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Delaware County Sheriff’s brother killed Student forgivenessloanannounced Aug. 25: Delaware County Sheriff Tony Skinner’s brother, Richard Skinner, was shot and killed by a Muncie police officer Aug. 25 during a standoff where Richard pointed a gun at officers, according to the Indiana State Police. Muncie police were called to the scene on the 1500 block of East Andover Avenue after a report of a domestic disturbance. Aug. 26: On Aug. 26, the White House said debt cancellations for student loans can be applied for this fall. The plan is part of President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan and cancels up to $10,000 of student loans. Receivers of Pell grants, federal aid for lower-income students, could cancel up to $20,000.
Aug. 30: Ball State Women’s Volleyball sophomore setter Megan Wielonski was named Mid-American Conference (MAC) West Division Setter of the Week after the Cardinals’ consecutive wins in the University of South Florida Tournament. Wielonski had a MAC-leading .286 attacking percentage and contributed 135 assists in three matches.
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The United States Department of Education awarded Ball State University a grant totaling more than $1.3 million over three years for the Civic Renewal through Education for Agency (CREATE) project. Ball State partnered with Muncie Community Schools on the project “as an innovative approach to instruction, student learning, and professional development,” said Ball State officials.
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According to the Indiana Department of Education, a statewide grant program to offer funds to low-income families in Indiana who have been affected academically by the COVID-19 pandemic for tutoring has been announced. The Indiana Learns program is set to offer qualifying families up to $1,000 to spend on tutoring for math and English/ language arts, as well as approved out-of-school academic programs.
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Seven faculty members at Ball State University have been selected as honorees for the 2022 Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) Indiana Faculty Awards. Dr. Adam Kuban, professor of Journalism, was selected as the 2022 LEAP Indiana Paragon Award recipient, while six Ball State faculty members were recognized as part of the LEAP Indiana COVID Character Honors program.
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Rheinheimer started working on the Alley House in the fall 2021 semester in a studio class. She stayed with it during the spring 2022 semester and then was hired on as a student in the Rheinheimer’ssummer.responsibilities as a student lead have been to organize and focus on community outreach in both Ball State and the Englewood neighborhood. She had the opportunity to organize the groundbreaking and manage the project’s website.Since Rheinheimer has been with the project since the start, she’s had an ability to learn and grow along with it.
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CAP is partnering with Englewood Community Development Corporation (CDC) and Gratus Development for the project, said Tom Collins, assistant professor of architecture, via email. Englewood CDC focuses on making affordable housing in Indianapolis. The Alley House is a part of Englewood CDC’s plan to develop 20 duplexstyle homes on vacant lots in the Englewood neighborhood. Construction of the duplex is set to finish in February 2023, Emily Rheinheimer, a student lead on the project, said. CAP started preparing for the competition during summer 2021 and were given the go-ahead to begin construction of the duplex in April 2022. The Department of Energy gave each group involved in the competition $50,000 for the construction of the house, Pam Harwood, professor of architecture, said.Each half of the duplex is set to have three bedrooms, two full baths, a kitchen and a living space totaling 1,350 square feet. Plans are for the Alley House to have a lease to own — after 15 years of renting, the tenants can buy the house. A community land bank is on the house as well to keep it as affordable housing.
Ball State’s College of Architecture and Planning starts the process of constructing a net-zero energy house.
For the house to be net-zero, CAP needs to take into consideration energy spent on shipping. Their main goal is to stay as local as possible.
CAP students won’t be the only ones able to help and learn from this construction. There are plans to involve a local middle school and Purdue Polytechnic High School in the process of designing and building the net-zero duplex. There will also be community build days on campus and onsite in Indianapolis.
“I was very excited to learn about designing this type of home, especially in our type of climate in the Midwest,” Rehinheimer said, “because it’s so harsh, and it’s a little bit harder to design net-zero homes in the Midwest, but it is in … the warmer climates of the Southwest.”
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“The reach out to the community is really important for us,” Harwood said. “The more we can do to get people involved, the better it will be.”
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“A net-zero home will make as much electricity on-site as it will consume over the course of one year,” according to the Architectural Digest.
Hannah Amos Associate News Editor Ball State’s R. Wayne Estopinal College of Architecture and Planning (CAP) held a groundbreaking for their entry titled the Alley House in the 2023 Solar Decathlon hosted by the United States Department of Energy July 13. The objective of the Solar Decathlon is to design and build a netzero energy house within the span of two years. A groundbreaking is a ceremony that celebrates the start of construction.
