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INDIANA HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 6 HJR-6 is the proposed resolution to the Indiana Constitution that will define marriage as an act only recognized between one man and one woman. The resolution will also provide that any legal status similar to marriage will not be valid or recognized. Currently this proposed amendment has passed the 2011 Indiana General Assembly and must now go through both the House and the Senate at the start of the 2014 legislative session where it will need a simple majority to pass.
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Nonprofit Indiana Equality Action looks to recruit young voters in fall to contact representatives, organize events |
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If passed by a second General Assembly then the proposed resolution will appear on Indiana voting ballots in 2014.
If struck down by the second General Assembly the resolution will be thrown out.
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oosiers are preparing to fight over HJR-6, a house joint resolution that would amend Indiana’s constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman, and Ball State will be part of the battleground. Representatives from Indiana Equality Action, a non-profit that fights discrimination against homosexuality, will be sent to the major campuses in Indiana, including Ball State, Purdue and Indiana universities. Rick Sutton, president of IEA, said the representatives will focus on getting voters to contact their state representatives and organizing events. “There will be the typical campaign stuff you would see for a candidate, except this isn’t for a candidate — this is for a cause,” Sutton said.
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IEA hasn’t chosen the representatives yet, but is looking specifically for people experienced in campaigning to manage what they expect to be a large support area. “An overwhelming majority of young people today want to work in an environment that’s open and receptive to all people,” Sutton said. “That’s the message that we need to carry to reject this amendment.” The proposed amendment will go through the House and the Senate, where it should be completely resolved by March 14. If passed, it will take effect in 2014. David Long, the Republican Senate president pro tempore, said he expects it to be passed in both the House and Senate. Republicans Brian Bosma, speaker of the House of Representatives, and Eric Turner, the district 32 representative who authored HJR-6 in 2011, could not be reached for comment.
If a majority of voting parties vote to approve it, the proposed amendment will then become part of the Indiana Constitution.
« It’ll be heard in the House first. I think most people
believe the House will be too difficult to concentrate much effort on the House and that the big effort will be in the Senate, where there seems to be more moderate Republicans who have recently acknowledged their change in ideas and change on position on the issue. » VI SIMPSON, former minority leader of the Indiana State Senate
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New professor says he won’t teach intelligent design Gonzalez contends he never taught ID prior to starting at Ball State SAM HOYT CHIEF REPORTER | sthoyt@bsu.edu The controversial professor who will join the astronomy department in the fall has released a statement that pledges not to discuss intelligent design in his classes. Guillermo Gonzalez taught at Iowa State University until he was denied tenure in 2008. Gonzalez and the Discovery Institute, an intelligent design group of which he is a senior fellow, claim the decision to deny tenure was due to Gonzalez’s ties to ID, while ISU cited academic reasons. “As I communicated to members
QUESTIONS THAT DISCOVERY INSTITUTE WANTS TO BE ANSWERED Excerpt from the Discovery Institute’s letter to Ball State, accompanying the 7,000 person petition. 1. What specific language in the Faculty and Professional Personnel Handbook authorizes the appointment and governs conduct of the special committee investigating Prof. Hedin and his course? Please supply copies of this language and any policies, procedures, or standards that guarantee and explain Prof. Hedin’s rights to due process. of the department during my interviews, I plan to continue my research on astrobiology and stellar astrophysics,” Gonzalez said in the statement. “I will not be discussing Intelligent
2. What other professors at BSU have been subjected to investigation by a special committee using the language and other policies, procedures, and standards referenced in question 1? 3. What specific standards are the special committee and Provost using to determine as “appropriate” or not the content and teaching of Prof. Hedin’s course? Have these standards been applied to other BSU faculty? If so, how have they been so applied?
