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Abortion proposal approved

Malachi Randolph ran across campus after campaigning, out of breath and beading with sweat, in the final minutes of voting to have a group prayer with his slate and campaign staff. In minutes, his phone would ring with the anticipated call that would validate his hard work for the past four months. The full room fell silent as Randolph answered his phone.

Three and half minutes later, the team erupted as they found out the next Student Government Association executive board would be

A SPARK FORWARD

Indiana Senate continues push of stricter pill, ultrasound laws | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Senate on Tuesday approved new restrictions aimed at clinics that offer the abortion pill, requiring them to perform ultrasounds on women seeking the drugs.

Doctors’ offices would be exempt from the provisions, even if those physicians sometimes prescribe abortion pills.

Opponents contend the restrictions unfairly target poor women and are meant to complicate and invade women’s personal health decisions.

Senators voted 33-16 in favor of the proposal.

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CHUCK HAGEL TO SUCCEED LEON PANETTA Former republican senator will be sworn in as defense secretary

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President-elect Malachi Randolph leads his slate and supporters in prayer at the Multicurtural Center on Tuesday. A Spark Forward won the Student Government Association election with 2,189 votes.

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Spark won the Student Government Association executive board election following three weeks of campaigning, three debates, violations on all three slates and false accusations.

The slate won with a total of 2,189 votes, just 10 votes less than the total amount of SGA votes cast last year. Cardinal United received 1,969 votes and 827 students voted for Fusion.

Vice president-elect Chloe Anagnos described the tension in the room when the call was made to Spark.

“Honestly, I thought we lost by the expression on Malachi’s face,” she said.

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votes that were cast for the SGA election

“Pure joy is a very hard feeling to describe but that’s exactly what I am feeling. We just worked so hard since November. I’m still in shock.”

President-elect Malachi Randolph said he does not attribute the slate’s victory to his role as president, but to the effort of the entire campaign team.

“I did not carry this slate and usually the presidential candidate carries the slate,” he said. “These people carried me, and I feel so lucky to be a part of [this]. That sounds scripted, but I felt humbled.”

Along with Spark’s slate, secretaryelect is Giang Tran and treasurer-elect is Kevin Mullaney.

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WASHINGTON — A deeply divided Senate voted on Tuesday to confirm Republican Chuck Hagel to be the nation’s next defense secretary, handing President Barack Obama’s pick the top Pentagon job just days before billions of dollars in automatic, across-the-board budget cuts hit the military.

The vote was 58-41, with four Republicans joining the Democrats in backing the contentious choice. Hagel’s only GOP support came from former colleagues Thad Cochran of Mississippi, Dick Shelby of Alabama and Mike Johanns of Nebraska — all three had announced their support earlier — and Rand Paul of Kentucky.

The vote came just hours after Republicans dropped their unprecedented delay of a Pentagon choice and allowed the nomination to move forward on a 71-27 vote.

Hagel, 66, a former two-term Nebraska senator and twice-wounded Vietnam combat veteran, succeeds Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.

Hagel is expected to be sworn in at the Pentagon on Wednesday.

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- A stipend worth full in-state tuition for president - An office in L.A. Pittenger Student Center room 112 - Parking spot in parking garage behind Student Center VICE PRESIDENT

- A stipend worth 5/6 in-state tuition for vice president - An office in Student Center room 112 SECRETARY AND TREASURER

- A stipend worth 2/3 in-state tuition for secretary and treasurer - Desks in Student Center room 112

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Motivate Our Minds reaches youth beyond academics Ball State senior volunteers in tutoring program to get outside of comfort zone JEREMY ERVIN STAFF REPORTER | jrervinl@bsu.edu James Simmons fell heavily on the couch in the lobby of the Motivate Our Minds building. A small boy sat next to him, thrusting a copy of “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” into his hands. They took turns reading a page at a time, Simmons helping the boy when he struggled.

After-school tutoring often takes this form at the Muncie-based education organization.

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“[Simmons] is very good at helping all the students,” teacher Linda Rose said. “The kids all really like him.”

