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UPD officers don’t find reported gunman Man with handgun reported by uncertain female student CHRIS STEPHENS AND DEVAN FILCHAK | news@bsudailynews.com
A series of emergency notifications sent to students through email and text messages to the community that left many students not attending class and wondering if there was an actual lockdown. Joan Todd, executive director of public relations, said around 7:30 a.m. on Monday morning, a man was spotted carrying what looked to be a firearm. Students received emails and texts around 8 a.m. warning of a man with a gun seen north of Bracken Library and telling students to stay secure in a safe place. A later message from the university at 8:32 a.m. gave students a descrip-
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tion of the suspected gunman, although the message said he was not threatening. At 9:27 a.m., an “all clear” was called, which Todd said meant the University Police Department searched and secured the area. Gene Burton, director of public safety, said a female student called UPD that morning. Burton interviewed her before UPD began the search for the alleged gunman. Officers determined the campus was safe following a search of the area of Bracken Library and Noyer Complex, where the gunman was reportedly walking toward, and all of campus north of Riverside Avenue. Burton said the factors of not receiving any further reports of a gunman, not seeing more action once the description was released to the public and the trepidation of the initial witness made the department feel the campus was safe. “She just thought; she wasn’t positive she saw
a gun,” he said. “We were confident with all of those factors taken into account that the campus was safe, and we were able to resume normal activities.” Burton said while he doesn’t believe the report was a prank, the student could have been mistaken. “[The alleged gunman] didn’t talk to her; they didn’t say anything; they didn’t make any gestures or waving the object around,” he said. “There was no obvious actions of the person; they were just walking in front of the library. But at the time of the call [it] is not the time to sit and think about whether the person was right or not.” Burton said the emergency notifications completed the appropriate purpose, while it never declared a lock down of campus, as many students thought.
BREAKDOWN Around 7:30 a.m. A man was spotted carrying what looked to be a handgun.
8:32 a.m. A message was sent out giving students a description of the suspected gunman.
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Around 8 a.m. A message was sent out warning of a report of a man with a gun seen north of Bracken Library.
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POWERBALL Gilbert’s record part of bigger picture in Ball State softball program
U.N. spokesman says country cannot unilaterally call off truce | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEOUL, South Korea — A state-run newspaper in North Korea said Monday the communist country had carried out a threat to cancel the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War, following days of increased tensions over its latest nuclear test. A U.N. spokesman said later in the N. KOREAN day, however, that ACTIONS North Korea can• Armistice reportedly not unilaterally disnullified solve the armistice. • Red Cross hotline shut North Korea also down followed through • Several threats were on another prommade, including to ise: It shut down a launch a nuclear strike on the U.S. Red Cross hotline that the North and South Korea used for general communication and to discuss aid shipments and separated families’ reunions. Enraged over the South’s current joint military drills with the United States and last week’s U.N. sanctions imposed on Pyongyang for its Feb. 12 nuclear test, North Korea has piled threat on top of threat, including a vow to launch a nuclear strike on the U.S. Seoul has responded with tough talk of its own and has placed its troops on high alert. Tensions on the divided peninsula have reached their highest level since North Korea rained artillery shells on a South Korean island in 2010.
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Plan includes new stipulation of total credit hours completed | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A bill making its way through Indiana’s General Assembly would change the laws governing need-based state financial aid to add more requirements for students. Indiana’s two largest grant programs would see new stipulations for credit hours that a student must successfully complete to remain eligible, The Journal Gazette reported . Those enrolled in the 21st Century Scholars program would drop down to the Frank O’Bannon grant if they complete fewer than 30 credit hours a year. O’Bannon grant recipients who complete fewer than 24 credit hours a year could lose their scholarship. A recent survey of 9,000 Indiana college students who are receiving state financial aid found that only half are taking enough courses to graduate in four years.