4. W hat specific standards are the special committee and Provost using to determine whether Prof. Hedin is “qualified” to teach his course? Have these standards been applied to other BSU faculty? If so, how have they been so applied? 5. W hat specific measures has BSU taken to ensure that Prof. Hedin is treated fairly and that his academic freedom rights are protected during this investigative process? SOURCE: The Discovery Institute
Design in my classes. I didn’t discuss ID at ISU either.” Jerry Coyne, an ID critic and blogger, said the controversy surrounding Ball State professor Eric Hedin
for accusations of teaching creationism in class may have led to Gonzalez’s announcement clarifying the role of ID in classes. “He’s under the gun because he
BOSTON BOMBING SUSPECT PLEADS NOT GUILTY Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could face 30 federal charges for April 15 mass attack | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON — His arm in a cast and his face swollen, a blase-looking Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombing in a seven-minute proceeding that marked his first appearance in public since his capture in mid-April. As survivors of the bombing looked on, Tsarnaev, 19, gave a small, lopsided smile to his two sisters upon arriving in the courtroom. He appeared to have a jaw injury and there was swelling around his left eye and cheek. Leaning into the microphone, he told a federal judge, “Not guilty” and said it over and over as the charges were read. Then he was led away in handcuffs, making a kissing gesture toward his family with his lips. One of his sisters sobbed loudly, resting her head on a woman seated next to her. Tsarnaev, who has been hospitalized
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since his capture with wounds suffered in a shootout and getaway attempt, faces 30 federal charges, including using a weapon of mass destruction to kill, in connection with the April 15 attack that DZHOKHAR left three people TSARNAEV, dead and more than suspected 260 wounded. He Boston bomber could get the death penalty if prosecutors choose to pursue it. The proceedings took place in a heavily guarded courtroom packed not only with victims but with their families, police officers, and members of the public and the media. The Russian immigrant and former college student looked much as he did in a photo widely circulated after his arrest, his hair curly and unkempt. Wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, he appeared nonchalant, almost bored, during the hearing. The cast covered his left forearm, hand and fingers. The bombing victims showed little
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reaction in the courtroom after a federal marshal warned them against any outbursts. Liz Norden, the mother of two men who lost their right legs in the bombings, said afterward: “I actually felt sick to my stomach.” Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Chief John DiFava, who was also in the courtroom, said Tsarnaev looked “smug.” “I didn’t see a lot of remorse. I didn’t see a lot of regret,” he said. “It just seemed to me that if I was in that position, I would have been a lot more nervous, certainly scared.” DiFava added: “I just wanted to see him. I wanted to see the person that so coldly and callously killed four people, one of whom being an officer of mine.” “We were pleased to hear that the university took the complaints seriously and assigned a panel to investigate the claims and see exactly how professor Hedin is teaching the class,” Seidel said. “We want them to have access to some of the same information that we did.”
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Edward F. Davis III, Boston’s police commissioner, testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee WHERE
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To urge lawmakers DAVIS III, to write a Boston’s police requirement in the commissioner task force’s mission that the Justice Department’s terrorism task force needs to share threat information more quickly with local law enforcement.
« There is a gap with
information sharing at a higher level while there are still opportunities to intervene in the planning of these terrorist events. » EDWARD F. DAVIS III
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has to keep his nose clean and teach real science and do science because he needs to get tenure,” Coyne said. “I take the guy’s word when he says that and I think it’s in his best interests to keep his promise.” Andrew Seidel, an attorney with the Freedom from Religion Foundation, an organization that fights for the separation of church and state, said the FFRF will be keeping an eye on Coyne to ensure he keeps his promise. The FFRF wrote a letter to Ball State prompting the ongoing investigation on Hedin. Seidel said the FFRF will be releasing another letter later this week to Ball State with new information gathered from students about Hedin and his class.
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INDIANA STORMS, HIGH WINDS DOWN TREES, POWER LINES INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Severe thunderstorms packing wind gusts as high as 60 mph have downed tree limbs and power lines across Indiana and left thousands of electricity customers without service. Duke Energy reported nearly 21,000 customers without power Wednesday afternoon in central and southern Indiana. Indiana Michigan Power Co. had more than 6,000 without power, mostly in northeastern Indiana. The Sheriff’s Department in Jay County about 40 miles south of Fort Wayne said downed trees were blocking several state highways and local roads. The National Weather Service posted a flood warning for northern Carroll County in north central Indiana after radar indicated slow-moving storms could dump up to 2½ inches of rain there. The weather service says authorities and a trained spotter estimated wind gusts of 60 mph in southwestern and northeastern Indiana.
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Authorities say Tsarnaev orchestrated the bombing along with his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died following a gun battle with police three days after the attack. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested on April 19, hiding in a bloodstained boat in a suburban backyard after a manhunt that paralyzed much of the Boston area. Tsarnaev is also charged in the killing of a MIT police officer and the carjacking of a motorist during their getaway attempt. His two sisters were in court in Muslim garb. One was carrying a baby; the other wiped away tears with a tissue. Tsarnaev’s parents remained back in Russia. Tsarnaev’s lawyer Judy Clarke, an expert in death penalty cases, asked that the judge enter not-guilty pleas for him, but U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler said: “I would ask him to answer.”
