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Freshman Jordan Alstoft lights a cigarette in the smoking section between LaFollette and Johnson. The Ball State Board of Trustees recently passed a measure that would ban tobacco on campus.

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RESTARTING GEOTHERMAL Lawmakers give $30 million to start phase 2 of campus heating, cooling

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Ball State’s stalemated geothermal project has been approved to receive $30 million despite generally dwindling state funding for higher education.

Muncie Mayor Dennis Tyler said approving the state budget was an easy decision for the Indiana lawmakers because of what the project means for the state.

“Evidentally the general assembly saw the worth of this geothermal project for Ball State and my guess is the footprint or trademark that the geothermal project will have recognizing Indiana on the cutting edge of new technology,” he said. “By the state doing that, this is going to tremendously speed up on the process of the project.”

The state will fund the project in cash. Lowe said using cash means the project will only need to go through a couple steps of approval before starting.

The last portion of the project ended on the south side of campus where drilling of 1,800 boreholes ended after

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funding ran out. Lowe said drilling the remaining 1,200 boreholes is just one of a few of his priorities.

“One of my first priorities is converting our old chill plant, to demo it to the degree that I can rebuild it in a fashion that’s very similar to the north station,” he said. “When done we’ll have almost two identical buildings, two identical operations.”

Lack of funding caused Ball State to miss their goal date of converting the entire campus to geothermal heating and cooling. March 2014 was supposed to be the date because the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will enact the Boiler MACT (maximum achievable control technology) requirement, which is pushing Ball State to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions.

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Smokers will be restricted to their cars when they light up on Ball State’s campus beginning August 1.

The Board of Trustees approved a new policy on May 3 that will ban smoking and smokeless tobacco except in cars with windows up or during tailgating events.

The ban will be enforced by a fine of $100, double the current amount.

Kay Bales, vice president of student affairs, said the whole community is impacted by smoking, and this ban follows other actions the university has made in the past.

“If you look at where we are with our policy that exists today, that would, I think, be the next natural progression to the proposal that was approved by the trustees,” she said.

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Cardinals fall short in postseason BALL STATE SEES Ball State suffers early INCREASED FUNDING exit in second-straight ICHE recommends tuition increase no more than 2 percent STEVEN WILLIAMS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF | editor@bsudailynews.com

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For the second consecutive year, the Ball State softball team entered the Mid-American Conference Tournament as the No. 1 overall seed.

Much like last season, the Cardinals fell short of their tournament expectations in 2013.

It was a first round loss to Northern Illinois that pushed the Cardinals into the loser’s portion of the double elimination bracket.

The No. 4 Huskies defeated Ball State in a manner that few had been able to in the regular season. The Huskies shut down the dominant Cardinals’ offense in a 3-1 win.

The 12 MAC coaches voted Ball State as preseason favorites to win both the 2013 MAC West Division title and the 2013 MAC Tournament.

The Cardinals followed through on the regular season expectations behind the play of their high-powered offense.

The Ball State offense entered the tournament ranked 27th in the nation with its MAC-leading .312 team batting average.

Power-hitter Jennifer Gilbert ranked fourth among all NCAA Division I players with 65 RBI this season.

Coach Craig Nicholson said based on the team’s ranking, they had a chance to ad-

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Head softball coach Craig Nicholson speaks to the softball team after their win against Buffalo. The win made them the No. 1 seed in the MAC tournament that took place last weekend.

vance deep into the bracket.

“In the long haul of the regular season, the team that wins the title is typically the best team,” he said.

It felt all too similar to last season as the team entered the tournament with more than just a No. 1 ranking.

The Cardinals outscored opponents all season as they worked their way to a 35-15 overall record and an 18-3 mark in the MAC.

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Last year the Cardinals fell to Western Michigan in their tournament opener.

From there the team won one game in the loser’s bracket before falling to No. 2 overall Miami.

In this year’s tournament bracket the team bounced back from its first-round loss with a huge surge, something Nicholson believed spoke to the strengths of his team.

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An increase in state funding for Ball State will make it easier for the university to keep tuition increases under 2 percent for the next two years, following the Indiana Commission for Higher Education’s recommendation for public schools.

Bernie Hannon, Ball State associate vice president of business affairs and assistant treasurer, said the university takes the commission’s non-binding recommendations seriously.

Ball State is required by state law to hold a public forum on tuition, which will take place by the end of the month.

Ball State was facing an $11.4 million cut in state funding when the higher education commission made its original budget recommendations to the Indiana General Assembly.

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“I want to thank our legislators for their hard work,” President Jo Ann Gora said in her newsletter. “While we still have significant financial challenges that need to be addressed, this is indeed a positive step in the right direction.

The legislators have a difficult task balancing diverse needs throughout the state. Their support of the university is crucial, and I’m so pleased that we continue to inspire their confidence.”

