NEW PRACTICE FACILITY CONFIRMED Shondell says plan includes building for basketball, volleyball
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Ball State athletics will soon announce a plan for a new volleyball and basketball practice facility, along with the possibility of other improved sports facilities. Ball State women’s volleyball
coach Steve Shondell confirmed that a new basketball and volleyball practice facility will be built on the northwest side of Worthen arena. New basketball locker rooms will be included in the new practice facility, while the old ones will be expanded and used by the women’s and men’s volleyball teams. “Having a brand new practice facility is huge,” Shondell said. “I really think it is going to help recruiting. A new practice field isn’t going to help with attendance at events, but it sure is go-
ing to help with recruiting.” A person, who asked to stay anonymous and is familiar with a fundraising plan to pay for the facilities, said it involves millions in funds for improvements, including more sports facilities than volleyball and basketball. Shondell said he wasn’t sure if other athletic facilities would receive improvements or how much updated facilities would cost. He did say, though, that funds from a campaign would go toward updated facilities.
Joan Todd, executive director of Public Relations, said in an email the university will make an announcement about the athletic department Saturday. “President Gora and Athletic Director Bill Scholl will make a presentation of an exciting new vision for the future of Ball State Athletics,” Todd said in an email. Todd, along with university spokesman Tony Proudfoot, declined to provide more details
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One student sells marijuana to a fellow student inside their home. Over an ounce of marijuana is a class D misdemeanor.
HIGH REWARD Despite illegality, student marijuana dealers profit from growing number of buyers on campus LINDSEY GELWICKS FEATURES EDITOR | features@bsudailynews.com
*Student names have been changed to protect their identities. Kevin* got involved in the world of pot six years ago as a freshman in high school. His parents wouldn’t let him spend the night at friends’ houses, which meant drinking was out of the question. He wasn’t too keen on it anyway. That left him with getting high. When his best friend suggested it, he figured “why not?” He would be able to get away with it a lot easier than drinking. Pretty soon he was dabbling in selling, transporting weed down his high school hallway. In one instance, he hid it in a water bottle with coffee beans.
“It was just the beginning of me selling weed,” Kevin said. “I was just a delivery boy. I got weed from this guy in the locker room, and I was going to give it to another guy in the other locker room.” Society’s attitude toward smoking marijuana is becoming more relaxed, especially among Indiana college students. Over the past four years, the number of Indiana college students who smoke has increased from 25 percent to 34 percent, according to the Indiana College Substance Use Survey. When it comes to image among peers, students show no real concern either. Seven percent said they thought other students would strongly disapprove if they tried pot once or twice. Nine percent said they would strongly disapprove
if they smoked occasionally and 17 percent said their peers would strongly disapprove if they found out they smoked regularly. Perhaps, this is why Kevin has had success in his business. In the past two years since he started college, Kevin estimates he has earned more than $25,000 selling pot. That doesn’t include what he earned selling in high school. He said he wouldn’t even be able to estimate that since he doesn’t keep paper records. His “records” instead come in the form of what he refers to as “glass” — his bongs, pipes and other paraphernalia that he’s bought over the years. At one point he had 17 bongs, all with the attachments.
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| THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON — In what could be a major break in the case of the Boston Marathon, investigators are on the hunt for a man seen in a department-store surveillance video dropping off a bag at the site of the bombings that killed three people, a Boston politician said Wednesday. Separately, a law enforcement official confirmed that authorities
have found an image of a potential suspect but don’t know his name. Meanwhile, the third victim was identified as Boston University graduate student Lu Lingzi by The Shenyang Evening News, a state-run Chinese newspaper. Wednesday’s developments — less than 48 hours after the attack that more than 170 wounded at the world’s oldest and most prestigious marathon — marked a possible turning point in a case that has investigators analyzing photos and videos frame by frame for clues to who carried out the twin bombings and why.
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A shrine to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing can be seen in Boston, Mass., April 17. Police believe they may have a lead on a potential suspect in the bombing.
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Video leads to possible bombing suspect Evidence shows man leaving bag at site of Boston terrorist attack
OXFORD, Miss. — The FBI has identified a Mississippi man suspected of mailing letters containing poisonous ricin as 45-year-old Paul Kevin Curtis. FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen said Curtis was arrested Wednesday afternoon at his apartment in Corinth, near the Tennessee state line about 100 miles east of Memphis. Authorities still waited for definitive tests on the letters sent to President Barack Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss. An FBI intelligence bulletin obtained by The Associated Press said those two letters were postmarked Memphis, Tenn. The Mississippi WHAT THEY SAID man was accused The letters to President of sending letters Barack Obama and Sen. Roger that tested posiWicker, R-Miss. said, “To see tive for the poia wrong and not expose it, is sonous ricin and to become a silent partner to set the nation’s its continuance.” Both were signed, “I am KC and I approve capital on edge this message.” a day after the Boston Marathon bombings. Both letters said: “To see a wrong and not expose it, is to become a silent partner to its continuance.” Both were signed, “I am KC and I approve this message.” The letters were intercepted before reaching the White House or Senate. The FBI said Wednesday that more testing was underway. Preliminary field tests can often show false positives for ricin. As authorities scurried to investigate three questionable packages discovered in Senate office buildings, reports of suspicious items also came in from at least three senators’ offices in their home states. Sen. Carl Levin said a staff member at his Saginaw, Mich., office would spend the night in a hospital as a precaution after discovering a suspicious letter. The staff member had no symptoms, Levin said in a statement. He expected to learn preliminary results of tests on the letter by Thursday.
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