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On the same day as the arraignment, Boston’s police commissioner appeared on Capitol Hill and complained to a Senate panel that the Justice Department failed to share information on terrorism threats with local officials before the bombing. “There is a gap with information sharing at a higher level while there are still opportunities to intervene in the planning of these terrorist events,” Commissioner Edward F. Davis III said. Reporters and spectators began lining up for seats in the courtroom at 7:30 a.m. as a dozen Federal Protective Service officers and bomb-sniffing dogs surrounded the courthouse. Four hours before the 3:30 p.m. hearing, the defendant arrived at the courthouse in a four-vehicle motorcade. About a dozen Tsarnaev supporters cheered as the motorcade arrived. The demonstrators yelled, “Justice for Jahar!” as Tsarnaev is known.
| THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANFORD, Fla. — After taking less than a week to call 18 witnesses, George Zimmerman’s defense attorneys rested their case Wednesday in the neighborhood watch volunteer’s second-degree murder trial. Prosecutors and defense attorneys planned to work out the jury instructions before presenting closing arguments on Thursday. Judge Debra Nelson said the case could be sent to six jurors either late that day or the next. Zimmerman never testified. But jurors saw repeated video recordings of Zimmerman telling his side of the story to investigators. He claims that he shot Trayvon Martin, who was
unarmed, in self-defense while the teen straddled and punched him. The defense started its case last Friday, and it presented half as many witnesses in half of the time that prosecutors did. Zimmerman’s friends, parents and uncle testified that it’s him screaming for help on a 911 call that captured sounds of the fatal fight. Martin’s mother and brother had testified for the prosecution that it’s Martin yelling for help. Convincing the jury of who was screaming for help on the 911 tape became the primary goal of prosecutors and defense attorneys because it would help jurors evaluate Zimmerman’s selfdefense claim. Zimmerman’s father, Robert Zimmerman Sr., was the last witness called by the defense on Wednesday, and he said it’s his son yelling for help on the call.
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The FFRF will not release all of the information it has in order to comply with the confidentiality wishes of some of the students involved. It is also trying to obtain course and professor reviews pertaining to Hedin, which Ball State is currently withholding. “The whole point is that we want [the review committee] to have as much of the information that we can pass
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Board of Trustees has only confirmed that it received the letter and petition. “The university appears to be following a completely different process than it used in a prior academic freedom case,” West said. “Moreover, the university has failed to provide any clear standards that it will be using to evaluate Hedin’s course.” The prior academic freedom case West refers to is that of George Wolfe, who was accused of pushing a lib-
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Local scores award for cornhole invention « I’m the kind of
New scoreboard for game adds LED lights, cup holders
guy who never wins anything. I never thought I would win this award — it was the happiest moment in my life. »
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A Muncie high school custodian with a bright idea for keeping score in cornhole and other games hopes his top award in a national trade show this summer will help him sell his invention as early as this week. Paul Dytmire of Muncie won the gold medal in the Toys and Games category at the INPEX trade show for inventors last month in Pittsburgh. “I’m the kind of guy who never wins anything,” Dytmire said. “I never thought I would win this award — it was the happiest moment in my life.” Chrissa Chverchko, a spokeswoman for the INPEX show, said awards were given in 44 categories, with judges making their decisions based upon how useful, creative and appealing the inventions are. Dytmire saw the need for
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Paul Dytmire, a Muncie native, invented a cornhole scorekeeping device that took a prestigious award at a trade show. The award will help him sell his invention to an investor.
Score, his scoreboard with 21 LED lights, after noticing how often spectators would walk up to a beanbag or horseshoe game in progress and immediately ask who was winning. The lighting is important because so many games take place in the gloom of dusk. “I got the idea of coming up with LED lights and couple
of cup holders and thought it would be a cool thing,” he said. Score took three years to develop. It’s not the first invention for Dytmire, a custodian at Muncie Central High School who said he previously came up with a hat-and-gloves combination winter garment — but lost out when somebody swiped his idea.
His creative sparks don’t come from a laboratory: Dytmire graduated from high school about 20 years ago and has no college experience. But he loves fishing, hunting and especially games like cornhole. A month after the gold medal in Pittsburgh, his next stop is a meeting this week with an Illinois company to talk about marketing his invention. And he’s not finished coming up with new ideas: his dream is for people to walk into a store and see what he’s created. “If Score becomes big and helps me financially, I will have more stuff related to backyard games,” he said. “I always had an inventive mind.”
