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Student Government Association executive board slate candidates are spending their final days until the election ends campaigning and dealing with offcampus voting problems. Kevin Thurman, SGA elections board chair, said students wishing to vote off campus were unable to do so until approximately 2:15 p.m. Monday due to a per- Vote online at: mission error within the program. “I want to clarify that no slate in any way helped to remedy the situation,” Thurman said, following tweets by Cardinal United, who took credit for ad- or visit bit.ly/OUATYL dressing the problem with Of- Vote until 6:45 p.m. fice of Student Life first. “It was brought to my attention by several members of each slate, and I feel it is unethical and misleading for any one slate to take credit.” Thurman said more issues with voting off campus were reported late Monday evening, and those problems would be addressed the next morning with Unified Technology Services. Cassy Swanson, Spark campaign manager, said she believes the technical issue presented a problem and may have swayed people not to vote because they did not know they had to be on the Ball State secure connection and may have thought they just could not vote. With elections only open for two days, it is important for each slate to push students to vote but also inform them of the importance of SGA, Swanson said. She said Spark was focused on social media to get the word out, and she believes Spark had strong branding but needed to make sure voters knew what their platform stood for. “Students may know the parties’ names but don’t know they can vote or what exactly student government is,” Swanson said. Kayleigh Mohler, Fusion campaign manager, said her slate had visited several dining halls, including the Atrium and L.A. Pittenger Student Center, and talked with several students who were unaware of the elections. Fusion worked to encourage students to familiarize themselves with SGA and the slates.
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Ball State student has received $5,000 toward his education for something that most scholarships try to avoid – averageness. “The Average Student Scholarship Contest” was created by the popular website CollegeHumor.com, and the scholarship was awarded to sophomore acting major David Cole, who is part of the type the website staff believes usually get passed up for scholarships. To enter, students were asked to submit an essay no longer than 1,000 words, explaining why they deserved the award of “most average student.” Additional material, such as photos and video, was acceptable for submission. The contest focused on three primary characteristics, including “academic average, humor and originality.”
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DAVID TIMOTHY COLE What makes him average?
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HE ALSO: • Spends more time complaining about homework than doing it • Joins clubs and receives information about them but never goes to meetings • Performs stupid dares for little or no reward
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Students learn how to prevent suicide through 3-step training People share stories of when training would’ve helped
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Since losing her father to suicide when she was 10 years old, the executive director of the Alive Campaign is working to make him proud by putting on events like the Question, Persuade and Refer suicide prevention training hosted Monday, which started the Self-Injury and Suicide Awareness week. Junior social work major CarTHE FIGHT men Diaz also OF HER LIFE lost her uncle Features editor when she was 16 reflects on her past battle with and her friend in depression high school to suicide. + PAGE 3 “I never in a million years pictured my life to be like this, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world,” Diaz said. “I would trade it all to have my dad
With two outs in the bottom of the ninth on Saturday night, Lipscomb hit a sharp ground ball to shortstop, where it was fielded and fired to first, giving Ball State their third win of the season. For Ball State coach Rich Maloney, it was much more than just another digit in the win column. Saturday’s win was No. 600 in Maloney’s coaching career. He spent 1996-2002 coaching Ball State before leaving to spend 10 seasons with Michigan. Now returning to the university where he got his start, Maloney was glad the landmark win occurred here. “If I wasn’t at Ball State, I never would have had my 10 years at Michigan,” Maloney said. “To do something like that is because of the help from a lot of people.” He amassed four MAC West titles
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Students at the Question, Persuade and Refer suicide prevention seminar in the Teachers College lecture room 102 respond to a question about how comfortable they are discussing suicide with someone who may be experiencing suicidal thoughts. Students were able to ask questions throughout the night about how to help someone.
back, but I would not trade any of these experiences, friendships that I made... it’s irreplaceable.” Diaz said this is the third time she has seen Denise Bike, a therapist at the counseling center, present the QPR program, and she has “morphed it around” to help reach everyone in the audience.
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INDIVIDUAL STATS RICH MALONEY, COACH • 259-148-1 • 4 MAC West titles • 2 MAC Regular Season titles • 1998 and 2001 MAC Coach of the Year • 51 players drafted, 5 first round and coached 51 draft picks, including five first-round selections. Maloney said although he enjoyed his years at Michigan and learned a lot, it means more to him that he reached the milestone while wearing the Ball State uniform. “To be back here at Ball State for it, man does it feel special. Really, really special,” Maloney said. Maloney stressed that the key to achieving consistent victory is in keeping the game simple. Instead of focusing on the opponent, players need to focus on themselves and executing the fundamentals.
