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MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2013
Students showcase clothes for last time before Spring Commencement
Ball State uses huge sixth inning to claim win, stay undefeated in conference play
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‘TOO MUCH TO PASS UP’ New men’s basketball coach accepts Ball State’s offer after declining 4 other opportunities CONOR HOCKETT CHIEF REPORTER | @ConorHockett
1992-94 Manager for Wisconsin men’s basketball team (45-39)
JAMES WHITFORD’S CAREER
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Ball State
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1994-98 Assistant at Miami (OH) (58-5)
1998-2005 Top Assistant at Miami (OH) (70-23)
2005-09 Assistant at Xavier (103-35)
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Arizona University associate coach James Whitford works with players during his time at Arizona. Whitford was chosen as the new head coach for the Ball State men’s basketball team after four seasons with Arizona.
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It took 23 days for Ball State to name James Whitford as its 19th men’s basketball coach in school history. That should tell the Ball State fan base that athletic director Bill Scholl is serious about making the team a contender in the Mid-American Conference again. Scholl could have made a quick decision and had a coach within a week. He could have chosen someone that has a big name, but not necessarily the credentials. But he didn’t. Scholl made the correct moves in taking his time, filtering out the candidates and
picking the next coach with the objective to win a MAC Championship. Whitford has been on Arizona coach Sean Miller’s bench for the last eight seasons, dating back to Miller’s days at Xavier. Miller has won at Xavier and he just led Arizona to a Sweet 16 appearance in this year’s NCAA Tournament. When Miller has been making the right calls during his coaching tenure, his call for Whitford to take the Ball State job shows he believes Whitford
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South Bend schools cited for racial bias
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — South Bend schools have been cited by the state for shifting a disproportionate number of black students into special education classes, a decades-old nationwide problem that critics say may reflect unspoken racial bias. The district has nearly as many black students as white students, but blacks are more likely to be diagnosed with cognitive and emotional disabilities that take them out of mainstream classrooms. The state’s top special education official said a recent review also found the district didn’t follow legally required procedures between 2010 and 2012. “That, to me, is the biggest distinction,”
HUNDREDS PARTICIPATE IN COLOR RUN
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DANIEL LOSEN, director of the Center for Civil Rights Remedies said Nicole Norvell, director of special education with the Indiana Department of Education. She said not only were South Bend schools sending more black kids into special education, they weren’t documenting what led to the decision, including students’ current performance levels. “That’s the information that drives a student’s goals,” Norvell told the South Bend Tribune. The district also didn’t keep parents adequately informed at
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Participants in the Chase the Rainbow 5K emerge from clouds of neon paint during the race. The 350 participants at the run on Saturday raised money for a Muscular Dystrophy Association summer camp.
Neon colored paint flew around Saturday morning across from Scheumann Statdium during Muncie’s first Chase the Rainbow charity run. The 350 Chase the Rainbow participants ran 5 kilometers around the tailgating area as group organizers and volunteers bombarded them with vegetable-based paint. The run raised funds for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, a nonprofit health agency dedicated to curing muscular dystrophy and related diseases by funding worldwide research, according to its website. In addition to these services, the MDA runs a week-long summer camp at Bradford Woods in Martinsville, Ind. Funds raised by Chase the Rainbow will help allow 88 children attend the camp. The Chase the Rainbow organization was created by the Ball State Dietetic Association, Microbiology Club and the PreHealth Professionals Club. “We just really want to thank everybody who came out today to raise this money for MDA,” said DeeAnna Woroszylo, president of the Pre-Health Professionals Club. “It’s a great cause and we were really excited that we were able to put this all together and donate [the money].” Ball State students, staff and faculty who registered before the April 4 deadline each paid $25, while non-university affiliates paid $30. The event featured a male and female category for winners. First place runners were Shawn Folsom and Madelyn Webster. “I like to run, and it’s a good cause,” said Bryce Pittman, who received third place in the male category. – JOSEPH KNOOP
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LET’S RENAME THE SEASONS “ALLERGIES,” “SUNBURN,” “ALLERGIES,” “DEPRESSION.”
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State claims district has « It’s not that people are more black students in harboring secret racism. It’s more sort of this bigger, special education classes broader societal bias against | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
When Billy Taylor was fired on March 14, James Whitford was gearing up for an NCAA Tournament run with Arizona at what he said was the best assistant coaching job in the country. He was working alongside his best friend, Sean Miller, on a team built to compete for national championships for years to come. But all that couldn’t keep Whitford’s eye off Ball State. Even before DHR Interna- LETTER TO tional Inc., a search firm hired THE EDITOR by Ball State to help look A reader writes for potential coaches, con- asking when tacted him, Whitford said he spending on was targeting the Cardinals’ sports will end vacant position. + PAGE 5 That mutual interest eventually culminated in athletic director Bill Scholl hiring Whitford as the 19th men’s basketball coach in Ball State history on Saturday. “I had such a good situation that it had to be an even better one for me to leave,” Whitford said. “Ball State is that one. It was too much to pass up.” The Star Press reported Whitford passed up four opportunities in the past, including a chance to coach in the Mid-American Conference at Miami of Ohio last year, before taking the Ball State job. Whitford said great basketball tradition, great facilities and Indiana’s fertile recruiting ground for top high school talent drove him to accept the job. Whatever his reason for coming, senior forward Tyler Koch said he’s glad things can finally return back to normal. “It was more about filling the curiosity [than anything],” Koch said. “It was getting old with having people ask me who the next coach was going to be and who’s in the loop. It’s good to get this all over.”
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