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ndiana State Excise officers funded with a $125,000 federal grant have arrested hundreds of college-age drinkers in a crackdown on campuses across the state in 2012. Less certain is whether the campaign has achieved its goal – stemming the tide of underage drinking. In Muncie, 567 tickets have been issued since the Intensified College Enforcement grant began in February 2012. Yet Cpl. Travis Thickstun, the agency’s spokesman, said reducing underage drinking, not more arrests, was Excise’s goal when it applied for the money and deployed officers to universities across the state.
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“Our initial goal was to see how effective a very public campaign coupled with educational programs and increased enforcement would be at reducing underage drinking,” Thickstun said. “It will be some time yet before we can accurately gauge the program’s success, but it will not be measured by the numbers of tickets we issue.” The amount of people arrested does not express a large jump since the ICE program began. Between Aug. 1, 2011 and Dec. 31, 2011, 399 people were arrested by Excise officers in Muncie. Only 324 people were arrested between Aug. 1, 2012 and Dec. 1, 2012. Thickstun said in an interview on Dec. 13
the reason there have been less people arrested this year is because the semester wasn’t completely over yet. As a pilot program early in the year, Excise placed officers at three universities of varying size – Indiana University, Ball State and DePauw. Later they added Purdue, Indiana State and the University of Notre Dame. The FBI’s Uniform Crime Report shows that drinking arrests had actually dropped at DePauw, Notre Dame and Indiana State between 2010 and 2011, before the ICE program came to their schools.
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Excise Officer Brandon Thomas, left, writes a ticket to a student for minor consumption during a routine patrol on Oct. 13, 2012. Excise officers arrested hundreds of college-age drinkers in a crackdown across the state.
Victims’ families in shooting hear police testimony Officer exposes emotion to begin hearing to determine if Holmes will go on trial | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CENTENNIAL, Colo. — The officers struggled to hold back the tears as they recalled the Colorado theater shooting: discovering a 6-year-old girl without a pulse, trying to keep a wounded man from jumping out of a moving police car to go back for his 7-yearold daughter, screaming at JAMES HOLMES a gunshot vic- Aurora movie tim not to die. theater gunman “After I saw what I saw in the theater — horrific — I didn’t want anyone else to die,” said Officer Justin Grizzle, who transported the wounded to the hospital. A bearded, disheveled James Holmes, the man accused of going on the deadly rampage, didn’t appear to show any emotion as Grizzle and the other officers testified Monday in a packed courtroom as survivors and families of those who died watched quietly. At one point, a woman buried her head in her
hands when an officer recalled finding the 6-year-old girl. “He’s heartless. He really is. He has no emotion. He has no feeling. I don’t know [how] anybody can live that way,” Sam Soudani said of the gunman afterward. His 23-year-old daughter survived after being hit by shrapnel from an explosive device at the theater. On the first day of a hearing that will determine whether there’s enough evidence to put Holmes on trial, the testimony brought back the raw emotions from the days following the July 20 attack at the suburban Denver movie theater that left 12 people dead and dozens wounded. The massacre thrust the problems of gun violence and mental illness into the forefront before they receded in the ensuing months. Now, just weeks after a shooting spree at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school left 20 children and six adults dead, prosecutors are laying out their case with the nation embroiled in a debate over gun violence and mental illness.
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Forwards will give team better depth after losing seven of last eight games MATT MCKINNEY ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR | @Matt_D_McKinney After a 0-4 Christmas break, Ball State women’s basketball head coach Brady Sallee’s team is at a crossroads heading into conference play. Although he’s not sure about calling it that. “If you want to call it ‘crossroads,‘ that’s fine. If you want to call it ‘opportunity,‘ that’s fine,” Sallee said. “It’s definitely time for us to make a move.” Ball State hasn’t won a game in over a month. Its last victory came on Dec. 6, in an overtime thriller against Detroit. On Nov. 23, Ball State was coming off a win against Bethune Cookman and had a record of 2-3, sitting at just one game under .500. Since then, it has lost seven of its last eight, and is now 3-10. “I think we’re in a position where we’re finally as healthy as we’re going to be all year,“ Sallee said. “We’re not playing half bad ... Maybe we’re in a position where the timing is right for us to make a move, if we’re going to be able to make one. Clearly the out-of-conference schedule didn’t go the way any of us wanted it to.” One positive Ball State has on its side is that it will have two new players available for action. Lyzz Smith, a forward from Mishawaka, Ind, transferred to Ball State last season. She has now completed her NCAA-mandated two semesters of sitting out and has joined the team. In fact, Smith played for Ball State on Dec. 29, in an away loss to Valparaiso. She
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Women’s basketball head coach Brady Sallee talks to the team during a timeout in the game against Oakland City on Oct. 31, 2012. Ball State has lost seven of their last eight games, heading into MidAmerican Conference play.