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A news source should educate the public on the facts. It is the job of a news source to make the public aware of what is going on by presenting facts, not opinions. Most professional news sources follow this simple rule of reporting. However, the Ball State Daily News does not. The Daily News has decided to endorse an executive slate for SGA. While this is something they have done for a few years, it does not make it correct. When I read news, I want to learn the facts so that I may formulate my own opinion. It is not their job to tell me what to think, only what the facts are. When you take a side, or show an opinion, it brings all of your reporting into question. Some of the same people who wrote articles throughout the election season sat down and decided to endorse a particular slate. As a student body, it is now our job to question all they have written about the elections this year. How can we know that they have done honest reporting from the start? Have they always favored a slate? Honestly, I cannot tell you that. What I can tell you is that their ethics are now in question. Their credibility is now in question. Can we really trust the Daily News for honest, true and unbiased reporting on the SGA elections? No. I will tell you who you can trust. WCRD. And this is coming from me and that is an opinion I have developed on my own, not one coming from WCRD. Their
Kevin Thurman, Elections Board Chair, has decided to question the journalism ethics of the Daily News because of an editorial written about the Student Government Association elections board and an endorsement for executive board slate Cardinal United. As a publication, we welcome all opinions and criticisms, including Thurman’s. The editorial board would like to acknowledge some of Thurman’s claims, though, so readers can decide for themselves. In his letter to the editor, Thurman said the writers of the Daily News never informed him or the elections board that the paper would write an editorial for Thursday’s paper, and that no one asked for comment. On Wednesday night, Thurman came to the Daily News newsroom and sat down with two reporters, one of whom was opinion editor Kelly Dickey. She asked him questions and he was aware that everything he said was on the record. Everything he said was publishable, and it doesn’t matter which page it was published on. Thurman said the Daily News misquoted him about
ENDORSEMENT CALLS ETHICS INTO QUESTION entire staff has done a phenomenal job covering the elections. They have remained unbiased. They have given more coverage to the elections than any other student media group. They have been the most professional in their coverage, only reporting the facts, not their own opinions (like the DN continues to do). I would encourage all students to turn to WCRD for your election coverage. That is where you will get the fair, unbiased reporting that is lacking in this newspaper. I would also like to address the poor journalism ethics shown in Thursday’s editorial. The writers at the Daily News never informed me, or the Elections Board as a whole, they were writing an editorial about us. They never asked for comment on it or for specific comments to be used in it. It was extremely one sided. It lacked the entire story. To call someone a “bully” and not tell them or ask for comment is extremely unprofessional. They misquoted me. I said they could fill out a FOIA request for any info they want. They chose to say I would not release anything. This, my fellow students, is the kind of reporting the Ball State Daily News has chosen to be. I call on you to question the Daily News and the reporting in it. Is it appropriate? Is it ethical? I’ll let you be the judge.
ENDORSEMENTS, EDITORIALS DO NOT AFFECT REPORTING AT ISSUE: Elections chair raises journalism ethics question
Kevin Thurman Elections Board Chair Ball State University Student Government Association
releasing information regarding the investigation of Cardinal United and senators Con Sullivan and Jason Pickell. He did say the Daily News could request documents through the Freedom of Information Act, which the newspaper has done. But that is something that the publication can do by law, and in no way means that Thurman or the elections board provided that information. Because of the editorials, Thurman said it brings the Daily News’ reporting into question. Dickey, who wrote the elections board editorial and the endorsement for Cardinal United, has never written any news articles about SGA. Thurman also takes issue with the fact that the Daily News wrote an endorsement at all, implying professional news sources present only facts and not opinions. But the reality is writing endorsements is standard newspaper practice. The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Indianapolis Star all write endorsements, just to name a few. Each slate came to the Daily News willingly on Sunday and were all aware that we would
likely endorse one of them. It’s a process Thurman should understand since he sought the Daily News’ endorsement when he ran for SGA president in 2011. In the midst of the 2012 presidential and local elections, the Indianapolis Star explained why it endorses candidates: “Endorsements fit with our daily mission of community leadership. That leadership includes listening to and providing a forum for diverse points of view, bringing people together in civil conversations and debate, and helping different segments of our community find ways to work together.” It’s not a coincidence the Daily News’ opinion section is called Forum. It’s an outlet to start a conversation, which we clearly have with Thurman. It does not mean our reporting is biased. If Thurman or other students think it is unethical for the Daily News to have an opinion page, then should we eliminate it? If so, Thurman would not have been able to write his letter to the editor. Readers are entitled to their opinions on our Forum page, and we’re entitled to ours.