The commission recommended no more than a 3 percent increase for the previous two years, but Ball State raised tuition 3.9 percent and 4.9 percent after losing $11.8 million in state funding.

The university received 0.6 percent less funding for operating appropriations in 201314. It recovered the difference when the state increased funding by $4.1 million for each year to the Entrepreneurial University line item, or specific capital request.

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The additional money is restricted in use, but Hannon said the line item is broad enough that it shouldn’t hurt Ball State when it begins preparing the university’s budget.

“It would be nice if it was all 100 percent unrestricted operating money, but the fact that it is restricted probably isn’t going to hurt us any this biennium,” he said.

Compared to other institutions’ operating budgets, Ball State is still behind. Indiana University Bloomington and Purdue University in West Lafayette received 2.5 percent and 4.7 percent increases respectively.

The state also green-lit $30 million for Ball State’s geothermal project and $12.2 million to complete renovation of Applied Technology Building and the second phase of the Central Campus project.

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The main intent of the policy is to deter people from smoking on campus and reduce the amount of secondhand smoke, a goal senior history major Jake Ware said he thinks may not be met.

“It might just make smokers irritated that they have to go off campus or to their car to smoke,” Ware said.

“I’m seeing more irritation as a result than actual deterrence from smoking.”

Another intent of the policy is to lessen the health care costs of university employ-

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of the steps President Jo Ann Gora is taking and the type of students that they’re bringing in,” he said. “I ask this question, if I fast forward a biennium or two from now and they’re doing very well, then they should be making the same argument.

And I don’t think they would be.

I think there is a lot of opportunity to improve.”

Hannon said he thinks Ball State will do better in the future, but flexibility in the metrics and the data that’s used by the commission makes it difficult to predict.

Even if Ball State improves in performance metrics, Hannon said he still would like to see the formula reward quality institutions, even if they aren’t large and growing.

“You always want to think that however our state chooses to fund higher education, [it does] it in a way that makes the most sense,” Hannon said. “I think a lot of us feel like we really ought to have a system that rewards

ees, who account for a large portion of smokers on campus, Bales said.

Smokers account for 24 percent of employees at Ball State, as opposed to 15 percent of students.

“It’s mainly for the staff, but it’s affecting the students,” Ware said. He said it would be inconvenient for students who don’t have cars on campus.

Ware said he thinks the ban is jumping too far ahead.

“I get the whole ‘cleaner air, healthier people’ brand they’re trying to work with, but perhaps if they start-

ed trying to scale back the smoking sections, a few years down the line, campus could be smoke-free, but it wouldn’t be such a drastic change,” he said.

The policy was originally introduced in February and received mixed response.

Bales said she worked with students to adjust it.

“Some of the things that are in the policy absolutely came out of conversations with constituent groups,” she said.

“For example, the amount of fine in which someone would pay if they violated the policy is a direct result

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The Indiana Commission for Higher Education announced its non-binding tuition recommendations, asking public universities to increase their tuition and fees by no more than 2 percent for each of the next two years. Here’s how Ball State’s tuition and fees would look if the university follows those recommendations, increasing tuition by 2 percent each of the next two years.

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between conversations with students.”

The policy affects students, was influenced by students and, Bales said, should partially be implemented by students.

“It’s the responsibility of every member of our community to enforce any of our policies,” she said. “We all need to know our policies, whether it is this one or any other, and we all have a responsibility to make sure members of our community are abiding by those policies.”

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mula the commission uses when it makes recommendations. Gora argued in her presentation to the Indiana Senate Appropriations Committee that the formula rewards large and growing institutions, which is a strategy Ball State hasn’t chosen.

Jason Dudich, associate commissioner and chief financial officer of the Indiana Commission for Higher Education, said the formula is designed to benefit the state.

“That’s the great thing about performance funding,” Dudich said. “The formula isn’t supposed to benefit one or two institutions, it’s supposed to align with the state’s goals. One thing you may hear if you talk to other institutions is, ‘Well, the formula doesn’t benefit us.’ The formula is meant to benefit the state.”

Data in 2012 shows Ball State’s degree production is improving, and Dudich credits that to the strategy Ball State is taking.

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Pence signs new school standards to law Indiana joins 44 states in adopting new Common Core | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GREENWOOD, Ind. — A legislative decision to pause the rollout of new academic standards is leaving many Indiana teachers in limbo, wondering if they can implement new lesson plans they’ve spent more than two years creating to meet the standards.

The standards known as Common Core were developed by a national group of state school officials and have been adopted by 45 states.

They emphasize students’

analytical reading and writing skills in all subjects.

Indiana adopted the standards in 2010 and is already using the standards in its kindergarten and first-grade classes. The state had planned to use them in all grades starting in the 2014-15 school year.