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Hanne Stuedemann, Jennifer Gilbert and Taylor Rager go up to bat in a home game against Central Michigan on April 22, 2012. The three girls’ power hitting helps to make up the core of the Cardinals’ offense, with Gilbert holding the school’s record for home runs. MELEAH FISHBURN STAFF REPORTER | mcfishburn@bsu.edu
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hen left fielder Jennifer Gilbert blasted a tworun home run over the left-center field wall in the fourth inning against Florida International on March 5, she put herself atop Ball State’s record book for most home runs in a career. And she’s only a junior. The home run was her sixth of the season, but the 39th in her career at Ball State. For a player that has broken a school record in her junior season, she’s only developed her power in the last few years. “I actually didn’t start to hit home runs until my senior year of high school,” Gilbert said. Her recent power source has helped Gilbert break a school record that was set in 2012 by former teammate Amanda Montalto. With another season and a half left of her Ball State career, Gilbert will only continue to pile onto a record that’s already hers. Power isn’t just new to Gilbert, it’s a fairly new concept for the entire Ball State softball team. In 2012, the team broke the school record for home runs in a season by a team and end-
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ight years ago, Drew Bogs watched Jose Contreras pitch game one in the 2005 World Series for the Chicago White Sox. This past week while covering the Pittsburgh Pirates spring training, Bogs got to shake Contreras’ hand, something he said he never imagined he would get to do. The telecommunications and news major was a part of the special topics immersion class that ditched the five inches of snow that carpeted Indiana and headed to Florida, where the temperatures were in the 60s and they had to worry about sunburns, not frostbite. But they were there for the baseball diamond, not the beach. The 16 students and two instructors embarked on the 17-hour drive to Florida for the Grapefruit League 2013 baseball spring training — a trip that was equal parts camaraderie and tailing professional athletes. “It’s a relationship, an experience, that only those 16 kids will have,” said Suzy Smith, assistant professor of telecommunications. They were there for the common goal of bringing Florida spring training to Indiana through multimedia reporting, whether it was to get one-on-one with players or spend time with the die-hard fans on the stands. Smith said the trip was about making the transformation from fan to journalist and pure perseverance. “The trip created a situation that pushed boundaries, where everyone’s learning something new,” Smith said. “It’s about expanding the boundaries in each person’s craft.” The students came from different backgrounds such as photography, public relations, journalism, history and actuarial science. Smith and instructor of telecommunications Tim Underhill guided the students. For many, this was their first time entering the professional sports world. Bogs said when he received his first media pass in Pittsburgh, it was a pivotal moment. He was a professional journalist. “The most memorable thing is that I didn’t feel like a student,” Bogs said. “I felt like a working, paid journalist, like I graduated and worked for ESPN.” Bogs interviewed infielder and Indiana-native Clint Barmes, who played baseball at Indiana State University. One thing that surprised Bogs is how many Hoosiers were in the forefront of baseball. This is the second year that Ball State has done the spring training immersive learning experience. Senior telecommunications major Brad Huber went on the first trip and got to see some of his favorite Boston Red Sox players, David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez. He also met a man who owns a baseball museum in Cincinnati, Ohio, and donates artifacts to the Baseball Hall of Fame. When Huber went, the students had to pay all of their expenses, but because of the $20,000 Provost Immersive Learning Grant this year students didn’t need to carry the bulk of the finances themselves. “I make fun of Drew [Bogs] by telling him ‘You better thank us who went on the trip last year, because this year you got to go for free,’” Huber said. The past year the students worked with five teams; however, this year they had only three teams: the Pittsburgh Pirates, Tampa Bay Rays and the Houston Astros. This was because of packed schedules and the World Baseball Classic, which was happening at the same time. “It’s about building good relationships,” Smith said. “This year we built up the relationships we have with the Astros, the Rays and the Pirates. As we go along, we’ll get more and
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more teams to work with us.” The group stopped in Atlanta and toured CNN’s news headquarters, where three Ball State alumni currently work. From there they headed to Pittsburgh and then to Florida, zigzagging from training camp to training camp while hitting up journalist havens such as Poynter Institute and the CBS Channel 10 Tampa Bay newsroom. The group also got to see the Baltimore Orioles play Spain in the World Baseball Classic. Smith said this trip is also a way to get Ball State’s name out there and has actually helped a student get an interview with a Toronto Blue Jays player whose hometown
was Anderson. For Smith, this was a way to revisit her field without immersing herself back into her 19year career as a CNN sportscaster. She said she wants to see change in the sports reporting world. This opportunity teaches students how to enter the field on the right foot. “There are a lot of people out there that don’t do [sports reporting] in a journalistic fashion,” Smith said. “I want to make sure these students do it right... We need to be transparent about the way things are presented.” Bogs ultimately described the trip as “a dream come true.” He is a fan across the board; there isn’t a season when he isn’t some
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type of sport. He said the trip confirmed that he is in the right profession. “This for me, is the ‘I don’t want to grow up job,’” Bogs said. “You get to be a kid and an adult at the same time. What’s more like that than being able to watch sports for a living?”
