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SMOLDERING Ball State’s smoking policy strict, unsafe for students leaving campus to smoke DEVAN FILCHAK UNIFIED MEDIA SENIOR PRODUCER | dfilchak@bsu.edu

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all State’s smoking policy is the strictest for Indiana public universities with on-campus residences, and student smokers are not the only ones complaining.

Indiana University has a similar policy, but the main campus allows smoking in a few provost-designated smoking areas. At the IUPUI campus, the mostly commuter college has a complete smoking ban.

Joan Todd, Ball State executive director of public relations, said administrators considered a study by Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights, which cites more than 1,200 schools in the country with similar policies.

Kay Bales, vice president for stu- community,” Bales said in the dent affairs, said in an email sent email. “As the campus becomes

by Todd that Ball State does not more familiar with the new polplan on lessening the severity of icy, the need for reminders will the tobacco-free policy. diminish.”

“We recognize that this Three people have rehas been an adjustment OUR VIEW: ceived littering tickets RECONSIDER for smokers, but [we] feel SMOKING BAN for cigarette butts — a the benefits outweigh the Editorial board $25 ticket that becomes inconvenience,” she said. talks execution of a $143 fine after fees.

Students have to smoke smoking ban on Many issues have come off campus or they could campus from the unofficial smokface a $100 smoking vio- + PAGE 3 ing section on Petty Avelation fine. Gene Burton, nue, where six residences director of public safety, have complained about said the University Police Depart- smokers obstructing traffic. ment has issued two warning vioBurton said it has become an lations, but no students have been issue of public safety. Officers fined for the violation. are often parked in patrol cars “Our goal isn’t to hand out tick- to monitor the smoking area. ets — it’s to enhance the health See SMOKING, page 4 and well-being of our campus DN PHOTO BREANNA DAUGHERTY

Carly Bontrager, a freshman nursing major, smokes a cigarette while reviewing her notes Monday behind the Robert Bell Building. Ball State’s tobacco-free campus is the strictest in Indiana for public universities with on-campus residences.

Roughly 600 tickets still available GROUP SPOTLIGHTS for Jason Mraz Emens show today GENDER WAGE GAP WITH BAKE SALE Marketing assistant

Organization charges GENDER WAGE GAP differing amounts 59 percent much Hispanic or Latina to make statement how women earn compared to white men DANIELLE GRADY STAFF REPORTER 68 percent | dagrady@bsu.edu

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About one sixth of the seats in John R. Emens Auditorium are still available for Jason Mraz’s performance tonight.

Kristi Chambers, an Emens marketing assistant, said about 600 tickets were available as of Monday night, despite JASON MRAZ TO RETURN some students TO EMENS camping out After 10 years, to buy tickets musical artist in September comes back on and opening global tour sales to the + PAGE 5 public.

“The reason he isn’t selling out, based on what we’ve heard from people, is that they thought the show was already sold out because it went on sale for students first and that so many camped out for it,” Chambers said. “The reason why it’s opened to the public is there are tickets left — students get priority.”

Abby Johnson, a freshman dietetics major, camped out for tickets in September.

“People see the waiting line and think, ‘Oh look at all these

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how much African American women

Men paid a quarter more earn compared to white men than women for a cupcake at Amnesty International BSU’s event Monday to demonstrate how much white women earn the gender wage gap. compared to white men “Generally, women make about 75-77 percent of what men make in the workforce,” how much Asian American women Natalie Abell, an Amnesty In- earn compared to white men ternational member, said.

SOURCE: aauw.org In order to represent this statistic, men paid $1 for a science, Abell said.

Brian Kowalski, a memcupcake while women paid a ber of Amnesty Internareduced 75 cents.

Abell said she hopes the tional BSU, said some men bake sale will prompt people might find wage inequality a hard concept to wrap their to think about the wage gap.

“We’re just trying to make heads around.

“It’s hard to support the people aware,” she said.

During the sale, a group idea that ‘I’m more excepof men walked by the stand tional than somebody who’s and yelled, “You’re making female,’” he said, putting himself in the mindset of the avit worse.”

“We’re making it obvious,” erage man. “I don’t want to come to terms with that beAbell replied.

The wage gap is still preva- cause I have to come to terms lent, even in other countries, with equality and feminism especially in fields where and other things that aren’t 21.

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Jason Mraz will perform at 7:30 tonight at John R. Emens Auditorium. Tickets are still available and start at $10 for students and $25 for the public.

people, all the tickets will be gone by the time I go to buy a ticket,’” she said. “It really doesn’t surprise me there are tickets left, but it does surprise me that there are so many left.”

Chambers said tickets not being available online sooner is another factor.