One practice CAP is using to save energy in the house is a technique called Continuous Insulation (CI), which is more typically done in northern areas like Canada, Harwood said. CI is essentially like wrapping a blanket over and over the house, which helps keep heat or cold in it, Hardwood said. For this kind of insulation, CAP is using mineral wool from Byhalia, Mississippi, and cellulose from Pennsylvania. Cellulose is made from wood fiber, and the mineral wool is made from spun stone. This form of insulation makes the wall around 42.6 inches, Hardwood said. The standard wall in Indiana is 18 inches.Another technique CAP is focusing on is sealing and taping, which ties into the CI of the house. CAP is trying to have an airtight seal and not let heat or cold escape the house, creating a thermal envelope.
Other aspects of the house that make it net-zero are the solar panels on the roof, the ventilation system and directing rainwater to the gardens. In an effort to help save shipping energy and money, CAP students built the home’s cabinets and countertops from recycled materials. The students also plan to be involved with other aspects of construction, such as helping with the foundation.
“From a student perspective, the learning is really important because many times they think that everything stops at design,” Hardwood said. She said actually building lets students see decision making through the whole process.
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Ball State CAP students help guests in the ground break of the Alley House project July 12.
CAP starts by searching for companies and products that follow guidelines set by the Department of Energy in Indiana. If it’s not found in Indiana, they broaden the search to the Midwest and“It’snationwide.alwaysa challenge, always, to balance the affordability with the best product that you can use,” Harwood said.
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CAP has been utilizing “community charrettes” for their builds. A “community charrette” is when they have people interact physically or mentally with the designs they made to see how they work. When they built their cabinet prototype fullscale, CAP took it to a preschool center for families to test the product, and they talked to middle schoolers to see how they would interact with the living space, Harwood said.
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Taylor said he was drawn to Doll due to his hard working nature and how likable he is. He believes these are a couple of the reasons why Doll was able to win the Udall Scholarship and succeed in his“Idepartment.seethisas the tip of the iceberg for Steve [Doll], I think he’s gonna go on and do great things,” Taylor said. “It’s encouraging for me because I know that we [the entire field station staff] play some part. We are managing collections of plants or properties and things like that, but our contact with the students is motivating. We have a real strong sense of why we come to work.”
Taylor said he knew Stenger would have a future in biology when she went on a “BioBlitz,” a weekend going out with different field scientists, each of whom specialize in a certain area.
Doll is currently the president of the Wildlife Society at Ball State and is a Udall Scholarship recipient, an honor he said he was humbled to receive, as only a few students nationwide are selected for the award that focuses on “leadership, public service, and commitment to issues related to Native American nations or to the environment,” according to the Udall Foundation.
Taylor, Stenger, Doll and others work year round for the Department of Biology. During the summer of 2022, much of their work was to remove “invasive species like honeysuckle and garlic mustard” and eradicate Emerald Ash Borers, an by Ball State, helping to ensure these areas are safe for the environment and the public.
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Ball State senior Steve Doll stands in the woods during his field work in the Department of Biology. Doll has worked with the department at Ball State since 2021.
“The thing about conservation is, you’re preserving the land for future generations,” Stenger said. “It’s kind of like money that you’re investing in the land. So, in the future, if we don’t cut down the forest that right now we’re trying to preserve, we’re allowing for the future to be able to benefit from those forests.”
Doll and Stenger each aim to find a career in conservation, piggybacking off the work they’ve done while at Ball State.
“He’s just one of those people that you walk around the woods with and he’ll be like, ‘Wait, what’s that? What do you think that is?’ or he’ll tell you what it is and it just makes it so much more interesting,” Stenger said. “It’s kind of like following a park ranger around. When you see someone’s passion, it makes you want to be passionate about it too.”
Steve Doll, a senior at Ball State, majoring in wildlife biology and conservation with a minor in natural resources, started with the Department of Biology in March 2021. Though he hasn’t worked with Taylor half as long as Stenger has, he still has “I’ve said to my friends before, ‘I cannot ask for anybody better to work with,’” Doll said. “He’s super respectful, he’s always willing to help, if we have questions he’ll answer them and there are times where it’s like, ‘I need a break just because everything else in my life is getting pretty hectic,’[and] he tells me, ‘It’s okay, no worries.’”
