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BallStateDaily.com Track & field prepares for Polar Bear Invite

Holcomb calls for May special session

‘Serial bomber’ causes alarm in Austin

4March 18: After a strong

4March 19: After the legislative

4March 19: Fear escalated

performance at the Stan Lyons Invitational March 18-19, Ball State track and field will compete in the Polar Bear Invite 1 p.m. March 23 at Indiana Wesleyan. The Cardinals did well in their first outdoor meet of the season, and now they’re looking to build on that performance in Marion this weekend.

100 prom dresses donated to MCS

session ended just after midnight March 15, Gov. Eric Holcomb announced legislators will meet again in May for unfinished business. Holcomb said during a press conference March 19 the session will focus on items that would have been successful if the legislative session had moreANDREW time.

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1 dead, 2 wounded in Maryland shooting

4March 19: In a collaboration

between Muncie Central High School and Ball State, a group of Ball State students are helping young women find prom dresses through an event called Little Black Dress. The group is part of Excellence in Leadership and has collected over 100 dresses within three days of donations.

4March 20: A teenager

wounded two inside his Maryland high school March 20 before an armed school resource officer could intervene. St. Mary’s County Sheriff Tim Cameron said the student with the handgun was declared dead at the hospital; the other two students were in critical condition. He also said the officer was not harmed.

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Matt Walsh gets HERO of the Week nomination 4March 20: Matt Walsh had a

pair of steadfast performances for men’s volleyball in two wins against Fort Wayne last week. March 20, Walsh was announced as the MIVA Defensive Player of the Week, and he also received a nomination for HERO of the Week; fan voting for HERO will stay open until 10 a.m.

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across Austin after five package bombs — which killed two and badly injured four others — exploded around the city. After bombing suspect Mark Conditt’s death early March 21, authorities expressed concern there may be other package bombs circulating within the public.

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Crime

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MPD arrested Ball State student Ianne Sierra, 19, and preliminarily charged him with rape, a Level 3 felony. In a statement given to police, Sierra said what happened was consensual. However, according to the probable cause affidavit, before taking a computer stress voice analyzer (CSVA) test, Sierra told an investigator the survivor told him “no” five times. He was released from the Delaware County Jail after posting bond Sunday night.

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Mearnses continue informal visits After making five rounds of informal visits to over 20 buildings across campus in the fall semester, President Geoffrey S. Mearns resumed informal visits for the spring semester Tuesday. Mearns and his wife Jennifer spoke with students, faculty and staff in an effort to get to know the campus and Ball State community better.

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ASL may be added to requirement list

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While Ball State students currently can’t take sign language courses to fulfill the university’s foreign language requirement, Student Government Association (SGA) senator Marcus Jennings hopes to change that. Within the next few years, Jennings said he hopes to establish the resources needed — teachers and class space — with the Foreign Language Department to make this possible.

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Counseling Center implements new scheduling system for intake patients Allie Kirkman Managing Editor As promised at the beginning of the school year, the Counseling Center is continuing to implement changes to best serve Ball State students.

After seeing a significant increase in students requesting services in the short-term, focused treatment agency, Bill Betts, director of counseling and health services, said the center has made “a shift” in the way students schedule their first intake appointment with a therapist.

“In fall of 2017, 7 percent more students requested services than in fall 2016. Since August of 2017, we have seen an 11 percent increase in the number of students requesting services,” Betts said. “Over the last several years the number of students requesting services has risen between 3 to 5 percent each year.

“We had a recognition that we needed to find a system that gets folks in faster and directly to the services they need.”

Betts said the growth in the number of students requesting counseling services is “not just at Ball State,” but can be seen across the country.

And he’s right, counseling centers nationwide, specifically on college campuses, struggle to meet the needs for mental health care.

There was a disconnect.

It wasn’t an unwelcoming environment, but it just seemed very ‘set-up.’ Everyone was kind and friendly because they had to be, not because they wanted to be. That’s the impression I got from it, anyway.”

- CAITLYN STOUT, Sophomore deaf education major

A 2014 study by the American College Counseling Association found 94 percent of counseling center directors report that recent trends lean toward a greater number of students with severe psychological problems — including anxiety disorders and depression — are found on their campuses.

In a previous interview with The Daily News, Jagdish Khubchandani, an associate professor of health science in the department of nutrition and health science, said institutions are continuing to work on creating tactics to address student needs.

“Universities nationwide are reconsidering their role and using strategies to manage caseloads to

deal with funding and staffing challenges like using group therapy, limit the number of sessions, limit the time per session, using brief therapy, referring to external sources and utilizing doctoral students as counselors,” Khubchandani said.

Starting this semester, Ball State students who walk in or call to request services at the Counseling Center will immediately be scheduled an appointment to meet with a licensed clinician. Currently, the average wait time for the next open appointment for nonurgent intake is five business days.

The first appointment entails an hour-and-a-half session where students first fill out paperwork on an iPad. After that, students sit down with an intake counselor who will talk through the responses written on the initial paperwork and ask questions in order to get a better understanding of what specific services would best fit the need of the student.

Recommendations could include individual or group therapy, as well as services outside of the Counseling Center like WellTrack, an online/ mobile self-help program specifically designed for help with stress, anxiety and depression.

“In some cases, we’ve been able to give someone what they need in one session and they’re done,” Betts said. “In other cases, students will be assigned a therapist.”

In addition to shortening the paperwork and discontinuing phone screenings, Betts said one specific feature that is different from the previous system is the staff members who initially meet with students.

“We have our most skilled folks, licensed psychologists and master-level staff, doing these triage appointments, which means that we are much better able to use our time efficiently,” Betts said. “If you’ve been doing this for 10 or 15 years, you know which questions to ask and you can get right to the point quickly.”

Currently, the Counseling Center staffs 26 therapists — including staff and students — who primarily work in the clinic part-time. The center is still not fully staffed, though, as Betts said he is in the process of interviewing in order to fill two psychologist positions.

Before the new system was established, students like Caitlyn Stout may have only met with graduate students during the initial appointment. For the sophomore deaf education major, the process, which she went through last semester, left her with an unfavorable opinion of the Counseling Center.

“She sat in front of me ask asked me tons of questions. She told me she was not a counselor and this was not a counseling session, but it was basically a pre-session to see if I would be a good fit for the counseling program,” Stout said. “After talking, she pre-diagnosed me with depression and maybe an eating-disorder. I didn’t know how accurate this was given at the beginning she said she wasn’t a counselor, but she was a grad student.”

Stout struggled with depression and self-hatred

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and was initially looking for answers when she turned to the on-campus resource.

“My life just felt empty, like I was building up towards a future I never thought I would be able to actually achieve,” she said. “I really just wanted answers for why I was feeling the way I was. I didn’t want to tell my parents because they would go way overboard and I knew this was a way I could kind of get around telling them.”

Mental illness is common among college students today. In a 2016 survey of students by the American College Health Association, 53 percent of students surveyed reported feeling things were hopeless, and nearly 40 percent reported feeling “so depressed that it was difficult to function.”

Stout said she waited weeks before receiving an email from the Counseling Center recommending that she participate in classes before going through another pre-session to see if she needed to see a therapist.

“I didn’t really know what to expect going to the Counseling Center, but it wasn’t that,” Stout said. “I was hoping at the least to sit down with an

actual counselor.

“There was a disconnect. It wasn’t an unwelcoming environment, but it just seemed very ‘set-up.’ Everyone was kind and friendly because they had to be, not because they wanted to be.

That’s the impression I got from it, anyway.”

While Betts said the feedback the Counseling Center receives from a satisfaction survey each year shows “90 percent of people are satisfied with how the center addresses their needs,” he did recognize the issues that some students like Stout have felt with the previous system.

And even though the center is under pressure to get more students in at a faster pace, Betts said “nothing about therapy changes.”

“We are continuing to look at ways to get folks resources they need in a timely matter,” Betts said.

“Our goal is to really help students be successful in college and so we do whatever we can to address those issues and hopefully to prevent the need to come in and do therapy.”

Contact Allie Kirkman with comments at aekirkman@bsu.edu or on Twitter @alliekirkman15.

