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alentine’s Day is dedicated to romantic relationships, dates and chocolates, but on Feb. 13, romance takes a backseat to a day with friends. Otherwise known as Galentine’s Day, Feb. 13 is a day when women get together to celebrate platonic relationships with their female friends, as popularized by NBC’s TV show “Parks and Recreation.” In the show, main character Leslie Knope, played by Amy Poehler, gathers all of her female friends the morning of the 13th to have breakfast, share stories and give gifts.
or many college students, the Internet is a useful tool. You can pay bills, order food, watch a movie and finish assignments all from the comfort of your bed. You can also date. Online dating has become a widespread experience that is bringing people closer one click at a time. Kora Wilson, a sophomore journalism major, met her boyfriend, Korbin Records, a sophomore software development major at Ivy Tech, through OK Cupid.
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The Ball State men’s volleyball team won its game against Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne on Thursday in three straight sets. The Cardinals extended their win streak to five games, and they are now 8-3 on the season.
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In what has become known as the old I-69 rivalry, the No. 13 Ball State men’s volleyball team swept Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne in three straight sets. The Cardinals extended their win streak to five games as they are 8-3 on the season, while the Mastodons suffered their third straight loss and dropped to 4-7 on the season. Ball State started its last three matches slowly, but that trend was not the case on Thursday. The Cardinals won the first set by a score of 25-23. Sophomore outside attacker Mitch Weiler sealed the win with a kill, giving him five in the first set. He would finish with eight. “Going in, we wanted to get off to a fast start, especially since we’ve been getting into five sets the past two weekends,” Weiler said.
when their assignment is used as a sample, but Knight said this is normal. Their names are not kept on the work, and if there is a name present, nothing is done with it. “Most campuses ... use this approach, and it’s kind of unknown to the students,” Knight said. “The purpose is ... [to give] feedback to the university about how well students are doing. So if you find out that
Sen. Jacob Peterson proposed the bill, but it was not originally set to be presented on the senate floor at the meeting. The legislation arose after students approached Peterson last week about the idea. The students started a petition, which collected more than 400 signatures overnight and is now standing with more than 600 signatures from students, faculty and more. Several senators brought up issues concerning the bill, such as a lack of research and
confusion in the bill’s language. Dining also had not yet been contacted to discuss whether the bill is feasible, and some sponsors did not know their name was being used in the legislation. Peterson said he had hopes of the senate collaborating on the bill to move it along the chain of command but was disappointed in the results. “I have empathy; I understand where [the senators] were coming from. I’m just disappointed that there wasn’t much collaboration,” Peterson said. “I understand
some aspects of writing aren’t as good as you’d like, well what does that mean we have to do?” Materials from Tier 2 and Tier 3 courses are assessed as part of the accreditation. Tier 2 courses are assessed on judgment skills, while Tier 3 courses are assessed on written communication and critical thinking skills.
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Ball State Number of concerns legislation sweeps IPFW regarding holds back progress in 3 straight | Cardinals’ win streak reaches 5 as they improve to 3-0 in MIVA
students are not notified if their assignments are used. Ball State’s University Core Curriculum is evaluated through student work. Assignments are pulled from Blackboard and used to maintain Ball State’s accreditation with the Higher Learning Commission, said William Knight, assistant provost for institutional effectiveness. Students are not notified
Students may have to wait a little longer to see results from the petition to get a bigger variety of fruits and vegetables on campus. The legislation for more fresh fruit and vegetables was tabled at the Student Senate meeting on Wednesday.
that there were flaws, I understand that there could be problems, and I understand that more research is needed, but at the same time, I wanted the room to come together and break it down and put amendments on it.”
