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WATER DAMAGE: BRACKEN’S WORST IN HISTORY Pipe break causes floors to shut down; teams check books for deterioration KARA BERG NEWS EDITOR
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he fourth floor of Bracken Library is covered in large fans and dehumidifiers, spread every three feet across the aisles between bookshelves. Library and facilities employees are painstakingly going through each book, oneby-one, to assess the damage.
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There’s still water slowly dripping from the ceiling, so some bookshelves and computers are covered in white plastic sheets to keep them sheltered. In some spots in between shelves, sopping remains of ceiling tiles lay after becoming too saturated and falling from the ceiling.
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Kevin Ray, the bass player for the band Walk the Moon, known for its hit song “Shut Up and Dance,” will be having a Q&A session at Ball State today from 3:30-5 p.m. in the Letterman Building Room 125. Ray graduated in 2009 from Ball State’s music media production program (MMP) in the School of Music. Being on the front lines of the entertainment business, he can tell students how he maintains his lifestyle of being on tour 24/7. “If you’re giving a hundred or two hundred shows a year, it’s a grueling pace. You’ve got to maintain your health and eat right and sleep right. It’s not just party, party, party,” said Robert Willey, director of the MMP program. Willey is organizing Ray’s visit to campus.
Ryan Diem leans against the fence along the visitor’s sideline at Scheumann Stadium Tuesday. He holds a bag of Bigs Sea Salt & Black Pepper sunflower seeds in one hand and an empty Dasani water bottle for the shells in the other, spitting occasionally. Diem’s name may sound familiar to Indianapolis Colts fans. He won a Super Bowl with the team and anchored the right tackle position for the
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Ryan Diem, a former Indianapolis Colts player, visited Scheumann Stadium Tuesday. Diem is a friend of Ball State football’s offensive line coach, Kyle DeVan, and came to visit him and check out the offensive line he has been building.
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majority of 12 seasons. One of Ball State’s first-year coaches, offensive line coach Kyle DeVan, started alongside Diem on the right side of the line in Super Bowl XLIV for the Colts when they played New Orleans Saints. Diem came to Muncie for a spring practice to support his friend and check out the offensive line DeVan’s been building throughout the spring. “To have a guy like Ryan Diem, a guy who mentored me in the NFL, come out here and watch us practice and watch the thing we did as a group implemented in the college game under my watch — it’s special to me,” DeVan said. “It’s guys like him that make the game special.”
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ATLAS’ SGA REPORT CARD: A-
AT ISSUE: The Daily News judges how effective the slate was over the year
Before Jack Hesser and the rest of the Atlas slate took office for Student Government Association, we knew they were going to be ambitious. They presented 21 platform points, the most of any elected slate in at least the past five years. There were six platform points they didn’t fully complete. However, they accomplished all of their overarching platform points by adapting how they achieved them. That rarely happens. Somewhat completed: Sexual Assault Education — The slate’s original goal was to bring Green Dot training to campus. The university supported the idea before elections, but afterward said it wanted to just utilize the resources it already had. Instead, SGA provided funds to residence halls for sexual assault awareness programs. Bird Feeder — This platform point centered around giving students more opportunities to use Dining Plus and Cardinal Cash at concession stands at
games. To do this, they had planned on purchasing more card-reading machines. However, the university decided this was too expensive and instead chose to just transport the already existing machines wherever needed. Mostly completed: News from the Nest — Occasionally the slate would combine monthly newsletters when there wasn’t as much going on. Muncie Volunteer Day — Their original plan was to collaborate with Student Voluntary Services to host a volunteer day. Instead, SGA sponsored SVS’ event, and also held their own separate volunteer day in Muncie. Extended Add/Drop Period — Faculty Council will vote on the initiative on April 28, but Hesser is confident it will pass. International Student Relations — This platform point did not work out as well as Hesser intended. While SGA did initially partner with the Residence Hall Association as planned,