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Delaware County child Campus Master Plan care averages second adds 250 parking spaces highest in state, IYI says The plan focuses on commuter spots and adjustments from construction projects.

Liz Rieth Reporter

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Sara Barker Reporter University Police Department Lt. David Huff enrolls his two-year-old daughter and four-year-old son in half-day child care. For both of them, he pays $12,000 total — more than what an in-state Ball State student pays for tuition.

“We chose to sacrifice other things, like maybe we would like to take an extra vacation in a year, but I’d much rather them go and get good quality day care and a good start,” Huff said.

Huff’s story is not uncommon in Delaware County. According to newly-released Indiana

We chose to sacrifice other things, like maybe we would like to take an extra vacation in a year, but I’d much rather them go and get good quality day care and a good start.”

- DAVID HUFF, Uunversity Police Department lieutenant Youth Institute statistics, Delaware County has the second-highest cost of high-quality child care, averaging out to $10,866 per year.

Delaware County is second only to Hamilton County, which has an average cost of $12,773. By comparison, the statewide average is $8,818. In the same report, Hamilton County has the highest median household income in the state, but out of 92 Indiana counties, Delaware County sits at the 90 spot, meaning it has one of the lowest median household incomes but one of the highest costs

of child care.

Carrie Bale is the executive director of Muncie BY5, an organization that aims to revitalize the community through supporting kindergarten readiness.

Bale said she realizes the cost can be shocking — when the Indiana Youth Institute presented its 2018 statistics about child care, Bale said she heard an audible gasp from the room.

However, she said this high cost is driven by the dense concentration of high-quality child care Delaware County residents have asked for over the years.

A higher concentration of high-quality child care options leads to an increased cost, since different locations must compete with each other to not only provide a quality education but also pay its staff enough.

When she used to run a child care center in Delaware County, Bale experienced one consequence of not paying staff a competitive wage — they left.

“One of the things that we saw was, federally, Head Start [was] funded at a pretty good rate, and if we didn’t match what Head Start’s rate was for paying their teachers, it was a constant revolving door,” Bale said. “We could never keep staff because we weren’t able to pay them what other competitors and partners were able to pay.”

The high-quality label for childcare is not an arbitrary distinction — the Indiana Early Learning Advisory Committee (ELAC) defines a highquality program based on a number of levels.

Child care programs are ranked level one through four, with levels three and four being considered “high quality” by the Indiana ELAC. Level three is distinguished from level two in that its child care programs include a planned curriculum.

Level four, the highest level of program, includes national accreditation.

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While parking lots may seem full, Ball State University plans to add new spaces around campus, according to the Campus Master Plan.

When the plan is complete, Ball State should have an additional 250 parking spaces, making a total of 9,635 spaces.

While the plan is not yet complete, progress is being made. Jim Lowe, associate vice president for facilities planning and management, said Ball State is working to increase commuter spaces on campus.

“The recent focus has been on addressing the parking spaces available for commuter parking,” Lowe said. “The Campus Master Plan addresses the need to provide parking in new locations when spaces are lost due to changes in the campus landscape or due to projects.”

Lowe said in the past year, 150 new spaces were

added along Bethel Avenue and approximately 80 spaces we added along the north and south sides of the Anthony School on Oakwood Avenue.

However, Lowe said the total number of spaces on campus will increase or decrease depending on the construction projects happening on campus.

LaFollette Complex

The parking lot south of LaFollette Complex will be removed due to the demolition of the complex.

Displaced parking from this change can be accommodated through on-street parking along the service drive or in a new parking structure south of the Arts and Journalism Building.

“The parking lot along the south side of LaFollette Hall will likely remain similar in configuration as it is today after LaFollette Hall is demolished,” Lowe said.

Student Center Several commuter lots near the L.A. Pittenger Student Center will be removed as new student housing is constructed.

The displaced parking can be accommodated in the Student Center Parking Garage, which is currently not fully utilized.

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Students study sea creatures in Florida to contribute to children’s book series Hannah Gunnell Reporter While some students were surfing the waves over spring break, one class was studying animals that are found beyond the shore.

Twelve students, along with associate art professor Barbara Giorgio-Booher and associate biology professor Tom McConnell, traveled to Florida over spring break to study manatees, seahorses and sea turtles to add three books to the “Conservation Tales” series.

“Conservation Tales” is a series of children’s books that tell fictional stories about a specific animal. The stories provide a way for children to understand how they can protect the environment. Currently, there are four species featured in the series, including bats, salamanders, bees and the cerulean warbler.

“The books will finish up with a list of conservation actions,” McConnell said. “For instance, one of the highlights of these books is cutting back plastics that end up in the environments where these animals live.”

The students traveled to the cities of Crystal River, Homosassa and Sarasota, Florida, to study the next featured species in order to write the next three books in the series.

Mote Marine Laboratory, one of the facilities the students visited in Florida, had large sculptures of animals, including one that looked like a sea turtle riding a wave, made from plastic recovered from the ocean, said sophomore Rebecca Tripp.

“These huge sculptures of trash found in the ocean brings awareness to how much trash there is,” Tripp said.

Mote Marine employees also let the students

go “behind the scenes” into areas not open to the public, McConnell said.

Senior graphic design major Kendra Schemmel, one of the students working on the sea turtle tale, said she enjoyed getting to see the sea turtles at Mote Marine Laboratory. She said the researchers let her team stay back in the hospital wing to sketch the sea turtles.

“It was really helpful learning from their natural movements, rather than photos, which are just still images,” Schemmel said. “I think [sketching from a live environment] is definitely going to help improve the book’s quality.”

Schemmel said she also got to see Mote Marine’s surgery room, X-ray room, recovery room and bone room. “[The recovery room] has these big, swimmingpool-type looking circles. [The animals] try not to have as much human contact as possible because they’ll imprint and become dependent on the humans to survive,” Schemmel said.

Although there are other books in the series, this is the first time students have traveled to Florida in order to study the animals they are writing about.

McConnell, the creator of the series, said faculty at Mote Marine was excited to have them and invited them back to study other marine animals, too.

“Before the students got there, they suggested that they wanted us to work on three or four more books with them, so this trip may be the start of a hopefully long-term relationship with Mote Marine,” McConnell said.

In an effort to continue that partnership, the lab suggested students write books about sharks and coral.

“One of the books they really want us to work

on is about coral. They have a facility that is breeding coral to repopulate reefs where they’ve been damaged,” McConnell said. “Their facility is in the Florida Keys, so they’ve got some dorms –– they want to bring students down for a while. I’m

really excited about that possibility.”

McConnell said the class plans to have the books published around June.

Contact Hannah Gunnell with comments at hrgunnell@bsu.edu.

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House Bill 1399 passes, offers area licenses for elementary school teachers Andrew Harp Reporter Indiana House Bill 1399, which was signed by Gov. Eric Holcomb Monday, gives elementary school teachers the opportunity for area licenses in the specialization of math and science.

Sheryl Stump, professor of mathematical sciences and interim associate dean of Teachers College, helped write the first part of the bill and said it will lead to more opportunities for students to make sense of math.

The first part of the bill calls for those who hold a college degree to return to school to receive a license to become a specialist in the field of elementary mathematics.

Stump said because of this, experienced teachers would go back to school to achieve a better understanding of math and science. Additionally, the teachers would come out with leadership skills and help coach other teachers in an effort to further

develop their skills.

The second part of the bill allows for initial licenses to help elementary teachers specialize in a STEM discipline. Stump said there really aren’t any previous standards in the U.S. regarding this part of the bill.

Despite the differences between the two pieces of the bill, Stump said both parts are designed to make improvements in how the U.S. teaches elementary students math and science. She said licenses like these help to develop a more conceptual understanding of STEM disciplines. “[Teachers] get excited about helping children actually develop understanding,” Stump said.

Currently, Ball State offers mathematics teaching as a major with either a concentration in secondary or middle school.

“We’re trying to promote ways of teaching that are focused on developing student understanding.

It’s not all about memorization,” Stump said.

