissuaded from pursuing a career in research, said Anne Runyon, chair of the National American Association of University Professors’ committee on the status of women in the academic profession.

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BALL STATE OFF TO BEST START SINCE 2006-07 Cardinals boast 2nd-best free-throw percentage in nation

| Spring graduates can expect a better job market SEE PAGE 4 MUNCIE, INDIANA TODAY IS NATIONAL PASTRY DAY.

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The Ball State women’s basketball 5-2 start is its fastest start since the 2006-07 season, during which the Cardinals began the year with a 6-1 record. The driving force behind this year’s success has been the team’s second-best free-throw percentage in the country (79.2

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percent) and its paint presence — the Cardinals have scored an average of 35.7 points in the paint per game and have given up just 15.4. After defeating in-state rival Butler University 58-50 on Sunday and converting 13 free-throws compared with the Bulldogs’ six, head coach Brady Sallee said free throws are an important part of the game plan. “It’s on the board before every game: win the free-throw battle,” Sallee said. “Part of that is defending discipline, part of that is getting yourself to the line, but you gotta make them. … That’s the name of the game, is walk-

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ing up to the line and knowing you’re gonna make it, not hoping you’re gonna make it.” Ball State also outscored Butler 26-12 in the paint, though it shot just 29.4 percent from the floor. Senior guard Nathalie Fontaine scored 20 points and hauled in 13 rebounds in the game and said perseverance helped the Cardinals’ inside game.

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The Ball State women’s basketball team’s 5-2 start is the fastest start the team has had since the 2006-07 season. Senior gaurd Nathalie Fontaine grabbed 13 rebounds in the game against Butler.

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3. CAMEROONIANS BURN NIGERIAN VILLAGE FUFORE, Nigeria (AP) — Cameroonian troops crossed the border into Nigeria, killed about 150 villagers, burned their huts and forced them to flee, Nigerian refugees said Tuesday after walking for days to reach a refugee center. Cameroon’s government denied the charges that came amid growing tensions between Nigeria and its neighbors over the Boko Haram Islamic uprising that has spilled over Nigeria’s borders.

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1. TRUMP’S IDEA PUSHES GOP TOWARD CHAOS WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s plan to ban Muslims from entering the United States is shoving the Republican Party to the edge of chaos, abruptly pitting GOP leaders against their own presidential frontrunner and jeopardizing the party’s longtime drive to attract minorities. Unbowed, Trump fired a searing warning Tuesday via Twitter to fellow Republicans carping about his proposal. A majority of his supporters, he tweeted, “would vote for me if I departed the GOP & ran as an independent.”

The crossfire between Trump and frustrated Republicans became a furious blur the day after the billionaire businessman announced his divisive positions were dominating attention in the crowded Republican contest. And Republicans up for reelection in the Senate grew terse in the Capitol hallways as they were asked again and again to respond to Trump’s remarks — a glimpse of their political futures if the former reality show star captures the GOP nomination.

4. POPE MAY INTERVENE ON CLIMATE TALK LE BOURGET, France (AP) — If international climate talks really stall, don’t be surprised if there might be an ever-so-slight intervention by Pope Francis. Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace who helped draft the pope’s June encyclical on global warming, said the pontiff has “deep trust” that negotiators in Paris will get the job done. But

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LONDON (AP) — Donald Trump’s comments about London are “nonsense,” the city’s mayor said Tuesday, inviting the U.S. Republican presidential hopeful to come and see for himself. Trump, who on Monday called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” told MSNBC that some parts of London “are so radicalized that the police are afraid for their own lives.”

government announced this week that it was launching a wide-ranging civil-rights investigation of the Chicago Police Department. “There is a deep mistrust, and it really becomes a cancer here in Chicago because it eats away at respect for authority and respect for the law ... that becomes toxic,” said the Rev. Marshall Hatch of New Mt. Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church.

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just in case they don’t, the pope might possibly send a gentle message, he said. “If it gets to a stalemate or whatever, he may utter a statement or make a comment or whatever, but he will refrain from exercising any coercive power on the things over here, because that would not belong to his style,” Turkson told The Associated Press.