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HJR-6: Former lieutenant governer candidate says young voters will be key | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Vi Simpson, the 2012 Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, said she expects heavy resistance in the House. She said the House has had more Republicans change positions, and expects the Democrats to make their push there. Simpson said young people lead themselves to believe they don’t have much political power when they are truly a strong base for change. “The polls show that people my age have a hard time changing position, but young people are not having a hard time at all and that this is an issue that our society will outgrow,” Simpson said. She said young people need to make sure they’re registered to vote and talk to their officials. “Young people need to remember that they are leading the parade on changing mores, changing attitudes toward our fellow Hoosiers,” Simpson said. “They have a voice in this. They have a stake in this. They have the political power to make the
changes in society they see as important.” Time is a large factor for Simpson and Sutton. Simpson said people who want to talk to legislators need to do so before they are too caught up in sessions and Sutton said IEA is trying to quickly recruit people to get to campuses when fall semesters begin. Sutton said an increasing global mentality is a major reason to fight the resolution. “I’ve lived in Indiana all my life and I think the message Indiana portrays to the rest of the world is increasingly important,” he said. “We want to make sure that message is a welcoming, inviting and collaborative message. HJR-6 is the antithesis of that.” Sutton said universities specifically have a reason to keep an eye on HJR-6. “Educational institutions that want a worldwide presence of any kind can’t be looking at amendments like this,” he said. “It’s not good business for a university to be involved in a state that shuts its borders to certain people.”
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DO YOU THINK INDIANA’S CONSTITUTION SHOULD DEFINE MARRIAGE AS BETWEEN A MAN AND WOMAN?
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sides of it. I think marriage should be man and woman because of the Bible, but then I do see that ... it should be their own option of who to love.
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JACY COTTRILL, a freshman radiation therapy major DN PHOTO JORDAN HUFFER
The former site of Cleo’s Bourbon Bar is torn down on Tuesday to make room for a new development in the Village. This new development will include retail space, more than 200 apartments and a parking garage. All of the buildings in the block of the former University Square, including the Ball State Federal Credit Union, will be torn down.
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pushing that bill is taking a step backwards, and I don’t think it’s fair that we’re wasting time and tax dollars on prohibiting gay marriage in our state.
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« It’s anyone’s « I don’t think choice, so I would be against it. It’s taking away public rights and I don’t think that anyone has the right to tell you what you can and can’t do.
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ARIANNA HARTLOFF, ERIC WRONA, a freshman a senior psychology major marketing and entrepreneurship major
it’s fair. It’s their life, they choose what they want and there’s no right for someone to be judging them for what they’re doing.
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WENDY HERNANDEZ, a freshman biology major
Railway employee blamed for accident Head of US company says engineer ‘failed to properly set brakes’ | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec — The head of a U.S. railway company whose oil-laden train crashed into a Quebec town, exploding and killing at least 15 people, blamed the accident on an employee who he said had failed to properly set the brakes. Edward Burkhardt, president and CEO of Rail World Inc., made his comments Wednesday during his first visit to Lac-Megantic, where some 60 people remain missing following Saturday’s fiery crash. He arrived with a police escort and was heckled by angry residents, He said a train engineer has been suspended without pay.
“I think he did something wrong ...We think he applied some hand brakes but the question is did he apply enough of them,” Burkhardt said. “He said he applied 11 hand brakes, we think that’s not true. Initially we believed him, but now we don’t.” The unmanned, Rail Worldowned Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway train broke loose early Saturday and hurtled downhill through the darkness nearly seven miles before jumping the tracks at 63 mph in Lac-Megantic, near the Maine border, investigators said. All but one of the 73 cars were carrying oil. At least five exploded. Rail dispatchers had no chance to warn anyone during the runaway train’s 18-minute journey because they didn’t know it was happening, Transportation Safety Board officials said. At a press conference, Quebec Premier Pauline Marois faulted the company’s response to the disaster.
“We have realized there are serious gaps from the railway company from not having been there and not communicating with the public,” Marois said. Burkhardt said that he had stayed in Chicago to deal with the crisis in his office, where he was better able to communicate with insurers and officials in different places during what he described as 20-hour work days. Quebec police inspector Michel Forget said they were pursuing a wide-ranging criminal investigation but had ruled out terrorism as a cause. Forget said an array of possibilities are under investigation, including criminal negligence. Other officials have raised the possibility that the train was tampered with before the crash. “This is an enormous task ahead of us,” Forget said. “We’re not at the stage of arrests.” The heart of downtown is being treated as a crime scene and
remained cordoned off. At the center of the destruction is the Musi-Cafe, a popular bar that was filled at the time of the explosion, which also forced about a third of the town’s 6,000 residents from their homes. By Tuesday, about 800 were still barred from returning to their houses. Efforts continued to stop waves of crude oil spilled in the disaster from reaching the St. Lawrence River, the backbone of the province’s water supply. Investigators were looking closely at a fire on the train less than an hour before it got loose while parked in the nearby town of Nantes. The train’s engine was shut down — standard operating procedure dictated by the train’s owners, Nantes Fire Chief Patrick Lambert said. Burkhardt had suggested earlier that shutting off the locomotive to put out the fire might have disabled the brakes.