recorded four points, one steal and one assist in 17 minutes of play. Before transferring to Ball State, Smith played for two years at Indiana Wesleyan University, just 36 miles north of Muncie. Smith is six feet tall and will play a wing position for Ball State, said Sallee. Katie Murphy leads the team in rebounds, bringing down an average of 6.7 per game. Another new face for Ball State is Alexandra Southworth.
Southworth is a freshman from Piketon, Ohio. She has been injured throughout the first half of the season, and also made her debut against Valparaiso. She played just eight minutes and recorded a steal. “Alex will play a little more in that forward spot at the four,“ Sallee said. “Maybe at times, give us a little bit of a look at the five, even though that’s not her natural position.”
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OWN airs Letterman interview Late-night host talks on infidelities, seeing a psychiatrist
BREAK OUT Oprah Winfrey conducted this interview with David Letterman on Nov. 26 in the David Letterman Media and Communication Building before “A Conversation with David Letterman and Oprah Winfrey.”
| THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PASADENA, Calif. — Three years after an extortion scandal that led him to bare his infidelities, David Letterman said he sees a psychiatrist once a week to try to be the person that he believed he was. The late-night talk show host gave an extraordinary interview to Oprah Winfrey in which he talked about his feud with her and Jay Leno, and about his efforts to make amends for his affairs with “Late Show” staff members that became public in 2009. “For a long time I thought I was a decent guy,” Letterman said. “But yet, thinking I was a decent guy, I was still capable of behavior that wasn’t coincidental to leading a decent life. That’s what I’m working on. I want to really be the person I believe that I was. I wanna be a good person.” The interview aired Sunday on Winfrey’s OWN network and will be repeated Jan. 20. It was recorded in November. Letterman said his wife, Regina, has forgiven him, and he tries every day to regain her trust. He said he still hasn’t forgiven himself. Letterman said he went through depression that he described as a sinkhole he thought he wouldn’t come out of. But with medication, he said, he pulled through and told Winfrey he now has compassion for others who have
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David Letterman and Oprah Winfrey laugh during the Dave+Oprah event on Nov. 26, 2012. Winfrey also interviewed Letterman while they were on campus. That interview aired on national television for the first time Sunday.
gone through depression. “I always thought, ‘Aw, you’re depressed? Go do some pushups and you’ll feel better,’” he said. “But it’s not that.” Details of the affairs emerged after a television producer threatened to unveil them if Letterman didn’t give him money. The producer was later jailed for four months.
Letterman took control of the story in 2009 by coming clean about his affairs on his show before the details came out. He acknowledged before making the announcement that he had other motives. “In the back of my mind — and this will give you the extent, the breadth and width of what a weasel I could be — I was think-
ing, eh, maybe I can make this, maybe I can get a little sympathy out of this deal here,” he said. Winfrey interviewed Letterman for “Oprah’s Next Chapter” at Ball State, after being interviewed publicly by Letterman before students at the CBS comic’s alma mater. They cleared the air on their own feud, which fueled Letter-
man’s comedy for years. Letterman said he believed it began when he called to ask Winfrey to appear on “Late Show” when he was going to do some shows in Chicago and Winfrey would not agree to appear. Winfrey said she declined because she had been on Letterman’s show before and
there were drunk people in the audience who made it uncomfortable. “I didn’t want to have that experience again,” she said. “That’s really all it was for me.” Letterman said he didn’t remember that appearance and was sorry for what Winfrey went through. He took her hand and kissed it. “I hope we can put this behind us, Oprah,” he said. “Let us do it, David,” she said. Despite Letterman’s often withering comments about his NBC rival Leno, he said they were friends before Leno was picked over Letterman to be “Tonight” show host. Letterman believes they are still friends. “He is the funniest guy I’ve ever known,” Letterman said. “Just flat out, if you go to see him do his nightclub act, just the funniest, the smartest, a wonderful observationalist and very appealing as a comic. Therefore, the fact that he is also maybe the most insecure person I have ever known ... I could never reconcile that.” Letterman said some of the trash-talking between the two is simply the way comics often act toward one another. Bruce Bobbins, a Leno spokesman, said Monday the NBC comic had no comment on Letterman’s interview.