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I gave up Christianity for Lent a while ago, and I have yet to get it back. In Indiana, a lack of religious belief can seem radical, but I’m just one of many young people who have left organized religion across the United States. I still take an active interest in religious happenings at home and around the world because the way other people think and the things they believe affect me whether I like it or not. For this reason, I have enjoyed observing Pope Francis, whose focus on eliminating poverty, protecting the environment and spreading acceptance makes him a man with a message that even non-believers can get behind. For Christians, Lent is a somber time of fasting and self-denial leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion. While this has little significance to non-Christians, Francis has a knack for taking Christian issues and making them accessible to a wider au-
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| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 However, Student Government Association President Jack Hesser said he was excited to see Peterson push for something so many students are passionate about, despite the outcome of the bill’s proposal. “I think it’s really exciting to see [Peterson] grab onto something that clearly has students passionate,” Hesser said. “The role of senators is to act on the behalf of students, and that’s what [Peterson] was trying to do today, and I appreciate that.” Peterson said his next step will be to revisit the bill from scratch to fix problems, as well as research more into its possibilities, which may set the
ISSUES WITH THE BILL • Dining was not consulted •Names of sponsors were not legally obtained •Language in bill is not the same as the petition students originally signed •Not all sponsors are students at Ball State •Little research was done •Bill was pushed into Student Senate too soon
bill back. The bill is still in the works, but Peterson said he is excited to work with senate to pass this bill. “I’m looking forward to the next opportunity to go back and do research, and DN FILE PHOTO SAMANTHA BRAMMER hopefully the collaboration will start up later,” he said. The legislation to get more fruits and vegetables was tabled on Wednesday at the Student Senate meeting. Students started a petition that received more than 400 signatures overnight.
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Hoosiers are gearing up to laugh this week. Pat McAfee, the punter for the Indianapolis Colts began his four-stop comedy show, The I-69 Tour, on Wednesday. McAfee will be coming to John R. Emens Auditorium at 8 p.m. tonight. This offseason, McAfee is taking a break from football to share jokes about his life. When his scholarship to Penn State was given to another player, McAfee attended West Virginia University to play football. He was rejected again on Draft Day 2009, when the Dallas Cowboys drafted another kicker over McAfee even though they assured him he had a spot. Then, McAfee received a surprise phone call later that day from then
Indianapolis Colts general manager Bill Polian, asking him to join their team. McAfee has been making history with the Colts for seven years. Not only is he a performer on the field, but also on the stage. In 2015, McAfee entertained thousands in his first tour, Uncaged. It was a twonight comedy show at the Palladium in Carmel, Ind. Ball State sophomore Sarah Anzelmo attended McAfee’s first show and said McAfee is the funniest guy in the NFL. “He took questions from the audience in the end,” Anzelmo said. “It was just really fun, and he was really interactive with everybody.” His new show, The I-69 Tour, makes four stops in the Hoosier state during February. Tickets went on sale January 15 and sold out quickly. Anzelmo bought her tickets that morning. “I just thought [Uncaged] was really funny, and he’s going to make it different this time, so I might as well go again,” Anzelmo said.
SHOW INFO Pat McAfee will be at John R. Emens Auditorium at 8 p.m. Some McAfee fans, like Ball State junior Jacob Miller, could not get tickets. “I didn’t get tickets just because of how expensive they were, even though I would have loved to go,” Miller said. Miller thinks everyone else is in for a great time, though. “I follow him on social media like Twitter and Snapchat, and he is hilarious,” Miller said. “I think [the show] will live up to the hype.” The tour stopped in Evansville, Ind., on Wednesday and people have already used #I69Tour on social media to share their praise for the show. Using the hashtag, McAfee started a competition by asking fans to take pictures in front of his tour bus, post it to his media accounts, and the best would win $1,000.
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Professors who teach these courses select one assignment, such as a paper or presentation, that represents a specific skill. At the beginning of the summer, Knight goes to Blackboard and pulls all of those examples of student work. Because there are thousands of examples, faculty members only rate a couple hundred. “Rather than giving lots and lots of students a standardized exam, we’re collecting work they’ve already turned in and repurposing it,” Knight said. “We’re recycling it for the purpose of assessment.” Work is rated to be not proficient, proficient or
highly proficient in subcategories of each skill. For example, Tier 3 courses are examined for skills such as context, purpose, development and support. Data is then entered into a spreadsheet, showing which percentage of students are in each category of proficiency. Sarah Garner, a junior general studies major, said she thinks the involvement with Blackboard is “kind of weird,” but she understands the concept behind it. “I would rather [the university] pull work [from Blackboard] than have to take a standardized test,” Garner said. “It makes sense. They have to figure out a way to see if students are actually learning.” Even professors don’t
receive the rating their classes received after the results have been determined. It’s one university rating, Knight said. “This isn’t about Professor X’s class is doing really good and Professor Y’s class [isn’t],” Knight said. “Otherwise, the faculty thinks this is about their teaching, and it’s not. It’s about the students’ learning.” Knight stressed the importance of noting the accreditation is not meant to target individual students or professors. It is about investing in future students. “The purpose of this is feedback to improve the learning of future students,” Knight said. “It is not about … students themselves.”