The Rocky Mountains. The Colorado River. Some snowy hills for skiing and sandy deserts filled with dunes and cliff dwellings. This can all be found in second-year Ball State University graduate student Racheal Stenger’s home state of Colorado. However, her passion for nature did not spark there; instead, it grew from the time she and her family moved to Southern Indiana near Batesville when she was a teenager. When she enrolled at Ball State, Stenger decided to major in general biology studies, later picking up a minor in sustainability. Although she enjoyed nature, she wasn’t fully enamored. Not until her sophomore year when she joined the Department of Biology’s field team and continually immersed herself in the outdoors as a volunteer did her enjoyment turn to passion. She said her full-fledged love for biology and field work was cultivated when she met John Taylor, a Land Manager and Restoration Ecologist for the Department of Biology. Stenger’s mom referred to Taylor as “[Stenger’s] work dad.” Stenger has worked with him longer than any student ever has and Taylor said their relationship takes on many different forms, including supervisor, mentor, friend and even landlord, since Taylor owns a rental property at Hults Farm in Albany, Indiana, where Stenger lives.
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“She was on the plants team and she wanted to know and identify all the plants we saw,” Taylor said. “When you start asking those kinds of questions, you’re in it, you’re not just pretending. You’re really going in that direction. So I can tell when she was asking them questions like ‘How do you tell this from that?’ she’s going to have a career in this field somehow.”
“What I think is most impactful about it is giving other people an opportunity to be a part of nature, because a lot of the people I work with already want to help nature, and that’s what we’re doing, but in a way it’s helping get other people involved,” Doll said. “ … us preserving a few spaces is not gonna save nature or anything like that but it is being a part of that bigger movement to help preserve what we still have.”
Stenger and Doll both said learning the little things, like recognizing these plants, species and trees, are valuable skills in setting up a rewarding future for themselves.
“I feel like I learn a lot, but my goal is to always keep learning and always keep taking new opportunities to grow,” Stenger said. “That’s always been my mindset and I think that’s why I am where I am right now. So, for sure, continuing that idea of growth and learning, even if I’m a second year (graduate student) and I’m supposed to know what I’m doing.”
I don’t feel weird standing alone out in the middle when I don’t know anything. It gives you a sense of security and that there is always someone there to help you.”
From the perspective of a grandparent rather than a student, Sanchez said after taking one walk to the bathroom and talking with an officer, she isn’t as concerned about leaving her granddaughter at Ball State.
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Duckham wants to show the community UPD’s the same stores that you shop in, we go to the same movie theater, so safety is really important. I’m passionate about community policing. I believe at my core that it’s important that we engage with our campus community, and I think we’ve done a really good job of doing that, and we’re going to continue to do that.”
In light of recent policing controversies around the United States, Duckham said he wants every experience someone has with a UPD officer or staff on campus to be positive.
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“It’s really a good opportunity to engage and have some positive interactions just from the start of the semester,” Duckham said. “What we’ve seen is that it’s actually paid dividends when we’ve had interviews with survivors of sexual assault or domestic violence and stuff like that, and they’ve actually said, ‘Hey, I felt comfortable coming forward because the officer I met at move-in day was really nice.”
Kyle Smedley News Editor Rose Sanchez is the grandmother of a Ball State University freshman from Indianapolis. While her family walked to their vehicle to grab a few more things for move-in day Aug. 18, Sanchez waited by a cart filled to the top with everything her granddaughter packed for her dorm. Lexi Morris from Rushville, Indiana, plans to major in exercise science. Morris moved into her dorm at Woodworth Complex a few days prior, but as a part of Ball State’s Accelerate program, she was ready to assist families that needed help doing theMorrissame. and Sanchez had never met prior, yet they were speaking and laughing with each other like they were familiar acquaintances. Morris said the Ball State University Police Department (UPD)’s presence, as they directed traffic, answered questions and were available to help, made the move-in process easier.
UPD has many events planned for the 202223 academic year at Ball State, including Pizza with the Press, Dunk-A-Cop, Lunch with a Cop, a crime scene simulator, self-defense training in dorm complexes, a drunk and high driving simulator and more.
With the growing number of homicides and crimes outside of Ball State’s campus during the summer, Duckham said he recognizes recent events have changed people’s perceptions of Muncie, Indiana. Though a major goal of UPD is to forge relationships with students and staff on campus, Duckham said the number one priority is to keep and make people feel safe.
“It also gives them an opportunity to see us as approachable, like the first contact isn’t something negative,” Duckham said. “We have to recognize that not everybody’s experiences with police officers have been positive. So that’s what we’re trying to do — increase the number of positive contacts, increase the number of opportunities to engage.”
