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The Earl Yestingsmeier Golf Center will be the new home for the men’s and women’s golf teams. The facility, which is expected to be completed near the end of the calendar year, will include two indoor hitting bays, a simulator and a 2,200-square-foot putting and chipping area for year-round practice.
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he final two pieces of the Cardinal Commitment: Developing Champions campaign, which was originally announced in April 2013, are set to be completed within the next year and a half. Designs for both the Earl Yestingsmeier Golf Center and the Dr. Don Shondell Practice Center were presented and approved at the Board of Trustees meeting Friday and each project will begin with construction in the next couple of months. The Earl Yestingsmeier Golf Center, set to be completed in late 2017, and the Dr. Don Shondell Practice Center, with a completion date for late summer 2018, are the final two pieces of the $20.6 million fundraising campaign that was first announced approximately four years ago. See WORTHEN, page 8
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The Dr. Don Shondell Practice Center will be added onto Worthen Arena to provide additional practice space for the men’s and women’s basketball and volleyball teams. The 19,000-square-foot expansion will house two courts, a training room, two meeting rooms and a study room with tiered seating.
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The David Owsley Museum of Art has added a new exhibit entitled SHIFT created by three artists — Corban Walker, Jongil Ma and Christopher Smith. SHIFT shares an understanding of sculpture in an architectural sense and explores how people experience time in their own unique ways.
DOMA displays new exhibit, visitors' creations Justice Amick Daily News Reporter Filled with a variety of exhibits, including art from China, Japan and Africa, the David Owsley Museum of Art has hours’ worth of art to explore. Newly added to the assortment of art is a new exhibit entitled “SHIFT.” Created by three artists — Corban Walker, Jongil Ma and Christopher Smith — this exhibit takes on a whole new meaning to creativity, said Lisa Banner, the exhibit’s coordinator. “These insightful artists, each with their own viewpoint, share an inherent understanding of sculpture in an architectural sense, inviting us to reconsider the use of line, proportion, and space,” Banner said. See SHIFT, page 3
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10-year-old Fritz lives with officer, trained to find 4 different drugs Michelle Kaufman Greek Life Reporter One of the University Police Department’s newest recertified officers is only 10 years old and will almost always be seen with a tennis ball, and is covered in fur. K9 Fritz, a Belgian malinois, came to UPD with Patrolman Rick Howell in October 2016 from the Muncie Police Department. Howell and Fritz have worked together for three years, and Fritz is Howell’s third K9 that he has handled. Fritz is “captain social” and originally came from Holland, so all of his commands are given in Dutch. Fritz is cross-trained, meaning he can do tracking, building and area searches, handler protection and narcotic detection. “You’ll never find a dog that’s trained in both drugs and bombs, because [if] I go sweep a car and we get an indication, you tell me if it’s a drug or bomb,” Howell said. “He can find four odors — marijuana, heroin, methamphetamines, cocaine and any derivatives of those.”
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Music video features Ball State student Alumnus directs, produces video for Indy-based band Michelle Kaufman Daily News Reporter A team of Ball State alumni and students recently produced a music video for the Indianapolis-based band The Easthills. Paul Symons, a 2008 telecommunications production alumnus, is a freelance writer and director in Indianapolis who directed and produced The Easthills’ music video for the song “Georgia Pine.” “I wrote a treatment based off of a loose outline revolving around the main idea that Tim [Bradley, the co-producer] had about a single mom who is a wrestler,” Symons said. “I wrote the script, cast the actors, produced, directed, edited and colored the video.” The video stars Ball State senior theater major Gracie Barnes, who also does commercial work in Indianapolis. “Every style is very different. In commercials, you have to be very happy. A music video, [it depends] on what they’re looking for, some are very weird, some are very realistic, … but it also gives you that style of you are playing off of the music that’s going to be playing above you but you don’t necessarily hear it on set,” Barnes said. “[Symons] contacted me … he had seen some of my work that I had done here,
… and he said, ‘I’d really like to work with you on this role.’” Barnes spent two days on the shoot and got to learn basic wrestling moves for one scene in the video from two seasoned wrestlers in Indianapolis, one of whom is Barnes’ character’s nemesis. “The routine itself was about five minutes long, I’m pretty sure, but we only get to show like 30 seconds of it maximum. It’s interesting to get to see the finished product and be like, ‘Oh, but there was a really cool monkey flip in there but you missed when I did this,’” Barnes said. “I’ve never, ever done something like [wrestling] before. … [Filming] was bloody, it was long, but it was magical and that’s the joy of it.” Another scene involved the crew going onto a downtown Indianapolis bus to film a scene as it was traveling along its normal route. As the camera battery was dying and the filming was nearly complete, the bus hit a figurative speed bump. “At the end of the last take, the bus driver goes, ‘Can one of y’all from the back come up to the front please?’ and they kicked us all off,” Barnes said. “It was not the craziest thing I’ve done while filming, but it was definitely up there.” Barnes attended the video premiere and no one knew who she was at first. As the video began to play, Barnes looked at the screen to see which takes
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The Easthills, an Indianapolis-based band of Ball State alumni and students, produced a music video for their song “Georgia Pine.” The director and producer of the video was Paul Symons, a 2008 telecommunications production alumnus and a freelance writer and director in Indianapolis.
were and weren’t used. “I realized the people around me just start slowly, slowly looking and recognizing that, ‘Oh, that’s the girl who’s on the screen,’” Barnes said. “At the beginning, I was completely ignored and by the end of it, people were clinking glasses with me, telling me good job and it was crazy. It was really crazy just being there and having that experience.” Symons also attended the video premiere
and enjoyed seeing the audience’s reactions. “We had a standing applause at the end of the first screening, and ended up playing the video several times that night,” Symons said. “It’s very fulfilling seeing people getting authentically immersed in a story that I created and being entertained. It’s why I’m in this business.” Contact Michelle Kaufman with any questions or concerns at mekaufman@bsu.edu.