Motivate Our Minds provides afterschool tutoring for elementary and middle school students. More than 40 children are enrolled in the program, located on East Highland Avenue. Once arriving by bus, parents or the organization’s shuttle, the students are placed in a classroom with licensed teachers and volunteer tutors who provide them with one-on-one attention.

Simmons, a senior social studies education major, began volunteering as a requirement for his multicultural education class.

Simmons said the majority of education majors, including himself, are Caucasian and the curriculum requires them to work

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in environments like EDITOR’S NOTE: Motivate Our Minds This is the with primarily misecond story nority students. in a four-part series featuring The organization’s Ball State classrooms appear students who similar to traditiondedicate their al classrooms. Edutime volunteering cational, ethical and at local artistic decals adorn organizations. the walls and tooshort tables covered in pencils, books and art supplies dot the floor.

The students and tutors experience more than just an academic or student-teacher relationship.

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Motivate Our Minds volunteer James Simmons spends his time outside of being a student at Ball State to help 9-year-old Jeffrey Hawkins read “Harry Potter.”

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HAGEL: Candidate opposed

by Republican colleagues with smaller, deficit-driven budgets.

Obama welcomed the biparAmong his daunting challengtisan Senate vote, although 41 es are deciding on troop levels Republicans opposed his nom- in Afghanistan as the United inee, and said in a statement States winds down its combat that “we will have the defense presence and dealing with $46 secretary our nation needs and billion in budget cuts set to kick the leader our troops deserve.” in on Friday. Republicans insistThe looked past the divisions ed that Hagel was battered and and said he was grateful to bloodied after their repeated Hagel “for reminding us that attacks during the protracted when it comes to political fight. our national de“He will take fense, we are not HAGEL’S HISTORY office with the Democrats or weakest support SENATOR Republicans, we of any defense Two terms in Nebraska are Americans, secretary in VETERAN and our greatest modern history, Twice-wounded in Vietnam responsibility is which will make WILL SUCCEED the security of him less effective Leon Panetta the American on his job,” said people.”

Sen. John Cornyn Republicans of Texas, the Senhad opposed their onetime col- ate GOP’s No. 2 Republican. league, casting him as unqualiNot so, said Democratic Sen. fied for the job, hostile toward Jack Reed, who pointed out Israel and soft on Iran. The ob- that Hagel now has the title jections remained strong well and the fight is history. after the vote.

“All have to work together “I continue to have seri- for the interest of the counous questions about whether try,” said Reed, D-R.I. Chuck Hagel is up to the job The vote ended one of the of being our secretary of de- most bitter fights over a fense,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, Cabinet choice and former R-S.C., said in a statement. “I senator since 1989 when the hope, for the sake of our own Democratic-led Senate denational security, he exceeds feated newly elected President expectations.”

George H.W. Bush’s nominaHagel joins Obama’s retooled tion of Republican John Tower second-term, national security to be defense secretary. team of Secretary of State John In the course of the rancorKerry and CIA Director-des- ous, seven-week nominaignate John Brennan at a time tion fight, Republicans, led of uncertainty for a military by freshMissing the vote was emerging from two wars and Democratic Sen. Frank Lautfighting worldwide terrorism enberg of New Jersey.

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Cardinal United vice president candidate Alexa Gates sits at campaign manager Con Sullivan’s house with other members of the slate after getting the phone call that they had lost to Spark. The Student Government Association election was marred by controversy when Cardinal United was fined and then cleared of creating a Twitter account that bullied SGA senators.

SPARK: Voter turnout reaches record numbers in 2013 | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The election calls to Cardinal United and Fusion were a very different experience than Spark’s. The announcement kept already quiet and anxious rooms silent.

“I’m glad that my friend won and Cardinal United didn’t,” Nick Wilkey, Fusion vice presidential candidate said.

Alexa Gates, Cardinal United vice presidential candidate, said she wasn’t surprised the race was close between them and Spark.

“The reality is that we knew since the beginning that it was going to come down between the two of us,” she said.

The number of votes cast for the SGA election this year more than doubled the 2,199 votes last year with a total of 4,985.