some halls ended up dropping out of programs they said they would host. GA also worked to get the International Ambassadors Association a seat in the senate. Fully completed: • Tailgate Central • Lunch on Board • Freshman 115 • Pothole of the Month • Phone charging stations • Self-injury/suicide prevention • Diversity Day • Diversity exposure • Scheumann Shuttle • Dining times • Scholarships • Cardinal Cup • Alumni leader reunion • SafeZone training • Blue Loop extension Atlas met most of its more ambitious goals, like extending dining and Blue Loop shuttle hours. Their focus on sexual assault prevention was impressive. Hesser mentioned SGA also accomplished 20 other projects, in addition to the ones the slate promised
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the students. During their term, SGA passed legislation that would provide free Sexually Transmitted Infection testing to survivors of sexual assault. They also hosted a Social Justice Hour to discuss sexual assault, racism, gender inequality and other topics. The main area the slate struggled with was getting legislation passed in the senate outside of their platform points. SGA didn’t pass nearly as much legislation as they should have, which brought down their grade. Overall, we give the slate an A-. Last year, we gave the executive slate a B. Atlas had a large number of platform points to accomplish, and they managed to adapt when they were unable to completely meet their goal. They also had no change of positions this year nor large SGA public relations crises. “It’s been a crazy but amazing year,” Hesser said. “[I’m] so proud and honored to have accomplished everything we promised the students of BSU and more.”
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Crossword ACROSS 1 Jellied garnish 6 Northwestern pear 10 Farm youngster 14 Good, in Granada 15 Chorus syllables 16 Give __ to: approve 17 Trader for whom a northwest Oregon city was named 18 __ impasse 19 Texas flag symbol 20 Part of the Three Little Pigs’ chant 23 Baby beaver 24 Mouse-spotter’s shriek 25 Extremely wellpitched 26 Gray shade 27 Multilayered, as cakes 30 Clean Air Act administrative gp. 33 Heads, in slang 36 Persian Gulf cargo 37 The “Original Formula,” soda-wise 41 “__ go!” 42 French 101 verb 43 Pot contents 44 Bakes, as 50-Acrosses 46 “Star Wars” staples 48 Exit poll target 50 Breakfast food 51 “Pow!” 54 Provincetown rental 57 Roast, in Rouen 58 Antelope Island
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state 59 Lesson at the end 60 Arabian Peninsula port 61 Went by skateboard 62 Take in 63 Get one’s feet wet 64 Mesozoic and Paleozoic 65 Slangy craving DOWN 1 One way to be taken 2 Japanese finger food 3 __ four: teacake 4 Privy to 5 Eye part 6 Subject for Stephen Hawking 7 Promise 8 Killed, as a dragon 9 Is unable to 10 Supermarket employees 11 Like the Sherman Act 12 Deal with interest 13 New Deal pres. 21 Basic question type 22 Spanish girl 28 Falco of “Oz” 29 Prefix with pod 30 They record beats per min. 31 Friend of Tigger 32 Switched on 34 Compete in a box 35 Braking sounds 38 Medication used for dilating pupils
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NEWS PENNSYLVANIA BECAME 24TH STATE TO LEGALIZE MEDICAL MARIJUANA
WHERE IS IT LEGAL? North Dakota
Montana
Washington
Gov. Tom Wolf signed legislation Sunday. Patients must receive a certification from a physician registered with the Department of Health and have a valid ID issued by the department that includes their name, address and date of birth. A patient must be diagnosed with one of the 17 conditions outlined in the bill. Medical marijuana may only be dispensed as a pill, oil, tincture or liquid; in a topical form, such as a gel, cream or ointment; or in a form medically appropriate for vaporization or nebulization. Patients will not be able to legally obtain marijuana in a form they could smoke. The bill imposes a 5 percent tax on the gross receipts that a grower/ processor gets from the sale to another grower, processor or a dispensary. The sales are exempt from the state sales tax. — AP
Minnesota Oregon
Idaho
Maine
Wisconsin
South Dakota
VT Michigan
Wyoming
New York
Iowa
CT
Nebraska Nevada
Pennsylvania Illinois
Utah
Colorado
Indiana
Ohio
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma Arizona
Texas
South Carolina
Legal
Georgia
Alabama
Medical
Louisiana
Alaska*
Washington D.C.
