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Calm, and collected Adult coloring books see spike in sales, offer stress relief for students REBECCA KIZER NEWS EDITOR

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earch “adult coloring books” on Amazon and you’ll see 101 pages of results — with several books of the first several pages boasting a “best seller” badge. According to Forbes, coloring books targeted toward adults have existed since the 1960s, but in the last two years, sales have skyrocketed. Thousands of these books exist. There are floral patterns, abstract art designs, animals and even truly adult-themed ones with not-so-appropriate words meant to help release some anger. See COLORING, page 4

SHELTER EXPANDS Muncie’s ARF to provide low-cost veterinary services

CAROLINE GIRLS Alumna publishes 1st children’s book, “Caroline Girls.”

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FITNESS TRACKERS Fitbit facing lawsuit due to inaccuracies SEE PAGE 4

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OPEN BLUES JAM From 8-11:30 p.m., head to Valhalla Hall on Walnut Street for Open Blues Jam. Sign-up starts at 7 p.m. and the stage opens at 8 p.m. The event is free for adults 21 and older. AFTER HOURS ART REELS: FELLINI’S From 8-10 p.m., for Muncie’s First Thursday, Federico Fellini’s “8 1/2” will be projected onto the Mutual Bank wall on Charles St. at dusk. Seating will be available on the Fickle Peach patio area located at 117 E. Charles St. for guests who are 21 and up. Viewers who are not yet 21 can watch the film from the sidewalk surrounding the patio area.

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FARMERS MARKET AT MINNETRISTA From 8 a.m.-noon each Saturday during the summer, various vendors sell goods at Minnetrista. There are plants, flowers, fruits, vegetables and other goods for sale. There will also be canning experts to give advice and free samples.

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‘ONE WORLD, ONE SKY: BIG BIRD’S ADVENTURE’ At the Charles W. Brown Planetarium at 4:30 p.m., bring your kids along to this show. “One World, One Sky” is a brilliant spectacle of light and color that follows Big Bird and Elmo as they explore the night sky with Hu Hu Zhu, a new friend from China.

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NEWS

ARF opens services to low-income families

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Muncie’s Animal Rescue Fund (ARF) is expanding its services to offer low-cost veterinary services for low-income pet owners. The spin-off clinic will be called ARF’s PAW and is expected to open in late August.

Program to offer spaying/neutering, vaccination clinics

ALLIE KIRKMAN DAILY NEWS REPORTER aekirkman@bsu.edu

After 18 years of being “a no-kill shelter,” Muncie’s Animal Rescue Fund (ARF) will be expanding in an effort to help more animals and their owners receive services and the care they need to live healthy lives. ARF is expanding to offer low-cost veterinary services through a new spin-off clinic called ARF’s PAW (promoting animal wellness), which is expected to open in late August. ARF executive director Vickie Bevans said the new clinic will be an expansion

on the overall mission of ARF — to provide shelter, medical care and love to abused, abandoned, neglected and unwanted animals until permanent homes can be found. ARF seeks to relieve animal suffering; to prevent cruelty, abuse, neglect and overpopulation; and to eliminate euthanasia as a way of animal control, thereby creating a “no-kill” community in which both animals and humans benefit from the goodness of each other. PAW will include a vaccination clinic, located in ARF’s current administration building, and a spay/neuter clinic at 3115 W. Bethel Ave. There will be a licensed veterinarian at both clinics two days per week and at ARF another day. “There is such a need of people within our community who can’t afford to take

their pets to a vet and have their animal spayed or neutered,” Bevans said. “We are a no-kill animal rescue, and we sterilize, not utilize.” The new clinics will only serve low-income pet owners. To qualify, families have to meet federal poverty guidelines. Qualifying programs include food stamps, Medicaid, public schools’ free or reduced-price lunch and Social Security disability. College students could qualify to use these services, as the poverty guidelines for one person in family/household is $11,770, while a family of four is $24,250, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Resources. “As a college student, we have to have verification that they are low-income. They can come in and show the

office that by a pay-stub to prove that they fit in that category,” Bevans said. In addition to the new clinics, ARF also currently provides a special program to low-income families called Nibble Nook ARF, where pet owners can receive free dog and cat food. Owners can get food once every other week as long as their animal has been spayed or neutered. If the animal is not fixed, the pet owner will only receive free food a maximum of two times. Sarah Schaetzel, a freshman theater education major, said she thinks services like this can make a huge difference to those with low incomes. “I have two dogs. I used to have one that we had to put down because he had diabetes and we couldn’t afford treatment,” Schaetzel said.