DON’T BE ASHAMED TO ASK FOR HELP; ‘IT’S OK TO NOT BE OK’ LINDSEY GELWICKS I AM A PROCESS LINDSEY GELWICKS IS A SENIOR MAGAZINE 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
My mind was numb as I lay curled in a ball on the tiny hospital bed of IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital. Pure exhaustion had taken me over. Joining it were fear and loneliness. I couldn’t imagine anything worse for a suicidal patient than being left alone in a stark white room where the only things to do were sleep or think about how alone you felt. Eventually a nurse brought me magazines. I read a lot of TIME articles that day. It was Feb. 26, 2012. Even a year later, the 24 hours prior to when my boyfriend at the time and I checked myself into the hospital are crystal clear. I remember going to the Franklin Central show choir competition with my younger brother, hoping that time with my family doing something I used to love would cure me. I just ended up crying in the middle of a group’s cover of Jessie J’s “Who You Are.” The line “It’s OK not to be OK” got to me. I cried again over pizza during lunch. This time unprovoked. I remember convincing my parents that I would be OK to head back to school later that day. Twenty minutes into the drive I felt out of control; the urge to run my car off the road and end everything I had been feeling the past few months was so strong that I started shaking. I called my boyfriend asking
him to talk to me the rest of the way to Muncie. “I can’t. I’m hanging out with friends. We’re taking a shot in every building on campus,” he replied. Frantic, I called several more people before finally reaching one of my sorority sisters. I remember the rest of the evening was filled with shouting fights, a smashed cologne bottle and a break up. A brief calmness settled over me as I spent the next few hours with sisters, pretending it was just another break up and that I would be OK. I wasn’t. On the walk home and as I sat alone in my room, images that had been haunting me over the past months came flooding back into my head. The time I sat in my boyfriend’s kitchen, knife to my wrist. The time he had to pull the car over before I could fling myself out. Over the past month, I had vividly imagined every way to go: hanging, pills, did I know anyone with a gun? Later that night, I ended up back in my now ex-boyfriend’s bed, afraid to be alone because of what I would do. “I need you to take me to the hospital first thing tomorrow morning,” I whispered. At the time, I was admitting defeat. I had failed to take care of myself. But looking back, it was the strongest decision I had
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made in years. Asking for help is hard. Since sophomore year of high school, my brother was the only one who knew I was struggling with depression. Even then, I was able to convince him, and myself most of the time, that things were OK. Through most of college, I held it together, keeping secret from my
friends the time I poured the bottle of ibuprofen on the floor, counting the pills to see if it would be enough. It wasn’t. I would have just ended up getting my stomach pumped. Eventually, I opened up to a few more people. But only those I was closest to. If others knew, they’d see me as this flawed creature incapable of taking care of myself.
Once you tell someone you struggle with depression and fight the urge every day to kill yourself, you’re viewed differently. You’re fragile. You’re broken. “Crazy” was a word I heard a lot. That’s the problem with depression in this society. It’s not viewed as just another disease. Somehow this disease affects your character and how people view you as a person. But it shouldn’t. An illness is an illness. When you’re sick, you go to a doctor without the fear of feeling ashamed. Those suffering from depression should not have to feel ashamed to ask for help. They shouldn’t have to worry about what others will think about them. I’ve come a long way since a year ago. I’ve done so much that I wouldn’t have been able to do had I ended my life. But despite being stronger, I’m terrified that when others read this, they’ll see me differently, especially if they didn’t know me a year ago. I’m scared that when they see me, all they’ll see is the broken girl lying on the hospital bed. I won’t say that girl isn’t me anymore. It’s a part of me but it’s not all of me. I’m so much more. And so is everyone who has battled depression or is still battling it. We’re survivors. I’m a survivor.