But lawmakers voted last month to delay full implementation to allow time to study the potential costs of implementing or abandoning the standards and hold public meetings.

Republican Gov. Mike Pence, who signed that bill into law on Saturday, said in a statement that the law “hits the pause button on Common Core so Hoosiers can thoroughly evaluate which standards

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May 11, 2013 Republican Gov. Mike Pence signed the Common Core standards bill into law. will best serve the interests of our kids.”

The legislative measure has left many teachers uncertain how to proceed, Greenwood director of secondary educa-

tion Rick Ahlgrim told the Daily Journal.

“There’s no such thing as a pause. It’s like slamming on the brakes real, real hard,” Ahlgrim said.

Whiteland Community High School interim principal John Schilawski said he is worried switching from one set of standards to another will confuse younger students learning to read. The Common Core-based lessons used in kindergarten and first grade are based heavily on nonfiction works so children can start learning how to read and think analytically.

“Education is a constant, ongoing process,” Schilawski said. “To make sudden starts and stops to things always

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has a rippling effect. Somewhere, some child or group of children will feel the effect of uncertainty that’s being caused by legislative indecision.”

Common Core requires teachers to include reading and writing in their lessons and assignments, even in courses such as math and science that typically haven’t asked students to write essays detailing their answers.

Critics maintain that Indiana’s own school standards were better and that adoption of the Common Core has cost the state control over its education expectations.

Some also worry that the standards are making math courses too complicated and

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The geothermal energy station on the north side of campus is lit up at night to showcase the piles and machines that make this form of green energy possible. The station works similarly to a household refrigerator and allows heat to be either gathered or dispersed underground.

The geothermal facilities will replace the World War I vintage generation facility, which emits roughly 85,000 tons of carbon dioxide annually, according to the Center for Business and Economic Research’s report on Economic Impacts of a Geothermal Replacement Plant at Ball State.

The new facilities will reduce the carbon dioxide emissions, while saving $2 million in generation costs and producing $1 million in electric power. The entire project will produce an estimated 487 construction jobs with an average annual salary of $39,000, according to the report.

“The situation is that since we’ve been patiently waiting for the opportunity of funding, we will miss that date for 100 percent completion of geothermal,” Lowe said.

“My administrative plan is to shut down coal and burn more natural gas until which time we’re con-

verted over to 100 percent geothermal and we’ll reduce out burn on natural gas.”

While Ball State is looking forward to leading the way in geothermal technology, other schools have had similar technology for decades.

Oregon Institute of Technology has had a similar geothermal system, or heating pump, since the ‘60s. Toni Boyd, senior engineer at OIT, said they’ve been benefiting financially.

“We have 192-degree water and we’ve heated our whole entire campus since 1960,” Boyd said. “We’re saving about $1 million in heating costs a year.”

The system at OIT is different in that it doesn’t cool the campus, and the water used to heat the campus is much warmer without electric generation needed.

Boyd said while they benefit annually from the heat pump, they have nothing physically to show for it, and neither will

Ball State.

“Unfortunately, after everything is said and done, nobody is going to see it,” he said. “Nobody really sees geothermal, not like they see wind and solar.”

The geothermal facilities used to produce electricity are only applicable in areas where the ground has enough heat to produce steam and is usually found on the west coast.

“If you go 10 or 15 feet underground it’s hot enough to use that for heating an direct use applications but when you’re generating electricity, you have to be at certain locations in the U.S.,” he said. “You need to be in geological areas that heat the water and then that water can be steam or can be separated with a heat exchanger to generate electricity with liquid with a lower boiling point.”

Geothermal Energy Association Industry Analyst Ben Matek said about four million people in the U.S. use

electricity produced by geothermal means.

“California is the biggest use of it,” he said. “They have about 2,700 megawatts, or about three million people in California get their energy from geothermal.”

Geothermal heating and cooling is the most common type of geo technology. When phase two is completed, Ball State’s will be the largest geothermal facility of its kind in the U.S. Just as the previous phase took years of digging and drilling, the latest phase will require the same. Lowe said he is glad that there is a new beginning in sight.

“We just want to get these things started as quickly as possible,” Lowe said. “I’m hopeful that come September or October, assuming we can move forward with that approval, we’re restarting. It’s more likely that we’ll be done going into the winter of 20152016.”

FBI calls shooting ‘street violence,’ not act of terrorism

at a hospital where gunshot victims were taken.

“These kinds of incidents will not go unanswered. Somebody knows something. The way to stop this violence is for you all to help,” he said.

Mary Beth Romig, a spokeswoman for the FBI in New Orleans, said federal investigators have no indication that the shooting was an act of terrorism.

“It’s strictly an act of street violence in New Orleans,” she said.

As many as 400 people joined in the second-line procession that stretched for about three blocks, though only half that many were in the immediate vicinity of the shooting, said police superintendent Ronal Serpas. Officers were interspersed with the marchers, which is routine for such events.