Advanced movie screening free for students at Muncie theater Sorita Heng Daily News Reporter An advanced screening of Universal Studio’s “Get Out” will be free for Ball State students at the AMC Muncie Showplace 12 at 7 p.m. Thursday. The movie will not be in theaters until Feb. 24. “Get Out,” a horror-thriller, was written and directed by Comedy Central star Jordan Peele and produced by the makers of the “Insidious” series. The film revolves around ominous events that happen when a young black man, Chris, stays at the estate of his white girlfriend’s parents for the weekend.
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Continued from page 1 The new exhibit explores how people see and experience time in their own unique ways, as well as their physical and emotional realities. Museum director Robert La France said the exhibit, along with many other pieces in the museum, appeal to varying audiences. "There is something here for both Ball State students and the public," he said. "[It's for] anyone who is interested in thinking outside of the box and experiencing art that is both modern and beautiful." One of the artists, Christopher Smith, who has also worked in Paris, was born with a form of dwarfism. Many of his pieces are in relation to his personal space of area, which is only 4-feet tall. This type of creativity within the exhibit is what gives it such a special effect. Walking into the exhibit, the definition of the word "shift" is visible first, and then the viewer can see the included pieces. The artists worked with many different textiles to create them, including paint, fiberglass and wood. At the end, there is a creation room.
When he senses her parents are being overly friendly towards him, he thinks it is simply their nervous way of dealing with their daughter’s relationship with a black man. However, as his stay progresses, he soon discovers there is an uglier, darker truth underlying the seemingly cheerful neighborhood. There are cases of black residents missing, and another black man urgently warns Chris to “get out.” As other secrets emerge, Chris finds himself facing a very real possibility: his life is in danger.
With a video running in the background of the artists, people can create their own shifting piece to add to a miniature exhibit on the wall. Running until May 7, the exhibit will have events that go along with it, including talks with the artists themselves and an event where jazz music is played with the exhibit. "The poetic symmetry of this work is ephemeral," Banner said. "Once the exhibition ends in May, this particular work will never exist again in this form." Many of the pieces of the exhibit were created on-site and Ball State students were a part of the art-making process. The piece "Pink Panther" is an example of this joint creation. A Ball State professor and student helped artist Christopher Smith create the work. It took more than a year for the exhibit to be put into the museum, and the effort it took seems to be paying off. Museum worker Casey Colvin only had positive things to say about the new exhibit. "It's fun and unique compared to the other exhibits we've had here," she said. "With the different colors and medias it's pretty cool." Contact Justice Amick with any questions or concerns at jramick@bsu.edu.
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“Get Out” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival Jan. 23 and received largely positive reviews. RogerEbert.com, a well-established site for movie reviews founded by legendary film critic Roger Ebert, described the movie as “an ambitious and challenging editorial debut by Jordan Peele,” while the editor of the Thrillist Entertainment praised the script as “brilliant” that the film “blends shocks and laughs.” The stars of the movie include Daniel Kaluuya, known for his role in 2015’s “Sicario,” Allison Williams, from the
HBO comedy-drama “Girls,” Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones and Catherine Keener. Jacob Logeman, a video production major at Ball State and intern at Universal, is coordinating the screening. Logeman will also be giving out free merchandise on the day, including T-shirts, cups and posters. He estimates there will be enough for 100 people. To get tickets for the screening, email Jacob at jplogeman@bsu.edu. Contact Sorita Heng with any questions or concerns at sheng@bsu.edu.
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Grad goes from Kleinfeld to Kiwanis
Alumna uses fashion internship experience toward new social media career Alexandra Smith Theater Reporter
When a high school teacher tells you what career path to follow, they might be worth listening to. Ball State alumna Samantha Rife Wagner knows this all too well. Wagner began her time at Ball State as an elementary education major. However, she graduated with a degree in fashion merchandising — and experience at one of the most wellknown bridal salons in the country. “When I was in high school, this teacher said to me, ‘Teaching’s not right for you. I could see something in fashion,’” the 2015 graduate said. “At the time I thought she was crazy, but I called her and told her when I switched my major.” In 2014, Wagner went on a field study to New York City. One of the stops on the trip was Kleinfeld Bridal, the salon featured on TLC’s “Say Yes to the Dress,” where she would eventually complete an internship. “I didn’t even expect anyone to be interested in me,” she said. “I went on the trip because I had never been to New York.” Wagner said she initially went into teaching because she loved kids, and one of her elementary education professors, Dixie Denton, was a big inspiration. “I saw how passionate she was about her work, and it made me question if I wanted to do that, could I have that passion,” Wagner said. “I don’t know why she was a college professor, she was so passionate about kids.”