North Carolina
New Mexico Mississippi
RI
DE
Virginia
Tennessee
Arkansas
Massachusetts
NJ
MD
WV Kentucky
California
NH
Illegal (laws vary on hemp and medical CBD)
Florida
Hawaii*
Decriminalized *
Not to scale
420 SOURCE: NORML.org
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n 2013, the Huffington Post reported on the story of the origin of “420,” tracing its origins back to the ’70s and a group of boys called the “Waldos.” The short story of its origin goes like this: a group of boys, the Waldos, heard of a Coast Guard service member who could no longer attend to his marijuana plants near the station, so the Waldos sought out the crop. Every day after school they would meet up at 4:20 after practice to look for the crop in a ’66 Chevy Impala. Alas, they never found the crop but had a good time smoking the entire time looking for it. From then on, they used 420 as a code for meeting up to smoke, and eventually the term was picked up by the Grateful Dead as well as High Times magazine and was popularized from there.
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INDIANA POSSESSION LAWS CLASS A MISDEMEANOR
Under 30 grams
INDIANA SALE LAWS
CLASS D FELONY Over 30 grams OR subsequent offense
CLASS A MISDEMEANOR
CLASS C FELONY
CLASS D FELONY
10 lbs or more on a school bus; sale of 30 grams to 10 lbs and the recipient is a minor; 10lbs or more on a school bus
Less than 30 grams
Sale of 30 grams to 10lbs while the recipient is a minor and the person selling has a prior conviction involving marijuana
SOURCE: statelaws.com
MISDEMEANOR/FELONY CHARGES Class A Misdemeanors Class B Misdemeanors Class C Misdemeanors Class D Felony Class C Felony
$5,000 in fines Up to 1 year in jail $1,000 in fines Up to 180 days in jail $500 in fines Up to 60 days in jail 6 months- 3 years prison 2-8 years prison SOURCE: Indiana Defense Lawyer
WHY IS IT ILLEGAL ON A FEDERAL LEVEL? Marijuana was made illegal on a federal level in 1937 by the Roosevelt administration and marijuana’s main opponent, Harry J. Anslinger, the director of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. According to drugwarrant. com, Anslinger was in charge of a new government agency and saw marijuana as the perfect opportunity to see growth in his department since opiates and cocaine were not as large of a problem. Because of this opportunity for growth, he
Should marijuana be legal? Refused to answer: 3%
No: 44%
Yes: 53%
SOURCE: Pew Research Center, March 2015 data. The March 2015 Political Survey, sponsored by Pew Research Center, obtained telephone interviews with a nationally representative sampleof 1,500 adults living in the United States.
set out to make pot illegal. Opposers of marijuana, like Anslinger, would use scare tactics to make the public believe that marijuana was a dangerous and powerful drug but had
HOW CAN IT BE CONSUMED?
Eating marijuana by baking it with butter or oil takes away the risk of negative respiratory effects. However, it can be difficult to judge dosages.
2. SMOKING
In 2014
3. BONG
88,000 Blunts, joints and pipes are used to smoke marijuana typically without filters used in cigarettes. Blunts are wrapped in tobacco leaves and joints are wrapped in cigarette paper.
Bongs and water pipes are used to filter and chill smoke before inhaling by using varying pressures to carry smoke. The glass tube allows for more smoke within a single hit.
* With no filtration, various toxins, such as carbon monoxide and tar, are inhaled.
* There is very little filtration, so many toxins are still inhaled.
4. VAPING
This form creates a vapor by heating marijuana below the point of combustion, which releases many toxins, such as carbon monoxide.
Alcohol* Prescription drugs
18,893
All illicit drugs
17,465
Heroin * Maximum filtration of marijuana, but ammonia can still be released when inhaled.