Obama names secretary of defense SHERIFF THINKS SHOOTING A FACTOR Hagel serves as first in position to be IN ALA. BOMB PLOT enlisted in military Teen’s journal entries of plan begin days after Conn. tragedy
| THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said he was sending the U.S. military “one of its own” Monday as he selected decorated Vietnam combat veteran Chuck Hagel to lead the Pentagon as it scales back spending and winds down a decade of war. A former Republican senator from Nebraska, Hagel would be the first enlisted military member to become secretary of defense, and Obama called him “the leader our troops deserve.” “In Chuck Hagel, our troops see a decorated combat veteran of character and strength,” Obama said as he introduced Hagel at a White House news conference. “They see one of their own,” who will champion veterans and military families. An Army infantry sergeant who risked his life to pull his younger brother to safety while both were serving in Vietnam, Hagel would bring to the job a gritty view of war and the independent temperament to express those views. He is known as a contrarian Republican moderate who was a fierce critic of the Bush
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administration’s war policies, and he is likely to support a more rapid withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Long the front-runner for the Pentagon job, Hagel, 66, forged a strong personal relationship with Obama in the Senate, including overseas trips they took together. And he carved out a reputation as an independent thinker and blunt speaker.
“In the Senate, I came to admire his courage and his judgment, his willingness to speak his mind, even if it wasn’t popular, even if it defied the conventional wisdom,” Obama said. “And that’s exactly the spirit I want on my national security team: a recognition that when it comes to the defense of our country, we are not Democrats or Republicans, we are Americans.”
Hagel has also suggested he won’t be shy in disagreeing with the commander-in-chief and his outspoken nature has already given some senators, who will confirm his nomination, pause. “I do think Obama’s done a good job overall. There are a lot of things I don’t agree with him on; he knows it,” Hagel told the foreign policy website Al-Monitor last March.
one side or the other, whether the psychiatrist who met with Holmes is barred from testifying by doctor-patient privilege and who was responsible for media leaks. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the doctor would testify this week. On Monday, prosecutors called on the first responders to testify about the shooting at the midnight showing of the latest Batman movie, “The Dark Knight Rises,” in Aurora. Holmes had bought his ticket almost two weeks in advance. Investigators say Holmes, wearing body armor, tossed two gas canisters into the packed theater and then opened fire. When officers arrived, they saw people running out of the theater and trying to drive away. Others walked. Some of the wounded tried to crawl out. Officers found Holmes standing next to his car. At first, Officer Jason Oviatt said, he thought Holmes was a policeman be-
cause of how he was dressed but then realized he was just standing there and not rushing toward the theater. Oviatt pointed his gun at him, handcuffed him and searched him. He said he found two knives and a semi-automatic handgun on top of Holmes’ car. An ammunition clip fell out of his pocket and Oviatt found another on the ground. He said Holmes was dripping in sweat and his pupils were wide open. Prosecutors did not indicate why Holmes’ pupils were dilated. Oviatt said Holmes seemed “very, very relaxed” and didn’t seem to have “normal emotional reactions.” “He seemed very detached,” he said. Holmes volunteered that he had booby trapped his apartment, the officers said. At one point, Grizzle asked Holmes if anyone had been helping him or working with him. “He just looked at me and smiled ... like a smirk,”
Grizzle said. Officer Aaron Blue said Holmes was fidgeting around after he and Oviatt put him in a patrol car, prompting them to stop and search Holmes again. They were worried they might have missed something because of Holmes’ bulky outfit. Inside the theater, the movie was still playing on the screen. An alarm was going off and moviegoers’ cellphones rang unanswered. There was so much blood on the floor, Grizzle said, that he slipped and almost fell down. Blue went with Jessica Ghawi, who was shot in the head, to the hospital. He said he held the head of the 24-year-old aspiring sportscaster steady in the backseat while someone else drove so she could keep breathing. She later died. Caleb Medley was also wounded in the head, and Grizzle recalled the 23-year-old aspiring comedian struggling to breathe on the way to the hospital.