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OBAMA WARNS OF SPENDING CUTS WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday said looming automatic spending cuts are already affecting the economy, while a top administration official warned that the nation’s borders would be less secure if billions of dollars are yanked from the budget Friday. “The uncertainty is already having an effect,” Obama said. “Companies are preparing layoff notices. Families are preparing to cut back on expenses. The longer these cuts are in place, the bigger the impact will become.” Despite the urgent rhetoric, there was no indication the White House and congressional Republicans were actively negotiating a deal to avoid the so-called sequester ahead of the end of the week deadline. The last known conversation between Obama and GOP leaders was last week and there have been no in-person meetings between the parties this year. With Congress back from a weeklong recess, House Speaker John Boehner showed little willingness to move off his long-held position that the sequester be offset through targeted spending cuts, not the package of cuts and tax increases Obama supports. “Mr. President, you got your tax increase,” Boehner said, referring to the tax rate increases that took effect on Jan. 1. “It’s time to cut spending here in Washington.” The $85 billion budget-cutting mechanism could affect everything from commercial flights to classrooms to meat inspections. Domestic and defense spending alike would be trimmed, leading to furloughs for hundreds of thousands of government workers and contractors.
SUICIDE: Students practice method in groups at event | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Bike started by asking students to rate their confidence and comfort levels with talking to someone having suicidal thoughts on a scale from one to ten, one being uncomfortable and unconfident, and ten being comfortable and confident. She then introduced the QPR method, which spells out the steps for the conversation in a manner similar to the steps in CPR. The method starts by asking the question “Are you having thoughts of killing yourself?” in a sensitive manner, then persuading the person you are on their side and finally referring them to the counseling center or another place for professional support. After learning the method, students paired up with one person as a distressed student and one as a gatekeeper. The gatekeeper followed the QPR steps in the simulated conversation to ultimately have the distressed student contact the counseling center, or another agency, for help. Victor Figuereo, a masters clinical psychology student, said the role play helped him practice making the process less rehearsed and sound more natural. “The fact that I practiced it, the experience of talking to someone else about their suicidal thoughts, really helped me become more comfortable and get that experience of actually talking,” Figuereo said. “I have experiences with depression in my family, and I have never really experienced directly talking to someone about their suicidal thoughts. I feel like if it was a family member it would be more uncomfortable for me... it depends on the person.” When Bike asked students to reevaluate their confidence and comfort level at the end of the event, Figuereo said he moved from a two to a five. Bike said it is important for students to attend events
COMMON SUICIDE MYTHS MYTH
No one can stop a suicide. FACT
If people in a crisis get the help they need, they will probably never be suicidal again. MYTH
Confronting a person about suicide will only make that person angry and increase the risk of suicide. FACT
Asking someone directly about suicidal intent lowers anxiety, opens up communication and lowers the risk of an impulsive act. MYTH
Only experts can prevent suicide. FACT
Suicide prevention is everybody’s business and anyone can help prevent the tragedy of suicide. like this. “Therapists can’t catch everything and students are the best people to know if something is going on with their friends,” Bike said. “They’re great people to recognize what’s going on and to encourage them. Somebody might be more likely to listen to their friend than someone they don’t know.” Diaz said she was pleased with the turnout, although the event started an hour later than planned due to a scheduling problem with Bike. Diaz said they posted on their Facebook and Twitter accounts when they found out at 3 p.m., and therefore she doesn’t think the change affected the turnout. “Nobody left that didn’t come back,” Diaz said. “It was really nice to see people hang out and wait. We just played some music and [played videos of] our past projects... I think it was just a good time to kick back and take a break before.” Diaz said the QPR is really an introduction to the threehour Safe Talk suicide prevention training at 6 p.m. on Thursday in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center.