State Rep. Bob Behning (R-Indianapolis), the

author of the bill, said he worked with the National Conference of State Legislatures on a 2016 study called “No Time to Lose.” He said the study contained elements that inspired the bill.

The study examines ways education in the United States could keep better pace with other education systems across the world, including teacher preparation, standards, early learning and practices.

Behning said content area licenses are a step in the right direction to ensuring an education system that is more rigorous and effective.

“You need teachers who are confident in these areas,” Behning said.

Behning said he met with teachers during the creation of this bill, with some of the teachers — including Stump — testifying in front of the House earlier this year.

The bill, which passed with a vote of 71-11 on its final House reading, will go into effect no later than July 1, 2019.

We’re trying to promote ways of teaching that are focused on developing student understanding. It’s not all about memorization.”

- SHERYL STUMP, Professor of mathematical sciences and interim associate dean of Teachers College

Contact Andrew Harp with comments at adharp@bsu.edu or on Twitter @adharp24.

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Multicultural Center’s Malcolm X Library resources rarely used Despite having hundreds of resources, the library is mainly used as a meeting space.

Evan Weaver Reporter A Malcolm X painting hangs on the wall. Old books line the shelves. VCR tapes are stockpiled in cabinet drawers. Magazines dating back to the early 2000s are found in the cabinets and on a magazine rack. All of them share a theme: diversity.

The Malcolm X Library in the Multicultural Center has hundreds of books that can be used for research or read during free time. However, because the library is not operated like a full-service library, there is no inventory of the materials or resources kept.

“I imagine at some point it was used as an actual full-service library. Today it’s not used like that,” said Bobby Steele, Director of the Multicultural Center. “Students and faculty are able to check items out through a process that we have. We have an administrative coordinator work with a student if they have a specific interest.”

A scan of the shelves doesn’t hide that there aren’t a lot of new resources. Besides a few new magazines the center is subscribed to, very few new materials are added to the library. Besides magazines, Steele said the only new material the

library gets are donations from other people.

Additionally, few students take advantage of the resources that the library has to offer, he said.

“We don’t really get a lot of requests for information. It’s very rare,” Steele said.

Topics covered in the literature range from issues in the LGBT community to race and cultural issues.

“There are a lot of different books here. There are some things that obviously surround race, identity, sexuality, history and civil rights. Those are the topics that I am aware of, but there is a lot of information in here that I have not had the opportunity to fully explore,” Steele said.

Because few requests are made to check out books and materials, the library is mainly used as a quiet room to hold meetings as well as to study.

The space can also be used as a classroom.

“Today, the space is mostly used to reserve for study or to have group meetings, exec board meetings and all those types of things,” Steele said. “We get reservations weekly. Gamma Rho Lambda, Chi Alpha, NAACP and a number of other organizations have used the space to hold meetings.”

Contact Evan Weaver with comments at erweaver@bsu.edu.

I imagine at some point it was used as an actual full-service library. Today it’s not used like that.

Students and faculty are able to check items out through a process that we have. We have an administrative coordinator work with a student if they have a specific interest.”

- BOBBY STEELE, Director of the Multicultural Center MADELINE GROSH, DN

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Spring snowstorms?

Yes, it’s real.

Ball State students and faculty brave the snow despite the start of spring March 21. The Ball State severe weather policy states that when temperatures fall below 32 degrees, students should stay up-to-date with on-campus information such as delays or cancellations.

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VanDeventer named Golfer of the Week Michael VanDeventer was named co-Mid-American Conference Golfer of the Week after a 54-hole +2 performance on the No. 8 course at Pinehurst Resort, earning his second career tournament victory and leading Ball State to a second-place finish. The finish was tied for the team’s best of the season.

Softball

Labrador recognized as Player of the Week Maddy Labrador was named the Mid-American Conference West Division Player of the Week after finishing last weekend with a .533 batting average, a trio of home runs and nine RBIs at the Belmont/ Tennessee State Invitational. Ball State finished the tournament at 3-1, improving to 18-9 on the season.

Men’s Tennis

Freshman stands out in singles match win

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Ball State men’s tennis split its conference-opening matches, winning against Binghamton and falling to Northern Illinois. After losing the doubles point, freshman Bryce Bonin came out with some passion to win his singles match against Binghamton Saturday. Bonin won a point for the Cardinals in two sets and was a key player for the win.

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Baseball opens MAC play in Ball State is rivalry series at Kent State ready to give The Cardinals and Golden Flashes will test each other on the pitcher’s mound. one final push Kara Biernat Sports Editor

It’s going to come down to who’s on the pitcher’s mound this weekend as Ball State baseball travels to Kent State for a three-game series to open up Mid-American Conference play.

Ball State (10-10) will go head-to-head with Kent State (10-6) in a rivalry series that has been around for a long time. While there will be no room for mistakes in this series, head coach Rich Maloney knows what his team needs to do.

“We’re going to need some superlative outings from our pitchers without question,” Maloney said. “We know that, and that should be our strength this year. I was encouraged by this past weekend when we struck out more than 10 and walked two. That’s a big positive.

Now, can we carry that into MAC play? That’s the big question.”

Ball State right-hander John Baker recorded 14 strikeouts and just one walk in 8.0 innings of work in Friday’s game against Dayton.

Maloney would like to see his entire eight-man rotation take charge on the mound and lead the team to a victorious series.

“That’s where pitching comes in,” Maloney said. “If your pitching is strong and you’re getting quality starts, I think we go about eightdeep on the mound. If those eight guys can perform consistently, they’re going to give us the chance to win a lot of games.”

On the other side, the Golden Flashes have a pitching staff that is going to test the Cardinals in all ways possible.

Kent State’s two-headed monster ­— made up of senior left-hander Eli Kraus and junior right-hander Joey Murray— are going to push Ball State’s offense. Kraus, a crafty lefty, holds a 2-2 record on the season. When put in rotation with Murray, who holds a 1-1 record and a 1.98 ERA, the duo is one to not take lightly.

“I think we’re more prepared this year because we’ve seen film of their pitchers,” Ball State catcher Griffin Hulecki said. [Murray and Krous] have a good mix of everything, and coach is really honing down on hunting the fastball. So, we’re definitely swinging at fastballs this weekend, which we didn’t do last year. I think we watched too many pitches. We’re going in with a game plan this year.”

Hulecki has been hot at the plate as of late and is ready to take on the defending MAC Champion in this weekend’s series. After last weekend’s series against Dayton, Hulecki sits in second on the team with a .359 batting average and has 23 hits and 11 RBIs on the season.

“Coach just kind of has me on a nice and easy plan, not doing too much,” Hulecki said. “I don’t have to hit a homerun every single time. I’m trying to barrel the ball up and stay right-center. Me staying right-center has definitely opened up the whole field because some teams like to shift against me, so it just opens up a huge hole. I think that’s where my success has been coming from.”

For the third week in a row, redshirt junior Jeff Riedel leads the Cardinal offense, boasting a .409 average with 27 hits and 14 RBIs on the season. Riedel recorded seven hits and an RBI in the Dayton series.

Although there are some standouts within the Ball State offense, Maloney said he needs the rest of his squad to come up with the timely hits that the team needs to back up the pitching staff.

“Now, can we score just enough runs to pull it off? Although we’re not a hitting juggernaut this season, we are capable of hitting well,” Maloney said. “We’re going to have to scratch and claw and do the little things really well and try to not strikeout too much. We need to try to limit our strikeouts to about seven a game. Along with playing excellent defense, I think all of this is doable. Now, whether we can do them on a consistent basis, that remains to be seen.”

Looking at the big picture of entering MAC play, Maloney and

The Cardinals enter the MAC Championships looking for redemption.

Jack Williams Reporter

Junior William Baker throws the ball in from left-field during the Cardinals’ game against the Flyers at the baseball diamond at First Merchants Ballpark Complex March 16.

Baker caught two pop flies during the game.

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the team have the same goal in mind that they have every year — to win the MAC Tournament. Last year, the team went 0-2 in the tournament when a pair of losses to Ohio and Toledo didn’t get it past the first round.

This year, the team is taking a different approach when it comes to waiting out the MAC Tournament.