“[The clinic] would mean the world because if my babies get sick, I want to be able to have the money to treat them and not worry about them not getting proper treatment because I can’t pay.” Chris Robinson, a senior telecommunications major, has a 1-year-old cat and said services like this prevent owners from giving up their pets. “It would be really nice to have these services offered at a lower price than most pet clinics, as it could mean the difference between keeping her or not,” Robinson said. “As far as to the Muncie community, I’m sure it would be an even greater blessing, as it would provide families a better alternative to putting their family pets up for adoptions.” Bevans said she believes

Fitbit facing lawsuit for inaccuracies COLORING:

Wearable fitness trackers aren’t always accurate

REBECCA KIZER NEWS EDITOR news@bsudailynews.com

Wearable fitness trackers, such as the popular Fitbit, aren’t always accurate, as a Ball State study found. But since earlier this year, the Fitbit company has been facing a lawsuit due to these inaccuracies. Ball State’s study, released from Ball State’s Clinical Exercise Physiology Program, found activity trackers tend to underestimate steps — from 20 to 90 percent — for lifestyle activities such as cleaning, sweeping or picking things up around the house. An underestimation of a workout seems better than the alternative, but that’s not what the Fitbit company is facing a lawsuit for. Along with the inaccuracy in the counting of steps, another study done by researchers at Cal Poly Pomona says Fitbit’s heart rate calculations are inaccurate as well. The study said the heart rate technology currently available for the trackers does not provide a valid measurement of a user’s heart rate and, especially during high intensity exercise, cannot be used to provide a meaningful estimate of their heart rate. The lawsuit, filed the

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Bylieff Cabraser, Heimann and Bernstein law-firm, calls the Fitbit devices defective. It was filed on behalf of people who bought these Fitbits specifically for the heart rate detecting technology and were disappointed to find it didn’t seem accurate. According to the firm’s press release, Fitbit customer and plaintiff Kate McLellan tried other courses of action before reaching out to create a lawsuit. “Fitbit’s ads made it clear that that is precisely what the Heart Rate Monitors are supposed to do. But in my experience, they do not, and when I complained to Fitbit, they refused to refund my money,” McLellan said. “I brought this case because the Fitbit Charge HR that I bought does not accurately and consistently track my heart rate during intense exercise, and because Fitbit refused to stand behind its promise.” The class-action lawsuit argues specifically the “PurePulse technology,” used to measure heart rate, is not accurate, like the study says, but it also doesn’t do it as well as the company’s marketing material promises, a claim the Fitbit company denies. The technology is used in the more expensive models of the device — the Surge, Blaze and Charge HR. The firm is using the latest research as a basis

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The Ball State Clinical Exercise Physiology Program found activity trackers, like a Fitbit shown above, are not as accurate as we think, according to a newly released study. The Fitbit Company has been facing a lawsuit since earlier this year due to the inaccuracies

for the lawsuit, and even created an amended complaint on May 19 with the study as evidence. Cap Poly Pomona researchers Edward Jo and Brett A. Dolezal tested 43 healthy subjects with the Fitbit Surge and Charge HR in “structured laboratory-based and less structured free-living exercise tasks.” The subjects, both male and female, were hooked up to a previously validated and calibrated heart rate measurement system and were also using the Fitbit Charge HR and the Fitbit Surge. The subjects were assigned to perform exercise tasks that were reflective of activities presented in Fitbit advertisements, such as a self-paced jog, jump roping and jogging on a treadmill for five minutes

each while heart rate data from the three devices. The study said during moderate to high intensity exercise, the Charge HR recorded a heart rate that differed from the validated machine by an average of 15.5 bpm, and the Surge recorded a heart rate that differed from the validated machine by an average of 22.8 bpm. Ball State’s Alex Montoye, a clinical exercise physiology professor who led the first study, previously said whether consumers are using a high-end tracker like those being addressed in the lawsuit or more basic ones that his research analyzed, the technology is the same and will produce inaccurate results. However, he said they still get people moving and can be a helpful motivational tool.