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Conclave opens to elect pope Church leadership destabilized after surprise resignation | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY — Cardinals enter the Sistine Chapel today to elect the next pope amid more upheaval and uncertainty than the Catholic Church has seen in decades: There’s no front-runner, no indication how long voting will last and no sense that a single man has what it takes to fix the many problems. On the eve of the vote, cardinals offered wildly different assessments of what they’re looking for in the next pontiff and how close they are to a decision. It was evidence that Benedict XVI’s surprise resignation has continued to destabilize the church leadership and that his final appeal for unity may go unheeded, at least in the early rounds of voting. Cardinals hosted their final closed-door debate Monday over whether the church needs more of a manager to clean up the Vatican’s bureaucratic mess or a pastor to inspire the 1.2 billion faithful in times of crisis. The fact that not everyone got a chance to speak was a clear sign that there’s still unfinished business on the eve of the conclave. “This time around, there are many different candidates, so it’s normal that it’s going to take longer than the last time,” Cardinal Francisco Javier
Errazuriz of Chile told The Associated Press. “There are no groups, no compromises, no alliances, just each one with his conscience voting for the person he thinks is best, which is why I don’t think it will be over quickly.” None of that has prevented a storm of chatter over who’s ahead. The buzz in the papal stakes swirled around Cardinal Angelo Scola, an Italian seen as favored by cardinals hoping to shake up the powerful Vatican bureaucracy, and Brazilian Cardinal Odilo Scherer, a favorite of Vatican-based insiders intent on preserving the status quo. Scola is affable and Italian, but not from the Italian-centric Vatican bureaucracy called the Curia. That gives him clout with those seeking to reform the nerve center of the church that has been discredited by revelations of leaks and complaints from cardinals in the field that Rome is inefficient and unresponsive to their needs. Scherer seems to be favored by Latin Americans and the Curia. He has a solid handle on the Vatican’s finances, sitting on the governing commission of the Vatican bank, as well as the Holy See’s main budget committee. As a non-Italian, the archbishop of Sao Paolo would be expected to name an Italian as secretary of state — the Vatican No. 2 who runs day-to-day affairs — another plus for Vatican-based cardinals who would want one of their own running the shop.
HOW DOES A POPE GET ELECTED? WHO VOTES
• Only cardinals who are younger than 80 may vote • Pope Paul VI set the maximum number of electors at 120
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Each cardinal gets a ballot card, fills out their canidate of choice and places the folded ballot onto a plate, which is then tipped into a chalice BALLOTS ARE COUNTED
Three cardinals read the name of the cardinal who received the most votes and tally the ballots. The ballots are burned, but a record is kept for archives. VOTING SCHEDULE MCT PHOTO
Pope Benedict XVI arrives for a ceremony for the canonization of seven new saints on Oct. 21, 2012 in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City. The conclave to elect a new pope will begin today.