SGA: Slates link to students before voting ends today | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “Lots of students asked what student government was,” Mohler said. “But I also met a lot of students who said they had already voted which was encouraging.” Nick Wilkey, Fusion vice-presidential candidate, said several students did not even know SGA existed, and his experience as senator gave him the ability to explain the impact SGA has on students. Several students he talked to actually want to become senators, something he said is possible because Fusion is focused on talking to each student individually. “Having a personal connection with the students is the major point of Fusion,” Wilkey said. “They can get a better view if you are talking with them instead of talking at them.” Swanson said Spark spoke in three Communications 210 halls Monday and reached roughly 300 students, most of whom were freshman. “Our main goal was to make
sure they knew what student government is,” Swanson said. “Make sure that in the future they can understand it and be a part of it.” Brandon Pope, Cardinal United’s treasurer candidate, said the recent controversy surrounding an anonymous Twitter account has made the members of Cardinal United stronger in their campaign. “I will be honest, I think it has strengthened our resolve, when we were accused of this on the brink of our hard work falling apart—a lot of tears that day—we really grew closer as a slate and grew closer as people,” Pope said. He said his slate had spent the day blanketing the area, setting up laptop booths or iPads to allow students to vote and also be informed. He said the entire slate combined had at least 100 students vote with their system. “We have organized for the past three weeks, so [it’s] just time to go out and talk to people,” Mohler said about campaigning.
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Members of a panel discuss issues surrounding body image in today’s society on Monday. The panel, which took place in the Park Hall multipurpose room, was hosted by Counseling and Health Services.
Panel discusses body image with students Media, family tend to lead to ideas of weight expectations ARIC CHOKEY STAFF REPORTER | aachockey@bsu.edu
A panel discussion composed of participants from diverse backgrounds addressed topics including cultural differences of body image, clothing and media portrayal as part of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. Two undergraduate and two graduate students shared their stories on the panel, each member coming from a different background. Essence Vinson, a senior social work major and panel member, said what people see on TV affects their perceptions of body image. “In the media, there are a lot of images of tall and skinny women,” Vinson said. This message has not only permeated Western culture, but other countries abroad. “With media here and back home, skinnier is better,” said Katerina Psarropoulou,
a panel speaker who is a graduate international student from Greece. Matlyn Rybak, a senior at Indiana Academy, said thinness, however, has not always been idolized by society. “I read an old magazine, about women like Marilyn Monroe, where women were complaining because they had to put on weight in order to attract men,” Rybak said. The ‘50s was a time that thinness was regarded as less attractive than having some weight. This perception is still held up, and even idolized, by some cultures today. “In Asia, it is more acceptable, if not desirable, to be large,” said Patrick Waring, a graduate student at Ball State and panel member. “In Hawaii, the kings and queens were large.” Waring has lived in both Japan and Hawaii and shared his experiences with cultural perceptions. He said body image is in the eye of the culture. These national differences can cause somewhat of a culture shock when traveling back and forth across borders. Psarropoulou said people ask
her if she has gained weight whenever she goes home. “Whenever I travel home, I’m very conscious about what I eat,” she said. “My mom and grandmother always made sure I ate and that I was not too skinny.” Based on anecdotes by panel speakers, home is usually the place that people’s perception of body image originates. Vinson said she came from a family that was used to “big hips, butts and thighs” and reinforced positive body image for her. Weight was not the only insecurity panels discussed at Monday’s meeting. Luke Bonvillian, a junior international business major, said his height contrasted with society’s gravitation toward tall men. At 5 feet 8 inches, Bonvillian finds inspiration in his perceived shortcoming by finding other short people with who he can relate. “My height is ideal for good divers and I used to dive, so that gives me a little bit of hope,” he said. Even with all of the conflicting messages floating around
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in today’s society, the panel shed some light on the misconceptions about body image and the need for solid understanding amidst social pressure. “It is important to educate and teach about what a healthy body is,” Psarropoulou said.
Craigslist case evidence detailed Man allegedly lured victims while using phony job offers, killed 3 men, injured 1 | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AKRON, Ohio — The alleged mastermind of a deadly plot to lure victims with phony Craigslist job offers, a scheme that led to three deaths and the wounding of a fourth man, went on trial Monday for murder, with prosecutors outlining motives of robbery and identity theft. “He wanted a new identity and he got it,” prosecutor Emily Pelphrey told jurors as she outlined the evidence against Richard Beasley, 53, an ex-convict who slumped in his wheelchair without looking at Pelphrey. Beasley has back problems.
His attorney, James Burdon, said there wasn’t enough evidence to convict Beasley. He said the defense would try to show that the survivor attacked Beasley first, not the other way around. Beasley could face the death penalty if convicted. In a 40-minute opening statement, Pelphrey showed jurors photos of the victims and, without identifying the teen, a photo of Beasley hugging his co-defendant, Brogan Rafferty, 18. Rafferty, who thought of Beasley as a mentor and friend, was convicted last year and was sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole.