“Florida Georgia Line was

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available at the office and online, and [the show] sold out in two hours,” she said. “The thing is — since Jason Mraz wasn’t online at that point — if you wanted to get a ticket, you had to come to the box office, and that actually weeds out a lot of people.”

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STAMPEDE IN INDIA KILLS 115 PILGRIMS AT HINDU FESTIVAL

NEW DELHI (AP) — Uma Devi was halfway across the bridge when people started shouting that it was collapsing.

“I grabbed my son and ran,” the distraught woman told Indian TV a day after Sunday’s tragedy in central India. “People were pushing and screaming and trying to run away from the bridge. I don’t know how I escaped.”

The stampede killed 115 people, mostly women and children. Some were crushed to death, while others jumped off the bridge to escape and drowned. Scores more were injured.

They were among hundreds of thousands of pilgrims who had come to the Hindu temple in the remote town of Ratangarh in Madhya Pradesh state on the last day of a popular festival.

Many bodies were pulled from the river.

It was not immediately clear how many people were on the bridge when the stampede occurred, but local media said some 500,000 people visited the temple.

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NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market is slipping after a breakdown in budget talks in Washington brought the nation closer to a potentially disastrous default on its debt.

There was also no immediate hope Monday for reopening the U.S. government, which was entering a third week of partial shutdown.

Negotiations to clear a path for a new budget agreement ended at an impasse over the weekend.

The Dow Jones industrial average was down 31 points, or 0.2 percent, at 15,205 in midday trading Monday.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index was down three points, or 0.2 percent, at 1,700. The Nasdaq composite was down a fraction at 3,791.

Bond trading was closed Monday for Columbus Day. Earnings season goes into high gear this week. Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson and Citigroup report results today.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Lady Liberty was once again welcoming visitors to her shores Sunday after the state agreed to shoulder the costs of running the famed statue during the federal government shutdown.

Eager sightseers stood in line in Manhattan’s Battery Park, waiting for the ferry trips to the Statue of Liberty, which had been shut since Oct. 1.

Simon and Dominik Balz, brothers visiting from Bern, Switzerland, had

booked their trip in May, with the statue among their planned stops.

The shutdown had made that seem impossible, “so we were very disappointed,” Simon Balz said.

The statue is “well-known all over the world,” he said. “It’s very special.”

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Friday that the state would pay about $61,600 a day to reopen Liberty Island National Park through Oct. 17.

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita said a default could be a good tool for cutting federal spending.

The Indiana Republican told WIBCFM Monday that the nation would not necessarily “default” if the debt ceiling is not raised this week. The government would have to “prioritize” spending instead.

A measure to raise the debt ceiling is the latest roadblock in Washington as the federal government enters its third

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian officials said that all government employees will start using an encrypted email service in an effort to stop foreign spies from intercepting emails.

But experts question the ability of Brazil to protect its government emails from the eyes of the U.S. National Security Agency. The entire system is compromised if any user of an encrypted email sends a

week on shutdown.

Rokita’s gaffes earlier this month earned him national heckling at the start of the shutdown. He was lampooned extensively after calling a female CNN anchor “beautiful” and describing the health care law as “insidious.” But he defended himself Monday, saying host Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show” on television’s Comedy Central should look up the definition of “insidious.”

message to somebody on an outside program, like Gmail.

Nevertheless, Communications Minister Paulo Bernardo Silva said Monday that a new governmentcreated encrypted email system will soon be mandatory for federal officials by the second half of next year.

Leaked NSA documents have shown that Brazil is the top Latin American target for U.S. spies.

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REASONABLE IDEA, POOR EXECUTION AT ISSUE: Smoking ban has created more problems than it is worth

It’s easier to make a rule than to smoothly implement it.

Ball State went from having almost 20 smoking sections to having absolutely no smoking on campus Aug. 1. Since then, neighborhoods and students — both smokers and nonsmokers — have disapproved, some even through formal complaints sent to administrators.

Kay Bales, vice president of student affairs, and other administrators created the tobacco-free policy for the health benefits for faculty, staff and students.

The fact of the matter is that smoking tobacco is legal. Though it isn’t healthy and the university is concerned about its community’s well being, it isn’t truly their concern. Most students won’t quit smoking just because they can’t smoke on campus.

None of the smoking sections were right up against buildings.

The smoking section near LaFollette Complex was pushed back about two years ago. Purdue University pushed back their smoking sections to make it more friendly for nonsmokers, as well.

Even Gene Burton, director of public safety, has shown concern for safety on Petty Avenue, an unofficial smoking area where students congregate and where residents have complained about people obstructing traffic.