So, Wagner reevaluated and changed her major to sports broadcasting for about a year, finally settling on fashion merchandising after her sophomore year. “I always loved clothing and putting together outfits,” she said. “I am willing to drop a pretty penny on my closet.” Wagner also competed in pageants, and a girl she was competing with had done an internship at the famed bridal salon. She gave Wagner the contact information for the internship coordinator. “I contacted [the coordinator] as soon as possible, and she said she hadn’t even began to think about the summer internship program yet,” Wagner said. “I had to wait until mid-November and send her my stuff again.” In December, Wagner traveled to New York with her fiancé, now-husband, for her interview. “I could not tell you any of the questions she asked me,” Wagner said. “I just remember sitting there, being in the moment. I remember her saying, ‘I just have to have you.’ And it wasn’t connecting, it was unreal.” During the summer, Wagner was an assistant bridal consultant at the salon. She would assist the consultants to make sure the appointments were running smoothly, asking the brides questions and making them feel comfortable. “The hardest part is when the bride has no idea what she wanted,” Wagner said. “But it was really cool to see all of the different brides come through and being a part of that special moment.” Eventually, she and the other interns found the consultant they worked best with, and by the end of the summer she was allowed to help pick dresses. She also got to meet designers as they
came through for trunk shows, when a designer will bring an entire collection and gives personal consultations. Wagner met Hayley Paige, and got to try on her work. “I got to see how they interacted with the brides and how thankful they were to them,” she said. “Fashion isn’t just pulling clothes off the rack, it’s who you’re designing for.” Wagner found that out firsthand as well; she got to meet designer Mark Zunino, and he sketched her wedding dress in front of her. “They were very good to me, as an intern and a bride,” she said. “I think I was spoiled with my only internship.” After graduating, Wagner got a job as a consultant in the designer collections department at the Saks Fifth Avenue in Indianapolis. Denton, the elementary education professor who inspired Wagner, still remembers her even though the last time the two were in class together was in 2010. “She loved working with children,” Denton said. “I remember her smile and positive attitude. I appreciated [Wagner]’s enthusiasm to lead a small group during class projects, and her willingness to answer questions and make comments about the teaching profession.” Denton also remembers when Wagner told her she was changing her major. “I told her that I was happy for her. She truly found her spark and followed her dream,” Denton said. However, Wagner’s dreams changed when the Saks job didn’t deliver everything she was expecting. “I felt like I was growing up very quickly at 25,” she said. “The hours were horrible and I only got one weekend
off a month. My relationship was very strained. Our schedules weren’t lining up, it was like I’d get home from work and Eric would be going to bed.” Wagner, who was used to change by this point, set out to find something else that would also make her happy. She looked to community service, which she enjoyed when she was competing in pageants. Now, she works for Kiwanis International, a nonprofit service organization. Her formal title is member engagement specialist in the Key Club division, Kiwanis’s program for high schoolers. She runs the program’s Instagram, Twitter and Facebook accounts. “I never really realized that social media was a job,” she said. “Kleinfeld's taught me how to see things from new points of view and get out of my comfort zone. It comes in handy because now I’m the voice of these kids and I have to tell their stories.” In January, she was an adviser for a new leadership experience in Miami, Florida. She and several high schoolers worked with a local homeless shelter and Action Club, Kiwanis’ program for adults with disabilities. This time, it seemed that she found something to merge her passions. The former Miss Pulaski County and Miss Kankakee Valley used the titles as a way to serve the community, which she now gets to do on a daily basis. “I wanted to be doing something meaningful,” she said. “I used to do pageants for a community service outlet, but now I get to do it for a job.” Contact Alexandra Smith with any questions or concerns at ajsmith9@bsu.edu.
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Ball State alumna Samantha Rife Wagner interned as an assistant bridal consultant at Kleinfeld Bridal, the salon featured on TLC’s “Say Yes to the Dress,” before graduating in 2015 with a degree in fashion merchandising. Wagner now works for Kiwanis International as a member engagement specialist, running the high school Key Club division’s social media accounts.
