BOMBINGS FROM THE EYES OF A BSU RUNNER EMMA KATE FITTES CHIEF REPORTER | emfittes@bsu.edu
When the bombs went off at the Boston Marathon, Melissa McGrath, an assistant professor of speech language pathology, was passing the 23-mile mark, three miles from the finish. Her husband Kevin McGrath was about a mile away, traveling on a packed train with friends to cheer her across the finish line. They returned safely to Indiana two days later to their three children, friends and family. The following is an edited transcribed interview with Melissa McGrath recounting the events of April 15. “I don’t think the enormity of it really hit me until I got home. Because just being in the middle of it and suffering through it with everyone else... while we were there we were just thankful that we had found each other and that we knew that we were OK.
If I would have started 20 minutes earlier than I did, then my husband would have probably been at the finish line. So it could have been him or it could have been me for how close we were. At about mile 23, I was running with
my iPhone, because I use that for my music too, and my music kept cutting out, my husband was calling in, and I thought that was really weird because he knew I was running so I didn’t answer it. I looked down again and noticed my dad was calling, my dad who lives in Arizona, and I thought, ‘All right he knows I’m running too, so there’s something going on.’ So I finally stopped running, [and I] was really mad that they were interrupting me. My husband said, ‘Are you OK?’ And I said, ‘Of course I’m OK, I’m at mile 23, I have three miles left.’ And he said, ‘Well there was a bomb.’ At that point I guess I didn’t really realize the enormity of the situation because the Boston marathon is such a big deal for the city and there were hundreds of people, like four or five people deep along the whole course.
Everybody was goofing it up and having fun and cheering on the racers. I just looked around and I go, ‘That’s not possible because everybody is in such a great mood.’ So I go, ‘I am going to keep running.’ As I was turning the corner [for the final mile] there were police barricades and they stopped me and all the other runners... and said they had called the race, there’s been explosions and their not allowing you to finish. I saw the helicopters and I saw several ambulances and police cars and as they turned the corner I was able to see the sight of the explosions. Then I realized what had gone on. After that it was kind of just mass confusion because all of the runners that were coming behind. Most of us had no way of getting a hold of anyone and we didn’t know what to do.”
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Many cases of plagiarism are accidental, Associate Provost Marilyn Buck said. A lot of these cases are students not citing information they meant to or not understanding citations in general.
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Taking someone else’s work and directly using it as one’s own is considered deliberate plagiarism, regardless if it is a sentence or an entire paper.
No. 9 Ball State’s semi- BSU NATIONAL final match with No. 12 RANKINGS Loyola will culminate by ending a streak and Digs per set 10.86 - 1st Blocks per 2.94 - 2nd extending another one. On paper, the par- set ity between the confer- Kills per set 12.91 - 4th ence foes is ostensible. Assists per 12.01 - 6th Ball State’s coach Joel set Walton won the Mid- Aces per set 1.25 - 7th western Intercollegiate Volleyball Association’s Coach of the Year, and the Cardinals touted four first team All-MIVA players. Loyola’s Joseph Smalzer won MIVA Player of the Year, and the Ramblers had two players join the All-MIVA first team. Both are in the top in several statistical categories in the MIVA, both have been nationally ranked for weeks, both swept through their first round matchups and both are playing for their seasons. More than likely a loss ends either team’s year, with the at-large bid for the last spot in the Final Four seemingly reserved for a West Coast team (IPFW in 1994 is the only non-West Coast team in 43 years to receive an at-large bid). To see who moves on to the conference finals, two streak impressive streaks will be put to the test. No. 3 seed Ball State is riding a 13-match winning streak, its longest since 1982, and second seeded Loyola has not dropped a match against Ball State at home since 1999. Walton said a lot of Loyola’s success at home was because of their facility’s low hang ceiling that throws off the dimensions of the court. “All of those years we were playing in a facility that was almost unfair,” Walton said. But over the past two years, in the new Gentile Arena, Ball State’s performances have yet to garner a win. Ball State’s last loss came two months ago — at Loyola. The Cardinals were swept, eschewing a major lineup change that has yet to trail in sets. Ball State defeated Loyola 11 days ago 3-1, ending Loyola’s own winning streak of nine matches. Replicating a match like that won’t be an easy feat, especially with only three days to prepare.
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Ball State student took the chance of being expelled when he or she posted on Facebook for someone to write a reaction paper. Saying the best bid would win, 12 students commented on the post. Each bid could be classified as attempted plagiarism, Marilyn Buck, associate provost, said. While only one student wrote the paper for money, the other commenters attempted, which could still be considered academic dishonesty.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Hackers compromised Twitter accounts of The Associated Press on Tuesday, sending out a false tweet about an attack at the White House. The false tweet said there had been two explosions at the White House and that President Barack Obama was injured. The attack on AP’s Twitter account and the AP Mobile Twitter account was preceded by phishing attempts on AP’s corporate network. The AP confirmed that its Twitter account had been suspended following a hack and said it was working to correct the issue. The fake tweet went out shortly after 1 p.m. and briefly sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average sharply lower. The Dow fell about 143 points, from 14,697 to 14,554, after the fake Twitter posting, and then quickly recovered. A Securities and Exchange Commission spokeswoman declined comment on the incident. AP spokesman Paul Colford said the news cooperative is working with Twitter to investigate the issue. The AP has disabled its other Twitter accounts following the attack, Colford added. White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama is fine. “I was just with him,” Carney said at a news briefing. A representative for Twitter did not immediately return messages for comment.
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Melissa McGrath, an assistant professor of speech language pathology, poses for a photo taken by her husband at mile 17 of the Boston Marathon on April 15. McGrath was three miles away from the finish line when the bombs exploded.
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