Kevin Thurman, elections board chair, said his goal for voting was 3,000. He said it was an accomplishment for SGA to exceed the number of 4,200 votes cast for Homecoming king and queen last year.

Fayeann Hurley, Cardinal United secretary candidate, said campaigning has changed from past years based on the voting totals.

“A lot more people this year were aware of the [SGA] election than last year’s,” she said.

“I think more people wanted it and people’s staffs and slates were larger because obviously, there was more noise on campus.”

TOTAL VOTES SPARK

2,189 votes, 43.9 percent CARDINAL UNITED

1,969 votes, 39.5 percent FUSION

ABORTION: Regulations will be considered by House

827 votes, 16.6 percent Wilkey said getting that many students involved has a lasting effect.

“It’s just incredible that we reached out to that many people, and hopefully that many people can get back involved with SGA and now they understand what we do,” he said.

Spark cited their conversations with Mayor Dennis Tyler about safety and lighting concerns and athletic director Bill Scholl to plan football events as the first things to tackle on their platform.

This election was filled with controversial charges, including a $519 charge to Cardinal United on false accusations that two of the campaign staff members were in charge of an anonymous Twitter account that cyber bullied a senator.

Cardinal United members attributed part of the 220-vote margin to alleged campaigning in residence halls by Spark.

Thurman said the accusation was reported to the elections board. Five members voted the complaint was not a violation while one was in favor of it being a violation and one member wasn’t present.

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Alex Sventeckis waits on hold during the call that revealed if Fusion had won the election.

Mullaney said Spark will carry their professionalism and approachability with them into their year in office.

“We really want to show people we are being genu-

ine,” he said. “Being able to talk to people and relate to them as a Ball State student is one of our strengths and something we want to carry on into the next year.”

Afghan professors partner with Ball State faculty

Visiting educators seek to modernize teaching methods

SCHMIDT STAFF REPORTER | LUCAS leschmidt@bsu.edu

Higher education instructors from Afghanistan’s Shaikh Zayed University came to speak Tuesday about the progress their country has made in education as a result of a partnership with U.S. universities, including Ball State.

In a $1.2 million program funded by the U.S. Department of State, Ball State and three other U.S. universities have partnered with five Afghanistan universities to improve each university’s journalism curriculum.

The goals of the universities in Afghanistan are to become modernized, improve journalism education through enhanced teaching methods and technology, and improve their English language skills so that instructors and graduates can compete on a world scale.

Mohammad Khan Niazai, an instructor at Shaikh Zayed University, spoke of the reper-

cussions of the Soviet invasion.

“We lost everything after our fight with Russia,” he said.

Fellow instructor Hadi Ur Rahman told of several things that have improved since then.

“Twelve years ago, schools were closed for girls and universities were closed to women. Today we do not have that discrimination,” he said. “Twelve years ago we only had one radio station broadcasting Taliban propaganda, papers had no photos, and television was forbidden.

Now there are six television networks.”

The country has only recently been able to connect with the world in the last few years and its citizens are enthusiastic to take advantage of this newfound ability.

Master Wahidi said visiting campus is an experience they will not forget.

“Our being here gives us ideas. We learned a great deal from Ball State professors,” he said. “We will take that home with us.”

Instructor Naqibullah Atish was surprised by Ball State’s emphasis on giving students an education beyond four

years of listening to lectures.

“We will go back and include internships in our curriculum,” he said.

Their time in Muncie, however, has been more than just a learning experience in journalism education, but also an exposure to American culture.

Niazai was particularly surprised by religious practices that are not common in Afghanistan.

“One thing here is children having a different religion than their parents,” he said.

One student was curious to know what opportunities there are for women in journalism and in higher education.

Wahidi said progress has certainly been made in the last decade, but that the extent of opportunities for women depends on the region they reside in.

“It’s better in cities but outside in rural areas there are fewer women playing prominent roles,” he said. “Not because of discrimination but because of a lack of security in walking from their homes to school and back.”

Rahman was quick to explain the progress women’s rights has made in the country.

“Each province must have two female representatives,” he said.

Junior telecommunications major Kate Shaffer has friends from Afghanistan and wasn’t aware of the large role women played in politics.