Throwing 'snowflakes' to political left, right Recent battles between conservatives, liberals change meaning of term Sorita Heng Daily News Reporter In the current political climate, the term "snowflake" often whirls into discourse between conservatives and liberals. The term is meant usually for liberals or progressives, who are thought of as hypersensitive, overactive and unable to deal with differing opinions. It mostly finds its place in online comments, news headlines and unvoiced thoughts. The term was originally used in the 1996 film “Fight Club,” but in the heat of debate between liberals and conservatives, the nickname has made a comeback. Many are left to wonder if there is too much sensitivity in current debates, or if the group of people dubbed "snowflakes" are just trying to combat hate speech. REACTING AGAINST HATE SPEECH? Vivian Edwards, vice president of the Progressive Student Alliance, has been called a snowflake in various instances when speaking up about her opinions. In most cases, she said she received the remark from people in Generation X, or people born between the early 1960s to late 1970s. She recalls a time when she was discussing America’s foreign policy with a conservative, and the argument turned toward her being a transgender woman, she was called a special snowflake. She views the term as a dismissive comeback, meant to disregard the logical argument on her side. “The ‘special snowflake’ [comeback] is just a dismissal of that,” she said. Similarly, Blake Conner, a sophomore digital video production major, also said the term is mostly used to dismiss someone else’s opinion, which he said is something
both the left and right do. Connor believes everyone should be entitled to their opinions. For him, opinions are like products in a free market. The bad ones will lose out to the good. “Something a lot of people don’t realize is that hate and offensive speech is protected by the First Amendment,” he said. ‘‘If someone can protest, then someone else can express offensive opinions.” Although there is no definite consensus about what is regarded as hate speech, it is generally defined as a personal attack against someone based on their attributes such as race, gender, sexuality and religion. Often times, critics of "snowflakes" point to a non-existent danger with offensive or hate speech because there is no actual violence involved. This leads to the characterization of those reacting against it, as someone who cannot stand their feelings being hurt. However, Edwards believes hate speech encourages violence towards minority groups. “Hate speech is a form of violence,” she said. “Because your speech doesn’t necessarily hurt me. I’ve experienced a lot. You saying mean words to me isn’t going to affect me, but your speech motivates hate[ful] actions against me.” Sabrina Kilgore, a member of Ball State College Republicans, also believes hate speech is a real problem. At the same time, though, she cautioned about the tendency to overuse it. She worries that it can lead to "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" syndrome. “They scream hate speech so often that when there really is hate speech, people will be like, ‘Oh it’s probably just someone giving their opinion again,’” she said. “So it takes away from when someone is really using hate speech.” IS DIALOGUE POSSIBLE? Kilgore identifies as a Republican,
which in the eyes of some liberals, comes with certain baggages. “I know liberals who genuinely enjoy having a discussion and that goes very well. But there are others that are so set in the belief that I am a Republican because I must be a racist, or I am a Republican because I must hate women, that they just won’t hear me,” she said. “I don’t wanna listen to someone who sits there and calls me a misogynist and racist, so [the dialogue] just shuts down very quickly.” Benjamin Mcintosh, a member of the Secular Student Alliance, views the lack of empathy as one of the causes of the current polarization in political discourse. “A lot of the time, we don’t care about other people. And I think that’s a big problem. We don’t care to get know them, on both sides. Liberal and conservative,” he said. Mcintosh draws from his experience having discussions with his father, who is a moderate conservative. Although they have a lot of disagreements, they also find common ground in many things. He found that only when he and his father opened up about their life experiences were they able to understand each other. “We all have gut reactions," Mcintosh said. "[But] I cannot demand that they conform to my perspective if I have no idea what they’re doing, what they’ve gone through or experienced.” Another factor to having productive discussions, he believes, comes from admitting one’s ignorance. “I think that we are so uncomfortable with saying, I don’t know. I don’t have an answer for that. That’s uncertain to me,” he said. “And that plays into a lot of issues with discourse being muddled.” CONFINED BY OUR INSTINCTS? Martin Smith-Rodden, a journalism professor who holds a Ph.D. in Applied
Experimental Psychology, views the emergence of the term "snowflake" as another culture war between the two political ideologies. “It has to do with the different conflict styles between the two groups,” he said. ‘‘We can see an increase in heated rhetoric.” He identified two main factors at play behind the polarization of opinions. The first has to do with emotional intelligence, which refers to a person’s ability to recognize and handle their own emotions as well as others, and was popularized by Daniel Goleman in his 1995 book "Emotional Intelligence." Empathy is one part of emotional intelligence. “We often forget to listen. We listen to respond rather than understand,” Smith-Rodden said. “In general, people tend to over-generalize. We tend to think in our own image, projecting it onto others, and when we meet people with opposing views, we tend to paint the other side as more extreme or wrong than they really are.” Another factor is the "fundamental attribution error," which is a bias one makes when explaining other people’s behavior, by emphasizing more on intrinsic characteristics rather than external factors. Overcoming biases can be difficult. “You are doing something counternatural, you can say, to your primal instincts,” he said. Smith-Rodden said both sides of the political spectrum are lamenting about the divisiveness of the today’s politics. “As my wife says, people will change their mind when the pain of changing is less than the pain of staying where they are,” he said. Contact Sorita Heng with any questions or concerns at sheng@bsu.edu.