5. LONDON MAYOR RESPONDS TO TRUMP

2. CHICAGO POLICE ASSESSED FOR MISCONDUCT CHICAGO (AP) — A South Side police commander and his officers tortured black suspects into confessing to crimes they didn’t commit. Another rogue unit shook down drug dealers on the West Side for drugs and money. The city’s longstanding reputation for police misconduct and brutality shattered relations with the black community long before the federal

Farmer Mariamu Abubakar said Cameroonian soldiers killed about 150 people on Nov. 30 in his village near Nigeria’s Banki border post, stole their livestock and set their huts ablaze. He was among 643 refugees who arrived Monday night at Adamawa’s Fufore transit center. Soldiers who screened them said they came from Gamboru to Banki, a 150-kilometer (95-mile) stretch along Nigeria’s border with Cameroon.

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But London Mayor Boris Johnson, a Conservative, said Trump’s “ill-informed comments are complete and utter nonsense.” Joining a long list of British politicians criticizing Trump, Johnson said he would “welcome the opportunity to show Mr. Trump firsthand some of the excellent work our police officers do every day in local neighborhoods throughout our city.”

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Dance Theatre show mixes old, new routines Choreographers, dancers recreate past performances

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Nate Robert-Eze is running his own business at 19, 2eze, with designs that originally started for his family to wear. The clothing brand focuses on faith, simplicity and humility.

Students create clothing company Percentage of profits go toward professor’s family

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It Nate Robert-Eze always considered himself to be an entrepreneur. At 14, he repaired his old shoes and sold them to classmates. By 16, he was cutting people’s hair. “I’ve always been the type to get money somehow. It sounds weird, but there is always something that people need,” he said. It shouldn’t be a surprise that the sophomore urban planning major is running his own business at 19. It certainly isn’t to his family. “My parents always said they knew something like this was bound to open,“ he said. By “this,” he means his clothing apparel company, 2eze, a business with a mission to be a movement — not just a brand. 2eze focuses on three main things, he said: faith, simplicity and humility. The business started when Robert-Eze created some designs for his family to wear last year. He shared the designs with friends, who said they would buy them. Then he met Joshua Sims,

a fellow urban planning major at Ball State, who liked the idea. A month later, they started selling t-shirts. “Me and him are both the type to get stuff done,” Robert-Eze said. Both students spend at least four hours every day working on their business. Most of their time is spent in Bracken Library. They’re always doing something, like conducting market research or designing a logo. Robert-Eze is overwhelmed some days, but he said it’s worth it. “I get my joys from the process; seeing small-term goals being accomplished,” he said. “It could be something as little [as] someone reposting a graphic I made for 2eze. That would make me very happy.” There are five core members of 2eze who, in addition to Robert-Eze and Sims, are Ball State sophomores Malik Davis, Ken Cohen and Bryce Dotson. Davis, Cohen and Dotson handle the financial, philanthropy and faithbased aspects of the business, respectively. All their goals came together when Robert-Eze and his team started raising money for Olon Dotson, an associate professor of architecture, and his family. Robert-Eze met Olon through a mentor before

coming to Ball State. He got to know him more through the National Organization for Minority Architects (NOMAS). Olon is one of the two black professors in the College of Architecture and Planning, and while Robert-Eze is not one of his students, they still became close friends. Robert-Eze went on a trip to New Orleans with Olon’s class in Spring 2015. He became close friends with the professor’s son. This fall, the class took the trip again. Near the end of the trip, Olon’s son was arrested. He is currently back in Indiana after his family posted bail. “I remember when [Olon] told me — I just couldn’t believe it,” Robert-Eze said. “This kid is the nicest person you would ever meet. I could never see that happening to him.” 2eze decided to help Olon and his family pay for expenses like attorneys by giving them 15 percent of the profits from their $5 shirts. Olon said he was very grateful. “I see it as a form of activism,” he said. Robert-Eze said that everything he does is a product of his heart. “I feel like I am doing the right thing and have the right people behind me,” he said.