“I didn’t know about the involvement of women in government and I thought that was amazing,” she said.

There are also issues in the education system. The government in Afghanistan pays for the education of every citizen including tuition, housing, food and books. It is viewed as a right for each citizen to earn a bachelor’s degree.

The universities, however, are understaffed and inexperienced.

Niazai said that the majority of journalists are unprofessional but that people are still recognizing them for their efforts.

“The government is taking journalism seriously,” he said The partnership between universities in both countries will continue for more than a year, and will continue to assist the growing journalism field in one of the world’s youngest democracies.

The vote came a day after the Senate removed from the bill a provision that would have required a second ultrasound exam on women during follow-up visits after receiving the drugs.

The bill does not specify what type of ultrasound must be done. But abortion-rights supporters say it would essentially force women seeking the procedure to undergo an invasive transvaginal procedure because the abortion pill is given early on in pregnancy, when the embryo or fetus is too small for an abdominal ultrasound.

The bill would also impose tougher requirements on clinics that offer the abortion pill.

Those clinics would face the same requirements as clinics that perform surgical abortions. Doctors’ offices would also be exempt from those extra regulations, and opponents and supporters said those requirements would affect only one clinic — a Planned Parenthood facility in Lafayette.

Sen. Vaneta Becker, R-Evans-

ville, joined Democrats and three other Republicans in opposition. Becker said she believed the new regulations on the abortion pill would cause more women to unsafely buy the abortion-inducing drugs over the Internet. She said that if patient health were the true aim, the rules would also apply to doctor’s offices.

“This bill is not about patient safety,” Becker said. “It’s about patient harassment.”

The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Travis Holdman, a Republican from Markle, said he was comfortable exempting physician offices from the requirements because most of those doctors would be dealing with their regular patients.

Indiana has nine licensed abortion clinics, including three run by Planned Parenthood, according to state records. Planned Parenthood also provides annual exams, birth control and screenings for cancer and for sexually transmitted diseases, and it participates in federal and state programs to provide health care to poor women.

Judge refuses to dismiss charges Soldier’s attorneys in WikiLeaks case say delays unnecessary | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT MEADE, Md. — A U.S. Army soldier accused of sending hundreds of thousands of pages of classified material to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks has not been denied a speedy trial despite his more than two years in confinement, and the charges against him will stand, a military judge ruled Thursday.

Attorneys for Bradley Manning had asked the judge to dismiss all charges against the 25-year-old former intelligence analyst because he’s been detained for two years and nine months. Prosecutors said the delays were reasonable, given the complexity of the case and the volume of classified material involved.

Manning faces 22 charges, including aiding the enemy, which carries a maximum life sentence.

Manning is accused of sending Iraq and Afghanistan battlefield reports, State Department

diplomatic cables, other classified records and two battlefield video clips to WikiLeaks in 2009 and 2010.

The Obama administration has said releasing the information threatened valuable military and diplomatic sources and strained America’s relations with other governments.

Manning supporters consider him a whistleblowing hero whose actions exposed war crimes and helped trigger the Middle Eastern pro-democracy uprisings known as the Arab Spring in late 2010. In an online chat with a confidantturned-government informant, Manning said he leaked the material because he wanted “people to see the truth.”

Under military rules, defendants must be arraigned no more than 120 days after they are charged, although exceptions can be granted for a variety of reasons, including the need to access classified material. Manning was arrested in May 2010 and was detained for 635 days before his arraignment last February. But the judge ruled that only 90 days of that time counted against the 120-day clock and that the rest of the delays were reasonable.

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INTERNET PIRACY WILL FACE NEW PENALTIES The entertainment industry will implement monitoring system versus past lawsuits | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Internet users who illegally share music, movies or TV shows online may soon get warning notices from their service providers that they are violating copyright law. Ignore the notices, and violators could face an Internet slowdown for 48 hours.

Those who claim they are innocent can protest — for a fee.

For the first time since a spate of aggressive and unpopular lawsuits almost a decade ago, the music and movie industries are going after Internet users they accuse of swapping copyrighted files online. The latest effort is aimed at educating casual Internet pirates and convincing them to stop.