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Trump pushes back with ACA replacement Gabbi Mitchell Daily News Reporter
With the challenges the Obama Administration faced to pass the Affordable Care Act, the Republican party now plans to replace it and introduce their plan that allows states to choose. Throughout President Trump’s campaign, he promised he would repeal the Affordable Care Act and introduce a plan called the Patient Freedom Act of 2017, which would replace and repeal parts of the act on a state-by-state basis. By allowing states to use their reserved powers, this proposed legislation still has the potential to leave millions of people in a variety of states without affordable health insurance. “Right now, I’m a little worried for me and my mother come 2018 because the ACA is in place until the end of 2017,” said Larissa McFarland, a junior general studies major. “Now with Trump’s decision to put choice back into the state and to the insurance companies itself, I do worry about what insurance is going to look like for us in the next few years.” The Patient Freedom Act of 2017
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Continued from page 1 When Fritz finds drugs, he actually thinks he is finding a ball. He was trained by first being allowed to play with several tennis balls in a box. Then, another box had one tennis ball and the odors of all four drugs. Fritz sniffed the box and then was told to sit, and when he sat, he was given a ball. “In his head — ‘I smelled this smell, I sat down, I got a ball.’ That’s how they work; they’re not hardwired like you and I where we think in reasoning. They
intends to re-create a plan that will follow free-market principles in order to “broaden healthcare access, make health care more affordable and improve the quality of the care available to all Americans,” according to Trump’s campaign website. Although there was a push for the new health care law to take place this year, Trump has recently announced a plan to extend the timeline. When asked whether Americans could expect a new health care plan to be rolled out by the Trump administration in an interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly on Sunday, Trump said “maybe it’ll take until some time into next year.” “We are certainly gonna be in the process,” Trump told O’Reilly. “You have to remember 'Obamacare' doesn’t work. So we are putting in a wonderful plan. It statutorily takes a while to get. We’re going to be putting it in fairly soon. I would like to say, by the end of the year, at least the rudiments, but we should have something within the year and the following year.” Even though Trump said "Obamacare" “doesn’t work,” an estimated 19 million
people gained coverage under the Affordable Care Act from 2010 to 2015, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. McFarland is one of the million who takes advantage of Obamacare, which initially banned discrimination for health care. Under the Affordable Care Act, McFarland has been able to receive treatment for her pre-existing condition of Ulcerative Colitis and Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome. “Even though I’m a minor, the coverage given to me by my mom’s provider was very limited and we were having to pay a lot out of pocket for my treatments,” McFarland said. "Now, because they can’t refuse treatment options based on preexisting conditions, we’re paying a tenth of what were paying before.” McFarland is fearful of what Trump’s change in the health care coverage will bring as a Hoosier living in Indiana, which she said “is typically a state that goes red.” “I’ve lived under a Republican state my whole life and I know what that looks like without the ACA, so I just
imagine that I’m going to go back to what I experienced in my early teenage years,” she said. Like McFarland, senior public relations major Emily Ambriz has benefited from "Obamacare" by being on her parents’ insurance. “What’s great is that all of my birth control is covered, without it I would pay $331 and I can’t afford that,” Ambriz said. While she does benefit from the current health care plan, Ambriz said she is optimistic for the new reform and feels that “all things have room for improvement.” “I think overall it is a solid plan,” Ambriz said. “I think the ideas are strong, pretty affective, but I think there are a lot of things that should be changed with a lot of policies.” With the Republican party still working on a “comprehensive replacement plan,” Americans will have until 2017 to decide what their next steps will be in receiving health insurance for the future.
think at the moment … [training] just keeps building from there,” Howell said. Before coming to UPD, Howell spent 21 years at the Muncie Police Department. Muncie Police donated Fritz to UPD, and it is estimated that he will have one and a half to two years left before retiring. Fritz lives at Howell’s home in an outside area and will continue to live with Howell when he retires. “He’s a trained attack dog; he has to have his space,” Howell said. “They’re tools and need to be trained appropriately, but he’s social.” Fritz goes on patrol with Howell every day that he works. Howell responds to
calls for service like any other officer, but if there is a need for a specialized K9, Howell will be the primary officer for the call. “Unless there’s a reason that he can’t come to work, he comes to work with me,” Howell said. “I try not to take that car out of my driveway without him in the back of it. “I think [having a K9 officer] is the greatest thing in the world. I’ve got a buddy who doesn’t complain about the radio station I listen to, how hot or cold I have the heat, where I go to eat. Best partner you can have. … I tell people all the time that when I was at Muncie, for sure I probably would have been in
a lot more fights than I ever had to be in if I didn’t have some crazy dog in the backseat barking all the time. There’s an aspect that’s secure, knowing that you have him in the back.” UPD Chief James Duckham said Fritz is a great resource for the department not only for police work, but also for engagement. “I also think it’s an opportunity for students to engage with the police officers. … People will ask, ‘What kind of dog is that,’ just some simple kind of question like that, and next thing you know, there’s a conversation happening,” Duckham said. “Most people like animals; it’s a conversation piece.” UPD recently hosted an event at Mysch/Hurst in Lafollette Complex with Howell and Fritz. Duckham estimated that of the 100 people who attended, 80 students petted or interacted with Fritz, and some who didn’t ask Howell questions. Duckham is unsure if UPD will get more K9s, but he is open to the possibility depending on resources.
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Ball State patrolman Rick Howell and K9 officer Fritz, a Belgian malinois, pose together outside Shively Hall Feb. 1. Howell and Fritz have worked together for three years, but Fritz didn’t join UPD until October 2016. They have been searching for illegal substances on the Ball State campus since.
NEW SENATE BILL COULD CHANGE POLICE RESPONSE TO PROTESTS Andrew Smith Crime Reporter A new bill proposed in the Indiana Senate could change the way police departments deal with protestors. Under the Indiana Senate Bill 285, if 10 or more people are obstructing traffic with a protest, riot or assembly, it will be required for a public official to take action. The bill, if passed, requires a public official to dispatch all available law enforcement personnel with instructions to clear the roads of persons unlawfully obstructing vehicular traffic, according to the Indiana General Assembly. A mayor, town board or sheriff would tell dispatch to “use any means necessary to clear the roads of the persons unlawfully obstructing vehicular traffic.” University Police Chief Jim Duckham has read the bill and said that typically once bills come out by the committee, that’s when he starts to really look at it and plan. Campus protesting isn’t anything new to the department, though. UPD likes to be active and present at all planned protests and rallies on campus and by doing so, requests that groups planning to host an event on university grounds fill out a request form. Once completed, Duckham said UPD meets with event organizers to plan their event and figure out what their goals are.