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“A few people I came in contact with, they’re just nice and friendly,” Sanchez said. “I feel better, I’m already relieved. I think she’s going to be safe here. I just feel it with the people I’ve met.”
During these events, students get the chance to learn important safety tips but also get to know UPD officers personally. Duckham said he feels if a person knows an officer personally, they may be more likely to reach out for help or just to talk. He said, over the years, he and his department have worked with many different students with different majors on career projects or just for advice, something he feels is due in large part to students being comfortable based on prior experiences at events or through speaking with a member of UPD.
Kylie Hostetler, freshman nursing major who recently moved into Park Hall from her hometown of Columbus, Indiana, said she felt safe during move-in day for the same reasons Morris and Sanchez did. “I don’t feel weird standing alone out in the middle when I don’t know anything,” Hostetler said. “It gives you a sense of security and that there is always someone there to help you.”
UPD Chief and Director of Public Safety Jim Duckham said Sanchez’s thoughts are exactly what his department strives for. In his position since 2014, Duckham said his biggest goal when he took office was to make “community policing” a major point of Communityfocus. policing, as Duckham put it, means immersing in the BSU community and trying to be as personable as possible while still keeping those on campus safe. Historically, move-in day has been a big way for UPD to do so.
Following a 0-2-2 start to the season, Ball State Soccer prepares for two matches during the weekend. The Cardinals visit Purdue Fort Wayne Sept. 1 at 7 p.m. before hosting Valparaiso University Sept. 4 at 1 p.m. The team sits with a -5 goal deficit with two goals for and seven goals against. Football Muncie Central falls to Yorktown in week two Campus Cardinals earn academic award Ball State University has won the 2021-22 Mid-American Conference (MAC) Institutional Academic Achievement Award with a 3.353 overall grade point average. The average spans across all 17 Cardinals sports and 318 student athletes. It is the third time in program history Ball State has earned the honor, winning it in 1996-97 and 2008-09. Yorktown Varsity Football made it two wins in two games to start the 2022 season with a 27-7 win over Muncie Central Aug. 26. In contrast, the Bearcats are now 0-2 on the season, being outscored by their opponents 61-35. The Tigers host New Palestine Sept. 2 at 7:30 p.m. while Muncie Central travels to face another 0-2 team in McCutcheon Sept. 2 at 7 p.m.
Following the conclusion of their historic 2021 season that included a Mid-American Conference (MAC) championship and its first NCAA Tournament win since 1995, Ball State Women’s Volleyball saw a transition period that included the departure of two assistant coaches, Tiffany Koors and Fritz Rosenberg, as well as fourHeadplayers.coach Kelli Miller Phillips, who enters her seventh season in charge of the Cardinals in 2022, filled the coaching vacancies with Justin Wells and Tucker Bitting. Despite only having the full staff for a few months, Phillips said Ball State now has the opportunity to thoroughly vet all possibilities heading into the new season with fresh eyes.
“We’ve gone through everything, [and] we reviewed everything; we’re going to be the absolute best that we can be because this group has been so invested,” Phillips said. “They have been on it. I have been overly impressed with how forethought they are with just everything … They just add their personality, a new layer that’s just going to build on what we’ve been doing. We just get to add more pieces, more minds, more kinds of competitiveness to this already great group that we have.”
The Cardinals also added six players into the fold who will be poised to learn the culture of the Ball State Women’s Volleyball program.
“I think when you have a strong program culture, it’s not about one person or two people or individuals, it’s very much our program’s vision,” Phillips said. “Regardless of when people move in and out, whether it’s staff players, whatever, it’s if you have these core values and foundations that the program believes in and the players believe in, that’s going to keep translating over year in, year out.”
“Personally, I want to be Setter of the Year, and then I want to try to become an All-American Honorable Mention or better, but that’s kind of my personal goal,” Wielonski said. “But I mean, as a team, definitely just [to] win [the] MAC again and have a really strong year.”
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While racking up 30 wins in 2021, senior Natalie Mitchem said Ball State’s bonding off the court was key, and something the eight-time MAC Tournament champions will look to replicate this season. “I feel like a lot of our success last [season] was that we were very connected and we could play with each other because we were very bonded off the court,” Mitchem said. “I feel like it’s grown, even as new people have come in. We’ve been able to mesh with anybody that’s come in and be able to feel like they’ve been there the whole time.”