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A report will be released in the middle of next week that gives details about the latest accomplishments in the recommended solutions proposed in the Beneficence Dialogue report. Next month will mark one year since the dialogue sessions took place.
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A full progress report detailing the latest accomplishments in the recommended solutions proposed in the Beneficence Dialogue report will be released by the middle of next week. Thomas Gibson, associate vice president for student affairs, said the purpose of the plan is to provide a
strategy for the action the Council on Diversity and Inclusion will take. “We’ve determined that [the plans] are solid and they are actually actionable, that we can achieve some gains as a result of the plans,” Gibson said. Next month will mark one year since the dialogue sessions took place, when more than 100 students participated in group discussions about diversity concerns at Ball State. A report was sent out in October 2015 summarizing the concerns and recommended solutions to improve diversi-
ty and inclusion at Ball State. The initial drafts of the plans for the solutions were due to the co-chairs of the Council on Diversity and Inclusion on Dec. 16. The co-chairs of the council are Gibson and Beth Messner, an associate professor in communication studies. “A lot of good thinking went into developing the plans, and the plans were developed in a very collaborative nature,” Gibson said. He said they took their time to involve as many people as they could in the process. “All of the recommendations may impact an area
or a unit on campus, so it is critical that members of the council had conversations with stakeholders across the campus who may be impacted as a result of the recommendations,” Gibson said. “We’ve tried to be as transparent in our communications and our actions as possible.” The plans are ever-evolving, Gibson said, and may be altered because of changes in internal and external environments. One thing that won’t affect the plans is President Paul W. Ferguson’s resignation. “There is support from the
Board of Trustees down to cabinet members as well as stakeholders across campus, so there has not been any change with the work that we’ve been charged with doing on the council,” Gibson said. One of the objectives that may be more challenging is the relocation of the Multicultural Center. Gibson said this will likely result in a new building or facility. Other challenging objectives include those involving adjustments to the curriculum, such as the addition of a diversity course in the core curriculum.
THEMES COVERED BY THE BENEFICENCE DIALOGUE 1) Recruitment and retention of a diverse student body 2) Diversity awareness/ education initiatives for students 3) Education/training for and support from faculty 4) University response/ student body and administration interactions 5) Campus climate
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Coach seeks better effort following home loss Team has 7 games remaing in season before tournament
TIMELINE OF THE MEN’S INTERCOLLEGIATE VOLLEYBALL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP
Founded on Feb. 4, 1961 by representatives from Ball State University and six other colleges from the Midwest, the MIVA was the first men’s college volleyball league in the nation. Ball State’s first of two coaches, Don Shondell, played a huge role in the creation of the league. The timeline below shows the history of team memberships in the league since its creation. 1960
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Ball State women’s basketball is tied for second in the Mid-American Conference West Division with Toledo (13-9, 8-3 MAC). The Cardinals are one and a half games behind Central Michigan in the standings.
“When the game started, though, … [Central Michigan] hit some early shots, and it just went downhill from there, really.” With five road games in Ball State’s final seven regular season games, Sallee said his concerns about effort are especially troubling. “If we lack effort on the road, we’ll get beat — plain and simple,” he said. “It doesn’t matter who we play. It all starts and stops right there. If we’ll play, and we’ll play with effort and that tenacity this team has done all year, we can beat anybody. We showed tonight, that when we don’t play like that, we’re pretty pedestrian.” Ball State is tied for second in the MAC West with Toledo (13-9, 8-3 MAC) and is just one and a half games behind Central Michigan in the standings. Sallee said the Cardinals still control their own des-
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tiny. “It’s up to us whether this becomes a blip on the radar,” he said. “We’ve got the whole West Division left, and Northern [Illinois] twice, so a lot of those teams that we’re jockeying with, they’re all in front of us.”