TRIAL: Officers describe details of arresting Holmes
| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Any new details to emerge this week — including Holmes’ mental state — will come amid the discussion over an array of proposals, including tougher gun laws, better psychiatric care and the arming of teachers. The hearing is the first extensive public disclosure of the evidence against Holmes. Other information has come out, including details about how he legally bought his guns in person and purchased thousands of bullets and body armor online as well as a notebook that he sent to a psychiatrist he had seen. A district judge forbade attorneys and investigators from discussing the case publicly, and many court documents have been under seal. It took this long to get to the preliminary hearing because lawyers have been debating what physical evidence should be made available to
PHENIX CITY, Ala. — An Alabama teenager who described himself as a white supremacist made journal entries about a plot to bomb classmates three days after the Newtown school massacre and began building small homemade explosives, a sheriff said Monday. Russell County Sheriff Heath Taylor told The Associated Press that he believed the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary was a factor because the first date in the boy’s journal describing the plan was Dec. 17 — three days after the Connecticut killings. Seventeen-year-old Derek Shrout is charged with attempted assault after authorities said he planned to use homemade explosives to attack fellow students at Russell County High School. Taylor said the boy told investigators that he’s a white supremacist and five of the six students he named in his journal are black. A teacher found the
journal and then turned it over to authorities. A search of Shrout’s home found several small tobacco cans and two large cans, all with holes drilled in them and containing pellets. Taylor said all they needed were black powder and fuses to become explosives. The journal also allegedly mentioned using firearms. The sheriff said Shrout’s father owned a few household weapons, like a hunting rifle, a shotgun and a handgun. “He just talks about some students, he specifically named six students and one faculty member, and he talked about weapons and the amounts of ammunition for each weapon that he would use if he attacked the school,” Taylor said. The sheriff said he didn’t believe the teen’s initial claim that the journal was a work of fiction. “When you go to his house and you start finding the actual devices that he talked about being made, no, it’s not fiction anymore,” Taylor said. “Those devices were — all they needed was the black powder and the fuse — he had put a lot of time and thought into that.” The teen, who is thin and wears glasses, said little.
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• Meet with your academic adviser. Make sure you are on track with your coursework. When May rolls around, you don’t want any surprises preventing you from receiving your diploma.
• Sign up for the Writing Proficiency Exam. Spring semester offers two final shots to take the Writing Proficiency Exam, one at the end of January and one in April. Don’t wait until April to take it for the first time. Graduating seniors who don’t pass will have to take a summer course before they can officially receive their diplomas. • Meet with your career adviser. Just like an academic adviser is there to help keep your academic goals on track, your career adviser can help you search for your career goals. Go to Cardinal Career Link and click on Calendar to set up an appointment.
• Begin job hunting. It’s never too early to begin searching for what you will be doing after graduation. Research which employers will be interviewing on campus and what job fairs will be nearby in the coming months. Network to discover job opportunities.
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• Pick up your cap and gown – Feb. 21-22 Although you can pick up your cap and gown at any time during your final semester, the Cap and Grad Gown Fair is a good time to make sure you don’t forget them. The fair will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 21 and from noon to 6 p.m. Feb. 22 in the Ball State Bookstore. You can also purchase announcements at this time.
• Registration closes for undergraduates – March 18 Even if all of your coursework is done, you still have to apply to graduate. If you haven’t done so already, go to the SelfService Banner at my.bsu.edu. The link to apply for graduation is under the student records tab. There is a $25 application fee.
• Revise and update your resume. Do the same to your portfolio if applicable. Customize your cover letters for each job you are applying to. Have someone, such as an employee at the Career Center in Lucina Hall, critique your resumes before submitting them to potential employers.
• Find subleasers to rent your room. An August to August lease may not be ideal if you’re planning on beginning an out-of-state career right after graduation. Secure a subleaser through newspaper ads, fliers and online postings to fill the gap and save you from delaying career opportunities.
• Graduation day has arrived! – May 4 Relieve stress the day of by reading through the commencement website prior to the day of the event. The website will tell you where you need to go and at what time for the main ceremony and the individual college ceremonies. • Request transcripts. Paper transcripts are free for all current students until Aug. 31. After that date, transcripts cost $12 for former students and alumni. • Pick up your name card. About three weeks before graduation, you will receive an email about picking up your name card and any honors you will be receiving at graduation. Name cards can be picked up at Lucina Hall or the dean’s office for the individual college.
At 10 a.m. on May 4 on the Arts Terrace, students who have completed their degree requirements will be recognized and honored. The ceremony will last for about an hour. After the main commencement, individual college ceremonies will be held approximately at 11:30 a.m. in their respective areas on campus.