He also said that each protest or march is different. If an unplanned demonstration decides to block traffic, UPD would address it on a situational basis. The department assigns officers in uniform and also plain clothes at events for staff purposes to ensure safety amongst the protesters and the rest of campus. “Often I assign the detectives to assist at these events,” Duckham said. “By using myself, the assistant chief and detectives, I do not have to deplete my uniform patrol staff and I can keep patrol officers in service to handle normal police calls, enabling me to better manage UPD’s resources.” So far, UPD’s assistance with student ran protests and the relationships built amongst student leaders and the department have been peaceful and positive. “We have been really successful and I think the students know that we are content neutral and we are there to make sure the event goes off safely and if counter protestors come, they don’t disrupt your event,” Duckham said. Indiana Senate Bill 285 was authored by Sen. James Tomes of district 49 and is currently in committee hearings. Contact Andrew Smith with any questions or concerns at ajsmith15@bsu.edu.
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An estimated 4,500 to 5,000 people gathered outside the Indiana Statehouse Jan. 21 for the Indianapolis Women’s March, according to Indiana State Police. The rally was held in conjunction with hundreds of marches nationwide to support women’s rights and protest the presidency of Donald Trump.
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Hundreds of protesters gathered at the Indianapolis International Airport Jan. 29 to protest President Trump’s executive order on immigration. The order halts entry of all refugees to America for 120 days, refugees from Syria indefinitely and people from the predominantly Muslim countries of such as Iraq, Iran, Somalia and more for 90 days.
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On May 13, 1939, the MS St. Louis docked in Havana, Cuba, having set out from Hamburg, Germany. They had intended to settle in the United States, fleeing the tyranny of the Third Reich and what they feared and what we know now would be slaughter by the hands of the Schutzstaffel. The Franklin Roosevelt administration had, at the time, a harsh immigration policy, especially regarding immigrants from Germany, Italy and Japan. They were fearful of German spies infiltrating our country or wreaking havoc on our citizens. However, indisputably, about 500 of the roughly 1,000 refugees were returned to Germany and their worst expectations were realized and they were murdered by their own government. It was cold. It was inhumane. And they could’ve been safe if we’d have let them in. Maybe you know this story, maybe you don’t, or maybe you just weren’t expecting a “damn history lesson,” but as of Jan. 27 at around 4 p.m., President Donald Trump banned immigration from the nations of Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia. Why those countries you may ask? Well we’re all wondering that. We didn’t ban people from Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, the United Arab
Emirates or Egypt, where the 9/11 hijackers were from. We didn’t ban immigration from Afghanistan or Pakistan, where alQaeda has flourished and where bin Laden had worked and hid. Maybe we can at least understand Iraq and Syria or Libya: that’s where ISIS is based. We know that. But what good does this do us? We lower the risk of a patient ISIS agent who was willing to waste months and months of rigorous immigration processing to make a strike they could make quicker and easier using a domestic agent or by simply traveling to our nation. That’s it. However, we’ll deny refugees the chance of safety and security because they aren’t “entitled” to it or that they don’t “matter” as much as our citizens. Maybe that’s not you, but I’ve heard plenty of people say it. Because they were born elsewhere in the world, they are somehow lesser than those born here. They want to become Americans? Too bad. We owe them nothing. Right? Or am I wrong? People will likely say this is a reasonable safety precaution and that the “liberal media” is inflating the issue just to make Trump look bad. Fact of the matter: this is real. People are going to die because of this decision. Innocent children from Syria,
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mothers and grandmothers from Iraq, and innocent men, elderly or otherwise, will be slaughtered when they return home; just like the Jewish immigrants from 1939. This ban applies to people here right now in the United States going through the process of immigrating or visiting or what have you. They were held at their respective airports. You’d think that the courts wouldn’t allow that right? You’d be right. They’re not. And President Trump doesn’t seem to care. He’s completely disregarding the court order and, you know what he did? He gutted the Justice department, firing the Attorney General of the United States and many, many other employees in what the news is calling the “Monday Night Massacre.” But you know what ultimately makes this painful for me, personally? One of my best friends from grade school is an Iranian American. His grandparents are in Iran right now. He turns 20 in a couple weeks and they’re not going to be able to see him. He can’t go there and they can’t come here. The United States government under the strict control of President Trump will not allow it because they may be “terrorists” for all we know, right? I know many will read this and hammer it for being biased, but this
is the real world. You can say you don’t care or that it’s just the way this stuff works, but you’re tearing families apart. People are scared to come here, but they’re far more scared of what will happen if they return home. The reality of it all is that people will die. They will and that will be on us for not helping them when they needed it most. Whether we like it or not, we’re a global community. We’re fellow men and women of all races, ethnicities and nationalities, and you can’t hide behind the fake wall of nationalism and use it to justify turning your back to the poor, huddled masses at our doorstep. Normally, I’d avoid divisive pieces like this as I know it’ll do nothing more than perpetuate the divide between us and we need unity to survive, but there’s so much at stake here. I want my friend to see his grandparents, I want that child who dreamt of coming to America to be welcomed, and I just don’t want us to lose part of what makes America great in the first place: immigrants. Do not let your fear become irrational; it can hurt more than just yourself. Don’t repeat May 13, 1939. Please.
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Sarah Obras Steele, an outside attacker who played at Ball State from 2002 to 2005, is now the assistant varsity coach for the Westfield high school women’s volleyball team and a wife and mother of two. Steele holds 12 of Ball State’s women’s volleyball records and was named to the 2005 “ESPN The Magazine” Academic All-America Third Team.