“We’re kind of using the season as preparation for the MAC Tournament, because every single year, we push the gas pedal for that regular season MAC Championship,” Hulecki said. “But this year, we’re kind of taking a different route. Obviously it would be awesome to win the regular season flat-out, but just in preparation for the MAC Tournament this time. We always get in it, but are always the first out.”

Prior to the start of the season, Ball State was ranked third in the MAC preseason poll after receiving 73 votes, behind Kent State (98) and Central Michigan (86).

Heading into the weekend, the MAC standings put Ohio on top with a 11-6 record, Kent State close behind at 10-6 and Ohio in third at 11-8.

Central Michigan sits low in the rankings at 4-15-1 on the season.

“Our goal is always to win the MAC Tournament,” Maloney said.

“If we continue to throw strikes and get the timely hits, we are going to have a good chance when it matters down the road.”

First pitch of Ball State and Kent State’s three-game series is slated for 4 p.m. Friday at Schoonover Stadium.

Contact Kara Biernat with comments at karabiernat@gmail.com or on Twitter @karabiernat.

Ball State gymnastics is looking for redemption this weekend at the Mid-American Conference Championships at Central Michigan.

After closing out regular season competition with a loss to Central Michigan to cap off a five-meet losing streak, Ball State (9-9, 3-4) is planning to turn things around. In order to do this, head coach Joanna Saleem said her team needs to keep its mental focus in a big meet like this.

“We need to keep to continue to do the gymnastics we know how to do,” head coach Saleem said. “If they stay in the mindset of treating this as ‘just another meet’ and have a good time, we will be successful.”

Although coming off a loss last weekend, there were still a handful of positives to be taken away. The Cardinals saw major improvement on bars and a slight increase on vault. The team also registered a top-five high score of the season.

“The team did a great job in facing adversity,” Saleem said. “When things are going wrong, they were able to go out and correct their performance. It was good to know that their teammates had their back. It was a valuable lesson they saw in action going into the championships.”

However, the team has been haunted by a pair of meets that resulted in a dropping in its overall score by as high as three points. These drops have caused the team to continually climb back to who it was throughout majority of the season.

As for regional contention, the Road to Nationals rankings has Ball State sitting nine spots outside of a qualification spot at No. 42 and three spots outside of being a bubble team. The rankings also have Ball State sitting in the “Mathematically eliminated” category, but the team believes otherwise.

“The biggest thing is if we score better, we move up,” Saleem said. “We want to go out and have a solid performance. In the final meet of the season, we are going to go out, have a fun meet and cap off the end of the season with some positive thoughts.”

In conference competition, the Cardinals currently sit in seventh place, with one meet over the three squads tied for sixth place. Taking the floor this weekend, the team believes that it has an advantage in the field of togetherness.

“I feel like we have great team chemistry compared to the rest of the teams,” sophomore Bri Slonim said. “We are all just one big family.”

As for Ball State’s performance in the championships, trusting the process will help the team finish high in the final rankings.

“We just need to keep our energy up and stay consistent,” Slonim said. “We need to trust our training and just do our gymnastics.”

The Cardinals will take the floor in Mount Pleasant at 2 p.m.

Saturday.

Contact Jack Williams with comments at jgwilliams@bsu.edu or on Twitter @JackWilliamsBSU.

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No. 11 men’s volleyball set for crucial final road matches this weekend The Cardinals look to stay hot as the race for the MIVA’s top seed heats up.

Sophomore Jake Romano sets the ball for senior middle attacker Matt Walsh during the Cardinals’ match against Fort Wayne at John E. Worthen Arena, March 17.

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Nate Fields Assistant Sports Editor As the end of the regular season draws nearer, No. 11 Ball State men’s volleyball (13-9, 6-2 MIVA) prepares for two critical road matches against No. 6 Loyola-Chicago (17-4, 7-1 MIVA) and No. 10 Lewis (14-8, 5-3 MIVA).

With Loyola-Chicago, Ohio State and Ball State all in a logjam near the top of the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association rankings, picking up wins this weekend could be crucial in creating a bit of separation and putting Ball State in position to seize the top seed in the conference tournament.

“It’s a weekend that’s going to determine where our seed is going into the conference tournament, and we need to be aware of that, but we can’t be overcome by that,” head coach Joel Walton said.

“Whatever our guys are going to achieve as far as our place in the conference tournament is going to be greatly determined by how we play at Lewis and Loyola. Those are just two very critical matches.”

Having picked up a pair of decisive wins against both Lewis and Loyola-Chicago in Worthen Arena earlier in the season, Walton wants his team to approach the match with some excitement as it tries to win another pair against its rivals in Illinois.

“Our team has played confidently against Lewis and Loyola this entire season, even going back into some of our preseason matches,” Walton said. “We need to continue that type of effort and have the knowledge in our mind that we can do the things against those two teams to be successful, but we still have to step on the court and be able to execute those skills and play at a high enough level to make those things happen.

“We’ve put together a nice body of work this season, and these could be two pretty incredible matches if we can go up there and steal a match or two.”

- JOEL WALTON, Head coach “It’s not going to be easy, but it’s a challenge I think our guys should be looking forward to. We’ve put together a nice body of work this season, and these could be two pretty incredible matches if we can go up there and steal a match or two.”

Loyola-Chicago has been the hotter team out of Ball State’s next two opponents. The Ramblers have won seven of their last eight matches after falling to the Cardinals, including four wins in straight sets.

Lewis has been up and down since facing Ball State. The 10th-ranked Flyers have gone 6-4 since losing to the Cardinals, including three losses in their last four matches.

In the home matches against Lewis and LoyolaChicago last month, the visitors were doing a bit of jawing toward Ball State, which the team handled well. Going on the road to play the two teams this time could bring much of the same, but the players are showing some excitement for the lively environment.

“I think the competition with both teams will be really good,” sophomore outside attacker Matt Szews said. “The environment — although it might be hostile up in Chicago — is going to be a great environment to play in. I think it’ll be a lot of fun, especially if we get wins it’ll be even more fun, but I’m looking forward to [this week].”

Along with Szews finding his form again recently after leading the team in kills last weekend against No. 15 Fort Wayne, sophomore setter Jake Romano has played some of his best volleyball as of late, and he knows going on the road against top-tier teams will challenge the team, but he isn’t afraid of the competition.

“We know it’s been tough,” Romano said.

“Teams in the past have had a really hard time winning in that environment, but with us building our confidence now, beating them at home was huge, and we know that we can go in there and do the exact same thing. If we can serve and pass the way that we did [at home], there’s not an opponent out there that can stop us.”

If Ball State can do those things and pick up a pair of wins, it’ll leave the weekend in a three-way tie for the top seed in the MIVA at the very least.

Doing so would allow the Cardinals to control

their own destiny in regard to claiming home-court advantage in the conference tournament, and with Ball State holding a 7-2 record at home vs. just a 6-6 record on the road, having the tournament go through Worthen Arena could be a valuable advantage for the 11th-ranked team in the nation.

Ball State’s matchup against Loyola-Chicago is set for 9 p.m. Thursday. The match at Lewis is slated for 8 p.m. Saturday.

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March Madness 2018: Upsets are bigger, more frequent than usual This year’s NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is reaching total upset averages after the first weekend.

Robby General Reporter As far as upsets are concerned, 2018 may go down as one of the most memorable first weekend’s in March Madness history.

In the first two rounds, there have been a total of 11 upsets – with an “upset” being defined as a team at least two seeds lower beating a higher ranked team – which is on par with average total seen on a given year. Note: The reasoning for the scaling system is to disregard common games like 8/9 matchups in the First Round or common 1/2 battles later in the tournament.

According to research gathered by staffers at NCAA.com there have been, on average, 12.7 upsets that occur in any given tournament since the field expanded in 1985. Utilizing this data, by the end of the second round, there’s an expectation that around 10 upsets will have occurred. This year, there’s been 11 and it’s on pace to be even more, with each game outside of No. 3 Texas Tech and No. 2 Purdue having upset possibility in the Sweet 16.