TIMELINE OF TRAIN WRECK Following are the events of the runaway oil train explosion in a small Canadian town that killed at least 15 people, leaving dozens missing and incinerating much of its downtown. July 5, 11:25 p.m. EDT A train is left unattended with 72 of its 73 cars carrying crude oil, parked in Nantes, six miles from Lac-Megantic. 11: 30 p.m. A Nantes resident calls 911 to report a fire in the parked train. Midnight Firefighters douse the blaze and the train engine is shut down. The shutdown may have led to the release of the train’s brakes. On Wednesday, the railway company chief says an engineer failed to properly set the train brakes. July 6 - 12:56 a.m. After firefighters depart, the train picks up speed rolling down a slope away from Nantes and toward Lac-Megantic. 1:15 a.m. Residents report explosions, with fireballs shooting into the sky and a wall of flames that destroys the downtown.
PORK VIRUS SPREADS TO 15 STATES
PED could cause pork prices to rise, present since April THE ASSOCIATED ASSOCIATED PRESS PRESS || THE
DENVER — Pork prices may be on the rise in the next few months because of a new virus that has migrated to the U.S., killing piglets in 15 states at an alarming rate in facilities where it has been reported. Dr. Nick Striegel, assistant state veterinarian for the Colorado Department of Agriculture, said Wednesday the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus, also known as PED, was thought to exist only in Europe and China, but Colorado and 14 other states began reporting the virus
in April, and officials confirmed its presence in May. The virus causes severe diarrhea, vomiting and severe dehydration in pigs, and can be fatal. “It has been devastating for those producers where it has been diagnosed. It affects nursing pigs, and in some places, there has been 100 percent mortality,” he said. Striegel said it isn’t harmful to humans, and there is no evidence it affects pork products. He said outbreaks are not required to be reported to federal officials, so the extent of the spread is difficult to determine, but in Colorado at least two large production facilities have seen outbreaks. The virus has been confirmed in about 200 hog facilities in 14 other states including Ar-
kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and South Dakota, according to the American Association of Swine Veterinarians. Dr. Lisa Becton, director of swine health information and research for the National Pork Board, an industry trade group, said the impact on the availability of pork and meat prices is difficult to estimate. “At this point, I really don’t have any indications what that potential impact would be. Obviously, we know for individual farms the impact is severe, especially if it’s a sow farm that has baby pigs, because baby pigs do suffer the most from the disease,” she said. According to the Iowa Pork
Industry Center, an industry advocate, the ability to test for the disease is limited. It is believed to be transmitted by infected food or feces, and can be contained by quarantining infected animals and washing down trucks and production facilities. Becton said the disease can spread quickly and has killed entire populations of pigs under 7 days old. “As they get older, by the time they’re weaned at around 3 weeks of age, death loss can be around 80 percent or in severe cases upwards of 100 percent. Typically, after weaning mortality declines dramatically,” she said. She said veterinarians are still not sure how the disease got to the U.S.
