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TOBACCO BAN FACTS WHAT
A Ball State ban that eliminates smoking sections and removes tobacco from campus except in vehicles with windows up and during tailgate events
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WHERE
All buildings and property on campus, including McKinley Avenue and other streets that run through campus
Cigarette butts scatter the ground at the smoking area by the Studebaker East Complex. The new ban will force the students, faculty and staff who use this area to move off campus to smoke.
WHO
Anyone on campus, whether staff, student, guest or otherwise will be restricted by the ban
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FBI kills man after threat Agent suffers from non-fatal injuries after knife attack | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ORLANDO, Fla. — A Chechen immigrant who was being questioned about his ties to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was shot to death by authorities early Wednesday after he lunged at an FBI agent with a knife, officials said. IBRAGIM Ibragim TodaTODASHEV shev, a 27-yeara 27-year-old old mixed marChechen immigrant who was tial arts fighter, gunned shot to death was down at his Orlando home during a meeting with the agent and two Massachusetts state troopers, authorities said. The agent was taken
to a hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening. The FBI gave no details on why they were interested in Todashev except to say that he was being questioned as part of the Boston investigation. But some of his former roommates said Todashev knew one of the Boston bombing suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, from mixed martial arts fighting in Boston and that the FBI was asking about him. Public records show Todashev lived in Watertown, Mass., just outside Boston, last year. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, an aspiring boxer, was killed in a shootout with police days after the April 15 bombings. His younger brother, Dzhokhar, survived and is charged with carrying out the attack that killed three people and wounded more than 260. Investigators have been trying to establish the scope of the plot. In addition, authorities in Massachusetts said they would
investigate whether Tamerlan Tsarnaev had any connection to an unsolved 2011 slaying in the Boston suburb of Waltham, where three men were found dead in an apartment, their throats slit and marijuana sprinkled over their bodies. One of the victims was a boxer
and a friend of Tsarnaev’s. Todashev had lived on and off with other Chechens in the Orlando suburb of Kissimmee and had moved to Orlando more recently, friends said.
tion’s attorney, said the group acknowledges the value of such a class, but argues Hedin’s class is one-sided. “This class ERIC HEDIN does not ap- BSU assistant pear to be an professor of honest inves- physics and tigation into astronomy the intersection of science and religion,” he wrote in a letter to president Jo Ann Gora. Seidel also said Ball State could face legal and credibility questions because of Hedin’s teaching. “We take matters related to
academic integrity very seriously,” university spokesperson Joan Todd said. “To that end, the university has initiated a thorough review of the course to make certain the curriculum is appropriate and the methods of instruction are academically sound.” Seidel said the foundation is also filing an objection to other classes Hedin has taught, including an introductory astronomy class. “You have a good reason to be talking about religion in a religion and science class, but there is no reason it should be coming up in your introductory level astronomy class,” he said. “Religion is not a part of astronomy.” Fifth-year senior criminology
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Ball State is reviewing one of its courses after allegations that a professor is crossing the line by expressing his religious beliefs in class. The Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a formal complaint against Ball State assistant professor in the department of physics and astronomy Eric Hedin’s teaching of “Boundaries of Science,” an Honors College course. Andrew Seidel, the founda-
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Tornado damage in Oklahoma may total $2 billion Storms kills 24, including 2 infants; 33,000 affected
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The FBI evidence response team enters an apartment Wednesday in Orlando, Fla., after an FBI agent shot and killed a man who was questioned in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings.
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WHAT IS THE FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION?
A national membership association of more than 17,000 freethinkers: atheists, agnostics and skeptics of any pedigree. PURPOSE
To promote the constitutional principle of separation of state and church, and to educate the public on matters relating to nontheism. major Jake Owens said he was in Hedin’s astronomy 100 class in the Fall Semester of 2011 and that he wasn’t bothered when Hedin brought up religion.
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MOORE, Okla. — The tornado that tore through an Oklahoma City suburb destroyed or damaged as many as 13,000 homes and may have caused $2 billion in overall damage, officials said Wednesday. State authorities meanwhile said two infants were among the 24 people who perished in the twister. Oklahoma Insurance Department spokeswoman Calley Herth told The Associated Press that the early monetary damage tally is based on visual assessments of the extensive disaster zone that stretches more than 17 miles and the fact that Monday’s tornado was on the ground for 40 minutes. The financial cost of the tornado in Moore could be greater than the $2 billion in damage from the 2011 tornado that killed 161 people in Joplin, Mo., Herth said, adding that the Joplin twister left a smaller trail of destruction. For the first time Wednesday, authorities provided a clearer accounting of the destruction. Between 12,000 and 13,000 homes were destroyed or damaged and 33,000 people were affected in some way by the storm, said Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett, speaking at a news conference. He also put the monetary damage estimate at TWEET US
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$2 billion
overall estimated damage
12-13,000
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Residents in neighborhoods near campus and businesses in the Village generally don’t think any serious trouble will result from a higher smoking population caused by the campus tobacco ban starting this fall. Roger McConnell, associate professor of music performance, has lived in the neighborhood west of the Arts and Journalism building for 44 years, and agrees with the trustees’ decision to ban tobacco. “I think it’s a step in the right direction,” he said. “I support it.” Matt Bailey is a board member in the neighborhood association and said he’s been informed that other communities facing tobacco bans haven’t had many problems with people being pushed into neighborhoods. “I wouldn’t say there’s much of an uproar from our neighborhood at this point, but if it becomes an issue, we’ll squawk about it,” he said. He said the main concern of the neighborhood is the closing of the gate on Euclid Avenue near LaFollette Complex. Bailey said many university staff members used that gate to get to campus and will need to find a new route, but Ball State wasn’t compromising.
homes damaged
33,000 people affected
between $1.5 billion to $2 billion. Emergency officials were unable to put a figure on the number of people left homeless, because many people have been taken in by relatives and only a few dozen have stayed overnight at Red Cross shelters. Six adults remain unaccounted for since the tornado, said Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management Director Albert Ashwood. It’s possible those people had just “walked off ” their properties or could still be found in the rubble, Ashwood said. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano visited the area Wednesday, pledging the government’s support and urging people to register with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to see what aid they qualify for. “We know that people are really hurting,” she said. “There’s a lot of recovery yet to do ... We will be here to stay until this recovery is complete. You have our commitment on that.”
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