Rafferty, too young at the time of the crimes to be eligible for the death penalty, has agreed to testify against Beasley, the alleged triggerman. It was unclear whether his testimony could lead to a sentence reduction. At his sentencing, Rafferty said the crimes were horrible but he didn’t recognize any chance to stop the killings. Rafferty said he feared Beasley would kill him and his family members if he tipped off police. If Beasley is convicted of aggravated murder, the same jury would hear evidence on whether to recommend the judge impose the death sentence. Any sentencing proceeding likely would begin April 8, the judge said. Prosecutors say the victims,
Meatballs from the same batch had been sent from a Swedish supplier to 12 other European countries — Slovakia, Hungary, France, Britain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Ireland — and would be pulled off the shelves in all of them, Ikea said. Later Monday, the company expanded the withdrawals to stores in 21 European countries and in Hong Kong, Thailand and the Dominican Republic, all of which were getting meatballs from the same Swedish supplier. Ikea spokeswoman Ylva Magnusson said that included most European countries, but not Russia and Norway, which use local suppliers. Stores in Poland and Switzerland use both local suppliers and the Swedish one, but would now only use locally produced meatballs, she said. “This is an extraordinary effort to ensure that no one is worried,” Magnusson said.
She added that two weeks ago Ikea tested a range of frozen food products, including meatballs, and found no traces of horse meat. The company plans to conduct its own tests to “validate” the Czech results, she said. Ikea’s North America branch said the U.S. stores get their meatballs from a U.S. supplier. “Based on the results of our mapping, we can confirm that the contents of the meatballs follow the Ikea recipe and contain only beef and pork from animals raised in the U.S. and Canada,” Ikea North America spokeswoman Mona Astra Liss said in a statement. Ikea is known for its assemble-it-yourself furniture but its trademark blue-andyellow megastores also have cafeteria-style restaurants offering Swedish dishes such as meatballs served with boiled or mashed potatoes, gravy and lingonberry jam.
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all down in their luck and with few family ties that might highlight their disappearance, were lured with phony offers of southeast Ohio farmhand jobs on Craigslist in 2011.
IKEA REACTS AFTER MEATBALL SCANDAL Store pulls product from Europe due to horse meat concern | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STOCKHOLM — Swedish furniture giant Ikea became entangled in Europe’s widening meat scandal Monday, forced to withdraw meatballs from stores across Europe amid suspicions that they contained horse meat. Stores in the U.S. and Canada were not affected, Ikea said. The company reacted after authorities in the Czech Republic said they had detected horse DNA in tests of 2.2-pound packs of frozen meatballs that were labeled as beef and pork. The Czech State Veterinary Administration said it tested two batches of Ikea meatballs and only one of them contained horse meat. It did not say how much.
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European Union officials met Monday to discuss tougher food labeling rules after the discovery of horse meat.
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MALONEY: No. 1 pick played under coach
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
BSU DEFENSE CARRYING TEAM Ball State averaged 60 points per game in last two contests
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The schedule says that the Ball State women’s basketball team is on a two-game winning streak. While that is true, it hasn’t been easy, especially offensively. During its last winning streak from Jan. 19 to Feb. 7, Ball State averaged 67 points per game. Throughout the previous two games, its average has dropped to just 60; however, the offensive problems are more prevalent in the first halves of games. On Saturday’s win against Northern Illinois, Ball State scored just 20 points in the game’s first 20 minutes. “There’s no doubt that we
need to be more consistent from half to half,� Ball State coach Brady Sallee said. One consistent aspect of Ball State’s team has been its defense. It currently ranks third in the Mid-American Conference in points allowed to conference teams, at 53.8. The two teams ahead of Ball State on the defensive rankings, Toledo and Bowling Green, are a combined 20-6 in the MAC. Both teams have beaten Ball State this season. “The overriding factor seems to be that we know our defense is where we want it and we’re almost playing a little bit too careful on offense, knowing our defense is going to keep us in it,� Sallee said. Sallee also said his team is playing too patiently in the first half of games. “We defend well enough to keep us in games,� Sallee said. “We feel like if we keep de-
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REMAINING GAMES THURSDAY, FEB. 28
7 p.m. at Central Michigan Offensive Ranking: 2nd SUNDAY, MARCH 3
2 p.m. vs. Western Michigan Offensive Ranking: 8th WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6
7 p.m. at Toledo Offensive Ranking: 3rd fending, the offense is going to come.� Ball State will need to find a first-half offense quickly. It faces Central Michigan Thursday night on the road. A win would put Ball State in sole possession of second place in the conference. “This is kind of a lot of these kids’ first rodeos in this situation,� Sallee said. “It’ll be interesting to see how we react. It’ll be good for us to go through this, and we’ll come out of it better players for sure.“