In this semester’s Dance Theatre show, dancers and choreographers look to the past and the present as they create a work that fuses the two. Half of the show’s eight pieces have been performed before and half are new. The show’s name exemplifies the concept: “Best of Ball State Dance Theatre: Past and Present.” The four old dances have been “reset” for this show with new dancers and a new approach, while still using the old choreography. “When you reset something from the past on new people, they bring a new approach to it that you maybe didn’t have,” Audra Sokol, the show’s artistic director, said. “There’s definitely a different energy, a breath of fresh air to something that has been around for a while.” Because some of the same choreographers are involved, dancers have an added opportunity to learn. They said they can see the ways that an individual artist’s perspective has changed over time. One reset piece is “A Duet” by assistant professor of dance Susan Koper, who created it four years ago. This time, however, she decided to change the music entirely, creating a piece with a completely different feel. “What used to be this kind of sweet, humble dance is now this very moving, hungry and driving piece of work just by changing the music,” Sokol said. Senior dance major Tyler

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Senior dance majors Mollie Craun and Tyler Ring perform Susan Koper’s work “A Duet.” “Best of Ball State Dance Theatre: Past and Present” will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the University Theatre.

Ring performed in the piece his freshman year and has the opportunity to feature in it again this year. The dance pulled “a complete 180” from what it was then to what it is now, he said. He also got to experience what it was like to teach his dance partner. He was the one being taught the first time around. While Ring got to bring a new sense to a dance he had previous experience with, other dancers got to bring new life to old dances from as far back as 14 years ago. “[These] pieces have already premiered, and it was up to us to bring a new energy to it,” said junior dance major Lacy Smith, who performs in six of the production’s pieces. She performs in “For All its Invisibility,” which was choreographed by Koper as well. Smith described performing in this work as “an out-of-body experience.” “I feel as though we are in outer space,” she said, “and the three of us are a different species that communicate through movement.”

Working with old pieces presented a unique challenge to the artists and meant that the dancers learned some of their choreography from video. “Normally, we come into the studio and learn fresh choreography from the choreographer,” Smith said. “But there were a few times we had to learn from the video on our own.” In addition to featuring dances both old and new, the show includes a variety of styles like ballet, character, modern, ethnic, tap and jazz. The show also contains a variety of different emotions and settings, said Christina Bellish, a junior dance major who performs in an older piece that Sokol choreographed. “We have everything from magical storybook characters to prim and proper 1950s housewives,” she said. “We go from serious modern pieces, to authentic Korean fan dancing, to a scandalous jazz number. This show has it all.”

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Emily Bursha is a costume designer in charge of making costumes, designs and any other accessories a show needs. Bursha is the director of Ball State’s costume shop, where she manages the shop’s staff, teaches costuming to students and creates costume ideas for each show.

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| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The costume shop is located in the depths of the Arts and Communications Building. It’s where creativity, originality and crazy outfits flourish. Bright, sequined bell-bottoms hang near petticoats and heavy gothic ball gowns. It’s no surprise to Bursha that she ended up in a job that requires sitting in a room surrounded by bright and flashy costumes from every era. “I was kind of a weird kid when I was little, and one of my favorite things to do was make my friends try on different outfits, … which is now what I do all day,” she said. Bursha went to college for fashion design but found out that it wasn’t for her. “I wanted to teach and I wanted to sew all the time,”

Bursha said. “And I wanted to work in storytelling. “ So Bursha became a costume design major for a semester, but she hated that, too. She took seven years off to think about what she wanted to do. “I knew that I wanted to go back to school,” she said, “I did a lot of research to just combine my two loves. I loved sewing and making things.” Bursha has some advice for any aspiring costume artists. “The best thing you can do is get out there and get experience,” she said, “The non-paying jobs, the low-paying jobs, everything you need to do to get out there and find a community that’s going to help you nourish creativity.” She said there’s always an opportunity for others to advance their skills. “There are so many theaters out there just looking

for someone,” she said, “so just take advantage of every opportunity and always be nice, … because people want to work with nice people.” Katelynn Barker, a Ball State student who works with Bursha, said she is a nice teacher. The kind who buys doughnuts for her staff before a show opens. Barker said she enjoys having Bursha as a mentor. “I know I will be a better designer because of her,” Barker said. “She has taught me a lot of skills that will definitely help me market myself better for when I graduate.” As for the future, Bursha knows exactly where she wants to be. “I plan on staying here at Ball State and helping grow the program,” she said. “I get to do that, I get to teach and I get to design and mentor young students. I get the best of both worlds, really.”