The pastoral camp seems to be focusing on two Americans, New York archbishop Timothy Dolan and Boston archbishop Sean O’Malley. Neither has Vatican experience. Dolan has acknowledged his Italian isn’t strong — seen as a handicap for a job in which the lingua franca of day-today work is Italian. Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet is well-respected, stemming from his job at the important Vatican office that vets bishop appointments. Less well
known is that he has a lovely singing voice and can be heard belting out French folk songs on occasion. If the leading names fail to reach the 77 votes required for victory in the first few rounds of balloting, any number of surprise candidates could come to the fore as alternatives. It all starts today with the cardinals checking into the Santa Marta residence on the edge of the Vatican gardens. The rooms are simple and impersonal, but a step up from the cramped
Sandusky lawyer outlines basis for defense appeals Defendent attorney says victims waited too long to report | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HARRISBURG, Pa. — Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky’s “major claims” as he appeals a child sexual abuse conviction include the many years that went by before accusers notified authorities, according to a pair of defense filings Monday. Attorney Norris Gelman listed the failure to report — specifically, the judge’s refusal to instruct jurors on the issue — as a critical element of Sandusky’s effort to overturn the 45-count conviction. Gelman also argued that the defense lawyers lacked sufficient time to prepare for the three-week trial last summer. He revisited arguments previously rejected by the judge who presided over the trial, John Cleland. The new filings set the stage for formal appeals before Superior Court. Sandusky was convicted of molesting 10 boys over a period of several years in a case that brought down Hall of Fame coach Joe Paterno and led to sanctions against Penn State’s storied football program. Sandusky, 69, is serving 30 to 60 years at a state prison. He acknowledges showering with boys but insists he
didn’t molest any of them. Penn State’s costs from the massive fallout from the scandal topped $41 million as of the end of December, the university posted Monday on a website. The latest disclosure offered more itemization for certain costs, including the $8.1 million bill for the internal investigation led by former FBI director Louis Freeh. Gelman, in the court filings, listed the reporting delays by the eight young men who testified against Sandusky. He said only one of them reported allegations of abuse promptly, while the others waited between four and 14 years. “Reversible error was committed when the trial court refused the defense request to give jury instructions on the failure of the alleged victims to make a prompt complaint to authorities based on its view of ‘the research’ which led the court to believe that in the area of child sexual abuse such an instruction was not ‘an accurate indicia of honesty and may be misleading,’” Gelman wrote. The state attorney general’s office, which prosecuted Sandusky, offered no immediate comment on the Sandusky filings, one made to the trial judge and the other to Superior Court. Attorney Jeff Anderson, who represents two people with claims related to Sandusky, said the prompt complaint issue was unlikely to
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Jerry Sandusky arrives for his hearing on Jan. 10 at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa. Sandusky’s defense team is focusing on the fact that several plaintiffs waited years before filing suit against the former assistant coach.
result in a new trial. “I think it’s a shallow and predictably made legal argument that has to be made, but it will effectively go nowhere,” said Anderson, whose clients are not among the eight who testified at trial. Gelman also said the trial judge should have given Sandusky’s attorneys more time to prepare for trial. “No attorney should be forced to defend without basic preparation and time to integrate discovery material into a defense,” Gelman wrote. Other grounds include a prosecutor’s reference during closing argument to Sandusky giving a television
interview shortly after he was arrested. Gelman said in an interview on Monday that the message to jurors was that Sandusky had spoken about the allegations on TV but not in court. “That’s a body blow,” Gelman said. “You just don’t do that.” His new filings also argued the trial judge erred by allowing hearsay testimony about a shower attack witnessed by a Penn State janitor. He said Monday that the next step is for the judge to either stand by his previous ruling or issue a supplemental ruling. After that, he said, Sandusky will file his appeal to Superior Court.
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| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “What we are trying to do with the initial text message is to get the desired action that we need which was for your safety, stay out of the area,” he said. “We understand that everyone has a desire to know more of what’s going on, but at that point, what to do is mitigate the situation and keep the area as clear as possible and to do that as quickly as possible.” Residence halls locked down and did not allow students to leave or enter for the duration of the search. Burton said the decision to lockdown for residence halls is a decision made by their own protocol, separate from how academic buildings reacted. Forest Bender, a senior philosophy major, said he believed the messages should have been clearer and offered more information. “Them saying all clear was extremely diluting to the situation,” Bender said.
“The man had not been found at the time. The police, it seems, just walked through campus and just didn’t find anyone with a gun.” Several students, like Kayla Aaron, a senior public relations major, looked to social media for more information. “As much as I trust my friends, I don’t trust the Internet,” Aaron said. “I wanted to know firsthand if we were on a lockdown, and if so, what we were doing about it.” Aaron said the emails she received, while giving information about the gunman, were not clear whether she was expected to attend class or if she should stay in her off-campus home. “Everything just seemed very up in the air – as if Ball State did not want to say we were on a lockdown,” Aaron said. Todd said students were directed in the texts to visit the Ball State website for further information and to review the university’s procedures for emergencies.