By the end of this year’s First Round, the total number sat at six, no more or no less than usual years. The Round of 32 is where some of the bigger underdogs showed out, however, with five favorited teams dropping out of the tournament.

There have not only been more upsets this year, but they’re bigger than usual. After just one weekend, six of the top-12 seeded teams in the tournament were eliminated, leaving just two of each of the No. 1, 2 and 3 seeds alive going into the second weekend. In the South region, all of the top four seeds have been eliminated after two rounds – something that has never happened in the tournament.

Looking at the numbers, just in the Round of 32, there were five other games that could’ve ended in an upset, with four of them being decided by four points or less. Leading some writers, like Hall of Fame basketball writer Mike Lopresti saying: “Whew. Are the upsets finally over – for a few days, anyway?” Lopresti wrote in an NCAA.com article.

“The NCAA tournament – this baffling, chaotic, incomprehensible what’s-next? NCAA tournament – now advances to the rounds with numbers for names.

Sweet 16, Elite Eight, Final Four.”

But before the tournament continues on Thursday night, let’s look back at the madness that ensued in just four days broken down by each seed.

Overall No. 1 Virginia lost by an insurmountable 20-points to No. 16 UMBC. To put that into perspective, it marked the first time a 16-seed won in 136 attempts against 1-seeds in March.

No. 1 Xavier also fell by five points to No. 9 Florida State, but this kind of upset is more commonplace. A No. 8 or 9 seed upsets a No. 1 seed once every other year on average. Kansas also almost fell in the Round of 32, past Seton Hall by just four points.

No. 2’s are vulnerable On average, No. 2 seeds fall at least once every year in the Round of 32, which makes this year less than commonplace.

While two 2-seeds are already gone, it could have easily been three with Purdue, playing without big man Isaac Haas, holding on to win by three against in-state rival Butler.

The same can’t be said about the defending champion North Carolina, who lost by 21-points against Texas A&M, or Cincinnati, who couldn’t hang on in a two-point loss to Nevada. Like the 1-seeds, only one 2-seed comfortably moved on and that’s Duke, whose one its first two games by an average of 23.5 points.

Too close to call for 3-seeds In the Round of 32, each of the games a No. 3 seed played in was decided by three points or less.

Both Loyola-Chicago and Syracuse – a pair of 11-seeds – advanced to the Sweet 16 after beating Tennessee and Michigan State, respectively. No. 3 Texas Tech pulled away to beat Florida by threepoints. Michigan was moments away from being eliminated until freshman guard Jordan Poole hit a buzzer-beating shot to give the Wolverines the victory over No. 6 Houston.

No. 4-seeds getting shown up The 4/13 upset is one that doesn’t happen often, occurring just 26 times in 35 years, but that wouldn’t seem like the case looking at this tournament.

In the first round, Mid-American Conference school Buffalo blow-out Arizona, a team favored to make deep tournament runs by many experts and Marshall upset Wichita State in the East Region.

Not only that, but UNCG and Charleston, the other 13-seeds, lost by just four points a piece to Gonzaga and Auburn in the First Round. The only No. 4 seed that remains in the tournament is Gonzaga.

No 1-seed is safe

5-seeds figuring it out

In the past 35 years of the tournament, No. 1 seeds have lost just 17 times in the Round of 32 and never in the First Round – both of those things happened this year.

Every year, the most enticing matchup it the 5/12 games. Nearly 36 percent of the time a No. 12 seed finds a way to pull out a win in the First Round.

This year, however, each 5-seed moved onto the

Round of 32, with each handling their games, and three of them – Kentucky, West Virginia and Clemson – standing strong to advance to the Sweet 16.

Bye-bye 6-seeds To make up for the lack of upsets in the 5/12 games, 11-seeds Loyola-Chicago and Syracuse took care of business to each advance to the Sweet 16.

After a last-second stunner over No. 6 Miami, the Ramblers of Loyola-Chicago continued its historic run, beating No. 3 Tennessee by a single point. In the Midwest region, No. 11 Syracuse, which started off as a First Four team, won its third-straight tournament game, knocking off No. 6 TCU and No. 3 Michigan State, in the process.

As for the other 6-seeds Florida and Houston, each of their tournament runs came to an end in the final minutes, with Houston’s journey ending on a last-second 3-pointer.

7-seeds remain strong Two 7-seeds are also among the unusually highseeded field moving into the Sweet 16.

After close First Round victories against Texas and Providence, both Nevada and Texas A&M knocked off No. 2 seeds to advance deeper in the tournament. In the Midwest region, the University of Rhode Island lost by 25-points to Duke and No. 7 Arkansas lost by 17 to Butler in the First Round.

This tournament has already been one to remember but with seven potential upsets on the line in the second weekend, it has the potential to have the most total upsets ever in the NCAA Tournament. The previous record, based off the definition at the beginning of the article, is 19 – a feat that happened back in 2014.

Contact Robby General at rjgeneral@bsu.edu or on Twitter @rgeneraljr.

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Adult-ish

Straight is not the default; ‘Love, Simon’ portrays that incredibly well Representation in media is important now more than ever. “Love, Simon” doesn’t disappoint with its portrayal of the LGBTQ community.

Audrey Bowers is a junior English education major and writes “Adult-ish” for The Daily News.

Her views do not necessarily agree with those of the newspaper. Write to Audrey at albowers3@bsu.edu.

My name is Audrey Bowers and I’m just like you. I drink too much iced coffee with my friends, struggle to find a decent place to park on Ball State’s campus, stress out about getting Audrey everything I’m supposed to have Bowers done and happen to enjoy a good Columnist, Netflix binge.

Adult-ish Here’s what you might not

know about me: I’m bisexual. I believe I knew this to be true around junior high or early high school, but I didn’t come out until I was a sophomore in college due to feeling unsafe because of the blatant homophobia that surrounded me. Praying the gay away didn’t work, and hiding it was more harmful than it was helpful.

Reading Becky Albertalli’s book, “Simon vs the Homosapien Agenda,” which has been adapted into the film “Love, Simon,” during the fall semester of my sophomore year made me feel compelled to come out, since I became uncomfortable with everyone around me assuming that I was straight.

I absolutely loved reading all about Simon Spier emailing Blue and meeting him at the end of the

story. After reading the book, I came out as bisexual to those I felt I could trust (my RA, a few friends and my mom during winter break.)

Even though I came out and was out, I didn’t want everyone to know because I was still afraid of what they might think, and it just didn’t feel necessary. In my opinion, everyone should have to come out, straight or not. To this day, I find myself trying to not be “too gay” at times. It’s really a shame because I deserve to exist exactly as I am.

The book and the film reminded me that sharing your truest self with other people is a vulnerable and brave act that is worth it in the end.

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Never Being Boring

Progress isn’t perfect, but we shouldn’t abandon it The future of autonomous cars may be scary, but we must move forward.

Evan Hatfield is a sophomore journalism major and writes “Never Being Boring” for The Daily News. His views do not necessarily agree with those of the newspaper. Write to Evan at erhatfield@bsu.edu.

We as humans are far from perfect, or so we’ve been told.

Everybody makes mistakes, they say. Is it reasonable to assume all the things we’ve made through thousands of years of history Evan aren’t perfect, then?

Hatfield Probably. Case in point: A Columnist, Never man was killed in 1830 as the Being Boring result of an accident on the first running of a then-new steam locomotive. Did that stop people from embracing that new technology? Not necessarily. Dangerous as it may have been, nothing is going to be perfect, and it goes to show that sometimes we have to take chances to keep moving forward.

Flash forward to now. We’ve been hearing about driverless cars for a long time now — even before they were truly a thing, they were one of those things that inevitably cropped up when people talked about the future.

Well, here we are. Welcome to the future. And yes, things still aren’t perfect. Case in point again: For the first time, a person was hit and killed by a self-driving car. It happened in suburban Phoenix Sunday night to Elaine Herzberg. She was 49 years old.

Herzberg had family and friends, no doubt.

She had a life worth living. That’s now been cut short by an event which will earn her a place in the history books. But the march of progress stops for nobody.

The car in the accident belongs to Uber, which has seen fit to halt testing of their autonomous vehicles across the country in light of it.