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Family Responsibilities

Another issue is that of timing. Around the same time as a professor would be considering whether to continue in academia and seek full professorship, they are considering starting a family. For female professors, this often means taking leave for pregnancy, which, because women are often expected to focus more on a family, means less time for teaching and research.

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She said a combination of these two factors has traditionally kept women from succeeding in bids or even considering applying for full professorship. “I think it has to do with a prevailing underlying gender assumption that women are more teachers,” she said. “They are not [thought of as] researchers, even though they may have very similar credentials, and they are not taken as seriously.”

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“With long hours spent in labs, it is very difficult to combine that kind of work with family responsibilities,” Runyon said. “Women tend to jump to private entities [instead].” Carolyn Kapinus, associate dean of Ball State’s graduate school and a professor of sociology, said Ball State falls into the trap of expecting female professors to choose between familial responsibilities and research. An easy solution universities could employ is providing on-campus child care for professors so they can work on research and stay on campus longer while still being close to their children, she said. Ball State does offer professors access to the nationally accredited Child Study Center that offers child care for some infants and toddlers on campus and gives students in the family and consum-

er sciences department a chance at hands-on learning.

Leadership Requirements

Another hindrance to research for female professors is university committees often require a certain number of members for academic boards to be women or people of color, Runyon said. Because there are so few female full professors available, many have to pull double or triple duty, serving on several boards to fulfill the diversity requirement. A way to alleviate the time commitments pressed on female professors while still ensuring women are represented on executive boards is to promote inter-college collaboration in research, Kapinus said. That would allow professors to work and publish research while sharing the workload and freeing up time to serve on boards or take care of family responsibilities.

Runyon said universities should also work to build an environment that allows flexible work hours that allow for time spent with family while still requiring the same rigorous requirements for full professorship. Another is to acknowledge female professors often are expected to serve more time on boards and to take that into consideration when evaluating candidates. “As you move up the ranks, more time is expected for research, and if the [diversity] requirements don’t change — if they have to keep representing women — [women] simply won’t have the chance to pursue [full professorship],” Runyon said. The bigger problem, though, is that there simply aren’t many models for female professors to follow as a path to full professorship. At Ball State, new pro-

Senate Bill 100 aims to amend state civil rights Legislators look to balance LGBT, religious liberties

fessors are paired with a mentor to ensure they find a fit at the university. Kapinus contends that informal mentoring process should continue as professors reach the midpoint of their career and need someone to look to as a model. The situation does look as if it’s starting to change, though. In the next five to 10 years as the United States economy continues to recover, Kapinus expects a wave of retirements across higher education, which means there will be spots for women graduating with Ph.D.s to fill. “That means new hires, and we need to make sure to have the best type of people,” Kapinus said. “Universities need to be mindful of the barriers in place to ensure that.”

Job market better in spring, survey finds

Total hires increase 15 percent this year for all degree levels

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A proposed bill is aiming to protect personal rights as well as religious freedoms in Indiana. Indiana Senate Republicans proposed Senate Bill 100 on Nov. 17 to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the state’s civil rights protections. Exemptions in the bill could allow schools, employers and others to determine restroom policies for transgender people, refuse wedding services to same-sex couples and let religious-affiliated adoption agencies reject samesex couples as parents. Sen. Travis Holdman said he wrote the bill to find a balance between religious liberties and LGBT civil rights. “By adding gender identity and sexual orientation to Indiana’s civil rights code, LGBT Hoosiers will be protected from being discriminated against in employment, as well as housing, public accommodations, education and access to credit,” Holdman said in an email. “There are certain protections for religious organizations, clergy and businesses with fewer than four fulltime employees that offer wedding-related services such as photography or marriage counseling.” The protections for religious organizations has been controversial. Freedom Indiana, a statewide organization which backs civil rights for gay and transgender people, has publicly expressed its concerns. “Some of those concerns include the fact that the legislation would prohibit cities and towns from enforcing existing or adding meaningful local civil rights protections