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CASTING OFF THE ‘WHAT-IF’S’ LINDSEY GELWICKS I AM A PROCESS LINDSEY GELWICKS IS A SENIOR JOURNALISM MAJOR AND WRITES “I AM A PROCESS” FOR THE DAILY NEWS. HER VIEWS DO NOT NECESSARILY AGREE WITH THOSE OF THE NEWSPAPER. WRITE TO LINDSEY AT LBGELWICKS@BSU. EDU.
I have a problem with nostalgia. Too often, I think about times that are long gone. While reminiscing in and of itself isn’t a problem, focusing on the “What-If’s” and “Might-Have-Been’s” is. Aug. 20 marked the first day of my senior year of college. At the time, I was ready for it. Then nostalgia got the best of me, and about a month into the semester I called my parents and told them I would be staying an extra year. I wish I could say that I had a good reason for it, but the truth is, I didn’t. There’s nothing wrong with staying an extra year to finish your studies, especially if you changed majors. But I hadn’t. In fact, I was in the last of my required courses for my journalism major. If I had created my schedule better, I probably could have graduated in December. Somehow, I convinced my parents that another year of schooling was best. I told them I wasn’t feeling confident in journalism anymore, and I wanted to explore my other interests before I lost the chance. For my fifth year, I planned on completing my dance minor, adding a leadership studies minor and completing the journalism design certificate. On paper, everything I told them made perfect sense. Everything I said to them seemed like a legitimate reason to stay. But in my head, I only had one reason – regret. Every time I reminisced on the past three years, instead of seeing everything I had done, I saw everything that I hadn’t done. I started focusing on the “What-If’s.” What if I had tried harder at dance? Would I have made it as a dance major? What if I had joined my sorority my freshman year instead of waiting until I was a sophomore? Would I have felt more comfortable and been able to be a better leader? What if I hadn’t joined at all? Would I have been more focused on journalism?
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THE BALL STATE BUCKET LIST
FOUR THINGS YOU MUST DO BEFORE YOU GRADUATE Make a point to sample the local bars, from a night in the Village to venturing downtown. The Locker Room is a long standing classic and the one-man stand Carter’s Nearly World Famous Hotdogs is just down the street. From there, a ride on the Silo Bus can bring the night to downtown where you can catch local musical acts and enjoy a Muncie-brewed beer at The Heorot.
Indulge in college seasonal traditions. During the warmer months, wade through the Frog Baby fountain for a quick cool down. In the Spring, picnic next to the duck pond and in the snow-heavy winter, tray sled down the slopes of campus. Rainy weather is perfect for spending the day snuggled on one of Bracken Library’s many comfy chairs with hot tea from The Bookmark Cafe.
Meet Ball State’s celebrities. While David Letterman may not always be on the premises, there are many other paparazzi opportunities. Happy Friday Guy, a blue-caped forteller of the weekend, can be caught on warmer Friday’s whizzing down campus on a scooter and shouting “Happy Friday!” Also, make sure to get a photo with Ball State’s favorite birds, Charlie Cardinal and the Late Nite Owl. Get cozy in local businesses only in Muncie. Browse Village Green Records and enjoy homemade ice cream at Grandma Betty’s. Take advantage of the endless books at White Rabbit Bookstore and warm beverages at The Cup. Among downtown Muncie’s most need-to-visit hot spots are Wishbone Gifts and The Artist Within, where students can get one-of-a-kind finds and create their own artwork.
EXCISE: Professor says crackdowns like ICE aren’t the solution to underage drinking | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Crackdowns like ICE are not the answer, said Professor Thomas Vander Ven of Ohio University, author of “Getting Wasted: Why College Students Drink Too Much and Party So Hard.” You can change the drinking
age or you can arrest more people, but those things that drive heavy drinking are still going to be there,” Vander Ven said. “The emotional and social benefits are so big that they will find ways to avoid the law or avoid social control.” Vander Ven has found that underage people drink to over-
come shyness, experience a sense of adventure, escape parental control and sometimes, simply for the fun of it. “A lot of people come to these schools expecting drinking to be a big part of it,” he said. “So for some of them, the question itself of ‘why do you drink?’ is surprising because what else
do you do in college? This is what you do. It’s part of the entire package.” Jane Jones, whose name is changed to protect her identity, is only 20 years old but drinks on a fairly regular basis. Jones said she is careful when attending parties, avoiding those that are too large or located in areas
likely to draw police attention. She had a close call with police in high school when she ran from a house party that was busted. She was not caught and continues to drink now. The ICE program doesn’t worry her. “Because I’m so careful, I don’t think I will get caught, but if I did, it wouldn’t stop me in
the long run,” Jones said. “Yeah, I may stop for a few weeks or months, but it’s not going to stop me from ever partying again. To me, partying is part of the college experience that everyone should at least explore once in their life.” Eric Seaman contributed to this article.