Bender said he believed that while the police department may have deemed it safe to be on campus, the campus should have been closed for the day. “Personally all my classes were canceled today because my professors took it into their own hands after Ball State didn’t do so,” Bender said. Todd said she believes the emergency warnings worked as they are intended Monday, offering all students the knowledge they need to remain safe. “Our number one priority is student safety,” Todd said. “[The university] acted out of an abundance of caution, sent out emergency alerts and once we felt the police had secured the area it was lifted.” Burton said UPD and other departments will reflect on the handling of the incident, as they do with all critical incidents. He said UPD will raise patrol of the area and academic buildings and have a heightened sense of awareness following the event.
conditions the cardinals faced before the hotel was put to use in 2005, when long lines would form at the Apostolic Palace for using bathrooms. At 10 a.m., the dean of the College of Cardinals, Angelo Sodano, will lead the celebration of the “Pro eligendo Pontificie” Mass — the Mass for the election of a pope — inside St. Peter’s Basilica, joined by the 115 cardinals who will vote. This is followed at 4:30 p.m. with a procession into the Sistine Chapel.
The first vote is taken on the first afternoon, but if no one receives the vote by twothirds, voting will take place again twice every morning and afternoon. After three days, if no pope is elected, they take a break for the day. They continue to break after every seven unsuccessful votes. THE WINNER IS CHOSEN
The next pope must have the votes of at least two-thirds of present cardinals. However, after 30 unsuccessful votes, they are allowed to agree to accept a majority, half of those present plus one. SOURCE: CATHOLIC.ORG
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Student Voluntary Services placed barrels for donations throughout residence halls before Spring Break and will place barrels in the academic buildings on campus starting next week for Lend a Hand Day. SVS and the Muncie Young Women Christian Association will host their own thrift shop where Muncie residences in need can pick up the donations. The YWCA determines who qualifies for the donations. The event served about 175 residences last year. Students, faculty and staff can donate items such as gently used clothing, new toiletries, baby products and nonperishable food until March 30. Michelle Kailey, adviser for the Lend A Hand Day committee, said SVS needs more donations to meet this year’s demands. “I think in the beginning it’s a little bit slower especially right before Spring Break and things are really crazy and people are focusing on homework and don’t have time to go through their closets,” Kailey said. SVS is expecting the usual amount of people. “Every year there is always a line out the door of people waiting to get into the store because all the items are free,” Kailey said. Each person gets a 30-gallon trash bag to put clothes into. They also receive two regular grocery bags they can fill with other items. The Lend A Hand Day committee is looking for student volunteers to help the day before and the day of the event on April 6. If students are interested in volunteering for the event or any others the information is available at bsu.edu/svs – OLIVA GUIDI
AID: Current students would not be affected | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “We have to do something different to encourage kids to get in and out in four years,” Rep. Tom Dermody, R-LaPorte, told The Journal Gazette. “We’re focusing on the kids progressing toward a degree.” Dermody is sponsoring the bill, which passed the House 77 to 18 and is now in the Indiana Senate. Indiana spends about $250 million a year on the O’Bannon and 21st Century Scholars programs. More than 73,000 students are enrolled in the two programs. The 21st Century scholars pro-
gram provides full tuition and fees at public universities for students who sign up in middle school and meet certain character requirements. These grants, on average, are worth about $7,600 a year. The O’Bannon grant provides a maximum of about $3,900 a year. Both are need-based programs with income requirements. Current college students will not be affected. The bill also would create incentives for students who do well. The O’Bannon grant would provide an additional $1,400 to students who graduated high school with an honors diploma.
KOREA: Officials don’t make comment on armistice
| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The North Korean government made no formal announcement on its repeated threats to scrap the 60-yearold armistice, but the country’s main newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, reported that the armistice was nullified Monday as Pyongyang had said it would. The North has threatened to nullify the armistice several times before, and in 1996 it sent hundreds of armed troops into a border village. The troops later withdrew. Despite the North Korean report, U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said the armistice is
still valid and still in force because the armistice agreement had been adopted by the U.N. General Assembly and neither North Korea nor South Korea could dissolve it unilaterally. “The terms of the armistice agreement do not allow either side unilaterally to free themselves from it,” said Nesirky, the spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Ban urged North Korea “to continue to respect the terms of the armistice agreement as it was approved by the General Assembly,” Nesirky said, adding that officials at U.N. headquarters were unaware of any operational changes.
