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Proponents of landmark ban hope to ‘lead the way’ for others | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ALBANY, N.Y. — Jumping out ahead of Washington, New York state enacted the nation’s toughest gun restrictions Tuesday and the first since the Connecticut school massacre, including an expanded assault-weapon ban and background checks for buying ammunition. Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the Common sense measure into law less than an hour after it can win. You can won final passage in the Legislature, with overpower the supporters hailing it as extremists with a model for the nation and gun-rights activ- intelligence and ists condemning it as with reason and a knee-jerk piece of legislation that won’t with common make anyone safer and sense. is too extreme to win support in the rest of ANDREW CUOMO, the country. Democratic governor “Common sense can win,” Cuomo said. “You can overpower the extremists with intelligence and with reason and with common sense.” Owners of an estimated 1 million previously legal semiautomatic rifles, such as the Bushmaster model used to kill 20 children and six adults in Newtown, Conn., a month ago, will be allowed to keep their weapons but will have a year to register them with police. The sale of any more such weapons is prohibited. “When there’s a pileup of events, when the federal government does not do it, the state of New York has to lead the way,” said state Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, a Brooklyn Democrat and co-sponsor.
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From left, Hannah Lindgren, MacKenzie Cox and Sarah Fischer pose with books written by John Green on Tuesday. All three students consider themselves part of the Nerdfighter community, a concept created by fans of the author and his brother.
Community of ‘Nerdfighters’ share love for young adult novelist John Green
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eadheads, Trekkies, Potterheads. Each of these represents a person who claims to be a super fan of something, whether it’s music, television or books. Another term that can be added to this is Nerdfighters.
We don’t fight nerds,” said MacKenzie Cox, a sophomore secondary math education major. “We fight for nerds. We fight for the acceptance of nerds.” Nerdfighters can simply be described as fans of brothers John and Hank Green. John Green is an award-winning novelist of books such as “Looking for Alaska” and “Paper Towns.” His most recent novel, “The
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Fault of Our Stars,” released Jan. 10, 2012, was named TIME Magazine’s No. 1 Fiction Book of 2012. Hank Green is a musician and the creator and executive producer of “The Lizzie Bennett Diaries,” a webseries modernizing Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.”
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University recognizes projects WAL-MART PLANS with first immersive course awards TO HIRE MORE VETS Winning departments receive $2,500; WITHIN 5 YEARS Gora hopes to reward classes annually CHRIS STEPHENS CHIEF REPORTER | castephens@bsu.edu
For the first time in the university’s history, immersive learning projects are receiving awards for excellence in student development. Ball State instructors from 24 departments in all seven colleges met in L.A. Pittenger Center to award outstanding immersive learning projects Tuesday night . “This is the first of what we believe will be an annual celebration of immersive learning,” Ball State President Jo Ann Gora said. Provost Terry King said 31 projects were completed throughout the past two years and were nominated for awards. Five awards were given out, a number that King said was
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increased from four due to the outstanding array of nominated programs. Winning projects received $2,500 for each faculty member involved in the project. Each department that had a faculty representative also received $2,500 to use for faculty development, King said. “It is rewarding to know that someone recognizes what we
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Five immersive learning groups were given an award for their projects Tuesday evening in L.A. Pittenger Center. Twenty-four departments in all seven colleges met to honor the immersive learning courses.
are doing,” said Winnie Mucherah, a faculty member involved with the project “Schools Within Context of Community.” “[The award] makes [the project] more significant. So it isn’t just something we are doing — we enjoy doing it — but we just want to have the support of the university,” Much-
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erah said. “I think this will make us more zealous.” Michael Daehn, an associate professor of theatre education, said he came to the event in order to root for colleagues and was unprepared to actually receive an award.
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NEW YORK — Why wait on Washington when there’s Wal-Mart? Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer and the biggest private employer in the U.S. with 1.4 million workers here, said Tuesday that it is rolling out a threepart plan to help jumpstart the sluggish U.S. economy. The plan includes hiring more than 100,000 veterans in the next five years, spending $50 billion to buy more American-made merchandise in the next 10 years and helping its part-time workers TWEET US
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move into full-time positions. The move comes as WalMart tries to bolster its image amid widespread criticism. The company, which often is criticized for its low-paying jobs and buying habits in the U.S., recently has faced allegations that it made bribes in Mexico and calls for better safety oversight after a deadly fire at a Bangladesh factory that supplies its clothes. WalMart said its initiatives are unrelated to those events, but rather are meant to highlight that companies don’t have to wait for lawmakers in Washington, D.C., to fix the economy. “We’ve developed a national paralysis that’s driven by all of us waiting for someone else to do something,” Bill Simon, president and CEO of WalMart’s U.S. business, said
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