There’s a Monthly Coloring Club, a service that sends themed coloring books to subscribers’ homes for a monthly fee. The company views coloring as more than a pastime, and even said they were into coloring before it was cool. “We exist to make your life easier,” the company website says. “We have been coloring for years before coloring was popular and we know that although there are great books out there, some are put together [without] any thought into what makes coloring great.” The website even offers “free coloring classes” for those who might need a little help. But what made this trend so popular? It’s fun. While coloring tends to be a children’s hobby, that’s just why it’s attractive to many adults. Incoming freshman psychology major Genna George said she thinks college students might be coloring to hold on to their childhood. “There’s not that many opportunities left to do that,” George said. “So act like a kid with these books it’s acceptable.” It’s relaxing. Some people say they like to color because it clears their minds. BeBrainFit.com says arts and crafts hobbies like coloring have the power to focus the brain similarly to meditation. Ball State senior and telecommunications major Michael Taylor said he’s taken to replacing watching TV and

FIND OUT MORE Adoption hours are Tuesday through Friday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. No adoptions Sunday and Monday. Visit www.munciearf.com the shelter will be a success when every animal has been spayed or neutered. “There are so many animals that go to rescue, it is heartbreaking,” Bevans said. “Instead of buying or breeding an animal, ... if people would call their local shelter or rescue and adopt, you are really saving two lives instead of one. If you come out and adopt from us, that saves that animal, but you are also allowing a spot for another one to come in.”

browsing the Internet before bed with coloring in order to relax and improve his sleep quality. “I’d end up staying too late and not sleeping well,” Taylor said. “Coloring before bed allows me to relax and just think about my day. I’ve been sleeping a lot better and falling asleep faster. It really just helps me to stay calm and get away from the Internet for a while.” It can be a family affair. George said as well as reliving her childhood, she colors with both her mom and grandma, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. “It’s mostly just on the holiday’s,” George said. “But my grandma was a very artistic person ... and personally I suck at drawing, But [coloring] makes me feel like I’m very artistic like her.” She said sometimes she colors by herself, but she loves to color with family and can spend hours on it. It allows you to get creative. Ball State senior and speech pathology major Morgan Fine said she doesn’t normally indulge in creativity. When she’s coloring, that changes. “They are simple, yet can also be very intricate and there are just so many to choose from nowadays,” Fine said. “You can easily find a coloring book that contains something of interest with the myriad of options available today in so many different stores.” When she’s creating, Fine said she feels more focused and in a better mood as well. “Coloring helps me focus in on one task and let my mind just relax and unwind while I just simply pick out colors and create,” Fine said.

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SPORTS

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Junior Alex Call was named Mid-American Conference Player of the year. Of the last 17 Mac Players of the Year, 16 were drafted in the MLB.

ALEX CALL NAMED PLAYER OF YEAR Junior right fielder finishes season with 24 doubles

COLIN GRYLLS SPORTS EDITOR sports@bsudailynews.com

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The Ball State baseball team ended its season at the top of the Mid-American Conference West Division. However,the team was knocked out of the double-elimination MAC Tournament after losses to Western Michigan and Central Michigan.

Ball State knocked out of MAC Tournament

Cardinals fall to Western Michigan, Central Michigan

COLIN GRYLLS SPORTS EDITOR sports@bsudailynews.com

Ball State baseball (3226, 15-9 MAC) finished on top of the Mid-American Conference West Division for the second time in three seasons, but was bounced from the MAC Tournament after dropping its first two games. The Cardinals were sent to the loser’s bracket after a 5-1 loss to eventual tournament champion Western Michigan (22-31, 11-13 MAC) Wednesday. They were knocked out the next day with a 4-0 loss against Central Mich-

igan (23-37, 12-12 MAC). With neither Ball State nor East Division champion Kent State (44-14, 20-4 MAC) winning the double-elimination tournament, no division winner has won the conference tournament since 2012. Ball State led the MAC with 378 runs scored, and its .288 batting average was second in the conference, but were limited to one run and six hits against Western Michigan. Western Michigan left-handed pitcher Keegan Akin limited the Cardinals to one unearned run on four hits. In 7.2 innings, he struck out seven Cardinals and allowed only one walk. Akin (7-3, 1.46 ERA) has the second-best ERA in the MAC