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Ball State led Coastal Carolina 3-0 in the sixth inning. Facing one of college baseball’s powerhouses, the Cardinals had them on the ropes with the bases loaded and nobody out. Senior Wes Winkle grounded into a double play, and then freshman Sam Tidaback followed up with another out to end what could have been a huge inning. Coastal Carolina then answered in the seventh and eighth innings with five runs, and took the game 5-3 on March 8. Another hit in the sixth could have broken the game wide open and achieved a big win for a Ball State program that’s in need of revival. “We had a shot to beat them on their home field, we were
playing better than they are,� Ball State coach Rich Maloney said. “We just couldn’t finish it up ... We didn’t score any runs after that.� Ball State fell the next day to Ohio State, also 5-3, and they left 10 runners on base. Both games, they led late, but couldn’t tack on extra runs and wasted solid starts by seniors Chris Marangon and Jon Cisna. Growing pains are to be expected from a team that’s won just 29 out of 100 games over the last two seasons. Maloney hopes that as the season progresses, so does the late game execution from his team. “I think we’ll get better as the season goes,� Maloney said. “The idea is having a few guys hot every weekend, then not having too many that have bad weekends.� Ball State has played 14 games so far, and many of them have been decided by just a few runs. Although they’ve been on the losing end of a few close games this season, they’ve gotten that game-breaking hit a few times as well. In its first game in a series
want power hitting to be team’s offensive identity | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The improved hitting, along with the power, has been attributed to a simple concept: practice. “The big thing for our hitters is they know that they are going to get swings every day [in practice],� Nicholson said. “They get a chance daily to work on things and to feel good about what they are doing as a hitter.� Nicholson said he works his hitters on hitting different pitches, in different zones, at different speeds. He’s also had Gilbert work on adjusting to pitchers that will pitch around her because of her power. The work put in at practice has paid off, as the team’s slugging percentage has increased every season since 2010. Ball State had a slugging percentage of .543 in 2012 and currently has a slugging percentage of .510
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Billy Wellman gets ready to hit a pitch during a game against Kent State on April 1, 2012. The team has faced multiple close games this season.
against Morehead State, redshirt junior Billy Wellman slammed the ball down the left field line to clear the bases and give Ball State a 4-1 lead. Wellman leads the team with 12 RBI and has made a number of big plays through the first month of the season. To Maloney, making that one critical play at the end of a game
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consistently will come with time, and the key is to stay patient as the season continues. “Over time, my hope is that we’ll improve in that area,� Maloney said. “If we want to take this program to the next level as far as winning goes, we’re going to have to execute a little bit better in some of those situations.�
this season. Nicholson has said he doesn’t prefer to have a team that is heavy on power. He prefers to have speed and hitters that can slap-hit. But he also said it’s important to be able to adapt to his team’s strengths. “Every hitter that comes up there has the ability to drive the ball,� Nicholson said after a game last season. “Even our kids at the bottom of the order that might not hit a ton of home runs or slap hits, they can hit the ball to the fence and they can get three bases.� While Gilbert already has the Ball State home run record, she isn’t concerned about tacking onto her record for the remainder of her career. “I am going to continue to do my thing and try to be successful at the plate,� she said. “Keep putting the ball in play, getting on base and scoring some runs.�
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Monday morning marked yet another moment this year where I have sincerely worried about my safety at Ball State University. I am usually not one of those girls. I don’t worry about being home alone, I don’t worry that someone walking behind me on my way home is out to get me, that’s not how I am. I try to be aware of my surroundings, travel in groups, or “talk” on my cell phone if something feels abnormal, but I know how to protect myself, so normally I am not afraid to go anywhere. Monday morning, if I had been walking out of a professor’s office hours in WB or out of the library after printing something off, and the alleged gunman had wanted to shoot me, he could have. I would’ve been a 90lb unsuspecting target, and the self-defense classes I’ve taken wouldn’t have helped me. The mace I carry wouldn’t have helped me. None of these things would have helped any one of us. On the other hand, the fact that I, like many other students, own and know how to use a handgun is one thing that COULD have helped me, but that’s a skill that I am not permitted to use to save my life on Ball State’s campus. This isn’t a political issue. This is a safety issue. Ball State and UPD are all we have to protect us, because we’re not allowed to protect ourselves. Maybe it’s just me ... but that thought isn’t helping me sleep at night. Kayleigh Mohler kcmohler@bsu.edu
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