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REMAINING REGULAR SEASON SCHEDULE Sat., at Kent State Feb. 13 (4-17, 1-10 MAC) Wed., at Northern Illinois Feb. 17 (10-12, 3-8 MAC) Sat., vs. Western Michigan Feb. 20 (14-10, 6-6 MAC) Wed., at Central Michigan Feb 24 (16-7, 10-2 MAC) Sat., at Eastern Michigan Feb 27 (14-8, 5-6 MAC) Wed., vs. Northern Illinois Mar. 2 Sat., at Toledo Mar. 5 (13-9, 8-3 MAC)
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the MAC West Division with three coaches’ votes. Ball State is coming off a 2015 MAC championship and a run into the NCAA regionals where it earned a win over No. 16 Notre Dame. The team has five returning seniors, but the loss of head coach Tyra Perry and three seniors led to the coaches DN FILE PHOTO MAKAYLA JOHNSON selecting Central Michigan According to the 2016 conference preseason poll, the Ball State softball as the favorite to win the team is predicted to finish second in the Mid-American Conference West MAC West Division. Division. The Cardinals were one of three teams that received votes to win
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The Ball State men’s volleyball team swept Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne on Thursday in three straight sets. The team is 8-3 on the season.
Walton said there is a lot of season left to be played. “It’s amplified because we’re playing at home,” Walton said. “But it’s also amplified because we’re going to finish our MIVA season when we have to go on the road right at the end of the season,” Walton said. Ball State will finish its last two conference matches on the road, but for now, it will continue its six-match home stretch hosting the Barton College Bulldogs at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Worthen Arena.
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IPFW’s campus is an hour away from Muncie, and with the amount of blue inside of Worthen Arena, it was clear that its fans traveled well. Weiler noticed the opposing team’s loud cheers but said it was expected since, “it’s a big rivalry,” and did not bother the Cardinals too much. Ball State is now 67-29 all time against IPFW and 30-13 at home. This win put the Cardinals in sole possession of the top spot in the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association conference, but
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25-22. As a unit, it finished with four and half blocks — a game high. Junior outside attacker Mike Scannell led the Cardinals in kills with 10, followed by Weiler with eight and senior outside attacker Marcin Niemczewski with six. The most dominant Cardinal victory came in the third set, where they started off with the lead and never looked back, winning 25-18 to seal the match. On the defensive end, freshman libero Adam Wessel once again led the team in digs with 13.
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Head coach Joel Walton was pleased with the team’s effort coming out strong but said there is still work to be done. “When it got to some of the go times, the really important times late in games one and two, our guys were able to win some points and pull out those games,” Walton said. Ball State stole the second in another close victory,
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After Ball State (16-6, 8-3 Mid-American Conference) lost to MAC West Division leader Central Michigan (16-7, 10-2 MAC), Cardinal head coach Brady Sallee was not excited to watch the game film. “I’ll have to watch it, but what I’m afraid of is the lessons that we would talk about off this film are effort-related, want-to-related,” he said. “I don’t know that there’s a coach out there good enough to coach those two things. You’ve gotta have it. The head-scratching part of this is we’ve had that all year.” Ball State trailed Central Michigan at halftime 33-27, and the Chippewas pulled away in the third quarter by outscoring the Cardinals 22-14. Senior guard Nathalie Fontaine said she was expecting a tighter game. “I honestly thought in halftime that we were gonna come out and play better like we have in the past,” she said. “It didn’t happen until too late, the hole was too deep.” Fontaine scored 29 points and hauled in 14 rebounds, but Sallee said “the oneman show over here wasn’t quite enough tonight.” Sallee said his team should have been more prepared for Central Michigan’s energy. “We’ve played enough good teams, we should know that,” he said. “And that was the part I was disappointed about, … we had a lot of the same things happen to us over and over and over. That’s the part that I wonder where the effort was that we’ve seen and come to expect from the team.” Fontaine said the Cardinals crashed early in the game. “I didn’t notice anything before the game,” she said.