Police saw three suspects running from the scene in the city’s 7th Ward neighborhood.

No arrests had been made as of early evening.

Outside the hospital on Sunday night, Leonard Temple teared up as he talked about

a friend of his who was in surgery after being shot three times during the parade. Temple was told the man was hit while trying to push his own daughter out of the way.

“People were just hanging out. We were just chilling. And this happened. Bad things always happen to good people,” said Temple, who was at the parade but didn’t see the shootings.

In the late afternoon, the scene was taped off and police had placed bullet casing markers in at least 10 spots.

Second-line parades are loose processions in which people dance down the street, often following behind a brass band. They can be impromptu or planned and are sometimes described as moving block parties.

A social club called The Original Big 7 organized Sunday’s event. The group was founded in 1996 at the Saint Bernard housing projects, according to its MySpace page.

The neighborhood where the shooting happened was a mix of low-income and mid-

dle-class row houses, some boarded up. As of last year, the neighborhood’s population was about 60 percent of its pre-Hurricane Katrina level.

The shootings took place about 1.5 miles from the heart of the French Quarter and near the Treme neighborhood, which has been the centerpiece for the HBO TV series “Treme.”

Sunday’s violence comes at a time when the city is struggling to pay for tens of millions of dollars required under a federal consent decree to reform the police department and the city jail.

Shootings at parades and neighborhood celebrations have become more common in recent years as the city has struggled with street crime.

Police said gang turf wars often are the root cause.

Police vowed to make swift arrests. Serpas said it wasn’t clear if particular people in the second line were targeted, or if the shots were fired in a random fashion.

“We’ll get them. We have good resources in this neighborhood,” Serpas said.

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| THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS — Gunmen opened fire on dozens of people marching in a neighborhood Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans on Sunday, wounding at least 19 people, police said.

The FBI said the shooting appeared to be “street violence” and wasn’t linked to terrorism.

Many of the victims were grazed and most of the wounds weren’t life-threatening, according to authorities, though at least three people had serious wounds.

No deaths were reported.

The victims included 10 men, seven women, a boy and a girl. The children, both 10 years old, were grazed and in good condition.

Mayor Mitch Landrieu urged witnesses to come forward with information during a news conference Sunday night

will cause students’ scores to drop, while others are concerned that the emphasis on analytical reading will mean students spend less time reading classic works of fiction.

But supporters say the standards teach students to think critically and to apply what’s learned in one subject to another area.

Ahlgrim said dropping the Common Core standards would cost schools the ability to collaborate with others around the country and could make it difficult to find current textbooks and other teaching materials.

“It’ll just be Indiana with our own standards. And I don’t know why we would want to be isolated like that,” he said.

CLEVELAND — The three women allegedly imprisoned and sexually abused for years inside a padlocked Cleveland house asked for privacy Sunday, saying through an attorney that while they are grateful for overwhelming support, they also need time to heal.

Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight remain in seclusion, releasing their first statements since they were found May 6 when Berry escaped and told a 911 dispatcher, “I’m free now.”

They thanked law enforcement and said they were grateful for the support of family and the community.

“I am so happy to be home, and I want to thank everybody for all your prayers,” DeJesus said in a statement read by an attorney. “I just want time now to be with my family.”

The women, now in their 20s and 30s, vanished separately between 2002 and 2004. At the time, they were 14, 16 and 20 years old.

Investigators said they spent the last nine years or more inside the home of Ariel Castro where they were repeatedly raped and only allowed outside a handful of times. Castro, 52, is being held on $8 million bond. The former school bus driver was charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape.

Prosecutors said last week they may seek aggravated murder charges — punishable by death — for allegedly impregnating one of his captives at least five times and forcing her to miscarry by starving her and punching her in the belly.

The allegations were contained in a police report that also said Berry was forced to give birth in a plastic kiddie pool inside the home. A DNA test confirmed that Castro fathered the 6-year-old girl, who escaped the house with Berry.

Knight, who was the first to disappear and the last of the three released from the hospital, thanked everyone for their support and good wishes in her statement.

“I am healthy, happy and safe and will reach out to family, friends and supporters in good time,” she said in the statement.

Berry added: “Thank you so

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Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were discovered in the home of Ariel Castro where they were raped and secluded.

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The women had vanished between 2002 and 2004, spending the next nine years in the home until they were discovered on May 6.

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Castro is being held on $8 million bond and is being charged with kidnapping and rape. much for everything you’re doing and continue to do. I am so happy to be home with my family.”

The attorney said none of the women will do any media interviews until the criminal case against Castro is over. He also asked that they be given privacy.

“Give them the time, the space and the privacy so that they can continue to get stronger,” Wooley said.