LEGEND: EFFECTS AND PROCESSES Marijuana is slowly passed through the blood stream for high sensation
Marijuana is quickly passed through the blood stream for high sensation
Cleaner form of inhalation, reduced respiratory problems
Respiratory problems, such as coughing and airway inflammation
25,760
Prescription opioids
Cocaine * THC takes 20 minutes or more to reach blood stream when eaten, so keep track of doses.
only one responded with an answer that Anslinger liked, and he used that doctor to convince Americans. These statements put America into a panic. The U.S. government sprung into action and made marijuana illegal and urged other countries to follow suit. Many countries refused to do so, including Mexico and that upset the U.S. Mexico only gave in once the U.S. stopped all sale of legal painkillers to the country and people were dying in hospitals in terrible pain.
DEATHS PER YEAR
Marijuana consumption is still illegal in Indiana. The Daily News does not encourage illegal activity.
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no medical evidence to support their theories. According to the Huffington Post, Anslinger convinced people that there were a few stages to marijuana usage: 1. User falls into a delirious rage 2. U ser becomes “gripped by dreams of an erotic character” 3. U ser loses “power of connected thought” 4. User becomes insane Anslinger reached out to 30 scientists to get backing on his ideas of marijuana’s effects but
10,574 5,415
Marijuana 0 SOURCE: Center for Diseases Control and Prevention * Alcohol death numbers are an estimate from the CDC, no hard data could be found
Stephanie Redding contributed to this graphic SOURCE: drugs.com, nhtsa.gov, harborsidehealthcenter.com, norml.org, adcaps.wsu.edu, themarijuanaeffect.com, adai.uw.edu, american.edu, sciencedaily.com, ebscohost.com, gsu.edu
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NEWS
SGA INAUGURATION
Hesser, Aby give advice to new slate members
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The new 2016-17 executive slate, Summit, will take its official place in the Student Government Association at 5 p.m. Wednesday. The inauguration will be held in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center Cardinal Hall and will focus on both Atlas’ term ending and Summit’s beginning. DN FILE PHOTO CURTIS SILVEY
Jim Davis, cartoonist of ‘Garfield,’ will be an adjunct professor for the art department starting the Fall 2016 semester. Davis is a 1967 alumnus of Ball State.
Creator of ‘Garfield’ to teach at Ball State
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Jim Davis, cartoonist of the popular comic strip “Garfield,” will be coming to teach at Ball State starting the Fall 2016 semester. Davis will be an adjunct professor in the art department for the “foreseeable future,” said Arne Flaten, director of the School of Art. “I get sort of giddy thinking about this because there are so many ways in which this relationship really could have an enormous impact on our students and on our program,” Flaten said. Davis won’t start off
LIBRARY:
| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 After a pipe broke on the fifth floor of Bracken Library, Suzanne Rice, assistant dean for public services at Bracken, called it the worst damage the library has ever seen. “We’re working our way through the stacks and inspecting every item to see what’s salvageable,” Rice said. “We’re keeping a close inventory on the items.” As of 6 p.m. Tuesday, the second floor and east side and lobby of the third floor reopened, according to a tweet by Ball State Libraries. There’s still no word on when the fourth floor will open because of the amount of cleanup that remains. The damage resulted in standing water up to a couple of inches in some places. Library staff is still working to assess the full extent of the damage. Rice said none of the rare collections in Archives and Special Collections were damaged, thankfully, but it’s too early to tell the extent of the damage, since crews are still working on going through the books.