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Eight of those 56 games will be blowouts in favor of the other team, and the other eight will be in favor the opposite way. Ball State has already engaged in six of those close games, said Maloney. They’ve come out of those games 3-3. In all three of the wins, they registered walks, advanced runners around the bases and scored a critical run when they needed it the most. “Those 40 are all the difference... those little things we’ve been able to do pretty efficiently,� Maloney said. “The guys have bought into the little things like the hitand-run and moving the runners. It’s not rocket science.� Coaches who rack up mountains of wins are usually surrounded by smart assistants and others who help along the way. Maloney said that he’s no different and has been lucky
While studying at Western Michigan, Maloney read a book called “In Search of Excellence� and said the end of the book shaped his baseball philosophy. The end emphasized keeping things simple and not becoming overwhelmed. “When I coach, I have always tried to keep that in mind,� Maloney said. “If you throw strikes to both halves of the plate, you don’t walk many people, you make the routine play routinely, you get a timely hit, you know how to advance runners and you play aggressive, you’ll have a chance to win most of the games you play in.� Maloney believes that over the course of a 56 games, roughly 40 of them will be close. In those close games, the winner will usually be the team who executes the small things better.
to receive the support he’s gotten since 1996. “You never have a number like that, you need help from a lot of people,� Maloney said. Maloney’s early career at Ball State was impressive. In his first stint, he racked up 256 wins, and helped coach pitcher Bryan Bullington. Bullington went on to become the first overall pick in 2002. Later in the first round, pitcher Luke Hagerty was selected, another alum coached by Maloney. Coaching players like Bullington and Hagerty is what has kept Maloney engaged in the sport for so long. “I received some nice texts and emails, which means a lot,� Maloney said. “It means that in some small way, you had some kind of impact on people, and that’s what I’ve always wanted when coaching. That’s why I’m out there every day.�
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Dim light, soulful singing, acoustic guitar and a bar full of people fill Be Here Now every Tuesday for open mic nights. Singer after singer comes up to the corner stage by the bar. People stand and sit on stools with pints of beer on their hands, tapping their feet to the rhythm. Emily Myren, a sophomore sociology major, is the host and a performer of the open mic nights. She started going to open mics last year when Ryan Rader was the host. When Rader couldn’t continue, she asked Be Here Now’s owner if she could take over. Now she introduces open mic nights and performs several songs at 10 p.m. every Tuesday. One song she performed last Tuesday
is “I Am,” an original song inspired by her struggle with religion. “I believed everything that everyone told me to believe, and it made me uncomfortable,” she said about being in Catholic school for 12 years. Running the open mic night is more than just performing though. Myren has to make several preparations before each one. She creates a Facebook event page every week, puts fliers around campus and the Village and contacts other artists outside of Muncie to showcase. Also, Myren comes at least a half an hour prior to set up the sound system and make a sign-up list of performers. One performer last week was Peter Dragoo, a senior telecommunications major. He said he performs at open mic nights to see people’s reactions to the songs he composes. He performed his own songs and a cover last Tuesday as a part of his set. He said many of his songs are from his personal experiences. “I can get over something if I can write a song about it,” he said. Dragoo said there are many talented
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Be Here Now people in Muncie. He gets songs that he hears on open mic nights stuck in his head all week. “I’m blown out of the water every night,” he said. “You‘d never hear it if you don’t come to open mic nights.” Shawn Ayala, 22-year-old Muncie resident, played four original songs and a cover of “Stone Hands” by Balance and Composure. He said his favorite aspect of open mic nights is when people perform covers. “Some bands don’t play covers at shows,” Ayala said. “When people play covers [at open mic night], they play it to their own interpretation.” Ayala’s favorite original song is “First Season Ted Mosby.” He wrote the song
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while watching an episode of the first season of the television show, “How I Met Your Mother.” He said it’s a story about how the character Ted Mosby falls in love with Robin. “The lyrics are funny and sometimes personal,” he said. “It’s a story, a riddle.” Like the other performers, Myren is passionate about music. She said she is even considering dropping out of school to have more time to spend with her music. “I decided not to do what makes my family happy, but what makes me happy,” she said. Myren learned how to play guitar when she was a freshman in high school. The death of a friend later drove her musical inspiration. “After he passed, I tried to do it for him and make him proud,” she said. Open mic nights give Myren a chance to experience different kinds of music and meet many musicians. She said she has learned a lot from other musicians who play. “Open mic nights are a really great thing in my life right now,” she said. “I’m very grateful for it.”
makes my family happy, but what makes me happy. Open mic nights are a really great thing in my life right now. I’m very grateful for it.