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“As a freshman last year, I felt very, very welcomed, and [I] felt part of the team right away,” Wielonski said. “So as a sophomore now, I just want to kind of continue that with the freshmen, and I think the upperclassmen have done such a great job … including everyone, which has been so great.”
After landing on first-team All-MAC and American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) All-Midwest region lists, Wielonski is setting her sights on the MAC Setter of the Year award.
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Sophomore setter Megan Wielonski, who was named the 2021 Mid-American Conference (MAC) freshman of the year, said the Cardinals’ team chemistry was beneficial to newcomers in 2021 and has only continued to grow heading into 2022.
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Avondale United Methodist Church is holding a candlelight vigil Sept. 1 at 5:30 p.m. for Overdose Awareness and Remembrance Day at 1314 W. 10th St. There will be a neighborhood meal served at 5 p.m., as well as naloxone training and distribution and community advocates at the event.
Beginning Sept. 4 at 9 a.m., there will be a display of over 1,000 American flags along Minnetrista lawn by the White River Greenway. The display intended to honor local veterans, people currently serving in the military and fallen soldiers will stay open until Sept. 11, according to the Minnetrista website.
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On Sept. 6 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., an attorney from Indiana Legal Services, Inc. (a nonprofit organization based in Indianapolis) will be at the Maring-Hunt Library at 2005 S. High St. They will provide free and confidential legal advice on a first come, first served basis. Anyone is welcome; a library card is not required to receive this service.
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That Make Ball State the Place it is Have you heard of these legends and characters on Ball State’s campus?
Frog Baby The Frog Baby fountain next to the Shafer Tower was first displayed in the David Owsley Museum of Art when it was cast in 1937, according to the BSU website. While it was there, students would walk over to the museum to rub the statue’s nose for good luck on their final exams. In fact, the statue’s nose was rubbed flat from how many people did this. Presently, the restored version of the statue resides in the middle of the Frog Baby fountain, where students will step into the water to dress her up for the season.
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You might have heard it from upperclassmen or a campus tour guide, but there are several superstitions surrounding Ball State University’s campus and unique characters who walk up and down McKinley Avenue and through dining halls. If you haven’t experienced them before (or, at your own risk, tried them yourself), here are seven things that live in the back of the minds of some Ball State students.
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The Beneficence statue past the Student Center, representing the Ball brothers’ gift to the university, has its own legend attached to it. If a person confesses their love to someone in front of the statue right at midnight, Beneficence’s wings will flap as they kiss if it’s meant to be. There’s no way to trace the veracity of a legend like this, but if anyone can convince their lover to meet them outside at midnight, there’s a good chance the relationship is built to last.
Green Man On some Fridays, students may encounter a young man in a green morphsuit making his rounds on campus. He does not not carry any bags or books, but he does wander into crowded places (most commonly, the Atrium in the Arts and Journalism Building) and shouts “Happy Friday!” to those who pay him mind. As the suit covers his face, this student’s identity is seldom known; students refer to him simply as Green Man. Spider-man In a similar vein to the Green Man, a student in a Spider-man jumpsuit and mask will occasionally wander Ball State’s campus. He models his character after the newest rendition of Marvel’s Spider-man played by Tom Holland, as he jokes that Ball State has easier acceptance than MIT and that he can’t swing around because he is out of web fluid. His identity is also seldom known. Even when he eats a slice of pizza, he only lifts his mask to expose his mouth.
Shafer Tower The Shafer Tower has its own legend attached to it, more sinister than Frog Baby’s— any student who walks under the bells of the bell tower is doomed to not complete their undergraduate degree within four years. It still applies whether the student does it on purpose or not, so this misfortune can really sneak up on you. There is a way to reverse the curse, however — you can return to the Shafer Tower and walk backwards under the bells again, retracing steps taken before.
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Buddha Statue According to the BBC, Puja is a Buddhist religious ceremony that involves reciting mantras, meditating and leaving offerings before a statue of Buddha or another religious figure. While not a superstitious ritual, this does manifest itself on Ball State’s campus with the Amida, Buddha of Infinite Life and Light statue in the David Owsley Museum of Art. Buddhist students pray before this statue as part of their own religious rituals or to invite good fortune for exams, and there are many coins and other offerings laying on the base of the statue as a result.