teaching a specific class, Flaten said. It will be more of a series of workshops, lectures, hands-on demonstrations, focus groups and master classes — some of which will be open to the public, some only available to drawing or animation students. “It’s really exciting, and it’s something that allows us to play to [Davis’] strengths and his very, very busy schedule,” Flaten said. When Flaten started at the university in July, he had known ahead of time that Davis was an alumnus of Ball State and lived in Marion, Ind., a short commute from campus. Because he is a fan of Davis and had taught courses
Michael Szajewski, archivist for digital development and university records, is one of the library employees who has been working on going through the books. “If there’s some noticeable and significant wetness, that can lead to mold and mildew down the road, which of course can spread throughout [other books],” Szajewski said. “We want to mitigate that by making sure anything that’s potentially damaged or moldy or mildew-y is contained.” But Szajewski said only a small amount of the books he’s reviewed are damaged. “From what I’ve seen, with the amount of water we had, there’s not nearly as much damage as I had feared,” he said. Library staff moved more study tables to the first floor and lower level to increase study space for students. “We realize this isn’t ideal, but we’re trying our best to be accommodating,” Rice said. “It’s a labor-intensive process; it’s not quick. But we want to makes sure we do it right.” Rice said if students are looking for more quiet areas, they should try the Muncie Public Library or the L.A. Pittenger Student Center.
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A pipe broke on the fifth floor of Bracken Library Saturday. The first floor, lower level, second floor and east side and lobby of the of the third floor are currently open.
for a long time on the history of comic art, he drove out with the dean of the art department to go meet him. They hit it off and started emailing each other fairly regularly. And then it just made sense to bring him onto the staff as an adjunct faculty member. “If you’re having this conversation about illustration, and the university is having a larger conversation about entrepreneurship, and you’ve got this amazing resource 15 minutes away, it’s like, why hasn’t anybody already been talking to you about teaching here as an adjunct?” Flaten said. Along with bringing valu-
able experience and knowledge to students, Flaten said Davis also brings some star power to the faculty for the school of art. “Here’s this person who, regardless of his own personal financial success, he also just has traveled the world and influenced so many people with this character he created,” Flaten said. “It’s like having Elvis 10 minutes away. There’s this cult following to ‘Garfield’ stuff worldwide. He’s such an absolutely cool, down-to-earth, welcoming, gracious person. I can’t imagine anybody better to work with.” Jim Davis was not available to speak with the Daily News at the time of print.
Inauguration will be at 5 p.m. today in Student Center
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The members of the 201617 executive slate, Summit, will take their official places in the Student Government Association at 5 p.m. today. The inauguration will be in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center Cardinal Hall. This year’s inauguration will be slightly different than past years’. Current SGA president Jack Hesser said even though this year’s inauguration will still be heavy on the executive slates, there will also be a bigger focus on the senators than in past years. “We really want to make sure ... we are recognizing [the senators]. It’s not supposed to be all about Atlas or all about Summit, it’s supposed to be about student government,” he said. As Atlas’ term in SGA ad-
journs today and Summit’s beings, both Hesser and current vice president Richu Aby have some last-minute advice for Summit. Aby’s biggest advice is for them to be confident and humble-minded. “Be confident, your best foot forward is your confident foot,” she said. “In the job, be confident in everything you do because no one has your back except your slate members and yourself. But be humble in everything you do because you’re only here for a certain amount of time; you can’t really make change that great in one year.” Along those lines, Hesser’s greatest advice is also for Summit to keep a level head. “Be humble. This is student government,” he said. “At the end of the day, there’s a lot of opportunities to create change, but you’re still a student and you’re going to graduate, and when you graduate this is probably going to mean very little to those around you, so be humble and enjoy this experience for what it’s worth.”
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Joe Espinosa passes out fliers to students about reducing chicken consumption. Espinosa goes all across the Midwest to raise awareness about animal consumption.
ANIMAL ACTIVIST AIMS TO REDUCE PEOPLE’S CHICKEN CONSUMPTION |
ALLIE KIRKMAN MULTICULTURAL REPORTER aekirkman@bsu.edu
Students may have been stopped by a pony-tailed man wearing a Led Zeppelin T-shirt who was handing out booklets and saying “help stop violence” throughout the day Tuesday. Joe Espinosa, a volunteer from One Step for Animals, stood in between Bracken Library and Pruis Hall all day, handing out booklets to students in an effort to spread awareness and motivate people to reduce the consumption of chicken. One Step for Animals is a non-profit organization that focuses on direct public outreach and Internet advocacy, according to onestepforanimals. weebly.com.