and was named tournament MVP after throwing six scoreless innings in the championship game against Kent State. Junior right-handed pitcher BJ Butler (6-1, 1.84 ERA), normally the Cardinals’ closer, started against Western Michigan. He held the Broncos to three runs (two earned) in eight innings, racking up eight strikeouts to two walks in his second start of the season. Western Michigan scored all five of its runs in the seventh, eighth and ninth innings. Broncos third baseman Grant Miller was 3-4 in the game with a run and two RBIs. Losing the first game meant playing an elimination game against Central Michigan at 9:30 a.m.

Thursday, but the bats never woke up. Cardinal batters only managed four hits as junior Chippewa left-handed pitcher Nick Deeg struck out eight in a complete-game shutout. Deeg didn’t allow a hit until the fifth inning. Senior left-handed pitcher Matt Haro started for the Cardinals and gave up three runs in 6.1 innings on the mound with four strikeouts and four walks. Senior second baseman Ryan Spaulding hit .232 on the season, but led Ball State with three hits in the two tournament games. With the season over, the Major League Baseball draft looms for the Cardinals’ upperclassmen June 9-11.

Junior right fielder Alex Call was named Mid-American Conference Player of the Year after finishing at or near the top of the conference in most offensive categories. Call, who walks up to the saxophone solo from the beginning of George Michael’s “Careless Whisper,” led the MAC with 24 doubles, six triples, a .667 slugging percentage and 67 runs. He also finished tied for fifth in the NCAA in runs and tied for sixth in doubles. With a batting average of .358 and a .443 on-base percentage, Call finished the season in the top five in both categories. He also hit 13 home runs, tied for the

third most in the MAC, and was fourth in the conference with 17 steals. Call also earned First Team All-MAC honors, as did teammates Caleb Stayton, Jarett Rindfleisch and BJ Butler. Earlier this month, Call was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District team after graduating with a degree in entrepreneurial management in three years. Call also made the MAC All-Defensive team. He only made two errors in 132 chances this season, good for a .985 fielding percentage. Though Call has a year of eligibility remaining should he choose to return, it’s a safe bet that he’ll be paying attention to the Major League Baseball draft June 9-11. Sixteen of the last 17 MAC Players of the Year were drafted — the 17th, Ohio junior Mitch Longo, was ineligible for the draft when he won the award last year as a sophomore — with five going in the first round.

ATHLETES EARN ACADEMIC HONORS Student-athletes have to find the balance between the field and the classroom, and this spring 273 of Ball State’s 411 student-athletes had a semester GPA of 3.0 or better, according to a ballstatesports.com press release. One hundred fifty-two student-athletes also qualified for the Dean’s List with a 3.5 or better GPA, and 37 posted a perfect 4.0. Several individuals also earned recognition for their academic performances during the spring sports season. Sophomore golfers Johnny Watts and Michael VanDeventer were both named to the Academic All-Mid-American Conference team earlier this month, as were junior men’s tennis players Andrew Stutz and Lucas Andersen and junior women’s tennis player Toni Ormond. In March, 10 gymnasts and 10 track and field athletes earned Academic All-MAC honors. Two baseball players, juniors Alex Call and Caleb Stayton, were also named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District team. The MAC has yet to release its all-academic teams for softball and baseball. Women’s swim and dive posted the best GPA among Ball State sports teams with a cumulative 3.59. Men’s tennis had the second-highest mark with a 3.54. Across all sports, the Cardinals posted a cumulative GPA of 3.17. – STAFF REPORTS

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FEATURES

Tara Terra to perform at Be Here Now FIVE Band to release new album while on tour this month