He said safety is more of a concern than people smoking on campus, though officers will stop those who they see violating the policy. He said they haven’t seen many. The public safety concern is valid, but don’t officers have better things to do than sit in their patrol cars at the parking lot by an unofficial smoking area?

Students aren’t happy. Many of the ones who smoke have to walk to areas to take part in their legal habit. Some students even have other students smoking in their yards, leaving piles of cigarette butts.

Residents of the Westridge neighborhood, west of campus, aren’t happy, either. They are forced to clean up cigarette butts, which have collected in many areas to what seems like hundreds of pieces of debris. Bales said the university has installed receptacles, but only time will tell to see if people will actually use them.

In letters sent to Ball State that The Daily News obtained through public records, local residents even asked administrators to reconsider smoking sections on campus, as they were much less of a problem.

Administrators seem to be the only people happy about the ban. Of course, it looks good to make a move that shows their concern for their faculty, staff and students’ health. But is it really that simple?

The size of the backlash isn’t surprising. When asked if administrators expected this much general disapproval from residents and smokers, Bales said, “Any change requires an adjustment period, and this is no different.”

We don’t disagree with the eventual goal of a smoke-free campus. However, going from having so many designated smoking areas on a campus that is much smaller than Purdue or IU to none is a little drastic.

Though administrators, such as Bales, don’t appear to be reconsidering the completely tobacco-free policy, it is time to have that conversation.

KNOW WHAT YOU’RE WORTH, DON’T SETTLE FOR LESS ADAM BAUMGARTNER STAY PERFECT Work hard and be entrepreneurial was the general message Soledad O’Brien sent to Ball State students Monday afternoon at a smallgroup, Q-and-A session.

O’Brien is no stranger to hard work. The CEO of Starfish Media Group made a name for herself working for several different media organizations, including CNN and HBO. But O’Brien sent another message to students. “[For] my very first boss, I had to get her dry cleaning, all the things that were completely illegal in an internship,” she said.

O’Brien said because she was willing to do crazy things — even take her boss’s car to get fixed — her boss helped her find a place to live in Boston.

She told an anecdote about an intern she had at CNN. She said the intern introduced herself and explained that she does not fetch coffee because she finds it demeaning.

“And I’m like, ‘I fully understand, Stacey. You should know, I don’t write recommendations.

I think it’s demeaning,’” O’Brien said. “Who starts a conversation that way?”

Throughout the conversation, O’Brien said young people should be willing to do anything because “that’s the person I want to move to the next thing that I’m doing. If I’m successful, I want them to come with me.”

Essentially, if you’re not willing to do it all, your bosses and colleagues won’t want to keep you around.

I felt confused.

As a junior, I have completed two internships. I first worked at The Indianapolis Star, then The Chicago Tribune.

At neither newspaper, however, did I fetch coffee.

At neither newspaper did I pick up dry cleaning or take my boss’s car to be fixed.

O’Brien’s advice confused me because even though I didn’t fall to my boss’s whim, my employers valued me.

I didn’t have to pick up lunch for my coworkers, yet The Chicago Tribune invited me to stay on after my internship ended. They even invited me back over breaks, and I’m thrilled to say I will spend my Fall Break helping them produce content.

ADAM BAUMGARTNER IS A JUNIOR JOURNALISM MAJOR AND WRITES ‘STAY PERFECT’ FOR THE DAILY NEWS. HIS VIEWS DO NOT NECESSARILY AGREE WITH THOSE OF THE NEWSPAPER. WRITE TO ADAM AT AFBAUMGARTNE@BSU.EDU.

My bosses appreciated me and paid me to do the work in which I was skilled.

And I am not the only student who has been successful without emptying the trash.

Amanda Richardson is the news director of Ball State’s NewsLink Indiana, a student-run, Emmy Award-winning newscast. Richardson has done two internships.

She also shares O’Brien’s work ethic.

“I saw that there was work that needed to be done [and] I just did it, whether I was asked to or not,” Richardson said.

She said, though, that she never had to do work that fit anything but her job description.

By O’Brien’s standards, Richardson also is an anomaly, because RTV6 in Indianapolis hired her as a producer for a weekend morning TV show — without fetching coffee.

“I wrote copy, and I produced shows,” she said. “And I showed my employers that I had the skills they were looking for.”

We are a generation heading into a highly competitive job market. No one will hand us our careers — we have to fight for them.

In that regard, O’Brien is correct.

But no one who graduates from Ball State should feel desperate. We have spent our time here training for careers, gathering skills and experience that makes us valuable to employers.

When we graduate, we prove with our degrees that we are dedicated, committed, ready and willing to work. We prove we are able to think critically and solve problems.

O’Brien also told a story about hiring a personal assistant. She said several applicants shied away when she said they would have to help take care of her children, and that the applicants claimed they wanted to be journalists.