Frankly, it takes much more than that to stop progress from marching ahead. Uber may be doing the right thing out of respect for Herzberg, but the company’s choice will only hurt it in the long run. Let’s face it — other companies and other people will take up the cause whether or not Uber wants to continue doing so.

It was a Volvo that was involved in the accident.

Even in spite of that, Volvo’s not suspending production of their driverless cars after what happened. Plenty of companies are still recognizing the benefits driverless cars bring with them.

That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t consider whether or not moving ahead is worth it. If there’s any time to have that sort of discussion, now’s the time.

Garrett Looker is a junior magazine journalism major and writes “Finding Beneficence” and creates illustrations for The Daily News. His views do not necessarily agree with those of the newspaper. Contact Garrett at galooker@bsu.edu

We finally know for sure what’s been said for some time now: driverless cars are dangerous, at least to some extent.

Dangerous as it may have been, nothing is going to be perfect, and it goes to show that sometimes we have to take chances to keep moving forward.”

- EVAN HATFIELD, Columnist

But then again, so are cars with human drivers.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, 40,528 people died in the United States in 2016 from accidents involving motor vehicles. So are many of the forms of transportation we used before cars. Evidently, we’ve faced this question so many times before, and we’ve decided to keep moving forward in spite of the danger. Given the choice, why not?

And there are plenty of upsides to moving

forward. Tesla vehicles now include the capability to drive themselves at what they consider “a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver.” Heck, they can even do the dreaded task of parking for you, including searching for an open spot. Uber, meanwhile, says their self-driving cars will help reduce traffic accidents, free up space and cut congestion.

So yes, change could be the direction we’re headed in this time. Just as news was breaking of the incident in Tempe, news was also breaking about the rolling out of California’s first driverless buses. That’s “driverless” as in “they don’t even need to have someone at the ready if the technology fails at some point.”

Does it seem absolutely insane? Possibly. Is it happening? There’s no doubt about that.

I suppose the question then becomes “are we ready for this change to happen?” But that brings up yet another question: “does it even matter if we’re ready or not?”

Change is hard. Goodness knows lots of people have had a hard time adjusting to technology’s forward march through the years, and yet, on we go.

Let’s not kid ourselves — progress can’t be stopped that easily. Daunting as it may seem, it’s there, it’s happening and it’s going to keep happening.

Whether we like it or not, the future has arrived. We ought to be ready to embrace it, or risk getting left behind otherwise.

LOVE, SIMON Continued from Page 13

“Love, Simon” is a groundbreaking movie because of its diverse representation, which is needed because representation of LGBTQ people and people of color is still lacking in media. The movie features a gay, interracial couple and more than one leading person of color. Not only does it have this representation, but it provides a positive outlook for LGBTQ people. The LGBTQ characters are not killed off, aren’t miserable and actually stand a chance of having a happy ending.

This positive outlook is so important because of the homophobia that is still present to this day and the difficult realities that queer youth face on a daily basis. LGBTQ youth often suffer the most. According to the CDC, 34 percent of LGBTQ youth were bullied on school property in 2015 and LGBTQ youth were three times as likely as heterosexual youth to seriously contemplate suicide. “Love, Simon” is so important because it shows teens what their lives should look like. Like Simon Spier, these teens deserve to be accepted exactly the way that they are, and they deserve the chance to have a great love story.

Seeing “Love, Simon” could’ve helped me tremendously. Maybe I could have been able to come to terms with my sexual orientation earlier and not have felt so ashamed for it.

The movie shows LGBTQ and straight teens alike that straight shouldn’t be the default and that it’s okay to be who you are. The movie is helping so many present-day teens because they are being inspired to come out and to be proud of who they are. It’s creating conversations that need to happen.

The movie itself was phenomenal. I watched it two times in a row and loved it even more the second time due to its relatable characters, hopeful message and general light-heartedness.

While watching, I screamed, cried, laughed and smiled as I was rooting for Simon Spier to finally meet his love interest, Blue. I think that while I was rooting for Simon, I was also rooting for myself. It is nearly impossible to tell you how good that makes me feel.

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Ball State faculty share their experiences writing, publishing textbooks In addition to teaching and researching, many professors use their knowledge to create classroom material.

Melissa Kraman Reporter Textbooks contain important information that contributes to mastering a subject, class or major, but the authors and the work put into creating the books are not often thought about.

Several professors, like Michael O’Hara, associate dean of the college of fine arts, and Colleen Steffen, lecturer of journalism, however, have first-hand experience in the process of creating textbooks.

For Steffen and O’Hara, the process typically starts with prompting colleagues or an idea and the readiness to delve into the lengthy, unpredictable process. Next, the author must contact a major publishing house and pitch their idea to a representative, who solicits a prospectus, an extensive document that informs what textbooks are available, their purpose, how the new textbook will be different and how the author plans to write the book.

If the prospectus is accepted, the author will be assigned to a developmental editor and the research process formally begins, even though many authors start before the book is even accepted.

O’Hara said he uses the knowledge he has gained from six years of schooling and continued research within his field by reading and writing scholarly journals, staying involved in four professional associations for higher education theater, reading other textbooks and holding his role as president of the International Shaw Society.

From start to finish, developing a textbook can take years. Traditional printed books typically take three years, but online textbooks that have interactive features, including manipulable graphs, videos, HTML codes and pop-up flashcards, can take much longer.

Ohara’s all-electronic textbook “Explore Theatre” was published in 2012, 10 years after his proposal.

Despite the timeframe, the success of the book inspired him to create a second edition, which was released after only three years of work.

The textbooks are introduction books aimed towards non-major students interested in the theater world and aim to help students gain a basic understanding of its components.

“I try to imagine something I know very well being understood by someone who doesn’t know it at all, or very little,” O’Hara said. “It’s almost like an acting exercise, to sort of crawl into the mind of a student who got dragged to this class.

So it’s about what can I say to that kid, that will be interesting to them so that I don’t bore them.”

Both online editions are unique compared to others on the market because part of the book was formed through research that O’Hara conducted by

commissioning an original play of 80 students and documented its process from beginning to end.

In full, the books contain more than 14 hours of video content.

“The philosophical stance of the book is that [teachers] aren’t telling you about theater, theater people are telling you about theater,” O’Hara said.

“Actors, designers, directors are actually talking to the student. We videoed and interviewed hundreds of them.”

Ohara also said that students who participated in the play provided a peer-to-peer learning environment where “students who love theater were sharing their love of theater with other students.”

Not only did O’Hara utilize students for creating the videos, but he also sent out surveys to see how they would react to the information provided and the organization of it.

The biggest challenge of writing both textbooks was getting and paying for permission to include graphics and videos that were not created by O’Hara. He said he has four thick, three-ring binders filled with more than 2,000 permission slips that allow him to use only 17 seconds of a professional theater production, which costs $25,000, and other outside resources.

In order to keep the film in the book, O’Hara partnered with Ball State, who now gets half of all royalties from providing him an internal grant. All of the revenue from royalties is channelled back into the theater program.

Steffen, however, has yet to experience what it is like to have a published textbook and how students will react to it. Her 35-chapter book, which has yet to be titled, is scheduled to print by Sept. 1.

She said she jumped at the opportunity to write the book because she noticed a hole in other textbooks where the emotional content of a reporter’s job isn’t mentioned and keeps students from feeling confident in the field.

“A lot of the textbooks for beginning reporters cover stuff that’s easily quantified, like types of questions or types of sourcing,” Steffen said.

“I’m noticing that in my classes, a lot of the problems reporters come to me with are not easily quantified, like getting frazzled in the middle of an interview with an important person or ‘I want to be a reporter but talking to strangers makes me sweat.’ It was the emotional stuff, the soft skills.

The weird thing about being a reporter is that all of it is emotional intelligence: understanding people, how they behave and understand yourself as a human with feelings.”

Throughout the textbook, Steffen is working to create a unique tone by incorporating humor throughout the book, including slang, acronyms, doodles of news graphics and unconventional texts to create a “youthful and casual” voice that is engaging to her readers.