The Associated Press does not usually identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault, but the women’s names were widely circulated by their families, friends and law enforcement authorities for years during their disappearances and after they were found.

Donations are pouring into funds set up for the women.

City Councilman Brian Cummins said $50,000 has been raised with the goal of creating a trust fund for each in hopes of making them financially independent.

Castro was represented at his first court appearance Thursday by public defender Kathleen Demetz, who said she can’t speak to his guilt or innocence and advised him not to give any media interviews that might jeopardize his case.

Castro’s two brothers, who were initially taken into custody but released Thursday after investigators said there was no evidence against them, told CNN that they fear people still believe they had something to do with the three missing women.

Onil and Pedro Castro said they’ve been getting death threats even after police decided to release them. Pedro Castro said he would have turned in his brother if he had known he was involved in the women’s disappearance.

“Brother or no brother,” he told CNN.

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TUESDAY The Ball State baseball team will play at Indiana State in a non-conference game.

THURSDAY The men’s golf team will travel to Washington State for the NCAA Regional competition.

Cardinals’ streak comes to an end

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The Ball State baseball team suffered an 11-1 loss to the visiting Toledo Rockets on Sunday.

Ball State was riding a seven game win-streak coming into the final installment of a threegame series versus Toledo.

Head coach Rich Maloney had become accustomed to his team playing solid defense during the span of its win streak. The team averaged a 1.89 ERA over six games and gave up three earned runs in the seventh win.

Sunday’s game played out much differently. The Rockets drove in more runs in one contest than the Cardinals had allowed in the four previous games.

Toledo took momentum early and never looked back.

A four-run third inning, in which the Cardinals committed three errors, knocked the wind out of a confident Ball State team.

“We just had that bad inning,” Maloney said. “We just played poor defense, and we opened the windows for them.

Then the floodgates opened.”

Junior pitcher T.J. Weir

relieved starting pitcher Jon Cisna in the fifth. The next three innings went by quickly, as neither team was able to score.

“T.J. came in and settled things down for a little while, but we just couldn’t get anything going,” Maloney said.

The same was not true for the Rockets. A pair of seventh inning runs pushed the score to 6-0 in favor of Toledo.

Toledo piled on five runs in the ninth and final inning to cap off an 11-run day. Ball State was able to drive in its lone run of the game in the bottom of the frame.

Junior Seth Vautaw grounded out to send Cole Griesinger to the plate. Toledo pitcher Ryan Wilkinson held the Cardinals to just five hits over eight innings pitched.

“Their pitcher was outstanding,” Maloney said.

“They saved him for Sunday, and hey, he had a great game.”

With the loss, Ball State moves to 26-21 overall, with a 13-11 record in the MidAmerican Conference.

Being that the Cardinals clinched a playoff spot after winning the series’ first two games, Maloney took the loss in stride. He told his players to keep their heads up and put the defeat behind them.

“I just told ‘em we’ve gotta start a new streak,” he said.

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Junior T.J. Weir pitches against Bowling Green on April 9. Weir played a major role in the weekend series against the Toledo Rockets, where Ball State won two of the three games.

Warriors defeat Spurs; even series at 2 Curry plays through ankle injury, lifts team in Game 4 | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OAKLAND, Calif. — His spirits down, his left ankle limp and his team’s season hanging in the balance, Stephen Curry wondered whether he could recover for the biggest game of his career until a text message popped up on his phone around 2 a.m. Saturday.

Curry called back his mother, Sonya, and vented his frustrations about his latest — and most inopportune — injury setback. Finally, she spoke up to calm his concerns.

“She just reminded me and battled tested me to rely on my teammates and support,” Curry said.

What followed was a Mother’s Day masterpiece.

Curry scored 22 points to go with six rebounds and four assists on a bum ankle, rallying the Golden State Warriors past the San Antonio Spurs 97-87 in overtime Sunday to even the Western Conference semifinal at two games apiece.

“It seems like every time you get on a roll and feel somewhat healthy there’s a setback,” said Curry, who shot 7 of 15 from the floor, including 5 of 10 from 3-point range. “And it just tests you.

It changes your routine. It

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The San Antonio Spurs’ Tony Parker drives against the Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry in Game 3 of the Western Conference semifinals on Friday at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif.

changes your outlook on the game, your preparation.

You’ve got to deal with the injury and the adjustments you’re making as a team.”

Game 5 is Tuesday in San Antonio.

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CARDINALS CONCLUDE MAC TOURNEY Whether it was LaTasha Jenkins winning a national championship in 1999 or Amber Williams setting Mid-American Conference Championship records six years ago, Ball State’s women’s track and field teams have enjoyed success historically. After finishing in last at the MAC Championship on Saturday, those accolades could not have felt further away.

Kent State repeated as MAC champion with 169 points, while Ball State struggled to muster a total of four points.