She said those applicants missed out on an opportunity.

“I have a YouTube channel; I have assignments; I have three documentaries I’m in the middle of.

I have so much work — I’m so busy — [the applicant] would be a journalist,” she said. “And yes, at 3 o’clock, you’d have to go pick up my kids.”

Well, O’Brien, I am not qualified to care for children. I am qualified to be a journalist.

And I do not want your letter of recommendation.

I HAVE CANCER, BUT DON’T GET WEIRD EVIE LICHTENWALTER PROGNOSIS UNKNOWN

EVIE LICHTENWALTER IS A BALL STATE STUDENT TAKING AN ACADEMIC BREAK DUE TO HER CANCER DIAGNOSIS. SHE WRITES ‘PROGNOSIS UNKNOWN’ FOR THE DAILY NEWS. HER VIEWS DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THOSE OF THE NEWSPAPER. WRITE TO EVIE AT EMLICHTENWAL@BSU.EDU.

Having cancer has been a lesson in human interaction, and you know what? Humans are bizarre creatures.

When approached with uncomfortable situations, everyone reacts differently.

Since April, I’ve lost approximately 80 pounds. I didn’t diet and exercise and strive toward a “goal” weight. I wasn’t motivated to “better” myself or become healthier.

I got cancer.

And for some reason, people’s first reaction after hearing I’m sick is something along the lines of “Well, you look so great” or “Wow, you’re so tiny now.”

Yeah, thanks. This cancer diet is really doing the trick. It’s amazing what malignant tumors can do for your waistline.

I know people mean well — and that’s great — but it would be nice if we could not talk about my weight loss as if it’s a positive. My body no longer feels like EVIE my own. So much about it has changed LICHTENWALTER, in the last three months that I feel like I a Ball State student am simply occupying a foreign shell. My body doesn’t belong to me anymore; I belong to it. I’d much rather have that 80 pounds back and a clean bill of health, thank you very much.

Also, people, stop acting so weird.

Cancer is still a scary word to a lot of people, and many associate the diagnosis with death. Just because I have cancer doesn’t mean I’m going to die. Sure, death is a solid possibility, but for now, it’s not really in my line of sight. No one has said I’m terminal yet, so don’t start planning my funeral.

I’ve had people react in ways that are blatantly inappropriate for our relationship — a blur of vague acquaintances offering a shoulder to cry on and someone to talk to or high school classmates and former teachers offering friendship and support and plenty of prayers.

It’s nice that people want to help, but most of the time, they’re doing it for themselves so they can feel like a better person and thank their lucky stars that they’re not the ones with cancer.

Honestly, it’s hard to know how to react or what to say, and I get that. Clichéd phrases like “You’re so strong and brave,” “You’re going to beat this thing” and “I’ll be praying for you” are nice, and I am appreciative.

But constantly being treated like a sick person is kind of gross and demeaning. The amount of fake smiling I’ve done since July makes me cringe.

I am beyond grateful for the amount of supportive people I have in my life. I really am. My close friends and family have been champs during this situation, and I couldn’t ask for better people to surround me.

I’m not trying to be ungrateful or negative. I’m just being honest.

Fake sincerity isn’t going to do anyone any good.

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Soledad O’Brien speaks on leadership, opportunity

As default nears, investors ignore financial threat

‘There is nothing worse than doing nothing,’ she says

Treasury department says it will run out of money Thursday

stock or made any big moves to protect his portfolio.

“We are not taking actions based on the worst-case scenario,” he said.

That worse case is inching | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS closer, though. The Treasury NEW YORK — Warren Buf- said it will run out of money fett likens it to a nuclear attack. to pay its bills if Congress Economists warn that govern- doesn’t increase its borrowment spending on programs like ing authority by Thursday.

Social Security would plunge. That includes paying interest The Treasury said the economy and principal on already iswould slide into a resued U.S. Treasurys, cession worse than considered the most Doomsday secure financial bet the last.

Yet you wouldn’t is nigh, and in the world. know that a U.S. debt Treasurys are used default could amount everyone as collateral in trilto a nightmare from shrugs. lions of dollars of the way many compaloans rolling over nies and investors are NICHOLAS every day. They also preparing for it. are the standard COLAS, They aren’t. against which the chief market The assumption strategist at riskiness of stocks seems to be that in the CovergEx Group and bonds are meaend, Washington will sured. A default find a way to avert a default. would cast doubt on the val“Doomsday is nigh, and ev- ue of those assets and throw eryone shrugs,” said Nicholas the global financial system Colas, chief market strategist at into chaos.