Students who graduate next May can look forward to a better job market, according to a survey from the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University. The survey found a 15 percent increase in total hires this year across all degree levels. The report surveyed more than 4,700 employers across various sectors and industries including health care, education, finance, social services, government, manufacturing, nonprofits, business and scientific services. Director of the CERI Phil Gardner said the goal of the survey is to take a snapshot of the college labor market as it is forming for the year. Michigan State has done the survey for 45 years. Dagney Faulk, director of research for the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State, said the unemployment rate has been going down the last few years which suggests the labor market is improving. “We’ve seen job growth in a variety of industry sectors including manufacturing here in the state but also business services, education and health are really strong so a lot of those industries are planning to hire,” Faulk said. Gardner said students should start seeking jobs in their fields now. “Those who wait until just before or shortly after they graduate will face a more difficult time in finding meaningful employment,” Gardner said. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Indiana unemployment rate is at 5.4 percent, close to the coun-

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Shown above is the protest about the RFRA bill on March 30 in Indianapolis, after the Indiana Republican legislative leaders added language to the religious freedom law to make it clear it does not allow discrimination against gays and lesbians. Indiana Senate Republicans proposed Senate Bill 100 on Nov. 17 to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the state’s civil rights protections, as well as religious freedoms in Indiana.

Contact Sen. Travis Holdman at 317-232-9400 or senator.Holdman@iga.in.gov. to achieve fair treatment of their residents and as an economic development tool,” Chris Paulsen, Freedom Indiana campaign manager, said in a press release. Freedom Indiana isn’t the only organization to raise concerns. Lambda Legal, an LGBT rights organization, said the bill allows for further discrimination. Lambda Legal argued in a blog that the legislation will set Indiana’s civil rights movement backward. “Unfortunately, the bill that was introduced provides little meaningful protection from discrimination for transgender people and includes damaging carve-outs and exemptions targeting all LGBT people in Indiana,” the blog said. “The bill also would roll back some existing protections from discrimination, not just for LGBT people but for all people who rely on broader local civil rights laws in the state — whether based on race, sex, disability or other protected characteristics.” Holdman said the bill would not further discrimination against any group of people. “Under this bill, every

Hoosier in every Indiana community will live with the same civil rights laws,” Holdman said. “Many consider this to be one of the most difficult issues members of the General Assembly will debate. The questions that my colleagues will be debating are extremely complex. Others can debate and discuss these issues in theory. Lawmakers have the job of forming workable public policy. Sometimes that is difficult to do.” Sophomore telecommunications major Austin Wuethrich said he thinks the bill is a happy medium. “It seems smart to clarify things early and establish what rules are going to be set, so it makes sense that they did all this at once,” Wuethrich said. “I wouldn’t add anything. It seems fair on both sides of things.” Freshman pre-nursing major Alexis Anderson disagreed. She said she hopes the religious exemptions will be removed in the future. “Don’t get me wrong, many religious books have a lot of good messages, but what’s being covered in the new law is not something someone can control or choose,” Anderson said. “If a person knows deep down

that they’re a different gender or attracted to the same [sex], it’s not something they wake up to say, ‘Oh, I’m going to be gay now.’” Removing the religious freedom section is something Holdman said he would be willing to consider, as long as the bill protects both religious freedom and civil rights. But for graduate student Elise Lockwood, the whole thing is “ridiculous.” “I think it’s ridiculous that it is not already included,” Lockwood said. “However, I also think there are some questionable causes in the bill that provide exemptions for small business in the case of weddings for gay couples, and that just makes it even more ridiculous.” Holdman said he recognizes this is an emotional issue and hopes everyone can be respectful. He said he would be willing to talk with Ball State students about SB100 if they please. “Hearing their thoughts, concerns and ideas regarding the issue would be helpful,” Holdman said. “I hope that the debate on this bill can occur in a respectful fashion without either side demonizing one another. I sincerely believe that there is room for both religious liberty and LGBT civil rights to coexist.”

