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Ball State looks to tough slate
GOVERNING BODIES PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Malachi Randolph VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Chloe Anagnos SECRETARY CANDIDATE Giang Tran TREASURER CANDIDATE Kevin Mullaney PLATFORM POINTS
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Junior Matt Leske celebrates after Ball State scored a point in the match against Lindenwood on Saturday. Leske scored 10 kills during the match.
Ball State awaits ranking
Ball State only unbeaten team, no wins against ranked teams EVAN BARNUM-STEGGERDA CHIEF REPORTER | @Slice_of_Evan Despite the Ball State’s men’s volleyball team’s success this season, it has yet to garner any national recognition, due to its feeble schedule. The Cardinals sit atop the Midwestern InterUPCOMING collegiate Volleyball Association’s conference SCHEDULE leader board, as the only FEB. 9 remaining unbeaten vs. Grand Canyon team in Division I-II. FEB. 10 In this week’s American vs. Grand Canyon Volleyball Coaches AsFEB. 13 sociation poll, Ball State vs. IPFW appeared on none of the FEB. 17 16 voters ballots, includ@ No. 9 Ohio State ing that of Ball State head FEB. 22 coach Joel Walton. @ No. 14 Lewis “We still don’t have a win over a ranked opponent,” Walton said. “It’s going to take a win over a ranked opponent coupled with a good record.” Not only have the teams the Cardinals have beaten not been ranked, only one has a winning record and collectively scrounged together a 17-35 record.
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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Zeyne Guzeldereli VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Alexa Gates SECRETARY CANDIDATE Fayeann Hurley TREASURER CANDIDATE Brandon Pope PLATFORM POINTS
Students SGA Philanthropic Grant Campus/Technology Phone Charging Station Outreach Unite and Fight Bullying Student Government Association Accredit the Ball State SGA
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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Alex Sventeckis VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Nick Wilkey SECRETARY CANDIDATE Kylie Marcus TREASURER CANDIDATE Matthias Dorau PLATFORM POINTS
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3 SLATES TO CAMPAIGN FOR SGA BOARD Each slate receives at least one violation, fee for early campaigning
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hree slates will campaign over the next three weeks to prove to students who should take the executive board positions of not just Student Government Association, but of the student body. All three slates received violations for early campaigning; campaigning isn’t permitted until after the Nomination Convention, which took place at 8:30 p.m. on Monday. Spark received three violations, totaling in $110 in fees. Cardinal United lost $45 of their mandatory $200 bond for two violations. Fusion will pay $30 for one early campaigning violation. Charges are determined by the elections board based on the amount of people affected by the early campaigning. Kevin Thurman, elections board chairman, said he believed each of the slates early campaigning was most likely accidental, but the job of the elections board is to make sure the slates are following the SGA elections code. See SGA, page 4
EARLY CAMPAIGNING VIOLATIONS
$110
in violations for Spark
$45
in violations for Cardinal United
$30
in violations for Fusion
See VOLLEYBALL, page 3
STUDENTS REFLECT ON SURVIVAL OF TWO IN SETON HALL DORM FIRE
Boy safe, abductor dead after standoff
Ala. man kept 5-year-old boy as hostage in bunker, abducting him off a bus | THE ASSOCIATE PRESS
MIDLAND CITY, Ala. — Officers stormed an underground bunker in Alabama where a 5-year-old boy had been held hostage for nearly a week, rescuing the child and leaving the boy’s abductor dead, officials said Monday. Steve Richardson with the FBI’s office in Mobile, Ala., said at a news conference Monday afternoon that negotiations had deteriorated with 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes. Dykes, who a week earlier had abducted the child from a school bus after fatally shooting the driver, had been seen with a gun. Officers believed the boy was in imminent danger, Richardson said. Officers stormed the bunker just after local time to rescue the child, who was taken to a hospital in nearby Dothan. Officials have said the
child has Asperger’s syndrome. However, it was not immediately clear how Dykes died. Daryle Hendry, who lives about a quarter-mile from where Dykes’ bunker was located, said he heard a boom Monday afternoon, followed by what sounded like a gunshot, all around the time officials said they stormed the bunker. Neighbors described Dykes as a man who once beat a dog to death with a lead pipe, threatened to shoot children for setting foot on his property and patrolled his yard at night with a flashlight and a firearm. The crisis in Alabama unfolded amid a divisive nationwide debate over gun control and the safety of schoolchildren after the December shooting that killed 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school. President Barack Obama traveled to Minnesota on Monday to rally from the public and law enforcement community for his calls to ban assault weapons and install universal background checks for gun buyers.
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Thirteen years after a deadly dormitory fire at Seton Hall University, two survivors shared their story of overcoming adversity Monday at Pruis Hall. The documentary, “After the Fire,” follows Alvaro Llanos and Shawn Simons, who were living in Boland Hall at the New Jersey catholic school with about 600 other first-year students when a fire broke out in the third-floor lounge on Jan. 19, 2000. The fire killed three students and injured more than 58 others. Llanos and Simons were two of the four most severely burnt victims. “We went through one of the worst tragedies of our life,” Simons said. “This fire destroyed many lives and it opened up many eyes across the country as far as fire safety. My mom,
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Shawn Simons and Alvaro Llanos speak about life after the fire that left them both permanently scarred in 2000. Simons read a passage from their book about the event while speaking Monday in Pruis Hall.
she thought about me partying, she thought about me drinking, but she didn’t think about a fire.” Many students disregarded the fire alarms that night after months of weekly false alarms, according to the documentary.
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Simons said a fire escape was located three doors down from Llanos and Simons’ room, but they didn’t know that, so instead they moved toward the fire and the main staircase.
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VOL. 92, ISSUE 76 FORECAST
TODAY High: 34, Low: 14 Partly cloudy
TOMORROW High: 31, Low: 23 Mostly sunny