CovergEx Group, an investment The Treasurys are a key reabrokerage in New York. son many seem unprepared Brian Doe, a wealth adviser at for the default. Why bother Gratus Capital Management in if you can’t really protect Atlanta, has 35 clients who have yourself ? Or, as an official reentrusted him with $50 million sponse from France’s Total oil for safekeeping. He isn’t losing company put it, “Nobody can sleep over a potential default. imagine the consequences, so Neither are his clients, apparent- we don’t have any plans.” ly. Not one has called him about Neither, apparently, does the issue, he said.

Sony Corp.

“I’ve not done anything,” he “There isn’t a whole lot that said. He puts the odds of default one company can actually do,” very low. “People in Washington CEO Kazuo Hirai said Friday are stupid, but not that stupid.” at the company’s Tokyo headMarcello Ahn, a fund manager quarters. in Seoul, is more prepared, sort Still, the business world of. He doesn’t think the U.S. isn’t entirely unprepared. Big will default. But if it does, the U.S. companies have hoarded economically sensitive stocks cash since the financial criof shipbuilders and chemical sis for fear of another credit companies will get hit espe- crunch. And financial regulacially hard. So he’s held off buy- tors, major banks and mutual ing them. funds have moved to shore But he hasn’t sold a single up their defenses, too.

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KARA BERG STAFF REPORTER knberg2@bsu.edu

To Soledad O’Brien, there is nothing worse than having the opportunity to do something and not taking action.

The award-winning journalist ended her presentation for the Excellence in Leadership Speaker Series on Monday in John R. Emens auditorium with her favorite quote by John F. Kennedy, inspired by Dante Alighieri.

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.”

Throughout her entire presentation, O’Brien maintained that position, giving many examples of times she has taken action.

“There is nothing worse than doing nothing and saying nothing when your voice is needed,” she said. “Being the perpetrator of something bad is less bad than being the person who stands by and has an opportunity to say or do something and chooses ‘not me, not this time.’”

O’Brien expressed a lot of respect and admiration for Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

She said the famous “I have a dream” line was ad-libbed and likened this to the way students should lead.

“True leadership is about going off script because you know it’s more important to be on the right side of history,” O’Brien said. “People like to say Dr. King was like Jesus come to earth, but he wasn’t. The point was he was a regular man who decided,

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Soledad O’Brien, an Emmy Award-winning journalist, speaks to a panel of students about her experiences in journalism Oct. 14. After leaving CNN, she started Starfish Media Group, a production company.

given the opportunity, that he would stand for something.”

She said ultimately, it’s our job to bear witness to what’s happening around us, even if it might not be the easiest thing.

“I think it’s very critical to have a certain sense of bravery about the stories you want to tell,” O’Brien said.

“Because my experience has been that every good idea you have, someone will be there to tell you why it’s not a good idea and why you’re wrong. It’s very hard to be the one who zags when everyone else is zigging.”

Lauren Berger, assistant

director in the Office of Student Life, said they chose O’Brien because she has an interesting story.

“I think students can learn the power of having a positive attitude and the ability to overcome obstacles in order to persevere and be successful in your profession and giving back to your community, making a difference,” Berger said.

Freshman journalism major Sarah Ehringer originally went to the event for her Excellence in Leadership class, but found O’Brien’s presentation to be enthralling.

“I liked her anecdotes about

« Being the perpetrator of something bad is less bad than being the person who stands by and has an opportunity to say or do something and chooses ‘not me, not this time.’ »

SOLEDAD O’BRIEN, an Emmy Award-winning journalist her life and her stories about growing up,” Ehringer said. “I learned you can change the world if you stand for something.”

SMOKING: Residents near campus file complaint about smokers, cigarette butts | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

NEIGHBORHOOD, SMOKER COMPLAINTS Nearby residents have complained about smokers who step into adjacent neighborhoods to light up.

The university has asked students and employees to avoid going into neighborhoods to smoke and has put out trash cans to steer smokers to areas where they won’t be a nuisance. Bales said the trash cans are an effort to help keep residents happy and problem areas cleaner.

She said the university’s grounds crews also clean the area daily.

According to documents from a public records request, Ball State has received six complaints letters from residents who live near campus.

Besides Petty Avenue, people have complained about smokers in other areas near the Westridge neighborhood, including Warwick Road, near the David Owsley Museum of Art. “I walk back and forth to work this way every day and have to pass by smokers almost every time,” Eric Hedin,

Ball State assistant professor and Westridge Neighborhood Association board president wrote to Ball State officials.

“It feels like a violation of our privacy. It used to be that our road, although close to BSU, got very little pedestrian traffic. Now, it feels like BSU’s presence, and the smokers are the worst sort of presence, is coming up the road into our residential district.”