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• Professional & scientific services: 22 percent • Manufacturing: 11 percent

• Nonprofits: 8 percent • Finance & insurance: 8 percent • Educational services: 13 percent • Government: 7 percent • Health care & social assistance: 6 percent try’s rate of 5.5 percent. However, Faulk said there is still some uncertainty because Congress is dysfunctional and Europe and Asia have had slow economies. “There is Europe and Asia who have been in a period of slow economic growth or recession too for the past year or so. Companies or businesses that do a lot of exports — that obviously affects their bottom line,” Faulk said. Gardner expects the hiring rate to remain constant. “I suspect the rate will stay about the same as the last few years — above 10 percent growth for at least one more year,” Gardner said. “Then the market may cool off to growth between 5 and 8 percent, hard to tell more than a year out because of the trouble in the global economy.” According to a 2013 alumni survey conducted by the Office of Institutional Effectiveness, one in three respondents reported they found a job within three months of graduation. Fifty-one percent of respondents were working in their major field of study while 28 percent were employed in an area related to their major. Students graduating with a master’s degree can expect hiring to expand by 10 percent, according to the survey.

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| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Duckham said more experience and time with the department typically equates to higher leadership and higher salaries. Ball State administration and the Board of Trustees determine salaries and wages for Ball State University police, and funding can vary each year, university spokesperson Joan Todd said. Over the last five years, wages have continued to rise for university officers and UPD administration. For Muncie police officers, the City of Muncie instead determines funding, with the City Council and the Fraternal Order of Police deciding annually what changes can be made to department funds and salaries. “We’re thankful for what we have, but we could greatly benefit from more,” Stewart said. “Money is tough to come by for many departments — not just this one — but I could use more resources for my officers and for this department.” Since Stewart took the position as chief of police in Muncie, the department has seen one raise. “It wasn’t a lot, but it was something,” Stewart said. “I would love to see another raise come through here.” Most MPD officers and employees have more than 20 years of service with the department already, but Stewart said those members can’t expect much more of a guaranteed raise. “I want to raise the wages, I want to get five or six more officers out there and I want to give those in this department more of what they really deserve,” Stewart said.

He said more than half of his officers hold a second job elsewhere. Many find parttime work serving as school security guards or traffic patrol, and some are working in “completely different areas” altogether. “[The officers] love what they do — I know it, I see it every day — and I know the community is always becoming a better place when they’re out there,” Stewart said. “It’s not cutting it for most of these men and women, though. There’s just not enough income for an officer to only be employed by the department.”

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The Department of Justice suggests that, on average, university-employed police tend to earn salaries above those of city or state law enforcement officers. While this is true for Muncie police when compared with its campus counterpart, other college towns in Indiana are not seeing the same trend. Indiana University Bloomington police officers make an annual base pay of $40,726, and similar to Ball State’s university police, IUPD pay wages increase with time and leadership level. However, probationary officers for the Bloomington city police force receive $45,544 per year. While IUPD averages 10 to 12 calls per day, according to the iu.edu daily crime log, most calls the department receives involve alcohol violations, marijuana or other misdemeanors. Bloomington police are responding to similar calls, although police logs indicate the department oversees more cases that involve violence and serious injury or death. IUPD employs 125 fulltime sworn police officers

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— 44 of which are exclusively employed at the IU Bloomington campus — and is among the 12 largest law enforcement organizations in Indiana. Lt. Craig Munroe, public information officer for IUPD, said officers at IU Bloomington still typically clock three to four times more training than the state requires. “The training division’s primary responsibility is to provide training opportunities to the officers of the department throughout the year,” Munroe said. “It is not unusual for the training division to coordinate and/or provide over 15,000 hours of training a year for the departmental personnel.”

Email focuses on 18 by ’18 goals, achievements

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President Paul W. Ferguson emailed out the university’s progress report for 2015 to the campus on Monday. The report measures achievements and challenges encountered during the first year of Ferguson’s strategic plan, The Centennial Commitment. The report is the “first of its kind,” according to Ferguson’s email. The Centennial Commitment — or the 18 by ’18 plan — is the university’s plan to be student-centered, community-engaged and a model 21st-Century public research university by meeting 18 goals by 2018.

