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Whitford will make $275,000 annually with possible incentives CONOR HOCKETT CHIEF REPORTER | @ConorHockett
Scholl said Whitford’s base salary puts him right around the midpoint among other coaches in the conference, but his contract is worth $60,000 more than what Taylor made when Ball State bought out the final year of his deal. “Based on where we felt James was from a qualification standpoint, he hit all our criteria right on the money with During his search for Billy Taylor’s re- the exception of not being a head coach placement, athletic director Bill Scholl [previously],” Scholl said. “We thought said finding a candidate who could put that was the appropriate amount to Ball State back in contention pay him based on the qualificafor Mid-American Confertions he was bringing to us.” ence titles and postseason Some of those qualifications appearances was a primary include a proven recruiter focus. and previous coaching expeWhen the university rience within the MAC, but named James Whitford its other aspects stood out even head coach on Saturday, more to Scholl. Scholl placed extra emphaHe said Whitford’s attention sis on those goals by way JAMES WHITFORD to detail, charisma and level of of incentives in the former New Ball State organization showed he has all Arizona assistant’s contract. men’s basketball the traits of a great leader. Whitford’s five-year deal head coach “He definitely has a sense pays him $275,000 annuof confidence about him that ally, but NCAA Tournament causes others to buy in to his wins ($20,000), MAC Tournament vision,” Scholl said. “I think that will Championships ($10,000) and MAC be a significant factor in leading our Coach of the Year awards ($5,000) are current student athletes, but also in just some of the bonus opportunities terms of recruiting new student athhe can earn. letes to want to come play for him.”
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he secret affections and feelings of Ball State students haven’t been so secretive in the past two weeks with the creation of the Ball State Secret Admirer’s Facebook page. Since the page’s creation on March 26, it has accumulated more than 6,200 likes. Every day, there is a multitude of posts, spreading crushes and admirations around campus. The Secret Admirer administrators, who will only reveal that they are two men, said they started the page after seeing Indiana University’s similar page. They did not, however, imagine the page would become so popular with Ball State students in only a week. “It feels incredible; we did not really know what to expect, but we certainly didn’t expect it to be this big,” the administrators said in an interview via Facebook message. “[It has probably gotten so much popularity] because it is something new, and it’s interesting.” The administrators said they receive around 500 posts each day and try to submit 85 percent of them, spending much of their free time posting. The posts range from direct admirations with the person’s name, to call-outs to random people seen on campus, to posts of appreciation, to certain groups like military service personnel. “Administrators: Thank you for restoring my faith in humanity. This site makes my day,” said an admirer who used
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the name “A Former Skeptic.” Some who receive posts of admiration choose to write back, like freshman art education major Ashley Sharp. Sharp received an admiration addressed directly to her and was curious, so she posted back to her admirer, who went by “You’ll Never Know,” asking them to send her a private message with their identity. The admirer has not yet contacted her. “At first I thought it was one of my friends just to make me feel better, but I asked all of them and they said they didn’t do it, so I was like ‘Oh my gosh,’ this might actually be real,” Sharp said. “It made me feel really special, it was cool.”
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Study says smoking rate high Indiana smokers rank 7th in U.S. with almost a quarter of residents EMMA KATE FITTES CHIEF REPORTER | emfittes@bsu.edu
The proposed tobacco ban for Ball State may receive more support using a new study on smoking rates put out by Ball State’s Global Health Institute. The study found that Indiana has the seventh highest smoking rate in the nation, with about a quarter of the population smoking. Kerry Anne Mc- BY THE NUMBERS Geary, director of the Global Health Institute, said the in- of the adult population stitute at Ball State currently smokes has been monitoring risky health behaviors in Indiana that of current smokers cause preventable stopped smoking for at disease. During the least one day in attempt Fall Semester, they to quit published reports on alcohol use and obeof smokers have less than sity in Indiana. With the smok- a high school education ing study, McGeary said she wants to of smokers have a college get the information education to the public and government. “We want people to be aware of the fact that Indiana has one of the highest smoking rates in the entire nation,” McGeary said. “We are much higher than the national rate of smoking and our [quitting] smoking attempts are not working well.” McGeary said smoking is declining faster on a national level than in Indiana, despite appearing to have similar trends, because nationally less people start smoking. The data for the study was collected in 2011 by the state of Indiana and funded by the Center for Disease Control, McGeary said. She thinks the number of smokers for 2013 would be close, within 1 to 2 percent, but not declining. The study showed there are higher smoking rates in characteristics including being male, black, nonhispanic or having no higher education. “Those groups 10 years ago were watching their parents smoke,” McGeary said. “I think it is an environmental issue as well as an education issue. They grew up in smoking households and continued to smoke and did not respond to the information about smoking. People who are more highly educated are better at processing detailed information.”
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Children with autism to perform in program on Pruis Hall stage Prism group created to provide activities for kids with disability CHRIS STEPHENS CHIEF REPORTER | castephens@bsu.edu
kids doing things no one ever expected them to be able to do — things they never expected themselves to do,” said Michael Daehn, director of Prism. This is the fifth year for a project created when Ryan Hourigan, co-founder of Prism and father of children with autism, Children with autism will have came to Daehn looking to create the opportunity to perform on a program that his children and stage alongside actors that have other children with disabilities could enjoy. the same disabili“To be honest, ties as themselves I would get flybecause of the EVENT INFO ers about little efforts of a Ball WHERE league or socState program. “Prism Project” cer and all the Prism Project, WHERE things that my one of four winPruis Hall kids can’t do,” ners of the first WHEN Hourigan said. “I ever immersive 7:30 p.m. wanted to prolearning project COST vide something Free to everyone, donations awards, is a promy kids could do are appreciated gram that allows along with their children between friends.” the ages of 6 and Daehn said the biggest thing 14 with special needs to express themselves using theatre and about working with the Prism music. The show takes place at children is the unpredictably of it all. 7:30 p.m. in Pruis Hall. “People who show up get to see See PRISM, page 4
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Madison Stevenson sings a solo during a rehearsal of the Prism Project. The show opens at 7:30 p.m. in Pruis Hall.
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