When writing textbooks, professor of theatre and dance Michael O’Hara works to help students of every background understand the concepts of theatre. GRACE HOLLARS, DN Steffen said she dedicates each week to writing one to two chapters and brainstorming about additional resources that may need included in the book like practice exercises, quizzes, take-away bullet point lists and supplemental websites.

“This is a childhood dream of mine,” Steffen said. “I wrote for newspapers for years, I’ve

freelanced and done magazines. I’ve been lucky to make my living as a writer. I still have that second grade dream to have my book on the library shelf.

This is a big deal for me, it’s really exciting.”

Contact Melissa Kraman with comments at mmkraman@bsu.edu or on Twitter @missy_kraman.

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Alumnus promotes STEM studies among elementary, middle and high school students

Vince Bertram uses his passion for learning to help demonstrate how concepts apply to the real world through Project Lead the Way. Ally Johnson Reporter Ball State alumnus Vince Bertram said he has always had a great curiosity for learning how things work. Today, he is using that same spirit of inquiry to help students in elementary, middle and high schools around the country reach their goals through Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).

“You learn to play music by playing an instrument, and you learn to play sports by playing a sport, and you learn to do math by applying it to real-world projects and not simply by doing mathematical equations,” Bertram said. “We try to ensure that students learn the real world applications and they have the ability to actually apply the real world problems.”

Seven years ago, Bertram became President and CEO of Project Lead The Way, PLTW, a nonprofit organization that provides students from K-12 activity-based curriculum in STEM subjects.

The organization also helps connect students to colleges and universities as well as train thousands of teachers each year.

Bertram himself has an extensive background

in education and has earned many degrees and accomplishments including a Master’s Degree in education policy and management from Harvard, Master of Business Administration Degrees from Georgetown and ESADE Business School, and a Master of Education, Master of Science, Educational Specialist and Bachelor of Science from Ball State.

“I spent a large part of school, and even the middle of my career, trying to figure out how people can teach students how to learn about their careers, and how they are influenced by things that they are really good at and things that they aren’t good at and that is always increasing,” Bertram said. “Now I have the opportunity to influence much of this.”

Bertram tries to apply what he has learned over the years to PLTW by teaching students problemsolving, communication and collaboration skills and giving them the opportunity to use those skills in real-life situations.

“Students learn by doing,” Bertram said. “It’s often not enough to have constant knowledge, but you have to be able to apply that knowledge and skills.”

Recently, Bertram was awarded the Ball State University Alumni Association Distinguished Alumni

Students work to promote underground music community in Muncie Mat Keyser Reporter When senior Brandon Gick came to Ball State, he began to realize that Muncie was full of talented musicians, but it’s hard for them to find resources to get their music heard.

“Getting started in the music industry in Indiana can be difficult because the means to grow as an artist are scarce,” Gick said. “If you don’t have the right connections, you can’t really go anywhere.”

Gick first got into music himself after hearing the drummer from Blink 182, Travis Barker. He said he had never heard drumming like Barker’s before and was inspired to pick up his own drumsticks.

Because Gick is a drummer, he understands the difficulty that bands in Indiana face and decided to create Lame Brain Productions to help foster an underground music community in Muncie and help instill a sense of pride in Indiana’s music scene.

The student-run organization started out with a show that was held in the basement of his rental home in March 2017.

Since then, Lame Brain Productions has grown

to six members and now partners with Be Here Now, which supplies equipment for shows and hosts Lame Brain Nights to allow three to four local bands to play.

As someone who is not a musician, sophomore Samantha Kubiak sees Lame Brain as her way to contribute to the local music scene Gick wants to create.

Kubiak started going to house shows last year and immediately enjoyed the environment. Eventually, she got involved with the group and now helps with promotion and making sure shows run smoothly.

“If we are able to provide artists a place to play and a crowd, word spreads quickly and will make Indiana a more desirable place for artists to come and perform,” Kubiak said.

The group hopes to become a fully-fledged booking agency and book acts all over Indiana to make the state a desirable stop for touring artists.

More immediately, however, Lame Brain plans to host a two-day music festival featuring local musicians and double the number of venues next year from two to four locations.

Contact Matt Keyser with comments at mdkeyser@bsu.edu.

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Award and Rex Bolinger, senior vice president and chief partnerships officer of PLTW, said Bertram displays his passion for education every day. “[Bertram] stated that as the world evolves and changes, learners will find themselves perfectly suited for the things to come, while the learned will

find themselves irrelevant in a world that has passed them by,” Bolinger said. “For Ball State to have instilled this in him and produced such a global leader, we should all be grateful.”

Contact Ally Johnson with comments at adjohnson12@bsu.edu or on Twitter @IamAllyJ.

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Muncie family funds works of charity through escape room business Tier Morrow Assistant Features Editor With the help of locks, puzzles and mystery phrases, one Muncie couple has sent more than 2,400 pounds of clothes, shoes and toys to Jamaica.

Escape Muncie opened in 2016 to provide funds for the ministry Journey Home Jamaica, and has grown to provide eight games including four that are mobile.

“Everything we have done [for Journey Home Jamaica], has been out of our own pocket,” said Bruce Everetts, owner of Escape Muncie. “We tried doing a few fundraisers, but we couldn’t get the funds to buy buildings and property through car washes and bake sales. Escape Muncie has been invaluable because it generates income on a regular basis, and it’s fun no matter what.”

In 2011, the Everetts’ took a second honeymoon to Negril, Jamaica, that exposed them to the poverty and need the country had.

“When we went to Jamaica, we didn’t travel like most people do,” Everetts said. “We didn’t go to a resort and sit by the pool in the sun. We rented a car and traveled the island; we went where most tourists don’t. We got to see the real culture and personality of the island. We saw the real need that they had because we engrossed ourselves in their lives.”

The following year, the Everetts started Journey Home Jamaica, a non-profit ministry, as a place where women and children could go for safety and resources, as well as somewhere single parents could learn life skills.

We want to be able to teach and show children in Jamaica that they can do more than the status quo. They don’t have the belief that they can do anything because of their situations, and we want to change their mindset.”

- BRUCE EVERETTS, Owner, Escape Muncie “Once the vision was instilled in my wife about opening this ministry, it really stuck with us,” Everetts said. “So we started to establish connections and going back and forth between the U.S. and Jamaica. We became friends with people

On their second honeymoon, Bruce and Jennifer Everetts explored parts of Jamaica tourists don’t often vist and were compelled to help people in those communities.

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in the business world and in the church world in Jamaica because they knew what we didn’t.”

Everetts said he and his wife Jennifer Everett also had to teach themselves how the government works in Jamaica because it is not the same as in the U.S. Hearing stories from other ministries who were already stable in Jamaica helped them understand how to ship supplies and materials, how to speak to the government and how to buy and operate land.

Today, the goal of the ministry is to buy property and start a business where children can temporarily stay until a permanent place is established because there are over 75,000 orphan children on the Island which is smaller than Connecticut, according to the Journey Home Jamaica website.

“Jenna and I have both been involved in children’s ministries all our lives. Jenna was a youth minister, and I volunteered with the youth group,” Bruce said. “We have always been around kids, and we have witnessed how each one has a different purpose. We want to be able to teach and show children in Jamaica that they can do more than the status quo. They don’t have the belief that they can do anything because of their situations, and we want to change their mindset.”

Eventually, in order to fund their goals for Journey Home Jamaica, the Everetts’ opened Escape Muncie, an escape room business.

Escape Muncie started as only two escape games, but has already grown to four games, an escape truck with two mobile games and two traveling games.

The Everetts have designed and created all of their own games and refine and test existing games multiple times.

Grandma’s Living Room, which took six months of planning to perfect and implement, was the first room that opened after the Everetts bought the building Escape Muncie is located in.

“I have so many ideas for new games,” said Jennifer Everetts, co-owner of Escape Muncie. “I eat, sleep and breathe escape games. I am always thinking about the next step, what I need to do.

When I’m not planning a game, I’m working on something else related to the business. I have to be thinking about it all the time because so many people are ready for a new game.”

Among those waiting for a new games is Kiel Erwin, a junior computer technology major and a part time employee for Escape Muncie.