Moving Forward

UPD officers average more pay in a calendar year than officers with the city police, but Bell said Ball State officers are also averaging three times as much in-service training than their local counterparts. Although it’s unknown if or when either MPD or UPD officers will receive a pay raise, employee performances and pay are assessed at the end of each calendar year by the City of Muncie and by the Ball State Board of Trustees, respectively. Stewart said he didn’t disagree that there are gaps in pay, but he argued that his officers are ready for the “high-intensity” calls they frequently receive on a typical day. “I wish there was higher pay for [the officers],” Stewart said. “But I don’t doubt the performance of the men and the women in this department — the community is safer with these dedicated individuals, and I know many are grateful for that.”

Student-centered

More than 60 percent of goals related to becoming a student-centered university have either been achieved or are on target, according to the report. Thirty-six percent have seen progress but need attention or need to be revised. Online education, which Ferguson wants to increase full-time enrollment to 3,019 by 2018, was at 3,426 in Spring 2015. That enrollment jumped 6.7 percent in one year.

Another completed goal was for first-year student retention to be above 80 percent. In 2014, it was 81.6 percent — above the university’s goal of 79.2 percent. However, for goals under the student life experiences section, the progress of only two of the seven goals — participating in a co-curricular program, which 62 percent of students did, and renovation of Botsford/Swinford Hall — were directly talked about in the report. The progress of goals with greek housing, employee participation in substantive wellness initiatives, participation in diversity programs and participation in cultural programs and NCAA appearances (or bowl games) by sports teams were not discussed in this section of the report.

Community-Engaged

Of the community-engagement goals, 70 percent are on target or completed. Twenty-two percent have shown progress but need attention, and 8 percent need revision. The university met its goal to bring 1,000 international students to the school; 1,299 students were admitted this year, which is the second highest in school history. It also fulfilled its $250,000 contribution to Muncie-Delaware County’s five-year economic plan, which was one of Ferguson’s goals.

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THURSDAY Women’s basketball travels to Nashville, Tenn., to face off against Lipscomb at 6 p.m.

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SATURDAY Men’s basketball plays host to Pepperdine University at Worthen Arena beginning at 1 p.m.

Men’s volleyball prepares for upcoming season Returning players look to carry team to winning record

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With the fall preseason tournaments over and the regular season quickly approaching, the Ball State men’s volleyball has less than one month to prepare for its home-opening match on Jan. 8 against Stanford. Head coach Joel Walton will be returning several players this season who will look to make an impact from the first set of the season.

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“[The Bulldogs] did a good job; I didn’t see them half of the time coming from behind,” Fontaine said. “I probably got blocked like six times but just [kept] going. ... You gotta keep just playing through it, and at the end it’ll pay off.” Fontaine started the season a perfect 24 for 24 from the line in the team’s first five games. When she missed her first in the Dec. 3 94-45 victory against Division II Ohio Valley University, Sallee was in a joking mood. “We’re gonna wear gray uniforms again,” Sallee said. “[Fontaine] hates these gray uniforms, but every time she misses a free throw, we’re wearing them again.” Even if Sallee were

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The Ball State men’s volleyball team has several players returning for this season. The team’s home-opening match is on Jan. 8 against Stanford.

Matt Walsh

Sophomore Matt Walsh will be starting at the net this season. The Chicago native competed with the U.S. Men’s Sophomore middle attacker National Team in September and put up record numbers last season. As a freshman, the 6-foot11 middle attacker averaged 1.39 blocks per set during the 2015 season, which was third in the nation. “He gives us the ability to match up one of our players with another team’s strong middle attacker or outside attacker,” Walton said. Walsh also holds a record serious, however, the Cardinals would not have to wear gray often — Fontaine is 33 for 35 overall, and her 94.3 clip is still the fifth best in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Fontaine is not alone in her prowess from the charity stripe. Junior guard Jill Morrison is tied for 14th in the nation with 20 of her 22 attempts (90.9 percent) falling in. No Ball State player with five or more attempts is below 50 percent from the line, and sophomore forward Moriah Monaco is perfect — but with just nine attempts, she does not meet the NCAA’s minimum of 2.5 free throws made per game to qualify for the national leaderboard. In the Cardinals’ five wins, they have converted 72 of their 89 free-throw attempts, or 80.9 percent. In fact, Ball State’s