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Charlie Cardinal Ball State’s sports mascot doesn’t just show up for the Cardinals who compete in collegiate sports. He can also be found on campus interacting with students in passing and raising people’s spirits. According to the Ball State Sports website, students audition to be Charlie Cardinal and don the suit, which has undergone four changes in appearance since the character’s creation in 1969. Unlike Green Man and Spider-man, Charlie Cardinal is a school-sponsored character, which means the identity of the actor/actress is required to be hidden. Don’t stick your beak where it doesn’t belong. These seven traditions and characters may seem odd to newcomers but are part of what makes Ball State the campus it is and are just another part of life for students. Ask Spider-man about his nemesis when you see him or rub Frog Baby’s nose for good fortune when you need it – that’s what culture looks like for Ball State students.
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When Nixon met Kyle Crabtree, who he would later refer to as his “first-in-command” for working with him the longest, Crabtree was a custom applicator— a person in charge of the spray equipment operation for the application of pesticides and fertilizers. In 2018, Nixon invited Crabtree to join the farm as a permanent, everyday worker, and Crabtree accepted the offer and quit his job.
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“When you’re planting and the weather is fair, one day sort of bleeds into two and sometimes two into three when it’s really fair conditions … we’re known to put in a couple 24 to 48-hour stretches in the spring,” Nixon said. This is just the beginning of Nixon’s responsibilities as founder of Brian Nixon Family Farms, LLC. He also manages risks, such as weather and fast-approaching deadlines, to ensure the yield potential, or the highest amount of crop that can be harvested per acre under ideal circumstances, is not lowered. Being that he farms for not only himself but also others across Indiana’s Delaware, Madison and Henry counties, attention to detail is extremely important. He has to get the little things right from the moment spring starts to avoid the repercussions of not doing so in the fall. This is not how Nixon’s life has always been, but it is how his life began.
Even with the help of his father and a parttime worker, the workload eventually grew too large, forcing Nixon to quit his job as a full-time physical therapist at the end of spring 2012.
“It was a good move for me,” Crabtree said. “We all pretty much share most duties, and working with [Nixon] has been just phenomenal.” Crabtree was not the only permanent addition made to the farm during that time. Following the passage of the federal 2018 Farm Bill, which legalized hemp cultivation and the transportation of hemp-derived products across state lines for commercial use, Nixon made the decision to start farming hemp as a way to diversify the farm. He said he heard a lot of discussion involving the plant during some of the forums and breakout sessions of conferences he attended.
On a typical day, Brian Nixon gets to the farm, gets prepared and gets out to the field to start planting or harvesting. With corn, soybeans and hemp across 3,300 acres of land, the workload is always there. Whether he’s cutting freshly-dried beans in blowing winds from lunchtime into the night or shelling corn “until as late as elevators are open,” he said the days can be long and only Mother Nature can tell him when to stop.
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• Hemp legally must contain less than 0.3 percent THC.
A Delaware County farmer grows hemp in order to create CBD products with one goal in mind: helping people.
Nixon’s relationship with farming started when he was growing up on his grandfather’s farm. He worked alongside his father and brothers from age 5 until his high school graduation.
While Nixon said he dearly loved his job, he could tell he was always yearning for something more entrepreneurial. Despite this, he still had no idea that farming would later become his life’s work. That was until 2009 when Nixon got the chance to purchase some ground just around the corner from where his grandfather’s farm was located, something he described as a “blessing and a oncein-a-lifetime opportunity.”
“I did it kind of full time both ways,” he said. “I had a full-time physical therapy job … and was farming large enough to be a full-time job, as well.”
According to Marguerite Bolt, a hemp specialist at Purdue Extension, the hemp industry is growing, but there is still a lot of room for development.
“There are people who are trying to build this industry; it just needs more awareness and more folks that want to actually process and manufacture,” she said. “That’s sort of one of the missing elements: the supply chain.” Bolt said she sees grains and fibers largely expanding if the supply chain improves, and she also predicts a permanent place and a growing market for hemp-derived CBD products.
Nixon said the decision to start growing hemp was experimental at first due to the risks of the industry. “There’s 101 pitfalls on the way to go broke and get lost in this portion of the business,” he said. However, after around a year and a half of preparation and assurance of good people around him in the process, Nixon said they “hit a home run.”
Brian Nixon poses for a photo next to a combine Aug. 29 at Brian Nixon Family Farms. Nixon is the only farmer in Delaware County that farms hemp.
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“I was always working there, riding with my father and being in the tractors,” Nixon said. “That environment and that experience gets in yourAfterblood.”graduating high school, he attended college, where he studied to become a physical therapist. Upon making this decision, farming fell to the background for the first time in his life.
• Hemp contains larger amounts of CBD than the other species of the plant.