Senior MaryKate Mellen placed fifth in the 1,500 meter run finals and highlighted the Cardinals’ weekend. Mellen’s 4:28.77 time was good enough to earn all four of Ball State’s points for the event.

Junior Alyssa Hurlburt, sophomore Haley Austin and freshman Michaela Hull all competed in field events for Ball State. Austin led the way with a 10th place finish in the high jump at 1.65 meters, Hull placed 12th in the discus with a throw of 43.13 meters and Hurlburt placed 15th in the triple jump, registering 9.88 meters.

Ball State’s young 4x100 relay team placed 10th. Sophomores Katie Behrendt, Christina Crawford, Jordan McMillan and freshman Becca Kropf finished the 100 meters in 48.46 seconds.

The Cardinals other relay team placed 12th in the 4x400. Senior Janae Taylor, freshman Danielle Dahl, Behrendt and Kropf ran the mile in 3:58.40.

Sophomore Courtney Edon finished 20th in the 5,000 meter run with a time of 18:39.98.

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Curry and the Warriors overcame the obstacles with contributions from all over.

Rookie Harrison Barnes had a career-high 26 points and 10 rebounds, Jarrett Jack added 24 points in reserve and

Andrew Bogut grabbed 18 rebounds to help Golden State erase an eight-point deficit in the final five minutes of regulation. The Warriors scored the first nine points of overtime to whip the yellow-shirt

wearing crowd of 19,596 into a frenzy and give this topsyturvy series yet another twist.

Even Warriors coach Mark Jackson doubted whether Curry could play, especially after his star point guard took an anti-inflammatory injection in the morning to ease the soreness in his sprained ankle and still had trouble getting loose. Jackson cornered Curry outside the chapel service at the arena to see how he felt.

“He said, ‘I’m going to give you what I got, coach,’ That’s not the language he speaks. I knew right away that he was not 100 percent,” said Jackson, who conferred with general manager Bob Myers in his office before letting Curry play.

“Once again, it’s that same spirit flowing through that locker room that refuses to quit.”

Even for all of the theater Curry provided, the Spurs seized control of a sloppy slugfest at the start until going cold shooting when it mattered most.

Tony Parker, wearing a black sleeve around his bruised left calf, poured in 17 points on 6-of-17 shooting but never broke free the way he did in scoring 32 points the previous contest, saying the injury limited his ability to elevate. Manu Ginobili had 21 points and Tim Duncan added 19 points and 15 rebounds as the Spurs ran out of steam in the end.

Golden State outshot San Antonio 38 to 35.5 to percent. The Warriors also out-

rebounded the Spurs 65-51.

“They did a good job in overtime. Just as simple as that,” Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said.

Ginobili hit a mid-range jumper and a 3-pointer, and Kawhi Leonard put back a rebound for an easy layup to put the Spurs ahead 80-72 with 4:49 remaining in the fourth quarter. With the series slipping away from the Warriors, their home sellout crowd sat down and fell silent for one of the few times in the fourth quarter all postseason.

Jack hit three jumpers and Klay Thompson added another to pull the Warriors even with less than a minute to play in regulation. After Parker provided a jumper to put the Spurs ahead 84-82, Thompson dribbled to his right and banked in the tying shot over Leonard with 30 seconds left.

Both teams missed shots to win in regulation, and the Warriors turned the extra session into a runaway.

The Warriors had been 0-3 when trailing after three quarters this postseason until Curry and company came back.

Curry hadn’t checked in with his family when he spoke to reporters while soaking his feet in a bucket of ice in the locker room afterward. But he knew they were all watching from North Carolina with his brother, Seth, who was graduating from Duke.

“It was,” he said, “a big day for the Currys.”

SOFTBALL: BSU shows resiliency with MAC victories | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “I think it’s kind of the same thing we’ve seen all year long with this team. That resiliency and that ability to keep fighting,” Nicholson said. “I’m not surprised that after losing that first game we bounced back and played really well in a couple games.”

After being held to just one run by the Huskies, the Cardinals bounced back against Toledo for a 10-0 victory.

Freshman pitcher Kelsey Schifferdecker pitched the complete shutout game. Gilbert notched one hit and two RBIs in the elimination game.

Junior Taylor Rager went 2-for4 in the game as she registered two RBIs. Her strong performance would continue in the team’s next game.

Ball State jumped out to an early 4-1 lead over the No. 6 Ohio

Bobcats. Rager drilled a firstinning grand slam to get things going. Gilbert added a solo home run in the game, moving her season total to 23 – increasing her Ball State single-season record.

After five innings the Cardinals led 6-3, but Ohio would rally in the top of the sixth inning to tie the game at 6-6 heading into the seventh.

After Schifferdecker held the Bobcats scoreless in the top of the seventh inning, the stage was set for Rager. Her huge walk-off RBI triple would give Ball State the win.