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EMILY MYREN, a sophomore sociology major and host/performer of open mic nights
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Audrey Scott and members of the band called Sick/Sea play during Be Here Now’s Open Mic Night, which is hosted every Tuesday. Sick/Sea originated in Texas and will be on tour until early March.
Emily Myren stands at the front of Be Here Now as the first of several performers at Tuesday’s Open Mic Night. Myren, a student at Ball State, runs Open Mic Night, an event that features students, local artists and bands who stop in during their tours.
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Mike Vivas takes the second act in Tuesday’s Open Mic Night at Be Here Now with his lips against the microphone and his fingers strumming a guitar decorated in vibrant colored duct tape. Vivas is part of a band called Southwork from Pittsburgh.
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COLLEGEHUMOR: Cole’s 2.083 GPA, lack of attendance in club, eating seasoning on dare add to averageness | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Evan Cullinan, a sophomore acting major, said Cole could certainly look average if he wanted to, as he did to win the scholarship. “We are pretty boring,” he said. “Once we have a break, we just pretty much sit and do nothing because we are pretty active in our major opposed to when we are back in our room. We just pretty much lounge and do nothing.” Cole, who follows CollegeHumor’s blog on Tumblr, said he tried to appeal to the inherent humor in an average student’s life in his submission. “Everything that I put in the application was obviously true, but it’s a humor website, so I was trying to pick things about myself that they would find humorous,” Cole said. Cole’s submission, which included a video of him eating the contents of a Steak N’ Shake seasoning packet on a dare, also featured the shortest essay of all winners, including the four runner-ups. “It was one of those things where I just got to the point of ‘look, here it is—There’s nothing that extraordinary about me,’” he said. “I think they picked the application they enjoyed the most, because even the four people that were runner-ups, all of them come across to me as the same amount of averageness. I
think it was just kind of what they found the funniest and what they could get the most hype with.” Cole’s application highlights his 2.083 GPA, his poor attendance record with Ball State’s rock climbing club, of which he is a technically a member, and his academic probation because his professors can’t “remember any of [his] work in [his] studio classes.” CollegeHumor and Cullinan both recognized that Cole’s names, including his middle name Timothy, are considered by many as first names. “Some of the funniest, longest-serving writers at CollegeHumor — myself included — were unexceptional students,” said Streeter Seidell, editor-in-chief of CollegeHumor.com, in a press release. “We did our work and got decent grades, but we never really stood out in either direction academically. And now, in these difficult economic times, it’s getting harder for average students like we were to get free money for no reason at all.” Though the contest is meant to be a humorous observation of how colleges allocate scholarships, the prize of $5,000 means a lot to Cole’s family. “My parents didn’t get together until about ten years ago, so for them, as far as college planning didn’t really start until maybe about five or six years ago,” Cole said. “There’s this help coming in, but it’s been about half-and-half with me and my
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EVAN CULLINAN, a sophomore acting major parents paying for college, so this is going to be extremely helpful.” Cole’s financial situation is not an uncommon one in today’s economy. According to the nonprofit group American Student Assistance, nearly 20 million Americans attend a college. Of that 20 million, roughly 60 percent will borrow money to help cover costs, resulting in at least $902 billion worth of student debt. “For me, you know, applying to the scholarship was a ‘why not?’” Cole said. “It can’t hurt, it’s a chance, especially for someone who’s needing a little extra financial help. It’s like, any scholarship you can find, no matter how ridiculous it seems, somebody has to win them and award them, so you might as well apply.” Zach Tabor, a sophomore acting major, said if anything, he is jealous that he wasn’t average enough. “What the scholarship does, in my opinion, is kind of put a silver lining on some troubles he was going through, which is kind of a cool way thinking about it,” he said.
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