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VALENTINE’S DAY
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Kora Wilson, a sophomore journalism major at Ball State, met Korbin Records, a sophomore development major at Ivy Tech, through OK Cupid, a free online dating site. In 2013, the Pew Research Center conducted a survey that found 59 percent of Americans had a positive attitude toward online dating.
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| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Allie Hartman, a freshman psychology and classical cultures major, first discovered Galentine’s Day while watching “Parks and Recreation.” This is her second year celebrating. “Last year, we got together and had a potluck,” she said. Hartman is still planning the event, but this year she and her friends may participate in the Zumbathon in the Park Hall Multipurpose Room and have dinner, she said. Cara Raney, a sophomore psychology major, is also planning her second Galentine’s Day. “The reason we started doing this is because one of my friends, she’s huge into ‘Parks and Rec,’” said Raney. “She thought it
would be a good idea for us to do something like that.” Raney said it has been hard for all of her friends to get together this year, but she still plans on gathering a group of seven friends for the day and discussing activities that they could do. However, Galentine’s Day means more than having fun with friends. “Valentine’s Day gets so overdone,” Hartman said. “You spend so much time focusing on romantic relationships. … It’s nice to take a step back and appreciate the friendships that you have that are around you that you don’t really think about that much.” Hartman also pointed out that celebrating Galentine’s Day strengthens and makes her appreciate her relationships with her friends. “You just don’t stop to think about [friendships],” she said. “You take it for granted.” Hartman even said the rea-
son why she celebrated Galentine’s day is because “we don’t appreciate our female friendships enough.” Raney seemed to agree, but she expanded the idea of celebrating platonic relationships to more than just those between females. “I think it’s important for groups of friends to get together. Not just Galentine’s Day for girls, but, like, the guys get together, [too],” Raney said. One residence hall so far is hosting a Galentine’s Day event. Studebaker Hall West is hosting what it describes as “A Valentine’s Daythemed party for the ladies of floors 1 and 5,” according to its Benny Link page. The party at Studebaker Hall West will be at 9 p.m. Saturday in the Multipurpose Room. The page for the event says that it will involve “waffles, nails, Valentine’s crafts and girl talk.”
Holiday of love known for many origin stories
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Many people know how important Valentine’s Day is in modern culture, but they may not know the history behind the holiday dedicated to love. Jennifer DeSilva, a history professor at Ball State, said there are a few main theories regarding the development of Valentine’s Day. The first involves St. Valentine, who may have never existed at all. It’s likely the persona of St. Valentine was created when a church outside of Rome, called Valentine’s Church, was named for the person who gave money to help build it. From there, stories surrounding this man grew. Soon, St. Valentine was the human embodiment of perfect morals, with an emphasis on love. St. Valentine’s name was first recorded on a list of feast days for different saints. These feast days were intended to acknowledge the martyrdom of their respective saints, and St. Valentine’s took place on Feb. 14.
Another idea behind Valentine’s Day is an ancient Roman festival called the Lupercalia, which occurred around Feb. 14. During the festival, men would take strips of skin from a sacrificed goat and whip women with them to make the women more fertile. The region in which Valentine’s Day originated plays a significant role as well. In Britain and the northern Mediterranean, spring arrives earlier than it does in the United States — usually in February — which could have spurred feelings of happiness and love. At Ball State, however, the history of Valentine’s Day is not nearly as important as the modern interpretation of love, whether that be platonic, romantic or self-love. Taylor Phillips, a sophomore nursing major, said people tend to focus too much on Valentine’s Day and not enough on the rest of the year. “I think it’s really important to incorporate love into your everyday life,” Phillips said. “I don’t think it should be any different on Valentine’s Day.”
Phillips said love is a top priority in many people’s lives, and finding true love is an important focus in society. Lillian Marsh, a freshman undecided student, expressed similar views about the significance of the holiday. “People love love and they want to celebrate it,” Marsh said. Valentine’s Day not only lets people express their love, but their consumerism as well. According to the National Retail Federation, Americans are estimated to spend $19.7 billion on the sentimental holiday in 2016 alone, setting a record high. Sophomore nursing major Eli Taubert said money and love have a connection, especially on Valentine’s Day. “It’s kind of turned into showing your love by spending money, which I don’t think that’s the way you should show love,” Taubert said. “It’s a way to show someone that you care.”