Since junior physical education majors Steven Boomershine and Bryan Swift have to take fitness tests for their majors, they have become regulars at SRWC. They said the extra people cause a change in their workout. “I didn’t know it was going to be that busy to be honest, [and] that’s kind of ridiculous,” Swift said. “I usually workout at night when it’s not as busy. It will probably take us longer, that’s for sure.” Swift says the best time to avoid working out is around 3 to 4 p.m., before dinner and after classes. Jason Adamowicz, associate director of special facility management and recreation services, also recommends avoiding peak workout times, even though the
staff does everything they can to prepare for the extra traffic. “We do quite a bit of maintenance during the winter break of our equipment and our facility to prepare for the high volume,” Adamowicz said. “For example, for all of our treadmills and weight equipment, we have a maintenance crew come in and basically clean out those pieces and do minor repairs.” For Feltis and Baker, the next challenge after getting back into the gym is staying with it. “We’re pretty good about exercising. We both had obstacles. I think we’ll handle it better now that we’ve been through it,” Baker said. “We were sounding pretty determined when we were talking about it earlier, so I don’t think we’ll [give up].”
New Year’s resolutions lead to large crowds at SRWC Sudden increase of new users frustrates work out regulars EMMA KATE FITTES CHIEF REPORTER | emfittes@bsu.edu
Many students who didn’t work out regularly before have filled the Student Recreation and Wellness Center to work on their New Year’s resolutions. For sophomore accounting and finance major Ashlee Feltis, being a new face at SRWC was a personal triumph. In October, Feltis dove for a disc while playing for Ball State’s ultimate Frisbee team and landed on her neck. After months of spinal problems, Feltis said she decided the
new year meant a new start. “Its scary, but I feel like it’s my way of releasing all of the bad energy within myself,” she said. “It just felt like the right time to go and get back in it, so I guess the new year could have a lot to do with that.” According to Christine Rody and Alyssa Slabaugh, who work the SRWC front desk checking people in, on a busy day the gym can see anywhere from 160 to 200 or more people in an hour. The trend at SRWC isn’t unusual according to a University of Scranton, Pa., study. About a third of New Year’s resolutions are to lose weight, and 15 percent are to begin an exercise program. “I give everyone a month,” Rody said.
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Patrons of the Student Recreation and Wellness Center work out on ellipticals Monday evening. The new year has brought more people attempting to get in better shape for New Year’s resolutions.
Feltis and her workout partner, sophomore fashion design major Christine Baker, said they don’t mind the large crowd because they are just happy to be back.
“It kind of gave me more ideas because you can watch people and see what they are doing,” Feltis said. “We got inspired to do these little ab workouts,” Baker said.