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Jay-Z silently stirs a lot of pots. Few others get to go home to Beyoncé, claim the title of Kevin Durant’s agent and produce their own clothing lines. Mr. Shawn Carter certainly does all of those, but he wasn’t silent about much in his new album “Magna Carta Holy Grail.” The first track on the album is “Holy Grail” featuring Justin Timberlake, who sings a short verse and the hook. Solid production is evident just one minute into the song. After Timberlake’s hook, the beat drops, laying foundation for a smooth verse. Jay-Z provides an interesting back-and-forth take on the celebrity lifestyle. “Enough is enough, I’m calling this off. Who the f *** I’m kidding though. I’m getting high, sitting low,” he says. Jay-Z continues with “this fame hurts, but this chain works.” Not that any of his listeners, save for maybe his counterpart Kanye West, could connect with those lines. Either way, the emotion and semi-relatable lyrics drop off pretty harshly from here. The next few tracks are just Jay-Z boasting his big bucks and lavish lifestyle. Not to mention his lovely wife and their young daughter Blue Ivy, who he seems to be quite fond of. After stating that he wants to put a “Picasso” in his “casa,” Jay-Z drops a line giving Ivy permission to “lean on” the artwork. Thanks, dad. The next song, “Tom Ford” is frustrating. A threeminute promotion of Ford’s high-end fashion line does little for the album. Timberlake has collaborated with Ford in the past to produce his own line of evening wear, shoes and accessories (“Suit and Tie,” anyone?). To me, the song was obnoxious and hard to digest. That trend continues when Rick Ross jumps in on the next track. Ross’ very basic hook, paired with a redundant verse, made for a poor listening experience. Still though, to this point the album is very well produced. Maybe, if you’re a fan of Ross it’ll be possible to overlook his poor rapping. If so, you’ll enjoy a very aesthetically pleasing beat. This isn’t the theme throughout the entire album
though. “Oceans” provides a refreshing contrast between Jay-Z and featured artist Frank Ocean. Another song that separated itself from self-promoting tracks talking about signing Durant and dissing Lil Wayne is “Jay Z Blue.” Jay Z shows his desire to have a good relationship with his daughter as she continues to grow. He also mentions the life that he led growing up without a father. “Looking in your eyes is like a mirror, have to face my fears,” he said. “Father never taught me how to be a father, treat a mother. I don’t want to have to just repeat another leave another.” A second emotional look in to Jay-Z’s life kept me interested in the back half of the album. It wasn’t enough though. A collection of songs that discuss everything from his collection of cars (the Diablo, Rolls-Royce, Bugatti and don’t forget his Maybach) to the size of his “castle” kept me at bay. Overall, a well-produced album that Jay-Z failed to capitalize on. Not literally of course. He made it apparent that he’s doing just fine in the area of personal capital. RATING: HHHII
NOT THE BROOKLYN RAPPERS BEST STEVEN WILLIAMS INDECISIVE STEVEN WILLIAMS IS A SENIOR JOURNALISM AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS NEWS MAJOR AND WRITES ‘INDECISIVE’ FOR THE DAILY NEWS. HIS VIEWS DO NOT NECESSARILY AGREE WITH THOSE OF THE NEWSPAPER. TWEET TO STEVEN AT @SBWILLAMS15
When I first heard Joey Bada$$’s “1999” debut mixtape, it was obvious what type of potential the young Brooklyn rapper had. He was just 17 years old after all and he was already proving to be one of the genre’s best lyricists. Now, just one year older, he’s released his second major mixtape “Summer Knights” and it’s impressive how much he’s grown. It shouldn’t be a surprise, though. He lost his close friend and collaborator Capital STEEZ, who committed suicide, and his music has always been mature, reminiscing on the 1990s hip hop era. Bad$$’s “Summer Knights” is his typical lyrical genius with some highlights coming from the second track “Hilary $wank” when he cleverly rhymes, “How they gonna treat Brooklyn’s finest not as fine as diamonds? And fine nice, surrounded by hard flow like Icelands.” “Death of YOLO” is a more sober track that sees Bada$$ already reflecting on his young career. The beat is a little forgettable but the hook is smooth. He raps about a scenario where he is driving and sees his life flash before his eyes. “In that split second, my foot stepping, breaking, I thought to myself, I always knew that I would make it. All it took was patience, and now I’m on the stations. Luckily, I made it right before my life was taken.” My favorite track on the mixtape is “95 Til Infinity,” a
track that lacks the lyrical excellence of much of his work, but Bada$$’s delivery is outstanding. He adjusts it to a DMX-like raspy flow that makes the track stand out. Fittingly, he gives a tribute to his friend Capital STEEZ on “#LongLiveSteelo,” one of his most personal tracks to date. “If only we could vibe like, one more time. Hear one more line or share one more rhyme. Even show me one more sign of destiny itself would be fine. But there’s no turning back the hands of time,” he raps toward the end of the song. But there is still something that is holding him back, just enough to make this mixtape not the breakout its predecessor was. And it’s in his sound that hasn’t progressed much since “1999” that hurts it. Too often, “Summer Knights” sounds like a 1999 2.0. A series of different boombap beats selected to highlight his lyrical skills, rarely to actually let the music stand out. I suspect that much of his best stuff is being saved for his debut album, which is likely releasing by the end of the year. Besides, it’s not that “Summer Knights” is in any way bad. It’s just when you have a lyricist as talented as Bada$$ is, expectations sore through the roof. Bada$$ is undoubtedly one of the best rappers in the game, but it’s important to remember he’s still just 18 years old. RATING: HHHHI