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Although the two have only been officially dating for a matter of days, they have known one another for roughly four months. Neither Wilson nor Records is new to the digital dating domain. Records even said this is not the first relationship he has begun over the Internet. “It’s not for everybody, … but it’s not something you should simply discard, because there’s a good chance there’s somebody for you,” Records said. In the past, online dating may have seemed taboo, but according to a 2005 Pew Research Center study, 44 percent of Americans viewed online dating as a good way to meet people. It conducted the study a second time in 2013 and found that 59 percent of Americans had a positive attitude toward online dating. Ball State sociology professor Richard Petts explained that there are numerous factors that play a part in this shift. “The most likely contributor is the fact that we have become so comfortable doing most things online now. … It seems to only make
sense that we have become more comfortable dating online as well,” Petts said. He also said you are able to be choosier. Thanks to technology, you are accustomed to finding the best option for just about every aspect of life, including your love life. Online dating allows you to create a filter to narrow down potential partners, bringing you one step closer to finding your soul mate. Luckily for Wilson and Records, their families accept the fact that they met online. “My family and friends have treated it just like any other relationship. … They love me and like [Records], so it didn’t really matter,” Wilson said. Records said his loved ones have a similar attitude. Although the two attend different schools, they make the distance work for them. They work around their schedules so they see each other nearly every day. When they are apart, they stay in contact by texting. “We sort of revolve around one another, we support each other,” Wilson said. Although the two are happy to have found each other, working their way through OK Cupid was not always easy. Both Wilson and Records said they hadn’t had much luck on the site before. “I’ve attempted to start well over 10 relationships online,
but something would normally happen. … I initially was looking for something serious, but by the time I met [Wilson], I had [begun to] give up,” Records said. Despite the fact more than half of Americans now have a positive attitude when it comes to online dating, not everyone has had success in finding a significant other. Austin Bishop, a sophomore telecommunications major, joined Tinder a few months ago. Though he has yet to find a relationship, Bishop remains positive. Though Tinder has the reputation of being a hook-up app, Bishop has had a different experience with it. “I’ve met some cool people and made some friends through Tinder, so it’s not entirely deserving of the label it has been given,” Bishop said. Bishop said he was nervous at first, but is now more comfortable with the process. He said online dating is a lot of trial and error. “Ideally, I’d want a serious relationship, but every relationship has to start somewhere. … I like seeing where things may go,” Bishop said. Even though waters in the dating pool may seem rough at times, there is still hope. Petts said online dating has become the most common way people meet their spouses.
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ACHIEVES Daily News wins Gold Circle Awards for digital work The Ball State Daily News won 12 Gold Circle Awards for digital media, including first-place honors for news writing, in-depth news/feature writing, sports and sports commentary. The awards by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association were chosen from among 4,232 entries from colleges, universities and high schools across the country. Here are some highlights: • Anthony Lombardi won the top national collegiate award in the news and in-depth categories for his look at meth abuse in Delaware County. Lombardi profiled a meth addict who lost everything to the drug except for the clothes on his back - and a Bible. • Former Editor-in-Chief Dakota Crawford won first place for sports commentary, and Sports Editor Robby General took a first in sports news for his look at what Ball State earned for playing Texas A&M in football - what’s known as a “guarantee game.” • News Editor Kara Berg won first place for single spot-news photo with an image taken at a candle-light vigil honoring protests in Ferguson, Missouri. Emma Rogers won the top feature photo award for a picture from the “Pretty in Pink” fashion show to promote breast cancer awareness.
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‘Welcome to the jungal’ Theatre and dance department’s ‘Jungalbook’ unique adaptation of Disney film KATHRYN HAMPSHIRE THEATRE REPORTER
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Ball State students Ike Wellhausen, Lincoln Moody and Sean Haynes prepare for “Jungalbook,” based on the Disney movie. The show opens at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the University Theatre.