“There’s a bunch of questions that need to be answered because there are ways that this could end up causing problems for Internet users,” such as the bureaucratic headache of being falsely accused, said David Sohn, general counsel for the Center for Democracy and Technology, a Washingtonbased civil liber- BY THE NUMBERS ties group.

The Copyright Alert System was Verizon and AT&T users put into effect nationwide this week by the five biggest U.S. Internet service estimated people who providers — Ve- have downloaded or rizon, AT&T, Time watched unauthorized Warner Cable, videos online, according Comcas, Cablevi- to the Motion Picture sion, the Motion Association of America.

Picture Association of America and the Recording hours users who ignore Industry Associa- warning notices could face Internet slowdown tion of America.

Under the new program, the industry will monitor “peer-to-peer” software services for evidence of copyrighted files being shared. Each complaint will prompt a customer’s Internet provider to notify the customer that their Internet address has been detected sharing files illegally.

After five or six “strikes” the person won’t face any repercussions under the program and is likely to be ignored. It’s unclear whether such repeat offenders would be more likely at that point to face an expensive lawsuit.

The number of Internet users subject to the new system is a sizeable chunk of the U.S. population. Verizon and AT&T alone supply more than 23 million customers.

“We think there is a positive impact of programs like this, and that they can put money in the pocket of artists and labels,” said Jonathan Lamy, a spokesman for the RIAA. The Motion Picture Association of America estimates some 29 million people have downloaded or watched unauthorized movies or TV shows online, mostly using technology such as BitTorrent, a popular peerto-peer protocol. Like its counterparts in the music industry, the MPAA says it believes people will stop when they understand it’s illegal and are redirected to legal ways of paying for downloads.

If a person believes they’ve been wrongly accused, they will have multiple chances to delete the material and move on without any repercussion. If the problem is chronic, they can pay $35 to appeal. The center’s director, Jill Lesser, said that the goal is to educate the average Internet user, rather than punishing them, and no one will see their Internet access cut off.

“The long-term challenge here is getting users to change their attitudes and behaviors and views toward copyright infringement— that stuff isn’t going away,” Sohn said.

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A lamb kabob plate sits in the kitchen of the Damask Cafe on Bethel Avenue in Muncie. The Cafe aims to provide authentic Mediterranean food to people in the area.

Mediterranean in the Midwest Owner seeks to spark connection of 2 cultures through cuisine DERREK TIPTON STAFF REPORTER | dmtipton@bsu.edu

Helwani is no stranger to running a restaurant since he previously owned a restaurant, which had won a few culinary awards.

In order to connect with the community, Helwani Arabic music entwines with the smell of baking pita and roasting lamb. Nestled on Bethel Avenue, has been working closely with Ball State students Damask Cafe Eastern Mediterranean Grill has tak- to help get the restaurant up and running. Most en over the spot that was previously home to Bella of the servers at the restaurant are students in Avanti since its opening in mid-January. Damask the hospitality department. He even enlisted two Cafe is bringing Mediterranean cuisine to the Mid- students to help pick the color schemes and the decorations for the restaurant. west, but for owner Bassam Helwani, This resulted in what he called it’s about bringing home with him. a “cozy and romantic” atmoAfter attending Damascus UniDAMASK CAFE sphere. And it’s all combined versity in Syria, Helwani came to LOCATION with a restaurant playlist of the United States to study comput3201 W. Bethel Ave. music tailored to bridge culer engineering at the University of HOURS tures and to promote inclusion.

Kansas. He eventually ran his own Monday - Friday: “The playlist is mostly Arab singIT company, B-InTouch Solutions.

11 a.m. - 9 p.m.

Inspired to promote harmony Saturday: 11 a.m. - 10 p.m. ers who lived in either Europe or the United States, or AmeriSunday: 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. within the community, Helwani is can singers with Middle-Eastern using his restaurant as an opportuinfluenced songs,” Helwani said. nity to infuse American and Middle The restaurant’s menu includes items Eastern cultures.