The modern day troll is the monster lurking in every social network on the Internet. It is said that the users operating the accounts post enraging content only to annoy and anger others. Most web communities abhor the posts of trolls, but not all trolls are innately evil. Sometimes their comments can bring a new perspective and be a crucial part of online discussion, despite how inflammatory they may seem. Take for example Logan James’ twitter handle @YesYoureRacist dedicated to pointing out the racism apparent on Twitter. All James does is search for key words such as “I’m not racist, but...” to find throngs of offensive comments. He then reposts verbatim what the user says for comment from the masses. And more times than not, a discussion begins. As James points out in an article on the British website The Independent, “The most disturbing thing about @YesYoureRacist isn’t the racism itself. It’s that the people I retweet — the vast majority of which appear to be teenagers — genuinely don’t understand whether they’re being racist.” Without James putting the public spotlight on their comments, nothing would’ve changed in the minds of the people saying them. It at least makes us more conscious of the racism in everyday online and face-to-face communication. James points out the uncomfortable truth that we have more growth to do as a society through trolling the Internet. Possibly the most famous troll may be Michael Brutsch, known as Violentacrez on the online community Reddit. Under the guise of his username, Brutsch posted some of the most disturbing content found in online forums. These forums were categorized by Reddit as pornographic and featured “jailbait” and “incest” themes, but he did not oversee more than just these communities. In all, Brutsch controlled more than 400 subreddits according to the Gawker article revealing him as Violentacrez. His posts garnered outrage from many Reddit users, who would then repost his content. This eventually lead to his comments becoming highly discussed and visited. In most cases, users would call for censorship, but in the end the majority would push to leave them up. The conversation would shift from disgust to the importance of freedom of speech. In an article written before he was identified as Violentacrez, Brutsch said in and interview with The Daily Dot, “What was surprising was the community support for it. Most posts that complain about these things never do very well, and are quickly buried or deleted ...I think it’s interesting how many people defend my right to act the way I do, while decrying my posts themselves.” While many of the posts made by Violentacrez defy what many would define as appropriate, they forced an online community to evaluate their freedom of speech in a way the Founding Fathers couldn’t have predicted. This isn’t the first time modern society swallowed its pride to protect freedom of speech. Each new case asks us to think long and hard about what it would mean to censor a message whether we agree with it or not. In folklore, trolls live under a bridge and force travelers to solve a riddle to move on, and the Internet trolls of today followed suit. Today’s trolls can bring social networks to attention, focusing the collective on a topic for heated discussion. Like them or not, many trolls allow us to see the subtle offensive remarks that are made everyday on social media.
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County 4-H fashion revue introduces $25 award Grand Champion in memory of past, long-time narrator KRYSTAL BYERS STAFF REPORTER | kmbyers@bsu.edu This year at the Delaware County 4-H fair the fashion revue gave out its first Grand Champion 4-H Fashion Revue award. Emily Grinder, 18, received the $25 award from the Sugar & Spice Home Economics Club in memory of Melinda Hensley Loy, who died in May. Loy had narrated the fashion revue for years. The revue is an event where participants model the items they have made. There are a wide variety of categories including clothing, sleepwear, bedding, purses, coats and even costumes. Grinder won the “Melinda� award for the wool coat she made. She said she plans on taking it to Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis to school with her in the fall. “I have waited until my last year to do the coat. I have been
working my way up to the coat because they say coats are the hardest,� Grinder said. “So I will have a nice coat for college.� Over the past 10 years of participating in 4-H, Grinder has learned to make many different pieces. “I make my own pencil bag, I make pillowcases for my sister,� Grinder said. “It just gives you that advantage toward your friends. They’re like ‘oh you made that?’ and I’m like ‘yes I did.’ So I feel like I have something extra, since sewing is fading away.� Adrianna Nagle, 15, won the 12th grade division in informal and casual wear for the fashion revue, as well as being champion in construction and non-wearable, for her green sundress. “I wanted to make a sundress because last year I made a wool coat and it was so hot,� Nagle said. “I really liked this pattern when we went and saw it.� Nagle is not the only person in her family to participate in 4-H, she has two sisters, Katie and Laura Nagle, who also participate. Katie Nagle, 10, won a blue ribbon earlier in the day in microwave cooking. For microwave cooking, par-
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Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is a 9 -- You can make extra money. Cinch the deal. Accept advice from someone even more frugal than you. Start your household shopping list. Make your future more secure.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)Today is a 9 -- Listen to one you love. Friends are a big help. Play, but remember your budget. Realize a dream. Wheel and deal, and organize plans for implementation. A crazy idea works.