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hile many may be expecting “Jungalbook,” part of this year’s MainStage Series shows, to be like the Disney movie by the same name, this production is anything but. Apart from having a lot of the same character names, the Ball State theatre and dance department’s production has more differences than similarities. “It is a reimagining of the Mowgli stories that so many of us are aware of, but this play looks more at the relationships between those living in the jungle,” director Troy Dobosiewicz said. Mowgli, played by junior musical theatre major Lincoln Clauss, is a “mancub” who has grown up in the jungle being raised by wolves. In this tale, the character is 10 years old and must face the challenges that come with growing up into a man, with the added struggles of not knowing he is a human in the first place.
“Even though everyone in the jungle keeps calling him a human, he doesn’t know what that is,” Clauss said. “He’s going through a stage of his life when he’s learning about the laws and dangers of the jungle and learning about feeling fear for the first time. All of a sudden, he realizes that the jungle isn’t the home he thought it was.” Grey the wolf is played by sophomore acting major Justin Lee Vance, who describes his character as “in a constant struggle of listening to his pack leader Akela and what his animalistic instincts tell him what to do and how to behave.” What drove the concept for this show was the concept of the “other” — the outsider or outcast. “At various points in our lives, we are often ‘other’ — when we move from one level of education to another, when we take on a new job, when we make new friends,” Dobosiewicz said. “And that’s how the
play speaks to me: it speaks to me about how Mowgli is forced to deal with the unfamiliar and the ‘other’ in his life, and we can all as human beings know what that feels like.” The characters face challenges and choices to which audience members of all ages will be able to relate. “Grey’s struggle of knowing where he belongs and what pecking order he fits is something that a lot of college students go through, that a lot of humans go through,” Vance said. Many of the characters in this play are animals, and in order to prepare for these roles, the actors engaged in research about their animals in order to be as authentic as possible. Sophomore musical theatre major Ivy Moody, who plays Sherakhan the tiger, said they did extensive research on the animals, including watching videos and copying their sounds. “We would record ourselves doing the sounds
and play them with the videos to see how close we could get to a roaring tiger or a howling wolf,” she said. “The challenge of this piece has been development of a language of movement in which animals are present, but in that we can also be human beings,” movement director Jonathan Becker said. The process of learning these kinds of movements was a much more physically demanding process than the actors anticipated. “For this show specifically, I don’t think any of us understood the physicality that this show would require,” Vance said. “These animal movements had to be blindingly specific in order to portray what we were trying to portray accurately.” Part of the show’s environment is a large, welded jungle gym, which has presented the actors with an additional challenge — they had to rehearse without the set for the majority of the rehearsal process.
“This was a serious challenge because the set dictates to us what the staging was and what the quality of movement eventually became,” Becker said. “It is a character in the play that we have to interact with and the motivator for the movement for the play.” In addition to having to adjust to using this part of the set, certain actors have faced the added physical demands of using it too. Clauss, for example, spends the majority of the show hanging from the jungle gym. “I think I’m the cast member who spends the most time up there,” he said. “I had to choreograph and navigate my way through it, which was especially challenging before we had it, and then we had to readjust once we got here.” In order to tell this story, the production team is utilizing a vast variety of theatrical arts, including sound, haze, a welded set with multiple levels, a
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Corey Cox to play at The Chug Country singer has played venue about 10 times
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Corey Cox will return to Muncie Saturday to perform at The Chug with his band at 11 p.m. Cox has played the venue about 10 times, manager Phil Juskevice said. “More and more, he has been picking up momentum,” Juskevice said. “But he contacted me and was interested in coming to Ball State and playing here. He knew
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every time and so we’re starting to make it more of a regular thing.” Cox, who is originally from Pendleton, Ind., has played with other country artists like Dierks Bentley, Sugarland and Darius Rucker. He’s also performed at Super Bowl XLVI Village and sang the national anthem at the Brickyard 400 NASCAR race, according to his Country Music Television (CMT) biography. Juskevice said even though Cox has been getting more popular in the music industry, he plans to continue returning to Muncie and perform. “[Cox] has been really great. [Cox] in general has really taken to Ball State
and really taken to the atmosphere in here and he really enjoys coming and playing. … [He] is rising up right now. It’s nice that we have kind of gained that relationship already,” he said. “Him and I have talked, and the bigger he gets, he still wants to come back to these smaller places and play.” Cecelia Westbrook, a sophomore English and German major, is also from Pendleton. She recalls seeing Cox perform at local events toward the beginning of his career. “I dig country music, so I think he’s pretty good,” she said. “I think it’s cool that even though he’s getting bigger as a performer, he’s also sticking around his
hometown and the places surrounding. He’s not letting the fame get to his head.” Though The Chug is not primarily a music venue, Juskevice said it gears toward bigger names when it does have live performances. “We’re just a bar that has live music sometimes, but we want to make sure it’s quality live music. We’re not going to throw random bands up there,” he said. “I think it’s really picked up momentum, and more and more bigger names have contacted me for future [shows], which is a good thing.”