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Textbooks remain more popular Company believes students will start to buy e-textbooks RACHEL PODNAR CHIEF REPORTER | rmpodnar@bsu.edu Traditional textbooks are far more popular than e-textbooks with students, but e-textbook companies are confident that will change. According to Simba Research, the overall market for digital course materials like online textbooks is projected to grow five times faster than the market for print materials, potentially totally $1.6 billion by 2014, making online textbooks a major player in the future of education. Cindy Clarke, vice president of marketing at CourseSmart, an online renter of e-textbooks and digital course materials, said the growth of e-textbooks has been fueled by the rise in tuition, the proliferation of campus WiFi networks and technology’s importance in student’s lives. CourseSmart has seen significant growth in sales since 2008. “Students are relying more and more on technology and they see it as a vital part of their daily lives,� Clarke said. “The average student uses up to three digital devices every day. It makes sense that these students will migrate towards e-textbooks, just as they have gravitated to other electronic content.�
Freshman education major Jessie Keith said she prefers online textbooks over the traditional method. She used many digital textbooks in high school, and this semester purchased both the print and online version of one textbook. “[Online textbooks] are usually cheaper and I don’t hurt my back lugging them around every day,� Keith said. “But best of all, I love how digital textbooks allow you to search for words and phrases — that can be so helpful while studying or writing for those classes.� Although the industry is growing and e-books have some exclusive features, only 11 percent of college students have purchased online textbooks, according to a study from market research firm Student Monitor. T.I.S. College Bookstore general manager Pam Suminski said T.I.S. does not sell a lot of e-books, which leads her to believe students prefer the traditional option. For every textbook that has an e-book option, TIS carries the e-book code right next to the text version so students have the choice. Matt Montgomery, Ball State alum and president and CEO of ecampus.com, an online retailer of textbooks both traditional and online, also said that his company does not sell many e-textbooks, making up less than 10 percent of total textbook sales. He thinks that in the future, e-
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textbook’s percentage of sales may surpass conventional textbooks, as today’s kindergartners, who grew up learning with technology, will prefer e-textbooks. For now, students seem to prefer the hard copies. “There is a cultural difference with students,� Montgomery said. “I can buy a textbook and it has value whether I trade or sell it back. I can get residual money at the end of the semester. With an e-book, the subscription expires and you have a usage fee. At end of semester it evaporates.� Junior information systems and operations management major Joe Kaufeld said he liked using an e-book because it was convenient for his Kindle, but that downside was enough to push him back to traditional books.
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“I bought an e-book once and then regretted it and never bought another,� Kaufeld said. “Yes, I liked it more than a regular book, yes, it worked better for me — but you can’t resell e-books.� An independent study published by ecampus.com found 54 percent of college-student respondents said “maybe� they would buy an e-book over a print book, depending on the class. Junior hospitality and food management major Susan Grilliot sees both the pros and cons of e-textbooks. “I prefer a physical copy because I feel more free to study wherever whenever, but if the online is cheaper and I don’t want to keep the book, I buy the online version,� she said. Charles Schmidt, director
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WEDNESDAY Following a last-second win over Norfolk State, men’s basketball will play at Eastern Michigan.
THURSDAY Women’s basketball will try to end its month-long losing streak as it plays Miami at 7 p.m. at home.
SATURDAY Ball State men’s volleyball opens its season at 7:30 p.m. inside Worthen Arena against St. Francis.
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Senior punter Scott Kovanda warms up for a punt in the game against Central Michigan on Oct. 20, 2012. Kovanda will compete in the NFLPA All-Star Game and will attend the 2013 NFL Combine.
Crimson Tide rout Irish to secure national title Lacy rushes for 140 yards, scores two touchdowns | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The coach no longer wears houndstooth. The result is the same. Another Alabama dynasty. Quieting the Irish by the first play of the second quarter, Eddie Lacy, AJ McCarron and the No. 2 Crimson Tide rolled top-ranked Notre Dame 42-14 for the BCS championship Monday night, locking up a second straight national title and third in four years with another laugher of a title game. The Bear would’ve been especially proud of this one — Nick Saban and the Tide romping to the second-biggest rout of the BCS era that began in 1999. Lacy, the game’s offensive MVP, ran for one touchdown and caught a pass for another in the final minute of the opening half, spinning away from the vaunted Notre Dame defense not once, but twice, to cap a 28-0 blitz before the bands even got on the field. Lacy finished with 140 yards on 20 carries, coming up with two of his best performances in the two biggest games of the year. He rushed for a career-high 181 yards in a thrilling victory over Georgia in the SEC title game, and was nearly as dominant against the Irish. McCarron wasn’t too shabby, either, completing 20 of 28 passes for four touchdowns and 264 yards, adding another dazzling effort on top of his MVP in last year’s title game. You could almost hear television sets around the country flipping to other channels, a hugely anticipated matchup between two of the nation’s most storied programs reduced to nothing more than the second straight BCS blowout for the Crimson Tide. “We’ve had a lot of really great football players who’ve worked really hard,” Saban said. “Because we’ve had a great team, we’ve been able to have a significant amount of success.” Alabama (13-1) made the Irish (12-1) look like a squad that would be hard-pressed to finish in the middle of the pack in the mighty Southeastern Conference, which
has now won seven straight national championships. The Crimson Tide will likely wrap up its ninth Associated Press national title, breaking a tie with Notre Dame for the most by any school and gaining a measure of redemption for a bitter loss to the Irish almost four decades ago: the epic Sugar Bowl in which Ara Parseghian’s team edged Bear Bryant’s powerhouse 24-23. Bryant won five AP titles during his brilliant career. The way things are going, Saban might just chase him down. The diminutive man with the perpetual scowl has guided Alabama to the top spot in the rankings three times since arriving in Tuscaloosa in 2007, and if he’s serious about finishing his career with the job he has, there seems no reason he can’t win a few more before he’s done with “The Process.” Already, Saban is the first coach in the BCS era to win national titles at different schools, capturing his first at LSU during the 2003 season. Now, he’s the first coach with backto-back BCS titles, and given the youthfulness of his team, Alabama figures to go into next season as a heavy favorite. In an interesting twist, Saban’s fourth college title came in the stadium where he had the only stumble of his coaching career, a two-year tenure with the NFL’s Miami Dolphins
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Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly, left, watches from the sidelines in the second quarter against Alabama in the BCS National Championship game on Monday.