• Hemp legalization was signed into law on the federal level in December 2018.
ON BALLSTATEDAILYNEWS.COM: MY AUTISM IS NOT MY TRAGEDY DNOpinion 09.01.22 12 As a first-generation college student, it’s easy to assume the role of perfection to ensure your loved ones’ sacrifices are worthwhile, but you should allow yourself to experience failure. Associate Opinion Editor KwaTashea Marfo walks across Ball State campus by the Village Aug. 28. JACY BRADLEY, DN waTashea Marfo relations major and writes “Imperfectly Perfect” for The Daily News. Her views do not necessarily reflect those of the newspaper.
Of all people, why didn’t the perfectionist know this? All the planning and research I had done prior to arriving on campus seemed pointless. From an outside perspective, it’s easy to assume something as small as this doesn’t seem like a big deal.
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A loophole that gravitates toward fulfilling unrealistically high standards fueled by the approval of others. It will cause you to neglect yourself and make you feel dissatisfied and inadequate when those standards are anything less than perfect.
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For first-generation immigrants and college students alike, it is easy to assume the responsibility of making your loved ones proud to make their sacrifices worthwhile. However, assuming this immediate role of seeking approval can drive you to trap yourself in a constant loophole.
An imperfection I have tried to perfect over the years has overpowered my ability to be a human overall, locking me in a physiological prison.
To escape this prison, find a balance of acceptance. Accept the fact that you cannot always give 1,000 percent, but acknowledge that you are progressing through life to the best of your ability.
This prison I generated was ultimately a byproduct of my parent’s hefty reminder of having my best interest at heart. At first glance, it’s easy to suggest my parents having my best interest at heart was merely them wanting their daughter to succeed in every aspect of life imaginable. However, it is important to take into consideration that I am a first-generation product of my father who immigrated to the United States in the late 1900s from Ghana, West Africa, and I am a first-generation college student. Both of these factors made me dismiss failure as an option because the thought of failure seemed like a slap in the face to my parents, who have sacrificed to ensure I have the best opportunities presented to me. Yet, until that Friday night, I never realized avoiding the risks of failure forced me to mature at a much faster rate than my peers, prohibiting me from making mistakes and appreciating the trials that could ultimately lead to success but at a different pace. My ideology of perfectionism encouraged me to live my everyday life based on a strategic structure that did not permit room for failure. In doing so, I developed immense stress when things didn’t go as planned.
There will still be days where you trap yourself in your perfectionism prison, unable to shake the feeling of being consumed by guilt and shame. When this happens, remind yourself to not let perfectionism determine your fate. Through the lens of a fellow first-generation perfectionist, your approval is what matters most.
Mixed with the fragrance of Febreze Hawaiian Aloha roaming the air, their pure look of shock and amusement struck me to the core. One Friday night, dim fairy lights overcast the desk in the right corner of my dorm as I completed an assignment for Communication and Popular Culture. My roommate’s parents entered the room, prepared to take their daughter out for bowling but were startled to see me deep in thought, typing away on my laptop for an assignment that was due the following Monday. I hadn’t left my desk prior to them entering the room, but the pressure of their eyes glaring at me told me to take a break. My sudden movement was enough for them to prompt me with questions. Immediately, they asked why I was working on an assignment so late in the night and on a Friday night, of all reasons. Ever so proudly, I expressed that working ahead for my classes was a commitment I made to myself since stepping foot on campus. A sense of amusement arose on their faces. College has many areas of focus and your studies are an important factor, but networking, campus involvement, self-identification and making mistakes are all contributing factors that can lead to a successful college experience, they said. Their words of advice smacked me across the forehead like a light bulb of realization. Of all people, why didn’t the perfectionist know this? All the planning and research I had done prior to arriving on campus seemed pointless. From an outside perspective, it’s easy to assume something as small as this doesn’t seem like a big deal. However, for a perfectionist like me, I thrive on strategically planning for events and factors to avoid the aching fear of failure. Their words of advice felt so meaningful and safe like the lyrics of “Be Alright” by Kehlani, yet were the hardest pill for me to swallow. At the time, I couldn’t quite grasp why their advice stirred such a strong sense of emotion within me, but the more I resonated with their words, the more I came to a realization. My perfectionism is my greatest flaw. Whether I was gravitating toward the approval of my parental figures or being the go-to-person for everyone when they were down or in need of assistance, I adopted a lifestyle of being a perfectionist — a lifestyle that consisted of being there for others, as I wished someone was there for me. Every time I tell someone how I’m feeling, they never relate to me in a sense, so I never feel comfortable enough to express how I’m feeling. For instance, I’ll take a test and know I can do better, but my friends and family will tell me it’s not that bad, minimizing my feelings. I wish people didn’t minimize my feelings. I wish they would listen to me, not just tell me it’s not a big deal. From my standpoint, it was a big deal. It’s not to say I do not have individuals in my life that are there for me, but in a sense, I feel like no one holds themselves to such a prestigious standard as I hold myself because I force myself not to feel emotions that suggest failure.