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Corey Cox will be with his band at The Chug at 11 p.m. Saturday. He has played with other country artists such as Dierks Bentley, Sugarland and Darius Rucker. Cox has played the venue about 10 times and plans to return in the future even as he becomes more popular.
Digital Corps develops games for touchscreen board Students create iconic apps, videos for credit, pay
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Most students have walked past the large touchscreen mounted in the Ball Communication Building. The screen is most known for the game “Flappy Cardinal,” a game similar to “Flappy Bird.” But few people know much about the detail put into the games developed by Digital Corps, which is located across the hallway. The touchscreen is actually named Multi User Touch Technology or MUTT, because it can process up to 32 individual touches at once. MUTT was hung in the building in 2012 as part of the Digi-
tal Corps’ effort to keep up with current technology. “Flappy Cardinal” was installed on MUTT in 2014 and was the first game to really be a hit on the touchscreen. In the game, the player or players fly Charlie Cardinal through various obstacles. Few players made it past two or more obstacles. This is probably due to the fact that there is a one-fourth of a second delay between the controls and the action on screen. Digital Corps decided to create “Flappy Cardinal” as a project for their students to gain experience working with a new technology, GameSolid, and to demonstrate MUTT to the public. Though it is no longer available on MUTT, those who still want to play Flappy Cardinal can access it for free at gamesalad.com. All of the material available on MUTT is created
by the Digital Corps. Ideas are submitted by designers, and a team of developers and designers vote on which one to create. Then, the game is made by a team usually consisting of two designers and two developers in a process that can take anywhere from about two weeks to a semester. There are currently no plans for any new games to be developed. The team that developed Flappy Cardinal represented a collaboration between telecommunication and computer science majors including Mitch Hannon, a telecommunications major and a 2015 graduate, and Tyler Vernau, a journalism graphics major and 2014 graduate. While the MUTT games are based off of popular games, Riley Pauls, facilitator for training and design, stressed that the games adapt popular trends into
something original with a Ball State focus. That is certainly apparent in the games that MUTT currently hosts: “Charlie Eats Worms” and a Ball State trivia game. In “Charlie Eats Worms,” the player touches worms for Charlie the Cardinal to eat while avoiding bombs. According to the website of one of the game’s designers, Alex Dils, “Charlie Eats Worms” is based off of the game “Monster Wants Candy.” In “Charlie Eats Worms,” the worms are designed to look like Ball State’s football rivals. A counter keeps track of how many worms player gets Charlie to eat. The Digital Corps is located behind the glass windows that line the side of the hallway opposite of MUTT. Despite its highly visible location, few students are familiar with the program.
As specialist designer Aaram Kamli puts it, “[The group is] the best little thing that no one’s heard about.” Digital Corps is a multiteam environment that produces videos and programs for Ball State and occasionally for outside organizations, like NPR and the Smithsonian. The group isn’t organized like a traditional class or club. Instead, students work together in teams and move through three titles: apprentice, specialist and master. Participation in the Digital Corps can earn some credit, as well as pay. Currently, the Digital Corps consists of 70 employees, but it is hoping to expand — and not just in numbers. It has acquired the space beneath its current location on the second floor of the Ball Communication Building.
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