The Cardinals advanced to play Northern Illinois for a second time. Ball State was able to keep the score close but fell short of the Huskies in a 3-2 game.

Nicholson said the tournament run was exciting, but still not what the team had hoped for.

“I’m proud of the way our team competed over the course of the

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Junior first baseman Taylor Rager gains an out during the game against Northern Illinois.

regular season, and this weekend as well, but obviously we’re a little disappointed with that,” he said. “In the tournament, any-

thing can happen. I felt like going in, any of the top four teams had a shot to win it; that’s kind of the nature of the beast.”

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When the academic year finally ends and summer begins, a bustling and busy Ball State campus turns into a hollow shell. Even summer classes starting up doesn’t help with so many students turning to sleeping in and taking classes online instead.

It makes covering what’s happening at Ball State more challenging, but not impossible.

This will be my second summer in Muncie working for The Ball State Daily News, my first as editor-in-chief. I know all too well what Muncie is like, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t anything you need to know.

In fact, this summer is going to be an important one for those students who will still be around for the next two years as Ball State begins preparations to settle on a new budget. That means conversations about tuition hikes will be at the forefront of discussions all summer long. A hike similar to the last tuition increase could mean $350 to $400 dollars out of your pocket.

The city is also considering a $60 million dollar investment in the Village that will add a parking garage and commercial space.

And that’s not all. The university passed a campus-wide tobacco ban, eliminating all designated smoking areas beginning Aug. 1.

There are things still happening that affect Ball State students and we’ll be here to report on them.

When covering the news, sometimes it falls in your lap, but oftentimes you have to search it out and provide context. That’s our job this summer. Maybe there aren’t student events littering the calendar every week, but Ball State students still need to know what’s happening and why it matters.

We’ll be here researching and reporting to tell the best stories we can about the Ball State campus and Muncie community.

You can get involved, too. We want your input on what’s going on and what’s important to Ball State students. Let us know. Don’t forget to stay updated with our website all summer as we continue producing stories, photos and videos.

While classes and work continue at Ball State, so will our efforts to continue improving the way we tell stories on campus.

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WHAT DO YOU THINK OF BALL STATE’S NEW TOBACCO-FREE POLICY? risk and needs to be prevented where it can. But people have the right to smoke if they choose to and banning it beyond designated smoking areas seems a bit much.

Smoking needs to be pushed out by society, not by law.

simply result in more citations being handed out on campus, which is fine. If, by chance, you are one of the non-smokers that had to walk through a designated smoking area on a daily basis, rejoice.

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of smoking are common knowledge, yet informed people still decide to smoke. A ban on tobacco is not going to be a more effective deterrent than photos of black lungs.

What should come first is people’s safety, including well lit smoking areas. Students and faculty without cars shouldn’t have to wander around to find one.

anyone to form. Some students don’t even start smoking until they’re in college and away from the judgement of their families and so not having it on campus should lower the amount of potential smokers. A lot of colleges nowadays are moving to ‘smoke-free’ and I imagine some high school seniors take this into account when choosing which school to go to.

Overall, I think having the policy in effect will benefit our students by promoting good habits and a healthy lifestyle.

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Five minutes later, I received a telephone call from her telling me that Secretary Bowen wanted to see me the next day. This indicated Secretary Bowen treasured our personal friendship. We had a nice talk and I asked him to thank his secretary. I always treasured Dr. Bowen’s kindness.

Dr. Bowen will be respected always as a great statesman and a good friend.

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I feel extremely sorry for the loss of the late Governor Otis D. Bowen. But, his contribution as a statesman will always be respected.

I am a United States citizen to live in Muncie, Indiana for 47 years, and I supported Governor Bowen since he first ran for governor. As a professor of political science at Ball State University, I have contributed to community service to promote international friendship.

I was so glad that Governor Bowen accepted my proposal 34 years ago to set up a sisterhood between the state of Indiana and Taiwan Province of the Republic of China. He was the first governor of the United States to set up a sisterhood with Taiwan for the mutual benefit of Indiana and Taiwan.

I especially appreciate his kindness and treasure our friendship. I went to Washington, D.C. to attend a conference, when Dr. Bowen was Secretary of Health and

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Fallon is moving up an hour as Jay Leno’s replacement on the “Tonight” show.

Meyers was considered the lead candidate for the “Late Night” job ever since Fallon’s promotion was announced.

The announcement solidifies Lorne Michaels as the comedy kingmaker at NBC. He’ll be the executive in charge of “Late Night,” ‘’Tonight” and “Saturday Night Live,” which will all originate from New York’s Rockefeller Center.

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Late-night comedy is one of the NBC’s few strong suits, with “Saturday Night Live” often drawing a bigger audience than most of what the network airs in primetime. With Meyers’ appointment, NBC is hoping for a smooth transition to a younger generation.