Some of the complaints request signs to deter students from smoking so close to residents’ properties and to reduce littering. Some residents have already put up signs.

Residents David Land and Pete Drumm sent a letter to Hedin to inform the neighborhood board that they will request Ball State put up a permanent barrier near their properties to solve the problem, despite the inconvenience it might serve to neighbors who cut through their driveway.

“Since, the start of the 2013-2014 academic year on Aug. 19, we have seen an increase in the students, staff and other individuals who have stepped on our property to smoke,” the letter stated. “Even worse, we have

MRAZ: Student tickets $10, public price $25 for show | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

Tickets opened to the public Oct. 4 at $30 at price level one and $25 at price level two. Ball State students can buy tickets for $15 at price level one and $10 at price level two.

“I haven’t heard of a ton of advertising for the concert, even from students because I heard [some] saying they didn’t know he was coming,” Johnson said. “I don’t feel there was enough advertising,” Alesia Struewing, a freshman speech pathology major, said she didn’t buy her ticket until Monday because she didn’t know there were any available.

“The only reason I heard of there being tickets available was because of a post on Twitter,” she said.

Chambers said spreading the

been rudely addressed when asking students to refrain from smoking on our private property and even refusing to leave when requested to do so.”

Many students, regardless of if they smoke, said they recognize the problems a ban has caused.

“I think it’s a waste of both the students’ and the law enforcers’ [time], because both groups have more important things to worry about,” Brandon Brown, a sophomore sociology major, said.

Senior Emily Clarkson lives just off campus and has some sympathy for those trying to avoid tobacco tickets. She and her roommates allow smokers to use their backyard.

“I think [the smoking ban] was a nice idea in theory,” she said. “But in practicality, it just caused more problems.”

COMPARED TO OTHER CAMPUSES

The type of limited smoking ban formerly used at Ball State is similar to what is followed at Indiana University and the state’s other public colleges. Some of them also point to a state law that bans smoking near doorways when

word is difficult.

“I can put up as much advertising as I want, but if people don’t pay attention or just hear what they want to hear, they aren’t going to realize it’s open to the public and that we have tickets left,” she said.

She said Emens doesn’t typically sell out its shows.

“More often than not, most of our shows don’t sell out because we want shows that can get as many people to come as possible and still not fill the auditorium,” Chambers said. “If we sold out every show, then our venue isn’t big enough for the shows we’re bringing.”

She said they are still selling tickets for the show at 7:30 p.m.

“We are praying to get as close as possible to selling out,” she said.

it comes to enforcement.

The Bloomington, Ind., campus has not had complaints about people trespassing on nearby property, said Lt. Craig Munroe of IU’s police department. But he said he doubts that smokers there are ready for a complete ban.

“We’re going through a transition period, no doubt,” he said.

Purdue University has designated smoking areas, but the university has moved some of them farther away from buildings, said Carol Shelby, senior director of environmental health and public safety. She has heard one complaint since school began in August. She said the policy relies on peerto-peer enforcement.

The University of Southern Indiana in Evansville says it has a tobacco-free campus, but it allows smoking in designated areas. Stephen Woodall, USI director of public safety, said the policy wasn’t designed so campus security becomes “the tobacco police.”

At Indiana State University in Terre Haute, police chief William Mercier said smoking areas may seem convenient for students but are not a solution to the problem of secondhand smoke.

TRUE COST OF TICKET

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Cigarette butts lie next to a trash can behind the Robert Bell Building. The only fined citations to come from the smoking bans are litter-related tickets.

“It centralizes the smoking in a couple of areas, and they can be pretty nasty,” Mercier said. “It’s kind of defeating the purpose. The idea that you’re smoke free, but there’s these areas where you can smoke is kind of counterintuitive.”

Cutting tobacco use through bans will take time, he predicted.

“It’s going to be a process, just as it is off campus in commercial establishments,” he said.

CUPCAKES: Group advertises showing of 2011’s ‘Miss Representation’ | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 al BSU is focusing on Kowalski said some people might see the bake sale as reverse discrimination.

“It’s supposed to be pressure against the idea that women get less money,” Abell said. “It’s controversial, but it’s true.”

More women bought cupcakes than men as the bake sale went on.

Andrew Cutshaw, a senior theatre major, said he came to the booth because of the message.

“I think it’s interesting,” Cutshaw said. “It’s kind of ridiculous to have the pay difference in general.”

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three issues this semester, Abell said, one of them is women’s rights.

The bake sale is just one of the events the group will host to garner awareness for women’s rights.

Amnesty International also will show a movie from 2011. “Miss Representation” is a documentary on mainstream media’s portrayal of women and has interviews with Condoleezza Rice, Lisa Ling and Rachel Maddow.