“Playing the games is a lot of fun, but watching people piece things together is very exciting,” Erwin said. “It’s a fun environment, and it feels more like I am being paid to have fun rather than work.”

Both the Everetts’ and Erwin agree that being behind the scenes in the control room is the best part of the job because they get to witness life

changing moments when clients ask to hold special events at Escape Muncie.

Escape Muncie has currently hosted five engagements and several birthday parties.

“Doing engagements are fun because they bring us the ring early, and we hide it within the game,” Jennifer said. “The whole family is in on it, so they know which box not to open. They all push the woman to solve that particular puzzle, and when she opens it, it is so exciting.”

One of Jennifer’s favorite events Escape Muncie has hosted, however, was a surprise birthday party.

“We hid a birthday card with the woman’s name on it inside one of the boxes because her children had taken her out, and they only do activities like this one special occasions,” Jennifer said. “When she solved the puzzle and opened the card with her name on it, she looked directly into the camera and shouted, ‘How did you know?! I’m freaking out!’”

Even though not every visitor gets a special surprise during their game, Bruce said he believes everyone has a fun experience, which is one goal the Everetts have for their business.

“Even if you don’t know where to start, you crack something and it’s a small win,” Bruce said.

“You tell yourself that you can get the next one.

It’s like you get little rewards each time you solve something new. You get little spurts of satisfaction through the whole game that makes it enjoyable, and we love seeing people laugh and enjoy themselves even if they may not solve the puzzle or get out of the room.”

Because of Escape Muncie, the Everetts’ have helped move a five person family from Haiti to Jamaica, bought a 36 passenger bus for the youth group in Jamaica, and helped send multiple mission groups to Jamaica.

Additionally, they have used the money from Escape Muncie to give back to Muncie charities including 100 Men Who Cook, Dance Marathon, Boys and Girls Club and United Way. They have given 7,000 pounds of clothes and shoes to disabled veterans and provided food for the local soup kitchen.

“I think Escape Muncie is a great fit for the Muncie community because it distracts from the negatives,” Erwin said. “Muncie does not necessarily get a positive image, but Escape Muncie helps provide that. It gives people more of an incentive to help not only the local community, but the community of another country. They get to have fun while also knowing that their money is going towards a good cause. Escape Muncie is just a fun place, and the Everetts really make you feel welcomed.”

Contact Tier Morrow with comments at tkmorrow@bsu.edu or on Twitter @tiermorrow.

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Alumni reflect on involvement in previous Frog Baby Film Festivals As the first round of judging for the festival takes place, alumni share their experience competing.

Pauleina Brunnemer Reporter On April 13, the red carpet will roll out for Ball State’s annual Frog Baby Film Festival, but many students are waiting anxiously to hear the results from the submission period which took place from March 1 to 12.

Any undergraduate student at Ball State can submit films through Frog Baby’s website, and then submissions are prejudged by a panel of graduate assistants in the telecommunications department to narrow the applications, according to Abby Peavey, Frog Baby film committee’s co-chairperson.

“It goes through two levels of judging, and then from the faculty judging we determine the awards,” Peavey said. “Then we determine what films get played in the festival.”

Alumnus Luke Butler directed the film “Uprooted,” which tells the story of, and was one of the films selected to play in the Frog Baby Film Festival in 2016. The film tells the story of a man named Tom and his two roommates racing to get the best bedroom.

In 2016, the film “Uprooted,” which tells the story of a man named Tom and his two roommates racing to get the best bedroom and was directed by alumnus Luke Butler, was among the films

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selected to be shown at the festival. “[Seeing the film in the festival] was really exciting,” Butler said. “We had just finished the film, so it didn’t have time to get stale. While not

This year, 64 films were submitted in hopes of receiving recognition through awards and sharing their work with the community on the big screen at the festival, which Butler said is one of the best parts.

One of the best parts of the festival that participants have to look forward to Butler said, is the reaction of the audience.

“Watching it with the audience was an incredible experience,” Butler said. “I had always

read that you never know your film until you watch it with an audience and that proved to be very true. I had no idea if people would be onboard with the various story beats that transition between tone. It was a great learning experience being in the room and observing reactions.”

Contact Pauleina Brunnemer with comments at pdbrunnemer@bsu.edu or on Twitter @pauleina15.

“We had never seen it on a screen that big. We did play it upstairs in the Animation room, but still it’s not nearly as big as the screen that’s going to project it on Frog Baby. I don’t even remember watching it at the time. We were all really tense like ‘oh this is happening.’”

- FOSTER EBER, Alumnus autobiographical, it was the most personal short I had made, and I wanted to share that at the festival.”

Alumnus Foster Eber, however, was unsure if he wanted to submit his animated short “Gale,” which would have to travel 4,000 miles to be submitted because she was in Italy at the time.

“I used my neighbors’ wifi to submit it,” Eber said. “It was all very weird, but we submitted.”

When Eber’s film was not only selected to play but also won Best of Festival, the experience was unlike anything he expected.

“We had never seen it on a screen that big. We did play it upstairs in the Animation room, but still it’s not nearly as big as the screen that’s going to project it on Frog Baby,” Eber said.

“I don’t even remember watching it at the time. We were all really tense like ‘oh this is happening.’”

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Bud Light’s Muncie Gras 2018 is ready for its 16th and final celebration. The final event will include favorite acts and activities including the mechanical bull, zip line, the vortex, The Fire Show, drag queens, The Fabulous Funcie Femmes Burlesque dancers and much more. The party starts at 6 p.m. in downtown Muncie with fireworks at midnight. The event will wrap up around 2 a.m. The event is for those 18 and older.

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Admission is $12 per person at the door with kids 10 and younger free with the purchase of an adult ticket. College students, military personnel, veterans, firefighters and EMT’s are $8. Doors open at 1 p.m. and the bout starts at 2 p.m. at Gibson’s Skating Arena.

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Robin Box, a professor of family, consumer and technology education at Ball State, used to help maintain accreditation for high-quality child care run by Ball State in Muncie, which includes the Child Study Center.

She, too, said Delaware County places great emphasis on high-quality child care, which cannot be offered without adequate resources for teachers and children.

Not only must teachers be paid an adequate wage, Box said, but the child care facility at which they work likely has a mortgage to pay, cleaning supplies and labor to provide and benefits, like insurance, to ensure its teachers can take care of their own families while working to take care of someone else’s.

It’s also possible qualified teachers for child care programs are also more prevalent in Delaware County because of professional development programs for child development and early childhood education majors, professors Linda

Taylor and Pat Clark said.

Professional development programs work similarly to how onsite job experience works, said chairperson of the department of elementary education Clark.

“It’s unusual for a university to have a professional development school with an early childhood center and we have two of them here in Delaware County,” Clark said.

Taylor, a Ball State elementary education professor, said Ball State has set the precedent for pre-kindergarten professional development programs and other universities have yet to adopt it into their own curricula.

“Nobody’s really followed our lead yet, at least not that we know of,” Taylor said.

Seeing Ball State students working with his children is a point of pride for Lt. Huff.

“Whenever I’m interacting with our students, I look at [them] as my own kid,” Huff said. “It’s like, I want you to be successful, and I know the kids who work there. They’re getting a good experience.”

Despite multiple options for families to enroll their children in child care, some families wanting to enroll their children can’t afford to pay the price.

Lt. Huff did not enroll his older son in child care, since his family could not financially support it at the time.

“I can totally see a difference between [my younger son] and maybe my older son that’s a junior here at Ball State when he was a kiddo to where we are now with [my younger son],” Huff said.

Bale recognizes not every family can afford high-quality child care in Delaware County, and the largest group where she sees a gap in enrollment is with lower-middle class families whose incomes are just above the threshold to qualify for a child care voucher.

“There’s this group of families that fall in there that don’t qualify for assistance, but they sure the heck can’t pay the full rate of child care,” Bale said. “Those are our families right now that are really missing out on the opportunity.”

In order to close this enrollment gap, Bale said Muncie BY5 is working to secure funding for 125 child care slots for the families in this income range to enroll their children with no cost to them.

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