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BSU sees record class size
The university received around 170,000 applications for fall EMMA KATE FITTES NEWS EDITOR | news@bsudailynews.edu
Ball State’s incoming freshman class is shaping up to be larger than last years, following a trend of increasing enrollment over the past five years. The university received more than 170,000 applications, said Tom Taylor, vice president for enrollment, marketing and communications. Although orientation is only about halfway over, he expects there will be about 100 to 150 more students in the new class compared to last year. The 2012-13 academic year’s total enrollment was 21,053, with an undergraduate enrollment of 16,652. “I think that shows how well people THE NUMBERS think of Ball State,” Taylor said. More applicants can applications sent to Ball help keep tuition low State this year since enrollment projections and revenues are taken into account when the university undergraduates enrolled decides how much for the 2012-13 money is needed to academic year operate, he said. Randy Howard, vice president of business increase in tuition, the affairs and treasurlowest rate since 1976 er, said enrollment growth along with a boost in state funding allowed the university to increase tuition by 2 percent, its lowest rate since 1976. A high number of interested students also helps Ball State to be more selective with their admissions standards. “We are being very aggressive in the recruiting we are doing, including visiting high schools, in terms of getting materials out to perspective students,” Taylor said. “I think it’s also a reflection of the growing reputation of the institution.” Taylor attributes some of the success in attracting more potential students to successful alumni, students and faculty spreading the word. With the increase in overall students, Taylor said he anticipates slightly more out-of-state students coming to Ball State in the fall, which is a goal listed in the university’s strategic plan. “We will always be a predominately Indiana institution, but we believe that, just as ethnic diversity is important, geographic diversity is important,” he said. “I think it helps students to meet and work with students from other backgrounds.”
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MAN SENTENCED FOR HACKING INTO UNIVERSITY’S COMPUTER
PLANNING A HOME IN HAITI
A senior architecture major spent part of her summer blueprinting an orphanage for Hatians SAM HOYT CHIEF REPORTER | sthoyt@bsu.edu
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he seemingly simple question “How was Haiti?” is harder to answer than expected for an architecture student who went there to help make plans to build an orphanage. Casey Poe, a senior architecture major, traveled to Croix des Bouquets from May 30 to June 9 with Engineering Ministries International, a Christian nonprofit organization that provides engineering and architectural assistance to developing countries. Poe said she heard about EMI from other architecture students. “What do you say to a simple question in passing?” Poe said. “It’s a lot to sit down and unpack, so it’s a hard question to really fully get out.” Poe and her team developed plans for an orphanage and a guest house for a church there.
PHOTOS PROVIDED BY CASEY POE
MIDDLE: Casey Poe works on the computer in the garage that she was staying in on a recent trip to Haiti. Poe was part of a group that went to design an orphanage and adjacent guest house. BOTTOM: Members of EMI work together to help design structures for an orphanage in Haiti.
ENGINEERING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL The Calgary branch, founded in 2002, goes on around six to nine trips a year. This year some of their locations include:
• GHANA • KENYA • TANZANIA • UGANDA • MEXICO • CHAD
See HAITI, page 4
U.S. TRIES SAVING TALIBAN NEGOTIATIONS Karzai suspends talks aimed at peace after Taliban coup reference | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL, Afghanistan — Hopes dimmed for talks aimed at ending the Afghan war when an angry President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday suspended security negotiations with the U.S. and scuttled a peace delegation to the Taliban, sending American officials scrambling to preserve the possibility of dialogue with the militants. What provoked the mercurial Karzai and infuriated many other Afghans was a move by the Taliban to cast their new office in the Gulf nation of Qatar as a rival embassy.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A former student at the University of Central Missouri will spend three years in federal prison for taking part in a conspiracy to hack into the school’s computer network. The U.S. Attorney’s office said 29-year-old Joseph A. Camp, of Kansas City, must also pay more than $61,000 in restitution under the sentence he received Wednesday. Camp pleaded guilty in April to scheming with another student to hack the computer system at the Warrensburg school from March 2009 to March 2010. The conspiracy involved downloading large amounts of data containing faculty, alumni and student information. Prosecutors said Camp and co-defendant Daniel Fowler also attempted to change grades and transferred money to their student accounts. Fowler, also of Kansas City, pleaded guilty in June 2011 and is awaiting sentencing.
The Taliban hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday in which they hoisted their flag and a banner with the name they used while in power more than a decade ago: “Political Office of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke with Karzai on the phone, telling him that his concerns were justified and that he would work to resolve the issue. An American official, speaking anonymously because he was not authorized to disclose the information, said he still expects to have the first public meeting with Taliban representatives in the next few days in Qatar but that no exact meeting date has been set. Nevertheless, the militants’ attempt at a publicity coup clearly played to Karzai’s longstanding
DISCUSSION BETWEEN U.S. AND TALIBAN THE GOAL
For President Hamid Karzai and U.S. officials to talk with the aim of ending the Afghan war. THE RESPONSE
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called Karzai; an anonymous american official said he still expects
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to have the public meeting with Taliban in the next few days. THE COMPLICATION
Karzai suspended the negotiation after the Taliban hosted a ribboncutting ceremony and raised their decade-old flag and banner, which they used while in power. SOURCE: Associated Press
distrust of both the Taliban and the United States, who had announced Tuesday that they would pursue negotiations in the Qatari capital of Doha — at least initially without the Afghan government. It may have also given Karzai an excuse to try to head off the Doha talks, which he probably agreed to support only reluctantly and under
U.S. pressure. Karzai has for years opposed talks outside Afghanistan and dominated or directed by the U.S. The Taliban, on the other hand, have never really wanted to negotiate with Karzai, preferring to talk directly with the U.S.
See TALIBAN, page 2
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