“I want to associate positive feelings with that such as gyros, grilled-chicken wraps, veggie [Middle Eastern] region,” Helwani said. “And I think wraps, lamb kebobs, sharwarmas, salads, pita the best way to that is through food ... and food is a bread and more. Helwani said the food can contribute to the healthy eating trend that is growuniversal language.”

Helwani said he is proud of his culture and his ing in America.

Patrons such as Nile Wright, a junior mufamily. His biggest motivation to move to Muncie was to be closer to his grandchild. After seeing sic media production major, have been quite that the former Bella Avanti building was unoc- pleased with the service so far. Wright ordered cupied, he decided to bring Middle Eastern food a chicken shawarma wrap, which he said was to Muncie. Then Cafe Demask, named after his delicious and he will “definitely be coming back in the future.” home, was created.

“If you cannot go around the world to taste the “The theme of our food is infusion, Mediterranean with American influence,” Helwani said. food, then the food is coming here,” Helwani said.

MOTIVATE: Volunteers ‘can’t just give up’ on students who depend on them for help | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “Sometimes you need someone to tell you that you can, not just how you can,” said Executive Director Monique Armstrong.

Simmons said students don’t confide in him much about their personal lives, which he speculates is because he is a male, but their behavior is very telling of their need for one-on-one attention.

“When [the tutors] miss a week, the little kids think maybe they did something to offend the tutor and make the tutor go away,” Simmons said.

“They get very attached to you very quickly.”

The personal connection extends beyond the expectations and structure of the program.

Simmons volunteers with the students in the third, fourth and fifth grade classroom. He rarely gets to use his social studies specialty to help his students because children that age need the most help in math, reading and spelling. When he does get the opportunity to teach the subject, it is with an old student of his who graduated out of his level of the program.

“You can see how much it matters to them,” he said. “You are taking an interest, you are just being engaged with them.

There’s a young boy this semester who will just follow me

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Motivate Our Minds is an after-school program, meaning that students are brought directly from seven hours of formal school into three-hour tutor sessions. Simmons must sometimes employ creative strategies to keep his students focused.

Simmons spoke about the unconventional resources the students at Motivate Our Minds have access to. In the computer lab, middle-schoolers work with Devon Yoho, a former Ball State economics professor. The assignment: Roller Coaster Tycoon.

Two blocks from the facility, Simmons and the other volun-

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While ragged and barren in the winter, the garden is full of life during the warmer months.

“The kids love working in the garden,” Simmons said. “Growing stuff. It’s a change to get out and moving around doing stuff.

They’ll learn how to care for things, which is great emotionally as well as educationally.”

Simmons said he values the experience he’s gained from his volunteering. Spending time with children and working with licensed educators has taught him valuable skills, most notably the empathy and under-

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“You have to have some patience in letting them talk to you a while,” Simmons said. “If you’re going to expect them to be nose-to-the-book, it’s not realistic. We have to let them get a little bit out while still maintaining control.”

One boy Simmons regularly works with struggles to complete his work due to hyperactivity. To help center him, Simmons takes him out into the facility’s courtyard to look for rocks, which fascinate him. After searching for and identifying the rocks, the study sessions have been more productive.

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Read about former punter Scott Kovanda’s time at the NFL Combine at workout with the Eagles.

THURSDAY Women’s swimming and diving concludes its season at the MAC Championships.

EVENTS THIS WEEK

FRIDAY Baseball hits the road again, this time to Kentucky for a three-game series against Morehead State.

Playing for better seeding Taylor wants more confident team at Worthen as season’s end nears

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Even after a four-game losing streak and a 1-5 record at home in Mid-American Conference play this season, Ball State’s postseason position looks remarkably good thanks to a change in the MAC Tournament format.

With Toledo banned from postseason play in 2013 because of low Academic Performance Rate scores, the top five seeds automatically advance to Cleveland this season, instead of the top four.

Akron, Ohio and Western Michigan have all but sewn up their first-round byes, but the last two spots are still up for grabs.

Buffalo (6-6), Kent State (57), Bowling Green (5-7), Eastern Michigan (5-7) and Ball State (4-8) all have a realistic shot at the last two byes.