The group will screen it at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Bracken Library and will host a protest later in the year.

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Brandon Brown, a sophomore, received a littering ticket in late August from an University Police Department officer. The ticket was $25 for flicking his cigarette butt on the ground, but he paid $143.

Here’s a look at how he paid nearly six times the cost of the littering fine.

City costs: $17.50 City judicial salaries: $5 Document storage fee: $2 Continuing education fund: $4 State costs: $38.50 Delaware County costs: $14 Jury fee: $2 Public defense administration fee: $5 Judicial insurance fee: $1 Court administration fee: $5 Automated record keeping: $7 DNA sample processing fee: $2 State judicial salaries: $15 Infraction fines: $25 SOURCE: Staff reports

“I think that the state ordinances about smoking in bars were pretty controversial, and they seem to have calmed down quite a bit. I think, eventually, the same will happen at universities.”

Steven Williams and Katye Snyder contributed to this story.

HISTORY OF U.S. DEBT DEFAULT

WASHINGTON (AP) — You hear the same proud claim every time Washington wrestles with the debt limit: The United States has never defaulted. But the record’s not that clean. America has stiffed creditors on at least two occasions.

Once, the young nation had a dramatic excuse. The Treasury was empty while the White House and Capitol were charred ruins — even the troops fighting the War of 1812 weren’t getting paid.

A second time, in 1979, was a back-office glitch that ended up costing taxpayers billions of dollars. The Treasury Department blamed it on a crush of paperwork partly caused by lawmakers who — this will sound familiar — bickered too long before raising the nation’s debt limit.

–THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Jason Mraz to perform ‘rare’ acoustic set at Emens Musician returns to Emens, visited campus in 2003 LINDSEY RILEY STAFF REPORTER | lnriley@bsu.edu For the students who may have done a double take and wondered if they just saw Jason Mraz, they were probably right.

Mraz has been on campus since Sunday morning to rehearse in John R. Emens Auditorium. “If you are out and about on campus or even around town and think you see Jason Mraz, then you probably did,� Kristi Chambers, Emens marketing assistant, said.

She said it’s unusual for performers to show up so early before a show. “A Rare Acoustic Evening with Jason Mraz� starts at 7:30 tonight at Emens with an opening act, Raining Jane.

Chambers said Mraz was listed

as one of the events that could be booked through the promoter agency the auditorium uses.

The list was multiple pages long and featured a mix of popular artists, including “Thrift Shop� artist Macklemore. However, the date Mraz was available lined up with Emens’ schedule. “We also chose him because we had him here ... in 2003 and the show didn’t really go that good because he was just starting out,� Chambers said. “Now that Jason Mraz is a lot larger, we wanted to have him back because we did have him here at the start, and it’s obviously an event we could do well on.�

Students, willing to sacrifice comfortability and their immune systems to see Mraz tonight, lined the campus the night before tickets went on sale in September.

Jesse Taskovic, a sophomore Japanese major, camped out. He said while he did get a cold from being outside all night, the experience will be worth it.

“I get to sit near the front [of Emens] and breathe more of Jason’s air,� Taskovic said jokingly. “I needed to see Jason as close as I could and now, I can do that. It was totally worth camping out.�

Mraz, who the Daily News was unable to contact, spent 22

months promoting and touring for his album “We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.� In a press release about tonight’s event, he referred to the tour as “a whirlwind.� “I got turned on to the power of the voice and the power of the

melody, and it created this desire in me to do it again immediately,�

Mraz said in the press release. “Being able to inspire people and take a very simple message global gave me a preview of what that can do.�

Taskovic was surprised to see that Mraz was coming to campus. He described Mraz’s music as “relatable, happy and different.� “Most songs on the radio today are a combination of sad ballads and rap songs that give you too much of an earful,� he said. “Jason is different because he delivers something that makes you smile. His music is what I would like to call ‘the guy next door’s jukebox hits,’ meaning everything he makes is down to earth.�

Joining Mraz at Emens is Raining Jane, a rock and folk band from Los Angeles. This isn’t the first time the women have worked with him. In 2007, they started writing music together.

They wrote “A Beautiful Mess,� which appeared on Mraz’s “We

Alberta is a 47-year-old woman who Windom describes as a more conservative woman who harbors a secret. “[She] knows who she is and what her beliefs are,� she said. “On the outside, she seems hard and aloof, but she isn’t as put together as Deedee assumes she is.�

As Alberta begins her laundry, she wants to be alone and have her privacy and thoughts to herself. “Then, this whirlwind of a girl comes in and shifts the tectonic plates of her earth,�

Windom said.

Deedee is a younger woman who normally depends on her mother to wash her clothes.