in the Cardinal history book. He earned 14 total blocks in two matches last season (Sacred heart and Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne), which ties for first in rally scoring in the Ball State record book. “Because of his height and his experience and his ability, he does a very good job disrupting attackers. ... He can really affect a player’s ability to get the shots they want to hit,” Walton said.

Brendan Surane

Starting outside attacker Brendan Surane put up record numbers last Junior outside year as well. attacker The junior

efficiency at the line has made three more free throws than its opponents have even attempted. Opponents made 46 of their 69 tries, or 66.7 percent. Free-throw efficiency has an added benefit aside from points — it helps neutralize the aggression of opposing defenses. The Cardinals have outscored opponents 250-108 in the paint, and Fontaine, who is 30th in the country with points per game, is a primary beneficiary. “Coach keeps telling me to ... take it to the rim probably every game and not settle for jump shots,” Fontaine said. “I just have to keep getting it to the rim and do what I’m good at and not let them take my strength away from me.” The second-best freethrow shooting team in the country will travel to Lipscomb for a 6 p.m. matchup Thursday.

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from Lockport, Ill., recorded a team-high 30 aces in the 2015 season as a middle attacker. Surane will be starting at a new position this season, playing on the left side of the net. “Surane’s transitioning for the second time in his career. Last year, he went from being a right-side attacker to being a middle, this year from middle to left-side attacker,” Walton said. As a left-side attacker, Surane now has to pass, serve and receive. As a right-side attacker, Surane did not have to pass, serve and receive, but rather attack and block balls. The coaching staff’s confidence in Surane led to another position change. “The change in Surane came from our coaching staff

feeling he’s one of the better arms on our team. ... As a middle attacker, we were going to be limited in the number of times that we can send him the ball,” Walton said. “So in moving Surane to the left side, our primary thought process was [that] we wanted to get him to where he was going to be able to swing at more balls and have a bigger role in our team’s offense.” In the 2015 season, Surane was named to the Academic All-MIVA team and was the only cardinal to appear in all 100 sets the team played. “My feeling is he has the ability to dominate in that position and really be a game-changer in many of

Senior outside attacker Marcin Niemczewski is entering his third season as a starter under Walton. He is one of Senior outside 10 Cardinals attacker from Illinois and led the team in kills the past two seasons with 320 in 2014 and 240 in 2015. “He’s probably been our most consistent starter the last three years,” Walton said. “He is a guy that we run a lot of our offense through.” In February 2014, Niemczewski was named National Player of the Week, becoming the first Cardinal to earn the honor since 2010 and one of 13 Cardinals ever to be named National Player of the Week. “What we need for [Niemczewski] to do this year is to take that next step in his ability to terminate the ball and to be successful against a variety of different defenses that teams are going to throw in his direction,” Walton said. Over Winter Break, the men’s volleyball team will return to campus early to prepare the season-opening match against Stanford on Jan. 8 at Worthen Arena.

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The Ball State women’s basketball team is off to its strongest start in nine years. Senior guard Nathalie Fontaine scored 20 points on Sunday during the game against Butler.

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Hiago Garchet

Senior Hiago Garchet will once again lead the team at the setter position this season. The Brazil native recorded 852 sets in the 201415 season Senior setter while earning Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association Defensive Player of the Week on March 3. “We need him to continue to improve his set consistency, ask him to set a quicker tempo — especially to the left-side attackers — and also a ball that we call a ‘bic,’ which is a ball that’s attacked out of the back row in the middle of the court,” Walton said. “We’re really trying to improve our offense in those two places.” Garchet currently ranks 10th in Ball State history in career assists-per-set, averaging 7.69. “[Garchet’s] done a very good job through the fall, improving his location and tempo on those sets,” Walton said.

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