“I only have to work for Lorne for five more years before I pay him back for the time I totaled his car,” Meyers quipped. “12:30 on NBC has long been incredible real estate. I hope I can do it justice.”

Behind the scenes, Michael Shoemaker will remain with “Late Night” as producer, NBC said.

the comic it was based off of.

I also think it can be more fantastical than… a novel or a movie because there is stuff you can pull off in comics that you can’t pull off in any other medium.

Q: What do you think are the most popular comics? What do you find thatpeopleareaskingfornowadays?

A: It’s so eclectic now, it’s all across the board, so I don’t know. You have everything from “The Walking Dead,” which is a horror-type comic, to “Spiderman.”

Q: Over the years, have you noticed a shift in trends as far as what people are asking for, or has it always been that eclectic?

A: It’s not always been quite that

eclectic. When I first opened, it was very much more superhero stuff. Now especially since Image, a smaller company, does a lot more independent type books that are a little bit off beat and quirky and weird. People are starting to get into that.

Most people ‘wet their whistle’ so to speak, on superhero comics, but once they get in they start leaning all the different genres of comics they end of loving it.

And… there is going to be a comic for whatever you like.

Q: It can be a little overwhelming for people just starting out on comics. Could you give some tips to people who want to get involved in comics and want to start reading?

What they should look for?

A: Talk to the shop owner, a well-

informed shop owner should be able to steer them in the right direction. I had a girl come in one time… she did not know anything… she said she liked romantic comedies… Years ago there was not a ton of these around, but I directed her toward one and she came back in every week and got [the next] one.

Q: What about yourself? What kind of comics do you like?

A: I read everything. “Walking

Dead” is my favorite. I’m really enjoying “Superior Spider Man” right now. Yeah, I read everything. When someone comes and talks to me about something, I need to be informed.

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do podcasts for the rest of summer and will resume shows in the fall, in an effort to start breaking new ground.

They have not decided on a venue yet, but DeWees said there are several prospects.

“For me, it does suck, the fact that it’s not going to be there Eleven comics for Comedy Moshpit stood on the base- anymore, but I really look forment stage of Be Here Now for ward to finding a new venue,” the last time Wednesday night. he said.

Dave Lightfoot, who has reguThe show marked the last larly attended Moshpit events time the Moshpit will perform at the venue, after some con- for two years and is in their Hall of Fame as a fan participant, troversy between said a change in the two resulted venue could be in a break.

It is what you an opportunity Be Here Now’s for the Moshpit Facebook page make it, and a lot to expand. He said Moshpit’s of people came out said before it manager, Kyle had to compete DeWees, was and made this a with other bars withholding gas and events in great show, made money from outthe Village. of-town comics, it one of the three “With this which DeWees unique atmobest shows in denies. sphere, with “If I had an Indiana. how the comedy agreement with somebody, I paid KYLE DEWEES Moshpit’s is and acts are, I think it will be them. That’s how manager good to move I do things,” Dee l s e w h e r e ,” Wees said. “If a Lightfoot said. comic came to me and said, DeWees said he does not want ‘Hey, I can’t do your show unless I get gas money,’ I’m going the break to develop into mudto figure out a way to get them slinging and prefers to look to the Moshpit’s future, such as gas money.”

Noel Quizalla, who has per- expanding to road shows and formed stand-up with the regular podcasts.

“It’s going to be a change, Moshpit for a year and a half, but it’s going to be a welcome said the break reminds him of change,” he said. “It is what you a bad relationship.

“There’s hurt feelings on make it.”

Ball State alumnus Trevor both sides,” he said. “It was great for three years, then Smith has followed Moshpit something got messy. It’s a since it began and eagerly anticipates some of the changes. breakup. It happens.”

“I had no idea about their Be Here Now said they did podcasts — I think it’s really not want to comment on the cool,” he said. “I’m actually rebreak with Comedy Moshpit.

DeWees said the Moshpit will ally excited for that.”

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Smith said one of his favorite memories at the Moshpit was when his girlfriend won a free T-shirt.

“I remember they had a chugging contest, and they gave them really warm beer they had left out all night. It was stale, but no one knew that until they got up there and were chugging it,” he said.

Smith’s girlfriend wore the T-shirt she won to the show Wednesday night.

Lightfoot fondly remembered the 100th show and the roast the

Moshpit did for co-founder Jake Lentz as a farewell.

“I couldn’t think of a better way to send him off than have a main staple of comedy—a roast—for him. We had just a whole slew of comedians who were friends of Jake,” he said.

DeWees is staying positive for the fans of Comedy Moshpit.

“Thanks [to fans] for coming out and supporting the show,” he said. “The second we get a new venue, come back outwe’re going have a lot more fun. It’s definitely not done.”

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