She is an emotional mess and has no clue what she wants out of life. “She’s like a tornado,� Johnson said.

However, as they wash their laundry and share stories together, these two women realize that they have more in common than they thought: Both are struggling with how to adapt to loneliness.

East, a junior marketing and production major, said this play is about many of the

problems that people face in their lives. Alberta struggles with moving on from the past and becoming comfortable with being alone while Deedee experiences feelings of inadequacy. “[Deedee] questions herself — from her looks and her intelligence to what others think of her,� Johnson said. “I think that everyone has felt like that.�

Unlike most Cave Theatre shows that tend to be more experimental, East said “Third and Oak: The Laundromat� is more simple and puts the focus on the story line and

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Jason Mraz will perform today at John R. Emens Auditorium. Raining Jane will open for “A Rare Acoustic Evening with Jason Mraz.�

Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things� album in 2008.

Becky Gebhardt, bassist and guitarist for Raining Jane, said while Raining Jane has written songs with Mraz for a long time, they haven’t done much with him live yet. “It’s incredibly exciting to be taking our music out there and doing a live show and sharing it with the world,� she said. “Jason is such an incredible performer, so it’s so much fun to be on the stage and performing together.�

Gebhardt said the audience at Emens tonight will be some of the first people to experience the new project that Raining Jane and Mraz have worked on. She said that just makes the experience and event more different for both fans and performers.

Around 600 tickets were still available Monday night. Tickets cost $10 to $15 for students and $25 to $30 for the public. Contact the Emens Box Office by phone or online to purchase tickets.

ENCOUNTER IN LAUNDROMAT CHANGES 2 WOMEN’S LIVES Cave Theatre opens second in series of all-female casts

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KATHRYN HAMPSHIRE STAFF REPORTER kmhampshire@bsu.edu

Two people meet at 3 a.m. in a laundromat — they share a last name and have never met before. As the strangers talk among the whirring and clunking of the washers and dryers, they reveal dark secrets.

Out of the three shows this season, director Taylor East

said “Third and Oak: The Laundromat� by Marsha Norman is “the most minimal and different, definitely the oddball of the three.�

Continuing the all-female Cave Theatre series, the play tells a story that focuses on the personal darkness of being alone. The show opens at 7:30 tonight in Arts and Communication Building Room 007.

Only two actresses make up the cast: junior acting major Amelia Windom, who plays Alberta Johnson, and sophomore acting major Kelsey Johnson, who plays Deedee Johnson.

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Fresh off a 2-0 weekend, the women’s volleyball team travels to Kent State University for a road match at 7 p.m.

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“We’re together and having fun,” sophomore setter Jenna Spadafora said. “Afterwards, we run out onto the court, and it’s game on.”

Before every match at home, the team gathers in the locker room for final preparations. It’s not as much analytical as it is motivational.

The team, which sits at 17-4 and is an undefeated 5-0 at home, often wins by large margins.

Although a strong game plan and good execution play a role, sophomore middle blocker Kelly Hopkins and Spadafora said there may be another factor involved.

Hopkins said they start blaring music and form a circle, with one player in the middle who shows off her dance moves. Usually, it’s Hopkins who throws down to start the party.

As the dance progresses, players one-byone will filter to the center of the circle and show off their individual moves while the strobe lights illuminate the room.

Jaqui Seidel, a senior setter, said freshman outside hitter Mackenzie Kitchel is the best dancer on the team.

“There may or may not be twerking involved,” Spadafora said as players and coaches in the practice facility erupted in laughter.

The origin of the tradition rests with Alyssa Rio. A defensive specialist and libero for Ball State from 2007-10, Rio was the first player to begin dancing during

the pregame, said Lauren Schlaker, who played from 2009-12.

At times it was just Rio dancing; no one else wanted to jump in. Eventually, it grew on the team.

The dance party isn’t just for fun, but serves as a way to fire up the team before the match begins.

It’s a custom the team uses only when it’s at home, never taking it on the road. There’s fist bumping and jumping on the couch in the locker room, Spadafora said.

“It’s definitely one of the reasons we’re winning so much at home,” she said. “It gets so intense; we really get our blood pumping.”

It’s worked for the team so far. Since the season began, Ball State has dropped just three sets out of 18.

Three times, the team has won the first set by at least seven, including a 25-7 drubbing of IPFW in the first set of the home opener.

Both Hopkins and Spadafora credited the strong starts during matches to the excitement gathered in the locker room before they head out.

It can get so loud sometimes that the players wonder if fans or opposing teams can hear it.

Spadafora can’t give away too many secrets, but did say the advantage it gives her team when playing at Worthen Arena is undeniable.

5-0 at home is music to her ears.

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