Contact KwaTashea Marfo with comments at kwatashea.marfo@bsu.edu or on Twitter @ mkwatashea.
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• 33 percent of higher-ed students today are the first in their family to attend college.
• “First-gen student” means your parents did not complete a 4-year college or university degree.
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Since making the decision to grow hemp, Nixon has begun to use it to produce CBD oil and other products for his business Wellness Tree, LLC, which he launched alongside one of his high school classmates, Billy Tabor, in 2020. They offer sleep gummies, pet treats, oils and creams with CBD.
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“What we strive to do is be able to do things with a certain amount of stewardship that we really take pride in,” Nixon said, “so that we can continue to farm into the future and do things with sustainability in mind so that it’s good for the earth and good for my kids and good for the way we’re doing things.”
“There’s such a stigma about growing it,” Nixon said. “There’s a huge stigma about utilizing it.”
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“Our product line is always advancing and the production of each product was kind of slow at first, but we’ve got seven products in a little over a year, and there’s more coming online about every six months,” Nixon said. While both compounds are present in the cannabis plant, CBD is vastly different from THC. It does not produce a ‘high’ effect and has no dependence potential, according to the World Health Organization. Furthermore, animal studies and research in humans suggest CBD may aid those with anxiety, insomnia or chronic pain, according to a blog post by Peter Grinspoon, a cannabis specialist and an instructor at Harvard Medical School.
In order to help the community better understand the plant and its many uses, Nixon and others at Wellness Tree, LLC, have produced educational events at places like doctors’ offices, chiropractors’ offices and rotary clubs in Yorktown and Muncie.
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This was due to factors, such as the smell during the plant’s growth and vegetative state, he said.
Despite the learning and professional growth Doll and Stenger have experienced during their time with the Department of Biology, the relationships forged are what Taylor will remember most. Taylor said these positive relationships develop into positive results in their work.
Upon growing hemp, Nixon said the response was welcoming “with maybe a raised eyebrow.”
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“That was a real honor to be able to speak with people,” Nixon said. “They had very good, educated questions. So people are starting to drop the stigma, but we use [the word ‘stigma’] all the time…”
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“People get really caught up … without recognizing that the plant in general is so much more than just the compounds that it produces, and those are important and valuable,” Bolt said. “It can be used for thousands of different products and applications across so many industries, like human food products and cosmetics, building materials, automotive industry applications, the textile industry … it just has so many facets that it can fit into.”
While the legislation allowed for hemp cultivation, the process is still very regulated, according to her. She said a license is required to grow hemp in all states. The Office of the Indiana State Chemist runs Indiana’s licensing program, tests hemp and sends necessary reporting to the United States Department of Agriculture. A federal background check is also required prior to beingBoltlicensed.saidmuch of the hesitancy surrounding cannabis as a plant stems from an inability of many to differentiate between hemp and marijuana. Despite both being cannabis, hemp and marijuana are not the same for many reasons, first of which being the levels of THC in them.
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As far as the future of the farm, Nixon said he hopes to add additional acres for farming hemp, ideally between five and 20. He also is invested in sustainable farming, meaning he avoids the overuse of fertilizers, pesticides and other chemicals, he said. He also monitors the ground through soil sampling on a regular basis.
Sophomore forward Lexi Fraley goes for the ball in a game against Xavier Aug. 28 at Briner Sports Complex. Fraley had three shots during the game.
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THC is the main psychoactive compound found in marijuana plants, meaning it produces a “high” effect, whereas hemp must contain less than 0.3 percent of this compound, per federal law.
Taylor said it’s a joy to work with students who are eager to learn and care about the environment, such as Stenger and Doll. Though their work with the Department of Biology is not over yet, Stenger and Doll have left their physical mark on the environment at Ball State and, according to Taylor, a personal impact on the Department of Biology’s Field Staff. Contact Kyle Smedley with comments via email at kyle.smedley@bsu.edu or on Twitter @ smedley1932.
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