Former Ball State women's volleyball players still close 12 years later Past teammates get together once a year, feel like 'family' Elizabeth Wyman Assistant Sports Editor Editor’s note: “For the Record” is a weekly series featuring former stand-out Ball State athletes and their lives after college.
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Sarah Obras Steele walked into John E. Worthen Arena alongside friend and then-Ball State women’s volleyball player Stacie Baldwin Pagnard during her official recruiting visit in 2001. With 11,500 vacant seats looking on, assistant women’s volleyball coach Chad Weyenberg approached them and Pagnard blurted out something that surprised even Steele. “Stacie looked at Chad dead in the eye and said, ‘hey Chad, guess what? Sarah’s coming to Ball State,’” Steele said. “I looked at her like, did I just make that decision?” But from that moment on Steele knew her decision was made. “I thought, 'yep, she’s right,'” Steele said. “This is the place for me. This is where I’m coming.” Steele and Pagnard — still best friends — joke that Pagnard made Steele’s recruiting decision for her, but their friendship started down the road at Munciana Volleyball Club. Steele, an outside attacker who played for the Cardinals from 2002 to 2005,
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didn’t begin playing volleyball until seventh grade. When she realized she had potential she joined Munciana and by the time she was 16 she was good enough to play with the 18-year-olds. But in moving up, she risked flying under the radar of college coaches because everyone on the 18-year-old team had already been recruited. Instead, schools wanted her to join her older teammates. Munciana players were committing to major-conference schools like Georgia Tech and Alabama, and multiple players were going to attend Ball State — including Pagnard. “When I was being recruited by Ball State and I knew that they were going there, there was a level of comfort because I knew them, and I had played with them,” Steele said. The Pendleton, Indiana, native moved just 30 minutes north to call Muncie her new home. Twelve years later, Steele still holds 12 Ball State women’s volleyball records, including career kills (1,975) which also ranks second in the MidAmerican Conference all-time, most matches with 20 or more kills (37) and most kills in one match (37), which is also tied for sixth in the MAC. She was also named to the 2005 "ESPN The Magazine" Academic All-America Third Team. But statistics and records are not what Steele remembers most about her time at Ball State. “When I look back at it now, I look at the
friendships I made,” Steele said. “We kind of have a core group of girls that came out of that. “We still to this day get together.” Steele said even though her former teammates only get together as a big group once a year, they’re still like the family they were 12 years ago. “It’s like we never missed a beat,” Steele said. “We went through the trenches together,” Steele said. “When you do that and you lean on each other and you rely on each other so much, that is one of the biggest blessings that came out of my time at Ball State.” Besides her lifelong friends, Steele met someone else at Ball State. Austin Steele was a golfer at Ball State. The two married in 2008 and have two kids, Carson, 4, and Brooklyn, 2. With her accounting degree, Steele works part-time at Park Tudor school in Indianapolis as their financial coordinator. But that love for volleyball still rules very much in her life. In 2010 Steele served at the varsity head women’s volleyball coach at Park Tudor. After two seasons, Steele took a break from coaching when she became pregnant with her son. But when Carson turned 1, Steele called up Pagnard, who was the head women’s volleyball coach at Westfield High School, and told her she was ready to coach again. “He’s old enough now and I’m itching to get back in the gym,” Steele said.
Pagnard has since taken a coaching job elsewhere but Steele remains the assistant varsity coach at Westfield. She said with her being a hitter and Pagnard being a setter, they complemented each other so well — just like they did at Ball State. As a player, Steele said she never would have thought about becoming a coach.
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Sport: Women’s volleyball Years at Ball State: 2002-2005
“I remember thinking I don’t think I could coach because I like playing too much,” Steele said. “It would be too hard sitting on the sideline. As I’ve gotten older, I see the value of coaching. I call it a life-giving experience. For me, its something I have to do.” Steele always seems to fall back on volleyball and the bond she created with her former teammates turned lifelong friends. “Being in the gym and coaching is the one place I can be where I’m not in my mind saying I want to be at home with my family,” Steele said. “That’s how lifegiving volleyball is to me. When I’m in the gym I’m 100 percent present. I love it.” Contact Elizabeth Wyman with any questions or concerns at @dn_sports.
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Men's volleyball defeats Fort Wayne Cardinals win in straight sets, head north for rematch Friday Hendrix Magley Men's Volleyball Reporter No. 11 Ball State men's volleyball (10-2, 2-1 Midwest Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) held the Fort Wayne Mastodons (4-10, 1-2 MIVA) to a hitting percentage of .168 in their 3-0 (25-14, 2520, 25-21) victory Tuesday. The Cardinals, who finished with a hitting percentage of .349, were led by freshman outside attacker Matt Szews, who
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“I was certainly fortunate to come here when the Cardinal Commitment campaign was concluding and almost all of the funds were in,” athletic director Mark Sandy said. “I’m glad to see this project go forward. These last two [facilities] will really help our teams.” Sandy took over as Ball State’s director of Intercollegiate Athletics in February 2015, right after the financial goal for the campaign was met. Since then, the campaign has helped build new facilities for the football, baseball and softball teams and upgrade Worthen Arena. When these two new facilities are completed, Sandy said it will set Ball State apart from the rest of the Mid-American Conference in terms of upgrades. “In the MAC, we’ll have the newest practice facility for golf. That’s always nice to have something that’s cutting edge,” Sandy said. “And for the Shondell Center … you add that to Worthen Arena upgrades, all of the things that have happened in the past two years, you can argue that we’ll have the best practice and game venue for basketball, volleyball and gymnastics in the MAC for sure.”