Reducing consumption of meat can make a big difference for animals, and it’s something everyone can do, Espinosa said. In total, Espinosa said the average American eats about 23 chickens, one turkey, one third of a pig and one tenth of a cow each year. “If they were to avoid consuming the smaller animals — chickens and turkey — even if they replaced that same spawn on their plates with the same amount of pig and cow flesh, they would go from eating 24.4 farm animals to less than one a year,” Espinosa said. Espinosa volunteers for the organization every week and travels to different Midwestern colleges to preach his message.
Each reaction from students is different, but Ball State has always been the best college, he said. While it is a difficult topic to discuss, Espinosa said the goal behind distributing the harm reduction booklet is to raise awareness. “We are hoping people will learn about how modern farming treats animals and will hopefully take that knowledge to reduce consumption,” Espinosa said. “We just want people to think about the change they could make.” Ethan Winchester, a student at the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics and Humanities said while many people are aware of animal consumption, not many people will do anything about it. “I am taking this [book-
let] and situation seriously, but I am not going to do anything about it,” Winchester said. “I feel like the people who actually accept them from him will actually look through it and care. As for the ones who didn’t accept one, there is a reason they didn’t take it in the first place.” Shelby Vedder, a freshman nursing major, agreed and said although most people might not care to read the booklet, animal cruelty is a serious issue. “Animal cruelty is awful, and I wish it wasn’t a thing,” Vedder said “I’m not a vegetarian or anything, and I like my meat, but I don’t think it is right how we go about treating these animals and the way they suffer. There are more humane options.”
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SPORTS
SOFTBALL
STEINBACH LEADS CARDINALS WITH ARM, ATTITUDE
Senior 3rd in MAC with 157.1 innings pitched this season
Senior right-handed pitcher Nicole Steinbach has pitched 157.1 innings this season, more than the rest of the Cardinals pitching staff combined (111.2 innings pitched). She has earned four Mid-American Conference West Division Pitcher of the Week awards so far this year and leads the Cardinals with a 3.56 ERA. Head coach Megan Ciolli Bartlett said Steinbach is a fierce competitor. “You can see it in her eyes,” Ciolli Bartlett said. “She wants to dominate every hitter that she faces.” Steinbach is 14-14 on the season, but the rest of the pitching staff is 4-12. Through 44 games, the Cardinals’ offense has scored 172 runs after averaging 339 runs in Steinbach’s first three seasons. It can be frustrating, Steinbach said, to receive the loss after allowing one run on two hits in a complete game performance — like she did March 4 against Stony Brook — or losing two complete games with three total runs allowed — like she did this past weekend against Eastern Michigan. Still, she said, it’s just part of being a collegiate pitcher. “You just have to keep your head help high and trust that those hits are going to come,” she said. Holding her head high is
just one way she tries to lead the Cardinals. Steinbach said she tries to lead her teammates by exuding “swagger and confidence.” “Being a pitcher, I control a lot of the rhythm of the game,” she said. “And I have to make sure they’re engaged in every single play.” Freshman catcher Madison Lee said she looks up to Steinbach. “She isn’t afraid to let me know how to become a better catcher,” Lee said. Steinbach’s leadership and skill on the mound have been a necessity for the Cardinals this year, said Ciolli Bartlett. “We could have the best defense in the country or the best hitters, but if we’re not talented on the mound none of that’s going to matter,” she said. “The pitching staff is the anchor of the team.” Steinbach is the only Ball State pitcher with an ERA better than the team’s 5.75 mark, and the last win by another pitcher was sophomore Carolyn Wilmes’ win against Ohio on April 2 — which Steinbach was called upon to save. The last time the team won a game without Steinbach throwing a pitch was Wilmes’ win against Stony Brook on March 5. Steinbach said her goal is to end her career on a positive note and make another trip to the NCAA tournament. “I want to go out on top and leave better than I came in,” she said. “I have higher standards for myself each year, and I just want to leave my mark here at Ball State.” Ball State continues its MAC season Friday and Saturday at home against Central Michigan after a brief stop in Bloomington to play Indiana today.