STEPHANIE AMADOR DAILY NEWS REPORTER skamador@bsu.edu

Tara Terra, a group of college students and graduates who come from the University of Illinois in Champaign – Urbana, will be performing Saturday at Be Here Now along with Hotbed and Victoria Armstrong. The group consists of Nick Soria, bass; Colin Althaus, guitarist; Joey Buttlar, drums; and Emily Blue, singer. They started off as a backing band for Blue, and it was their intent to therapeutically help her express herself. But they later decided to come together as one group and share the ability to express themselves. “A big part of our evolution as Tara Terra has been

chimed to find ways to express ourselves. Each of us has a voice, not just [Blue],” Althaus said. Though Blue writes a lot of the songs, the whole band finds meaning within the lyrics. “The more we play certain songs, even if [Blue] wrote it about a specific experience, I find my own personal meaning in those songs,” Soria said. The four will be performing a free show Friday at the Hi Fi in Indianapolis before arriving to Muncie, which will be their first time visiting. After that, they will be performing in Illinois, New York and Tennessee. They’re anxious to be playing in Manhattan since their album will be coming out around the time they perform there. They’ve been working on the album with Rick Fritz, a senior audio engineer who has worked with the Beach Boys and The Soil

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and the Sun. “Working with someone who has been at it for a long time will definitely bring a different quality to the sound,” Althaus said. While on tour, they come in with little expectation on what the show and experience will be like. Their

Ball State alumna publishes 1st book

Daughter inspires tale on having ‘a heart of gold’

ALEXANDRA SMITH DAILY NEWS REPORTER ajsmith9@bsu.edu

Writing a book was never on Heather Chastain’s list of goals. But that doesn’t mean she never did it —the Ball State alumna just published her first children’s book, “Caroline Girls.” Chastain took a long road to becoming an author, but not to being a storyteller. At Ball State, she was a telecommunications student and completed an immersive learning project working in a newsroom. “My senior year, I decided I wanted to be a news producer,” Chastain said. “I was so excited to travel. I love journalism — interviewing, talking to people. Telling people what’s going on in their world is super important to me.” She worked as a news producer after college, first in South Bend and later in Indianapolis. However, the latenight schedule was hard on her, and when her contract ended, she and her husband decided she wouldn’t go back. “I still had a desire to tell stories,” Chastain said. “I started writing short novels. I even went to some conferences and worked with some publishers, but I never thought it was the right project or the right time.” That all changed when Chastain began watching her daughter, Caroline, grow up. When Caroline was 2 and a half years old, Chastain be-

gan writing stories based on her daughter’s personality and antics. “I didn’t do anything with the stories until about a year and a half ago,” Chastain said. “But then one day my husband said, ‘This is what you should do,’ and I thought, ‘Yeah, this is what I should do.’” The title was also inspired by her daughter. One day, while wearing a dress with girls on the skirt, Caroline said, “Look Mommy, they’re Caroline Girls.” Chastain is self-publishing, which she describes as interesting. First, she had to find an illustrator. She “looked high and low” for someone to work with. Eventually, after spreading the word on social media, she found an agent who connected her with several illustrators who could help. “I immediately honed in on Marilena Perilli,” Chastain said. “It’s been a dream working with her. She’s so open, so easy.” Perilli created Chastain’s colorful, whimsical and pink world from a storyboard she created. She also made sure the little girl in the book, Caroline, resembled the real Caroline at 2 years old, which was very important to Chastain. The next challenge Chastain faced was finding a printer. Because she wrote a picture book, she was unable to use a program such as CreateSpace, which prints books as they are ordered. “Most printers say you have to print at least 1,000 copies,” Chastain said. “That made me really nervous. Could I sell all those?” She finally found a company willing to only print 500,

main goal is not to be “big” or famous. They believe that if their music reaches the audience in any way that relates to them, then that’s a sign of success. “As long as [our] music has positive impact to the world, that’s the goal,” Blue said, “Once you reach [fame],

there’s no room for growth.” The band members, who are just coming out of college or still balancing their workload with school and music, are passionate about making a difference in the world through music and wonder where the road will take them.

Local sailors look to feel at home while landlocked

Scherschel is the current MSC commodore, or president. She works on a board with 14 other members. “When I first joined I thought, ‘Commodore, that sounds really impressive. You must really know what you’re doing [in sailing],’” Scherschel said. “But I learned it’s really just helping guide the organization, using more administrative skills.” The board is made of all volunteers. Every two years, there is a rotation of five members, including the commodore. They are responsible for getting the docks in and out, as well as organizing and informing members about sailing and social events. Events for the summer include the Memorial Day Breakfast, the Midnight Sail, a sailing clinic and July Hamburger/Hot Dog Grill. There are also competitive racing events, which are normally scheduled for every weekend of the sailing season. Scherschel enjoys the Midnight Sail, when members go out at night. Normally, this takes place when there is a full moon. “When the weather is right, sailing under a full moon is just glorious,” she said. Mitchell is planning to move to Los Angeles in August, and said she will miss the MSC. She hopes to get involved with a sailing club after she moves. “I’ll always take any opportunities I can do to be on a sailboat,” Mitchell said. “I hope to come back [to the MSC] when I return to Indiana to visit friends and family.”