“We’ve really continued to preach that message to our guys — the importance of each and every game,” coach Billy Taylor said. “Four-andeight is not where we want to

be, but we still have quite a bit of control of our own destiny.”

Both the Cardinals and Eagles would need some help, but they have arguably the two easiest remaining schedules in the group because the Golden Flashes, Bulls and Falcons all play each other and at least one of the top-two seeds before the tournament.

Ball State’s (11-14, 4-8 MAC) first step toward a possible bye is tonight’s game against Central Michigan (9-17, 2-10 MAC) in Worthen Arena.

After beating the Cardinals in Ypsilanti, Mich., back on Jan. 19, the Chippewas have lost their last nine games, eight of those in conference play.

Although his team has won three of its last four games, Taylor said the struggles at home are frustrating and need to be corrected to keep fans coming back.

“We’ve played really well on the road and the team has been a little bit of an enigma in that sense,” Taylor said.

“They seem very relaxed on

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the road, nothing really rattles them. We just want to have that same confidence at home here and play with that same energy and passion.”

That energy and passion came in the form of three previously injured juniors: Matt Kamieniecki, Jesse Berry and Tyler Koch.

Koch hit two 3-pointers in 13 minutes, Berry added six points and Kamieniecki posted his first career double-double with 12 points and 14 rebounds against Southeast Missouri State on Saturday.

Despite good performances from all three players, Taylor said the team isn’t pushing any of them back into extended action too fast during this crucial run toward Cleveland.

“I think it’s got to be day-to-day just with the history we’ve seen,” Taylor said. “We don’t want to get ahead of ourselves. We want to keep doing the right things with treatment. While they may not be [100 percent], they’re still out there playing at a level that helps the team be successful.”

TEAM COMPARISON

Ball State Central Mich.

11-14 (4-8) Record 9-17 (6-8) PPG 62.9 66.6 FG% 41.6 39.9 3PT 30.6 31.4 FT% 64.1 73.0 RPG 35.6 32.4 APG 11.8 12.8

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• 25 games played • 25 starts • 14.8 points per game

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Junior Matt Kamieniecki completes a dunk during the game Feb. 16 versus Eastern Michigan at Worthen Arena. Ball State will face Central Michigan tonight at 7.

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Freshmen molding into leaders in young season Cardinals pitching led by 2 rookies after first 2 weeks MELEAH FISHBURN STAFF REPORTER | mcfishburn@bsu.edu Ball State added eight freshmen to the roster this season and the stats show that leadership on the field is coming from the rookies as well as the veterans.

But in coach Craig Nicholson’s eyes, his freshmen players aren’t freshmen.

“With us, when we are already in school for five or six months before we start out season, they have a little bit more time to adjust to what they’re doing,” Nicholson said. “I think that helps them get in the position that they’re in where they can contribute right away.”

Freshmen pitchers Nicole Steinbach and Kelsey Schifferdecker played in their first collegiate tournament at the Kennesaw State University Classic on Feb. 16 and 17 and finished with 15 combined strikeouts on the weekend.

“Before the first weekend we came out, I had to really prepare myself because everyone knew it was me and Kelsey coming in as freshman,” Steinbach said.

The freshmen pitchers competed in the Central Arkansas Tournament in the second weekend tournament on the schedule and finished the fivegame weekend with 24 combined strikeouts. Steinbach recorded a career-high of 10 strikeouts against Grambling State during the weekend.

Freshman shortstop Selena Reyna has started each game this season and is fielding

1.000 percent.

Freshmen outfielders Sammi Cowger, Sasha Margulies and second baseman Emily Dabkowski each recorded their first hits in the past two weekends.

“They get a chance daily to work on things and to feel good about what they’re doing as a hitter,” Nicholson said.

The Cardinals have had leadership at the plate by the upperclassmen as well as Jennifer Gilbert, who is currently tied with the school career home run record of 38. Gilbert has hit five home runs after the first two weekends of play, followed by junior third baseman Aubrey Bickel with three.

“I feel like with how young the team is we bonded really well and we kind of fit like a puzzle piece,” Steinbach said. “The underclassmen really listen to the upperclassmen.”

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