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Former Indianapolis Colts player Ryan Diem visited Ball State football practice Tuesday. Diem started alongside Ball State football’s offensive line coach, Kyle DeVan, when the Colts played the New Orleans Saints in Super Bowl XLIV.
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| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 DeVan put his offensive line through different drills as practice began. He gave them tips as well as props, saying “good” and “atta boy” as the players worked against the tackling dummies and each other. But when Diem showed up, DeVan broke away from the practice to give his friend a hug. “Off the field, our friendship kind of grew over time,” said Diem, who currently lives in Indianapolis with his family. “As we got to know [each other] better, we got to hanging out a little bit, and we’ve stayed in touch over the past five or six years. It’s been cool
to watch his career progress through the coaching ranks, and it’s great to see him out here at Ball State.” Diem raved about his former teammate’s knowledge of the game. He said DeVan has a knack for reading coverages and as long as the guys can keep up with him, the offensive line will have a good year. After all, Diem and DeVan were part of a pretty good offensive line in Indianapolis in 2009. The Colts finished 14-2 that season, and Peyton Manning was only sacked 10 times while throwing for 4,500 yards and 33 touchdowns. Led by Joseph Addai, the team also racked up 1,294 rushing yards. Indianapolis was ranked ninth in total yards at season’s end.
“As a veteran on the Colts’ offensive line, we always tried to bring the young guys along quickly,” Diem said. “Because we knew they were going to have to contribute early, and [DeVan] did. ... He was a really good player and really intelligent player.” The visit to Scheumann Stadium wasn’t Diem’s first. He played on the line for Northern Illinois at the college ranks. He also made a visit to Muncie when the Colts played a scrimmage at Ball State. He said it was “fun to be back,” albeit in enemy territory. After practice, Diem talked to the offensive linemen about accountability — the key to the Colts’ line during his playing days.
“What he emphasized is you’ve got to know what you’re doing, and you have to understand what the guy to your right, to your left, in front of you and behind you are doing,” redshirt junior lineman Pat Maloney said. “It was a really cool experience.” It’s been more than seven years since Diem and DeVan lined up next to each other in the Super Bowl for the Colts. But Tuesday, the former teammates and friends got a chance to share the same football field once again. “You can see the excitement and hear it in his voice,” Diem said. “It’s always fun to be around football. It’s a part of me, and that will never go away.”
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Deanna Pucciarelli is an expert in a subject many probably feel familiar with: chocolate. Pucciarelli is an associate professor and program director in the hospitality and food management department. Her path to her unique field of study can be traced back through her foodfilled career history. Recently, Pucciarelli applied her chocolate knowledge to the Ball State classroom when she took two groups of college students on field studies to Ecuador in 2013 and 2014 to examine all parts of the chocolate production process. Activities included growing cocoa, making chocolate and meeting with cocoa growers. Olivia Block went on the 2014 field study, and beyond just learning about chocolate, Block also gained an appreciation for another culture. “I mainly learned about chocolate ‘from bean to bar.’ Many people are not aware of how chocolate is made, or even that it is grown on a tree,” she said. “Ecuador is a beautiful place, and we were able to experience so many different things in just the 10 days we were there. I will always remember this
trip and keep it with me.” Originally from New York, Pucciarelli graduated from the Culinary Institute of America and worked as a professional chef. After transitioning into institutional feeding while living in California, she became interested in nutrition and decided to go back to school. It was while Pucciarelli was in graduate school at the University of California at Davis that the opportunity first arose to study chocolate. Lewis Grivetti, a professor she was a teaching assistant for, had received a grant from the Mars corporation and approached Pucciarelli about becoming involved in the project. After some thought, Pucciarelli agreed to be the program director if she could also tie in the project with her thesis work. While the whole project centered around the history of chocolate, Pucciarelli’s thesis focused in on a unique aspect of chocolate’s history. “My thesis, or dissertation, was on looking at how chocolate is used as a medicine. It has a long history, hundreds of years, of chocolate being used medicinally,” Pucciarelli said. She and the team of researchers traveled to many countries across the globe to chart chocolate’s colorful history. Much of Pucciarelli’s work was done in Mexico, where a lot of historical documentation about the prescription of chocolate as a medicine exists. Despite the enticing thought of medicinal chocolate, Pucciarelli explained that the chocolate consumed in the