Sailing group enters 55th year |

ALEXANDRA SMITH DAILY NEWS REPORTER ajsmith9@bsu.edu

PHOTO PROVIDED HEATHER CHASTAIN

Ball State University alumna Heather Chastain just published her first children’s book, “Caroline Girls.” Chastain got the inspiration for the stories and the name of her book from watching her own daughter, Caroline.

but the price didn’t make sense, so she ended up printing 1,000 copies anyway with Signature Book Printing. “Caroline Girls” is now on sale on Amazon.com and some stores in Fort Wayne. Chastain also recently submitted the book to Barnes and Noble. Chastain attributes some of her success to her time at Ball State. “Once you hit your senior year, professors start giving you more than just technical advice,” she said. “Those building blocks have stuck with me my whole life.” Originally, Chastain wrote four to five stories. While she would like to publish the others in the future, she is waiting to see how her first one goes. She hopes she can influence children in a positive way, even if she only ever publishes this one book. “I really wanted to target children and teach them to be loving and kind and inclusive,” Chastain said. “Caroline Girls have a heart of gold. Society has become mean in a way that’s just not OK, and I wanted to teach [children] to be kind and still have a heart of gold.”

A little bird told me this is the place to be.

Betsy Scherschel didn’t know she would ever join a sailing club when she took her first lesson at Colgate’s Offshore Sailing School during her 20s. After dropping the activity for many years following, Scherschel became part of the Muncie Sailing Club when she moved to the city to join her now-husband. “I was very excited about getting back into [sailing],” Scherschel said. “It kind of just came together.” The Muncie Sailing Club has been around since 1961, located at Prairie Creek Lake. According to the club’s website, it was originally founded to promote sailing on the lake. The MSC provided facilities for launching and mooring sail boats, programs for members and instructional programs for groups. Jenny Mitchell graduated from Ball State this spring. Originally from Connecticut, Mitchell grew up sailing with her family. She joined the MSC around 2012, when her family noticed the club’s sign. “I love that being at MSC makes me feel like I’m somewhere far away,” Mitchell said. “Indiana is a nice state, but being someone originally from Connecticut, I really miss the ocean. When I’m at MSC, I feel like I’m in a beautiful seaside town.”

If you don’t mind a little drive, catch a drive-in movie at the 13-24 drive-in in Wabash. Tickets are $5 and concessions are available. Every Thursday throughout June and July, the drive-in will play a classic movie such as “Grease” and “Jaws” as part of its Retro Reels promotion. Gates open at 8 p.m., and the cost is $5 per car. 13-24 opens in June, and its first movie will be the “Angry Birds” movie. If you aren’t looking to take a drive, Muncie has Moonlight Movies for free at Canan Commons once a month, beginning at dusk. This summer’s Moonlight Movies will be “Cinderella,” “The Avengers” and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”

PICNIC

Summer weather is perfect for having a picnic with that special someone. Grab food to-go from a restaurant or make your own, and set up on the Quad or venture out somewhere new.

PLANETARIUM

Learn about the stars and space with your date at the Charles W. Brown Planetarium on campus, which is open to the public, during designated showtimes. The dome-like screen uses real photos of space from spacecrafts and telescopes as well as computer graphics to make the experience as realistic as possible. The planetarium is connected to Cooper Science Building.

ZOO

Going to the zoo is a fun and relaxing way to spend time with your significant other. The Indianapolis Zoo has events running throughout the summer such as Zoolapalooza Concert Series and Lion Awareness day. Tickets are cheaper if bought online in advance, and the website also projects what days will be busier than others, so you can plan accordingly.

CRAFTS

Have a certain Pinterest project you’ve been dying to try? Make a date out of it. You can each put your own spin on the craft and either keep them for yourselves or exchange them as gifts.

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