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Evidence builds against tight end in murder case Associate of former Patriots’ player says he fired lethal shots | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATTLEBORO, Mass. — An associate of former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez said he was told Hernandez fired the shots that resulted in the death of a semi-pro football player, according to documents filed in Florida. The records, obtained by The Associated Press, also show that a vehicle wanted
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in a double killing in Boston a year before had been rented in Hernandez’s name. Together, the revelations provide the most damning evidence yet against the 23-year-old star athlete. Hernandez has been charged in the June killing of Boston semi-pro athlete Odin Lloyd. The records say Hernandez associate Carlos Ortiz told Massachusetts investigators that another man, Ernest Wallace, said Hernandez shot Lloyd in an industrial park near Hernandez’s home in North Attleborough. The gun used in the killing has not been found.
The documents were filed in court by the Miramar, Fla., police department to justify a search of Wallace’s mother’s home in that city. Ortiz told police that during the drive, Hernandez told Lloyd that Lloyd had been “chilling” with people Hernandez had problems with, the documents say. But Ortiz told police the two men shook hands and the problem seemed smoothed over. However, the Altima soon stopped, and everyone but Ortiz got out to urinate, according to Ortiz’s account. The witness told police he then heard gunshots before
Hernandez and Wallace got back into the car without Lloyd and the car sped away. Ortiz said he couldn’t see who fired the shots because it was dark. Back at Hernandez’s home, Ortiz said, Wallace asked him to get a small gun out from under the driver’s seat. Ortiz said he did and gave it to Hernandez once they were inside. Ortiz said he then went to sleep. When he woke up in the afternoon, according to his account, the three men returned the Altima and rented a Chrysler 300 before returning to Hernandez’s home. Ortiz and Wallace then went to
an apartment in the area that Hernandez and other football players used. Wallace let Ortiz in before leaving for a long time, the documents say. The two then drove to Bristol. Ortiz told police that Wallace said Hernandez shot Lloyd. Hernandez, Wallace and Ortiz appear linked through Bristol. Wallace told Florida police he grew up with Hernandez’s father. Ortiz’s attorney, John Connors, said Tuesday his client, who’s athletic and around the age of Hernandez’s older brother, is from Bristol. Records show Hernandez, who played tight end, became
CHARGES FACED 1. FIRST DEGREE MURDER 2. CARRYING A FIREARM WITHOUT A LICENSE 3. TWO COUNTS OF CARRYING A LARGE CAPACITY FIREARM 4. POSSESSION OF A FIREARM WITHOUT A FIREARM IDENTIFICATION (FID) CARD 5. POSSESSION OF AMMUNITION WITHOUT AN FID CARD
“argumentative” during his first encounter with police at his home about five hours after Lloyd’s body was found by a jogger. He asked, “What’s with all the questions?” and locked the door behind him.
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3 Cardinals earn national recognition among best players DAKOTA CRAWFORD SPORTS EDITOR | @DakotaCrawford_ A 2012 campaign that led to a 9-4 overall record, paired with an appearance in the Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl, has led
JAMILL SMITH, SENIOR WIDE RECEIVER 2012 STATS • 15-34 in YARDS 706 • AVG 10.2 • TD 6 • All-Mid American Conference First Team as a wide receiver • Third Team as a punt return and kick return specialist.
to some new recognition for the Ball State football team. Three Cardinals have been named to national award preseason watch lists. Keith Wenning, senior quarterback, is on the Maxwell Award watch list — the award given to the nation’s most outstanding player each year. Jamill Smith, senior wide receiver, is featured on the watch list for the Paul Hornung
INDIVIDUAL STATS
KEITH WENNING, SENIOR QUARTERBACK 2012 STATS • CMP-ATT 301-460 • 3095 YDS • 24 TD • 10 INT • All-MAC Second Team • Started 33 straight games before missing the 2012 regular season finale • 2013 team captain
Award — given to the nation’s most versatile player each season. Zane Fakes has been named to the preseason watch list for the John Mackey Award — given to the nation’s most outstanding tight end. No Cardinals were named to the watch lists for any of these three awards in 2012. Each of the three nominated players will be important to the Ball State offense next season.
ZANE FAKES, SENIOR TIGHT END 2012 STATS • YARDS 461 • AVG 8.1 • TD 5 • All-Mid-American Conference First Team • Academic All-MAC Team
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