that ended ugly, with the coach insisting he wasn’t planning to leave — then bolting for Alabama just two weeks later. His tactics may have been underhanded, but it’s hard to argue with the call he made. Before a record Sun Life Stadium crowd of 80,120 that definitely included more green than crimson, Lacy ran right through the Irish and their Heisman Trophy finalist Manti Te’o on a 20-yard touchdown run before the game was three minutes old, capping an 82yard drive that was longest of the season given up by the
Fighting Irish. Good thing a four-team playoff is coming with the 2014 season. Alabama and the SEC have come to dominate this system. Florida began the unprecedented streak in the 2006 season, and added another crown two years later. LSU and Auburn have also won titles during the run. The only BCS title game that was more of a blowout was USC’s 55-19 victory over Oklahoma in the 2005 Orange Bowl, a title that was later vacated because of NCAA violations.
Even with the season over, former Ball State punter Scott Kovanda is still busy with football. The athletic department announced Kovanda was named to participate in the 2013 National Football League Players Association Collegiate Bowl on Jan. 19 in Carson, Calif. The game will be played at the Home Depot Center, which is on the campus of California State University. There will be events in the week leading up to the bowl that will help players in the game adjust to the NFL. Players will be taught the business of football and learn how to succeed while in and after the NFL. Several former pro football players and coaches will help the participants. Former coaches Herm Edwards and Dick Vermeil will coach the
two teams. Players that will be in attendance include Terrell Davis, Hank Baskett and T.J. Houshmandzadeh. Kovanda has already been invited to the 2013 NFL Scouting Combine in February and was a finalist for the 2012 Ray Guy Award for the nation’s best punter. In his senior season, Kovanda punted 47 times, 27 of which were pinned inside the opponent’s 20-yard line. Only six of his punts were returned. He had a net total of 1,767 yards and an average of 40.2 yards on the season. Kovanda also had six punts that went further than 50 yards. In his career, Kovanda had 223 punts for 9,154 yards, which put him fourth in Ball State history for career punt yardage. He was also fourth in career punts and third in career punt average. Kovanda continues a streak of Ball State punters that have had a chance to compete beyond the school. Former Ball State punters Brad Maynard and Reggie Hodges of the Cleveland Browns are two of the most notable punters from the school.
BASKETBALL: New players will help team’s psyche | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Sallee said that having Southworth and Smith will allow Ball State to open the floor up more than in previous games. Ball State has played very short-handed at times this season, even having to play 4-on-5 at one point due to so many players fouling out. “Against Valpo, we had them back, but they really hadn’t been into what we were doing for very long, at all,” Sallee said. “So it was kind of ‘Throw them out there and see what it looks like.‘ They’re a part of the rotation now. I think it helps our team’s psyche just to have kind of a real roster out there and have nine bodies ready to go.“ One player that Ball State won’t have this season is forward Jonessa Moore. Moore was declared ineligible again. She was also ineligible last year, due to academics.
Ball State will need as many players as it can get with MidAmerican Conference play just around the corner. Conference play will begin for Ball State against Miami (OH) on Thursday. The MAC is a combined 6782 in non-conference play this season. Ball State will play 16 MAC games this season, and went 4-12 the last two seasons in MAC play. “The thing that you have to understand when you get into conference play is just how important every single possession is,” Sallee said. “Every rebound means a little bit more, every loose ball means a little bit more. There’s a little bit of familiarity with each other because you’re within the conference, and clearly there’s a little bit of pride at stake night in and night out when you’re playing conference schools than when you’re playing outside of conference.”
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