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past differs greatly from the market product of today. “At that time, it was only a beverage, not a solid,” she said. “Back then, [cocoa] is much more coarsely ground, it’s not as fine, and they’re adding water to it with no sugar, so the bad stuff we add to it today is not present.” The technology to turn chocolate into a bar didn’t come about until the late 1700s or early 1800s, explaining the use of cocoa only in beverages. She also said the cocoa mixture doctors were prescribing was extremely bitter. Today, even the darkest of dark chocolates usually contain about 30 percent sugar, while the cocoa mixture contained no added sugar. As for what conditions chocolate was prescribed for, they varied depending on the doctor and the area. While researching at Huntington Library in Pasadena, Pucciarelli stumbled across a newly donated set of historic cookbooks, most of them dated from the 1700s and 1800s. While the recipes were interesting, it was the advertisements printed on the inside covers that caught Pucciarelli’s attention. “I opened up the back cover, and there it says, ‘For Sale, Schuler’s Cocoa, Good for Ailing, Smallpox,’ and other diseases,” she said. Pucciarelli said chocolate was often given to those who had “wasting diseases,” or diseases that made the body very weak, such as the flu, smallpox and yellow fever. Though it did not cure the diseases, doctors noticed it often
treated the symptoms. “Chocolate is 50 percent cocoa butter, which means it’s very caloric, so you start feeding chocolate to wasted patients and they begin to gain weight. Not only that, but there is a nutrient in chocolate that makes you alert,” Pucciarelli said. “It’s not curing the actual viruses, but the wasting outcomes. So doctors, before they understand germ theory, they are feeding patients chocolate and saying, ‘Wow, they’re getting better, of course it must be medicinal.’” In parts of Mexico and Panama, cocoa it is still consumed as a beverage, and it can have positive implications on heart health, Pucciarelli said. “Nowadays, some cultures still drink it. It is part of their lifestyle to consume quite a bit of cocoa on a daily basis, and if you look at populations in Panama that have maintained this tradition, their heart disease rates are lower,” she said. “Now, again, they are not consuming it with sugar and other factors play a role, but nevertheless, people that consume high amounts of cocoa as a beverage, the bitter kind, seem to be healthier.” The research Pucciarelli did with the chocolate project has brought her to many different countries. She has presented her findings in Germany, Africa and the Smithsonian museum in Washington, D.C., among other places. Pucciarelli hopes her chocolate knowledge benefits the students in her classes, and continues to hold a personal interest in the subject of chocolate.
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| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 At Ball State, Ray took a multitude of classes in the School of Music, such as computer music, music perception and recording technique classes. “I was kind of surprised to see that he took the computer music classes. A lot of the audio production students don’t get that deep into electronic music. That shows that he’s got some different kind of skills to make new kinds of sounds,” Willey said. Ray is looking forward to talking to students about the different aspects of the music industry, such as recording and publishing, Willey said. Amanda Case, a freshman at Ball State, has
listened to Walk the Moon even before their hit single “Shut Up and Dance” came on the radio. She is very excited that he is coming and hopes to get an autograph. “I expect for him to talk about his college experience and how that impacted him in his career,” Case said. Jasmine Ramos, a freshman majoring in elementary education, thinks it would be interesting to get to know how Walk the Moon started up and how Ball State helped him. “I think it’ll be nice for students to get the chance to talk to him and ask him questions, especially since they made it big. I think it’s cool whenever someone who graduated from here and has been successful is able to come back and give advice to students,” Ramos said. The event is free, but those attending are advised to get there early because seating will be limited.
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