STILL LIFE: BUILDING A FANTASY THROUGH DUMPSTER DIVING PG. 4
DN THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013
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Alumnus to screen indie film Intellectual thriller proved to be a journey of traveling, challenges JEREMY ERVIN CHIEF REPORTER | jrervin@bsu.edu
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LEFT: James Whitford addresses his new position as men’s basketball head coach for the 2013-14 season during a press conference in the Alumni Lounge on April 10. The press conference started with general statements athletic director Bill Scholl and president Jo Ann Gora before Whitford was introduced. TOP RIGHT: Men’s basketball coach James Whitford speaks to students who gathered in the Atrium to meet the new coach on Wednesday. Whitford was introduced officially during a press conference earlier in the day. BOTTOM RIGHT: James Whitford and his wife Amber answer questions from a group of students at the YMCA in downtown Muncie.
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INTRODUCTION
Former Arizona associate coach introduced Wednesday morning in press conference CONOR HOCKETT CHIEF REPORTER | @ConorHockett
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PREVIOUS COACHES
n the eyes of James Whitford, success in player development comes in two parts: finding kids with the work ethic to be great and a coach willing to push and guide them there. Ball State newest men’s basketball coach stressed the importance of both as he stood at the podium of his inaugural press conference on Wednesday. After athletic director Bill Scholl officially announced him as the 19th coach in university history, Whitford said the main focus in his first couple weeks on the job would be finding assistants, recruiting and forming relationships with existing players. “The talent pool we bring in and the staff we bring in are the two most important factors in us having success,” Whitford said.
Ball State has an up-and-down history for men’s basketball coaches in their first year. The combined record is 89-91. 2007-08
Billy Taylor: 6-24 2006-07
Ronny Thompson: 9-22 2000-01
Tim Buckley: 18-12 1993-94
Ray McCallum: 16-12 1989-90
Dick Hunsaker: 26-7 1987-88
Rick Majerus: 14-14
See WHITFORD, page 3
MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
BSU PLAYING 2 RANKED TEAMS Cards first in MIVA hitting percentage in 10-game streak
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Six weeks ago, Ball State men’s volleyball slunk out of Loyola in a weekend where it was swept by then-No. 12 Lewis and Loyola. Those losses extended Ball State’s losing streak to five games at 8-5 overall and 3-5 in the conference. This weekend when No. 9 Lewis and No. 11 Loyola visit Worthen Arena, they will face a reinvented team, averaging a .328 hitting percentage (which would be first in the conference and second in the nation) since
those matches. No. 15 Ball State is on a 10-match winning streak, including wins over then-No.10 Penn State and then-No. 8 Ohio State, and has only dropped two sets, making the numbers next to the team’s names a little less important. “The rankings say we’re an underdog, but if you asked our guys, I don’t think they are feeling like that,” head coach Joel Walton said. These two last regular season matches that impact on where Ball State will be seeded in the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association conference tournament, which is based on conference standings. Depending on outcomes Ball State could finish as high as second, or drop as low as fifth.
See VOLLEYBALL, page 8
See CHEERY, page 4
AP correspondent shares Niger story 2 time Pulliam winner talks hunger brides of African country JEREMY ERVIN CHIEF REPORTER | jrervin@bsu.edu
Rukmini Callimachi has been called a combat journalist, a title she said she doesn’t agree with. However, she has seen one war, countless coups and multiple massacre sites during her time in French West Africa. Callimachi didn’t come to Ball State to talk about the deaths of men, but the lives of young girls: the hunger brides of Niger. The Associated Press West Africa correspondent met with students in Cardinal Hall at the L.A. Pittenger Center to discuss the writing and research of her piece, “The Hunger Brides of Niger.”
Callimachi began by outlining a problem for writers attempting to capture the pain of the problems contemporary Africa faces. The first slide of her PowerPoint presentation read “Another Famine – How to make readers care.” Twelve of the twenty least-developed countries in the world fall within her area of reporting. After receiving a tip of an impending food shortage in Africa, Callimachi wanted to dig deeper than the typical stories and photos of crying mothers and malnourished babies, cynically monikered “famine porn,” by some in the industry due to its repetitive and fantastic nature. “I wanted to get beyond the walls of the feeding center,” she said. In the country of Niger, and more specifically the region of Maradi, young girls are married off to suitors in exchange
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Attendees of an independent film screening Thursday night will be transported to a community that takes a medication called “torpase” that prevents its users from experiencing psychological pain or pleasure. The smothering of emotion and the dark implications therein couldn’t more purely contradict the namesake of the story’s setting “Cheery Point” in North Carolina. Ball State alumnus Kenny Stevenson has created a number of short films and started his film company, Versa Studios, at Ball State. After building up Versa Studios, Stevenson set his sights on producing a full-length feature film — which became “Cheery Point.” On Thursday at 9 p.m., the most open and complete showing of the vision will hit the CHEERY POINT team’s screen at the AMC 12 WHAT Theater in Muncie. Independent film The film is an indepenscreening dent production, where WHEN much of the project’s 9 p.m. staff are students. SteWHERE venson financed about AMC 12 Theater half of the film’s $20,000 in Muncie budget with the David Letterman Scholarship he received, rest of the money was raised through loans, contributions and a Kickstarter campaign. Money is an overwhelming challenge for most independent film projects and “Cheery Point” was no exception. The production team paid for the travel and living expenses for cast and crew. Because the film was shot in locations in Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky, travel reimbursements presented significant costs. Organizers recruited actors online through the Indiana Filmmakers Network, gaining professional talent close to home. In order to better accommodate professional actors, the primarily student crew developed guidelines and protocols to provide a consistent and professional working environment.
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Associated Press West African Bureau Chief Rukmini Callimachi speaks about her experience writing a story of child brides in Niger during her Professional in Residence speech on Wednesday. Callimachi was awarded the Pulliam Award for the story.
for a cash dowry. This leaves their parents with one less mouth to feed and additional resources to care for the rest of the family. In Maradi, 41 percent of TWEET US
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girls are married before their fifteenth birthday. By the time they are eighteen, 85 percent are wed.
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