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finished with 16 kills and eight digs. Szews added nine of his 16 kills in the final set. "I think we were doing a good job of balancing our offense in the first two sets," Szews said. "In our third set I was like 'Hey, just keep feeding me the ball' and we were connecting really well." Head coach Joel Walton said he feels fortunate to have a freshman who is able to impact the team's performance in the way Szews has this season. "You're glad when you have a player like that on your team because you can feed the ball to him and know that he wants the ball in the biggest moments of the match," Walton said. "I'm glad that
[senior setter Connor Gross] saw that Szews was ready to go and got him a lot of good opportunities in set three." Walton also said he was impressed with how often Ball State drew Fort Wayne's setter away from the net with their serve. "We talked about it between sets two and three about staying aggressive behind the baseline," Walton said. "I think the biggest difference was that our serve just made them uncomfortable." Ball State had several strong serves from Szews, junior middle attacker Matt Walsh and Gross. "Tonight, we showed how good of a serving team we are," Gross said. "We
really took them out of their system, which makes it a lot easier for our block and defense to operate." Ball State also had strong performances from senior outside attacker Brendan Surane with seven kills and six digs and junior outside attacker Mitch Weiler, who finished with eight kills and five digs. The Cardinals will travel north to Fort Wayne for the second match of the I-69 rivalry at 7 p.m. Friday. "We came out tonight and earned three games but we still have to do the same thing on Friday night," Walton said. Contact Hendrix Magley with any questions or concerns at @TweetsOfHendrix.
Thanksgiving Break and the end of the calendar year, and will be built along Bethel Avenue on the north side of campus, just southeast of Scheumann Stadium. The $1.7 million, 6,400-square-foot facility will include two indoor hitting bays, a simulator and a 2,200-square-foot putting and chipping area for players to practice year-round. There will also be locker and restroom facilities for both teams, a meeting/office room, a team lounge and a club repair room. “This is going to be a difference maker for us, just being able to have a place that we can call home,” head men’s golf coach Mike Fleck said. “We haven’t had any of those things in the past, so this will really be a winter home for Ball State golf.” Many northern universities, including all but two in the MAC who have golf programs, have indoor training facilities. Head women’s golf coach Katherine Mowat said the new building will push the Cardinals ahead of their competitors. “In some respects, it’s kind of keeping up with everyone else in the Midwest and this facility will be a premier facility,” Mowat said. “Most Midwest cities or northern schools have some type of facility and ours will be one of the best around.” Fleck said the new facilities won't change the types of student-athletes the golf team targets, and Mowat said Ball State won't lose any potential golfers to programs with indoor golf centers. Fleck played golf at Ball State for the facility's namesake, Earl Yestingsmeier, who died in January 2014. Yestingsmeier earned
his bachelor’s degree from Ball State in 1955 and his master’s in 1958. After graduating, he worked as the university's sports information director and men’s golf coach for 36 years until his retirement in 1998. “I wish that he was around to be a part of it, but obviously this is going to provide a legacy for a coach and all of the people that have been associated with the Ball State men’s golf team,” Fleck said. “[The facility] will give our guys every opportunity to be the best golfer they can be during their time here at Ball State.”
because the available hours can overlap with players' academic schedules. School, naturally, takes priority, so those players have to show up to practice late and/or leave early — if they can make it at all. “It’s going to be a major help for us,” Miller said. “I really try to work our practices kind of around everyone being able to be there at the same time … having four teams that share that one facility, it gets very tough to have everybody to try and get an ideal practice times.” Ideally, the 19,000-square-foot addition will make early morning and late night practices a thing of the past. The addition will also include a training room, two team meeting rooms and a study room featuring tiered seating. The building is named after Don Shondell, a 1952 Ball State graduate and founder of the men’s volleyball program. The Hall of Fame Coach has the most career wins by a Ball State coach in any sport, 20 Midwest Intercollegiate Volleyball Association titles and the second-most wins in NCAA men’s volleyball history. “The impact that Don Shondell has had on volleyball in Muncie, in the Midwest and really in the entire United States, it’s very significant,” Walton said. “To have a space on Ball State’s campus now that will be named after Don Shondell is certainly warranted and something as a Ball State men’s volleyball alum that I feel very proud of." Contact Robby General with any questions or concerns at managingeditor@bsudailynews.com.
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The Worthen Arena expansion will be connected to the arena’s northwest side and will house two courts for the men’s and women’s basketball and volleyball teams. Only one court was originally going to be built, but the coaches helped convince the administration to add a second court to the plans due to the amount of players who would be using the courts. The men's volleyball team, for example, has 20 players on its roster. “We want to be able to practice with at least two nets set up,” head men's volleyball coach Joel Walton said. “If we were going to be using the practice facility as it was originally proposed, it was going to be difficult for our teams to accomplish the things that we could if we were in a space that had more room available for us.” Head women’s volleyball coach Kelli Miller said it's also difficult scheduling practices with the current setup, where four teams share the court at Worthen,
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